Why don't they just close the server so it no longer accepts connections? Are they doing this to stop the server currently at that location from being hammered with requests?
The difference is that software, like ideas, can be copied with very little cost attached. Think of it like this: you donate goods to charity, BUT GET TO KEEP THE GOODS TOO. This way, you are no worse off for the charity having the goods, but they are richer. If you talk about the cost of developing the software, that is easy to amortize as long as someone thought it worthwhile to pay for that development for personal gain. So the charity use becomes a free side-benefit.
Now, Microsoft is using this argument to say that the software isn't being produced for a charity... it is being produced for profit. That's all fine and dandy, but if the software is being produced for personal gain, patents aren't needed -- other people having your software and modifying it won't make the software any less useful to you or make your profits based on that software any less.
A thumb pad should be on the right hand side for that 85% of the population who are right-hand dominant at a computer -- they put it in the center as a compromise for the other 10% who are left-hand dominant. The remaining 5% couldn't care less where it is, but probably prefer anywhere but the middle:)
I'll tell you... it's next to impossible to use one of those "ergonomic" mice with your left hand. As I fall in the 5% category, I just go with the majority however.
My immediate thoughts ran to pop-ups and cross-site scripting. How long before my browser automatically "clicks" those links due to some code injected into an ad on a trusted site?
I can see the kiddies who spoof 911 calls having a heyday with this one; register someone's computer as having clicked on a bunch of porn links to get the FBI to raid their home and confiscate everything computer or financial related. This sort of thing could seriously harm anyone working in IT -- not to mention the social harm caused to anyone by having a morning FBI raid pulled on their house.
Funny thing is, a UK private enterprise is planning this when, according to another of today's/. articles points out that the UK space agency has a ban on putting people in space. At least they're reconsidering... otherwise, one of these planes via private venture might be the best shot UK would-be astronauts have at xpace.
So basically, the US is "for the people, by the people" but has certain functions sandboxed from processes at large because the USA platform can't be trusted as a whole.
Better option than Citizens' Rights Management where the entire country is locked down. Probably better than an Open Access system where everyone is free to tinker with all parts of the system as well.
Hmm... maybe there's an Open Source/Linux parallel that could be implemented here? How would Unix priveleges map to citizens' rights?
How I take this is that Verizon and NBC are going to use this to fight against Net Neutrality saying "See? If we prioritize the packets to local nodes within our own networks, we get a 400% improvement in data throughput! This means the internet will be 400% better without net neutrality!"
I think the deterrant is calling public attention to the activities of the people in question. They don't want to be noticed, and having a Dalek yell at you, shine lights all over the place and squirt water in your general direction is going to get a lot of street attention.
The windows version does have a persistant file system and the palm does not, which is nice if your battery and backup battery both die, but this has never happened in my 4 years of owning a treo.
I assume you're using a Treo 600 or 650... every Treo since then (including the 755p and 680) use non-volatile storage, so you don't lose anything other than the clock setting (which gets synched with the cell tower) if your batteries die.
The other issue here is that though the PalmOS is rich in software, it is extremely long in the tooth and is crashy. PalmOS 5 can only run one GUI process at a time, and has a limited number of background threads. WM5/6 are multitasking OSes (which also makes them slow and hoggy).
I think this would be excellent tech to provide to Alzheimer's sufferers, as long as they could remember they had it! If they could program in people's names and play back the last few times they'd seen the person, do a quick review of what they did before they had their nap, review the route they took to where they currently are, etc. that would have a HUGE impact on Alzheimer's sufferers' lives.
For me, Trebuchet. The OS X firewall solution is too simplistic, so I had to install something that gave me tighter control of IPFW. After years of working with IPFW, scripts that work just fine on any other OS still don't seem to work correctly on OS X. The wrong rules get prioritized and I have to fiddle around in vi to get what should be a simple list of access rules functioning in a sane manner.
Then, of course, there's the issue of EVERYTHING getting dumped into either/Applications or ~/Documents. I like to organize my software and documents, but (and this isn't really Apple's fault for the most part) if I try to organize these files so that they are sorted in a logical (to me) manner, many third party apps just stop working, and Software Update stops correctly locating Apple software for updates. Oh, and WHY does the dictionary app have to go in Applications root in order to be found by the context menu and various services? Apple designed around fixed paths decades ago. And yet we see so many fixed path issues persisting into 10.5!
The funny thing is, Apple already includes all the software needed for such a device; the only things missing on the Air are the multitouch sensor panel and the increased battery life. I agree about the processor -- I underclock my handhelds and it has not impacted actual usability at all -- while it HAS impacted battery life significantly. Smart screen dimming is also a bonus.
Their solution to not complying with the standards is to buy their own standards based on how they currently do things. Sure, they might not be the same standards everyone else uses, but they fully disclose that they use them. They even provide documentation on how to use these standards to interoperate with various black box products they produce.
I think why they're making a big deal out of it is that it is mischief (not phreaking) being conducted by a known phreaker via telephone. Seems to me though that if he really was a phreaker, he wouldn't have left such an obvious trail back to his home that the authorities could use to identify him. Of course, that could be due to him bragging about his "accomplishment" to the wrong people....
Indeed... the teenager should be brought before the court for mischief causing harm and any other laws they broke, and the other companies involved should be sued for negligence.
The teenager should be charged based on what they did, not based on the amount of collateral harm it caused due to the negligence of third parties.
The point is, there are a number of energy sources to use to top up the cell while driving, the two main ones being gravity and solar. This would be more an energy reclaiming mechanism (97% for reclaiming is an excellent ratio), not an energy manufacturing mechanism.
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Why don't they just close the server so it no longer accepts connections? Are they doing this to stop the server currently at that location from being hammered with requests?
The difference is that software, like ideas, can be copied with very little cost attached. Think of it like this: you donate goods to charity, BUT GET TO KEEP THE GOODS TOO. This way, you are no worse off for the charity having the goods, but they are richer. If you talk about the cost of developing the software, that is easy to amortize as long as someone thought it worthwhile to pay for that development for personal gain. So the charity use becomes a free side-benefit.
Now, Microsoft is using this argument to say that the software isn't being produced for a charity... it is being produced for profit. That's all fine and dandy, but if the software is being produced for personal gain, patents aren't needed -- other people having your software and modifying it won't make the software any less useful to you or make your profits based on that software any less.
I had an email address at somethingorother.com for years until they dot-collapsed. Now it appears to be another portal-stuffer.
I wonder how much mail nospam.com gets.... it appears to be held by a portal pumper/domain squatter.
A thumb pad should be on the right hand side for that 85% of the population who are right-hand dominant at a computer -- they put it in the center as a compromise for the other 10% who are left-hand dominant. The remaining 5% couldn't care less where it is, but probably prefer anywhere but the middle :)
I'll tell you... it's next to impossible to use one of those "ergonomic" mice with your left hand. As I fall in the 5% category, I just go with the majority however.
My immediate thoughts ran to pop-ups and cross-site scripting. How long before my browser automatically "clicks" those links due to some code injected into an ad on a trusted site?
I can see the kiddies who spoof 911 calls having a heyday with this one; register someone's computer as having clicked on a bunch of porn links to get the FBI to raid their home and confiscate everything computer or financial related. This sort of thing could seriously harm anyone working in IT -- not to mention the social harm caused to anyone by having a morning FBI raid pulled on their house.
If you can put an apostrophe in its, he can definitely remove the comma from "yeah, right."
Funny thing is, a UK private enterprise is planning this when, according to another of today's /. articles points out that the UK space agency has a ban on putting people in space. At least they're reconsidering... otherwise, one of these planes via private venture might be the best shot UK would-be astronauts have at xpace.
I agree... but that doesn't mean they won't spin it that way to get what they want.
So basically, the US is "for the people, by the people" but has certain functions sandboxed from processes at large because the USA platform can't be trusted as a whole.
Better option than Citizens' Rights Management where the entire country is locked down. Probably better than an Open Access system where everyone is free to tinker with all parts of the system as well.
Hmm... maybe there's an Open Source/Linux parallel that could be implemented here? How would Unix priveleges map to citizens' rights?
How I take this is that Verizon and NBC are going to use this to fight against Net Neutrality saying "See? If we prioritize the packets to local nodes within our own networks, we get a 400% improvement in data throughput! This means the internet will be 400% better without net neutrality!"
Nah; why use Gopher? It requires too much infrastructure and nobody has a client that can handle it anymore.... sort of like Archie.
;)
I'd place my bets on something like WAIS or LDAP myself
Well, you can live a long time when germs are unknown
You've heard of Intel's xScale line of ARM chips, haven't you?
I think the deterrant is calling public attention to the activities of the people in question. They don't want to be noticed, and having a Dalek yell at you, shine lights all over the place and squirt water in your general direction is going to get a lot of street attention.
I assume you're using a Treo 600 or 650... every Treo since then (including the 755p and 680) use non-volatile storage, so you don't lose anything other than the clock setting (which gets synched with the cell tower) if your batteries die.
The other issue here is that though the PalmOS is rich in software, it is extremely long in the tooth and is crashy. PalmOS 5 can only run one GUI process at a time, and has a limited number of background threads. WM5/6 are multitasking OSes (which also makes them slow and hoggy).
I think you missed out on the part where the OS X firewall was actively messing with my advanced firewall config.
But to answer your question... no. Comparing IPFW to Windows Firewall is like comparing a swiss army knife to a letter opener.
I think this would be excellent tech to provide to Alzheimer's sufferers, as long as they could remember they had it! If they could program in people's names and play back the last few times they'd seen the person, do a quick review of what they did before they had their nap, review the route they took to where they currently are, etc. that would have a HUGE impact on Alzheimer's sufferers' lives.
For me, Trebuchet. The OS X firewall solution is too simplistic, so I had to install something that gave me tighter control of IPFW. After years of working with IPFW, scripts that work just fine on any other OS still don't seem to work correctly on OS X. The wrong rules get prioritized and I have to fiddle around in vi to get what should be a simple list of access rules functioning in a sane manner.
/Applications or ~/Documents. I like to organize my software and documents, but (and this isn't really Apple's fault for the most part) if I try to organize these files so that they are sorted in a logical (to me) manner, many third party apps just stop working, and Software Update stops correctly locating Apple software for updates. Oh, and WHY does the dictionary app have to go in Applications root in order to be found by the context menu and various services? Apple designed around fixed paths decades ago. And yet we see so many fixed path issues persisting into 10.5!
Then, of course, there's the issue of EVERYTHING getting dumped into either
The funny thing is, Apple already includes all the software needed for such a device; the only things missing on the Air are the multitouch sensor panel and the increased battery life. I agree about the processor -- I underclock my handhelds and it has not impacted actual usability at all -- while it HAS impacted battery life significantly. Smart screen dimming is also a bonus.
Their solution to not complying with the standards is to buy their own standards based on how they currently do things. Sure, they might not be the same standards everyone else uses, but they fully disclose that they use them. They even provide documentation on how to use these standards to interoperate with various black box products they produce.
I think why they're making a big deal out of it is that it is mischief (not phreaking) being conducted by a known phreaker via telephone. Seems to me though that if he really was a phreaker, he wouldn't have left such an obvious trail back to his home that the authorities could use to identify him. Of course, that could be due to him bragging about his "accomplishment" to the wrong people....
Indeed... the teenager should be brought before the court for mischief causing harm and any other laws they broke, and the other companies involved should be sued for negligence.
The teenager should be charged based on what they did, not based on the amount of collateral harm it caused due to the negligence of third parties.
The point is, there are a number of energy sources to use to top up the cell while driving, the two main ones being gravity and solar. This would be more an energy reclaiming mechanism (97% for reclaiming is an excellent ratio), not an energy manufacturing mechanism.
Sorry; meant Comcast; I happened to be troubleshooting a pesky router problem when typing that ;) Freudian slip.