Not a fair criticism, since the standard was written to BIND's implementation, not the other way around. BIND's zone file format is in the RFCs, as part of the standard. Any DNS server that uses a SQL backend is non-compliant on this count alone.
But even BIND deviates from the standard written to it's implementation in many places. See http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/notes.html for some examples.
There is no license along with his programs, and absent a license you have NO RIGHT to share, study, or change Bernstein's code!
You didn't supply a license with your post, so may I presume your attorneys will be contacting me for quoting part of your silly diatribe?
Fair use is the boundary that a copyright holder may not cross when spelling out the restrictions on how copies of his work may be used. Regardless of whether or not he explicitly grants you the right to make copies for personal use, you have that right. Fair use assures it. Or rather, fair use is supposed to assure it.
...how can a retailer convince customer to buy a CDRW drive or a dashboard CD player that will read CDR's if half of that customer's music collection won't work on one of those.
Not sure how best to respond to this, except to say Well, DUH!. Sowing confusion among enemy is in that Art of War book by that Hung Sue guy, or whatever. Get with the program.
[Aphex Twin] only releases what he thinks his fans expect from him and he keeps the really innovative stuff for himself, because he doesn't want to be copied by everybody.
Well the solution is obvious. Aphex Twin needs to patent his innovations. Why, I bet the USPTO would be happy to open up a new market of intellectual property customers. Just think how much money you could make if you've got a patent on Salsa, or Grunge.
The RIAA and MPAA announced today that a deal has been reached with manufacturers of consumer audio and video equipment. Beginning next year, new CD and DVD players will drop the letter "L" from the Play button, which will be linked to the consumer's credit card at the time of purchase.
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Try to avoid setting up a bank account on Paypal or giving them your checking account number for any reason.
You can also setup a new checking account just for use with PayPal. If you do it at the same bank as your main checking account, it should be a piece of cake to transfer money between the two as needed.
When one Commerce employee detected investigators trying to hack the agency's computers during their testing, he launched an illegal, electronic counterattack against the GAO.
I wish they had defined "illegal, electronic counterattack." What exactly did he do? I bet he did just what any one of you would have done, he performed portscan to see if there were any open ports suggesting a compromised system.
How are they off the hook? I said they exploits should continue to be released, Microsoft's feet should continue to be held to the fire, despite their protests, so how is this letting them off the hook?
The justice department's move is not at all controversial, unless you're one of those anti-American types who thought we got was coming to us 9/11.
Oh I see, if you don't tow the party line, you must be one of them. Got it. Heard it before. It isn't any more convincing coming from you than it was coming from anyone else.
If a suspected terrorist's attorney is suspected of assisting the detainee in the plotting of more terrorist acts, why are we not detaining the attorney too? Give him a cell and a wall full of law books, or whatever else he needs to research his case, and let them consult in private. There is no need to listen in.
Does Halo take place on a Ringworld? Looks that way in the screenshots, but they got the perspective all wrong. By the time the curvature of ringworld brings the arc into view over the horizon, it should appear MUCH more narrow and farther away than it does in those screenshots.
This ringworld looks to be maybe a couple hundred miles in diameter and perhaps 50 miles in width, Niven's Ringworld was 180 million miles in diameter, and 1 million miles wide. The walls at the edge were 1000 miles high.
This screenshot also seem to show that the sun is offset from the center of the ring. I am having a hard time accounting for the shadow on the visible part of the ring, given the position of the sun.
As if there's any question? The publisher of the sofware with the flaw is responsible. Why, do I detect a bit of bias in the Cnet article's title?
I like this one too (Scutt Culp is giving the answer here)
Q: Why the name information anarchy? A: Well, because it's accurate. The practice that the essay was discussing was the practice of throwing exploit information out freely on the Internet without regard to how it might be used.
What about the practice of throwing flawed software out freely on the Internet without regard to how it might be used?
Then he goes on:
There has been a long debate, for years, about how much information ought be disclosed about security vulnerabilities. And for the longest time, folks arguing both pro and con could cite theory about why their position was correct. But the five worms (Ramen, 1i0n, Sadmind, Code Red and Nimda) that were released over the past year answer the question with actual data and conclusively.
I would say so too. Amazing how two people looking at the same data can come to opposite conclusions. I guess it depends on whose ox is gored. Security be damned, they've got a reputation to protect!
So I certainly don't agree with the full sort of free software foundation view that there should be no jobs in this area, and that the kind of commercial advances and risk taking that we've been able to do you can't get that, you can't get things like speech recognition on a tablet computer coming out of that kind of a paradigm.
Putting aside the absurd claim that free software advocates think no one should be employed as a programmer (have you stopped laughing yet?), there's a reason that a speech recognition tablet wouldn't be seen coming out of a free software project.
Free software developers write stuff they find useful. Who needs a tablet computer with speech recognition? For that matter, who needs speech recognition? There are a few people who need it, usually because of a disability. But these are people who probably cannot grasp a tablet computer in their hands. Those who need a tablet computer are in need of portability. They are probably using it outdoors, or in a factory, or other noisy environments where speech recognition is problematic at best, and pointless for most applications.
And do I really need to cite the example of Microsoft Bob? There was some pointless software, if there ever was any. No free software writer would spend two minutes on something like that, well maybe two minutes if he planned to release it as a joke. But that's all.
I actually like using my US Passport for identification. It is accepted almost everywhere a driver's license is, but it does not show my street address or phone number. It is a nearly pure identification credential, and other than providing space for foreign consuls to note where I have visited abroad, it has no other use than to prove who I am and that I am a US citizen.
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Fixing over a million lines of other people's code, developed over a period of years by many different people, and possibly with a great deal of interdependencies -- not to mention that applications may depend on particular quirks as well? I'd think that would take a vast amount of time and effort, if it's at all possible.
Are you sure you're posting to the right web site?
Isn't what you have just described exactly what the Linux, BSD, X11, and all the communities have been doing for the past decade or more?
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Not a fair criticism, since the standard was written to BIND's implementation, not the other way around. BIND's zone file format is in the RFCs, as part of the standard. Any DNS server that uses a SQL backend is non-compliant on this count alone.
But even BIND deviates from the standard written to it's implementation in many places. See http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/notes.html for some examples.
There is no license along with his programs, and absent a license you have NO RIGHT to share, study, or change Bernstein's code!
You didn't supply a license with your post, so may I presume your attorneys will be contacting me for quoting part of your silly diatribe?
(not that I'm automatically opposed to that)
Of course you are, why else would you ask this question in the first place?
If you try to measure benefit in dollars, you will surely be disappointed. Try asking a better question.
But I bet we can do without buying music longer than they can do without the revenue.
No revenue, no lobbying, no special laws.
Fair use is the boundary that a copyright holder may not cross when spelling out the restrictions on how copies of his work may be used. Regardless of whether or not he explicitly grants you the right to make copies for personal use, you have that right. Fair use assures it. Or rather, fair use is supposed to assure it.
...how can a retailer convince customer to buy a CDRW drive or a dashboard CD player that will read CDR's if half of that customer's music collection won't work on one of those.
Not sure how best to respond to this, except to say Well, DUH!. Sowing confusion among enemy is in that Art of War book by that Hung Sue guy, or whatever. Get with the program.
[Aphex Twin] only releases what he thinks his fans expect from him and he keeps the really innovative stuff for himself, because he doesn't want to be copied by everybody.
Well the solution is obvious. Aphex Twin needs to patent his innovations. Why, I bet the USPTO would be happy to open up a new market of intellectual property customers. Just think how much money you could make if you've got a patent on Salsa, or Grunge.
The RIAA and MPAA announced today that a deal has been reached with manufacturers of consumer audio and video equipment. Beginning next year, new CD and DVD players will drop the letter "L" from the Play button, which will be linked to the consumer's credit card at the time of purchase.
Try to avoid setting up a bank account on Paypal or giving them your checking account number for any reason.
You can also setup a new checking account just for use with PayPal. If you do it at the same bank as your main checking account, it should be a piece of cake to transfer money between the two as needed.
On your PayPal profile page, there is a link to "Close Account". Duh.
When one Commerce employee detected investigators trying to hack the agency's computers during their testing, he launched an illegal, electronic counterattack against the GAO.
I wish they had defined "illegal, electronic counterattack." What exactly did he do? I bet he did just what any one of you would have done, he performed portscan to see if there were any open ports suggesting a compromised system.
How are they off the hook? I said they exploits should continue to be released, Microsoft's feet should continue to be held to the fire, despite their protests, so how is this letting them off the hook?
The justice department's move is not at all controversial, unless you're one of those anti-American types who thought we got was coming to us 9/11.
Oh I see, if you don't tow the party line, you must be one of them. Got it. Heard it before. It isn't any more convincing coming from you than it was coming from anyone else.
If a suspected terrorist's attorney is suspected of assisting the detainee in the plotting of more terrorist acts, why are we not detaining the attorney too? Give him a cell and a wall full of law books, or whatever else he needs to research his case, and let them consult in private. There is no need to listen in.
What should be done about it is to inform everyone as soon as problems are discovered.
That is a period at the end of that sentence, it means there is nothing further to add. What we're doing now is what should be done.
Does Halo take place on a Ringworld? Looks that way in the screenshots, but they got the perspective all wrong. By the time the curvature of ringworld brings the arc into view over the horizon, it should appear MUCH more narrow and farther away than it does in those screenshots.
This ringworld looks to be maybe a couple hundred miles in diameter and perhaps 50 miles in width, Niven's Ringworld was 180 million miles in diameter, and 1 million miles wide. The walls at the edge were 1000 miles high.
This screenshot also seem to show that the sun is offset from the center of the ring. I am having a hard time accounting for the shadow on the visible part of the ring, given the position of the sun.
As if there's any question? The publisher of the sofware with the flaw is responsible. Why, do I detect a bit of bias in the Cnet article's title?
I like this one too (Scutt Culp is giving the answer here)
Q: Why the name information anarchy?
A: Well, because it's accurate. The practice that the essay was discussing was the practice of throwing exploit information out freely on the Internet without regard to how it might be used.
What about the practice of throwing flawed software out freely on the Internet without regard to how it might be used?
Then he goes on:
There has been a long debate, for years, about how much information ought be disclosed about security vulnerabilities. And for the longest time, folks arguing both pro and con could cite theory about why their position was correct. But the five worms (Ramen, 1i0n, Sadmind, Code Red and Nimda) that were released over the past year answer the question with actual data and conclusively.
I would say so too. Amazing how two people looking at the same data can come to opposite conclusions. I guess it depends on whose ox is gored. Security be damned, they've got a reputation to protect!
So I certainly don't agree with the full sort of free software foundation view that there should be no jobs in this area, and that the kind of commercial advances and risk taking that we've been able to do you can't get that, you can't get things like speech recognition on a tablet computer coming out of that kind of a paradigm.
Putting aside the absurd claim that free software advocates think no one should be employed as a programmer (have you stopped laughing yet?), there's a reason that a speech recognition tablet wouldn't be seen coming out of a free software project.
Free software developers write stuff they find useful. Who needs a tablet computer with speech recognition? For that matter, who needs speech recognition? There are a few people who need it, usually because of a disability. But these are people who probably cannot grasp a tablet computer in their hands. Those who need a tablet computer are in need of portability. They are probably using it outdoors, or in a factory, or other noisy environments where speech recognition is problematic at best, and pointless for most applications.
And do I really need to cite the example of Microsoft Bob? There was some pointless software, if there ever was any. No free software writer would spend two minutes on something like that, well maybe two minutes if he planned to release it as a joke. But that's all.
..we have lot's of national ID cards all over Europe and no big brother in sight.
Open your eyes. There, see him?
I actually like using my US Passport for identification. It is accepted almost everywhere a driver's license is, but it does not show my street address or phone number. It is a nearly pure identification credential, and other than providing space for foreign consuls to note where I have visited abroad, it has no other use than to prove who I am and that I am a US citizen.
I keep mistyping .BIZ as .BIX. Can we get NeuLevel to mirror .biz into .bix for the fumble-fingers crowd? It would sure help allieve a lot of confusion.
Isn't it so that family names win over trademarks in a domain name dispute?
.name TLD for just your application. .BIZ is not for names, .name is for names.
Not when they established
Bring money, guns and lawyers.
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Fixing over a million lines of other people's code, developed over a period of years by many different people, and possibly with a great deal of interdependencies -- not to mention that applications may depend on particular quirks as well? I'd think that would take a vast amount of time and effort, if it's at all possible.
Are you sure you're posting to the right web site?
Isn't what you have just described exactly what the Linux, BSD, X11, and all the communities have been doing for the past decade or more?