Too bad podcasts are totally different from normal RSS feeds, because podcasts are about 100x larger. BitTorrent doesn't work for normal RSS feeds because they are too small and change too often.
This has been suggested before, and software is starting to support it. I think RSSCache does this and IIRC there's a WordPress plugin to do it. It will just take a while for this feature to become common practice.
Teach these ignorant jerks in Congress about these fancy new com-pu-ters and how they actually work. That "L1" "L2" and "L3" comment was excellent.
I thought it was misleading and pedantic. There is a common-sense difference between a temporary copy and a permanent copy. Geeks who ehxibit no common sense will just get laughed out of Congress.
Thus if we are speaking about fair use and the copying of DVD's to the RAID, it is impossible to excercise fair use and break the law at the same time . ..
It's fair use and a violation of the DMCA at the same time. If the law contained no contradictions, the courts would have nothing to do.:-)
Sure, a Kaleidoscape owner has paid $74/movie, but not to the MPAA. The goal of the DVD Forum/DVDCCA is that the MPAA/studios make all the money and electronics/software companies are left with crumbs.
I don't know if we can really learn anything from this, but it's interesting to compare the GNOME election to the recent Java Community Process election:
GNOME: 324 registered voters, 183 votes cast, dominated by Red Hat and Novell. Sun almost got a seat. JCP: 755 registered voters, 221 votes cast, Google, JBoss, and Intel edge out Novell. Sun has a permanent seat and Red Hat didn't run, despite their interest in Java.
[Single-kernel separation] is also very secure, possibly most secure of all (short of hardware emulation like QEMU) since it directly addresses all known virtualization exploits such as chroot escapes.
But the separation architecture does not address unknown exploits such as kernel bugs. And any kernel as big as Linux+VServer does have bugs. In Xen, the guest kernels are themselves confined, so kernel bugs are not security-critical. In Xen, you only have to worry about bugs in the hypervisor itself, and the hypervisor is much smaller than Linux. (In security speak, the hypervisor approach has a smaller TCB than the separation approach.)
It's funny you should mention that. The L4 team came up with the same idea. The difference is that OSes require pretty small patches to run on Xen, but much bigger patches to run on a microkernel like L4.
The article doesn't mention VMware Workstation. Xen competes with VMware ESX, which is the most expensive version of VMware. It's gotta be a little worrisome to EMC.
Yes, I have read that. When people say "MPEG-4", they are referring to MPEG-4 part 2 aka MPEG-4 visual. While technically H.264 is part of the MPEG-4 umbrella, nobody says it that way. So MPEG-4 part 2 is obsolete, and H.264 is the replacement for MPEG-4 part 2.
People are already working on using XORP as the control plane for high-speed network processors. This would lower the barrier to entry in the high-end router market, since both the network processors and XORP are off-the-shelf.
Gah, let's give this old misconception a rest. The POWER instruction set is dead. When IBM says POWER, they mean it as a marketing term for PowerPC. POWER == PowerPC. POWER == PowerPC. POWER == PowerPC.
The Gekko in the Gamecube is not produced in volume? Millions of G4s and G5s have been sold in Macs, but I guess that's not volume either. And I don't see how high volume on Cell will make regular PowerPCs cheaper.
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Too bad podcasts are totally different from normal RSS feeds, because podcasts are about 100x larger. BitTorrent doesn't work for normal RSS feeds because they are too small and change too often.
I know the parent post is a joke, but there are some legitimate differences between RSS and other forms of Internet communication.
:-)
"Is Instant Messaging Doomed by Popularity?"
No, because it doesn't generate traffic when you're not sending messages.
"Is E-Mail Doomed by Popularity?"
No, for the same reason as IM.
"Is Usenet Doomed by Popularity?"
It has been for some time.
"Is Netcraft Doomed by Popularity?"
Netcraft confirms it: Netcraft is dying.
This has been suggested before, and software is starting to support it. I think RSSCache does this and IIRC there's a WordPress plugin to do it. It will just take a while for this feature to become common practice.
[circumventing an access control] *probably* doesn't apply either b/c CSS isn't really intended to prevent access (as opposed to copying)
But didn't the DVDCCA successfully argue that CSS is an access control in the DeCSS case? And region coding does control access to some extent.
Teach these ignorant jerks in Congress about these fancy new com-pu-ters and how they actually work. That "L1" "L2" and "L3" comment was excellent.
I thought it was misleading and pedantic. There is a common-sense difference between a temporary copy and a permanent copy. Geeks who ehxibit no common sense will just get laughed out of Congress.
Thus if we are speaking about fair use and the copying of DVD's to the RAID, it is impossible to excercise fair use and break the law at the same time . . .
:-)
It's fair use and a violation of the DMCA at the same time. If the law contained no contradictions, the courts would have nothing to do.
Sure, a Kaleidoscape owner has paid $74/movie, but not to the MPAA. The goal of the DVD Forum/DVDCCA is that the MPAA/studios make all the money and electronics/software companies are left with crumbs.
I don't know if we can really learn anything from this, but it's interesting to compare the GNOME election to the recent Java Community Process election:
GNOME: 324 registered voters, 183 votes cast, dominated by Red Hat and Novell. Sun almost got a seat.
JCP: 755 registered voters, 221 votes cast, Google, JBoss, and Intel edge out Novell. Sun has a permanent seat and Red Hat didn't run, despite their interest in Java.
All manufacturing processes are not the same; in particular DRAM and logic (SRAM) use different processes.
That's Ice Cube.
Xen is 2-3X faster than UML.
[Single-kernel separation] is also very secure, possibly most secure of all (short of hardware emulation like QEMU) since it directly addresses all known virtualization exploits such as chroot escapes.
But the separation architecture does not address unknown exploits such as kernel bugs. And any kernel as big as Linux+VServer does have bugs. In Xen, the guest kernels are themselves confined, so kernel bugs are not security-critical. In Xen, you only have to worry about bugs in the hypervisor itself, and the hypervisor is much smaller than Linux. (In security speak, the hypervisor approach has a smaller TCB than the separation approach.)
It's funny you should mention that. The L4 team came up with the same idea. The difference is that OSes require pretty small patches to run on Xen, but much bigger patches to run on a microkernel like L4.
In server consolidation environments, Xen is very much a viable alternative to VMware ESX -- it's faster and cheaper.
That's because the latest features appear in the Fedora Core development tree, not in already-released versions.
The article doesn't mention VMware Workstation. Xen competes with VMware ESX, which is the most expensive version of VMware. It's gotta be a little worrisome to EMC.
It's out there: BitTorrent over Tor.
Yes, I have read that. When people say "MPEG-4", they are referring to MPEG-4 part 2 aka MPEG-4 visual. While technically H.264 is part of the MPEG-4 umbrella, nobody says it that way. So MPEG-4 part 2 is obsolete, and H.264 is the replacement for MPEG-4 part 2.
MPEG-4 is already obsolete. Apple says an HD H.264 stream fits in 6-8Mbps.
A water system is a natural monopoly. Wi-Fi hotspots aren't.
All the other hotspot networks (e.g. T-Mobile in Starbucks) are still operating, so Verizon would have to compete with them.
The PA state government can regulate PA city governments. The airwaves don't come into it.
People are already working on using XORP as the control plane for high-speed network processors. This would lower the barrier to entry in the high-end router market, since both the network processors and XORP are off-the-shelf.
Gah, let's give this old misconception a rest. The POWER instruction set is dead. When IBM says POWER, they mean it as a marketing term for PowerPC. POWER == PowerPC. POWER == PowerPC. POWER == PowerPC.
The Gekko in the Gamecube is not produced in volume? Millions of G4s and G5s have been sold in Macs, but I guess that's not volume either. And I don't see how high volume on Cell will make regular PowerPCs cheaper.