One of the key thing that opening Java would give is the possibility to debug issues ourselves.
For example I have crashes with the official Sun's VM. I am unable to debug the problem properly without access to the code (and I won't do that with a proper license). For sun I have to go all the way to create a test case, which is not easy when it comes to isolate a problem in a complex application.
I am sure I would go faster with access to the code. Instead of spending time making a test case, which I am not sure Sun is going to have a look at.
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I agree with you. I made the difference because it was done in the post I replied to:)
BTW, I sometimes make a one or 2 line summary on the top of the mail, with all the reply below the original text. It's very occasional but I find it sometimes more natural to read.
Do you sometimes use it as well?
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How can the person who choses tp top post or to inline reply know what kind of activity has had the poster since they made their post?
And with increase usage it is logical to think that people are going to be more and more active, hence making top posting les and less obvious.
Top posting is only interesting: when the initial message doesn't matter. In that case, better to remove it alltogether.
And gmail has a solution: they hide the replied text. So whether the text is top posted or inline for someone who do not want to reread the message doesn't matter. But for someone who wants to reread it it does. So doing inline or bottom posting + hiding replied text solves everybody's problem.
And BTW, common case to me is bottom posting and inline reply. None of the mailing list I am on do top posting. It would be considered rude. I did my first top posting in years by mistake because of gmail...
Actually this is part of the entry class of low level physics titled: you can't observe stuff without affecting it.
By looking inside the box, they changed the content!
And with regard to exclusion, they could have at least given them a second chance, maybe with some punishment (like a work camp or something, and select only the 30 first). I thought that this was the land of the second chance.
School is about education. What did they learn? That they got screwed up after doing something that affected noone else?
Let's introduce fake DRM: each WAV will have one bit randomly changed (in a way that doesn't affect our hearing). That way, we do not reproduce the data: it's different for every person who download it....
[Feel free to reword things that would not be good enough English]
One of the biggest Strength in Linux and other Free Open Source Software operating systems is that distributions provide a single repository where thousands of applications can be taken from. This is used for security updates as well for larger updates. This is also used to ensure better compatibility between the applications.
Microsoft on the other side provides Windows Update which is limited to Microsoft products. This forces each single application provider to provide their own update mecanisms, and each user to track various sources for security updates.
Implementing a central system on the Windows side would be harder as applications are not Free. How does Microsoft intend to compete on that particular aspect of Linux ?
I've just done it yesterday and they closed the account within minutes.
See here: http://support.beamhost.co.uk/helpdesk/view.php?ti cketid=6360&auth=8f64e9b4
The site is probably going to reopen somewhere else. But I've probably spent less time than it takes for them to reopen it.
What's needed is a program that automates that. You feed it an URL and the program automatically search for a contact email (e.g. abuse@) and prepares an email for you to send.
Then as most phishing sites are introduced by spam emails, the process could be automatized further.
Just process the mail. The phishing site is found, and the email server (probably an cracked/virused/wormed machine) is identified and the ISP of that machine is identified as well.
Shouldn't be hard to do...
Can be done by a central server or on the mail client. The phishing detection is already there in Thunderbird. Just need to use it to report it. Otherwise let's do that centrally, which has the benefit of having a single code base for the processing.
Free Software should be there to show the way. Who said we cannot innovate?
You say. "Space travel is controlled space travel"
I say: no. "Space travel is space travel" and "Controlled space travel is controlled space travel". Since when did you get chosen to define the semantics ?;)
And second, I would bet that if you had the chance of being in one of these trips, you wouldn't come back without beeing moved by the event. It must be f*cking impressive. Maybe in 150 years our grand-grand children will have to take the space driving license. In the mean time, according to our times, it's damn advanced.
OK. I stop joking. This is NOT space travel. I agree:)
I wanted to try beagle out, but the install how-to scared me away. Not that I cannot do it, but if I use Linux, it's for the power of it's in-built package management. apt, urpmi you name it.
If I have to compile the package and 4 dependencies plus patch and recompile the kernel, I say no way. I can do that on a single PVR, but not on 3 desktops (yes I know I can use checkinstall and share the packages).
Except that: - Japan is known to have some of the best deals on Earth when it comes to broadband. Huge number of people per km^2 is one point, plus a big penetration rate of technologies - really fast broadband services are usually better in terms or $/Mbps than 'slow' ones. I.e. you get more Mbps per $ is you take a 50Mbits than a 512ko one. 2 Mbits is in the slow category. (I have 0.5M in Norway, which I pay around 30-35 per month). And I got it at a 'discount' offer. Pathetic. In neighbour Sweeden, they have 26Mbits for the same price.
We know that viruses have affected all sorts of population before. Some plagues killed as much as 30% of people in some countries years ago. AIDS has now about the same infection rates in some countries.
It's highly probable that one day a big bad virus will spread and destroy a huge number of PCs at a time. Perhaps 1 or 2 %.
- many companies are simply not going to use SP2 because they still standardize on a former version of Windows.
- most big companies that will one day upgrade to SP2 have not yet adopted SP2 as standard because it takes them time to validate it in their environment.
Do you think that these companies are happy of the situation? I don't think...
And with regard to users, XP SP2 enforces users to sign a new User Agreement. Some people disagree with that. But they may have just bought their PC, loaded with SP1. What should they do? Bring it back because the user agreement for the security fixes is different than the one they have agreed to?
Microsoft has 95% of the market. The market is depending on Microsoft to do the right thing.
I am aware that many things in use today are results of military related experiments/discoveries/inventions. Microwave is another example.
But to me the destination does not justify the path. In fact until we carefuly our way to chose our paths, we won't be dramatically improving our civilisations in terms of wisdom.
All these things you are talking about could have been developped/discovered by other means. It *may* have taken more time, but it's not sure. And it it did, couldn't we live without them for 10-15, 50 more years?
> Stay scared if you want but you shouldn't be > scared of military technology... it's military > policy that determines how that tech gets used.
I am scared because of the military policies and because what technology advances has put into the hands of our leaders. A scary military policy would not pause so much risk without the WMD we have today.
Oh I forgot: they are "weapons of disuasion". These disuasions are only needed because of the escalation of military technology.
Military budgets outweight education budgets in an outrageous way in the US (I think at least 5-6 times). I don't find that normal. According to what I've read, 10% of the US military budget could be used to cover the basic needs of the whole third world. I know the problems are not only financial, and that logistics and local issues are at play, but do you find that normal? Perhaps yes. And if you had been born somewhere else, would your answer be the same?
How dare do we make such egocentric decisions. decisions that will affect the whole world and all its species, us who have just had the chance to see the light in a rich part of the world, and to maybe have had the chance to be a little bit smarter than the average?
Nature is unfair, and we cannot change that. We can try to correct it a little bit.
People used to be scared of things like "if I go too far, I am goind to fall from Earth". Or "the sky is going to fall on us". Those were in fact things that could never really happen. Now people are scared that someone decides to "press a red button". Or that a computer takes take a wrong decision because of a bug.
So let's all start investing in military technology! We will find good usages afterwards. Let's hope we never use it first because it would be the end of the world as we know it today.
Just because you find a good use afterwards shouldn't be an argument to develop a military technology.
I won one of these beasts PMP 120 and I have not yet received it. I may have the option to exchange it against something of similar value.
I was wondering if anyone had feedback. In particular, I would like to know:
- if they think I can switch hard disk easily. I have had so many hard disk failures that I don't trust them anymore. I also have a 60Go spare disk, and I could use it there:)
- if they think that there is a better alternative, such as an Archos player
- if it will be hacker friendly. The fact that it is using Linux proves nothing. I would love to have an open firmware, but I don't see this coming from iRiver.
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One of the key thing that opening Java would give is the possibility to debug issues ourselves.
For example I have crashes with the official Sun's VM. I am unable to debug the problem properly without access to the code (and I won't do that with a proper license). For sun I have to go all the way to create a test case, which is not easy when it comes to isolate a problem in a complex application.
I am sure I would go faster with access to the code. Instead of spending time making a test case, which I am not sure Sun is going to have a look at.
I agree with you. I made the difference because it was done in the post I replied to :)
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BTW, I sometimes make a one or 2 line summary on the top of the mail, with all the reply below the original text. It's very occasional but I find it sometimes more natural to read.
Do you sometimes use it as well?
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How can the person who choses tp top post or to inline reply know what kind of activity has had the poster since they made their post?
And with increase usage it is logical to think that people are going to be more and more active, hence making top posting les and less obvious.
Top posting is only interesting: when the initial message doesn't matter. In that case, better to remove it alltogether.
And gmail has a solution: they hide the replied text. So whether the text is top posted or inline for someone who do not want to reread the message doesn't matter. But for someone who wants to reread it it does. So doing inline or bottom posting + hiding replied text solves everybody's problem.
And BTW, common case to me is bottom posting and inline reply. None of the mailing list I am on do top posting. It would be considered rude. I did my first top posting in years by mistake because of gmail...
Actually this is part of the entry class of low level physics titled: you can't observe stuff without affecting it.
By looking inside the box, they changed the content!
And with regard to exclusion, they could have at least given them a second chance, maybe with some punishment (like a work camp or something, and select only the 30 first). I thought that this was the land of the second chance.
School is about education. What did they learn? That they got screwed up after doing something that affected noone else?
Am I the only one to think like that?
From the article:
Metheny also noted that individuals could only access their own personal admissions responses--not those of other applicants.
>> as the French paint, or the Italians sculpt
:)
Like the French Joconde and Italian Statue of Liberty ?
BTW, I am French, and I wish I knew how to paint. I just realized that the painter gets to the see the model when he gets some nudity on his screen.
Let's introduce fake DRM: each WAV will have one bit randomly changed (in a way that doesn't affect our hearing). That way, we do not reproduce the data: it's different for every person who download it....
How is "randomly" defined? Is it every 3 persons?
Or is it a human decision?
Because if it is human, it is not random. Maybe something in your appearance triggers more checks.
Old lady was probably never checked. If you are a 20-40 years old man travelling alone you probably have more chances of being picked up "randomly".
[Feel free to reword things that would not be good enough English]
One of the biggest Strength in Linux and other Free Open Source Software operating systems is that distributions provide a single repository where thousands of applications can be taken from. This is used for security updates as well for larger updates. This is also used to ensure better compatibility between the applications.
Microsoft on the other side provides Windows Update which is limited to Microsoft products. This forces each single application provider to provide their own update mecanisms, and each user to track various sources for security updates.
Implementing a central system on the Windows side would be harder as applications are not Free. How does Microsoft intend to compete on that particular aspect of Linux ?
I've just done it yesterday and they closed the account within minutes.
i cketid=6360&auth=8f64e9b4
See here: http://support.beamhost.co.uk/helpdesk/view.php?t
The site is probably going to reopen somewhere else. But I've probably spent less time than it takes for them to reopen it.
What's needed is a program that automates that.
You feed it an URL and the program automatically search for a contact email (e.g. abuse@) and prepares an email for you to send.
Then as most phishing sites are introduced by spam emails, the process could be automatized further.
Just process the mail. The phishing site is found, and the email server (probably an cracked/virused/wormed machine) is identified and the ISP of that machine is identified as well.
Shouldn't be hard to do...
Can be done by a central server or on the mail client. The phishing detection is already there in Thunderbird. Just need to use it to report it. Otherwise let's do that centrally, which has the benefit of having a single code base for the processing.
Free Software should be there to show the way. Who said we cannot innovate?
You say. "Space travel is controlled space travel"
;)
:)
I say: no. "Space travel is space travel" and "Controlled space travel is controlled space travel". Since when did you get chosen to define the semantics ?
And second, I would bet that if you had the chance of being in one of these trips, you wouldn't come back without beeing moved by the event. It must be f*cking impressive. Maybe in 150 years our grand-grand children will have to take the space driving license. In the mean time, according to our times, it's damn advanced.
OK. I stop joking. This is NOT space travel. I agree
Controlled space travel, like with a HAL computer? Forget about it. Go first. I've seen the movie :)
I keep searching, but nowhere do I see the word laden on that post. Nor in that thread neither...
Linux receives way too much more mail to pay little attention to the ones not coming from his lieutenants.
Maybe if he was using the correct channels to report security, he would get listened?
Like going through Debian or any other distribution?
And second, end of December is perhaps not the best time of the year to be listened to, don't you think?
Furthermore, sending this message into the open on a Friday, don't you think that's not acceptable?
And to those who run applying the fix, shouldn't you be waiting for an official patch.
Damn LKML-CNN reporting.
I wanted to try beagle out, but the install how-to scared me away. Not that I cannot do it, but if I use Linux, it's for the power of it's in-built package management. apt, urpmi you name it.
If I have to compile the package and 4 dependencies plus patch and recompile the kernel, I say no way. I can do that on a single PVR, but not on 3 desktops (yes I know I can use checkinstall and share the packages).
So which distribution do you use?
Except that:
- Japan is known to have some of the best deals on Earth when it comes to broadband. Huge number of people per km^2 is one point, plus a big penetration rate of technologies
- really fast broadband services are usually better in terms or $/Mbps than 'slow' ones. I.e. you get more Mbps per $ is you take a 50Mbits than a 512ko one. 2 Mbits is in the slow category. (I have 0.5M in Norway, which I pay around 30-35 per month). And I got it at a 'discount' offer. Pathetic. In neighbour Sweeden, they have 26Mbits for the same price.
I had rather the following:
...."
"Let's say an apprentice doctor is performing a virtual surgery and suddenly needs help from a teacher surgeon
I wouldn't like to be the patient in your example...
I for one find that funny.
We know that viruses have affected all sorts of population before. Some plagues killed as much as 30% of people in some countries years ago. AIDS has now about the same infection rates in some countries.
It's highly probable that one day a big bad virus will spread and destroy a huge number of PCs at a time. Perhaps 1 or 2 %.
That's just going to happen.
There's an inbuilt micro and you have to sing the first notes of the song for the small iPod to find it for you.
And it also does karaoke and the coffee, when plugged to a device respecting http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2324.html
Upgrading is not an easy and secure task.
:)
- many companies are simply not going to use SP2 because they still standardize on a former version of Windows.
- most big companies that will one day upgrade to SP2 have not yet adopted SP2 as standard because it takes them time to validate it in their environment.
Do you think that these companies are happy of the situation? I don't think...
And with regard to users, XP SP2 enforces users to sign a new User Agreement. Some people disagree with that. But they may have just bought their PC, loaded with SP1. What should they do? Bring it back because the user agreement for the security fixes is different than the one they have agreed to?
Microsoft has 95% of the market. The market is depending on Microsoft to do the right thing.
With great power comes great responsibility...
I am aware that many things in use today are results of military related experiments/discoveries/inventions. Microwave is another example.
But to me the destination does not justify the path. In fact until we carefuly our way to chose our paths, we won't be dramatically improving our civilisations in terms of wisdom.
All these things you are talking about could have been developped/discovered by other means. It *may* have taken more time, but it's not sure. And it it did, couldn't we live without them for 10-15, 50 more years?
> Stay scared if you want but you shouldn't be
> scared of military technology... it's military
> policy that determines how that tech gets used.
I am scared because of the military policies and because what technology advances has put into the hands of our leaders. A scary military policy would not pause so much risk without the WMD we have today.
Oh I forgot: they are "weapons of disuasion". These disuasions are only needed because of the escalation of military technology.
Military budgets outweight education budgets in an outrageous way in the US (I think at least 5-6 times). I don't find that normal. According to what I've read, 10% of the US military budget could be used to cover the basic needs of the whole third world. I know the problems are not only financial, and that logistics and local issues are at play, but do you find that normal?
Perhaps yes. And if you had been born somewhere else, would your answer be the same?
How dare do we make such egocentric decisions. decisions that will affect the whole world and all its species, us who have just had the chance to see the light in a rich part of the world, and to maybe have had the chance to be a little bit smarter than the average?
Nature is unfair, and we cannot change that. We can try to correct it a little bit.
People used to be scared of things like "if I go too far, I am goind to fall from Earth". Or "the sky is going to fall on us". Those were in fact things that could never really happen. Now people are scared that someone decides to "press a red button". Or that a computer takes take a wrong decision because of a bug.
The world is scary because we made it scary.
So let's all start investing in military technology! We will find good usages afterwards. Let's hope we never use it first because it would be the end of the world as we know it today.
Just because you find a good use afterwards shouldn't be an argument to develop a military technology.
Now I am scared.
I won one of these beasts PMP 120 and I have not yet received it. I may have the option to exchange it against something of similar value.
:)
I was wondering if anyone had feedback. In particular, I would like to know:
- if they think I can switch hard disk easily. I have had so many hard disk failures that I don't trust them anymore. I also have a 60Go spare disk, and I could use it there
- if they think that there is a better alternative, such as an Archos player
- if it will be hacker friendly. The fact that it is using Linux proves nothing. I would love to have an open firmware, but I don't see this coming from iRiver.
Any other input appreciated.
Talking about Skype voice quality, I advice people to read what GnomeMeeting developers have to say about it. It's on the front page.
I guess it was ironic :)
Because no one that I know of look at commercials (I used to do - when I had a TV and a VCR - but only on old tapes, because it's fun).