The US is a pretty right-of-center place in terms of what infrastructure we generally agree the govt should provide: these days its pretty much roads and dams, period. A handful of east coast cities and the Bay area think [though less and less] there should be public transportation. the govt is in the midst of a 2 decade retreat from even regulating, prefering the break-up of monopolies and deregulation to let magic market forces enforce fair and efficient distribution of services in air travel, rail [you think AmTrak is for real?] and telecommunications. So politically speaking you talk about a move THIS COUNTRY is heading away from faster with each passing year and would never make.
Technologically its an even dumber idea. The europeans have been decades getting out from under the legacy of phone infrastructure that was originally govt provided...the problems were manifold:
response times to get a phone installed were measured in months
innovation is one thing that competition does promote and Europeans enjoyed very little of that in phone service for the decades that the govt was the phone company
the govt was the industry to a large extent so standards bodies generally worked with one hand tied behind their back.
A "phone company" that was typically a subbureaucracy of the post office bureaucracy was a place where motivation to improve service would be stifled.
The underlying technology layers or the mix of technologies that we will use to deliver ever more bandwidth to ever more subscribers is just changing too fast to leave in the hands of bureaucrats and ultimately politicians. That ferment requires enterprises that can reinvent themselves frequently, not bureaucracies that inevitably ossify into selfperpetuating monuments to whatever problem they were originally chartered to do.
others have since posted the full text of the ruling...maybe there is some clarification there. Your questions really are going to need clear answers. I would add that "device" begs a few questions too.
I suppose a few developer's bosses know the ins and outs of the license issues but there is a lot to know even though its not that hard to get educated. Just because you write software and have a stake in the compensation and legal consequences of software [mis]use only makes you interested, not informed.
"We hold that one who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright, as shown by the clear expression or other affirmative steps taken to foster infringement, is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties,"
find the market of people crazy enough to buy a disk drive that might quit working when they least need it too. This disk will self destruct in ten seconds.
You aren't thinking. you use the term the government as if state govt. which administers unemployment and federal government which assigns and tracks SSN's where one fused and smoothly running entity. They aren't and you wouldn't even want them to be. State gov't do use ssn as a DB key but not with the consistency, agency integration or budget resources you seem to imagine.
I haven't had the nerve to try paypal, despite its convenience. Reason: I get so damn many spams telling me to update paypal account user data [when I don't even have an account] that I just assume paypal is rife with phishy imitators, scammers and schemes or has lousy protection and security arrangements. Thats probably unfair but would you date a girl if you'd first met two dozen people who claimed they were pimping her?
on the other hand, as a buyer of, say cameras, from J Random Amazon-enabled seller, I have had excellent goods delivered promptly at rock bottom prices that I can quickly search and compare. I have the usual protections afforded credit card purchases...knock on wood, its a fine consumer experience.
...as well as provide software training for 50,000 of the country's teachers....
The US has more than 3 times the population of Viet Nam. Do we have 50000 teachers who have some IT training?
Just put this story together with yesterday's
story about US students turning away from computer related careers. What does Viet Nam's government do to get something out of Microsoft that our own state and national govt won't do?
Since you keep posting this same bad news story 2 or 3 times each month [and who am I to say you are wrong...you get the same 300+ comments each time while actual novel items in security or development get like 7 or 20 comments], I will keep offering the same comment:
"... if you are only interested in deep coding and algorithms,... get a security clearance...no job shortage there!
vegas, like Reno where I grew up has very low relative humidity. Swamp coolers work great there but not as well in places with normal [midwest, east coast] or high [the south] humidiy. People had swamp coolers in
the south out of desperation rather than effectiveness.
relax there Rush! You have no business infering ANYTHING from my comment let alone putting words in my mouth like "big brother". The important word in my comment was "idiot". We aren't going to catch 10 pedophiles
a year this way, its almost freakishly rare that such evidence triggers and arrest. Gov't [and I sure as hell don't trust the current administration to take respectful measures regarding my rights] had nothing to do with this arrest any way...it was the girl who operated the photo print system for the drug store who ratted on the sicko.
I don't think the rhetorical ploy of putting/your/ worst fears out as if they might be/my/ ideas is much more than careless flaming. Or, to put this another way, what if I now suggest that your comment shows support for pedophile grandfathers? If I wrote my comment carefully enough to rule out your eager misinterpretation and all the others that might exist, it would be two pages long for a tiny bit of odd OT news.
Relax, its just slashdot.
In a normal household, kids introduce the technology to you!
I am an ancient programmer so I was not an early adopter of any electronic
device with buttons smaller than my fingers. I was a unix kind of guy so I made but light and userly use of Windows apps on the household menagerie of PCs.
By the time my oldest boy was in highschool, he was reprogramming all our
vcrs, had discovered every accelerator key for every windows app and had got the vcr, dvd and nintendo wired together so we allways had to ask for help if we wanted to watch a movie.
Now a college sophmore, he's cracked his iPod, can diagnose hardware faults on his PC right down to the bad jumper or loose power connector and knows the right mic to buy for his recording studio PC that he is constantly rebuilding. He has a cracked version or two of various OSes, [ehem!] and boots knoppix or mepis when he has managed to break a windows install. When his girl friend spilled coffee on her iBook, she took it to him for disassembly and cleaning.
If I want to know whats better about ATRAC vs MP3, or if I should have RAID on my next machine, I ask him. He also brings our cable connection to its knees now and then with his P2P operation.
No, not to worry dad, all you have to do is wait a few years and be handy with the check book. Happy Fathers day!
"...Turns out that Micro Center not only is out-selling Wal-Mart in Linux...
Look where Micro Center locates its stores. In Mass, we have one Micro Center AFAIK and its not out with the big box retailers in the malls. Its in Cambridge, a walk from B.U., MIT and Harvard. If they have located their other stores as intelligently as this one, they are a mining a niche in the market [relatively sophisticated college students who need to stretch their computing dollar and got the brains to RTFM] but may have little success out in the burbs.
Hawes twice tried to print the photos using self-service kiosks in CVS drug stores. The first time, in Nashua, he fled after realizing the photos were printing behind a counter, police said.
The second time, he printed the photos at a CVS in Manchester. A clerk found the photos May 24 when she went to clear a backlog of digital images. She went to police.
I guess the police have a right to some of the pictures you might take? More on topic: if legal hassels drive most printing services, such as the drug stores provide, out of business, who would ever have a chance to catch idiot scum like that grandfather?
I submitted the same news but now reading what I wrote, well, like you say, ahem, uh... never mind.
As if high quality DIY photoprinting on ever cheaper home printers weren't making life hard enough for photo labs, now the professional photographer's version of DRM is further cutting into business. Washington Post enlarged on an AP story about Walmart and Walgreens refusing to print pix of ordinary folks because they looked "too good" to be amateur and where suspsected of being pirated from the internet. The pro photographers do understand the problem: "Steve Noble, who oversees regulatory affairs at the Photo Marketers Association, believes the situation will remain hazy unless copyright laws that were written in a different technological era are altered to reflect the ossibilities of digital dissemination." If you google around, you find the
problem is on blogs and bulletin boards for the last 6 months.....yet another story of a digital technology leaving a world of gutenburg legal ideas in disarray.
The notion that this is a 6month old story to serious amateur photographers probably didn't excite the/. eds much either.
The photo.net discussion is at least as informed as our/.
commenting.
I learn something every day.
re: abuse reports. Yes, huge problem that what little help users could provide to ISPs in the form of reports is ignored. Comcast is my BB provider and their response is so automated and non-commital I doubt they
ever do anything. I identify the IP address of machines in their domain that are feeling up my machine in abuse reports but nothing changes at all. My firewall machine is out of disk space with logs that should be useful to Comcast but only internet storm center shows any interest.
actually, I agree. I'd add that I hold broadband providers like Comcast partly to blame: they downplay and ignore the security issues of having an unprotected computer on a fixed IP address just to ease the sale of their service. But the broadband provider is hurting itself if it never promotes internet hygeine: letting their domain become a free fire zone for zombies and counter measures only makes their service look worse.
Guardrails? reminds me of a very strange blog I came across.
But while the defacements have undoubtedly halted a number of fraud schemes, security experts are dubious about the methods.
"Are the ends good? Undoubtedly. Are the means justified? I don't know," said Cory Altheide of the SANS Internet Storm Center, a consortium of academic and industry security experts.
"All I really know is the stories of vigilantism ending well are few and far between."
Considering how many spams come at us from zombie PC's owned by clueless users, there could be a lot of innocent bystanders that get stepped on when someone unleashes a DDOS on a spammer.
A better write up on the "hero hackers":
this story does point out that the suckurity consulting industry goes out of its way to distance itself from hackers who dish out prompt and rough justice.
I tried to submit an item about hacker vigilianties who attack phishing sites back on May 31. Unfortunately, I can't spell and coverage of actual effective anti-fraud hacks were not interesting enough.
We all have a gripe against spammers and phishers and I for one would welcome a book or web page that showed ways to harm the interests of internet and email abusers [ways that could ONLY harm such abusers, otherwise, we just arm the enemy] Is that too tall an order?
nonsense. You may as well ask if pen-and-paper have peaked...its just a new media and better media, not evolution of users, will determine when it is eclipsed.
Except for your use of houseboats as party venue's, I have to admit you Canadian's seem a damn site more rational than us yanks.
I'd not meant the sarcasm about 3 whole people favoring Dvorak as part of the metric/SAE:Dvorak/qwerty analogy. but then I do most of my writing in lab notebooks few read and none correct so clarity is seldom a feature of my communication.
I am, to be blunt, fairly frustrated about the stupidity of bowing to momentum and custom both in americans dodging the metric system [what do you expect from a physicist?] and the keyboarding world sticking with qwerty, a scheme intended to impede typing.
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I worked in Digital Equipment Corp's hard copy terminals back in the 70's so I know this Dvorack keyboard thing has risen from the dead every few years for at least the last 30 years.
Sorry folks, it takes so much more than common sense for a good idea to be adopted. Metric system is, on paper, a US standard for measuring. bought a liter of gas lately? how many KM did you drive getting to work today?
according to TFA, there are 3 people who are serious about promoting
a qwerty alternative...my question is how did they find so many supporters?
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the Norwegian officials have found to solve their little piracy embarassment
The US is a pretty right-of-center place in terms of what infrastructure we generally agree the govt should provide: these days its pretty much roads and dams, period. A handful of east coast cities and the Bay area think [though less and less] there should be public transportation. the govt is in the midst of a 2 decade retreat from even regulating, prefering the break-up of monopolies and deregulation to let magic market forces enforce fair and efficient distribution of services in air travel, rail [you think AmTrak is for real?] and telecommunications. So politically speaking you talk about a move THIS COUNTRY is heading away from faster with each passing year and would never make.
Technologically its an even dumber idea. The europeans have been decades getting out from under the legacy of phone infrastructure that was originally govt provided...the problems were manifold:
- response times to get a phone installed were measured in months
- innovation is one thing that competition does promote and Europeans enjoyed very little of that in phone service for the decades that the govt was the phone company
- the govt was the industry to a large extent so standards bodies generally worked with one hand tied behind their back.
- A "phone company" that was typically a subbureaucracy of the post office bureaucracy was a place where motivation to improve service would be stifled.
The underlying technology layers or the mix of technologies that we will use to deliver ever more bandwidth to ever more subscribers is just changing too fast to leave in the hands of bureaucrats and ultimately politicians. That ferment requires enterprises that can reinvent themselves frequently, not bureaucracies that inevitably ossify into selfperpetuating monuments to whatever problem they were originally chartered to do.others have since posted the full text of the ruling...maybe there is some clarification there. Your questions really are going to need clear answers. I would add that "device" begs a few questions too.
I suppose a few developer's bosses know the ins and outs of the license issues but there is a lot to know even though its not that hard to get educated. Just because you write software and have a stake in the compensation and legal consequences of software [mis]use only makes you interested, not informed.
Starting at HP labs, Ratnesh Sharma began work on the problem of cooling server farms two years ago.
Then work with the university of Virginia evolved from that research. Finally, in work done with Duke U. it paid off in the form of software tools that were reported at Usenix'05 [you can ignore password pop-up if you go thru the google cache] as saving 25% of cooling costs, thats can be over $1000000/year for large data centers by dynamically distributing work load to machines that are running cooler by using temperature data as input to the load balancer. [if you can get at the usenix art., Duke has basically the same paper on line. Or just read the the Usenix abstract]
find the market of people crazy enough to buy a disk drive that might quit working when they least need it too. This disk will self destruct in ten seconds.
You aren't thinking. you use the term the government as if state govt. which administers unemployment and federal government which assigns and tracks SSN's where one fused and smoothly running entity. They aren't and you wouldn't even want them to be. State gov't do use ssn as a DB key but not with the consistency, agency integration or budget resources you seem to imagine.
I haven't had the nerve to try paypal, despite its convenience. Reason: I get so damn many spams telling me to update paypal account user data [when I don't even have an account] that I just assume paypal is rife with phishy imitators, scammers and schemes or has lousy protection and security arrangements. Thats probably unfair but would you date a girl if you'd first met two dozen people who claimed they were pimping her?
on the other hand, as a buyer of, say cameras, from J Random Amazon-enabled seller, I have had excellent goods delivered promptly at rock bottom prices that I can quickly search and compare. I have the usual protections afforded credit card purchases...knock on wood, its a fine consumer experience.
...as well as provide software training for 50,000 of the country's teachers....
The US has more than 3 times the population of Viet Nam. Do we have 50000 teachers who have some IT training?
Just put this story together with yesterday's story about US students turning away from computer related careers. What does Viet Nam's government do to get something out of Microsoft that our own state and national govt won't do?
Since you keep posting this same bad news story 2 or 3 times each month [and who am I to say you are wrong...you get the same 300+ comments each time while actual novel items in security or development get like 7 or 20 comments], I will keep offering the same comment:
"... if you are only interested in deep coding and algorithms,...
get a security clearance...no job shortage there!
vegas, like Reno where I grew up has very low relative humidity. Swamp coolers work great there but not as well in places with normal [midwest, east coast] or high [the south] humidiy. People had swamp coolers in the south out of desperation rather than effectiveness.
relax there Rush! You have no business infering ANYTHING from my comment let alone putting words in my mouth like "big brother". The important word in my comment was "idiot". We aren't going to catch 10 pedophiles a year this way, its almost freakishly rare that such evidence triggers and arrest. Gov't [and I sure as hell don't trust the current administration to take respectful measures regarding my rights] had nothing to do with this arrest any way...it was the girl who operated the photo print system for the drug store who ratted on the sicko. /your/ worst fears out as if they might be /my/ ideas is much more than careless flaming. Or, to put this another way, what if I now suggest that your comment shows support for pedophile grandfathers? If I wrote my comment carefully enough to rule out your eager misinterpretation and all the others that might exist, it would be two pages long for a tiny bit of odd OT news.
I don't think the rhetorical ploy of putting
Relax, its just slashdot.
In a normal household, kids introduce the technology to you!
I am an ancient programmer so I was not an early adopter of any electronic device with buttons smaller than my fingers. I was a unix kind of guy so I made but light and userly use of Windows apps on the household menagerie of PCs. By the time my oldest boy was in highschool, he was reprogramming all our vcrs, had discovered every accelerator key for every windows app and had got the vcr, dvd and nintendo wired together so we allways had to ask for help if we wanted to watch a movie.
Now a college sophmore, he's cracked his iPod, can diagnose hardware faults on his PC right down to the bad jumper or loose power connector and knows the right mic to buy for his recording studio PC that he is constantly rebuilding. He has a cracked version or two of various OSes, [ehem!] and boots knoppix or mepis when he has managed to break a windows install. When his girl friend spilled coffee on her iBook, she took it to him for disassembly and cleaning.
If I want to know whats better about ATRAC vs MP3, or if I should have RAID on my next machine, I ask him. He also brings our cable connection to its knees now and then with his P2P operation.
No, not to worry dad, all you have to do is wait a few years and be handy with the check book. Happy Fathers day!
"...Turns out that Micro Center not only is out-selling Wal-Mart in Linux...
Look where Micro Center locates its stores. In Mass, we have one Micro Center AFAIK and its not out with the big box retailers in the malls. Its in Cambridge, a walk from B.U., MIT and Harvard. If they have located their other stores as intelligently as this one, they are a mining a niche in the market [relatively sophisticated college students who need to stretch their computing dollar and got the brains to RTFM] but may have little success out in the burbs.
I learn something every day.
re: abuse reports. Yes, huge problem that what little help users could provide to ISPs in the form of reports is ignored. Comcast is my BB provider and their response is so automated and non-commital I doubt they ever do anything. I identify the IP address of machines in their domain that are feeling up my machine in abuse reports but nothing changes at all. My firewall machine is out of disk space with logs that should be useful to Comcast but only internet storm center shows any interest.
actually, I agree. I'd add that I hold broadband providers like Comcast partly to blame: they downplay and ignore the security issues of having an unprotected computer on a fixed IP address just to ease the sale of their service. But the broadband provider is hurting itself if it never promotes internet hygeine: letting their domain become a free fire zone for zombies and counter measures only makes their service look worse.
Guardrails? reminds me of a very strange blog I came across.
Considering how many spams come at us from zombie PC's owned by clueless users, there could be a lot of innocent bystanders that get stepped on when someone unleashes a DDOS on a spammer.
A better write up on the "hero hackers": this story does point out that the suckurity consulting industry goes out of its way to distance itself from hackers who dish out prompt and rough justice.
I tried to submit an item about hacker vigilianties who attack phishing sites back on May 31. Unfortunately, I can't spell and coverage of actual effective anti-fraud hacks were not interesting enough.
We all have a gripe against spammers and phishers and I for one would welcome a book or web page that showed ways to harm the interests of internet and email abusers [ways that could ONLY harm such abusers, otherwise, we just arm the enemy] Is that too tall an order?
nonsense. You may as well ask if pen-and-paper have peaked...its just a new media and better media, not evolution of users, will determine when it is eclipsed.
Except for your use of houseboats as party venue's, I have to admit you Canadian's seem a damn site more rational than us yanks.
I'd not meant the sarcasm about 3 whole people favoring Dvorak as part of the metric/SAE:Dvorak/qwerty analogy. but then I do most of my writing in lab notebooks few read and none correct so clarity is seldom a feature of my communication.
I am, to be blunt, fairly frustrated about the stupidity of bowing to momentum and custom both in americans dodging the metric system [what do you expect from a physicist?] and the keyboarding world sticking with qwerty, a scheme intended to impede typing.
I worked in Digital Equipment Corp's hard copy terminals back in the 70's so I know this Dvorack keyboard thing has risen from the dead every few years for at least the last 30 years.
Sorry folks, it takes so much more than common sense for a good idea to be adopted. Metric system is, on paper, a US standard for measuring. bought a liter of gas lately? how many KM did you drive getting to work today?
according to TFA, there are 3 people who are serious about promoting a qwerty alternative...my question is how did they find so many supporters?