The U.S. should work on getting less corrupt government first. Did you check out how many cases were overturned last year on prosecutorial misconduct? Then lets look at congressman who hold important bills hostage because they aren't getting their pork barrel projects tail coated on to the bills.
Aren't GNUtella and Freenet totally anonymous? Couldn't people still use those services and not get caught. Also perhaps the RIAA could have sent letters instead of subpoena's first to scare the parents, and save everyone some money in the process.
What is crazier then the images is the fact that those of us going to WWDC next week are going to pay Apple up to 2 grand to let us drink their kool-aid..............and get to talk directly to the engineers, marketing, etc. But hey.
Apple gives you access to exclusive tracks, and a better selection the Press Play. I personally would rather pay a little more, own the selection for life, have more digital rights with the music, have access to more music, and not be teathered by a monthly subscription like Press Play.
Theo's fat unfiltered trap finally has cost him something big. Maybe he will finally learn to be a little more diplomatic.
NSA Employs mathmaticians, Google employs them too
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Should you Fear Google?
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Matt Cutts, a key Google engineer, used to work for the National Security Agency."
I have no idea what Matt Cutts does for Google, but:
1. Isn't the NSA the worlds largest employer of mathmaticians. (They use to brag abou that on there web site.) I imagine Google has a lot of use for mathmaticians.
2. The NSA I imagine is a fairly picky employer. Not just for the background checks either. The people in their research division (Can we say SE-Linux) are not push overs.
Some applications we want to use are not going to be open source. TurboTax does a good job of preparing your tax's and making sure you don't screw up and get audited by the IRS. Plus, TurboTax is/was one of the most pirated applications out there. The question I have is that, since it is pretty obvious that writing to the boot sector is a bad idea. So what should Intuit do?
Doesn't it really boil down to that the humanities like english lit, creative writing, to a large degree are subjective. One person thinks Tom Clancy is great, then next thinks he is crap. But in subjects like Math, there is usually one right answer, or a set of distinct criterium. That algorithim is either giving the right answer or it is not.
Isn't this how the capitalist system works? Someone makes a product that is better or cheaper or both that upsets the existing balance of things. Which forces the existing competitors to become better or faster or both.
Considering the primary motivations seem to be to improve GNOME development tools and increase Windows compatability, is the MacOS port just a throwaway comment or are there serious plans?
With companies like Sybase, Oracle, and Cache supporting Mac OS X. Mac OS X is no longer a platform you can discount.
A lot of the posters and people in general seem to go from diagnosis to diagnosis until they find/found one they like. Eg. "The quirky kid." Or even the original person who wrote into Slashdot. They don't want to believe there kid has a problem. Well guess what they do! Maybe your kid has ADHD, maybe he/she doesn't. If your kid takes Ritalin (a stimulant) and gets even more hyper, then they probably don't have ADHD. If they slow down and don't seem as hyper, then ritalin is working. Why? Because Ritalin is a stimulant! Doctors have been known to give senior citizens Ritalin to get them more hyper. I took Ritalin, and I went from a 2.0 to a 3.0. It obviously worked. Kids have issues, some can be corrected by their environment, some need medication. Ritalin helps a lot of kids. The poster has said his daughter is happier on Ritalin. This should be a sign that she is doing better. Ritalin is probably working for her.
PS. When you do your research, keep in mind there are tons of web pages that say vaccines cause autisim. Consider the sources of the research on the internet. Don't go looking for the answer you want to hear.
Unless your a Mac OS X user
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Apple has been shipping 3.1 in the 10.2 development tools. Last time I checked Apple applied its own patches to gcc also, in the version it ships.
Isn't this no different the pirating pay-per-view, or stealing cable all together via illegal descrambler. Personally I think a good lawyer can make minced meat out of the prosecution in this case.
The report also no makes no differentation between Open Source Software like FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Apache; and Free Software which generally always refers to software under the GPL or LGPL. Like Linux, gcc, or GNATS.
"The word free in FOSS refers not to fiscal cost, but to the autonomy rights that FOSS grants its users. (A better word for zero-cost software, which lacks such rights, is freeware.) The phrase open source1 emphasizes the right of users to study, change, and improve the source codethat is, the detailed designof FOSS applications. Software that qualifies as free almost always also qualifies as open source, and vice versa, since both phrases derive from the same set of software user rights2 formulated in the late 1980s by Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation."
The writer of this report does not make differentation between Open Source and Free Software. He call's things under a BSD license with no cost, and no restriction on rights, freeware. (Freeware does not mean OSS. Freeware is closed source software, that is given away at no cost.) While in the next setence pushing the view that all OSS is GPL'ed.
Last I checked the BSD's were first: "The General Public License (GPL)4 is the original FOSS license, and GPL software is simply FOSS software that is covered by the GPL." Page 12
This report is really full of holes. In the chart it says that BSD and Artistic licensed software cannot be combined with closed source software.
In this paragraph MITRE seems to infer that GPL'ed software is some how more secure, or better able to be secured then other software.
"For Security, use of GPL within groups with well-defined security boundaries should be encouraged to promote faster, more locally autonomous responses to cyber threats. " Page 3, Example 2.
This really makes no sense to me. Especially when the majority of the software they list as "heavily used infrastrucuture tools such as "Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Samba, Apache, Perl, GCC, GNAT, XFree86, OpenSSH, bind, and sendmail," are a good portion of NOT licensed under the GPL. (Yes I realize some, are but the majority of that list are not.)
Doesn't make a lot of sense. Considering most people would agree the most secure OS out there is OpenBSD.
Darwin is no longer a true micro-kernel. Maybe people will stop bitching. Apple has taken the best of both worlds and combined them.
Read Apple's Docs on there developer site: "The core of any operating system is its kernel. The Mac OS X kernel is also known as XNU. Though Mac OS X shares much of its underlying architecture with BSD, the kernel is one area where they differ significantly. XNU is based on the Mach microkernel design, but it also incorporates BSD features. It is not technically a microkernel implementation, but still has many of the benefits of a microkernel. Why is it designed like this? Pure Mach allows you to run an operating system as a separate process on the system that allows for flexibility, but can also slow things down because of the translation between Mach and the layers above it. With Mac OS X, since the desired behavior of the operating system is known, BSD functionality has been incorporated in the kernel alongside Mach. The result is that the kernel combines the strengths of Mach with the strengths of BSD.
After the iMac came out. Every company did a nock off. They all failed. Now there is a nock off of the Apple Titantium Power Book. I think it will fail too. And not just because this economy sucks.
Because it lacks that certain refinment that makes the Apple Titantium Power Book so nice. Same with the majority of Apple's products. There is a certain attention to detail that shows up in the product from Apple, that you don't find in other vendors products. That is what makes Apple's products special.
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The U.S. should work on getting less corrupt government first. Did you check out how many cases were overturned last year on prosecutorial misconduct?
Then lets look at congressman who hold important bills hostage because they aren't getting their pork barrel projects tail coated on to the bills.
the Andrew File System (AFS), and to some degree it sucessor DFS.
Aren't GNUtella and Freenet totally anonymous? Couldn't people still use those services and not get caught. Also perhaps the RIAA could have sent letters instead of subpoena's first to scare the parents, and save everyone some money in the process.
What is crazier then the images is the fact that those of us going to WWDC next week are going to pay Apple up to 2 grand to let us drink their kool-aid. .............and get to talk directly to the engineers, marketing, etc. But hey.
The PowerPC 970 would one of the biggest announcements for Apple in recent memory. They wouldn not send a VP to do it, they would send Steve J.
Apple gives you access to exclusive tracks, and a better selection the Press Play. I personally would rather pay a little more, own the selection for life, have more digital rights with the music, have access to more music, and not be teathered by a monthly subscription like Press Play.
I would think a small office would be much easier to convert then a large office.
Theo's fat unfiltered trap finally has cost him something big. Maybe he will finally learn to be a little more diplomatic.
I have no idea what Matt Cutts does for Google, but:
1. Isn't the NSA the worlds largest employer of mathmaticians. (They use to brag abou that on there web site.) I imagine Google has a lot of use for mathmaticians.
2. The NSA I imagine is a fairly picky employer. Not just for the background checks either. The people in their research division (Can we say SE-Linux) are not push overs.
Some applications we want to use are not going to be open source. TurboTax does a good job of preparing your tax's and making sure you don't screw up and get audited by the IRS. Plus, TurboTax is/was one of the most pirated applications out there.
The question I have is that, since it is pretty obvious that writing to the boot sector is a bad idea. So what should Intuit do?
Heck we still have eBay to buy the old arcade games on. =)
Someone forgot to tell them that AES has replaced DES as the SBU standard.
Doesn't it really boil down to that the humanities like english lit, creative writing, to a large degree are subjective. One person thinks Tom Clancy is great, then next thinks he is crap.
But in subjects like Math, there is usually one right answer, or a set of distinct criterium. That algorithim is either giving the right answer or it is not.
Isn't this how the capitalist system works?
Someone makes a product that is better or cheaper or both that upsets the existing balance of things. Which forces the existing competitors to become better or faster or both.
My only problem with this is if everyone was leaving in 90's. Then who is moving into all those damn houses paid for by Cisco stock options?
With companies like Sybase, Oracle, and Cache supporting Mac OS X. Mac OS X is no longer a platform you can discount.
A lot of the posters and people in general seem to go from diagnosis to diagnosis until they find/found one they like. Eg. "The quirky kid." Or even the original person who wrote into Slashdot. They don't want to believe there kid has a problem. Well guess what they do!
Maybe your kid has ADHD, maybe he/she doesn't. If your kid takes Ritalin (a stimulant) and gets even more hyper, then they probably don't have ADHD. If they slow down and don't seem as hyper, then ritalin is working. Why? Because Ritalin is a stimulant! Doctors have been known to give senior citizens Ritalin to get them more hyper.
I took Ritalin, and I went from a 2.0 to a 3.0. It obviously worked. Kids have issues, some can be corrected by their environment, some need medication.
Ritalin helps a lot of kids. The poster has said his daughter is happier on Ritalin. This should be a sign that she is doing better. Ritalin is probably working for her.
PS. When you do your research, keep in mind there are tons of web pages that say vaccines cause autisim. Consider the sources of the research on the internet. Don't go looking for the answer you want to hear.
Apple has been shipping 3.1 in the 10.2 development tools. Last time I checked Apple applied its own patches to gcc also, in the version it ships.
Isn't this no different the pirating pay-per-view, or stealing cable all together via illegal descrambler.
Personally I think a good lawyer can make minced meat out of the prosecution in this case.
The report also no makes no differentation between Open Source Software like FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Apache; and Free Software which generally always refers to software under the GPL or LGPL. Like Linux, gcc, or GNATS.
"The word free in FOSS refers not to fiscal cost, but to the autonomy rights that FOSS grants its users. (A better word for zero-cost software, which lacks such rights, is freeware.) The phrase open source1 emphasizes the right of users to study, change, and improve the source codethat is, the detailed designof FOSS applications. Software that qualifies as free almost always also qualifies as open source, and vice versa, since both phrases derive from the same set of software user rights2 formulated in the late 1980s by Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation."
The writer of this report does not make differentation between Open Source and Free Software. He call's things under a BSD license with no cost, and no restriction on rights, freeware. (Freeware does not mean OSS. Freeware is closed source software, that is given away at no cost.) While in the next setence pushing the view that all OSS is GPL'ed.
This report is a grave disapointment.
Last I checked the BSD's were first:
"The General Public License (GPL)4 is the original FOSS license, and GPL software is simply FOSS software that is covered by the GPL."
Page 12
This report is really full of holes. In the chart it says that BSD and Artistic licensed software cannot be combined with closed source software.
In this paragraph MITRE seems to infer that GPL'ed software is some how more secure, or better able to be secured then other software.
"For Security, use of GPL within
groups with well-defined security boundaries should be encouraged to promote faster,
more locally autonomous responses to cyber threats. "
Page 3, Example 2.
This really makes no sense to me. Especially when the majority of the software they list as "heavily used infrastrucuture tools such as "Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Samba, Apache, Perl, GCC, GNAT, XFree86, OpenSSH, bind, and sendmail," are a good portion of NOT licensed under the GPL. (Yes I realize some, are but the majority of that list are not.)
Doesn't make a lot of sense. Considering most people would agree the most secure OS out there is OpenBSD.
Darwin is no longer a true micro-kernel. Maybe people will stop bitching. Apple has taken the best of both worlds and combined them.
i n/ PortingUNIX/additionalfeatures/The_Kernel.html
Read Apple's Docs on there developer site:
"The core of any operating system is its kernel. The Mac OS X kernel is also known as XNU. Though Mac OS X shares much of its underlying architecture with BSD, the kernel is one area where they differ significantly. XNU is based on the Mach microkernel design, but it also incorporates BSD features. It is not technically a microkernel implementation, but still has many of the benefits of a microkernel.
Why is it designed like this? Pure Mach allows you to run an operating system as a separate process on the system that allows for flexibility, but can also slow things down because of the translation between Mach and the layers above it. With Mac OS X, since the desired behavior of the operating system is known, BSD functionality has been incorporated in the kernel alongside Mach. The result is that the kernel combines the strengths of Mach with the strengths of BSD.
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Darw
Since Mach can have multiple personalities, could you create and run a Linux personality and a BSD personality at the same time?
After the iMac came out. Every company did a nock off. They all failed. Now there is a nock off of the Apple Titantium Power Book. I think it will fail too. And not just because this economy sucks.
Because it lacks that certain refinment that makes the Apple Titantium Power Book so nice. Same with the majority of Apple's products. There is a certain attention to detail that shows up in the product from Apple, that you don't find in other vendors products. That is what makes Apple's products special.