1. The headline is horrible. iPhone didn't contribute to wireless networks that are open by some means.
2. iPhone won't open the market. Android will. Reason: Android is fully customizable. Soon or later Skype[1] or any other VOIP/instant messenging app will be available. Data traffic will become more important than regular POTS calls. Eventually one carrier might step out of line and get out of the entrenchment by offering reasonable data traffic packages. The game theory for this is a prisoners dilema, and we know that all participating players will lose at end. But that's just good for the customers. Technology will dictate it at the end, and it's Google Android that will take the lead here; not iPhone that is tied to carries by contracts.
[1]Skype itself is a total horrible vendor lockin, but hopefully the protocol gets reverse engineered one day and we will all enjoy open clients. Everyone that uses a multi-protocol client with MSN/ICQ/AIM/JABBER knows that suddenly a single protocol becomes quite easy to replace and hence its power to dictate the rules (as it so for skype at the moment) vanishes.
pack an AES chip into every hard disk (this is a trivial silicon chip, fabricated in ASIC and mass produced this is likely to cost way below 5$), and pack a master key into the first few sectors. Make the AES encryption transparent. The drive firmware reads the master key on power up and en/decrypts without user intervention.
However: when a special ATA command is issued the master key is overwritten with a new one (see http://luks.endorphin.org/LUKS-on-disk-format.pdf how this can be done safely). This operation doesn't take a second and instantaneously kills your data. The result: a new blank entropy filled HD.
So what's the economic value of this new invention? Likely zero.
Online petitions, letters to members of the paralement, online demonstrations.. crap! What gets you attention is money. Pure, hard and cold money. But I'm not talking about corruption.
What changes the minds of those in power to decide is information. The information distribution, production, and presentation costs time and money, the time of lobbist and the money of the companies behind them.
Free software doesn't have a company nor do we have a big budget. But we are many. Let us slash dot the budget of the lobbists on OUR side.
Yes, there are such folks. The FFII is one of them. Just visit http://swpat.ffii.org - But don't go for online petitions or demos. Go to the donate section. These guys have to pay their office bills, their plane ticks and their printer paper.
Vote with $$$. Change the world. Just like Microsoft.
cryptoloop's corruption problems have been fixed in 2.6.0-test4. cryptoloop is quite stable, since it's only a thin layer between cryptoapi and loop. But loop is really causing problems.
It's possible to deadlock even without encryption, can't work with CD's, and has some other probs, resulting from the fact that nobody is maintaining it.. Seriously, that block device driver needs a lot of work. I can't really recommend using cryptoloop to anyone, before loop.c has not been fixed.
I though bochs development was dead, but I'm glad to hear that's false. I hope it will rub off on plex86, which is the only real hope for the "best of both world" strategy (win,lin on a box).
I really love Hurd if you take hurd just as the bunch of source files, but I can't stand hurd if you view the Hurd project as a developer community. Most of these guys waste their time with flaming you because you are dare to try booting GNU/Hurd within proprietary software (VMWare in that case).
Instead of giving you straight answer ignoring the sematical inaccuracies in a newbies questions, they spend the largest part of the discussion on explaining things you already know.
I tried to join the hurd project serveral times, but before I've been able to contribute, I've been turn of by the ignorance and fanaticism of that community, therefor..
Hurd will fail, because the Hurd community fails to attract people.
- Build extendable, versionized, equipt for the future interfaces. That's basically what "Designers" do. - Stay backward compatible. - Make use of Refactoring (http://www.google.com/search?q=refactoring)
2. NVidia has the best support for 3D hardware for linux. Beside a bios problem, I never had any driver issues in the last 1 1/2 years. And btw. there is _nothing_ that can even be compared with NVidia's OpenGL implementation. So much for your NV flaming.
Freenet is beautiful idea, as the freedom of speech is continued to be threatened.
Please insert the content of bnetd.org into Freenet and publish the KSK key on the frontpage of bnetd.org, but don't make it a link, since linking is only for outlaws.
This should have been done before posting these news on/.. Many users would have tried freenet, just to see if they could get to bnetd.org's content.
Hopefully a few will stick to FREENET
* Copyright has been designed to take rights from the public, monopolize it for a single party, and make commercial exploitation of that monopoly possible.
* So Copyright trades discrimination for the appeal to invest.
* Discrimination is fundamentially opposit to the base of democracy.
Join those statements and you will conclude: Copyright is opposed to democracy.
If the Bundestag wants a democractic decission, it must favour copyleft over copyright.
(Please notice that Open Source doesn't mean Copyleft.)
Has that sucker ever written a line of code for the GNOME project?
If not, shut up, RMS
Can't slashdot devote a news section to "RMS ranting"? It's always the same, it's always narrow minded, it's always useless. I'd really like to ignore it.
This input type depends on visual feedback. You have to choose the character among a list by scrolling throw it. A typical character selection would look like this:
1. You look at the currently selected char.
2. Is it your desired character?
Yes: Press the selection key, think of the next character, and restart at 1.
No: You estimate the alphabetical distance between the currently selected char and your desired. If it's "far", hit the scrollwheel fast. If it's "near", hit the scrollwheel gently. Start at 1.
The problem is, you will always have to look at the display while you're searching, which makes the process dependent on visual feedback. Just think back to the times when you where new to QWERTY (or for those who can't remember, think of the times while trying DVORAK). You were looking at the keyboard searching for your key to press, ackwardly slowing your lexical progress.
The revolution in typing speed has accoured that moment as you don't depend on the visual feedback any longer, freeing a lot of mental processing time for hand, finger, eye coordination.
The scrollwheel is as slow as my mobile phone sms writing interface.
use freenet for information distribution
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take the blacklist, sign it, and insert it into freenet
modify MTA to use local blacklist file.
fetch the list via the freenet-request script.
do that every day via cron.
greets,
multiview
p.s.: this is could become a common strategy
against this kind of information banishment.
freenet.sourceforge.net
GPLed code is not allowed to be link to non-GPLed
code. ... but there are ways to allow GPL components to do work for non-GPL components, without breaking the GPL license.
1. make the GPL components callable via RPC or CORBA.
the modifications must in this case be released into the community again, so the benefit for it would be, a reusable RPC/CORBA code with a likely cleaned API.
2. build a wrapper lib for the GPLed code.
this must be fair easy to do that automatically by analysing an existing shared object file. then, link the non-GPL program with this created stub lib, which dynamically loads the GPL-ed library of your desire. if the GPL codebase is usable right from the scratch, there is no intellectual property profit for the community.
i ask myself, if it is really necessary to understand the concept as a whole.. i'd rather move to the point of view: we don't need to know the system in detail, we just use them as a blackbox. the only thing we have to know is the correct behavior of the API. as a result of this conclusion, we can proceed to more powerful tools and commonly used helpers without reinventing the wheel one more time. stop teaching them stacks, stop teaching them linked lists, and most of all please stop teaching them these 20 different ways of sorting. teach them how to use things, how to look up API descriptions and adapt their code to these. there are so much APIs, libraries, accessable helpers/daemons/executables. it's time to give them some more powerful tools to grab. what for has sun included the most common concept in java.util.*?
if the debian team is afraid of being sued by some GPL coder in KDE, they can choose another way of bring KDE to debian. just like the qmail-src packages, where qmail-license forbids distribution of compilied binaries, compile the debs on the users host. the user would violate the GPL instead by linking the source of KDE to the source QL, which would come in qt-src, kde-src packages. i'd personally prefer this solution, since i like KDE on my debian more than this GPL-license-fascism.
i guess the reader who posted the comment including the document has signed a licence before downloading which stats something like 'may not be reproduced blahblah'.
but what does this mean to others? are we forced - even if we're not part of the contract - to enforce this contract between the user and microsoft by removing comments violating this agreement? this enforcements means adminstrative work/effort/tasks to us (first reading mail, verifing that the comment is actually violating some contract in this universe and removing it, if so). we don't get pay a cent for this work. we're not qualified to judge, if this is a violating. and even if we were lawyers, it'd hurt my ethnical feelings to be the judge for censorship.
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1. The headline is horrible. iPhone didn't contribute to wireless networks that are open by some means.
2. iPhone won't open the market. Android will. Reason: Android is fully customizable. Soon or later Skype[1] or any other VOIP/instant messenging app will be available. Data traffic will become more important than regular POTS calls. Eventually one carrier might step out of line and get out of the entrenchment by offering reasonable data traffic packages. The game theory for this is a prisoners dilema, and we know that all participating players will lose at end. But that's just good for the customers. Technology will dictate it at the end, and it's Google Android that will take the lead here; not iPhone that is tied to carries by contracts.
[1]Skype itself is a total horrible vendor lockin, but hopefully the protocol gets reverse engineered one day and we will all enjoy open clients. Everyone that uses a multi-protocol client with MSN/ICQ/AIM/JABBER knows that suddenly a single protocol becomes quite easy to replace and hence its power to dictate the rules (as it so for skype at the moment) vanishes.
pack an AES chip into every hard disk (this is a trivial silicon chip, fabricated in ASIC and mass produced this is likely to cost way below 5$), and pack a master key into the first few sectors. Make the AES encryption transparent. The drive firmware reads the master key on power up and en/decrypts without user intervention.
However: when a special ATA command is issued the master key is overwritten with a new one (see http://luks.endorphin.org/LUKS-on-disk-format.pdf how this can be done safely). This operation doesn't take a second and instantaneously kills your data. The result: a new blank entropy filled HD.
So what's the economic value of this new invention? Likely zero.
FSF Emacs is unusable for one single reason:
Antialiased fonts. XEmacs merged them to MAIN a month ago. FSF Emacs folks aren't working on that stuff.
Online petitions, letters to members of the paralement, online demonstrations.. crap! What gets you attention is money. Pure, hard and cold money. But I'm not talking about corruption.
What changes the minds of those in power to decide is information. The information distribution, production, and presentation costs time and money, the time of lobbist and the money of the companies behind them.
Free software doesn't have a company nor do we have a big budget. But we are many. Let us slash dot the budget of the lobbists on OUR side.
Yes, there are such folks. The FFII is one of them. Just visit http://swpat.ffii.org - But don't go for online petitions or demos. Go to the donate section. These guys have to pay their office bills, their plane ticks and their printer paper.
Vote with $$$. Change the world. Just like Microsoft.
cryptoloop's corruption problems have been fixed in 2.6.0-test4. cryptoloop is quite stable, since it's only a thin layer between cryptoapi and loop. But loop is really causing problems.
It's possible to deadlock even without encryption, can't work with CD's, and has some other probs, resulting from the fact that nobody is maintaining it.. Seriously, that block device driver needs a lot of work. I can't really recommend using cryptoloop to anyone, before loop.c has not been fixed.
I though bochs development was dead, but I'm glad to hear that's false. I hope it will rub off on plex86, which is the only real hope for the "best of both world" strategy (win,lin on a box).
However good news!
don't want to consume these fucked up articles with those annoying "split apart to make me view shitloads of ads" feature.
stop it. don't link that crap.
I really love Hurd if you take hurd just as the bunch of source files, but I can't stand hurd if you view the Hurd project as a developer community. Most of these guys waste their time with flaming you because you are dare to try booting GNU/Hurd within proprietary software (VMWare in that case).
Instead of giving you straight answer ignoring the sematical inaccuracies in a newbies questions, they spend the largest part of the discussion on explaining things you already know.
I tried to join the hurd project serveral times, but before I've been able to contribute, I've been turn of by the ignorance and fanaticism of that community, therefor..
Hurd will fail, because the Hurd community fails to attract people.
lilo is asking for personal donations. he is asking OPN users to pay his car loan. no thanks.
lilo is replaceable.
1. Interfaces can't change.
- Build extendable, versionized, equipt for the future interfaces. That's basically what "Designers" do.
- Stay backward compatible.
- Make use of Refactoring (http://www.google.com/search?q=refactoring)
2. NVidia has the best support for 3D hardware for linux. Beside a bios problem, I never had any driver issues in the last 1 1/2 years. And btw. there is _nothing_ that can even be compared with NVidia's OpenGL implementation. So much for your NV flaming.
Freenet is beautiful idea, as the freedom of speech is continued to be threatened. /.. Many users would have tried freenet, just to see if they could get to bnetd.org's content.
Please insert the content of bnetd.org into Freenet and publish the KSK key on the frontpage of bnetd.org, but don't make it a link, since linking is only for outlaws.
This should have been done before posting these news on
Hopefully a few will stick to FREENET
Will the marriage photos be posted on slashdot? :-)
* So Copyright trades discrimination for the appeal to invest.
* Discrimination is fundamentially opposit to the base of democracy.
Join those statements and you will conclude: Copyright is opposed to democracy.
If the Bundestag wants a democractic decission, it must favour copyleft over copyright.
(Please notice that Open Source doesn't mean Copyleft.)
If not, shut up, RMS
Can't slashdot devote a news section to "RMS ranting"? It's always the same, it's always narrow minded, it's always useless. I'd really like to ignore it.
This input type depends on visual feedback. You have to choose the character among a list by scrolling throw it. A typical character selection would look like this:
1. You look at the currently selected char.
2. Is it your desired character?
Yes: Press the selection key, think of the next character, and restart at 1.
No: You estimate the alphabetical distance between the currently selected char and your desired. If it's "far", hit the scrollwheel fast. If it's "near", hit the scrollwheel gently. Start at 1.
The problem is, you will always have to look at the display while you're searching, which makes the process dependent on visual feedback. Just think back to the times when you where new to QWERTY (or for those who can't remember, think of the times while trying DVORAK). You were looking at the keyboard searching for your key to press, ackwardly slowing your lexical progress.
The revolution in typing speed has accoured that moment as you don't depend on the visual feedback any longer, freeing a lot of mental processing time for hand, finger, eye coordination.
The scrollwheel is as slow as my mobile phone sms writing interface.
modify MTA to use local blacklist file.
fetch the list via the freenet-request script.
do that every day via cron.
greets,
multiview
p.s.: this is could become a common strategy against this kind of information banishment. freenet.sourceforge.net
1. make the GPL components callable via RPC or CORBA.
the modifications must in this case be released into the community again, so the benefit for it would be, a reusable RPC/CORBA code with a likely cleaned API.
2. build a wrapper lib for the GPLed code.
this must be fair easy to do that automatically by analysing an existing shared object file. then, link the non-GPL program with this created stub lib, which dynamically loads the GPL-ed library of your desire. if the GPL codebase is usable right from the scratch, there is no intellectual property profit for the community.
i ask myself, if it is really necessary to understand the concept as a whole .. i'd rather move to the point of view: we don't need to know the system in detail, we just use them as a blackbox. the only thing we have to know is the correct behavior of the API. as a result of this conclusion, we can proceed to more powerful tools and commonly used helpers without reinventing the wheel one more time. stop teaching them stacks, stop teaching them linked lists, and most of all please stop teaching them these 20 different ways of sorting. teach them how to use things, how to look up API descriptions and adapt their code to these. there are so much APIs, libraries, accessable helpers/daemons/executables. it's time to give them some more powerful tools to grab. what for has sun included the most common concept in java.util.*?
if the debian team is afraid of being sued by some GPL coder in KDE, they can choose another way of bring KDE to debian.
just like the qmail-src packages, where qmail-license forbids distribution of compilied binaries, compile the debs on the users host. the user would violate the GPL instead by linking the source of KDE to the source QL, which would come in qt-src, kde-src packages.
i'd personally prefer this solution, since i like KDE on my debian more than this GPL-license-fascism.
but what does this mean to others? are we forced - even if we're not part of the contract - to enforce this contract between the user and microsoft by removing comments violating this agreement? this enforcements means adminstrative work/effort/tasks to us (first reading mail, verifing that the comment is actually violating some contract in this universe and removing it, if so). we don't get pay a cent for this work. we're not qualified to judge, if this is a violating. and even if we were lawyers, it'd hurt my ethnical feelings to be the judge for censorship.
i recommend to refuse microsoft's request.