> IBM is bound by contract such that any code that touches SCO code is still controlled by SCO.
Sorry, I worded the last sentence badly. This is SCO's position that the contract somehow attached SCO rights to IBM code, despite the contract clearly stating, "Code developed by IBM belongs to IBM" and everyone who signed the contract stating that as the intention of the contract.
SCO was originally trying to blow "derivative copyright" smoke up that claim but that is clearly not supported by copyright law. SCO is now attempting to modify their claim against IBM to support their new contract theory.
SCO has already failed to produce any real evidence of Copyright code in Linux. Nothing produced by SCO from any of this evidence can change that. Everyone using Linux is safe.
This request is to support SCO's weird derivative tale that despite AT&T contracts saying IBM was free to develop code, Novell waiving the rights, and testimony from various people that IBM is bound by contract such that any code that touches SCO code is still controlled by SCO.
I believe that all these "applications" of DRM will only destroy the system in the end. The more frivilous and damaging to the enduser economic applications of this technology are produced the more the social/political/legal system is likely to take notice and outlaw the whole thing. Sure we are going to have to suffer a bit to begin with.
Look at the state of DVD region encoding in the EU. Why have the US rights owners not gone up in arms over the wide-availibility of region free players? Becuase if they tried to enforce it at this point the EU would blow away the whole system. Once it fell in the EU it would be rapidly destroyed in other regions, (probably levaing only regions 0,1).
> Therefore more of its mass would burn up before striking the earth.
And dump the heat into the atmosphere. Congratulations you have just managed to convert the energy from a kinetic impact into a heat event probably affecting a much wider range than before.
The choices A) smashed: solid ground absorbes energy B) broiled: atmosphere absorbs energy
Are you saying OS == operating system or OS == Open Source. I agree with the first and it implies the second.
If a system is supposed to be secure a supplier should provide 1) source code for walk through audit 2) architecture documents for walk through audit 3) developer practices and audit documents 4) developer security test procedures and development test bed environment 5) results of test bed run on the supplied system 6) access to bug track database
All this provides transparency and confidence in the security of the supplied system.
NO operating system should be used without a proper security audit. If you can't inspect the source code then there is no ability to look for trojans or other backdoors left in the system. "Trusting" your supplier is not good enough, even if everyone at the supplier is security cleared and/or bonded.
Just because a system is a closed source, proprietary system does not mean it is more (or less) secure than an open source system.
These are the same executives that pay Millions of dollars to produce Gili and White Chicks so I have Zero Faith in any of the products of the brain cells to begin with.
802.11b/11Mbs is fine for surfing the net. 11b will run into problems as the density increases.
The next generation wireless is media access. Your TVs talking to the digital cable modem, the digital recording/storage devices, and satellite receiver without cables, distributing the HDTV signals from all your possible sources to all your possible end user devices/displays.
That is what the next gen wireless is all about. The range needs to be big enough to cover your house but small enough that neighbors do not interfere. IE enough channel to share cells over a block or 1/2 block.
I am in small part the buisness but not any one of the named players.
At this point Microsoft needs FireFox. Without a browser alternative the ONLY safe recomendation would be to remove Windows. At least with FireFox as an alternative to IE (and ThunderBird for Outlook) Microsoft can remain as the desktop operating system.
Without FireFox the safe solution is to get rid of Windows and that is Microsofts worst nightmare. So for now Microsoft will be happy that FireFox exists and that Windows remains as the desktop platform.
These are expresions for the complexity of a problem. Given n elements to deal with different algorithms will require different amounts of processing to complete.
Given n elements in a linear array and a normal processor finding the sum of those elements is an Order(n) task. Written O(n) it means the complexity of the task scales directly with number of elements n.
O(n^2) -> order n^2, as n goes up the complexity of the task goes up as n squared. O(n log n) -> order n * log(n) O(1) -> order 1, operation is independent of n.
For a lisp like list finding the length of a list is O(n) because you have to traverse the elements and count them. A good vector class will keep the length of the vector along with the data and finding that length is O(1) because it is directly available.
Search, sort , merge, and insert algorithms go O(n log n), O(n^2) and all sorts of other orders.
Looking at this article and the recent Peru attack it is clear Microsoft is very afraid of governments going GPL. So afraid that Microsoft is even willing to throw the bone that BSD style open licenses.
I believe the clearest benefit that Linux has shown the modern world is benefit of a communal IP licenses. Take it, use it, but any improvements must be returned to the community. This is wonderful use of the creative commons and adds values for everyone. Well everyone but those who would leverage knowledge for private gain at the expense of public good.
Linux has paved the path to a new form IP. Microsoft is afraid that governments will see the benefits of this. This is very good for the general public, but bad for IP robber barons.
> Keep in mind that this was paid by the > Microsoft tax often ridiculed by slashdotters....
Most of Paul Allen's money was from inflated Microsoft stock prices. Not actual money from Microsoft. Money from selling stock comes from investors and not Microsoft customers.
Granted that a lot of the Microsoft stock value comes from Microsofts bank account. However strictly speaking Paul Allen and Bill Gates got most of their fortunes from the investment community who bought shares.
I have a big problem with this simple definition and the expansion to include general "remote controlled devices".
A ceiling light (or fan if you want mechanical systems) is a robot by this definition as it is switched by a remote control. The switch is not in the same place as the device it controls.
Most of these so called police devices (many are cable controlled, although replaceing the cable with a digital radio link is not much of a complication) are no more complicated than a bunch of switches and motors. Essentially no more complicated than a bunch of kitchen ceiling fans. Yet they end up being "robots".
Those battle "robots" are the same thing, nothing more than a bunch of remote switched relays.
Does your car become a "robot" if you have remote lock contol? We are getting to many devices for everything to be a "robot".
So traffic lights are now robots? A pinball machine is now a robot? An old mechanical telephone exchange is a robot? My car is now a robot? (the whole car as an electro mechincal system responding to inputs, does it matter if I sit, in it, on it, or 50' away and control it over wires.
I would give it to assembly line robots as electro-mechanical systems responding to programmed code with little more than on/off and sensors for inputs.
Putting humans directly in the control loop stops making it a robot. Having humans direct, a'la slave, would still meet the definition of a robot.
We exported Celin Dion to Nevada. We can barley here her now.
Actually both Celin Dion and Shania Twain are residents of Switzerland now. They will take our ticket/CD money but they don't want to pay us back through the taxes.
Canadian Amusement (need media player): Spoof of an old Ontario government promotional song "Ontario, A place to live, a place to grow" Rick Mercers Monday Report Background: an abandoned brewery in Toronto was found to be a large pot growing operation. The CBC is government funded in part.
This just shows another reason Microsoft will loose the war for the living room. They are not serving the customer. In a consumer market like the "TV appliance" space it will be enabling the consumer that generates loyal satisfied customers.
------------------ EX1: Bob buys brand X digital TV recorder Sally buys brand Y.
Sally can skip commercials. Bob can't. When Bob sees what Sally's machine can do he will think his unit is "defective" and will not have a positive view of the brand. -----------------
You can see this in Eurpoe where Region 1 DVD hacking is omni-present. It is not a big deal in north america as Region 1 is the region to be in for most people. Most of the hacking in NA is by people trying to get Japanese imports.
----------------- EX 2 Dave's machine can frame capture and send via email. Bob feel's his machine is "broken" again because he can't forward great plays to his friends -----------------
You can continue to come up with examples like these that are quite simple features to implement but are "very bad" digital rights operations.
I really should not have included printers in general in that comment. Except for those weird print/scan(/fax) combo-jobs. The straight printers have a reasonable interface. [#include normal rant about ink cartridges here but that is the low end market and everyone is doing it]
I have never really had a problem interfacing with an HP printer, although I normally just dump data to them as postscript or rasterformat over the network interface from a print queue. I don't know if I have worked with scanjet level stuff mostly the beefier printers and roll paper plotters.
This is a sub-orbital flight. A parabolic up-down with "comparativly little" speed WRT the ground. A true orbital flight needs momentum to balance out gravity. This means a lot higher ground speed for an orbital flight.
As this is not an orbital flight there is no excessive velocity to burn off. Hence, the bathtub mode of recovery from altitude.
Here is an interactive game in one line of basic code (ok 4 statements, but you could write it in one basic numbered statement). Just showing what could be done with minimal code.
You control an object at the top of the screen it will move left if you don't push shift, right if you do. Blocks "###" are printed at the bottom of the screen and scroll up. If you crash into a block it is game over. Quite complex for 1 line. I would walk into stores displaying computers without games that attracted the kids, type this in and have fun.
I had versions for PET, VIC20, C64, APPLE II, TRS80 machines
Adjust for my bad memory and learning of many other languages since then.
0 poke 32788+a,65; a = a + peek(515)*2-1; print tab(36*rnd()),"###"; if (peek(32788+a) == 32) goto 0;
clear the screen, scroll to the bottom and run
Break down A) poke - puts player "A" set by ascii 65 at the middle of the top line of the screen plus the offset a B) adjust the offset a of the players position dependent on the state of the shift key C) print - puts a block in a random position on the next line. If this is the bottom of the screen, we get a scroll and everything moves up and the players object is cleared off the top D) check the new position of the player to see if it is clear
Majic numbers 32788 address of the middle of the top line of the screen 65 character for players object 36 + width of block is 1 less than the width of the screen, in this case 36+3 40 515 shift key status updated by system interrupt
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> IBM is bound by contract such that any code that touches SCO code is still controlled by SCO.
Sorry, I worded the last sentence badly. This is SCO's position that the contract somehow attached SCO rights to IBM code, despite the contract clearly stating, "Code developed by IBM belongs to IBM" and everyone who signed the contract stating that as the intention of the contract.
SCO was originally trying to blow "derivative copyright" smoke up that claim but that is clearly not supported by copyright law. SCO is now attempting to modify their claim against IBM to support their new contract theory.
SCO has already failed to produce any real evidence of Copyright code in Linux. Nothing produced by SCO from any of this evidence can change that. Everyone using Linux is safe.
This request is to support SCO's weird derivative tale that despite AT&T contracts saying IBM was free to develop code, Novell waiving the rights, and testimony from various people that IBM is bound by contract such that any code that touches SCO code is still controlled by SCO.
I believe that all these "applications" of DRM will only destroy the system in the end. The more frivilous and damaging to the enduser economic applications of this technology are produced the more the social/political/legal system is likely to take notice and outlaw the whole thing. Sure we are going to have to suffer a bit to begin with.
Look at the state of DVD region encoding in the EU. Why have the US rights owners not gone up in arms over the wide-availibility of region free players? Becuase if they tried to enforce it at this point the EU would blow away the whole system. Once it fell in the EU it would be rapidly destroyed in other regions, (probably levaing only regions 0,1).
> Therefore more of its mass would burn up before striking the earth.
And dump the heat into the atmosphere. Congratulations you have just managed to convert the energy from a kinetic impact into a heat event probably affecting a much wider range than before.
The choices
A) smashed: solid ground absorbes energy
B) broiled: atmosphere absorbs energy
Are you saying OS == operating system or OS == Open Source. I agree with the first and it implies the second.
If a system is supposed to be secure a supplier should provide
1) source code for walk through audit
2) architecture documents for walk through audit
3) developer practices and audit documents
4) developer security test procedures and development test bed environment
5) results of test bed run on the supplied system
6) access to bug track database
All this provides transparency and confidence in the security of the supplied system.
NO operating system should be used without a proper security audit. If you can't inspect the source code then there is no ability to look for trojans or other backdoors left in the system. "Trusting" your supplier is not good enough, even if everyone at the supplier is security cleared and/or bonded.
Just because a system is a closed source, proprietary system does not mean it is more (or less) secure than an open source system.
These are the same executives that pay Millions of dollars to produce Gili and White Chicks so I have Zero Faith in any of the products of the brain cells to begin with.
802.11b/11Mbs is fine for surfing the net. 11b will run into problems as the density increases.
The next generation wireless is media access. Your TVs talking to the digital cable modem, the digital recording/storage devices, and satellite receiver without cables, distributing the HDTV signals from all your possible sources to all your possible end user devices/displays.
That is what the next gen wireless is all about. The range needs to be big enough to cover your house but small enough that neighbors do not interfere. IE enough channel to share cells over a block or 1/2 block.
I am in small part the buisness but not any one of the named players.
At this point Microsoft needs FireFox. Without a browser alternative the ONLY safe recomendation would be to remove Windows. At least with FireFox as an alternative to IE (and ThunderBird for Outlook) Microsoft can remain as the desktop operating system.
Without FireFox the safe solution is to get rid of Windows and that is Microsofts worst nightmare. So for now Microsoft will be happy that FireFox exists and that Windows remains as the desktop platform.
These are expresions for the complexity of a problem.
Given n elements to deal with different algorithms will require different amounts of processing to complete.
Given n elements in a linear array and a normal processor finding the sum of those elements is an Order(n) task. Written O(n) it means the complexity of the task scales directly with number of elements n.
O(n^2) -> order n^2, as n goes up the complexity of the task goes up as n squared.
O(n log n) -> order n * log(n)
O(1) -> order 1, operation is independent of n.
For a lisp like list finding the length of a list is O(n) because you have to traverse the elements and count them. A good vector class will keep the length of the vector along with the data and finding that length is O(1) because it is directly available.
Search, sort , merge, and insert algorithms go O(n log n), O(n^2) and all sorts of other orders.
Looking at this article and the recent Peru attack it is clear Microsoft is very afraid of governments going GPL. So afraid that Microsoft is even willing to throw the bone that BSD style open licenses.
I believe the clearest benefit that Linux has shown the modern world is benefit of a communal IP licenses. Take it, use it, but any improvements must be returned to the community. This is wonderful use of the creative commons and adds values for everyone. Well everyone but those who would leverage knowledge for private gain at the expense of public good.
Linux has paved the path to a new form IP. Microsoft is afraid that governments will see the benefits of this. This is very good for the general public, but bad for IP robber barons.
Easy to read pdf version on TuxRocks IBM-148.pdf
READ THIS multi-page tiff: IBM's reply
IBM roasts SCO for the lack of evidence and delay tactics. Practicaly asks the Judge for a contempt of court ruling.
> Keep in mind that this was paid by the
> Microsoft tax often ridiculed by slashdotters....
Most of Paul Allen's money was from inflated Microsoft stock prices. Not actual money from Microsoft. Money from selling stock comes from investors and not Microsoft customers.
Granted that a lot of the Microsoft stock value comes from Microsofts bank account. However strictly speaking Paul Allen and Bill Gates got most of their fortunes from the investment community who bought shares.
I have a big problem with this simple definition and the expansion to include general "remote controlled devices".
A ceiling light (or fan if you want mechanical systems) is a robot by this definition as it is switched by a remote control. The switch is not in the same place as the device it controls.
Most of these so called police devices (many are cable controlled, although replaceing the cable with a digital radio link is not much of a complication) are no more complicated than a bunch of switches and motors. Essentially no more complicated than a bunch of kitchen ceiling fans. Yet they end up being "robots".
Those battle "robots" are the same thing, nothing more than a bunch of remote switched relays.
Does your car become a "robot" if you have remote lock contol? We are getting to many devices for everything to be a "robot".
>> Just sequencers
So traffic lights are now robots?
A pinball machine is now a robot?
An old mechanical telephone exchange is a robot?
My car is now a robot? (the whole car as an electro mechincal system responding to inputs, does it matter if I sit, in it, on it, or 50' away and control it over wires.
I would give it to assembly line robots as electro-mechanical systems responding to programmed code with little more than on/off and sensors for inputs.
Putting humans directly in the control loop stops making it a robot. Having humans direct, a'la slave, would still meet the definition of a robot.
Why do people keep calling remote controlled devices robots?
A robot is an autonomous object responding to its environment.
A remote controlled device is under direct control.
We call them
Remote Controlled Cars
Remote Controlled Planes
these are clearly not "ROBOTS".
Why are the more esoteric remote controlled devices called robots?
We exported Celin Dion to Nevada. We can barley here her now.
Actually both Celin Dion and Shania Twain are residents of Switzerland now. They will take our ticket/CD money but they don't want to pay us back through the taxes.
Canadian Amusement (need media player):
Spoof of an old Ontario government promotional song
"Ontario, A place to live, a place to grow"
Rick Mercers Monday Report
Background: an abandoned brewery in Toronto was found to be a large pot growing operation. The CBC is government funded in part.
This just shows another reason Microsoft will loose the war for the living room. They are not serving the customer. In a consumer market like the "TV appliance" space it will be enabling the consumer that generates loyal satisfied customers.
------------------
EX1:
Bob buys brand X digital TV recorder
Sally buys brand Y.
Sally can skip commercials. Bob can't. When Bob sees what Sally's machine can do he will think his unit is "defective" and will not have a positive view of the brand.
-----------------
You can see this in Eurpoe where Region 1 DVD hacking is omni-present. It is not a big deal in north america as Region 1 is the region to be in for most people. Most of the hacking in NA is by people trying to get Japanese imports.
-----------------
EX 2
Dave's machine can frame capture and send via email. Bob feel's his machine is "broken" again because he can't forward great plays to his friends
-----------------
You can continue to come up with examples like these that are quite simple features to implement but are "very bad" digital rights operations.
This could be the end of pasty white geeks everywhere. LAN parties in the park.
Ingredients:
1) WiFi backpack
2) laptops/palmtops
3) Power Gloves
4) VR glasses
I really should not have included printers in general in that comment. Except for those weird print/scan(/fax) combo-jobs. The straight printers have a reasonable interface.
[#include normal rant about ink cartridges here but that is the low end market and everyone is doing it]
I have never really had a problem interfacing with an HP printer, although I normally just dump data to them as postscript or rasterformat over the network interface from a print queue. I don't know if I have worked with scanjet level stuff mostly the beefier printers and roll paper plotters.
Look at all the unsupported scanners SANE Project HP search
This is a sub-orbital flight. A parabolic up-down with "comparativly little" speed WRT the ground. A true orbital flight needs momentum to balance out gravity. This means a lot higher ground speed for an orbital flight.
As this is not an orbital flight there is no excessive velocity to burn off. Hence, the bathtub mode of recovery from altitude.
My nieces think of AOL as an art supply company. We have made some neat things out of my collection of AOL CD's.
Here is an interactive game in one line of basic code (ok 4 statements, but you could write it in one basic numbered statement). Just showing what could be done with minimal code.
You control an object at the top of the screen it will move left if you don't push shift, right if you do. Blocks "###" are printed at the bottom of the screen and scroll up. If you crash into a block it is game over. Quite complex for 1 line. I would walk into stores displaying computers without games that attracted the kids, type this in and have fun.
I had versions for PET, VIC20, C64, APPLE II, TRS80 machines
Adjust for my bad memory and learning of many other languages since then.
0 poke 32788+a,65; a = a + peek(515)*2-1; print tab(36*rnd()),"###"; if (peek(32788+a) == 32) goto 0;
clear the screen, scroll to the bottom and run
Break down
A) poke - puts player "A" set by ascii 65 at the middle of the top line of the screen plus the offset a
B) adjust the offset a of the players position dependent on the state of the shift key
C) print - puts a block in a random position on the next line. If this is the bottom of the screen, we get a scroll and everything moves up and the players object is cleared off the top
D) check the new position of the player to see if it is clear
Majic numbers
32788 address of the middle of the top line of the screen
65 character for players object
36 + width of block is 1 less than the width of the screen, in this case 36+3 40
515 shift key status updated by system interrupt
Tripple damages only if you can collect.
IBM will be a lot higher up the collection chain than you.
SCO has some funny financing that might see the money pulled back, or into Novell.
SCO's chance of winning -> negligible
Your chance of collecting if they lose -> even lower