This Guy is a professor on one of the most important brasilian universities and he seems to be radically against the use of computers or video-games by youngsters.
We're running a discussion on his ideas on userfriendly.org's forum about this, and is great to see a scientific report that refutes some of Seltzer's opinions.
I mean, with thousands of companies acquiring our data, or "invading our privacy" as many/.ers may cry, is amazing that it took all this time for someone crack the database of any of these companies to steal the data and use it for criminal purposes.
This is what happens when you trust too much of your personal information to a 3rd party. I'm not blaming the user, of course, but the companies that convince the average internet user that is "safe" to trust on them.
It's time for the internet business in general to assume a humbler position and inform their costumers of what kind of risk is involved.
Wromg, wrong, wrong. DDR-RAM IS NOT faster than rambus. check Anandtech or Tom's Hardware. They benchmarked and compared P4 and Athlon and came to the conclusion that P4 has much greater memory bandwidth than Athlon, an part of this speed is thanks to rambus memory.
If Athlon beats the hell out on P4 is thanks to the excelent job AMD did on the chip itself.
But the same benchmark shows an advantage of Intel chips in multimedia and memory bandwidth intensive aplications.
I can assure you you we could be if it wasnt for our constitution that outlaws nuclear weapons.
Before the constitution was aproved in 1988 we had research in nuclear weapons. Brasilian Navy even managed to build 2.000 hyper-centrifuges to refine weapon grade uraniun, and the Army built a testing site with a 800 meters deep hole in the ground to test the nukes in Serra dos Cachimbos, Rio de Janeiro State. The hole was covered by President Collor in a ceremony.
But thats not the issue. The issue is that not only weapon grade uranium must be tracked.
ALL kinds of radiactive materials in a country must have its whereabouts known by the authorities to avoid accidents like the one in Goiania.
Even a non-weapon grade radioactive compound like cesium-137 can be used to create "radioactive bombs". You just have to turn it in a thin powder, mix it with a conventional explosive and detonate over a crowded place like Maracanã Stadium in a championship finals to have at least 120,000 individuals contaminated with radiation.
Any radioactive material can become a threat in the wrong hands or out of control. History proves this. How many more Goianias, Chernobils or Three Mile Islands well need to prove this ?
Maybe its the excessive competitiveness of todays world that made ppl afraid of losing their jobs, maybe its apathy that came with easy access to useless information (the news are boring ? channel surf or click randomly until you find a channel/site that pleases you).
The point is that nowadays few ppl are inclined to march the streets to show the government/companies that they dont agree with what theyre doing, to show that the real power comes from the people and belongs to the people.
Early this century we had thousands of popular demonstrations that led to the creation of laws to protect workers and their families, to protect environment and such.
Today the few protests that show up are scarce and dont have any effect, because theyre to small and easilly controled with a good use of the media.
Politicians know that they dont have to fear ppl, because they have the media and the corporations at their side, and corporations also doesnt fear the ppl because they OWN the media, wich makes easy to convince the average citizen that what the corporations are doing is fine, and that they should vote on politicians that support corporate policies.
Unless we can make a communications revolution to show the average person the real truth this is not going to change. And dont expect to achieve the goals of this revolution only with the internet. The real power still belongs to TV/radio/paper media. Unfortunatelly all these medias are belong to corporations...
Mozilla also ships without a JVM, and the first time you try to access a site that needs Java it'll tell you about that and ask if you want to download.
M$ is probably pushing things to ActiveX,.NET, ASP or any other proprietary crap they have, I just hope they set a warning that you need a plugin to run Java, or this can backfire on them when DOJ adds this to the list of evidence on the proccess.
Third party sites collectin money to give you access to pay-per view sites ain't new to. in two words: porn sites.
many of them uses third party services to collect the money and redistribute among their clients. One of this services was AdultPass.
The reason these sites had been charging for so many time, IMHO, is that few companys are willing to associate their images to pornografy, so advertisement isn't enough to keep porn sites operating.
Now, after the.com crash, we know that other kind of sites also can't operate just on adds, so it's fair that they start charging.
But what makes me worry is that if this spreads too much, the free content in the web may become just a small set of the whole.
Of course, we can press the admins of pay-per view sites to leave some of the content free or at least cheap, so we can pay for it. Or start producing our own content and puting it available via freenet...
Paper money in Brasil have microfilms and/or magnetic tapes for decades now. Since they're hard to embed on paper (they put it there while the paper is still wet) it's an excelent tool to prevent counterfeit money.
The problem with magnetic tapes is that the information on them can be easily erased by magnets or other source of magnetic fields, this seems obvious to anyone who works with computers, but the average person may not be aware of the tape in the bill, or the efects of magnetic fields on them.
This can prevent the monetary authorities to magnetically write information on the tape, such as the face value of the currency or its serial number.
When our new currency (Real) was released it had parity with the american dolar, so producing counterfeit R$ 100 bills was worth the trouble. The problem was the paper... To make sure the paper would look convincing the criminals created a technic to remove the ink on R$ 1 bills and them print R$ 100 in place.
If we had the face value and serial number recorded on the bill's mag tape and cheap readers to scan it, this counterfeiting technic would be easily avoided.
Now comes the chip...
Information stored in a flash ROM is more resistant to magnetic fields than when stored in mag tapes (please, correct me if I'm wrong) making this an excelent tool to prevent fake bills.
But itll be a Good Thing(tm) to be able to suply a kernel parameter via LILO prompt or loadlin to have the debug messages back, to allow an experienced guru to diagnose the stuff if something goes wrong, specially when the kernel panicks on you during boot.
Maybe configure it to parse information from Everything2 ?
If the technology to add configurable smart tags gets standardized and included in Mozilla, Konqueror AND IE, I may use them.
But ONLY if they are standard and implemented the same way in all browsers. Any proprietary crap, and I wont use the browser, or Ill filter the meta tags out of the HTML code.
This article served only to restart the holly war between KDE and Gnome, and holly wars between ourselves is everything we don't need. Their only purpose is to help the real enemy.
If this convention allows a country to force it's own laws over others it'll afect the sovereignity principle. I have several doubts that this kind of thing will ever be aproved, since it has the potencial to clash with several nacional constitutions, wich will make supreme courts all over the globe to rule the pact VOID.
Alfredo "windowmaker" Kojima is now working on Conectiva, Brasils leading open source company. Recently he adapted apt-get to work with RPM, and it seems that this is integrated in Conectiva Linux 6.0. Click here for more details.
IIRC M$ said that the free sotware movement was a "comunist" thing, and that it was a threat to the american way of life and for capitalism.
Well, if free software is communism or no, I don't know, but a company making profit with something IS capitalism in it's most pure form and is nice to see Red Hat proving that a capitalism company can make money with free stuff.
- Protect your PC from malicious hackers: Recompile the kernel with all security options, deactivate all unneccessary services like telnetd or ftpd.
- Prevent Websites from tracking your activities: Use mozilla or conqueror with cookies disabled, or set a per-site cookie policy. Use a proxy to disguise your IP if you have broadband with static IP.
- Secure your passwords and personal information: One word: Encription. Encript the data in your file system.
- Block unwanted ads and speed up browsing: Use mozilla with a per-syte image policy. reject everithing that comes from doubleclick.net.
As you can see this software can be replaced easily by a few minutes of work and good sense. After all, an average linux user has a litle more technicall knowlwdge than the average Windows user, and these tasks are not that dificult for us.
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This Guy is a professor on one of the most important brasilian universities and he seems to be radically against the use of computers or video-games by youngsters.
We're running a discussion on his ideas on userfriendly.org's forum about this, and is great to see a scientific report that refutes some of Seltzer's opinions.
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I mean, with thousands of companies acquiring our data, or "invading our privacy" as many /.ers may cry, is amazing that it took all this time for someone crack the database of any of these companies to steal the data and use it for criminal purposes.
This is what happens when you trust too much of your personal information to a 3rd party. I'm not blaming the user, of course, but the companies that convince the average internet user that is "safe" to trust on them.
It's time for the internet business in general to assume a humbler position and inform their costumers of what kind of risk is involved.
--
Wromg, wrong, wrong. DDR-RAM IS NOT faster than rambus. check Anandtech or Tom's Hardware. They benchmarked and compared P4 and Athlon and came to the conclusion that P4 has much greater memory bandwidth than Athlon, an part of this speed is thanks to rambus memory.
If Athlon beats the hell out on P4 is thanks to the excelent job AMD did on the chip itself.
But the same benchmark shows an advantage of Intel chips in multimedia and memory bandwidth intensive aplications.
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I can assure you you we could be if it wasnt for our constitution that outlaws nuclear weapons.
Before the constitution was aproved in 1988 we had research in nuclear weapons. Brasilian Navy even managed to build 2.000 hyper-centrifuges to refine weapon grade uraniun, and the Army built a testing site with a 800 meters deep hole in the ground to test the nukes in Serra dos Cachimbos, Rio de Janeiro State. The hole was covered by President Collor in a ceremony.
But thats not the issue. The issue is that not only weapon grade uranium must be tracked.
ALL kinds of radiactive materials in a country must have its whereabouts known by the authorities to avoid accidents like the one in Goiania.
Even a non-weapon grade radioactive compound like cesium-137 can be used to create "radioactive bombs". You just have to turn it in a thin powder, mix it with a conventional explosive and detonate over a crowded place like Maracanã Stadium in a championship finals to have at least 120,000 individuals contaminated with radiation.
Any radioactive material can become a threat in the wrong hands or out of control. History proves this. How many more Goianias, Chernobils or Three Mile Islands well need to prove this ?
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I dont know whats happening.
Maybe its the excessive competitiveness of todays world that made ppl afraid of losing their jobs, maybe its apathy that came with easy access to useless information (the news are boring ? channel surf or click randomly until you find a channel/site that pleases you).
The point is that nowadays few ppl are inclined to march the streets to show the government/companies that they dont agree with what theyre doing, to show that the real power comes from the people and belongs to the people.
Early this century we had thousands of popular demonstrations that led to the creation of laws to protect workers and their families, to protect environment and such.
Today the few protests that show up are scarce and dont have any effect, because theyre to small and easilly controled with a good use of the media.
Politicians know that they dont have to fear ppl, because they have the media and the corporations at their side, and corporations also doesnt fear the ppl because they OWN the media, wich makes easy to convince the average citizen that what the corporations are doing is fine, and that they should vote on politicians that support corporate policies.
Unless we can make a communications revolution to show the average person the real truth this is not going to change. And dont expect to achieve the goals of this revolution only with the internet. The real power still belongs to TV/radio/paper media. Unfortunatelly all these medias are belong to corporations...
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of the nuclear material. My country (Brasil) doesnt.
Remember Goiania ? The cracked Cesium-137 capsule ?
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AOL = ACME
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Mozilla also ships without a JVM, and the first time you try to access a site that needs Java it'll tell you about that and ask if you want to download.
.NET, ASP or any other proprietary crap they have, I just hope they set a warning that you need a plugin to run Java, or this can backfire on them when DOJ adds this to the list of evidence on the proccess.
M$ is probably pushing things to ActiveX,
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Third party sites collectin money to give you access to pay-per view sites ain't new to. in two words: porn sites.
.com crash, we know that other kind of sites also can't operate just on adds, so it's fair that they start charging.
many of them uses third party services to collect the money and redistribute among their clients. One of this services was AdultPass.
The reason these sites had been charging for so many time, IMHO, is that few companys are willing to associate their images to pornografy, so advertisement isn't enough to keep porn sites operating.
Now, after the
But what makes me worry is that if this spreads too much, the free content in the web may become just a small set of the whole.
Of course, we can press the admins of pay-per view sites to leave some of the content free or at least cheap, so we can pay for it. Or start producing our own content and puting it available via freenet...
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Recently I saw a banner on /. linking to LFS (Linux From Scratch) a non-profit open source project.
/. advertises non-profit sites like LFS why not gnutella or other peer-to-peer search-and-share system like freenet ?
/. than all these banners of OSDN keiretsu...
If
It'll certainly help to fill napster's vacuum much quicker and it'll look better in
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at least with win98. just grab Revenge Of Mozilla at http://www.programfiles.com/index.asp?ID=1711
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Paper money in Brasil have microfilms and/or magnetic tapes for decades now. Since they're hard to embed on paper (they put it there while the paper is still wet) it's an excelent tool to prevent counterfeit money.
The problem with magnetic tapes is that the information on them can be easily erased by magnets or other source of magnetic fields, this seems obvious to anyone who works with computers, but the average person may not be aware of the tape in the bill, or the efects of magnetic fields on them.
This can prevent the monetary authorities to magnetically write information on the tape, such as the face value of the currency or its serial number.
When our new currency (Real) was released it had parity with the american dolar, so producing counterfeit R$ 100 bills was worth the trouble. The problem was the paper... To make sure the paper would look convincing the criminals created a technic to remove the ink on R$ 1 bills and them print R$ 100 in place.
If we had the face value and serial number recorded on the bill's mag tape and cheap readers to scan it, this counterfeiting technic would be easily avoided.
Now comes the chip...
Information stored in a flash ROM is more resistant to magnetic fields than when stored in mag tapes (please, correct me if I'm wrong) making this an excelent tool to prevent fake bills.
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for newbie users, for sure.
But itll be a Good Thing(tm) to be able to suply a kernel parameter via LILO prompt or loadlin to have the debug messages back, to allow an experienced guru to diagnose the stuff if something goes wrong, specially when the kernel panicks on you during boot.
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Thats exactlly what I want.
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Maybe configure it to parse information from Everything2 ?
If the technology to add configurable smart tags gets standardized and included in Mozilla, Konqueror AND IE, I may use them.
But ONLY if they are standard and implemented the same way in all browsers. Any proprietary crap, and I wont use the browser, or Ill filter the meta tags out of the HTML code.
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Science is killing poetry.
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I mean, with all the funding cuts imposed over NASA in the last few years, is a miracle that the space station took off.
I just wonder whats the odds of a robot like this to ever fly to another rock in our solar system...
Maybe if Dubya stops with those anti-missile insanity...
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What you want is more or less what MP3.com does. They have their own servers, with songs in various bitrates.
If this is what Napster have to do to survive, I think the coompany is doomed, since theyll have to compete with MP3.com.
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as "Flamebait".
This article served only to restart the holly war between KDE and Gnome, and holly wars between ourselves is everything we don't need. Their only purpose is to help the real enemy.
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If this convention allows a country to force it's own laws over others it'll afect the sovereignity principle. I have several doubts that this kind of thing will ever be aproved, since it has the potencial to clash with several nacional constitutions, wich will make supreme courts all over the globe to rule the pact VOID.
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Alfredo "windowmaker" Kojima is now working on Conectiva, Brasils leading open source company. Recently he adapted apt-get to work with RPM, and it seems that this is integrated in Conectiva Linux 6.0. Click here for more details.
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IIRC M$ said that the free sotware movement was a "comunist" thing, and that it was a threat to the american way of life and for capitalism.
Well, if free software is communism or no, I don't know, but a company making profit with something IS capitalism in it's most pure form and is nice to see Red Hat proving that a capitalism company can make money with free stuff.
Time to eat some of your words Microsoft...
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This time with an official release of GCC, not the broken development release they used in RH 7.0...
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... and sooner or later: McAfee for Nokia.
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lets see:
- Protect your PC from malicious hackers: Recompile the kernel with all security options, deactivate all unneccessary services like telnetd or ftpd.
- Prevent Websites from tracking your activities: Use mozilla or conqueror with cookies disabled, or set a per-site cookie policy. Use a proxy to disguise your IP if you have broadband with static IP.
- Secure your passwords and personal information: One word: Encription. Encript the data in your file system.
- Block unwanted ads and speed up browsing: Use mozilla with a per-syte image policy. reject everithing that comes from doubleclick.net.
As you can see this software can be replaced easily by a few minutes of work and good sense. After all, an average linux user has a litle more technicall knowlwdge than the average Windows user, and these tasks are not that dificult for us.
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