Actaully it was demonstrated on Linux. However, it is only applicable to downloaded files that you select to open rather than save. So say you do not have the acrobat reader plugin, you download a pdf file, rather than select save, you choose open with xpdf.
Doing this leaves a world readable file in/tmp. A minor security issue, but nothing to get worked about and leaves a very easy work around. Save the file and nothing is left in/tmp, or manually clean/tmp after your browsing if you are that paranoid.
Also consider, just how many files are you opening from within a web browser that are not being handled directly by a pluggin orjust saved to disk? Maybe *.pdf if you do not have acrobat, maybe a few *.docs, but not terribly many. Basically, it means that someone might be able to see the manuals and whitepapers you read. Social engineering would get better data than this "exploit".
Other than the economy was in a recession and CD's are very much a luxury item. If I am even concerned about if I will have a job next month, I am more likely not to spend money on frivoulous items like CDs. Even if there was no P2P downloading, one could still just listen to the radio.
In price per unit, it is cheaper to produce organic grown food than regular commercial grown with pesticide and et al. The difference is that you will not get as a big a yield. Accept smaller yeilds and it becomes very economically viable to grow organic.
It depends. I can see the screen flicker consciously at up to 75hz. 80hz I still feel some eye strain. Only at 85-90hz does loking at a CRT becomes comfortable. There are people with even higher sensitivities. This type of strain is eliminated with LCD.
There were a few products that had transmeta CPU's. The problem was that there was a very small window when there was a significant adavantage to choose a Crusoe. Now there is not one. On the Low end there is a the Via C3, that is about as efficient as a Crusoe. On the high end there is the Intel Pentium M. A bit more power hungary but also better performance.
Actually Linux is a little better. It took ID a while to optimize the binaries for Linux. Carmack and others have said before that the subsystems in Linux are better than in Windows.
You know, it seems to all ways be the Open Source folks that claim that the Freedom folks are extremist. You don't like the split in terms?
Fine, you created the split so you be the first to drop the differentiating terms. I think even RMS would be willing to compromise and call it Freedom Software if the OSS folks would drop the term Open Source.
Where you get on some high horse, and claim that we need to stop this bickering so just bend over and accept our terms, I do not know.
The megabyte issue is one that people do end up caring about when they buy a hard drive. Of course that is only after seeing their 60 gb drive be reported as 57 gb.
Well, Pakhost has cancelled the account now. Seeing how it happened after the million eyes of slashdot were focused, seems like Pakhost may not have done so otherwise.
Ahh, but stealing is a criminal offense. Copyright Violation is (except in recent select circumstances) a civil violation.
A used car salesman sells you a lemon, you cannot have him arrested, rather you have to sue him. Civil violations are considered less of a legal probelm than criminal ones.
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Actaully it was demonstrated on Linux. However, it is only applicable to downloaded files that you select to open rather than save. So say you do not have the acrobat reader plugin, you download a pdf file, rather than select save, you choose open with xpdf.
/tmp. A minor security issue, but nothing to get worked about and leaves a very easy work around. Save the file and nothing is left in /tmp, or manually clean /tmp after your browsing if you are that paranoid.
Doing this leaves a world readable file in
Also consider, just how many files are you opening from within a web browser that are not being handled directly by a pluggin orjust saved to disk? Maybe *.pdf if you do not have acrobat, maybe a few *.docs, but not terribly many. Basically, it means that someone might be able to see the manuals and whitepapers you read. Social engineering would get better data than this "exploit".
Other than the economy was in a recession and CD's are very much a luxury item. If I am even concerned about if I will have a job next month, I am more likely not to spend money on frivoulous items like CDs. Even if there was no P2P downloading, one could still just listen to the radio.
That's because the radio is a wasteland anymore. You hear the same twenty songs with a couple of older hits.
Thanks, but it means the same in English.
In price per unit, it is cheaper to produce organic grown food than regular commercial grown with pesticide and et al. The difference is that you will not get as a big a yield. Accept smaller yeilds and it becomes very economically viable to grow organic.
It depends. I can see the screen flicker consciously at up to 75hz. 80hz I still feel some eye strain. Only at 85-90hz does loking at a CRT becomes comfortable. There are people with even higher sensitivities. This type of strain is eliminated with LCD.
Actually, I was mildly curious if Familiar and Opie would boot on it.
Heh, a bizarro Macguyver would need either a bar of chocolate or a rubber band.
There were a few products that had transmeta CPU's. The problem was that there was a very small window when there was a significant adavantage to choose a Crusoe. Now there is not one. On the Low end there is a the Via C3, that is about as efficient as a Crusoe. On the high end there is the Intel Pentium M. A bit more power hungary but also better performance.
4+ for me and I don't exactly qualify for slow and safe.
So long as these martian experiments do not deal with teleportation technology. :-P
It very much depends on hardware. ATI cards will work better in Windows. Nvidia will be the same or a little better in Linux.
Probably more that ATI Linux drivers are so so.
Actually Linux is a little better. It took ID a while to optimize the binaries for Linux. Carmack and others have said before that the subsystems in Linux are better than in Windows.
People also have no right leaving an attractive nuisance on the net.
No. It just takes a more intelligent thief. It was already mentioned in another thread about putting rfids in a faraday cage.
There was a slashdot article before on how easy it was to zap rfid and make them useless. Combine with a rfid encoder and you have the same scam.
How many data points does it take to go from being anecdotal evidence to statistical average?
I have been using Linux for 6 years. I haven't seen what your are describing regarding the slow down of the system.
Well Freevo is at 1.5.2 if version numbers mean that much to you.
The moon and the tides have been gradually slowing the earth's rotation.
You know, it seems to all ways be the Open Source folks that claim that the Freedom folks are extremist. You don't like the split in terms?
Fine, you created the split so you be the first to drop the differentiating terms. I think even RMS would be willing to compromise and call it Freedom Software if the OSS folks would drop the term Open Source.
Where you get on some high horse, and claim that we need to stop this bickering so just bend over and accept our terms, I do not know.
The megabyte issue is one that people do end up caring about when they buy a hard drive. Of course that is only after seeing their 60 gb drive be reported as 57 gb.
Liberal software would not have worked. Might as well just call it commie pinko software.
They could have called libre software, freedom software, or liberty software.
Now the copycat is offline due, significantly after the story was posted to /. Seems this was the best thing to do after all.
Well, Pakhost has cancelled the account now. Seeing how it happened after the million eyes of slashdot were focused, seems like Pakhost may not have done so otherwise.
Ahh, but stealing is a criminal offense. Copyright Violation is (except in recent select circumstances) a civil violation.
A used car salesman sells you a lemon, you cannot have him arrested, rather you have to sue him. Civil violations are considered less of a legal probelm than criminal ones.