That would be much better than now! 30 years does seem like a long time though. How about 15 years with possibility for a 5 year extension 3 times? You can still get 30 that way still but you have to really have a good reason to keep paying for it. (I'm assuming the original copyright is free but extensions are significant money).
Where is the DRM free copy stored? I assume it isn't publicly available until after the copyright expires! Then it could be automatically made available to everyone the same way patents are now! I like it!
What's with the Canada/US comparison? Does Canada have shorter copyright terms? I am doubting this, even if they wanted to I suspect they would lengthen their terms to match the US or the US would not give them good trading terms. Or am I wrong, is copyright law better up there?
While I agree with your conclusion, that Windows is hopeless I question your logic. Linux is a Unix clone which is older than Windows. Certainly decent security can be added onto an existing OS. The difference is more the environment in which the two are developed, not when they were originally designed in relation to when network security became important.
My prediction... any OS or other software written by security experts with security as it's number 1 goal would be worthless. It probably wouldn't allow real people in real situations to get any work done, or if it did it would require them to go through convoluted productivity limiting steps to do so. I suspect any computer running such an OS would be about as useful as a pet rock.
What is needed is more well rounded professionals that understand both security and user's needs. I don't think our current system of universities where higher degrees = higher specialization or the average corporate culture where higher specialization = higher pay are ever likely to produce such individuals. Instead what we will have is government organizations and companies running insecure in order to get work done until things reach a breaking point. Then they bring in the BOFH. Then they remember why they cut all the security corners in the first place when they can no longer be productive bringing the cycle full circle.
If you walk into any given government office what do you expect to see on their monitors? I don't think it's Linux. That's one of the things they need to fix. Dump Windows. Yah, just blaming everything on Windows would be a troll, there is certainly more to security than that. Any OS and the applications must be configured correctly, the network itself must be secured, all that is true. Still, there is little good to be said about Windows security. Having it on the networks automatically makes the network less secure. Ban it AND secure the OSs and network which remains.
My point was that one shouldn't expect privacy over radio (that includes cellphones). That's all. I don't really want governments spying on anyone without a warrant in any way. I just think people should stop and think when using their wireless devices.. hey... I'm broadcasting... Maybe if there weren't laws keeping the law abiding citizens (a group of which few governments are members anyway) from decrypting wireless transmissions people wouldn't assume that nobody is listening.
No but I do close the blinds when changing, bathing or doing the other things most Slashdotters only know through websites. I also don't have windows in my bathroom.
Someone tapping a line on a pole has to climb the pole and physically mess with equipment they don't own. It is quite possible they can be seen and caught in the process too.
Someone listening to a radio signal doesn't have to tamper with anybody's property. They can just sit in their own home passively receiving while you beam your radio waves right to them. In my opinion if you don't want to share something with someone you shouldn't be sending it to them.
He took CT scans (already existed)
Fed them through an open source program (already existed)
And sent them to a 3D printer (already existed)
If I understand the paytard philosophy, this is innovative enough that he should get a government supported monopoly?
And rather than limiting the benefit patients can receive from this technology to only as many patients as his new startup can handle and driving up the price because supply would be way less than demand and competition nil this is supposed to somehow foster continued innovation?
F'ng PayTards, I hope one day they see the medicines and treatments they need single sourced and priced out of reach.
I wish we could see all the questions/responses given afterward. The first question, about Darwin's belief that the 'savage races' would die out shortly was a missed opportunity for Coyne.
He responded with talk about Darwin's work against slavery and how his comments were informed by the culture of the time... blah blah blah... That all may be true but it sounds just like the kind of arguments commonly made by the religious side. For example, "Sure the Old Testiment (and Koran) seem anti-woman and pro-slavery. In the context of the cultures of that place and times they were actually quite liberal... "
More importantly I think, this was a great example of how science and religion are different. Science has no Bible. It's ok for science when a belief is dis-proven. Textbooks get updated constantly and Science is all the stronger for it's new knowledge.
Science does have 'heroes', scientists from the past that are remembered for their great contributions but they are not considered gods and they all had beliefs that were later modified or dis-proven altogether. Check out Einstein's flip-flop on the Cosmological Constant for example. This is in stark contrast to religion. Take Christianity... Jesus said that the prophets were inspired by God and that all they said was true. If something a prophet said was wrong (and it is something that can't be explained away as allegory) then either Jesus (who was actually God himself) was wrong or Jesus lied. Either way he is no longer the perfect sacrifice and everyone is screwed.
I think creationists often hold up Darwin and 'On the Origin of Species' as some sort of evolutionists' prophet and bible. I suppose that is understandable since they are putting things into a context they are familiar with. It's just not how Science actually works and for the creationist it's a great source of strawman arguments.
It also assumed that the dam, bridge, road, etc... didn't already exist. Unfortunately this logic is all too often used (incorrectly) to justify tearing up perfectly good roads and bridges and replace them with new ones that have no more capacity than the originals. Besides the obvious wasting of tax dollars the year long or more construction cycle results in more gas used, more traffic, more accidents, etc...
Ordinarily I would agree that any form of tapping which gets people not specifically mentioned in a court order is a case of a government intruding too far but...
If you are talking on a cellphone.. or any other wireless device... broadcasting your conversation through the air... and you think your privacy is guaranteed you are a moron. Whatever you say you deserve to have heard and posted for all to see. Of course... given the way things have gone in the last 10 years I wouldn't really expect privacy on a landline either.
I think people have way too much of a 'magic black box' mentality when it comes to technology. By not thinking about how the devices they depend on work they don't see their cellphones as a radio transmitter. Then even without a fake tower to connect to they broadcast their conversations for miles in all directions and expect privacy??? Sure cellular data is encrypted but there are people out there who can decode it. And then of course one just automatically assumes that their phone company plus all other phone companies along the path will play nice with the data...
Bad idea. That's usually done in a field somewhere. If you miss then your un-shot hard drive is quite likely lost in tall grass. If you don't find it maybe somebody else will... Besides, clay pigeons degrade to dirt in a year or two. Hard drive pieces might not be so nice to leave lying out in nature like that.
Much better... just get some of those little bulls-eye stickers, put 5 on each drive, set them up in front of a bale or something to catch the pieces and shoot away! Afterwards pick up the trash.
You've got it all wrong. It's not science as a whole that the religious right rejects. It's scientists with big beards. Just look at this guy's picture! Check out Charles Darwin Too! Obviously the Tea Baggers are offended by facial hair.
Pretty much everywhere I have worked uses MySQL. Nowhere that I have worked pays for it or uses any pay-for features. Most use the free and open source phpMyAdmin as an interface although my current workplace uses Navicat. Maybe they/we are missing out on some good stuff but it certainly is practical to go without.
Someone else already explained, yes it was and things were hot!
Besides all that though, I wonder how much of the CO2 which is naturally in the atmosphere/surface wasn't there way back when the coal and oil carbon were. Released by volcanoes from even deeper in the Earth perhaps?
It also works with cellulose (the parts of the plant you don't eat). No strip mining, no tailings, no net CO2 (assuming you keep growing the plant, you are just cycling the CO2).
New tech will only come if somebody is trying to develop it. For that you need goals. Waiting for a government to pay all of it's debt off, waiting for everybody to be rich and nobody poor, that means waiting forever. Those things will never come. If we just quit trying then what is the point? We might as well go back to the Savannah and start hunting termites with sticks.
I don't know but I don't think that's how it works. Short term and long term memory would still be different things the brain would handle differently.
The many have allowed the few (politicians and corporate executives) to control everything for centuries now. Before that it was the kings. What's the difference if it's them or Skynet?
"So it isn't really Microsoft that can lock you out, it's device manufacturer"
Microsoft has a proven history of making device manufacturers implement policies that make it difficult to install competitor's products in order to get the bulk oem windows licensing.
"Why don't we see a headline like "How Linux Can Lock Windows Off PCs"
Because Linux distributors do not have the history of this kind of behavior. Microsoft does.
"If you don't get the key when buying your computer, complain to your manufacturer. "
"I don't know why you're buying a computer with Windows to begin with"
The problem is more about blocking people from switching later who might not have been thinking about that when they made the purchase.
"you're just throwing away money. And nowadays there's lots of computers available without Windows"
Not really. The big name manufacturers, which do the most mass manufacturing and thus have the lower hardware prices all have deals with Microsoft that limit how much lower they can price a PC w/o Windows. They don't dare just subtract the price of the OS because then they would lose their contracts which allow them to get Windows at the bulk OEM prices. The smaller manufacturers are just more expensive anyway. They don't have the purchasing power to lower their parts cost. Most of the time you might as well buy the PC with Windows just to keep the disc just in case it comes in handy for something later. A place to rest a coffee cup perhaps?
Every school I know of has some sort of mandatory health class that teaches how to take care of ones self. And yet... people still do stupid things like smoke, drink [excessively], eat way too much unhealthy food and fail to excercise. They even persist in believing in absurd things like homeopathy and that chiropractic adjustments will cure non back-related issues like infections of the flu virus. I don't think adding more money into health education is going to do any good.
I prefer to imagine a world where the stupid people stop breeding and more money is spent on science and technological progress thank you very much!
The University of Michigan in cooperation with the Michigan Department of Transportation trialed some flexible concrete that they made a bridge out of. I forget if it goes over I94 or if it is part of I94. Either way it's a busy bridge. So far as I know it has held up fine. Granted, this is not flexible as in rubber, it's not like you or I could walk up to the bridge and bend it. It flexes when the bridge expands and contracts with the big temperature changes between seasons. Conventional concrete bridges have a gap with metal interlocking teeth to accomplish this. Eventually the gap gets filled with dirt, the bridge no longer has room to move and it begins to break down.
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That would be much better than now! 30 years does seem like a long time though. How about 15 years with possibility for a 5 year extension 3 times? You can still get 30 that way still but you have to really have a good reason to keep paying for it. (I'm assuming the original copyright is free but extensions are significant money).
Where is the DRM free copy stored? I assume it isn't publicly available until after the copyright expires! Then it could be automatically made available to everyone the same way patents are now! I like it!
What's with the Canada/US comparison? Does Canada have shorter copyright terms? I am doubting this, even if they wanted to I suspect they would lengthen their terms to match the US or the US would not give them good trading terms. Or am I wrong, is copyright law better up there?
While I agree with your conclusion, that Windows is hopeless I question your logic. Linux is a Unix clone which is older than Windows. Certainly decent security can be added onto an existing OS. The difference is more the environment in which the two are developed, not when they were originally designed in relation to when network security became important.
My prediction... any OS or other software written by security experts with security as it's number 1 goal would be worthless. It probably wouldn't allow real people in real situations to get any work done, or if it did it would require them to go through convoluted productivity limiting steps to do so. I suspect any computer running such an OS would be about as useful as a pet rock.
What is needed is more well rounded professionals that understand both security and user's needs. I don't think our current system of universities where higher degrees = higher specialization or the average corporate culture where higher specialization = higher pay are ever likely to produce such individuals. Instead what we will have is government organizations and companies running insecure in order to get work done until things reach a breaking point. Then they bring in the BOFH. Then they remember why they cut all the security corners in the first place when they can no longer be productive bringing the cycle full circle.
If you walk into any given government office what do you expect to see on their monitors? I don't think it's Linux. That's one of the things they need to fix. Dump Windows. Yah, just blaming everything on Windows would be a troll, there is certainly more to security than that. Any OS and the applications must be configured correctly, the network itself must be secured, all that is true. Still, there is little good to be said about Windows security. Having it on the networks automatically makes the network less secure. Ban it AND secure the OSs and network which remains.
My point was that one shouldn't expect privacy over radio (that includes cellphones). That's all. I don't really want governments spying on anyone without a warrant in any way. I just think people should stop and think when using their wireless devices.. hey... I'm broadcasting... Maybe if there weren't laws keeping the law abiding citizens (a group of which few governments are members anyway) from decrypting wireless transmissions people wouldn't assume that nobody is listening.
No but I do close the blinds when changing, bathing or doing the other things most Slashdotters only know through websites. I also don't have windows in my bathroom.
Someone tapping a line on a pole has to climb the pole and physically mess with equipment they don't own. It is quite possible they can be seen and caught in the process too.
Someone listening to a radio signal doesn't have to tamper with anybody's property. They can just sit in their own home passively receiving while you beam your radio waves right to them. In my opinion if you don't want to share something with someone you shouldn't be sending it to them.
He took CT scans (already existed)
Fed them through an open source program (already existed)
And sent them to a 3D printer (already existed)
If I understand the paytard philosophy, this is innovative enough that he should get a government supported monopoly?
And rather than limiting the benefit patients can receive from this technology to only as many patients as his new startup can handle and driving up the price because supply would be way less than demand and competition nil this is supposed to somehow foster continued innovation?
F'ng PayTards, I hope one day they see the medicines and treatments they need single sourced and priced out of reach.
I wish we could see all the questions/responses given afterward. The first question, about Darwin's belief that the 'savage races' would die out shortly was a missed opportunity for Coyne.
He responded with talk about Darwin's work against slavery and how his comments were informed by the culture of the time... blah blah blah... That all may be true but it sounds just like the kind of arguments commonly made by the religious side. For example, "Sure the Old Testiment (and Koran) seem anti-woman and pro-slavery. In the context of the cultures of that place and times they were actually quite liberal... "
More importantly I think, this was a great example of how science and religion are different. Science has no Bible. It's ok for science when a belief is dis-proven. Textbooks get updated constantly and Science is all the stronger for it's new knowledge.
Science does have 'heroes', scientists from the past that are remembered for their great contributions but they are not considered gods and they all had beliefs that were later modified or dis-proven altogether. Check out Einstein's flip-flop on the Cosmological Constant for example. This is in stark contrast to religion. Take Christianity... Jesus said that the prophets were inspired by God and that all they said was true. If something a prophet said was wrong (and it is something that can't be explained away as allegory) then either Jesus (who was actually God himself) was wrong or Jesus lied. Either way he is no longer the perfect sacrifice and everyone is screwed.
I think creationists often hold up Darwin and 'On the Origin of Species' as some sort of evolutionists' prophet and bible. I suppose that is understandable since they are putting things into a context they are familiar with. It's just not how Science actually works and for the creationist it's a great source of strawman arguments.
that's not very descriptive
It also assumed that the dam, bridge, road, etc... didn't already exist. Unfortunately this logic is all too often used (incorrectly) to justify tearing up perfectly good roads and bridges and replace them with new ones that have no more capacity than the originals. Besides the obvious wasting of tax dollars the year long or more construction cycle results in more gas used, more traffic, more accidents, etc...
Ordinarily I would agree that any form of tapping which gets people not specifically mentioned in a court order is a case of a government intruding too far but...
If you are talking on a cellphone.. or any other wireless device... broadcasting your conversation through the air... and you think your privacy is guaranteed you are a moron. Whatever you say you deserve to have heard and posted for all to see. Of course... given the way things have gone in the last 10 years I wouldn't really expect privacy on a landline either.
I think people have way too much of a 'magic black box' mentality when it comes to technology. By not thinking about how the devices they depend on work they don't see their cellphones as a radio transmitter. Then even without a fake tower to connect to they broadcast their conversations for miles in all directions and expect privacy??? Sure cellular data is encrypted but there are people out there who can decode it. And then of course one just automatically assumes that their phone company plus all other phone companies along the path will play nice with the data...
Maybe secrets are best told in person.
hmmm.... need a way to increase gravity in fast food restaurants.
Bad idea. That's usually done in a field somewhere. If you miss then your un-shot hard drive is quite likely lost in tall grass. If you don't find it maybe somebody else will... Besides, clay pigeons degrade to dirt in a year or two. Hard drive pieces might not be so nice to leave lying out in nature like that. Much better... just get some of those little bulls-eye stickers, put 5 on each drive, set them up in front of a bale or something to catch the pieces and shoot away! Afterwards pick up the trash.
You've got it all wrong. It's not science as a whole that the religious right rejects. It's scientists with big beards. Just look at this guy's picture! Check out Charles Darwin Too! Obviously the Tea Baggers are offended by facial hair.
then this definitely is not the message board you are looking for!
Pretty much everywhere I have worked uses MySQL. Nowhere that I have worked pays for it or uses any pay-for features. Most use the free and open source phpMyAdmin as an interface although my current workplace uses Navicat. Maybe they/we are missing out on some good stuff but it certainly is practical to go without.
Someone else already explained, yes it was and things were hot!
Besides all that though, I wonder how much of the CO2 which is naturally in the atmosphere/surface wasn't there way back when the coal and oil carbon were. Released by volcanoes from even deeper in the Earth perhaps?
It also works with cellulose (the parts of the plant you don't eat). No strip mining, no tailings, no net CO2 (assuming you keep growing the plant, you are just cycling the CO2).
Why would one want to use dirty old coal?
New tech will only come if somebody is trying to develop it. For that you need goals. Waiting for a government to pay all of it's debt off, waiting for everybody to be rich and nobody poor, that means waiting forever. Those things will never come. If we just quit trying then what is the point? We might as well go back to the Savannah and start hunting termites with sticks.
I don't know but I don't think that's how it works. Short term and long term memory would still be different things the brain would handle differently.
The many have allowed the few (politicians and corporate executives) to control everything for centuries now. Before that it was the kings. What's the difference if it's them or Skynet?
"So it isn't really Microsoft that can lock you out, it's device manufacturer"
Microsoft has a proven history of making device manufacturers implement policies that make it difficult to install competitor's products in order to get the bulk oem windows licensing.
"Why don't we see a headline like "How Linux Can Lock Windows Off PCs"
Because Linux distributors do not have the history of this kind of behavior. Microsoft does.
"If you don't get the key when buying your computer, complain to your manufacturer. "
"I don't know why you're buying a computer with Windows to begin with"
The problem is more about blocking people from switching later who might not have been thinking about that when they made the purchase.
"you're just throwing away money. And nowadays there's lots of computers available without Windows"
Not really. The big name manufacturers, which do the most mass manufacturing and thus have the lower hardware prices all have deals with Microsoft that limit how much lower they can price a PC w/o Windows. They don't dare just subtract the price of the OS because then they would lose their contracts which allow them to get Windows at the bulk OEM prices. The smaller manufacturers are just more expensive anyway. They don't have the purchasing power to lower their parts cost. Most of the time you might as well buy the PC with Windows just to keep the disc just in case it comes in handy for something later. A place to rest a coffee cup perhaps?
Every school I know of has some sort of mandatory health class that teaches how to take care of ones self. And yet... people still do stupid things like smoke, drink [excessively], eat way too much unhealthy food and fail to excercise. They even persist in believing in absurd things like homeopathy and that chiropractic adjustments will cure non back-related issues like infections of the flu virus. I don't think adding more money into health education is going to do any good.
I prefer to imagine a world where the stupid people stop breeding and more money is spent on science and technological progress thank you very much!
The University of Michigan in cooperation with the Michigan Department of Transportation trialed some flexible concrete that they made a bridge out of. I forget if it goes over I94 or if it is part of I94. Either way it's a busy bridge. So far as I know it has held up fine. Granted, this is not flexible as in rubber, it's not like you or I could walk up to the bridge and bend it. It flexes when the bridge expands and contracts with the big temperature changes between seasons. Conventional concrete bridges have a gap with metal interlocking teeth to accomplish this. Eventually the gap gets filled with dirt, the bridge no longer has room to move and it begins to break down.