I haven't seen any actual confirmation that Tiger (that is, OS X.4) will have Tiger (that is, JDK 1.5) in it. I have seen rumors to that effect, and dearly hope it is true. Does anyone know for sure?
Often Apple does extend a free-for-the-cost-of-shipping upgrade to recent purchasers of hardware. I was able to get my copy of iLife '04 that way. But usually it only goes back a month or so. I'd be a bit surprised if buying in February would get you a free upgrade in April.
See, letting CherryOS continue to violate the copyright once PearPC knows about the violation could cause Pear to lose the copyright altogether.
That is true of trademarks, not copyrights or patents. Copyrights and patents cannot be "lost" in the way you describe (during their lifetimes, at least).
No, and this is partly what is wrong with America today.
Lawsuits are not about profit. They are about redressing wrongs. If someone hoses you over, the law says that you are entitled to be restored to the state you would be in if you were not hosed.
Punitive damages go a step further and (as the name implies) punish the wrongdoer for hosing you over. I believe this is where many folks get confused and think that lawsuits are all about making money (other than for lawyers). If punitive damages were paid into the U.S. Treasury (or state equivalent), it would fix a lot of ambulance-chasing that goes on today (of course, actual damages are still payable to the plaintif - they go to redress the tort that brought the parties to court in the first place).
If the piece of media is something I purport to own (no hair splitting here - I use the "duck-walk-talk-is" test. iTunes purchases, given how they are positioned in the market are something I purport to "own"), then I will not accept any restrictions of any kind. Ownership is a permanent thing. How am I supposed to know today that the format I buy the item in is what I will want tomorrow? Who's to say that iTunes will always be there to authorize my computer so that I can play my purchases (never mind the fact that internet connectivity is required for activation - what if that's inconvenient or impossible?)? No. I insist on either open standards or DRM that has already been thoroughly hacked (so that I can remove it).
But what if the piece of media is something I do not own? I'm specifically talking here about rental or subscription services. If the understanding is that the moment I stop paying I don't get to have the media anymore, then I'll be much more tolerant of DRM because I know from the get-go that their control over their media is part of the deal. I'm unwilling to accept that same control over something that I was told I bought, even if the weasel-wording of the contract is that it's more like a permanent lease.
It's no wonder that I patronize XM (think of the fact that it's a black box with analog outputs as a form of DRM), which is a subscription service, and iTunes, whose DRM has been thoroughly 0wn3d.
I think someday the ideal "Linux Switcher" distro will be one that takes over the computer, looks as much like the old users Windows desktop as lawyers and window managers will allow, and runs some form of Wine to run most user programs while OpenOffice is silently replaced right on top of Office. But, it's a little ways off.
That's a self-fulfilling prophecy. "Windows" isn't *really* the thing you run your apps *on*, it's the thing the software developers code their apps *to*. So long as all the apps out there are written for the Windows API set, Microsoft still gets to run the world.
It reminds me of the problems that are faced getting people to use IPv6. There just needs to be a flag day. Otherwise, the legacy support just won't ever go away. You can't kill the beast without driving a wooden stake through its heart.
Some quick googling has filled in some of the blanks in the above.
The linear system developed by the BBC was called VERA (look about half way down), for Vision Electronic Recording Apparatus. It used 23" reels of "tape" moving at 200 ips (compare to 15 ips, which is typical even today for analog audio tape). Despite the size of the reels, the high speed meant it could only store 15 minutes of video.
And in some cases you don't even need to open a port because 2.6 has more than a few kernel exploits available (36 to date, with 15 remaining unpatched) that can cause everything from privilege escalation to DDoS. Where's your moral indignation now?
Still intact. I run FreeBSD.:-)
Seriously, though, I would say that kernel level issues are far more serious than application issues - mostly because of the obvious wide scope of the kernel. Thus, I still say your comparison of bugs in Apache to bugs in Windows' TCP stack doesn't quite cut the mustard even if the outcome is the same.
But if we're going to scream at Microsoft for making stupid programming mistakes, we have to be willing to do the same for OSS.
I concur. Hopefully, this incident will give folks an incentive to try out LAND (among other things) against the *BSDs and Linux just to make sure nothing has regressed over time. It's quite possible that someone, either in Microsoft or elsewhere, could look at checks for things like LAND (especially if they're not well commented) and say, "What's this doing in here? It looks redundant. Let's get rid of it."
And if that happened, it's stupid, regardless of who's OS is involved.
Go back in time. Wire predated tape, actually. The original dictation machines were wire recorders. Wire recorders are still used for flight data and cockpit voice recorders in commercial aircraft (though they are being slowly phased out and replaced, I believe, with flash memory).
Another novel moment in the history of wire recorders: one of the first VTRs (used at the BBC) was a linear "tape" recorder. Bandwidth being proportional to the speed of the media across the head, they moved the "tape" at amazingly high speed. The only "tape" that would stand up to the stress was actually made of steel - making it more like flat wire than what we think of as tape. Couple the weight of the tape with the amount of it you needed and you wound up with huge 10 foot diameter spools of the stuff. The machine was also quite dangerous - if the tape broke, it would hurl fragments of steel that bore a not-so-passing resembelence to razor blades.
Fortunately, helical scanning was invented, which allows the heads to fly across the tape while the tape itself moves relatively slowly. But now we're drifting off topic.
Since when does the Beeb care about ratings? Do ratings have an impact on the collection of the license fees? (well, I suppose if ratings go low enough, then at some point people will stop owning/using their TVs...)
Look, if a Windows zealot took something like Fedora, turned on a bunch of services, turned off the firewall, and then griped because his box got hacked, Slashdotters everywhere would be screaming that this guy was a fool, that Linux security is great when it's not sabotaged by an idiot at the keyboard. And they'd be right. But when an attack requires that a Windows user actively subvert the very security measures Microsoft's put in place to protect him, everybody blames Microsoft.
You're comparing apples and oranges here. On the one hand, you're turning on lots of services. On the other, you're turning off a firewall, put in place because of the bizarre range services that are effectively not optional on a Windows machine. That latter issue is sufficient to damn Windows, but not being able to handle the LAND attack is even worse. If you so much as open a single port - say, port 80 to a copy of Apache running on that Windows machine (you'd not be so foolish as to use IIS, after all), your machine can be DOSsed silly.
No, this is not only really bad, but it's also really, really stupid.
He's right folks - when he was a kid (I'm assuming he was a kid before 1992), taping the radio wasn't legal. What changed? The Audio Home Recording Act legalized home taping, but also imposed serial copy management on digital media devices that weren't computer peripherals (the fact that the Diamond Rio was a computer peripheral was what, more than anything, saved it). The AHRA is the reason why "music" CD-Rs cost more than normal ones - the price difference is a tax paid to the copyright office - and why standalone CD recorders require them and computer CD-Rs do not.
The AMPAS is not really a company in the traditional sense. It was created by a bunch of movie moguls as a way of forestalling the unionization of the movie business. They figured that by creating an exclusive club and giving out awards to each other they could blur the line between management and the workers and keep the unions from getting a stronghold. Yes, AMPAS is nothing more than the most grandiose teambuilding exercise ever attempted.
They failed to keep out the unions (oh, did they! Hollywood is a bigger union town than Detroit), but the Academy lives on.
No, an Office of Profit or Trust is a government position, not a private one. If he were a government official, then Congress would have to give its consent. Something that I expect, in the modern era of Anglo-American relations, is probably routine (how many American military officers were put on the honours list during and after WWII, after all?).
And perhaps a britton can correct me, but I didn't think there was any such thing as an "honorary" ("honourary"?) knighthood. He's been made a life peer, which means that he cannot pass the title to his children, but is the "honorary" nature of it the fact that he is not a citizen?
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That's a horrible thing to say! Coffee should NEVER be boiled!
Do I smell karma burning?
Usually they extend a free-but-for-shipping offer to recent hardware purchasers. You might be in luck.
I haven't seen any actual confirmation that Tiger (that is, OS X.4) will have Tiger (that is, JDK 1.5) in it. I have seen rumors to that effect, and dearly hope it is true. Does anyone know for sure?
Often Apple does extend a free-for-the-cost-of-shipping upgrade to recent purchasers of hardware. I was able to get my copy of iLife '04 that way. But usually it only goes back a month or so. I'd be a bit surprised if buying in February would get you a free upgrade in April.
That is true of trademarks, not copyrights or patents. Copyrights and patents cannot be "lost" in the way you describe (during their lifetimes, at least).
No, and this is partly what is wrong with America today.
Lawsuits are not about profit. They are about redressing wrongs. If someone hoses you over, the law says that you are entitled to be restored to the state you would be in if you were not hosed.
Punitive damages go a step further and (as the name implies) punish the wrongdoer for hosing you over. I believe this is where many folks get confused and think that lawsuits are all about making money (other than for lawyers). If punitive damages were paid into the U.S. Treasury (or state equivalent), it would fix a lot of ambulance-chasing that goes on today (of course, actual damages are still payable to the plaintif - they go to redress the tort that brought the parties to court in the first place).
But what if the piece of media is something I do not own? I'm specifically talking here about rental or subscription services. If the understanding is that the moment I stop paying I don't get to have the media anymore, then I'll be much more tolerant of DRM because I know from the get-go that their control over their media is part of the deal. I'm unwilling to accept that same control over something that I was told I bought, even if the weasel-wording of the contract is that it's more like a permanent lease.
It's no wonder that I patronize XM (think of the fact that it's a black box with analog outputs as a form of DRM), which is a subscription service, and iTunes, whose DRM has been thoroughly 0wn3d.
That's a self-fulfilling prophecy. "Windows" isn't *really* the thing you run your apps *on*, it's the thing the software developers code their apps *to*. So long as all the apps out there are written for the Windows API set, Microsoft still gets to run the world.
It reminds me of the problems that are faced getting people to use IPv6. There just needs to be a flag day. Otherwise, the legacy support just won't ever go away. You can't kill the beast without driving a wooden stake through its heart.
To paraphrase the old saw about the tree falling in a forest... If pre-release software is leaked and nobody cares, is it a leak?
Actually, it's been Sun's modus operandi for a decade now.
Damn, what do you do for a living?
Are they hiring?
The linear system developed by the BBC was called VERA (look about half way down), for Vision Electronic Recording Apparatus. It used 23" reels of "tape" moving at 200 ips (compare to 15 ips, which is typical even today for analog audio tape). Despite the size of the reels, the high speed meant it could only store 15 minutes of video.
Still intact. I run FreeBSD.
Seriously, though, I would say that kernel level issues are far more serious than application issues - mostly because of the obvious wide scope of the kernel. Thus, I still say your comparison of bugs in Apache to bugs in Windows' TCP stack doesn't quite cut the mustard even if the outcome is the same.
But if we're going to scream at Microsoft for making stupid programming mistakes, we have to be willing to do the same for OSS.
I concur. Hopefully, this incident will give folks an incentive to try out LAND (among other things) against the *BSDs and Linux just to make sure nothing has regressed over time. It's quite possible that someone, either in Microsoft or elsewhere, could look at checks for things like LAND (especially if they're not well commented) and say, "What's this doing in here? It looks redundant. Let's get rid of it."
And if that happened, it's stupid, regardless of who's OS is involved.
Go back in time. Wire predated tape, actually. The original dictation machines were wire recorders. Wire recorders are still used for flight data and cockpit voice recorders in commercial aircraft (though they are being slowly phased out and replaced, I believe, with flash memory).
Another novel moment in the history of wire recorders: one of the first VTRs (used at the BBC) was a linear "tape" recorder. Bandwidth being proportional to the speed of the media across the head, they moved the "tape" at amazingly high speed. The only "tape" that would stand up to the stress was actually made of steel - making it more like flat wire than what we think of as tape. Couple the weight of the tape with the amount of it you needed and you wound up with huge 10 foot diameter spools of the stuff. The machine was also quite dangerous - if the tape broke, it would hurl fragments of steel that bore a not-so-passing resembelence to razor blades.
Fortunately, helical scanning was invented, which allows the heads to fly across the tape while the tape itself moves relatively slowly. But now we're drifting off topic.
Since when does the Beeb care about ratings? Do ratings have an impact on the collection of the license fees? (well, I suppose if ratings go low enough, then at some point people will stop owning/using their TVs...)
You're comparing apples and oranges here. On the one hand, you're turning on lots of services. On the other, you're turning off a firewall, put in place because of the bizarre range services that are effectively not optional on a Windows machine. That latter issue is sufficient to damn Windows, but not being able to handle the LAND attack is even worse. If you so much as open a single port - say, port 80 to a copy of Apache running on that Windows machine (you'd not be so foolish as to use IIS, after all), your machine can be DOSsed silly.
No, this is not only really bad, but it's also really, really stupid.
Vonage has 3 quality settings: 90 kbps, 50 kbps and 30 kbps.
He's right folks - when he was a kid (I'm assuming he was a kid before 1992), taping the radio wasn't legal. What changed? The Audio Home Recording Act legalized home taping, but also imposed serial copy management on digital media devices that weren't computer peripherals (the fact that the Diamond Rio was a computer peripheral was what, more than anything, saved it). The AHRA is the reason why "music" CD-Rs cost more than normal ones - the price difference is a tax paid to the copyright office - and why standalone CD recorders require them and computer CD-Rs do not.
Dontcha hate it when you *think* you know something, but wind up being totally wrong?
:)
In other words, I stand corrected. Thank you. I'll have to go look this stuff up somewhere and get edjamakated.
The AMPAS is not really a company in the traditional sense. It was created by a bunch of movie moguls as a way of forestalling the unionization of the movie business. They figured that by creating an exclusive club and giving out awards to each other they could blur the line between management and the workers and keep the unions from getting a stronghold. Yes, AMPAS is nothing more than the most grandiose teambuilding exercise ever attempted.
They failed to keep out the unions (oh, did they! Hollywood is a bigger union town than Detroit), but the Academy lives on.
It's "Ni."
No, an Office of Profit or Trust is a government position, not a private one. If he were a government official, then Congress would have to give its consent. Something that I expect, in the modern era of Anglo-American relations, is probably routine (how many American military officers were put on the honours list during and after WWII, after all?).
And perhaps a britton can correct me, but I didn't think there was any such thing as an "honorary" ("honourary"?) knighthood. He's been made a life peer, which means that he cannot pass the title to his children, but is the "honorary" nature of it the fact that he is not a citizen?
Although traditionally PCs have not used it, I'd like to see an open firmware PC.