Well, let's wait and see, there is no telling what will be in Vista or when it will ship.
MS has pulled the "Wait for us, we're the leader"-stunt many times and I for one refuse to get suckered in by it any more.... I was looking forward to NT5 back in '95, but it turned out didn't ship until 2000 (as w2k) eventhough MS has promised that it would be out the same time as w95.
I'll belive in the features of Windows Vista when I see it running on a machine, not a minute sooner.
It works like this: 1) You buy the disk. 2) You pop the disk in the player. 3) The player contacts the mothership to be able to get a decryption key for this disk. 4) The player stores the decryption key so it's able to play the disk another time.
5) If you take the disk to another player the player will be unable to get a decryption key as the disk with this serial number has already been tied to the first player.
Anything is possible with bluray.
HDDVD only specifies the AACS, but bluray has the extra B+ layer which is pr-disk code that can do anything the disk manufacturer wants to prevent/grant access to the disk.
The programability means that every single new bluray disk can become more and more draconian.
> It isn't a proven fact nor is it even supported a tremendous weight of evidence.
Yes, yes it is.
The problem isn't that the christians want to teach their myths, it's that if the christians are allowed to do that then what about the muslims, the jews and raelians?
What about the FSM? Will the pastafarians have to be left out in your new inclusive system?
If you include the teachings of the noodly creator then what about the followers of the invisible pink unicorn?
The trouble is that there is no evidence at all for anything other than evolution and a lot of evidence for evolution and if you start to teach all sorts of stuff that there is no evidence for then you are going have to extend the school year about 7000% because there is a lot of crazy ideas out there.
Evolution is the best supported theory out there, if you have any evidence that invalidates some part of it then feel free to speak up so the theory can be updated to fit the evidence.
Yes CRT projectors are being made, mainly by Barco and VDC (makers of the Marquee line) and yes, they are still the best.
You can get a CRT PJ that will blow away every bulb PJ ever made for 3k USD.
The only problem with CRTs is that they generally weigh 50-100 kg and they take up a lot of room, so you really want to ceiling mount it and you want to do it well.
It doesn't matter, if they do catch on and start using postfix to deliver their trash it still means that they have to wait the 10 minutes that the grey period is before they can deliver their spam.
10 minutes is plenty of time for their server to have hit a spamtrap and gotten listed in a RBL, so when they come back 10 minutes later they will be blocked.
As far as I'm concerned greylisting+spamtrapping is the final solution wrt. spam.
They are US'ians, remember?
In europe people either don't sleep (which is cool as long as your mom drives) or crash whereever they feel like.
At Assembly people usually sleep in a separate area of the hall.
At Scene Event people sleep in tents.
There are very few solid (as in non FUD) anti-linux arguments, none of them are really being used right now, mostly because they are all temporary and will not be effective in the long run.
Ok, yes Denmark is mostly a nanny state, for most things it works out pretty well, but other times it's just a pain in the ass.
I quite like that the services that everybody needs are simply provided by the state and paid for by taxes, as there is no need to bother people with finding an paying for those (roads, social security, health insurance, education aso.)
However I hate having to pay for it all (tax is 40% to 60% depending on income):-)
"logical and dispassionate" What are we to you, Vulcans?
That should earn you a score of: -1 Astroturfing PR-nitwit.
About the "windows bad" vs. "reusing windows ideas good" issue; no there is no problem here, windows does suck major ass, but there are some good ideas in there that are worth reusing.
The biggest problem with windows is not that it's badly designed nor that it's badby implemented (it's both), but that it's non-free, reimplementing features in free software thus fixes the biggest problem with windows.
The thing is that no attachment is supposed to be code that is to be run.
On windows all you have to do to make a file executable is to give it a magical name ending in.exe on Linux you need to change its permissions.
Normal users will never need to manually change permissions on a file, because normal users never create programs.
They download them from official sources and install them using official installers (like rpm or apt).
This all means that there is no reason for a user to ever go around setting the executable bit on a file, so it's only good that it's hard for users to do that.
Making everything hard does not make Linux more secure, but making the right, safe operations easy and the unsafe operations slightly harder (and rarely used) does.
Simple, the ISP signs a contract to get their certificate, part of the contract is that they must ensure that their users don't spam and come down hard on those that do.
ISPs that lie and don't enforce their antispam policy get their certificates revoked and their local CA (who they signed the contract with) sues them into the ground for breach of contract.
You don't actually need the government to do this simply start a global whitelist of all MTAs / users that are certified to be sane.
Certifying MTA's and users is done by signing their key and in return having them sign a contract that states that if they spam then they will be dragged naked through the town square by the soft and dangly bits.
I've written a small page on the subject, it contains the outline of this global trust hierachy along with a simpler and cheaper solution, that we can actually use today.
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Well, let's wait and see, there is no telling what will be in Vista or when it will ship.
... I was looking forward to NT5 back in '95, but it turned out didn't ship until 2000 (as w2k) eventhough MS has promised that it would be out the same time as w95.
MS has pulled the "Wait for us, we're the leader"-stunt many times and I for one refuse to get suckered in by it any more.
I'll belive in the features of Windows Vista when I see it running on a machine, not a minute sooner.
Yes, yes it can.
It works like this:
1) You buy the disk.
2) You pop the disk in the player.
3) The player contacts the mothership to be able to get a decryption key for this disk.
4) The player stores the decryption key so it's able to play the disk another time.
5) If you take the disk to another player the player will be unable to get a decryption key as the disk with this serial number has already been tied to the first player.
Anything is possible with bluray.
HDDVD only specifies the AACS, but bluray has the extra B+ layer which is pr-disk code that can do anything the disk manufacturer wants to prevent/grant access to the disk.
The programability means that every single new bluray disk can become more and more draconian.
> It isn't a proven fact nor is it even supported a tremendous weight of evidence.
Yes, yes it is.
The problem isn't that the christians want to teach their myths, it's that if the christians are allowed to do that then what about the muslims, the jews and raelians?
What about the FSM? Will the pastafarians have to be left out in your new inclusive system?
If you include the teachings of the noodly creator then what about the followers of the invisible pink unicorn?
The trouble is that there is no evidence at all for anything other than evolution and a lot of evidence for evolution and if you start to teach all sorts of stuff that there is no evidence for then you are going have to extend the school year about 7000% because there is a lot of crazy ideas out there.
Evolution is the best supported theory out there, if you have any evidence that invalidates some part of it then feel free to speak up so the theory can be updated to fit the evidence.
Hmm, have you ever heard of barcodes?
Something like printing a batch id on on a barcode and use that to look up the zip file, on the senders website would be quick and easy to implement.
How about the many crypto analysts who claim to have broken HDCP?
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Yes CRT projectors are being made, mainly by Barco and VDC (makers of the Marquee line) and yes, they are still the best.
You can get a CRT PJ that will blow away every bulb PJ ever made for 3k USD.
The only problem with CRTs is that they generally weigh 50-100 kg and they take up a lot of room, so you really want to ceiling mount it and you want to do it well.
Bah, I get 15000:1 out of my old PJ and 30000:1 out of the new one.
Now that's truly black:)
It's just a matter of using a CRT projector in stead of those nasty little lightvalve devices.
It doesn't matter, if they do catch on and start using postfix to deliver their trash it still means that they have to wait the 10 minutes that the grey period is before they can deliver their spam.
10 minutes is plenty of time for their server to have hit a spamtrap and gotten listed in a RBL, so when they come back 10 minutes later they will be blocked.
As far as I'm concerned greylisting+spamtrapping is the final solution wrt. spam.
They are US'ians, remember?
In europe people either don't sleep (which is cool as long as your mom drives) or crash whereever they feel like.
At Assembly people usually sleep in a separate area of the hall.
At Scene Event people sleep in tents.
Just try Scene Event or Assembly, there are still Demo Sceners around.
The demo scene is still going, just see the massive turnout to events like Assembly in Finland.
Just come to Scene Event in Denmark it's the ten'th time this year and we still get new, cool productions.
Yes.
There are very few solid (as in non FUD) anti-linux arguments, none of them are really being used right now, mostly because they are all temporary and will not be effective in the long run.
Ok, yes Denmark is mostly a nanny state, for most things it works out pretty well, but other times it's just a pain in the ass.
:-)
I quite like that the services that everybody needs are simply provided by the state and paid for by taxes, as there is no need to bother people with finding an paying for those (roads, social security, health insurance, education aso.)
However I hate having to pay for it all (tax is 40% to 60% depending on income)
"logical and dispassionate" What are we to you, Vulcans?
"desktop paradigm"?
That should earn you a score of:
-1 Astroturfing PR-nitwit.
About the "windows bad" vs. "reusing windows ideas good" issue; no there is no problem here, windows does suck major ass, but there are some good ideas in there that are worth reusing.
The biggest problem with windows is not that it's badly designed nor that it's badby implemented (it's both), but that it's non-free, reimplementing features in free software thus fixes the biggest problem with windows.
Argh, I hate these insane units that you guys keep using, mmHg? psi? let's have it in SI units like
pascal
I never see any ads on /. or any other site for that matter, ad-free bliss is only a
userContent.css away
A properly encoded png is 85 bytes, granted it squanders 40 bytes, but it's still a lot better than 944 bytes:)
If you want to go for minimum size then a pnm weighs in at 20 bytes, which is about as small as it gets in a normal image format.
Windows 2000 hasn't arrived yet, what is being marketed as w2k and xp now is really just NT5 in in various tarted up configurations.
When ESR said that w2k was going to be what s now being called Longhorn (minus some things they didn't think of back then)
So I'd say that ESR was completely right on that one, except if you count the current w2k (nt5) as an enterprise os...
The thing is that no attachment is supposed to be code that is to be run.
On windows all you have to do to make a file executable is to give it a magical name ending in .exe on Linux you need to change its permissions.
Normal users will never need to manually change permissions on a file, because normal users never create programs.
They download them from official sources and install them using official installers (like rpm or apt).
This all means that there is no reason for a user to ever go around setting the executable bit on a file, so it's only good that it's hard for users to do that.
Making everything hard does not make Linux more secure, but making the right, safe operations easy and the unsafe operations slightly harder (and rarely used) does.
Simple, the ISP signs a contract to get their certificate, part of the contract is that they must ensure that their users don't spam and come down hard on those that do.
ISPs that lie and don't enforce their antispam policy get their certificates revoked and their local CA (who they signed the contract with) sues them into the ground for breach of contract.
You don't actually need the government to do this simply start a global whitelist of all MTAs / users that are certified to be sane.
Certifying MTA's and users is done by signing their key and in return having them sign a contract that states that if they spam then they will be dragged naked through the town square by the soft and dangly bits.
I've written a small page on the subject, it contains the outline of this global trust hierachy along with a simpler and cheaper solution, that we can actually use today.
Don't you need to be out flying planes into buildings like all the other loonies?
No you are not going to get any money, it's just going to bluescreen on you
"Wait for us we're the leader!"
disconnected from everything else when a largish part is composed of BSD tools
Because:
Linux is in no way derived from Unix, it is however modeled on Unix.