Samsung had a few at a trade show here in Sydney
the other day. They're beautiful. The quality
is fantastic. And the price....well I won't
be getting one any time soon ($A14.5K).
Some of these things have been looked at. One
reference of particular interest is
McIlroy and Reeds' Ix Multilevel Secure Operating System. The papers are at Bell Labs (bottom of page).
The MC5 wrote a song about this over thirty
years ago, The American Ruse,
They tell you in school about freedom,
But when you try to be free they never let ya'
They say it's easy, nothing to it.
And then they beat you bloody down at the station ... (deletia)
I'm sick to my guts of the, American, Ruse.
Not many people listened to the message
then either. The jams weren't
kicked out.
The device is a fine thing if you can fit your
data in it but what if you want to combine
multiple cards? At $8K a pop they're hardly
cheap. Through together a few drives and you
can match the read throughput of the SSD (I used to have [last job] a dual-proc Linux box with 9x 36GB IBM drives using s/w RAID-5 [big blocks with ext2], reads at 60+MB/s [PCI limited?], writes at 30MB/s, according to bonnie:)
Maybe they won't laugh. I've always thought
that Microsoft deliberately choses names to
devalue existing terms that are in common
use. Ignore "Windows", we know about that
one. They railroaded "DOS" prior to that
to. Shit, "DOS" runs on 360s. PCs run a
souped up CP/M clone.
The "X" stuff - ActiveX, DirectX - I think
was deliberate. At the time when "X" is actually getting more known (a few years ago when they started using the names) they start using these. Then there's "DNS". Of all names to overload, that is not a good one to pick. And "DNA".
Geez, MS DNA. If I turn blue and die you'll know what happened.
Time and time again on/. various IP topics
come up and there are hundreds of incorrect
statements about IP law. Patents are confused
with copyrights, copyrights confused with
trademarks, and patents confused with trademarks. They are very different things (and much is written about them and available on the WWW, try the Patent and Trademarks Office for starters).
As for a leak. Doubtful. Maybe they just didn't do a proper search (MS registered their mark
all over the place, basketballs is one of
the product areas in trademark #78026626). Maybe someone blabbed an in-house development name in public and then, with the blabber having lots of clout, they have to stick with it all the way to making it
the logo on top of the box. Or maybe they've
got a lot of money in the bank and can dangle
some really big carrots in front of the
little folks who might get in their way. Or some combination thereof. Pure speculation of course.
However this looks like an co-exisiting trademark owner
(marks can co-exist in different markets) attempting to extend their mark from
one area to another. MS with their new
product are trying to grab the name everywhere (as is their habitual behaviour, grab everything).
They collide. Time to get the lawyers out again
for rolodexes and bad hair at ten paces on the courthouse steps.
It is fine when we have relatively benign
governments. That is not, however, guaranteed
to last. If the systems are in place it does
not take much to use them for oppressive means
and the desire to do so will be quite strong
for those wishing to grab the headlines with
the safety angle or just use such systems for
oppression. It is that which we have to be extremely careful and it often pays to be so
circumspect that you discard the potential
benefits in light of the vastly greater
potential for wrong.
Seems like a good time to quote P.J. O'Rourke (used to be my.sig about five years ago),
Giving money and power to politicians is like
giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
And the notion that we can "vote them out" is
quite ludicrous. Who are you going to vote for? Or, do you really think they'd let Nader be President?
Size doesn't matter to some users. There are a few
people/groups who have significant investments
in certain kernels for very specific applications
(such as storage management for NASA)
And maybe they don't have to ask questions on
USENET. Don't judge these people by the Linux users, many of them have been Unix people, literally, since before many Linux users were born.
We have been consumers of the finite resources
in the market that is our planet since we were
lumps of goop mutating in the sun. However...
when did "Person" and "Society" get replaced with "Consumer"
and "Market"?!?! And when did it become necessary to measure everything by a 'dollar
yardstick'?!?
It's a bit hard to pin down but somewhere around 1930s things started going public. Planning must
of taken ages though and it's taken a long time
to really get the control but seems pretty firm now.
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Now that you and Softway are part of MS when is Internix going to be bunded with Win XP and made to exec Linux binaries?
/etc == Edit These Carefully
/var == Very Active Records
Samsung had a few at a trade show here in Sydney the other day. They're beautiful. The quality is fantastic. And the price....well I won't be getting one any time soon ($A14.5K).
Some of these things have been looked at. One reference of particular interest is McIlroy and Reeds' Ix Multilevel Secure Operating System. The papers are at Bell Labs (bottom of page).
Some of the patents referenced by the Apple one are interesting. Viacom's patent on images in window borders looks pretty bad.
At a large place I worked at the auditors forced us to use sledgehammers on the disk packs. It's a lot of fun.
Not many people listened to the message then either. The jams weren't kicked out.
Future Now!
So you can store the souls of the vanquished.
IBM 3380s had blast shields around their platters, one of which is a brake.
This old article seems to be exactly the same thing.
It doesn't check the year so on Australia Day it does an HTTP get (Jan. 26 is Australia Day, may be a clue, most likely not).
That's "throw together a few drives...". Stupid fast typing. Damm monkeys pressed return on me.
The device is a fine thing if you can fit your data in it but what if you want to combine multiple cards? At $8K a pop they're hardly cheap. Through together a few drives and you can match the read throughput of the SSD (I used to have [last job] a dual-proc Linux box with 9x 36GB IBM drives using s/w RAID-5 [big blocks with ext2], reads at 60+MB/s [PCI limited?], writes at 30MB/s, according to bonnie :)
No. But lighting farts in public would be allowed with a $5 permit.
The "X" stuff - ActiveX, DirectX - I think was deliberate. At the time when "X" is actually getting more known (a few years ago when they started using the names) they start using these. Then there's "DNS". Of all names to overload, that is not a good one to pick. And "DNA".
Geez, MS DNA. If I turn blue and die you'll know what happened.
Time and time again on /. various IP topics
come up and there are hundreds of incorrect
statements about IP law. Patents are confused
with copyrights, copyrights confused with
trademarks, and patents confused with trademarks. They are very different things (and much is written about them and available on the WWW, try the Patent and Trademarks Office for starters).
As for a leak. Doubtful. Maybe they just didn't do a proper search (MS registered their mark all over the place, basketballs is one of the product areas in trademark #78026626). Maybe someone blabbed an in-house development name in public and then, with the blabber having lots of clout, they have to stick with it all the way to making it the logo on top of the box. Or maybe they've got a lot of money in the bank and can dangle some really big carrots in front of the little folks who might get in their way. Or some combination thereof. Pure speculation of course.
However this looks like an co-exisiting trademark owner (marks can co-exist in different markets) attempting to extend their mark from one area to another. MS with their new product are trying to grab the name everywhere (as is their habitual behaviour, grab everything). They collide. Time to get the lawyers out again for rolodexes and bad hair at ten paces on the courthouse steps.
Why reverse engineer when you can read the ASF patent.
Seems like a good time to quote P.J. O'Rourke (used to be my .sig about five years ago),
And the notion that we can "vote them out" is quite ludicrous. Who are you going to vote for? Or, do you really think they'd let Nader be President?
The original OS was on Sun 3 hardware. NeXT's :)
boxes came later
10) Earlier Fire-Storm Bombing comparisons to 1st A-bomb:
Hamburg (Germany) Fire-bombing - (July 1943) - 60,000 to 100,000 killed.
Dresden (Germany) Fire-bombing - (Feb. 1945) - 75,000 to 175,000 killed
Tokyo Fire-bombing - (March 9, 1945) - 16 square miles destroyed, 200,000 killed.
Hiroshima - A-bomb - (Aug. 6, 1945) - 4 square miles destroyed 70,000 killed immediately.
In the slides/brochure linked from their home page.
And maybe they don't have to ask questions on USENET. Don't judge these people by the Linux users, many of them have been Unix people, literally, since before many Linux users were born.
We have been consumers of the finite resources in the market that is our planet since we were lumps of goop mutating in the sun. However...
It's a bit hard to pin down but somewhere around 1930s things started going public. Planning must of taken ages though and it's taken a long time to really get the control but seems pretty firm now.