Part of the Tunney act, besides the public commentary, is that the defendant has to disclose any lobbying associated with the case. Microsoft argued that this didn't include lobbying of the Executive branch. Former senator Tunney's letter mostly explains that it (obviously) covers that as well as legislative or judicial lobbying.
Google sometimes has ads in a sidebar on the right or top. These are targeted based on your search, and are thus usually relevent enough not to be annoying (not to mention being ignorable).
I find it hard to believe the revenue from those is really significant, but who knows; I bet their clickthrough rates are much better than those damn popup ads.
User-Mode-Linux ported to Solaris might be feasible. That would be pretty damn cool; a pile of Linux images running on an E15K with Sun's nicely fascist;) SRM accounting/scheduler forcing everybody to play nice.
Or is UML x86-specific, and I'm smoking crack here?
It couldn't carry much firepower, but it could probably manage a targeting laser to paint a target for a long range missle or even shell that had terminal guidance by laser...
I propose that SMTP should be extended with a "jump-this-hoop" function that could be applied selectively to untrusted senders.
Rather than blocking all email from untrusted senders, or accepting mail from anyone, my MDA should demand that unknowns factor a mid-sized product of two primes before it is willing to accept their email. If they're willing to burn half-a-minute of CPU time, I'll take their message; we can frob the task size to set the cost such that mass spamming becomes infeasible.
All you'ld need to do is hack this into sendmail, and we're good.
What really scares me about this is the talk about taking desktop control away from users, the one thing MS has always been good about in the past.
Billg says:
"Security: The data our software and services store on behalf of our customers should be protected from harm and used or modified only in appropriate ways...It should be easy for users to specify appropriate use of their information including controlling the use of email they send."
Of course, this new "secure" email won't work on those unamerican Linux computers.
A weapon system that's PROFITABLE when not in use! Just imagine how the economic numbers on this thing look better if the DOD covers, say 25% of operating costs for the right to commender it during wartime.
Digital Fountain claims that TCP connections with RTT of 200ms and 2% packet loss have a bandwidth limitation of 300kbps, no matter how fast the actual transport channel is.
First, 2% packet loss is terrible, even on a WAN.
Second, 200ms is terrible latency, unless you're crossing an ocean.
Neglecting packet loss (which ought to be neglectable, though admittedly isn't at 2%), your maximum TCP throughput will be (TCP Window Size)/(2 * Latency), or the bandwidth, whichever is more. That comes to about 1280kbps on that 200ms link if you aren't using TCP window scaling options, and much higher if you do.
Just replace the heat-sinks on all those overclocked Athlons with 100m PVC pipe towers, mini-turbines, and voila!
Yes, that's a joke. Although... large server farms... hmmm... Or build it over a busy highway intersection? Is automobile exhaust hot enough to be useful? I know cities are noticably warm than the countryside around them (asphalt, mostly, but all those heated buildings do matter a bit...)
Yeah, this can be done, in about 15 different ways.
Typically you end up with a perfectly normal linux, but all your filesystems NFS-mounted from the central box.
Most of the commercial UNIXes were pushing this scheme - "diskless workstations" - at one point, but it never took off. Might be worth reexamining now, though.
RDRAM is well and good, but the fact that that RAM is 100% faster than mine isn't going to matter when it starts swapping, 'cause my RAM is about 1000000% faster than that IDE hard drive. (No, really, it is. Do the math.)
OTOH, my previous PC ran Blackbox tolerably with 28 MB, so maybe...
And is anybody going to buy a PS2 to run in console mode?
of course it pollutes.
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>Get around town generating absolutely no >pollution
And that electricity is coming from where, fairies?
Uh, if you're in Boston, your electricity is probably coming from a 40-year-old natural-gas or coal-fired plant. You might well produce less pollution in some of the new SLEV Hondas than on an electric scooter.
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Isn't the idea that someone might "make it proprietory" exactly what the wine project set out to acheive?
Yeah, that would be just the thing! If only there were a proprietary implementation of the Win32 API, there'd be no need for Wine at all!
That's the most bizarre thing I've heard this week, but it's early yet!
In fact, Tunney slams Microsoft, if indirectly.
Part of the Tunney act, besides the public commentary, is that the defendant has to disclose any lobbying associated with the case. Microsoft argued that this didn't include lobbying of the Executive branch. Former senator Tunney's letter mostly explains that it (obviously) covers that as well as legislative or judicial lobbying.
Personally, I'm glad there weren't any listed from anonymous cowards:
"W00t! F1r5t c0mment!"
Nice to see a bunch from individual techies in the 47, though.
Google sometimes has ads in a sidebar on the right or top. These are targeted based on your search, and are thus usually relevent enough not to be annoying (not to mention being ignorable).
I find it hard to believe the revenue from those is really significant, but who knows; I bet their clickthrough rates are much better than those damn popup ads.
Besides, if we went to internet voting out next President would probably be...
Cowboy Neal!
User-Mode-Linux ported to Solaris might be feasible. That would be pretty damn cool; a pile of Linux images running on an E15K with Sun's nicely fascist ;) SRM accounting/scheduler forcing everybody to play nice.
Or is UML x86-specific, and I'm smoking crack here?
It couldn't carry much firepower, but it could probably manage a targeting laser to paint a target for a long range missle or even shell that had terminal guidance by laser...
Personally, I like to ask the telemarketers if they've been Saved by Jesus...
I propose that SMTP should be extended with a "jump-this-hoop" function that could be applied selectively to untrusted senders.
Rather than blocking all email from untrusted senders, or accepting mail from anyone, my MDA should demand that unknowns factor a mid-sized product of two primes before it is willing to accept their email. If they're willing to burn half-a-minute of CPU time, I'll take their message; we can frob the task size to set the cost such that mass spamming becomes infeasible.
All you'ld need to do is hack this into sendmail, and we're good.
Or am I mad?
Er. Doesn't the uncertainty principle mean that there is no such thing as a perfect vacuum, reducing somewhat the value of that definition?
What really scares me about this is the talk about taking desktop control away from users, the one thing MS has always been good about in the past.
Billg says:
"Security: The data our software and services store on behalf of our customers should be protected from harm and used or modified only in appropriate ways...It should be easy for users to specify appropriate use of their information including controlling the use of email they send."
Of course, this new "secure" email won't work on those unamerican Linux computers.
Am I the only one nervous about that?
Retain nothing, and enact all corporate strategy completely at random, in total ignorance of past history.
It's what you're doing anyway, right?
Er, no. A corporation can't own itself, since the part of itself it owns is just owned jointly by the peiple who actually own the other part.
Now, it's possible Redhat's founders still own a big chunk, but I doubt it's 50%.
DMCA makes it illegal to distribute a device which can break copy-protection. It's pretty much incompatible with user-modifiable systems.
The DMCA is also self-contradictory on a couple of point, so YMMV.
A weapon system that's PROFITABLE when not in use! Just imagine how the economic numbers on this thing look better if the DOD covers, say 25% of operating costs for the right to commender it during wartime.
Er, No.
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They'll be able to recover bits and pieces, most likely all of the data if you span the drives. And if your mirror them it's obviously pointless.
This could be made to work as you describe (use one key as a One-Time-Pad XOR for the other), but it's not quite that easy.
Digital Fountain claims that TCP connections with RTT of 200ms and 2% packet loss have a bandwidth limitation of 300kbps, no matter how fast the actual transport channel is.
First, 2% packet loss is terrible, even on a WAN.
Second, 200ms is terrible latency, unless you're crossing an ocean.
Neglecting packet loss (which ought to be neglectable, though admittedly isn't at 2%), your maximum TCP throughput will be (TCP Window Size)/(2 * Latency), or the bandwidth, whichever is more. That comes to about 1280kbps on that 200ms link if you aren't using TCP window scaling options, and much higher if you do.
Just replace the heat-sinks on all those overclocked Athlons with 100m PVC pipe towers, mini-turbines, and voila!
Yes, that's a joke. Although... large server farms... hmmm... Or build it over a busy highway intersection? Is automobile exhaust hot enough to be useful? I know cities are noticably warm than the countryside around them (asphalt, mostly, but all those heated buildings do matter a bit...)
I believe that treaty only bans blinding enemy infantry with lasers.
If your lasers can incinerate them, you're ok!
Umm...
Yeah, this can be done, in about 15 different ways.
Typically you end up with a perfectly normal linux, but all your filesystems NFS-mounted from the central box.
Most of the commercial UNIXes were pushing this scheme - "diskless workstations" - at one point, but it never took off. Might be worth reexamining now, though.
RDRAM is well and good, but the fact that that RAM is 100% faster than mine isn't going to matter when it starts swapping, 'cause my RAM is about 1000000% faster than that IDE hard drive. (No, really, it is. Do the math.)
OTOH, my previous PC ran Blackbox tolerably with 28 MB, so maybe...
32MB of RAM, folks.
Is that enough to run Gnome or KDE?
And is anybody going to buy a PS2 to run in console mode?
>Get around town generating absolutely no >pollution
And that electricity is coming from where, fairies?
Uh, if you're in Boston, your electricity is probably coming from a 40-year-old natural-gas or coal-fired plant. You might well produce less pollution in some of the new SLEV Hondas than on an electric scooter.
MVS is Not My Favorite OS, but it isn't crap either.
You're complaining that a steam locomotive is not a jeep.
Better yet, rename it 'Quake', so you'll get better 3D acceleration for your PGP.