My knowledge of law is relatively limited, but from what I've read of it, the geneva convention was designed to protect the civilian population and ensure 'humane' treatment of war prissoners (3 hots and a cot and all that good stuff). Cyber-warfare has absolutely nothing to do with either of those cases. If a powerplant is hacked, the only way that affects the civilian population more than say a missile is if the hack causes a meltdown. Power outtages are a fact of war, the means, when comparing cyber-warfare to regular warfare would seem to be more in accordance with the GC when using hacking in any case, as this would avoid any loss of life.
Theres advantages to this, but also disadvantages. How many of us actually looked at the motherboard cds when we got our boards? I know I didnt till I needed that pesky driver to run my least favorite OS. On the other hand, corel tossing its weight behind linux is great. Also, I know there were issues with corel and licensing for their betas, I assume these have been resolved, although I dont know. Finally, if a typical user gets a cd that says linux on it, can we really assume they'll have a clue? Linux is doing great in getting to be as easy as windows, but it's by no means there yet. I doubt that this will increase the usage of linux significantly, but it certainly is nice to see another major proponent of the OS.
I may be missing the point of this website completely but it would appear to be a simpler way to do consulting. You pay me, I'll solve your problem. Or I might do it for free if I like you. Thats basically the consultant motto (save for the free part). It's a very cool concept, and it takes consulting to the level of person to person as opposed to person to company/group, but it is basically the same thing in my opinion.
I must admit, this is the traditionalist side of me coming out, but why not play RR Tycoon, the original that we all know and love in an emulator (ala VMWare). Dont get me wrong, I love loki stuff, and buy it all, but in this case, its the same thing as civilization, the newer releases are cool, theyre fun, but they dont give me that same warm fuzzy feeling when I play them.
I'm originally from the USSR, but now reside in the US so I have a tendency to think from both sides. As it stands, Russia is in such dire need of US aid that they'll gladly give up any rights they may still have with this treaty. In any case however, the treaty was not made with russia, it was made with the USSR which no longer exists as an entity and therefore can not enforce these treaties. The fact that russia maintains this treaty 'in force' I would guess means nothing to the US or the UN (I'm not a lawyer, but that would be the argument I'd expect from one).
I seem to recall a/. discussion on this subject a few months back. Unisys is not interested in charging every little website money. What they are interested in is stopping wiley e. coder who didnt pay for LZH to use it in his dinky little graphics app. What it comes down to is this. If you used a commercial graphics package to create your.gifs (photoshop, corel, or whatnot), youre fine, use your gifs, no one is going to charge you. If you wrote a program that uses LZH to compress GIFs and didnt pay for it, then you need to watch out. The fact is, Unisys really did nothing that any other company wouldnt do, I'm actually surprised they waited this long. All theyre trying to do is stop companies from using their algorithm in products w/out paying for it. Can you blame them? They are a buisness after all, they need to make the money or they'll sink.
There is now, I've been looking for something to code, I'll start on this tomorrow, kdentdev@hotmail.com for any interested parties, and BTW, when can I give out japhar81@slashdot.org for an email? I'm stuck using a M$ portal cuz of hotmail...
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My knowledge of law is relatively limited, but from what I've read of it, the geneva convention was designed to protect the civilian population and ensure 'humane' treatment of war prissoners (3 hots and a cot and all that good stuff). Cyber-warfare has absolutely nothing to do with either of those cases. If a powerplant is hacked, the only way that affects the civilian population more than say a missile is if the hack causes a meltdown. Power outtages are a fact of war, the means, when comparing cyber-warfare to regular warfare would seem to be more in accordance with the GC when using hacking in any case, as this would avoid any loss of life.
Theres advantages to this, but also disadvantages. How many of us actually looked at the motherboard cds when we got our boards? I know I didnt till I needed that pesky driver to run my least favorite OS. On the other hand, corel tossing its weight behind linux is great. Also, I know there were issues with corel and licensing for their betas, I assume these have been resolved, although I dont know. Finally, if a typical user gets a cd that says linux on it, can we really assume they'll have a clue? Linux is doing great in getting to be as easy as windows, but it's by no means there yet. I doubt that this will increase the usage of linux significantly, but it certainly is nice to see another major proponent of the OS.
I may be missing the point of this website completely but it would appear to be a simpler way to do consulting. You pay me, I'll solve your problem. Or I might do it for free if I like you. Thats basically the consultant motto (save for the free part). It's a very cool concept, and it takes consulting to the level of person to person as opposed to person to company/group, but it is basically the same thing in my opinion.
I must admit, this is the traditionalist side of me coming out, but why not play RR Tycoon, the original that we all know and love in an emulator (ala VMWare). Dont get me wrong, I love loki stuff, and buy it all, but in this case, its the same thing as civilization, the newer releases are cool, theyre fun, but they dont give me that same warm fuzzy feeling when I play them.
Lets follow the logic... stock market runs on PCs most PCs run windows MS stock grows coincidence? i think not.
I'm originally from the USSR, but now reside in the US so I have a tendency to think from both sides. As it stands, Russia is in such dire need of US aid that they'll gladly give up any rights they may still have with this treaty. In any case however, the treaty was not made with russia, it was made with the USSR which no longer exists as an entity and therefore can not enforce these treaties. The fact that russia maintains this treaty 'in force' I would guess means nothing to the US or the UN (I'm not a lawyer, but that would be the argument I'd expect from one).
I seem to recall a /. discussion on this subject a few months back. Unisys is not interested in charging every little website money. What they are interested in is stopping wiley e. coder who didnt pay for LZH to use it in his dinky little graphics app. What it comes down to is this. If you used a commercial graphics package to create your .gifs (photoshop, corel, or whatnot), youre fine, use your gifs, no one is going to charge you. If you wrote a program that uses LZH to compress GIFs and didnt pay for it, then you need to watch out. The fact is, Unisys really did nothing that any other company wouldnt do, I'm actually surprised they waited this long. All theyre trying to do is stop companies from using their algorithm in products w/out paying for it. Can you blame them? They are a buisness after all, they need to make the money or they'll sink.
There is now, I've been looking for something to code, I'll start on this tomorrow, kdentdev@hotmail.com for any interested parties, and BTW, when can I give out japhar81@slashdot.org for an email? I'm stuck using a M$ portal cuz of hotmail...