One, when these prisoners get out of the joint, they'll be dishing out some of that same medicine to society at large. Not good.
Two, if you profile the childhood development of prison inmates, they were at the receiving end of that same kind of medicine, unqualified parenting, basically.
I know, the unwritten right to be a parent to extreme limits of disqualification is considered sacred by people that don't want the government's nose in their business, period.
But it's pretty clear to me that interdiction between parents and children of this "medicine" is one of the few solutions available to stop the cycle.
Provide exactly enough support for the legacy OS that paying customers require.
Move OS development into those features of Linux that help to promote IBM's business strategy where those features are lacking. Let the community of Linux developers scratch their own itches which will probably save IBM a lot of money in development costs.
Commoditisation of commonly-used software won't be denied.
IBM is wisely riding ahead of the Linux wave where they can, to some degree direct where it does and to find their own profitable niches in services and less common applications.
I like the idea of distributed hierarchal cut-offs to enforce good behavior.
If a spammer sends me something from
dialup213.somenet.isp.com, then instead of blacklisting all of isp.com, they could blacklist somenet.isp.com while they address the problem of isolating the bad customer.
Unfortunately, we have a broad flat tree.
Once the originator is at hotmail.com or aol.com, hierarchal decomposition doesn't work because you have to commit mass killings.
I mean, not to troll, but that $1M is probably worth it. Mainframes are rock solid, incredibly dependable systems. Any PC system, no matter how nice, isn't.
If maintenance costs for the mainframe were a lot less than $1M, then keeping the old beast running would make a lot of business sense. (But the electric power, cooling, and space are not without cost.)
Cheap PC hardware of today is more powerful than the mainframes of three decades past and ought to be able to perform the same function.
It's true that the PC is less reliable than the mainframe, but think of the cost trade-offs.
Daisy chain two or three PC systems for redundancy and you've transformed your froggy 99.9 systems into a single prince of six nines to match the sturdy old mainframe.
Use your leisure time gained by the reliable mainframe to slowly build and test PC's to do the same. Your bosses will love you for it.
If your programming language can open and read and write files, it can do anything.
Forgive me and call me dense, I don't get it yet. Where does the philosophy of "everything is a file" buy you much over "everything is a network connection"?
It still seems like there's a lot of work to be done in higher level layers on the raw interface so you can build things with more logic in them (think of odd beasts like SQL servers, SMTP, authentication servers, etc.). These "files" still behave differently and an app developer has to know how to interact with each flavor of file, no?
Maybe 9p is a great idea - can it be introduced initially as a layer in something like glibc, or does it need kernel support?
Why is IBM, Redhat, and every other company going out of their way to make the statement "Linux is not ready for the desktop"
For a very good reason - so that the release of desktop Linux is not overhyped, premature and clunky and sours the market.
The cause of desktop Linux is advanced properly if it is not advanced in a less than best fashion to the legions of users who will assign it a reputation based on those initial experiences with it.
I think desktop Linux works great, but I read Slashdot for fun. And it's a great solution for many casual uses at home and specialized tasks at work. But that's different from the ugly mess computer marketplace, where Joe Schmoe buys computers for US$x99 and expects to run shrink-wrapped software from 5 years ago.
Regarding the Linux desktop marketplace: forget about Instant World Domination.
For that reason, it is imperative that Microsoft to make its own superceding one (embrace, etc.). A lot of other organizations suffer from the NIH malady, but it's extra painful when it is a company with this much influence.)
The community really needs free, powerful, robust SVG renderers and authoring tools using public standards to become popular, or else Microsoft will own yet another "standard".
It's a shame that such a talented legal mind, one who did such a nice job in the U.S. government's prosecution of Microsoft on anti-trust charges, has sold out to the dark side.
don't disallow the possession of technology, only it's irresponsible use.
Institute whopper fines for anyone caught running an intersection they've caused to change using this technology.
Many cities already have cameras mounted at major intersections for purpose of traffic monitoring. If these were triggered to record the scene after being sent an unauthorized RF burst, the offender could be identified quickly.
Actually, a modified upgraded version of this technology for changing traffic signals that included vehicle identification could be a revenue raising tactic for impoverished cities; more cost effective than speed traps.
Allow drivers to bid on signal changing; high bid gets the green light and the city collects the revenue.
Reading through some of the articles, I get the impression that many of the judges are
woefully out of clue w.r.t. technology, open source (witness the confusion about what would happen if IE's source were freely available). I'm afraid the only judges that understand the full extent of what MS does become enraged, like Jackson, whose public ranting damaged his work.
more prone to read for exact compliance with the letter language of earlier rulings, without questioning larger issues, keeping a careful, limited view.
Since the settlement, the software developers competing with Microsoft have heaved a collective sigh of relief, exclaiming to the world,
"Things sure have improved!"
Competing products are springing up like weeds and resellers are completely ignoring MS by putting all kinds of cheap inexpensive software onto PCs!
I have to wonder how these costs compare with the cost of music coming in over the air broadcasts.
Specifically, a radio station has expenses: DJ salaries, equipment, FCC licenses, and some royalties paid to the record companies.
They also get revenue from advertisers: so many dollars for so many seconds with an expected exposure of x listeners.
I, as 1 listener, will tolerate so many minutes of commercials per hour. Inherently, I'm paying with my time and attention, which has some value to the advertisers, for listening to music the remainder of the time (and having them randomize selections).
How much am I paying for my music then?
I don't know, but I bet it's a less than what I pay in a record store for a CD.
I can see where anonymity can be preserved by separating the authentication of the voter from the casting of the ballot.
But what I can't figure out is getting some kind of traceability to insure that each cast ballot represents one person unless it spits out pieces of paper (burning a CD, a favorite of the paranoid sysadmin, won't guarantee the software isn't buffering up results, nullifying some votes in favor of double counting others, etc.)
It's hard to imagine these going into the mainstream kernel until 2.7 opens up, given the final 2.6.0 testing stages that are being released.
This should really help others wanting to build Linux CE devices.
Plus, it helps to focus the community on one implementation rather than many separate ones, even if that implementation is changed as 2.7 development occurs.
My beef has always been that control of information flow for simple-minded security policies (we want to do as little work as possible) is to simply reduce information flow.
I'd just like to see more intellgence built into the control, instead of draconian measures, cutting off ports wholescale.
It does suck and it's pushing the technology in a strange direction.
If you want to get access to inside your LAN and you don't have some official VPN client, etc., you have to set up your internal machine to actively poke out on ports 80 or 443 to some relay point for "further instructions" on how to establish a VPN. That's assuming the relay point is writable.
As others have noted, the "protections" and IP multiplication benefits of NAT have had a side effect of choking information flow and flexibility.
The server can simply store the information in the video RAM, where it belongs. As long as the data fits in video mem, it won't cost you any main memory.
Excellent point.
Anyone that's run "top" and exclaimed "Hey! X is using up about XXX MB of memory!" should understand that
With Ximian, Novell acquired a really polished Linux desktop.
Despite how wonderful the Ximian desktop is, it is not ripe for consumers buying mix `n match crap hardware and shrink-wrapped software titles for Windows 95...
Just as market-leader Red Hat knows that uncontrolled widespread consumer deployments aren't a viable business plan, so does Novell.
In a controlled environment, corporate deployments, Linux desktops make great business sense. This acquisition gives Novell Linux credentials in corporate networks (it had them before the Redmond behemoth marginalized their earlier good work on Windows).
The only thing Novell might be missing now is a solid relationship with some high-quality hardware supplier...
If bussinesses had to patch as often as Windows users did they would be screaming bloody murder
They are.
Migrating to something different is a huge barrier to many of these people. Even so, MS has made public statements indicating that they've heard these screams.
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these people deserve some of their own medicine.
Maybe.
Two things, though.
One, when these prisoners get out of the joint, they'll be dishing out some of that same medicine to society at large. Not good.
Two, if you profile the childhood development of prison inmates, they were at the receiving end of that same kind of medicine, unqualified parenting, basically.
I know, the unwritten right to be a parent to extreme limits of disqualification is considered sacred by people that don't want the government's nose in their business, period.
But it's pretty clear to me that interdiction between parents and children of this "medicine" is one of the few solutions available to stop the cycle.
IBM is doing the right thing.
Provide exactly enough support for the legacy OS that paying customers require.
Move OS development into those features of Linux that help to promote IBM's business strategy where those features are lacking. Let the community of Linux developers scratch their own itches which will probably save IBM a lot of money in development costs.
Commoditisation of commonly-used software won't be denied.
IBM is wisely riding ahead of the Linux wave where they can, to some degree direct where it does and to find their own profitable niches in services and less common applications.
I like the idea of distributed hierarchal cut-offs to enforce good behavior.
If a spammer sends me something from dialup213.somenet.isp.com, then instead of blacklisting all of isp.com, they could blacklist somenet.isp.com while they address the problem of isolating the bad customer.
Unfortunately, we have a broad flat tree.
Once the originator is at hotmail.com or aol.com, hierarchal decomposition doesn't work because you have to commit mass killings.
I mean, not to troll, but that $1M is probably worth it. Mainframes are rock solid, incredibly dependable systems. Any PC system, no matter how nice, isn't.
If maintenance costs for the mainframe were a lot less than $1M, then keeping the old beast running would make a lot of business sense. (But the electric power, cooling, and space are not without cost.)
Cheap PC hardware of today is more powerful than the mainframes of three decades past and ought to be able to perform the same function.
It's true that the PC is less reliable than the mainframe, but think of the cost trade-offs.
Daisy chain two or three PC systems for redundancy and you've transformed your froggy 99.9 systems into a single prince of six nines to match the sturdy old mainframe.
Use your leisure time gained by the reliable mainframe to slowly build and test PC's to do the same. Your bosses will love you for it.
If your programming language can open and read and write files, it can do anything.
Forgive me and call me dense, I don't get it yet. Where does the philosophy of "everything is a file" buy you much over "everything is a network connection"?
It still seems like there's a lot of work to be done in higher level layers on the raw interface so you can build things with more logic in them (think of odd beasts like SQL servers, SMTP, authentication servers, etc.). These "files" still behave differently and an app developer has to know how to interact with each flavor of file, no?
Maybe 9p is a great idea - can it be introduced initially as a layer in something like glibc, or does it need kernel support?
Why is IBM, Redhat, and every other company going out of their way to make the statement "Linux is not ready for the desktop"
For a very good reason - so that the release of desktop Linux is not overhyped, premature and clunky and sours the market.
The cause of desktop Linux is advanced properly if it is not advanced in a less than best fashion to the legions of users who will assign it a reputation based on those initial experiences with it.
I think desktop Linux works great, but I read Slashdot for fun. And it's a great solution for many casual uses at home and specialized tasks at work. But that's different from the ugly mess computer marketplace, where Joe Schmoe buys computers for US$x99 and expects to run shrink-wrapped software from 5 years ago.
Regarding the Linux desktop marketplace: forget about Instant World Domination.
The cookie must be nibbled at the edges first.
Remember that SVG is a W3C standard.
For that reason, it is imperative that Microsoft to make its own superceding one (embrace, etc.). A lot of other organizations suffer from the NIH malady, but it's extra painful when it is a company with this much influence.)
The community really needs free, powerful, robust SVG renderers and authoring tools using public standards to become popular, or else Microsoft will own yet another "standard".
It's a shame that such a talented legal mind, one who did such a nice job in the U.S. government's prosecution of Microsoft on anti-trust charges, has sold out to the dark side.
don't disallow the possession of technology, only it's irresponsible use.
Institute whopper fines for anyone caught running an intersection they've caused to change using this technology.
Many cities already have cameras mounted at major intersections for purpose of traffic monitoring. If these were triggered to record the scene after being sent an unauthorized RF burst, the offender could be identified quickly.
Actually, a modified upgraded version of this technology for changing traffic signals that included vehicle identification could be a revenue raising tactic for impoverished cities; more cost effective than speed traps.
Allow drivers to bid on signal changing; high bid gets the green light and the city collects the revenue.
TiVo recordings of shows received from satellite TV might be interrupted.
What's the penalty under the law for putting a backdoor in an open-sourced software project?
Penalty?
If you try to insert a clumsy backdoor and fumble the insertion process, then I suppose your punishment will be your reputation.
OTOH, if you do it in a very clever way, undetected for a while, then your reward will be your reputation.
You'll be able to strut around at Defcon with a coterie of admiring hot chix^H^H^H^H others that wanna be like you.
Just don't expect anybody to let you borrow their laptop.
Reading through some of the articles, I get the impression that many of the judges are
Since the settlement, the software developers competing with Microsoft have heaved a collective sigh of relief, exclaiming to the world,
Competing products are springing up like weeds and resellers are completely ignoring MS by putting all kinds of cheap inexpensive software onto PCs!
spend $10 instead of spending $45.
I have to wonder how these costs compare with the cost of music coming in over the air broadcasts.
Specifically, a radio station has expenses: DJ salaries, equipment, FCC licenses, and some royalties paid to the record companies.
They also get revenue from advertisers: so many dollars for so many seconds with an expected exposure of x listeners.
I, as 1 listener, will tolerate so many minutes of commercials per hour. Inherently, I'm paying with my time and attention, which has some value to the advertisers, for listening to music the remainder of the time (and having them randomize selections).
How much am I paying for my music then?
I don't know, but I bet it's a less than what I pay in a record store for a CD.
I can see it now...
We've got an archive full of documents and emails sent from the PM about Dr David Kelly, they're right here.
Oops - anybody got a working Windows RMS hooked up?
voter can read
Voters can read!?!?!?
Judging by the results, I've always questioned whether voters were even capable of thought!
This seems like a very difficult problem.
I can see where anonymity can be preserved by separating the authentication of the voter from the casting of the ballot.
But what I can't figure out is getting some kind of traceability to insure that each cast ballot represents one person unless it spits out pieces of paper (burning a CD, a favorite of the paranoid sysadmin, won't guarantee the software isn't buffering up results, nullifying some votes in favor of double counting others, etc.)
If I understand correctly, the Ethernet is built right onto the mainboard, with the chipset.
Audio processing went down this route a while back. Old soundcards aren't needed when the functionality was built into the chipset.
For high speed networking (like GigE), avoiding the PCI bus can potentially be faster.
It's hard to imagine these going into the mainstream kernel until 2.7 opens up, given the final 2.6.0 testing stages that are being released.
This should really help others wanting to build Linux CE devices.
Plus, it helps to focus the community on one implementation rather than many separate ones, even if that implementation is changed as 2.7 development occurs.
If I knew the world were going to end in a week, suddenly things...would seem a whole lot less important.
You forgot
True enough.
My beef has always been that control of information flow for simple-minded security policies (we want to do as little work as possible) is to simply reduce information flow.
I'd just like to see more intellgence built into the control, instead of draconian measures, cutting off ports wholescale.
It does suck and it's pushing the technology in a strange direction.
If you want to get access to inside your LAN and you don't have some official VPN client, etc., you have to set up your internal machine to actively poke out on ports 80 or 443 to some relay point for "further instructions" on how to establish a VPN. That's assuming the relay point is writable.
As others have noted, the "protections" and IP multiplication benefits of NAT have had a side effect of choking information flow and flexibility.
The server can simply store the information in the video RAM, where it belongs. As long as the data fits in video mem, it won't cost you any main memory.
Excellent point.
Anyone that's run "top" and exclaimed "Hey! X is using up about XXX MB of memory!" should understand that
all this needs is the toolkit people (GTK, Qt, etc.) to make their toolkits vector based
IIRC, SVG icons are starting to be supported by both KDE and Gnome.
More SVG applications and more capable SVG authoring tools could be a really great impetus for migrating X away from the bitmap-centric universe.
With Ximian, Novell acquired a really polished Linux desktop.
Despite how wonderful the Ximian desktop is, it is not ripe for consumers buying mix `n match crap hardware and shrink-wrapped software titles for Windows 95...
Just as market-leader Red Hat knows that uncontrolled widespread consumer deployments aren't a viable business plan, so does Novell.
In a controlled environment, corporate deployments, Linux desktops make great business sense. This acquisition gives Novell Linux credentials in corporate networks (it had them before the Redmond behemoth marginalized their earlier good work on Windows).
The only thing Novell might be missing now is a solid relationship with some high-quality hardware supplier...
If bussinesses had to patch as often as Windows users did they would be screaming bloody murder
They are.
Migrating to something different is a huge barrier to many of these people. Even so, MS has made public statements indicating that they've heard these screams.