No...they'll go ahead and change their infrastructure so that it doesn't work with open source code.
Well, sometimes this works, and sometimes it fails.
Despite numerous attempts to redefine HTML, its still a fairly broadly defined language, irrespective of what IE will render..net (the concept) makes alot of sense, its just whether or not you trust M$ to implement it. (No prize for guessing my opinions on that one).
But M$ do do some things right (Office apps and development suites)..net has the potential to be one of those things, and as long as mono exists also, I look forward to it.
Yes, you read my reply wrong. I was replying to someone who suggested that this article indicated the need for firewalls, and pointing out that firewalls don't necessarily protect you from attacks like these.
I agree with most of what has been posted above. What I was pointing out in my initial post is just how quickly any system that has a routable IP address will most likely be probed. I'm not saying that firewalls are total protection. But I'm not turning off the firewall on my DSL connetion right now either.
In particular, having a windows 9X (no security) or win XP (Default user has admin rights with no password) on a machine without a firewall is likely to be compromised rather quickly.
Kind of a shame though for people on dialup or using DSL/cable DHCP connections that they lose all their reputational karma when they reboot or reconnect.
True, you do lose a bit of voting rights, but thats the price you would pay - at least you could have a working moderation system that would be hard to take out (unless you own most IP addresses on the net).
I would have thought that a bigger space based telescope would be better. Although, at 5000m, its halfway there (at least in terms amount of atmostphere above), and probably cheaper.
Wouldnt a large array of telescopes in a grid give you just as much resolution these days? You can integrate the images from lots of smaller mirrors pretty easily in software, and a small mirror is much easier to make than a big one.
Cleartype fonts and they finally fixed the Start button on the taskbar so that you can go to the extreme bottom left hand corner you can hit the Start button without having to move a couple pixels up.
Of course, you could always use the windows key for that. Anyway, in my preferred XP mode I have two rows at the bottom - one with small quick launch icons and one for the task bar proper.
If you do this the start button rises up away from the bottom corner.
If the RIAA (or some other prosecuting agency) can track down your IP #
Thinking about it, and in line with my earlier post of having a central server of moderation points:
Perhaps the central server should not send out a certificate, but just log IP addresses.
Peer at IP address A (which presumably just downloaded something) rates Peer IP-B as a good or bad site. Nothing else is kept, and the Peer at IP-A has to talk to the moderation server (To avoid spoofing its IP address).
What do you have? Something like what Google offers. For each IP address that you search from, you get a vote from all previous encounters.
What don't you do? You dont keep a record of who was at IP-A making the vote. This means that for dialup's and people behind a NAT, there is only one vote per IP. It also means that they can't be identified. Even the RIAA can't buy that many IP addresses, so it helps stop them vote rigging.
All that could be summoned to court would be a list of IP addresses that were voted on, and voters. Now the voter hasn't downloaded something illegal necessarily, and its pure speculation about IP-B that anything was shared.
I can't see that being of much use to a court: "50,000 sites said you were the best site to share from" "Yep, I keep the best Linux ISO's"
Now certainly that gives the RIAA a list of IP addresses that are sharing stuff. Then again, that's hardly secret stuff if you crack a P2P client anyway. Heck, the current Morpheus displays the IP's in its cache list already.
Ideally, the P2P clients and the moderation server encrypt this data simply to make it illegal to hack into the process - might not stop the RIAA but they couldn't use the info in a court of law because its circumventing an encryption process.:) (I know, its not an original thought.)
While we are there, this would be the reason for a new generation of P2P clients that also can encode all the useful information that the old fast track network.
How do you stop Overpeer and like-minded companies from lying about the moderation points? Why can't they give it +100, CD Quality?
You can't trust the peers to be honest - assume that the RIAA will corrupt the client software.
You can't have a central server that controls the network - assume the RIAA will shut that down.
How about a central server for moderation? It can't stop the peering and doesn't know what is being shared or by who. But it gives out secure (ie public key) certificates to any client that logs on, and then any client can then rate another server anonymously.
To stop the RIAA from just setting up 1x10e5 clients and rating themselves as fantastic, each IP address could be limited to one vote for every peer out there, or something similar. That way 1000 votes from the RIAA are nullified by 1 bad vote from someone else.
Would that work? Its got to protect the privacy of the peers and have no influence over them.
: Is there enough information in the 'onset' part of the wave to cause the reconstruction of a particle at the other end, similar to the other 'faster than light' story?
I think what they are saying is that the particle dissapears into the BE condensate, and another particle is constructed at the other side which is essentially identical. It may or may not be the same particle. In a sort of Zen like way, it might or might not be the same thing as went in, and its meaningless to ask if it is.
As for the faster than light bit, I guess that's how quickly the new particle appears on the other side.
You know, I'd be surprised if more than a couple of/. readers actually understand that paper. I just read it, and its pretty hard core. Well over my head.
Amazing what gets posted on/. Then again, no-one actually reads the articles, anyway....
most common forms of trojans and backdoors will be effectively eliminated - assuming people don't set the PC to "trust all" sources
If we already have effective DRM's (which I agree we largely do) then we could also have largely secure PC's (which we do).
Exactly how do you think that this will stop trojans when the solution to this never needed a hardware component? Effective OS security (don't even need Linux for this, can be done in windows) prevents trojans.
So why will good hardware protection add to this when people will still run everything as an administrator, mostly with a blank password, and click on the install button when asked anyway?
Palladium is not the (best) solution to viruses, and only a fool would think that this is its real purpose. Having user and admin accounts works alot better for this.
Palladium will essentially prevent you from rebuilding your kernel. It won't stop you from compiling it, but it will make your computer "untrusted", and therefore prevent you from running any program or accessing any DRM-encrypted file that requires the facilities that the "Fritz" chip will provide.
See the problem? European MP3 player is "untrusted" but works anyway. US MP3 player only works on palladium system.
US consumer can use European player in "untrusted" mode, or US player (which is trusted but doesn't play as much stuff). Most computers run in untrusted modes to support legacy apps (like apache, open office, etc).
US software writer can't make trusted software for rest of world, but rest of world can make untrusted software for US.
My interpretation: Microsoft cares little about digital rights, but benefits alot from the current support from recording industry. Unless implemented worldwide, which is unlikely.
Note also - how many people buy multizone DVD players?
My 14MHz A-1200 still seems more responsive than even some high end wintel boxen.
Yes, I have to agree. My amiga was as fast as any system made yet in terms of the windowing. It never slowed up, never ground down. Given that it did what it did as fast as it did it, I can't see how any OS can be faster in terms of user interaction than it was.
Of course, I don't think it would decompress MP3's on the fly.
Say what you like (I'd love to see them back, but if BeOS didn't fly, cant see how AmigaOS will) about it being a piece of history - it was a good piece of history.
but the problem with modern wintel hardware is that everything is being designed to run off of the CPU...Softmodems, integrated video, sound, and even integrated IDE interfaces use the CPU and System Memory
Yes, its a fault and a feature. A CPU is so flexible its cheaper to make one fast one and spread it around than 50+ hardware widgets. Having said that, more things should be on the motherboard these days - like soundcards, modems, and some general logic unit to decompress MP3's and DVD's.
I'm not a doctor or anything, but I don't think the bladder can absorb a significant amount of water. Your kidneys will use water to get the alcohol out of bloodstream, washing the waste into the bladder. You could hold it if you wanted too. I don't think it will help you stay warm,
The bladder doesn't (re)absorb water - thats what the kidneys are for. Alcohol causes a diuresis by inhibiting the effect of a naturally occuring hormone in the brain - ADH (Anti Diuretic Hormone). Alcohol also passes into the urine and drags the water with it - an osmotic effect. Retaining urine in your bladder won't keep you any warmer than passing it. You could use the heat of the urine to warm up more peripheral parts of yourself, but then again it may evaporate and cause further heat loss.
I think you can die of dehydration before you freeze to death.
Of course you can. Especially if its not that cold outside. If it is cold enough, the cold will get you first every time. It takes days to die from dehydration, but you can die from hypothermia much quicker than that.
Also you should keep moving and eat a little bit if you've got something, since both movement and digestion generate body heat.
Not bad advice, although your ability to generate heat = ability to consume oxygen, and either moving or eating will do this. However, you will use up your glucose stores rapidly if you are exercising hard, and this leads to fatigue (to some degree - you can still burn fat). If you are facing a sustained period of exertion, eating small amounts frequently helps alot.
Multiple desktops are such an obvious advantage that I can't believe they aren't as prevalent as overlapping windows.
To my mind you might as well have your windows maximised all the time and click on the panel/taskbar. Its basically the same as having workspaces. What is the point in having multiple workspaces unless you use windows at less than full screen? I've got the powertoys for XP mod (4 workspaces) and I found I stopped using it - extra workspaces just waste my time switching. Any opera/Netscape 7 fan would understand - You just need a panel to click with one button per window.
You may not like Alston (he isnt actually doing a bad job) but thats your right.
For the minister for telecommunication and the internet, he wouldn't know the difference between a tcp/ip stack and a stack of pancakes. This is the man that introduced digital TV to.au - know anyone who uses that? He brought in the datacasting laws - I'm still trying to work out what datacasting is for, and so are all the media giants, which is why.au has no datacasters. Because he doesn't have a clue about his ministry. And, by the way, this applies to most elected polititians. Very few of them know anything about their ministries, and by the time that they do, they get relocated to another one.
Exceptions to this rule might include (In Oz) Barrz Jones, Michael Woolridge and arguably John Hewson. I'm sure that the US numbers are similar.
As I understand it there, many senators don't use computers at all. At the risk of flamebait (not meant as such this applies to.au and the house of Lords in the UK about the same) the main criteria for being a US senator seems to be wealth, not knowledge or skills (though they presumably have skills to acquire the wealth). Certainly not knowledge about any specific portfolio. In.au, its alot about party loyalty (as senators are elected on party preferences). In the house of lords in the UK, they weren't elected much at all (until recently IIRC)
I heard the Xbox has a proprietary DVD player that spins backwards. Sooo.... won't that be a problem in making an Xbox of your very own?
It can read and play normal DVD's - so this shouldn't be a problem if you just want to run a linux box. Storing data from the outside in does increase the risk of edge scratches damaging the data, however.
Companies that get on this bandwagon will do well (ask Kodak), and those that pretend it isn't happening will go towards the wall (ask britannica!).My 2c worthMichael
Now that is just bizzaire. Not the quote, its mine. But this AC who posted isn't me. They did cut and paste my stuff from here:
f you're a gui man/woman, use konqueror! simply browse using ftp and group select with mouse and drag to some folder or the desktop. much more appropriate methinks to use kde to download kde:-) Thank you for the tip. That was a much easier way to download 179 files than by clicking on each one. I think that opera had problems with the multiple select for download. Konqueror handles FTP much better.
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Why should copy protection matter? Once you buy the hardware, you logically should be able to do what you like with it, since you own it.
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This will undoubtably apply to palladium hardware too then. I wish
The trouble is that just because something is sensible or correct, doesn't make it legal.
Here is the perfect example - mod chips are legal in one country, and illegal in another. A bit like EULA's in Europe vs USA.
You can't predict the law based on what seems sensible.
Michael
actually... windows 2000 is windows nt version 5. windows me is version 4.9 of the 9x kernel. i have no idea what the hell winxp is
Win XP is 5.1, IIRC
Michael
No...they'll go ahead and change their infrastructure so that it doesn't work with open source code.
.net (the concept) makes alot of sense, its just whether or not you trust M$ to implement it. (No prize for guessing my opinions on that one).
.net has the potential to be one of those things, and as long as mono exists also, I look forward to it.
Well, sometimes this works, and sometimes it fails.
Despite numerous attempts to redefine HTML, its still a fairly broadly defined language, irrespective of what IE will render.
But M$ do do some things right (Office apps and development suites).
Michael
Yes, you read my reply wrong. I was replying to someone who suggested that this article indicated the need for firewalls, and pointing out that firewalls don't necessarily protect you from attacks like these.
I agree with most of what has been posted above. What I was pointing out in my initial post is just how quickly any system that has a routable IP address will most likely be probed. I'm not saying that firewalls are total protection. But I'm not turning off the firewall on my DSL connetion right now either.
In particular, having a windows 9X (no security) or win XP (Default user has admin rights with no password) on a machine without a firewall is likely to be compromised rather quickly.
Michael
Of just how much you need a firewall these days.
Especially if you run windows.
Michael
Kind of a shame though for people on dialup or using DSL/cable DHCP connections that they lose all their reputational karma when they reboot or reconnect.
True, you do lose a bit of voting rights, but thats the price you would pay - at least you could have a working moderation system that would be hard to take out (unless you own most IP addresses on the net).
Michael
I would have thought that a bigger space based telescope would be better. Although, at 5000m, its halfway there (at least in terms amount of atmostphere above), and probably cheaper.
Wouldnt a large array of telescopes in a grid give you just as much resolution these days? You can integrate the images from lots of smaller mirrors pretty easily in software, and a small mirror is much easier to make than a big one.
Michael
Cleartype fonts and they finally fixed the Start button on the taskbar so that you can go to the extreme bottom left hand corner you can hit the Start button without having to move a couple pixels up.
Of course, you could always use the windows key for that. Anyway, in my preferred XP mode I have two rows at the bottom - one with small quick launch icons and one for the task bar proper.
If you do this the start button rises up away from the bottom corner.
Michael
Some of) RIAA's clients could give bad votes to good files, nullifying positive votes by others, and making the whole rank system worthless.
My idea was to only give one vote per IP address - so that making multiple votes from one site would have no extra benefit.
Michael
If the RIAA (or some other prosecuting agency) can track down your IP #
:) (I know, its not an original thought.)
Thinking about it, and in line with my earlier post of having a central server of moderation points:
Perhaps the central server should not send out a certificate, but just log IP addresses.
Peer at IP address A (which presumably just downloaded something) rates Peer IP-B as a good or bad site. Nothing else is kept, and the Peer at IP-A has to talk to the moderation server (To avoid spoofing its IP address).
What do you have? Something like what Google offers. For each IP address that you search from, you get a vote from all previous encounters.
What don't you do? You dont keep a record of who was at IP-A making the vote. This means that for dialup's and people behind a NAT, there is only one vote per IP. It also means that they can't be identified. Even the RIAA can't buy that many IP addresses, so it helps stop them vote rigging.
All that could be summoned to court would be a list of IP addresses that were voted on, and voters. Now the voter hasn't downloaded something illegal necessarily, and its pure speculation about IP-B that anything was shared.
I can't see that being of much use to a court:
"50,000 sites said you were the best site to share from" "Yep, I keep the best Linux ISO's"
Now certainly that gives the RIAA a list of IP addresses that are sharing stuff. Then again, that's hardly secret stuff if you crack a P2P client anyway. Heck, the current Morpheus displays the IP's in its cache list already.
Ideally, the P2P clients and the moderation server encrypt this data simply to make it illegal to hack into the process - might not stop the RIAA but they couldn't use the info in a court of law because its circumventing an encryption process.
While we are there, this would be the reason for a new generation of P2P clients that also can encode all the useful information that the old fast track network.
My 2c worth again
Michael Veltman
How do you stop Overpeer and like-minded companies from lying about the moderation points? Why can't they give it +100, CD Quality?
You can't trust the peers to be honest - assume that the RIAA will corrupt the client software.
You can't have a central server that controls the network - assume the RIAA will shut that down.
How about a central server for moderation? It can't stop the peering and doesn't know what is being shared or by who. But it gives out secure (ie public key) certificates to any client that logs on, and then any client can then rate another server anonymously.
To stop the RIAA from just setting up 1x10e5 clients and rating themselves as fantastic, each IP address could be limited to one vote for every peer out there, or something similar. That way 1000 votes from the RIAA are nullified by 1 bad vote from someone else.
Would that work? Its got to protect the privacy of the peers and have no influence over them.
Comments anyone?
Michael Veltman
That's because the truly insightful comments left the thread before they were even entered.
Hey, thats unfair. I thought my comments were insightful. They just got modded up as funny.....
Michael
: Is there enough information in the 'onset' part of the wave to cause the reconstruction of a particle at the other end, similar to the other 'faster than light' story?
I think what they are saying is that the particle dissapears into the BE condensate, and another particle is constructed at the other side which is essentially identical. It may or may not be the same particle. In a sort of Zen like way, it might or might not be the same thing as went in, and its meaningless to ask if it is.
As for the faster than light bit, I guess that's how quickly the new particle appears on the other side.
Of course, I could be way off the mark here...
Disclaimer: IANATP (theoretical physicist)
Michael
You know, I'd be surprised if more than a couple of /. readers actually understand that paper. I just read it, and its pretty hard core. Well over my head.
/. Then again, no-one actually reads the articles, anyway....
Amazing what gets posted on
Michael
most common forms of trojans and backdoors will be effectively eliminated - assuming people don't set the PC to "trust all" sources
If we already have effective DRM's (which I agree we largely do) then we could also have largely secure PC's (which we do).
Exactly how do you think that this will stop trojans when the solution to this never needed a hardware component? Effective OS security (don't even need Linux for this, can be done in windows) prevents trojans.
So why will good hardware protection add to this when people will still run everything as an administrator, mostly with a blank password, and click on the install button when asked anyway?
Palladium is not the (best) solution to viruses, and only a fool would think that this is its real purpose. Having user and admin accounts works alot better for this.
Michael
Palladium will essentially prevent you from rebuilding your kernel. It won't stop you from compiling it, but it will make your computer "untrusted", and therefore prevent you from running any program or accessing any DRM-encrypted file that requires the facilities that the "Fritz" chip will provide.
See the problem? European MP3 player is "untrusted" but works anyway. US MP3 player only works on palladium system.
US consumer can use European player in "untrusted" mode, or US player (which is trusted but doesn't play as much stuff). Most computers run in untrusted modes to support legacy apps (like apache, open office, etc).
US software writer can't make trusted software for rest of world, but rest of world can make untrusted software for US.
My interpretation: Microsoft cares little about digital rights, but benefits alot from the current support from recording industry. Unless implemented worldwide, which is unlikely.
Note also - how many people buy multizone DVD players?
Michael
My 14MHz A-1200 still seems more responsive than even some high end wintel boxen.
Yes, I have to agree. My amiga was as fast as any system made yet in terms of the windowing. It never slowed up, never ground down. Given that it did what it did as fast as it did it, I can't see how any OS can be faster in terms of user interaction than it was.
Of course, I don't think it would decompress MP3's on the fly.
Say what you like (I'd love to see them back, but if BeOS didn't fly, cant see how AmigaOS will) about it being a piece of history - it was a good piece of history.
but the problem with modern wintel hardware is that everything is being designed to run off of the CPU...Softmodems, integrated video, sound, and even integrated IDE interfaces use the CPU and System Memory
Yes, its a fault and a feature. A CPU is so flexible its cheaper to make one fast one and spread it around than 50+ hardware widgets. Having said that, more things should be on the motherboard these days - like soundcards, modems, and some general logic unit to decompress MP3's and DVD's.
Michael
I'm not a doctor or anything, but I don't think the bladder can absorb a significant amount of water. Your kidneys will use water to get the alcohol out of bloodstream, washing the waste into the bladder. You could hold it if you wanted too. I don't think it will help you stay warm,
The bladder doesn't (re)absorb water - thats what the kidneys are for. Alcohol causes a diuresis by inhibiting the effect of a naturally occuring hormone in the brain - ADH (Anti Diuretic Hormone). Alcohol also passes into the urine and drags the water with it - an osmotic effect. Retaining urine in your bladder won't keep you any warmer than passing it. You could use the heat of the urine to warm up more peripheral parts of yourself, but then again it may evaporate and cause further heat loss.
I think you can die of dehydration before you freeze to death.
Of course you can. Especially if its not that cold outside. If it is cold enough, the cold will get you first every time. It takes days to die from dehydration, but you can die from hypothermia much quicker than that.
Also you should keep moving and eat a little bit if you've got something, since both movement and digestion generate body heat.
Not bad advice, although your ability to generate heat = ability to consume oxygen, and either moving or eating will do this. However, you will use up your glucose stores rapidly if you are exercising hard, and this leads to fatigue (to some degree - you can still burn fat). If you are facing a sustained period of exertion, eating small amounts frequently helps alot.
Michael
Multiple desktops are such an obvious advantage that I can't believe they aren't as prevalent as overlapping windows.
To my mind you might as well have your windows maximised all the time and click on the panel/taskbar. Its basically the same as having workspaces. What is the point in having multiple workspaces unless you use windows at less than full screen? I've got the powertoys for XP mod (4 workspaces) and I found I stopped using it - extra workspaces just waste my time switching. Any opera/Netscape 7 fan would understand - You just need a panel to click with one button per window.
Michael
You may not like Alston (he isnt actually doing a bad job) but thats your right.
.au - know anyone who uses that? He brought in the datacasting laws - I'm still trying to work out what datacasting is for, and so are all the media giants, which is why .au has no datacasters. Because he doesn't have a clue about his ministry. And, by the way, this applies to most elected polititians. Very few of them know anything about their ministries, and by the time that they do, they get relocated to another one.
.au and the house of Lords in the UK about the same) the main criteria for being a US senator seems to be wealth, not knowledge or skills (though they presumably have skills to acquire the wealth). Certainly not knowledge about any specific portfolio. In .au, its alot about party loyalty (as senators are elected on party preferences). In the house of lords in the UK, they weren't elected much at all (until recently IIRC)
For the minister for telecommunication and the internet, he wouldn't know the difference between a tcp/ip stack and a stack of pancakes. This is the man that introduced digital TV to
Exceptions to this rule might include (In Oz) Barrz Jones, Michael Woolridge and arguably John Hewson. I'm sure that the US numbers are similar.
As I understand it there, many senators don't use computers at all. At the risk of flamebait (not meant as such this applies to
Michael
Do we really need /. to let us know when a kernel is released?
Of course, if you don't want to hear about linux, you can always exclude it from your topic list in your preferences.
Michael
I heard the Xbox has a proprietary DVD player that spins backwards. Sooo.... won't that be a problem in making an Xbox of your very own?
It can read and play normal DVD's - so this shouldn't be a problem if you just want to run a linux box. Storing data from the outside in does increase the risk of edge scratches damaging the data, however.
Michael
Sorry, watch out for the space in that last URL
By the way, what's the correct way to insert a URL with slashdot?
Companies that get on this bandwagon will do well (ask Kodak), and those that pretend it isn't happening will go towards the wall (ask britannica!).My 2c worthMichael
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Now that is just bizzaire. Not the quote, its mine. But this AC who posted isn't me. They did cut and paste my stuff from here:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=32087&cid=3
Got a +5 insightful then, gets similar now.
I guess that's a cheap way to score karma - copy someone else's post that did well and repost.
I guess imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.
Michael
f you're a gui man/woman, use konqueror! simply browse using ftp and group select with mouse and drag to some folder or the desktop. much more appropriate methinks to use kde to download kde :-)
Thank you for the tip. That was a much easier way to download 179 files than by clicking on each one. I think that opera had problems with the multiple select for download. Konqueror handles FTP much better.
Michael