There is one comment here that tends to discredit the review: "During testing we installed a silly game called XGalaga...". Since when is XGalaga a silly game? It's one of the finest games available on [GNU/]Linux!
I just have to say that I'm impressed. Since Lindows has gotten less-than-rave reviews on the Wal-Mart special, I wasn't expecting this type of review for the standalone Lindows.
The only thing I have to say is that they need to pick a better colour scheme for their logo. What is that: seafoam green?
Not that you should believe everything you read on the Interweb (especially on geocities), but this site begs to differ.
" What is really special is that Eve will not be able to eavesdrop on the message without alerting Alice and Bob. This is again a result of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. If Eve is to measure the photons sent by Alice, she must use a filter, thereby polarizing the photon. As a result of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, 25% of the photons measured by Eve will be totally blocked and will not reach Bob. Alice and Bob will quickly notice this after several occurences and know their message has been corrupted. Thus, quantum cryptography gauruntees complete secrecy."
I think we're both talking about the same thing. The reason your snooping changes the message is because of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
As I understand it, the usefulness of this form of quantum communication is in key distribution, much like public key cryptosystems.
If Alice and Bob have a quantum link between them, and want to communicate securely, then they can use a secure cipher of some sort. Alice can generate a key and send it to Bob. Now, given the nature of quantum physics (is this related to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?), an eavesdropper cannot intercept this key without both Alice and Bob knowing. Now that they have a shared key, they can start to communicate using the strong cipher that they selected.
Knowing some of the plaintext will not help you break the one time pad. The only part of the message that you will be able to deduce given that you know some of the plaintext, is that part of the plaintext that you already know.
Not all of the "old timers" have such low UIDs. I started reading Slashdot about June 1998. I remember being appalled at the thought of signing up for an account. Eventually, when moderation took hold, I resigned myself to the fact that I would have to register, but that wasn't until quite a bit later.
Of course, Slashdot was going downhill at the time and I lost interest for a bit. Now, that time is a comparative golden age.
As for your comment about being able to see older comments, I too would like that. This particular discussion makes me wonder when I made my first post, so to speak.
Re:Argh! (was Re:jumped the shark? )
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Do you actually remember the last time this story was posted? Switching was mentioned in the article as the most significant challenge for the engineers.
If you read the article, you would note the following:
Three others were found later, bringing the world total over the last decade to more than 50. But Martinez-Frias said only around a fifth of the ice meteors are ever found.
That would make, by his estimation, 250 such events over the last decade. So, in fact, this event is not "So rare, in fact, that it has never before been documented."
Shouldn't that be -1 Redundant rather than 5 (Informative?!). There is no problem following the link to read the article. The site is not slashdotted.
How rude.
Re:It's a time-honored capitalist tradition:
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1. Yes, that is a quite common way for businesses to make money. 2. Yes, that is a quite common way for businesses to make money. 3. Yes, it does work in our (and by our, I mean consumers) best interests. What free software does is turn the whole thing topsy-turvy. Businesses can (a) cut costs and improve their bottom line by getting software gratis, and (b) not become morally bankrupt in the process.
I'm just pointing out the fact that many businesses really only care about (a). The fact that (b) occurs is a bonus for the rest of the community.
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One draws the impression from this statement that these capitalists are using the word 'free' to describe the cost of Linux, rather than its nature.
You have to remember, of course, that to much of the business world, it is the bottom line that counts. Most could care less about the ethical grounds behind free software.
Actually, there is no "S in a circle" symbol for a registered service mark. The symbols TM and SM are used for unregistered marks. The "R in a circle" (®) is used for registered marks, be they service marks or trademarks.
I tried to find a good reference that explains that, but perhaps this link will do: 'Any time you claim rights in a mark, you may use the "TM" (trademark) or "SM" (service mark) designation to alert the public to your claim, regardless of whether you have filed an application with the USPTO. However, you may use the federal registration symbol "®" only after the USPTO actually registers a mark, and not while an application is pending. Also, you may use the registration symbol with the mark only on or in connection with the goods and/or services listed in the federal trademark registration.'
I don't really find Mozilla to be that slow either, but I just downloaded the Phoenix browser to try it out, and page loads (at least on slashdot) seem to be significantly faster.
It may just be that it doesn't support as many features yet (I haven't really tested it out) but it seems pretty good to me.
So, I read the attached article, and I understand what Verisign is doing. My question is: why? What is the motivation behind them blocking access to these whois records?
I agree with the article in saying "It seems so logical to take that.gov WHOIS info offline that you have to wonder why it wasn't done last year. After all, who really needs to do WHOIS look ups on government sites except hackers, mail spammers that are harvesting government email addresses and fearful folks who like checking where the IP's of mysterious visitors to their web sites originate from...". But then why are they doing this now? Has Verisign been motivated by the government?
Actually, why do we have whois records for any domain?
Not much point hiding the whois information of a domain if its accompanying website tells the whole world who and where they are...
Generally the contents of a website don't list the DNS servers for that domain. Verisign has restricted access to.gov whois records in order to protect government DNS servers from denial-of-service attacks. Please read the article next time, even if it is poorly written.
You know, Mozilla has this nice built in password manager which can store account information for you. You can also set it up so that you need to enter a password before you can access the whole mother lode of them.
This is pretty much the same thing as you are describing, but you don't need to install yet another app to use it.
I don't get it. Is Sun ONE the same as the Liberty Alliance? The article that is referenced doesn't mention Sun ONE that I could see, just the Liberty Alliance.
I didn't even know that the Liberty Alliance was still around since Hailstorm kinda fell through.
I wonder if they're having much luck selling the idea to anyone. Microsoft sure didn't.
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Just what exactly do geeks have against the Routing Information Protocol?
There is one comment here that tends to discredit the review: "During testing we installed a silly game called XGalaga...". Since when is XGalaga a silly game? It's one of the finest games available on [GNU/]Linux!
I just have to say that I'm impressed. Since Lindows has gotten less-than-rave reviews on the Wal-Mart special, I wasn't expecting this type of review for the standalone Lindows.
The only thing I have to say is that they need to pick a better colour scheme for their logo. What is that: seafoam green?
American politicians?
Might as well throw in a link to their homepage as well.
Yep. Killing one site at a time just isn't enough for old Slashdot now, is it?
Just trying this myself, and I can't understand how you could make an "r" sound while pressing your tongue against your palate.
It seems to me that *my* tongue remains fairly neutral on the "r" sound. It seems to be mostly made by the shape of my lips.
Not that you should believe everything you read on the Interweb (especially on geocities), but this site begs to differ.
" What is really special is that Eve will not be able to eavesdrop on the message without alerting Alice and Bob. This is again a result of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. If Eve is to measure the photons sent by Alice, she must use a filter, thereby polarizing the photon. As a result of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, 25% of the photons measured by Eve will be totally blocked and will not reach Bob. Alice and Bob will quickly notice this after several occurences and know their message has been corrupted. Thus, quantum cryptography gauruntees complete secrecy."
I think we're both talking about the same thing. The reason your snooping changes the message is because of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
As I understand it, the usefulness of this form of quantum communication is in key distribution, much like public key cryptosystems.
If Alice and Bob have a quantum link between them, and want to communicate securely, then they can use a secure cipher of some sort. Alice can generate a key and send it to Bob. Now, given the nature of quantum physics (is this related to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?), an eavesdropper cannot intercept this key without both Alice and Bob knowing. Now that they have a shared key, they can start to communicate using the strong cipher that they selected.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Knowing some of the plaintext will not help you break the one time pad. The only part of the message that you will be able to deduce given that you know some of the plaintext, is that part of the plaintext that you already know.
Wouldn't that be autoslashdotting?
Not all of the "old timers" have such low UIDs. I started reading Slashdot about June 1998. I remember being appalled at the thought of signing up for an account. Eventually, when moderation took hold, I resigned myself to the fact that I would have to register, but that wasn't until quite a bit later.
Of course, Slashdot was going downhill at the time and I lost interest for a bit. Now, that time is a comparative golden age.
As for your comment about being able to see older comments, I too would like that. This particular discussion makes me wonder when I made my first post, so to speak.
Wait. Are you talking about the dot?
Do you actually remember the last time this story was posted? Switching was mentioned in the article as the most significant challenge for the engineers.
If you read the article, you would note the following:
Three others were found later, bringing the world total over the last decade to more than 50. But Martinez-Frias said only around a fifth of the ice meteors are ever found.
That would make, by his estimation, 250 such events over the last decade. So, in fact, this event is not "So rare, in fact, that it has never before been documented."
Shouldn't that be -1 Redundant rather than 5 (Informative?!). There is no problem following the link to read the article. The site is not slashdotted.
How rude.
1. Yes, that is a quite common way for businesses to make money.
2. Yes, that is a quite common way for businesses to make money.
3. Yes, it does work in our (and by our, I mean consumers) best interests. What free software does is turn the whole thing topsy-turvy. Businesses can (a) cut costs and improve their bottom line by getting software gratis, and (b) not become morally bankrupt in the process.
I'm just pointing out the fact that many businesses really only care about (a). The fact that (b) occurs is a bonus for the rest of the community.
One draws the impression from this statement that these capitalists are using the word 'free' to describe the cost of Linux, rather than its nature.
You have to remember, of course, that to much of the business world, it is the bottom line that counts. Most could care less about the ethical grounds behind free software.
Hmmm... it usually takes timothy at most 24 hours. I guess chrisd is trying to outdo him?
Actually, there is no "S in a circle" symbol for a registered service mark. The symbols TM and SM are used for unregistered marks. The "R in a circle" (®) is used for registered marks, be they service marks or trademarks.
I tried to find a good reference that explains that, but perhaps this link will do: 'Any time you claim rights in a mark, you may use the "TM" (trademark) or "SM" (service mark) designation to alert the public to your claim, regardless of whether you have filed an application with the USPTO. However, you may use the federal registration symbol "®" only after the USPTO actually registers a mark, and not while an application is pending. Also, you may use the registration symbol with the mark only on or in connection with the goods and/or services listed in the federal trademark registration.'
I don't really find Mozilla to be that slow either, but I just downloaded the Phoenix browser to try it out, and page loads (at least on slashdot) seem to be significantly faster.
It may just be that it doesn't support as many features yet (I haven't really tested it out) but it seems pretty good to me.
So, I read the attached article, and I understand what Verisign is doing. My question is: why? What is the motivation behind them blocking access to these whois records?
I agree with the article in saying "It seems so logical to take that
Actually, why do we have whois records for any domain?
Not much point hiding the whois information of a domain if its accompanying website tells the whole world who and where they are...
Generally the contents of a website don't list the DNS servers for that domain. Verisign has restricted access to
You know, Mozilla has this nice built in password manager which can store account information for you. You can also set it up so that you need to enter a password before you can access the whole mother lode of them.
This is pretty much the same thing as you are describing, but you don't need to install yet another app to use it.
I don't get it. Is Sun ONE the same as the Liberty Alliance? The article that is referenced doesn't mention Sun ONE that I could see, just the Liberty Alliance.
I didn't even know that the Liberty Alliance was still around since Hailstorm kinda fell through.
I wonder if they're having much luck selling the idea to anyone. Microsoft sure didn't.
Remember: the ownice[sic] is on the owner, not the thief.
But in this case, all of the guilt lies on the thief.