There will be very intuitive graphical interfaces to all the network services and other configuration things; rumor has it that they've also standardized all the config files into XML, which you can also edit by hand.
Nice troll, but it's important to note that this case has nothing to do with Intellectual Property at all, it's solely about reverse engineering, which is an extemely important issue today.
The G3 does not support SMP so there are no dual G3's, but dual 604e's are supported by LinuxPPC. How well the SMP actually works, I'm not sure of, though.
Kerberos is a protocol specification, not software. Even if there was a GPL for protocols, it wouldn't prevent MS from releasing their own perverted versions of them and using their dominance to force them onto the market.
I think one strong security aspect is the UNIX access-control itself; i.e., it's pretty hard to bork your system running arbitrary code as non-root. It would still be possible to nuke your own stuff, though. As with most open-source projects, I'm sure there will be many, many config options to choose from. (i.e. don't execute executable stuff.)
There was a MUD a while back where getting drunk caused your speech to be slurred (ie, the MUD server would stick in extra syllables when you talked; pretty funny, actually) but I can't remember what it was.
Uh, you just deliberately cut out the part where he said, "and even I wouldn't be so abusive as to do that to
my children. " What's your problem? Idiot.
Personally, I am not a huge fan of guns because they are becoming less and less practicle in today's urban society, but what I am trying to say is that if kids in the past had used these guns for hunting, and killed all kinds of animals yet they were not raving lunatics, then why are the kids today turning into these evil beasts because of video games?
A lot of people say that kids today are raving lunatics. Not true. Kids are the same as they've always been. It's just that now we have slightly different problems that need to be blamed on a common scapegoat. Columbine tradgedy a result of shitty parents who a) failed to raise their children or b) were too absorbed in their own lives to recognize their child's mental illness? No, it was the video games! Bullshit.
Breaking up a company does not cure the monopoly problem. Look at AT&T. They were broken up into one long distance company and several RBOC's (I think 7). However, if you wanted a telephone, you bought service from an RBOC and AT&T. There is still a monopoly, just more companies with monopolies in slightly smaller things.
Breaking up Microsoft would result in seperate companies selling seperate parts of the MS product line.
So what?
People who have been using Word will still buy Word, people who have been using IE will still use IE. Further, it is still to each Baby Bill's advantage to simply license software to one another; nothing has changed
In other words, breaking up the company does not introduce competition into the market. It just makes for several sub-monopolies.
o I have to buy it bundled with MacOS even if I only want to use linux? Just imagine the cost for building such a cluster..
Currently the only way to get a Mac is bundled with MacOS, but eventually, IBM will be shipping their PowerPC open platform boards, which you can buy independently of any OS.
And what's this about the bios being built kind of to stop people from booting something else?
PCI PowerMacs use Open Firmware (think of it as a BIOS on steroids.) The problem is not that Apple built it to be incompatable (it was developed by Sun) it's that Apple hacked it up a little bit to make it especially compatable with MacOS, which breaks a lot of things for booting other OSes. You can boot Linux directly from MacOS, though, and LinuxPPC 2000 has a nifty way to direct boot at a slightly higher level than Open Firmware (using a sort of fake System Folder on a small HFS partition - it's cool.)
Does this mean that Unisys has a legal responsibility to raise the price of all products and services they provide by $1 today, because they MUST PROTECT the interests of their shareholders?
Obviously, you forgot to pay attention in economics class:)
Everyone uses GIF because it's convenient. Everything supports it, everyone is happy. Now, Due Dilligence requires that the officers of a corporation do what is in the best interest of the shareholders. That means making profit. If you make something more expensive, at a certain point, it STOPS being profitable, because the expense outweighs the convenience, and people switch to cheaper alternatives (PNG). This assumes, of course, that you don't have a monopoly. Therefore, it is NOT always in the best interest of the shareholders to increase prices ad nauseum, since after a point, it would be less profitable. It's in the interest of the shareholders to find the exact maximum price / maximum profit combination.
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I sure as hell wouldn't want my credit card number floating around in clear text... how about you?
Yeah...that would almost be as bad as giving your credit card to, say, a waiter or something where they can take it away and look at it!
I'm just kidding, but I find it kind of interesting that people are willing to hand the piece of plastic over the several people each day, but not transmit it in the clear over the net, where it's far less likely anyone is looking. I say, if you're going to be anal about your credit card numbers, you should be anal in all situations. Of course, that would make it nearly impossible to use the things. Catch 22? Who knows...
Remember that public-key crypto is based on the unproven assumption that there is no efficient method to factor the product of two large prime numbers. A good indicator of how secure NSA thinks public-key crypto is would be to find out if they use it for really sensitive communications. (Somehow, I doubt that they do)
I'd be willing to bed that for the highest level stuff one-time pads are still used. However, you make a very good point. There is no public knowledge of how to efficiently factor large prime numbers, but the NSA, who employs more mathematicians than anyone in the world, may have a way. Remember that the Brittish GCHQ actually invented Diffie-style key distribution and a system similar to RSA for implimenting it a few years before the academics did, but no one knew about this until recently.
So, yes, I suppose it's possible that some guy at the NSA invented a way to factor the numbers, but then again, are your communications something that the NSA would really be interested in? Somehow, I doubt mine are.
Is publicly available cryptography strong enough for me to start buying stuff with a credit card on the 'net?
Publically available crypto is very strong. Anything based on an RSA public key scheme is extremely hard to crack (that includes SSL (secure web transactions) PGP (for your email) and SSH (for telnet)). Keep in mind that while it's possible that the government could figure out efficient ways of factoring numbers on the order of 10^350, I seriously doubt it. (Why would the feds have harassed Phil Zimmerman so much if they could crack PGP?) Anyway, properly encrypted stuff is certainly safe from nefarious evildoers or terrorists. If you start doing credit card transactions on line, keep in mind that the information is only as safe as the business establishment and the credit csrd companies keep it - just like using your credit card in meatspace.
It will work on anything that the current PPC kernels boot on, which includes all PCI macs (but NOT nubus, you need mkLinux for that) including Umax, Motorola, and PowerCC clones. (I'm running it on a PCC box with a NewerTech G3 upgrade)
1. There's nothing in the US constitution that says a gun should be available as an over-the-counter consumer good. Most countries with strict gun control in EUrope allow gun ownership for sporting purposes. 3. At the moment, there's no training required at all. Training could be made a requirement to get a gun license, kinda like the drivers license
In many communities, including mine, an NRA (or equivilent) certification is required to purchase a firearm. I support these requirements for the same reason I support the idea of driver's licenses.
I doubt that anyone is educated by the simple action of purchasing any weapon. However, accidentally killing someone with it is probably most educational. That said...
I didn't say purchasing a weapon, I said owning a weapon. If you've never used a firearm, then you don't know what I'm talking about. But if you ever do, you will quickly understand the deep respect and responsibility that is instilled in you by the knowledge that you have the power to easily kill people. Regarding your statement about accidentally shooting someone: Accidental gun-deaths are extremely rare; you're more likely to die accidentally by falling, slipping, or fire. Maybe we should make slippery floors illegal? Hmmmmm:)
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There will be very intuitive graphical interfaces to all the network services and other configuration things; rumor has it that they've also standardized all the config files into XML, which you can also edit by hand.
Nice troll, but it's important to note that this case has nothing to do with Intellectual Property at all, it's solely about reverse engineering, which is an extemely important issue today.
They didn't steal trade secrets, they reverse engineered, which is perfectly legal and is an important principle that needs to be protected, IMO.
The G3 does not support SMP so there are no dual G3's, but dual 604e's are supported by LinuxPPC. How well the SMP actually works, I'm not sure of, though.
Kerberos is a protocol specification, not software. Even if there was a GPL for protocols, it wouldn't prevent MS from releasing their own perverted versions of them and using their dominance to force them onto the market.
I think one strong security aspect is the UNIX access-control itself; i.e., it's pretty hard to bork your system running arbitrary code as non-root. It would still be possible to nuke your own stuff, though. As with most open-source projects, I'm sure there will be many, many config options to choose from. (i.e. don't execute executable stuff.)
There was a MUD a while back where getting drunk caused your speech to be slurred (ie, the MUD server would stick in extra syllables when you talked; pretty funny, actually) but I can't remember what it was.
Enjoy.
Ethernet MAC addresses are all unique - each vendor gets assigned a series of numbers to use. It's six bytes long, so there's plenty of address space.
Uh, you just deliberately cut out the part where he said, "and even I wouldn't be so abusive as to do that to my children. " What's your problem? Idiot.
A lot of people say that kids today are raving lunatics. Not true. Kids are the same as they've always been. It's just that now we have slightly different problems that need to be blamed on a common scapegoat. Columbine tradgedy a result of shitty parents who a) failed to raise their children or b) were too absorbed in their own lives to recognize their child's mental illness? No, it was the video games! Bullshit.
Breaking up Microsoft would result in seperate companies selling seperate parts of the MS product line.
So what?
People who have been using Word will still buy Word, people who have been using IE will still use IE. Further, it is still to each Baby Bill's advantage to simply license software to one another; nothing has changed
In other words, breaking up the company does not introduce competition into the market. It just makes for several sub-monopolies.
Currently the only way to get a Mac is bundled with MacOS, but eventually, IBM will be shipping their PowerPC open platform boards, which you can buy independently of any OS.
And what's this about the bios being built kind of to stop people from booting something else?
PCI PowerMacs use Open Firmware (think of it as a BIOS on steroids.) The problem is not that Apple built it to be incompatable (it was developed by Sun) it's that Apple hacked it up a little bit to make it especially compatable with MacOS, which breaks a lot of things for booting other OSes. You can boot Linux directly from MacOS, though, and LinuxPPC 2000 has a nifty way to direct boot at a slightly higher level than Open Firmware (using a sort of fake System Folder on a small HFS partition - it's cool.)
Obviously, you forgot to pay attention in economics class :)
Everyone uses GIF because it's convenient. Everything supports it, everyone is happy. Now, Due Dilligence requires that the officers of a corporation do what is in the best interest of the shareholders. That means making profit. If you make something more expensive, at a certain point, it STOPS being profitable, because the expense outweighs the convenience, and people switch to cheaper alternatives (PNG). This assumes, of course, that you don't have a monopoly. Therefore, it is NOT always in the best interest of the shareholders to increase prices ad nauseum, since after a point, it would be less profitable. It's in the interest of the shareholders to find the exact maximum price / maximum profit combination.
Mmmmmm....that smells good...
*RING*
fuck.
GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR WAR
Ahh, but it could have been Perl....
Yeah...that would almost be as bad as giving your credit card to, say, a waiter or something where they can take it away and look at it!
I'm just kidding, but I find it kind of interesting that people are willing to hand the piece of plastic over the several people each day, but not transmit it in the clear over the net, where it's far less likely anyone is looking. I say, if you're going to be anal about your credit card numbers, you should be anal in all situations. Of course, that would make it nearly impossible to use the things. Catch 22? Who knows...
Doh! It should read, "there is no public knowledge of how to prime factor large numbers."
I feel stupid :)
I'd be willing to bed that for the highest level stuff one-time pads are still used. However, you make a very good point. There is no public knowledge of how to efficiently factor large prime numbers, but the NSA, who employs more mathematicians than anyone in the world, may have a way. Remember that the Brittish GCHQ actually invented Diffie-style key distribution and a system similar to RSA for implimenting it a few years before the academics did, but no one knew about this until recently.
So, yes, I suppose it's possible that some guy at the NSA invented a way to factor the numbers, but then again, are your communications something that the NSA would really be interested in? Somehow, I doubt mine are.
Publically available crypto is very strong. Anything based on an RSA public key scheme is extremely hard to crack (that includes SSL (secure web transactions) PGP (for your email) and SSH (for telnet)). Keep in mind that while it's possible that the government could figure out efficient ways of factoring numbers on the order of 10^350, I seriously doubt it. (Why would the feds have harassed Phil Zimmerman so much if they could crack PGP?) Anyway, properly encrypted stuff is certainly safe from nefarious evildoers or terrorists. If you start doing credit card transactions on line, keep in mind that the information is only as safe as the business establishment and the credit csrd companies keep it - just like using your credit card in meatspace.
It will work on anything that the current PPC kernels boot on, which includes all PCI macs (but NOT nubus, you need mkLinux for that) including Umax, Motorola, and PowerCC clones. (I'm running it on a PCC box with a NewerTech G3 upgrade)
In many communities, including mine, an NRA (or equivilent) certification is required to purchase a firearm. I support these requirements for the same reason I support the idea of driver's licenses.
5. Sources?
See Taking aim at Gun Control for some interesting statistics.
I didn't say purchasing a weapon, I said owning a weapon. If you've never used a firearm, then you don't know what I'm talking about. But if you ever do, you will quickly understand the deep respect and responsibility that is instilled in you by the knowledge that you have the power to easily kill people. Regarding your statement about accidentally shooting someone: Accidental gun-deaths are extremely rare; you're more likely to die accidentally by falling, slipping, or fire. Maybe we should make slippery floors illegal? Hmmmmm :)