How do you apt-get dist upgrade with Fedora? --Don't ask.
Wierd since, Fedora decided to copy Debian's mistaken policy of offering three software troves called stable,testing and unstable.
When are they going to learn, users want ONE package tree, with the ability to migrate between versions and patches.
SURE, you'll say. Fedora is just Red Hat's loss leader product to wedge people into RHEL.
But wait until someone who has a superior understanding of the marketplace comes along and evaporates RH's marketshare. Then they will wish they'd had a better view of the market than 'per-ass proprietary enterprise linux'.
Otherwise a solid release from the folks at RH. Release Notes.
Actually the trend is going in reverse. Telecommuting / telepresence means you don't need to be in the city.
Being in the city used to be useful for acquiring the extremely valuable commodity of trust. Personal relationships. Now, I can trust Larry Lessig (at least on Copyright law critique) because I know where he stands on those issues. We are on opposite sides of the planet. I also trust Warren Buffet as a source of information on investment issues. He's in Nebraska.
Warren B. might not take my calls but Larry probably would. And they're are plenty of 'mini' Warrens around.
I have no reason to visit Frankfurt or any of those other places.
I voted this morning. The first thing I saw was the 'Diebold blue screen'.
This worried me for a sec, but the machine swiftly went to the candidates and correctly cast my vote without a hitch. Well, except one teeny tiny problem. I dialled it in from Australia.
Let's look at it from my perspective. Would I work with you normally (eg. if I was American)?
The answer is probably not. I have my own entrepreneurial ambitions and most likely would be in your position looking for people. However as an entrepreneur, business considerations require me to have a U.S. presence.
That's where you come in. Arrange a visa. Maybe we can work something out. (Not me personally, but you get the idea).
Do the freely downloadable ISO images contain Suse's OpenExchange mail/groupware server?
The other ones seem to lack a bit of pizazz. The two major competitors seem to be the BillWorkgroup (as in Gates) server and the unencumbered Netline version of OpenExchange which IIRC is derived from the Suse OPX codebase.
Everything else I looked at is crap. I checked out Communigate Pro (a commercial product) and though it looked mostly professional, it had a bunch of features that simply weren't available in Outlook. I'd consider tolerating that from a free software project but not a proprietary offering.
Data's different, it can be transferred in the blink of an eye. It's not like a bricks and mortar power plant. A middle manager wouldn't think twice about breaking that law, unless the government contract had severe financial penalties for doing so AND a means of monitoring for compliance. Besides competitors, what if the U.S. goverment wanted it? It's a U.S. company, as if they are going to say no. Again it will be a middle manager - I guarantee it. The CEO will 'not want to know about it'. This kind of thing happens on a daily basis.
The idea of Canada as a seperate country from the U.S. is outddated nonsense. Economically and security-wise the two are inextricably symbiotic.
I think the stumbling blocks until now have been Canadians tendancy for socialised health care, education and the accompanying higher tax rates. Also there is probably some fear in urban areas of the 2nd Amendment, never mind that there are more guns per capita in Canada then the US.
The best solution would be to make Canada a commonwealth of the U.S., like Puerto Rico. That way Canadians could retain their own independant goverment and reduce the red tape that is creating market inefficiencies between the two countries.
Democracy is a fragile institution. Let's face it: The upcoming 2004 election will be hackable to unethical persons with considerable technical and financial resources. (Hint: Think of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth)
Thanks in part to relentless media consolidation, the US public is unaware or more apathetic than ever to this important issue.
The best way to counter this? Forget this Rock the Vote nonsense. Like we really need more people unaware of the issues casting random votes. How about a campaign to tell people:
'Don't bother Voting because it won't matter'.
When people see a message like that, they get ANGRY. That anger will lead to measures to sort this mess out...hopefully.
This is great. If google's smart (and they are) they will encourage this and work out a way of benefitting from it.
Question for the kernel hackers: What is the status of FUSE or LUFS? Is there plans on standardising on one of these API's?
The status quo of not having a standardised userspace filesystem interface in the kernel is creating problems. (eg. the incompatible VFS/IOSLAVE hacks that should never have happened)
you may want to look further than simple cash before refusing the senior generation social security. I don't know what it's like in the U.S., but in australia a large amount of the previous generations sacrificed their standard of living so that my standard of living could be better. My parents didn't go to Uni and worked very hard so that it would be my right to be able to be educated. I'm guessing it's the same for a lot of others. Our generation is rich in all senses because of the previous generations sacrifice. It might make us all better people to remember that.
I hope you are really old. In Australia, most baby boomers received free university education from the Gough Whitlam government. Nowadays students pay through the ass. You know all that government debt? Guess who generated it. Those generations that _lol_ 'sacrificed'. Face it, the baby boomers can take credit for being the most selfish generation ever.
The situation is much worse in the U.S. though. Fiscal discipline related to the U.S. national deficit is all but nonexistant. Imagine being born and immediately having a $25,000 debt- If you were American you wouldn't have to imagine. That's the reality. That's roughly what the deficit would be worth if each U.S. citizen took an equal share today. That figure will be much worse in the future.
Sounds like a good argument for increased immigration to me.
This could just be someone on Wall Street stirring up trouble for Google.
There have been a few articles in the trade press about Wall Street being pissed off at (horror) being treated like normal people and missing out on the customary level of graft that accompanies high profile IPO's.
Microsoft is also working behind the scenes to try and throttle their IPO success. (Remember Microsoft's recent news portal unveiling)?
Larry and Sergey get alot of props though from both computer geeks (for linux) and financial nerds (for following Warren Buffett's advice).
The difference between his ideas and his kidneys is that he can sell his ideas--or the rights to them--but not his kidneys.
Ohhh, so he can sell his ideas but not his kidneys. I see. Who makes that decision, jjohnson? Sounds like a slippery slope to me.
He stupidly signed a contract handing over rights to his ideas, and then, suprise surprise, lost the rights to his ideas. If you hold that ideas can't be bought and sold, you undermine all intellectual property and licencing laws, upon which the GPL depends.
Not really. Copyright and Patent law (which I assume you are referring to) are based on expressions of ideas. Not the ideas themselves. Can I sell you the Copyright to this post? Yes. Can I sell you the abstract IDEAS that led to these words? Until we get brain tunnelling nanoprobes, I wouldn't know where to begin- though I'm sure Alcatel is looking forward to the day.
What if you come up with an idea for a new sexual technique to use on your wife, and I, as your boss decide it's marketable as a comedy performance. Are you are required to tell me? Am I allowed to see the 'concrete implementation' of this technique? Should I be able improvise and have sexual engineers perform modifications on the technique?
Ideas are not property. The U.S. Supreme Court and much wiser thinkers have said so repeatedly.
Look at it another way. Say he signed a contract stating that he would give you his car if you walked around the block three times, which you did. Wouldn't he then owe you his car, according to the contract he willingly signed?
Sure. It's a car. It's property that exists outside of his brain. What if he promised me he would voluntarily spend the rest of his life in jail? Do you think a judge would enforce that?
Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is.
It sounds like Evan Brown's defense argued this case poorly. If the facts I've read are correct, this isn't about property rights, it's about slavery.
Though I haven't read it, Evan's employment contract stated something to the effect that the company owned all his ideas, and that he was required to disclose his ideas, etc.
Well he definitely disclosed his idea. I imagine that's what started this fiasco. The question is, does the company own his idea? The question is moot, whether they own it or not. It's in his brain. Can they force him to explain it? The answer is no, unless he is their indentured servant.
If I had gotten a stupid 21-year old to sign a contract stating that he had give me one of his kidney's if Tampa Bay won the Stanley Cup, would that be enforceable in a court of law?
Of course not. It would be considered unconscionable, even though it wouldn't kill him.
It's exactly the same. He should have just been fired for insubordination. I hope he appeals to the Supreme Court.
Flying Personal Transport Device's (PTD's) makes sense to me, especially when I see all those poor souls wasting their lives sitting in gridlock. I say PTD because the car is a hopelessly outmoded design, one that needs to die soon.
The PTD would need multiple safety redundancies (backup power, turbines, parachute, whatever) but the major stumbling block for consumer acceptance would be one thing: The interface.
The PTD should basically take just a set of GPS coordinates and that's it. The vehicle should be able to fly itself using a simplistic genetic algorithm, with the entire traffic system looking like a type of swarm intelligence. This would also help on the regulatory front. How could the FAA force you to have a pilot when the only control on the device is a GPS entry console?
The PTD obviously shouldn't ever have a locus of central control. Besides traffic net system failure, it would an obvious target for terrorists. A good PTD design would probably be so light that any terrorists using them to attack targets would probably do little damage and do us a favour killing themselves. Sure they could pack the cabin full of explosives but they could already do that using an RC plane.
The rise of such vehicles would probably drive a transition to buildings made of nanocomposites so tremendously strong that a little PTD bouncing off them probably wouldn't even leave a mark. This kind of infrastructure would be built automatically. Anyone who's been to Japan and witnessed the post WWII economic miracle knows it was the Japanese automotive exports that drove that economic expansion.
I just googled the Skycar and noticed they IPO'd on 21 November 2001. Poor bastards.
Put down the crack pipe, man. If an auto company could make their cars any more efficient, they most certainly would. It's a rather competitive industry, and fuel economy is a major selling point. Why the hell would a car maker not want to put the technology in their cars?
Cost mostly. Cars shipped to California have must more effective catalytic converters than cars that are shipped to states without legislated emissions standards. It's the same with fuel economy.
I also suspect that even in these times of uncertain oil prices, fuel economy is low on the list of a consumer's buying criteria. After looks, cost, reliability, size, ability to pick up chicks with, etc.
According to Don Coppersmith, the technique has merit. Considering the source, that's a strong statement.
Yes, the attack is applicable to ciphers other than AES.
No it's not a practical attack. A practical attack and an academic break are completely different things.
For example, a theoretical attack that reduced key recovery time from 10^14 MIPS years to 10^6 MY is still probably impractical to break for most attackers. However, the loss of security in such a scenario would be considered serious.
Correct. As I pointed out in this vitriolic posting last year, the security of AES is possibly weak. (See the citation). As a relatively new cipher, this is not unexpected. The conservative security choice would have been to choose 3DES, as the new DES.
Although it's pure speculation, it's possible Rinjdael was chosen by interested parties and deemed 'strong enough for commerce' for reasons related to catching filthy cave dwelling scum.
Reality is that which continues to exist after you stop believing in it.
Linux is written in C. One buffer overflow exploit could compromise the whole network. It needs expert review before the claim of being secure has any meaning.
Does that sound silly? You can say that about any network program. In practice, things keep humming along because of diversity {versions, codebases}, etc. For example, browsing the GNUnet site I see a Java GNUnet port. No need to worry about stack smashing attacks there. Just the 100 or so other vulnerabilities (eg. race conditions) that make software insecure...
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How do you apt-get dist upgrade with Fedora? --Don't ask.
Wierd since, Fedora decided to copy Debian's mistaken policy of offering three software troves called stable,testing and unstable.
When are they going to learn, users want ONE package tree, with the ability to migrate between versions and patches.
SURE, you'll say. Fedora is just Red Hat's loss leader product to wedge people into RHEL.
But wait until someone who has a superior understanding of the marketplace comes along and evaporates RH's marketshare. Then they will wish they'd had a better view of the market than 'per-ass proprietary enterprise linux'.
Otherwise a solid release from the folks at RH. Release Notes.
Actually the trend is going in reverse. Telecommuting / telepresence means you don't need to be in the city.
Being in the city used to be useful for acquiring the extremely valuable commodity of trust. Personal relationships. Now, I can trust Larry Lessig (at least on Copyright law critique) because I know where he stands on those issues. We are on opposite sides of the planet. I also trust Warren Buffet as a source of information on investment issues. He's in Nebraska.
Warren B. might not take my calls but Larry probably would. And they're are plenty of 'mini' Warrens around.
I have no reason to visit Frankfurt or any of those other places.
I hear this is the reccomended base configuration for Windows Longhorn...
I voted this morning. The first thing I saw was the 'Diebold blue screen'.
This worried me for a sec, but the machine swiftly went to the candidates and correctly cast my vote without a hitch. Well, except one teeny tiny problem. I dialled it in from Australia.
Just kidding, just kidding. See my earlier post.
I'm talented (or so my PhD advisor tells me).
Let's look at it from my perspective. Would I work with you normally (eg. if I was American)?
The answer is probably not. I have my own entrepreneurial ambitions and most likely would be in your position looking for people. However as an entrepreneur, business considerations require me to have a U.S. presence.
That's where you come in. Arrange a visa. Maybe we can work something out. (Not me personally, but you get the idea).
Why is this comment moderated as funny? It is child's play to 0wn an unpatched windows box and RAS itself has several known vulnerabilities.
Pray that your side has better hackers.
Frankly, after 2000 the mere existence of the insecure electronic voting issue is a disgrace.
"The price of liberty is eternal vigilance."
--Thomas Jefferson
Do the freely downloadable ISO images contain Suse's OpenExchange mail/groupware server?
The other ones seem to lack a bit of pizazz. The two major competitors seem to be the
BillWorkgroup (as in Gates) server and the unencumbered Netline version of OpenExchange which IIRC is derived from the Suse OPX codebase.
Everything else I looked at is crap. I checked out Communigate Pro (a commercial product) and though it looked mostly professional, it had a bunch of features that simply weren't available in Outlook. I'd consider tolerating that from a free software project but not a proprietary offering.
I was born in Canada, how can I be an American imperialist?
I haven't taken over any autonomous soverign nations yet either. Thanks for providing that 'definite' proof though.
Data's different, it can be transferred in the blink of an eye. It's not like a bricks and mortar power plant. A middle manager wouldn't think twice about breaking that law, unless the government contract had severe financial penalties for doing so AND a means of monitoring for compliance.
Besides competitors, what if the U.S. goverment wanted it? It's a U.S. company, as if they are going to say no. Again it will be a middle manager - I guarantee it. The CEO will 'not want to know about it'. This kind of thing happens on a daily basis.
The idea of Canada as a seperate country from the U.S. is outddated nonsense. Economically and security-wise the two are inextricably symbiotic.
I think the stumbling blocks until now have been Canadians tendancy for socialised health care, education and the accompanying higher tax rates. Also there is probably some fear in urban areas of the 2nd Amendment, never mind that there are more guns per capita in Canada then the US.
The best solution would be to make Canada a commonwealth of the U.S., like Puerto Rico. That way Canadians could retain their own independant goverment and reduce the red tape that is creating market inefficiencies between the two countries.
Democracy is a fragile institution. Let's face it: The upcoming 2004 election will be hackable to unethical persons with considerable technical and financial resources. (Hint: Think of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth)
Thanks in part to relentless media consolidation, the US public is unaware or more apathetic than ever to this important issue.
The best way to counter this? Forget this Rock the Vote nonsense. Like we really need more people unaware of the issues casting random votes. How about a campaign to tell people:
'Don't bother Voting because it won't matter'.
When people see a message like that, they get ANGRY. That anger will lead to measures to sort this mess out...hopefully.
that Henry Ford was a real asshole wasn't he?
The nerve of him, IGNORING the business plan of the good people at Horse and Buggy Corp.
Just terrible.
This is great. If google's smart (and they are) they will encourage this and work out a way of benefitting from it.
Question for the kernel hackers: What is the status of FUSE or LUFS? Is there plans on standardising on one of these API's?
The status quo of not having a standardised userspace filesystem interface in the kernel is creating problems. (eg. the incompatible VFS/IOSLAVE hacks that should never have happened)
you may want to look further than simple cash before refusing the senior generation social security. I don't know what it's like in the U.S., but in australia a large amount of the previous generations sacrificed their standard of living so that my standard of living could be better. My parents didn't go to Uni and worked very hard so that it would be my right to be able to be educated. I'm guessing it's the same for a lot of others. Our generation is rich in all senses because of the previous generations sacrifice. It might make us all better people to remember that.
I hope you are really old. In Australia, most baby boomers received free university education from the Gough Whitlam government. Nowadays students pay through the ass. You know all that government debt? Guess who generated it. Those generations that _lol_ 'sacrificed'. Face it, the baby boomers can take credit for being the most selfish generation ever.
The situation is much worse in the U.S. though. Fiscal discipline related to the U.S. national deficit is all but nonexistant. Imagine being born and immediately having a $25,000 debt- If you were American you wouldn't have to imagine. That's the reality. That's roughly what the deficit would be worth if each U.S. citizen took an equal share today. That figure will be much worse in the future.
Sounds like a good argument for increased immigration to me.
This could just be someone on Wall Street stirring up trouble for Google.
There have been a few articles in the trade press about Wall Street being pissed off at (horror) being treated like normal people and missing out on the customary level of graft that accompanies high profile IPO's.
Microsoft is also working behind the scenes to try and throttle their IPO success. (Remember Microsoft's recent news portal unveiling)?
Larry and Sergey get alot of props though from both computer geeks (for linux) and financial nerds (for following Warren Buffett's advice).
I think the IPO is going to go well.
Is there a database (more heavyweight than SQLite) that allows you to specify where in the file system it keeps it's records?
Has any project ever built a IOSLAVE/VFS/LUFS filesystem bridge to a relational database?
In case you missed it, Michael Crichton gave a great lecture about SETI and consensus science.
The difference between his ideas and his kidneys is that he can sell his ideas--or the rights to them--but not his kidneys.
Ohhh, so he can sell his ideas but not his kidneys. I see. Who makes that decision, jjohnson? Sounds like a slippery slope to me.He stupidly signed a contract handing over rights to his ideas, and then, suprise surprise, lost the rights to his ideas. If you hold that ideas can't be bought and sold, you undermine all intellectual property and licencing laws, upon which the GPL depends.
Not really. Copyright and Patent law (which I assume you are referring to) are based on expressions of ideas. Not the ideas themselves. Can I sell you the Copyright to this post? Yes. Can I sell you the abstract IDEAS that led to these words? Until we get brain tunnelling nanoprobes, I wouldn't know where to begin- though I'm sure Alcatel is looking forward to the day.What if you come up with an idea for a new sexual technique to use on your wife, and I, as your boss decide it's marketable as a comedy performance. Are you are required to tell me? Am I allowed to see the 'concrete implementation' of this technique? Should I be able improvise and have sexual engineers perform modifications on the technique?
Ideas are not property. The U.S. Supreme Court and much wiser thinkers have said so repeatedly.
Look at it another way. Say he signed a contract stating that he would give you his car if you walked around the block three times, which you did. Wouldn't he then owe you his car, according to the contract he willingly signed?
Sure. It's a car. It's property that exists outside of his brain. What if he promised me he would voluntarily spend the rest of his life in jail? Do you think a judge would enforce that?Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is.
It sounds like Evan Brown's defense argued this case poorly. If the facts I've read are correct, this isn't about property rights, it's about slavery.
Though I haven't read it, Evan's employment contract stated something to the effect that the company owned all his ideas, and that he was required to disclose his ideas, etc.
Well he definitely disclosed his idea. I imagine that's what started this fiasco. The question is, does the company own his idea? The question is moot, whether they own it or not. It's in his brain. Can they force him to explain it? The answer is no, unless he is their indentured servant.
If I had gotten a stupid 21-year old to sign a contract stating that he had give me one of his kidney's if Tampa Bay won the Stanley Cup, would that be enforceable in a court of law?
Of course not. It would be considered unconscionable, even though it wouldn't kill him.
It's exactly the same. He should have just been fired for insubordination. I hope he appeals to the Supreme Court.
Flying Personal Transport Device's (PTD's) makes sense to me, especially when I see all those poor souls wasting their lives sitting in gridlock. I say PTD because the car is a hopelessly outmoded design, one that needs to die soon.
The PTD would need multiple safety redundancies (backup power, turbines, parachute, whatever) but the major stumbling block for consumer acceptance would be one thing: The interface.
The PTD should basically take just a set of GPS coordinates and that's it. The vehicle should be able to fly itself using a simplistic genetic algorithm, with the entire traffic system looking like a type of swarm intelligence. This would also help on the regulatory front. How could the FAA force you to have a pilot when the only control on the device is a GPS entry console?
The PTD obviously shouldn't ever have a locus of central control. Besides traffic net system failure, it would an obvious target for terrorists. A good PTD design would probably be so light that any terrorists using them to attack targets would probably do little damage and do us a favour killing themselves. Sure they could pack the cabin full of explosives but they could already do that using an RC plane.
The rise of such vehicles would probably drive a transition to buildings made of nanocomposites so tremendously strong that a little PTD bouncing off them probably wouldn't even leave a mark. This kind of infrastructure would be built automatically. Anyone who's been to Japan and witnessed the post WWII economic miracle knows it was the Japanese automotive exports that drove that economic expansion.
I just googled the Skycar and noticed they IPO'd on 21 November 2001. Poor bastards.
I also suspect that even in these times of uncertain oil prices, fuel economy is low on the list of a consumer's buying criteria. After looks, cost, reliability, size, ability to pick up chicks with, etc.
According to Don Coppersmith, the technique has merit. Considering the source, that's a strong statement.
Yes, the attack is applicable to ciphers other than AES.
No it's not a practical attack. A practical attack and an academic break are completely different things.
For example, a theoretical attack that reduced key recovery time from 10^14 MIPS years to 10^6 MY is still probably impractical to break for most attackers. However, the loss of security in such a scenario would be considered serious.
Correct. As I pointed out in this vitriolic posting last year, the security of AES is possibly weak. (See the citation).
As a relatively new cipher, this is not unexpected. The conservative security choice would have been to choose 3DES, as the new DES.
Although it's pure speculation, it's possible Rinjdael was chosen by interested parties and deemed 'strong enough for commerce' for reasons related to catching filthy cave dwelling scum.
Reality is that which continues to exist after you stop believing in it.
Linux is written in C. One buffer overflow exploit could compromise the whole network. It needs expert review before the claim of being secure has any meaning.
Does that sound silly? You can say that about any network program. In practice, things keep humming along because of diversity {versions, codebases}, etc. For example, browsing the GNUnet site I see a Java GNUnet port. No need to worry about stack smashing attacks there. Just the 100 or so other vulnerabilities (eg. race conditions) that make software insecure...
Are we impressed? A mere doubling in efficiency should be achievable by even the drunkest engineer in all but the most well studied problems.
Let's talk an order of magnitude and then you will get my attention. Caching...Hah! I want fibre to my wetwire.
+1 Insightful