I tend to agree with you that only a "near-death" type experience on a grand scale will be enough to create sudden world wide change. However, I am not so pessimistic about long term small scale change. A common refrain where I'm at is "A few people can change the world, indeed it the only thing that ever has" A few good rants on Slashdot may not end the MS reign of terror, but it is how all great movements have started; with a little grumbling.
Second, it is not necessary to convert the whole world/nation/proletariat. When courageous people speak reasonable words in strong voices people listen. I give you, for example, the Free Software movement. The whole computing world didn't suddenly drop everything and go open source as a revolt agents Microsoft's unfair monopoly, but when people like RMS, Linus or Larry Wall decided to do something better they started a trend.
You are correct when you state that the corruption of most major corporation are rooted in a lack of morality. No one starts out saying "I want to be a money grubbing weasel when I grow up." A few people can, however, change this trend. I guess my point is that we--you, I and everybody else who can see beyond their TV screens--don't have to wait for a government changing revolution. We can do something now and be effective at doing it. You have good facts and based on this and other comment you are excellent at expressing them. Make sure you talk to people who will listen and have a little faith that the world will follow.
I will make the world a better place one person at a time, will you?
You started out so well there. This was a beautiful rant. It is too bad that the slashdot editor won't let you change the font color because I think that the last paragraph would look great in red.
Given the above, perhaps you would be kind enough to answer the key questions Marks and Engels didn't. like how to keep the "awakend workers" from becomming as corrupt as there bosses, or what is a "fair" meains of distributing limited recources?
By the way, would you be so kind as to tell the slashdot readership what it is you do? If we are to follow the lead of history, we might guess that you have more incommon (education, finance, social class) with evil corprate officers then you do with any lower middle class working stiff.
This is a tax on the depriceated value of the network. If you are not a buisness no tax because you can't clame deprieciated losses. This is to fix a company that writes off $1,000,000 in network equitment depriciation every year and therefore doesn't pay taxes.
This BTW is the is one of the reasons M$ didn't pay ANY fedral taxes last year
I agree. As a person who will read all 180 pages of the instructions before I even agree to the licence, I want more complex interaction with my games. I've out grown the button mashin' of the FPS and even the RTS games now seem too much like a contest of keyboard-mouse coordination rather then a thought out plan of action. (Too much RT not enough S)
In case there are any more like me out there may I strongly recommend Elderscroles 3: Morrowwind, along with almost anything by Cid Meyers.
Can anyone give an example of a case where "real world" encryption was cracked do to psudo-random numbers being broken?
It has been my experence that using these inovative solutions to improve one end of secure comminications does not help in the least a whole host of other more easily exploited flaws. For example even a theoretically perfect encryption is still vulnerable to social engineering.
An impenitrable front door is usless next to an open window.
Due to the Leidenfrost effect this might actually work, but it also might cause loss of teeth (seen it) tongue (seen pictures) or stomic (don't want to know).
Someday try taking a practical science exam, or for that matter doing anything that requires basic math in a short amount of time. If you're calculator dependant you won't have enough time. Everyone should be able to add subtract multiply and divide fractions whole numbers and decimals w/o a calculator before they are allowed to touch one.
I like the rest of my third grade clas in '87 were forcably converted to cursive. It was the requires standard through 8th grade. I had (and still have) good ledgable printing skills but my handwriting is attrocious and it's not for lack of trying. By the time I got to Highschool most of my teachers were willing to let me print or type so they could read things. My grades went up, but it took a lot of effort to un-learn cursive.
I think teaching cursave is a great thing for those who have the ability to use it, but in todays age of computers, any thing long enough to require cursive is going to be typed. For students whom cursive is a hinderance to ledigibility, I say let them type or stick to printing. Most forms require that anyway right?
Actually I agree compleatly. This 'Functional Glue' that I refered to is really what makes the program work the way it does. The Swarming technique (Thanks to Bram for the correct word for this idea) is used by lots of different protocals I whanted to know what about the 'functional glue' made BitTorrent different from, say, eDonkey(eMule), and what caused him to do things that way.
The president of the U.S. is not directly elected either. The eletoral college is responcible for that, and the way it's set up at the moment, effectivally prevents third party canadits.
I like this answer. BitTorrent's integreation with html gives it a very different range of applications then other P2P. Howerver I am still interested in why certian protocal choices were made. for example the very centeralized nature of metadata storage only at the host.
eDonkey is also a protocol. eMule is the opensource client for that ptotocol.
eDonkey is slower mainly because there is not central file athority and also because of poor use of resouces (c.f. emule 0.28 feature of release priority which is not used often enough) My question is what are the protocal differences that cause these variations in performance in P2P clients based on the same overriding premise.
As far as I can tell the genius of BitTorrent is allowing peers who themselves do not yet have a complete file to share the parts they do. With all dew respect to the effort taken, the rest is just functional glue that allows the system to work as it should.
The eDonkey protocol used the same basic premise. How is BitTorrent different to it and other P2P protocols and why did you make that choice?
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all [people] are created equal, and are endowed by there creator with certain inalienable rights among them are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The right to freedom of expression is not merely a legal bit in the US Bill of Rights but is implicitly and clearly part of universal human existence. Furthermore, these rights come with the responsibility that those who would exercised them in my, or any nation, be willing to defend such rights for all people, weather they are next door or an ocean away.
With all due respect ot the previous reply to this post, I would like to disagree and State that "people" or more accuratly Accountibility is what is covered.
I agree that the letter of the law makes many of the common network devices like NAT's and Firewalls appear questionable. I believe the intent of the law and therefore (it can be hoped) the statutes that will be made will cover accountibility.
I believe the intent of all this is to ensure that there is responcibility for the actions individuals and esp. companies take in our new "wired society." these laws make it illigal for someone to use technology to avoid accountibility. (Think about Spamers and how they use technology to hid their identity)
In the end, what I (and the public) want to know is not how many boxes you have behind your DSL/Cable modem, but who is responcible for the DoS attack on my sight or the Spam in my Inbox.
I agree that a duel system would improve accuracy, but only because of averaging, not because of ionosphere correction. Intorder to make the correction that you described the two signals must come from the same place at the same time.
The U.S.A.I.D. has already devided up contracts to U.S. companies to sell Iraqi oil when the war is over. The profits are to go to pay for the relief effort, but it will be U.S. corperations that will make most of the money. There is no end time schedualed for this opperation. As long as the U.S. occupies Iraq companies like Halliburton Co., Vice Pres. Cheney's former company will get to suck Iraq dry.
I have heard from everyone with any real experence in cryptography that of all the areas of computing, cryptography is the one best left to the experts. What most programmers (including myself) might think of as a very secure encryption, when analysied by the experts, turns out to be as transparent as ROT13.
On the other hand no where is the Open Source Modle more touted as the panacea of computing then in cryptography. Many eyes it is said will catch backdoors and reveil poor implimentations before they become security issues.
My question then: When developing and implementing encryption, How would you weigh the need for experties with the trust and scrutiny availible from Open Source development?
Re:Vague article doesn't have the details I want
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Thank you for the information.
Having read some of the later posts, it sound as if the article was very misleading in its assesment. My impression is that word will do everything in XML that people want it to, it just will not do it by default or with standard.doc type files.
This is both helpful and depressing. helpful in that companies can now creat buisness modles and practices that take advantage of XML's flexibility. Depressing in that I will still have to keep MS Office installed because there are too many people in the world who send me e-mails with.doc attachments and then hold me responcible for them.
I believe the real issue will not be the softwares capibilities so much as how its interface effects the way people handle documents.
Slashdot Mirror
Very well put.
I have two thought I would like to add.
I tend to agree with you that only a "near-death" type experience on a grand scale will be enough to create sudden world wide change. However, I am not so pessimistic about long term small scale change. A common refrain where I'm at is "A few people can change the world, indeed it the only thing that ever has" A few good rants on Slashdot may not end the MS reign of terror, but it is how all great movements have started; with a little grumbling.
Second, it is not necessary to convert the whole world/nation/proletariat. When courageous people speak reasonable words in strong voices people listen. I give you, for example, the Free Software movement. The whole computing world didn't suddenly drop everything and go open source as a revolt agents Microsoft's unfair monopoly, but when people like RMS, Linus or Larry Wall decided to do something better they started a trend.
You are correct when you state that the corruption of most major corporation are rooted in a lack of morality. No one starts out saying "I want to be a money grubbing weasel when I grow up." A few people can, however, change this trend. I guess my point is that we--you, I and everybody else who can see beyond their TV screens--don't have to wait for a government changing revolution. We can do something now and be effective at doing it. You have good facts and based on this and other comment you are excellent at expressing them. Make sure you talk to people who will listen and have a little faith that the world will follow.
I will make the world a better place one person at a time, will you?
From the B.R.D.S.,
JFMILLER
You started out so well there. This was a beautiful rant. It is too bad that the slashdot editor won't let you change the font color because I think that the last paragraph would look great in red.
Given the above, perhaps you would be kind enough to answer the key questions Marks and Engels didn't. like how to keep the "awakend workers" from becomming as corrupt as there bosses, or what is a "fair" meains of distributing limited recources?
By the way, would you be so kind as to tell the slashdot readership what it is you do? If we are to follow the lead of history, we might guess that you have more incommon (education, finance, social class) with evil corprate officers then you do with any lower middle class working stiff.
From the B.R.D.S.,
JFMILLER
This is a tax on the depriceated value of the network. If you are not a buisness no tax because you can't clame deprieciated losses. This is to fix a company that writes off $1,000,000 in network equitment depriciation every year and therefore doesn't pay taxes.
This BTW is the is one of the reasons M$ didn't pay ANY fedral taxes last year
I agree. As a person who will read all 180 pages of the instructions before I even agree to the licence, I want more complex interaction with my games. I've out grown the button mashin' of the FPS and even the RTS games now seem too much like a contest of keyboard-mouse coordination rather then a thought out plan of action. (Too much RT not enough S)
In case there are any more like me out there may I strongly recommend Elderscroles 3: Morrowwind, along with almost anything by Cid Meyers.
JFMILLER
IANACE
Can anyone give an example of a case where "real world" encryption was cracked do to psudo-random numbers being broken?
It has been my experence that using these inovative solutions to improve one end of secure comminications does not help in the least a whole host of other more easily exploited flaws. For example even a theoretically perfect encryption is still vulnerable to social engineering.
An impenitrable front door is usless next to an open window.
JFMILLER
Actually...
Due to the Leidenfrost effect this might actually work, but it also might cause loss of teeth (seen it) tongue (seen pictures) or stomic (don't want to know).
Someday try taking a practical science exam, or for that matter doing anything that requires basic math in a short amount of time. If you're calculator dependant you won't have enough time. Everyone should be able to add subtract multiply and divide fractions whole numbers and decimals w/o a calculator before they are allowed to touch one.
I like the rest of my third grade clas in '87 were forcably converted to cursive. It was the requires standard through 8th grade. I had (and still have) good ledgable printing skills but my handwriting is attrocious and it's not for lack of trying. By the time I got to Highschool most of my teachers were willing to let me print or type so they could read things. My grades went up, but it took a lot of effort to un-learn cursive.
I think teaching cursave is a great thing for those who have the ability to use it, but in todays age of computers, any thing long enough to require cursive is going to be typed. For students whom cursive is a hinderance to ledigibility, I say let them type or stick to printing. Most forms require that anyway right?
JFMILLER
For what it's worth, Gentoo Linux suggests ResierFS as there prefered FileSystem.
Actually I agree compleatly. This 'Functional Glue' that I refered to is really what makes the program work the way it does. The Swarming technique (Thanks to Bram for the correct word for this idea) is used by lots of different protocals I whanted to know what about the 'functional glue' made BitTorrent different from, say, eDonkey(eMule), and what caused him to do things that way.
JFMILLER
This is stupid and off topic but,
The president of the U.S. is not directly elected either. The eletoral college is responcible for that, and the way it's set up at the moment, effectivally prevents third party canadits.
I like this answer. BitTorrent's integreation with html gives it a very different range of applications then other P2P. Howerver I am still interested in why certian protocal choices were made. for example the very centeralized nature of metadata storage only at the host.
eDonkey is also a protocol. eMule is the opensource client for that ptotocol.
eDonkey is slower mainly because there is not central file athority and also because of poor use of resouces (c.f. emule 0.28 feature of release priority which is not used often enough) My question is what are the protocal differences that cause these variations in performance in P2P clients based on the same overriding premise.
As far as I can tell the genius of BitTorrent is allowing peers who themselves do not yet have a complete file to share the parts they do. With all dew respect to the effort taken, the rest is just functional glue that allows the system to work as it should.
The eDonkey protocol used the same basic premise. How is BitTorrent different to it and other P2P protocols and why did you make that choice?
In addation to that blocking pop-up adds would be a must. It ought to be against the law to have to pay for someone else to advertize to you.
JFMILLER
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all [people] are created equal, and are endowed by there creator with certain inalienable rights among them are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The right to freedom of expression is not merely a legal bit in the US Bill of Rights but is implicitly and clearly part of universal human existence. Furthermore, these rights come with the responsibility that those who would exercised them in my, or any nation, be willing to defend such rights for all people, weather they are next door or an ocean away.
JFMILLER
Disclamer: IANAPhD
With all due respect ot the previous reply to this post, I would like to disagree and State that "people" or more accuratly Accountibility is what is covered.
I agree that the letter of the law makes many of the common network devices like NAT's and Firewalls appear questionable. I believe the intent of the law and therefore (it can be hoped) the statutes that will be made will cover accountibility.
I believe the intent of all this is to ensure that there is responcibility for the actions individuals and esp. companies take in our new "wired society." these laws make it illigal for someone to use technology to avoid accountibility. (Think about Spamers and how they use technology to hid their identity)
In the end, what I (and the public) want to know is not how many boxes you have behind your DSL/Cable modem, but who is responcible for the DoS attack on my sight or the Spam in my Inbox.
JFMILLER
the entire palte is coated with copper. The etching define non-conducting lines. It's almost to opisate of a printed or etched PCB.
JFMILLER
P.S. Good question I had to look at the pictures to understand this.
I agree that a duel system would improve accuracy, but only because of averaging, not because of ionosphere correction. Intorder to make the correction that you described the two signals must come from the same place at the same time.
JFMILLER
Val Kilmer-- before he was Iceman, Lasers, Popcorn, Nerds, oh and still very acurate comentary about the US military.
Would World History and Social Studies be in your list of academic subject? Or are you a product of Americas failing education system.
JFMILLER
http://slashdot.org/hof.shtml
Right now #10 on the all time list.
What's keeping you on windows is #1 @ 3212.
JFMILLER
http://www.forbes.com/technology/newswire/2003/03/ 19/rtr912071.htmlr vlet/story/RTGAM.20 030320.rcomp0320/BNStory/Businesss .org/articles/2003/mar2003/usai-m12 .shtml
http://www.globeandmail.com/se
http://www.wsw
The U.S.A.I.D. has already devided up contracts to U.S. companies to sell Iraqi oil when the war is over. The profits are to go to pay for the relief effort, but it will be U.S. corperations that will make most of the money. There is no end time schedualed for this opperation. As long as the U.S. occupies Iraq companies like Halliburton Co., Vice Pres. Cheney's former company will get to suck Iraq dry.
JFMILLER
I have heard from everyone with any real experence in cryptography that of all the areas of computing, cryptography is the one best left to the experts. What most programmers (including myself) might think of as a very secure encryption, when analysied by the experts, turns out to be as transparent as ROT13.
On the other hand no where is the Open Source Modle more touted as the panacea of computing then in cryptography. Many eyes it is said will catch backdoors and reveil poor implimentations before they become security issues.
My question then: When developing and implementing encryption, How would you weigh the need for experties with the trust and scrutiny availible from Open Source development?
Thank you for the information.
.doc type files.
.doc attachments and then hold me responcible for them.
Having read some of the later posts, it sound as if the article was very misleading in its assesment. My impression is that word will do everything in XML that people want it to, it just will not do it by default or with standard
This is both helpful and depressing. helpful in that companies can now creat buisness modles and practices that take advantage of XML's flexibility. Depressing in that I will still have to keep MS Office installed because there are too many people in the world who send me e-mails with
I believe the real issue will not be the softwares capibilities so much as how its interface effects the way people handle documents.
JFMILLER