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I've always been curious: on modern warships, does the "battlestations klaxon" keep sounding at maximum volume so no one can think, or do they just sound it for a few seconds and figure that everyone now has a clue what's going on?
I don't know how it's done on American ships, but in Canada, we get a five-second alarm, a PA announcement saying the nature of the emergency (action stations, man overboard, fire, etc), and a single repeat. For lesser emergencies, or for a bomb threat, there's a bosun's call "still" (3-second whistle), an announcement, and a repeat.
And no, a bomb threat isn't considered a lesser emergency; a bosun's call is sent over the standard PA, which has been used routinely since leaving harbour, and is therefore less likely to trigger the bomb than the general alarm which hasn't been used.
Another advantage of using old hardware is that you will test your code on a low-spec machine. You will know that it is usable on a low-spec machine, and will probably fight software bloat to make it run on your own test machines.
If marketing makes you add something, you can always make them run it on your test boxes, too. Show them why it's a bad idea.
OK, but why do it in audio then? Text is more portable, you don't need to worry about having the correct codec. It would use less bandwidth. It would give just as much information (or possibly more, 'cause you can put more in without worrying about bandwidth).
Why would I bother with something like this? If I want local news, I know where to find it on the web. I can find personal home pages near me through the local ISPs. Why do I need yet another way to get information?
In addition, I'd rather read my news. It lets me go at my own pace, skip over the summary to the details, translate it, easily quote from it for rebuttal, etc.
Now they were stumped, they can deal with average kids, and sub-average kids, but not gifted children.
I hear you. My high school used to have classes for gifted students. They kept it running until the teacher who sponsored it died. The next year, they cancelled it.
This wouldn't be so bad, except that, when they cancelled programs for gifted students, they increased programs for disabled students. They spend resources allowing students with absolutely no muscular control to be in PE classes, but not so that gifted students can have a challenge worthy of them.
Possibly he wasn't keen on the time investment required to implement SMP. If these guys do all the work, it may well make it in.
OTOH, it may be that SMP code is more difficult to audit, and that this is the reason it won't make it in. Remember, SMP allows for the possibility of race conditions within the kernel itself, which would be a nightmare to validate for security.
To send a verified messaged with somedomain.com in the from address, you must either control the domain or be given the private key by the domain owner.
So what about people whose primary email is through an ISP? Do you really think that AOL will give out their private key to all their clients to prevent spam? Once someone is kicked off of an ISP, they will still have the key.
Perhaps the MTA could control the private key. Then it could sign the headers on mails that actually pass through it. This can prevent forging of headers, and can ensure that someone who has an aol.com email address has actually passed their email through AOL's MTA.
There are probably some other problems around here somewhere, but it could be a start.
Sorry. You're thinking trademark. There are alot of these "sleeper" patents hiding out there, making any development dangerous legal ground. Think MP3, think GIF, etc.
There's a reason they don't put a non-military clause in the GPL. There is only one restriction on freedom in the GPL - you are not free to restrict this software any further. Anybody is free to do anything with the software. That's why they call it Free Software.
Erm...Ebola isn't flesh-eating and it definitely isn't a bacterium. It causes hemorrhages so you bleed from everywhere, but doesn't eat your flesh. You are perhaps thinking of flesh eating disease (Necrotizing fasciitis) which is usually caused by some streptococci?
(PS. what about different copyright durations for different *types* of works? For instance, surely the authors/publishers of software have recouped all they're going to get by, say, 10 years from the day it was released? What benefit is there to keeping ancient software protected by copyright?)
Because we don't need a new law for every type of creation. When the Constitution was written, there was no concept of a recorded performance. Why would they have stated the copyright duration for that? There was no software. Again, why would they have a law determining the length of time you can hold a copyright? When a new type of work is discovered in the future, will it require a Constitutional ammendment to protect it?
Lack of features -- there's a reason people are still using.doc and.pdf instead of HTML, and giving HTML a fancier name for the new millenium isn't going to change it. Anything tougher than bold, italics, and tables has been proven to be an O(n^2) representation in HTML and has been neglected because nobody wants to download a meg of webpage.
So how do you think MS stores their layout in.doc files? If you guessed "markup", you're probably right. The only difference would be that the new markup is in a (semi-)human-readable form, instead of being completely binary and computer-readable. This means that it will be easier to write other programs that know what the document should look like. And the tools already exist to translate from one form of XML to another.
BTW When was it proven to be O(n^2) to represent complex markup in HTML?
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And no, a bomb threat isn't considered a lesser emergency; a bosun's call is sent over the standard PA, which has been used routinely since leaving harbour, and is therefore less likely to trigger the bomb than the general alarm which hasn't been used.
I'd love to see DoubleClick's database after this has been running for a while.
Maybe I said that wrong. I didn't mean getting non-local news. I meant discussing it (as in the barbershop example given above).
If marketing makes you add something, you can always make them run it on your test boxes, too. Show them why it's a bad idea.
What does this new system give us that we don't already have?
If we're lucky, 1/3 of 60% = 20% spam. If we're unlucky, 2/3 of 40% = 26.6667% content.
OK, but why do it in audio then? Text is more portable, you don't need to worry about having the correct codec. It would use less bandwidth. It would give just as much information (or possibly more, 'cause you can put more in without worrying about bandwidth).
Real programmers would talk about $0x17D7840, $0137274100, or $1011111010111100001000000 (hex, octal, and binary respectively)
In addition, I'd rather read my news. It lets me go at my own pace, skip over the summary to the details, translate it, easily quote from it for rebuttal, etc.
This wouldn't be so bad, except that, when they cancelled programs for gifted students, they increased programs for disabled students. They spend resources allowing students with absolutely no muscular control to be in PE classes, but not so that gifted students can have a challenge worthy of them.
OTOH, it may be that SMP code is more difficult to audit, and that this is the reason it won't make it in. Remember, SMP allows for the possibility of race conditions within the kernel itself, which would be a nightmare to validate for security.
Nice in theory. However, for it to work, everybody would have to change their systems at the same time. I don't think that will happen any time soon.
Differences in the compiler used will cause small differences in the binary. Used a different optimization setting? Oops, the code is different.
What you can do is build the sources, and use that to verify the signature on the binaries.
What do you mean, keep email at the ISP? Can you give more details please?
Perhaps the MTA could control the private key. Then it could sign the headers on mails that actually pass through it. This can prevent forging of headers, and can ensure that someone who has an aol.com email address has actually passed their email through AOL's MTA.
There are probably some other problems around here somewhere, but it could be a start.
Sorry. You're thinking trademark. There are alot of these "sleeper" patents hiding out there, making any development dangerous legal ground. Think MP3, think GIF, etc.
There's a reason they don't put a non-military clause in the GPL. There is only one restriction on freedom in the GPL - you are not free to restrict this software any further. Anybody is free to do anything with the software. That's why they call it Free Software.
It's gasoline. It can be used to fuel vehicles. Does that make the gas station liable when someone uses it to start a fire containing books?
Yes, but they also have a copy of Writing Secure Code, so don't read anything into it.
Erm...Ebola isn't flesh-eating and it definitely isn't a bacterium. It causes hemorrhages so you bleed from everywhere, but doesn't eat your flesh. You are perhaps thinking of flesh eating disease (Necrotizing fasciitis) which is usually caused by some streptococci?
BTW When was it proven to be O(n^2) to represent complex markup in HTML?