wow! for preaching having an open mind, you (and most evolutionists) have a very closed mind at the/possibility/ of a supreme being. consider: it takes more of an open mind to believe in a supreme being than it does to believe in some that is immdediately replicable.
consider the uncontrolled element in experiements attempting to disprove the existence of God: faith. those that have faith have repeated the experiment often enough to continually rebuild their faith. those that repeatedly fail to prove the existence of God are experimenting under a different set of variables. self-fulfilling prophecy? not really. just controlling the wrong variables in the experiment.
personally, i believe that both religion and science can coexist quite well. i believe that God is bound by the true laws of science, He just has a complete knowledge of them, whereas we have an infantile knowledge.... then again, i believe that as man is, God once was, and that as God is, man may become. from a scientific point of view, with a few more billion years to figure out the true laws of the universe, we will be able to do everything that is attributed to God (to the best of the understanding of the observer).
in my own life, there have been far to many "coincidences" to be coincidences. it is a fact (that, unfortunately, i've retested far too often) i live a much happier life when i do "what's right" than when i do what's "wrong". side note, i tend to have more/pleasure/ when i do what's wrong, but in the long term, happiness is better.
Since I don't have mod points, I'll respond. GIVE THIS GUY SOME KARMA!
Rather than having to come up with/everything/, from the bootloader to init, without being able to test much of any of it until all of the pieces were built and tested, Linus most likely/did/ use sections of code from minix to fill in the pieces he hadn't written yet. Once he got the piece he was working on to work, he moved on to replace the next piece in the chain until version 0.01 had no traces of minix in it, simply because everything in v0.01 was a full re-write.
First, Copyright law is anything/but/ clear. Ask any lawyer for a full list of what fair use covers. You will never get one. Second, copyright infringement is/not/ theft. From http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/wlg/2425:
Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmum back in 1985, in Dowling v. the United States:
It follows that interference with copyright
does not easily equate with theft, conversion
or fraud. The Copyright Act even employs a
seperate term of art to define one who
misappropriates a copyright: 'Anyone who
violates any of the exclusive rights of the
copyright owner,' that is, anyone who
trespasses into his exclusive domain by using
or authorizing the use of the copyrighted work
in one of the five ways set forth in the
statute, 'is an infringer of the copyright.'
Since I didn't see it anywhere else..... Consider how long it would take for M$ to buy out SCO... perhaps longer than SCO can survive, particularly with this lawsuit.
Hence, M$ funds SCO via licensing IP that they may or may not need to license to ensure that SCO continues to exist while M$ makes the necessary preparations to buy them outright.
I was discussing CSCI projects with a professor the other day. I was suggesting that he push OSS more heavily when a student comes to him wanting to do a project. My feeling was that the students could benefit more (as well as the rest of the world) if they worked on an existing codebase rather than consistently re-inventing the wheel. One of the options was for them to take on a maintenance roll on abandoned projects.
While there is a good point made regarding projects that work well enough that they don't need further developement (qmail?) being listed as abandoned, even though there is no need for active developement, I do feel that there is a need for a "homeless shelter" for abandoned projects. Something where an individual looking for a project to work on can browse through projects that the original maintainer truly/has/ abandoned. Rather than just have those "spark of an idea" going to waste, explicitly give others the opportunity to adopt the project.
i sent this earlier this week in response to Mike Elgan's WinLetter . i'm sure that the slashdot communtity can come up with better ways to implement specific portions, but.....
---- specifically regarding online voting:
since the DMV is already a large part of the voter registration, use them to your benefit. use the individual's license number in combination with a secret previously agreed upon (say, when you renew your license) to authenticate the individual. this will also provide authentication that the individual is over 18, where they live, etc.
along with the authentication from the dmv database, a token is generated and encrypted via a one-way hash and sent to the actual voting server. the voting server uses this token to determine what "issues" the individual gets to vote upon based on voting district, conveniently encoded into the token. this allows the individual to physically be anywhere in the US (or not ) and still be able to vote on the issues that are local to where they are registered.
once the individual has completed his/her vote, the voting server passes the token back to the authentication server, indicating a successful vote. this allows record of who voted, preventing multiple votes as well as providing an indicator of individuals who tried to vote, but (presumably) couldn't. since only the token is returned to the authentication server, the there is no way for the vote to actually be tied back to the user.
if the authentication server does not receive an acknowledgement that the vote had taken place within a time period, a notice could be issued (via mail, web, other) to let the user know that the vote was not recorded. it also should use a different token for successive attempts. using a secure webserver for all transactions should prevent all eavesdropping and man-in-the-middle -type attacks.
has anyone considered that sony might have encrypted the memory sticks to prevent the bleem's of the world from copying the functionality of the PSX2? or is this just a happy(?!?) side effect?
if "/usr/bin is for the non-priviledged system tools" then what exactly are/sbin/usr/sbin and/usr/local/sbin supposed to be for?
as far as i'm concerned, all system tools belong in a */sbin directory. all generally accessible executables *installed with the operating system* belong in/bin or/usr/bin.
then all executables installed by the *local* site belong in/usr/local/bin or/usr/local/sbin depending on whether or not they are system tools.
for those that actually have an orb drive, how does it work as a standalone drive? what i'd like to do is use it (on a personal pc) as the primary drive for linux. switch disks and boot into NT. switch disks and boot into beos. switch disks... any comments? sure, i'll pay a bit more, but i'll have each os completely separate. i could use my hard disk as a plain fat16 drive that could be seen from just about any of the OS's...
how about we put together a petition to mindcraft for a very biased redo of their test on their hardware. for instance, have alan cox/linus torvalds configuring the linux box versus steve ballmer/bill gates (or whoever microsoft wants) configuring the NT box. give them both exactly 3 hours (or 4, the idea being the average amount of time an administrator puts in when (s)he configures a new webserver) to fine tune everything. then re-run the benchmarks (including non-ZD ones) to determine the winner.
Slashdot Mirror
Robert Jordan made me so mad at one of the characters I jumped up, screamed curses, and threw the book across the room.
I've gotta know... what character, what scene, which book?
You seriously need to read Reflections on Trusting Trust, by Ken Thompson, one of the founders of Unix:
http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf
Heh... I reported this via Bugtraq on August 19, 2005, and CISCO responded to it 3 days later...
0 /threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/408603/30/
As in, they've known about this for at least 20 months...
wow! for preaching having an open mind, you (and most evolutionists) have a very closed mind at the /possibility/ of a supreme being. consider: it takes more of an open mind to believe in a supreme being than it does to believe in some that is immdediately replicable.
/pleasure/ when i do what's wrong, but in the long term, happiness is better.
consider the uncontrolled element in experiements attempting to disprove the existence of God: faith. those that have faith have repeated the experiment often enough to continually rebuild their faith. those that repeatedly fail to prove the existence of God are experimenting under a different set of variables. self-fulfilling prophecy? not really. just controlling the wrong variables in the experiment.
personally, i believe that both religion and science can coexist quite well. i believe that God is bound by the true laws of science, He just has a complete knowledge of them, whereas we have an infantile knowledge.... then again, i believe that as man is, God once was, and that as God is, man may become. from a scientific point of view, with a few more billion years to figure out the true laws of the universe, we will be able to do everything that is attributed to God (to the best of the understanding of the observer).
in my own life, there have been far to many "coincidences" to be coincidences. it is a fact (that, unfortunately, i've retested far too often) i live a much happier life when i do "what's right" than when i do what's "wrong". side note, i tend to have more
Since I don't have mod points, I'll respond. GIVE THIS GUY SOME KARMA!
/everything/, from the bootloader to init, without being able to test much of any of it until all of the pieces were built and tested, Linus most likely /did/ use sections of code from minix to fill in the pieces he hadn't written yet. Once he got the piece he was working on to work, he moved on to replace the next piece in the chain until version 0.01 had no traces of minix in it, simply because everything in v0.01 was a full re-write.
Rather than having to come up with
/Zero Cool/ ... he wasn't Crash Override until he grew up....
WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG
/but/ clear. Ask any lawyer for a full list of what fair use covers. You will never get one. Second, copyright infringement is /not/ theft. From http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/wlg/2425:
First, Copyright law is anything
Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmum back in 1985, in Dowling v. the United States:
It follows that interference with copyright
does not easily equate with theft, conversion
or fraud. The Copyright Act even employs a
seperate term of art to define one who
misappropriates a copyright: 'Anyone who
violates any of the exclusive rights of the
copyright owner,' that is, anyone who
trespasses into his exclusive domain by using
or authorizing the use of the copyrighted work
in one of the five ways set forth in the
statute, 'is an infringer of the copyright.'
Since I didn't see it anywhere else..... Consider how long it would take for M$ to buy out SCO... perhaps longer than SCO can survive, particularly with this lawsuit.
Hence, M$ funds SCO via licensing IP that they may or may not need to license to ensure that SCO continues to exist while M$ makes the necessary preparations to buy them outright.
I was discussing CSCI projects with a professor the other day. I was suggesting that he push OSS more heavily when a student comes to him wanting to do a project. My feeling was that the students could benefit more (as well as the rest of the world) if they worked on an existing codebase rather than consistently re-inventing the wheel. One of the options was for them to take on a maintenance roll on abandoned projects.
/has/ abandoned. Rather than just have those "spark of an idea" going to waste, explicitly give others the opportunity to adopt the project.
While there is a good point made regarding projects that work well enough that they don't need further developement (qmail?) being listed as abandoned, even though there is no need for active developement, I do feel that there is a need for a "homeless shelter" for abandoned projects. Something where an individual looking for a project to work on can browse through projects that the original maintainer truly
I named my son (now 19 months) "Gabriel Knight".... big name to live up to (think of the angel, and the knights of the old code).
i sent this earlier this week in response to Mike Elgan's WinLetter . i'm sure that the slashdot communtity can come up with better ways to implement specific portions, but.....
----
specifically regarding online voting:
since the DMV is already a large part of the voter
registration, use them to your benefit. use the
individual's license number in combination with a secret previously agreed upon (say, when you renew your license) to authenticate the individual. this will also provide authentication that the individual is over 18, where they live, etc.
along with the authentication from the dmv database, a token is generated and encrypted via a one-way hash and sent to the actual voting server. the voting server uses this token to determine what "issues" the individual gets to vote upon
based on voting district, conveniently encoded into the token. this allows the individual to physically be anywhere in the US (or not ) and still be able to vote on the issues that are local to where they are registered.
once the individual has completed his/her vote, the voting server passes the token back to the authentication server, indicating a successful vote. this allows record of who voted, preventing multiple votes as well as providing an indicator of individuals who tried to vote, but (presumably)
couldn't. since only the token is returned to the
authentication server, the there is no way for the vote to actually be tied back to the user.
if the authentication server does not receive an
acknowledgement that the vote had taken place within a time period, a notice could be issued (via mail, web, other) to let the user know that the vote was not recorded. it also should use a different token for successive attempts. using
a secure webserver for all transactions should prevent all eavesdropping and man-in-the-middle -type attacks.
what do you think?
"The slut thing would be a fun one too."
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that's an easy one for him to get out of without offering even one scrap of evidence:
http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=sl
"1.a.A woman considered sexually promiscuous. "
by this definition, mother teresa could be LEGALLY considered a slut merely by someone supposing that she was sexually promiscuous.
has anyone considered that sony might have encrypted the memory sticks to prevent the bleem's of the world from copying the functionality of the PSX2? or is this just a happy(?!?) side effect?
if "/usr/bin is for the non-priviledged system tools" then what exactly are /sbin /usr/sbin and /usr/local/sbin supposed to be for?
/bin or /usr/bin.
/usr/local/bin or /usr/local/sbin depending on whether or not they are system tools.
as far as i'm concerned, all system tools belong in a */sbin directory. all generally accessible executables *installed with the operating system* belong in
then all executables installed by the *local* site belong in
fo
for those that actually have an orb drive, how does it work as a standalone drive? what i'd like to do is use it (on a personal pc) as the primary drive for linux. switch disks and boot into NT. switch disks and boot into beos. switch disks...
any comments? sure, i'll pay a bit more, but i'll have each os completely separate. i could use my hard disk as a plain fat16 drive that could be seen from just about any of the OS's...
how about we put together a petition to mindcraft for a very biased redo of their test on their hardware. for instance, have alan cox/linus torvalds configuring the linux box versus steve ballmer/bill gates (or whoever microsoft wants) configuring the NT box. give them both exactly 3 hours (or 4, the idea being the average amount of time an administrator puts in when (s)he configures a new webserver) to fine tune everything. then re-run the benchmarks (including non-ZD ones) to determine the winner.