The following is an excerpt from the page answering the question we're all asking:
Global Exports of Unrestricted Encryption Source Code
Encryption source code which is available to the public and which is not subject to an express agreement for the payment of a licensing fee or royalty for commercial production or sale of any product developed with the source code may be exported under a license exception without a technical review. The exporter must submit to the
Bureau of Export Administration a copy of the source code, or a written notification of its Internet location, by the time of export. Foreign products made with the unrestricted source code do not require review and classification by the U.S. Government for reexport. This license exception should apply to exports of most "open source" software.
Dr. Lederman: I have heard that you come from a religious background and that much of your research was shaped by your rebellion towards religion.
Could you verify if this is the case, and could you also say how your research has influenced your religious beliefs and how your religious beliefs have influenced your research?
This guy is hilarious. He is quite serious about everything he says but is nevertheless purpously extravagant. He seemlessly (through four dimensional space) blends a dead serious eccentric passion with a superb parody of all the over the top marketing hype we've all grown so fond off. He mixes outrageously pointless claims with dead serious observations of the properties of his products such that every one of his sentences is at the same time a parody, an observation of the physical properties of this world and an earnest description of his wonderful product.
For your edification:
axolotl n. A North American tailed amphibian that retains its external gills and breeds in a larval state. (Funk and Wagnalls Standard Dictionary)
There was a company a while back that made a VB clone on the net. It was called something like Euphoria. They gave the program away for free and were going to make money on services. They weren't too successful and then they were bought out by a company who shelved their product.
If anybody remembers who they were, and what the story was, I'd appreciate it if they could post it.
I always thought this product was an ideal candidate for open sourcing. If we could find them maybe we could convince them.
when it's a public collaboration producing an article or report
I just wanted to point out that like any open source project this one wasn't entirely the product of slashdot. Most open source projects start out with the vision of one person who gets something working and then gives it to the public to improve.
Similarly, the original article however poor it was, is what generated enough discussion to produce the final improved article.
I don't think that the articles on slashdot are the be all and end all though. I find most slashdotters are extremely biased towards open source etc.
For example, I always read at moderation level 2 just to cut down on how much there is to read. I find that about 90 percent of the comments have a very distinct slant. I attribute this to the fact that most slashdot readers have that slant and consequently most good comments are slanted.
On top of that, the moderators are also biased towards the prevailing slashdot outlook, and that means that the scarce moderation points are more likely to be spent on comments supporting the general slashdot opinion.
In short, I think that slashdot does a great job of providing the slashdot position on a subject, but does not give a complete picture of most subjects.
I would say that there is one overriding reason and that is that women's minds work different than men's.
Most women just don't find it in their nature to sit down and focus solidly on a problem for hours on end. It's a guy thing to do that. That's why there are so few women geeks.
Ebay charges more for better placement of your auction. Better placement is useless if your auction is listed in a place where ebay's placement is ignored.
Ebay is the market leader by far. Anybody seriously in search of something will go to Ebay. If you have a meta-site that searches Ebay and other places, then that gives a leg up to the competition. Ebay has much more to lose by allowing the competition to compete on equal ground than by not allowing itself to be listed in meta search engines.
When I was in school, there was a candy machine which had a picture of the wrapper of the candy. The person in charge of the machine decided to randomly add an extra piece of candy to some slots. That way in addition to buying candy you were playing a game of perhaps getting free candy.
My feeling when I first saw it, was GAMBLING. Sure, we have all sorts of similar marketing schemes such as baseball cards and Cracker Jack boxes etc. I think it's all a bit underhanded.
A product should be able to sell itself on its own merits.
I would be very surprised if you couldn't connect to Quest with Linux. They almost certainly use standard TCP/IP and nothing prevents Linux or NT from connecting to that. I'd be willing to be that they just built the TCP/IP configuration into their Win95 software and the tech support person that was contacted didn't know enough to explain how to configure a non-Win95 installation.
Of course I could be wrong, and they could have a custom protocol, but I don't believe it.
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You might be interested in Moreta and Nerilka's story by Anne McAffrey. It is set in Pern and prequels most of the Dragon Rider's of Pern books.
I'd bet you could unscrew the case, pull out the hard drive, install it in a linux box, and mount it. Then you could look through everthing on the box. Maybe even install your own software on there. Ie. Mozilla.
Actually Netscape 2 (I think it was 2) had mail and news that looked like web pages. For some reason they totally changed it in the next version.
I could never decide for certain which format I liked better though. I think it should be configurable.
BTW giving that Mozilla is open source, I think (or hope) we can look forward to different versions of the binary. I'm certain somebody will compile a version of the source that just implements basic browser functionality in a small executable.
The primary reason there is such a lack of documentation is because it is not nearly as much fun to write as code. Declaring that people should document their code will never work unless you made it less painful to do so.
Perhaps if you knew interested parties were going to look over your code you would comment it for the gloat factor. Usually the more ingenious the code the more proud you are of it and the harder it is to understand. If you had someone to show off to, you'd be more inclined to comment it.
Slashdot Mirror
Global Exports of Unrestricted Encryption Source Code
Encryption source code which is available to the public and which is not subject to an express agreement for the payment of a licensing fee or royalty for commercial production or sale of any product developed with the source code may be exported under a license exception without a technical review. The exporter must submit to the
Bureau of Export Administration a copy of the source code, or a written notification of its Internet location, by the time of export. Foreign products made with the unrestricted source code do not require review and classification by the U.S. Government for reexport. This license exception should apply to exports of most "open source" software.
--SolidGold
--SolidGold
I have heard that you come from a religious background and that much of your research was shaped by your rebellion towards religion.
Could you verify if this is the case, and could you also say how your research has influenced your religious beliefs and how your religious beliefs have influenced your research?
Thanks.
--SolidGold
For your edification:
axolotl n. A North American tailed amphibian that retains its external gills and breeds in a larval state. (Funk and Wagnalls Standard Dictionary)
Everything you never wanted to know about Axolotls
--SolidGold
If anybody remembers who they were, and what the story was, I'd appreciate it if they could post it.
I always thought this product was an ideal candidate for open sourcing. If we could find them maybe we could convince them.
--SolidGold
when it's a public collaboration producing an article or report
I just wanted to point out that like any open source project this one wasn't entirely the product of slashdot. Most open source projects start out with the vision of one person who gets something working and then gives it to the public to improve.
Similarly, the original article however poor it was, is what generated enough discussion to produce the final improved article.
I don't think that the articles on slashdot are the be all and end all though. I find most slashdotters are extremely biased towards open source etc.
For example, I always read at moderation level 2 just to cut down on how much there is to read. I find that about 90 percent of the comments have a very distinct slant. I attribute this to the fact that most slashdot readers have that slant and consequently most good comments are slanted.
On top of that, the moderators are also biased towards the prevailing slashdot outlook, and that means that the scarce moderation points are more likely to be spent on comments supporting the general slashdot opinion.
In short, I think that slashdot does a great job of providing the slashdot position on a subject, but does not give a complete picture of most subjects.
I would say that there is one overriding reason and that is that women's minds work different than men's.
Most women just don't find it in their nature to sit down and focus solidly on a problem for hours on end. It's a guy thing to do that. That's why there are so few women geeks.
Of course you get the odd exception.
>eBay doesn't have ads
Ebay charges more for better placement of your auction. Better placement is useless if your auction is listed in a place where ebay's placement is ignored.
Ebay is the market leader by far. Anybody seriously in search of something will go to Ebay. If you have a meta-site that searches Ebay and other places, then that gives a leg up to the competition. Ebay has much more to lose by allowing the competition to compete on equal ground than by not allowing itself to be listed in meta search engines.
When I was in school, there was a candy machine which had a picture of the wrapper of the candy. The person in charge of the machine decided to randomly add an extra piece of candy to some slots. That way in addition to buying candy you were playing a game of perhaps getting free candy.
My feeling when I first saw it, was GAMBLING. Sure, we have all sorts of similar marketing schemes such as baseball cards and Cracker Jack boxes etc. I think it's all a bit underhanded.
A product should be able to sell itself on its own merits.
I would be very surprised if you couldn't connect to Quest with Linux. They almost certainly use standard TCP/IP and nothing prevents Linux or NT from connecting to that. I'd be willing to be that they just built the TCP/IP configuration into their Win95 software and the tech support person that was contacted didn't know enough to explain how to configure a non-Win95 installation.
Of course I could be wrong, and they could have a custom protocol, but I don't believe it.
You might be interested in Moreta and Nerilka's story by Anne McAffrey. It is set in Pern and prequels most of the Dragon Rider's of Pern books.
Nerilka is a minor character in Moreta.
I'd bet you could unscrew the case, pull out the hard drive, install it in a linux box, and mount it. Then you could look through everthing on the box. Maybe even install your own software on there. Ie. Mozilla.
One reason not to use the tv set is because you might miss something on tv. But if you're using TiVo you don't have to worry about that.
Actually Netscape 2 (I think it was 2) had mail and news that looked like web pages. For some reason they totally changed it in the next version.
I could never decide for certain which format I liked better though. I think it should be configurable.
BTW giving that Mozilla is open source, I think (or hope) we can look forward to different versions of the binary. I'm certain somebody will compile a version of the source that just implements basic browser functionality in a small executable.
Try Sygate.
I think moderators should be able to up an AC post to 1 for free, and be able to add a moderation point on top of that.
The only reason ACs start at 0 is because we are worried about the occasional spammer. No serious moderator would up an AC spammer.
The primary reason there is such a lack of documentation is because it is not nearly as much fun to write as code. Declaring that people should document their code will never work unless you made it less painful to do so.
Perhaps if you knew interested parties were going to look over your code you would comment it for the gloat factor. Usually the more ingenious the code the more proud you are of it and the harder it is to understand. If you had someone to show off to, you'd be more inclined to comment it.