As the majority of the comments here should have made clear, the last thing the community wants to hear is his opinion on the topic (or rather the opinion that he is paid to disseminate) ! Slashdot should rather ask actual proper lawyers on the topic known and active in the support of the open source movement, I would nominate Richard Fontana myself as being the expert I would love to hear more from, people can just reply to suggest other appropriate persons. But FM, no we don't want to hear anymore about this person,
it's also written black on white (err greyish background) there in the abstact of the paper ! No need to guess:-)
"Abstract. This paper is a short summary of a real world AES key extraction performed on a military grade FPGA marketed as 'virtually unbreakable' and 'highly secure'. We demonstrated that it is possible to extract the AES key from the Actel/Microsemi ProASIC3 chip in a time of 0.01 seconds using a new side-channel analysis technique called Pipeline Emission Analysis (PEA)."
Mod the above up (who worded that in a nicer way than I would). And put the penguin back please !!! This has nothing to do with the FSF, "give back to Caesar..."
Well that story is all good and nice but except for one place in town here (I'm in China) *nowhere* is meat wrapped in plastic. you pick pieces on the stand, handle it, get it cut, but the customer is never gonna see any wrapping or label for his meat. And any cooking will be done thoroughly to avoid getting sick ! Yet another piece of "IT news" absolutely disconnected from reality, don't get to excited !
If that becomes true that's so far the best technology related news from me so far this year. I doubt Apple would embrace that with pleasure, but I hope at least Opera will add support. It's about time for open video on the Web !
Thanks in advance Google, please don't disapoint us, if done right that's huge !
Saying it's because XML parsing is slow doesn't make sense. Any decent XML parser will parse at a 30 MBytes/s rate on a recent processor, usually one waits for I/O it rather how that XML data are handled that makes for a slow loading, not the XML format itself. 2 minutes of processing would mean like a multi gigabyte XML file, that's not the problem.
Now will it be pushed though ISO (prefereably though a fasttrack). The ISO stamp carries far more weight for governements agencies and this could cange a lot of things. See for example Tim Bray's log on the subject http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/09/24/ SmartEC
Daniel
BTW: wasn't the September 2004 LSB spec supposed to be fasttracked though the ISO process too ?
Actually, look in which direction the station starts rotating around its gravity center. If you emit gaz, well you act as a space motor the conservation of quantity of movement means thhe damn thing will start rotate in the opposite direction. When you can hear the whistle that mean the pressure cooking is done, I think it will be mostly the same there if nothing is done...
One of the very serious problem related to building Itanium clusters is their very high power consumption and the associated heat removal problem. It's okay for a few server in a room, but for cluster trying to pack boxes is a key point of the architecture. Apparently Opteron is not too bad since there are dual Opteron in 1U server format design commonly available, and it was overheating that would be known by now, but for the Itanium(2) cluster I know off, they never managed to get the full cluster running without bringing either the power supply down or the air conditionning down.
Itanium 1 was notoriously power hungry and a common source of joke about this, Itanium 2 is certainly better in this respect, but the clock speed has been multiplied by nearly 3, I really doubt they could compensate the initial problem enough to get the new high speed chip to get back to a decent consumption.
On the other hand Opteron seems quite better probably getting the benefit of all the power consumption research that AMD did during the 90's where AMD chip were at the time consuming significantly more than Intel equivalents.
Now if someone has the time to make a search for the advertized power consumption of both chip that would be a really interesting post:-)
Basically that was one of the ideas behind
the research on micro-kernels. If the state
of the system gets small and centralized enough
one could not only make a single process persistant
but the full system persistant.
KeykOs
was a very promising system offering this at the time. One could not checkpoint the connections outside of the machine, but their demo was a BSD machine with X11, whose powerplug was violently removed. When replugged the state of all processes
saved at the last checkpoint was resumed and the system would continue... Including X-Windows !!!!
Now wait for the Patent to expire, put it in Linux and watch the world of computing change.
It was very promising at the time I was doing my PhD 10 years ago, I don't know why this never "made it"
Can someone check if the client will follow redirects ? I yes, I suggest to make Redirect
rules to http://www.microsoft.com for/scripts ,/c/ and/d/
In itself that should be a good punition.
My point is that saying "project XYZ is dead
stop hacking on it" is detrimental to everybody.
First it won't bring the hackers from XYZ into
another project (well I doubt it !) so others
won't benefit from it, and second asking to stop
a project also mean that another project won't
benefit from the code which could have been
generated would the authors have continued
working on it.
It's very hard to tell in advance what within
a large set of code would survive in the long term. The same kind of arguments have been
done when linux started ("use BSD instead" , or "improve Minix" were similar messages one was getting in 92-94).
My point is really that any message calling to
stop working on a free software project is unlikely to bring anything good as a result.
I would far prefer hearing messages about
reuse of code and cooperation/exchanges between
projects (and not just between KDE and Gnome)
than what I have heard in the original message.
It's time to move on. KDE is cranking, GNOME is press releasing.
Hum, I appreciate this SOOOOO MUCH
After all I coded 95% of the XML and XSLT Gnome libraries. And who's using them now ? I'm all about reuse, I like it, but I hate your attitude.
Let's face it, I appreciate working with the KDE guys involved in the reuse. But I'm fucking tired of hearing this kind of stupid rants.
Yes I'm part of the Gnome fundation, mind you I was elected, and we all collectively believe in this project. Go code on your side, but don't come to piss people off on public fora.
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As the majority of the comments here should have made clear,
the last thing the community wants to hear is his opinion on the
topic (or rather the opinion that he is paid to disseminate) !
Slashdot should rather ask actual proper lawyers on the topic
known and active in the support of the open source movement,
I would nominate Richard Fontana myself as being the expert I
would love to hear more from, people can just reply to suggest
other appropriate persons.
But FM, no we don't want to hear anymore about this person,
thanks
Daniel Veillard !
Nearly exactly 10 years ago, the GNOME community also lost a young member, Chema Celorio, in a Skydiving accident which was very similar unfortunately (low height, high speed turn).
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sps32/sec_news.html#Assurance
it's also written black on white (err greyish background) there :-)
in the abstact of the paper ! No need to guess
"Abstract. This paper is a short summary of a real world AES key extraction performed on a military grade FPGA marketed as 'virtually unbreakable' and 'highly secure'. We demonstrated that it is possible to extract the AES key from the Actel/Microsemi ProASIC3 chip in a time of 0.01 seconds using a new side-channel analysis technique called Pipeline Emission Analysis (PEA)."
that's indeed extremely fast ...
Daniel
Mod the above up (who worded that in a nicer way than I would). ..."
And put the penguin back please !!! This has nothing to do with the FSF,
"give back to Caesar
Well that story is all good and nice but except for one place in town here (I'm in China) *nowhere* is meat
wrapped in plastic. you pick pieces on the stand, handle it, get it cut, but the customer is never gonna see
any wrapping or label for his meat. And any cooking will be done thoroughly to avoid getting sick !
Yet another piece of "IT news" absolutely disconnected from reality, don't get to excited !
If that becomes true that's so far the best technology related news from me so far this year.
I doubt Apple would embrace that with pleasure, but I hope at least Opera will add support.
It's about time for open video on the Web !
Thanks in advance Google, please don't disapoint us, if done right that's huge !
Daniel
Saying it's because XML parsing is slow doesn't make sense. Any decent XML parser
will parse at a 30 MBytes/s rate on a recent processor, usually one waits for I/O
it rather how that XML data are handled that makes for a slow loading, not the
XML format itself. 2 minutes of processing would mean like a multi gigabyte XML
file, that's not the problem.
Daniel
Now will it be pushed though ISO (prefereably/ SmartEC
though a fasttrack). The ISO stamp carries far
more weight for governements agencies and this
could cange a lot of things. See for example
Tim Bray's log on the subject
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/09/24
Daniel
BTW: wasn't the September 2004 LSB spec supposed to be fasttracked though the ISO process too ?
Actually, look in which direction the station ...
starts rotating around its gravity center.
If you emit gaz, well you act as a space motor
the conservation of quantity of movement means
thhe damn thing will start rotate in the opposite
direction.
When you can hear the whistle that mean the
pressure cooking is done, I think it will be
mostly the same there if nothing is done
Daniel
One of the very serious problem related to building
Itanium clusters is their very high power
consumption and the associated heat removal problem.
It's okay for a few server in a room, but for
cluster trying to pack boxes is a key point of the
architecture. Apparently Opteron is not too bad
since there are dual Opteron in 1U server format
design commonly available, and it was overheating
that would be known by now, but for the Itanium(2)
cluster I know off, they never managed to get the
full cluster running without bringing either the
power supply down or the air conditionning down.
Itanium 1 was notoriously power hungry and
a common source of joke about this, Itanium 2 is
certainly better in this respect, but the clock
speed has been multiplied by nearly 3, I really
doubt they could compensate the initial problem
enough to get the new high speed chip to get back
to a decent consumption.
On the other hand Opteron seems quite better
probably getting the benefit of all the power
consumption research that AMD did during the 90's
where AMD chip were at the time consuming significantly more than Intel equivalents.
Now if someone has the time to make a search :-)
for the advertized power consumption of both chip
that would be a really interesting post
Daniel
Hum, seems that there is far less users
of GNU/Linux than Linux users. Maybe the
30 fold figure is a bit unrealistic.
DV, Linux user since '92 , a time where
the FSF could not care less about Linux
Basically that was one of the ideas behind the research on micro-kernels. If the state of the system gets small and centralized enough one could not only make a single process persistant but the full system persistant.
KeykOs was a very promising system offering this at the time. One could not checkpoint the connections outside of the machine, but their demo was a BSD machine with X11, whose powerplug was violently removed. When replugged the state of all processes saved at the last checkpoint was resumed and the system would continue ... Including X-Windows !!!!
Now wait for the Patent to expire, put it in Linux and watch the world of computing change.
It was very promising at the time I was doing my PhD 10 years ago, I don't know why this never "made it"
Daniel
Can someone check if the client will follow redirects ? I yes, I suggest to make Redirect /scripts , /c/ and /d/
rules to http://www.microsoft.com for
In itself that should be a good punition.
Daniel
My point is that saying "project XYZ is dead stop hacking on it" is detrimental to everybody. First it won't bring the hackers from XYZ into another project (well I doubt it !) so others won't benefit from it, and second asking to stop a project also mean that another project won't benefit from the code which could have been generated would the authors have continued working on it.
It's very hard to tell in advance what within a large set of code would survive in the long term. The same kind of arguments have been done when linux started ("use BSD instead" , or "improve Minix" were similar messages one was getting in 92-94).
My point is really that any message calling to stop working on a free software project is unlikely to bring anything good as a result.
I would far prefer hearing messages about reuse of code and cooperation/exchanges between projects (and not just between KDE and Gnome) than what I have heard in the original message.
Daniel Veillard
It's time to move on. KDE is cranking, GNOME is press releasing.
Hum, I appreciate this SOOOOO MUCH
After all I coded 95% of the XML and XSLT Gnome libraries. And who's using them now ? I'm all about reuse, I like it, but I hate your attitude.
Let's face it, I appreciate working with the KDE guys involved in the reuse. But I'm fucking tired of hearing this kind of stupid rants.
Yes I'm part of the Gnome fundation, mind you I was elected, and we all collectively believe in this project. Go code on your side, but don't come to piss people off on public fora.
Daniel Veillard
I don't give a fuck about a CNet interview,
Show me the code, then we can talk.
Daniel Veillard