This comparison of murder with a rock was covered elsewhere (look for someone talking about crowbars).
The point is that you're also charged with murder. Should you get out of the murder charge for some reason, there's still use of a deadly weapon. I'd bet there would be a string of charges should you kill someone with a rock.
L0pht crack when used to steal passwords is illegal. This doesn't make the compiler illegal, much like using a grinder to make lockpicks doesn't make the grinder illegal. It's the picks and using them in a crime that is.
It's just that the laws in this jurisdiction are probably broad enough to cover this. See my earlier comments for the laws in MA (which appear to be tighter). The DA/prosecutor is probably savvy enough to know cracking technology.
This is a bit more narrow (look at the wording) but in a broader sense, l0pht could be a tool, and the depository could be a machine. It's dated 1991, so the laws may have changed since.
When I was in my lockpicking phase (anyone have a link to the MIT Lockpicking Guide?), I learned an important point:
Having lockpicks isn't illegal. Using them in conjunction with a crime (breaking and entering, robbery, etc.) is illegal and a separate charge.
There is no difference in having cracking tools. If I'm not cracking anything, then it doesn't matter. A quick look at the article indicates they were using those tools to crack machines. Thus, a separate charge.
I disagree. The content from iCrave is not being passed off as theirs. It's very clear that the content itself comes from a network.
Wrapping a web site is different, as the content itself is changed (either strip out headers/footers, or re-format the data). Plus there's nothing to show where the wrapped data came from.
The deals cost BILLIONS because the networks know they can sell even more BILLIONS in ads. Which really makes this silly. iCrave isn't modifying the data (images) at all, so the ads are exactly the same as what the network is broadcasting.
Networks win out by selling ads all over the place. iCrave TV wins out because they can stick their own ads in and make a small profit. Viewers win because they can watch TV from anywhere. What is the problem here?
The problem is control, just as it is with DeCSS. The network affiliates lose out when I don't watch the super bowl on WZZZ and instead watch iCrave. Perhaps iCrave should set itself up as an affiliate of each network. It costs a lot, and there are probably exclusivity contracts (is that a word?), but gives more ad space to iCrave.
..but isn't this good? I mean, Samba piggybacks SMB on top of TCP/IP, increasing packet size. Won't this let Linux do SMB natively, increasing throughput?
If my server is sending out X+Y size packets (X is the TCP/IP wrapper, Y is data) wouldn't it be better to just be sending Y size packets instead? This will make Linux that much closer to NT in terms of raw speed at the high end. You're not sending out larger packets, either to the server or the clients.
Seriously though, I found out about this early last week, as Xybernaut announced in a press release that X-Files would be showing off their equipment. Unfortunately, they were really nothing more than props (the head-mounted displays), and really didn't add anything to the show.
If XYBR really wanted to show off their stuff, they should make a Snow Crash movie.
Getting back to the violence bit, that's a hard question to answer. Women are not *as interested* in FPS, or shooters of any kind (well, my wife likes Area 51..). Then again, there are definate differences between the female and male minds. So it's hard to say that it's a testosterone thing, or men need to get out their agression lest they take it out in another way. Unfortunately, I think it would have to take a lot of research to find the links. And research means there'll be data, and data will be skewed by whoever reads it.
Is there more violence in the US? Probably. Is violence increased as a percentage of the population? I don't know. Is said violence a result of watching too much South Park/3 Stooges/Baywatch? Could be.
As you'll remember, Mary Kay Bergman (who does the voice) died a few months ago. Who will be singing the song? It won't sound the same if she's not singing it.
I get the local paper (which sucks, but I like the comics and Dave Barry) along with a community newspaper. The reason for this is it lets me see things that I might not normally.
Large, national papers can only get maybe to a regional level of what's going on, and I can get that online (Yahoo, CNN, etc). Regional/local newspapers have more specific news (traffic pattern changes, news of the local buidling inspector taking bribes, etc), which is usually news you don't even get on the radio or local TV, since it is so local.
When I set up Yahoo for news, I have it set to the news that I want to see. However, that's not necessarily the news that interests me. Newspapers let me open the page, scan headlines, read the first few lines of an article to get context, and read it if I'm interested. I can do this on an entire page in just a few seconds. Doing the same amount of looking online can take a minute or two (load page, scroll past ads, read line, realize I don't like it, back, scroll to next article, click, load page, etc). Now multiply this times 50-60 pages, and you can see that newspapers give you the best overall view of news.
Here's my prediction: The Big Guys (NY Times, USA Today, etc.) all go online and give up the dead tree business. The strictly regional/community papers survive.
I'd like to point out that those of you that struggled with LinuxDoc, either getting it installed or running, will have fewer problems with DocBook, mostly because it is so well documented. One excellent resource is the DocBook: The Difinitive Guide from ORA, available at your local dead tree store and online at www.docbook.org.
Hrm..In the context I said it, it probably sounds misleading. Suffice to say he's divorced and doesn't see his kids all that often.
We both know that if I wanted to, I could make much more money at another company, but working 60 hour weeks. He doesn't press me for more than 40, and I don't ask for more money. So far, it's resulted in one of the best jobs I've had.
So according to you, the only people that help Linux are code writers.
Thanks for nothing from those of us that QA, document, or any of the other million unnamed tasks that help Linux just as much as you coders. Thanks from those of us that got our employers to buy into Linux. Thanks from those of us that got one or more other people interested in Linux. Thanks from those of us who saw in 1991 what Linux could amount to and started working with it.
Yes, I fit in each of those categories, and I've written exactly one package that made it to metalab. I'm not a coder by any means. This assumption that only the big names and coders are important to the future of Linux is insulting at best.
What's going to kill Linux? A class war. That's what. This assumption that a non-coder has no status in the Linux heirarchy is what's going to kill it off. Us non-coders will go somewhere else where the developers are actually appreciative of the non-coding help.
1) Quit using the word meme. It's stupid, and already covered (based on context) by many other words. It should be thrown into that pile of words like "Enterprise", "Intranet" and "think out of the box" that noone should use. Sorry, personal rant.
2) Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics. I remember when Time proved that 99.4% of the 'net was used for pr0n based on a report out of CMU. Statistics will always be used for and against you. Probably the best thing you can do is stand up and refute the statement, especially if someone uses it in your presence.
Clarkson was the first in the nation ('85?) to give a computer to students as part of their tuition. Heck, I got a 286 SBC and passive backplane - little did I know that I'd be getting back into that technology 10 years later (a bit more advanced too).
Hartwick gave its students laptops starting in..'93? Maybe 92. My brother went there and got a 386 laptop. IIRC, this was also part of the tuition.
To say that schools aren't doing this is really silly, given that it's been going on for 15 years!
SGML has a lot of advantages, which I outline in the HOWTO-HOWTO. In short, it's easy to go from SGML to just about any other format. HTML is primarily for viewing, text can't be formatted easily, and RTF isn't that popular. This makes SGML a logical choice, because you can go from SGML to text, TeX, RTF (and Word), PDF, or even print very easily with little formatting required after converstion. I wrote my HOWTO (as my abstract says) because I had the same frustration writing docs. It's definately not easy to do, but tools like psgml, LyX, and (hopefully) WP 2000 will make it easier for anyone to write docs.
Howtos are published in print (not so often anymore, but I do have a Dr. Linux from a few years ago just in case). Plus the HOWTOs are installed or available via CD-ROM on most distributions. Even if you can't get to the net, you can get to/usr/doc/HOWTO. These are usually available in your language and format (HTML, txt, SGML) of your choice.
Yep you heard me. I'm going on my Minidisc rant again. Go buy a minidisc recorder for $279, and 10 discs for $20, and you now have 20 hours of re-recordable music for the same price. The only thing that MP3 has over minidisc is the transfer times (takes an hour to record an hour's worth of music).
And you don't have to worry about that SDMI thing.
There's a few things to consider when you look at the $200 (and up) cost. ObDisclaimer: My company makes SBCs and chassis.
1) Many of them are built in the US. The down side is the cost (of labor, etc), but the up side is that the chassis is desinged and built here. We had one industrial customer come to us and say "well, that's great, but can you make it 16" instead of 17"?". So we look at the customer, go back to our engineering group, and pump one out in a couple days.
Compare this to the headache I went through trying to find a power supply that fit my needs. Call the US rep. US rep calls taiwan. Taiwan sits on it till I bug the rep again. Rep confuses message from taiwan. We threaten having a UL inspection of their manufacturing facility. They say "Oh yeah, *that* power supply has a problem with it."
2) Many of these are nice thick metal through and through. Take a look at your typical PC and see how much metal is in it. The metal is there for FCC/CE stuff. In a rack-mount, the metal is there to hold the thing togetherand make sure it stays on the rack. Thicker metal. $$$$
3) Quantity quantity quantity. Do you know how much engineering goes into making one of those things? You need to amortize the cost over only a few thousand chassis instead of a hundred thousand that you'd get from a typical PC case.
My employer makes a Celeron-based (300-433Mhz) SBC here in the states, and I've been prototyping a 1U high chassis that is now being used as my company's firewall.
We're pretty much following Intel's embedded roadmap, so while we're not that fast, we can still sell you the exact same kind of board 5 years from now with the same 433 MHz processor. Telcos and the govt. really prefer this to Dell and Gateway's "flavor of the month" where the models and choices change by the day almost.
I am not a tax advisor, lawyer, related to the IRS in any way (cept for some relatives that work at the treasury dept), so don't sue me if I'm wrong. And I probably am.
There, got that out of the way. You can dedict hobbies as long as at some point you make a profit. Typically this is making a profit 3 out of 5 years (or at least that keeps the IRS from tossing you in the "sign Mr X. up for an audit" pile"). In my case, I write books and online articles about Linux. So, I'm able to deduct things like my shiny copies of RedHat, my 'net connection, and so on.
In May of 1999, Geoworks, in accordance with WAP Forum guidelines, was the first WAP member to announce its patented technology is employed as essential technology in the WAP standard.
It looks like WAP knew about this for 8 months. So the WAP forum knew they were using Geoworks technology. No doubt this annoncement is after a bunch of negotiation between WAP and GeoWorks.
At least it's not like that nasty UNISYS/GIF thing.
IBM's Travelstar IDE drive uses a max of 5.0W @ +5V at startup. Typical is about 2.5-3.0W @ +5V. I'm not sure what voltage is used for the PIII (5.0 draw or what actually gets to the PIII, which is about 1.x V), but it'll be more than that.
There was mention of two types of laptops, one without removable media that would be less than 3 lbs. To me, removable media is probably the most power hungry (constantly spinning up CD-ROMs and floppy disks can really chew up battery life).
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This comparison of murder with a rock was covered elsewhere (look for someone talking about crowbars).
The point is that you're also charged with murder. Should you get out of the murder charge for some reason, there's still use of a deadly weapon. I'd bet there would be a string of charges should you kill someone with a rock.
L0pht crack when used to steal passwords is illegal. This doesn't make the compiler illegal, much like using a grinder to make lockpicks doesn't make the grinder illegal. It's the picks and using them in a crime that is.
It's just that the laws in this jurisdiction are probably broad enough to cover this. See my earlier comments for the laws in MA (which appear to be tighter). The DA/prosecutor is probably savvy enough to know cracking technology.
Here's the applicable section:
http://lethal.xs4all.nl/lockpic k/lock1/appendB.html
This is a bit more narrow (look at the wording) but in a broader sense, l0pht could be a tool, and the depository could be a machine. It's dated 1991, so the laws may have changed since.
When I was in my lockpicking phase (anyone have a link to the MIT Lockpicking Guide?), I learned an important point:
Having lockpicks isn't illegal. Using them in conjunction with a crime (breaking and entering, robbery, etc.) is illegal and a separate charge.
There is no difference in having cracking tools. If I'm not cracking anything, then it doesn't matter. A quick look at the article indicates they were using those tools to crack machines. Thus, a separate charge.
I disagree. The content from iCrave is not being passed off as theirs. It's very clear that the content itself comes from a network.
Wrapping a web site is different, as the content itself is changed (either strip out headers/footers, or re-format the data). Plus there's nothing to show where the wrapped data came from.
The deals cost BILLIONS because the networks know they can sell even more BILLIONS in ads. Which really makes this silly. iCrave isn't modifying the data (images) at all, so the ads are exactly the same as what the network is broadcasting.
Networks win out by selling ads all over the place. iCrave TV wins out because they can stick their own ads in and make a small profit. Viewers win because they can watch TV from anywhere. What is the problem here?
The problem is control, just as it is with DeCSS. The network affiliates lose out when I don't watch the super bowl on WZZZ and instead watch iCrave. Perhaps iCrave should set itself up as an affiliate of each network. It costs a lot, and there are probably exclusivity contracts (is that a word?), but gives more ad space to iCrave.
..but isn't this good? I mean, Samba piggybacks SMB on top of TCP/IP, increasing packet size. Won't this let Linux do SMB natively, increasing throughput?
If my server is sending out X+Y size packets (X is the TCP/IP wrapper, Y is data) wouldn't it be better to just be sending Y size packets instead? This will make Linux that much closer to NT in terms of raw speed at the high end. You're not sending out larger packets, either to the server or the clients.
What do you expect?
Seriously though, I found out about this early last week, as Xybernaut announced in a press release that X-Files would be showing off their equipment. Unfortunately, they were really nothing more than props (the head-mounted displays), and really didn't add anything to the show.
If XYBR really wanted to show off their stuff, they should make a Snow Crash movie.
Getting back to the violence bit, that's a hard question to answer. Women are not *as interested* in FPS, or shooters of any kind (well, my wife likes Area 51..). Then again, there are definate differences between the female and male minds. So it's hard to say that it's a testosterone thing, or men need to get out their agression lest they take it out in another way. Unfortunately, I think it would have to take a lot of research to find the links. And research means there'll be data, and data will be skewed by whoever reads it.
Is there more violence in the US? Probably. Is violence increased as a percentage of the population? I don't know. Is said violence a result of watching too much South Park/3 Stooges/Baywatch? Could be.
As you'll remember, Mary Kay Bergman (who does the voice) died a few months ago. Who will be singing the song? It won't sound the same if she's not singing it.
I get the local paper (which sucks, but I like the comics and Dave Barry) along with a community newspaper. The reason for this is it lets me see things that I might not normally.
Large, national papers can only get maybe to a regional level of what's going on, and I can get that online (Yahoo, CNN, etc). Regional/local newspapers have more specific news (traffic pattern changes, news of the local buidling inspector taking bribes, etc), which is usually news you don't even get on the radio or local TV, since it is so local.
When I set up Yahoo for news, I have it set to the news that I want to see. However, that's not necessarily the news that interests me. Newspapers let me open the page, scan headlines, read the first few lines of an article to get context, and read it if I'm interested. I can do this on an entire page in just a few seconds. Doing the same amount of looking online can take a minute or two (load page, scroll past ads, read line, realize I don't like it, back, scroll to next article, click, load page, etc). Now multiply this times 50-60 pages, and you can see that newspapers give you the best overall view of news.
Here's my prediction: The Big Guys (NY Times, USA Today, etc.) all go online and give up the dead tree business. The strictly regional/community papers survive.
I'd like to point out that those of you that struggled with LinuxDoc, either getting it installed or running, will have fewer problems with DocBook, mostly because it is so well documented. One excellent resource is the DocBook: The Difinitive Guide from ORA, available at your local dead tree store and online at www.docbook.org.
Hrm..In the context I said it, it probably sounds misleading. Suffice to say he's divorced and doesn't see his kids all that often.
We both know that if I wanted to, I could make much more money at another company, but working 60 hour weeks. He doesn't press me for more than 40, and I don't ask for more money. So far, it's resulted in one of the best jobs I've had.
At work. Then there's the other 15 or so hours I work on other general Linux stuff: writing HOWTOs, working on my next book, stuff like that.
My boss once told me "You can be either successful or happy". I choose happy.
So according to you, the only people that help Linux are code writers.
Thanks for nothing from those of us that QA, document, or any of the other million unnamed tasks that help Linux just as much as you coders.
Thanks from those of us that got our employers to buy into Linux.
Thanks from those of us that got one or more other people interested in Linux.
Thanks from those of us who saw in 1991 what Linux could amount to and started working with it.
Yes, I fit in each of those categories, and I've written exactly one package that made it to metalab. I'm not a coder by any means. This assumption that only the big names and coders are important to the future of Linux is insulting at best.
What's going to kill Linux? A class war. That's what. This assumption that a non-coder has no status in the Linux heirarchy is what's going to kill it off. Us non-coders will go somewhere else where the developers are actually appreciative of the non-coding help.
1) Quit using the word meme. It's stupid, and already covered (based on context) by many other words. It should be thrown into that pile of words like "Enterprise", "Intranet" and "think out of the box" that noone should use. Sorry, personal rant.
2) Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics. I remember when Time proved that 99.4% of the 'net was used for pr0n based on a report out of CMU. Statistics will always be used for and against you. Probably the best thing you can do is stand up and refute the statement, especially if someone uses it in your presence.
Clarkson was the first in the nation ('85?) to give a computer to students as part of their tuition. Heck, I got a 286 SBC and passive backplane - little did I know that I'd be getting back into that technology 10 years later (a bit more advanced too).
Hartwick gave its students laptops starting in..'93? Maybe 92. My brother went there and got a 386 laptop. IIRC, this was also part of the tuition.
To say that schools aren't doing this is really silly, given that it's been going on for 15 years!
SGML has a lot of advantages, which I outline in the HOWTO-HOWTO. In short, it's easy to go from SGML to just about any other format. HTML is primarily for viewing, text can't be formatted easily, and RTF isn't that popular. This makes SGML a logical choice, because you can go from SGML to text, TeX, RTF (and Word), PDF, or even print very easily with little formatting required after converstion.
I wrote my HOWTO (as my abstract says) because I had the same frustration writing docs. It's definately not easy to do, but tools like psgml, LyX, and (hopefully) WP 2000 will make it easier for anyone to write docs.
Howtos are published in print (not so often anymore, but I do have a Dr. Linux from a few years ago just in case). Plus the HOWTOs are installed or available via CD-ROM on most distributions. Even if you can't get to the net, you can get to /usr/doc/HOWTO. These are usually available in your language and format (HTML, txt, SGML) of your choice.
-Mark
HOWTO HOWTO author
Ya forgot the best one. Red Green.
I gotta admit, it was kinda funny seeing Ranger Gord on EFC two weeks ago as a TV reporter.
Yep you heard me. I'm going on my Minidisc rant again. Go buy a minidisc recorder for $279, and 10 discs for $20, and you now have 20 hours of re-recordable music for the same price. The only thing that MP3 has over minidisc is the transfer times (takes an hour to record an hour's worth of music).
And you don't have to worry about that SDMI thing.
There's a few things to consider when you look at the $200 (and up) cost. ObDisclaimer: My company makes SBCs and chassis.
1) Many of them are built in the US. The down side is the cost (of labor, etc), but the up side is that the chassis is desinged and built here. We had one industrial customer come to us and say "well, that's great, but can you make it 16" instead of 17"?". So we look at the customer, go back to our engineering group, and pump one out in a couple days.
Compare this to the headache I went through trying to find a power supply that fit my needs. Call the US rep. US rep calls taiwan. Taiwan sits on it till I bug the rep again. Rep confuses message from taiwan. We threaten having a UL inspection of their manufacturing facility. They say "Oh yeah, *that* power supply has a problem with it."
2) Many of these are nice thick metal through and through. Take a look at your typical PC and see how much metal is in it. The metal is there for FCC/CE stuff. In a rack-mount, the metal is there to hold the thing togetherand make sure it stays on the rack. Thicker metal. $$$$
3) Quantity quantity quantity. Do you know how much engineering goes into making one of those things? You need to amortize the cost over only a few thousand chassis instead of a hundred thousand that you'd get from a typical PC case.
My employer makes a Celeron-based (300-433Mhz) SBC here in the states, and I've been prototyping a 1U high chassis that is now being used as my company's firewall.
We're pretty much following Intel's embedded roadmap, so while we're not that fast, we can still sell you the exact same kind of board 5 years from now with the same 433 MHz processor. Telcos and the govt. really prefer this to Dell and Gateway's "flavor of the month" where the models and choices change by the day almost.
Drop me an e-mail if you want more info.
I am not a tax advisor, lawyer, related to the IRS in any way (cept for some relatives that work at the treasury dept), so don't sue me if I'm wrong. And I probably am.
There, got that out of the way. You can dedict hobbies as long as at some point you make a profit. Typically this is making a profit 3 out of 5 years (or at least that keeps the IRS from tossing you in the "sign Mr X. up for an audit" pile"). In my case, I write books and online articles about Linux. So, I'm able to deduct things like my shiny copies of RedHat, my 'net connection, and so on.
to join the EFF. I just did. Time to put those RHAT, CORL, and LNUX profits to good use.
According to the Yahoo press release:
In May of 1999, Geoworks, in accordance with WAP Forum guidelines, was the first WAP member to announce its patented technology is employed as essential technology in the WAP standard.
It looks like WAP knew about this for 8 months.
So the WAP forum knew they were using Geoworks technology. No doubt this annoncement is after a bunch of negotiation between WAP and GeoWorks.
At least it's not like that nasty UNISYS/GIF thing.
IBM's Travelstar IDE drive uses a max of 5.0W @ +5V at startup. Typical is about 2.5-3.0W @ +5V. I'm not sure what voltage is used for the PIII (5.0 draw or what actually gets to the PIII, which is about 1.x V), but it'll be more than that.
There was mention of two types of laptops, one without removable media that would be less than 3 lbs. To me, removable media is probably the most power hungry (constantly spinning up CD-ROMs and floppy disks can really chew up battery life).