a far faster scheme would use flat surface in n-space. basically, instead of a curve on the xy plane, if you need to send 4 numbers, you use w = ax + by + cz + d, a-d being the numbers. send points on the surface (at least 4) and the surface can be reconstructed. Not fundamentally different, but you try solving a 27th degree polynomial equation, even with a computer...
Oh, and your scheme actually only needs the original number of packets -- order k polynomial stores k+1 numbers (order 2 is ax^2 + bx +c, gives three numbers; you need three points to recreate. three equations, three unknowns)
Very nice machine. 10GB disk, 128MB memory, 2.4lbs. I've upgraded to 256MB memory, and am running RedHat 7.1, though not without some adventures. For more info on this and other similar laptops, visit dynamism, or go read the Yahoo groups mailing list Libretto-L1. email me or post questions there for more info.
Pros:
Lightweight
Sufficient CPU power for my tasks (email, word processing, web, Linux / devel system, though compilation is slow...)
gorgeous screen
usable keyboard, though some of my friends find it a touch small. I think it's great.
Cons:
low Linux compatibility (getting sound and pcmcia requires a custom kernel hack, sound is iffy at best after that, screen brightness can't be changed, pcmcia is a bit weird...)
short battery life (2.5 hrs, tops. with windows it'll go up to 3.5 if you reduce screen brightness, which leaves it still perfectly usable. Just can't be done in linux...)
Japanese keyboard and manuals. a minor annoyance, I remapped it as US keyboard because I touch type, and I know there are those who will love the extra keys to bind to things...
There is no accessible bios or bios pw.
Oh, and the full feature list:
firewire, 1 pcmcia slot, winmodem, 2xUSB1.1, ALi sound, up to 256MB memory, up to 40GB disk, screen is 10" 1280x600 widescreen (two side by side xterms anyone?), VGA out. Triple capacity battery available.
Price is currently about $1700 from dynamism, or $1100 if you import it yourself. Others will sell it for closer to $1300 I think. Dynamism is overpriced but great to work with, and they'll sell it without windows.
I'm against all this encryption restrictions. I have a website. I'd like to post encryption code as an act of protest. So, a simple question:
Does anyone have a preprepared tarball of a veritable shiteload of encryption utilities -- ie everything you could possibly want, ssh, gpg, etc. I think somebody should create a tarball that we can mirror around, all the same, everywhere. And I'm too lazy to go create it myself, as I've already got a website up with a couple tools.
Hey cool... another S&M alum. What year? I TA'd for Dr. Winter's course in HSI last fall. Cool stuff. He's got all kinds of new toys. We've moved to an all-digital environment, but still use the old computers for timing. He has a new flash, with a 250ns flash time, and he briefly had a high speed video camera (don't remember specs). He's also been playing with a.22 rifle for projectiles (got tired of the old pellet gun, I guess). Check out hiviz.com (was that there when you did stuff?) and also links of the ncssm page. I don't know where exactly.
Well, I think my knowledge of string theory prevents me from making any comments that were productive. But I think I have enough of a grasp of things to point out some flaws in the original post. So I added what I could to the discussion, and attempted to do it a polite fashion. I even thought I had succeeded. Apparently not. So, I apologize for any offense taken. That was not my intent, and I most certainly did not intend to belittle or personally attack the author.
if I have two "atomic" constants, A and B, A*B will never change. ever. An unchanging expression can't change in value without one of the components changing. Pi is different from G, in that it can be derived from pure mathematics -- 2+2 is always 4, no one is saying otherwise. Likewise, the series that sum to Pi aren't changing. But *physical* constants have no mathematical reason that we know of. They have just been measured an awful lot. And everyone basically agrees in their measurements. Things that are constructs of pure math can't change. But things that are constructs of the physical universe can. Like if the underlying small dimensions that the string theorists keep talking about change in size as the universe expands.
The card you're talking about is the SoundBlaster Audigy. It encrypts PCI bus data. And works with Windows secure audio path to prevent driver rerouting. Of course, this doesn't prevent stuff under Linux or the cable attack, but still makes life hard for most people. Links:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/story.html?id=9925559 37 for audigy bit
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmrm/htm/understandingthesecureaudi opathmodel.asp for secure audio path.
So wil this create a clock-cycle futures market? seems like an interesting idea. Betting on the future price of computation in a direct way. Of course, there is the issue of measuring. Perhaps sold as 100 CPU-secs on an IMB model FOO 6000 with specs....
is the level of compatibility there is. PS 1.4 is really just an extension of 1.3 -- it adds more instructions to the same basic architeture. If you write for GF3, it'll run just fine on the R200 or whatever. If you write for R200, it'll run just fine on nVidia's next part, even though it supports PS1.5. It's all back-compatible, I believe. It's sorta like the deal with two texture units vs three (GF2 vs Radeon) or single-pass quad texture with two units (GF3). Write for the lowest denominator you care to, it'll work fine on all the newer stuff.
who hasn't gotten a single one of these? Not one. I have yet to get infected by one of these worms, but still -- I got copies of the others. I feel all lonesome.
You really want better than that. I used a product with 90% accuracy a while ago. It also had large training (>3hr) periods. But I went through them, and it worked. about 90%. Which wasn't good enough. Your post has 51 spoken words (don't forget, "90%" is two words, "(" is two words), so it would have gotten 5 wrong in just that post. I think you really mean you want about 99.5% accuracy -- on word in 200, or about 2 longish paragraphs. And I still don't think that's available, though I haven't used anything recently.
In a regular copyright violation case, the violators are liable for economic damages caused by their infrigement and have to pay up. There obviously aren't any economic damages in the case of Free software. So what are those damages? I would argue that they are the fact that improvements don't get shared with the community. The "price" charged by GPL software is that improvements must also be GPL. So, the damages arise from the fact that they're not. Hence, reparations would seem to be releasing the code -- all of it. After all, in regular copyright violations, the violator is liable for *all* lost revenue, even if they spent some of it on printing or whatever. Usually more, in fact, as apunitive damages. Hmm -- writing more code as punitive damages? what do you think? However, despite all this, I think the correct approach for the community is to generally be nice about things, violations included.
yeah, I know. but usually, people who plan to give out the source wouldn't want to have a bunch of emails to deal with, so they post it. And these people aren't. And there's no way everything GPL just compiled without changes and they only added external non-GPL stuff to it. So I find it slightly surprising that there's not even a mention. You'll notice my original post didn't accuse them of GPL violation -- it just expressed a large amount of incredulity for any plans of theirs to stay within the GPL. I could be wrong and all. In fact, I'd like to be. forgive me if I have a large dose of cynicism toward companies I haven't heard of before.
OK, it's Linux, right? which means GPL. SO, where are GPL info? not on the site. There's not a copy of the GPL, not a mention of it, and they provide an email address for licensing info (sales@linuxda.com). Legal info is here, and does not suggest GPL at all. Of course, the software won't be availble for 1 1/2 hours as of this writing, so it might change, but I have to wonder what's going on. I think that if (when?) binary-only copies appear I'll send an email. Anyone care to correct any of this?
Unless I'm mistaken, it supports Secure Digital media. Which is basically a Flash technology that supports all the CPRM stuff Slashdotters are griping about. So, if you go buy it, you're just as bad as the "average Joe user" who you keep complaining will just ignore the fact that his rights are getting trampled and buy products that support CPRM. So, put your money where your mouth is and DON'T BUY IT. Get one of the (many) other PDAs. I believe, for example, that the iPAQ doesn't have SD support. correct me if I'm wrong, I don't have one and am not currently interested in buying a PDA / handheld.
The point you're missing here is that DRM isn't about enforcing laws. It's about CREATING laws. I currently have a fair use right to copy a cd for backup purposes, or to give to my friends. DRM can't distinguish that from illegal copying online. Nope, not at all. So it prevents all of it. And the DMCA says I'm not allowed to circumvent that, so that I can't break the law. But, I'm also not allowed to circumvent that to get my fair use rights. So the content providers now get to make new laws all they want, and there's nothing I can do about it. The problem is that I'm no longer able to exercise what rights I *do* have. There is no confusion between ability and right required in order for the original post to be valid.
So, did the grafiti campaign work? Did the news articles help? What happened with the fines / community service? Does upper managment approve of the result? Did anyone expect legal complaints before the campaign?
Slashdot Mirror
a far faster scheme would use flat surface in n-space. basically, instead of a curve on the xy plane, if you need to send 4 numbers, you use w = ax + by + cz + d, a-d being the numbers. send points on the surface (at least 4) and the surface can be reconstructed. Not fundamentally different, but you try solving a 27th degree polynomial equation, even with a computer...
Oh, and your scheme actually only needs the original number of packets -- order k polynomial stores k+1 numbers (order 2 is ax^2 + bx +c, gives three numbers; you need three points to recreate. three equations, three unknowns)
Very nice machine. 10GB disk, 128MB memory, 2.4lbs. I've upgraded to 256MB memory, and am running RedHat 7.1, though not without some adventures. For more info on this and other similar laptops, visit dynamism, or go read the Yahoo groups mailing list Libretto-L1. email me or post questions there for more info.
Pros:
Lightweight
Sufficient CPU power for my tasks (email, word processing, web, Linux / devel system, though compilation is slow...)
gorgeous screen
usable keyboard, though some of my friends find it a touch small. I think it's great.
Cons:
low Linux compatibility (getting sound and pcmcia requires a custom kernel hack, sound is iffy at best after that, screen brightness can't be changed, pcmcia is a bit weird...)
short battery life (2.5 hrs, tops. with windows it'll go up to 3.5 if you reduce screen brightness, which leaves it still perfectly usable. Just can't be done in linux...)
Japanese keyboard and manuals. a minor annoyance, I remapped it as US keyboard because I touch type, and I know there are those who will love the extra keys to bind to things...
There is no accessible bios or bios pw.
Oh, and the full feature list:
firewire, 1 pcmcia slot, winmodem, 2xUSB1.1, ALi sound, up to 256MB memory, up to 40GB disk, screen is 10" 1280x600 widescreen (two side by side xterms anyone?), VGA out. Triple capacity battery available.
Price is currently about $1700 from dynamism, or $1100 if you import it yourself. Others will sell it for closer to $1300 I think. Dynamism is overpriced but great to work with, and they'll sell it without windows.
Happy hunting
No it's not. Check the specs page for details. Says so right there, 5GB. So, is there a source?
iPod and iTunes are for legal or rightholder-authorized copying only. Don't steal music.
Apple seems to have the right theory on "content protection"
1) Error calling config servlet: sunir.webdesk.common.webconfig.WebConfigException
wow...
Does anyone have a preprepared tarball of a veritable shiteload of encryption utilities -- ie everything you could possibly want, ssh, gpg, etc. I think somebody should create a tarball that we can mirror around, all the same, everywhere. And I'm too lazy to go create it myself, as I've already got a website up with a couple tools.
From the FAQ:
And the benefit of asm coding is that if you make a mistake in programming, you notice it immediately. You dont get warnings, things just wont work.
Anyone else have serious doubts about this thinking?
Hey cool... another S&M alum. What year? I TA'd for Dr. Winter's course in HSI last fall. Cool stuff. He's got all kinds of new toys. We've moved to an all-digital environment, but still use the old computers for timing. He has a new flash, with a 250ns flash time, and he briefly had a high speed video camera (don't remember specs). He's also been playing with a .22 rifle for projectiles (got tired of the old pellet gun, I guess). Check out hiviz.com (was that there when you did stuff?) and also links of the ncssm page. I don't know where exactly.
Well, I think my knowledge of string theory prevents me from making any comments that were productive. But I think I have enough of a grasp of things to point out some flaws in the original post. So I added what I could to the discussion, and attempted to do it a polite fashion. I even thought I had succeeded. Apparently not. So, I apologize for any offense taken. That was not my intent, and I most certainly did not intend to belittle or personally attack the author.
that we can crapflood slashdot, just like we did for K5?
if I have two "atomic" constants, A and B, A*B will never change. ever. An unchanging expression can't change in value without one of the components changing. Pi is different from G, in that it can be derived from pure mathematics -- 2+2 is always 4, no one is saying otherwise. Likewise, the series that sum to Pi aren't changing. But *physical* constants have no mathematical reason that we know of. They have just been measured an awful lot. And everyone basically agrees in their measurements. Things that are constructs of pure math can't change. But things that are constructs of the physical universe can. Like if the underlying small dimensions that the string theorists keep talking about change in size as the universe expands.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/story.html?id=9925559 37 for audigy bit= /library/en-us/wmrm/htm/understandingthesecureaudi opathmodel.asp for secure audio path.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url
Watch those extra spaces.
How about "Buy this camera or you'll never see your lunch again!"
Because your concept of knowledge involves copy/pasting from dictionaries.
So wil this create a clock-cycle futures market? seems like an interesting idea. Betting on the future price of computation in a direct way. Of course, there is the issue of measuring. Perhaps sold as 100 CPU-secs on an IMB model FOO 6000 with specs....
is the level of compatibility there is. PS 1.4 is really just an extension of 1.3 -- it adds more instructions to the same basic architeture. If you write for GF3, it'll run just fine on the R200 or whatever. If you write for R200, it'll run just fine on nVidia's next part, even though it supports PS1.5. It's all back-compatible, I believe. It's sorta like the deal with two texture units vs three (GF2 vs Radeon) or single-pass quad texture with two units (GF3). Write for the lowest denominator you care to, it'll work fine on all the newer stuff.
who hasn't gotten a single one of these? Not one. I have yet to get infected by one of these worms, but still -- I got copies of the others. I feel all lonesome.
You really want better than that. I used a product with 90% accuracy a while ago. It also had large training (>3hr) periods. But I went through them, and it worked. about 90%. Which wasn't good enough. Your post has 51 spoken words (don't forget, "90%" is two words, "(" is two words), so it would have gotten 5 wrong in just that post. I think you really mean you want about 99.5% accuracy -- on word in 200, or about 2 longish paragraphs. And I still don't think that's available, though I haven't used anything recently.
Linux anyone? started in 1991, really taking off in 2000/2001. Sounds like ten years to me...
In a regular copyright violation case, the violators are liable for economic damages caused by their infrigement and have to pay up. There obviously aren't any economic damages in the case of Free software. So what are those damages? I would argue that they are the fact that improvements don't get shared with the community. The "price" charged by GPL software is that improvements must also be GPL. So, the damages arise from the fact that they're not. Hence, reparations would seem to be releasing the code -- all of it. After all, in regular copyright violations, the violator is liable for *all* lost revenue, even if they spent some of it on printing or whatever. Usually more, in fact, as apunitive damages. Hmm -- writing more code as punitive damages? what do you think? However, despite all this, I think the correct approach for the community is to generally be nice about things, violations included.
yeah, I know. but usually, people who plan to give out the source wouldn't want to have a bunch of emails to deal with, so they post it. And these people aren't. And there's no way everything GPL just compiled without changes and they only added external non-GPL stuff to it. So I find it slightly surprising that there's not even a mention. You'll notice my original post didn't accuse them of GPL violation -- it just expressed a large amount of incredulity for any plans of theirs to stay within the GPL. I could be wrong and all. In fact, I'd like to be. forgive me if I have a large dose of cynicism toward companies I haven't heard of before.
OK, it's Linux, right? which means GPL. SO, where are GPL info? not on the site. There's not a copy of the GPL, not a mention of it, and they provide an email address for licensing info (sales@linuxda.com). Legal info is here, and does not suggest GPL at all. Of course, the software won't be availble for 1 1/2 hours as of this writing, so it might change, but I have to wonder what's going on. I think that if (when?) binary-only copies appear I'll send an email. Anyone care to correct any of this?
Unless I'm mistaken, it supports Secure Digital media. Which is basically a Flash technology that supports all the CPRM stuff Slashdotters are griping about. So, if you go buy it, you're just as bad as the "average Joe user" who you keep complaining will just ignore the fact that his rights are getting trampled and buy products that support CPRM. So, put your money where your mouth is and DON'T BUY IT. Get one of the (many) other PDAs. I believe, for example, that the iPAQ doesn't have SD support. correct me if I'm wrong, I don't have one and am not currently interested in buying a PDA / handheld.
The point you're missing here is that DRM isn't about enforcing laws. It's about CREATING laws. I currently have a fair use right to copy a cd for backup purposes, or to give to my friends. DRM can't distinguish that from illegal copying online. Nope, not at all. So it prevents all of it. And the DMCA says I'm not allowed to circumvent that, so that I can't break the law. But, I'm also not allowed to circumvent that to get my fair use rights. So the content providers now get to make new laws all they want, and there's nothing I can do about it. The problem is that I'm no longer able to exercise what rights I *do* have. There is no confusion between ability and right required in order for the original post to be valid.
So, did the grafiti campaign work? Did the news articles help? What happened with the fines / community service? Does upper managment approve of the result? Did anyone expect legal complaints before the campaign?