Despite the fact that I'm glad/. is finally back up today, I'm saddened to see this as the first story. This is news? All along they've been saying that Crusoe would give incredible battery life at the expense of speed.
It might be a workable solution to combat the problem of illegal immigration. What about when they want to crack down on, say, money laundering? What about if they decide to track everyone who expresses political views contrary to the "approved" ones? What if they decide to mandate the use of officially sanctioned hardware to track a user's web browsing activity using the cards?
The opportunity to expand upon the stated goal is a horror show waiting to happen. The SAR of Hong Kong has enjoyed relative freedom thus far. But make no mistake: The mainland government will not hesitate to strip ALL freedoms from Hong Kong if it should suit its nefarious purposes to do so.
From 1991 through 1996 I worked for a large service industry firm (being vague on purpose). In early 1996 we took on data center proccessing that formerly had been done in Europe for our subsidiaries there.
We had 6 people dedicated to handling technical calls for over 15,000 users worldwide. And we had other duties besides just dealing with phone calls all day, which numbered maybe 200 during normal business hours of 9-5.
At that time management issued pagers to all 6 members of the technical services department. They expected ALL of us to carry them and respond within 30 minutes whenever we were paged, 24 hours a day 7 days a week. They would give us a break only during scheduled vacations. And they offered no extra compensation for doing this.
I had a few discussions with my manager, his manager and the area VP about this. I was basically told "If you don't like it, maybe it's time you found a new job". I tendered my resignation right there on the spot. I was gone 2 weeks later, and had to fight them to get my unused vacation pay. About 3 months later I saw my previous position being advertised in local newspapers, both directly and through headhunters. Remember, this wasn't exactly a support-desk position. I had system programming responsibility for a mainframe machine and network responsibility for an in-house LAN. 8 months later they were still looking for someone to fill the position I had held.
There's no happy ending here, (yes, I did get another job) but I just thought I'd share my personal experience in how nasty and unprofessional some companies can be when it comes to fair compensation policies.
In a related announcement today, PC generation guru Philippe Kahn announced that his new company, "Reptilez", will be offering "Turbo Python" for all Windows development environments in the 1st quarter of 2001.
For further information please direct your inquiries to..., uh, well, umm,..... When they get his email up and running we'll provide the address!
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"As for the suspicions raised by members of the digital community as to the rationale behind the contest, Chariglione -- a widely experienced technologist and veteran of standard-making bodies including the Moving Pictures Expert Group (MPEG) and the Open Platform Initiative for Multimedia Access (OPIMA) -- is unconcerned."
He's very concerned.
"This is common practice. We are talking about extremely sophisticated technology," (DVD CCA) "and the best brains in the world" (MPAA) "cannot think of all possible holes" (MP3). So let the public at large" (Jack Valenti) "describe the hole, if there is a hole."
"And what if it does turn out to be an across-the-board win for the hackers? "I really hate to give an opinion on something that at the moment is very hypothetical," (We're up the creek) "he says, "but you know, if the technology has been defeated, it doesn't mean anything. (We're like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest) Actually, the fact that somebody has found a hole is good information," (Like WWII) because then you could put a patch to it" (Yeah, that's the ticket) "and you can make your algorithm much more robust." We have no idea what to do next.
We have finally reached the point where the power of the hardware has outstripped the capacity of software to make use of it. Not in all cases, of course, but for what your "average" user needs their software to do today's hardware is more than up to the task.
Developers and gamers will probably continue to have use for cutting edge tech as it becomes available. Your typical "you've got mail" luser has more than enough already and they don't really need to upgrade. Heck, my boss has a Pentium Pro machine at home with 30 MB RAM and 2 GB hard disk and he's happy as a pig in doody. An extreme case, perhaps. The logical next step is a new round of price cuts/wars as manufacturers try to lure new buyers into the market and convince existing owners that the time is right to upgrade.
It's not free software, but BestCrypt (here) works really well for me on both Linux and Windows. I use it to encrypt removable media and can mount them under both OSes. It's basically free for non-commercial use.
I used to use TCFS but their efforts seemed to lag behind after the Linux 2.2.x kernels came out and I subsequently dropped off their mailing list.
There is supposedly a set of Linux patches that are available for embedding crypto of some sort into the Linux kernel. These were prevented from being placed into the Linux source tree due to U.S. export restrictions. Now that those restrictions have been effectively lifted I haven't heard too much about it. I think it's high time crypto became part of the kernel.
Won't they have to pay out the prize? At that point there's no way no how they can play it "close to the vest".
It's alarming to me that the boycott ended up being irrelevant. Way to hang together, guys and gals. Doesn't bode well for any organized protests or boycotts in the future. The influence of the EFF and geekdom in general doesn't appear to be very powerful.
This is one thing that always bothered me about the DeCSS case. The tack I would have taken would have been to address the meaning and interpretation of the word "effective".
This is what needs to be stressed when and if Digital Convergence ever files suit against anybody as well.
You can't just wave a magic wand (or XOR) operation over some allegedly secret material and claim "There, I have effectively protected it." It just doesn't stand up in the clear light of day. As with the CueCat device, the DVD protection scheme turned out to be not very effective at all, didn't it? In my mind the reknown 2600.com defense team adopted a flawed defensive posture by stressing the need for a Linux capable playback capability. They went about it the wrong way. By examining the term "effective" they would, IMHO, not only won the case but struck a blow at the evil DMCA itself.
Valenti is much worse than a shill. He's a clueless hatchet man. He was involved up to his eyeballs 20-25 years ago with the whole Dita Beard / Richard Nixon / ITT / Argentina campaign financing scandal. He was the president (or CEO I don't remember which) of good ol' ITT back then. He is the epitome of slick and sleaze. He's one of those "Why do I need a limousine everywhere I go? Just because I am who I am" kind of guys.
You don't have a clue. Talk about not knowing what you're talking about.
While there are many UI elements in MFC but there are a bunch of other objects that have nothing to do with the UI. In fact tyou can avoid STL completely. I'm not saying you necessarily always want to do that but you can if you want. Things like:
CException
CFile
CArray
CObArray
CPtrArray
CList
CString
CMap
There are others. I've written quite a few command-line win32 programs that use MFC objects and have no GUI whatsoever. Very handy for iterating objects in a general sense. You can use STL if you like but you don't have to.
So I'm reading the Gnutella article. Page 1. Next page. Page 2. Next page. Page 3.
"... such help won't have come fast enough.
Next page | Part 4
I'm done at that point. Nothing more to be seen here folks. Can we somehow be free of articles like this that go on and on for pages and pages for the only reason that they want to show us more ads? I don't mind a long article but PUT IT ON ONE FREAKING PAGE! next page, next page, next page, give it a rest already
Related Stories
Napster's last-minute reprieve.
The clashes between the RIAA and
the MP3 sites intensify.
Record labels have tried to slap
price tags on digital downloads.
The RIAA and the MPAA went after
Scour in July.
Company Profiles
Gnutella
Napster
Scour
Recording Industry Association of
America
The article is full of twisted comparisons and faulty information. I develop for Linux, other Unix variants and also Windows 32. The first thing that jumped out:
"...no one wants to run a native Linux application that looks like a native Windows application. After all, if we wanted to use Windows programs, we'd just run Windows in the first place and save all this hassle."
Am I missing something here? My customers and I want an application to work. Period. I don't give a flying fig if it "looks" like a Windows application. The "look" isn't whay I run Linux at home. The "look" provided by either Gnome or KDE or whatever is NOT the reason I run Linux, that's for damn sure. The ability to have a decent GUI and at the same time run all kinds of other nifty programs at the same time is why I run Linux. I only WISH the latest Mozilla milestones "looked" like the old Navigator.
And the MSDN Library consists of 3 CDs, not 2. He'd know this if he actually followed his own advice and kept one handy and used it once in a while. This guy is full of crap, IMO.
This is a really good question. NAI should deliver a complete email/newsreader client for Winbloze machines. Stand-alone like Eudora or similar package. But with PGP built-in. Let the keys settings be under the "Settings" or "Options" menu. The stand-alone PGPKeys or whatever thay have now is NOT intuitive to a lot of people. I have wanted to correspond with several people and use PGP to do it but they just couldn't hack it on their end even after I set it up for them and demonstrated it wasn't that hard.
Now that RSA patent has expired you would think we would see a bunch of this type of applications. But PGP has offered non-RSA encryption for years now and nothing has appeared so the RSA patent wouldn't seem to be the stumbling block here.
While nice, this is not revolutionary. The other machine which you communicate needs to be on and you need to know the IP address. Traditional email uses a store-and-forward technique where the receiver machine doesn't need to be on and connected. Netcat with encryption (see CryptCat which is currently linked by/. from the SecurityFocus sidebar) will do the same thing. As will any number of other techniques. This is elementary and isn't even a blip on the screen unless you're clueless. Not that there aren't a lot of people who are in that category and see this as a new "threat".
The reason for disallowing use of certain electronic devices on airplanes is that there were a series of unexplained mishaps around 10 years ago. In-flight instrument failure that investigators to this day haven't figured out the reasons why it happened.
So the FAA said "Gee, it COULD have been portable electronic devices that are to blame" and imposed the ban. No laboratory test has ever shown conclusively that portable consumer electonic devices are even CAPABLE of interfering with aircraft systems. Never. It's a bogus ban based on anecdotal evidence.
It has bothered me for a long time that they continue to perpetuate this falsehood. At the same time I am grateful that I don't have to sit near people who are constantly on their cell phones. That would drive me crazy. I hope they keep the ban on cell phones for purely aesthetic reasons even after they come to their senses about the non-existant danger they always tell you about.
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Despite the fact that I'm glad /. is finally back up today, I'm saddened to see this as the first story. This is news? All along they've been saying that Crusoe would give incredible battery life at the expense of speed.
It might be a workable solution to combat the problem of illegal immigration. What about when they want to crack down on, say, money laundering? What about if they decide to track everyone who expresses political views contrary to the "approved" ones? What if they decide to mandate the use of officially sanctioned hardware to track a user's web browsing activity using the cards?
The opportunity to expand upon the stated goal is a horror show waiting to happen. The SAR of Hong Kong has enjoyed relative freedom thus far. But make no mistake: The mainland government will not hesitate to strip ALL freedoms from Hong Kong if it should suit its nefarious purposes to do so.
From 1991 through 1996 I worked for a large service industry firm (being vague on purpose). In early 1996 we took on data center proccessing that formerly had been done in Europe for our subsidiaries there.
We had 6 people dedicated to handling technical calls for over 15,000 users worldwide. And we had other duties besides just dealing with phone calls all day, which numbered maybe 200 during normal business hours of 9-5.
At that time management issued pagers to all 6 members of the technical services department. They expected ALL of us to carry them and respond within 30 minutes whenever we were paged, 24 hours a day 7 days a week. They would give us a break only during scheduled vacations. And they offered no extra compensation for doing this.
I had a few discussions with my manager, his manager and the area VP about this. I was basically told "If you don't like it, maybe it's time you found a new job". I tendered my resignation right there on the spot. I was gone 2 weeks later, and had to fight them to get my unused vacation pay. About 3 months later I saw my previous position being advertised in local newspapers, both directly and through headhunters. Remember, this wasn't exactly a support-desk position. I had system programming responsibility for a mainframe machine and network responsibility for an in-house LAN. 8 months later they were still looking for someone to fill the position I had held.
There's no happy ending here, (yes, I did get another job) but I just thought I'd share my personal experience in how nasty and unprofessional some companies can be when it comes to fair compensation policies.
In a related announcement today, PC generation guru Philippe Kahn announced that his new company, "Reptilez", will be offering "Turbo Python" for all Windows development environments in the 1st quarter of 2001.
..., uh, well, umm, ..... When they get his email up and running we'll provide the address!
For further information please direct your inquiries to
I strongly urge anyone who has ever posted anything to Usenet to inform Deja that you retain complete copyright control over anything you have ever posted to Usenet. They can't sell my words or your words. Time to sue.
I never gave them permission to sell any of my posts. I want my check, as I retain all rights to anything I've ever posted on Usenet. Time to file a lien or million or two.
"As for the suspicions raised by members of the digital community as to the rationale behind the contest, Chariglione -- a widely experienced technologist and veteran of standard-making bodies including the Moving Pictures Expert Group (MPEG) and the Open Platform Initiative for Multimedia Access (OPIMA) -- is unconcerned."
He's very concerned.
"This is common practice. We are talking about extremely sophisticated technology," (DVD CCA) "and the best brains in the world" (MPAA) "cannot think of all possible holes" (MP3). So let the public at large" (Jack Valenti) "describe the hole, if there is a hole."
"And what if it does turn out to be an across-the-board win for the hackers? "I really hate to give an opinion on something that at the moment is very hypothetical," (We're up the creek) "he says, "but you know, if the technology has been defeated, it doesn't mean anything. (We're like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest) Actually, the fact that somebody has found a hole is good information," (Like WWII) because then you could put a patch to it" (Yeah, that's the ticket) "and you can make your algorithm much more robust." We have no idea what to do next.
We have finally reached the point where the power of the hardware has outstripped the capacity of software to make use of it. Not in all cases, of course, but for what your "average" user needs their software to do today's hardware is more than up to the task.
Developers and gamers will probably continue to have use for cutting edge tech as it becomes available. Your typical "you've got mail" luser has more than enough already and they don't really need to upgrade. Heck, my boss has a Pentium Pro machine at home with 30 MB RAM and 2 GB hard disk and he's happy as a pig in doody. An extreme case, perhaps. The logical next step is a new round of price cuts/wars as manufacturers try to lure new buyers into the market and convince existing owners that the time is right to upgrade.
It's not free software, but BestCrypt (here) works really well for me on both Linux and Windows. I use it to encrypt removable media and can mount them under both OSes. It's basically free for non-commercial use.
I used to use TCFS but their efforts seemed to lag behind after the Linux 2.2.x kernels came out and I subsequently dropped off their mailing list.
There is supposedly a set of Linux patches that are available for embedding crypto of some sort into the Linux kernel. These were prevented from being placed into the Linux source tree due to U.S. export restrictions. Now that those restrictions have been effectively lifted I haven't heard too much about it. I think it's high time crypto became part of the kernel.
Won't they have to pay out the prize? At that point there's no way no how they can play it "close to the vest".
It's alarming to me that the boycott ended up being irrelevant. Way to hang together, guys and gals. Doesn't bode well for any organized protests or boycotts in the future. The influence of the EFF and geekdom in general doesn't appear to be very powerful.
This is one thing that always bothered me about the DeCSS case. The tack I would have taken would have been to address the meaning and interpretation of the word "effective".
This is what needs to be stressed when and if Digital Convergence ever files suit against anybody as well.
You can't just wave a magic wand (or XOR) operation over some allegedly secret material and claim "There, I have effectively protected it." It just doesn't stand up in the clear light of day. As with the CueCat device, the DVD protection scheme turned out to be not very effective at all, didn't it? In my mind the reknown 2600.com defense team adopted a flawed defensive posture by stressing the need for a Linux capable playback capability. They went about it the wrong way. By examining the term "effective" they would, IMHO, not only won the case but struck a blow at the evil DMCA itself.
Valenti is much worse than a shill. He's a clueless hatchet man. He was involved up to his eyeballs 20-25 years ago with the whole Dita Beard / Richard Nixon / ITT / Argentina campaign financing scandal. He was the president (or CEO I don't remember which) of good ol' ITT back then. He is the epitome of slick and sleaze. He's one of those "Why do I need a limousine everywhere I go? Just because I am who I am" kind of guys.
While there are many UI elements in MFC but there are a bunch of other objects that have nothing to do with the UI. In fact tyou can avoid STL completely. I'm not saying you necessarily always want to do that but you can if you want. Things like:
- CException
- CFile
- CArray
- CObArray
- CPtrArray
- CList
- CString
- CMap
There are others. I've written quite a few command-line win32 programs that use MFC objects and have no GUI whatsoever. Very handy for iterating objects in a general sense. You can use STL if you like but you don't have to.So I'm reading the Gnutella article. Page 1. Next page. Page 2. Next page. Page 3.
"... such help won't have come fast enough.
Next page | Part 4
I'm done at that point. Nothing more to be seen here folks. Can we somehow be free of articles like this that go on and on for pages and pages for the only reason that they want to show us more ads? I don't mind a long article but PUT IT ON ONE FREAKING PAGE! next page, next page, next page, give it a rest already Related Stories Napster's last-minute reprieve. The clashes between the RIAA and the MP3 sites intensify. Record labels have tried to slap price tags on digital downloads. The RIAA and the MPAA went after Scour in July. Company Profiles Gnutella Napster Scour Recording Industry Association of America
The article is full of twisted comparisons and faulty information. I develop for Linux, other Unix variants and also Windows 32. The first thing that jumped out:
"...no one wants to run a native Linux application that looks like a native Windows application. After all, if we wanted to use Windows programs, we'd just run Windows in the first place and save all this hassle."
Am I missing something here? My customers and I want an application to work. Period. I don't give a flying fig if it "looks" like a Windows application. The "look" isn't whay I run Linux at home. The "look" provided by either Gnome or KDE or whatever is NOT the reason I run Linux, that's for damn sure. The ability to have a decent GUI and at the same time run all kinds of other nifty programs at the same time is why I run Linux. I only WISH the latest Mozilla milestones "looked" like the old Navigator.
And the MSDN Library consists of 3 CDs, not 2. He'd know this if he actually followed his own advice and kept one handy and used it once in a while. This guy is full of crap, IMO.
They did do that but I did it first in 1917 so don't even think about infringing on my IP, sucker!
"We came in peace for all Mankind."
- Neil Armstrong at Tranquility Base, 1969
Anyone who religiously reads AWST should get their posts moderated up to a 5 by default!
And what *is* an NP-19?
This is a really good question. NAI should deliver a complete email/newsreader client for Winbloze machines. Stand-alone like Eudora or similar package. But with PGP built-in. Let the keys settings be under the "Settings" or "Options" menu. The stand-alone PGPKeys or whatever thay have now is NOT intuitive to a lot of people. I have wanted to correspond with several people and use PGP to do it but they just couldn't hack it on their end even after I set it up for them and demonstrated it wasn't that hard. Now that RSA patent has expired you would think we would see a bunch of this type of applications. But PGP has offered non-RSA encryption for years now and nothing has appeared so the RSA patent wouldn't seem to be the stumbling block here.
Everything is encoded with the key: "metalica"
Auto shredding sounds bogus. It can be turned defeated at will. Print Screen key. Protected from printing, yeah, right.
While nice, this is not revolutionary. The other machine which you communicate needs to be on and you need to know the IP address. Traditional email uses a store-and-forward technique where the receiver machine doesn't need to be on and connected. Netcat with encryption (see CryptCat which is currently linked by /. from the SecurityFocus sidebar) will do the same thing. As will any number of other techniques. This is elementary and isn't even a blip on the screen unless you're clueless. Not that there aren't a lot of people who are in that category and see this as a new "threat".
Oh yeah.
Substitue parnters.nytimes.com for www.nytimes.com and you'll get it every time! Like so:
/ 18BASI.html
http://partners.nytimes.com/2000/09/18/technology
The reason for disallowing use of certain electronic devices on airplanes is that there were a series of unexplained mishaps around 10 years ago. In-flight instrument failure that investigators to this day haven't figured out the reasons why it happened.
So the FAA said "Gee, it COULD have been portable electronic devices that are to blame" and imposed the ban. No laboratory test has ever shown conclusively that portable consumer electonic devices are even CAPABLE of interfering with aircraft systems. Never. It's a bogus ban based on anecdotal evidence.
It has bothered me for a long time that they continue to perpetuate this falsehood. At the same time I am grateful that I don't have to sit near people who are constantly on their cell phones. That would drive me crazy. I hope they keep the ban on cell phones for purely aesthetic reasons even after they come to their senses about the non-existant danger they always tell you about.