Mocana's software is optimized for embedded systems and NOT based on large, slow open source code.
That and a buck fifty will get you a cup of coffee here at Slashdot.
But I wonder about the usability of this kind of thing on larger platforms. The link also says that the SSL component is supported on Linux, VxWorks, Solaris, and Windows. It is also CPU-independent so it could theoretically run on any platform in existence given the right hooks into the OS.
Why isn't anyone else able to come up with an SSL library that is that small? I can't believe that with all the work going into creating these libraries that someone else hasn't been able to build one that small too. Or is there something that we are not being told (like while the binary is only 50K, the runtime memory requirements are much larger)
But since the OS is free, no one will profit, and the economy will not gain any boost.
In fact, the economy may actually be worse off as less money is floated into the economy. You can't tell me that IBM plans to give the savings back to the employees.
I'm not one to come out and harp on SUV owners, but with this abnormal solar behavior I think it's clear to see how much impact humans are having on not only our world but even beyond.
Emissions are way up and pollution is at an all time high in many areas. Add to that that the polar ice shelves are rapidly breaking up and falling into the ocean, and you've got yourself a recipe for disaster.
If all it took were a dictionary attack to sniff a password, at least it took that much.
This isn't some simple passthrough that can be gotten through by knowing a couple backdoor passwords, it's a real live algorithm.
But in the end, it's up to the user to enter a password and as long as humans remain humans easy to remember passwords will always be chosen over #HrS2sWmNw/()LggDwMn.
It's not like London of 1605 was anything like the London of today.
It would be more like blowing up a huge bomb in the middle of Mayberry, USA. Sure you'd kill a few people and maybe blow up a barn or two, but it isn't anything like blowing up the WTC or even self-detonating in a Starbucks.
It has been said numerous times that to keep your employees productive it is necessary to keep them happy. During the dot com boom of the late 90's, companies did just that. It got to the point that 'fun specialists' were making a pretty penny advising employers on ways to keep employees happy and fulfilled.
Too bad the research behind this equating of happiness and productivity never existed. In fact, anecdotal evidence shows the complete opposite. Rather than happy employees being more productive, it is clear that unhappy employees with overbearing bosses are actually more productive because they spend less time goofing off and more time actually working.
Trying to revive the outdated "Happy == Productive" lie is bound to make employees excited, but employers ought to beware of ploys like bringing in Pac Man machines just to improve the memories of employees. Employees have paper, pen, even computers to hold onto important notes, thus negating the need for better memory. And the price of bringing in the Pac Man machines is far beyond the price of the consoles. Rather, it is the price of productivity that employers will face.
Employees ought to find their happiness either in their work or outside of work. They should not be finding it in all the 'perks' that employers ought not be throwing their way anyway.
While certainly generous, the Cougaar license is designed specifically to prevent anyone from profiting from the sale of the software:
3. Licensee may use, sell or give away the Cougaar Software or any Derivative Work, alone or as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing Licensee Software, Cougaar Applications and/or programs from several different sources. No royalty or other fee is required. If Licensee sublicenses the Cougaar Software or Derivative Works, Licensee may charge fees for warranty or support, or for accepting indemnity or liability obligations of customers, provided that Licensee does not charge for the Cougaar Software or Derivative Work.
Some would say that viruses are God's nanotech. Small, self-replicating, non-living, and very very potent. The damage that a virus can do to an ecosystem depends on its programming, but even the most mild of viruses can cause serious reactions in hosts.
I'm not sure that we have come to the point of understanding where we can control nanobots. If the biggest software company in the world can't put out a bug free software package, how can we expect that a handful of scientists to put together what is in effect a man-made virus. It would be a sad day if one of these (excuse the pun) bugs were released and some error was caught too late.
This was back when the monitors didn't come separately from the rest of the machine (i.e. before that Mac clone fiasco).
I always loved the Mac interface because of its easy of use and very solid color support. I found that it was easy to make rainbows for my group's posters using the PageMaker software, much easier than anything on an IBM PC.
I eventually grew out of my 'rainbow' phase and am back using Windows and sometimes even Linux (Yellow Dog, for when I'm feeling a little 'crazy'!), but the experience just isn't the same. We Mac users are a happy community, and sometimes I just want to give old Steve Jobs a hand.
Santa still loves you and won't be bringing you any of these lame "educational" games.
Good old-fashioned cops and robbers for all of you this year! Yay! And you get to choose whether you want to be the good guy cop or the bad (fun!) guy robber!
I think that many people are finally latching onto the concept that freedom to live safely is more important than freedom to be a criminal.
Now before everyone begins to quote Ben Franklin, please consider that he lived in a very different era where the ability of a very few to cause significant harm was simply not available. He was saying, don't let the gov't take my gun because I may need it to protect myself from intruders or even the gov't.
However, such an argument fails precisely because a gun couldn't have stopped two airplanes from flying into the WTC. All the privately held guns in the US couldn't stop a military attack by the federal government, if the government really were so inclined to attack its own citizens.
The only thing that could have stopped those two airplanes successfully is if the proper surveillance structure were in place to notice that strange things were a'brew. The systems were in place, but they didn't communicate the problems effectively. That's what the Patriot Act is all about, getting these systems to finally work properly so that we can stop another 9/11.
You can quote dead white men all you like, but it doesn't change the fact that in the past two hundred odd years society has changed significantly and a single individual's ability to wreak widespread havoc has been increased million-fold.
It likes to bite. You go down to the watering hole and it jumps up and grabs you by the neck and forces you to install it.
Claria is a social disease. You get it by going to websites that specialize in doing dirty things. Those who get it are usually unaware that they have it, and they are no doubt not using virus protection.
If you want to compete with Free Software, the only way you can truly compete is at the cost of use level. As far as operating systems and application suites go, the alternatives are all pretty much equal.
But once you take the fight to cost, the winners and losers get separated right quick. Mac, out. Linux, in. AIX, out. Windows, in. Solaris, way out. HPUX, out. Herd, it's almost there, any day now.
And so with the finalists Linux and Windows you have a neck and neck race. Linux wins in the licensing part, but Windows wins out in the cost of use. The total TCO is pretty much equal, so it's really a toss up at this point.
It may seem like a huge win for Microsoft if they can pull this TCO win off, but it's only one government department and the reality of the situation is that every office is different and has different needs. A company based on hacking and running high-powered servers needs Linux. A company based on being productive and interfacing with customers and customer data needs Windows.
So you can't judge the fitness of an OS on TCO alone, especially as TCO is variable among application domains.
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Love the quote:
Mocana's software is optimized for embedded systems and NOT based on large, slow open source code.
That and a buck fifty will get you a cup of coffee here at Slashdot.
But I wonder about the usability of this kind of thing on larger platforms. The link also says that the SSL component is supported on Linux, VxWorks, Solaris, and Windows. It is also CPU-independent so it could theoretically run on any platform in existence given the right hooks into the OS.
Why isn't anyone else able to come up with an SSL library that is that small? I can't believe that with all the work going into creating these libraries that someone else hasn't been able to build one that small too. Or is there something that we are not being told (like while the binary is only 50K, the runtime memory requirements are much larger)
But since the OS is free, no one will profit, and the economy will not gain any boost.
In fact, the economy may actually be worse off as less money is floated into the economy. You can't tell me that IBM plans to give the savings back to the employees.
Richard Stallman coming to make us an offer we can't refuse.
I'm not one to come out and harp on SUV owners, but with this abnormal solar behavior I think it's clear to see how much impact humans are having on not only our world but even beyond.
Emissions are way up and pollution is at an all time high in many areas. Add to that that the polar ice shelves are rapidly breaking up and falling into the ocean, and you've got yourself a recipe for disaster.
Talk to the hand!
This is one of those really cool things that doesn't really have a market ready for it.
The problem is that CVS was exploited. That's the big deal, Open Source, all encompassing versioning system.
It was Bitkeeper, the closed source, unfree, anti-community product that caught the problem.
This isn't a triumph of 'many eyes' seeing this bad code in Linux, it was a failure of 'many eyes' not catching the problem in CVS.
Problem solved.
If all it took were a dictionary attack to sniff a password, at least it took that much.
This isn't some simple passthrough that can be gotten through by knowing a couple backdoor passwords, it's a real live algorithm.
But in the end, it's up to the user to enter a password and as long as humans remain humans easy to remember passwords will always be chosen over #HrS2sWmNw/()LggDwMn.
A church or two and maybe some nearby hovels.
It's not like London of 1605 was anything like the London of today.
It would be more like blowing up a huge bomb in the middle of Mayberry, USA. Sure you'd kill a few people and maybe blow up a barn or two, but it isn't anything like blowing up the WTC or even self-detonating in a Starbucks.
It has been said numerous times that to keep your employees productive it is necessary to keep them happy. During the dot com boom of the late 90's, companies did just that. It got to the point that 'fun specialists' were making a pretty penny advising employers on ways to keep employees happy and fulfilled.
Too bad the research behind this equating of happiness and productivity never existed. In fact, anecdotal evidence shows the complete opposite. Rather than happy employees being more productive, it is clear that unhappy employees with overbearing bosses are actually more productive because they spend less time goofing off and more time actually working.
Trying to revive the outdated "Happy == Productive" lie is bound to make employees excited, but employers ought to beware of ploys like bringing in Pac Man machines just to improve the memories of employees. Employees have paper, pen, even computers to hold onto important notes, thus negating the need for better memory. And the price of bringing in the Pac Man machines is far beyond the price of the consoles. Rather, it is the price of productivity that employers will face.
Employees ought to find their happiness either in their work or outside of work. They should not be finding it in all the 'perks' that employers ought not be throwing their way anyway.
Nooooooo!
While certainly generous, the Cougaar license is designed specifically to prevent anyone from profiting from the sale of the software:
3. Licensee may use, sell or give away the Cougaar Software or any Derivative Work, alone or as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing Licensee Software, Cougaar Applications and/or programs from several different sources. No royalty or other fee is required. If Licensee sublicenses the Cougaar Software or Derivative Works, Licensee may charge fees for warranty or support, or for accepting indemnity or liability obligations of customers, provided that Licensee does not charge for the Cougaar Software or Derivative Work.
That along makes it unfree.
1) Don't rest your coffee on the router
2) Keep the cords and wires out of heavy traffic areas
3) Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate
4) Keep out of reach of children
5) Be kind, rewind
6) Do not remove tag under penalty of law
7) No step
8) Lavese las manos, es la ley
Remember when these two companies were relevant?
I would much rather see the XBox whither away and die than see Nintendo go the way of Sega.
Some would say that viruses are God's nanotech. Small, self-replicating, non-living, and very very potent. The damage that a virus can do to an ecosystem depends on its programming, but even the most mild of viruses can cause serious reactions in hosts.
I'm not sure that we have come to the point of understanding where we can control nanobots. If the biggest software company in the world can't put out a bug free software package, how can we expect that a handful of scientists to put together what is in effect a man-made virus. It would be a sad day if one of these (excuse the pun) bugs were released and some error was caught too late.
This couldn't possibly be the dumbest idea ever to come out of Redmond, but I'm sure it's up there.
The top of the XBox is painted? Isn't that usually covered up by game cases and controllers?
This was back when the monitors didn't come separately from the rest of the machine (i.e. before that Mac clone fiasco).
I always loved the Mac interface because of its easy of use and very solid color support. I found that it was easy to make rainbows for my group's posters using the PageMaker software, much easier than anything on an IBM PC.
I eventually grew out of my 'rainbow' phase and am back using Windows and sometimes even Linux (Yellow Dog, for when I'm feeling a little 'crazy'!), but the experience just isn't the same. We Mac users are a happy community, and sometimes I just want to give old Steve Jobs a hand.
Santa still loves you and won't be bringing you any of these lame "educational" games.
Good old-fashioned cops and robbers for all of you this year! Yay! And you get to choose whether you want to be the good guy cop or the bad (fun!) guy robber!
Now come sit on Santa's lap!
But that's really neither here nor there.
I think that many people are finally latching onto the concept that freedom to live safely is more important than freedom to be a criminal.
Now before everyone begins to quote Ben Franklin, please consider that he lived in a very different era where the ability of a very few to cause significant harm was simply not available. He was saying, don't let the gov't take my gun because I may need it to protect myself from intruders or even the gov't.
However, such an argument fails precisely because a gun couldn't have stopped two airplanes from flying into the WTC. All the privately held guns in the US couldn't stop a military attack by the federal government, if the government really were so inclined to attack its own citizens.
The only thing that could have stopped those two airplanes successfully is if the proper surveillance structure were in place to notice that strange things were a'brew. The systems were in place, but they didn't communicate the problems effectively. That's what the Patriot Act is all about, getting these systems to finally work properly so that we can stop another 9/11.
You can quote dead white men all you like, but it doesn't change the fact that in the past two hundred odd years society has changed significantly and a single individual's ability to wreak widespread havoc has been increased million-fold.
It likes to bite. You go down to the watering hole and it jumps up and grabs you by the neck and forces you to install it.
Claria is a social disease. You get it by going to websites that specialize in doing dirty things. Those who get it are usually unaware that they have it, and they are no doubt not using virus protection.
If you want to compete with Free Software, the only way you can truly compete is at the cost of use level. As far as operating systems and application suites go, the alternatives are all pretty much equal.
But once you take the fight to cost, the winners and losers get separated right quick. Mac, out. Linux, in. AIX, out. Windows, in. Solaris, way out. HPUX, out. Herd, it's almost there, any day now.
And so with the finalists Linux and Windows you have a neck and neck race. Linux wins in the licensing part, but Windows wins out in the cost of use. The total TCO is pretty much equal, so it's really a toss up at this point.
It may seem like a huge win for Microsoft if they can pull this TCO win off, but it's only one government department and the reality of the situation is that every office is different and has different needs. A company based on hacking and running high-powered servers needs Linux. A company based on being productive and interfacing with customers and customer data needs Windows.
So you can't judge the fitness of an OS on TCO alone, especially as TCO is variable among application domains.
YHBT. YHL.
Don't you get it? He intentionally picked the stupidest name possible to get flamebots like you to suggest 'cockbot'.
It's like showing you this guy and making the joke that he is probably really good at banning gas.