In Germany there is already a huge problem
with dialer programs which try to sneak themselves into your system and replace your default dial-up connection with an expensive 0198 etc numbers.
There were programs which caused 200 Euro to be charged per dial-in. However these program come as some kind of trojan, usually springing up some "accept box"
(only on install). However, these boxes often don't say that an expensive connection will be created - sometimes they even claim to be a "screensaver update"
Well steganography is nothing new, frankly it's rather old stuff. Any decent coder could do simple steganography stuff. And really attack-safe steganography is beyond the abilities of these guys. Personally I think such groups just create some PR-hype to found a little later a "security company" and suck money out of clueless customers. Just take a look at @Stake formerly l0pht.
And peek-a-booty ?
Rather peek-a-vaporware.
The "Cult of the Dead Cow" should rename itself to "Cult of Microsoft" for their 31337 v4p0rw4r1ng 5|<155.
While many mathematical definitions are weird,
the definition of an attractor isn't:
Given a dynamical system an attractor is a set A
which "sucks" a neighborhood of A into A.
(All trajectories in the nbh converge to A.)
The authors seems to mean this (the PRNG is a discrete dynamical system), but we can't be 100% sure because of the babble.
I think this is actually one of the first occuarances where the GPL fires back.
For most customized embedded systems you need to modify the kernel.
And you are distributing this stuff commercially. This would force you the uncover the code. However this would reveal too much of your design to your competitors and therefore you don't use Linux, but *BSD instead.
Additionally distros don't make much sense for embedded systems - the designer of the system has to chance so much at Linux that he is in fact creating his personal distro on his own. No reason for RH/Debian/BlubbBlubb/what ever based systems.
Well, the Event Horizon movie I watched
could only considered to have some connection
to Lems book when smoking a pound of crack
or so.
However you never know with these guys at hollywood.
Isn't there is wild conspiracy theory about Tunguska which says that the impact wasn't caused by an asteroid but by Tesla's experiments with long range energy weapons ?
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Well, you are obviously a very good example for a physicist who has no clue about mathematics.
Archimedes: it can be argued endlessly whether he was an physicist or a mathematician. The scientific disciplines weren't separated at all at this time.
Newton: his main contribution to mathematics was found independedly by Leibnitz at the same time.
Laplace was a mathematician, who was also occupied with physics.
Same goes for Legendre.
Dito for Maxwell.
Einstein didn't much remarkable things for mathematics. In fact for his theory of relativity he mainly depended on Riemann's results on Riemannian Geometry. Without Riemann the theory of relativity couldn't have been formulated without severe problems.
It should be mentioned that mathematics in the 18./19. century was much more pointed towards applications than today, which resulted in many mathematicans working on physical problems.
But beware !
Everybody made jokes about the "good times" virus hoax.
But then there was Melissa.
Ok. It worked little differently but in essence it proved that you can spread viruses via email.
Do they it 'cos they see the benefits of open source or are they just anti-USian ?
Like the "evil NSA key windows backdoor" rubbish.
I doubt they would ditch Windows if it was produced by a company of their own.
If they can clone thousands of storm troopers, we shouldn't they clone Luke Skywalkers mother, too ? This will result in a funny scene: Yoda: If he fails everything is lost. Obi-Wan ghost: No, there is still his sister. And if she gets screwed, we can still clone them 1384 times.
that they have a contract for distributing the music internationally. Probably only for India. A little calculation: an normal audio CD has max. 20 tracks 20 x 0.2 = 4 $ (legal) audio CDs cost much more than 4$. And CD production and distribution isn't so expensive. There are 4 explanation for the above sheme: a) Their contract forces them to pay $$$ to the label and they think they can make the money by the famous crack-pot-dot-com business plan. -> instant financial death. b) They made the contract with the famous WarezH4x0r label. c) They big labels can't calculate. d) They big labels think the music will be only distributed in India because their business drones stuck their fingers/tongues into the 230 Volt plug.
A. The initials I-E-E-E represent the legal name of the IEEE, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. IEEE is pronounced "EYE triple E." The IEEE is a global technical professional society serving the public interest and members in electrical, electronics, computer, information & other technologies.
I is not for international. Personally I don't think that an institution which only accepts membership fees in $ and has no decent payment sheme for non-USians besides credit cards is hardly international.
no matter how much we bitch around here at slashdot. The entertainment industry is very big and therefore has the power to get laws made. Most people here at/. would know object that the financial losses due to fileswapping aren't too big. They are right, but this is only the beginning. Movie swapping has already started and with more and more broadband access available this will become standard, too. In some years the industry will be REALLY hurt and so they take preventive action now. It's probably better to make sure that the copy protection can be implemented on open source systems than fight windmills like Don Quichote.
It's very likely that enforcing the pantens will backfire especially for IBM. Unlike MS they can't use their web services interface to tie users to an OS (which they use to make money). If they start scaring away developers by royalties they'll will also scare away customers from WebSphere. And this would be a painful financial blow.
If you argue that Libraries should allow pr0n access because of free speech, shouldn't they also provide pr0n videos and magazines because of free speech ?
No, TCP determines the window size by the paket loss on the connection (Paket loss = congestion for TCP), that's why standard TCP isn't usable for mobile communication with bad links, like cellular phones. However large latency (in fact a large bandwidth*delay product) limits TCP performance: The sender may only send a complete TCP window into the network and has to wait for the ack's before sending new data. The standard TCP window is maximum 64k and therefore the maximum throughput is 64k/2*delay. However, RFC 1323 provides a fix for this problem: a larger TCP window limit. The question is, if this is supported by the standard implementations. Keep in mind that the receiver must provide a large receiver window, too, that's the next problem.
No, he must theoretically block the access to foreign servers, too. However, the ISP can claim: - He can't shut down the access to the whole internet / usenet etc. 'cos large parts of these deal with 100% legal information wanted by it's customers. So blocking it would destroy his company. And the principle that only decent measures may be taken by laws is part of the german constitution (Verhältnismäßigkeit). - He can't block specific URLs (up to now) because the recent technology doesn't allow this at affordable costs.
So he doesn't block anything, but he removes illegal information from his servers.
BTW: That's the trick with the RPS system - if this URL Blocking System really work and isn't too expensive, all german IPS could be forced to use it. So the music industry could enforce in Germany the blocking of all mp3/warez servers. And once installed the system would be used to filter the other stuff, too.
It seems to me that most people here don't know the german telco laws, so I'd like to explain some stuff here:
FAIK: There are some contents which are illegal here in Germany (there might be more): a) child abuse, sexual acts with animals b) copyright violating stuff c) racist / nazi propaganda , propaganda against the constitution. Copying at least of a) and b) are illegal. Note, that watching pictures in a browser counts here as copying ! For c) at least widespreading like setting up pages with his stuff is illegal. (Might be copying , too.) However a provider is NOT liable for information / data provided by 3'rd parties like forgein web pages etc and NOT liable for content published by users. So he is NOT liable when the users upload such data. But when he KNOWS about the illegal stuff, he MUST block the access, when IT'S TECHNICAL & FINANCIAL affordable ! When he doesn't stop this access under these circumstances, then he might be sued. So no evilness there.
The main cause why AOL was hold liable, was the fact that there were moderators controlling the forum for illegal stuff and that music is always protected by copyright (the German Urheberrecht is a little different from US/english copyright). See the Financial Times Deutschland http://www.ftd.de/tm/in/FTDP08T9Z6C.html?nv=se for details. The second part seems a little questionable to me: it might be impossible to provide music without an explicit permission of the author.
Wow, women on the net ! They can do it. What an amazing time we are living in ! What will be next ? Will they drive cars or even get the right to vote for government ? Everything is changing nowadays.
#irony off
BTW: I know english is a pressy asexual language, but shouldn't we invent a term for female geek anyway ? The femaleness of the geeks was so much stressed in the article, a special term might come in handy. How about: geekness ? Or geekerine ? Geeky ? (Not so good) And for our french friends we need of course: geekeuse
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I would conjecture that the open source economy is naivity and "my parents pay my bills" based.
In Germany there is already a huge problem with dialer programs which try to sneak themselves into your system and replace your default dial-up connection with an expensive 0198 etc numbers. There were programs which caused 200 Euro to be charged per dial-in.
However these program come as some kind of trojan, usually springing up some "accept box" (only on install). However, these boxes often don't say that an expensive connection will be created - sometimes they even claim to be a "screensaver update"
No.
This would only happen if some obscure company
claims a patent an Viagra and blocks all sales.
steganography stuff. And really attack-safe steganography is beyond the abilities of these guys. Personally I think such groups just create
some PR-hype to found a little later a "security
company" and suck money out of clueless customers.
Just take a look at @Stake formerly l0pht.
And peek-a-booty ?
Rather peek-a-vaporware.
The "Cult of the Dead Cow" should rename itself to "Cult of Microsoft" for their 31337 v4p0rw4r1ng 5|<155.
No doubt that their display will consist of Linux running on an Xbox.
But not for long.
Sony will shut them down after one day.
While many mathematical definitions are weird, the definition of an attractor isn't:
Given a dynamical system an attractor is a set A which "sucks" a neighborhood of A into A.
(All trajectories in the nbh converge to A.)
The authors seems to mean this (the PRNG is a discrete dynamical system), but we can't be 100% sure because of the babble.
Microsofts sales are definitely below 60 billion.
I think this is actually one of the first
occuarances where the GPL fires back.
For most customized embedded systems you
need to modify the kernel.
And you are distributing this stuff
commercially. This would force you the
uncover the code. However this would
reveal too much of your design
to your competitors and therefore you
don't use Linux, but *BSD instead.
Additionally distros don't make much sense for embedded
systems - the designer of the
system has to chance so much at Linux
that he is in fact creating his personal distro
on his own. No reason for RH/Debian/BlubbBlubb/what ever based systems.
Well, the Event Horizon movie I watched could only considered to have some connection to Lems book when smoking a pound of crack or so.
However you never know with these guys at hollywood.
Isn't there is wild conspiracy theory about Tunguska which says that the impact wasn't caused by an asteroid but by Tesla's experiments with long range energy weapons ?
- Archimedes: it can be argued endlessly whether he was an physicist or a mathematician. The scientific disciplines weren't separated at all at this time.
- Newton: his main contribution to mathematics was found independedly by Leibnitz at the same time.
- Laplace was a mathematician, who was also occupied with physics.
- Same goes for Legendre.
- Dito for Maxwell.
- Einstein didn't much remarkable things for mathematics. In fact for his theory of relativity he mainly depended on Riemann's results on Riemannian Geometry. Without Riemann the theory of relativity couldn't have been formulated without severe problems.
It should be mentioned that mathematics in the 18./19. century was much more pointed towards applications than today, which resulted in many mathematicans working on physical problems.But beware !
Everybody made jokes about the "good times" virus hoax.
But then there was Melissa.
Ok. It worked little differently but in essence it proved that you can spread viruses via email.
The Japanese use supercondutors to reach these speeds.
That's why the German alternative is considered economically much more efficient.
And even this alternative has turned out to be less efficient than high speed trains of normal rails.
Do they it 'cos they see the benefits of open source or are they just anti-USian ?
Like the "evil NSA key windows backdoor" rubbish.
I doubt they would ditch Windows if it was produced by a company of their own.
If they can clone thousands of storm troopers, we shouldn't they clone Luke Skywalkers mother, too ?
This will result in a funny scene:
Yoda: If he fails everything is lost.
Obi-Wan ghost: No, there is still his sister.
And if she gets screwed, we can still clone them 1384 times.
that they have a contract for distributing the music internationally. Probably only for India.
A little calculation:
an normal audio CD has max. 20 tracks
20 x 0.2 = 4 $
(legal) audio CDs cost much more than 4$.
And CD production and distribution isn't so expensive.
There are 4 explanation for the above sheme:
a) Their contract forces them to pay $$$ to the label and they think they can make the money by the famous crack-pot-dot-com business plan. -> instant financial death.
b) They made the contract with the famous WarezH4x0r label.
c) They big labels can't calculate.
d) They big labels think the music will be only distributed in India because their business drones stuck their fingers/tongues into the 230 Volt plug.
Q.
What does IEEE stand for?
A.
The initials I-E-E-E represent the legal name of the IEEE, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. IEEE is pronounced "EYE triple E." The IEEE is a global technical professional society serving the public interest and members in electrical, electronics, computer, information & other technologies.
I is not for international. Personally I don't think that an institution which only accepts membership fees in $ and has no decent payment sheme for non-USians besides credit cards is hardly international.
no matter how much we bitch around here at slashdot. The entertainment industry is very big and therefore has the power to get laws made. /. would know object that
Most people here at
the financial losses due to fileswapping aren't too big. They are right, but this is only the beginning. Movie swapping has already started and with more and more broadband access available this will become standard, too. In some years the industry will be REALLY hurt and so they take preventive action now.
It's probably better to make sure that the copy protection can be implemented on open source systems than fight windmills like Don Quichote.
It's very likely that enforcing the pantens will backfire especially for IBM. Unlike MS they can't use their web services interface to tie users to an OS (which they use to make money).
If they start scaring away developers by royalties they'll will also scare away customers from WebSphere. And this would be a painful financial blow.
If you argue that Libraries should allow pr0n access because of free speech, shouldn't they also provide pr0n videos and magazines because of free speech ?
Check out http://www.cmg.de/aktuelles/aktuell .htm#TopOfPage
This is german, fish it if needed.
There seems to be no legal trouble, just renaming won't hurt. No evil Krautz eating your pants. :)
No, TCP determines the window size by the paket loss on the connection
(Paket loss = congestion for TCP), that's why standard TCP isn't usable for mobile communication with bad links, like cellular phones.
However large latency (in fact a large bandwidth*delay product)
limits TCP performance: The sender may only send a complete TCP window into the network and has to wait for the ack's before sending new data. The standard TCP window is maximum 64k and therefore the maximum throughput is 64k/2*delay.
However, RFC 1323 provides a fix for this problem: a larger TCP window limit. The question is, if this is supported by the standard implementations. Keep in mind that the receiver must provide a large receiver window, too, that's the next problem.
No, he must theoretically block the access to foreign servers, too.
However, the ISP can claim:
- He can't shut down the access to the whole internet / usenet etc. 'cos large parts of these deal with 100% legal information wanted by it's customers. So blocking it would destroy his company. And the principle that only decent measures may be taken by laws is part of the german constitution (Verhältnismäßigkeit).
- He can't block specific URLs (up to now) because the recent technology doesn't allow this at affordable costs.
So he doesn't block anything, but he removes illegal information from his servers.
BTW: That's the trick with the RPS system
- if this URL Blocking System really work and
isn't too expensive, all german IPS could be
forced to use it. So the music industry could enforce in Germany the blocking of all mp3/warez servers. And once installed the system would be
used to filter the other stuff, too.
It seems to me that most people here don't know the german telco laws, so I'd like to explain some stuff here:
FAIK:
There are some contents which are illegal here in Germany (there might be more):
a) child abuse, sexual acts with animals
b) copyright violating stuff
c) racist / nazi propaganda , propaganda against the constitution.
Copying at least of a) and b) are illegal.
Note, that watching pictures in a browser counts here as copying !
For c) at least widespreading like setting up pages with his stuff is illegal. (Might be copying , too.)
However a provider is NOT liable for information / data provided by 3'rd parties like forgein web pages etc and NOT liable for content published by users. So he is NOT liable when the users upload such data. But when he KNOWS about the illegal stuff, he MUST block the access, when IT'S TECHNICAL & FINANCIAL affordable ! When he doesn't stop this access under these circumstances, then he might be sued.
So no evilness there.
The main cause why AOL was hold liable, was the fact that there were moderators controlling the forum for illegal stuff and that music is always protected by copyright (the German Urheberrecht is a little different from US/english copyright).
See the Financial Times Deutschland http://www.ftd.de/tm/in/FTDP08T9Z6C.html?nv=se
for details.
The second part seems a little questionable to me: it might be impossible to provide music without an explicit permission of the author.
#irony on
Wow, women on the net ! They can do it.
What an amazing time we are living in !
What will be next ? Will they drive cars or
even get the right to vote for government ?
Everything is changing nowadays.
#irony off
BTW: I know english is a pressy asexual language,
but shouldn't we invent a term for female geek anyway ? The femaleness of the geeks was so much stressed
in the article, a special term might come in handy.
How about: geekness ? Or geekerine ?
Geeky ? (Not so good) And for our french friends
we need of course: geekeuse