First off, I think that I actually liked this article.
Nothing scares me worse than the fear of losing freedoms. I don't mind the new restrictions at the airports, or anything like that. Those are things that I don't consider a basic right. I just don't want to have to worry about encrypting all of my email, or even about possesing a strong encryption program without a backdoor.
As far as terrorism is concerned, I think that we need to treat the sickness, not the symptoms. We need to fix our foreign policy, to help stop things like this. We need to not use violence, as it begets more violence. No more innocents or civilians need to die.
I'm all for giving Osama a fair trial, but how is that possible? How do we extradite him from Afghanstan(sp?), and if we manage to, who is going to serve on his jury? I would try to be impartial, but could I, could you?
I know this is sorta off topic, and doesn't even follow any sort of logic. I just felt like rambling.
(The WTC towers were actually designed to withstand having a jet flown directly into them. I bet whoever signed off on that was sure it would never happen)
The comment implies that the designer who did "sign off on it" had no idea what he was doing, because a plane did happen to crash into the tower and it did collapse. If I were to read your comment without reading the link, I would've thought that the designer, contractor, whoever, was either ignorant, or negligent. Neither of which was the case.
It was a side-note which implied incorrect information, which is why I felt the need to correct you, or the implication of your statement, as the case may be.
Maybe you should try to be less anxious to jump to the conclusion that everyone is a pedantic twity asshole without which slashdot would cease to exist.
I've read that they were designed to handle impact from a 707, not a signigicantly larger jet (like the 737, 757, 767, etc). Did you even read your own link?
Do you mean the plane that crashed in PA? If so, I no that it was on its way back east when it crashed. On the news in cleveland, they said they had it on radar "making a U-turn over lake erie".
Flase, the crime, which was Distribution of a device that allows the circumvention of copyright protection technology, was committed in the USA by an agent of elmsoft. The company (don't remember their name) was located on the west coast and collect funds and sold the software in USA for Elmsoft.
Could I technically be charged in the U.S. if I assaulted somebody in Russia?
No, but you could be charged in Russia, which is the point. An agent of elmsoft (company based on the west coast of USA) sold and distributed the product. So, back to your analogy, if you contract someone to commit a murder, you are subject to the anti-murder laws in Russia. Should it be any other way?
I just skimmed over the paper, but her algorithm seems a lot like RSA except that she encrypts/decrypts with pre computed matricies instead of exponentiations. There are some easy ways to speed exponentiation up when doing it modulo... I wonder if she took that into account when comparing.
It appears that the matricies that are used as keys instead of the normal RSA keys are the cause of the crack. They give too much extra info to a possible attacker.
I want to look this over better when I have more time, it's pretty interesting. God knows I didn't understand RSA that well when I was 16.
Face facts, slashdroids love to say they hate windows, but at the end of the day, it's what they use on their desktops.
Actually the only time I'm bored enough to do a substantial amount of web browsing is while I'm at work. Guess what, my work computer has MSEverything installed. At home, I don't have a copy of _any_ MS software installed anywhere except for wince 2.5 that's burned into ROM inside my clio. Might be that I'm not the only person that fits this situation.
Ah, you are right, thank you. I was confusing SGI's patches and thinking that the majority of them were from IBM: POSIX, bigmem, etc.
Thank you for correcting me. Does that mean that they made it into the offical tree?
garc
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Well, I don't have the time to do a search, but I have some "unvalidated thoughts and memories" on the subject.
I think a while back IBM wanted to submitt some patches to the linux kernel that would allow it to play better with the big boys. The patches would enable scaling up to a large number of processors, and efficiently using large amounts of memory. IIRC (doubtful, someone else wanna help me out here), linus didn't want the patches b/c he cared more about linux running on a normal machine well. I hope that they'd just do something like #ifdef _BIG_IRON_. Instead, IBM just kinda backed off, they didn't want to create any sort of resentment from the community, nor did they want to fork the kernel so they could have a version with their patches. I think the willingness of the company to give, and not get upset if its gifts aren't accepted well is a great testiment to its devotion to linux.
I think insertion of those patches, even if on a #ifdef type basis would be a leap in the right direction for IBM to replace AIX with linux.
I'm not 100% sure of the facts, if someone would like to correct me, please do. Of course if someone wants to back me up with links, that'd be ok too:)
I think when IBM says they'll use linux if it "matures so that it can handle the most demanding tasks," they don't mean "you guys need to build pretty little admin GUIs, and make sure linux is consistent looking." I'm thinking that they're more looking for the ability to scale to a large number of processors, and high amounts of RAM.
On that subject, does anyone know if IBM's Big Iron patches ever made it on to the main kernel tree?
Linux is the flagship that carries that ideal. It doesn't matter what it's called, everyone associates Linux with free (as in beer), and therefore should be exactly what he needs.
Actually, a lot of people tend to associate linux with open source, which, as we all know if different than free software. RMS wants to GNU out front so that the distributions people use will be associated with freedom (as in speach not beer). That is his goal as I see it.
First off, I completely agree with you about the rights of the copyright holder.
My question is about how napster is responsible. I kind of think of them as a service provider, like the phone companies. They provide the service that allows their clients to share mp3 files.
How are they responsible for content on their service? I would think that the individuals sharing & d/ling would be responsible, not the service. In the case of the phone company, they're not liable if I make prank calls.
I know this has been asked before, but in my modest (not all encompassing) reading on the topic, I've yet to find an answer I'm happy with. I'm just hoping someone can help shed some light.
There are many types of linux advocates, including those who think it is the best solution for most things out there, those who use it b/c they want to be l33t and also those who use it because they belive in free software to the fullest extent.
Take your pinto driving freak. If he had some religious conviction that he needed to be elevated above 4 ft. while driving in a car, then his huge tires become more than an entertainment, its something he believes very seriously in.
Now the same thing applies with some linux users. They may really like Apple hardware, but not agree with the 'closed source'ness of the Operating System. Therefore they install linux, an OS that they feel comfortable using, because it gives them their freedom.
I don't think that linux is the best solution for everything, but If I felt that Free Software was the best way, but still wanted an ibook, would you hold that against me? Even If I tried to convince you to use linux because I valued the freedoms it gives?
Other people might have different value systems than you, just something to think about.
parsec runs on not 2, but 3 operating systems: GNU/Linux, Mac, and Win32. It's still under developement, but looks pretty sweet. Plus, it's free as in beer.
The article states that the altered fruit flys are reproducing longer than normal flies. One guess is that they're capable of reproduction for the same percentage of their life as normal flies.
Also, they appear to be living normal lives, so again, perhaps that they'd only become senile for the last percentage of their life. Think in relative terms instead of absolute terms.
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First off, I think that I actually liked this article.
Nothing scares me worse than the fear of losing freedoms. I don't mind the new restrictions at the airports, or anything like that. Those are things that I don't consider a basic right. I just don't want to have to worry about encrypting all of my email, or even about possesing a strong encryption program without a backdoor.
As far as terrorism is concerned, I think that we need to treat the sickness, not the symptoms. We need to fix our foreign policy, to help stop things like this. We need to not use violence, as it begets more violence. No more innocents or civilians need to die.
I'm all for giving Osama a fair trial, but how is that possible? How do we extradite him from Afghanstan(sp?), and if we manage to, who is going to serve on his jury? I would try to be impartial, but could I, could you?
I know this is sorta off topic, and doesn't even follow any sort of logic. I just felt like rambling.
garc
your comment, in parantheses was this:
The comment implies that the designer who did "sign off on it" had no idea what he was doing, because a plane did happen to crash into the tower and it did collapse. If I were to read your comment without reading the link, I would've thought that the designer, contractor, whoever, was either ignorant, or negligent. Neither of which was the case.
It was a side-note which implied incorrect information, which is why I felt the need to correct you, or the implication of your statement, as the case may be.
Maybe you should try to be less anxious to jump to the conclusion that everyone is a pedantic twity asshole without which slashdot would cease to exist.
garc
I've read that they were designed to handle impact from a 707, not a signigicantly larger jet (like the 737, 757, 767, etc). Did you even read your own link?
garc
Do you mean the plane that crashed in PA? If so, I no that it was on its way back east when it crashed. On the news in cleveland, they said they had it on radar "making a U-turn over lake erie".
garc
Flase, the crime, which was Distribution of a device that allows the circumvention of copyright protection technology, was committed in the USA by an agent of elmsoft. The company (don't remember their name) was located on the west coast and collect funds and sold the software in USA for Elmsoft.
IANAL, so this is all IMHO
garc
No, but you could be charged in Russia, which is the point. An agent of elmsoft (company based on the west coast of USA) sold and distributed the product. So, back to your analogy, if you contract someone to commit a murder, you are subject to the anti-murder laws in Russia. Should it be any other way?
IANAL, so this is all IMHO.
garc
I just skimmed over the paper, but her algorithm seems a lot like RSA except that she encrypts/decrypts with pre computed matricies instead of exponentiations. There are some easy ways to speed exponentiation up when doing it modulo... I wonder if she took that into account when comparing.
It appears that the matricies that are used as keys instead of the normal RSA keys are the cause of the crack. They give too much extra info to a possible attacker.
I want to look this over better when I have more time, it's pretty interesting. God knows I didn't understand RSA that well when I was 16.
garc
I think that's the point, that you really can't call it a benchmark.
garc
A better analogy would be which track are you running on, not which car you use.
My car can do the kiddie course in 4 seconds, and it takes you 5 to do one quarter mile lap, you suck!
garc
Actually the only time I'm bored enough to do a substantial amount of web browsing is while I'm at work. Guess what, my work computer has MSEverything installed. At home, I don't have a copy of _any_ MS software installed anywhere except for wince 2.5 that's burned into ROM inside my clio. Might be that I'm not the only person that fits this situation.
Garc
Ah, you are right, thank you. I was confusing SGI's patches and thinking that the majority of them were from IBM: POSIX, bigmem, etc.
Thank you for correcting me. Does that mean that they made it into the offical tree?
garc
Well, I don't have the time to do a search, but I have some "unvalidated thoughts and memories" on the subject.
I think a while back IBM wanted to submitt some patches to the linux kernel that would allow it to play better with the big boys. The patches would enable scaling up to a large number of processors, and efficiently using large amounts of memory. IIRC (doubtful, someone else wanna help me out here), linus didn't want the patches b/c he cared more about linux running on a normal machine well. I hope that they'd just do something like #ifdef _BIG_IRON_. Instead, IBM just kinda backed off, they didn't want to create any sort of resentment from the community, nor did they want to fork the kernel so they could have a version with their patches. I think the willingness of the company to give, and not get upset if its gifts aren't accepted well is a great testiment to its devotion to linux.
I think insertion of those patches, even if on a #ifdef type basis would be a leap in the right direction for IBM to replace AIX with linux.
I'm not 100% sure of the facts, if someone would like to correct me, please do. Of course if someone wants to back me up with links, that'd be ok too :)
Garc
I think when IBM says they'll use linux if it "matures so that it can handle the most demanding tasks," they don't mean "you guys need to build pretty little admin GUIs, and make sure linux is consistent looking." I'm thinking that they're more looking for the ability to scale to a large number of processors, and high amounts of RAM.
On that subject, does anyone know if IBM's Big Iron patches ever made it on to the main kernel tree?
Garc
Actually, a lot of people tend to associate linux with open source, which, as we all know if different than free software. RMS wants to GNU out front so that the distributions people use will be associated with freedom (as in speach not beer). That is his goal as I see it.
links describing linux and its relation to GNU:
Garc
Leave it to slashdot to /. itself :)
I can't get to the site :(
garc
I would never buy a Knuth Hexidecimal check. I wouldn't feel that I deserved it, unless it had my name on it.
garc
I've sat on an Aeron and while I enjoy it, I have found the SteelCase Leap to be much more comfortable and adjustable.
garc
Well, you can actually see what they're charging under the store section of their webpage (here if you're lazy).
60 bucks will get you the Professional Package, which included all the desktop tools (mail, todo, etc), Datasync, SDK, and 30 days email support.
30 bucks will just get you the standard version with desktop tools & Datasync
Garc
First off, I completely agree with you about the rights of the copyright holder.
My question is about how napster is responsible. I kind of think of them as a service provider, like the phone companies. They provide the service that allows their clients to share mp3 files.
How are they responsible for content on their service? I would think that the individuals sharing & d/ling would be responsible, not the service. In the case of the phone company, they're not liable if I make prank calls.
I know this has been asked before, but in my modest (not all encompassing) reading on the topic, I've yet to find an answer I'm happy with. I'm just hoping someone can help shed some light.
garc
There are many types of linux advocates, including those who think it is the best solution for most things out there, those who use it b/c they want to be l33t and also those who use it because they belive in free software to the fullest extent.
Take your pinto driving freak. If he had some religious conviction that he needed to be elevated above 4 ft. while driving in a car, then his huge tires become more than an entertainment, its something he believes very seriously in.
Now the same thing applies with some linux users. They may really like Apple hardware, but not agree with the 'closed source'ness of the Operating System. Therefore they install linux, an OS that they feel comfortable using, because it gives them their freedom.
I don't think that linux is the best solution for everything, but If I felt that Free Software was the best way, but still wanted an ibook, would you hold that against me? Even If I tried to convince you to use linux because I valued the freedoms it gives?
Other people might have different value systems than you, just something to think about.
Garc
parsec runs on not 2, but 3 operating systems: GNU/Linux, Mac, and Win32. It's still under developement, but looks pretty sweet. Plus, it's free as in beer.
garc
The article states that the altered fruit flys are reproducing longer than normal flies. One guess is that they're capable of reproduction for the same percentage of their life as normal flies.
Also, they appear to be living normal lives, so again, perhaps that they'd only become senile for the last percentage of their life. Think in relative terms instead of absolute terms.
garc
The linux sh3 homepage, they specifically list some Jornadas.
The linuxce webpage is down, but the faq is still up, as is the mailing list.
The linux sh homepage.
Some of this may not apply to you, I just wanted to give you a good place to start looking.
garc
You forget that linux runs on Sun hardware now, so your argument is kinda without merit.
garc
Maybe I was watching different previews, but I didn't know a lot of that stuff coming in to watch the movie.
garc