You're not quite right about CPRM being open. In order to get the specs, you need to have them mailed to you. This is free of charge, but you cannot download them at all.
distribution media is their choice. deal with it.
AND, part of the cipher involves a 256 byte "secret number" which can only be obtained if you sign a license agreement. Sounds REALLY open to me.
in crypto circles this "secret number" is called the "key". do you really expect them to give you the key to their encryption scheme??
I2 is a joke, and will be for 5-10+ years
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VBNS is great, as long as you're at one of 185 universities, browsing another of 185 universities. big fat pipes are useless if you can't afford enough of them, and without the US DOD tossing some contract money into the kitty, 98% of Internet 1 users will continue to not know and not care about Internet 2. it's a floor model, an expensive prototype, but it's not going to be rolled in anytime soon.
it was my first Unix too, on a Mac IIvx. i completely agree with you that the best way to learn Unix is by complete, terrible, helpless immersion until you learn to love it.
other things i've learned from NetBSD:
* no computer is "useless"
* lots of software will not compile on platforms other than the one for which it's designed
* buying a $20000 Cisco where a $700 machine would do is simply retarded.
"Global Warming" (which is a dumb title for the Greenhouse Effect) will seem a lot more real in 40 or 50 years.
the theory of the Greenhouse Effect states that as the amount of vapors (H2O, CO2, etc) in the atmosphere increases, more heat energy from the sun will be absorbed and trapped in the atmosphere. now we've set this ball in motion by doing two things: dumping large amounts of CO2 in the air (and cutting down a lot of trees that would gladly breathe it) and eating away at the ozone layer (in the upper atmosphere, where it absorbs ultraviolet rays). more UV is coming in, heating up more vapor in the air.
the 0.5degC increase in global climate may not seem like much, but when you consider how many extra millions and millions of tons of water are in the air, you can probably easily imagine the climactic changes. more humidity planet-wide == more storms, more violent climate. a rise in sea level (from slowly-melting, enormous icecaps) is probably to come in the next 50 years too, putting major metropolitan ports underwater.
the 0.5degC increase in climate is also a reversal of the natural trend in recent centuries. no one can say with certainty if it's just the Earth's natural cycle, but an intelligent human can tell that mayyyybe mankind had something to do with it.
Those lawsuits against Big Tobacco sure seemed like a good idea at the time. Nobody likes them, they have more money than God, and they sell products that kill. They even tell people that, on the side of the box. Hell with it: someone's cancer is their fault, sue 'em.
Firearms industry? Obviously responsible for subsequent shooting deaths! To the courtroom!
And now.... the software industry? HA HA
It's bittersweet to see today's "Liberals" choke on their own blood sometimes.
I own a PowerBook G3/333 (Lombard) and I love it. It is one of the sexiest and most powerful laptop's I've ever seen, and at $1600 (used) the price wasn't so bad.
I ditched MacOS 9 because after several years away from MacOS (and never having used Windows), I wasn't used to crashes every 24-28 hours anymore. I grabbed LinuxPPC 2000 because NetBSD/macppc didn't support sound yet.
LinuxPPC, for all its positive points, was a BEEE-YOTCH to install. It took about four tries to get it right, and I still wasn't able to get it booting from OpenFirmware. The kernel had problems, some software didn't work, X wouldn't run in more than 256 colors without running a special command beforehand, etc.
I installed Mac OS X public beta and used it for about a week. It was neat to see BSD under it all, but since there were about 2 applications written for it and it was sluggish at best, I decided to let it mature, and reinstalled LinuxPPC.
LinuxPPC still crashes reasonably often (most often using cdparanoia and lame). It doesn't talk to my USB mouse. I still can't boot from OF.
NetBSD/macppc 1.5 now supports sound, so tonight my PowerBook gets reinstalled. I've used NetBSD blissfully for about three years, and aside from hardware errors due to a faulty CDROM drive, it has never once crashed.
I went to LinuxPPC because it was more stable than MacOS. Once MacOS is that stable (esp. since it's UNIX underneath), I don't think anyone is going to touch LinuxPPC.
I camped near these guys at Burning Man... It marked my way home from the other side of the city! Quite cool technology... a lot of thought went into it and it shows.
i might cite Dr. Dexter Holland (lead singer, Offspring) or Dr. Milo Aukerman (lead singer, Descendents) as extreme examples (punk rockers with doctorates).
have you ever lived near a college before?? do you know how many bands come out of them??
I'm sure you know the extent of what you're getting into. This data haven represents an international "threat" to security/intelligence, a threat that sooner or later I expect a country's intelligence agency will choose to deal with.
My question is: how far are you willing to go with this data haven? It seems to mean much more to you than just a cool networking phenomenon; are you willing to fight and even die for these ideals?
Though I am not a fan of The Offspring's music, I think this is a hilariously ironic look at the true forces hard at work at Napster. Napster isn't "the good guys", they're trying to make money like every other corporation, and they're not afriad to sue, just like every other corporation *cough* RIAA *cough*.
You're wrong. Napster is suing not to make money from The Offspring's (admittedly punk-effing-rock) actions, but to make sure that their name doesn't get jacked, to protect their trademark.
Trade-mark. Not copy-right.
Napster lives and dies on trafficking illegal music. If Napster didn't traffic illegal music, there would be no demand for it at all. The offpsring basically just pointed this out, after "supporting" Napster.
You're wrong. Napster is, in its purest form, a distributed filesystem that doesn't even know it. Napster is a very useful tool for sharing legal songs as well. Just because 99.44% of its users are shuttling crappy, copyrighted material around doesn't remove the usefulness of the program. Napster is a good tool for the job of shuttling around mp3s, whether crappy or copyrighted or both or neither.
Of course this news is not at all surprising, given China's "rigorous" censorship/political reëducation/anti-crimethink track record. The Internet is by far the most effective irritant ever to the differences in countries' laws; in this case, it's China's (over)reaction to information physically located within its bounds but visible to and destined for the entire world.
Red China can't go on forever. Eventually, 1.6 billion pissed-off Chinese will unify.... and I would not want to be on the wrong ends of their sticks, pitchforks, guns, rocks, and bombs.
Why is it that Java is compiled in byte-code rather than native code...?
As I understand it, one of the purposes of Java is to support effortless multiplatform operation. For this reason, a.java file is compiled into a bytecode.class file which can then be used on any platform which has a bytecode runtime engine. In other words, the bytecode engine becomes the singular platform for which Java programs are written.
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distribution media is their choice. deal with it.
AND, part of the cipher involves a 256 byte "secret number" which can only be obtained if you sign a license agreement. Sounds REALLY open to me.
in crypto circles this "secret number" is called the "key". do you really expect them to give you the key to their encryption scheme??
VBNS is great, as long as you're at one of 185 universities, browsing another of 185 universities. big fat pipes are useless if you can't afford enough of them, and without the US DOD tossing some contract money into the kitty, 98% of Internet 1 users will continue to not know and not care about Internet 2. it's a floor model, an expensive prototype, but it's not going to be rolled in anytime soon.
it was my first Unix too, on a Mac IIvx. i completely agree with you that the best way to learn Unix is by complete, terrible, helpless immersion until you learn to love it.
other things i've learned from NetBSD:
* no computer is "useless"
* lots of software will not compile on platforms other than the one for which it's designed
* buying a $20000 Cisco where a $700 machine would do is simply retarded.
"Global Warming" (which is a dumb title for the Greenhouse Effect) will seem a lot more real in 40 or 50 years. the theory of the Greenhouse Effect states that as the amount of vapors (H2O, CO2, etc) in the atmosphere increases, more heat energy from the sun will be absorbed and trapped in the atmosphere. now we've set this ball in motion by doing two things: dumping large amounts of CO2 in the air (and cutting down a lot of trees that would gladly breathe it) and eating away at the ozone layer (in the upper atmosphere, where it absorbs ultraviolet rays). more UV is coming in, heating up more vapor in the air.
the 0.5degC increase in global climate may not seem like much, but when you consider how many extra millions and millions of tons of water are in the air, you can probably easily imagine the climactic changes. more humidity planet-wide == more storms, more violent climate. a rise in sea level (from slowly-melting, enormous icecaps) is probably to come in the next 50 years too, putting major metropolitan ports underwater.
the 0.5degC increase in climate is also a reversal of the natural trend in recent centuries. no one can say with certainty if it's just the Earth's natural cycle, but an intelligent human can tell that mayyyybe mankind had something to do with it.
Those lawsuits against Big Tobacco sure seemed like a good idea at the time. Nobody likes them, they have more money than God, and they sell products that kill. They even tell people that, on the side of the box. Hell with it: someone's cancer is their fault, sue 'em.
Firearms industry? Obviously responsible for subsequent shooting deaths! To the courtroom!
And now.... the software industry? HA HA
It's bittersweet to see today's "Liberals" choke on their own blood sometimes.
the 200 graves adjacent to Jim Ellis are engraved with "MAKE MONEY FAST!!!" and "GET OUT OF DEBT!!!"
they're really a lot broader than most people realize, esp. since acquiring DEC.
please change this article's appearance under the "Internet" heading to the "It's funny. Laugh." heading.
...both of which are elements in "quantum computing".
adding a feature to software (provided it is not at the expense of other features) is *never* bad.
besides, if Linux binaries run under *BSD, who cares if the BSD versions don't come out (like they ever did anyway)?
-peeto
a four-year NetBSD user
FUCK YOU.
you've had your moment in the sun; now let's have our servers back, ok?
I ditched MacOS 9 because after several years away from MacOS (and never having used Windows), I wasn't used to crashes every 24-28 hours anymore. I grabbed LinuxPPC 2000 because NetBSD/macppc didn't support sound yet.
LinuxPPC, for all its positive points, was a BEEE-YOTCH to install. It took about four tries to get it right, and I still wasn't able to get it booting from OpenFirmware. The kernel had problems, some software didn't work, X wouldn't run in more than 256 colors without running a special command beforehand, etc.
I installed Mac OS X public beta and used it for about a week. It was neat to see BSD under it all, but since there were about 2 applications written for it and it was sluggish at best, I decided to let it mature, and reinstalled LinuxPPC.
LinuxPPC still crashes reasonably often (most often using cdparanoia and lame). It doesn't talk to my USB mouse. I still can't boot from OF.
NetBSD/macppc 1.5 now supports sound, so tonight my PowerBook gets reinstalled. I've used NetBSD blissfully for about three years, and aside from hardware errors due to a faulty CDROM drive, it has never once crashed.
I went to LinuxPPC because it was more stable than MacOS. Once MacOS is that stable (esp. since it's UNIX underneath), I don't think anyone is going to touch LinuxPPC.
I'd thought that consumer GPS systems were deliberately detuned so they couldn't be used in a military capacity...
the website is fine, but the phone number is Slashdotted!
two MIT alums built a 25' tall LED tower for Burning Man 2000. very impressive, both technically and artistically.
I camped near these guys at Burning Man... It marked my way home from the other side of the city! Quite cool technology... a lot of thought went into it and it shows.
have you ever lived near a college before?? do you know how many bands come out of them??
moderate this shit UP.
I'm sure you know the extent of what you're getting into. This data haven represents an international "threat" to security/intelligence, a threat that sooner or later I expect a country's intelligence agency will choose to deal with.
My question is: how far are you willing to go with this data haven? It seems to mean much more to you than just a cool networking phenomenon; are you willing to fight and even die for these ideals?
-peeto
You're wrong. Napster is suing not to make money from The Offspring's (admittedly punk-effing-rock) actions, but to make sure that their name doesn't get jacked, to protect their trademark.
Trade-mark. Not copy-right.
Napster lives and dies on trafficking illegal music. If Napster didn't traffic illegal music, there would be no demand for it at all. The offpsring basically just pointed this out, after "supporting" Napster.
You're wrong. Napster is, in its purest form, a distributed filesystem that doesn't even know it. Napster is a very useful tool for sharing legal songs as well. Just because 99.44% of its users are shuttling crappy, copyrighted material around doesn't remove the usefulness of the program. Napster is a good tool for the job of shuttling around mp3s, whether crappy or copyrighted or both or neither.
sure. just like in Malaysia, Taiwan, Indonesia, Mexico....
Red China can't go on forever. Eventually, 1.6 billion pissed-off Chinese will unify.... and I would not want to be on the wrong ends of their sticks, pitchforks, guns, rocks, and bombs.
As I understand it, one of the purposes of Java is to support effortless multiplatform operation. For this reason, a .java file is compiled into a bytecode .class file which can then be used on any platform which has a bytecode runtime engine. In other words, the bytecode engine becomes the singular platform for which Java programs are written.
cripes! and now i've gone and linked to it! we're schrod!!
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-1679693.html? tag=st.ne.1002.thed.1003-200-1679693