Won't this just encourage corporations to sue over copyright infringement even more? I mean, Apple was able to sue over "look and feel", so what would bar these people from doing the same? Also, how in the world is software going to be able to tell copyrighted material from non-copyrighted material? This all seems to be rather ill-planned to me.
Good to know that they are preparing now, and yet, one question still remains: Why haven't they planned on sending an expedition into one of Earth's many rainforests? I mean, as long as you are going to the outback and the arctic, you might as well go to a rainforest. It all has life (well, to more an extent in some places than others), and it all exists in a breathable atmosphere.
Maybe they ought to leave the real research to NASA rather than some bizarre cult.
...is "Welcome to town, dude!". I see that you can't spell "Sarasota" well, but that's excusable for now. Just make sure not to venture into Newtown or Bradenton (Bradenton just plain sucks. Trust me.)
If you care about Linux, there is always the the local LUG.
After the disasterous VM mistakes that have been happening in the 2.4 Linux kernel series, it is good to see that it measures up with and in some cases even beats what is widely accepted as the best open source VM implementation on the planet.
I think these kind of concrete results are what can help Linux out in breaking into the enterprise market. God knows IBM is pouring all they've got into it, and now that we have a killer VM, we'll probably be seeing Linux a lot more in mission critical systems such as database servers. All in all this is great news on the kernel front.
As always, many props to Alan, Linus, et al. who make this kind of innovation possible.
I would have to say that, as a trained system administrator, I am sad to see these systems go. Truely, they were a basition of reliability and engineering, and I am happy to have had the priviledge of admining an MPE system at one time.
BTW, what is the deal with them discontinuing the calculators? I always thought RPN was just about the coolest idea ever for calculators, and I have fond memories of having "calculator races" back in high school where we would see who's machine could solve the problem first. Those of us with the sweet HP calculators were always the first to finish. Truely the end of a great product line.
This sounds like a cool idea, but when will they be porting this Director software to Linux? I don't want to have to go out and buy Windows just to watch my DVDs with this.
Also, doesn't Linux kinda have something like this already? I hear Video4Linux is an excellent open source package that does about the same thing.
Wow, what a compelling argument. I'm happy to see that you are able to make up vague paranoid statements about the U.S., and yet can't back any of it up with concrete evidence.
If Alan wants to ever visit the US, say, to go to a conference, or the Superbowl, or whatever... he'll have to make sure he stears clear of US law, no?
Alan isn't a proponent of security through obscurity. He's a proponent of not getting arrested upon entering the United States.
That's assuming, of course, that when he goes to the Superbowl, he gives a presentation on how to break into, say, the RIAA's Linux systems that hold tons of copyrighted works. Skylarov clearly violated US law while in the US. Cox has done nothing of the sort. I wish you so-called opponents of the DMCA would come off as something other than poorly-informed whiners, it might help your PR.
Would you be so kind as to point out the exact point where this so-called "British bashing" occurs? I would think that, of all people, Alan Cox is the one doing the British bashing by saying that, as a British citizen, he is subject to another country's laws.
Honestly, can we have a show of hands? First of all, let me start out by pointing to the sheer stupidity of a British citizen lending credence to an American law. Does this man know anything about precedent? Is "precedent" even in his vocabulary? Nice job, Alan, please don't ever become a lawyer.
Now, not only has he failed to realize that the only people who won't be taking his actions at face value are all the people who already agree with him, but, let's face it, the information he was surpressing wasn't even covered by the DMCA. Remember, the DMCA covers encryption on copyrighted works. Since the Linux kernel has neither, it obviously has nothing to do with the DMCA and only serves to hurt the people that would need to know about security fixes. Way to go Alan, maybe you should stay out of Public Relations.
In fact, maybe we have a new job in order for Mr. Cox: security auditing for Microsoft. After all, who could possibly be a stronger proponent of security through obscurity?
Although initially Mr. Cox's censorship affected all Linux users around the world equally, he and kernel developer Rik Van Riel hoped to establish a non-US website, somehow inaccessible to US readers, where uncensored changelogs could be posted in the future. (This can be found online at http://www.thefreeworld.net/non-US/.) He said that until the DMCA is overturned, "US citizens will have to guess about security issues [in the Linux kernel]."
The reference to the DMCA being overturned is revealing. Mr. Cox wants this to happen, and his little tinpot emperor censorship game is intended, in his apparently delusional mind, as a powerful political statement toward that end. It does not seem to have occurred to him, in his current seemingly megalomaniacal state, that members of the US Congress probably do not use Linux, and even those few Congressional staffers who might know what Linux is probably don't build their own kernels, and so will never know about Mr. Cox's protest. The only thing Mr. Cox has achieved, or has any chance of achieving, by his action is to annoy US-based Linux users -- which is probably quite all right with him, safely out of reach in England, with his typical English resentment of the former colonies who have long since outstripped England in world influence.
Mr. Cox has attempted to support his ridiculous and obviously politically-motivated censorship with the claim that his decision was based on legal advice (implying that he fears that documenting security-related kernel fixes places him at risk of being prosecuted under the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions), but this seems highly unlikely to be true.
For one thing, Mr. Cox has refused to identify the person who gave him this alleged advice, or even to provide any details of their reasoning (or, for that matter, their qualifications). The statement that he was acting on a "legal opinion", vague as that is, is absolutely all he has been willing to say, although he was asked for clarification by several readers of the linux-kernel mailing list.
Furthermore, adequacy.org has consulted with a senior official of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (who are quite active in DMCA-related litigation, contributing both to the defense of Dimitry Sklyarov, and Dr. Edward Felten's suit against the RIAA) and two Silicon Valley-based attorneys with experience in copyright litigation. All three of these well-qualified sources laughed at the idea that Alan Cox could be prosecuted under the DMCA for providing Linux kernel changelogs; furthermore, not one of these sources was inclined to believe that Mr. Cox seriously believed himself to be risking prosecution. One of the sources, who is a Linux user and is familiar with Mr. Cox's history, said with a chuckle, "Alan's just having his fun, trying to make a statement."
What amazes me most is that Mr. Cox is willing to abuse his authority as the maintainer of the Linux 2.2 kernel in the service of his political goals. As one of the most significant kernel developers, he should see himself as someone working in the interest of all Linux users to improve the kernel. Concealing important security information from US-based Linux users is simply incompatible with responsible professional conduct for someone in his position. Mr. Cox is entitled to his political views, but he should find appropriate occasions to express them.
Good Lord... you are a maniac! I'm on an HS crew team, and my best 6k this year is 25:10. Admittedly, I wasn't really trying, but it was still pretty tough.
We're doing mostly 20:00 pieces until sprints season starts up this spring, when we start doing 2k pieces instead. My best 20:00 this year is 5027m (Pathetic? Yes.).
Pardon me, but do you actually have a 7,000 RPM fan on your CPU? I have a 7,200 RPM Delta fan sitting on top of my Alpha heatsink, and it is undoubtedly the noisiest thing in my computer. This is competing with a 120mm fan and 3 10K RPM SCSI drives, too.
This is actually an improvement from my previous configuration, which had 2 high-powered 80mm fans blowing out the back. Honestly, it's cool to have a machine that sounds like an idling jet engine for the first 5 minutes, but after that, it gets seriously irritating!
Now, before you mod me down for disagreeing with the Slashdot groupthink, let me explain my statement. Don't you think the hundreds of failing Linux companies would have put at least a decent sized sum into hiring consultants to find out the most workable open source business plans?
Don't get me wrong, I think the ideas they present here sound great! It's just that, like Communism, it only looks good on paper, without working out in the real world. Surely, if it was this easy, VA Research^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HLinux^H^H^H^H^HSoftware would have already put these into action and they wouldn't be on the edge of being delisted from NASDAQ.
I read an article in Scientific American the other day that talked about a so-called "Dark Energy" that is said to make up a large part of the "mass" of the universe that we can't see. Dark energy was defined as being evenly distributed forces throughout the universe that posessed anti-gravity. That is, they repelled each other instead of attracting.
I'm only in high school physics, maybe someone more familiar with the field could provide an explanation and how it relates to the facts presented in this article?
Amen to that. After cutting a hole in the side of my case to make room for the 120mm fan, I'm just thankful that Unreal Tournament is here to keep me warm on cold winter nights.
OK, let me tell you something from my personal experience here:
Probably one of the worst mistakes I have made in the past few months was slapping the heatsink from my K6-2 onto my Athlon 1.4 chip because I was too impatient to wait a couple of days for the Alpha heatsink to arrive. Whilst placing it on the chip, I also neglected to put any thermal grease on it, so there was probably poor contact and low heat-transfer. The system didn't even boot. I mean, I switched on the power, and it didn't even output video. After swapping out chips a few days later, it turned out that the Athlon was the only thing wrong with my system, and everything has run smoothly since then (I'm posting from it right now).
I would be suspicious of the assumption that it overheated, given that it had such a small time frame in which to do so, except for the fact that, on closer inspection, the material around the processor core looked like it had melted away from the metal and reformed on the base of the chip. Anyway, it was ugly.
The lesson? It takes these things roughly 3 seconds to overheat without proper cooling, and they don't have any kind of built-in monitoring to shut it down before it goes critical. So take this article over at Tom's with a grain of salt (as you should be doing with any news posted on Slashdot).
...then REBOL is likely to give you nightmares! Good God, people, I have not seen any other language as bloated as this one! Not even Java can come close in the terms of the sheer amount of crap already included in this language!
I mean, what happens if you don't happen to like the way that this thing handles TCP connections on your particular platform? You are basically screwed, as not only are underlying routines written in another language, but you don't even get to see the source! I'm shocked that Slashdot would even post such a thing here, considering that the closest analog that I can find to this is VB, and, honestly folks, we do not need more idiots of the using class writing their own AOL Instant Messanger or other crap like that that will probably kill the network I admin.
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Won't this just encourage corporations to sue over copyright infringement even more? I mean, Apple was able to sue over "look and feel", so what would bar these people from doing the same? Also, how in the world is software going to be able to tell copyrighted material from non-copyrighted material? This all seems to be rather ill-planned to me.
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COBOL. No one in their right mind still writes new applications in COBOL anymore.
Why bother with building expensive habs? I know tons of OSS programmers who haven't seen the light of day in aeons!
Or perhaps this is targeted advertising...
Maybe they ought to leave the real research to NASA rather than some bizarre cult.
If you care about Linux, there is always the the local LUG.
I think these kind of concrete results are what can help Linux out in breaking into the enterprise market. God knows IBM is pouring all they've got into it, and now that we have a killer VM, we'll probably be seeing Linux a lot more in mission critical systems such as database servers. All in all this is great news on the kernel front.
As always, many props to Alan, Linus, et al. who make this kind of innovation possible.
BTW, what is the deal with them discontinuing the calculators? I always thought RPN was just about the coolest idea ever for calculators, and I have fond memories of having "calculator races" back in high school where we would see who's machine could solve the problem first. Those of us with the sweet HP calculators were always the first to finish. Truely the end of a great product line.
Also, doesn't Linux kinda have something like this already? I hear Video4Linux is an excellent open source package that does about the same thing.
Wow, what a compelling argument. I'm happy to see that you are able to make up vague paranoid statements about the U.S., and yet can't back any of it up with concrete evidence.
Alan isn't a proponent of security through obscurity. He's a proponent of not getting arrested upon entering the United States.
That's assuming, of course, that when he goes to the Superbowl, he gives a presentation on how to break into, say, the RIAA's Linux systems that hold tons of copyrighted works. Skylarov clearly violated US law while in the US. Cox has done nothing of the sort. I wish you so-called opponents of the DMCA would come off as something other than poorly-informed whiners, it might help your PR.
Would you be so kind as to point out the exact point where this so-called "British bashing" occurs? I would think that, of all people, Alan Cox is the one doing the British bashing by saying that, as a British citizen, he is subject to another country's laws.
Now, not only has he failed to realize that the only people who won't be taking his actions at face value are all the people who already agree with him, but, let's face it, the information he was surpressing wasn't even covered by the DMCA. Remember, the DMCA covers encryption on copyrighted works. Since the Linux kernel has neither, it obviously has nothing to do with the DMCA and only serves to hurt the people that would need to know about security fixes. Way to go Alan, maybe you should stay out of Public Relations.
In fact, maybe we have a new job in order for Mr. Cox: security auditing for Microsoft. After all, who could possibly be a stronger proponent of security through obscurity?
Although initially Mr. Cox's censorship affected all Linux users around the world equally, he and kernel developer Rik Van Riel hoped to establish a non-US website, somehow inaccessible to US readers, where uncensored changelogs could be posted in the future. (This can be found online at http://www.thefreeworld.net/non-US/.) He said that until the DMCA is overturned, "US citizens will have to guess about security issues [in the Linux kernel]."
The reference to the DMCA being overturned is revealing. Mr. Cox wants this to happen, and his little tinpot emperor censorship game is intended, in his apparently delusional mind, as a powerful political statement toward that end. It does not seem to have occurred to him, in his current seemingly megalomaniacal state, that members of the US Congress probably do not use Linux, and even those few Congressional staffers who might know what Linux is probably don't build their own kernels, and so will never know about Mr. Cox's protest. The only thing Mr. Cox has achieved, or has any chance of achieving, by his action is to annoy US-based Linux users -- which is probably quite all right with him, safely out of reach in England, with his typical English resentment of the former colonies who have long since outstripped England in world influence.
Mr. Cox has attempted to support his ridiculous and obviously politically-motivated censorship with the claim that his decision was based on legal advice (implying that he fears that documenting security-related kernel fixes places him at risk of being prosecuted under the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions), but this seems highly unlikely to be true.
For one thing, Mr. Cox has refused to identify the person who gave him this alleged advice, or even to provide any details of their reasoning (or, for that matter, their qualifications). The statement that he was acting on a "legal opinion", vague as that is, is absolutely all he has been willing to say, although he was asked for clarification by several readers of the linux-kernel mailing list.
Furthermore, adequacy.org has consulted with a senior official of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (who are quite active in DMCA-related litigation, contributing both to the defense of Dimitry Sklyarov, and Dr. Edward Felten's suit against the RIAA) and two Silicon Valley-based attorneys with experience in copyright litigation. All three of these well-qualified sources laughed at the idea that Alan Cox could be prosecuted under the DMCA for providing Linux kernel changelogs; furthermore, not one of these sources was inclined to believe that Mr. Cox seriously believed himself to be risking prosecution. One of the sources, who is a Linux user and is familiar with Mr. Cox's history, said with a chuckle, "Alan's just having his fun, trying to make a statement."
What amazes me most is that Mr. Cox is willing to abuse his authority as the maintainer of the Linux 2.2 kernel in the service of his political goals. As one of the most significant kernel developers, he should see himself as someone working in the interest of all Linux users to improve the kernel. Concealing important security information from US-based Linux users is simply incompatible with responsible professional conduct for someone in his position. Mr. Cox is entitled to his political views, but he should find appropriate occasions to express them.
(Hint: it starts with a "p" and ends with an "n")
Haven't these things been around for years?
We're doing mostly 20:00 pieces until sprints season starts up this spring, when we start doing 2k pieces instead. My best 20:00 this year is 5027m (Pathetic? Yes.).
Dude, spinning is nothing. You haven't lived until you have pulled a 20:00 minute piece on an ergometer.
As if avid gamers weren't already stinky enough.
This is actually an improvement from my previous configuration, which had 2 high-powered 80mm fans blowing out the back. Honestly, it's cool to have a machine that sounds like an idling jet engine for the first 5 minutes, but after that, it gets seriously irritating!
Now, before you mod me down for disagreeing with the Slashdot groupthink, let me explain my statement. Don't you think the hundreds of failing Linux companies would have put at least a decent sized sum into hiring consultants to find out the most workable open source business plans?
Don't get me wrong, I think the ideas they present here sound great! It's just that, like Communism, it only looks good on paper, without working out in the real world. Surely, if it was this easy, VA Research^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HLinux^H^H^H^H^HSoftware would have already put these into action and they wouldn't be on the edge of being delisted from NASDAQ.
I'm only in high school physics, maybe someone more familiar with the field could provide an explanation and how it relates to the facts presented in this article?
Amen to that. After cutting a hole in the side of my case to make room for the 120mm fan, I'm just thankful that Unreal Tournament is here to keep me warm on cold winter nights.
Probably one of the worst mistakes I have made in the past few months was slapping the heatsink from my K6-2 onto my Athlon 1.4 chip because I was too impatient to wait a couple of days for the Alpha heatsink to arrive. Whilst placing it on the chip, I also neglected to put any thermal grease on it, so there was probably poor contact and low heat-transfer. The system didn't even boot. I mean, I switched on the power, and it didn't even output video. After swapping out chips a few days later, it turned out that the Athlon was the only thing wrong with my system, and everything has run smoothly since then (I'm posting from it right now).
I would be suspicious of the assumption that it overheated, given that it had such a small time frame in which to do so, except for the fact that, on closer inspection, the material around the processor core looked like it had melted away from the metal and reformed on the base of the chip. Anyway, it was ugly.
The lesson? It takes these things roughly 3 seconds to overheat without proper cooling, and they don't have any kind of built-in monitoring to shut it down before it goes critical. So take this article over at Tom's with a grain of salt (as you should be doing with any news posted on Slashdot).
I mean, what happens if you don't happen to like the way that this thing handles TCP connections on your particular platform? You are basically screwed, as not only are underlying routines written in another language, but you don't even get to see the source! I'm shocked that Slashdot would even post such a thing here, considering that the closest analog that I can find to this is VB, and, honestly folks, we do not need more idiots of the using class writing their own AOL Instant Messanger or other crap like that that will probably kill the network I admin.