GPG i thought didn't use RSA because of patent concerns?
There also seems to be not much point in using random algorithm selection between 16 different ciphers. You get the same benefit by increasing your symetric keylength by 4 bits. Yay.
By all accounts I've read 128 bits is just too hard to feasibly attempt these days... look at distributeds progress with their 64 bit project.
My traceroute can make it 16 of the 17 steps i need to get there... It seems the problem is solely with their server (?).
With things like this, since it's a government site that in no way needs advertisers or anything, ROb and Hemos should without a doubt mirror this stuff PRIOR to posting it... Now the discussion is pure drivel. Mostly trolls, and a few general comments about Echelon, rather than one about what this paper has to say.
Stop placing the blame on the sites that provide software for you to run in the background for wasting our resources. You were the one that chose to ran the software... It's generally known that nothing in life is perfect...
If you're that concerned, just shut your computer down at night...
This isn't neccessarily directed at you... what you posted may have been a joke, but i got quite irked that while back when there were problems with seti@home and people started guestimating how many resources were wasted as a result.
The Win 2000 release is and was much more important to the average slashdotter than anything that Transmeta's done. Think about it. Dispite all the posturing, most slashdot readers use Windows. Most of the sysadmins here probably have to use WinNT and WILL be upgrading to Win2000 now that it's arrived.
It's entirely relevant to this discussion. If slashdot's going to report on every twist and turn of the anti-trust case, every bump in Red Hat stock, and anything to do with Transmeta, I personally think that they should have reported on the Win 2K release.
Like it or not, Windows 2000 serves as the new measuring stick that people will use when comparing Linux to other OSes.
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OS X Server has been long known to be a dead end of an operating system . Apple released it to make everyone happy that they did have some progress going on. But it's been a long stated fact that once OSX Consumer ships, OS X server (as it is) is going away. There may be a new "server" bundle, but it will be the same exact piece of technology as the consumer edition with added services, rather than Microsofts attempts at driving 2 code bases forwards...
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I doubt that any OS X apps will run through X. You may be able to run X apps in addition to OSX, but the OSX interaface will always be what you deal with when using OS X apps,.
I've been hearing that OS X consumer will probably support many more machines than OSX Server did. Seems they wanted to only have to support a few machines with the intial release. Mach runs on all powermacs so it isn't inconceivable. This might be apples attempt to get into the software bsiness for real. If it runs on enough of the older macs they'll stand to gain a LOT of sales.
Personally, I see no problem paying more money for apples hardware. It's just that much better... Never having to deal with things like a BIOS, IRQ's, having to tell the computer if it's OS is plug and play or not... Not to mention that Apple's motheboards and internals in general are laid out to be so much more accomodating to people who have to get inside the cases.
Nope... When you work for a company, you're generally allowed use of a computer to satisfy the tasks needed to do your work. An employer is fully within their rights by blocking sites from employee access.
Same goes for parents and kids. Kids aren't "real" people until they're 18. They aren't afforded the same rights as adults (and that's a good thing, in terms of things like penalties for crimes and such).
The only way it would be a violation of free speech is if the government mandated that every ISP have such and such installed and to disallow eeryone from accessing a certain black list of sites.
Cyber Patrol is a strictly opt-in deal. Parents get it to "protect" their children from filth and smut. Employers get it to "protect" their employees from distractions. Those are both definetly within their rights - they supply the computer for a certain set of tasks (homework, games, research (games doesn't apply to employers:)) and have a right to "know" that their resources aren't being squandered away.
IF you take objection to libraries and other public resources using internet filters, take it up with them, your local government or your state rep. Don't sabotage their property because you don't like the way some of their clients use it.
Unless a website is selling something, then it's only means of paying for itself is through advertisements... It's funny that you complain about Yahoo using up your bandwidth to display a tiny banner, yet you don't mention slashdot, freshmeat, user sigs, or any other news website in the world...
They need to make a living... Just like you... And just because they make more than you doesn't mean you have to resent them for it.
If you want better movies online, why not start your own *legit* company. Get a site. Make it look GREAT... And then try to talk with the business... I'm quite positive that if you were in it for real (appeared plausible to them) they'ed give serious consideration...
But they still need a way to get paid... That's either a credit card payment or an advertisement. You're choice!
We (American's) are already well trained to spend $3-$5on movie rentals.. No one's going to push the price down for us... If anything, if there were a sufficient way that the industry could be assured that it wouldn't be easily copiable (intel's video adapter to digital monitor encyption springs to mind), then that, coupled with "higher quality" HDTV sets would mean they could charge an equal amount AT LEAST, and more if they felt like it...
"No need to pick up the movie" "no need to return it either" "HDTV quality picture" "Better than CD quality sound"
"Only $6 a viewing session"...
It's more equatable with pay per view... so people would think it's cheap, not a ripoff. I'd like it, though... I see no need why i should have to go return videos if there's an altenrative available.
Just a few stories ago (the free PC story) everyone was saying "when will advertisers learn?" and "I just zone out the ads"... Well, with the downfall of FreePC, maybe they are learning! Imagine that... Banners are too easily ignored, and the more intrusive ones aren't well tolerated.
I highly doubt we'll be seeing advertiser supported full-length cinema films on the internet any day soon... Maybe a pay by credit card type situation wth closed source binaries so it's no easily circumvented... But certainly not advertiser supported movies. It's a pipe dream!
What lesson has the music industry learned? I don't recall them learning or being taught any lessons... Face it: yes, MP3's deprive big time execs of money... But they also hurt the smaller smaller and midsized artists... Probably the midsized ones the most.
I mean, really small acts know that they need a real job to support themselves. Large acts know they'll never need jobs again. It's the midsized ones that are hoping to break into the big time that really get squeezed by MP3's...
I'll stand by that, until the day that bands like Sebadoh, Shellac, Unsane and even Sonic Youth (bands that don't quite come close to selling millions of records) come forward and say that MP3's actually HELP them... Until then, I'll think that all the lines being made up that say tha MP3 distribution really helps the artists because then they don't need to deal with studio's is just a bunch of justification lines...
And what... Vidster? I'm sure everyone here will be able to justify the idea that they own such and such movie and what not... Face it... You hate industry but they love what they give you... If you hurt them, they won't be able to provide anymore.. Think NO STAR WARS III...
I'll preface this with the customary "i'll probably get relegated to flamebait for saying this" but Redhat does very little work...
I've been waiting for eons for this moment to arrive.
Linux is FREE as in beer and speech. Why should a vendor want to fork money to redhat in order to get their hardware into a potential Linux users hands? Especially a large OEM, though I'd always imagined that IBM or Compaq would be at the forefront... They already have a support system in place, and given that most common questions are answered by looking them up in a database, it really ISN'T THAT HARD for an OEM to distribute their own version of Linux.
And it makes sense... In essense all Redhat provides to an OEM is the possibility of support - though all of the major OEMs are already prepared to provide support thanks to their windows licensing... Yes, redhat goes through the trouble to package new distributions and even provide developers to the "community"... But come on! It's all GPLed software... That means that it provides an equal opportunity to everybody.
It could be done... You'd just need client software coupled with a table of the top 10,000 or 100,000 websites, categorized... Then the client could look at what site you were looking at, figure out what category it was, and then ask for the appropriate ad from the server.
In the worst case scenario, someone would know what TYPES of sites you visited, but not the actual ones.
Of course, if you're concerned with your privacy, then a Free PC or Free ISP deal isn't very appropriate for you in the first place.
that, and the audience they attracted were (no offense to those here who may have gotten them) bottom feeders... If they're going to get a free celeron 333 system with a 15" monitor with a free internet account and try to ignore the ad window, that's not really a market that many advertisers really *want* to reach.
The DOJ could use this as evidence that Microsoft is buying up Linux, in an effort to crush competition, during these last few days of settlement talks. It may even raise the penalty exacted on Microsoft, substantially.
No they couldn't... Microsoft already owned their piece of inprise... Corel came along and bought Inprise. It's not microsofts problem that a company they invested in got bought by a company that deals in linux.
What happens when someone who works for a given company wants to post a story that talks about something that's not all positive about given company? I know it hasn't happened yet (that I've seen) but it's a distinct possibility....
Also, there are some genius AC's out there... They should have the same rights as every other slashdot citizen...
Are you nutty? Memory speed doesn't need to pick up to make SMP Athlons attractive purchases... So many apps times are spent rerunning the same chunks of code, and manipulating the same chunks of data for more than a few clock cycles at a time, that so long as a CPU's cache is efficient, they'll stand to benefit greatly from SMP, so long as the apps and OSes in question support the extra processors.
I don't know about it... In general, I buy the best product I can with the money I have to spend... If AMD's chips are for some reason inferior to Intel's when your Caspian motherboard arrives, are you still going to buy the AMD chips anyways?
You're wrong on that count, I think... According to the benchmarks i'd seen in the past, the Athlon has mantained a sizable advantage over pre-coppermine Pentium III's... However, when the coppermine arrived with it's full speed cache, they're basically neck and neck in integer performance and AMD still has the edge in floating point performance...
Unfortunately for AMD, they have no SMP chipsets on the market, so the high end of the markets are still all intels.
Well... Virtual Play Station or whatever it's name is, was written mostly in PowerPC ASSEMBLY language... That takes some doing... No C. No C++. Assembly.
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GPG i thought didn't use RSA because of patent concerns?
There also seems to be not much point in using random algorithm selection between 16 different ciphers. You get the same benefit by increasing your symetric keylength by 4 bits. Yay.
By all accounts I've read 128 bits is just too hard to feasibly attempt these days... look at distributeds progress with their 64 bit project.
My traceroute can make it 16 of the 17 steps i need to get there... It seems the problem is solely with their server (?).
With things like this, since it's a government site that in no way needs advertisers or anything, ROb and Hemos should without a doubt mirror this stuff PRIOR to posting it... Now the discussion is pure drivel. Mostly trolls, and a few general comments about Echelon, rather than one about what this paper has to say.
Stop placing the blame on the sites that provide software for you to run in the background for wasting our resources. You were the one that chose to ran the software... It's generally known that nothing in life is perfect...
If you're that concerned, just shut your computer down at night...
This isn't neccessarily directed at you... what you posted may have been a joke, but i got quite irked that while back when there were problems with seti@home and people started guestimating how many resources were wasted as a result.
The Win 2000 release is and was much more important to the average slashdotter than anything that Transmeta's done. Think about it. Dispite all the posturing, most slashdot readers use Windows. Most of the sysadmins here probably have to use WinNT and WILL be upgrading to Win2000 now that it's arrived.
It's entirely relevant to this discussion. If slashdot's going to report on every twist and turn of the anti-trust case, every bump in Red Hat stock, and anything to do with Transmeta, I personally think that they should have reported on the Win 2K release.
Like it or not, Windows 2000 serves as the new measuring stick that people will use when comparing Linux to other OSes.
OS X Server has been long known to be a dead end of an operating system . Apple released it to make everyone happy that they did have some progress going on. But it's been a long stated fact that once OSX Consumer ships, OS X server (as it is) is going away. There may be a new "server" bundle, but it will be the same exact piece of technology as the consumer edition with added services, rather than Microsofts attempts at driving 2 code bases forwards...
I doubt that any OS X apps will run through X. You may be able to run X apps in addition to OSX, but the OSX interaface will always be what you deal with when using OS X apps,.
I've been hearing that OS X consumer will probably support many more machines than OSX Server did. Seems they wanted to only have to support a few machines with the intial release. Mach runs on all powermacs so it isn't inconceivable. This might be apples attempt to get into the software bsiness for real. If it runs on enough of the older macs they'll stand to gain a LOT of sales.
Personally, I see no problem paying more money for apples hardware. It's just that much better... Never having to deal with things like a BIOS, IRQ's, having to tell the computer if it's OS is plug and play or not... Not to mention that Apple's motheboards and internals in general are laid out to be so much more accomodating to people who have to get inside the cases.
That's just Microsofts way of saying "no. now shut up and go away."
Nope... When you work for a company, you're generally allowed use of a computer to satisfy the tasks needed to do your work. An employer is fully within their rights by blocking sites from employee access.
Same goes for parents and kids. Kids aren't "real" people until they're 18. They aren't afforded the same rights as adults (and that's a good thing, in terms of things like penalties for crimes and such).
The only way it would be a violation of free speech is if the government mandated that every ISP have such and such installed and to disallow eeryone from accessing a certain black list of sites.
Why?
:)) and have a right to "know" that their resources aren't being squandered away.
Cyber Patrol is a strictly opt-in deal. Parents get it to "protect" their children from filth and smut. Employers get it to "protect" their employees from distractions. Those are both definetly within their rights - they supply the computer for a certain set of tasks (homework, games, research (games doesn't apply to employers
IF you take objection to libraries and other public resources using internet filters, take it up with them, your local government or your state rep. Don't sabotage their property because you don't like the way some of their clients use it.
Grow up!
Unless a website is selling something, then it's only means of paying for itself is through advertisements... It's funny that you complain about Yahoo using up your bandwidth to display a tiny banner, yet you don't mention slashdot, freshmeat, user sigs, or any other news website in the world...
They need to make a living... Just like you... And just because they make more than you doesn't mean you have to resent them for it.
If you want better movies online, why not start your own *legit* company. Get a site. Make it look GREAT... And then try to talk with the business... I'm quite positive that if you were in it for real (appeared plausible to them) they'ed give serious consideration...
But they still need a way to get paid... That's either a credit card payment or an advertisement. You're choice!
We (American's) are already well trained to spend $3-$5on movie rentals.. No one's going to push the price down for us... If anything, if there were a sufficient way that the industry could be assured that it wouldn't be easily copiable (intel's video adapter to digital monitor encyption springs to mind), then that, coupled with "higher quality" HDTV sets would mean they could charge an equal amount AT LEAST, and more if they felt like it...
"No need to pick up the movie"
"no need to return it either"
"HDTV quality picture"
"Better than CD quality sound"
"Only $6 a viewing session"...
It's more equatable with pay per view... so people would think it's cheap, not a ripoff. I'd like it, though... I see no need why i should have to go return videos if there's an altenrative available.
Just a few stories ago (the free PC story) everyone was saying "when will advertisers learn?" and "I just zone out the ads"... Well, with the downfall of FreePC, maybe they are learning! Imagine that... Banners are too easily ignored, and the more intrusive ones aren't well tolerated.
I highly doubt we'll be seeing advertiser supported full-length cinema films on the internet any day soon... Maybe a pay by credit card type situation wth closed source binaries so it's no easily circumvented... But certainly not advertiser supported movies. It's a pipe dream!
What lesson has the music industry learned? I don't recall them learning or being taught any lessons... Face it: yes, MP3's deprive big time execs of money... But they also hurt the smaller smaller and midsized artists... Probably the midsized ones the most.
I mean, really small acts know that they need a real job to support themselves. Large acts know they'll never need jobs again. It's the midsized ones that are hoping to break into the big time that really get squeezed by MP3's...
I'll stand by that, until the day that bands like Sebadoh, Shellac, Unsane and even Sonic Youth (bands that don't quite come close to selling millions of records) come forward and say that MP3's actually HELP them... Until then, I'll think that all the lines being made up that say tha MP3 distribution really helps the artists because then they don't need to deal with studio's is just a bunch of justification lines...
And what... Vidster? I'm sure everyone here will be able to justify the idea that they own such and such movie and what not... Face it... You hate industry but they love what they give you... If you hurt them, they won't be able to provide anymore.. Think NO STAR WARS III...
I'll preface this with the customary "i'll probably get relegated to flamebait for saying this" but Redhat does very little work...
I've been waiting for eons for this moment to arrive.
Linux is FREE as in beer and speech. Why should a vendor want to fork money to redhat in order to get their hardware into a potential Linux users hands? Especially a large OEM, though I'd always imagined that IBM or Compaq would be at the forefront... They already have a support system in place, and given that most common questions are answered by looking them up in a database, it really ISN'T THAT HARD for an OEM to distribute their own version of Linux.
And it makes sense... In essense all Redhat provides to an OEM is the possibility of support - though all of the major OEMs are already prepared to provide support thanks to their windows licensing... Yes, redhat goes through the trouble to package new distributions and even provide developers to the "community"... But come on! It's all GPLed software... That means that it provides an equal opportunity to everybody.
It could be done... You'd just need client software coupled with a table of the top 10,000 or 100,000 websites, categorized... Then the client could look at what site you were looking at, figure out what category it was, and then ask for the appropriate ad from the server.
In the worst case scenario, someone would know what TYPES of sites you visited, but not the actual ones.
Of course, if you're concerned with your privacy, then a Free PC or Free ISP deal isn't very appropriate for you in the first place.
that, and the audience they attracted were (no offense to those here who may have gotten them) bottom feeders... If they're going to get a free celeron 333 system with a 15" monitor with a free internet account and try to ignore the ad window, that's not really a market that many advertisers really *want* to reach.
Chill... We already knew that hemos can't spell... No news there...
The DOJ could use this as evidence that Microsoft is buying up Linux, in an effort to crush competition, during these last few days of settlement talks. It may even raise the penalty exacted on Microsoft, substantially.
No they couldn't... Microsoft already owned their piece of inprise... Corel came along and bought Inprise. It's not microsofts problem that a company they invested in got bought by a company that deals in linux.
What happens when someone who works for a given company wants to post a story that talks about something that's not all positive about given company? I know it hasn't happened yet (that I've seen) but it's a distinct possibility....
Also, there are some genius AC's out there... They should have the same rights as every other slashdot citizen...
Are you nutty? Memory speed doesn't need to pick up to make SMP Athlons attractive purchases... So many apps times are spent rerunning the same chunks of code, and manipulating the same chunks of data for more than a few clock cycles at a time, that so long as a CPU's cache is efficient, they'll stand to benefit greatly from SMP, so long as the apps and OSes in question support the extra processors.
I don't know about it... In general, I buy the best product I can with the money I have to spend... If AMD's chips are for some reason inferior to Intel's when your Caspian motherboard arrives, are you still going to buy the AMD chips anyways?
You're wrong on that count, I think... According to the benchmarks i'd seen in the past, the Athlon has mantained a sizable advantage over pre-coppermine Pentium III's... However, when the coppermine arrived with it's full speed cache, they're basically neck and neck in integer performance and AMD still has the edge in floating point performance...
Unfortunately for AMD, they have no SMP chipsets on the market, so the high end of the markets are still all intels.
Well... Virtual Play Station or whatever it's name is, was written mostly in PowerPC ASSEMBLY language... That takes some doing... No C. No C++. Assembly.