I think it would be great if they made peer-to-peer illegal. Since IP is a peer-to-peer protocol, you'd be able to shut down the operations of Sprint, Qwest, AOL, Verisign, and millions more. One day of 'peer-to-peer is illegal' would be enough for proof by contradiction.
It may be widely agreed, but I'm not sure I agree with it. If I wrote a book, and found out that an organization was photocopying it using it as a training manual for their employees, I would be hopping mad. You're saying copying computer programs is different. But what makes them different?
While I think you understand the spirit of the GPL, the facts are a little different.
First of all, if you haven't changed the font itself, you have no obligation to provide it to anyone - Just like with GPL'd software.
In fact, anyone who distributes GPL software in binary form is obligated to distribute the source, whether or not they've made modifications to the source.
Second, if you only use it for within an organization, you have no obligation to provide it to anyone - Just like with GPL'd software.
This all depends what 'distribution' means, but if you distribute GPLed software in binary form, you are obligated to provide the source code to anyone who you distributed the binary to. This would presumably apply within an organization.
I'm not sure who you're making fun of there. Bitmover for making people pay now that folks are trying to reverse-engineer bk, or the Open Source community for expecting companies to GPL all their software and hand it out free?
AMD discontinued the pure x86 line because their x86-64 were just as good (or better) at x86 as their pure x86 line.
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Normalization isn't what's wanted here. This isn't a case of "I want all my mp3s to have the same volume", it's "inside a given file, there's too much volumne variation".
It's better to keep trade secrets than give them away. Then they are not secrets.
Nice tautology. Perhaps it would be better to explain what trade secrets are good for, like: Withholding information about what you do makes it harder for competitors to emulate you.
No one has broken it wide open yet. Any attacks that make it easier to hack SHA1 will probably make it easier to hack SHA-256, but since SHA-256 is much harder than SHA-1, it will remain very hard to hack.
Not saying we shouldn't find better hash techniques, but there *is* a reason to move to SHA-256
Personally, I'm more worried about the possibility that further investigation will break SHA-1 wide open. SHA-256 breaking won't be practical with current techniques for quite some time.
Jon Callas... addressed the company's design philosophy in a September 2004... article entitled "Much ado about hash functions" . At the same time, PGP engineers began implementing a shift from SHA-1 to the stronger algorithms (SHA-256 and SHA-512)
So they were actually ahead of things, not reacting to the break.
They started moving to SHA-256 last September. According to TFA:
Jon Callas... addressed the company's design philosophy in a September 2004... article... At the same time, PGP engineers began implementing a shift from SHA-1 to the stronger algorithms (SHA-256 and SHA-512)
IE does a very good job at figuring out what someone actually intended with the broken code and rendering it well. It's one of those thigns that ought not to be necessary, since veryone ought to check their code, but is quite nice in reality.
On the other hand, if the browsers were stricter, perhaps there'd be a lot less broken code out there...
I don't think Walmart is doing this for any other reason then they don't want to pay the sticker price for windows. They are not really advocating Linux...
I think that's cool. If big, evil corporations are using Linux because it fills a need, not from an advocacy position, Linux is really gaining momentum.
No, the news is an eagle arrived in New Zealand and increased in weight by 10 to 15 times over [a million years], which is very fast in evolutionary terms. Such rapid size change is unprecedented in birds and animals.
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I think it would be great if they made peer-to-peer illegal. Since IP is a peer-to-peer protocol, you'd be able to shut down the operations of Sprint, Qwest, AOL, Verisign, and millions more. One day of 'peer-to-peer is illegal' would be enough for proof by contradiction.
It may be widely agreed, but I'm not sure I agree with it. If I wrote a book, and found out that an organization was photocopying it using it as a training manual for their employees, I would be hopping mad. You're saying copying computer programs is different. But what makes them different?
While I think you understand the spirit of the GPL, the facts are a little different.
First of all, if you haven't changed the font itself, you have no obligation to provide it to anyone - Just like with GPL'd software.
In fact, anyone who distributes GPL software in binary form is obligated to distribute the source, whether or not they've made modifications to the source.
Second, if you only use it for within an organization, you have no obligation to provide it to anyone - Just like with GPL'd software.
This all depends what 'distribution' means, but if you distribute GPLed software in binary form, you are obligated to provide the source code to anyone who you distributed the binary to. This would presumably apply within an organization.
I'm not sure who you're making fun of there. Bitmover for making people pay now that folks are trying to reverse-engineer bk, or the Open Source community for expecting companies to GPL all their software and hand it out free?
AMD discontinued the pure x86 line because their x86-64 were just as good (or better) at x86 as their pure x86 line.
Normalization isn't what's wanted here. This isn't a case of "I want all my mp3s to have the same volume", it's "inside a given file, there's too much volumne variation".
It's better to keep trade secrets than give them away. Then they are not secrets.
Nice tautology. Perhaps it would be better to explain what trade secrets are good for, like:
Withholding information about what you do makes it harder for competitors to emulate you.
I can't say whether the NULL macro is formally defined, but the null pointer is always 0, even if the bitwise machine representation is different.
No one has broken it wide open yet. Any attacks that make it easier to hack SHA1 will probably make it easier to hack SHA-256, but since SHA-256 is much harder than SHA-1, it will remain very hard to hack.
Not saying we shouldn't find better hash techniques, but there *is* a reason to move to SHA-256
Personally, I'm more worried about the possibility that further investigation will break SHA-1 wide open. SHA-256 breaking won't be practical with current techniques for quite some time.
According to the article,
... addressed the company's design philosophy in a September 2004 ... article entitled "Much ado about hash functions" . At the same time, PGP engineers began implementing a shift from SHA-1 to the stronger algorithms (SHA-256 and SHA-512)
Jon Callas
So they were actually ahead of things, not reacting to the break.
They started moving to SHA-256 last September. According to TFA:
... addressed the company's design philosophy in a September 2004 ... article ... At the same time, PGP engineers began implementing a shift from SHA-1 to the stronger algorithms (SHA-256 and SHA-512)
Jon Callas
IE does a very good job at figuring out what someone actually intended with the broken code and rendering it well. It's one of those thigns that ought not to be necessary, since veryone ought to check their code, but is quite nice in reality.
On the other hand, if the browsers were stricter, perhaps there'd be a lot less broken code out there...
I don't think Walmart is doing this for any other reason then they don't want to pay the sticker price for windows. They are not really advocating Linux...
I think that's cool. If big, evil corporations are using Linux because it fills a need, not from an advocacy position, Linux is really gaining momentum.
Not many people buy Windows because of advocacy.
No, the news is an eagle arrived in New Zealand and increased in weight by 10 to 15 times over [a million years], which is very fast in evolutionary terms. Such rapid size change is unprecedented in birds and animals.
Yeah, but there's a sucker born every minute.
Maybe he can join forces with the author of EtheRape.
Bear in mind that Darl's not a suitable brain or heart donor.
Good grief! It's only been mentioned in 14 Slashdot stories by now. Do you want explanations of what Linux and Sun Microsystems are, too?
Yeah. Hardly any one liked the Buffy movie, but the TV show has its fans...
But the TV show was better because its creator had more control. Lucas needs less control, if anything.
Maybe they're worried someone will use their code to implement .net.
No wonder you're posting as an Anonymous Coward.
Or destroy half the cache, and call it a Celeron.
I bet Intel doesn't really care how much a Celeron costs, anyway.
I think Brent Spiner might disagree.
A kilobyte is infinitely more than zero bytes.