It is no longer entirely true that e-mail is not encrypted. Many SMTP servers support encryption using SSL or TLS when communicating with another SMTP server. For example here is an example of an SMTP server receiving an e-mail from one of Google's gmail SMTP servers.
Aug 7 13:33:28 x postfix/smtpd[22642]: setting up TLS connection from mail-gh0-f182.google.com[209.85.160.182] Aug 7 13:33:28 x postfix/smtpd[22642]: Anonymous TLS connection established from mail-gh0-f182.google.com[209.85.160.182]: TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)
If Apple's app store started banning users with jailbroken phones that would push even more people to Google's Android based phones. Alternatively jailbroken iPhone users could point their phones to alternate IOS app stores which would be sure to pop up should Apple start behaving like you describe.
The Allwinner A10 has an incomplete 72 page summary of features that calls itself a datasheet compared to a fairly nice 205 page peripheral datasheet for the Broadcom BCM2835 SOC in the Raspberry Pi.
The Allwinner A10, like the BCM2835, uses closed source proprietary libraries to access 3D features of its GPU. The MALI 400 GPU is being reverse engineered which is why there is a preliminary open source GPU driver.
The Allwinner A10 CPU/GPU are faster but less efficient and use more power than the Raspberry Pi's BCM2835.
The Rhombus Allwinner A10 has no final cost yet unlike the Raspberry Pi. They are hoping to hit a $15 price point if they purchase 100,000 units. The Raspberry Pi is available today at $35 which was achieved with only an initial 10,000 units purchased.
The judicial branch has the power to interpret laws written by the legislative branch. The U.S. Patent Act does not specify software as patentable. Since the legislative branch has not amended that act to be more specific, with regard to software, it is up to the judicial branch to interpret. Even the 2010 Bilski v. Kappos rulling by the US Supreme Court left many questions unanswered on what is patentable or not with regard to software.
In case you were unaware, this is what title 35, Section 101 of the United States Code says about what is patentable
35 U.S.C. 101 Inventions patentable. Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
To my knowledge there is no publicly available datasheet for the MALI 400 GPU which is why there's a group trying to reverse engineer the chip to write an open source driver instead.
Also that thing you're calling an A10 datasheet is more like a summary of capabilities. Have you actually compared the 205 page Broadcomm BCM2835 Peripherals datasheet vs the 72 page Allwinner A10 datasheet? The A10 datasheet contains very little information a programmer could actually use to program that chip. The BCM2835 datasheet actually contains information a programmer can use.
For example let's say you're a programmer who wants to use one of the many GPIO lines the BCM2835 or the A10 have available? The BCM2835 datasheet covers that in pages 89 through 105. It starts by giving you a block diagram to show how they're used. It then documents 41 register addresses used to interact with those GPIO lines. It documents each bit of those registers to tell you how to select the operation of a given GPIO pin (input vs output vs function select). How to setup interrupts with those GPIO lines for detect on rising edge vs falling edge and how to read or write to those GPIO lines. All information a programmer who wants to interact with this BCM2835 chip for GPIO will need to know.
On the other hand look at the A10 datasheet and what it says about GPIO lines. It's covered, if you can call it that, on half of page 67. The A10 datasheet only has a summary of how many GPIO lines an A10 has. Nothing else is listed. No information on how to use the GPIO lines is given at all.
I don't think it's even a Linux distribution because the install guides for the different types of OpenStack nodes start with instructions for Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Fedora, RHEL.
> 1 by federal law require that all routers (even the rockbottom cheapo ones) be able to deal with IPv6 when sold after %date% What in the US Constitution gives the US federal government authority to regulate the protocols supported by routers?
> 2 require that all ISP provided equipment be IPv6 capable by %date%+15 days WITH NO CUSTOMER COST What in the US Constitution gives the US federal government authority to regulate ISP provided equipment with regard to network protocols?
> 3 require that the ISP backend stuff route IPv6 by %date%+45 days What in the US Constitution gives the US federal government authority to regulate ISP backbone protocols?
Furthermore, ISP's don't have FCC licenses so there's no license to be pulled.
Because your single player character and its items can be used in online multiplayer play. The randomly generated maps, AI and item drops are server-side in order to prevent hackers from cheating. In Diablo 2 this was big problem. In addition now that there's an online auction that allows people to auction in game items for both game gold or US dollars and other currencies. It's imperative that people not be allowed to duplicate items or otherwise cheat.
You keep saying this but it's not true. Motherboards have several 12V rails because 12V is highly needed by motherboards and the peripherals directly attached to them. For example a dedicated 12V rail is used by a VRM (voltage regulator module), or multiple VRMs, on the motherboard just for converting that 12 volts to the small voltages that a CPU uses. The PCI Express bus also requires 12V (and 3.3V) so the motherboard provides 12V to the PCIe devices. Most CPU fans run as 12V and are supplied via connectors on the motherboard.
Have a look at your ATX power supply's manual concerning the 20 or 24 pin power supply connector for your motherboard or get a multimeter and test it for yourself. You will see 12V, 5V and 3.3V. Not -48V.
The ATX power supply we all use in our computers is really called ATX12V because it provides 12 Volts to the motherboard. I'm not talking about the 4-pin molex connectors for hard drives. I'm talking about the 20-24 pin power connector to the motherboard. On a 20 pin connector pin 14 provides -12V and pin 10 provides 12V. On a 24 pin connector pins 10 and 11 provide 12V and pin 14 provides -12V.
I see no evidence that Google is asserting copyright over search results. Go ahead do a search and look for a copyright symbol...there is none. https://www.google.com/search?q=linux
As a comparison do a Bing search and Microsoft does assert its copyright at the bottom of every page. http://www.bing.com/search?q=linux
Copyright has nothing to do with terms of service. Google is under no obligation to let you or anyone else use their service in a way they don't want. That's completely different than Oracle asking the government to fine Google for supposedly violating their copyright on something that is possibly not copyrightable like an API. Oracle is not alleging that Google violated a terms of service. They are alleging that Google needed a license in order to copy copyrighted material.
Google created their service and for the most part they can decide how the service is used. If someone is using their service in a way that hurts Google they are within their legal or moral rights to not provide that service in a way that hurts them. Just like as a website operator I can decide how my web server is used. I can choose to ban Google's IPs if I don't want them to access my service. I can use a robots.txt file to instruct their HTTP agent to ignore certain pages. If my website's content is copied in a way that is not covered by fair use I can ask the government to fine those who are violating my copyright but that is separate from determining what IPs may use my web server as a service. Just like Google could choose to ask the government to fine someone who violated their copyright in a way that is not covered by fair use.
Can you cite any references where Google has alleged that someone violated their copyright on a search result that you believe is covered by fair use?
Computer motherboards don't run on -48V DC. They run on +12V DC. Power supplies normally take the 110-220V AC power and convert it to 12V DC for the motherboard and 5V DC for peripherals but this causes a loss of efficiency. This Open Rack infrastructure puts the power supply which they're calling a 12V power bar on the rack and supplies the computer with exactly the 12V it needs. In the article they claim they got 50% power savings over a traditional power supply/computer design. While there may be a lot of telecom gear for -48V DC that is not what a computer motherboard needs. It would still require a power supply to convert -48V DC to +12V DC if they had gone that route. This would have increased cost and decreased power efficiency.
Yes it is after 7 years of releasing their development boards. The original Arduino was not CE certified though. The Raspberry Pi Foundation was also planning on their original boards not being CE certified and subsequent boards getting CE certification.
Many other dev boards don't have CE certification either. Look through digikey.com or sparkfun.com at dev boards and you'll notice many are without CE certification. The RPF always planned on getting CE certification later this year before the educational release of the Raspberry Pi was made. At that point it would have also had a case and a manual. The only reason it's getting a CE cert now is because their distributors want it.
Broadcom does not oversee the Raspberry Pi Foundation or its products. Broadcom is the employer of a couple of the volunteers of the Raspberry Pi foundation. Broadcom's only business relationship is that of a supplier who sells the Raspberry Pi Foundation the BCM2835 mobile applications processor used in the Raspberry Pi Model A and B boards.
Rhombus-tech's hypothetical $15 Allwinner A10 system doesn't even exist yet. It's pure theory at this point. The closest thing to it is a $2000 development board that Allwinner makes with the A10 SOC. Also Rhombus-tech quote of $15 is a guess based on a purchase quantity of 100,000 units.
Yes. Open Linux boards have been around for quite some time. None of them have ever been this cheap before. If you disagree, please tell me where I can buy a 700Mhz SOC that runs Linux with similar peripherals (Ethernet, HDMI, Composite, 256MB RAM, USB, 16 GPIO lines) and about the size of a credit card for $35 or less?
Routerboard 400Mhz $59 Gumstix Overo Sand COM 600Mhz $115 Beagleboard 720Mhz $125 Beaglebone 700Mhz $89 ... Raspberry Pi 700Mhz $35
Just because your (and my) phone hardware manufacturer put some closed source pieces of code on our android OS based phones does not mean Android, the google project, is closed source. It's very much open source. Download it here: http://source.android.com/source/downloading.html
What do you mean when you say it's not open source?
They're only making them in batches of 10,000 so I don't think there's a risk of them over producing giving their current demand. If the number of people subscribed to the mailing list and raspberry pi forums is any indication of interest they will easily sell several 10,000 lots this year. Many people, myself included are interested in buying multiple of these devices each.
If you compare the $50 roku to the $35 raspberry pi, the $50 roku contains no ethernet port, no usb port and no SD card. It also only support 720P instead of the 1080P the raspberry PI supports. The $35 raspberry pi has more hardware features and is $15 less expensive than the $50 roku. The $50 roku does come with a remote control and free shipping which the $35 raspberry pi does not have.
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If I had to guess it would be 1998 but I'm not sure.
It is no longer entirely true that e-mail is not encrypted. Many SMTP servers support encryption using SSL or TLS when communicating with another SMTP server. For example here is an example of an SMTP server receiving an e-mail from one of Google's gmail SMTP servers.
Aug 7 13:33:28 x postfix/smtpd[22642]: setting up TLS connection from mail-gh0-f182.google.com[209.85.160.182]
Aug 7 13:33:28 x postfix/smtpd[22642]: Anonymous TLS connection established from mail-gh0-f182.google.com[209.85.160.182]: TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)
I believe this behavior is defined by RFC 3207
If you manage a Postfix SMTP server and have not enabled TLS support I would suggest you read
http://www.postfix.org/TLS_README.html
If Apple's app store started banning users with jailbroken phones that would push even more people to Google's Android based phones. Alternatively jailbroken iPhone users could point their phones to alternate IOS app stores which would be sure to pop up should Apple start behaving like you describe.
The Allwinner A10 has an incomplete 72 page summary of features that calls itself a datasheet compared to a fairly nice 205 page peripheral datasheet for the Broadcom BCM2835 SOC in the Raspberry Pi.
The Allwinner A10, like the BCM2835, uses closed source proprietary libraries to access 3D features of its GPU. The MALI 400 GPU is being reverse engineered which is why there is a preliminary open source GPU driver.
The Allwinner A10 CPU/GPU are faster but less efficient and use more power than the Raspberry Pi's BCM2835.
The Rhombus Allwinner A10 has no final cost yet unlike the Raspberry Pi. They are hoping to hit a $15 price point if they purchase 100,000 units. The Raspberry Pi is available today at $35 which was achieved with only an initial 10,000 units purchased.
Judging is exactly what he is doing.
The judicial branch has the power to interpret laws written by the legislative branch. The U.S. Patent Act does not specify software as patentable. Since the legislative branch has not amended that act to be more specific, with regard to software, it is up to the judicial branch to interpret. Even the 2010 Bilski v. Kappos rulling by the US Supreme Court left many questions unanswered on what is patentable or not with regard to software.
In case you were unaware, this is what title 35, Section 101 of the United States Code says about what is patentable
35 U.S.C. 101 Inventions patentable.
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
If you are curious about the history of the courts conflicted rulings on what is patentable with regard to software I recommend you check out this link: http://www.bitlaw.com/software-patent/bilski-and-software-patents.html
To my knowledge there is no publicly available datasheet for the MALI 400 GPU which is why there's a group trying to reverse engineer the chip to write an open source driver instead.
Also that thing you're calling an A10 datasheet is more like a summary of capabilities. Have you actually compared the 205 page Broadcomm BCM2835 Peripherals datasheet vs the 72 page Allwinner A10 datasheet? The A10 datasheet contains very little information a programmer could actually use to program that chip. The BCM2835 datasheet actually contains information a programmer can use.
For example let's say you're a programmer who wants to use one of the many GPIO lines the BCM2835 or the A10 have available? The BCM2835 datasheet covers that in pages 89 through 105. It starts by giving you a block diagram to show how they're used. It then documents 41 register addresses used to interact with those GPIO lines. It documents each bit of those registers to tell you how to select the operation of a given GPIO pin (input vs output vs function select). How to setup interrupts with those GPIO lines for detect on rising edge vs falling edge and how to read or write to those GPIO lines. All information a programmer who wants to interact with this BCM2835 chip for GPIO will need to know.
On the other hand look at the A10 datasheet and what it says about GPIO lines. It's covered, if you can call it that, on half of page 67. The A10 datasheet only has a summary of how many GPIO lines an A10 has. Nothing else is listed. No information on how to use the GPIO lines is given at all.
I don't believe it's a Linux distribution because it's intended to be installed on Fedora, RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu, etc.
http://wiki.openstack.org/InstallInstructions/Nova
I don't think it's even a Linux distribution because the install guides for the different types of OpenStack nodes start with instructions for Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Fedora, RHEL.
http://wiki.openstack.org/InstallInstructions/Nova (Compute node)
http://wiki.openstack.org/InstallInstructions/Swift (Storage node)
http://wiki.openstack.org/InstallInstructions/Glance (Image server)
OpenStack runs on Linux.
pam has always been a mystery to me. Similar to where in Linux the code is that handles switching between TTYs (Ctrl-Alt-Fn).
Looking through the code it appears to be linux/drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c and linux/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
> 1 by federal law require that all routers (even the rockbottom cheapo ones) be able to deal with IPv6 when sold after %date%
What in the US Constitution gives the US federal government authority to regulate the protocols supported by routers?
> 2 require that all ISP provided equipment be IPv6 capable by %date%+15 days WITH NO CUSTOMER COST
What in the US Constitution gives the US federal government authority to regulate ISP provided equipment with regard to network protocols?
> 3 require that the ISP backend stuff route IPv6 by %date%+45 days
What in the US Constitution gives the US federal government authority to regulate ISP backbone protocols?
Furthermore, ISP's don't have FCC licenses so there's no license to be pulled.
Because your single player character and its items can be used in online multiplayer play. The randomly generated maps, AI and item drops are server-side in order to prevent hackers from cheating. In Diablo 2 this was big problem. In addition now that there's an online auction that allows people to auction in game items for both game gold or US dollars and other currencies. It's imperative that people not be allowed to duplicate items or otherwise cheat.
You keep saying this but it's not true. Motherboards have several 12V rails because 12V is highly needed by motherboards and the peripherals directly attached to them. For example a dedicated 12V rail is used by a VRM (voltage regulator module), or multiple VRMs, on the motherboard just for converting that 12 volts to the small voltages that a CPU uses. The PCI Express bus also requires 12V (and 3.3V) so the motherboard provides 12V to the PCIe devices. Most CPU fans run as 12V and are supplied via connectors on the motherboard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cpu_fan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pci_express
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltage_regulator_module
That's simply not true.
Have a look at your ATX power supply's manual concerning the 20 or 24 pin power supply connector for your motherboard or get a multimeter and test it for yourself. You will see 12V, 5V and 3.3V. Not -48V.
The ATX power supply we all use in our computers is really called ATX12V because it provides 12 Volts to the motherboard. I'm not talking about the 4-pin molex connectors for hard drives. I'm talking about the 20-24 pin power connector to the motherboard. On a 20 pin connector pin 14 provides -12V and pin 10 provides 12V. On a 24 pin connector pins 10 and 11 provide 12V and pin 14 provides -12V.
Here is a wiring diagram that shows this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_supply_unit_(computer)#Wiring_diagrams
In addition newer motherboards have extra dedicated 12V cables just for the CPU often called a P4 cable. http://www.playtool.com/pages/psuconnectors/connectors.html#atx12v4
Some motherboard require an additional 8pin EPS8 cable to provide even more dedicated 12V rails to the motherboard for the CPU.
http://www.playtool.com/pages/psuconnectors/connectors.html#eps8
What are you talking about?
I see no evidence that Google is asserting copyright over search results. Go ahead do a search and look for a copyright symbol...there is none.
https://www.google.com/search?q=linux
As a comparison do a Bing search and Microsoft does assert its copyright at the bottom of every page.
http://www.bing.com/search?q=linux
Copyright has nothing to do with terms of service. Google is under no obligation to let you or anyone else use their service in a way they don't want. That's completely different than Oracle asking the government to fine Google for supposedly violating their copyright on something that is possibly not copyrightable like an API. Oracle is not alleging that Google violated a terms of service. They are alleging that Google needed a license in order to copy copyrighted material.
Google created their service and for the most part they can decide how the service is used. If someone is using their service in a way that hurts Google they are within their legal or moral rights to not provide that service in a way that hurts them. Just like as a website operator I can decide how my web server is used. I can choose to ban Google's IPs if I don't want them to access my service. I can use a robots.txt file to instruct their HTTP agent to ignore certain pages. If my website's content is copied in a way that is not covered by fair use I can ask the government to fine those who are violating my copyright but that is separate from determining what IPs may use my web server as a service. Just like Google could choose to ask the government to fine someone who violated their copyright in a way that is not covered by fair use.
Can you cite any references where Google has alleged that someone violated their copyright on a search result that you believe is covered by fair use?
Computer motherboards don't run on -48V DC. They run on +12V DC. Power supplies normally take the 110-220V AC power and convert it to 12V DC for the motherboard and 5V DC for peripherals but this causes a loss of efficiency. This Open Rack infrastructure puts the power supply which they're calling a 12V power bar on the rack and supplies the computer with exactly the 12V it needs. In the article they claim they got 50% power savings over a traditional power supply/computer design. While there may be a lot of telecom gear for -48V DC that is not what a computer motherboard needs. It would still require a power supply to convert -48V DC to +12V DC if they had gone that route. This would have increased cost and decreased power efficiency.
Yes it is after 7 years of releasing their development boards. The original Arduino was not CE certified though. The Raspberry Pi Foundation was also planning on their original boards not being CE certified and subsequent boards getting CE certification.
Many other dev boards don't have CE certification either. Look through digikey.com or sparkfun.com at dev boards and you'll notice many are without CE certification. The RPF always planned on getting CE certification later this year before the educational release of the Raspberry Pi was made. At that point it would have also had a case and a manual. The only reason it's getting a CE cert now is because their distributors want it.
Broadcom does not oversee the Raspberry Pi Foundation or its products. Broadcom is the employer of a couple of the volunteers of the Raspberry Pi foundation. Broadcom's only business relationship is that of a supplier who sells the Raspberry Pi Foundation the BCM2835 mobile applications processor used in the Raspberry Pi Model A and B boards.
I've owned 2 android phones so far and both of them has had unlocked bootloaders. Of course both were made by Samsung.
How would HP, a hardware company, make money by allowing other people to make their hardware for them without paying anything in return?
Rhombus-tech's hypothetical $15 Allwinner A10 system doesn't even exist yet. It's pure theory at this point. The closest thing to it is a $2000 development board that Allwinner makes with the A10 SOC. Also Rhombus-tech quote of $15 is a guess based on a purchase quantity of 100,000 units.
Yes. Open Linux boards have been around for quite some time. None of them have ever been this cheap before. If you disagree, please tell me where I can buy a 700Mhz SOC that runs Linux with similar peripherals (Ethernet, HDMI, Composite, 256MB RAM, USB, 16 GPIO lines) and about the size of a credit card for $35 or less?
Routerboard 400Mhz $59
...
Gumstix Overo Sand COM 600Mhz $115
Beagleboard 720Mhz $125
Beaglebone 700Mhz $89
Raspberry Pi 700Mhz $35
Just because your (and my) phone hardware manufacturer put some closed source pieces of code on our android OS based phones does not mean Android, the google project, is closed source. It's very much open source. Download it here: http://source.android.com/source/downloading.html
What do you mean when you say it's not open source?
They're only making them in batches of 10,000 so I don't think there's a risk of them over producing giving their current demand. If the number of people subscribed to the mailing list and raspberry pi forums is any indication of interest they will easily sell several 10,000 lots this year. Many people, myself included are interested in buying multiple of these devices each.
If you compare the $50 roku to the $35 raspberry pi, the $50 roku contains no ethernet port, no usb port and no SD card. It also only support 720P instead of the 1080P the raspberry PI supports. The $35 raspberry pi has more hardware features and is $15 less expensive than the $50 roku. The $50 roku does come with a remote control and free shipping which the $35 raspberry pi does not have.