I'm not so sure. If she has experience with her current application, it's reasonable for her to want to continue using the same thing.
Having an alternative implementation of the Win32 api could be useful as Microsoft becomes unwilling to provide support for older versions of Windows. In circumstances where newer Windows versions won't run older software - specialty software, in particular - Wine might be a viable alternative to keep it running under a different (non-MS) implementation of the API. It migth even be a good use for "Wine on Windows" if the user is already familiar with that OS as a desktop, and wants to keep it.
If her problem is that her new software won't run modern Windows, maybe she can upgrade to Windows 7, but then use Wine to keep her older version running?
(Although I can't see why Windows' own backward-compatability would be inferior to that.)
The TSA surely realizes that actual trouble-makers will want to blend in. Therefore they want to alter *everyone's* behavior so that people are as submissive as possible. The obvious strategy is not to alter the behavior of the terrorists directly, but to make regular law-abiding citizens act *all the same, all the time, with total submission to authority.* That way, in order to "blend in" as any true trouble maker would want to do, the trouble-makers will have to be as cowed as everyone else.
This is an obvious example of law enforcement wanting everyone to give up legitimate rights and submit unquestioningly to authority in order to force criminals to come in line with that obsequious standard.
Why not use git?
Or cvs or any other source control, really.
If it's really pairs, they could just email the source back & forth, and that might be easiest, provided they can manage conflicts on their own. With three or more that could be a hassle, and then I'd set up source control.
Heck, make your departmental sysadmin do it! Then it'll be painless:)
A December 21, 2005, Federal Register has Mr. Ruwaldt's email address listed as: paul.ruwaldt@dhs.gov, or, alternately, paul.s.ruwaldt@tc.faa.gov.
Maybe he needs to hear how taxpayers feel about his interest in fitting us with shock-collars while we're on business trips, or going on vacation?
I typed my briefs with emacs & LaTeX for the first year. Occasionally I got a prof. who said they liked the funky font, but after a year of getting hammered for having my pages look different from everyone else's, I gave up & did the work I needed to hand in with Word.
Just like any business, there is a lot of exchange with other lawyers and a lot of pressure to have your stuff look like everyone else's. Those things made me give up using open source for public material (though I still took my private notes w/Emacs!).
I agree. Reminds me too much of a family holiday where grandad starts spouting someting horrible, and then you have to spend the whole evening saying ``Yes, Grandad, that *is* racist'' over his continued objections. It's never a conversation I want to have over dinner, in person with people I know. It's certainly not a conversation I want to have here.
Infinite Just (David Foster Wallace) was a great book: that and Cryptonomicon are two of my favorite "pulp" reads. They both seemed written just for me: lenghty, engaging fiction written to me as a 13-year-old. Jest was funnier: definitely worth a read.
If people had known about Los Alamos they'd have been scared of that: people these days protest genetically modified foods. New science with the power to destroy (GMO's have maybe only the power to "drift" on the wind and out-compete native species) often gives rise to public fear, ill-founded or no.
Bombs - even nuclear ones - are familiar and have limited range. Certain types of GMO's may be scary (release an oil-eating bug to clean up a spill and it eats all the oil in the world, etc.), but lots of places have survived the introduction of non-native species, which seems similar.
Something about the idea of a hole that can eat all the matter on the Earth (& solar system, etc., etc.) is scarier than other technologies with potential for "oops". Even if the physics says it "shouldn't" be a problem, it's scarier.
I'm usually sympathetic to the idea that smart folks who've done the math should be given deference when it comes to making decisions about implementation of new technology, but in this case a popular reaction of "Oh, Shit! Don't do that!" feels well-warranted.
When I created an account I read the license, and if I remember correctly it said that Apple could revoke the license at any time, even for music I had already purchased. If this is true (and they might have the technology to do this, at least for most users) then the store is TERRIBLE
That would mean that for ten bucks you buy a CD that Apple can take away later, but in a store you buy a CD that you own forever, and can re-sell.
Speaking of re-selling, I didn't catch the details about transferability of my license, and now that I'm signed up I can'ty find the license either from within iTunes or on Apple's web-site. I want to read the license agreement again, and Apple should make a link available. Anyone have a link to the license?
If music is now sold via the Internet, in a form where nobody but the record companies owns anything that can be transfered or can't have its license revoked, then the age of on-line music distribution will suck. I am worried.
I have no idea whether this is fair use or not (I'm not taking copyright until next fall), or whether they got "permission" from anyone to put Vader up there. What I do know is that this is one of the coolest things I've read in a long time (new news or not), and it seems like just the kind of thing we Can't have if copyright protections are extended indefinitely.
This kind of monument, where cultural icons are set literally in stone (OK, concrete perhaps...I don't know what it was carved from) are a great argument for preservation of the cultural commons.
May the Force Be With everyone responsible for the Darth-Goyle!
I remember staying in the CS department to work over spring break one year, and watching the guy next to me play with this new thing called 'Yahoo' hosted by Stanford. I thought the idea of getting data by pointing & clicking a mouse would be a fad. What kind of useful stuff was available that way? Any kind of serious-minded person knew that ftp, and maybe gopher, were fully adequate and easier to use.
Anybody else see "fad" technologies out there now? Anybody have a guess as to which ones will stick?
I think the law might suffer from Constitutional problems, but not for the reasons I've so far seen mentioned.
Oregon cannot trample on the authority of the US Congress to regulate interstate commerce: this means that a tax which discriminates against people from out-of-state will be scrutinized by the courts.
It seems to me that the effect of this tax would be to allow Oregonians to pay the per-mile tax but (probably) force out-of-staters (who would most likely lack the GPS devices) to pay the per-gallon tax. This means that out-of-state truckers, for example, would pay way more tax than in-state truckers (per-gallon tax is bad for large, inefficient vehicles). Allowing inefficient cars in Oregon to bypass the high gas tax with GPS, but requireing out-of-state cars without GPS to pay the gas tax, might amount to an unconstitutional burden on interstate commerce.
Absolutely: I agree. Almost by definition, identity thieves won't be detered by privacy laws.
Government, on the other hand, will be dettered by privacy laws. Since government poses probably the largest (though far from the only) threat to privacy, I'm in favor of using legislation to reign them in. To protct against thieves, by a shredder. To protect agaisnt government, pass a law.
As far as the city getting annoyed at the journalists, they can be annoyed, but I doubt there is much they can do about it, for much the same reason that the police can rummage though trash.
I lived in Portland until 6 months ago, and I Loved the WWeek's reporting. Mark Kroger (the police chief, one of the officials who got his garbage peeked at) calls the stunt "cheap" in the article, but people in government need to be kept in check by having exactly this kind of thing done by the press. WWeek is honest enough to spell out the fact that no scandalous material was uncovered, and thourough enough to print a full, detailed list of the "dirt" they did dig up. If I were religious, I'd thank God there are reporters out there willing to do this kind of thing.
Way to go WWeek! Three cheers for the Free Press. Great way to ring in the New Year!!
Yes...scary. Not so much because "ignorance" is a bad excuse (it is), but because the next prosecution team will say "now look, there was this Dimitry case a while back that got a lot of press, so surely victim #2 *did* understand the law, and we can hit them with it."
Seems like Dimitry got a "get out of jail" card just because he was the first guy. The second "DCMA victim" won't be so lucky.
I always think about mind reading when I hear about these things. Is this a signifigant step in that direction? I'm not too worried about the rats, but it would be creepy if the govt. could use the same technology to read my mind and find out that, say, I'm thinking about how to circumvent DVD protection, or something.
Anyone know how fine-grained a view of the rat-thoughts they can see?
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Isn't this the wine project icon?
I'm not so sure. If she has experience with her current application, it's reasonable for her to want to continue using the same thing. Having an alternative implementation of the Win32 api could be useful as Microsoft becomes unwilling to provide support for older versions of Windows. In circumstances where newer Windows versions won't run older software - specialty software, in particular - Wine might be a viable alternative to keep it running under a different (non-MS) implementation of the API. It migth even be a good use for "Wine on Windows" if the user is already familiar with that OS as a desktop, and wants to keep it.
If her problem is that her new software won't run modern Windows, maybe she can upgrade to Windows 7, but then use Wine to keep her older version running? (Although I can't see why Windows' own backward-compatability would be inferior to that.)
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The TSA surely realizes that actual trouble-makers will want to blend in. Therefore they want to alter *everyone's* behavior so that people are as submissive as possible. The obvious strategy is not to alter the behavior of the terrorists directly, but to make regular law-abiding citizens act *all the same, all the time, with total submission to authority.* That way, in order to "blend in" as any true trouble maker would want to do, the trouble-makers will have to be as cowed as everyone else. This is an obvious example of law enforcement wanting everyone to give up legitimate rights and submit unquestioningly to authority in order to force criminals to come in line with that obsequious standard.
Why not use git? Or cvs or any other source control, really. If it's really pairs, they could just email the source back & forth, and that might be easiest, provided they can manage conflicts on their own. With three or more that could be a hassle, and then I'd set up source control. Heck, make your departmental sysadmin do it! Then it'll be painless :)
Oops ... Looks like the faa email address bounces. The other one seems to work, though.
A December 21, 2005, Federal Register has Mr. Ruwaldt's email address listed as: paul.ruwaldt@dhs.gov, or, alternately, paul.s.ruwaldt@tc.faa.gov. Maybe he needs to hear how taxpayers feel about his interest in fitting us with shock-collars while we're on business trips, or going on vacation?
Just like any business, there is a lot of exchange with other lawyers and a lot of pressure to have your stuff look like everyone else's. Those things made me give up using open source for public material (though I still took my private notes w/Emacs!).
I'd prefer this story hadn't appeared on /.
Oh, yes, I should have said the first time: the footnotes are some of the best stuff in the book. If you pick it up, definitely read the footnotes!
Infinite Just (David Foster Wallace) was a great book: that and Cryptonomicon are two of my favorite "pulp" reads. They both seemed written just for me: lenghty, engaging fiction written to me as a 13-year-old. Jest was funnier: definitely worth a read.
Bombs - even nuclear ones - are familiar and have limited range. Certain types of GMO's may be scary (release an oil-eating bug to clean up a spill and it eats all the oil in the world, etc.), but lots of places have survived the introduction of non-native species, which seems similar.
Something about the idea of a hole that can eat all the matter on the Earth (& solar system, etc., etc.) is scarier than other technologies with potential for "oops". Even if the physics says it "shouldn't" be a problem, it's scarier.
I'm usually sympathetic to the idea that smart folks who've done the math should be given deference when it comes to making decisions about implementation of new technology, but in this case a popular reaction of "Oh, Shit! Don't do that!" feels well-warranted.
In that case I say we petition Caimbridge to revoke his Lucasian Professor of Mathematics chair!
(er, seriously, this does seem like a scary experiment.)
That last shot, especially - the one with the white-robed character (Gandalf?) on the wall - looked and acted like a video game.
That would mean that for ten bucks you buy a CD that Apple can take away later, but in a store you buy a CD that you own forever, and can re-sell.
Speaking of re-selling, I didn't catch the details about transferability of my license, and now that I'm signed up I can'ty find the license either from within iTunes or on Apple's web-site. I want to read the license agreement again, and Apple should make a link available. Anyone have a link to the license?
If music is now sold via the Internet, in a form where nobody but the record companies owns anything that can be transfered or can't have its license revoked, then the age of on-line music distribution will suck. I am worried.
This kind of monument, where cultural icons are set literally in stone (OK, concrete perhaps...I don't know what it was carved from) are a great argument for preservation of the cultural commons.
May the Force Be With everyone responsible for the Darth-Goyle!
Anybody else see "fad" technologies out there now? Anybody have a guess as to which ones will stick?
Oregon cannot trample on the authority of the US Congress to regulate interstate commerce: this means that a tax which discriminates against people from out-of-state will be scrutinized by the courts.
It seems to me that the effect of this tax would be to allow Oregonians to pay the per-mile tax but (probably) force out-of-staters (who would most likely lack the GPS devices) to pay the per-gallon tax. This means that out-of-state truckers, for example, would pay way more tax than in-state truckers (per-gallon tax is bad for large, inefficient vehicles). Allowing inefficient cars in Oregon to bypass the high gas tax with GPS, but requireing out-of-state cars without GPS to pay the gas tax, might amount to an unconstitutional burden on interstate commerce.
Government, on the other hand, will be dettered by privacy laws. Since government poses probably the largest (though far from the only) threat to privacy, I'm in favor of using legislation to reign them in. To protct against thieves, by a shredder. To protect agaisnt government, pass a law.
I don't want to live in a world where I have to shred everything I throw away. My vote is for more privacy. Aside from the convinience, it's:
a.) not fair to make everyone buy a shredder: even if they're cheap, some people won't be able to afford them, and
b.) impossible to shred a tampon (see "blood sample" posts elsewhere).
This is a serious problem, and a shredder won't and shouldn't have to solve the problem!
I lived in Portland until 6 months ago, and I Loved the WWeek's reporting. Mark Kroger (the police chief, one of the officials who got his garbage peeked at) calls the stunt "cheap" in the article, but people in government need to be kept in check by having exactly this kind of thing done by the press. WWeek is honest enough to spell out the fact that no scandalous material was uncovered, and thourough enough to print a full, detailed list of the "dirt" they did dig up. If I were religious, I'd thank God there are reporters out there willing to do this kind of thing.
Way to go WWeek! Three cheers for the Free Press. Great way to ring in the New Year!!
Seems like Dimitry got a "get out of jail" card just because he was the first guy. The second "DCMA victim" won't be so lucky.
This may transcend the abilities of the species, but Oy! does it constrain the liberty of the individual on the business end of the remote-controll.
Now's the time to tell Congress not to let the military spend money learning how to remote-control people.
I always think about mind reading when I hear about these things. Is this a signifigant step in that direction? I'm not too worried about the rats, but it would be creepy if the govt. could use the same technology to read my mind and find out that, say, I'm thinking about how to circumvent DVD protection, or something. Anyone know how fine-grained a view of the rat-thoughts they can see?