you didn't read the paper. please read the paper and pay attention to the bits about authenticating network coded blocks generated by the clients. you may want to read about homomorphic hash algorithms as well.
you obviously did not understand the concept of the paper. please cite anything in the paper that would support your assertion regarding central error/online codes.
Uh dude, I wasn't exactly seeking to argue the point of whether pornography is good or bad.
that was exactly your point with this statement, unless you intended something entirely different:
"Islam does really derprive women of a lot of rights but then to they don't debase women as much as Western culture can, for example through pornography"
to me this read: western culture debases women more than Islam does through pornography. if that was not your intent then forgive my comments.
You in your cultural arrogance seem to have decided it is a wonderful and everyone who doesn't agree with you should go away and die.
c'mon, you can think of better ad hominem attacks! your other arguments against CIA adventurism and fundamental culteral impasses were much more eloquent.
I also am not so naive to think that it doesn't have detrimental impacts on society and there is a case to be made for constraints on it in some cultures.
so are you saying all porn is bad again? perhaps just certain types of porn, like child / rape porn? (i'd agree with you there)
So the key question is whether its entirely right to completely homogenize culture
of course not, and attempts to do so will fail. this is precisely why the attempts to "import" democracy will fail, and why fundamentalist attempts to "prohibit anything against the koran" will also fail.
Western culture has deep flaws including rampant greed and a delightful half and half of no moral compass on one side and ridiculously rigid morale compass from the other half
this kind of blanket assertion really annoys me; the fallacy that only religious people are moral is blatantly false yet so deliciously attractive to religious bigots.
morality has everything to do with personal responsibility and ethical sense and very little to do with religious affiliation or lack thereof.
you hint at this reality with your comment about the fundamentalist wingers here in america and the similiarity with the islamic fundamentalists in the middle east.
Islam does really derprive women of a lot of rights but then to they don't debase women as much as Western culture can, for example through pornography.
many women find types of pornography empowering and lucrative (making them self reliant). the old school feminists who fought against porn are a rightly dying breed.
if you are going to rant against women's debasement try rape and sexual abuse.
Absolutely. The most interesting part of the paper: a method of authenticate client generated network coded blocks, is conveniently mentioned but not discussed in any detail.
You can be sure this will be patented and protected as it is the key piece that makes network coding trustworthy.
They did attempt demonstrate how this is superior, by distributing the error coding to the clients (network coding) so that novel bits are rapidly incorporated into subsequent blocks, and also a secret method (read: patented) to authenticate distinct blocks generated by clients, which is pretty tricky. this is a vast improvement over centrally generated FEC blocks with authenticated checksums, which is not an improvement over bittorrent.
Read the article: Avalanche solves this problem and it is one of the conveniently missing details from the paper. You can bet their method of authentication network coded blocks in highly proprietary and will be patented.
Linux geeks are a vast, arguing herd of cats, and the "power vacuum" he describes in the leadership is likely to remain more like a quantum foam
I love this analogy: respect and authority in Open Source is attained via exceptional effort and quickly decays - very different from the power concentrated by corporate/government leadership which is much more adversarial and selfish in nature.
Oh, you read the title and thought "most powerful labor force in the world?! yeah!!"... not so fast. Others have commented on the not-so-subtle pretext of this article. Linux == Unions is a stretch (and meant to deter/repel business investment in Linux) but it goes even further.
This is just plain disgusting: This is power that Microsoft, Oracle, IBM and many governments could only dream of having. The power to control the press and the skills contained in this organization are likely capable of disrupting travel, power grids and other broad national infrastructure systems if their demands are not met.
The intent of this leader should be clear and offensive: Obey the new Open Source mafia or we will TEAR IT ALL DOWN!
Equating resistance against honestly distasteful tactics like SCO's groundless power grab or another Microsoft FUD report with terrorism against the state is so rediculously off base that it would be hilarious if the less enlightened didn't actually consider this a valid concern (and they will. the US Gov has gone ape shit over critical infrastructure secrecy. The terror attack that brought down the Russian grid is only going to fan these flames)
The real power of open source and Linux is that it shows without a doubt that cooperative methods of production actually work, and can be vastly more efficient than traditional competitive market based battles where someone always loses and the resources expended in a needless conflict simply wasted.
Open Source should be a model of cooperative and open process - a stark contrast to the often secretive and psychopathic dealings of large corporations directed by executives shielded behind a hierarchial diffusion of responsibility and completely beyond any form of authentic accountability.
that doesn't mean that maintaining filters / removing illicit links won't be a problem. hopefully this is something that can be mostly automated. filtering requirements brought down audiogalaxy for example:)
[I'm sure Bram has addressed this issue; I'm just curious to see how much effort they will expend complying]
Yadis is correctly described as distributed single sign on, not decentralized single sign on. Everyone still has their dedicated central identity server, it's just that requests from other sites can be delegated to your server instead of requiring only one for everybody.
Thank god this movie sounds like it will finally redeem lucas for episodes 1 & 2.
I have been cautiosly skeptical about this one, with my hopes heading higher after the PG-13 rating.
Now it finally appears that I can look forward to this movie as a fulfilling and engaging piece of work, without the crappy dialogue, annoying characters and tepid plot of the first two episodes.
Passwords suck. If you want strong authentication use a hardware fob. Like SecurID or iButton.
If you really want to go all out get a vascular hand scanning biometric device. Like the banks in Japan have started rolling out.
But seriously, a 50 char password? Don't bother. Many applications simply truncate passwords silently past a given count. Use a smaller password with more entropy. Harder to remember but 50 chars is too much.
Ok, ok. some people love weird long passphrases. Fine, but you can't use passphrases for most password entry fields. That's all I'm saying.
I found the key logger quote amusing. This isn't that bad of an idea; although if anyone suspects you are security savvy they wont use an obvious dongle. They will embedd the logger inside the keyboard. Does he wrap his keyboard in a tamper evident package?
Last but not least, why use Windows if you are that paranoid? Trustix Security Linux or some other distro which provides strong access controls within the kernel and secure defaults for applications and permissions is a much better choice.
A bit of malware could make an end run around all those passwords and careful preparation.
If you read the article you would see they address this issue. The key is to realize that the horizon extends beyond what we can see (our cosmic horizon):
It is widely believed that during the inflationary expansion early in the history of the universe, very tiny ripples in spacetime were generated, as predicted by Einstein's theory of General Relativity. These ripples were stretched by the expansion of the universe and extend today far beyond our cosmic horizon, that is over a region much bigger than the observable universe, a distance of about 15 billion light years. In their current paper, the authors propose that it is the evolution of these cosmic ripples that increases the observed expansion of the universe and accounts for its acceleration.
"We realized that you simply need to add this new key ingredient, the ripples of spacetime generated during the epoch of inflation, to Einstein's General Relativity to explain why the universe is accelerating today," Riotto says. "It seems that the solution to the puzzle of acceleration involves the universe beyond our cosmic horizon. No mysterious dark energy is required."
i could handle the "disclaimer" stickers in science text books. hell, i scribble and sticker all over them myself.
i could handle the wrangling for intelligent design in the classroom; national geographic weighed in with a great big "NO." as needed (as well as many other publications).
the loss of a decent sex ed program was no big deal to me. i've got the internet which provides more intimitate detail on male / female reproductive anatomy than all the text books on the planet.
however, the cosmology film sounds absolutely fascinating; what the fuck?
i mean, you JUST DON'T SCREW WITH IMAX. this is the last straw!!!
The low lending rates for mortguages are causing the majority of price inflation for property. How many homeowners do you know of that refinanced or traded up over the last few years?
The housing market is going through a similar kind of inflated bubble that the stocks went through. The only thing we don't know is what the crash is going to look like. A small downhil slide for a number of years or a stomach churning drop in valuations over the spans of a few months?:)
For those who complain about the speed of strong digests the VIA Mini-ITX platform with the C5J / C5x? processors from Centaur include the Padlock Engine (as they call it) that implements SHA-1 and 256 on core.
Implementing SHA-256 on core means many times faster performance than a 64bit Itanium on a small 1.4Ghz 10W processor.
assuming 704 pounds of CO2 per person per year that gives us 1915 million metric tons per year for 6 billion people.
with a global output of _at least_ 6036 million metric tons produced from fossil fuels (petrol, coal) your argument is obviously flawed. and our consumption of fossil fuels is only increasing.
Have you any idea how much CO2 is emitted by 6 Billion breathing humans every year? That amount is far greater than the amount that has been emitted by all the oil that has been burned in the last 100 years.
You're kidding me, right? Please tell me you are kidding. Even the EPA admits that "Fossil fuels burned to run cars and trucks, heat homes and businesses, and power factories are responsible for about 98% of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions" [1]
And regarding methane, yes it is more potent as a greenhouse gas, but livestock warming the earth? They don't contribute anywhere near as much aggregate effect as carbon dioxide.
Global warming has the potential to significantly reduce or eliminate the population growth and sustainability / resource consumption problems we are facing.
And like any strong medicine it will be nasty to swallow.
Think of all the wonderful artistic works (tragedy makes for great story) to be produced as we experience a huge plenetary dying of many species and humans. It will be a rich inheritance for the few that make it through.
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you didn't read the paper. please read the paper and pay attention to the bits about authenticating network coded blocks generated by the clients. you may want to read about homomorphic hash algorithms as well.
you obviously did not understand the concept of the paper. please cite anything in the paper that would support your assertion regarding central error/online codes.
Uh dude, I wasn't exactly seeking to argue the point of whether pornography is good or bad.
that was exactly your point with this statement, unless you intended something entirely different:
"Islam does really derprive women of a lot of rights but then to they don't debase women as much as Western culture can, for example through pornography"
to me this read: western culture debases women more than Islam does through pornography. if that was not your intent then forgive my comments.
You in your cultural arrogance seem to have decided it is a wonderful and everyone who doesn't agree with you should go away and die.
c'mon, you can think of better ad hominem attacks! your other arguments against CIA adventurism and fundamental culteral impasses were much more eloquent.
I also am not so naive to think that it doesn't have detrimental impacts on society and there is a case to be made for constraints on it in some cultures.
so are you saying all porn is bad again? perhaps just certain types of porn, like child / rape porn? (i'd agree with you there)
So the key question is whether its entirely right to completely homogenize culture
of course not, and attempts to do so will fail. this is precisely why the attempts to "import" democracy will fail, and why fundamentalist attempts to "prohibit anything against the koran" will also fail.
Western culture has deep flaws including rampant greed and a delightful half and half of no moral compass on one side and ridiculously rigid morale compass from the other half
this kind of blanket assertion really annoys me; the fallacy that only religious people are moral is blatantly false yet so deliciously attractive to religious bigots.
morality has everything to do with personal responsibility and ethical sense and very little to do with religious affiliation or lack thereof.
you hint at this reality with your comment about the fundamentalist wingers here in america and the similiarity with the islamic fundamentalists in the middle east.
Islam does really derprive women of a lot of rights but then to they don't debase women as much as Western culture can, for example through pornography.
many women find types of pornography empowering and lucrative (making them self reliant). the old school feminists who fought against porn are a rightly dying breed.
if you are going to rant against women's debasement try rape and sexual abuse.
Absolutely. The most interesting part of the paper: a method of authenticate client generated network coded blocks, is conveniently mentioned but not discussed in any detail.
You can be sure this will be patented and protected as it is the key piece that makes network coding trustworthy.
They did attempt demonstrate how this is superior, by distributing the error coding to the clients (network coding) so that novel bits are rapidly incorporated into subsequent blocks, and also a secret method (read: patented) to authenticate distinct blocks generated by clients, which is pretty tricky. this is a vast improvement over centrally generated FEC blocks with authenticated checksums, which is not an improvement over bittorrent.
Read the article: Avalanche solves this problem and it is one of the conveniently missing details from the paper. You can bet their method of authentication network coded blocks in highly proprietary and will be patented.
Linux geeks are a vast, arguing herd of cats, and the "power vacuum" he describes in the leadership is likely to remain more like a quantum foam
I love this analogy: respect and authority in Open Source is attained via exceptional effort and quickly decays - very different from the power concentrated by corporate/government leadership which is much more adversarial and selfish in nature.
Oh, you read the title and thought "most powerful labor force in the world?! yeah!!"... not so fast. Others have commented on the not-so-subtle pretext of this article. Linux == Unions is a stretch (and meant to deter/repel business investment in Linux) but it goes even further.
This is just plain disgusting: This is power that Microsoft, Oracle, IBM and many governments could only dream of having. The power to control the press and the skills contained in this organization are likely capable of disrupting travel, power grids and other broad national infrastructure systems if their demands are not met.
The intent of this leader should be clear and offensive: Obey the new Open Source mafia or we will TEAR IT ALL DOWN!
Equating resistance against honestly distasteful tactics like SCO's groundless power grab or another Microsoft FUD report with terrorism against the state is so rediculously off base that it would be hilarious if the less enlightened didn't actually consider this a valid concern (and they will. the US Gov has gone ape shit over critical infrastructure secrecy. The terror attack that brought down the Russian grid is only going to fan these flames)
The real power of open source and Linux is that it shows without a doubt that cooperative methods of production actually work, and can be vastly more efficient than traditional competitive market based battles where someone always loses and the resources expended in a needless conflict simply wasted.
Open Source should be a model of cooperative and open process - a stark contrast to the often secretive and psychopathic dealings of large corporations directed by executives shielded behind a hierarchial diffusion of responsibility and completely beyond any form of authentic accountability.
When Microsoft touts their R&D budget and ability to innovate I am often a bit skeptical.
Oh how wrong I have been. Way to break new ground Microsoft! Keep these paradigm shifting features coming!
Is Grokster settled yet?
SCOTUS has not produced a formal decision yet. The outcome of that case will go a long way towards destroying or legitimizing these types of services.
cross your fingers...
that doesn't mean that maintaining filters / removing illicit links won't be a problem. hopefully this is something that can be mostly automated. filtering requirements brought down audiogalaxy for example :)
[I'm sure Bram has addressed this issue; I'm just curious to see how much effort they will expend complying]
Yadis is correctly described as distributed single sign on, not decentralized single sign on. Everyone still has their dedicated central identity server, it's just that requests from other sites can be delegated to your server instead of requiring only one for everybody.
distributed != decentralized!
Thank god this movie sounds like it will finally redeem lucas for episodes 1 & 2.
I have been cautiosly skeptical about this one, with my hopes heading higher after the PG-13 rating.
Now it finally appears that I can look forward to this movie as a fulfilling and engaging piece of work, without the crappy dialogue, annoying characters and tepid plot of the first two episodes.
Finally, redemption.
Install firefox and get less malware on your system. Less calls for me to de-spyware their slow and crashy machine.
Use linux and don't become a botnet zombie sending spam and UDP floods to hapless victims across the net.
things like that...
Passwords suck. If you want strong authentication use a hardware fob. Like SecurID or iButton.
If you really want to go all out get a vascular hand scanning biometric device. Like the banks in Japan have started rolling out.
But seriously, a 50 char password? Don't bother. Many applications simply truncate passwords silently past a given count. Use a smaller password with more entropy. Harder to remember but 50 chars is too much.
Ok, ok. some people love weird long passphrases. Fine, but you can't use passphrases for most password entry fields. That's all I'm saying.
I found the key logger quote amusing. This isn't that bad of an idea; although if anyone suspects you are security savvy they wont use an obvious dongle. They will embedd the logger inside the keyboard. Does he wrap his keyboard in a tamper evident package?
Last but not least, why use Windows if you are that paranoid? Trustix Security Linux or some other distro which provides strong access controls within the kernel and secure defaults for applications and permissions is a much better choice.
A bit of malware could make an end run around all those passwords and careful preparation.
My $0.02
"We realized that you simply need to add this new key ingredient, the ripples of spacetime generated during the epoch of inflation, to Einstein's General Relativity to explain why the universe is accelerating today," Riotto says. "It seems that the solution to the puzzle of acceleration involves the universe beyond our cosmic horizon. No mysterious dark energy is required."
sweet; thanks for this info. i hadn't heard of it before.
i could handle the "disclaimer" stickers in science text books. hell, i scribble and sticker all over them myself.
i could handle the wrangling for intelligent design in the classroom; national geographic weighed in with a great big "NO." as needed (as well as many other publications).
the loss of a decent sex ed program was no big deal to me. i've got the internet which provides more intimitate detail on male / female reproductive anatomy than all the text books on the planet.
however, the cosmology film sounds absolutely fascinating; what the fuck?
i mean, you JUST DON'T SCREW WITH IMAX. this is the last straw!!!
The low lending rates for mortguages are causing the majority of price inflation for property. How many homeowners do you know of that refinanced or traded up over the last few years?
:)
The housing market is going through a similar kind of inflated bubble that the stocks went through. The only thing we don't know is what the crash is going to look like. A small downhil slide for a number of years or a stomach churning drop in valuations over the spans of a few months?
For those who complain about the speed of strong digests the VIA Mini-ITX platform with the C5J / C5x? processors from Centaur include the Padlock Engine (as they call it) that implements SHA-1 and 256 on core.
Implementing SHA-256 on core means many times faster performance than a 64bit Itanium on a small 1.4Ghz 10W processor.
Ok, fine.
assuming 704 pounds of CO2 per person per year that gives us 1915 million metric tons per year for 6 billion people.
with a global output of _at least_ 6036 million metric tons produced from fossil fuels (petrol, coal) your argument is obviously flawed. and our consumption of fossil fuels is only increasing.
How about you show me YOUR numbers?
Have you any idea how much CO2 is emitted by 6 Billion breathing humans every year? That amount is far greater than the amount that has been emitted by all the oil that has been burned in the last 100 years.
t ent/Climate.html
You're kidding me, right? Please tell me you are kidding. Even the EPA admits that "Fossil fuels burned to run cars and trucks, heat homes and businesses, and power factories are responsible for about 98% of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions" [1]
And regarding methane, yes it is more potent as a greenhouse gas, but livestock warming the earth? They don't contribute anywhere near as much aggregate effect as carbon dioxide.
1. http://yosemite.epa.gov/OAR/globalwarming.nsf/con
Global warming has the potential to significantly reduce or eliminate the population growth and sustainability / resource consumption problems we are facing.
And like any strong medicine it will be nasty to swallow.
Think of all the wonderful artistic works (tragedy makes for great story) to be produced as we experience a huge plenetary dying of many species and humans. It will be a rich inheritance for the few that make it through.
w00t
Sweet. I always wondered what that initial seed of digital intelligence would look like. Now i know... :)