The LAN is already paid for because the equipment has been paid for... the bits and bytes being sent around the network are being paid for... There's nothing left to pay for
No no no! Now you have to pay for the SYNERGY gained from the combination of things you've already paid for.
Does anybody have a link to the ebay auction? Unless I missed it there isn't a link in the Slashdot blurb nor the actual article, and my searching on ebay hasn't turned up anything.
What I find funny about the complaints of all the people who walked out of the movie is that if you would have sucked it up and stayed (you DID already pay for it after all) you would have gotten all you were expecting from it.
I have to disagree here. I did stay for the whole movie, and all I saw was several kung-fu sequences that were about 3 times too long.
The Matrix was a sci-fi drama mixed with all the right proportions of a romance story, philosophical thought (enough to intrigue people but not beat them over the head with it), and of course, kung-fu.
Reloaded was all about doing a whole lot of kung-fu with impossible action sequences. I got the impression that each of their CG guys took turns adding every neat little move they could, each trying to out do the others, the result being scenes like the fight on top of the truck. That was really cool... for the first 5-10 minutes. The rest of the time they could have spent developing plot or such, instead of trying to cram all of that into the 3 minute segments between kung-fu or orgies.
Also, I can't really get excited about the Neo fight scenes anymore. He can move fast enough to dodge bullets, and he has arbitrary control over a lot of the things in the matrix, so why should I expect him to even break a sweat when all he needs to do is fight a few thug programs (who apparently are wimps when compared to agents). That scene really served no purpose other than to show a big weapon display.
Obviously, my overall impression was one of disappointment.
So androids, and virtual avatars, that are driven by computers of that kind, cannot express conscious awareness and their behavior therefore can never be evidence for consciousness, much like the antisocial bearded linux advocates that live in their parents' basement.
I can't check the article, because it is currently unavailable, but I have to inquire as to whether you added that last part yourself.
Long time back another scientist, David Deutsch [http://www.qubit.org/people/david/David.ht ml] proposed a similar therory to explain Young's double slit experiment.
And if anybody is interested in reading some good science fiction centered around this theory, I recommend Michael Crichton's Timeline. I just finished it a couple of days ago and rather enjoyed it.
Copyright was never meant to be a way to prevent people from learning secrets. It was meant to prevent people from redistributing copies of others' work without their permission.
Actually, according to the Constitution of the United States, Article I, Section 8, the purpose is to "Promote the progress of Science and the useful Arts". The idea of copyright was NOT created for the simple purpose of giving an author/artist/etc control over his work, and especially not to make him money.
As evidence I direct you to Wheaton v. Peters (1834) in which the Supreme Court rules that the Copyright Act was not to enrich authors and publishers but to "promote science and useful arts" as specified by Article I.
I will admit, though, that to say that modern copyright law continues the spirit of this interpretation is to live in a delusion. That saddens me.
What's the point? I don't mean to troll, I'm seriously interested: what would be the value of being W3C compliant?
Parsing "HTML" (and I use the term in quotes to indicate the tag soup that makes up most pages, rather than standard compliant HTML) is currently a very difficult task. Parsing standards compliant HTML, on the other hand, is a relatively simple task (or if not simple, at least well-defined). If every page on the WWW strictly followed standards, pages would be smaller (on average), would render faster, and there wouldn't be so much ambiguity about how a page will look across different browsers.
But, for standards compliance to become the norm, a few high profile sites (like Google) are going to have to lead the way, so that it becomes something of a bragging right to have a standards compliant page. Who knows, with enough high profile sites leading the way, maybe we'd even achieve my dream of browsers refusing to render non-compliant pages (not likely, as long as MSIE is the dominant browser).
So, to answer your question, there probably isn't too much direct advantage, other than bragging rights, that Google would gain from making thier site conform to W3C standards. However, a small gesture such as that from a popular site like Google could go a long way in making the web better for everyone.
Microsoft Press publishes one of the best books I've ever seen on writing secure code (called, suprisingly, Writing Secure Code, ISBN 0-7356-1588-8). It's written by 2 MS engineers. I'd say there certainly are people at MS who're very qualified to talk about security, and, hopefully, those will be the ones teaching the seminars.
I'd say some of the gems of my book collection are from Microsoft Press. In particular, anything written by Jefferey Richter or Charles Petzold I'm willing to take on faith will be outstanding.
Irrespective of feelings towards Microsoft (and I'm pretty far into the anti-MS camp), their Microsoft Press division has released some darn fine books.
(Note: I only own 4 MS Press books, and all have been outstanding. This does not mean that there aren't hundreds of MS Press books that are crap, but that hasn't been my experience.)
The problem here is that "1" bits require a different amount of work than "0" bits. When you have a "1" bit, you have to perform an additional multiply than for a "0" bit. If you can somehow time each multiplication/square step, you can determine whether the bit of "d" was a 0 or 1. If you can do this 2048 times, you can calculate all the bits of the private key, which is "d". That is what this attack does, minus all the complicated details.
So, does that mean a feasible solution to prevent this sort of attack would be to perform the multiply operation irrespective of what the bit is, and only use the result if the bit is a 1? Would there be any real downsides to fixing it this way?
So, at 6 characters per word, that would mean that you were a 300wpm typist.
You kicked ass!
Ah, how nostalgia changes our perspective.:)
I get your point, but I seem to remember out-typing my modem on occasion as well, and I can't type anywhere near 300 wpm, at least not sustained over any appreciable amount of time. I'd be willing to wager, though, that if you measured my typing speed over around 5 seconds, and then multiplied to get WPM, that I'd frequently exceed 300 or perhaps even more. It's these quick bursts of text with which you may start to notice the modem trying to catch up.
Also, it is possible (and I'm mostly talking out my rear at this point) that latency had something to do with it. It is reasonable to assume that devices of that day had a higher latency than those you see today, which could certainly contribute to at least the feeling of out-typing your modem.
Am I just confused, or wouldn't this be more appropriately titles IP/H2O?
Alan
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Upload it to Kazaa so the rest of us can download it from you
This is a fantastic idea that I fully support (and a perfect use of a P2P network). However, I'd like to point out that people should still download the file MD5SUM from a trusted source (such as ftp.redhat.com). That way you can check to make sure nothing malicious has been done to the disc images you are downloading (or, probably more likely, that they have not become corrupted).
If you already have Linux installed, you can check the images by placing MD5SUM in the same directory and executing the command:
A snooty audiophile sneers at any form of digitization - "You aren't getting all of the music - Yes, I know you are sampling a 1GHz, 64 bits per sample, but you aren't getting all the music! Only analog gets all the music! I don't care that what you are missing wouldn't amount to the width of a hydrogen atom on my beloved LP - YOU AREN'T GETTING ALL THE MUSIC"
That's what a snooty audiophile would say.
Actually, that's what a snooty audiophile that wasn't well versed in signal theory would say. If you sample at a rate that is greater than or equal to the Nyquist frequency (twice the highest frequency present in the thing you are sampling) then you can reconstruct exactly the analog signal. Granted there are some really high frequencies in most music, and you'd have to sample at an insanely high rate, but you could certainly make a digital recording from which you could play back "all the music".
I had to learn this the hard way, being in Computer Science in a previous life. Although my answer to the problem was to change majors ; instead, I am a Liberal Arts Major. And *wink wink* my previous major was Mathematics.
How ironic. Now that you can get hot chicks, you won't be able to afford them.
What i have now works great, give me concrete reasons i should worry about a new release.
If what you have now "works great", then there is absolutely no reason for you to worry about a new release.
Presumably you use a computer to help you accomplish specific tasks (keep track of business info, play games, whatever...). If nothing in the new kernel helps you to more efficiently accomplish said tasks, then you have no compelling reason to use it. In fact, I'd consider it a waste of your time to perform the upgrade.
Finally, I must point out that a third major desktop environment is the last thing Free Software needs right now. We're already fractured by the fact that developers (both Free and commercial) must choose whether to base their apps on QT or GTK. Many major projects choose to target neither: OpenOffice, Mozilla, Kylix, and Adobe Acrobat Reader, for example. A better option would be for KDE and GNOME to move to a new user interface, while keeping their libraries intact.
I disagree with the implied opinion that Free Software would be hurt by the development of another major desktop. The choice of which libraries to use when developing a new program seem not to have as much to do with what desktop environment you expect people to be using as it does with what a developer finds most comfortable to use and is best aligned with thier software licensing philosphy.
I say this because, as a KDE user, I can't think of a single instance in which a program written to use GTK has ever failed to run correctly (where 'correctly' is defined as 'the way it would run if I were using GNOME').
What would another desktop environment mean? It would mean I would have another choice. If it is better (for me) than KDE, I'd use it, if not it would be unlikely that I would have trouble running programs designed for its libraries. At worst it would mean I would have to have another set of libraries on my machine.
One somewhat valid objection to a new desktop environment would be that we could make our current desktops even better if the developers of our hypothetical desktop focused their efforts on one of the existing options. However that makes the often false assumption that said developers would actually spend their time in that manner were they not off creating their own desktop. Also this brings to mind cliches about too many chiefs.
In any case, I don't particularly feel as if I'm in any way entitled to make demands on how developers spend thier time if I get to benefit from their work at no cost.
With such insightful commentary from Auburn's engineering students, it's no wonder that Alabama is such a hotbed of intellectualism.
Exactly which intellectual hotbed do you live in?
Auburn University's engineering program is ranked 63rd. It's business school is ranked 49th. And ranked 54th in their doctoral program. Those may not be the highest numbers around, but they are certainly doing okay.
Additionally, the University of Alabama's Law school is ranked 66th (no link), and their doctoral program is also in the second tier.
On the non-academic side of things, Alabama is home of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, and is the location of many industry leading businesses, particularly in steel and construction materials. Mercedes also apparently has enough confidence in the competency of Alabamians (there is a rather large Mercedes plant in Tuscaloosa county).
Now I realize you were just taking a cheap shot to get some quick karma, but I'm rather tired of the stereotype that south = slave-owning rednecks.
I can't say much about ReiserFS. We use it on a server in one of the computer labs I admin at school, but that's the extent of my experience.
But ext3.. I've been using it since the day RH7.3 was released, during which time I'll bet power to my machine has been cut at least 150 times (we had a bad circuit breaker that would randomly flip. I replaced it a few days ago). Often power was repeatedly lost many times in a short period of time (if that would matter), and in the middle of big disk write operations.
Every single time I have been able to immediately reboot without any apparent data loss (except for the data being written at that very second) or filesystem corruption (a couple of times I forced a check just to make sure nothing was wrong, and nothing ever was).
I can't testify to the relative quality of ext3 compared to ReiserFS, but I can certainly say I have been quite pleased with the stability of ext3.
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Does anybody have a link to the ebay auction? Unless I missed it there isn't a link in the Slashdot blurb nor the actual article, and my searching on ebay hasn't turned up anything.
King Philip Crossed the Ocean For Great Sex.
(heard it from a 9th grade biology teacher)
I have to disagree here. I did stay for the whole movie, and all I saw was several kung-fu sequences that were about 3 times too long.
The Matrix was a sci-fi drama mixed with all the right proportions of a romance story, philosophical thought (enough to intrigue people but not beat them over the head with it), and of course, kung-fu.
Reloaded was all about doing a whole lot of kung-fu with impossible action sequences. I got the impression that each of their CG guys took turns adding every neat little move they could, each trying to out do the others, the result being scenes like the fight on top of the truck. That was really cool... for the first 5-10 minutes. The rest of the time they could have spent developing plot or such, instead of trying to cram all of that into the 3 minute segments between kung-fu or orgies.
Also, I can't really get excited about the Neo fight scenes anymore. He can move fast enough to dodge bullets, and he has arbitrary control over a lot of the things in the matrix, so why should I expect him to even break a sweat when all he needs to do is fight a few thug programs (who apparently are wimps when compared to agents). That scene really served no purpose other than to show a big weapon display.
Obviously, my overall impression was one of disappointment.
Alan
Alan
ESR is pushing for the $BROWSER environment variable. See the BROWSER project.
Alan
I can't check the article, because it is currently unavailable, but I have to inquire as to whether you added that last part yourself.
Alan
And if anybody is interested in reading some good science fiction centered around this theory, I recommend Michael Crichton's Timeline. I just finished it a couple of days ago and rather enjoyed it.
Alan
Actually, according to the Constitution of the United States, Article I, Section 8, the purpose is to "Promote the progress of Science and the useful Arts". The idea of copyright was NOT created for the simple purpose of giving an author/artist/etc control over his work, and especially not to make him money.
As evidence I direct you to Wheaton v. Peters (1834) in which the Supreme Court rules that the Copyright Act was not to enrich authors and publishers but to "promote science and useful arts" as specified by Article I.
I will admit, though, that to say that modern copyright law continues the spirit of this interpretation is to live in a delusion. That saddens me.
Alan
But, for standards compliance to become the norm, a few high profile sites (like Google) are going to have to lead the way, so that it becomes something of a bragging right to have a standards compliant page. Who knows, with enough high profile sites leading the way, maybe we'd even achieve my dream of browsers refusing to render non-compliant pages (not likely, as long as MSIE is the dominant browser).
So, to answer your question, there probably isn't too much direct advantage, other than bragging rights, that Google would gain from making thier site conform to W3C standards. However, a small gesture such as that from a popular site like Google could go a long way in making the web better for everyone.
Alan
I'd say some of the gems of my book collection are from Microsoft Press. In particular, anything written by Jefferey Richter or Charles Petzold I'm willing to take on faith will be outstanding.
Irrespective of feelings towards Microsoft (and I'm pretty far into the anti-MS camp), their Microsoft Press division has released some darn fine books.
(Note: I only own 4 MS Press books, and all have been outstanding. This does not mean that there aren't hundreds of MS Press books that are crap, but that hasn't been my experience.)
Alan
Why would you ever shut your system down? That's like voluntarily killing your uptime!
Alan
So, does that mean a feasible solution to prevent this sort of attack would be to perform the multiply operation irrespective of what the bit is, and only use the result if the bit is a 1? Would there be any real downsides to fixing it this way?
Alan
Also, it is possible (and I'm mostly talking out my rear at this point) that latency had something to do with it. It is reasonable to assume that devices of that day had a higher latency than those you see today, which could certainly contribute to at least the feeling of out-typing your modem.
Alan
Am I just confused, or wouldn't this be more appropriately titles IP/H2O?
Alan
This is a fantastic idea that I fully support (and a perfect use of a P2P network). However, I'd like to point out that people should still download the file MD5SUM from a trusted source (such as ftp.redhat.com). That way you can check to make sure nothing malicious has been done to the disc images you are downloading (or, probably more likely, that they have not become corrupted).
If you already have Linux installed, you can check the images by placing MD5SUM in the same directory and executing the command:
md5sum -c MD5SUM
Alan
Just to put that in perspective...
Maximum transfer rate of a typical non-broadband user (without accounting for the overhead in TCP/IP, etc, so this is an optimistic number)
56 Kbits/sec * (1024 bits / 1 Kbit) * (1 byte / 8 bits) = 7168 bytes/sec
Time required to transfer a 40 Kbyte page :
40 Kbytes * (1024 bytes / 1 Kbyte) * (1 sec / 7168 bytes) = approx 5.7 seconds
6 seconds is a long time to make your users wait to view your "cover" page.
Alan
Actually, that's what a snooty audiophile that wasn't well versed in signal theory would say. If you sample at a rate that is greater than or equal to the Nyquist frequency (twice the highest frequency present in the thing you are sampling) then you can reconstruct exactly the analog signal. Granted there are some really high frequencies in most music, and you'd have to sample at an insanely high rate, but you could certainly make a digital recording from which you could play back "all the music".
Alan
How ironic. Now that you can get hot chicks, you won't be able to afford them.
Alan
If what you have now "works great", then there is absolutely no reason for you to worry about a new release.
Presumably you use a computer to help you accomplish specific tasks (keep track of business info, play games, whatever...). If nothing in the new kernel helps you to more efficiently accomplish said tasks, then you have no compelling reason to use it. In fact, I'd consider it a waste of your time to perform the upgrade.
Alan
I wonder if the autoconfers will have anything to say about this.
Alan
Free speech is the right to yell "theater" in the middle of a crowded fire.
Alan
I disagree with the implied opinion that Free Software would be hurt by the development of another major desktop. The choice of which libraries to use when developing a new program seem not to have as much to do with what desktop environment you expect people to be using as it does with what a developer finds most comfortable to use and is best aligned with thier software licensing philosphy.
I say this because, as a KDE user, I can't think of a single instance in which a program written to use GTK has ever failed to run correctly (where 'correctly' is defined as 'the way it would run if I were using GNOME').
What would another desktop environment mean? It would mean I would have another choice. If it is better (for me) than KDE, I'd use it, if not it would be unlikely that I would have trouble running programs designed for its libraries. At worst it would mean I would have to have another set of libraries on my machine.
One somewhat valid objection to a new desktop environment would be that we could make our current desktops even better if the developers of our hypothetical desktop focused their efforts on one of the existing options. However that makes the often false assumption that said developers would actually spend their time in that manner were they not off creating their own desktop. Also this brings to mind cliches about too many chiefs.
In any case, I don't particularly feel as if I'm in any way entitled to make demands on how developers spend thier time if I get to benefit from their work at no cost.
Okay. I'm done rambling.
Alan
Auburn University's engineering program is ranked 63rd. It's business school is ranked 49th. And ranked 54th in their doctoral program. Those may not be the highest numbers around, but they are certainly doing okay.
Additionally, the University of Alabama's Law school is ranked 66th (no link), and their doctoral program is also in the second tier.
On the non-academic side of things, Alabama is home of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, and is the location of many industry leading businesses, particularly in steel and construction materials. Mercedes also apparently has enough confidence in the competency of Alabamians (there is a rather large Mercedes plant in Tuscaloosa county).
Now I realize you were just taking a cheap shot to get some quick karma, but I'm rather tired of the stereotype that south = slave-owning rednecks.
I can't say much about ReiserFS. We use it on a server in one of the computer labs I admin at school, but that's the extent of my experience.
But ext3.. I've been using it since the day RH7.3 was released, during which time I'll bet power to my machine has been cut at least 150 times (we had a bad circuit breaker that would randomly flip. I replaced it a few days ago). Often power was repeatedly lost many times in a short period of time (if that would matter), and in the middle of big disk write operations.
Every single time I have been able to immediately reboot without any apparent data loss (except for the data being written at that very second) or filesystem corruption (a couple of times I forced a check just to make sure nothing was wrong, and nothing ever was).
I can't testify to the relative quality of ext3 compared to ReiserFS, but I can certainly say I have been quite pleased with the stability of ext3.
-Alan