Useful unless your 1000 centrifuges were recently damaged by a scada internet worm... Stuxnet - is the remaining nuclear material loaded on two iranian warships routed throught the suez canal and bound for france/italy?
Why must i extra in development costs and implementation for a feature i didn't ask for and won't do it's job for even a week after a movie is released?
"Neckbeards"? Rhetoric aside
I like to visit the local electronics shop regularly don't you? How long does it take to make a buying decision? Yeah, It can be tough. Are you saying you would like to simplify that and pay more for the privilege of simplicity?
Every time you buy something you "vote" did you ask content producers to add DRM? How exactly does this new feature make the next movie or song better? You are paying extra for it.
What other industries can force you to pay more initially and further down the road by reducing your choices?
How many more freakin' times are content producers going to ask you to buy Abby Road or Star Wars because they arbitrarily changed the format?
Every time your legislator is given the chance to write new legislation and receive help from donors to keep their jobs they gladly do. This motherboard is awesome but ask yourself what is the complete cost of the Hollywood business model of artificial scarcity?
It isn't fascism and it isn't evil. It IS flexibility and efficiency.
When you are limited to a smaller subset of ideas and implementations the cost of effective solutions rise.
No large single corporation or small group of corporations will give you the diversity necessary to do what you will want to do. They haven't thought of it and likely won't until they are forced to by a twenty something developer in a now unrecognized company.
In this scenario
If your new network consisted entirely of new highly portable ARM chips what operating system would you be forced to use?
if you said a Microsoft product you would be right.
What best motivates a Microsoft employee?
If you said new ideas you would be right.
(okay supporting his/her family wouldn't be far off either.)
With fewer competitor there are fewer incentives for new ideas to be developed. Yeah, yeah Linux/BSD smothered in it's cradle blah blah.
What browser are you using now?
Have you tried a different pdf viewer in place of Adobe's?
Why does your new phone, T.V..Roomba, tablet, netbook, LAN router. Run Linux?
If you said flexibility and low cost you are right. (And this competition saved you enough in the process to buy more than a few nice dinners for your wife. enjoy the wine!)
If the previous poster said "Linux" and you tuned out the rest of what was said consider how few features were available in Internet Explorer until Firefox became available.
Intel is more innovative when there are others aren't restricted by patent or fiat to compete with them.
Why do we have to pay more and get less performance for every chip that includes encryption that you and i don't want and didn't ask for.
Never mind that in five years this encryption will not protect anything and you will be "asked?" again to pay for their latest super-d-duper T.V./Computer/Phone format and media.
I use GNU/Linux for everything except gaming. Pay developers for the applications you use. Offer donations for bug bounties and above all be polite and grateful when something new turns up. Even a token amount is welcome and helps to recover the cost of bandwidth and that makes developers happy.
Until GNU/linux reaches a sizable amount of users.
Remember a dollar spent is a vote cast for better software.
Exactly. WiFi is a problem sound cards are a problem. firewire is a problem, dual display resolution can be a problem even ocassionally the boot loader. (read the sad stories of people that don't have a reinstall disk after their restore partition is reformatted.)
When your child downloads a dozen films or mp3s you have the burden of proof that it wasn't you. The internet has become indispensable. Legislators have started the ball rolling and now they have no plausible denial that network traffic shouldn't be controlled, shaped and taxed. Without campaign finance reform the network is about to become just another symptom of a bigger problem.
I am grateful for your reply.
sadly, I am likely missing something from the article
but but your premise is that patents forced innovation? Finding a solution other than using a condenser?
The more critically i read the article the less i like it. An otherwise engaging article is left hanging on inconvenient measurement conventions and (at least for me) a difficult to verify timeline..
How long was an English patent at that time? 20 years?
Slashdot is remarkable in that among the hundreds of posts a few individuals like yourself force old ideas to be re-evaluated.
Thank You.
A possibility, but don't credit espionage when human error fits just as well. The code was likely Okay-ed a decade ago and not reviewed since. ditto the.gif flaw and the.wma extended info flaw and the.jpg flaw and the.asf/.wmv flaw and the.ico Microsoft GDI+ flaw.
How many more are still hiding in millions of lines of code? How much of it can co-opt your hardware? The journey to security is only a few decades old everyone is still learning.
Just maybe, no matter how hard you try for perfection mistakes will be made and with billions of people using your software all the flaws will be found and exploited and then fixed.
In my opinion Operating systems have become too complex and it isn't humanly possible to understand all of it. The answer may just be to simplify everything and allow a larger group to develop tools to review the source code.
The power is yours while you can buy a domain and post a hyperlink. Unlike any other time in history since the days when men formed small tribes and could discuss an issue with each person.
Is it acceptable to place convenience over freedom?
Follow the money, Immigrants seeking jobs, Politicians seeking their own continued employment. American workers afraid that salaries will be lower.
Ask yourself "Is the United States of America the most inspired dynamic and innovative country or isn't it? "
What would make you give up all your extended family, life long friends and nearly everything you own to take an entry level job? Would you risk your life?
Immigration is the greatest compliment, the U.S. can absorb more immigrants. Our economy is large and has the entire world to sell products to.
I agree using stolen software isn't the right answer with free and open alternatives available. Honestly you are preaching to choir here. Be brave dampen your doubts and speak well about Microsoft for this.. Really..
Politically untenable for any Senator to discuss and too difficult to explain accurately in a 6 minute news segment.
Are the options?
1) Make a central government authority responsible for the networks. How many agencies will see a need to have some "limited" powers in one decade or two? Opportunities for political gain during a news cycle?
2) Make software "Internet Certified Safe" and require liability damages for software producers? (Read, you can't afford certification)
3) Tacitly allow corporations to consolidate ownership to achieve de-facto government control and receive favorable legislation.
Blech, Yuck and OMG.
Wikileaks has made the war even less popular if that is possible and with any luck President Obama will use this opportunitty to withdraw troops more quickly.
Is it cynical to anticipate yet another legislative attack on the journalist shield law?
Break-ins? Wiretaps? Tax audits?
Nuclear is cleaner than any fossil fuel. The problem is human nature and the organizations we form to run them are always driven to be efficient and make a profit. Which sounds good until you examine recent events in the gulf of Mexico. Too many corners were cut to save time and because nothing bad happened when the first shortcut was taken other shortcuts were implemented.
Chernobyl happened decades ago and many more decades will pass before anyone can live there again. In the meantime it seems possible if not likely that radiation contaminants are silently claiming lives without anyone being aware of it.
Solar, wave, wind power and geo-thermal aren't as efficient as nuclear but the profit motive doesn't leave behind a mess that takes decades to fix when they fail.
Our grandchildren will certainly wonder why we burned so much of a very rare and useful carbon stockpile.
The audience for games is growing and at the same time gamers expect more in a game. It's obvious that game companies are searching for ways to increase their revenue when gamers can be very selective.
I wonder how long it will be before more companies use the bittorrent protocol to distribute demos.
Titles that aren't already a franchise or missed unusually high expectations might get a second chance by offering a second release with modifiable content and no disk check and multiplayer not bound to a central server.
Game companies are leaving a few dollars on the table by not repackaging their old titles a third time for digital sale on their own. This seems to me an excellent way to introduce new games. They would have control over what is presented and not rely on a third party. Like so much of the web visitors mean dollars if they can be sold "up" to the newest products.
Finally, as someone previously mentioned a select few titles have battled the market and won proof being the high price commanded even a decade later. Many are orphaned by their original developers but rights to them would likely be inexpensive. In other words how much money is Valve making on a game like the original Half-Life and are there other games now abandoned that can realise sales?
Slashdot Mirror
Useful unless your 1000 centrifuges were recently damaged by a scada internet worm... Stuxnet - is the remaining nuclear material loaded on two iranian warships routed throught the suez canal and bound for france/italy?
Why must i extra in development costs and implementation for a feature i didn't ask for and won't do it's job for even a week after a movie is released?
"Neckbeards"? Rhetoric aside I like to visit the local electronics shop regularly don't you? How long does it take to make a buying decision? Yeah, It can be tough. Are you saying you would like to simplify that and pay more for the privilege of simplicity? Every time you buy something you "vote" did you ask content producers to add DRM? How exactly does this new feature make the next movie or song better? You are paying extra for it. What other industries can force you to pay more initially and further down the road by reducing your choices? How many more freakin' times are content producers going to ask you to buy Abby Road or Star Wars because they arbitrarily changed the format? Every time your legislator is given the chance to write new legislation and receive help from donors to keep their jobs they gladly do. This motherboard is awesome but ask yourself what is the complete cost of the Hollywood business model of artificial scarcity?
It isn't fascism and it isn't evil. It IS flexibility and efficiency. When you are limited to a smaller subset of ideas and implementations the cost of effective solutions rise. No large single corporation or small group of corporations will give you the diversity necessary to do what you will want to do. They haven't thought of it and likely won't until they are forced to by a twenty something developer in a now unrecognized company.
In this scenario If your new network consisted entirely of new highly portable ARM chips what operating system would you be forced to use? if you said a Microsoft product you would be right. What best motivates a Microsoft employee? If you said new ideas you would be right. (okay supporting his/her family wouldn't be far off either.) With fewer competitor there are fewer incentives for new ideas to be developed. Yeah, yeah Linux/BSD smothered in it's cradle blah blah. What browser are you using now? Have you tried a different pdf viewer in place of Adobe's? Why does your new phone, T.V..Roomba, tablet, netbook, LAN router. Run Linux? If you said flexibility and low cost you are right. (And this competition saved you enough in the process to buy more than a few nice dinners for your wife. enjoy the wine!)
If the previous poster said "Linux" and you tuned out the rest of what was said consider how few features were available in Internet Explorer until Firefox became available. Intel is more innovative when there are others aren't restricted by patent or fiat to compete with them.
@RightSaidFred99 Look up "Psychological Projection"
Why do we have to pay more and get less performance for every chip that includes encryption that you and i don't want and didn't ask for. Never mind that in five years this encryption will not protect anything and you will be "asked?" again to pay for their latest super-d-duper T.V./Computer/Phone format and media.
I use GNU/Linux for everything except gaming. Pay developers for the applications you use. Offer donations for bug bounties and above all be polite and grateful when something new turns up. Even a token amount is welcome and helps to recover the cost of bandwidth and that makes developers happy. Until GNU/linux reaches a sizable amount of users. Remember a dollar spent is a vote cast for better software.
Exactly. WiFi is a problem sound cards are a problem. firewire is a problem, dual display resolution can be a problem even ocassionally the boot loader. (read the sad stories of people that don't have a reinstall disk after their restore partition is reformatted.)
When your child downloads a dozen films or mp3s you have the burden of proof that it wasn't you. The internet has become indispensable. Legislators have started the ball rolling and now they have no plausible denial that network traffic shouldn't be controlled, shaped and taxed. Without campaign finance reform the network is about to become just another symptom of a bigger problem.
I am grateful for your reply. sadly, I am likely missing something from the article but but your premise is that patents forced innovation? Finding a solution other than using a condenser? The more critically i read the article the less i like it. An otherwise engaging article is left hanging on inconvenient measurement conventions and (at least for me) a difficult to verify timeline.. How long was an English patent at that time? 20 years? Slashdot is remarkable in that among the hundreds of posts a few individuals like yourself force old ideas to be re-evaluated. Thank You.
How many more are still hiding in millions of lines of code? How much of it can co-opt your hardware? The journey to security is only a few decades old everyone is still learning.
Just maybe, no matter how hard you try for perfection mistakes will be made and with billions of people using your software all the flaws will be found and exploited and then fixed.
In my opinion Operating systems have become too complex and it isn't humanly possible to understand all of it. The answer may just be to simplify everything and allow a larger group to develop tools to review the source code.
Okay, patents aren't copyrights and this thread is off-topic. but this link is thought provoking, "Do Patents Encourage or Hinder Innovation? The Case of the Steam Engine." http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/do-patents-encourage-or-hinder-innovation-the-case-of-the-steam-engine/
Has anyone gotten netflix to work on GNU?
The power is yours while you can buy a domain and post a hyperlink. Unlike any other time in history since the days when men formed small tribes and could discuss an issue with each person. Is it acceptable to place convenience over freedom?
An interesting question is.. "If the widely available encryption algorithms+hardware are as claimed, What use are large intelligence satellites?"
Who wants your data and is it cost effective for them to decrypt it?
pgp/gpg sig?
Ask yourself "Is the United States of America the most inspired dynamic and innovative country or isn't it? "
What would make you give up all your extended family, life long friends and nearly everything you own to take an entry level job? Would you risk your life?
Immigration is the greatest compliment, the U.S. can absorb more immigrants. Our economy is large and has the entire world to sell products to.
@ciaran_o_riordan
I agree using stolen software isn't the right answer with free and open alternatives available. Honestly you are preaching to choir here. Be brave dampen your doubts and speak well about Microsoft for this.. Really..
Politically untenable for any Senator to discuss and too difficult to explain accurately in a 6 minute news segment. Are the options? 1) Make a central government authority responsible for the networks. How many agencies will see a need to have some "limited" powers in one decade or two? Opportunities for political gain during a news cycle? 2) Make software "Internet Certified Safe" and require liability damages for software producers? (Read, you can't afford certification) 3) Tacitly allow corporations to consolidate ownership to achieve de-facto government control and receive favorable legislation. Blech, Yuck and OMG.
Wikileaks has made the war even less popular if that is possible and with any luck President Obama will use this opportunitty to withdraw troops more quickly. Is it cynical to anticipate yet another legislative attack on the journalist shield law? Break-ins? Wiretaps? Tax audits?
Nuclear is cleaner than any fossil fuel.
The problem is human nature and the organizations we form to run them are always driven to be efficient and make a profit. Which sounds good until you examine recent events in the gulf of Mexico. Too many corners were cut to save time and because nothing bad happened when the first shortcut was taken other shortcuts were implemented.
Chernobyl happened decades ago and many more decades will pass before anyone can live there again. In the meantime it seems possible if not likely that radiation contaminants are silently claiming lives without anyone being aware of it.
Solar, wave, wind power and geo-thermal aren't as efficient as nuclear but the profit motive doesn't leave behind a mess that takes decades to fix when they fail.
Our grandchildren will certainly wonder why we burned so much of a very rare and useful carbon stockpile.
Found something useful on the web? Received something valuable? Contribute something in return. Paypal is just one of the available services.
The audience for games is growing and at the same time gamers expect more in a game. It's obvious that game companies are searching for ways to increase their revenue when gamers can be very selective. I wonder how long it will be before more companies use the bittorrent protocol to distribute demos. Titles that aren't already a franchise or missed unusually high expectations might get a second chance by offering a second release with modifiable content and no disk check and multiplayer not bound to a central server. Game companies are leaving a few dollars on the table by not repackaging their old titles a third time for digital sale on their own. This seems to me an excellent way to introduce new games. They would have control over what is presented and not rely on a third party. Like so much of the web visitors mean dollars if they can be sold "up" to the newest products. Finally, as someone previously mentioned a select few titles have battled the market and won proof being the high price commanded even a decade later. Many are orphaned by their original developers but rights to them would likely be inexpensive. In other words how much money is Valve making on a game like the original Half-Life and are there other games now abandoned that can realise sales?