From Microsoft's attempts at documenting their file formats and interfaces I can say that Microsoft does not work to specifications or standards. They make the code work then make the working code the standard. That is bad practice and leads to, as all can see, bloated, undocumented and overly large interfaces.
I believe the biggest change for Microsoft, whether or not they embrace openness, is to work to a specification driven development rather than a code driven development system. Spend the timing working on the specification and interfaces, get a workable interface and security model then implement it.
What concerns me is that someone knew the police were coming for the unit. This was almost a petty theft case, sure significant to some but not really a major crime issue.
What if it were a more serious case? The police here should be really concerned about their information leaks and integrity of their investigation system.
Something that causes the loss of actual lives and goods. But nope the lords of IP must be served.
http://www.voanews.com/uspolicy/2008-05-15-voa5.cfm "The United States is very concerned about the increasing number of acts of piracy and armed robbery at sea, especially off the Somali coast," according to the U.S. Department of State. Piracy and armed robbery have disrupted trade in east Africa and threatened the delivery of humanitarian assistance to the Somali people.
Wait for the news sites to post their news with DRM protection. A simple html tag is all that is needed. It does not need to be functional with any systems.
Then anyone copying information from the site is clearly breaking the DRM technology implemented by the page and is open to liabilities for possessing and using DRM breaking technologies.
This clearly looks like an attempt by the lawyers to game the system. There are clear rules they should know. At some level lawyers for both parties are supposed to be agents of the court.
Fines to recover the courts cost for all actions are needed on top of disbarment of the RIAA's lawyers. The message "Don't Game the System" needs to be sent.
I lean somewhere liberal/green/labor. I am glad the out of touch conservatives proposed this. It will cost the conservatives a lot of points next election. They do not appear to connect with the current generation. Notably I am "old" and I don't agree with this either.
$500 fine per download, $20,000 per upload. Of what is nominally a $0.99 or less item. This is not constitutionally valid as it is a violation of fundamental justice. Still it looks pretty normal for the new police state to act ignoring citizen's rights in favor of corporations.
I see lawsuits killing this really quickly. The originating site is creating a unique copyrightable HTML text document. This document is being modified in transit against the wishes of the originator before being delivered to the destination.
Some lawyers are going to make megabucks off this one.
>>Revision 3 should have just sued, and sued BIG. By discussing it so glibly, and in such detail, on their blog they're jeopardizing their case. A huge financial hit would hurt the RIAA's cronies a LOT more than a little negative publicity from a blogger
Except then RIAA could have just paid up and fixed their scripts and moved on.
The FBI investigation is going to turn up more dirt and likely will lead to lots of discovery. Imagine the connections between organizations proper discovery could come up with. Also imagine the work needed to comply. "Ok, RIAA turn over all correspondence you have had concerning enforcement for the last 3 years".
This does not mean Revision 3 can't sue for damages. But letting the FBI get the ball rolling is the first step. And if the FBI do lay charges then the money part gets a lot easier.
From a short time ago. http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=508970&cid=22942144
Sigh, someone said 5 years. More like 5 weeks.
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They are going to have to do this carefully. Should they cause any variation in the rendering of a site I would assume it would be pretty easy for any site to file a copyright violation against this service.
1. set up site. Take local image of screen. 2. load site in a web browser on the ISP network. 3. If browsed image does not match the local image. File and sue the ISP provider for violating the copyright of the original site. IE they took all of the original site, reproduced it but with some ads replaced.
The director of the libraries I've working on, has been told that installing Linux will result in BSA audit. We did, nothing happened, obviously, but all the other libraries are still using Windows servers. And if they did switch to Linux they would not fear the BSA. Only people who use Windows have to fear the BSA and the byzantine maze of license issues.
I wish the studios had the courage to break single books into 2 or more movies. And definitely not try and cram 2-3 books into one movie.
It would give the movies more chance to cover the details of the book. Sort of like StarWars 4,5,6. Where the different movies can end on up or down notes in the overall story.
For those accusing me of repeating a tired slogan without any input.
Crossing the Rubicon is a noted point because it is a remarkable structural event in the history of the destruction of the Republic of Rome.
There are very very direct parallels here which make it a required reference point. The use of a military force within the Republic represents a repression of the freedoms of the people. That such action is done without oversight of the people the Republic represents but is actually beholden to the military command represents a significant deterioration in the structure of the republic.
Those who do not understand history are destined to repeat it. Sadly there are many who do not have the knowledge of what has gone before. So while it may be a tired old saying for some, it will still be a revelation for others and must be brought up and acknowledged for its seemingly direct parallel to this situation.
It is possible it will not lead to the downfall of the new republic, but being aware of the previous path can help avoid it happening again.
So jump-the-shark and tired-old-saying all you want. History should be a lesson for the current and future generation.
Your ISP has identified you as subscribing to a connection with >1Mbs upload speed. A recent top-secret national security bill requires all citizens with such bandwidth to become part of the national defense infrastructure. Attached to this email you will find an application. Install it. It will self register with homeland defense and be available for defense of the homeland should the need arise.
Thank you for your cooperation. ZZ
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Main channel is to pvmd. "backchannel" is the process to process communication.
-- The PVM system is composed of two parts. The first part is a daemon , called pvmd3 and sometimes abbreviated pvmd , that resides on all the computers making up the virtual machine. (An example of a daemon program is the mail program that runs in the background and handles all the incoming and outgoing electronic mail on a computer.) Pvmd3 is designed so any user with a valid login can install this daemon on a machine. When a user wishes to run a PVM application, he first creates a virtual machine by starting up PVM. (Chapter 3 details how this is done.) The PVM application can then be started from a Unix prompt on any of the hosts. Multiple users can configure overlapping virtual machines, and each user can execute several PVM applications simultaneously. -- The general paradigm for application programming with PVM is as follows. A user writes one or more sequential programs in C, C++, or Fortran 77 that contain embedded calls to the PVM library. Each program corresponds to a task making up the application. These programs are compiled for each architecture in the host pool, and the resulting object files are placed at a location accessible from machines in the host pool. To execute an application, a user typically starts one copy of one task (usually the ``master'' or ``initiating'' task) by hand from a machine within the host pool. This process subsequently starts other PVM tasks, eventually resulting in a collection of active tasks that then compute locally and exchange messages with each other to solve the problem. Note that while the above is a typical scenario, as many tasks as appropriate may be started manually. As mentioned earlier, tasks interact through explicit message passing, identifying each other with a system-assigned, opaque TID. --
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From Microsoft's attempts at documenting their file formats and interfaces I can say that Microsoft does not work to specifications or standards. They make the code work then make the working code the standard. That is bad practice and leads to, as all can see, bloated, undocumented and overly large interfaces.
I believe the biggest change for Microsoft, whether or not they embrace openness, is to work to a specification driven development rather than a code driven development system. Spend the timing working on the specification and interfaces, get a workable interface and security model then implement it.
What concerns me is that someone knew the police were coming for the unit. This was almost a petty theft case, sure significant to some but not really a major crime issue.
What if it were a more serious case? The police here should be really concerned about their information leaks and integrity of their investigation system.
Something that causes the loss of actual lives and goods. But nope the lords of IP must be served.
http://www.voanews.com/uspolicy/2008-05-15-voa5.cfm
"The United States is very concerned about the increasing number of acts of piracy and armed robbery at sea, especially off the Somali coast," according to the U.S. Department of State. Piracy and armed robbery have disrupted trade in east Africa and threatened the delivery of humanitarian assistance to the Somali people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy
Yeah, but the grue is but a dim shadow to the awesome power of the gazebo.
From the looks of the test selecting London all the time would have a
1/6 chance = 16.67% chance.
They need better double blind testing and a more diverse set of geographical locations.
> Fair use still exists? K3wl.
Wait for the news sites to post their news with DRM protection. A simple html tag is all that is needed. It does not need to be functional with any systems.
Then anyone copying information from the site is clearly breaking the DRM technology implemented by the page and is open to liabilities for possessing and using DRM breaking technologies.
This clearly looks like an attempt by the lawyers to game the system. There are clear rules they should know. At some level lawyers for both parties are supposed to be agents of the court.
Fines to recover the courts cost for all actions are needed on top of disbarment of the RIAA's lawyers. The message "Don't Game the System" needs to be sent.
I lean somewhere liberal/green/labor. I am glad the out of touch conservatives proposed this. It will cost the conservatives a lot of points next election. They do not appear to connect with the current generation. Notably I am "old" and I don't agree with this either.
$500 fine per download, $20,000 per upload. Of what is nominally a $0.99 or less item. This is not constitutionally valid as it is a violation of fundamental justice. Still it looks pretty normal for the new police state to act ignoring citizen's rights in favor of corporations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Bill_of_Rights
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_justice
So are we putting prolific useless patent filers on the B-Ark along with those with their brains stuck somewhere between right and left?
I see lawsuits killing this really quickly. The originating site is creating a unique copyrightable HTML text document. This document is being modified in transit against the wishes of the originator before being delivered to the destination.
Some lawyers are going to make megabucks off this one.
>>Revision 3 should have just sued, and sued BIG. By discussing it so glibly, and in such detail, on their blog they're jeopardizing their case. A huge financial hit would hurt the RIAA's cronies a LOT more than a little negative publicity from a blogger
Except then RIAA could have just paid up and fixed their scripts and moved on.
The FBI investigation is going to turn up more dirt and likely will lead to lots of discovery. Imagine the connections between organizations proper discovery could come up with. Also imagine the work needed to comply. "Ok, RIAA turn over all correspondence you have had concerning enforcement for the last 3 years".
This does not mean Revision 3 can't sue for damages. But letting the FBI get the ball rolling is the first step. And if the FBI do lay charges then the money part gets a lot easier.
I run World of Warcraft.
- installer runs
- C:\Program_Files C:\.. all exist fake hierarchy
- very little performance hit some things are faster
Up to date winXP with a few "standard" services disabled. Got an error or 2 then got BSOD'd.
Is there a way to capture a report from this?
From a short time ago.
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=508970&cid=22942144
Sigh, someone said 5 years. More like 5 weeks.
-----
Hello US Citizen,
Your ISP has identified you as subscribing to a connection with >1Mbs upload speed. A recent top-secret national security bill requires all citizens with such bandwidth to become part of the national defense infrastructure. Attached to this email you will find an application. Install it. It will self register with homeland defense and be available for defense of the homeland should the need arise.
Thank you for your cooperation.
ZZ
PS: you have 1 week to register or you will be added to the terrorism watch list and will be subject to extreme rendition if needed.
PPS: we can't show you the bill, this is top-secret national defense stuff.
PPPS: if you are thinking of decompiling or interfering with the operation of this software, see PS:
PPPPS: yes this is MS windows Vista only software. Don't have Vista, see PS:
---
They are going to have to do this carefully. Should they cause any variation in the rendering of a site I would assume it would be pretty easy for any site to file a copyright violation against this service.
1. set up site. Take local image of screen.
2. load site in a web browser on the ISP network.
3. If browsed image does not match the local image. File and sue the ISP provider for violating the copyright of the original site. IE they took all of the original site, reproduced it but with some ads replaced.
Ever wonder how much oil money going out of the US is balanced by payments to Microsoft coming in?
1 car -> $50/week of gas -> 50*50 = 2500 a year
1 computer -> $400 os + $800 offic = 1200 every 2 years or so.
So for every car in the US need 4 people outside the US using Microsoft products to balance.
Ever wonder why the sanctions against Microsoft were not that bad?
So massive core explosions delivering a huge radiation wave are expected.
Step 1:
- invent scrith
Step 2:
- build Ringworld
Step 3:
- profit (sell real estate)
I wish the studios had the courage to break single books into 2 or more movies. And definitely not try and cram 2-3 books into one movie.
It would give the movies more chance to cover the details of the book. Sort of like StarWars 4,5,6. Where the different movies can end on up or down notes in the overall story.
For those accusing me of repeating a tired slogan without any input.
Crossing the Rubicon is a noted point because it is a remarkable structural event in the history of the destruction of the Republic of Rome.
There are very very direct parallels here which make it a required reference point. The use of a military force within the Republic represents a repression of the freedoms of the people. That such action is done without oversight of the people the Republic represents but is actually beholden to the military command represents a significant deterioration in the structure of the republic.
Those who do not understand history are destined to repeat it. Sadly there are many who do not have the knowledge of what has gone before. So while it may be a tired old saying for some, it will still be a revelation for others and must be brought up and acknowledged for its seemingly direct parallel to this situation.
It is possible it will not lead to the downfall of the new republic, but being aware of the previous path can help avoid it happening again.
So jump-the-shark and tired-old-saying all you want. History should be a lesson for the current and future generation.
So anyone still doubt if the great republic has crossed its Rubicon yet?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubicon
Ok, someone needs to get a hold of, or make up AFCYBER division shoulder patches.
US Air Force Cyber Command (AFCYBER)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoulder_patch
http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/DUI_SSI_COA_page.htm
Hello US Citizen,
Your ISP has identified you as subscribing to a connection with >1Mbs upload speed. A recent top-secret national security bill requires all citizens with such bandwidth to become part of the national defense infrastructure. Attached to this email you will find an application. Install it. It will self register with homeland defense and be available for defense of the homeland should the need arise.
Thank you for your cooperation.
ZZ
PS: you have 1 week to register or you will be added to the terrorism watch list and will be subject to extreme rendition if needed.
PPS: we can't show you the bill, this is top-secret national defense stuff.
PPPS: if you are thinking of decompiling or interfering with the operation of this software, see PS:
PPPPS: yes this is MS windows Vista only software. Don't have Vista, see PS:
Supposedly Microsoft is still under watch by the Fed for being an abusive monopoly.
Also Microsoft is under close scrutiny by the EU trade commission.
And we have all the wonder full reporters calling in.
I wonder what Microsoft would be pulling if there were not so many watching.
I wonder what Microsoft is pulling where they are not being watched.
Forget SETI at home look at PVM. First release 1989 !!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_Virtual_Machine
Description here
http://www.netlib.org/pvm3/book/node17.html
Main channel is to pvmd. "backchannel" is the process to process communication.
--
The PVM system is composed of two parts. The first part is a daemon , called pvmd3 and sometimes abbreviated pvmd , that resides on all the computers making up the virtual machine. (An example of a daemon program is the mail program that runs in the background and handles all the incoming and outgoing electronic mail on a computer.) Pvmd3 is designed so any user with a valid login can install this daemon on a machine. When a user wishes to run a PVM application, he first creates a virtual machine by starting up PVM. (Chapter 3 details how this is done.) The PVM application can then be started from a Unix prompt on any of the hosts. Multiple users can configure overlapping virtual machines, and each user can execute several PVM applications simultaneously.
--
The general paradigm for application programming with PVM is as follows. A user writes one or more sequential programs in C, C++, or Fortran 77 that contain embedded calls to the PVM library. Each program corresponds to a task making up the application. These programs are compiled for each architecture in the host pool, and the resulting object files are placed at a location accessible from machines in the host pool. To execute an application, a user typically starts one copy of one task (usually the ``master'' or ``initiating'' task) by hand from a machine within the host pool. This process subsequently starts other PVM tasks, eventually resulting in a collection of active tasks that then compute locally and exchange messages with each other to solve the problem. Note that while the above is a typical scenario, as many tasks as appropriate may be started manually. As mentioned earlier, tasks interact through explicit message passing, identifying each other with a system-assigned, opaque TID.
--