It is toxic to an extent. It can in some cases prevent a bit of cooperation that would aide just about everyone involved were it possible. However on the other hand MIT and BSD could be classified as weak in not giving patent licences, and not being copyleft. Every license has it's own costs and advantages. MIT and BSD can be very advantageous if the rate of development can outpace closed efforts or your project has universal interoperability as a goal. Don't get me wrong I think the GPL is a great legal hack, but it isn't the one license to rule them all.
Also, the enabling act of most states requires the government be republican in form and consistent with the principles of the Constitution and Declaration or Independence..
The particular licenses in this case are not publicly available, however considering how the Samsung lawyers are not complete idiots, there is something in that licence that makes them believe they may prevail in a lawsuit.
Considering how most infection are through non-updated vectors and most Mac OS X and most linuxes have a package manager that updates everything together I somehow doubt it. Also there aren't a lot pirated version running around without updates. Fixing bugs quickly and distributing the fix widely is the first defense against malicious code. Also the Sun JRE and acrobat packages are rarely on linux boxes, Open JRE and okular or evince are preferred.
"The conclusion of this study is that as much as 99.8 % of all virus/malware infections caused by commercial exploit kits are a direct result of the lack of updating five specific software packages."
Usually you can Crtl+Alt+F1, run top and then kill whatever program is responsible for it. As for in application volume, you can usually set which mixer is targeted. To move a panel you have to take the lock off first in the panel settings. Flash Compatibility.. really not much you can do there though it has gotten better in the past two years. For a non-admin user go and make an account, then remove the user from the admin and wheel groups.
Of course it takes time to learn all this, and if you are already a advanced expert in a totally alien system I can see why you wouldn't bother though it's not particularly difficult. In fact learning it might jeopardize all sorts of muscle memory and normal memory that you need for work.
To be fair there are often malicious programs included in torrent files, especially cracked games and secondly facebook is out to make money and don't want to have to hire a bunch of lawyers to fight the Homeland Security or the RIAA.
A P2P where you own your social graph and bear the cost of hosting is the only way to make a social network serve it's users rather than the powers that be.
For the dell mini the problem was the graphics card which had no history with linux and was released with closed drivers. Currently there are two open drivers available. A stub driver that provides a basic frame buffer, and a driver that supports some 2D acceleration.The same graphics tech is coming back around with cedar trail and intel has committed to developing a open driver for both it and the GMA 500. ( I also believe it was the Xorg side driver that broke and not the kernel side) Absolutely nothing anybody in the open source community could have done about it anyways. Anybody knowledgeable on the topic will tell you that closed source drivers are liable to bite you in the ass in open source operating systems. Dell shot themselves in the foot by not vetting the hardware more closely.
Science is an inquiry into the principles and nature of a thing. (Aristotle) Computer science is the inquiry into the principles and nature of a certain class of algorithms, mainly machine instruction cycles and operating systems. Algorithms being a type of mathematics, a field that is generally accepted as a science. A lot of what computer scientist do though is art, that is the application and acquisition of knowledge in a specific rather than a general sense. However this doesn't mean there is no science at all to be found in computer science.
Secure boot can use a hardware module, but can also do things using the network stack built into UEFI to fetch and verify keys pre-boot. A UEFI implementation on top of coreboot could implement a secureboot mode.
Trusted computing ain't a bad idea if the user has control of the which keys the computer will accept. What we should be doing is pressuring OSS friendly members of the UEFI standards comitee to require a method of key management available to the end user.
Software isn't properly patentable subject matter, as it is symoblic data that's fed into a universal calculating machine. (the machine instruction cycle)
That means it's not secret and standard compliant,, not that anyone can go a manufacture x86 processors with the modern instruction sets) without paying licencing fees or having a large patent pool of their own to do cross-licencing with. But this isn't quite true anyways, Intel hasn't released full spec sheets on their chipsets since the Pentium two or three making it really hard to get coreboot running on modern intel boards.
Almost all hardware is proprietary. Perhaps you mean uncommon? Anyways the designs of the T1 and T2 have been publicly released. http://www.opensparc.net/about.html
But batteries degrade and the cost of degradation for one kilowatt of power is several times greater than the cost of that power itself in car batteries which are designed with fast charge and discharge in mind rather than just pure cost per killowatt.
Depend, if you smart-grid it that it only happens when the command from the power grid is issued then when the power grid is down the command can't be issued.
I reality though, flywheel systems are going to be more efficient where you want immediately available power to smooth out grid demand fluctuations. No battery system has yet matched the cost/ effeciency of a mechanical flywheel for short term storage (scale of hours or minutes). Ultimately draining batteries to feed the general grid today is a huge wast of money if not just because the cost of the battery per charge/discharge cycle is at least twice the cost of the electricity itself. It makes no sense to do it even if the power is technically surplus because the cost of harnessing it is more than it's worth.
Currently I only know of one battery is a Ceramatec battery that claims costs as low as 3 cents per killowatt hour stored and discharged over the lifetime of the battery that could really help balance out a home's demand on the grid. Everything else like NaS batteries and flywheels have to operate near a substation or power plant.
Running the CPU at full speed and then dropping into idle is more efficient than running at half speed. Especially since intel processors are getting to the point you can just turn off the cores you don't need.
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It is toxic to an extent. It can in some cases prevent a bit of cooperation that would aide just about everyone involved were it possible. However on the other hand MIT and BSD could be classified as weak in not giving patent licences, and not being copyleft. Every license has it's own costs and advantages. MIT and BSD can be very advantageous if the rate of development can outpace closed efforts or your project has universal interoperability as a goal. Don't get me wrong I think the GPL is a great legal hack, but it isn't the one license to rule them all.
ZSS is more fun to say out loud as well.
"It's Windows XP" Well that's your problem. I know tuxonice will resume from dm-crypt partitions if you run use a initram kernel.
It's not flawed, it's completely wrong.
Also, the enabling act of most states requires the government be republican in form and consistent with the principles of the Constitution and Declaration or Independence..
A briefcase can hide a firearm, a cellphone can't. Locked containers still need a warrant though.
The particular licenses in this case are not publicly available, however considering how the Samsung lawyers are not complete idiots, there is something in that licence that makes them believe they may prevail in a lawsuit.
Considering how most infection are through non-updated vectors and most Mac OS X and most linuxes have a package manager that updates everything together I somehow doubt it. Also there aren't a lot pirated version running around without updates. Fixing bugs quickly and distributing the fix widely is the first defense against malicious code. Also the Sun JRE and acrobat packages are rarely on linux boxes, Open JRE and okular or evince are preferred.
"The conclusion of this study is that as much as 99.8 % of all virus/malware infections caused by commercial exploit kits are a direct result of the lack of updating five specific software packages."
Usually you can Crtl+Alt+F1, run top and then kill whatever program is responsible for it. As for in application volume, you can usually set which mixer is targeted. To move a panel you have to take the lock off first in the panel settings. Flash Compatibility.. really not much you can do there though it has gotten better in the past two years. For a non-admin user go and make an account, then remove the user from the admin and wheel groups. Of course it takes time to learn all this, and if you are already a advanced expert in a totally alien system I can see why you wouldn't bother though it's not particularly difficult. In fact learning it might jeopardize all sorts of muscle memory and normal memory that you need for work.
To be fair there are often malicious programs included in torrent files, especially cracked games and secondly facebook is out to make money and don't want to have to hire a bunch of lawyers to fight the Homeland Security or the RIAA. A P2P where you own your social graph and bear the cost of hosting is the only way to make a social network serve it's users rather than the powers that be.
Right nonvoters have won every presidential election in history. :)
For the dell mini the problem was the graphics card which had no history with linux and was released with closed drivers. Currently there are two open drivers available. A stub driver that provides a basic frame buffer, and a driver that supports some 2D acceleration.The same graphics tech is coming back around with cedar trail and intel has committed to developing a open driver for both it and the GMA 500. ( I also believe it was the Xorg side driver that broke and not the kernel side) Absolutely nothing anybody in the open source community could have done about it anyways. Anybody knowledgeable on the topic will tell you that closed source drivers are liable to bite you in the ass in open source operating systems. Dell shot themselves in the foot by not vetting the hardware more closely.
He's probably just English, or Canadian, or Australian, where analog is not a accepted spelling variant of analogue.
Science is an inquiry into the principles and nature of a thing. (Aristotle) Computer science is the inquiry into the principles and nature of a certain class of algorithms, mainly machine instruction cycles and operating systems. Algorithms being a type of mathematics, a field that is generally accepted as a science. A lot of what computer scientist do though is art, that is the application and acquisition of knowledge in a specific rather than a general sense. However this doesn't mean there is no science at all to be found in computer science.
But if people start living longer, Social Security will go broke a lot faster!
Which is why coreboot is preferable to UEFI or BIOS in just about every way.
Secure boot can use a hardware module, but can also do things using the network stack built into UEFI to fetch and verify keys pre-boot. A UEFI implementation on top of coreboot could implement a secureboot mode.
Trusted computing ain't a bad idea if the user has control of the which keys the computer will accept. What we should be doing is pressuring OSS friendly members of the UEFI standards comitee to require a method of key management available to the end user.
Software isn't properly patentable subject matter, as it is symoblic data that's fed into a universal calculating machine. (the machine instruction cycle)
That means it's not secret and standard compliant,, not that anyone can go a manufacture x86 processors with the modern instruction sets) without paying licencing fees or having a large patent pool of their own to do cross-licencing with. But this isn't quite true anyways, Intel hasn't released full spec sheets on their chipsets since the Pentium two or three making it really hard to get coreboot running on modern intel boards.
Almost all hardware is proprietary. Perhaps you mean uncommon? Anyways the designs of the T1 and T2 have been publicly released. http://www.opensparc.net/about.html
But batteries degrade and the cost of degradation for one kilowatt of power is several times greater than the cost of that power itself in car batteries which are designed with fast charge and discharge in mind rather than just pure cost per killowatt.
Depend, if you smart-grid it that it only happens when the command from the power grid is issued then when the power grid is down the command can't be issued. I reality though, flywheel systems are going to be more efficient where you want immediately available power to smooth out grid demand fluctuations. No battery system has yet matched the cost/ effeciency of a mechanical flywheel for short term storage (scale of hours or minutes). Ultimately draining batteries to feed the general grid today is a huge wast of money if not just because the cost of the battery per charge/discharge cycle is at least twice the cost of the electricity itself. It makes no sense to do it even if the power is technically surplus because the cost of harnessing it is more than it's worth. Currently I only know of one battery is a Ceramatec battery that claims costs as low as 3 cents per killowatt hour stored and discharged over the lifetime of the battery that could really help balance out a home's demand on the grid. Everything else like NaS batteries and flywheels have to operate near a substation or power plant.
Running the CPU at full speed and then dropping into idle is more efficient than running at half speed. Especially since intel processors are getting to the point you can just turn off the cores you don't need.
So does this mean that you can hunt parrots in Australia, but only if they are drunk? That seems like a very unsporting hunt.