What would you do if you were a company and saw your product ruined by a couple of kiddies who
obviously never had anything to do with running a business before? Sit there and watch your dollars
go down the drain?
I'd fire my business manager and probably my legal officer, because they obviously failed to do their jobs if a bunch of kids can undermine the business. The point is not whether the law is right or wrong, or whether the geeks are right or wrong. If the business is constructed so that it cannot survive in the real world, because the company itself overlooked the legal implications of its business plan, there is no one to blame but the business and its managers. They should not have launched a vulnerable business plan.
There are plenty of companies that recognize this. The RIAA member companies know it so well, they went out an got new laws passed so their business model itself would be the law of the land. DC did not have this kind of foresight, and it's your call whether that makes then good guys, bad guys, or just naive.
The black hole at the center of our galaxy is typical for a galaxy like ours. M31, the great galaxy in Andromeda, has a slightly larger one. Both the Milky Way and Andromeda are rather large spiral galaxies.
But neither black hole can hold a candle to the hole at the center of M87, the giant elliptical galaxy at the center of the Virgo cluster. This titan weighs in at several billion suns, and emits relativistic jets of matter from its poles.
Astronomers are very close to demonstrating that the phonemenon known as quasars, are nothing more than an active black hole, swallowing matter at a prodiguous rate in young galaxies that have undergone a burst of star formation. Our galaxy is likely to have shown quasar properties in times past. But as the concentration of matter near the center of a galaxy decreases as it is consumed by the black hole, the quasars turn off.
Astronomers are also gaining new insights into the role of central black holes in the formation of galaxies. It appears that the galaxy and the hole evolved together - the hole provides the gravitational anchor, pulling in nearby gas clouds, which collapse to form stars. We may have never come to exist were it not for the galaxy-forming propensity of massive black holes.
The Next Generation Space Telescope is expected to answer these questions one way or another. It is hoped that it will be able to image very young galaxies in the process of formation, or perhaps even find evidence of naked black holes just beginning to draw in the surrounding primordial gas. That would be quite a find, since it would imply that the black holes came first, and raises the question: from what? Were the created somehow in the maelstrom of the Big Bang, or was there a very early era of star formation that preceeded the era of galaxy formation?
That's really astonishing. Mods are half the point of Tribes. Renegades is really good, but far and away, Shifter is the best mod. I love to do the shock-cannon-jump in Dreadnought armor, and bound into an enemy base flinging mortars.:)
Dan also has a lengthy rant on why CNAMEs are stupid, and why his server doesn't support them.
Try running the software instead of judging it just from the author's rants. djbdns fully supports CNAME records. DJB simply does not provide a command line utility for adding them, like it does for A, NS and MX records. Big deal. The utilities are provided as a quick-start for newcomers.
Here is the small list of things djbdns does not support, but BIND does:
HS class records. Aww, they can't use it at MIT to service Athena's DNS. Bummer.
CHAOS class records. Aww, the script kiddies can't query my server to find what version I am running. Bummer.
IXFR. OK, this is a real bummer for some people. But not many. Be happy with BIND then.
DDNS. Bummer for mostly the same people who need IXFR. So run BIND.
There are some other esoteric BIND features missing from djbdns, but simplicity is one of djbdns' features. It was never meant to be a replacement for BIND, so criticizing it for not being a drop-in misses the point. I simply don't care about the missing features, djbdns meets my needs, and in my environment, it does many things better than BIND, or at least allows me to more easily and securely support the things I need to do. I think it would for a lot of people, too.
It's not hard to understand DJB's attitude, even if you disagree with it.
djbdns comes with a security guarantee. Dan warrants that if a security flaw is found in his code, he'll reward the finder with $500. So he's very interested in making sure that people use his code, not someone's hack of it. To that end, he makes it difficult to distribute modified versions of his code, or to distribute binaries in configurations other than what he deems appropriate. Given that his priorities are lined up this way, I can see why he wants to keep a lid on it. After all, freedom goes both ways.
I think the security guarantee is grandstanding, not necessary. That the code is open is enough of a guarantee for me. $500 is little consolation if one of my machines is compromised through a flaw in his software. But that's me, and I'm not DJB.
All the law says is that a license is not required to entitle either party to improvements made by the other party. But if a licensor wants to do that, he may, and he would be bound by it, as would the licensee. I don't think this negates the GPL at all. It just makes clear that a license, in and of itself, does not entitle either party to these things.
Seriously, there is no way that anyone can reasonably maintain a 24/7 surveillance on their
children.
Boo-hoo. Then stop demanding that the rest of us pick up the slack where you left off. You acknowledge it is impossible, why saddle the rest of us with an impossible task, that causes a lot of inconvenience? How about THAT, HMMM??
Like it or not, this is what will be required to filter most of the social rubbish that will
be imprinted on our children.
How about instead, teaching your children what is rubbish and what is not, and teach them to follow your example, instead of pushing off the enforcement chores on the rest of us? If your kids are so fucked up that they can't tell right from wrong, whose fault is that? Mine? I think NOT!
This new-age "society has no place in rearing
my children" rubbish really sickens me; for thousands of years, small communities imprinted
their values on the children. This indoctrination still happens daily at schools.
Wonderful! Gay Day at the local high school is ON. After all, gay people are part of society, let them imprint some values on the next generation, too!
You know what sickens me? The hypocrisy of so-called parents when it comes to who is responsible for their children's behavior.
You obviously didn't pay attention in your civics class, young man. The government knows what's best for its citizens, and especially for its citizens minor children. I think you need to go back and take 10th grade over again.
From the Software & Information Industry Association comments (typos are mine, unless noted otherwise):
Furthermore, in the physical world, the re-distribution of a particular copy under the first sale doctrine was restricted by geography and circle of people known to the holder of that copy, as well as the time and effort necessary to re-distribute the copy. These inherent constraints on the first sale doctrine limited the potential effect on the market for the work. In the digital world, however, re-distribution is limited neither in geographical scope nor to known people. Instead, digital content can be transmitted to millions of people, both known and unknown, at the stroke of a key or a click of a mouse. As a result of the dramatic increase in ease by which a digitized work can be distributed, the number of times a work is transferred from one party to another (i.e., the frequency of use of the first sale doctrine) would substantially increase, which in turn would sigificant[sic] diminish the copyright owner's ability to obtain a fair return from the work.
So what they're saying is that although the cost of producing and distributing their product has dropped nearly to zero, trashing our right to free speech is necessary to prevent market forces from driving them out of business.
How does a competitive advantage translate into stifling innovation?
When the patent office awards patents for methods and processes that are obvious to any skilled practitioner in the field covered by the patent, competition is stifled. The patent office has been all too willing to allow this, through incompetence and/or ignorance. People can't patent the wheel, because even the patent office knows that there is prior art for that. But it may not be so obvious to them in the case of software and other technology patent applications, that prior art exists. A lot of recent patents in the technology fields are as obvious as the wheel - Amazon's one-click patent is a fine example. This is a patent that was sought solely for the purpose of institgating litigation to stifle competition. Rambus patents on existing memory technology is another example. Toshiba and others have already kow-towed to the legal threat, and will now pay licensing fees to Rambus for products they have been manufacturing since before Rambus was incorporated. Others, like Micron, aren't buying it, and are fighting it in court. There can be no rational argument in favor of allowing Amazon or Rambus to patent the obvious, yet they did it.
It's a minor miracle that I can read this and reply to it at all. I'm at the airport waiting for a flight and using my PalmIIIc with Avantgo, hooked up to a Motorola Timeport PCS phone. Most of the Unicode characters in your post did not show up. There are few alternatives to Avantgo for the Palm. Eudora Web doesn't do any better...
What of some well-meaning but misguided person spammed forged copies of the MPAA email to a whole bunch of people, regardless of whether they link to or even know about DeCSS?
Am I legally obligated to comply with a cease & desist letter delivered via email, in plain text, with no digital signature, and no other way to verify the veracity of the order?
In any event, there seems to be plenty of prior art, since NVIDIA named the Voodoo3 in the suit, which has a two year old chipset. If they held the patents before two years ago, why did they not sue when the Voodoo3 appeared?
(I Am Not A Hardware Engineer)
But one of the patents (first one listed in the Shugasite article) seems to me to be for memory-mapped I/O. I think there was plenty of prior art...
The memory mezzanine card on the 420s (and I guess 220s, though I have none in my shop) have an unfortunate design flaw. They need to be torqued down into their socket with a specific level of force. A special wrench is supplied with each unit, but since it's just a hex driver with a kink in it, I imagine a lot of people throw them away, not knowing what they are (like we did, until we realized how important it is to keep them!).
As the machine operates, heat causes the mezzanine card and its socket to expand, and they are made of different material, so it will come unseated a little bit after a short while. Re-torquing the card makes the Ecache errors go away. After operating a few days and re-torquing, the card is finally seated permanently, and needs no further adjustments.
It's totally a hardware problem. Thing is, the field engineers are the ones who have solved it (at least ours did!). That knowledge seems not to have trickled back up the food chain yet.
Our Ecache errors are a thing of the past (knock on wood).
By the way, you can make POST a lot faster by turning off the diag tests.
Oh, and I don't use the Solaris ftpd, and I suggest you do not use it, either. Venema's ftpd from daemontools is the only ftpd I know of that has fixed the third-party-PORT bug that Sun's and WU-based ftpds suffer from.
ADD is an excuse to drug kids. Simple as that. Before Ritalin was invented, and its market manufactured out of thin air and ignorance, ADD was treated with discipline - staying after school, study hall, that sort of thing.
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I'd fire my business manager and probably my legal officer, because they obviously failed to do their jobs if a bunch of kids can undermine the business. The point is not whether the law is right or wrong, or whether the geeks are right or wrong. If the business is constructed so that it cannot survive in the real world, because the company itself overlooked the legal implications of its business plan, there is no one to blame but the business and its managers. They should not have launched a vulnerable business plan.
There are plenty of companies that recognize this. The RIAA member companies know it so well, they went out an got new laws passed so their business model itself would be the law of the land. DC did not have this kind of foresight, and it's your call whether that makes then good guys, bad guys, or just naive.
But neither black hole can hold a candle to the hole at the center of M87, the giant elliptical galaxy at the center of the Virgo cluster. This titan weighs in at several billion suns, and emits relativistic jets of matter from its poles.
Astronomers are very close to demonstrating that the phonemenon known as quasars, are nothing more than an active black hole, swallowing matter at a prodiguous rate in young galaxies that have undergone a burst of star formation. Our galaxy is likely to have shown quasar properties in times past. But as the concentration of matter near the center of a galaxy decreases as it is consumed by the black hole, the quasars turn off.
Astronomers are also gaining new insights into the role of central black holes in the formation of galaxies. It appears that the galaxy and the hole evolved together - the hole provides the gravitational anchor, pulling in nearby gas clouds, which collapse to form stars. We may have never come to exist were it not for the galaxy-forming propensity of massive black holes.
The Next Generation Space Telescope is expected to answer these questions one way or another. It is hoped that it will be able to image very young galaxies in the process of formation, or perhaps even find evidence of naked black holes just beginning to draw in the surrounding primordial gas. That would be quite a find, since it would imply that the black holes came first, and raises the question: from what? Were the created somehow in the maelstrom of the Big Bang, or was there a very early era of star formation that preceeded the era of galaxy formation?
That's really astonishing. Mods are half the point of Tribes. Renegades is really good, but far and away, Shifter is the best mod. I love to do the shock-cannon-jump in Dreadnought armor, and bound into an enemy base flinging mortars. :)
Yes, it is funny how you do that.
Try running the software instead of judging it just from the author's rants. djbdns fully supports CNAME records. DJB simply does not provide a command line utility for adding them, like it does for A, NS and MX records. Big deal. The utilities are provided as a quick-start for newcomers.
Here is the small list of things djbdns does not support, but BIND does:
There are some other esoteric BIND features missing from djbdns, but simplicity is one of djbdns' features. It was never meant to be a replacement for BIND, so criticizing it for not being a drop-in misses the point. I simply don't care about the missing features, djbdns meets my needs, and in my environment, it does many things better than BIND, or at least allows me to more easily and securely support the things I need to do. I think it would for a lot of people, too.
Why are you moderating and posting to the same thread?
You mean if NSI/ICANN would deploy it, and setup a secure channel for collecting keys from domain registrants.
Dan says the same thing about BIND. <shrug>
AXFR/IXFR are RFC standards, and he makes it "optional".
They are optional with BIND, too. But they are enabled by default. Most people don't need 'em.
djbdns turns of TCP queries by default.
No it doesn't.
This is the topic of recurring flame wars on the dns-bind list, and I don't want to start it here.
Yes you do, otherwise you wouldn't have posted about it.
Tobacco... ri-i-i-ight...
djbdns comes with a security guarantee. Dan warrants that if a security flaw is found in his code, he'll reward the finder with $500. So he's very interested in making sure that people use his code, not someone's hack of it. To that end, he makes it difficult to distribute modified versions of his code, or to distribute binaries in configurations other than what he deems appropriate. Given that his priorities are lined up this way, I can see why he wants to keep a lid on it. After all, freedom goes both ways.
I think the security guarantee is grandstanding, not necessary. That the code is open is enough of a guarantee for me. $500 is little consolation if one of my machines is compromised through a flaw in his software. But that's me, and I'm not DJB.
All the law says is that a license is not required to entitle either party to improvements made by the other party. But if a licensor wants to do that, he may, and he would be bound by it, as would the licensee. I don't think this negates the GPL at all. It just makes clear that a license, in and of itself, does not entitle either party to these things.
Boo-hoo. Then stop demanding that the rest of us pick up the slack where you left off. You acknowledge it is impossible, why saddle the rest of us with an impossible task, that causes a lot of inconvenience? How about THAT, HMMM??
Like it or not, this is what will be required to filter most of the social rubbish that will be imprinted on our children.
How about instead, teaching your children what is rubbish and what is not, and teach them to follow your example, instead of pushing off the enforcement chores on the rest of us? If your kids are so fucked up that they can't tell right from wrong, whose fault is that? Mine? I think NOT!
This new-age "society has no place in rearing my children" rubbish really sickens me; for thousands of years, small communities imprinted their values on the children. This indoctrination still happens daily at schools.
Wonderful! Gay Day at the local high school is ON. After all, gay people are part of society, let them imprint some values on the next generation, too!
You know what sickens me? The hypocrisy of so-called parents when it comes to who is responsible for their children's behavior.
You obviously didn't pay attention in your civics class, young man. The government knows what's best for its citizens, and especially for its citizens minor children. I think you need to go back and take 10th grade over again.
Furthermore, in the physical world, the re-distribution of a particular copy under the first sale doctrine was restricted by geography and circle of people known to the holder of that copy, as well as the time and effort necessary to re-distribute the copy. These inherent constraints on the first sale doctrine limited the potential effect on the market for the work. In the digital world, however, re-distribution is limited neither in geographical scope nor to known people. Instead, digital content can be transmitted to millions of people, both known and unknown, at the stroke of a key or a click of a mouse. As a result of the dramatic increase in ease by which a digitized work can be distributed, the number of times a work is transferred from one party to another (i.e., the frequency of use of the first sale doctrine) would substantially increase, which in turn would sigificant[sic] diminish the copyright owner's ability to obtain a fair return from the work.
So what they're saying is that although the cost of producing and distributing their product has dropped nearly to zero, trashing our right to free speech is necessary to prevent market forces from driving them out of business.
I'm glad they made that clear.
At the point of sale.
If company X provide a product for a specific purpose does the consumer has the right to use the product in any way he feels fit?
Yes.
Would I as a company would have the right stop the consumer from using it as he seems fit.
No.
These are the question that need to answer quickly.
We aim to please.
When the patent office awards patents for methods and processes that are obvious to any skilled practitioner in the field covered by the patent, competition is stifled. The patent office has been all too willing to allow this, through incompetence and/or ignorance. People can't patent the wheel, because even the patent office knows that there is prior art for that. But it may not be so obvious to them in the case of software and other technology patent applications, that prior art exists. A lot of recent patents in the technology fields are as obvious as the wheel - Amazon's one-click patent is a fine example. This is a patent that was sought solely for the purpose of institgating litigation to stifle competition. Rambus patents on existing memory technology is another example. Toshiba and others have already kow-towed to the legal threat, and will now pay licensing fees to Rambus for products they have been manufacturing since before Rambus was incorporated. Others, like Micron, aren't buying it, and are fighting it in court. There can be no rational argument in favor of allowing Amazon or Rambus to patent the obvious, yet they did it.
Here is some DNS server software that supports 8-bit data, no problem. Finding a compliant client resolver library is another matter, however...
It's a minor miracle that I can read this and reply to it at all. I'm at the airport waiting for a flight and using my PalmIIIc with Avantgo, hooked up to a Motorola Timeport PCS phone. Most of the Unicode characters in your post did not show up. There are few alternatives to Avantgo for the Palm. Eudora Web doesn't do any better...
It doesn't say you can't get allocations for other IP-based services.
Am I legally obligated to comply with a cease & desist letter delivered via email, in plain text, with no digital signature, and no other way to verify the veracity of the order?
In any event, there seems to be plenty of prior art, since NVIDIA named the Voodoo3 in the suit, which has a two year old chipset. If they held the patents before two years ago, why did they not sue when the Voodoo3 appeared?
(I Am Not A Hardware Engineer) But one of the patents (first one listed in the Shugasite article) seems to me to be for memory-mapped I/O. I think there was plenty of prior art...
OK, where's my OpenSource E420?
As the machine operates, heat causes the mezzanine card and its socket to expand, and they are made of different material, so it will come unseated a little bit after a short while. Re-torquing the card makes the Ecache errors go away. After operating a few days and re-torquing, the card is finally seated permanently, and needs no further adjustments.
It's totally a hardware problem. Thing is, the field engineers are the ones who have solved it (at least ours did!). That knowledge seems not to have trickled back up the food chain yet.
Our Ecache errors are a thing of the past (knock on wood).
By the way, you can make POST a lot faster by turning off the diag tests.
Oh, and I don't use the Solaris ftpd, and I suggest you do not use it, either. Venema's ftpd from daemontools is the only ftpd I know of that has fixed the third-party-PORT bug that Sun's and WU-based ftpds suffer from.
What a scam, what a shame.