You can send SMS using your "phone" without uttering a single phone.
According to TFA, you will be able to use your cellphone without cells.
I once read that numbers still reflect the way our ancestors related to number. At first they thought that two and half are two completely separate entities. Soon they discovered that each number is related to its fraction (three --> third, four --> fourth, etc). This is true in English as well as in the other (two) languages I speak. So let our language reflect the story of telephony too.
This is a limited evaluation version. I was asking for one I can keep forever, modify, distribute, etc. The same for RedHat. I think it is ok to take a 3rd party open source product and sell support for it. But I think it is unethical to convert it to closed source (although perhaps it is legal -- in fact it seems it is if they do it and don't get sued). I want to be able to tell SuSE and RedHat: "your product is based 99% on community work, please make your best work available to all, don't just give us the community version or other bone". Neither you, nor me, nor Linus Torvalds can use SuSE's or RedHat's enterprise version without paying. And I think this should be addresses by GPL.
RMS and the GPL folks are doing a mistake in the way they address the Novell-Microsoft pact. They are patching the GPL instead of doing root cause analysis. The root cause is that the GPL allows for the existence of non-free distros (Novell and RedHat are the ones I know). If all the distros were truly free, then the MS-Novel pact would benefit the whole community, for you could download the relevant SuSE and use it or distribute it according to the GPL.
I don't know what are the legal mechanisms by which such a thing could be done without hampering with people who sell Linux as a platform for proprietary software. Among others possibilities they could
Include a clause stating that if what you distribute is mainly an OS, then GPL still applies. This might be vague for a precise legal statement, but if viable it would not allow Red Hat to distribute Linux with some little obscure proprietary application and convert the whole CD into non-free.
Including a clause that states that if your product includes proprietary parts, then there must be a method for "extracting" the GPL parts from it. This would allow people who buy SuSE or RedHat to extract the GPLed parts and distribute them freely. This is vague too, and a technical problem.
Besides the legal issue I think it is annoying and perhaps unethical that companies take an open source product, extend it and close it. This is what RedHat is said to be planning to do to JBoss, but here the case is different because they acquired JBoss. In the case of Linux they are just enclosing behind fences part of a product they did not develop.
He states it clearly that he is talking about hardware (not that I agree). He says by himself that software can still bring improvements. From TFA:
So if raw processing power, storage and bandwidth can't help, what will? What is it I need to leap forward by another factor of 10? In a word: intelligence. In two words: machine intelligence. I need something that monitors my activities, anticipates my next move and automatically satisfies my needs.
I think the current trend in software is not intelligent software, but software that allows us to enlist our collective intelligence, or collaboration software, such as wikis, sharepoint, simultaneously edited spreadsheets, etc. The author of TFA that makes so much use of the word I: he should start to think in term of us, and install the software that allows him to productively do so. Then he will see he starts departing the stassis he feels he is in.
I once heard that Linus has a the complete source code of the 2.6.0 kernel codified in a tattoo in his left buttock. To distribute a copy he sits on a copying machine and presses the green button. Otherwise this would violate the GPL (or perhaps no, since he is the copyright owner?).
Most reasonable legal systems are tuned to avoid "false positives". That is, it is acceptable that some number of people who actually committed crimes walk away unpunished, as long as those who are punished are done so justly. If a country's legal system does not attain to this rule, then it is probably not deemed safe to visit there. It is a principle well known to legislators, law enforcers, lawyers and citizens in generals. And I think it should be applied to patents as well. Only if you prove beyond doubt that your patent is non obvious, innovative, and all the criteria apply, it should be granted. In exactly the same way that nobody is (or at least nobody should be) sent to jail if there are doubts. If there are doubts then you are free. The patents system is not flawed per se. The problem is that it is being abused with a high noise to signal ratio.
Who needs google? There is always that./ mob willing to click through any url without giving a second thought, no matter how long the way and how worthless its end.
I think the privacy game will soon be over, and the winner will be your government.
It is only a matter of time until a suitable technology arises that can accurately verify identities in a non intrusive way. For example:
Using advanced optics and image recognition to do retina recognition from afar
Recognizing your bone structure from afar - without radiation.
Everybody knows that the one who does the technological breakthrough will be very rich - it is only a matter of time. Then we human beings will be exactly like cars- with an (invisible) license plate.
T. rex--the real king of the beasts. That's the terror that Adam's sin unleashed! You'll run into this monster lurking near Adam and Eve. How's this possible? Find out soon!
That's what you can read if you go to the answer is in genesis site, click "Museum walk-through" and click number 19. The other numbers are not less hilarious. Good entertainment.
So this is what they call science? If their faith is so strong, why must it be confirmed by science? It would be much more harmonious with their beliefs if they just declared their faith above science.
Hardware companies compete with their own products too. I once worked with a company that was getting increasing competition from their own hardware being sold on eBay. They started offering discounts for returning the old hardware when upgrading. And then they destroyed the returned items.
At least the EULA does not allow you to pass the license to another licensee once you upgrade - that would be a Microsoft nightmare. Each new version would overflow the market with very cheap licenses for the previous one.
My grandma uses wget. She egreps the output for <a\s+href and does wget in the link she chose. This way, instead of blindly clicking on the anchor, she picks the URL she wants and she is not phished.
Oh, yes, once grandpa modified her hosts file, transfered funds from her savings account run away with his 20 something bride.
It is good to see how the youth can innovate in any field. I always maintained that innovation for the young scientist will be limited almost completely to computer and software because of the ease with which you can buy a machine, connect to the internet and start hacking. Good that this young man proved me wrong. Perhaps we will start seeing innovations by high schoolers in all the branches of the sciences and engineering: biology, chemistry, aeronautics, space research, engineering, etc.
No computer will be a better innovating machine than the one between our ears.
Isn't light "wireless power"? The earth is being wireless powered by the Sun thousands of years now. Every kind of energy we use is ultimately Solar energy. Except for nuclear energy - but that doesn't count if it's for civilian purposes.
Not related to CS or Engineering, but I think that the most amazing piece of math is Cantor's diagonal argument. So simple, so beautiful, so insightfull. And such a strong conclusion: infinite comes in many sizes. It's 10 years since I been first exposed to the proof and I am still filled with joy when I contemplate the simplicity and power of its truth.
This is assumed to counter keyloggers. But if the bad guys have enough control of your the machine to install a keylogger, then what's going to stop them from installing a "screen logger" that keeps successive screenshots in a special directory on the hard disk.
This "new" product does not work around the principle that software cannot secure a computer for which you adversary has physical access.
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I once read that numbers still reflect the way our ancestors related to number. At first they thought that two and half are two completely separate entities. Soon they discovered that each number is related to its fraction (three --> third, four --> fourth, etc). This is true in English as well as in the other (two) languages I speak.
So let our language reflect the story of telephony too.
This is a limited evaluation version. I was asking for one I can keep forever, modify, distribute, etc.
The same for RedHat.
I think it is ok to take a 3rd party open source product and sell support for it. But I think it is unethical to convert it to closed source (although perhaps it is legal -- in fact it seems it is if they do it and don't get sued). I want to be able to tell SuSE and RedHat: "your product is based 99% on community work, please make your best work available to all, don't just give us the community version or other bone". Neither you, nor me, nor Linus Torvalds can use SuSE's or RedHat's enterprise version without paying.
And I think this should be addresses by GPL.
Can you provide links to the download sites of the enterprise version?
The root cause is that the GPL allows for the existence of non-free distros (Novell and RedHat are the ones I know). If all the distros were truly free, then the MS-Novel pact would benefit the whole community, for you could download the relevant SuSE and use it or distribute it according to the GPL.
I don't know what are the legal mechanisms by which such a thing could be done without hampering with people who sell Linux as a platform for proprietary software. Among others possibilities they could
Besides the legal issue I think it is annoying and perhaps unethical that companies take an open source product, extend it and close it. This is what RedHat is said to be planning to do to JBoss, but here the case is different because they acquired JBoss. In the case of Linux they are just enclosing behind fences part of a product they did not develop.
I think the current trend in software is not intelligent software, but software that allows us to enlist our collective intelligence, or collaboration software, such as wikis, sharepoint, simultaneously edited spreadsheets, etc.
The author of TFA that makes so much use of the word I: he should start to think in term of us, and install the software that allows him to productively do so. Then he will see he starts departing the stassis he feels he is in.
I once heard that Linus has a the complete source code of the 2.6.0 kernel codified in a tattoo in his left buttock.
To distribute a copy he sits on a copying machine and presses the green button. Otherwise this would violate the GPL (or perhaps no, since he is the copyright owner?).
Stop posting stupid stories!
Most reasonable legal systems are tuned to avoid "false positives". That is, it is acceptable that some number of people who actually committed crimes walk away unpunished, as long as those who are punished are done so justly.
If a country's legal system does not attain to this rule, then it is probably not deemed safe to visit there.
It is a principle well known to legislators, law enforcers, lawyers and citizens in generals.
And I think it should be applied to patents as well. Only if you prove beyond doubt that your patent is non obvious, innovative, and all the criteria apply, it should be granted.
In exactly the same way that nobody is (or at least nobody should be) sent to jail if there are doubts. If there are doubts then you are free.
The patents system is not flawed per se. The problem is that it is being abused with a high noise to signal ratio.
Who needs google? There is always that ./ mob willing to click through any url without giving a second thought, no matter how long the way and how worthless its end.
In your server, you can code the logic to take another action if the user agent is a bot.
Here you have a db of web robots.
It is only a matter of time until a suitable technology arises that can accurately verify identities in a non intrusive way.
For example:
Everybody knows that the one who does the technological breakthrough will be very rich - it is only a matter of time. Then we human beings will be exactly like cars- with an (invisible) license plate.
Sleep eradicates the need for this drug.
my 2 cents
Hardware companies compete with their own products too.
I once worked with a company that was getting increasing competition from their own hardware being sold on eBay.
They started offering discounts for returning the old hardware when upgrading. And then they destroyed the returned items.
At least the EULA does not allow you to pass the license to another licensee once you upgrade - that would be a Microsoft nightmare. Each new version would overflow the market with very cheap licenses for the previous one.
My grandma uses wget. She egreps the output for <a\s+href and does wget in the link she chose. This way, instead of blindly clicking on the anchor, she picks the URL she wants and she is not phished.
Oh, yes, once grandpa modified her hosts file, transfered funds from her savings account run away with his 20 something bride.
It is good to see how the youth can innovate in any field.
I always maintained that innovation for the young scientist will be limited almost completely to computer and software because of the ease with which you can buy a machine, connect to the internet and start hacking.
Good that this young man proved me wrong. Perhaps we will start seeing innovations by high schoolers in all the branches of the sciences and engineering: biology, chemistry, aeronautics, space research, engineering, etc.
No computer will be a better innovating machine than the one between our ears.
now that people know that they cannot kill ./ inappropriate postings, will the replies go up in quality?
today with cellphones, who uses them? they should be 24 hours below ground.
For me this is another reason to use Jajah Web: it does not infringe this patent.
99% of the people spend their time in 1% of the web
Isn't light "wireless power"? The earth is being wireless powered by the Sun thousands of years now. Every kind of energy we use is ultimately Solar energy. Except for nuclear energy - but that doesn't count if it's for civilian purposes.
Not related to CS or Engineering, but I think that the most amazing piece of math is Cantor's diagonal argument. So simple, so beautiful, so insightfull. And such a strong conclusion: infinite comes in many sizes. It's 10 years since I been first exposed to the proof and I am still filled with joy when I contemplate the simplicity and power of its truth.
This is assumed to counter keyloggers.
But if the bad guys have enough control of your the machine to install a keylogger, then what's going to stop them from installing a "screen logger" that keeps successive screenshots in a special directory on the hard disk.
This "new" product does not work around the principle that software cannot secure a computer for which you adversary has physical access.
no, I didn't update. I have FF for human browsing and IE6 for robot browsing.