You're probably going to get a NullPointerException than segmentation fault... which begs the question: if you're going to just run Java, why Linux vs. some embedded device from Sun or others?
I wonder what this technology would mean for a Williams. We have a free text-book library for financial aid students called the "1914 library." A bunch of alumns donated some $$ to establish a library in memory of their classmates who died in the Great War.
The scheme is this: you get a voucher each semester to use at the book store. The only catch is that the book that you bought with the voucher has to be returned to the library when the class finishes. You can also check out books for the semester from the libraries collection (that other students bought with vouchers/donated).
Thanks to the 1914, I've been able to get away with under $100 in books almost every semester here.
If Williams implemented a system like this, all of us financial aid students would be screwed.
Will libraries be obselete in a few decades/years? Storing all of our information electronically combined with the new legislation coming out of DC makes it almost impossible for libraries to do their jobs without paying big bucks per-view of the material to the publication companies.
For example, my high school library had to implement quotas for how much information you could get off of UMI's ProQuest system (publications on CD-ROM). They had to pay UMI royalties for each view of the information so there was a limit to how many articles that a single student could retrieve.
It seems like libraries might be forced to degrade their services across the board if companies like this have their way.
You use the term "special interest groups" like it's dirty. What do you think that the EFF is? The EFF is a special interest group. Just because they
stand for something that many of us happen to believe in doesn't change that.
actually, i was trying to say exactly the opposite! special interest groups don't have to be a dirty thing. my point was that the EFF is in fact a special interest group and those of us who care about the issues that it pursues should support it. To repeat/clarify myself: big organizations have special interests groups, why should individuals feel that they are limited to participating in politics only through their vote? We should form/utilize special interest groups for OUR issues too.
i think you're actually agreeing with me, but the wording and tone of my original post was probably misleading.
actually, since very few political candidates seem to be taking any stance on the issues that the EFF is working on (a quick search of bush & gore's sites only came up with their feelings on internet taxes) this could well be true.
don't equate getting involved with politics with just voting! why do you think that all of these big corporations have been able to get laws favoring them through congress (eg DMCA)? they've got special interest groups, we've got the EFF.
It seems like the judge is completely defering to Congress on the issue of copyright protection.
He acknowledges that sometimes copyright protection goes too far and inhibits legal use of material but he basically says "well Congress passed the DMCA and they weighed both sides of the issue so they must have gotten it right."
What about the judicial branch being a check on Congress? Division of powers? 8th grade civics man. It seems like the judge barely even considered the case!
If one was interested in keeping lots of logs, Packet Vault would be the way to do it.
Detection of and response to a security breach in progress requires special attention to legal, regulatory, policy, and ethical matters so that the needs of security administrators and the forensics requirements of law enforcement are balanced with the privacy rights and expectations of users. These matters will be addressed with the Secure Packet Vault, a tool for rapid response to an intrusion incident or for continuous oversight of a subnet. CITI will also investigate the uses of cryptography to address policy-imposed data handling requirements. Vault Architecture The packet vault hardware is composed of two 133 MHz PCI-bus Pentium machines interconnected via a private 100 Mbps Ethernet. One machine (the "listener") is also connected to the network under test, and is used to capture and encrypt the data, which are then sent over the private Ethernet. The listener stores no packet data on magnetic disk. The other machine (the "writer") receives the encrypted captured data and stores them to magnetic disk for subsequent writing to CD-ROM. The two magnetic disks on the writer are attached to a dedicated SCSI bus; a second SCSI bus is dedicated to the CD-ROM recorder (CD-R).
UNIX-derived operating systems were chosen for both platforms because of our familiarity with UNIX and the flexibility it provides. OpenBSD 2.0 was chosen for the listener because of its kernel BPF support; Linux 2.0.0 was chosen for the writer because of the early availability of drivers for the CD-R.
All data are encrypted to allow selective release of conversations, where a conversation is defined as all communications between a pair of IP addresses. Packet IP addresses are obscured by substitution, and packet data are encrypted under a symmetric key unique to each conversation. Material needed to reconstruct all conversations is remembered and encrypted under the public key of a trusted third party.
Isn't Kevin barred from using any computers for a looooong time? So why would he want the files back? Here's a drive with your files Kevin... uhhh.. yeah.
No, the swirl is really for... a toilet, controlled by a dreamcast, powered by Crusoe, running Debian. Watchout though... somebody's gonna patent the flush on that thing.
Well since HTML is just a markup language, the appearance of the website could be enhanced for people with visual disabilities. Windows does have that setting where you can change all fonts/colors for high contrast.
If anything should be done, it should only be the responsibility of the page designer to make the webpage accessible to anyone with a reasonable browser. Then a visually impaired person can adjust their personal settings of their browser to make the page render correctly for them! sites that refuse to be compliant with standards should be destroyed tho'. hmm. just a thought.
um... the house of rep's M$ server crashed during the Starr investigation because of so many people writing in... I don't think we can consider gov't servers crashing as proof of anything -n
Why are there more posts from ZDNet than normal all of a sudden? We KNOW that they are a crappy news source! So maybe they're funny because they're so bad, but this isn't the type of news I'd like from Slashdot. By the way Rob, love the new site. -n
Given the info in the past week about Micro$oft and sending those ID numbers to Redmond on registration of Windoze, I can't wait for Office to come to Linux so they can give me a MAC based ID in their database too!
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Don't trust professors from that "Amherest College." It's no good. Neither is Amherst.
- Williams '01
Uh, Mike Bond published this stuff in a paper back in May. BBC were the ones playing up the fact that they were putting it on the internet tonight.
You're probably going to get a NullPointerException than segmentation fault... which begs the question: if you're going to just run Java, why Linux vs. some embedded device from Sun or others?
heck, if Slashdot is changing story postings without any record of having updated it, why should we trust MS not to do the same?
The scheme is this: you get a voucher each semester to use at the book store. The only catch is that the book that you bought with the voucher has to be returned to the library when the class finishes. You can also check out books for the semester from the libraries collection (that other students bought with vouchers/donated).
Thanks to the 1914, I've been able to get away with under $100 in books almost every semester here.
If Williams implemented a system like this, all of us financial aid students would be screwed.
Will libraries be obselete in a few decades/years? Storing all of our information electronically combined with the new legislation coming out of DC makes it almost impossible for libraries to do their jobs without paying big bucks per-view of the material to the publication companies.
For example, my high school library had to implement quotas for how much information you could get off of UMI's ProQuest system (publications on CD-ROM). They had to pay UMI royalties for each view of the information so there was a limit to how many articles that a single student could retrieve.
It seems like libraries might be forced to degrade their services across the board if companies like this have their way.
actually, i was trying to say exactly the opposite! special interest groups don't have to be a dirty thing. my point was that the EFF is in fact a special interest group and those of us who care about the issues that it pursues should support it. To repeat/clarify myself: big organizations have special interests groups, why should individuals feel that they are limited to participating in politics only through their vote? We should form/utilize special interest groups for OUR issues too.
i think you're actually agreeing with me, but the wording and tone of my original post was probably misleading.
don't equate getting involved with politics with just voting! why do you think that all of these big corporations have been able to get laws favoring them through congress (eg DMCA)? they've got special interest groups, we've got the EFF.
He acknowledges that sometimes copyright protection goes too far and inhibits legal use of material but he basically says "well Congress passed the DMCA and they weighed both sides of the issue so they must have gotten it right."
What about the judicial branch being a check on Congress? Division of powers? 8th grade civics man. It seems like the judge barely even considered the case!
on to the appeal...
- Detection of and response to a security breach in progress requires special attention to legal, regulatory, policy, and ethical matters so that the needs of security administrators and the forensics requirements of law enforcement are balanced with the privacy rights and expectations of users. These matters will be addressed with the Secure Packet Vault, a tool for rapid response to an intrusion incident or for continuous oversight of a subnet. CITI will also investigate the uses of cryptography to address policy-imposed data handling requirements. Vault Architecture The packet vault hardware is composed of two 133 MHz PCI-bus Pentium machines interconnected via a private 100 Mbps Ethernet. One machine (the "listener") is also connected to the network under test, and is used to capture and encrypt the data, which are then sent over the private Ethernet. The listener stores no packet data on magnetic disk. The other machine (the "writer") receives the encrypted captured data and stores them to magnetic disk for subsequent writing to CD-ROM. The two magnetic disks on the writer are attached to a dedicated SCSI bus; a second SCSI bus is dedicated to the CD-ROM recorder (CD-R).
a longer paper is hereUNIX-derived operating systems were chosen for both platforms because of our familiarity with UNIX and the flexibility it provides. OpenBSD 2.0 was chosen for the listener because of its kernel BPF support; Linux 2.0.0 was chosen for the writer because of the early availability of drivers for the CD-R.
All data are encrypted to allow selective release of conversations, where a conversation is defined as all communications between a pair of IP addresses. Packet IP addresses are obscured by substitution, and packet data are encrypted under a symmetric key unique to each conversation. Material needed to reconstruct all conversations is remembered and encrypted under the public key of a trusted third party.
Isn't Kevin barred from using any computers for a looooong time? So why would he want the files back? Here's a drive with your files Kevin... uhhh.. yeah.
No, the swirl is really for... a toilet, controlled by a dreamcast, powered by Crusoe, running Debian. Watchout though... somebody's gonna patent the flush on that thing.
If anything should be done, it should only be the responsibility of the page designer to make the webpage accessible to anyone with a reasonable browser. Then a visually impaired person can adjust their personal settings of their browser to make the page render correctly for them! sites that refuse to be compliant with standards should be destroyed tho'. hmm. just a thought.
when do you want to reboot today?
um... the house of rep's M$ server crashed during the Starr investigation because of so many people writing in... I don't think we can consider gov't servers crashing as proof of anything
-n
I think the MIT AI Lab is a good place to look =)
how is this different than BSD?
-n
Why are there more posts from ZDNet than normal all of a sudden? We KNOW that they are a crappy news source! So maybe they're funny because they're so bad, but this isn't the type of news I'd like from Slashdot. By the way Rob, love the new site. -n
chicken or the leg?
Given the info in the past week about Micro$oft and sending those ID numbers to Redmond on registration of Windoze, I can't wait for Office to come to Linux so they can give me a MAC based ID in their database too!