well.. that's why everyone should install a crypto app from the market then..
Simply installing such an app is of little use per se. One must install and use it. It's strongly recommended that it be one of the FOSS apps, as they are less likely to have back doors open to the NSA or other malefactors.
Where in the USA can you get a business class internet connection for 50 dollars a month? No standard connections allow servers.
I don't know about the USA, but here in rural Finland, I have 100/100Mbps fiber at home for about that price and run a web server. The service has no restrictions and no capacity limits. Last month, my webserver uploaded 348Gbyte, and this month will be about the same (343Gbyte so far). When I say there are no capacity limits, I mean it: our contract is silent on everything other than 100Mbit in each second; no ports are blocked or redirected by the ISP (however our firewall is configured to do a lot of blocking).
FWIW, there are no ads at all on our server. Its bandwidth is mostly used by people streaming or downloading videos of people dancing or riding horses.
Weasel words. Walling off content is effectively the same thing.
And by incorporating DRM in the standard, they're guaranteeing that this walling-off of content will become so much easier to do. The walling-off will even comply with standards, instead of being fairly ad-hoc and deviating from standards as at present.
You can get married at city hall without involving a church; there is no reason to involve a 'church' at all. Atheists get married all the time, and don't require the blessing of a church. You can get married by a justice of the peace or a ship's captain without ever once invoking god.
That's the way my wife and I entered wedlock, decades ago. Officially at the state registry office with a minimum of witnesses (it was not a large office), then a social ceremony for guests conducted by a ship's officer - actually the purser of the ship, not the captain. No religions were involved in any way in either process, and remain thus in our lives and those of our children.
The state aspect should indeed be separated from the social/religious aspect of wedlock. For the state, it involves one's status for taxes, insurance, inheritance, and so forth. Socially, it involves those whom one wishes to be present to witness the event (or just to give gifts, if that's your bent). Its religious component should be no more relevant than a baptism or bar-mitzvah or whatever - of possible importance to others sharing the same religious delusions, but irrelevant to those having other religious delusions or having a lack of religious delusions.
Surely the NSA is the biggest piece of Malware out there right now, I hope google added them to this list.
One of the biggest distributors of malware, certainly, but they outsource this function to numerous others (possibly including Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, etc.). The NSA is probably also one of the biggest purchasers of malware.
And I have only happy memories of Cyrix. In particular, I had a Toshiba T5200 with an alleged 20MHz 386. This exhibited the protected-mode bug which was only supposed to afflict 16MHz early 386 chips (maybe it was just overclocked). So although it worked fine with OS/2 2.0, the command shell had a curious bug in the beta of OS/2 2.1 (it only affected command line editing). It also crashed regularly with Windows 3.0
The T5200 behaved perfectly with Windows 3.0 and OS/2 2.1 once the Intel 386 was upgraded to the Cyrix 40MHz pseudo-486. No heat-sink needed, of course.
If only Brin had shown them what Tullymandering could do instead...
Or he could have just pointed to the Streisand effect, which became known decades later.
Some useful definitions:
Lamb - meat from a juvenile sheep that was killed for its meat in its first year of life.
Hoggett - meat from a juvenile sheep that was killed for its meat after the first year of its life.
Mutton - meat from a sheep that lived long enough to be an adult before being killed for its meat.
Best not to be a lamb...
BTW, I have not come across anyone selling hoggett since I was a youngster. Even the butchers claim not to know what it is, despite it being widely sold a few decades ago. Apparently, they sell it as "lamb" nowadays.
Yeah, it's only software which you don't control and where updates can be required by specific games. So control of the users can be re-implemented in a future update, once they've got a sufficient market presence (locked-in customer base). Sony did it with the Other OS feature on the PS3, and Microsoft can do it with the call home "feature" and no-sharing "feature" on the XBone. Best if we just skip buying consoles or anything else with proprietary operating systems (RMS is quite right on this one).
JSR PC,@(SP)+
We always put a comment at the top of such code saying "only experienced programmers should attempt to modify coroutines". We meant it...
Before the PDP-11 (I used at least the 23, 34, 44, 70, and 73 series, later the Pro series), I used a couple of PDP-8 machines. Now booting those 12-bit wonders was a real lark, involving magic incantations, thumps, and a load of toggled-in instructions. Once you got it going, the paper tape reader worked like a charm (of the malevolent variety).
Almost forgot the IBM-360 and its card-punch and programs spanning several boxes of cards. BTW, although I chase kids off my lawn, I'm not actually retired yet.
I'll just leave this here. Some of them also allow predictions of undiscovered elements. At present, I can't say whether the new form differs from previous circular or spiral forms in any significant way, because its site has evidently been slashdotted.
Admit it. You all learned Latin on the off chance that you would find yourself in the past left to survive by your own wits.
Or because it was compulsory in those days, at least at my school. And since it was taught the "old-fashioned" way (using sadistic brutality, such that the Centurion's Latin lesson in Life Of Brian was eerily familiar), I actually learned the cursed lingo.
All interesting or useful topics were forbidden. Time travel to escape your teachers and/or homework deadlines would have been one of these.
They should just put an update to apt in the official repository that doesn't change anything except looking for that in the sources files and replaces it with the new correct one.
No need for a patch to apt just for this. If you're using signed packages only (as most people do), then all of those from the bogus debian-multimedia will be flagged as unsigned or improperly signed. It's simple to avoid using apt-key... 'nuff said.
This sounds like too large of an "insurance" to be useful. Most people don't have the bandwidth or the space to hold 1.7 TB of encrypted info.
Some of us do have the space[1] and bandwidth[2], but are utterly lacking in motivation to do so. Motivation would still be absent even if the file were unencrypted and the download had the blessing of the games companies. Big clue: we're not gamers, so we're not in thrall to games or gaming companies.
[1] We have 6 TB of available space in a single volume on a server at home
[2] We have 100Mbps symmetric fiber (with no caps) at home
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well.. that's why everyone should install a crypto app from the market then..
Simply installing such an app is of little use per se. One must install and use it. It's strongly recommended that it be one of the FOSS apps, as they are less likely to have back doors open to the NSA or other malefactors.
am I the only one that thinks this is useless complication that will make DNS more of a pain to work with simply so ICANN can grab money.
If you thought anything else, you'd definitely be the only one...
are a renewable resource.
Rabid zombies respectfully disagree...
I didn't know horses could dance. No wonder you get so many downloads.
Ignorance can be cured, of course. In addition to dressage (an olympic sport), you could try any of these.
Where in the USA can you get a business class internet connection for 50 dollars a month? No standard connections allow servers.
I don't know about the USA, but here in rural Finland, I have 100/100Mbps fiber at home for about that price and run a web server. The service has no restrictions and no capacity limits. Last month, my webserver uploaded 348Gbyte, and this month will be about the same (343Gbyte so far). When I say there are no capacity limits, I mean it: our contract is silent on everything other than 100Mbit in each second; no ports are blocked or redirected by the ISP (however our firewall is configured to do a lot of blocking).
FWIW, there are no ads at all on our server. Its bandwidth is mostly used by people streaming or downloading videos of people dancing or riding horses.
Where did my childhood go.
If you're not still in your childhood, you must be in a coffin.
Childhood should last almost a century.
I need not necessarily be neither non-agreeing nor non-disagreeeing with the previous poster.
Obviously enough, to any engineer.
Weasel words. Walling off content is effectively the same thing.
And by incorporating DRM in the standard, they're guaranteeing that this walling-off of content will become so much easier to do. The walling-off will even comply with standards, instead of being fairly ad-hoc and deviating from standards as at present.
Hard to say. As of now, the only multi-monitor mode working is mirroring.
Can we choose which axis the displays are mirrored around?
Upside-down and left-to-right are so passé; a skewed mirroring axis would be better.
You can get married at city hall without involving a church; there is no reason to involve a 'church' at all. Atheists get married all the time, and don't require the blessing of a church. You can get married by a justice of the peace or a ship's captain without ever once invoking god.
That's the way my wife and I entered wedlock, decades ago. Officially at the state registry office with a minimum of witnesses (it was not a large office), then a social ceremony for guests conducted by a ship's officer - actually the purser of the ship, not the captain. No religions were involved in any way in either process, and remain thus in our lives and those of our children.
The state aspect should indeed be separated from the social/religious aspect of wedlock. For the state, it involves one's status for taxes, insurance, inheritance, and so forth. Socially, it involves those whom one wishes to be present to witness the event (or just to give gifts, if that's your bent). Its religious component should be no more relevant than a baptism or bar-mitzvah or whatever - of possible importance to others sharing the same religious delusions, but irrelevant to those having other religious delusions or having a lack of religious delusions.
Surely the NSA is the biggest piece of Malware out there right now, I hope google added them to this list.
One of the biggest distributors of malware, certainly, but they outsource this function to numerous others (possibly including Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, etc.). The NSA is probably also one of the biggest purchasers of malware.
And I have only happy memories of Cyrix. In particular, I had a Toshiba T5200 with an alleged 20MHz 386. This exhibited the protected-mode bug which was only supposed to afflict 16MHz early 386 chips (maybe it was just overclocked). So although it worked fine with OS/2 2.0, the command shell had a curious bug in the beta of OS/2 2.1 (it only affected command line editing). It also crashed regularly with Windows 3.0
The T5200 behaved perfectly with Windows 3.0 and OS/2 2.1 once the Intel 386 was upgraded to the Cyrix 40MHz pseudo-486. No heat-sink needed, of course.
It's being used as a metaphor.
If only Brin had shown them what Tullymandering could do instead...
Or he could have just pointed to the Streisand effect, which became known decades later.
Some useful definitions:
Lamb - meat from a juvenile sheep that was killed for its meat in its first year of life.
Hoggett - meat from a juvenile sheep that was killed for its meat after the first year of its life.
Mutton - meat from a sheep that lived long enough to be an adult before being killed for its meat.
Best not to be a lamb...
BTW, I have not come across anyone selling hoggett since I was a youngster. Even the butchers claim not to know what it is, despite it being widely sold a few decades ago. Apparently, they sell it as "lamb" nowadays.
I got to live in the most glorious period of the most glorious place on the earth.
This must be a reference to North Korea.
After all "It's only software" right?
Yeah, it's only software which you don't control and where updates can be required by specific games. So control of the users can be re-implemented in a future update, once they've got a sufficient market presence (locked-in customer base). Sony did it with the Other OS feature on the PS3, and Microsoft can do it with the call home "feature" and no-sharing "feature" on the XBone. Best if we just skip buying consoles or anything else with proprietary operating systems (RMS is quite right on this one).
Does not seem to work on Linux (even with Moonlight), checked in FireFox, Opera, and Chromium.
It's no wonder that NASA is rotting away.
JSR PC,@(SP)+
We always put a comment at the top of such code saying "only experienced programmers should attempt to modify coroutines". We meant it...
Before the PDP-11 (I used at least the 23, 34, 44, 70, and 73 series, later the Pro series), I used a couple of PDP-8 machines. Now booting those 12-bit wonders was a real lark, involving magic incantations, thumps, and a load of toggled-in instructions. Once you got it going, the paper tape reader worked like a charm (of the malevolent variety).
Almost forgot the IBM-360 and its card-punch and programs spanning several boxes of cards. BTW, although I chase kids off my lawn, I'm not actually retired yet.
I'll just leave this here. Some of them also allow predictions of undiscovered elements. At present, I can't say whether the new form differs from previous circular or spiral forms in any significant way, because its site has evidently been slashdotted.
Admit it. You all learned Latin on the off chance that you would find yourself in the past left to survive by your own wits.
Or because it was compulsory in those days, at least at my school. And since it was taught the "old-fashioned" way (using sadistic brutality, such that the Centurion's Latin lesson in Life Of Brian was eerily familiar), I actually learned the cursed lingo.
All interesting or useful topics were forbidden. Time travel to escape your teachers and/or homework deadlines would have been one of these.
Digitus impudicus ad hodierna effercio. MM anni? Mirum dictu!
They should just put an update to apt in the official repository that doesn't change anything except looking for that in the sources files and replaces it with the new correct one.
No need for a patch to apt just for this. If you're using signed packages only (as most people do), then all of those from the bogus debian-multimedia will be flagged as unsigned or improperly signed. It's simple to avoid using apt-key... 'nuff said.
All Google is saying is that it isn't all BadNews
Or merely that it would be WorseNews if BadNews were VeryBadNews.
I'm waiting for the print-it-yourself turbo Interociter!
It will put all non-turbo interociters to shame...
This sounds like too large of an "insurance" to be useful. Most people don't have the bandwidth or the space to hold 1.7 TB of encrypted info.
Some of us do have the space[1] and bandwidth[2], but are utterly lacking in motivation to do so. Motivation would still be absent even if the file were unencrypted and the download had the blessing of the games companies. Big clue: we're not gamers, so we're not in thrall to games or gaming companies.
[1] We have 6 TB of available space in a single volume on a server at home
[2] We have 100Mbps symmetric fiber (with no caps) at home