Actually, if they use decent symmetrical 128-bit key cryptography, it would take all the pentiums in the world a couple of million years, if not more, to decrypt it.
Of course, the real question is: how are the keys generated and transferred. If it's just a fixed key stored somewhere in the phone, it won't be long before someone manages to get it out and be able to listen in to everything said on those phones quite easily.
Actually, that "analysis" is a load of bull.
I repeats numerous times that ICANN symbolizes "privatizing the public Internet" which is a fallacy, because ICANN is a non-profit corporation, while the same job was previously done by a for-profit company.
Second, some of ICANN's Board of Directors was actually elected by internet users, and while that election may not have been organized very splendidly, those who say it had been rigged are full of it, because otherwise, the European representative, a member of the CCC would never have been elected.
I may be horribly out of date, but isn't something like 80%-90% of the internet (users & content) located in the USA?
I'm pretty sure that the numbers aren't anymore as high. of course, the point is valid: there's no reason why people who don't even use the net should have influence over it.
Not to mention the fact that Internet was created by the US government, so they should really be able to do what they like with it n'est ce pas?
Now that is bullshit. Like claiming that because an Englishman working at CERN invented the WWW, he should really be able to do what he likes with every website on this planet.
Personally I think the remains of it all should be posted should someone else have an insight to continue on with some of the work someone else never got a chance to finish
As of 2.4.4 it's sort-of working for me. I can use some devices fine, others hang the kernel occasionally. I've never had the error message you describe. The bug probably resides in the host controller code (I use UHCI).
Well, i've experienced quite a number of kernel hangups when using various USB hardware. Apparently the USB support isn't quite stable yet;
not much of an issue for servers, but it illustrates that there are still serious bugs in the 2.4 kernel, and some may also still be hiding in server-critical areas.
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OK, the worst case would probably be bad if you have some sort of realtime constraints, but other than that, it doesn't matter.
As for the locking and blocking, that can be done very parallelism-friendly by precautionary splitting/coalescing while you descend the tree, instead of having the changes propagate upwards.
A) customer-specific software is useless to anyone else.
B) The GPL does not force you to give the the software, it merely prevents you from charging for it.
Come back when you have a clue on how most software development is done.
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think about keeping b-trees balanced in the middle of constant use.
Um... b-trees are always balanced, it's one of their most basic properties.
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WTF? How is implementing journalling "reinventing the wheel" in comparison to implementing a newer technique that achieves the same thing? As for the "lower cost(complexity)", i doubt that severely. Journalling isn't all that complex, either.
I suspect that's mostly due to force of habit, in the case of small studios. They see that the big ones only release for region 1 and do the same, regardless of whether they could sell more by making their stuff for 1 *and* 4.
Some have caught on; i've seen a couple of DVDs which are RC 1 and 4 (and no others).
So should you. The article explicitly states that supposedly, the region coding directly hinders "small studios" from releasing their stuff to Australia. This is untrue, or at least they fail to explain why it would be true.
Wrong. It just makes it close to impossible to make money from making software and trying to sell it to many people. If you can get one person (or company) to pay you enough money to sustain you for the software, it works quite well.
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That scenario is far from "purely academic", it is in fact, a lot more common than the "Microsoft scenario" of making millions of people pay for the same piece of software.
The majority of programmers work on software built to customer specifications, which is used internally by big companies for things such as work-flow support. Such software is typically relatively useless for everyone but that company. There is never a "licensing system" in such a case - the customer is always given complete ownership rights to the software.
it is not completely unrealistic to release the code under the GPL in such a case, since nobody else is going to pay for it anyway.
To be exact, the "region code" of a DVD consists of one byte of data. Each bit can be 1 or 0, deciding whether the DVD will play on players with that RC (there are 8 regions, but only 6 are really used). "Region Code 0", a hexadecimal 0 is the value that means the DVD is "allowed" to be played in all regions.
So while I love the idea of the damn region code scheme being thwarted, it seems like this case will just end up making the ACCC look like fools.
As far as I know, the danger of something like that happening in this case is extremely small. You see, the mainframe runs a large number of system images at once. Each of those images is like a separate box. They share hardware resources, but they're separated at a very low (kernel) level. That means, exploits in applications are no danger to the other users.
The difference between the $400 Yamaha router and the one people would expect from Cisco is about three orders of magnitude in the amount of traffic they have to handle. Cisco routers are used in backbones for Gigabit connections. If they can't offer IPv6 routers able to handle that amount of traffic, it's better for them to not offer IPv6 routers at all, or they'd lose their "top dog" aura.
Soory, but security breaches happen. Security is never absolute, and "vigilance and good management" only goes so far. Managers may be naive enough to believe otherwise, but fact is, the true cop-out is the statement "we can never be hacked".
Of course, from a marketing point of view, that cop-out is preferable to being realistic, and I suppose that's the main reason why this is never going to work: companies don't admit security breaches, they cover them up.
It wouldn't make it as secure, because OpenBSD isn't only the kernel, it's the whole distribution. All of it is pretty closely screened for security holes, so it's naturally more secure than a Linux distro that just takes the most recent version of everything. It's also naturally not as up-to-date, which is one of the reason why it can't compete with Linux (or even the other BSDs) in a general comparison - it lacks too may features.
I have grandparents born in Germany, but I doubt that country is as liberal, what with its recent xenophobia.
Au contraire, they just recently installed a "green card" program especially for IT personnel. As for xenophobia, you're safe as long as you don't look non-caucasian. Those Neo-nazis don't have the brain capacity to judge on anything but looks, and they're not all than numerous anyway. Typical Neo-Nazi gathering in Germany: 300 shaved heads with nothing inside, 500 leftist counter-demonstrants and 1000 policement keeping them from killing each other...
The language barrier is a bit of a problem, since Germans have not adopted English terminology for computer technology
Now that is a blatantly wrong statement. Germans talking about computers will use about as much English as German; in fact many people think it already goes a bit too far. Of course that may still not be enough to understand if you speak only English...
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Of course, the real question is: how are the keys generated and transferred. If it's just a fixed key stored somewhere in the phone, it won't be long before someone manages to get it out and be able to listen in to everything said on those phones quite easily.
Second, some of ICANN's Board of Directors was actually elected by internet users, and while that election may not have been organized very splendidly, those who say it had been rigged are full of it, because otherwise, the European representative, a member of the CCC would never have been elected.
I'm pretty sure that the numbers aren't anymore as high. of course, the point is valid: there's no reason why people who don't even use the net should have influence over it.
Not to mention the fact that Internet was created by the US government, so they should really be able to do what they like with it n'est ce pas?
Now that is bullshit. Like claiming that because an Englishman working at CERN invented the WWW, he should really be able to do what he likes with every website on this planet.
I think SourceForge goes a long way towards that.
As of 2.4.4 it's sort-of working for me. I can use some devices fine, others hang the kernel occasionally. I've never had the error message you describe. The bug probably resides in the host controller code (I use UHCI).
Well, i've experienced quite a number of kernel hangups when using various USB hardware. Apparently the USB support isn't quite stable yet; not much of an issue for servers, but it illustrates that there are still serious bugs in the 2.4 kernel, and some may also still be hiding in server-critical areas.
As for the locking and blocking, that can be done very parallelism-friendly by precautionary splitting/coalescing while you descend the tree, instead of having the changes propagate upwards.
B) The GPL does not force you to give the the software, it merely prevents you from charging for it.
Come back when you have a clue on how most software development is done.
Um... b-trees are always balanced, it's one of their most basic properties.
WTF? How is implementing journalling "reinventing the wheel" in comparison to implementing a newer technique that achieves the same thing? As for the "lower cost(complexity)", i doubt that severely. Journalling isn't all that complex, either.
Apart from that, XFS is also written for extreme scalability, in parallelism as well as size of supported filesystems and files.
Some have caught on; i've seen a couple of DVDs which are RC 1 and 4 (and no others).
So should you. The article explicitly states that supposedly, the region coding directly hinders "small studios" from releasing their stuff to Australia. This is untrue, or at least they fail to explain why it would be true.
Wrong. It just makes it close to impossible to make money from making software and trying to sell it to many people. If you can get one person (or company) to pay you enough money to sustain you for the software, it works quite well.
The majority of programmers work on software built to customer specifications, which is used internally by big companies for things such as work-flow support. Such software is typically relatively useless for everyone but that company. There is never a "licensing system" in such a case - the customer is always given complete ownership rights to the software.
it is not completely unrealistic to release the code under the GPL in such a case, since nobody else is going to pay for it anyway.
Please point out where in the story this is explained. Geez, these knee-jerk reactions...
So while I love the idea of the damn region code scheme being thwarted, it seems like this case will just end up making the ACCC look like fools.
As far as I know, the danger of something like that happening in this case is extremely small. You see, the mainframe runs a large number of system images at once. Each of those images is like a separate box. They share hardware resources, but they're separated at a very low (kernel) level. That means, exploits in applications are no danger to the other users.
Not that, for example, yahoo.co.jp is a higher volume site than 99% or all .gov and .edu sites, not sirree...
The difference between the $400 Yamaha router and the one people would expect from Cisco is about three orders of magnitude in the amount of traffic they have to handle. Cisco routers are used in backbones for Gigabit connections. If they can't offer IPv6 routers able to handle that amount of traffic, it's better for them to not offer IPv6 routers at all, or they'd lose their "top dog" aura.
I fail to see how a server can "demand heavier use" than a non-server connection, when both have the same bandwidth limit.
Of course, from a marketing point of view, that cop-out is preferable to being realistic, and I suppose that's the main reason why this is never going to work: companies don't admit security breaches, they cover them up.
It wouldn't make it as secure, because OpenBSD isn't only the kernel, it's the whole distribution. All of it is pretty closely screened for security holes, so it's naturally more secure than a Linux distro that just takes the most recent version of everything. It's also naturally not as up-to-date, which is one of the reason why it can't compete with Linux (or even the other BSDs) in a general comparison - it lacks too may features.
Au contraire, they just recently installed a "green card" program especially for IT personnel. As for xenophobia, you're safe as long as you don't look non-caucasian. Those Neo-nazis don't have the brain capacity to judge on anything but looks, and they're not all than numerous anyway. Typical Neo-Nazi gathering in Germany: 300 shaved heads with nothing inside, 500 leftist counter-demonstrants and 1000 policement keeping them from killing each other...
Now that is a blatantly wrong statement. Germans talking about computers will use about as much English as German; in fact many people think it already goes a bit too far. Of course that may still not be enough to understand if you speak only English...