Actually, Embedded Linux is the present! I am this very minute putting the finishing touches on embedded Linux code shipping in a projector! Sorry, WindRiver -- guess you aren't the Micro$oft of the embedded world after all!
Maybe indivuals shouldn't focus on failure, but it is a big part of an Engineer's job to identify anything that may potentially go wrong, and to design in methods of coping with each of those failure modes. For example, in software, handling the "normal" cases is only about 10% of the work; the other 90% is handling error conditions. And yes, most Engineers are pretty pessimistic by nature.
At the end of the day, you've taken away jobs and hurt the economy. That's why this is a bad idea.
That's why it's a bad idea to pass laws against those people that stand on streets asking for money, then screaming obscenities at the people that don't give them any... you see, if you make this illegal, than you've taken away these people's jobs and hurt the economy. Liquor stores and drug dealers in your city will be forced out of business! Think of the children!
Your freedom to swing your fist ends where my nose begins. Unsolicited callers are clearly infringing on MY rights. If you've got a business model that requires you to make cold calls to attract suckers, I would suggest that you don't have a business model, you've got an extortion racket.
This sounds like the Oregon Department of Agriculture. Operating on the "it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission" they came out and set up an insect trap on my property (never mind the 6 "no trespassing" signs) with a "call this number to have the trap removed" message on the side. Of course, every time I called the number, it told me "this voice mail box is full and cannot record any more messages!" Arrghh!!! If you think the State feels any obligation to look out for your rights as an individual, you're delusional.
I put all 3 of my unlisted telephone numbers into the do-not-call list, just to help send a clear message to telemarketers that calling people up without their permission is not a viable business model.
He didn't just bring us muscle-bound freaks who solve every problem with violence. He also brought us "Howard the Duck", and the immortal phrase "sorry honey, but I don't date outside my species!"
I can see it now... "...and I've got the graphs right here that show all Linux users should buy an SCO license! If you've got a better idea, I'm all ears!" Suddenly, a shout from the back of the room: "Don't do it, captain! It's another Ferengi trick!"
My two dogs taking a dump contribute more to Linux, free software, and the General Good of the World than SCO Unix ever will. I'm sorry, but I beg to differ with you on this... your two dogs contribute approximately as much as SCO/Caldera does, not more than they do... let's try to use only facts here, ok?
Let's see... they're burning over $1 million a month on legal fees, and (if I know IBM) even if by some miracle they actually do get a judgment against IBM, IBM will make sure it's at least 20 years before they see a penny of it... so no, $10 million isn't that much! They're definately screwed, unless they can con other people into investing in hopes of getting a piece of the eventual settlement. But why do that, when you can invest in the lawyers trying to sue the Church of Scientology out of existance instead? Methinks it would be pretty easy to find investments with a better risks/benefit ratio... like, for instance, going to Vegas...
1) They're all lawyers, and 2) they claim they own all the Unix patents... so, can you really beleive anything they say? Especially when they've already demonstrated their willingness to do practically anything to turn a quick buck?
Better yet, lets reverse engineer the Windows drivers instead of the Linux drivers, so then they'll get mad and discontinue Windows driver development altogether! Yeah, right...
Building an RF-sheilded cage is NOT illegal; transmitting on frequencies you have no license to transmit on is illegal. While "jamming" cell frequencies may be illegal, it would be perfectly legal for a theater to embed well-grounded copper mesh in their walls and ceiling, effectively making cell phone communication impossible. Why don't they do it? Because they would lose customers!
From the SCO website: SCOsource is a new business division to manage its UNIX(R) System intellectual property. The charter of the new division is to create new and innovative licensing programs to meet the changing demands of today's market and to protect its intellectual property asset.
SCO is the owner of the UNIX Operating System Intellectual Property that dates all the way back 1969, when the UNIX System was created at Bell Laboratories. Through a series of mergers and acquisitions, SCO has acquired ownership of the patents, copyrights and core technology associated with the UNIX System. The SCO source division will continue to offer traditional UNIX System licenses to preserve, protect and enhance shareholder value.
Darl, I can tell you're lying... your lips are moving! Care to list exactly which patents SCO owns?
SCO's website appears to be working fine... in fact, there appears to be many sponsorship opportunities still available for SCO Forum 2003! Hmm... I wonder why the didn't sell them all?
The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq _really_ harmed innocent bystanders; does that mean we shouldn't have done it? Maybe people should be smart enough to figure out that Sadaam Hussein is a target, and not stand in front of him? This is Darwinian natural selection at work folks... either you distance yourself from the people that are going down, or you go down with them!
So why don't all the webcasters use multicast or some other technology that makes it impossible to count the number of listeners? Sending a separate stream to several thousand users is sort of a waste of bandwidth, no? Shouldn't broadcasting over the 'net be governed by exactly the same rules as broadcasting over the airwaves?
a step-by-step recipe on how to screw up the internet even worse. I thought common sense dictated that you don't release documentation of a vulnerability until there is a fix available for it. I know security by obscurity doesn't work, but in the case of fundamental flaws in the TCP architecture... well, I'd rather the script kiddies find out about it later rather than sooner. Aren't we overdue for a TCP replacement anyway? One that supports sequenced packets as well as byte streams, and one that allows windows that scale to gigabyte sizes (yes, I know there's already a window scaling kluge). Do we even have a good defense against syn-floods yet? Seems like the only way of fixing the problems would be to add an unspoofable signature to ever packet so we can be certain where it came from, but this would add serious packet overhead... perhaps you could make the packet size much larger to compensate. (Will terabit ethernet still use a 1496 byte maximum packet size? How long a preamble does it need at that bit rate?)
Say "I'm inserting that into my prioritized queue of tasks to be done in slot #98, right behind fixing the mail server virus filters..." Your problem is you're letting people's new requests take too high a priority.
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Actually, Embedded Linux is the present! I am this very minute putting the finishing touches on embedded Linux code shipping in a projector! Sorry, WindRiver -- guess you aren't the Micro$oft of the embedded world after all!
Maybe indivuals shouldn't focus on failure, but it is a big part of an Engineer's job to identify anything that may potentially go wrong, and to design in methods of coping with each of those failure modes. For example, in software, handling the "normal" cases is only about 10% of the work; the other 90% is handling error conditions. And yes, most Engineers are pretty pessimistic by nature.
That's why it's a bad idea to pass laws against those people that stand on streets asking for money, then screaming obscenities at the people that don't give them any... you see, if you make this illegal, than you've taken away these people's jobs and hurt the economy. Liquor stores and drug dealers in your city will be forced out of business! Think of the children!
Your freedom to swing your fist ends where my nose begins. Unsolicited callers are clearly infringing on MY rights. If you've got a business model that requires you to make cold calls to attract suckers, I would suggest that you don't have a business model, you've got an extortion racket.
This sounds like the Oregon Department of Agriculture. Operating on the "it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission" they came out and set up an insect trap on my property (never mind the 6 "no trespassing" signs) with a "call this number to have the trap removed" message on the side. Of course, every time I called the number, it told me "this voice mail box is full and cannot record any more messages!" Arrghh!!! If you think the State feels any obligation to look out for your rights as an individual, you're delusional.
I put all 3 of my unlisted telephone numbers into the do-not-call list, just to help send a clear message to telemarketers that calling people up without their permission is not a viable business model.
He didn't just bring us muscle-bound freaks who solve every problem with violence. He also brought us "Howard the Duck", and the immortal phrase "sorry honey, but I don't date outside my species!"
I can see it now... "...and I've got the graphs right here that show all Linux users should buy an SCO license! If you've got a better idea, I'm all ears!" Suddenly, a shout from the back of the room: "Don't do it, captain! It's another Ferengi trick!"
Only 97%?!? The SCO flunkies must be rigging the poll!
My two dogs taking a dump contribute more to Linux, free software, and the General Good of the World than SCO Unix ever will.
I'm sorry, but I beg to differ with you on this... your two dogs contribute approximately as much as SCO/Caldera does, not more than they do... let's try to use only facts here, ok?
Let's see... they're burning over $1 million a month on legal fees, and (if I know IBM) even if by some miracle they actually do get a judgment against IBM, IBM will make sure it's at least 20 years before they see a penny of it... so no, $10 million isn't that much! They're definately screwed, unless they can con other people into investing in hopes of getting a piece of the eventual settlement. But why do that, when you can invest in the lawyers trying to sue the Church of Scientology out of existance instead? Methinks it would be pretty easy to find investments with a better risks/benefit ratio... like, for instance, going to Vegas...
1) They're all lawyers, and 2) they claim they own all the Unix patents... so, can you really beleive anything they say? Especially when they've already demonstrated their willingness to do practically anything to turn a quick buck?
Better yet, lets reverse engineer the Windows drivers instead of the Linux drivers, so then they'll get mad and discontinue Windows driver development altogether! Yeah, right...
Can you say "non-sequitir"? I knew you could!
Building an RF-sheilded cage is NOT illegal; transmitting on frequencies you have no license to transmit on is illegal. While "jamming" cell frequencies may be illegal, it would be perfectly legal for a theater to embed well-grounded copper mesh in their walls and ceiling, effectively making cell phone communication impossible. Why don't they do it? Because they would lose customers!
So if half the clothes in the machine say "cold water wash" and hslf say "hot water wash", the machine automatically goes on the warm cycle?
I here Wynona Ryder has already order a bunch of these!
SCO is the owner of the UNIX Operating System Intellectual Property that dates all the way back 1969, when the UNIX System was created at Bell Laboratories. Through a series of mergers and acquisitions, SCO has acquired ownership of the patents, copyrights and core technology associated with the UNIX System. The SCO source division will continue to offer traditional UNIX System licenses to preserve, protect and enhance shareholder value.
Darl, I can tell you're lying... your lips are moving! Care to list exactly which patents SCO owns?
SCO's website appears to be working fine... in fact, there appears to be many sponsorship opportunities still available for SCO Forum 2003! Hmm... I wonder why the didn't sell them all?
The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq _really_ harmed innocent bystanders; does that mean we shouldn't have done it? Maybe people should be smart enough to figure out that Sadaam Hussein is a target, and not stand in front of him? This is Darwinian natural selection at work folks... either you distance yourself from the people that are going down, or you go down with them!
"If it crashes, just hit the reset button and run it again!" "Screw testing... if there are any problems, the end user will report them!"
So why don't all the webcasters use multicast or some other technology that makes it impossible to count the number of listeners? Sending a separate stream to several thousand users is sort of a waste of bandwidth, no? Shouldn't broadcasting over the 'net be governed by exactly the same rules as broadcasting over the airwaves?
a step-by-step recipe on how to screw up the internet even worse. I thought common sense dictated that you don't release documentation of a vulnerability until there is a fix available for it. I know security by obscurity doesn't work, but in the case of fundamental flaws in the TCP architecture... well, I'd rather the script kiddies find out about it later rather than sooner. Aren't we overdue for a TCP replacement anyway? One that supports sequenced packets as well as byte streams, and one that allows windows that scale to gigabyte sizes (yes, I know there's already a window scaling kluge). Do we even have a good defense against syn-floods yet? Seems like the only way of fixing the problems would be to add an unspoofable signature to ever packet so we can be certain where it came from, but this would add serious packet overhead... perhaps you could make the packet size much larger to compensate. (Will terabit ethernet still use a 1496 byte maximum packet size? How long a preamble does it need at that bit rate?)
I tried this, but my manager was not impressed when I carefully documented the fact that I was spending 3.5 hours a day on /. reading and posting!
Say "I'm inserting that into my prioritized queue of tasks to be done in slot #98, right behind fixing the mail server virus filters..." Your problem is you're letting people's new requests take too high a priority.
Do the rules of the robotic soccer competition allow for one team's robots to eat the other team?