I'm not sure I have heard of someone using a bad random number generator to crack encryption, but in theory it could happen. However scientific computing and many other things use random numbers as well, and many of those applications need solid random numbers.
well I have no idea how it comes up with the white noise, so I can't comment on that, however I had thought of taking a sound input device, plugging in a radio tuned to a static station. Then you turn the volume up and just use the low order bit to be a random number. While I have not tested this it should I think work quite well. Even if you by chance start pulling in some signal the low order bit should stay rather random. You probably should give the choise of radio frequency some major thought and probably stay away from AM and FM bands. Ham bands might work well.
because there is legally no such thing as "copyleft" its something that RMS made up to stand for his ideas. Copyright is a a legal term defined by law treaty and convention. Copyleft is a concept that can only exist ontop of copyright.
Now in truth while IANAL, when he wrote the GPL rms did consult with law professors who created a document that should stand up in court.
SCO can say that it not valid, but they are probably wrong. They could say that 2+2 = 5 but they would probably be wrong about that too.
Think about what it would do to the job market, nothing good. As a relative young person (30) I have lots of people who have more experience than I do, but sooner or later I expect they will retire and make room for me, as I will for the next gereration. But instead of getting out of the way for the next generation if they stick around it means that it will drasticly change the way a lot of things work.
Elizabeth Moon wrote some novels about what this would do to the navy. If the US navy could instead of getting 25 years out of a Senior Master Chief get 85 years, it would totally screw recruitment as it would close off all avenue for advancement.
That being said I would love to live for a very long time.
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well this thing could not go Ireland to the USA, it went from newfoundland canada to ireland (which is much shorter) and it probably could not go the other way as the winds blow west to east in the north atlantic.
Not much, but since the whole thing weighs like 11lbs you just would not be able to put that much explosive on it. 4oz of the right type of explosive can do some real damage if applied in a clever way, but in truth I'm much more worried about somone with a van then a RC aircraft. As for a bio warhead again you have the limit in weight and volume as well as the fact that dispersing a bio agent is a *LOT* harder than most people seem to think. Lets be honest, if you are cleaver enough you can hide a wepon in almost anything but this does not seem like a great canidate.
Well if you are a guy, it would still be easy to get a DNA match, as the Y Cromisome comes only from the father with no recombination, so that will be uniform. Even if other stuff won't be. And since both sets of DNA come from the same parents they are going to look rather similar. More so now that labs know to look for this stuff.
I think we are going to see more targeted development, so if the government of a country wants all the gnome tools (or KDE or whatever) to work in the local language they will pay someone to do it. Or if some department needs something for some specific need they may pay for it. I think if we want the government (whichever one you are talking about) to fund software the best bet is form a company and compete for their software contracts. If you could convice say the DOJ to use Linux/Gnome on the desktop vs Windows that would very effectivly fund a lot of development. Some of it would be specific to whatever DOJ wanted but most of it would be good for everyone.
I would be very impressed if an Iraqi farmer shot down a plane (small or otherwise) somewhere between Canada and Ireland. I mean from Iraq, that would be quite impresive.
I think not only did it kill a few folks during WWII but they may have killed a few since. The thing is the ballons were not targeted beyoned the "US Northwest" and probably fell over several US States and probably BC. In the time since WWII a number of them have turned up as people spread out more.
well I would rather assume that AT&T had patents on many of those things when they invented them back in the '70s or even before. Ofcourse those patents are all expired by now, so they are free for the world to use. (Which is why patents expire you know)
Or try finding a local Internationa Folk dance (or square or contra or whatever) In My case it was rendance via the SCA. It will will get you out of the house and get your mind off of work, which is nice. In addition to getting your heart moving you may meet people. Hey I know more than one couple that are now married who met at a Dance practice or the like. And a very good friend of mine is dating a guy she met via Israeli folk dance.
No its not "Hi-Tech" but not everything has to be.
In general I don't see makeing it closed is a shure fire way to make a killing. I don't know all the ins and outs of this case (Which do matter) but a lot of closed source software companies have gone broke over the years. So while you can close it up, that does not insure that you will make a killing, nor does opening up insure that you will not.
If you are writting this for a specific customer then you need to figure out what they want. And as a number of people here have said, you need to talk to a lawyer!!!
The anti particle of a Photon is a photon. However if you had an anti-mater star, it would probably be blindingly obvious. Stars emit photons, but they also blow off a stellar wind of other particles (electrons, protons etc) If it was an anti star as soon as this stuff hit the intersteller media (that loose collection of hydrogen and other stuff between the stars) it would react in a stream of gamma rays around the star.
You can use the GPL for this. The GPL states that you must provide source code and specific rights to those that you distribute the binaries too, however it does not say that you have to make them avalable to the whole world. If you write a custom bit for company X, you give company X the end product with the source code. Company X can then if they want give it to the world, but they don't have to if they don't want to.
Before you do this consult a lawyer who is up on this kind of stuff./. is useful, but it is not legal advice, and I am not a lawyer.
Well I once had my boss kick me out of a meeting at 3:00 pm on friday so that I (and one of the other Jews at the company) could go home to get ready for the Sabbath. And at a job that I appilied for I was told that the boss goes around to all the Jewish men in the department and sends them off to Minhah to make sure there is a Minyan there.
I also know plenty of religous Jews who use their lunch break to learn Talmud with a co worker or whatever.
I am all for religion in the workplace, as long as it is not forced.
I would have no problem with my boss reminding me it is time for minyan, I proclaim myself an observant Jew by my the Kippah on my head and so on.
Well except the bible very specificly says you can get a divorce, look in Duteronomy. It very specificly says how a man should divorce his wife. The Talmud (tractate Gittin) expands on this and fill in some of the details.
To be fair I don't know what Christians think about all of this, as I am not one. And if you want to know what it really says read it in Hebrew, preferably with the commentary of RaShI (Rabbi Sholomo ben Itzack) you can find a solid english version at Artscroll
I don't think this is the best refrence for actual text study. (I'll stick to The works of Rabbi A. Scroll for that) so much as a historical example of early printing and caligraphy and so on. The text was printed but much of the art was done by hand, and each copy is different as each had a different artist.
Intellectual property is a group term for 4 major ideas (and maybe a minor one or two). Inside IP you have 4 very different things which work very differently...
1) Patents, a patent is a way of saying Hey i have this cool idea. You then tell everyone what it is and the government gives you a monopoly on it for a set period of time (17 years in most cases). The upshot of it is that you have to tell everyone how it works so after those 17 years everyone can work with it.
2) Copyright, litterally the right to make a copy. This post for example has a copyright, owned by me, which says that you can't exactly copy it somewhere else without my say so, except under some specific terms. You can however write a post that says about the same thing but in different words.
3) Trademark/service mark. A term or logo or the like which identifies a company or ogranization. So for example I can not print a newspaper and call it "The New York Times". Only the New York Times company can do that. I can ofcourse publish a paper in New York with a different name.
4) Trade Secrets, which are things that well must remain secret. So for example the formula for Coca-cola is a trade secret.
The thing is these are 4 things which sort of fall together in a conceptual space but really work very differently.
A polite letter to your state's AG would probably go a long way. Esp if you are a developer with code in the the kernel (I am not) I may try to write to the Mass AG today and see if they can help.
remember if you are going to write to the local AG, be polite and include your legal name and contact info.
I remember an incident at Brandeis where the University refused to say if a specific person had been given a PhD or not due to privacy laws. Ofcourse you could go to the university library web site (which is open to the world) and type in their last name and their PhD thesis was quite clearly listed. All PhD's get their thesis in the library, and I think there is a central repository for all such works in the USA. So for like $25 you can get anyone's PhD thesis.
find a time (say mid afternoon) to take a 30 minute brisk walk it will help your thinking (or at least it always does for me) and it burns some calories. The other plus of walking is that all you need is a good pair of shoes and maybe a bottle of water. A friend of mine also has a pair of weights that she straps onto her writsts or ankles when she walks. A pair of 5lb weights at your desk can help too.
The other thing you can do is switch from soda to ice water. That helps a lot!
I think the $40 is to keep out joke stuff. Its not a lot of money and compaired to the cost of a good recording its nothing. But its enough to keep the average twit from posting an mp3 of themselves singing off tune into their computer mike or something like that.
As for the RIAA being dead by 2007 I would doubt it. They sitll have a lot of money that they can use to promote themselves and their artists etc. That promotion is estental to anyone who wants to be "big" whereas the average college acapella group or after work band that plans a gig once in a while for fun will probably find this a major help.
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Waltham is OK too, I'm not 100% sure it is going to stay that way so I lit a 24 hour candle and am going to freeze some bottles of water just in case.
I'm not sure I have heard of someone using a bad random number generator to crack encryption, but in theory it could happen. However scientific computing and many other things use random numbers as well, and many of those applications need solid random numbers.
well I have no idea how it comes up with the white noise, so I can't comment on that, however I had thought of taking a sound input device, plugging in a radio tuned to a static station. Then you turn the volume up and just use the low order bit to be a random number. While I have not tested this it should I think work quite well. Even if you by chance start pulling in some signal the low order bit should stay rather random. You probably should give the choise of radio frequency some major thought and probably stay away from AM and FM bands. Ham bands might work well.
after all in submitting my post to /. I am granting slashdot rights to make lots of copies of it so that people can read it.
because there is legally no such thing as "copyleft" its something that RMS made up to stand for his ideas. Copyright is a a legal term defined by law treaty and convention. Copyleft is a concept that can only exist ontop of copyright.
Now in truth while IANAL, when he wrote the GPL rms did consult with law professors who created a document that should stand up in court.
SCO can say that it not valid, but they are probably wrong.
They could say that 2+2 = 5 but they would probably be wrong about that too.
Think about what it would do to the job market, nothing good. As a relative young person (30) I have lots of people who have more experience than I do, but sooner or later I expect they will retire and make room for me, as I will for the next gereration. But instead of getting out of the way for the next generation if they stick around it means that it will drasticly change the way a lot of things work.
Elizabeth Moon wrote some novels about what this would do to the navy. If the US navy could instead of getting 25 years out of a Senior Master Chief get 85 years, it would totally screw recruitment as it would close off all avenue for advancement.
That being said I would love to live for a very long time.
well this thing could not go Ireland to the USA, it went from newfoundland canada to ireland (which is much shorter) and it probably could not go the other way as the winds blow west to east in the north atlantic.
Not much, but since the whole thing weighs like 11lbs you just would not be able to put that much explosive on it. 4oz of the right type of explosive can do some real damage if applied in a clever way, but in truth I'm much more worried about somone with a van then a RC aircraft. As for a bio warhead again you have the limit in weight and volume as well as the fact that dispersing a bio agent is a *LOT* harder than most people seem to think. Lets be honest, if you are cleaver enough you can hide a wepon in almost anything but this does not seem like a great canidate.
Well if you are a guy, it would still be easy to get a DNA match, as the Y Cromisome comes only from the father with no recombination, so that will be uniform. Even if other stuff won't be. And since both sets of DNA come from the same parents they are going to look rather similar. More so now that labs know to look for this stuff.
I think we are going to see more targeted development, so if the government of a country wants all the gnome tools (or KDE or whatever) to work in the local language they will pay someone to do it. Or if some department needs something for some specific need they may pay for it. I think if we want the government (whichever one you are talking about) to fund software the best bet is form a company and compete for their software contracts. If you could convice say the DOJ to use Linux/Gnome on the desktop vs Windows that would very effectivly fund a lot of development. Some of it would be specific to whatever DOJ wanted but most of it would be good for everyone.
I would be very impressed if an Iraqi farmer shot down a plane (small or otherwise) somewhere between Canada and Ireland. I mean from Iraq, that would be quite impresive.
--Zach
I think not only did it kill a few folks during WWII but they may have killed a few since. The thing is the ballons were not targeted beyoned the "US Northwest" and probably fell over several US States and probably BC. In the time since WWII a number of them have turned up as people spread out more.
well I would rather assume that AT&T had patents on many of those things when they invented them back in the '70s or even before. Ofcourse those patents are all expired by now, so they are free for the world to use. (Which is why patents expire you know)
Or try finding a local Internationa Folk dance (or square or contra or whatever) In My case it was rendance via the SCA. It will will get you out of the house and get your mind off of work, which is nice. In addition to getting your heart moving you may meet people. Hey I know more than one couple that are now married who met at a Dance practice or the like. And a very good friend of mine is dating a guy she met via Israeli folk dance.
No its not "Hi-Tech" but not everything has to be.
In general I don't see makeing it closed is a shure fire way to make a killing. I don't know all the ins and outs of this case (Which do matter) but a lot of closed source software companies have gone broke over the years. So while you can close it up, that does not insure that you will make a killing, nor does opening up insure that you will not.
If you are writting this for a specific customer then you need to figure out what they want. And as a number of people here have said, you need to talk to a lawyer!!!
The anti particle of a Photon is a photon. However if you had an anti-mater star, it would probably be blindingly obvious. Stars emit photons, but they also blow off a stellar wind of other particles (electrons, protons etc) If it was an anti star as soon as this stuff hit the intersteller media (that loose collection of hydrogen and other stuff between the stars) it would react in a stream of gamma rays around the star.
You can use the GPL for this. The GPL states that you must provide source code and specific rights to those that you distribute the binaries too, however it does not say that you have to make them avalable to the whole world. If you write a custom bit for company X, you give company X the end product with the source code. Company X can then if they want give it to the world, but they don't have to if they don't want to.
/. is useful, but it is not legal advice, and I am not a lawyer.
Before you do this consult a lawyer who is up on this kind of stuff.
Well I once had my boss kick me out of a meeting at 3:00 pm on friday so that I (and one of the other Jews at the company) could go home to get ready for the Sabbath. And at a job that I appilied for I was told that the boss goes around to all the Jewish men in the department and sends them off to Minhah to make sure there is a Minyan there.
I also know plenty of religous Jews who use their lunch break to learn Talmud with a co worker or whatever.
I am all for religion in the workplace, as long as it is not forced.
I would have no problem with my boss reminding me it is time for minyan, I proclaim myself an observant Jew by my the Kippah on my head and so on.
Well except the bible very specificly says you can get a divorce, look in Duteronomy. It very specificly says how a man should divorce his wife. The Talmud (tractate Gittin) expands on this and fill in some of the details.
To be fair I don't know what Christians think about all of this, as I am not one. And if you want to know what it really says read it in Hebrew, preferably with the commentary of RaShI (Rabbi Sholomo ben Itzack) you can find a solid english version at Artscroll
I don't think this is the best refrence for actual text study. (I'll stick to The works of Rabbi A. Scroll for that) so much as a historical example of early printing and caligraphy and so on. The text was printed but much of the art was done by hand, and each copy is different as each had a different artist.
Intellectual property is a group term for 4 major ideas (and maybe a minor one or two). Inside IP you have 4 very different things which work very differently...
1) Patents, a patent is a way of saying Hey i have this cool idea. You then tell everyone what it is and the government gives you a monopoly on it for a set period of time (17 years in most cases). The upshot of it is that you have to tell everyone how it works so after those 17 years everyone can work with it.
2) Copyright, litterally the right to make a copy. This post for example has a copyright, owned by me, which says that you can't exactly copy it somewhere else without my say so, except under some specific terms. You can however write a post that says about the same thing but in different words.
3) Trademark/service mark. A term or logo or the like which identifies a company or ogranization. So for example I can not print a newspaper and call it "The New York Times". Only the New York Times company can do that. I can ofcourse publish a paper in New York with a different name.
4) Trade Secrets, which are things that well must remain secret. So for example the formula for Coca-cola is a trade secret.
The thing is these are 4 things which sort of fall together in a conceptual space but really work very differently.
--Zach
A polite letter to your state's AG would probably go a long way. Esp if you are a developer with code in the the kernel (I am not) I may try to write to the Mass AG today and see if they can help.
remember if you are going to write to the local AG, be polite and include your legal name and contact info.
I remember an incident at Brandeis where the University refused to say if a specific person had been given a PhD or not due to privacy laws. Ofcourse you could go to the university library web site (which is open to the world) and type in their last name and their PhD thesis was quite clearly listed. All PhD's get their thesis in the library, and I think there is a central repository for all such works in the USA. So for like $25 you can get anyone's PhD thesis.
find a time (say mid afternoon) to take a 30 minute brisk walk it will help your thinking (or at least it always does for me) and it burns some calories. The other plus of walking is that all you need is a good pair of shoes and maybe a bottle of water. A friend of mine also has a pair of weights that she straps onto her writsts or ankles when she walks. A pair of 5lb weights at your desk can help too.
The other thing you can do is switch from soda to ice water. That helps a lot!
I think the $40 is to keep out joke stuff. Its not a lot of money and compaired to the cost of a good recording its nothing. But its enough to keep the average twit from posting an mp3 of themselves singing off tune into their computer mike or something like that.
As for the RIAA being dead by 2007 I would doubt it. They sitll have a lot of money that they can use to promote themselves and their artists etc. That promotion is estental to anyone who wants to be "big" whereas the average college acapella group or after work band that plans a gig once in a while for fun will probably find this a major help.