or imagine a giant P2P random number generator, something like Linux's entropy pool, but across many nodes. The problem with this is that you cannot trust external sources for input, but perhaps you could "cross the streams" and safely mix them?
It reminds me of Random.org, a web site/service that generates random numbers for you. I think they even sell CDs of random numbers.
Matt Dillon (of FreeBSD fame, not the actor:-) has a new database startup company called Backplane . They are creating a high-performance, distributed database which should be massively scalable (using many small servers ala Google's web farm). It's open source, too.
I've started gardening recently and have a lot of yard waste. I'm curious about creating a compost pile. Any tips or bad composting experiences? I remember someone here on Slashdot mentioned a rodent-free, odor-free composting product (from the UK?).
How do you know when your pile is done? Some web sites I've read say "6 weeks to 2 years." Gee, that helps a lot..:-)
The article says that his rocket resembles a cement mixer, not that it actually was a cement mixer.
"But other rocket experts are worried, not least because the Thunderbird capsule resembles a converted cement mixer, containing sheets of hardboard and a few computer joysticks."
I think you've identified the LP's big problem. Most people think Libertarians are all pot-smoking', gun-totin' survivalists who belong to baby-killin' militia groups.
This is a PR problem. The LP has a good message, but nobody is willing to listen. I think the LP should rename itself the "Freedom Party". The LP has a good message with clear principles: Freedom is good. Hell, I bet most Americans couldn't even spell "Libertarian." They don't what Liberty means or what a Libertarian believes in, but they understand Freedom.
I believe in the Libertarian Party and have donated my hard-earned cash to them on occasion. I have also donated money to the Green Party. The Green Party and the LP are not oppposites, as frequently portrayed in LP literature. They both believe in freedom (just some of the details are different).
Maybe the Green Party and LP can colloborate on the freedom issues they do agree on. Together they can push harder on those important issues and show that a very diverse group of people can work together on the important issues.
MIME-RPC is a protocol for applications written in different languages and on different platforms to communicate with each other using a public standards:
It works with the millions of already deployed web apps and web browsers (without plugins)
It handles all Internet data including Unicode, JPEG, XML, etc.
It works over both HTTP and SMTP (web and email)
It protects application programmers from wire level concerns.
It provides complete interlanguage object serialization (cyclic refs.) as well as interlanguage messaging
It supports two way communication over client/server connections
It is easy to implement.
It doesn't require an extra XML parser when your application doesn't need one.
Its specification is short and unambiguous.
It leverages existing transport layer features like encryption, proxying, asynchrony, streaming/chunking, etc.
Notes on SOAP vs MIME-RPC:
SOAP does not interoperate with existing browser based apps. MIME-RPC does.
SOAP does not do generic object serialization
SOAP forces the programmer to think about type coercion because it hides foreign data as base64encoded rather than labeling it with a useful type.
SOAP does not handle delivery of XML or other types well. MIME-RPC does.
The SOAP with attachments spec basically says to use MIME. If you are doing that, you might as well use MIME for everything (and therefore MIME-RPC).
The SOAP with attachments spec is ambiguous about the type of attached objects. Should the type be interpreted according to its mime content-type or according to some XML schema? MIME-RPC provides an unambiguous interpretation.
SOAP constrains method and variable names to be consistent with XML tag names. Many languages (e.g. SQL) allow method and parameter names that are not permitted in XML tags.
MIME-RPC is much easier to implement correctly than SOAP
it would be interesting to also superimpose graphs for federal income and spending. Was Clinton's budget surplusses caused by increased taxes, reduced spending, or both? Was Clinton a "tax and spend" democrat?
GWB seems to be decreasing taxes while increasing spending. That doesn't make much business sense to me.
This review of RH9 documented so many Linux quirks, caveats, workarounds, and incompatibilities that I, as a Windows user, first assumed it was an April Fool's joke. Having read the entire article, I sadly admit this must be real..
If you have nothing to hide, "Boss, Pointy Haired", then why do you post on Slashdot using a pseudonym? Please post your full name, email address, home address, and telephone number. The CIA and FBI would like to talk with you. You have nothing to hide, after all..
The ACLU is all against school prayer and for the removing of "under God" in the constitution. And that is not Liberty.
What if the Pledge of Allegiance said "under Allah", "under Zeus", or "under Satan"? Suddenly, I imagine that your idea of liberty is to remove those phrases. But then what of the liberty of Muslims and Satanists?
If the Pledge of Allegiance made to reference to God, that is not the same thing as saying "God is dead". If you wrote a post on Slashdot that did not include the phrase "under God", is that the same thing as writing "God is dead"? Obviously not. The phrase "under God" was added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954, promoted by the Knights of Columbus. I say, let's return the Pledge of Allegiance to its original version from 1893.
My perception as a civil libertarian is that Christians are actively fighting against my freedoms.
Consider this. Suddenly, your story doesn't sound so pleasant or acceptable.
A christian couple ran a pop and mom copycenter. Now a nigger came in and copied some nigger stuff. They had already accepted payment when they saw what it was, so they finished the transaction and then kindly asked the nigger to not come in their store in the future. There were two other copycenters in the same street, bothe less than 1 KM both ways. Yet the ACLU sued. Now this witch wasn't dependent on this particular center, they had no monopoly or so.
As I see it, if I am truly free I shouldn't be obligated to provide a service to someone if that truly offends me and the has a serious alternative.
Another market where Flash is an important "dark horse candidate" is streaming video. More people have Flash installed than Windows Media, RealVideo, or Quicktime. And Flash is a more flexible and cross-platform player than those "ad-ware" video players. Lots of big name web sites, like MSNBC.com, use Flash video right in their news articles without having to launch an external application.
Encryption isn't a large part of it - I think any encryption involved in an application would have to be created by the author or done via the clent and server rather than the flash app - though I admit I don't know much about the subject or server side flash-products.
The Flash Player does not have any built-in encryption, but you can use SSL to communicate with a server. If you want encryption at a higher level than transport layer encryption, some ambitious people have already implemented crypto code in ActionScript!
Well, don't forget that CNN and NPR had US Army "psy-ops" officers working in their newsrooms as "interns". WTF?!! Gee, I wonder why this news story was not more widely published in the US. The article below was originally published in the Guardian UK.
SO your sitting at a stop light and notice the trck approaching you from the rear is not slowing down. As a intelligent being, you move into the intersection and get out of the way.
You are probably safer to be in a car that is rear-ended than a car in from the side in the middle of an intersection. And if your car is rear-ended, then the driver in back is guilty, by legal definition. If you drive through a red light into the middle of an intersection, then you may be at fault for a collision.
Intel: The Microsoft Strongarm compiler is old and does not have XScale optimizations. You need a newer compiler with XScale optimizations.
Me: Where can I download it? Can you send me a CD?
Intel: Sorry, we don't have any compilers with XScale optimizations. Better luck next time!
Eventually, Intel gave us a beta XScale compiler, but even with all optmiziations turned on, it produced code LARGER and SLOWER than Microsoft's Strongarm compiler. And the XScale compiler seemed to be written by some company called Northwood, not Intel.
Ironically, XScale is not a dead-end product. The Strongarm is the dead-end product. Intel says that XScale is the future! I think their new Centrino mobile chipset uses XScale. Maybe the XScale architecture is more scalable and will eventually "ramp up" faster than Strongarm could..?
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or imagine a giant P2P random number generator, something like Linux's entropy pool, but across many nodes. The problem with this is that you cannot trust external sources for input, but perhaps you could "cross the streams" and safely mix them?
It reminds me of Random.org, a web site/service that generates random numbers for you. I think they even sell CDs of random numbers.
1. Random numbers
2. ???
3. Profit!!!
ok, so SGI is moving from IRIX to Windows and Linux. So how many IRIX users will be transitioning from IRIX to NetBSD?
Matt Dillon (of FreeBSD fame, not the actor
I've started gardening recently and have a lot of yard waste. I'm curious about creating a compost pile. Any tips or bad composting experiences? I remember someone here on Slashdot mentioned a rodent-free, odor-free composting product (from the UK?).
How do you know when your pile is done? Some web sites I've read say "6 weeks to 2 years." Gee, that helps a lot..
The article says that his rocket resembles a cement mixer, not that it actually was a cement mixer.
"But other rocket experts are worried, not least because the Thunderbird capsule resembles a converted cement mixer, containing sheets of hardboard and a few computer joysticks."
In Soviet Russia, Soviet Russia is disappeared by you!
I think you've identified the LP's big problem. Most people think Libertarians are all pot-smoking', gun-totin' survivalists who belong to baby-killin' militia groups.
This is a PR problem. The LP has a good message, but nobody is willing to listen. I think the LP should rename itself the "Freedom Party". The LP has a good message with clear principles: Freedom is good. Hell, I bet most Americans couldn't even spell "Libertarian." They don't what Liberty means or what a Libertarian believes in, but they understand Freedom.
I believe in the Libertarian Party and have donated my hard-earned cash to them on occasion. I have also donated money to the Green Party. The Green Party and the LP are not oppposites, as frequently portrayed in LP literature. They both believe in freedom (just some of the details are different).
Maybe the Green Party and LP can colloborate on the freedom issues they do agree on. Together they can push harder on those important issues and show that a very diverse group of people can work together on the important issues.
Iraq held elections, too. Saddam Hussein won.
A quiet alternative is MIME-RPC
MIME-RPC is a protocol for applications written in different languages and on different platforms to communicate with each other using a public standards:
Notes on SOAP vs MIME-RPC:
why do you hate the owner of Landmark Theatres? and where can we find more information about his stripper wife?
it would be interesting to also superimpose graphs for federal income and spending. Was Clinton's budget surplusses caused by increased taxes, reduced spending, or both? Was Clinton a "tax and spend" democrat?
GWB seems to be decreasing taxes while increasing spending. That doesn't make much business sense to me.
I love their ".blurb" filename extension. Where can I find more details about the
This review of RH9 documented so many Linux quirks, caveats, workarounds, and incompatibilities that I, as a Windows user, first assumed it was an April Fool's joke. Having read the entire article, I sadly admit this must be real..
Here are some nice graphs of BitTorrent's network traffic before and after RH9. Now that is some bandwidth!
http://f.scarywater.net/graphs.html
did you report these kernel bugs in the linux-kernel mailing list? I bet someone is interested, especially for features that worked fine in Linux 2.4.
If you have nothing to hide, "Boss, Pointy Haired", then why do you post on Slashdot using a pseudonym? Please post your full name, email address, home address, and telephone number. The CIA and FBI would like to talk with you. You have nothing to hide, after all..
The ACLU is all against school prayer and for the removing of "under God" in the constitution.
And that is not Liberty.
What if the Pledge of Allegiance said "under Allah", "under Zeus", or "under Satan"? Suddenly, I imagine that your idea of liberty is to remove those phrases. But then what of the liberty of Muslims and Satanists?
If the Pledge of Allegiance made to reference to God, that is not the same thing as saying "God is dead". If you wrote a post on Slashdot that did not include the phrase "under God", is that the same thing as writing "God is dead"? Obviously not. The phrase "under God" was added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954, promoted by the Knights of Columbus. I say, let's return the Pledge of Allegiance to its original version from 1893.
My perception as a civil libertarian is that Christians are actively fighting against my freedoms.
Consider this. Suddenly, your story doesn't sound so pleasant or acceptable.
A christian couple ran a pop and mom copycenter.
Now a nigger came in and copied some nigger stuff.
They had already accepted payment when they saw what it was, so they finished the transaction and then kindly asked the nigger to not come in their store in the future.
There were two other copycenters in the same street, bothe less than 1 KM both ways.
Yet the ACLU sued.
Now this witch wasn't dependent on this particular center, they had no monopoly or so.
As I see it, if I am truly free I shouldn't be obligated to provide a service to someone if that truly offends me and the has a serious alternative.
what KDE theme are you using? The design is pretty cool.
Another market where Flash is an important "dark horse candidate" is streaming video. More people have Flash installed than Windows Media, RealVideo, or Quicktime. And Flash is a more flexible and cross-platform player than those "ad-ware" video players. Lots of big name web sites, like MSNBC.com, use Flash video right in their news articles without having to launch an external application.
And just today, Macromedia announced the Flash Player 6 for Microsoft Pocket PCs, including support for streaming video.
Flash Player 6 For Pocket PC Now Available!
Encryption isn't a large part of it - I think any encryption involved in an application would have to be created by the author or done via the clent and server rather than the flash app - though I admit I don't know much about the subject or server side flash-products.
The Flash Player does not have any built-in encryption, but you can use SSL to communicate with a server. If you want encryption at a higher level than transport layer encryption, some ambitious people have already implemented crypto code in ActionScript!
RSA encryption in Flash ActionScript
SHA-1 hashing in Flash ActionScript
Well, don't forget that CNN and NPR had US Army "psy-ops" officers working in their newsrooms as "interns". WTF?!! Gee, I wonder why this news story was not more widely published in the US. The article below was originally published in the Guardian UK.
"CNN, NPR Let Army Staff Into Newsroom "
SO your sitting at a stop light and notice the trck approaching you from the rear is not slowing down. As a intelligent being, you move into the intersection and get out of the way.
You are probably safer to be in a car that is rear-ended than a car in from the side in the middle of an intersection. And if your car is rear-ended, then the driver in back is guilty, by legal definition. If you drive through a red light into the middle of an intersection, then you may be at fault for a collision.
Intel told us the same story:
Intel: The Microsoft Strongarm compiler is old and does not have XScale optimizations. You need a newer compiler with XScale optimizations.
Me: Where can I download it? Can you send me a CD?
Intel: Sorry, we don't have any compilers with XScale optimizations. Better luck next time!
Eventually, Intel gave us a beta XScale compiler, but even with all optmiziations turned on, it produced code LARGER and SLOWER than Microsoft's Strongarm compiler. And the XScale compiler seemed to be written by some company called Northwood, not Intel.
Ironically, XScale is not a dead-end product. The Strongarm is the dead-end product. Intel says that XScale is the future! I think their new Centrino mobile chipset uses XScale. Maybe the XScale architecture is more scalable and will eventually "ramp up" faster than Strongarm could..?