So a country that imprisons people without charge and without access to legal council for up to eight years, tortures and humiliates prisoners, kidnaps people from countries without due process, runs detention camps in violation of international law, launches illegal wars on countries it doesn't like (but has something it wants), etc., etc., would be covered by this law? COOL!! Please pass this legislation as soon as possible!
Aren't approaches like this weak in that you could apply a filter to the image, changing it imperceptively and destroy the watermark? Wouldn't an image recognition system be better? It could be similar to the kinds of face recognition software that can pick you up even if you are in disguise...
Isn't this a bit anti-competitive? Imagine a major gas station company doing a deal with an automaker whereby the gas station will give you a full tank for your money if you are driving a Ford, but only half a tank if you come in a Dodge...
I guess the old Major Hochstetter gag with the heavy German accent saying "Show me your papers!" ain't so funny now. Gee I wonder what the world might be like if the Germans won WWII...
The profiles all look the same and were created within a couple of days of one another, and they are so ridiculoulsy glowing it's funny. Gee. They look genuine to me.
I wonder if five of these would make a compact, power-efficient and quiet server RAID array? I'm looking forward to the day when 3.5" has gone the way of 5.25" drives of old...
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I feel like Steve Ballmer, only without sweating so much or doing the monkey dance.
When someone bases a commercial product on an open source project, they are usually obligated to release the source code to any modifications they make back to the community. This is perhaps a slight flaw in the license as there's no stipulation of *how* the source code is to be released. Apple could perhaps legally release patches as highly obfuscated -- but perfectly functional -- text files. Hell, they could split them up all over the place, strip out the comments and do all sorts of things to make the patches essentially useless to the project whilst still remaining true to the conditions of the license.
IMHO there should be an agreement of conduct in the license somewhere. Patches are to be released back to the project developers for one, not just to the public arena. The patches should be committed to or at least be compatible with the revision control system used by the project developers. They should also be commented, or there should be a prior agreement between the contributor and the project development team that all patches are to be thorougly described so that the team fully understands the workings of the code.
At the moment it looks like Apple is being at best ungracious and at worse an outright thief, looking to benefit from the very hard work of the KDE team and without any intention of adding to the general momentum of the project. Perhaps because ultimately open source desktop environments represent Apple's most dangerous threat on the software front (Microsoft sure as hell don't!).
I realised the same thing when I read my contract, so I had an exemption inserted for anything that was open source according to the OSA. My employers had no problem with this luckily. I simply wouldn't have taken the job otherwise.
As I see things, as long as the digital copy of your document continues to exist, the lifetime of the dead tree version is unimportant, as long as it looks great for perhaps five years or more. I doubt that historians of the future will rely on much other than digital archives.
Photographic negatives degrade faster than the prints made from them (well, perhaps not now -- I don't know), so the photographs themselves become the vital historical record.
As digital storage capacities increase the chances of key records being lost decreases, with the only real risks being computer viruses and carelessnes.
So it's great that my inkjet prints will last for ten years, but when they fade I'll just print another one from the pristine digital source.
With the Internet and the cell phone, the main technological problems of human communication have been solved. If you want to talk to someone, no matter where they are (even in developing nations in time) you can. But in our every day lives these things don't really add very much to what we have always had. Few people have friends who they have met electronically.
Many people with all the cell phones and internet connectivity they want are often incredibly lonely, unable to meet people in their own neighbourhood with whom they can identify and form meaningful relationships. Human beings like company, and a computer screen will never be as good as face to face comradery. So many writers have lamented how modern communications are making us more lonely than ever.
But the same technologies can bring us closer together. Devices like the one described, personal servers, and future telephones will act as our agents, letting us 'see' the friendly faces in the crowd. We'll know when a friend is at the same party, or at the same movie, we'll know when another avid Slashdotter is nearby, and we'll be able to find the kinds of people we want to find.
I predict these devices will become commonplace. The multitude of devices you have on your body will act together to notify you of who is around you. They will be seen as essential.
And for those that panic about their 'privacy', well, remember that like all electronic devices, you are in control of the switch. You don't like it, well turn it off!
"no reason to use them until I need to"? How about - 'IE is notorious for its vulnerability to malicious software.' Or, 'the company that monopolized the browser market did so by using monopoly rent to extinguish Netscape Corporations' products hold on the marketplace.'
Do people *really* depend on IE, when they also have Netscape/Mozilla, Opera, etc.? I find it a constant source of amazement that people simply put up with the flaws in IE. A very large number of people, particularly in the corporate world, know what a disaster that piece of software is, but still they don't shift. What are they waiting for? Permission from Microsoft?
Then again, I suppose I fail to take into account how my suckers have built intranet and Internet sites using embraced and extended protocols that lock them into using IE. Well, it's not like they had any way of knowing this kind of thing could happen, could they?
Oh, you might make fun, but if you look at their site you will see an announcement that the JourneyOS site has been shut down due to a cease and desist from the lawyers of the band Journey. Doesn't that just do your head in!
I remember reading about a monk who in the 1600s was hit in the leg by a meteorite. He died from his injury because it had damaged his femoral artery. Can't be bothered finding more info, but I'm sure *someone* has the time and inclination.
are just temporary of course - until someone creates the combustion-engined Segway Generator! That of course will last only a short while before the Segway Fuel Cell! But I'm going to hold out until I can run mine using the Segway Zero-point Energy Power Pack Extreme!
Okay, so it looks like this thing is even more bogus than people initially thought. I'm pissed off! What a ridiculous waste of money, effort, worry, energy and time. Screw civil action. Where's the SEC? Get these fsckers and their lawers off to jail. The whole thing has been one big SCAM. I hope lots of US criminal justice laws have been broken. Don't let them get away with it and with their sneaky stocks profits!!
Can some peeps get down to the forum (assuming it's still running...) and park outside with printouts of the Heise images and the true history of the code in question? It would be a devestating blow to show the unfortunate customers of SCO how hollow the claims are, and how much of a fool SCO is taking them for.
I disagree. People will not cope with extended longevity unless they are psychologically equipped to deal with it. Part of that will be being adapted to rapid change; holding on to the wonder and passion experienced by young people now. Remember that if your lifespan is indeterminate, then whatever age you are, you are probably pretty 'young'.
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So a country that imprisons people without charge and without access to legal council for up to eight years, tortures and humiliates prisoners, kidnaps people from countries without due process, runs detention camps in violation of international law, launches illegal wars on countries it doesn't like (but has something it wants), etc., etc., would be covered by this law? COOL!! Please pass this legislation as soon as possible!
Aren't approaches like this weak in that you could apply a filter to the image, changing it imperceptively and destroy the watermark? Wouldn't an image recognition system be better? It could be similar to the kinds of face recognition software that can pick you up even if you are in disguise...
Isn't this a bit anti-competitive? Imagine a major gas station company doing a deal with an automaker whereby the gas station will give you a full tank for your money if you are driving a Ford, but only half a tank if you come in a Dodge...
I guess the old Major Hochstetter gag with the heavy German accent saying "Show me your papers!" ain't so funny now. Gee I wonder what the world might be like if the Germans won WWII...
'nuff said.
Having a look at the profiles of people posting positive reviews here is good for a laugh.
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http://www.resellerratings.com/seller8613-p4-s1-d
The profiles all look the same and were created within a couple of days of one another, and they are so ridiculoulsy glowing it's funny. Gee. They look genuine to me.
They said: "more consistent, predictable, and easier to manage"
I read: "will crash, will crash often, just reboot"
I wonder if five of these would make a compact, power-efficient and quiet server RAID array? I'm looking forward to the day when 3.5" has gone the way of 5.25" drives of old...
Have a look at the Servoo project. Might be just what you are looking for. http://www.servoo.net/
Perhaps if the BBC did more to promote the resource more people would use it. I for one didn't know it existed.
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I feel like Steve Ballmer, only without sweating so much or doing the monkey dance.
When someone bases a commercial product on an open source project, they are usually obligated to release the source code to any modifications they make back to the community. This is perhaps a slight flaw in the license as there's no stipulation of *how* the source code is to be released. Apple could perhaps legally release patches as highly obfuscated -- but perfectly functional -- text files. Hell, they could split them up all over the place, strip out the comments and do all sorts of things to make the patches essentially useless to the project whilst still remaining true to the conditions of the license.
IMHO there should be an agreement of conduct in the license somewhere. Patches are to be released back to the project developers for one, not just to the public arena. The patches should be committed to or at least be compatible with the revision control system used by the project developers. They should also be commented, or there should be a prior agreement between the contributor and the project development team that all patches are to be thorougly described so that the team fully understands the workings of the code.
At the moment it looks like Apple is being at best ungracious and at worse an outright thief, looking to benefit from the very hard work of the KDE team and without any intention of adding to the general momentum of the project. Perhaps because ultimately open source desktop environments represent Apple's most dangerous threat on the software front (Microsoft sure as hell don't!).
No, the whole thing being "I told you so" would have read:
"I told you so.
-RMS"
Personally I would have liked to see that.
I realised the same thing when I read my contract, so I had an exemption inserted for anything that was open source according to the OSA. My employers had no problem with this luckily. I simply wouldn't have taken the job otherwise.
As I see things, as long as the digital copy of your document continues to exist, the lifetime of the dead tree version is unimportant, as long as it looks great for perhaps five years or more. I doubt that historians of the future will rely on much other than digital archives.
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Photographic negatives degrade faster than the prints made from them (well, perhaps not now -- I don't know), so the photographs themselves become the vital historical record.
As digital storage capacities increase the chances of key records being lost decreases, with the only real risks being computer viruses and carelessnes
So it's great that my inkjet prints will last for ten years, but when they fade I'll just print another one from the pristine digital source.
when SCO goes after HURD...
With the Internet and the cell phone, the main technological problems of human communication have been solved. If you want to talk to someone, no matter where they are (even in developing nations in time) you can. But in our every day lives these things don't really add very much to what we have always had. Few people have friends who they have met electronically.
Many people with all the cell phones and internet connectivity they want are often incredibly lonely, unable to meet people in their own neighbourhood with whom they can identify and form meaningful relationships. Human beings like company, and a computer screen will never be as good as face to face comradery. So many writers have lamented how modern communications are making us more lonely than ever.
But the same technologies can bring us closer together. Devices like the one described, personal servers, and future telephones will act as our agents, letting us 'see' the friendly faces in the crowd. We'll know when a friend is at the same party, or at the same movie, we'll know when another avid Slashdotter is nearby, and we'll be able to find the kinds of people we want to find.
I predict these devices will become commonplace. The multitude of devices you have on your body will act together to notify you of who is around you. They will be seen as essential.
And for those that panic about their 'privacy', well, remember that like all electronic devices, you are in control of the switch. You don't like it, well turn it off!
"no reason to use them until I need to"? How about - 'IE is notorious for its vulnerability to malicious software.' Or, 'the company that monopolized the browser market did so by using monopoly rent to extinguish Netscape Corporations' products hold on the marketplace.'
-?
Do people *really* depend on IE, when they also have Netscape/Mozilla, Opera, etc.? I find it a constant source of amazement that people simply put up with the flaws in IE. A very large number of people, particularly in the corporate world, know what a disaster that piece of software is, but still they don't shift. What are they waiting for? Permission from Microsoft?
Then again, I suppose I fail to take into account how my suckers have built intranet and Internet sites using embraced and extended protocols that lock them into using IE. Well, it's not like they had any way of knowing this kind of thing could happen, could they?
Oh, you might make fun, but if you look at their site you will see an announcement that the JourneyOS site has been shut down due to a cease and desist from the lawyers of the band Journey. Doesn't that just do your head in!
I hope they are joking.
I remember reading about a monk who in the 1600s was hit in the leg by a meteorite. He died from his injury because it had damaged his femoral artery. Can't be bothered finding more info, but I'm sure *someone* has the time and inclination.
are just temporary of course - until someone creates the combustion-engined Segway Generator! That of course will last only a short while before the Segway Fuel Cell! But I'm going to hold out until I can run mine using the Segway Zero-point Energy Power Pack Extreme!
Okay, so it looks like this thing is even more bogus than people initially thought. I'm pissed off! What a ridiculous waste of money, effort, worry, energy and time. Screw civil action. Where's the SEC? Get these fsckers and their lawers off to jail. The whole thing has been one big SCAM. I hope lots of US criminal justice laws have been broken. Don't let them get away with it and with their sneaky stocks profits!!
Can some peeps get down to the forum (assuming it's still running...) and park outside with printouts of the Heise images and the true history of the code in question? It would be a devestating blow to show the unfortunate customers of SCO how hollow the claims are, and how much of a fool SCO is taking them for.
I disagree. People will not cope with extended longevity unless they are psychologically equipped to deal with it. Part of that will be being adapted to rapid change; holding on to the wonder and passion experienced by young people now. Remember that if your lifespan is indeterminate, then whatever age you are, you are probably pretty 'young'.