It was called a "Reflections on Trusting Trust" and is available here. Very interesting, and scary, if you think that having the source code automatically makes the system more secure.
Or have better CD players that remember which songs you don't want to hear on any one CD
Well, this one's easy. Almost all computer CD-player programs do this, and it is an option on many component players too. My Sony 5-disc player has "CustomFile" which allows you to delete tracks on up to 200 discs.
That's probably true, but this thread was talking about the market value (market capitalization) of the company, and that is a simple quantity defined as:
(Shares Outstanding) * (Share Price) = Market Cap
Which on 11 August is now:
66.8 Million Shares * $52.0625/Share = $3.48 Billion!
According to this story, the 6 million shares represent about 9% of the total equity in Red Hat. That means there are a total of 6000000/.09 = 66.7 million shares total. Assuming that the IPO price is $12/share (the high end of the range), the company is worth 66.7 million * $12 = $800 million.
Millions of people still consider Netscape Navigator to be the One True Browser, and think of it as "Netscape" (not "Navigator" or "Communicator").
Maybe they are making the change precisely because people associate "Netscape" with the web browser, and not any of their other software. Therefore, they chose a new name for the other software to reduce confusion.
The summary wasn't quite accurate... Diamond isn't spinning the Rio off (into an independant company), they just moved it into an "independent subsidiary" still owned by Diamond.
You don't really need to reprogram the array thousands of times per second - just program it once with dozens/hundreds of "virtual microprocessors". (...and don't forget the virtual-SMP OS to go with it!)
But if that's all your're going to do with it, it would be considerably cheaper and faster to just put dozens/hundreds of real microprocessors in it.
You don't have privacy now. The police can kick down your door and take everything, eavesdrop on your phone calls, etc...
At least when they kick your door down and take your stuff, it leaves a fairly obivous sign that they did, in fact, take your stuff. This provides fairly powerful mechanism to prevent widespread abuses of the power. When your data is on a server, they can just copy it and snoop through it without you even knowing. Hence, it is a lot more likely that the power will be abused if you can't tell it's being done.
People would be mad as hell if every letter they got from the Post Office had been opened and read, but things like ECHELON prove just how easy it is to get away with the same things when you are dealing with bits instead of atoms.
Encryption is the answer. And it keeps getting better/easier to use. It will make sure that your data can only be read by you whether or not it is stored locally.
Provided the encryption is done on your end. If all your software is run off the server, it doesn't matter whether you encrypt the data that you store with unbreakable encryption, because they can just use a Trojan version of the encryption software to grab the data before it is encrypted (or grab a copy of your private encryption keys).
The generally accepted x86 Intel CPU generations are:
1st Gen: 8086/8088/80186/80188 2nd Gen: 80286 3rd Gen: 80386[DX|SX] 4th Gen: 80486[DX|SX|DX2|DX4] 5th Gen: Pentium / Pentium MMX 6th Gen: Pentium Pro / Pentium II / Pentium III
Note that the Pentium Pro thru the Pentium III all share the same basic core, with the PII adding MMX and the PIII adding SIMD instructions to it. Calling the K7 a seventh generation CPU would mean that it has a new basic microarchitecture after that of the PPro (which it does)
I just downloaded the new Windows Media Player and a MS Audio-compressed song just to see for myself how it sounded. After installing the player (and rebooting... how MS) I tried to play the song I downloaded. It opened up a web page and asked me to "register" it with my name, email, etc!
If this is the future of on-line music, count me out.
Yes, disk is cheap, but bandwidth isn't. Don't underestimate the appeal of a format that can compress twice as good as MP3, and therefore cuts download time in half.
True, but the article was talking about the potential (or lack thereof) for someone to create proprietary extensions to Linux, distribute them, and then usem to gain a Microsoft-like hold on the system because people were stuck using the features that they had no code for or control over. The GPL insures that this will never happen.
No, the author states that nobody would want to modify Linux to distribute their own proprietary derivative. You certainly can modify it for internal use without releasing the source code, but something that is only used internally doesn't have much chance of affecting the community as a whole. As you say, the GPL prohibits the distribution of such a version without also distributing the source.
But he speaks the truth. The fact that Linux uses the GNU `ls' or `grep', etc. isn't what made it what it is today. Most of these utilities could have been grabbed from the BSD distribution. GCC is the absolutely essential piece of the puzzle that allows Linux to run on all of the architectures that it does today, and there is nothing else that would do the job. Linus realises this and that was his way of showing just how important GCC (and the FSF) is to the system.
Slashdot Mirror
This is actually a comment in Netscape's server-push animation sample code. You can view it here. For the impatient, here is the relevant section:
/* This goto is Marc's fault. Marc digs goto. */
if(x == LASTCHAR) goto thats_it;
else ++x;
}
thats_it:
exit (0);
Start: www.microsoft.com
- Click on MSN Home
- Click on Computing
- Click on Operating Systems
- Click on Linux
- Click on Linux vs NT Server 4.0
- Click on FreeBSD and Linux Resources
- Click on Slashdot
So microsoft is at most seven clicks from slashdot. Can anyone do better?It was called a "Reflections on Trusting Trust" and is available here. Very interesting, and scary, if you think that having the source code automatically makes the system more secure.
More likely it's suffering from the /. effect!
(Shares Outstanding) * (Share Price) = Market Cap
Which on 11 August is now:
66.8 Million Shares * $52.0625/Share = $3.48 Billion!
According to this story, the 6 million shares represent about 9% of the total equity in Red Hat. That means there are a total of 6000000/.09 = 66.7 million shares total. Assuming that the IPO price is $12/share (the high end of the range), the company is worth 66.7 million * $12 = $800 million.
shhhh... I can almost hear the black helicopters coming.
Maybe they are making the change precisely because people associate "Netscape" with the web browser, and not any of their other software. Therefore, they chose a new name for the other software to reduce confusion.
What are we going to do tomorrow night, Brain?
The same thing we do every night -- Try to take over the world!
The summary wasn't quite accurate... Diamond isn't spinning the Rio off (into an independant company), they just moved it into an "independent subsidiary" still owned by Diamond.
I have the US West service, and it rocks. They a dvertise it as 256K up/down, but they actually provide 640K down / 272K up.
But if that's all your're going to do with it, it would be considerably cheaper and faster to just put dozens/hundreds of real microprocessors in it.
At least when they kick your door down and take your stuff, it leaves a fairly obivous sign that they did, in fact, take your stuff. This provides fairly powerful mechanism to prevent widespread abuses of the power. When your data is on a server, they can just copy it and snoop through it without you even knowing. Hence, it is a lot more likely that the power will be abused if you can't tell it's being done.
People would be mad as hell if every letter they got from the Post Office had been opened and read, but things like ECHELON prove just how easy it is to get away with the same things when you are dealing with bits instead of atoms.
Encryption is the answer. And it keeps getting better/easier to use. It will make sure that your data can only be read by you whether or not it is stored locally.
Provided the encryption is done on your end. If all your software is run off the server, it doesn't matter whether you encrypt the data that you store with unbreakable encryption, because they can just use a Trojan version of the encryption software to grab the data before it is encrypted (or grab a copy of your private encryption keys).
Yes.
1st Gen: 8086/8088/80186/80188
2nd Gen: 80286
3rd Gen: 80386[DX|SX]
4th Gen: 80486[DX|SX|DX2|DX4]
5th Gen: Pentium / Pentium MMX
6th Gen: Pentium Pro / Pentium II / Pentium III
Note that the Pentium Pro thru the Pentium III all share the same basic core, with the PII adding MMX and the PIII adding SIMD instructions to it.
Calling the K7 a seventh generation CPU would mean that it has a new basic microarchitecture after that of the PPro (which it does)
If this is the future of on-line music, count me out.
Yes, disk is cheap, but bandwidth isn't. Don't underestimate the appeal of a format that can compress twice as good as MP3, and therefore cuts download time in half.
If you try something like: if (a == TRUE)
it maps to: if (a == !0)
which means if (a == 1) NOT if (a != 0)
so non-1 values of a will still fail this test.
Bottom Line: Don't test against TRUE/FALSE no matter how they are defined
The Wired article was called Mother Earth Mother Board . Highly recommended for those who haven't read it yet.
If someone is willing to break the law, then they probably wouldn't have a problem breaching the license, either.
True, but the article was talking about the potential (or lack thereof) for someone to create proprietary extensions to Linux, distribute them, and then usem to gain a Microsoft-like hold on the system because people were stuck using the features that they had no code for or control over. The GPL insures that this will never happen.
No, the author states that nobody would want to modify Linux to distribute their own proprietary derivative. You certainly can modify it for internal use without releasing the source code, but something that is only used internally doesn't have much chance of affecting the community as a whole. As you say, the GPL prohibits the distribution of such a version without also distributing the source.
But he speaks the truth. The fact that Linux uses the GNU `ls' or `grep', etc. isn't what made it what it is today. Most of these utilities could have been grabbed from the BSD distribution. GCC is the absolutely essential piece of the puzzle that allows Linux to run on all of the architectures that it does today, and there is nothing else that would do the job. Linus realises this and that was his way of showing just how important GCC (and the FSF) is to the system.