Lessee... kids got instructions on how to make bombs on the Internet... kids make bombs... kids kill a bunch of people... Government bans said instructions from the 'net. College students learn how to make plutonium in school... college students make a working nuclear reactor, in a day, from scratch... will government ban that from schools?
It's interesting to see this kind of events happen in an industry that prides itself in accurate information and thorough research. They actually take responsibility in being the primary source of information for the great majority of the population. If all this were true (plausible), then they should make sure that they have a set of standards to follow while doing their work, in the hopes of filtering out false information. One would think that the journalists and editors working for news outfits are smart enough to see a chain letter and tell it apart from the "real stuff". That they managed to have it aired as news not only makes us think whether they're good enough for their assigned task, it also makes us wonder whether most of the information they feed us is correct or not.
Sure is classy. And shows that the perpretators were responsible enough to care about others' safety when they did it. The Jargon File ( http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/) describes some other similar hacks performed previously by MIT alumni, and show the same characteristic touch as this recent one.
But what I like most is the fact that the police officers were cool enough to leave the decoration 'til Thursday.
Unfortunately, DAT ended up dead in the water. It survives mostly as a data storage medium for computer. Geez, even MiniDisc sees more of its intended use than DAT (radio stations love them minidiscs).
Say, suppose some webserver were connected to obscenely gross bandwidth: how long would it take us to/. it? (assume that we have an infinite amount of/.'ing resources).
How do you know if a programme is American? Is it so when the company or organisation that develops it is in America? Or is it when the developers are American? If it's the former, then Linux doesn't qualify as there is no central organisation managing its development. If it's the latter, then it would be plausible to say that more than 10% of Linux developers are in America.
If you were to take the central-organisation point of view, you might want to consider using OpenBSD. It shouldn't be constrained by USA's export laws.
(Note: Since it's Iran, we shouldn't go straight ahead into saying "dain-bramaged export laws" or some other vitriol related to the subject. It's a more serious situation than with cryptographic software).
Easy. They were probably referring to monospaced, double-line-space fonts printed on standard green-striped computer paper using a dot-matrix printer. This seems to be the platinum rod for measuring data capacity in PHB terms.
The article explicitly says they'll be porting the *client*. The Exchange server still has to run on NT, doesn't it? (I have to know, we're running it here - not my choice, BTW). If they were dismissing Exchange because of NT's security problems, then Microsoft would be porting both the client and the server to Unix, which I believe they won't be doing for a long time ("long time" approaching infinity, in this case).
OK, so basically they're porting the Exchange client to Unix (like they did with IE). Doesn't look like it will be much different than the Win32 version, I guess. Also, it's scary that the Army would reconsider using MS products, after proving they don't meet their needs.
The way this state operates, I wouldn't be surprised if Philadelphia came around the bottom of the list. Oh, well... no wonder Pennsylvania got the motto "Cook with coal"...
The way I see it, I'd define "source code" as whatever programme information that is written or typed by a human being, which can be easily modified by another human being using the same method by which the code was first written or typed, and that would then require some kind of transformation before being executed by a computer's processor. By this reasoning, source code written in any computer language would be protected by this ruling. That includes interpreted languages like Perl. Java source files would be covered too, but not.class files, as these have been converted into some other format, from which the original code cannot be determined. The point is that anything wwritten by a person, as long as there is no particular intermediate conversion process that obfuscates it, is free speech.
Damn, what can't be done with a Celeron that wasn't intended? You can overclock them like mad, you can put them in an SMP config, you can make them as fast or FASTER than a PII. Can you make warpcores and teleporters with them too?:op
Now, I wonder if there's an adapter for the older card-mounted Celeries. That would definitely help.
Well, yeah, the 32X was pretty much like the N64DD. It was a 32-bit processor board that plugged into the Genesis cartridge slot. This allowed the use of the Sega CD for 32X CD games, although one could use cartridges too (think of the Game Genie and you'll understand). The reason this was a flop was because it was designed as some sort of upgrade path to the Saturn (it was released at almost the same time).
Hhmmm... With the exception of the Game Genie, add-ons for games have sold very poorly. Say, Sega had a hard time trying to sell the 32X (which was an extension for the Genesis). There were games designed specifically for it, yet it became a dud (marketing was to blame then). In the case of the Game Genie, no games required it; it was simply an enhancement, and it'd work with most, if not all, games that were out there. Which brings us to the compatibility issue...@#^$@YT$ NO CARRIER
Well, you can bet they know that $500 is asking too much for a home game console. They'd only have to look at 3DO, CDTV, and an old CD-based console sold by Philips/Magnavox to see where they could end. Most people don't care about quality as long as there's a cheaper option available. I just hope they can find a way to recoup the costs (licencing, perhaps?).
I suppose that if you polarise the light being reflected in some fashion (alternating lines/pixels?) and wore polaroid glasses, it would very much work like a holodeck. Of course, you wouldn't be able to touch the images; the effect would be more like Captain Eo.
Ok, so how is Mr. Sinclair going to sell the computer to the great majority of geeks who spend most of their time on the 'net? Through department stores? Considering that current Linux computer retailers were practically born off the Internet (and Linux itself, obviously), it'd be pretty hard to do otherwise. But then, he's just starting now, so let's give him time and see what he comes up with. I'm intriged with this.
Unless the lives of many people depended on the programmer's job performance, there's no need for him/her to get the same level of certification as an engineer. In contrast, an engineer's job often results in products that affect our lives directly. Say, if that construction engineer wasn't certified when (s)he designed that bridge, would you feel safe when crossing said bridge? Now, if I were running some software on my computer and it crashed, I wouldn't lose much, except perhaps for some work. If it were the case of an aircraft's flight control system, though, there's a difference, and I would very much prefer that the software be written by someone who has been certified for that job.
The page says "Powered by Netwinder," yet the server runs Solaris (and I haven't heard yet that Sun has ported that to StrongARM yet). Go find out for yourself here.
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Someone changed the timestamp of the plutonium story to 10:30am, and Slash dutifully waits for that time to come to display it. anyway, the URL is:
http://slashdot.org /article.pl?sid=99/05/20/1320256&mode=thread.
Lessee... kids got instructions on how to make bombs on the Internet... kids make bombs... kids kill a bunch of people... Government bans said instructions from the 'net. College students learn how to make plutonium in school... college students make a working nuclear reactor, in a day, from scratch... will government ban that from schools?
It's interesting to see this kind of events happen in an industry that prides itself in accurate information and thorough research. They actually take responsibility in being the primary source of information for the great majority of the population. If all this were true (plausible), then they should make sure that they have a set of standards to follow while doing their work, in the hopes of filtering out false information. One would think that the journalists and editors working for news outfits are smart enough to see a chain letter and tell it apart from the "real stuff". That they managed to have it aired as news not only makes us think whether they're good enough for their assigned task, it also makes us wonder whether most of the information they feed us is correct or not.
Sure is classy. And shows that the perpretators were responsible enough to care about others' safety when they did it. The Jargon File ( http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/) describes some other similar hacks performed previously by MIT alumni, and show the same characteristic touch as this recent one.
But what I like most is the fact that the police officers were cool enough to leave the decoration 'til Thursday.
So what is this supposed to mean? A superconducting transistor? Please enlighten me, Lord...
Unfortunately, DAT ended up dead in the water. It survives mostly as a data storage medium for computer. Geez, even MiniDisc sees more of its intended use than DAT (radio stations love them minidiscs).
According to Mydraal on his comment at Cutting Edge Linux, 2.3.1 has compile problems. No te jodas la vida, and go the stable way.
Say, suppose some webserver were connected to obscenely gross bandwidth: how long would it take us to /. it? (assume that we have an infinite amount of /.'ing resources).
Oh, so you're one of those who take the 'u' out of "colour"?
Eh, had to do it too...
How do you know if a programme is American? Is it so when the company or organisation that develops it is in America? Or is it when the developers are American? If it's the former, then Linux doesn't qualify as there is no central organisation managing its development. If it's the latter, then it would be plausible to say that more than 10% of Linux developers are in America.
If you were to take the central-organisation point of view, you might want to consider using OpenBSD. It shouldn't be constrained by USA's export laws.
(Note: Since it's Iran, we shouldn't go straight ahead into saying "dain-bramaged export laws" or some other vitriol related to the subject. It's a more serious situation than with cryptographic software).
Easy. They were probably referring to monospaced, double-line-space fonts printed on standard green-striped computer paper using a dot-matrix printer. This seems to be the platinum rod for measuring data capacity in PHB terms.
The article explicitly says they'll be porting the *client*. The Exchange server still has to run on NT, doesn't it? (I have to know, we're running it here - not my choice, BTW). If they were dismissing Exchange because of NT's security problems, then Microsoft would be porting both the client and the server to Unix, which I believe they won't be doing for a long time ("long time" approaching infinity, in this case).
OK, so basically they're porting the Exchange client to Unix (like they did with IE). Doesn't look like it will be much different than the Win32 version, I guess. Also, it's scary that the Army would reconsider using MS products, after proving they don't meet their needs.
Say, if all the roads in North America were like those here in Pennsylvania, we'd all need to drive Humvees.
The way this state operates, I wouldn't be surprised if Philadelphia came around the bottom of the list. Oh, well... no wonder Pennsylvania got the motto "Cook with coal"...
The way I see it, I'd define "source code" as whatever programme information that is written or typed by a human being, which can be easily modified by another human being using the same method by which the code was first written or typed, and that would then require some kind of transformation before being executed by a computer's processor. By this reasoning, source code written in any computer language would be protected by this ruling. That includes interpreted languages like Perl. Java source files would be covered too, but not .class files, as these have been converted into some other format, from which the original code cannot be determined. The point is that anything wwritten by a person, as long as there is no particular intermediate conversion process that obfuscates it, is free speech.
Damn, what can't be done with a Celeron that wasn't intended? You can overclock them like mad, you can put them in an SMP config, you can make them as fast or FASTER than a PII. Can you make warpcores and teleporters with them too? :op
Now, I wonder if there's an adapter for the older card-mounted Celeries. That would definitely help.
Well, yeah, the 32X was pretty much like the N64DD. It was a 32-bit processor board that plugged into the Genesis cartridge slot. This allowed the use of the Sega CD for 32X CD games, although one could use cartridges too (think of the Game Genie and you'll understand). The reason this was a flop was because it was designed as some sort of upgrade path to the Saturn (it was released at almost the same time).
Hhmmm... With the exception of the Game Genie, add-ons for games have sold very poorly. Say, Sega had a hard time trying to sell the 32X (which was an extension for the Genesis). There were games designed specifically for it, yet it became a dud (marketing was to blame then). In the case of the Game Genie, no games required it; it was simply an enhancement, and it'd work with most, if not all, games that were out there. Which brings us to the compatibility issue...@#^$@YT$ NO CARRIER
Well, you can bet they know that $500 is asking too much for a home game console. They'd only have to look at 3DO, CDTV, and an old CD-based console sold by Philips/Magnavox to see where they could end. Most people don't care about quality as long as there's a cheaper option available. I just hope they can find a way to recoup the costs (licencing, perhaps?).
I suppose that if you polarise the light being reflected in some fashion (alternating lines/pixels?) and wore polaroid glasses, it would very much work like a holodeck. Of course, you wouldn't be able to touch the images; the effect would be more like Captain Eo.
Hey, there's a bad URL up there, and there are people already posting comments about the article? Geez... are you guys telepathic or something?
Ok, so how is Mr. Sinclair going to sell the computer to the great majority of geeks who spend most of their time on the 'net? Through department stores? Considering that current Linux computer retailers were practically born off the Internet (and Linux itself, obviously), it'd be pretty hard to do otherwise. But then, he's just starting now, so let's give him time and see what he comes up with. I'm intriged with this.
Unless the lives of many people depended on the programmer's job performance, there's no need for him/her to get the same level of certification as an engineer. In contrast, an engineer's job often results in products that affect our lives directly. Say, if that construction engineer wasn't certified when (s)he designed that bridge, would you feel safe when crossing said bridge? Now, if I were running some software on my computer and it crashed, I wouldn't lose much, except perhaps for some work. If it were the case of an aircraft's flight control system, though, there's a difference, and I would very much prefer that the software be written by someone who has been certified for that job.
The page says "Powered by Netwinder," yet the server runs Solaris (and I haven't heard yet that Sun has ported that to StrongARM yet). Go find out for yourself here.