The fact that there are so many readers from Slashdot with an interest in seeing development tools ported to Linux is evidence enough that there is a market. A lot of people who post here seem to think that the general Slashdot reader is a 12 year old with a $5/week allowance. Well, news flash, a lot of us have both personal and professional purchase power.
I've noticed that there seems to be a large quantity of interdeveloper conflict in the Debian project. Of course this is to be expected, but as Debian gets larger and more attention, it appears to have reached the point where it is significantly slowing development. Are there any plans for decentralization to improve the decision making process, and if so, what are those plans? Also, if you decentralized, how would you address elitism so that decisions remained in the project's best interest?
>Well, if there are reasonable searches, there >must be an ability to execute that search. Since >it's impossible to predetermine which >communications can be reasonably searched, all >must be made searchable, and the courts must >determine which ones may be searched.
>At least, that's how the argument goes. Where's >the flaw in it?
The flaw is that the concept "all must be made searchable" violates the right of the people to be secure, and the Ammendment reads that such will "not be violated".
Wiretaps should only occur when there is already just cause for suspecting the target of committing a crime. And when such does exist, extreme measures can be taken such as planting a car outside of the targets house, or placing a small bug near the targets phone, or storming the target's home and taking the target's computer equipment. The situation of a suspected criminal sitting there committing crimes using encryption as a shield of immunity is a non-issue. The situation does not exist in a real physical world.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probably cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
- Ammendment IV
It looks to me like they got it right the first time. Nowhere in there does the U.S. Government have the mandate to universally require wiretap ability, but may force it only on specific people or places when justified by probable cause with supporting testimony.
I've seen no politicians stand up and oppose this section of the Bill of Rights, yet far too many try to violate it. I think the U.S. would do well as a country if its politicians read the Constitution once through...
Can a DVD be made bootable, and if so, is there existing hardware support for this? This would seem important for releasing flexible operating system installations. Floppies are old fashioned, just look at the iMac. (j/k)
"Que pasa" translates better as "what's up", and I don't think the owners of whatsup.com would take too kindly to the people at whatshappening.com trying to infringe on their trademark by suing the foreign language equivalent of their domain. I also don't think the owners of wazzup.com or yodog.com or whatupg.com or howsitgoing.com would take too kindly to whatshappening.com infringing on their trademark rights. If you examine the date of record creation for all of those websites (which all exist and are all registered to different registrants), you will find that whatshappening.com was NOT the first in that category to register. In fact, whatsup.com and wazzup.com registered years before whatshappening.com ever existed. quepasa.com, on the other hand, was registered only one month after whatshappening.com was registered. whatshappening.com is playing a dangerous and foolish game, and I hope they get bitten hard.
A legislative body's efficiency is proportional to the square of its size times the inverse of the length of time until the next election. If you're dealing with something that functions poorly, you don't fix that by making it bigger. That just results in something big that functions poorly.
I can certainly understand the reasons for keeping open source software out of mission critical military situations. However, unless the military is going to take action to put a military level barricade around Sun's source repository (which would include extensive background checks for employees to prevent foreign agents from getting access to the source), then using a closed source solution is NOT safer than an open source solution, and may even be MORE of a hazard.
You gain a lot of efficiency when trying to factor large numbers if you give up at sqr(N). There's no reason to go the whole way to N/2, as you would just be duplicating your efforts.
340 to the 35th keys by itself does not provide something "far more robust" than 256 bit keys. In fact, 340 to the 35th is equivalent to 294 bits. "according to sources" anyway...
I'm often sitting there in gimp with a picture zoomed way in, editing something, and I want to scroll real quick, so I pounce on the arrow keys. No such luck, the arrow keys, page up, page down, home, and end don't move the picture. If not a default, it would make a great option. I'm sure it would be elementary to implement for someone familiar with the gimp codebase.
Do the math. There are somewhere around 260 million people in the U.S. If you assume they all generously donate a dollar (not too unreasonable after balancing the cheapskates and the generous), you have $260 million. Put that in a bar graph next to NASA's budget.
I have a deep technological respect for the Microsoft Television Platform. Why, if it weren't for all those old windows cd's holding up my television set, the darn thing would wobble all the time.
I'm not one to promote paranoia, but there were just way too many AC's posting replies to this one using an identical writing style and repeating the same "go microsoft" comments. Count them and look at the wording and punctuation styles.
Interestingly enough, a quick search on hotbot returned over 4,000 hits for "Pamela Australia history" I can definitely see the social advantage of blocking out educational material, people might accidently learn something.
I usually use the term "Coder" to avoid confusion.
'strings' a word file - bigger privacy problem.
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Yeah, I did that on a word file I made under windows once, and found a list of urls I was looking at about half an hour before making the word file. And they think an id number is a privacy problem? How about everyone you send a word file to knowing what you were looking at on the web?
Easily broken encryption has never been a benefit for law enforcement agencies, it has only been a benefit for criminals. Now we have direct evidence of this slapping us in the face. I hope legislative bodies are paying attention to this and are intelligent enough to make the right connection. It's not about government versus computer experts, it's about security versus public access to anyone.
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The fact that there are so many readers from Slashdot with an interest in seeing development tools ported to Linux is evidence enough that there is a market. A lot of people who post here seem to think that the general Slashdot reader is a 12 year old with a $5/week allowance. Well, news flash, a lot of us have both personal and professional purchase power.
rm ~/.netscape/cookies; ln -s /dev/null ~/.netscape/cookies
I've noticed that there seems to be a large quantity of interdeveloper conflict in the Debian project. Of course this is to be expected, but as Debian gets larger and more attention, it appears to have reached the point where it is significantly slowing development. Are there any plans for decentralization to improve the decision making process, and if so, what are those plans? Also, if you decentralized, how would you address elitism so that decisions remained in the project's best interest?
>Well, if there are reasonable searches, there
>must be an ability to execute that search. Since
>it's impossible to predetermine which
>communications can be reasonably searched, all
>must be made searchable, and the courts must
>determine which ones may be searched.
>At least, that's how the argument goes. Where's
>the flaw in it?
The flaw is that the concept "all must be made searchable" violates the right of the people to be secure, and the Ammendment reads that such will "not be violated".
Wiretaps should only occur when there is already just cause for suspecting the target of committing a crime. And when such does exist, extreme measures can be taken such as planting a car outside of the targets house, or placing a small bug near the targets phone, or storming the target's home and taking the target's computer equipment. The situation of a suspected criminal sitting there committing crimes using encryption as a shield of immunity is a non-issue. The situation does not exist in a real physical world.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probably cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
- Ammendment IV
It looks to me like they got it right the first time. Nowhere in there does the U.S. Government have the mandate to universally require wiretap ability, but may force it only on specific people or places when justified by probable cause with supporting testimony.
I've seen no politicians stand up and oppose this section of the Bill of Rights, yet far too many try to violate it. I think the U.S. would do well as a country if its politicians read the Constitution once through...
Can a DVD be made bootable, and if so, is there existing hardware support for this? This would seem important for releasing flexible operating system installations. Floppies are old fashioned, just look at the iMac. (j/k)
I hope they charge them $5000 per hamster...
"Que pasa" translates better as "what's up", and I don't think the owners of whatsup.com would take too kindly to the people at whatshappening.com trying to infringe on their trademark by suing the foreign language equivalent of their domain. I also don't think the owners of wazzup.com or yodog.com or whatupg.com or howsitgoing.com would take too kindly to whatshappening.com infringing on their trademark rights. If you examine the date of record creation for all of those websites (which all exist and are all registered to different registrants), you will find that whatshappening.com was NOT the first in that category to register. In fact, whatsup.com and wazzup.com registered years before whatshappening.com ever existed. quepasa.com, on the other hand, was registered only one month after whatshappening.com was registered. whatshappening.com is playing a dangerous and foolish game, and I hope they get bitten hard.
I guess you haven't been paying attention. Ram can set you back almost $3/meg these days.
A legislative body's efficiency is proportional to the square of its size times the inverse of the length of time until the next election. If you're dealing with something that functions poorly, you don't fix that by making it bigger. That just results in something big that functions poorly.
I can certainly understand the reasons for keeping open source software out of mission critical military situations. However, unless the military is going to take action to put a military level barricade around Sun's source repository (which would include extensive background checks for employees to prevent foreign agents from getting access to the source), then using a closed source solution is NOT safer than an open source solution, and may even be MORE of a hazard.
You gain a lot of efficiency when trying to factor large numbers if you give up at sqr(N). There's no reason to go the whole way to N/2, as you would just be duplicating your efforts.
340 to the 35th keys by itself does not provide something "far more robust" than 256 bit keys. In fact, 340 to the 35th is equivalent to 294 bits. "according to sources" anyway...
I'm often sitting there in gimp with a picture zoomed way in, editing something, and I want to scroll real quick, so I pounce on the arrow keys. No such luck, the arrow keys, page up, page down, home, and end don't move the picture. If not a default, it would make a great option. I'm sure it would be elementary to implement for someone familiar with the gimp codebase.
userdel [username]
Do the math. There are somewhere around 260 million people in the U.S. If you assume they all generously donate a dollar (not too unreasonable after balancing the cheapskates and the generous), you have $260 million. Put that in a bar graph next to NASA's budget.
I have a deep technological respect for the Microsoft Television Platform. Why, if it weren't for all those old windows cd's holding up my television set, the darn thing would wobble all the time.
I'm not one to promote paranoia, but there were just way too many AC's posting replies to this one using an identical writing style and repeating the same "go microsoft" comments. Count them and look at the wording and punctuation styles.
Interestingly enough, a quick search on hotbot returned over 4,000 hits for "Pamela Australia history" I can definitely see the social advantage of blocking out educational material, people might accidently learn something.
Star Office running under Linux does a perfectly fine job of reading MS Office documents for me.
I usually use the term "Coder" to avoid confusion.
Yeah, I did that on a word file I made under windows once, and found a list of urls I was looking at about half an hour before making the word file. And they think an id number is a privacy problem? How about everyone you send a word file to knowing what you were looking at on the web?
Easily broken encryption has never been a benefit for law enforcement agencies, it has only been a benefit for criminals. Now we have direct evidence of this slapping us in the face. I hope legislative bodies are paying attention to this and are intelligent enough to make the right connection. It's not about government versus computer experts, it's about security versus public access to anyone.