Even when the patent runs out, I encourage you to boycott the RSA algorithm. Please, please, use the Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange in combination with DES or a one-time pad. You'll feel much better, and sleep easer at night knowing that your algorithm hasn't been tainted by an evil patent.
Actually, no, because I didn't gain karma from the mod up either. And somebody modded me down before, and that didn't affect it either. And I'm going to post this with the bonus, and somebody will mod that down, too...
Hey, cool. Something broke in the moderation system and I can't lose karma anymore. Mod this all down - it doesn't make any difference anymore. Hahaha! My karma is stuck at 113!
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws <-> if the laws are not more numerous (growing), then the state is not becoming more corrupt.
Ahem. So, I can take military control of the US through a coup, erase all laws except "11223 is prime dictator", and then claim that the state didn't become more corrupt?
This is just another news story on the update on the previous carnivore article. Before you claimed it as a loss - they're not actually forced to reveal anything - and now you spin it to a win! That's as bad as MS's spin on the courts. You hypocrites.
The problem with the old order is that it's too concerned about the benifit for themselves. The EU's main opposition to Microsoft is that it isn't European. It's a league of Socialist policies designed to promote the EU at the expense of further technological and social development. There is nothing to say, except that this is the selfish policy that will lead to crumbling of our modern society.
When the revolution comes, the focus of the state will be on further technological and social development, not some economopolitical agenda that the EU pushes for its own selfish benifit.
I'm getting sick of the rampant confusion, speculation, and pure FUD in these comments. This is what it's about:
Carnivore is the email equivalent of a phone-tapping system. Under federal law, your wireless phone service provider is required to be able to give you a tap; this was quite a major change for some systems. The FBI needs wireless phone tapping capability for all systems to perform its duties. The same goes for email - it needs to be able to tap your email. You have the option of an in-house system or an FBI-provided system. Earthlink chose one of their own writing. If you can't/don't want to/don't know how to institute one of your choice, then you get the FBI's solution by default.
I hereby propose that we make GNU Herbivore - a system that provides the requirements of the FBI (email monitoring with a court order) so that those who wish to view the source, etc. can feel safe. This would eliminate the problem. That means you, Open Source community!
(And please don't call this post a troll. It's not.)
That's pretty much what I do. In general, though, I'll just start coding in compilable C and making up data structures, helper functions, etc. as I go. It just sort of all falls together when you're not worried about the architecture of the program.
This is a troll, if anything. Ask a piano player about even control. While your right hand is stronger, with practice your left hand can be just as controlled as your right.
There's a big problem with this - your email is now linked to who you are in meatspace! If I give out a usps email address, I give out my physical address - which is my name, my phone number, and my social security number, for those with access to databases. Add to that l33t kiddies - what happens if one of them decides to harras you? Expect mail bombs. Expect phone calls at 1am. Expect stolen identity.
This ought to be illegal, on the grounds that it's the greatest breach of privacy ever concieved.
Hmmm... this summary didn't go into that. C'mon, I want the gory technical details in the article!! Is that too much to ask? And I'm having trouble with the words "too technical"... what does that mean?
CMIIW, but I thought most device drivers (at least on linux) were manipulated by opening a file in the/dev directory (such as the one NVdriver creates) and performing ioctls on it... maybe I was mistaken.
If you think about it, your current computer really is a small "distributed system" - you have (at least) one processor for general-purpose data computation, one to handle video, another to handle audio, etc. But the problem is that most programs aren't written to be distributed (or even threaded!!) and as such distributed OS's tend not to have much of an advantage. There are very few things that can be distributed to a good effect over a network of equal processors, even SMP for threading doesn't have much use beyond two processors (unless you're using your computer as a server-farm in a box).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that the ROM files came on the system disc of your Mac because they are retooled for newer units?
I wonder if it would be possible to make a port of this utility that runs straight from Mach; boot up the computer, computer loads Mach and starts the emulator, which then boots MacOS. Third-party Mac clone. Sweeeet.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that the ROM files came on the system disc of your Mac because they are retooled for newer units?
I wonder if it would be possible to make a port of this utility that runs straight from Mach; boot up the computer, computer loads Mach and starts the emulator, which then boots MacOS. Third-part Mac clone. Sweeeet.
OT, but what's with your URL? Do you work for Metrowerks? AFAICT, the only thing interesting on that page is the part at the botton where it says that Metrowerks is part of Motorola.
Just design your mobo to Darwin. Since Aqua (if it's well-behaved) will be using ioctl's and stuff to access the hardware, it's immune from having to speak to ROMs. If you design your mobo so that all ioctl's work properly, then you've got a winner.
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C'mon, it's gnarphlager. What did you expect?
Nooo! Say it ain't so. I put one in for you.
Hehe - if your karma is over the karma limit, your karma will stick there. Gotta love slashdot. Any cool ideas for things to post with the bonus?
You might find this bit off of #userfriendly funny in the context of pop music...
How intelligent.
Even when the patent runs out, I encourage you to boycott the RSA algorithm. Please, please, use the Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange in combination with DES or a one-time pad. You'll feel much better, and sleep easer at night knowing that your algorithm hasn't been tainted by an evil patent.
Actually, no, because I didn't gain karma from the mod up either. And somebody modded me down before, and that didn't affect it either. And I'm going to post this with the bonus, and somebody will mod that down, too...
Hey, cool. Something broke in the moderation system and I can't lose karma anymore. Mod this all down - it doesn't make any difference anymore. Hahaha! My karma is stuck at 113!
That's right, bitches. When the revolution comes, we'll wipe out those stinking social classes.
Ahem. So, I can take military control of the US through a coup, erase all laws except "11223 is prime dictator", and then claim that the state didn't become more corrupt?
This is just another news story on the update on the previous carnivore article. Before you claimed it as a loss - they're not actually forced to reveal anything - and now you spin it to a win! That's as bad as MS's spin on the courts. You hypocrites.
When the revolution comes, the focus of the state will be on further technological and social development, not some economopolitical agenda that the EU pushes for its own selfish benifit.
Carnivore is the email equivalent of a phone-tapping system. Under federal law, your wireless phone service provider is required to be able to give you a tap; this was quite a major change for some systems. The FBI needs wireless phone tapping capability for all systems to perform its duties. The same goes for email - it needs to be able to tap your email. You have the option of an in-house system or an FBI-provided system. Earthlink chose one of their own writing. If you can't/don't want to/don't know how to institute one of your choice, then you get the FBI's solution by default.
I hereby propose that we make GNU Herbivore - a system that provides the requirements of the FBI (email monitoring with a court order) so that those who wish to view the source, etc. can feel safe. This would eliminate the problem. That means you, Open Source community!
(And please don't call this post a troll. It's not.)
OT: Several places now use VMware to teach OS classes. Cool.
That's pretty much what I do. In general, though, I'll just start coding in compilable C and making up data structures, helper functions, etc. as I go. It just sort of all falls together when you're not worried about the architecture of the program.
I am. And I'm worried about Echelon, too. Up until now, it's been hard to link email->physical address. Now it'll be completely easy.
This is a troll, if anything. Ask a piano player about even control. While your right hand is stronger, with practice your left hand can be just as controlled as your right.
This ought to be illegal, on the grounds that it's the greatest breach of privacy ever concieved.
Hmmm... this summary didn't go into that. C'mon, I want the gory technical details in the article!! Is that too much to ask? And I'm having trouble with the words "too technical"... what does that mean?
CMIIW, but I thought most device drivers (at least on linux) were manipulated by opening a file in the /dev directory (such as the one NVdriver creates) and performing ioctls on it... maybe I was mistaken.
If you think about it, your current computer really is a small "distributed system" - you have (at least) one processor for general-purpose data computation, one to handle video, another to handle audio, etc. But the problem is that most programs aren't written to be distributed (or even threaded!!) and as such distributed OS's tend not to have much of an advantage. There are very few things that can be distributed to a good effect over a network of equal processors, even SMP for threading doesn't have much use beyond two processors (unless you're using your computer as a server-farm in a box).
I wonder if it would be possible to make a port of this utility that runs straight from Mach; boot up the computer, computer loads Mach and starts the emulator, which then boots MacOS. Third-party Mac clone. Sweeeet.
I wonder if it would be possible to make a port of this utility that runs straight from Mach; boot up the computer, computer loads Mach and starts the emulator, which then boots MacOS. Third-part Mac clone. Sweeeet.
OT, but what's with your URL? Do you work for Metrowerks? AFAICT, the only thing interesting on that page is the part at the botton where it says that Metrowerks is part of Motorola.
Just design your mobo to Darwin. Since Aqua (if it's well-behaved) will be using ioctl's and stuff to access the hardware, it's immune from having to speak to ROMs. If you design your mobo so that all ioctl's work properly, then you've got a winner.