Unless they have specific permission from the owner of the copyright work for any such modification. Any operation such as this would be an unauthorized derivative work and be in violation of the original copyright. The variations would be derivative works, not works in their own rights. Their creation would have to be authorized by the owner of the original copyright material.
Subject to sections 107 through 122, the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following: (1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies...; (2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work; (3) to distribute copies...of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending....
The fastest processor is not always the best for all applications. Certainly most desktops these days have more than enough power for those that browse the web. So why not save the cost of the big overpowered processor (and the big overpowered OS) where possible.
And in embedded designs the fastest processor is almost always an overdesign. All those kiosks for cash machines, ticket sales and cash registers do not need the latest fast processors. The do fine with a slower processors.
There is certainly a big market for an OS that does not tax the processor and is able to provide the minimal OS functionality dedicate application devices need.
The definition of traffic to give priority to is usually - mine is important. The other guys is not.
-- What about a large bunch of coders working at home who all need to download the latest build. To be nice they have set up a torrent site. Opps that gets downgrade so they decide to ship it all as email attachements because that has higher priority.
-- What about people that play games for a living. Yes the gold farmers. Who says there work is less work than the executive who remote desktops in to read email rather than using a remote email client.
-- What about the movie reviewer who needs to download and review the latest movie.
-- Yes some of these are stretching it but defining work/play and priority vs not priority needs to read the minds of the end user not look at the traffic type.
Make your named socket a.pst file and outlook can access your real email database through the defined interface. Nice and spiffy and you don't end up tied to the Microsoft format.
Early '90s SCO would have been Santa Cruz Operations which sold the "UNIX" business to Caldera which renamed itself SCO in 2003 to muddle the ownership issues. The original SCO renamed itself to Tarantella and was bought by SUN which is now Oracle.
I suspect they will be able to identify two markets A) those who react positively to targeted ads. Those they will target as much as possible B) those who react negatively to targeted ads. Those they will target more subtly. IE follow the Steak ad with a soap ad.
They will use the targeting criteria to place people into pool A or B.
If it is an issue I am surprised there is not a military mirror.
Why would not CyberCommand (or whatever it is called) maintain a mirror of OS they approve of. It is easy enough to set up and they can log all the machines to make an inventory. Even make sub-mirrors for different commands.
> Er, what's so wrong about voters voting for local sheriff?
Did you look at how they handled personal conflicts with/between their subordinates? Did you evaluate how good they were at managing budget and manpower allocations? Did you evaluate their connections to businesses and other organizations? Did you look at how the managed and achieved short term and long term goals internally and in coordination with other agencies?
In other words did you do a full evaluation of the sheriff as an executive in a management position with an employment record and job evaluation check?
Or did you just vote based on "tough on crime" and other public statements and a short paragraph biography designed not to offend anyone?
You can only vote on the sheriff so often. What happens if you make a mistake? How can you tell? Even in modern times corrupt sheriffs have been voted in and stayed in for some time.
Also you are depending on a majority to make correct decisions. Time and again it has been shown a majority has no problem stamping on minority. Minorities need protection as well and your way does not guarantee justice for the minority. The southern US did vote to keep Slavery
Having oversight and public reporting makes sure the rules are followed and abuses don't happen. People need to see as much of the government process in public as possible to avoid getting a corrupt system. Then you only have to watch the very top to make sure the full process is open and can be evaluated.
A lot of those Californian proposition and measures were failures because they were not complete enough in evaluating their financial, environmental and social impact. This is an education failure in the election system.
About Bills/Propositions/Measures
Every one should have a one sentence subject. Nothing should be allowed in except for items with address that subject. Exception to omnibus bills which wrap up a whole bunch of things. And every bill should contain all funding for implementing its issues.
Example: "This bill sets funding for private individuals for the restoration of damages from Hurricane X." Such a bill would not be allowed to contain funding to corporations or to anything in Alaska. Example: "This bill will establish a state park at XXX". It is expected this will cost $100M a year or $2 per state tax bill. Such funding is part of the bill.
What is needed is a transparent system through the hierarchy then we just need to keep our fingers on the top.
The US has a crazy system where they have "embraced" democracy beyond that which is practical. They vote for far to much. They vote for the local sheriff and the local dog catcher. There are pages and pages of things to vote on the US voting system. It is beyond ridiculous to expect any significant percentage of voters to become aware of all the positions that are voted on.
The US has embraced the idea of democracy but failed at the application due to an over application of the idea. Not quite as bad as the USSR and communism.
> Eventually we would see the people voting on a daily basis on the projects they want.
That is the most stupid way to run anything ever known. Even worse than a dictatorship. The Sheeple are not to be trusted.
As people are finding out as they look closer at Economics. Economics breaks down because it is based on ideal knowledge conditions. Even half baked knowledge conditions do not exist in most cases. Economics fails because purchase decisions are subject to information gaps and information war.
The same can be said of democracies. A function democracy relies on an active educated and wise voter base. Democracies fail because voters are lazy and stupid. Asking a wide population to become educated on all issues and to put aside prejudices and other characterizations and vote in a wise and informed manner is ridiculous. Democracy fails because voter decisions are subject to information gaps and information war as well as apathy and prejudices.
The tyranny of the majority is a problem. But no worse than the apathy and ignorance.
My ISP did it for a while. The problem was that it was badly implemented and increased to load on the upstream DNS services.
So if the middle layer DNS cache was empty and I asked for
mybank.com the bottom level DNS timed out and it failed over to the advertising page.
--- Think of searching on coke.com or any real address then the system failing and redirecting you to pepsi.com.
Think of the lawsuits. Think of the denial of service attacks possible
a) register not_mybank.com, have spoof of mybank.com page ready to launch
b) pay to have a fail on mybank.com route to not_mybank.com
c) denial of service attack to root servers for mybank.com, flip in your spoof page
d) have the ISP's magically send people to your spoof site from their saved URL's and collect passwords
Ok, the whole solution of Geo-engineering is a WTF moment.
We did not understand the global bio-sphere to begin with so we are in the Global-Environment change state. Now we propose attacking the symptoms without a full understanding of the dynamics.
It is like we have are playing russian roulette here and we don't know how many chambers are loaded.
Look at most attempts to "fix" environmental problems by introducing others. The bio-sphere is just way more interconnected than we can account for.
The best solution is to reduce our foot-print as rapidly as we can. And make sure it stays that way.
A while back a Judge ruled SCO does not own the UNIX(tm) copyrights. ((That would be SysV copyrights that were gutted by the BSD settlement, but that is a whole other story.)) SCO's argument in that case was that they could not run the UNIX business without the copyrights. And thus when they bought the business they must have bought the copyrights.
Now SCO is in BK court and in the processes of selling the business. The problem is they are also in the appeals court where their argument that the only way to sell the business is with the copyrights is being evaluated. So SCO is a) selling the business without the copyrights in the BK court. b) arguing that to buy the business you must get the copyrights in the appeals court.
It is supposed to be bad practice to argue different things in different courts at the same time. But that does not stop SCO.
Slashdot Mirror
Unless they have specific permission from the owner of the copyright work for any such modification. Any operation such as this would be an unauthorized derivative work and be in violation of the original copyright. The variations would be derivative works, not works in their own rights. Their creation would have to be authorized by the owner of the original copyright material.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work
Subject to sections 107 through 122, the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following: (1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies...; (2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work; (3) to distribute copies...of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending....
Ok I was wrong there that was an Atom not an ARM notebook.
This is ARM
http://armnews.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/dell-announce-notebook-with-arm-processor/
"I have yet to see any." Then you are not looking. It seems last year there were many. It seems there are fewer this year but still.
An example -
Go to www.dell.com
Select "for home"
select "laptop/notebook"
select "OS Ubuntu"
Tada :
http://www1.ca.dell.com/ca/en/home/Laptops/laptop-inspiron-10/pd.aspx?refid=laptop-inspiron-10&s=dhs&cs=cadhs1&~oid=ca~en~70702~inspnnb_10vu_en_feat_1~~
The fastest processor is not always the best for all applications. Certainly most desktops these days have more than enough power for those that browse the web. So why not save the cost of the big overpowered processor (and the big overpowered OS) where possible.
And in embedded designs the fastest processor is almost always an overdesign. All those kiosks for cash machines, ticket sales and cash registers do not need the latest fast processors. The do fine with a slower processors.
There is certainly a big market for an OS that does not tax the processor and is able to provide the minimal OS functionality dedicate application devices need.
The definition of traffic to give priority to is usually - mine is important. The other guys is not.
--
What about a large bunch of coders working at home who all need to download the latest build. To be nice they have set up a torrent site. Opps that gets downgrade so they decide to ship it all as email attachements because that has higher priority.
--
What about people that play games for a living. Yes the gold farmers. Who says there work is less work than the executive who remote desktops in to read email rather than using a remote email client.
--
What about the movie reviewer who needs to download and review the latest movie.
--
Yes some of these are stretching it but defining work/play and priority vs not priority needs to read the minds of the end user not look at the traffic type.
Make your named socket a .pst file and outlook can access your real email database through the defined interface.
Nice and spiffy and you don't end up tied to the Microsoft format.
Early '90s SCO would have been Santa Cruz Operations which sold the "UNIX" business to Caldera which renamed itself SCO in 2003 to muddle the ownership issues. The original SCO renamed itself to Tarantella and was bought by SUN which is now Oracle.
It was/is a great mess.
Darl was hauling in a pretty pile for driving SCO into oblivion.
Last year while in BK he hauled in $492k.
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1102542/000095013409004254/v51630e10vkza.htm
This from a 60 person company. That was losing money like crazy.
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1102542/000095013409001443/0000950134-09-001443-index.htm
$13M revenue, $8.7M loss
Nice 0.5/13 -> 1/26 of the revenue was paid to Darl
Found the link in a BoingBoing comment
http://www.ralphlauren.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3558821&camp=affiliate_k108283
She looks more human here.
I suspect they will be able to identify two markets
A) those who react positively to targeted ads. Those they will target as much as possible
B) those who react negatively to targeted ads. Those they will target more subtly. IE follow the Steak ad with a soap ad.
They will use the targeting criteria to place people into pool A or B.
You obviously missed the part about "being able to tinker with everything".
The windows 7 source code is not available to be tinkered with.
So windows 7 and really any proprietary software does not meet the basic mission requirements.
The hardware is fixed. I don't see why boot can't be just load/uncompress an active image.
If it is an issue I am surprised there is not a military mirror.
Why would not CyberCommand (or whatever it is called) maintain a mirror of OS they approve of.
It is easy enough to set up and they can log all the machines to make an inventory. Even make sub-mirrors for different commands.
> Er, what's so wrong about voters voting for local sheriff?
Did you look at how they handled personal conflicts with/between their subordinates? Did you evaluate how good they were at managing budget and manpower allocations? Did you evaluate their connections to businesses and other organizations? Did you look at how the managed and achieved short term and long term goals internally and in coordination with other agencies?
In other words did you do a full evaluation of the sheriff as an executive in a management position with an employment record and job evaluation check?
Or did you just vote based on "tough on crime" and other public statements and a short paragraph biography designed not to offend anyone?
You can only vote on the sheriff so often. What happens if you make a mistake? How can you tell? Even in modern times corrupt sheriffs have been voted in and stayed in for some time.
> http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2007/nov/jail-corrupt-sheriff-who-served-senate
Voting does make it correct or you safe.
Also you are depending on a majority to make correct decisions. Time and again it has been shown a majority has no problem stamping on minority. Minorities need protection as well and your way does not guarantee justice for the minority. The southern US did vote to keep Slavery
Having oversight and public reporting makes sure the rules are followed and abuses don't happen. People need to see as much of the government process in public as possible to avoid getting a corrupt system. Then you only have to watch the very top to make sure the full process is open and can be evaluated.
A lot of those Californian proposition and measures were failures because they were not complete enough in evaluating their financial, environmental and social impact. This is an education failure in the election system.
About Bills/Propositions/Measures
Every one should have a one sentence subject. Nothing should be allowed in except for items with address that subject. Exception to omnibus bills which wrap up a whole bunch of things.
And every bill should contain all funding for implementing its issues.
Example: "This bill sets funding for private individuals for the restoration of damages from Hurricane X." Such a bill would not be allowed to contain funding to corporations or to anything in Alaska.
Example: "This bill will establish a state park at XXX". It is expected this will cost $100M a year or $2 per state tax bill. Such funding is part of the bill.
What is needed is a transparent system through the hierarchy then we just need to keep our fingers on the top.
The US has a crazy system where they have "embraced" democracy beyond that which is practical. They vote for far to much. They vote for the local sheriff and the local dog catcher. There are pages and pages of things to vote on the US voting system. It is beyond ridiculous to expect any significant percentage of voters to become aware of all the positions that are voted on.
The US has embraced the idea of democracy but failed at the application due to an over application of the idea.
Not quite as bad as the USSR and communism.
> Eventually we would see the people voting on a daily basis on the projects they want.
That is the most stupid way to run anything ever known. Even worse than a dictatorship.
The Sheeple are not to be trusted.
As people are finding out as they look closer at Economics. Economics breaks down because it is based on ideal knowledge conditions. Even half baked knowledge conditions do not exist in most cases. Economics fails because purchase decisions are subject to information gaps and information war.
The same can be said of democracies. A function democracy relies on an active educated and wise voter base. Democracies fail because voters are lazy and stupid. Asking a wide population to become educated on all issues and to put aside prejudices and other characterizations and vote in a wise and informed manner is ridiculous. Democracy fails because voter decisions are subject to information gaps and information war as well as apathy and prejudices.
The tyranny of the majority is a problem. But no worse than the apathy and ignorance.
I can see why the powers that be like the efficiency of a modern electronic voting system.
Clearly we humans don't have to do anything at all. The machines can read our minds and we get 100% voter turnout with guaranteed accurate results ;-)
This will speed up all those security checks at airports where people have to boot their laptops.
Of course it will be years before this technology actually gets there. I just liked the subject line.
My ISP did it for a while. The problem was that it was badly implemented and increased to load on the upstream DNS services.
So if the middle layer DNS cache was empty and I asked for
mybank.com the bottom level DNS timed out and it failed over to the advertising page.
---
Think of searching on coke.com or any real address then the system failing and redirecting you to pepsi.com.
Think of the lawsuits. Think of the denial of service attacks possible
a) register not_mybank.com, have spoof of mybank.com page ready to launch
b) pay to have a fail on mybank.com route to not_mybank.com
c) denial of service attack to root servers for mybank.com, flip in your spoof page
d) have the ISP's magically send people to your spoof site from their saved URL's and collect passwords
Yeah this is a good idea.
You reduce the rocks to a minimal interference then shoot as many UFO's as you can.
http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Asteroids/Walkthrough
So this is going to be a space battle movie.
Actualy, I think they are going to blow it. Make space really small and have a dense set of rocks and lots of collisions.
- without destroying the net
a) everything written essentially has creator copyright
b) making a link to anything else would then be violation
- internet assumption
a) if it is on the net you can link to it
this follows from the basic structure of the net as addressable content
If someone does not want a link made they had better not put it on the internet. Putting it on the internet essentially means permission to link.
If sand can flow like water then perhaps the lakes and rivers shown by "water" like flow on mars were just created by sand flow.
Do you think the RIAA wants to get a Judge to rule on that evidence?
What would happen to the other cases/business model if media sentry's data collection was ruled not a secure chain of evidence path?
Cockroaches fear the light.
Ok, the whole solution of Geo-engineering is a WTF moment.
We did not understand the global bio-sphere to begin with so we are in the Global-Environment change state. Now we propose attacking the symptoms without a full understanding of the dynamics.
It is like we have are playing russian roulette here and we don't know how many chambers are loaded.
Look at most attempts to "fix" environmental problems by introducing others. The bio-sphere is just way more interconnected than we can account for.
The best solution is to reduce our foot-print as rapidly as we can. And make sure it stays that way.
A while back a Judge ruled SCO does not own the UNIX(tm) copyrights.
((That would be SysV copyrights that were gutted by the BSD settlement, but that is a whole other story.))
SCO's argument in that case was that they could not run the UNIX business without the copyrights. And thus when they bought the business they must have bought the copyrights.
Now SCO is in BK court and in the processes of selling the business. The problem is they are also in the appeals court where their argument that the only way to sell the business is with the copyrights is being evaluated. So SCO is
a) selling the business without the copyrights in the BK court.
b) arguing that to buy the business you must get the copyrights in the appeals court.
It is supposed to be bad practice to argue different things in different courts at the same time.
But that does not stop SCO.