Almost. Now that the RSA patent is in the public domain, Mozilla crypto development can proceed with minimal restrictions.
If they are worrying about RSA algorithms, then they are reinventing the wheel, IMO. OpenSSL and other crypto libs take care of the worrying for you.
Also, OpenSSL is cross-platform enough for the architectures I develop for: Solaris, Linux, Windows, *BSD*, and HP-UX. Is there a problem with other systems?
In the near future the Mozilla code base will include a complete open source cryptographic library, and Mozilla will include SSL support as a standard feature.
Why don't they just use OpenSSL? Mozilla - reinventing the wheel, one spoke at a time.
Seriously, Mozilla's biggest problem is that they don't know how to narrow the scope of what they want to accomplish. They've written all these abstract libraries, widgets, and application frameworks just to write a browser. There are easier ways to build a cross platform browser than rewriting everything from scratch. How about using other open source libraries? Partnerships with or just taking over existing projects? These guys are almost as bad as the KDE guys. The other (related) thing they are fundamentaly wrong-headed about is staying with the integrated news-reader,mail-client,address-book,(internet-app -of-the-week), browser plan. Huge apps that do everything suck. Build a nice browser. Work with others on how to communicate between your browser any MUA out there, etc. Release 1.0 in 2 years instead of 5.
That said, I use mozilla or galeon (mozilla rendering engine) exclusively, it's really coming along - nice work guys.
Yeah - I have this book. It's very nicely done. A few years old now, so I don't know it's out of date on any of the research, but given that a prevailing theme in the book was that AI is a lot harder than we thought, and the stuff depicted in 2001 is mostly way off, I doubt if it is (out of date).
If only Dave had 802.11b, he could have hacked into hal to get those doors open. Of course, since Hal never made any mistakes, I suspect he would use better than 56bit encryption.
The term you are looking for is "geostationary". Geosynchronous means the orbit lasts one day - for example a satellite with an orbit inclined with respect to the equator, or one with a non-circular orbit. All geostationary satellites are geosynchronous, but not the other way around.
To be viewable from 450 miles away, the put feild must of been a *bit* more than just for his own consumption. When you know that each meter is one pixel, and it takes more that a few pixels to determine that it's indeed marijuana
You're both wrong and right:
Wrong because detection of plants can be done where the plants subtend far less than the projected pixel size. Techniques using mutliple detector tuned for frequencies across the spectrum (at least IR, Visible, and UV) and especially ratios between those multiple frequencies, plant identification and other interesting things can be determined. Don't be trapped by thinking imaging is the best method of remote sensing.
Right because using just imaging, you would need far more than "a few" pixels to determine that the plant is pot - I'd guess you need sub centimeter resolution.
There aren't any satellites with 9 minute orbits around the earth. For fun, calculate the altitude that this hypothetical orbit would have. Wouldn't that be fun to look down on satellites racing by from the comfort of your first class airline seat?
Incidentally, am I the only one who is tired of "I used to like Katz, but now, with this horrific review of such-and-such, I have to change my mind"?
What, can't you read? For every Katz article there are always many lame apologists defending Katz's unalienable right to post his pointless amateurish movie reviews to slashdot. The Katz defending alsmost always sound something like your "incidental defense". "Am I the only one?" - Jesus man - scroll up or check out every other Katz movie review. There's always some twit like yourself defending him.
Good question. I've thought about this, and the only conclusion I can come up with is that Excite is one of the worst managed companies in existence.
Their revenue is at least $40 * 4 million customers / month. I say "at least" because some customers pay for extra IPs, and I'm only considering the subscription fees, not the $150 I paid to have mine set up (though I've seen they had been waiving that lately). So anyway, the monthly revenue is greater than $160 Million, yearly revenue around $2 Billion.
So where the hell does all this money go? They're loosing $6 million a week, meaning their operating expenses are up around $2.3 Billion. I've never used their tech support, but the word is that it sucks. I took them 3 tries to get mine installed; that kind of snafu is expensive.
Their other big mistake in my opinion was trying to be a portal as well as an ISP. How much did/do they spend writing and supporting that crappy home page, their own java based web application as their deliver main portal, etc.? It's all a bunch a crap, anyway. I've used it maybe twice in the last 2.5 years.
If they had just concentrated on maintaining the network and hardware, they could easily have stayed in the black with $2 billion a year to work with.
Of course I'm a little bitter, because after 2.5 years and over $1000 paid to these assholes they're shutting me down.
Yeah, If I see one more person on a horse talking on his cell phone, I may go 'postal'. These rude horseback riders are the scourge of American trails, fields, and horse-approved beaches. They pay no attention to other horses, riders, or other livestock, they rarely signal, and in general ride like they have their heads up their horse's ass. I just put an ass-sticker on my horse that says "hang up and ride". Funny, but hopefully it will make those rude riders sit up and take notice.
(with the exception of the single-use pad that comes close)
It does better than "close": a one-time pad is unbreakable in the traditional sense. That is, it is not suspeptible to any cryptoanalysis save the kind where you beat the key out of the owner with a blunt object.
Go read the story with the Linus interview from earlier this week. He specifically says more than once that competition with windows is not something he cares about. According to the chief architecture, windows is irrelavent. Of course, who is he to disagree with you?
It uses silicon sensors that can recognize the "shape" of each finger.
These sensors could be installed in artificial breasts - automatically warning jealous husbands when a finger other than their own is touching the breast.
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Nice work, and thank you
I'd say you must be new here, but your user id is too low for that. Hmmm, did you get a good deal for it on ebay?
If they are worrying about RSA algorithms, then they are reinventing the wheel, IMO. OpenSSL and other crypto libs take care of the worrying for you.
Also, OpenSSL is cross-platform enough for the architectures I develop for: Solaris, Linux, Windows, *BSD*, and HP-UX. Is there a problem with other systems?
Why don't they just use OpenSSL? Mozilla - reinventing the wheel, one spoke at a time.
Seriously, Mozilla's biggest problem is that they don't know how to narrow the scope of what they want to accomplish. They've written all these abstract libraries, widgets, and application frameworks just to write a browser. There are easier ways to build a cross platform browser than rewriting everything from scratch. How about using other open source libraries? Partnerships with or just taking over existing projects? These guys are almost as bad as the KDE guys. The other (related) thing they are fundamentaly wrong-headed about is staying with the integrated news-reader,mail-client,address-book,(internet-app -of-the-week), browser plan. Huge apps that do everything suck. Build a nice browser. Work with others on how to communicate between your browser any MUA out there, etc. Release 1.0 in 2 years instead of 5.
That said, I use mozilla or galeon (mozilla rendering engine) exclusively, it's really coming along - nice work guys.
HTH
You're both wrong and right:
Wrong because detection of plants can be done where the plants subtend far less than the projected pixel size. Techniques using mutliple detector tuned for frequencies across the spectrum (at least IR, Visible, and UV) and especially ratios between those multiple frequencies, plant identification and other interesting things can be determined. Don't be trapped by thinking imaging is the best method of remote sensing.
Right because using just imaging, you would need far more than "a few" pixels to determine that the plant is pot - I'd guess you need sub centimeter resolution.
What, can't you read? For every Katz article there are always many lame apologists defending Katz's unalienable right to post his pointless amateurish movie reviews to slashdot. The Katz defending alsmost always sound something like your "incidental defense". "Am I the only one?" - Jesus man - scroll up or check out every other Katz movie review. There's always some twit like yourself defending him.
Do they work with Digital Cable being served up by the likes of AT+T and others?
TIA
Their revenue is at least $40 * 4 million customers / month. I say "at least" because some customers pay for extra IPs, and I'm only considering the subscription fees, not the $150 I paid to have mine set up (though I've seen they had been waiving that lately). So anyway, the monthly revenue is greater than $160 Million, yearly revenue around $2 Billion.
So where the hell does all this money go? They're loosing $6 million a week, meaning their operating expenses are up around $2.3 Billion. I've never used their tech support, but the word is that it sucks. I took them 3 tries to get mine installed; that kind of snafu is expensive.
Their other big mistake in my opinion was trying to be a portal as well as an ISP. How much did/do they spend writing and supporting that crappy home page, their own java based web application as their deliver main portal, etc.? It's all a bunch a crap, anyway. I've used it maybe twice in the last 2.5 years. If they had just concentrated on maintaining the network and hardware, they could easily have stayed in the black with $2 billion a year to work with.
Of course I'm a little bitter, because after 2.5 years and over $1000 paid to these assholes they're shutting me down.
It does better than "close": a one-time pad is unbreakable in the traditional sense. That is, it is not suspeptible to any cryptoanalysis save the kind where you beat the key out of the owner with a blunt object.
HTH.
Does Amazon know about this? Someone call Bezos!
One assumes this is the task for which they are employed, not some contigency occurence for which operating manuals would be referenced.
HTH
Go read the story with the Linus interview from earlier this week. He specifically says more than once that competition with windows is not something he cares about. According to the chief architecture, windows is irrelavent. Of course, who is he to disagree with you?
These sensors could be installed in artificial breasts - automatically warning jealous husbands when a finger other than their own is touching the breast.
Thank you very much - I'll be here all week.