I don't actually believe it for a second. I think we have gone further than the TLA's (see my Everything node on TLA's).
There are more of us, we have less obstructions in the way we communicate (why work for the military when everything you do is watched and your every movement under suspicion, and who you are allowed to converse with strictly limited), and our stucture (or lack of) allows ideas to propagate faster.
We have outpaced the poor fools in the NSA and others and will overtake them soon, if we have not already done so. Things like 'milspec' slow down their processes enormously and they are losing their edge. And yeah, they are shit scared. Witness all the legislation attempting to censor the net and more.
PGP and other public key systems are very secure. The factorisation problem has not been solved. Shortcuts may have been found, but increased key lengths will easily keep up with this.
The problems with public-key (diffie-hellman, pgp and the rest) lie with 'hard' mathematical problems, such as factorising large numbers and the discrete logarithm problem (with the eliptical curve algorithm there is a similar hard math problem). The bet is that the NSA or others have found a way to factorise large numbers much more easily than is currently known publicly. This would make PGP crackable is something like seconds or minutes, not months, years or millenia . . . As I understand it, PGP is actually based on an algorithm that generates 'near primes'. ie, the numbers are considered prime even if they are not due to the likelyhood of them being prime. Someone more knowledgeable may be able to add more info to this, but I think this is the crux of it.
Slash seems a little unstable. MySQL has been blamed, and also Rob's code (at least on slashnet).
Does this mean Linux is unstable? No, of course not.
The reason many of us dislike m$ products in the underlying operating system and security model is so shithouse. It is poss to write crap programs on any operating system. It is difficult to write good, reliable software when your operating system cannot be relied upon. It does not follow that/. is unstable therefore Linux is unstable.
It does follow that windows is unstable, therefore ANY program running on windows is unstable.
How about display postscript? - It was lovely in NextStep. The advantages speak for themselves.
I know the display postscript extensions to X failed to catch on because of being Adobe ip, but surely it could be run under whatever arrangement ghostscript is run?
We are talking about desktop machines here, not servers or workstations.
Windows runs more optimally in this market than anything else. The only thing close is the mac, and MacOS is if anything, even worse perhaps (tho many will argue the gui is 'better').
I don't know that linux or anything else (amiga?) is even close to how optimal doze is on the desktop.
Yeah, and you are right . . . its all about marketing, and m$ are past masters of that. Few come close (coke? . . . macdonalds?)
Depends upon whom you are speaking with. I think RMS reckons that 'free software' is better. I believe the thinking is that proprietary software threatens real individual freedoms. Anyway, lets wait and see what happens once Hurd gets a bit more up and going. This whole linux hype may just fade away as a whole bunch of gnu-heads switch camp.
btw, it is not 'free' as in 'free speech' as some would have it. It is more like 'free' as in 'non-proprietary'. Me, in my experience, most ppl are into it because it is actually 'free' as in 'free beer'.
There was a/. thread a while ago on this very topic of GIMP v Photoshop and the RGB/CMYK issue.
Actually, depending on your workflow, most editing is done in CMYK. The scans come back from the bureau drum-scanner in CMYK. Often RGB to CMYK is done at the bureau by a specialist scanner operator, sometimes targetted for a specific output device (a particular printshop's press).
It is more or less impossible to acurately proof on a monitor (without mega expensive calibration setups) and most designers 'do it by the numbers', ie from the photoshop info palette.
Also, there is no one method on converting RGB to CMYK, and 'apparently' there are some patents/trade secrets on the methods involved (I have not been able to verify this).
Pantone colours are used for spot colours, not process, and there are different inks used for process colour, sometimes depending on what country you are in (in japan they use 'toyo' I think).
In photoshop you can control very exactly black generation, undercover removal and a host of other options in the conversion process. Frinstance, going to Vogue uses a different conversion that going to newsprint (assuming RGB source). This is a bit of a black art and takes experience to get a good result, as no two presses are quite the same.
GIMP I think is more or less targetted for online graphics, and low end print jobs (soho?) where accurate RGB to CMYK is not super-critical.
Without accurate CMYK information and conversion it would be difficult to use it for professional print jobs.
The alternative is to send the jobs to the bureau in RGB and let the RIP do the conversion on the fly, but then you have little or no idea of what you will get until you receive a proof. Sometimes this is acceptable, but it is risky.
I can defeat several well known watermarking technologies fairly easily, but it not necessarily the case that everyone can or has the motivation to do this. If the watermarks survive the output stage of the soundcard, then sdmi enabled players may still not play them (or is that sdmi-II)
anyway, don't hold your breath coz sdmi is dead in the water
also, it is the copyright holders own decision as to what licence/format they release their music on, somewhat similar to the case with software.
I support the right to release sdmi crippled music, I just don't expect anyone to want to bother downloading it and playing it.
But then again, a lot of ppl eat McDonalds, so don't underestimate marketing power.
2. Express 'surprise' when all.gov.au domains are 'accidentally' not routed. ie, no email, no web traffic.
3. 'Regrettfully' inform the authorities that this kind of thing is certain to continue for the unforseeable future, as it is impossible to guard against hacker/cracker attacks.
meant to imply something like 'redhat certified' or thereabouts.
not a bitch about rh at all, just the perception that it is the be all and end all of linux stuff, which is not of their making really.
I think m$ owns a bit of sco as well (and maybe sco is xenix?) so, if rh ipo's, m$ could easily buy stock . . . they have the cash and the history.
Maybe m$ on linux would be a good thing in the end. IBM seems to be able to compete across platforms these days and has seemingly given up trying to own the OS.
It is not really the case that you make much money from concerts and touring, ask Frank Zappa.
Often the tours are to encourage CD sales etc
Hey, if its good, and you like/use it (its all bits these days, whether music or code), pay for it . . . whatever that means . . . the free/open software movement has another def of pay, methinks 'contribute'.
"Microsoft customers had already demonstrated a distinct lack of interest in having a version of Microsoft Office that worked on Linux, so Microsoft had no plans to push forward in that market."
Oh yeah, believe it now . . . they are making a version for linux . . . I would not be surprised if it is 'redhat' . . .
It is often easy to tell what ppl are thinking by what they deny. The very fact that they mention it means they are at least thinking about it.
PROLOG Writeup by jankr I like this write up I don't like this writeup Undirected graph database management system with built-in depth first search primitives. Not much more. Often mistaken for a programming language.
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yeah, yeah . . . preview before submit . . .
It ain't that exciting a link anyway.
-- Reverend Vryl
There are more of us, we have less obstructions in the way we communicate (why work for the military when everything you do is watched and your every movement under suspicion, and who you are allowed to converse with strictly limited), and our stucture (or lack of) allows ideas to propagate faster.
We have outpaced the poor fools in the NSA and others and will overtake them soon, if we have not already done so. Things like 'milspec' slow down their processes enormously and they are losing their edge. And yeah, they are shit scared. Witness all the legislation attempting to censor the net and more.
PGP and other public key systems are very secure. The factorisation problem has not been solved. Shortcuts may have been found, but increased key lengths will easily keep up with this.
-- Reverend Vryl
-- Reverend Vryl
The q is, is
Slash seems a little unstable. MySQL has been blamed, and also Rob's code (at least on slashnet).
Does this mean Linux is unstable? No, of course not.
The reason many of us dislike m$ products in the underlying operating system and security model is so shithouse. It is poss to write crap programs on any operating system. It is difficult to write good, reliable software when your operating system cannot be relied upon. It does not follow that
It does follow that windows is unstable, therefore ANY program running on windows is unstable.
-- Reverend Vryl
Have a look . .
-- Reverend Vryl
-- Reverend Vryl
I know the display postscript extensions to X failed to catch on because of being Adobe ip, but surely it could be run under whatever arrangement ghostscript is run?
This link has a bit of info on why dps is needed.
-- Reverend Vryl
Windows runs more optimally in this market than anything else. The only thing close is the mac, and MacOS is if anything, even worse perhaps (tho many will argue the gui is 'better').
I don't know that linux or anything else (amiga?) is even close to how optimal doze is on the desktop.
Yeah, and you are right . . . its all about marketing, and m$ are past masters of that. Few come close (coke? . . . macdonalds?)
-- Reverend Vryl
btw, it is not 'free' as in 'free speech' as some would have it. It is more like 'free' as in 'non-proprietary'. Me, in my experience, most ppl are into it because it is actually 'free' as in 'free beer'.
-- Reverend Vryl
Actually, depending on your workflow, most editing is done in CMYK. The scans come back from the bureau drum-scanner in CMYK. Often RGB to CMYK is done at the bureau by a specialist scanner operator, sometimes targetted for a specific output device (a particular printshop's press).
It is more or less impossible to acurately proof on a monitor (without mega expensive calibration setups) and most designers 'do it by the numbers', ie from the photoshop info palette.
Also, there is no one method on converting RGB to CMYK, and 'apparently' there are some patents/trade secrets on the methods involved (I have not been able to verify this).
Pantone colours are used for spot colours, not process, and there are different inks used for process colour, sometimes depending on what country you are in (in japan they use 'toyo' I think).
In photoshop you can control very exactly black generation, undercover removal and a host of other options in the conversion process. Frinstance, going to Vogue uses a different conversion that going to newsprint (assuming RGB source). This is a bit of a black art and takes experience to get a good result, as no two presses are quite the same.
GIMP I think is more or less targetted for online graphics, and low end print jobs (soho?) where accurate RGB to CMYK is not super-critical.
Without accurate CMYK information and conversion it would be difficult to use it for professional print jobs.
The alternative is to send the jobs to the bureau in RGB and let the RIP do the conversion on the fly, but then you have little or no idea of what you will get until you receive a proof. Sometimes this is acceptable, but it is risky.
-- Reverend Vryl
If the watermarks survive the output stage of the soundcard, then sdmi enabled players may still not play them (or is that sdmi-II)
anyway, don't hold your breath coz sdmi is dead in the water
also, it is the copyright holders own decision as to what licence/format they release their music on, somewhat similar to the case with software.
I support the right to release sdmi crippled music, I just don't expect anyone to want to bother downloading it and playing it.
But then again, a lot of ppl eat McDonalds, so don't underestimate marketing power.
-- Reverend Vryl
There is some technical reason that I have forgotten, but it is apparently true.
-- Reverend Vryl
2. Express 'surprise' when all
3. 'Regrettfully' inform the authorities that this kind of thing is certain to continue for the unforseeable future, as it is impossible to guard against hacker/cracker attacks.
4. De-install proxy with govt mandate.
-- Reverend Vryl
No taco bell where I am (western australia) but I take your point. Although, I seem to remember reading this story somewhere.
It may have been in a book called 'The Way of Strategy'.
How long before our conspiracy minded friends say that the astroturfers out there posted all those nasty things to hurt us?
I am not sure if it is true (if not, then take it as a 'parable')
I think that Pizza Hut bought Pepsi a while ago. Or was it the other way round?
Anyway, all the other fast food ummmmmm . . . "restaurants" stopped using pepsi and moved to coke.
Otherwise, they would be financing a competitor.
scum that we are, cruising along at -1 . . .
anyway . . . one argument says "the bankers" won the war of independance. Another won says "the bankers" won the second world war.
another argument says that the english bankers own the not just the bank of england, but also the US federal reserve.
Sometimes I just love the gutter . . .
was the motto in Australia for the TV show "Sixty Minutes".
/. to post these articles to spark debate (usually fairly rational), tho perhaps we have had a few too many of them lately . . .
Oh yeah, it worked. 60 Minutes was undisputed king of the telly for more than a decade.
I think its good for
This could be way out of hand, but, hey, thats never stopped me before:
3 posts.
1 sort of pro m$
1 sort of anti mozilla
1 other
Hmmmm . . . probably my paranoia . . .
Its about marketing, and the consumers (as always) will be sold a pile of well marketed crapola. And they will love it!
meant to imply something like 'redhat certified' or thereabouts.
not a bitch about rh at all, just the perception that it is the be all and end all of linux stuff, which is not of their making really.
I think m$ owns a bit of sco as well (and maybe sco is xenix?) so, if rh ipo's, m$ could easily buy stock . . . they have the cash and the history.
Maybe m$ on linux would be a good thing in the end. IBM seems to be able to compete across platforms these days and has seemingly given up trying to own the OS.
Freedom is always good, don't abuse it however.
It is not really the case that you make much money from concerts and touring, ask Frank Zappa.
Often the tours are to encourage CD sales etc
Hey, if its good, and you like/use it (its all bits these days, whether music or code), pay for it . . . whatever that means . . . the free/open software movement has another def of pay, methinks 'contribute'.
Oh yeah, believe it now . . . they are making a version for linux . . . I would not be surprised if it is 'redhat' . . .
It is often easy to tell what ppl are thinking by what they deny. The very fact that they mention it means they are at least thinking about it.
from everything.blockstackers.com:
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Undirected graph database management system with built-in depth first search primitives. Not much more. Often mistaken for a programming language.
Answer: Ban Altavista, Yahoo, etc
then they are forced to setup 'australian' versions, which is HEAVILY censored.
This legislation threatens us all (as a test case for liberal democracy) and MUST BE STOPPED BY ALL MEANS REASONABLE.