As much as I dislike the sluggish bloat of StarOffice, this is great news. If the MSOFiice filters are also GPL'ed, then KOffice (and other GPL'ed office suites) should get a boost. Thanks, Sun!
Gee, I wonder why MSNBC sat on this information for five weeks before reporting on it at all. Does anyone really think CNN would have gagged itself? Ok, maybe that's not the best example... Still, it does make me wonder.
An implementation of random pads is proposed for the purpose of distributing information without revealing the origin of information. The idea is is akin to grafitti. The problem is, it doesn't work.
According to the proposed schema, for communication to occur, someone must announce or otherwise disclose to intended readers pointers to pads to be combined. If we accept the axiom that the number of combinations of pads is so vast that accidental discovery is statistically impractical, then someone must disclose pointers to pads. And this someone cannot self-consistently claim that they "just happened to notice that this combination yielded the secret recipie for Coca Cola" with any more credibility than he can claim that his DNA only coincidentally matches that found at a crime scene. It's possible, but incredulous and prejudicial.
Therefore, the originator of the information has not been concealed. The disseminator might as well have written the words of the prophets on the subway walls. The trick is not to be seen with the can of spray paint in his hand. The problem of concealing the speaker remains. The proposal is flawed.
This must explain why HP/Agilent has been agressively recruiting people with strong backgrounds in injet modeling and simulation. That seemed suspicious. Now we know at least one big part of what they were scheming. Very clever design, it seems.
We all knew that, if Free Software was ever to grow and fluorish outside the hacker community, legal tests would become both inevitable and necessary. That time has come. Now it is more important than ever to set aside bigotry on all sides and focus on what really matters: codifying the GPL and other Open Source licenses in a body of legal precedent.
Caution must be taken to distinguish critically between genius and the celebrity of iconoclasm. While the later often accompanies the former, the converse is less often true. Our own time, which some have the hubris to regard as little short of a second Age of Reason, overflows with celebrity in vacuo, celebrity for its own sake, much less any genius. So I disagree, in part, with Brin in one essential respect: I rather think that, rather than striving as a creative heretic against monolithic dogma, a modern-day Bruno would react to the cacophony of the 21st-centuty daytime television commonwealth by seeking to illuminate inconsistent assumptions with reason. This is hardly a formula for celebrity, but it is certainly heresy to the comfortably numb. Genius produces heresy, which may take forms of order or chaos as required and so finds fame without seeking fame. Bruno would react accordingly today, and probably die of old age.
This is interesting. While it may explain ball lightning very near the surface of the (silicon-rich) earth's crust, I fail to see how it explains the observations of ball lightning well above the surface. Perhaps these researchers are on to a special case of a more general phenomenon?
From the article, it sounds like NSA is "simply" contracting to have a commercial product using already patented technology ported to Linux, rather than contributing Open Source security tools. Even if that's the case, improved non-open-source tools may stimulate the development of open-source equivalents, as illustrated by the excellentOpenSSH project.
My patent on quarks and combinations of quarks to form such particles as electrons, protons, and neutrons already supercedes this. Naturally, as a strong supporter of Open Source, I've put it all in the public domain.:)
This is all perfect. Sure, SOME people might see a contradiction here, between Intel plants and banning the PIII. But it's just another perfectly normal day in Arizona.:) I love this state!
What would be a good way to express to Intel one's grave concerns about the proposed? Do people think this can be changed? Based on Intel's pre-emptive briefing to the ACLU, Intel is at least sensitive.
Also, what's to keep Intel or any other chipmaker from doing this without telling us? How do we know they haven't already?
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As much as I dislike the sluggish bloat of StarOffice, this is great news. If the MSOFiice filters are also GPL'ed, then KOffice (and other GPL'ed office suites) should get a boost. Thanks, Sun!
Gee, I wonder why MSNBC sat on this information for five weeks before reporting on it at all. Does anyone really think CNN would have gagged itself? Ok, maybe that's not the best example... Still, it does make me wonder.
According to the proposed schema, for communication to occur, someone must announce or otherwise disclose to intended readers pointers to pads to be combined. If we accept the axiom that the number of combinations of pads is so vast that accidental discovery is statistically impractical, then someone must disclose pointers to pads. And this someone cannot self-consistently claim that they "just happened to notice that this combination yielded the secret recipie for Coca Cola" with any more credibility than he can claim that his DNA only coincidentally matches that found at a crime scene. It's possible, but incredulous and prejudicial.
Therefore, the originator of the information has not been concealed. The disseminator might as well have written the words of the prophets on the subway walls. The trick is not to be seen with the can of spray paint in his hand. The problem of concealing the speaker remains. The proposal is flawed.
This must explain why HP/Agilent has been agressively recruiting people with strong backgrounds in injet modeling and simulation.
That seemed suspicious. Now we know at least one big part of what they were scheming. Very clever design, it seems.
We all knew that, if Free Software was ever to grow and fluorish outside the hacker community, legal tests would become both inevitable and necessary. That time has come. Now it is more important than ever to set aside bigotry on all sides and focus on what really matters: codifying the GPL and other Open Source licenses in a body of legal precedent.
Caution must be taken to distinguish critically between genius and the celebrity of iconoclasm. While the later often accompanies the former, the converse is less often true. Our own time, which some have the hubris to regard as little short of a second Age of Reason, overflows with celebrity in vacuo, celebrity for its own sake, much less any genius.
So I disagree, in part, with Brin in one essential respect: I rather think that, rather than striving as a creative heretic against monolithic dogma, a modern-day Bruno would react to the cacophony of the 21st-centuty daytime television commonwealth by seeking to illuminate inconsistent assumptions with reason. This is hardly a formula for celebrity, but it is certainly heresy to the comfortably numb.
Genius produces heresy, which may take forms of order or chaos as required and so finds fame without seeking fame. Bruno would react accordingly today, and probably die of old age.
This is interesting. While it may explain ball lightning very near the surface of the (silicon-rich) earth's crust, I fail to see how it explains the observations of ball lightning well above the surface. Perhaps these researchers are on to a special case of a more general phenomenon?
This bill appears to have failed in a floor vote today, 24 January. See
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From the article, it sounds like NSA is "simply" contracting to have a commercial product using already patented technology ported to Linux, rather than contributing Open Source security tools. Even if that's the case, improved non-open-source tools may stimulate the development of open-source equivalents, as illustrated by the excellent OpenSSH project.
My patent on quarks and combinations of quarks to form such particles as electrons, protons, and neutrons already supercedes this. Naturally, as a strong supporter of Open Source, I've put it all in the public domain. :)
Sweet. Is anyone planning to port Linux to PlayStation? I mean, that's some fast and cheap hardware. Visions of a Beowolf cluster of PlayStations... :)
This is all perfect. :) I love this state!
Sure, SOME people might see a contradiction here,
between Intel plants and banning the PIII.
But it's just another perfectly normal day in Arizona.
What would be a good way to express to Intel one's grave concerns about the proposed? Do people think this can be changed? Based on Intel's pre-emptive briefing to the ACLU, Intel is at least sensitive.
Also, what's to keep Intel or any other chipmaker from doing this without telling us? How do we know they haven't already?