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Phil Zimmermann Talk Summary And Audio
Ames Cornish writes "Philip Zimmermann, the creator of PGP, spoke
on Security and Privacy to a standing-room-only crowd in San Francisco on July 31st. There is a short
summary and audio recording of the event on the
Software Development Forum site. Phil talked about
Dmitry Sklyarov, Nicodemo Scarfo,
Phil's own experience as the victim of US government persecution, and how automatic weapons were involved in the attempt to get export permission for PGP." The MP3 is at the bottom of the page.
This is some really shitty programming by whoever does this... Plus, judging from other comments, the editors have taken to deleting posts.
Delete this!
A couple of hours ago I posted some "This is not phrist coast" bullshit in one of these "soon to be posted" stories (which are supossed to be hidden). One minute later, there is a response to it, asking "Why Do you have to predate stories that haven't even been posted yet?". My reply was "Just to prove that it is possible to beat the system and because I am fed up with the new slashcode hype".
Guess what? The whole thing is gone now. Moreover, someone made a comment about my post saying "Nice, we have some Euro-moron disrupting here". Now my question is: how did the poster know I was an "Euro-moron" unless he could check the host from which the post was made?.
Pretty intriguing if you ask me
i just poured hot grits down my pants.
brrr!
an alyson hannigan
yum yum
Let's have a close look at the costs involved when running a Linux system.
Linux' cost consists not only of the frequent updates, which require new cdrom's to be bought if you don't have a high speed Internet connection.
Another factor in Linux' cost is its maintenance. Linux requires a *lot* of maintenance, work doable only by the relatively few high-paid Linux administrators that put themselves - of course willingly - at a great place in the market. Linux seems to be needing maintenance continuously, to keep it from breaking down.
Add to this the cost of loss of data. Linux' native file system, EXT2FS, is known to lose data like a firehose spouts water when the file system isn't unmounted properly. Other unix file systems are much more tolerant towards unexpected crashes. An example is the FreeBSD file system, which with soft updates enabled, performance-wise blows EXT2FS out of the water, and doesn't have the negative drawback of extreme data loss in case of a system breakdown.
The upcoming 'solution' to this, EXT3FS, is nothing more than an ugly hack to put journaling into the file system. All the drawbacks of the ancient EXT2FS file system remain in EXT3FS, for the sake of 'forward- and backward compatibility'. This is interesting, considering that the DOS heritage in the Windows 9x/ME series was considered a very bad thing by the Linux community, even though it provided what could be called one of the best examples of compatibility, ever. When it's about Linux, compatibility constraints don't seem to be that much of a problem for Linux advocates.
Back to Linux' cost. Factor in also the fact that crashes happen much more often on Linux than on other unices. On other unices, crashes usually are caused by external sources like power outages. Crashes in Linux are a regular thing, and nobody seems to know what causes them, internally. Linux advocates try to hide this fact by denying crashes ever happen. Instead, they have frequent "hardware problems".
The steep learning curve compared to about any other operating system out there is a major factor in Linux' cost. The system is a mix of features from all kinds of unices, but not one of them is implemented right. A Linux user has to live with badly coded tools which have low performance, mangle data seemingly at random and are not in line with their specification. On top of that a lot of them spit out the most childish and unprofessional messages, indicating that they were created by 14-year olds with too much time, no talent and a bad attitude.
I could go on and on and on, but the conclusion is clear. Linux is not an option for any one who seeks a professional OS with high performance, scalability, stability, adherence to standards, etc.
thank you.
Wanna have sex?????
luv,
SexiTeen!
Interesting to note that an .asp site is surviving this quite successfully. I never thought I'd see the day IIS held up to the /. effect, but there it is...
If they really are moving equipment in, I'd say Slashdot's editorial credibility is shot.
If you provided a valid email address. Otherwise, ignorance is bliss...
a pantload.
I swear to you all that this is true. The following email was just submitted to the Portland Oregon Free Sklyarov email list:
The latest domain name extension has arrived .SEX!!! It's the fresh ,new,
exciting web address that is taking the world by storm.
Who wants to be .com when you can now be .SEX
Register your .SEX domain name today exclusively at: [pr0n link deleted]
With this addition I can see his cause getting MAJOR "exposure" now.
attention moderators: we have a karma whore among the ranks. do moderate appropriately.
i think the /. lameness filters need to be amended for ascii art
Well, they've been amended time and time again for ASCII art, yet still it's ridiculously easy to figure out yet another way to bypass the filter. If you don't like it, don't look at it. Raise your threshold. No amount of mechanical filtering can stop thousands of determined idiots from posting their artwork.
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Problems regarding accounts or comment posting should be sent to CowboyNeal.
The suffix "-ful" is applied to nouns to turn them into adjectives. "Beauty"+"ful" = "beautiful", "Insight"+"ful" = "insightful", "Hope"+"ful" = "hopeful", etc. "Incite" is a verb. Would you say "eatful", "smellful", or "walkful"? Don't you see that "inciteful" looks just as stupid?
Yet nother crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when last month IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD hs lost more market share, this news srves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick nd its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For ll practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
*BS is dying
I am the real Anne Tomlinson, but I guess I can't even post on slashdot now without my posts being deleted. Maybe this one will stay up since I'm posting as AC.