At press time, we got word that a major player, believed to be IBM, thought it had dissuaded SCO from going through with the idea.
I hope this means that IBM warned SCO that they might decide to start enforcing the umpty-eleven-bajallion silly IBM patents that SCO violates, and that they'd never be able to sell a copy again if they went ahead with this.
Yes, but that only works because WEP is, to put it politely, a botch. A good development team that has enough sense to properly reuse known strong schemes (https or who-cares-what-over-ssh, anyone?) could do much better.
Now, it's entirely possible TiVo will decide it makes good business sense (saving money, yeah, that's why) to let the high-school co-op build their encryption...
Won't compressing that data win bandwidth at the expense of latency? And if it's really lossless, the compression will be worse than useless on some data sets (maybe they can optimize so those are unlikely/invalid ones, I dunno..)
If GM foods are *so* safe, why do they not want us to know when they are being consumed?
Because it's a huge, expensive pain in the ass to keep track of which foods are what.
Want to keep that genetically modified corn seperate?
Can't store them in the same silos; they aren't competely emptied after each season, so once you use a silo for GM it's GM forever. Can't use the same railroad transport cars for the same reason. You'll need whole new independent lines at your production and packaging plants, too.
This would likely double the cost of the new stuff, making it uncompetitive despite any advantages, which I suspect is the real point.
A cheap, durable, slobber-proff slate-pc with a color touch-screen and halfway decent audio would be a huge hit with toddlers (wouldn't need much compute power). My two-year old will play educational games for 15-20 minutes at a time but doesn't know how to work a mouse or keyboard - she tries to poke the screen. OTOH having to have an adult playing with them is no bad thing, but...
the virtual memory abstraction doesn't say that all memory accesses is guaranteed to take the same amount of time
But that's just making the leak explicit. The VM abstraction is to make swap look like RAM, which reduces complexity, but in some situations you actually have to be aware of what the abstraction is doing or it will bite you in the butt. Leak!
Neal Stephenson talks about something similar in In the Beginning was the Command Line. He calls it interface shear; he's specificially referring the the UI as an abstraction (an interesting idea in itself). His take on it was that abstractions are metaphors, and that "interface shear"/"leaky abstractions" occur in regions where the metaphors break down.
Microsoft and the parties to the settlement would agree to amend the proposed final judgment to reserve for the Court, in addition to the powers presently specified in the proposed final judgment, the power sua sponte to issue orders or directions for the construction or carrying out of the final judgment, for the enforcement of compliance therewith, and for the punishment of any violation thereof.
In other works, JKK wants to keep this case open a crack, and reserves the right to wack Microsoft if they weasel the settlement too far, as opposed to going through a whole 'nother farce of a trial about it?
That's my point; obviously some poor fool at the Justice department intended this to stay secret another three hours, and screwed up.
On the one hand, reading a published document hardly qualifies as hacking. OTOH, it was published by accident, and there were reasonable reasons for withholding it.
On the gripping hand, slashdot is a news organization and so was likely right to publish it, but if I personally had come across this I don't think I would have submitted it to/. until 5 minutes before the market closed.
Of course, the market doesn't close for half and hour and I just downloaded and read it...
Ooh, it's like that goofy Reuters 'hacking' thing.
I'm not saying this is unethical - I think it clearly isn't - but mightn't it have been polite to sit on this until the stock market closed, or at least until just before it closed?
That would be nice, but really is just a clarificational (IANAL). I would think it's clear that you don't have the source code if you don't have sufficient information to produce a working executable.
Us guys, no. Congressional representation is based on winner-take-all votes for relatively small districts, rather than a proportinal system over larger areas.
Mandating new govt software ought to be BSD is reasonable enough, but would this also prohibit government-funded patches to GPL software, as those couldn't be put under any non-GPL license?
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Under capitialism, man exploits man; under communism, it's the other way around.
Now all we need is one of those deli meat-slicers and a good scanner and we can email ourselves around!
"You look like you are trying to perform a reaver drop. Would you like some help?"
I will just announce that I have ported Linux and apache to my RFID tire tags, and post a story to slashdot.
Same effect...
At press time, we got word that a major player, believed to be IBM, thought it had dissuaded SCO from going through with the idea.
I hope this means that IBM warned SCO that they might decide to start enforcing the umpty-eleven-bajallion silly IBM patents that SCO violates, and that they'd never be able to sell a copy again if they went ahead with this.
Yes, but that only works because WEP is, to put it politely, a botch. A good development team that has enough sense to properly reuse known strong schemes (https or who-cares-what-over-ssh, anyone?) could do much better.
Now, it's entirely possible TiVo will decide it makes good business sense (saving money, yeah, that's why) to let the high-school co-op build their encryption...
Am I the only one who finds it vaguely disturbing to suddenly consider that there is a large number of people who are both sysadmins and Marines?
BOFH, indeed.
Or in the Microsoft anti-trust trial?
Won't compressing that data win bandwidth at the expense of latency? And if it's really lossless, the compression will be worse than useless on some data sets (maybe they can optimize so those are unlikely/invalid ones, I dunno..)
If GM foods are *so* safe, why do they not want us to know when they are being consumed?
Because it's a huge, expensive pain in the ass to keep track of which foods are what.
Want to keep that genetically modified corn seperate?
Can't store them in the same silos; they aren't competely emptied after each season, so once you use a silo for GM it's GM forever. Can't use the same railroad transport cars for the same reason. You'll need whole new independent lines at your production and packaging plants, too.
This would likely double the cost of the new stuff, making it uncompetitive despite any advantages, which I suspect is the real point.
A cheap, durable, slobber-proff slate-pc with a color touch-screen and halfway decent audio would be a huge hit with toddlers (wouldn't need much compute power). My two-year old will play educational games for 15-20 minutes at a time but doesn't know how to work a mouse or keyboard - she tries to poke the screen. OTOH having to have an adult playing with them is no bad thing, but...
Ok, I'll bite:
Why is this unscrupulous?
the virtual memory abstraction doesn't say that all memory accesses is guaranteed to take the same amount of time
But that's just making the leak explicit. The VM abstraction is to make swap look like RAM, which reduces complexity, but in some situations you actually have to be aware of what the abstraction is doing or it will bite you in the butt. Leak!
Neal Stephenson talks about something similar in In the Beginning was the Command Line. He calls it interface shear; he's specificially referring the the UI as an abstraction (an interesting idea in itself). His take on it was that abstractions are metaphors, and that "interface shear"/"leaky abstractions" occur in regions where the metaphors break down.
Interesting stuff...
Of course, we should be referring to this operating system as GNU/Solaris.
Microsoft and the parties to the settlement would agree to amend the proposed final judgment to reserve for the Court, in addition to the powers presently specified in the proposed final judgment, the power sua sponte to issue orders or directions for the construction or carrying out of the final judgment, for the enforcement of compliance therewith, and for the punishment of any violation thereof.
In other works, JKK wants to keep this case open a crack, and reserves the right to wack Microsoft if they weasel the settlement too far, as opposed to going through a whole 'nother farce of a trial about it?
That's my point; obviously some poor fool at the Justice department intended this to stay secret another three hours, and screwed up.
/. until 5 minutes before the market closed.
On the one hand, reading a published document hardly qualifies as hacking. OTOH, it was published by accident, and there were reasonable reasons for withholding it.
On the gripping hand, slashdot is a news organization and so was likely right to publish it, but if I personally had come across this I don't think I would have submitted it to
Of course, the market doesn't close for half and hour and I just downloaded and read it...
Ooh, it's like that goofy Reuters 'hacking' thing.
I'm not saying this is unethical - I think it clearly isn't - but mightn't it have been polite to sit on this until the stock market closed, or at least until just before it closed?
Well, you know, anything to do with Microsoft won't work properly until version 3. By that logic, Kotar-Kelly's ruling might actually be right!
Not if they use a Beowulf Cluster of Lasers.
That would be nice, but really is just a clarificational (IANAL). I would think it's clear that you don't have the source code if you don't have sufficient information to produce a working executable.
So, if a foreign leader order the assassination of US citizens (never mind that it was an ex-President), we should laugh it off as No Biggie?
Frankly, that's Causus Belli on its own, if you ask me.
I think it would be cool if this was an apt-get source. Yes, the crypto stuff is overkill for that, but who cares?
Us guys, no. Congressional representation is based on winner-take-all votes for relatively small districts, rather than a proportinal system over larger areas.
:p
And Berman's district is essentially Hollywood.
Mandating new govt software ought to be BSD is reasonable enough, but would this also prohibit government-funded patches to GPL software, as those couldn't be put under any non-GPL license?