You totally don't address the point of the post that you reply to, which is that for every restriction of things which yes, we should not "just accept", there is a price to society which may not be worthwhile.
We understand you approve of making large sharp kitchen knives illegal. What is your stance on darts, which are fairly easy to poison? Do you think that the British public would be in favor of outlawing darts if they started to be used as murder weapons?
I would also think that cable ties would be very effectively used as garrotes, no?
Oh, do you think that my posting an analysis of what might be effective murder weapons is also something which should be restricted?
Do you understand, now, the real meaning of the post to which you replied?
Sorry, I give you some lawyer points for your reply, but you totally miss the fact that my post emphasizes the eloquence of his summary.
In the context of Slashdot, it seemed perfectly fine to me that he calls a "consuming developer" an "end user", especially since there is no difference whatsoever between how the GPL and BSD licenses restrict whom you call an "end user" (which is not at all).
You've managed to eloquently summarize what has been bouncing around in my brain for a while --- I am greatly indebted to you. Kind of like when someone finally tells you what is the name of that tune which you can't get out of your head.
My interpretation of the article is not that Obama will want DoD staff to help manage NASA projects, but rather he wants NASA to be able to use already developed DoD rocket technology (which is now too classified for NASA to use). Since it's already developed, the over-budget and over-time has already been paid for....
While reading that post (and I understand French fairly well) it suddenly hit me, hard, how I suddenly felt like I had totally lost several of my meta-senses (e.g., the ones which sense trolling and sarcasm). On the other hand, it seems to me that there are a few errors in the French, also --- is this troll really really a native French speaker? (Not that that would have helped me, I think).
It's impossible to tell if it's scaling linearly or exponentially or whatever from just one data point; however, unless the atoms are working in a totally different computing paradigm (like quantum computing), it's unlikely to be more than just a linear factor of improvement.
> I guess that explains why Yitzhak Rabin never was assassinated. Oh, wait.
If your stated example means "I guess this isn't a black-and-white issue, but rather a matter of degree", then I totally agree with you.
More U.S. presidents have been assassinated than Israeli prime ministers, and I don't see that this has really affected political freedom in the U.S. much. Rabin's assassination doesn't seem to have affected Israeli politics that much either, considering what brizzadizza has posted long after Rabin's assassination.
> The hilarity is the internal media of Israel presents a more varied view of > Palestinian/Israeli interaction than most of the media outlets of the west.
I notice a non-hilarious omission, here: I take it that the internal media of the Palestinians is just as one-sided (but inversely) as the media outlets of the West?
You can totally turn off that "link in plain text" thing, if you want. Why you would want to do that, I have no idea (I set my own option to be even more pedantic about it than the default).
Wait, you haven't figured out that Slashdot is the compression function of the cryptographic hashes of an advanced extraterrestrial race (whose projections in our reality are, well, whatever you find most amusing)?
I cannot be sure about what caused that bad decision at MS, but two things come to my attention:
Microsoft is largely obsessed by securing and obscuring its "IP", which probably doesn't encourage them to understand that in this case, the opposite philosophy (open review) would be better,
As Bruce Schneier points out, insecurity of Microsoft products is largely an externality to the company (they lose face with a few geeks, or lose a few customers for whom security is the be-all and end-all), so there is little incentive to invest effort to do it correctly.
Check out the Wikipedia article on NDIS and compare it to the article on UDI.
I actually did hear about some project to try to enable using Win32 printer and scanner drivers under Linux but it doesn't seem to have reached any significant level of usability (or perhaps, penetration).
It would seem to me that one could slightly modify the locations of the holes in each letter and create a very hard to detect information-carrying channel in your printouts.
Of course, posting this to the end of a >300 comment Slashdot discussion is in itself a form of stego, but, whatever... <shrugs>
I strongly suggest to all Firefox users to learn about the Profile Manager, it's useful for trying out new extensions or running tests while minimizing the risk your current setup will get permanently bollixed up.
After getting the "our developers are working on it" runaround for months and months when Linksys didn't issue new drivers without the Broadcom vulnerability for my WPC54G adapter, rendering it totally useless, I decided to never, never, again buy Linksys equipment.
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> How do you think people find them?
Well in my case, I typically find them via Google searches or because I found merchandise from them being sold via Amazon, either now or in the past.
(Although I don't use Adblock, I avoid a lot of ads using NoScript.)
Or was that what you meant?
> The music company usually retains the copyright
Not exactly, in most cases the artist(s) assign their copyrights to the labels, and this means that soon, starting around 2013, there will be an interesting battle in the Federal courts whether or not the artists can terminate these assignments as stipulated in the 1976 Copyright Act.
You totally don't address the point of the post that you reply to, which is that for every restriction of things which yes, we should not "just accept", there is a price to society which may not be worthwhile.
We understand you approve of making large sharp kitchen knives illegal. What is your stance on darts, which are fairly easy to poison? Do you think that the British public would be in favor of outlawing darts if they started to be used as murder weapons?
I would also think that cable ties would be very effectively used as garrotes, no?
Oh, do you think that my posting an analysis of what might be effective murder weapons is also something which should be restricted?
Do you understand, now, the real meaning of the post to which you replied?
> To bad because he is wrong.
Sorry, I give you some lawyer points for your reply, but you totally miss the fact that my post emphasizes the eloquence of his summary.
In the context of Slashdot, it seemed perfectly fine to me that he calls a "consuming developer" an "end user", especially since there is no difference whatsoever between how the GPL and BSD licenses restrict whom you call an "end user" (which is not at all).
P.S. s/To/Too/
You've managed to eloquently summarize what has been bouncing around in my brain for a while --- I am greatly indebted to you. Kind of like when someone finally tells you what is the name of that tune which you can't get out of your head.
My interpretation of the article is not that Obama will want DoD staff to help manage NASA projects, but rather he wants NASA to be able to use already developed DoD rocket technology (which is now too classified for NASA to use). Since it's already developed, the over-budget and over-time has already been paid for....
While reading that post (and I understand French fairly well) it suddenly hit me, hard, how I suddenly felt like I had totally lost several of my meta-senses (e.g., the ones which sense trolling and sarcasm). On the other hand, it seems to me that there are a few errors in the French, also --- is this troll really really a native French speaker? (Not that that would have helped me, I think).
> is now more than exponentially larger?
It's impossible to tell if it's scaling linearly or exponentially or whatever from just one data point; however, unless the atoms are working in a totally different computing paradigm (like quantum computing), it's unlikely to be more than just a linear factor of improvement.
> I guess that explains why Yitzhak Rabin never was assassinated. Oh, wait.
If your stated example means "I guess this isn't a black-and-white issue, but rather a matter of degree", then I totally agree with you.
More U.S. presidents have been assassinated than Israeli prime ministers, and I don't see that this has really affected political freedom in the U.S. much. Rabin's assassination doesn't seem to have affected Israeli politics that much either, considering what brizzadizza has posted long after Rabin's assassination.
> The hilarity is the internal media of Israel presents a more varied view of
> Palestinian/Israeli interaction than most of the media outlets of the west.
I notice a non-hilarious omission, here: I take it that the internal media of the Palestinians is just as one-sided (but inversely) as the media outlets of the West?
I suppose this is because the various Israeli parties aren't trying to violently eliminate each other?
If you're for real, I suggest that you take the initiative and contact them, considering that
> strongly statically typed languages like Perl
Wow, it's been ages since I looked at Perl --- I know that Larry said that Perl 6 would be revolutionary, but I didn't think he'd go that far!
You're lucky you don't owe me a keyboard, mate... LOL
You can totally turn off that "link in plain text" thing, if you want. Why you would want to do that, I have no idea (I set my own option to be even more pedantic about it than the default).
> watching it's life-blood sucked away by .....
You finished that wrong, you meant "an out-of-date business model".
> It seems like a very "damned if you do, damned if you don't" kind of a situation for them.
Yeah, people who have been told they have a terminal illness can be such downers, eh?
> 3500 V inside your iPod
When you popped that one, it became clear to me what the next step would be: a combination iPod / self-defense device....
Wait, you haven't figured out that Slashdot is the compression function of the cryptographic hashes of an advanced extraterrestrial race (whose projections in our reality are, well, whatever you find most amusing)?
> The class of problem, in the general case, is NP-complete
You lost me there --- what class of problem connected with the security of cryptographic hash functions is in general NP-complete?
> I honestly don't understand why the hell MS fundamentally architected
> their security the way they did when they went to NTLMv2.
See CajunArson's comment above --- the section about "NEVER DO IT YOURSELF" and "peer review".
I cannot be sure about what caused that bad decision at MS, but two things come to my attention:
Check out the Wikipedia article on NDIS and compare it to the article on UDI.
I actually did hear about some project to try to enable using Win32 printer and scanner drivers under Linux but it doesn't seem to have reached any significant level of usability (or perhaps, penetration).
How hard can it be to remove the hard drive and put it in an external USB housing, then make a backup image, and then reset the root password?
We're not talking about something requiring really expensive equipment, here.
It would seem to me that one could slightly modify the locations of the holes in each letter and create a very hard to detect information-carrying channel in your printouts.
Of course, posting this to the end of a >300 comment Slashdot discussion is in itself a form of stego, but, whatever... <shrugs>
Duluth, Minnesota - After just four hours of deliberation and two days of testimony, a jury found that Jammie Thomas was liable for infringing the record labels' copyrights on all 24 the 24 recordings at issue in the case of Capitol Records v. Jammie Thomas. The jury awarded $9,250 in statutory damages per song, after finding that the infringement was "willful," out of a possible total of $150,000 per song. The grand total? $222,000 in damages.
The judge has since figured out that something was fishy about certain legal arguments RIAA used, however. RIAA hasn't appealed yet, AFAIK.
I strongly suggest to all Firefox users to learn about the Profile Manager, it's useful for trying out new extensions or running tests while minimizing the risk your current setup will get permanently bollixed up.
Did you manage to get your share of the class action refund?
Thanks for bringing yet another episode of Sony sliminess to my attention.
After getting the "our developers are working on it" runaround for months and months when Linksys didn't issue new drivers without the Broadcom vulnerability for my WPC54G adapter, rendering it totally useless, I decided to never, never, again buy Linksys equipment.