The problem is not existance of sensitive information, the problem is who and how defines what is sensitive. Everybody (well, most) are OK with existance of classified information (created by military or intelligence, as in your case). But when not classified information (i.e. one that was obtained without access to any military secrets or other classified info) becomes "sensitive" and prohibited from publishing, this is an issue.
However, if they do this, what's stopping them from saying "Ban open-source or you lose Windows?"
Only common sense. Selling Windows is a profitable business, so there is no reason NOT to sell Windows. Existance of alternatives does not change anything. Selling XBOX is not profitable (money are made on games), so refusing to sell XBOX if money can't be made on games is reasonable.
What I don't understand is what is the big difference between Australian and imported games? It is probably the same games, the same royalties are being paid, and so on. Australians, can you explain this to us?
Also, notice that according to press relewase 970 will be the single core version of Power4, so you should look at the green box closer to Sun's suckers, not at the orange one. Press release also notices "economy version" of Power4, so it may be even slower.
They would better remove the usual COM and parallel ports - who the hell needs them now? Sure not the people who would buy this thing. It would save them one third of the back panel space and sure lots of space inside.
I will also wait till this thing gets build-in Bluetooth and WiFi, so I don't have to connect zillions of cables that take more space than the box itself.
My invention improves upon the 80 year old One-Time Pad encryption turning it into a 'Many-Time Pad'.
Don't spend yoour money on patenting this. Better find a good cryptographer, and explain him/her your algorithm. He/she will tell you what is wrong with it, and saves you lot of money.
May be the answer is whether you are a monopoly or not? From the post:
So, in effect, software piracy in countries like China helps Microsoft to compete with Linux." Meanwhile, the RIAA doesn't feel the same logic applies to record sales in the U.S.
Even the poster of the article argees MS has something to compete with (Linux). RIAA does not, it owns every record. So it can crack down on piracy without benefiting competitor.
Another fallacy. RISC chips can usually attain significantly higher clock speeds than CISC chips, but at the expense of doing less per clock. This does not make either one automatically "faster" in terms of total computational power, just different in their approaches to speed.
Absolutely right.
And when you consider current clock speeds (~2.5 GHz P4 chips vs. ~1.2 GHz PowerPC chips) multiplied by PowerPC doing less per clock, you get the picture.
Although situation is not that bad, P4 is somewhat faster than PowerPC now.
I remember an article on Slashdot way ago about Ogg, and at that time, there were two major problems with Ogg.
1. Nobody checked that it is patent-free, i.e. that no patent by third party covers the code and algorithms. Basically, Vorbis behaved like Linus - ignore patents, and if they sue us we rewrite everything (or hire a hit man to kill the suckers). So there is no guarantee against Vorbis format change caused by third party, and users having to recode all their files.
2. There were no real specs of the format except the code itself. So there could be no independent implementations of the format (at that time). Everybody just grabbed Ogg code and recompiled. Again, no guarantee against format change since there are/were no specs.
The matters of legality here seem almost nodifferent from what the government normally does to catch other 'common' criminals like drug dealers...they create a sting and snag their men. Just becuase it involves computers and not drug traffiking/dealing does not make it much different.
The difference is that normally if FBI wants to do any operation in other country, it had to cooperate with that country officials. If they just come to another country, and do a search without obtaining search permit from that country's officials, that would be a crime.
As you rightfully mentioned, just becuase it involves computers and not drug traffiking/dealing does not make it much different - FBI performing illigal search in other country [Russia] and hacking computers in Russia without obtaining permit from Russian court was commiting a crime. Pretty straightforwrd, is not it?
It was not their [Russian hackers] program that obtained passwords. FBI installed network sniffer and keyboard logger and watched as they logged in to their computers in Russia from FBI computers. After obtaining passwords, FBI hacked computers in Russia to obtain evidence.
What is interesting, is that those hacker had "no expectation of privacy" according to US judge. Does it implies that in US you have no expectation of privacy when using computer at work, public library or internet kiosk?
SCSL permits others to see and modify source code, but gives Sun the authority to accept or reject those changes.
Strange. Anybody can maintain their own source code branch, and accept or reject any changes from anybody in the tree he maintains. Do we now need a license for it? Why Sun needed this license?
As an american slashdotter, i'd like to point out why the US doesn't more readily adopt linux.
2. Microsoft license sweeps
Strange, I thought (and all computer magazines agreed) that license sweeps push people towards Linux. Just thing about it: if MS rise price or more strictly enforces licenses, people have to pay more. So they look for alternatives. So they switch to Linux. A lot of articles at/. blamed MS for license sweeps.
Am I wrong?
Oh, no, forget about this. As a good slashdotter you learned that you can simultaneously blame Microsoft for doing and not doing the same things.
No, the ballistic rockets suitable for delivery of bomb to other side of the planet can't deliver it to a target a few hundred miles away. They are just not suitable for this.
E.g. minimum range for Russian balistic missiles is about 2,000 kilometers. They just can't be programmed for shorter range without massive redesign.
Middle and short range strategic missiles are used for hundred miles ranges, and they are very different beasts.
the highest is recommended if the system is being used a server
But it also asks if I want server, workstation or gamer configuration. Why does not it use answer to this more sane question to security settings?
leaving only 2 other choices for someone wanting to try it out a desktop, either of which will work
It does not tell me in this dialog not to use highest settings for desktops. I could figure out I don't need highest, but what answer do you expect from your mom? She want more security:)
If both options will work, what is the difference? Why am I asked at all?
I would say installing Mandrake is easier than installing windows
Come on, any idea of "ease" of Mandrake installation is dead after its setup asks "How much security do you want?" with 4 or 5 levels from more-secure to less-secure, with no explanation how this will affect the operating system.
Do you expect novice user to be able to give a reasonalbe answer to this stupid question? Do you expect anybody but full-time Linux admin to be able to make sane decision? Should this be askes at all (full-time admin will run his perl scripts after setup anyway)?
request_module[block-major-8]: Root fs not mounted
VFS: Cannot open root device "" or 08:02
Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:02
Yep, it booted, but I don't think you can do anything now.
The linear speed of Earth revolving around sun, sun around galaxy, etc does not matter - everything moves relative to each other. What matters is acceleration. All mentioned rotations do change the clock speed, but proportionally to curvature of the orbit, not just speed. Acceleration of the jets was obviously more noticeable than rotation of Earth.
You can stop it from coming on and being VISIBLE in the system tray, or from bugging you about a Passport. But you can't stop it from loading without a hack.
Bullshit. In Tools\Options menu there is an option "Run this program when Windows starts". If you turn it off, Messenger will never show up again.
Most professional PBX'es offer call through feature. I.e. they can be configured so that when power goes down or host PC crashes, external lines are connected directly to predefined internal lines (assuming you use regular analog phones). So you lack all the features of PBX and extra extensions, but at least you have regular phone. Worth checking if the PBX supports this before buying.
He did not mean corn is good for cows. He meant that corn is good for making more money out of a single cow.
According to James Russell, USDA researcher working at Cornell, an all-grain diet is not natural to cattle.
Growth hormone is absolutely not natural for cows, but most of US cows are fed with it to produce more meat. Well, humans get this hormone from beef, and it causes all kinds of disorders, and is banned in most countries except US. This does not stop US beef industry from using it to get some extra cash.
Pig's and sheep's bones are absolutely not natural for cows, but UK used to feed their cows with it to produce more meat. Well, sometimes it causes Cow Madness, but it could not stop UK farmers from making some extra cash.
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The problem is not existance of sensitive information, the problem is who and how defines what is sensitive. Everybody (well, most) are OK with existance of classified information (created by military or intelligence, as in your case). But when not classified information (i.e. one that was obtained without access to any military secrets or other classified info) becomes "sensitive" and prohibited from publishing, this is an issue.
Only common sense. Selling Windows is a profitable business, so there is no reason NOT to sell Windows. Existance of alternatives does not change anything. Selling XBOX is not profitable (money are made on games), so refusing to sell XBOX if money can't be made on games is reasonable.
What I don't understand is what is the big difference between Australian and imported games? It is probably the same games, the same royalties are being paid, and so on. Australians, can you explain this to us?
Also, notice that according to press relewase 970 will be the single core version of Power4, so you should look at the green box closer to Sun's suckers, not at the orange one. Press release also notices "economy version" of Power4, so it may be even slower.
They would better remove the usual COM and parallel ports - who the hell needs them now? Sure not the people who would buy this thing. It would save them one third of the back panel space and sure lots of space inside.
I will also wait till this thing gets build-in Bluetooth and WiFi, so I don't have to connect zillions of cables that take more space than the box itself.
Really, there is no such thing as Many-time Pad.
Nissan Motors did not think about internet when this guy opened his business. So why his business should suffer just because they awaked now?
So, in effect, software piracy in countries like China helps Microsoft to compete with Linux." Meanwhile, the RIAA doesn't feel the same logic applies to record sales in the U.S.
Even the poster of the article argees MS has something to compete with (Linux). RIAA does not, it owns every record. So it can crack down on piracy without benefiting competitor.Absolutely right.
And when you consider current clock speeds (~2.5 GHz P4 chips vs. ~1.2 GHz PowerPC chips) multiplied by PowerPC doing less per clock, you get the picture.
Although situation is not that bad, P4 is somewhat faster than PowerPC now.
They will have too.
:)
Otherwise then can't even use GNULIBC (it is licensed under Lesser GPL).
1. Nobody checked that it is patent-free, i.e. that no patent by third party covers the code and algorithms. Basically, Vorbis behaved like Linus - ignore patents, and if they sue us we rewrite everything (or hire a hit man to kill the suckers). So there is no guarantee against Vorbis format change caused by third party, and users having to recode all their files.
2. There were no real specs of the format except the code itself. So there could be no independent implementations of the format (at that time). Everybody just grabbed Ogg code and recompiled. Again, no guarantee against format change since there are/were no specs.
I wonder if anything changed since that time?
The difference is that normally if FBI wants to do any operation in other country, it had to cooperate with that country officials. If they just come to another country, and do a search without obtaining search permit from that country's officials, that would be a crime.
As you rightfully mentioned, just becuase it involves computers and not drug traffiking/dealing does not make it much different - FBI performing illigal search in other country [Russia] and hacking computers in Russia without obtaining permit from Russian court was commiting a crime. Pretty straightforwrd, is not it?
What is interesting, is that those hacker had "no expectation of privacy" according to US judge. Does it implies that in US you have no expectation of privacy when using computer at work, public library or internet kiosk?
Strange. Anybody can maintain their own source code branch, and accept or reject any changes from anybody in the tree he maintains. Do we now need a license for it? Why Sun needed this license?
Strange, I thought (and all computer magazines agreed) that license sweeps push people towards Linux. Just thing about it: if MS rise price or more strictly enforces licenses, people have to pay more. So they look for alternatives. So they switch to Linux. A lot of articles at /. blamed MS for license sweeps.
Am I wrong?
Oh, no, forget about this. As a good slashdotter you learned that you can simultaneously blame Microsoft for doing and not doing the same things.
E.g. minimum range for Russian balistic missiles is about 2,000 kilometers. They just can't be programmed for shorter range without massive redesign.
Middle and short range strategic missiles are used for hundred miles ranges, and they are very different beasts.
But it also asks if I want server, workstation or gamer configuration. Why does not it use answer to this more sane question to security settings?
It does not tell me in this dialog not to use highest settings for desktops. I could figure out I don't need highest, but what answer do you expect from your mom? She want more security :)
If both options will work, what is the difference? Why am I asked at all?
Come on, any idea of "ease" of Mandrake installation is dead after its setup asks "How much security do you want?" with 4 or 5 levels from more-secure to less-secure, with no explanation how this will affect the operating system.
Do you expect novice user to be able to give a reasonalbe answer to this stupid question? Do you expect anybody but full-time Linux admin to be able to make sane decision? Should this be askes at all (full-time admin will run his perl scripts after setup anyway)?
You mean boxing of primitives as implemented in .NET, right? They do exactly this.
The linear speed of Earth revolving around sun, sun around galaxy, etc does not matter - everything moves relative to each other. What matters is acceleration. All mentioned rotations do change the clock speed, but proportionally to curvature of the orbit, not just speed. Acceleration of the jets was obviously more noticeable than rotation of Earth.
I would rather prefer they start quality war. I don't like getting all this crap, especially in huge quantities.
Most professional PBX'es offer call through feature. I.e. they can be configured so that when power goes down or host PC crashes, external lines are connected directly to predefined internal lines (assuming you use regular analog phones). So you lack all the features of PBX and extra extensions, but at least you have regular phone. Worth checking if the PBX supports this before buying.
He did not mean corn is good for cows. He meant that corn is good for making more money out of a single cow.
Growth hormone is absolutely not natural for cows, but most of US cows are fed with it to produce more meat. Well, humans get this hormone from beef, and it causes all kinds of disorders, and is banned in most countries except US. This does not stop US beef industry from using it to get some extra cash.
Pig's and sheep's bones are absolutely not natural for cows, but UK used to feed their cows with it to produce more meat. Well, sometimes it causes Cow Madness, but it could not stop UK farmers from making some extra cash.