The Common Criteria security standards deal with the design of operating systems, not the implementation. It has been certified that the security system used in Windows 2000 is "well designed"; but this says nothing about how many bugs there might be in the code.
The US government doesn't even uniformly apply their own laws... How do you expect them to demand companies do?
I'm not USian, so I may be entirely wrong here... but isn't it possible to prosecute someone privately? Ie, you think they've broken the law, the police don't want to file charges, so you file them yourself (and take the place of public prosecutor)?
It would be perfectly good enough if third parties could take an ISP and a spammer to court and get the court to order the ISP to enforce their abuse policy.
There ought to be a law...
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We really need a law which requires Internet service providers to publicly disclose their terms of service -- that is, publicly disclose what terms of service they actually enforce.
After all, it's really just a consumer protection issue: Verio claims to have an active abuse department, and is thereby misleading people who assume that spammers on Verio's network will be shut down.
When was the last time you moved a computer from one network to another, but kept the same IP address?
Given that ARIN makes "micro-allocations" available to root servers (and other "critical infrastructure providers"), it would be quite possible for Verisign to move a root server while keeping the same IP address.
A telco cuts someone's telephone line because she didn't pay, then she sued the telco, claiming that she missed an important phone call costing her tons of money. Is this reasonable?
If your telephone line is disabled, callers receive a message telling them that "this line is out of service" or suchlike. The complaint here is that her account was not disabled, but she was refused access to it -- email continued to pile up, outside of her reach, while people assumed (from the lack of a bounce message) that it had reached her.
I doubt he was being nosy because he cared about Linux either way. He was probably just being nosy because he was told to sell the more expensive "server" hardware whenever possible.
While the EULA might indeed give them the legal right to send out email in your name, it does not give them the legal right to commit fraud. By sending out an email stating that "I sent you a greeting card. Please pick it up.", they are committing an act of fraud -- you didn't send a greeting card, but they are misleading the recipient into believing that you did, for their own profit.
Even if "by accepting this EULA, you give us permission to raid your bank account" were legal, "by accepting this EULA, you give us permission to rob a bank" is certainly not.
Modern medical knowledge (and practice) makes it very unlikely that a living person is going to be misidentified as dead. In the past, this was not the case; some medical historians have estimated that as many as one in ten thousand people were buried prematurely in medieval times, largely as a result of trauma or infection induced coma.
What he's saying is, the...er...well, he means that the, uh...
Look at it this way: Suppose the universe doesn't have any "edges" -- you can keep on going forever in a straight line without "falling off the edge of the world". Suppose further than there aren't any "wormholes" -- that given two paths between a pair of points, you can continuously deform one into the other. Finally, suppose that the universe is finite in volume.
Now, the first and third conditions above imply that the universe "folds in on itself". Add in the "no wormholes" condition, and Poincare's conjecture/theorem, and you find that there is only one possible way that it can fold in on itself -- as a hypersphere.
At least, that's the best explanation I can provide without any formal background in topology or astrophysics.
How stupid do you have to be to think you have a chance suing google over improving their technology
Isn't that what the DOJ did to Microsoft?
Trolls aside, Search King is claiming that Google used their dominant market position (in web searches) to shut down a competitor (Search King) in a different market (advertising).
Their actual case is absurdly weak, but it isn't nearly as crazy as some people are suggesting.
Simple explanation: There isn't any Nobel Prize in Economics. There is, however, the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel -- but while people call it a Nobel prize, it isn't, and the money for it comes from the Bank of Sweden (not from the Nobel trust).
Really, these days 'supercomputer' means absolutely anything you want it to be, although if I had to define it, I think probably the fairest definition would be 'anything that can run the LINPACK benchmark suite and get on the Top500 list'.
Personally, I'd refine that to "get onto the first page of the Top500 list"; but with either definition, the point remains that while some clusters can run the linpack benchmark, most render farms can't, and SETI@Home or distributed.net *certainly* can't.
"I don't know what programming language we're going to be using in 2000, but it's going to be called Fortran."
Ok, so we're not all using Fortran any more, but it isn't completely dead -- or rather, the language which is *now* called "Fortran" isn't completely dead, even though it has little in common with the original "Fortran" beyond the name.
... the point of GREs. Undergraduate entrance exams make sense; they verify that you have the prerequisite knowledge to take (pretty standard) undergraduate courses.
At the graduate level, however, you're supposed to be doing research. How do you define what knowledge is prerequisite for doing research in computer science? You can't -- all you can do is interview the students, get a feel for what sort of projects they are interested in, and decide if those projects sound as though they would be worth a degree.
Maybe things are different in the US of A, but I don't think I would personally want to study at any institution which would admit me on the basis of how well I did on an exam.
Another person often dubbed "creator of the internet" was Jon Postel. How would you compare your role with his; and, if you can answer such a loaded question, if the internet had to be invented without one of you, which person (not being involved) would constitute a greater loss?
What exactly is the difference between a Resume and a CV ?
CV == Curriculum Vitae; generally it includes more emphasis on academics and less on positions held.
But the two terms are used more or less interchangeably now, so (modulo the usual rules about customizing your resume to the job) you can generally just use the same sheet regardless of which they ask for.
I think Lindows is trying to follow the Napster model: 1. Create a product (it doesn't have to be any good). 2. Get everybody to sue you. 3. Take advantage of the publicity you've received by selling the company for a few million dollars.
Obviously, they haven't done (3) yet, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if AOL announced that they were buying Lindows.
I learned to spell by playing Sierra adventure games -- King's Quest I/II/III, Space Quest I/II -- where you had to move to the right position on the screen and then type the action you wanted to take.
Newer games, which simply require pointing and clicking, lack this benefit.
Unfortunately, another 'anti-terrorist' measure taken recently disallows claiming refugee status in Canada when entering from the U.S.
Not quite: It disallows claiming refugee status *from a third nation* when entering from the U.S. You can't enter from the U.S. and claim you're a refugee fleeing from Iraq, but you could still claim you're fleeing from the U.S.
LEAVE. When other governments impose repressive laws, people leave. They often leave everything they own behind, but they find new homes and build new lives for themselves in countries which allow them the freedoms they desire.
If people started flooding across the border into Canada and claiming refugee status, people certainly take notice.
You still have to execute millions upon millions of instructions just to generate the simplest page
Only if you write crappy code, or you have extremely complicated pages. A few hundred thousand cycles is reasonable for well written code generating a web page from cached data.
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The Common Criteria security standards deal with the design of operating systems, not the implementation. It has been certified that the security system used in Windows 2000 is "well designed"; but this says nothing about how many bugs there might be in the code.
The US government doesn't even uniformly apply their own laws... How do you expect them to demand companies do?
I'm not USian, so I may be entirely wrong here... but isn't it possible to prosecute someone privately? Ie, you think they've broken the law, the police don't want to file charges, so you file them yourself (and take the place of public prosecutor)?
It would be perfectly good enough if third parties could take an ISP and a spammer to court and get the court to order the ISP to enforce their abuse policy.
We really need a law which requires Internet service providers to publicly disclose their terms of service -- that is, publicly disclose what terms of service they actually enforce.
After all, it's really just a consumer protection issue: Verio claims to have an active abuse department, and is thereby misleading people who assume that spammers on Verio's network will be shut down.
When was the last time you moved a computer from one network to another, but kept the same IP address?
Given that ARIN makes "micro-allocations" available to root servers (and other "critical infrastructure providers"), it would be quite possible for Verisign to move a root server while keeping the same IP address.
A telco cuts someone's telephone line because she didn't pay, then she sued the telco, claiming that she missed an important phone call costing her tons of money. Is this reasonable?
If your telephone line is disabled, callers receive a message telling them that "this line is out of service" or suchlike. The complaint here is that her account was not disabled, but she was refused access to it -- email continued to pile up, outside of her reach, while people assumed (from the lack of a bounce message) that it had reached her.
I doubt he was being nosy because he cared about Linux either way. He was probably just being nosy because he was told to sell the more expensive "server" hardware whenever possible.
While the EULA might indeed give them the legal right to send out email in your name, it does not give them the legal right to commit fraud. By sending out an email stating that "I sent you a greeting card. Please pick it up.", they are committing an act of fraud -- you didn't send a greeting card, but they are misleading the recipient into believing that you did, for their own profit.
Even if "by accepting this EULA, you give us permission to raid your bank account" were legal, "by accepting this EULA, you give us permission to rob a bank" is certainly not.
Why is this a bad idea now?
Modern medical knowledge (and practice) makes it very unlikely that a living person is going to be misidentified as dead. In the past, this was not the case; some medical historians have estimated that as many as one in ten thousand people were buried prematurely in medieval times, largely as a result of trauma or infection induced coma.
discretely
Or, more specifically, in groups, and in fields.
What he's saying is, the...er...well, he means that the, uh...
Look at it this way:
Suppose the universe doesn't have any "edges" -- you can keep on going forever in a straight line without "falling off the edge of the world". Suppose further than there aren't any "wormholes" -- that given two paths between a pair of points, you can continuously deform one into the other. Finally, suppose that the universe is finite in volume.
Now, the first and third conditions above imply that the universe "folds in on itself". Add in the "no wormholes" condition, and Poincare's conjecture/theorem, and you find that there is only one possible way that it can fold in on itself -- as a hypersphere.
At least, that's the best explanation I can provide without any formal background in topology or astrophysics.
Linux ** (just take care of all the letter names at once)
If you only want to take care of two letter tags, shouldn't that be:
Linux ??
How stupid do you have to be to think you have a chance suing google over improving their technology
Isn't that what the DOJ did to Microsoft?
Trolls aside, Search King is claiming that Google used their dominant market position (in web searches) to shut down a competitor (Search King) in a different market (advertising).
Their actual case is absurdly weak, but it isn't nearly as crazy as some people are suggesting.
In FreeBSD, the default times for daily/weekly/monthly cron jobs are chosen so that they don't fall within the daylight savings time mess.
Simple explanation: There isn't any Nobel Prize in Economics. There is, however, the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel -- but while people call it a Nobel prize, it isn't, and the money for it comes from the Bank of Sweden (not from the Nobel trust).
Really, these days 'supercomputer' means absolutely anything you want it to be, although if I had to define it, I think probably the fairest definition would be 'anything that can run the LINPACK benchmark suite and get on the Top500 list'.
Personally, I'd refine that to "get onto the first page of the Top500 list"; but with either definition, the point remains that while some clusters can run the linpack benchmark, most render farms can't, and SETI@Home or distributed.net *certainly* can't.
"I don't know what programming language we're going to be using in 2000, but it's going to be called Fortran."
Ok, so we're not all using Fortran any more, but it isn't completely dead -- or rather, the language which is *now* called "Fortran" isn't completely dead, even though it has little in common with the original "Fortran" beyond the name.
... the point of GREs. Undergraduate entrance exams make sense; they verify that you have the prerequisite knowledge to take (pretty standard) undergraduate courses.
At the graduate level, however, you're supposed to be doing research. How do you define what knowledge is prerequisite for doing research in computer science? You can't -- all you can do is interview the students, get a feel for what sort of projects they are interested in, and decide if those projects sound as though they would be worth a degree.
Maybe things are different in the US of A, but I don't think I would personally want to study at any institution which would admit me on the basis of how well I did on an exam.
Another person often dubbed "creator of the internet" was Jon Postel. How would you compare your role with his; and, if you can answer such a loaded question, if the internet had to be invented without one of you, which person (not being involved) would constitute a greater loss?
What exactly is the difference between a Resume and a CV ?
CV == Curriculum Vitae; generally it includes more emphasis on academics and less on positions held.
But the two terms are used more or less interchangeably now, so (modulo the usual rules about customizing your resume to the job) you can generally just use the same sheet regardless of which they ask for.
I think Lindows is trying to follow the Napster model:
1. Create a product (it doesn't have to be any good).
2. Get everybody to sue you.
3. Take advantage of the publicity you've received by selling the company for a few million dollars.
Obviously, they haven't done (3) yet, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if AOL announced that they were buying Lindows.
I learned to spell by playing Sierra adventure games -- King's Quest I/II/III, Space Quest I/II -- where you had to move to the right position on the screen and then type the action you wanted to take.
Newer games, which simply require pointing and clicking, lack this benefit.
Unfortunately, another 'anti-terrorist' measure taken recently disallows claiming refugee status in Canada when entering from the U.S.
Not quite: It disallows claiming refugee status *from a third nation* when entering from the U.S. You can't enter from the U.S. and claim you're a refugee fleeing from Iraq, but you could still claim you're fleeing from the U.S.
LEAVE. When other governments impose repressive laws, people leave. They often leave everything they own behind, but they find new homes and build new lives for themselves in countries which allow them the freedoms they desire.
If people started flooding across the border into Canada and claiming refugee status, people certainly take notice.
How are you caching data? How are you locking/cleaning/managing/clearing that cache?
I'm not. The operating system is.
You still have to execute millions upon millions of instructions just to generate the simplest page
Only if you write crappy code, or you have extremely complicated pages. A few hundred thousand cycles is reasonable for well written code generating a web page from cached data.