It's not what he ment, but comparing DRM to speed bumps is quite apt:
Gates: Well, ignore DRM for a second. Should an artist that creates a great song be paid for that song? That's where you have to start. You don't start with DRM. DRM is just like a speed bump that reminds you whether you're staying within the scope of rights that you have or you don't. So you don't start with DRM. That's like saying, 'Do you believe in speed bumps?' You have to say, 'Should people drive at 80mph in parking lots?' If you think they should, then of course you don't like speed bumps.
Speed bumps are a near perfect comparison with DRM. You see, speed bumps don't actually work. What they do, is cause people to slow down for the bumps and then race to the next one. People drive fast on the street because it feels right. If you actually want people to slow down, you narrow the road and obstruct driver's views so it feels like they need to take things slow. This is the reason the city of Seattle doesn't use speed bumps in nearly all cases. With DRM, the protection gets in the way for a short time, then it pisses people off and they work around it.
This is hardly suprising given that I know someone who failed the easy version of the required intro programing class at my college who worked for Andersen writing code.
Unless you plan to back up that claim, it's both...
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I actually have a small cluster of similar mini-itx boards (though in 1U chassis) for testing changes on our 160 node FreeBSD cluster. It's especially helpful as our main cluster is 1000 miles away so having a local cluster to use for crash tests is very helpful. I choose these systems because I've got enough powersucking servers on 24/7 at home. The ones I've got consume around 1/8th the power on a standard dual Xeon node at 1/5th the cost. Sure performance sucks, but who cares. It's there to do infrastructure development like testing OS config changes and hacking on the schedular or monitoring tools without breaking the main system.
As long as you only use this for generally secure services like ssh and you update where there are exploits, the race isn't a very big deal. Effectivly an attacker would have to:
- detect that you knocked and know what port you will be trying to connect to.
- bump you off the network before you make a connection.
- have a working exploit for the service.
In practice this means they need to be the router since they will need to act as you (since any sane OTP system would include the your IP address in the hash). This is still a risk, but your overall risk is much reduced because the other 2^32-2^22-1=4.29billion valid unicast addresses can't attack the port[0]. Additionally, since you'll have logs on your machine and knowledge of the physical location the access took place from, you'll know exactly where to point law-enforcement.
-- Brooks
[0] It's worth noting that very few attacks are directed. Instead they are just hoping to find something. They don't care were it is other then that it has decent bandwidth they can use to spam or attack more hosts from.
Where is the ability for *genuine* (provably genuine) companies to register their services in such a way that rather than getting blacklisted immediately, they have the opportunity to respond to the issue raised? Is this a small or large price to pay to partially stem the tide of actual spam?
The need to follow the all important rule that each project requires at least one new tool! (Says the man who just bought a bench grinder to finish making the tools he needs to finish the tool hangers he's making for the garage.:-)
I do have to agree though that more wood in geek projects would be cool.
Well, the odds of getting a new GPL'd program into the FreeBSD base system hover very near zero. On the other hand, if you want to get added to the ports collection, that's fairly easy. All you need to do is follow the instrucations in the FreeBSD Porter's Handbook.
I have to disagree on the usefullness of Amazon reviews. The number of products with high and low, but no middle scores is astounding. Most reviews seem to come from someone who loved the product, some who hated it, or someone who decided to randomly review several hundred unrelated things one day.
Mathematica runs find under Linux emulation. We're currently working on getting Grid Mathematica into production on our FreeBSD cluster at work. It runs, but we haven't really done much with it yet because the real users are still working on understanding the programming model. FreeBSD should work well for you in this mode as long as you have the four licenses you'll need to keep the CPUs busy. The way Mathematica handles parallelism (seperate processes) should be able to take advantage of PAE.
The one gotcha is that PAE is a bit bleeding edge at this point so moving to it may be intresting.
The various CD's you buy are generally identical to the ISOs you download. If you want to support the project, it is recommended you buy from one of the vendors who supports the project. I have subscriptions with both FreeBSD Mall and BSD Mall (Part of Daemonnews).
Several years ago I was compleatly unable to get them them to stop sending me shit. Every time I got something, I logged in to their stupid forms and unsubscribed from everything I could, it did absolutly nothing. I finaly gave up and added.*@.*microsoft.com to my banned address filter.
FreeBSD the 3-STABLE (last release nearly three years ago!) , 4-STABLE, and 5-CURRENT branches, as well as the security branches for release 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, and 5.0 were updated immediatly follow the advisory's release.
There is a way I think this could be really cool for audiophile use. In theory, vorbis (unlike MP3) encoders can create a bitstream which when decoded will be exactly the orignal input (I suspect you would need paired encoder/decoder implementations for it to actually work, but that's an implementation detail:-). If you could do this without significant bloat vs the raw file, you'd really have something in that you'd have a format for lossless storage that you could reduce to the size you needed with computational overhead virtual identical to reading the file from disk.
But what about apples? Can I enforce a shrinkwrap agreement that says you won't sell the apple to somebody else?
Probably not, but there are licenses on many fruit trees. Generally, they just forbid you from propagating (cloning) the tree in question. They aren't shrinkwrap licenses and it is fairly reasionable since they take years if not decades to develop and many are sold in small quantaties for testing before the patents are granted.
When you get right down to it, you'll likely still have the trees when the patent expires so unlike software patents it's not all that unfair.
...and this is a GREAT thing, IMNSHO. I don't go to the polls, ever. The last time I did was because I moved too late to register for absentee status.
Vote by mail does several good things. First, it lets you vote without being rushed. Second, it increases voter participation significantly. Third, it dilutes the influence of money in the campaign because you can't just go on a last minute ad blitz since a significant number of people have already voted by election day. The other thing about Oregon's system is that it's demonstrated that many of the theoretical problems, don't appear to exist. Last time I checked (a few years ago) there had not been one, signal reported case of coersion. That's not to say it didn't happen, but the complete lack or reports would seem to indicate that it's not common enough to worry about.
It would be nice if other states would adopt Oregon's counting policies where it must arrive by election day or at least only allow a few day's leway. The current system of postmaker date as used in Washington and other states is what caused most of the absentee related mess in the presidental election.
Actually, this can't be targeted at real audiophiles for one simple reason. Real audiophiles don't use onboard DACs. Instead they use seperate DACs produced by real DAC experts instead of using onboard ones. Additionaly, seperate preprocessing circuity is used to reclock the signal to exactly match the expected clock. I don't own a seperate DAC at this point, but I can hear the difference on other people's system. The people who build these DACs know far more about building them then any transport manufacture.
It's all very impressive, but frankly 1TB isn't all that big a deal anymore. I'm currently working on project prototyping a data store for a 5yr satellite mission. It is currently estimated that the system will use 2PB of storage (2000TB). Probably several hundred TB of that will have to be online and the rest nearline. All of it will be remotly accessable.
For the record, both the ssh1 and OpenSSH ports have now been fixed. Personaly, I'm just upgrading my remaining 3.x machine to 4-STABLE since it's long over due.
This is a neat product, but it's not really worth much hype. One you add a box to power and control it, you get a competativly priced HDTV tuner (once you ignore the fact that the others can often tune sattelite TV as well.) The VCR functionality sounds pretty cool as well. What this is not, is the card that will let you play HDTV in a window on your monitor. To do that you either need to stick the tuner and decoder on the system video board or be willing to saturate most of the 64-bit/66Mhz PCI bus your PC probably doesn't have.
Here in the state of Washington, there's a great piece of anti-slamming law. For your long distance provider to be switched, and independent verifier must call you and confirm the switch before the local telco is allowed to do it. I suggest lobbying your state for similar protection. Now if only, they would ban hangup calls...
<tangent>I'll never do any business with MCI. They bought my name form SallieMae (the student loan monopoly). They send me more ads then just about anyone and nearly all of them are hidden in other company's envelopes (Sun Country air being the worst offender.)</tangent>
About 2/3rds of the earth's surface is water and that's certaintly where they will be aiming the reentries. On the other hand a substantialy higher then expected number of delta second stages have hit land (something like 5 out of 6, IIRC) so statistics of that form aren't necessicairly very useful to the guy on the ground.
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It's not what he ment, but comparing DRM to speed bumps is quite apt:
Gates: Well, ignore DRM for a second. Should an artist that creates a great song be paid for that song? That's where you have to start. You don't start with DRM. DRM is just like a speed bump that reminds you whether you're staying within the scope of rights that you have or you don't. So you don't start with DRM. That's like saying, 'Do you believe in speed bumps?' You have to say, 'Should people drive at 80mph in parking lots?' If you think they should, then of course you don't like speed bumps.
Speed bumps are a near perfect comparison with DRM. You see, speed bumps don't actually work. What they do, is cause people to slow down for the bumps and then race to the next one. People drive fast on the street because it feels right. If you actually want people to slow down, you narrow the road and obstruct driver's views so it feels like they need to take things slow. This is the reason the city of Seattle doesn't use speed bumps in nearly all cases. With DRM, the protection gets in the way for a short time, then it pisses people off and they work around it.
For an amusing bit if trivia. The full 128-bit address space is remarkably close to a mol (6.02E23) per square meter of earth's surface.
This is hardly suprising given that I know someone who failed the easy version of the required intro programing class at my college who worked for Andersen writing code.
-- Brooks
Unless you plan to back up that claim, it's both...
I actually have a small cluster of similar mini-itx boards (though in 1U chassis) for testing changes on our 160 node FreeBSD cluster. It's especially helpful as our main cluster is 1000 miles away so having a local cluster to use for crash tests is very helpful. I choose these systems because I've got enough powersucking servers on 24/7 at home. The ones I've got consume around 1/8th the power on a standard dual Xeon node at 1/5th the cost. Sure performance sucks, but who cares. It's there to do infrastructure development like testing OS config changes and hacking on the schedular or monitoring tools without breaking the main system.
-- Brooks
As long as you only use this for generally secure services like ssh and you update where there are exploits, the race isn't a very big deal. Effectivly an attacker would have to:
- detect that you knocked and know what port you will be trying to connect to.
- bump you off the network before you make a connection.
- have a working exploit for the service.
In practice this means they need to be the router since they will need to act as you (since any sane OTP system would include the your IP address in the hash). This is still a risk, but your overall risk is much reduced because the other 2^32-2^22-1=4.29billion valid unicast addresses can't attack the port[0]. Additionally, since you'll have logs on your machine and knowledge of the physical location the access took place from, you'll know exactly where to point law-enforcement.
-- Brooks
[0] It's worth noting that very few attacks are directed. Instead they are just hoping to find something. They don't care were it is other then that it has decent bandwidth they can use to spam or attack more hosts from.
For an alternate view of the format war, checkout the coverage on The Digital Bits.
-- Brooks
Where is the ability for *genuine* (provably genuine) companies to register their services in such a way that rather than getting blacklisted immediately, they have the opportunity to respond to the issue raised? Is this a small or large price to pay to partially stem the tide of actual spam?
Bonded Sender might do what you want.
the need to buy new tools?
:-)
The need to follow the all important rule that each project requires at least one new tool! (Says the man who just bought a bench grinder to finish making the tools he needs to finish the tool hangers he's making for the garage.
I do have to agree though that more wood in geek projects would be cool.
-- Brooks
Well, the odds of getting a new GPL'd program into the FreeBSD base system hover very near zero. On the other hand, if you want to get added to the ports collection, that's fairly easy. All you need to do is follow the instrucations in the FreeBSD Porter's Handbook.
-- Brooks
Olicom Tokenring cards are support and have been for some time.
-- Brooks
I have to disagree on the usefullness of Amazon reviews. The number of products with high and low, but no middle scores is astounding. Most reviews seem to come from someone who loved the product, some who hated it, or someone who decided to randomly review several hundred unrelated things one day.
-- Brooks
Mathematica runs find under Linux emulation. We're currently working on getting Grid Mathematica into production on our FreeBSD cluster at work. It runs, but we haven't really done much with it yet because the real users are still working on understanding the programming model. FreeBSD should work well for you in this mode as long as you have the four licenses you'll need to keep the CPUs busy. The way Mathematica handles parallelism (seperate processes) should be able to take advantage of PAE.
The one gotcha is that PAE is a bit bleeding edge at this point so moving to it may be intresting.
-- Brooks
The various CD's you buy are generally identical to the ISOs you download. If you want to support the project, it is recommended you buy from one of the vendors who supports the project. I have subscriptions with both FreeBSD Mall and BSD Mall (Part of Daemonnews).
Other options are listed in the Handbook.
I definatly recommend downloading rather then buying from people like cheapbytes.
-- Brooks
Several years ago I was compleatly unable to get them them to stop sending me shit. Every time I got something, I logged in to their stupid forms and unsubscribed from everything I could, it did absolutly nothing. I finaly gave up and added .*@.*microsoft.com to my banned address filter.
-- Brooks
FreeBSD the 3-STABLE (last release nearly three years ago!) , 4-STABLE, and 5-CURRENT branches, as well as the security branches for release 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, and 5.0 were updated immediatly follow the advisory's release.
-- Brooks
There is a way I think this could be really cool for audiophile use. In theory, vorbis (unlike MP3) encoders can create a bitstream which when decoded will be exactly the orignal input (I suspect you would need paired encoder/decoder implementations for it to actually work, but that's an implementation detail :-). If you could do this without significant bloat vs the raw file, you'd really have something in that you'd have a format for lossless storage that you could reduce to the size you needed with computational overhead virtual identical to reading the file from disk.
-- Brooks
But what about apples? Can I enforce a shrinkwrap agreement that says you won't sell the apple to somebody else?
Probably not, but there are licenses on many fruit trees. Generally, they just forbid you from propagating (cloning) the tree in question. They aren't shrinkwrap licenses and it is fairly reasionable since they take years if not decades to develop and many are sold in small quantaties for testing before the patents are granted.
When you get right down to it, you'll likely still have the trees when the patent expires so unlike software patents it's not all that unfair.
...and this is a GREAT thing, IMNSHO. I don't go to the polls, ever. The last time I did was because I moved too late to register for absentee status.
Vote by mail does several good things. First, it lets you vote without being rushed. Second, it increases voter participation significantly. Third, it dilutes the influence of money in the campaign because you can't just go on a last minute ad blitz since a significant number of people have already voted by election day. The other thing about Oregon's system is that it's demonstrated that many of the theoretical problems, don't appear to exist. Last time I checked (a few years ago) there had not been one, signal reported case of coersion. That's not to say it didn't happen, but the complete lack or reports would seem to indicate that it's not common enough to worry about.
It would be nice if other states would adopt Oregon's counting policies where it must arrive by election day or at least only allow a few day's leway. The current system of postmaker date as used in Washington and other states is what caused most of the absentee related mess in the presidental election.
Actually, this can't be targeted at real audiophiles for one simple reason. Real audiophiles don't use onboard DACs. Instead they use seperate DACs produced by real DAC experts instead of using onboard ones. Additionaly, seperate preprocessing circuity is used to reclock the signal to exactly match the expected clock. I don't own a seperate DAC at this point, but I can hear the difference on other people's system. The people who build these DACs know far more about building them then any transport manufacture.
It's all very impressive, but frankly 1TB isn't all that big a deal anymore. I'm currently working on project prototyping a data store for a 5yr satellite mission. It is currently estimated that the system will use 2PB of storage (2000TB). Probably several hundred TB of that will have to be online and the rest nearline. All of it will be remotly accessable.
For the record, both the ssh1 and OpenSSH ports have now been fixed. Personaly, I'm just upgrading my remaining 3.x machine to 4-STABLE since it's long over due.
This is a neat product, but it's not really worth much hype. One you add a box to power and control it, you get a competativly priced HDTV tuner (once you ignore the fact that the others can often tune sattelite TV as well.) The VCR functionality sounds pretty cool as well. What this is not, is the card that will let you play HDTV in a window on your monitor. To do that you either need to stick the tuner and decoder on the system video board or be willing to saturate most of the 64-bit/66Mhz PCI bus your PC probably doesn't have.
Here in the state of Washington, there's a great piece of anti-slamming law. For your long distance provider to be switched, and independent verifier must call you and confirm the switch before the local telco is allowed to do it. I suggest lobbying your state for similar protection. Now if only, they would ban hangup calls...
<tangent>I'll never do any business with MCI. They bought my name form SallieMae (the student loan monopoly). They send me more ads then just about anyone and nearly all of them are hidden in other company's envelopes (Sun Country air being the worst offender.)</tangent>
About 2/3rds of the earth's surface is water and that's certaintly where they will be aiming the reentries. On the other hand a substantialy higher then expected number of delta second stages have hit land (something like 5 out of 6, IIRC) so statistics of that form aren't necessicairly very useful to the guy on the ground.