Maybe that is the department for Cyber-Warfare going to the community to collect the wisdom of the crowd to find vulnerabilities to exploit by themseves?
Open Source makes, compared to Proprietary Closed Code, hiding Trojans more difficult!
but US lawyers always sue, no matter where you sell, if they think they can get a buck out of it.
So Sony can be asked to pay or their business in US will have to compensate for this!
where are Sony Entertainment Industry Copyright lawyers?
as obviously stolen code is in the green dam software, Sony should be responsible for providing it.
the MCA was quite advanced, but proprietary. It failed to win a significant market share.
Also the Configuration system: a locked up thing.
IBM attempt to reconquer the PC monopoly bunked!
the 8088 decisison kept 8 bit SW for 2 decades longer than necessary
the segemnting of memory of this CPU design cost programmers and programs > 20% efficiency
which was remedied only by the 386.
Then QDOS and Windows 1. At a time when Unix and even ROMable versions like OS9 were available to bet on this indicates what IBM thought of the PC:
home-control must distinguish between 3 levels of operation/control:
1.) non-critical applications: TV, light, shades
2.) critical application: pumps, heaters, etc...
3.) security items: door openers, intrusion detection, fire detection, etc...
for 1 IR control, maybe wireless possible, but not exclusively
for 2 a constant sensor feedback/monitoring by the central control system is required, with auto-shutdown in case of failure. the power-lines should be the communication medium.
for 3 only a wired system is feasible
- I am dreaming of a cheap downgraded Ethernet with a TP bus and CSMS/CD protocol at 5 or 2 Mbit allowing cheap twisted pair wiring and cheap press-fit connectors. ( If I would get advice on how to make an Ethernet interface with a FPGA I might attempt to do it myself ).
The home controller needs to be able to communicate with all media for 1,2 and 3 as well as with the local home-LAN, the INternet and maybe even get a phone connection, wireless or POTS for alarm calls.
todays Home-control is too expensive:
It must cost no more than $ 10 per switched device and it must provide normal operation on the switch location - like the old manual switch additional to remote/central/automatic control.
It should directly replace manual switches in the electroc home installation.
X10's idea is not bad - but far too expensive and it lacks a built-in back-channel.
0 Proprietary Software will be there always - True
but Software covering basic cultural techniques like
calculating/spreadsheet
Document writing
Pixel Graphics/ photo processing
Vector/Line Graphics
CAD
will be forced into Public Domain -
simply because the TCO of proprieatry software in this field is too high
to allow propretary solutions to continue - with their vendor lock ins and
un-maintainable document retention
1
sound system - true - is a mess now
2
X-system - can not say - have not experienced unstable GUI
3
Linux Distros: variety is good
maybe the big Desktop Distro's should agree on some standrads - if needed by
a public polll to select the favorites
3.4 Applications for Windows suffer the same problem -
at least in the field of scientific software.
Whereas if I have the source I can compile for the new OS version myself, in case of proprietary SW I have to pay both the OS vendor as well as the scientific SW vendor for the new thing.
Most often in the scientific world there is no one who can and/or wants to write
a new version! Then I am on my own and better off with OSS ( if not FOSS )
4
GUI for everything is not a must - but consistency within a distribution and maybe
between distros would be nice.
5
I can not see so many basic SW tools missing! Only one I reckon is Visio.
AutoCAD will not publish for Linux - they have a closed philosophy.
On the other side there is Blender which is ahead of the proprietary solutions.
Same true for R, the statistics package. ( True there is no integrated GUI yet )
5.3.1 if you leave out the CPU to do the work?
5.3.2 WebCams - true - WebCam manufacturers - why not release some drivers for Linux?
5.4 can not answer - ask Hollywood and Sony
5.5 US is interested in getting revenue for plastic ( SW see:
you are absolutely right in the statement, that one economy, one culture, one.... is not a good idea!
But if you take nature as an example, then let me tell you: every living organism is constructed of small cells surrounded by a border, called cellular wall.
On the next level we have organs, again sectioned off from other body parts by specialized cells ( also forming an organ ) called skin.
And on we go.
No kidney will be happy to get bile in their vessels. No fu...g brain will allow to lower its blood-brain barrier!. Ask a doctor what this is.
But globalization allows a greedy company to bring its screwed ideas to wherever they want, protect mostly by US law who tries to export their views as the only ones true and valid!
In god we trust! ( go to hel - which is a skandinavian mythological location to be found in Island )
and just recall the steel market. The very moment globalization posed a threat to US companies, custom duties were charged for imported steel which was absolutely illegal/contract breaking according to WTO agreements.
Globalization? as long as it is advantageous for US!
Tannenbaum designed Minix 1 and 2 in his academic and turorial work together with students.
Many students gained by his lectures - including Linus Torvalds. So what?
Giving 3 Million Euro to a University Institute is not so bad.
I do more question the BSD style license.
I would have preferred some pay-back mechanism from commercial users - not excluding them for their interest to keep own development based on it undisclosed.
the media are stremed, if not flooded with more and more messages that the bad bad guys are attacking the poor porr USA with their lousy OS with NSA backdoors, trojans, Echelon etc..
Should I lol or weep?
Problem is the average media consumer will swallow the bait with tackle and all!
Power grid threatened by hackers - most likely from China *g*
I think this ought to be worth an update.
www.blackouteurope.eu is not reachable.
according to the string reported, the server has reached its bandwidth limit!!
Slashdot Mirror
it is a sure recipe for disaster.
be honest
you need to be able to talk with your girlfriend/wife on nearly all matters
you need to be able to laugh together, and to laugh about each other
Open Source makes, compared to Proprietary Closed Code, hiding Trojans more difficult!
AND had the proper money not to care about the outcome to do some experiements with unusual things
AND were succesful
think they are smart enough to be always succesful
And then emporer Qin had the Terracotta Army built
Globalized markets: The USA can sell everywhere.
Why can I not buy everywhere?
A direct violation of Copyright.
Where are Sony's Copyright lawers this time?
But the USA did also a deal with the Japanese and covered up Unit 731 deeds to become the sole owner of this Biological Warfare knowledge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
the country which always made deals with the devil(s)
some might call it a pact!
Mr. H. Oberth said to me that he was satisfied when WvB died (of cancer) before him.
Floppy disk Linux distro deleting all HD in its reach by writing all 0's then all 1's then random patterns.
takes a while but no need to watch it.
and not think of real consequences.
binary arithmetic, (solving the tabulation versus repetitive adding problem for multiplication)
the first assembler/compiler used with his machines.
von Neumann structure ( before von Neumann knew how to make a computer )
I met the former sales manager of Zuse - he is still alive andf active at age 90!
the blocking and inspection list is not to be viewed by public nor by the courts!
1984 = 2000 - 16
maybe Eric Arthur Blair ( not Tony ) meant 2000 + 16 ?
Eric Arthur Blair a.k.a. George Orwell
the MCA was quite advanced, but proprietary. It failed to win a significant market share.
Also the Configuration system: a locked up thing.
IBM attempt to reconquer the PC monopoly bunked!
the 8088 decisison kept 8 bit SW for 2 decades longer than necessary
the segemnting of memory of this CPU design cost programmers and programs > 20% efficiency
which was remedied only by the 386. Then QDOS and Windows 1. At a time when Unix and even ROMable versions like OS9 were available to bet on this indicates what IBM thought of the PC:
a toy for managers and freaks.
This to allow Intel to recover development cost for the 8087 which was required for the terrain following function of cruise missiles.
I advice any government to use in their networks only SW they can compile by themselfes!
And even more important: use routers ( and switches ) where they compiled the firmware/software themselves!
boring boring boring
no wonder Tichy made some excursions
obtained by Echelon
obtained by Root Boot Trojans.
now DoD says openly what they did since more than a decade
1.) non-critical applications: TV, light, shades
2.) critical application: pumps, heaters, etc...
3.) security items: door openers, intrusion detection, fire detection, etc...
for 1 IR control, maybe wireless possible, but not exclusively
for 2 a constant sensor feedback/monitoring by the central control system is required, with auto-shutdown in case of failure. the power-lines should be the communication medium.
for 3 only a wired system is feasible
- I am dreaming of a cheap downgraded Ethernet with a TP bus and CSMS/CD protocol at 5 or 2 Mbit allowing cheap twisted pair wiring and cheap press-fit connectors. ( If I would get advice on how to make an Ethernet interface with a FPGA I might attempt to do it myself ).
The home controller needs to be able to communicate with all media for 1,2 and 3 as well as with the local home-LAN, the INternet and maybe even get a phone connection, wireless or POTS for alarm calls.
todays Home-control is too expensive: It must cost no more than $ 10 per switched device and it must provide normal operation on the switch location - like the old manual switch additional to remote/central/automatic control. It should directly replace manual switches in the electroc home installation. X10's idea is not bad - but far too expensive and it lacks a built-in back-channel.
but Software covering basic cultural techniques like
calculating/spreadsheet
Document writing
Pixel Graphics/ photo processing
Vector/Line Graphics
CAD
will be forced into Public Domain - simply because the TCO of proprieatry software in this field is too high to allow propretary solutions to continue - with their vendor lock ins and un-maintainable document retention
1 sound system - true - is a mess now
2 X-system - can not say - have not experienced unstable GUI
3 Linux Distros: variety is good
maybe the big Desktop Distro's should agree on some standrads - if needed by a public polll to select the favorites
3.4 Applications for Windows suffer the same problem -
at least in the field of scientific software .
Whereas if I have the source I can compile for the new OS version myself, in case of proprietary SW I have to pay both the OS vendor as well as the scientific SW vendor for the new thing.
Most often in the scientific world there is no one who can and/or wants to write a new version! Then I am on my own and better off with OSS ( if not FOSS )
4 GUI for everything is not a must - but consistency within a distribution and maybe between distros would be nice.
5 I can not see so many basic SW tools missing! Only one I reckon is Visio.
AutoCAD will not publish for Linux - they have a closed philosophy.
On the other side there is Blender which is ahead of the proprietary solutions.
Same true for R, the statistics package. ( True there is no integrated GUI yet )
5.3.1 if you leave out the CPU to do the work?
5.3.2 WebCams - true - WebCam manufacturers - why not release some drivers for Linux?
5.4 can not answer - ask Hollywood and Sony
5.5 US is interested in getting revenue for plastic ( SW see:
http://www.worldmapper.orgdisplay.php?selected=99
6 can no answer that except: happens to Windows applications too
7 that is a point - suggest some Universities adopt certain aspects of a FOSS OS
8 good interoperability depends on good data and interface specifications and a rigorous compliance to standards
9 slowness - the OO example is true, not true for other thingssuch as inkscape versus CorelDraw
13 can not agree - see point 3.4
14 big distro's like RedHat and Novell/SuSE as well as Ubuntu could do something about it
surveillance cameras per capita
PLEASE KEEP ON and evaluate better!
I think in this discussion also some quantitative data has to enter.
Like minor crimes / tickets issued based on monitoring/surveillance
From this one can make a guess how many major crimes can potentially be discovered.
And then one can plot of how many capital crimes done by corporations or governements went unsued.
like speculation, tax avoidance by off-shoring
and of course torture ( on behalf of government )
drug-business ( on behalf of government )
maybe he does not believe in the jackpot of physics?
But if you take nature as an example, then let me tell you: every living organism is constructed of small cells surrounded by a border, called cellular wall.
On the next level we have organs, again sectioned off from other body parts by specialized cells ( also forming an organ ) called skin.
And on we go.
No kidney will be happy to get bile in their vessels. No fu...g brain will allow to lower its blood-brain barrier!. Ask a doctor what this is.
But globalization allows a greedy company to bring its screwed ideas to wherever they want, protect mostly by US law who tries to export their views as the only ones true and valid!
In god we trust! ( go to hel - which is a skandinavian mythological location to be found in Island )
and just recall the steel market. The very moment globalization posed a threat to US companies, custom duties were charged for imported steel which was absolutely illegal/contract breaking according to WTO agreements. Globalization? as long as it is advantageous for US!
Tannenbaum designed Minix 1 and 2 in his academic and turorial work together with students.
Many students gained by his lectures - including Linus Torvalds. So what?
Giving 3 Million Euro to a University Institute is not so bad.
I do more question the BSD style license.
I would have preferred some pay-back mechanism from commercial users - not excluding them for their interest to keep own development based on it undisclosed.
You could buy the whole documentation in X honking thick binders from www.heise.de - maybe you still can.
Andrew favors a modular approach to the kernel while Linus favors the integrated kernel.
Both have their merits ( and arguments )
Maybe something comes out of it!
Should I lol or weep?
Problem is the average media consumer will swallow the bait with tackle and all!
Power grid threatened by hackers - most likely from China *g*
Poor ol Dalai Lama's Windozw PC infiltrated *g*
Whats going on? Obama tolling up for a big War?:
spooky - or quick action?