Horsepower? Maybe not totally. But you can sure
as hell bet engine size matters a lot.
Consider. My father owns an Acura 3.2TL.
That's got a 3.2 Litre engine in it. Far superior to that piffy little 2.4TL.
Furthermore, ever notice that Mustangs
brag, and quite loudly, about how overpowered
their engines are? (5.0 Litres, anyone??!)
(And Mercedes model numbers, I am told, are
related to engine size, in Litres.)
Horsepower isn't always part of the name,
but engine size often is.
(And consider how nebulous/size/ of engine is... I mean, Horsepower is to FLOPS, if Engine
Size is to MHz...)
Sorry, but if your introductory paragraph
contains mistakes that my brother knew to avoid
in fourth grade, what sort of credibility are
you trying to establish?
Just look over the article once before hitting submit...
Is to have them register their copy (free) with
you, so you can support your own version, downloaded from your own site (or installed off of your own CDs).
Every CD should come with a little piece of paper saying "Unique User ID #xxxxxxxxx" which is some unique random hash number.
Every time you click the "download" link, on the web page, it should say "Write this number down: #xxxxxxx" and give you a unique number.
You then go to some other web page, plug in your unique id (regardless of the method attained), and plug in your name, maybe your email addy, something that identifies you.
Then your service rep says "May I have your name and product ID number?" If the info checks out, then they serve ya....
(I'm basing this somewhat off the way that Dell does hardware support; they ask me for my ``service tag number'' and then for my name/address..)
As soon as a user has physical access to anything,
they have the ability to do a lot more with it.
If at any point the data travels through memory or wires unencrypted (highly possible) nothing prevents a recording device being attached at that point....
Furthermore, if special chips are added at points in order to encrypt the data as it goes over a wire (for instance, as data travels to the monitor, from the video card), nothing prevents that particular chip from being replaced...
Even assuming that harddrive data is encrypted, drives can be removed and transplated into a computer with less scruples, which could be set to work at cracking the encryption. Short of OTPs, every cryptography method is theoretically brute-force crackable.
(And if users get careless, which is entirely possible, crypto-breakers may have an even easier time of it.)
There's no such thing as perfect security.
Then again, there's No Such Agency to worry about...:)
If any corporation doesn't like what Linus
is doing with the kernel, then there is nothing to stop them from adding all the patches they please to their own distro's build of it....
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I'm quite sorry you get angered when people
assume you want to have children. Heaven forbid that you do something that's been somewhat of a tradition for roughly 15,000 years.
FWIW, it seems to me that guys are expected to want to have kids also. While I'm not saying that you should neccessarily "follow the crowd" just because everyone else does something, it is perfectly understandable for the rest of society to assume that you'll behave *something* like the rest of society.
(And those that don't respect your decisions can go to Hell. But assumptions are innocent.)
IANAL, but from what I've read there, it sounds
like its "using a filename to launch a program".
How is that patentable? Or did Multics, et al, do that sort of thing holistically, without actually using the filename to scan for inodes?...
Of course, prior art and obviousness seem to
mean nothing in the computer world these days.
On a somewhat related track: People on slashdot
mentioned recently that journals/repositories/etc should be set up to collect "prior art" for every obvious damn thing we can thing of. I would find it only mildly ironic if this actually would get Microsoft out of a bind.:)
There was the ARPANET and all was chaos. And God came down and created the USENET and the earth. And it was good. And God took the USENET and said "Let there be rigidly enforced categories." And it too, was good. On the fifth day, God created all the categories of the Earth, such as the comp.*, and the rec.*, and the alt.*. And naught a newsgroup was created which fell where it belonged not, for the categories were moderated. And many people partook of the well-nomenclatured categories, and it was good.
Then came the web, and the corporations, and they too started with categories, such as *.net, and *.com, and *.org. Yet lo, they were unmoderated, and all sense of order was lost and it descended back into chaos.
Come on God^H^H^HICANN, give us categories with meaning!
In my opinion, stuff like that is the last
remnant of the hacker ethos still alive at
Microsoft... it proves that they're not all
"borg" as many slashdotters think; they're
in for good fun coding as much as the next
guy... I personally thought that the raycaster/
"Doom" clone in Excel was cool as hell...
You guys all want Micro$oft to "get hip"
to new technology/business models/whatever
but don't want them to pull a prank once in
a while?
(God, didn't any of you ever screw around
in compsci class?)
but as much as I disagree with a lot of what RMS
says, The Right to Read is certainly seeming
more-and-more a reality. First you can't reverse-engineer anything (DMCA), and now they're
going to ration debuggers and compilers? shudder...
Think about this for a second.
People have been saying that this strengthens
Napster's case, blah blah, now Napster will
survive cause the RIAA/MPAA/Uncle Sam/The Man/etc are all makin' money.
Then it gets qualified with at least now. Who cares if the RIAA is still making
money the way it is in five years? Yes, it is
impractical to carry a laptop and whatnot around
when CDs are far more convienient and of higher
quality.
I don't think the RIAA should be worried about
their revenue for a looong time. Five years is
eternity in "Internet Time". The whole world wide web's only been around for 10 years,
and its only been useful (well, that's another debate) to Joe User for the last four or so.
In five years, maybe MP3s will be the death of
CDs. But if in five years, the RIAA can't figure
out some new distribution model to continue to
make money, then they deserve what they get.
B) So its ads. Whine all you want. You think
the coke machine in the student union isn't an
ad for coca-cola? I'm sure the Levis t-shirts
you wear aren't ads for the jean company, they're
an expression of your individuality. Really.
Every time advertising hits the internet in
some other new fashion,/. picks it up as if its
something newsworthy. Get over it folks. Ads are
everywhere. The average person in America sees 2000 per day. You just don't realize they're ads.
To think that the internet, and now intranets
and other faces of your wired life are somehow immune, better, different, whatever, is naive.
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Retroactively eliminating the statute of limitations
Doesn't this violate the "no ex post facto laws" clause of the constitution? Expect the supreme court to junk this....
-- Aaron Kimball
Uhm. The latest versions of gcc built for x86 are by Intel. If you run gcc --version it'll say "egcs" - The Intel compiler.
as hell bet engine size matters a lot.
Consider. My father owns an Acura 3.2TL.
That's got a 3.2 Litre engine in it. Far
superior to that piffy little 2.4TL.
Furthermore, ever notice that Mustangs
brag, and quite loudly, about how overpowered
their engines are? (5.0 Litres, anyone??!)
(And Mercedes model numbers, I am told, are
related to engine size, in Litres.)
Horsepower isn't always part of the name,
but engine size often is.
(And consider how nebulous /size/ of engine is... I mean, Horsepower is to FLOPS, if Engine
Size is to MHz...)
:)
(Yes, I know that its limited hardware. It's just sorta expected.)
"There was racism and stuff;"
Like this!?
Sorry, but if your introductory paragraph contains mistakes that my brother knew to avoid in fourth grade, what sort of credibility are you trying to establish?
Just look over the article once before hitting submit...
Now in Perl 6, one can have such syntax as: my int ($pre, $in, $post) is constant = (0..2);
and: $ARGS is prompts("Search? ");
With the advent of this new "is" construction and the use of passive voice in the code, I think that the following should also be added:
This would allow for such conventions as:
$*ARGS be chomping;
"LibCGI.pl" is being required;
(or if one wants to be smart:)
recognize $foo!;
Just a thought.
Of course, this opens up the problem of a stolen laptop compromising the network...
Remote detonate.
Is to have them register their copy (free) with you, so you can support your own version, downloaded from your own site (or installed off of your own CDs).
Every CD should come with a little piece of paper saying "Unique User ID #xxxxxxxxx" which is some unique random hash number.
Every time you click the "download" link, on the web page, it should say "Write this number down: #xxxxxxx" and give you a unique number.
You then go to some other web page, plug in your unique id (regardless of the method attained), and plug in your name, maybe your email addy, something that identifies you.
Then your service rep says "May I have your name and product ID number?" If the info checks out, then they serve ya....
(I'm basing this somewhat off the way that Dell does hardware support; they ask me for my ``service tag number'' and then for my name/address..)
-- Aaron Kimball
As soon as a user has physical access to anything, they have the ability to do a lot more with it. If at any point the data travels through memory or wires unencrypted (highly possible) nothing prevents a recording device being attached at that point.... Furthermore, if special chips are added at points in order to encrypt the data as it goes over a wire (for instance, as data travels to the monitor, from the video card), nothing prevents that particular chip from being replaced... Even assuming that harddrive data is encrypted, drives can be removed and transplated into a computer with less scruples, which could be set to work at cracking the encryption. Short of OTPs, every cryptography method is theoretically brute-force crackable. (And if users get careless, which is entirely possible, crypto-breakers may have an even easier time of it.) There's no such thing as perfect security. Then again, there's No Such Agency to worry about... :)
If any corporation doesn't like what Linus is doing with the kernel, then there is nothing to stop them from adding all the patches they please to their own distro's build of it....
I'm quite sorry you get angered when people assume you want to have children. Heaven forbid that you do something that's been somewhat of a tradition for roughly 15,000 years.
FWIW, it seems to me that guys are expected to want to have kids also. While I'm not saying that you should neccessarily "follow the crowd" just because everyone else does something, it is perfectly understandable for the rest of society to assume that you'll behave *something* like the rest of society.
(And those that don't respect your decisions can go to Hell. But assumptions are innocent.)
This is *insightful*? There should be some pretermoderation; Moderation is moderated up or down if we think the moderation tag is funny, etc... :)
IANAL, but from what I've read there, it sounds like its "using a filename to launch a program". How is that patentable? Or did Multics, et al, do that sort of thing holistically, without actually using the filename to scan for inodes?...
Of course, prior art and obviousness seem to mean nothing in the computer world these days.
On a somewhat related track: People on slashdot mentioned recently that journals/repositories/etc should be set up to collect "prior art" for every obvious damn thing we can thing of. I would find it only mildly ironic if this actually would get Microsoft out of a bind. :)
Shoutcast servers -- are they illegal in the Phillipines?
There was the ARPANET and all was chaos. And God came down and created the USENET and the earth. And it was good. And God took the USENET and said "Let there be rigidly enforced categories." And it too, was good. On the fifth day, God created all the categories of the Earth, such as the comp.*, and the rec.*, and the alt.*. And naught a newsgroup was created which fell where it belonged not, for the categories were moderated. And many people partook of the well-nomenclatured categories, and it was good.
Then came the web, and the corporations, and they too started with categories, such as *.net, and *.com, and *.org. Yet lo, they were unmoderated, and all sense of order was lost and it descended back into chaos.
Come on God^H^H^HICANN, give us categories with meaning!
The Shouptronic is a closed system that isn't open for inspection. Several groups argue that it has been used to fix the vote in elections.
I wonder if it was built by a scientologist...
Turbolasers and all? Mischief night might get a bit more fun with one of them! (Egg doors? why not blow 'em in!)
Therefore, Gore invented the cause of violence. Is this really someone we want in charge of our nation? :)
How fast does it chomp on a SETI Block? :)
In my opinion, stuff like that is the last remnant of the hacker ethos still alive at Microsoft... it proves that they're not all "borg" as many slashdotters think; they're in for good fun coding as much as the next guy... I personally thought that the raycaster/ "Doom" clone in Excel was cool as hell...
You guys all want Micro$oft to "get hip" to new technology/business models/whatever but don't want them to pull a prank once in a while?
(God, didn't any of you ever screw around in compsci class?)
but as much as I disagree with a lot of what RMS says, The Right to Read is certainly seeming more-and-more a reality. First you can't reverse-engineer anything (DMCA), and now they're going to ration debuggers and compilers? shudder...
had you been using netscape in linux, you'd just hafta center-click to get a new window ;)
Why is this moderated "+5 Funny"? I think it should really be "+5 Sobering Reality"....
Think about this for a second. People have been saying that this strengthens Napster's case, blah blah, now Napster will survive cause the RIAA/MPAA/Uncle Sam/The Man/etc are all makin' money.
Then it gets qualified with at least now. Who cares if the RIAA is still making money the way it is in five years? Yes, it is impractical to carry a laptop and whatnot around when CDs are far more convienient and of higher quality.
I don't think the RIAA should be worried about their revenue for a looong time. Five years is eternity in "Internet Time". The whole world wide web's only been around for 10 years, and its only been useful (well, that's another debate) to Joe User for the last four or so.
In five years, maybe MP3s will be the death of CDs. But if in five years, the RIAA can't figure out some new distribution model to continue to make money, then they deserve what they get.
I don't see the big deal.
A) It's free. No tuition hike for you.
B) So its ads. Whine all you want. You think the coke machine in the student union isn't an ad for coca-cola? I'm sure the Levis t-shirts you wear aren't ads for the jean company, they're an expression of your individuality. Really.
Every time advertising hits the internet in some other new fashion, /. picks it up as if its
something newsworthy. Get over it folks. Ads are
everywhere. The average person in America sees 2000 per day. You just don't realize they're ads.
To think that the internet, and now intranets
and other faces of your wired life are somehow immune, better, different, whatever, is naive.