So will SPAM creators be targetable under the provisions? Massive amounts of email can easily be shown to take up CPU memory and processor time as well as all the messages consuming disk space. A small system can easily be overloaded by SPAM, so SPAM is clearly a source of degradation and impairment of function of the computer. Simply filling up an inbox on a system can prevent access to other mail and is demonstratable as denial of service. SPAM is sent deliberatly with knowledge of the load affects.
1) The OS will keep detailed track of what you do. 2) The applications and files are lockable with DRM protections.
How long before the whole system is reporting to the Department of Security? And your system gets shutdown (DRM access controls) and agents dispatched to collect the system automatically when you do something funny, like look at source code or read slashdot?
Now we have planets of roughly our size and solar position. The next steps are to look for water and chlorophyl on those planets. The long shot is EM transmissions.
Dave does good work. He has a weekly column at @monitor.ca
That is full of good Linux information.
The column can be reached directly at
volXissY/lnxstuff.html
I had a broadband seller hit me on the phone the other day. Their service has a 5G/month cap. This was expressed to me the layman as 50,000 jpegs. Am I supposed to go "Wow, thats a lot of porn".
I was not quick enough at the time to reply that it is only 7 CD's or 1 surface of a DVD. For the price of the cable service for 1 month you could easily sneaker net the same amount of data from your local CD warehouse.
Granted this is not the high price end of the CD/DVDs. And I am totally ignoring MP3 MP4 compression schemes, still:
The broadband dream is fading fast for the general consumer if sneaker net is a better cost option for data transfer.
Checking CNN.com financial reports
5,415,222, 000 outstanding common shares. The $40 billion is only then $8 per share before taxes. MSFT is currently trading at aroung $50/share.
This ignores preferred shares, outstanding options calls, taxes and other splits including claims from outstanding lawsuits.
Ok, so we can grow stem cells into any other tissue. How long before a single stem cell can be coaxed into growing a limb? Acutally the limb is probably harder than just growing a whole embryo.
Will the every sperm is sacred crowd move into the no diet corner?
Mr Gates can you state your title at Microsoft for the record? BG "Head Software Architect" Mr Gates did you once state something primarly to the effect of "640K would be more than enough computer memory"? BG "Yes, but......." Mr Gates did you once state something primarly to the effect that the "internet was a passing fad that would not amount to much." BG "Yes, but in my book...." Mr Gates is not 256M or more recommended for Windows XP. BG "Yes, but it will work with 64M" Mr Gates is not IE and internet services not solidly the core of Windows. BG "No, that would be.Net services" Mr Gates is.Net services offered over the internet. BG "Yes, but...."
So despite your current position as Grand Architect you have made some errors in predicting the future before. 640K is 1/100th the size of the current minimium to install windows. The internet is pretty much the core buisness model for Microsoft. Could you be wrong about market for a modularized OS?
All this might appear to solve the problem. But the remaining problem is how to convince the public to buy into a system like this.
Future Marketing Promo: Buy this new hard-drive now so that you can have the priviledge of paying Disney(R) and Paramount(R) $X/Gig of stored information.
Drugs (even tobacco with taxes) are a very big currently thriving undergound economy. All a system like this will do is drive the information economy underground even further.
A SiGe process is an fudge to a bipolar technology process which is an addition to a more standard digital process. This means the devices are not your standard digital logic FET devices. The devices are most likely NPN vertical bipolar junction transistors, with the SiGe implant. The logic gates would then be standard complementary logic (CML) structures.
Technology Description
In most cases this is the automatic downloading of operating system patches and patches to core Microsoft applications. The operating systems patches will be run at the next reboot if not sooner. The application patches will be run the next time you run the application.
No opt-outs. It is very similar to automatic download and execution. The execution trigger is then dependent on user behaviour, the equivalent of walking around a mine field.
I don't have the technical details on this.
From other comments, using pointers causes a flag to be set which appears in the.EXE header indicating the code is unsafe. Is the resulting executable also encoded and signed including the flag state. Toggleing the "unsafe" flag in the header would otherwise be a trivial exercise. Please someone tell me there is some protection on the "unsafe" flag.
I can't read minds. This to me looks like the Judge actually favours the rights of end consumers to use purchased goods any way they like. Granted the judgement in this case goes the other way, but the judge is hampered by existing laws and must rule as they say. This is an overly strict reading of the laws and most of us are cringing. I think that is what the judge wanted.
It looks like a T-ball setup for a great public outcry and movement to get the politicians off their buts and give back some rights to end users. Or maybe just a great appeal case to go up the judiciary path. The quicker this judge makes his ruling the quicker it gets up the appeal path.
This is the battle ground for control of digital content. With it's recent Xbox moves into a home entertainment console and media rights initiatives Microsoft is setting itself up to be the owner of the interface between people and digital media. AOL Time-Warner has/wants a huge stake in the digital media arena. With this action AOL/T-W hopes to wrest control from the grabbing arms of Microsoft which appear to be grabbing up the digital media realestate by extension of their desktop monopoly. Where the final control ends up is anyones guess.
Can we hope that AOL/T-W will push for an open interface to digital media? I think not.
All publishers have a clear interest in strict digital rights controls.
"anything that is downloaded is bad"
look at the Microsoft update method. You brand new PC is probably going to download a complete new copy of itself and Office the first time it connects to the net. And with the Microsoft policies you are not going to be able to ghost the system and it will continue to download new patches from the net.
The primary reason for the lack of all forms of security is that there is no established form of responsibility. For too long the software industry has hidden behind the "user accepts all responsibility" fire wall of responsibility. What is required is that there be a required level of protection offered by network and computer security services and that users have legal recourse to recover losses should the security services fail.
I see this not coming through government legislation but through government demands. The government should require on all its system installations that there be a sign off on some level of responsibility for meeting security requirements with penalties for failure. If the government can break the ground everyone else can follow in and demand similar arrangements.
I.E. To use recent examples, Exchange will only be installed if Microsoft is willing to pay 2x the direct costs for cleaning up every virus outbreak.
IIS will be installed only if Microsoft is willing to pay 2x the direct costs of keeping patch levels current and fixing any damage from exploits.
If a company like Microsoft is unwilling to stand up for its products perhaps some third party would be willing to do the work.
If they want to implement legislation how about making software designers liable for "negligent design flaws" and for "obvious flaws".
Is this really 159 bytes or does this packet pull something else down?
If this is 159 bytes of visual basic it is a good thing Forth is not a standard.NET language.
Once on any file system an image of software is fair game by its nature. If you move an icon on your desktop or change a single setting you have created a personal derivative work. This must be allowed for by the nature of the product. The version on my hard-drive with its unique structure and time stamps is a derivative of the original.
Deleteing a file from a file system image is a perfectly acceptable and normal operation. Any individual should clearly be able to make a modification of that sort by the nature of the system. Just as a user could add files or edit files on a file system.
The nature of the OS is that the file system will be added to and modified by the user. The user must also be allowed to make backup copies of the modified system.
I am repeating myself but I can't see how modifying a file system image is in violation of anything.
Science is based on a non-testable system. Godel's theorm states that any consistant system will have unprovable facts. So if the universe is consistant (i.e. has a fixed set of rules) there will be things about it that we cannot prove. And if the universe is inconsistant why try to prove anything.
So, it is a scientific fact that there will be things we cannot prove. To personify a set of unproveable points and label them "God" is the difference between atheists and theists. The unproveable facts are simply a deep shadow that we will never be able to see into completely to conjur up a "God" bogey man in that shadow is the irrational act of the thesist.
And yes, irrational is a perfectly correct label for a thesist. Check the definitions of both words.
It is a remake of Man Facing Southeast?
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Review: K-PAX
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· Score: 1
I still have not seen K-Pax but the more I hear the more similar they sound.
A new patient mysteriously appears in a psychiatric ward. He claims to come from another planet to study humans and their behavior. The alien is gentle but criticizes humans for their harsh treatment of each other. The assigned psychiatrist is himself unhappy, and affected by the patient's insight. But he is ordered to treat the patient according to institutional procedure.
No go see Man Facing South East. As a non-Hollywood movie it will be a little harder to find. It was probably the much better inspiration for K-Pax.
Re:So is this a remake of Man Facing Southeast?
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Review: K-PAX
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· Score: 1
I have not seen K-Pax yet, but Man Facing Southeast was glorious. And from the adds K-Pax seems to be a Hollywoodized (complete with special effects) version of Man Facing Southeast. So please if you like K-Pax take the time to find Man Facing Southeast.
Slashdot Mirror
So will SPAM creators be targetable under the provisions? Massive amounts of email can easily be shown to take up CPU memory and processor time as well as all the messages consuming disk space. A small system can easily be overloaded by SPAM, so SPAM is clearly a source of degradation and impairment of function of the computer. Simply filling up an inbox on a system can prevent access to other mail and is demonstratable as denial of service.
SPAM is sent deliberatly with knowledge of the load affects.
1) The OS will keep detailed track of what you do.
2) The applications and files are lockable with DRM protections.
How long before the whole system is reporting to the Department of Security? And your system gets shutdown (DRM access controls) and agents dispatched to collect the system automatically when you do something funny, like look at source code or read slashdot?
Now we have planets of roughly our size and solar position.
The next steps are to look for water and chlorophyl on those planets.
The long shot is EM transmissions.
Dave does good work. He has a weekly column at @monitor.ca That is full of good Linux information. The column can be reached directly at volXissY/lnxstuff.html
I had a broadband seller hit me on the phone the other day. Their service has a 5G/month cap. This was expressed to me the layman as 50,000 jpegs. Am I supposed to go "Wow, thats a lot of porn".
I was not quick enough at the time to reply that it is only 7 CD's or 1 surface of a DVD. For the price of the cable service for 1 month you could easily sneaker net the same amount of data from your local CD warehouse.
Granted this is not the high price end of the CD/DVDs. And I am totally ignoring MP3 MP4 compression schemes, still:
The broadband dream is fading fast for the general consumer if sneaker net is a better cost option for data transfer.
In order for this work the law would have to stipulate
Checking CNN.com financial reports
5,415,222, 000
outstanding common shares. The $40 billion is only then $8 per share before taxes. MSFT is currently trading at aroung $50/share.
This ignores preferred shares, outstanding options calls, taxes and other splits including claims from outstanding lawsuits.
Ok, so we can grow stem cells into any other tissue. How long before a single stem cell can be coaxed into growing a limb? Acutally the limb is probably harder than just growing a whole embryo.
Will the every sperm is sacred crowd move into the no diet corner?
Opening trial questions,
......." ...." .Net services" .Net services offered over the internet. ...."
Mr Gates can you state your title at Microsoft for the record?
BG "Head Software Architect"
Mr Gates did you once state something primarly to the effect of "640K would be more than enough computer memory"?
BG "Yes, but
Mr Gates did you once state something primarly to the effect that the "internet was a passing fad that would not amount to much."
BG "Yes, but in my book
Mr Gates is not 256M or more recommended for Windows XP.
BG "Yes, but it will work with 64M"
Mr Gates is not IE and internet services not solidly the core of Windows.
BG "No, that would be
Mr Gates is
BG "Yes, but
So despite your current position as Grand Architect you have made some errors in predicting the future before. 640K is 1/100th the size of the current minimium to install windows. The internet is pretty much the core buisness model for Microsoft. Could you be wrong about market for a modularized OS?
BG "NO"
All this might appear to solve the problem. But the remaining problem is how to convince the public to buy into a system like this.
Future Marketing Promo:
Buy this new hard-drive now so that you can have the priviledge of paying Disney(R) and Paramount(R) $X/Gig of stored information.
Drugs (even tobacco with taxes) are a very big currently thriving undergound economy. All a system like this will do is drive the information economy underground even further.
What is needed is non-overvalued information.
Here is a link to IBM's technology description. http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/bluelogic/showcase/sige /
A SiGe process is an fudge to a bipolar technology process which is an addition to a more standard digital process. This means the devices are not your standard digital logic FET devices. The devices are most likely NPN vertical bipolar junction transistors, with the SiGe implant. The logic gates would then be standard complementary logic (CML) structures. Technology Description
In most cases this is the automatic downloading of operating system patches and patches to core Microsoft applications. The operating systems patches will be run at the next reboot if not sooner. The application patches will be run the next time you run the application.
No opt-outs. It is very similar to automatic download and execution. The execution trigger is then dependent on user behaviour, the equivalent of walking around a mine field.
I don't have the technical details on this. .EXE header indicating the code is unsafe. Is the resulting executable also encoded and signed including the flag state. Toggleing the "unsafe" flag in the header would otherwise be a trivial exercise. Please someone tell me there is some protection on the "unsafe" flag.
From other comments, using pointers causes a flag to be set which appears in the
I can't read minds. This to me looks like the Judge actually favours the rights of end consumers to use purchased goods any way they like. Granted the judgement in this case goes the other way, but the judge is hampered by existing laws and must rule as they say. This is an overly strict reading of the laws and most of us are cringing. I think that is what the judge wanted.
It looks like a T-ball setup for a great public outcry and movement to get the politicians off their buts and give back some rights to end users. Or maybe just a great appeal case to go up the judiciary path. The quicker this judge makes his ruling the quicker it gets up the appeal path.
This is the battle ground for control of digital content. With it's recent Xbox moves into a home entertainment console and media rights initiatives Microsoft is setting itself up to be the owner of the interface between people and digital media. AOL Time-Warner has/wants a huge stake in the digital media arena. With this action AOL/T-W hopes to wrest control from the grabbing arms of Microsoft which appear to be grabbing up the digital media realestate by extension of their desktop monopoly. Where the final control ends up is anyones guess.
Can we hope that AOL/T-W will push for an open interface to digital media? I think not.
All publishers have a clear interest in strict digital rights controls.
"anything that is downloaded is bad"
look at the Microsoft update method. You brand new PC is probably going to download a complete new copy of itself and Office the first time it connects to the net. And with the Microsoft policies you are not going to be able to ghost the system and it will continue to download new patches from the net.
The primary reason for the lack of all forms of security is that there is no established form of responsibility. For too long the software industry has hidden behind the "user accepts all responsibility" fire wall of responsibility. What is required is that there be a required level of protection offered by network and computer security services and that users have legal recourse to recover losses should the security services fail.
I see this not coming through government legislation but through government demands. The government should require on all its system installations that there be a sign off on some level of responsibility for meeting security requirements with penalties for failure. If the government can break the ground everyone else can follow in and demand similar arrangements.
I.E. To use recent examples, Exchange will only be installed if Microsoft is willing to pay 2x the direct costs for cleaning up every virus outbreak.
IIS will be installed only if Microsoft is willing to pay 2x the direct costs of keeping patch levels current and fixing any damage from exploits.
If a company like Microsoft is unwilling to stand up for its products perhaps some third party would be willing to do the work.
If they want to implement legislation how about making software designers liable for "negligent design flaws" and for "obvious flaws".
Is this really 159 bytes or does this packet pull something else down? .NET language.
If this is 159 bytes of visual basic it is a good thing Forth is not a standard
Once on any file system an image of software is fair game by its nature. If you move an icon on your desktop or change a single setting you have created a personal derivative work. This must be allowed for by the nature of the product. The version on my hard-drive with its unique structure and time stamps is a derivative of the original.
Deleteing a file from a file system image is a perfectly acceptable and normal operation. Any individual should clearly be able to make a modification of that sort by the nature of the system. Just as a user could add files or edit files on a file system.
The nature of the OS is that the file system will be added to and modified by the user. The user must also be allowed to make backup copies of the modified system.
I am repeating myself but I can't see how modifying a file system image is in violation of anything.
Science is based on a non-testable system. Godel's theorm states that any consistant system will have unprovable facts. So if the universe is consistant (i.e. has a fixed set of rules) there will be things about it that we cannot prove. And if the universe is inconsistant why try to prove anything.
So, it is a scientific fact that there will be things we cannot prove. To personify a set of unproveable points and label them "God" is the difference between atheists and theists. The unproveable facts are simply a deep shadow that we will never be able to see into completely to conjur up a "God" bogey man in that shadow is the irrational act of the thesist.
And yes, irrational is a perfectly correct label for a thesist. Check the definitions of both words.
I still have not seen K-Pax but the more I hear the more similar they sound.
Hombre mirando al sudeste (1986) is a link to the imdb page. The plot summary is:
A new patient mysteriously appears in a psychiatric ward. He claims to come from another planet to study humans and their behavior. The alien is gentle but criticizes humans for their harsh treatment of each other. The assigned psychiatrist is himself unhappy, and affected by the patient's insight. But he is ordered to treat the patient according to institutional procedure.
No go see Man Facing South East. As a non-Hollywood movie it will be a little harder to find. It was probably the much better inspiration for K-Pax.
I have not seen K-Pax yet, but Man Facing Southeast was glorious. And from the adds K-Pax seems to be a Hollywoodized (complete with special effects) version of Man Facing Southeast. So please if you like K-Pax take the time to find Man Facing Southeast.
In a great marketing move they have just captured not only the teen girl market but also the geek must see if the ripper works market.