In related news about foxes watching hen houses, the Federal Trade Commission has selected AT&T to operate the new national do-not-call telemarketing list. Unfortunately, AT&T is #1 on the FCC's list of telemarketing complaints for 2001, 2002, and 2003 Q1.
"The strong interest in Windows CE.NET as well as Windows XP Embedded by industry leaders has been instrumental in securing a No. 1 position for Windows Embedded products. According to Venture Development Corp., Microsoft led in worldwide shipments of embedded operating systems for 2002. "
"For 2001, Microsoft led revenue for embedded operating systems according to International Data Corp. document 27653, Worldwide Mobile and Embedded Operating Environment Market Forecast and Analysis, 2002-2006. "
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good point. This GPL gray area is something for the FSF lawyers and hardware manufacturers to debate. What code could Linus possibly add to the Linux kernel to prevent someone from signing a Linux kernel binary?? And what would prevent a hardware manufacturer from creating their own Linux fork that simply removes Linus' auto-DRM code?
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In America the last presidential election was about 50/50 republican/democrat; so I don't see why you think liberalism has lost its relevancy.
but you are assuming that "New Democrat" == Liberal. And it just ain't so..
Of course, the US voting system will never change to use something rational like instant run-off elections, approval elections, or Condorcet's method. The current politicians benefit from the current voting system. Why would THEY want to change it? kinda like campaign finance "reform"..
Plus, imagine the voters' confusion. If they cannot figure out their choose-one butterfly ballots, how can we expect them to understand Condorcet's method?:-(
in California, every voter is sent a ballot book describing the upcoming election. On the back cover of this book, there is a postcard you can send it to request one-time or permanent absentee ballot status. The postcard is written in 3-4 different languages.
I always vote with an absentee ballot because I like to spend time researching the ballot measures and voting in the comfort of my living room.
Exactly, the bugs are in libc, not the calling programs. OpenBSD should remove all dangerous libc functions, like sprintf() and strcpy(). Then unsafe user programs will not even compile. If OpenBSD is really, really serious about security, they could then disallow these unsafe programming practices. Source code ported to the new restrictive OpenBSD libc would benefit on other platforms, too.
If forever removing strcpy() and friends is just too radical, OpenBSD could use a transitional approach by moving the function prototypes of the unsafe libc functions to a non-standard header file. Call is something like unsafe.h, deprecated.h, or i_like_buffer_overflows.h.
The Center for Democracy and Technology has released the results from a six-month survey on how spammers obtain email addresses. The researchers created a few hundred special-purpose email addresses, then carefully exposed each one in exactly one place. After that, it was mostly a matter of sitting back and waiting for the spam to roll in. The destination of each spam indicated where the address had been found.
By far the most spam was sent to addresses harvested from web pages. Postings to Usenet newsgroups came in a distant second. On Usenet, posters to groups like alt.sex.erotica will receive vastly more spam than those posting to misc.industry.insurance.
Even the most simple sort of address obfuscation ("lwn at lwn.net") appears to be highly effective.
Dictionary attacks (simply trying login names from a list) result in a significant amount of delivered spam. Short account names are more likely to receive this sort of spam than longer ones.
Contrary to expectations, the WHOIS domain name database is not a big source of spam.
Most web sites honor their promises regarding unsolicited email - but you do have to be careful about making your wishes clear.
I remember a recent Slashdot story about spam "tarpits" the respond veeeeerry sloooowly to email servers that are sending spam. Why not take a more active approach? Someone should combine a spam tarpit with an automated rootkit. If your email tarpit detects that someone's broken email server is forwarding spam to you, your automated rootkit can nuke them.:-)
Matt Dillon of FreeBSD fame (no, not the actor) has a new startup called Backplane. They are creating a replicated, distributed SQL database and it's open-source. It's not PostgreSQL, but it sounds like an interesting technology.
In Theo's post on theaimsgroup.com web site, I don't see anything supporting your assertion that OpenBSD's new memory protection "actually speeds things up".
I just downloaded the tarball and dropped the Vera.TTF files into my c:\windows\fonts directory. They didn't show up as an available font in any of my applications. I even rebooted (Windows user's last resort). Still no luck..
Do I need to "install" or "register" the new fonts some how?
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It still amazes me to think of all of the technological leaps that were taken between 1947 and the early 60's.
Is it just a coincidence that the Roswell UFO crash was in 1947? The U2 and SR-71 were built using alien technolody.
What would happen to the family who shares a single cable line to all rooms of their house through a splitter, or internet through a router? Will they be tried as criminals for making use of a service they lawfully pay for?
If network providers simply charged for traffic ($/byte), then they would BENEFIT from shared NAT and WIFI connections. LESS hardware investment and installation costs, but MORE revenue? Impossible!!
The product name "Microsoft SQL Server" is pretty clear, though "Microsoft BizTalk Server System.NET 2004 Limited Enterprise Edition for Itanium Workstations" is less clear.
I've used a 3650 for a few months now. The circular "arrow keys" button especially sucks. The button is so sensitive that it often registers the wrong direction when pressed. Very frustrating..
that is only partially a joke. I'm sure someone can create a wire mesh canopy that keeps birds (and humans) out, but does not slow down the wind velocity.
Don't forget the part in the article where Andrew Tridgell says:
"I've spent probably a month or so on the core rewrite so far. It doesn't compile yet. It's a long way from compiling. I'm hoping that by the time the Samba XP conference comes around in Germany, that these core changes will, in fact, be compiling and I'll be able to start getting other developers to look at them."
How can he go a month without compiling? Either his code will be perfect or very buggy. How is he verifying that he has not already introduced TONS of regression bugs? He cannot test his own code. Have you even spent entire month coding and not introduced a single bug?
Most open-source and XP adovates suggest "release early and often."
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In related news about foxes watching hen houses, the Federal Trade Commission has selected AT&T to operate the new national do-not-call telemarketing list. Unfortunately, AT&T is #1 on the FCC's list of telemarketing complaints for 2001, 2002, and 2003 Q1.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/904102.asp?0cv=CB20
well, Microsoft likes to think so:
No. 1 Embedded Operating System Provider Worldwide
"The strong interest in Windows CE
"For 2001, Microsoft led revenue for embedded operating systems according to International Data Corp. document 27653, Worldwide Mobile and Embedded Operating Environment Market Forecast and Analysis, 2002-2006. "
good point. This GPL gray area is something for the FSF lawyers and hardware manufacturers to debate. What code could Linus possibly add to the Linux kernel to prevent someone from signing a Linux kernel binary?? And what would prevent a hardware manufacturer from creating their own Linux fork that simply removes Linus' auto-DRM code?
In America the last presidential election was about 50/50 republican/democrat; so I don't see why you think liberalism has lost its relevancy.
but you are assuming that "New Democrat" == Liberal. And it just ain't so..
Of course, the US voting system will never change to use something rational like instant run-off elections, approval elections, or Condorcet's method. The current politicians benefit from the current voting system. Why would THEY want to change it? kinda like campaign finance "reform"..
Plus, imagine the voters' confusion. If they cannot figure out their choose-one butterfly ballots, how can we expect them to understand Condorcet's method?
in California, every voter is sent a ballot book describing the upcoming election. On the back cover of this book, there is a postcard you can send it to request one-time or permanent absentee ballot status. The postcard is written in 3-4 different languages.
I always vote with an absentee ballot because I like to spend time researching the ballot measures and voting in the comfort of my living room.
Exactly, the bugs are in libc, not the calling programs. OpenBSD should remove all dangerous libc functions, like sprintf() and strcpy(). Then unsafe user programs will not even compile. If OpenBSD is really, really serious about security, they could then disallow these unsafe programming practices. Source code ported to the new restrictive OpenBSD libc would benefit on other platforms, too.
If forever removing strcpy() and friends is just too radical, OpenBSD could use a transitional approach by moving the function prototypes of the unsafe libc functions to a non-standard header file. Call is something like unsafe.h, deprecated.h, or i_like_buffer_overflows.h.
The Center for Democracy and Technology has released the results from a six-month survey on how spammers obtain email addresses. The researchers created a few hundred special-purpose email addresses, then carefully exposed each one in exactly one place. After that, it was mostly a matter of sitting back and waiting for the spam to roll in. The destination of each spam indicated where the address had been found.
"Why Am I Getting All This Spam? Unsolicited Commercial E-mail Research Six Month Report"
Some highlights:
By far the most spam was sent to addresses harvested from web pages. Postings to Usenet newsgroups came in a distant second. On Usenet, posters to groups like alt.sex.erotica will receive vastly more spam than those posting to misc.industry.insurance.
Even the most simple sort of address obfuscation ("lwn at lwn.net") appears to be highly effective.
Dictionary attacks (simply trying login names from a list) result in a significant amount of delivered spam. Short account names are more likely to receive this sort of spam than longer ones.
Contrary to expectations, the WHOIS domain name database is not a big source of spam.
Most web sites honor their promises regarding unsolicited email - but you do have to be careful about making your wishes clear.
I remember a recent Slashdot story about spam "tarpits" the respond veeeeerry sloooowly to email servers that are sending spam. Why not take a more active approach? Someone should combine a spam tarpit with an automated rootkit. If your email tarpit detects that someone's broken email server is forwarding spam to you, your automated rootkit can nuke them.
Matt Dillon of FreeBSD fame (no, not the actor) has a new startup called Backplane. They are creating a replicated, distributed SQL database and it's open-source. It's not PostgreSQL, but it sounds like an interesting technology.
In Theo's post on theaimsgroup.com web site, I don't see anything supporting your assertion that OpenBSD's new memory protection "actually speeds things up".
The Vera Sans Mono font is just too fuzzy and heavy. I'll stick with Courier New for my coding, thank you.
my bad. I assumed the new font names would begin with "Vera
I just downloaded the tarball and dropped the Vera
Do I need to "install" or "register" the new fonts some how?
It still amazes me to think of all of the technological leaps that were taken between 1947 and the early 60's.
Is it just a coincidence that the Roswell UFO crash was in 1947? The U2 and SR-71 were built using alien technolody.
and when you are not talking, you don't need to use ANY bandwidth. No packets = silence.
What would happen to the family who shares a single cable line to all rooms of their house through a splitter, or internet through a router? Will they be tried as criminals for making use of a service they lawfully pay for?
If network providers simply charged for traffic ($/byte), then they would BENEFIT from shared NAT and WIFI connections. LESS hardware investment and installation costs, but MORE revenue? Impossible!!
There has been a Firebird BBS software project since 1999.
The product name "Microsoft SQL Server" is pretty clear, though "Microsoft BizTalk Server System
The cell is not in the phone. The cell is the radio "cells" of the phone network towers.
I've used a 3650 for a few months now. The circular "arrow keys" button especially sucks. The button is so sensitive that it often registers the wrong direction when pressed. Very frustrating..
I know I live physically close to the Internet.
maybe you can put the turbines indoors?
that is only partially a joke. I'm sure someone can create a wire mesh canopy that keeps birds (and humans) out, but does not slow down the wind velocity.
Don't forget the part in the article where Andrew Tridgell says:
"I've spent probably a month or so on the core rewrite so far. It doesn't compile yet. It's a long way from compiling. I'm hoping that by the time the Samba XP conference comes around in Germany, that these core changes will, in fact, be compiling and I'll be able to start getting other developers to look at them."
How can he go a month without compiling? Either his code will be perfect or very buggy. How is he verifying that he has not already introduced TONS of regression bugs? He cannot test his own code. Have you even spent entire month coding and not introduced a single bug?
Most open-source and XP adovates suggest "release early and often."
If the current KDE desktop had gone up against Windows 3.1 the world would be running Linux right now.
except Linux+KDE would not run customers' current MS-DOS applications.. oops!