Let's see you are going to wear a small implanted device (about the size of a rice grain) that broadcasts a radio key to unlock your car, your home, ID you for purchases.... YIPPEE! you see you just handed me (the thief) the keys to your identity. No amount of encryption etc needed. All I have to do is mimic the signal you are so kind as to provide me with and poof I'm in! thanks.
If 4 weeks ago when I submitted info on this the US Slashdot users had been activated we might have been able to kill the actions of a number of Represenatives while these actions were still in committee. I do understand that at the time a number of people regarded this as just so much BS. Heck even in my LUG I had problems getting people to believe that Larry Lessig and others really were fighting this fight. Now however the fight will be much larger. I might also point out that it is something that will primarily affect the US. As actions of this nature are not allowed in the rest of the modern world. Further erroding national security and pushing the US further behind in it's attepmts to keep pace with the world technologically.
They are trying to find sufficient errors in Linux code to explain why they were the only group of people in the world who didn't know a major hurricane could cause the levies to break in New Orleans. (They may be on Windows, hard to tell as they use Akimai to ensure uptime)
The backbone owners are holding Yahoo hostage looking for them to pay for access to cusomters. Then Yahoo moves into a position where they can hold the backbone owners hostage if they want to be able to have data to deliver to their customers.
Most likely they won't open packets. Too difficult for them. What they will do IMHO however is to throttle at the point where the line that leaves the building enters the main flow of traffic. Then just run it like the old 3 Stoogies routine. Heres 1 for you and 2 for me, one for you and 3 for me.... Wonder how long it will take before people learn how to manipulate the system and we'll have the Telco's screaming to congress that mean old pirates are stealing their bandwidth and as a result they can't sell their crap content that nobody wants.
As I sit here looking at my copy of Applixware. IIRC the reason it won't install on a modern Linux is do to glibc conflicts as it was compiled with some terribly old GCC libs. Which may well inhibit it from running on NetBSD as well.
Same problem with my Linux Web Programming Kit and my Chili Soft software. Cool stuff. But because it was all propriatary it can't be continued. Some lawyer is sitting in an office stubbornly refusing to allow anyone to use the code because he won't get a cut. Got Hancom Office too. Dang. Even a copy of Star Office in German (that was won in a raffle)... sweet. Need to get into my junk box more often.... (wanders off into memory land.)
PS why did someone throw you in college *grin*
Alsee thanks for beating me to this *grin*. But as you know and more are hopefully learning the only people affected by DRM are the people who have legitimate and legal reasons to copy, not the so called pirates.
Senator Feinstien (Fr-ah-kenstien whatever) is up for re-election in Nov of this year. As a result this may encourage more of you to register and then vote for someone else who is actually in tune with the companies and people of the State of California.
Need I remind you that this Senator also was a sponsor of the DMCA and similar legislation. The biggest problem is that in Nov everyone will see it as a choice between Feinstein and a Republican. Which is IMHO no choice at all, both having equal anti-american attitudes. *sigh* Again Rock the Vote in Nov.
I couldn't agree more. However I've come across a really neat extension for Firefox that will help a lot. It's called unplug (and I'm not the developer either) available at https://addons.mozilla.org/addon.php?id=2254 Enjoy! (I do)
Only two things to note there. New Orleans and Pittsburgh. But until Katrina both of those were basically Dial-Up type speed, not broadband. BTW the way it is structured the cities in question are using MetroFi as a contractor. So the city is offering the service through a contractor called MetroFi. Much as was done in the early days of cable TV.
Cupertino now has it too. (I'm not in Sunnyvale either.) Check out the coverage map on the website http://www.metrofi.com/ I wouldn't recomend it if you spend 80% of your time grabbing large (1g) files. But I have done the start D/L go to bed wake up with iso trip for getting distro iso's.
And noting one thing. (I was shown by a tech friend over there) that the locally pirated copies of DVD's and CD's for sale were DRM protected using the exact same protection as the original. You see when you do a bit for bit copy you get an exact copy. DRM only prevents fair use it doesn't even come close to slowing down the back alley black market.
I live in Santa Clara CA. This City, Cupertino and Sunnyvale (not dale) are all under a free WiFi umbrella from a company called MetroFi (has for over a year). So St. Cloud is neither the first nor the only. Google. will soon have MountainView online, as well. Yes there are hiccups. However the original premise that St. Cloud is the first is off kilter a bit.
I mean since it was developed by the government, and anything they do is in the public trust and not owned by any one group. It can only be concluded that all patents (other than design) related to the iPod are null and void. IANAL
Just to note. The word sports should have been placed in front of the word medicine. BSU is the world leader in this feild and has been for a very long time.
In a normal 1 person 2 boxes scenario you are correct there isn't a whole lot of difference. However if you move beyond this into a situation where you want to scale up and have a central pivot delivering to multiple persons then you run into some heavy I/O problems. X is too CPU intensive in modern form and too bandwidth hungry as well. It just won't scale.
There are other problems as well. Say for example I want to open Konqueror as a file manager on 3 boxes (Mine and two others) at the same time. You run into problems because each additional instance beyond the first is really nothing more than the first one with extra windows either completely or in part. This is especially problematic when they are different versions.
If you have every tried to run an SSH session with X11 over a long distance (say from California to Chicago) you really can begin to feel just how much of a snail this can be.
Much easier is something like VNC. (Thank you Olivetti) It's able to overcome the bandwidth/hardware/multiple login problems of X however it too suffers eventually from bandwidth starvation. But. It's at worst usable.
I wonder if it works. Seeing as how it was down faster than somewhere around the second post could be written. So much for Robust. One Monday morning 9am e-mail check would bring your entire company to it's knees.
Can this kind of application of an OS/System work. Heck Yes! It works and it's needed. However it will always fail as long as they keep trying to put all the eggs in one software basket so to speak. Stop with "one box that does it all. Get into the idea of, "this box does this, that box does that, and you can see it all from that box over there."
We need to move from the application having access to the OS, to the OS having access to the application. Once OS/data/application are void of their death grip on each other some really amazing things can begin to happen.
Digging further I find. That even though the entire sculpture is made possible by Apple computers and software the dang this is only viewable via Microsoft Media player!. Talk about frustration city. Less effort on their part would have resulted in greater market penetration. Funny too how the sculpture done on Mac G5's celebrates an Intel award.
A former "Teachers College" (Now more business and Medicine these days) Is showing that a decision made in the early 80's to make a computer available to every student is paying off big time. Kudo's to the Cards!!
Now if you could just convince the alumni to fund a football stadium *grin*
The Patent administration takes your idea puts it into google, filtering out you and any article talking about you. If they get a hit, prior art, eeeeeeeeh patent rejected!
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Let's see you are going to wear a small implanted device (about the size of a rice grain) that broadcasts a radio key to unlock your car, your home, ID you for purchases.... YIPPEE! you see you just handed me (the thief) the keys to your identity. No amount of encryption etc needed. All I have to do is mimic the signal you are so kind as to provide me with and poof I'm in! thanks.
If 4 weeks ago when I submitted info on this the US Slashdot users had been activated we might have been able to kill the actions of a number of Represenatives while these actions were still in committee. I do understand that at the time a number of people regarded this as just so much BS. Heck even in my LUG I had problems getting people to believe that Larry Lessig and others really were fighting this fight. Now however the fight will be much larger. I might also point out that it is something that will primarily affect the US. As actions of this nature are not allowed in the rest of the modern world. Further erroding national security and pushing the US further behind in it's attepmts to keep pace with the world technologically.
They are trying to find sufficient errors in Linux code to explain why they were the only group of people in the world who didn't know a major hurricane could cause the levies to break in New Orleans. (They may be on Windows, hard to tell as they use Akimai to ensure uptime)
The backbone owners are holding Yahoo hostage looking for them to pay for access to cusomters. Then Yahoo moves into a position where they can hold the backbone owners hostage if they want to be able to have data to deliver to their customers.
head hurts............
youhavespaceinmytube.com... or maybe spacemytube.com or even my_space_your_tube.com?
Most likely they won't open packets. Too difficult for them. What they will do IMHO however is to throttle at the point where the line that leaves the building enters the main flow of traffic. Then just run it like the old 3 Stoogies routine. Heres 1 for you and 2 for me, one for you and 3 for me.... Wonder how long it will take before people learn how to manipulate the system and we'll have the Telco's screaming to congress that mean old pirates are stealing their bandwidth and as a result they can't sell their crap content that nobody wants.
As I sit here looking at my copy of Applixware. IIRC the reason it won't install on a modern Linux is do to glibc conflicts as it was compiled with some terribly old GCC libs. Which may well inhibit it from running on NetBSD as well. Same problem with my Linux Web Programming Kit and my Chili Soft software. Cool stuff. But because it was all propriatary it can't be continued. Some lawyer is sitting in an office stubbornly refusing to allow anyone to use the code because he won't get a cut. Got Hancom Office too. Dang. Even a copy of Star Office in German (that was won in a raffle) ... sweet. Need to get into my junk box more often.... (wanders off into memory land.)
PS why did someone throw you in college *grin*
Alsee thanks for beating me to this *grin*. But as you know and more are hopefully learning the only people affected by DRM are the people who have legitimate and legal reasons to copy, not the so called pirates.
Senator Feinstien (Fr-ah-kenstien whatever) is up for re-election in Nov of this year. As a result this may encourage more of you to register and then vote for someone else who is actually in tune with the companies and people of the State of California. Need I remind you that this Senator also was a sponsor of the DMCA and similar legislation. The biggest problem is that in Nov everyone will see it as a choice between Feinstein and a Republican. Which is IMHO no choice at all, both having equal anti-american attitudes. *sigh* Again Rock the Vote in Nov.
I couldn't agree more. However I've come across a really neat extension for Firefox that will help a lot. It's called unplug (and I'm not the developer either) available at https://addons.mozilla.org/addon.php?id=2254 Enjoy! (I do)
Only two things to note there. New Orleans and Pittsburgh. But until Katrina both of those were basically Dial-Up type speed, not broadband. BTW the way it is structured the cities in question are using MetroFi as a contractor. So the city is offering the service through a contractor called MetroFi. Much as was done in the early days of cable TV.
Cupertino now has it too. (I'm not in Sunnyvale either.) Check out the coverage map on the website http://www.metrofi.com/ I wouldn't recomend it if you spend 80% of your time grabbing large (1g) files. But I have done the start D/L go to bed wake up with iso trip for getting distro iso's.
And noting one thing. (I was shown by a tech friend over there) that the locally pirated copies of DVD's and CD's for sale were DRM protected using the exact same protection as the original. You see when you do a bit for bit copy you get an exact copy. DRM only prevents fair use it doesn't even come close to slowing down the back alley black market.
I use it. Dropped Comcast like the plague. Live in the same area.
I live in Santa Clara CA. This City, Cupertino and Sunnyvale (not dale) are all under a free WiFi umbrella from a company called MetroFi (has for over a year). So St. Cloud is neither the first nor the only. Google. will soon have MountainView online, as well. Yes there are hiccups. However the original premise that St. Cloud is the first is off kilter a bit.
I mean since it was developed by the government, and anything they do is in the public trust and not owned by any one group. It can only be concluded that all patents (other than design) related to the iPod are null and void. IANAL
There is a grain of truth. However the joke in it is one that goes back into the 70's with BSU. Oh and you might like this link
https://addons.mozilla.org/addon.php?id=444
Just to note. The word sports should have been placed in front of the word medicine. BSU is the world leader in this feild and has been for a very long time.
Seeing as how they are both coming off of the RDP protocol they have roots in VNC which harks back to even earlier protocols.
In a normal 1 person 2 boxes scenario you are correct there isn't a whole lot of difference. However if you move beyond this into a situation where you want to scale up and have a central pivot delivering to multiple persons then you run into some heavy I/O problems. X is too CPU intensive in modern form and too bandwidth hungry as well. It just won't scale.
There are other problems as well. Say for example I want to open Konqueror as a file manager on 3 boxes (Mine and two others) at the same time. You run into problems because each additional instance beyond the first is really nothing more than the first one with extra windows either completely or in part. This is especially problematic when they are different versions.
If you have every tried to run an SSH session with X11 over a long distance (say from California to Chicago) you really can begin to feel just how much of a snail this can be.
Much easier is something like VNC. (Thank you Olivetti) It's able to overcome the bandwidth/hardware/multiple login problems of X however it too suffers eventually from bandwidth starvation. But. It's at worst usable.
I wonder if it works. Seeing as how it was down faster than somewhere around the second post could be written. So much for Robust. One Monday morning 9am e-mail check would bring your entire company to it's knees.
Can this kind of application of an OS/System work. Heck Yes! It works and it's needed. However it will always fail as long as they keep trying to put all the eggs in one software basket so to speak. Stop with "one box that does it all. Get into the idea of, "this box does this, that box does that, and you can see it all from that box over there."
We need to move from the application having access to the OS, to the OS having access to the application. Once OS/data/application are void of their death grip on each other some really amazing things can begin to happen.
Digging further I find. That even though the entire sculpture is made possible by Apple computers and software the dang this is only viewable via Microsoft Media player!. Talk about frustration city. Less effort on their part would have resulted in greater market penetration. Funny too how the sculpture done on Mac G5's celebrates an Intel award.
A former "Teachers College" (Now more business and Medicine these days) Is showing that a decision made in the early 80's to make a computer available to every student is paying off big time. Kudo's to the Cards!!
Now if you could just convince the alumni to fund a football stadium *grin*
Just a note SF is Less than 1 million by a long shot ... only about 2.5 Million in the entire Bay area.
The Patent administration takes your idea puts it into google, filtering out you and any article talking about you. If they get a hit, prior art, eeeeeeeeh patent rejected!