From a purely technical point-of-view, the Qt preprocessor sucks. Preprocessors never seem to catch up to the underlying language definition, and in C++, doubly so. I took one look at it, saw that it bungled templates and other things, and decided to pass.
Can't wait until everyone in the music business receive their just desserts. Another great swath of worthless leeches exterminated with a flamethrower.:-)
Why do so many people believe that IP is some right that exists in Nature? The framers of the US Constitution knew this, that is why IP is in there to promote social good. When it ceases to promote social good it should be revised, restricted, or eliminated. The US courts have fallen into the exact trap pointed out in this editorial. As a conservative/libertarian, I'm remiss to state that this is mostly the result of Republican-appointed judges who fail to make these distinctions.
I think it is perfectly reasonable for Monsanto to receive compensation for their research -- that is why genetically-engineered material should be copyrighted for a short period (say five years to ten years). In fact, seeds have one of the the best watermarking systems available! What the lawyers need to figure out is what constitutes a work and what is fair use.
Patents simply do not benefit the social good of more and better software production. It doesn't benefit hardware production uniformly, either. Why not recognize the purpose of patents and then adapt them to the technology that they are meant to protect?
All those complaining about 2.2.x not being "stable" enough for them should ask themselves whether they kept up with the 2.1.x kernels. The reality is that Linus had to declare a new "stable" release before the vast majority of folks would try a recent kernel. The point of switching to a stable release is to shift into a mode where problems are squashed and the code converges on something stable. 2.0.x required a lot of work to nail the details, but now it just runs and runs, with a few known limitations that are easily avoided.
Don't be coy; bring it on! Name the product, Coward. You choose the metric (speed, space,...), and let's see whether free software can do 80%, which ought to be enough to take the sting out. Your boss ought to be real happy when a comparable product is deposited on an ftp server somewhere outside your reach.
What are we talking, optimization software, layout, simulation?
You could always help fix GNU Checker, which provides similar functionality in gcc. Unfortunately, Rational has a bunch of obnoxious software patents on Purify that they will defend.
The way to do that would be to specify that derivative works must export have the same interface, or else the license reverts from GPL+exceptions to GPL. That probably necessitates a *detailed* binary interface definition for each release.
My boss was recently offered an ADSL trial from Bell Atlantic (in Manhattan), and he asked them whether they would support Linux (fully expecting the answer to be negative). He got a note back about two weeks later saying that yes, they would. Perhaps that is just some personal initiative on the part of a Manhattan office?
I agree totally. Ritchie knows that C has warts; it evolved from the typeless language B during a time when strongly-typed languages like Pascal were becoming the academic rage. The difference was that Ritchie could create a tiny compiler and tool chain and build tons of useful tools on top of it. It took a decade before Pascal even incorporated enough extensions to be usable; read Brian Kernighan's famous paper on Pascal. Wirth at some level despises Ritchie for his successes.:-)
Einstein's 1905 work has been confirmed in many different contexts, from radio transmission to particle decay. The ironic thing about your statement is that physicists probably know more about light than any other phenomenon!
Just pollute the idea beyond recognition!
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Option 1: If he's so smart, he can leave out a crucial component and play dumb about it.
Option 2: Go to the IBM patent server, read any patent that is at all relevant to decompilation (IBM, Digital, Pure,...) and so pollute the idea with other people's patented processes that there is nothing left for Alcatel to profit from.
In any case, he won't profit from this idea, so I hope he's working on others. By opening his mouth, he screwed himself. Were it me, realizing that I'd never make a dime from it, I'd take a long vacation with my laptop and drop some code on some ftp servers....
According to Stephen C. Tweeedie, when we finally get journaling for ext2, the journal will be able to live on a separate filesystem, e.g. a non-volatile ramdisk. That will make for an awfully nice fileserver:-)
I guess it is time to get serious about using signed versions of software, firewalling to watch for strange packets, and checking the outgoing mail and other queues.
Just the excuse I need to spend a Sunday afternoon tightening down my system like Fort Knox.
Anyone care to benchmark cpu-bound, memory-bound, and disk-bound applications under Linux on one of these, so we can all see what we are getting for the money?:-)
True Authentication would require that Intel implement an authentication protocol in hardware, such as a zero-knowledge proof mechanism. If they can write unique serial numbers into the chips, then they could compute moduli and key pairs and store them in the chip. They could provide instructions to read the modulus, read the public key info (but never the private!), and calculate a response to a challenge number. This would effectively eliminate remote replay attacks. By making the instructions privileged, the kernel could attempt to limit access to them from malicious userland code, like buffer overflow exploits and ActiveX controls.
If you really despise all these things, then move to India, shave your head, and let the sympathetic masses steal every stitch of your clothing and beat you senseless with sticks. That way, you will die a quick, honorable death, and leave the rest of us survive in the real world.
Whether or not you *like* violence, there are people and ideas in this world that are plain evil. Your choice is to either succumb or resist. As the evil people will happily kill you just for resisting.
What we don't need in this forum is another effete pseudo-intellectual that likes all the trapping of modern society, but is *horrified*, yes *horrified* that a society is willing to defend its ideals and way of life.
The NSA has been bouncing signals off the moon from their "research vessels" for decades. The Apollo folks even left reflectors up there to inprove the S/N.:-)
We are now all effectively independent contractors. That means that one has to think; one can't just mindlessly show up for work and do what someone else tells one to do and expect to be secure in retirement. Just because the post-war generation was guaranteed a rising income despite never learning a single new skill past the age of 25 doesn't mean that such a state ought to persist forever.
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From a purely technical point-of-view, the Qt preprocessor sucks. Preprocessors never seem to catch up to the underlying language definition, and in C++, doubly so. I took one look at it, saw that it bungled templates and other things, and decided to pass.
Can't wait until everyone in the music business receive their just desserts. Another great swath of worthless leeches exterminated with a flamethrower. :-)
Richard Preston describes prototype devices like this in the book (from the Navy, I think).
You own 'em until you open that big mouth and blurt it out. Also, if I independently have the same thought, I ought to have as much right to it as you
Why do so many people believe that IP is some right that exists in Nature? The framers of the US Constitution knew this, that is why IP is in there to promote social good. When it ceases to promote social good it should be revised, restricted, or eliminated. The US courts have fallen into the exact trap pointed out in this editorial. As a conservative/libertarian, I'm remiss to state that this is mostly the result of Republican-appointed judges who fail to make these distinctions.
I think it is perfectly reasonable for Monsanto to receive compensation for their research -- that is why genetically-engineered material should be copyrighted for a short period (say five years to ten years). In fact, seeds have one of the the best watermarking systems available! What the lawyers need to figure out is what constitutes a work and what is fair use.
Patents simply do not benefit the social good of more and better software production. It doesn't benefit hardware production uniformly, either. Why not recognize the purpose of patents and then adapt them to the technology that they are meant to protect?
I've cleaned a stainless steel sink with our office coffee. Works great! :-)
if(is_oracle_challenge(parsetree)) do_fast_oracle_query();
:-)
It wouldn't be the first time a commercial product contains benchmark-specific optimizations.
Why couldn't Yggdrasil have called the L/G/X distribution something pronounceable, like ...
GLiX? It would probably have caught on. Oh well
All those complaining about 2.2.x not being "stable" enough for them should ask themselves whether they kept up with the 2.1.x kernels. The reality is that Linus had to declare a new "stable" release before the vast majority of folks would try a recent kernel. The point of switching to a stable release is to shift into a mode where problems are squashed and the code converges on something stable. 2.0.x required a lot of work to nail the details, but now it just runs and runs, with a few known limitations that are easily avoided.
Don't be coy; bring it on! Name the product, Coward. You choose the metric (speed, space, ...), and let's see whether free software can do 80%, which ought to be enough to take the sting out. Your boss ought to be real happy when a comparable product is deposited on an ftp server somewhere outside your reach.
:-)
What are we talking, optimization software, layout, simulation?
Should it have a nice GNOME interface?
Strictly speaking:
/dev/null
find / -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep regexp
The probability is low, but non-zero, that grep might otherwise receive one argument, and not prefix the output with the filename.
The article says nothing to distinguish this new attack from random scanning with nmap.
You could always help fix GNU Checker, which provides similar functionality in gcc. Unfortunately, Rational has a bunch of obnoxious software patents on Purify that they will defend.
The way to do that would be to specify that derivative works must export have the same interface, or else the license reverts from GPL+exceptions to GPL. That probably necessitates a *detailed* binary interface definition for each release.
My boss was recently offered an ADSL trial from Bell Atlantic (in Manhattan), and he asked them whether they would support Linux (fully expecting the answer to be negative). He got a note back about two weeks later saying that yes, they would. Perhaps that is just some personal initiative on the part of a Manhattan office?
I agree totally. Ritchie knows that C has warts; it evolved from the typeless language B during a time when strongly-typed languages like Pascal were becoming the academic rage. The difference was that Ritchie could create a tiny compiler and tool chain and build tons of useful tools on top of it. It took a decade before Pascal even incorporated enough extensions to be usable; read Brian Kernighan's famous paper on Pascal. Wirth at some level despises Ritchie for his successes. :-)
Einstein's 1905 work has been confirmed in many different contexts, from radio transmission to particle decay. The ironic thing about your statement is that physicists probably know more about light than any other phenomenon!
Option 1: If he's so smart, he can leave out a crucial component and play dumb about it.
...) and so pollute the idea with other people's patented processes that there is nothing left for Alcatel to profit from.
....
Option 2: Go to the IBM patent server, read any patent that is at all relevant to decompilation (IBM, Digital, Pure,
In any case, he won't profit from this idea, so I hope he's working on others. By opening his mouth, he screwed himself. Were it me, realizing that I'd never make a dime from it, I'd take a long vacation with my laptop and drop some code on some ftp servers
According to Stephen C. Tweeedie, when we finally get journaling for ext2, the journal will be able to live on a separate filesystem, e.g. a non-volatile ramdisk. That will make for an awfully nice fileserver :-)
I guess it is time to get serious about using signed versions of software, firewalling to watch for strange packets, and checking the outgoing mail and other queues.
Just the excuse I need to spend a Sunday afternoon tightening down my system like Fort Knox.
Anyone care to benchmark cpu-bound, memory-bound, and disk-bound applications under Linux on one of these, so we can all see what we are getting for the money? :-)
True Authentication would require that Intel implement an authentication protocol in hardware, such as a zero-knowledge proof mechanism. If they can write unique serial numbers into the chips, then they could compute moduli and key pairs and store them in the chip. They could provide instructions to read the modulus, read the public key info (but never the private!), and calculate a response to a challenge number. This would effectively eliminate remote replay attacks. By making the instructions privileged, the kernel could attempt to limit access to them from malicious userland code, like buffer overflow exploits and ActiveX controls.
Have you learned nothing from the 20th century?
If you really despise all these things, then move to India, shave your head, and let the sympathetic masses steal every stitch of your clothing and beat you senseless with sticks. That way, you will die a quick, honorable death, and leave the rest of us survive in the real world.
Whether or not you *like* violence, there are people and ideas in this world that are plain evil. Your choice is to either succumb or resist. As the evil people will happily kill you just for resisting.
What we don't need in this forum is another effete pseudo-intellectual that likes all the trapping of modern society, but is *horrified*, yes *horrified* that a society is willing to defend its ideals and way of life.
The NSA has been bouncing signals off the moon from their "research vessels" for decades. The Apollo folks even left reflectors up there to inprove the S/N. :-)
We are now all effectively independent contractors. That means that one has to think; one can't just mindlessly show up for work and do what someone else tells one to do and expect to be secure in retirement. Just because the post-war generation was guaranteed a rising income despite never learning a single new skill past the age of 25 doesn't mean that such a state ought to persist forever.