Does OpenBSD support a firewall that has a chainlike structure like linux's ipchains? People say that OpenBSD is more secure for a firewall, which I would gladly accept, but what I want to know is if you have a really complicated firewall setup, can OpenBSD keep up because it has a logarithm chainlike design, or is it a linear packet-matching design like other firewalls? I only ask because some commercial quality firewalls (including the pre-boxed ones) can get extremely poor performance when you start passing large amounts of traffic through a firewall with a large number of settings.
Can someone familiar with OpenBSD internals provide an answer to this?
I must respect Dr. Dre's move here. If you're going to protect your work, THAT is the way to go about it. Don't penalize people, don't jump down their throats, simply take a technologically valid and sound approach to blocking work that specifically matches your work. It's definitely a good move, and you can tell he consulted a programmer before making his press release. That to me is a sign that he is tech-savy enough to eventually release his own work in mp3 format, if he can find a way to profit from it.
> I could show this to 100 lawyers and get this same reading.
Yeah, you could, but not if you showed them the whole thing:
"You may reproduce and distribute, in executable form only, programs which you create using the Software"
"in executable form only" limits what you can reproduce and distribute, but then "programs which you create using the software" tells you what it's talking about, since "programs" is the direct object of the sentence, and "which you create using the software" is an adjective clause modifying programs (incidently, I have no legal training, but I did take English classes once a long time ago). You feed a compiler source code. It creates programs, and you can distribute them. It does mean that you can't distribute a disassembled copy of a program that you compiled with Borland C++, but it says nothing about the source YOU generate.
Before you bash Hawking (Yes, there's a 'g' on his name) maybe you should get to know the guy first. He's a brilliant, charismatic, humorous guy, and he's perfectly ready to admit he's wrong when shown to be so by evidence. Hawking has said some stupid things (stupid relative to the level of brilliant science he usually produces) in his life, and he has been quick to throw out erroneous work when he was shown to be wrong.
People like Hawking, if confronted with a suitable replacement for GR (not necessarilly saying this is suitable, obviously there were no mathematics in this pop article), will jump on-board the new theory, excited at the chance to learn and demonstrate new things about existence. It's the pursuit of truth that drives them, not the glory.
Maybe you could learn a thing or two from them about pursuit of truth... It has nothing to do with what you believe to be true, it has to do with what you can determine to be true. Belief can still exist, it isn't a problem, but if you believe something that contradicts what is in front of your face, then maybe what you believe needs minor adjustment.
People aren't going to go around releasing sourceforge's left and right on every geocities webpage they own. The only thing I can see sourceforge source being useful for is the educational aspect of seeing "how it was done" in order to model a process in your own work. To me, setting up perl2html, php2html (if it exists), and executing:
ln -s/usr/lib/cgi-bin/var/www/source
Counts as making a cgi-based website open source. It's all that would be necessary for someone to see how the process was done, and if for some reason somebody wanted to copy the site, they could with very little trouble. Why should the maintainers of a site with potentially very important contributions to the open source world waste their time providing tarballs with a good installation to people who wouldn't know how to install apache themselves anyway?
If we had a normal-sized salary cap for lawyers, I GUARANTEE this horendous chain-reaction of lawsuits would drop. The only people who are really benefitting are them. They go and encourage the corporations they work for by saying, "Hey, you can make a lot of money/get a business edge, by filing a lawsuit against Foo", then the lawyers at the other corporation say, "Hmm, this is going to be a big battle, we're going to need lots of funding to fight this one." Then the lawyers from both corporations meet at a fancy restaurant for drinks and toast to their successful squandering of otherwise useful capital.
It's all about going down in history. The Buggles were the first group to have their music video broadcast on MTV with "Video Killed the Radio Star". Now a few fans might disagree, but the Buggles are not the greatest group of all time or anything, but they certainly do have an entry in the music history books. This movie is going to go down in movie history as THE first major film released on the internet. (Unless it also inherets the concept of "vaporware" from the internet.)
Looks like we really need to get that patent review method implemented. The contents of this patent are overly obvious to anyone involved in the field, and thus, invalid for a patent.
As for prior art, it is completely possible to call Debian's package list a "registry", because what does it do? It registers what packages are available in a formatted list. Also, the patent directly applies to the use of dates only to determine which package is new. Well, a good quantity of Debian's packages DO use dates as their version numbers, wine for one example, and when dselect determines that the date from the server is different from the date in its registry, it downloads a new version and installs it.
> (By the way, what does it take to get Slashdot to notice a story you submit? I > submitted close to 9 stories as an "Anonymous Coward", 3 as Fervent (I was the first > to make mention of the Limp Biskit-Napster support thing) but no mention of my > name on the front page. Is Commander Taco some kind of malevolent dictator?):P
Haven't you heard? Before being processed, submitted stories are uploaded to a nearby windows workstation and stored in the Windows Registry. As everyone knows, the recovery rate for information stored in the Windows Registry is 1 out of 5. Next time, to account for this try submitting the same story 68 different times under different usernames. I think there's something about this procedure in the FAQ...
Most likely not. That's a vital component of a system, and the Debian folks are not going to put a shiny new kernel release into a frozen release that they're in the final testing phases of. Besides, (and you may get differing views on this), as a standard rule of thumb, the first thing you do after installing a system should always be to compile a fresh kernel. I expect the vast majority of Debian users do this as a rule.
The views expressed in your sig are completely alien to the concepts of open source, freedom of speech, and community that I am familiar with. So when they are expressed as the "typical slashdot person"'s views, I would have to disagree. If I write a book about politics and I quote Clinton, Bush, or Nixon, I can say, "And a past president has said, 'I did not have...'" There is nothing immoral about such non-specific quoting.
As for Katz and digital copies of his book, it would seem a little weird of him to not put a digital copy of his book online (unless he signed a contract that prohibits him from doing so). I reference www.codebits.com/p5be, (Perl 5 By Example) as an excellent example of a high quality book available online, and paid for by advertising. There's no reason Katz couldn't do the same.
It's not copyrights we are fighting against, and it's not that we're fighting against the music industry because we want music to be free. No, I would gladly pay for music, and I traditionally do pay for music. I want material available on the media that are most convenient for me, and I don't want the producers/distributers of content, such as Metallica, Katz, or the Library of Congress, to fight against certain types of media because they're afraid of them or uncomfortable with them.
Slashdot Mirror
Putting a server on that island would require a pretty long ethernet cord... I suspect the nearest hub would be pretty far away.
Had he been a true visionary, he would have started the TLD ".isnotgod"
Example: microsoft.isnotgod
Hey! I have a brilliant idea! Why don't we just all agree to use AOL Keywords for everything?
Does OpenBSD support a firewall that has a chainlike structure like linux's ipchains? People say that OpenBSD is more secure for a firewall, which I would gladly accept, but what I want to know is if you have a really complicated firewall setup, can OpenBSD keep up because it has a logarithm chainlike design, or is it a linear packet-matching design like other firewalls? I only ask because some commercial quality firewalls (including the pre-boxed ones) can get extremely poor performance when you start passing large amounts of traffic through a firewall with a large number of settings.
Can someone familiar with OpenBSD internals provide an answer to this?
I must respect Dr. Dre's move here. If you're going to protect your work, THAT is the way to go about it. Don't penalize people, don't jump down their throats, simply take a technologically valid and sound approach to blocking work that specifically matches your work. It's definitely a good move, and you can tell he consulted a programmer before making his press release. That to me is a sign that he is tech-savy enough to eventually release his own work in mp3 format, if he can find a way to profit from it.
> I could show this to 100 lawyers and get this same reading.
Yeah, you could, but not if you showed them the whole thing:
"You may reproduce and distribute, in executable form only, programs which you create using the Software"
"in executable form only" limits what you can reproduce and distribute, but then "programs which you create using the software" tells you what it's talking about, since "programs" is the direct object of the sentence, and "which you create using the software" is an adjective clause modifying programs (incidently, I have no legal training, but I did take English classes once a long time ago). You feed a compiler source code. It creates programs, and you can distribute them. It does mean that you can't distribute a disassembled copy of a program that you compiled with Borland C++, but it says nothing about the source YOU generate.
Before you bash Hawking (Yes, there's a 'g' on his name) maybe you should get to know the guy first. He's a brilliant, charismatic, humorous guy, and he's perfectly ready to admit he's wrong when shown to be so by evidence. Hawking has said some stupid things (stupid relative to the level of brilliant science he usually produces) in his life, and he has been quick to throw out erroneous work when he was shown to be wrong.
People like Hawking, if confronted with a suitable replacement for GR (not necessarilly saying this is suitable, obviously there were no mathematics in this pop article), will jump on-board the new theory, excited at the chance to learn and demonstrate new things about existence. It's the pursuit of truth that drives them, not the glory.
Maybe you could learn a thing or two from them about pursuit of truth... It has nothing to do with what you believe to be true, it has to do with what you can determine to be true. Belief can still exist, it isn't a problem, but if you believe something that contradicts what is in front of your face, then maybe what you believe needs minor adjustment.
> If this is right, it means that there are probably only 4 dimensions to spacetime,
> not 26 or even 10.
Damn! Then what feature are they going to add for Quake XMVLX??
Fortunately, all the top secret stuff was burnt to a crisp before the reporters got there.
What'd you do different? You broke the slashdot section of wmheadlines, now they're all pointing to local files...
People aren't going to go around releasing sourceforge's left and right on every geocities webpage they own. The only thing I can see sourceforge source being useful for is the educational aspect of seeing "how it was done" in order to model a process in your own work. To me, setting up perl2html, php2html (if it exists), and executing:
/usr/lib/cgi-bin /var/www/source
ln -s
Counts as making a cgi-based website open source. It's all that would be necessary for someone to see how the process was done, and if for some reason somebody wanted to copy the site, they could with very little trouble. Why should the maintainers of a site with potentially very important contributions to the open source world waste their time providing tarballs with a good installation to people who wouldn't know how to install apache themselves anyway?
Uh, yardbird? What's a yardbird? I was just making that up.
> How do you know? Maybe it's not that bad. You have no way of knowing this.
You can't judge a book by its cover, but you can judge a car by the pile of rubble it leaves behind it as it drives down the street.
It would be a trademark violation if they turned around and tried to sell Mickey.
If we had a normal-sized salary cap for lawyers, I GUARANTEE this horendous chain-reaction of lawsuits would drop. The only people who are really benefitting are them. They go and encourage the corporations they work for by saying, "Hey, you can make a lot of money/get a business edge, by filing a lawsuit against Foo", then the lawyers at the other corporation say, "Hmm, this is going to be a big battle, we're going to need lots of funding to fight this one." Then the lawyers from both corporations meet at a fancy restaurant for drinks and toast to their successful squandering of otherwise useful capital.
I was just talking about this yesterday. A good palm pilot with web access and a bookmark for babelfish.altavista.com should do the trick.
So would that be: http:///..org/\
> commercial mail program that will remain nameless
Can someone *cough* post anonymously and make this one named rather than nameless?
It's all about going down in history. The Buggles were the first group to have their music video broadcast on MTV with "Video Killed the Radio Star". Now a few fans might disagree, but the Buggles are not the greatest group of all time or anything, but they certainly do have an entry in the music history books. This movie is going to go down in movie history as THE first major film released on the internet. (Unless it also inherets the concept of "vaporware" from the internet.)
Now where the hell am I supposed to get popcorn from?
Looks like we really need to get that patent review method implemented. The contents of this patent are overly obvious to anyone involved in the field, and thus, invalid for a patent.
As for prior art, it is completely possible to call Debian's package list a "registry", because what does it do? It registers what packages are available in a formatted list. Also, the patent directly applies to the use of dates only to determine which package is new. Well, a good quantity of Debian's packages DO use dates as their version numbers, wine for one example, and when dselect determines that the date from the server is different from the date in its registry, it downloads a new version and installs it.
It translates to:
"The message is not here."
That's great steganography if I've ever seen it!
> (By the way, what does it take to get Slashdot to notice a story you submit? I :P
> submitted close to 9 stories as an "Anonymous Coward", 3 as Fervent (I was the first
> to make mention of the Limp Biskit-Napster support thing) but no mention of my
> name on the front page. Is Commander Taco some kind of malevolent dictator?)
Haven't you heard? Before being processed, submitted stories are uploaded to a nearby windows workstation and stored in the Windows Registry. As everyone knows, the recovery rate for information stored in the Windows Registry is 1 out of 5. Next time, to account for this try submitting the same story 68 different times under different usernames. I think there's something about this procedure in the FAQ...
> 1. This won't make it into potato/frozen.
Most likely not. That's a vital component of a system, and the Debian folks are not going to put a shiny new kernel release into a frozen release that they're in the final testing phases of. Besides, (and you may get differing views on this), as a standard rule of thumb, the first thing you do after installing a system should always be to compile a fresh kernel. I expect the vast majority of Debian users do this as a rule.
The views expressed in your sig are completely alien to the concepts of open source, freedom of speech, and community that I am familiar with. So when they are expressed as the "typical slashdot person"'s views, I would have to disagree. If I write a book about politics and I quote Clinton, Bush, or Nixon, I can say, "And a past president has said, 'I did not have...'" There is nothing immoral about such non-specific quoting.
As for Katz and digital copies of his book, it would seem a little weird of him to not put a digital copy of his book online (unless he signed a contract that prohibits him from doing so). I reference www.codebits.com/p5be, (Perl 5 By Example) as an excellent example of a high quality book available online, and paid for by advertising. There's no reason Katz couldn't do the same.
It's not copyrights we are fighting against, and it's not that we're fighting against the music industry because we want music to be free. No, I would gladly pay for music, and I traditionally do pay for music. I want material available on the media that are most convenient for me, and I don't want the producers/distributers of content, such as Metallica, Katz, or the Library of Congress, to fight against certain types of media because they're afraid of them or uncomfortable with them.
Give me quality mp3s to buy, and I will buy mp3s.