How much size would supporting Netscape style plugins, anyway? Not much. I don't know about where you place your standards, but supporting a wide base of standards is pretty important to me. Worried about memory? Put it in a dynamic library, have it loaded only when you need NS plugin functionality.
You also claim that NS is out of the browser business. You're wrong. NS may be refocusing to be more of a showcase for TW media, but they're still very much a browser company.
Finally, your most ridiculous claim that all open source/free software people wouldn't pay for software. I'd gladly pay for windows, if it served my purposes. Personally, I find that the architecture of windows limits the kind of things I want to do with a computer. If there is a commercial solution which is both reasonably priced and serves my needs, I'll use it. Furthermore, good open source solutions are rarely outdated and useless. Take Mozilla, or the KDE desktop environment, or GCC, or Sendmail, or Linux,which was recently shown to be twice the webserver as a Windows based solution.
Furthermore, I feel that MS does have a right to do anything. They can even force the users of Windows to convert to Scientology if they want to. However, I, as a consumer, have a right to complain about said choices that they do make.
Yeah, but the article conner_bw linked to is the clarification Netscape put out a week later. They aren't getting out of the browser business, they're just emphasizing the media side of Netscape a lot more. Most of the Imminent Death of Netscape articles were just oversensationalization, not hard fact.
That's actually not that good of a flooding test. First off, they're all coming from one netblock, so the routing's easy. Second off, you're only getting the front page, which is statically generated every few seconds, so you're just testing the ability of apache to pump out a static page. A better torture test, though still pretty much scriptable, is to have each of your drone systems pulling up a different article constantly. An even better torture script, though it'll take you a little bit longer (at most maybe a couple minutes per system), is to have each of those drones cycle through a set of a dozen or so pages, viewing each at different thresholds and threading styles, to truly test the sql backend.
Your systems truly aren't living up to their slashdotting potential. But a quick script will get it there.
This only applies to an attack against one form of steganography, not the field in a whole. The incredibly ancient art of code words and hidden meanings will still continue as before, it just means that hiding bits in GIFs will have to get a little bit more clever. Probably the next generation of stego software will have built-in wavelet algorithms so that the program can automatically place the bits so that the wavelets won't be altered. This program is only 90% accurate, that means that one out of every ten imagaes with hidden bits don't set off an alarm. The only reason to get nervous is if the software is 99% accurate. 10% inaccuracy means that it's very easy to circumvent.
Actually, the base newton ran well on 640k RAM total, with a good amount of that available for applications. As far as processor speed goes, the original Newton line ran at 20 Mhz, which is/was about the same speed as the original palm. Yeah, the later models ran on some fast processors, but it wasn't needed; the base OS was fairly scalable
I have to disagree with your sentiments regarding Apple's PDA. The Newton was not bad at all, it was simply quite a few years ahead of its time. The UI was fairly intuitive, if a bit slow, and when you get the graffiti add-on (IMO, a better idea for the writing window - something you can drag and put where you want it), the thing is about as accurate in reading your handwriting as the palms. Fsck, the thing had everything, a serial port, an IRDA port, a PCMCIA slot (none of this springboard crap), and a beautifully huge thing. About the only downside, other than the price, was the fact that is is too big to cram in your pocket. Were the Newton to come out today, it would probably clean up in the marketplace.
Yep, it's part of the analysis. Both Namezero and NSI just switched from Solaris over to IIS, and they say that accounts for the lion's share of the movement. When you are hosting a huge amount of servers, then when you change vendors, the waves you make are huge, hence this article on the end of open source as we know it (and I feel fine =3 ).
Yes, a non-profit can be formed to sell a good/service. There are a few health insurance companies which are non-profit (can't recall them off the top of my head), the FSF is non-profit and they sell distributions of gcc, etc. All non-profit means is that the books are much more available to the general public; there are certain tax forms/accounting ledgers that they have to show upon request, regardless of who is doing the requesting.
Does that mean you could reach a point where adding another node actually slows everything down?
Kind of. You just start blindly adding nodes to a cluster, efficiency drops as the processes are deadlocked more and more, waiting for that relevant network traffic. You may not ever reach negative efficiency, but you will get no gains, therefore, just burning electricity.
Speaking of burning electricity, I wonder if I should start back up implementation of my crazy idea of a PC/Mac/Sun/NeXT/SGI/Alpha/VAX/RS6000 cluster...
Nope, not firewalled. MS has to put that blurb in to cover their asses so that they don't get in trouble with the US government when someone from one of the embargoed countries (who probably need it more than anyone else in the world) downloads the software. In truth, you can download the software from anywhere, it's just that blurb puts you on notice that you are being naughty if you send it to a country you're not supposed to.
I didn't do a netcraft followup with any of these servers, but judging from the slightly different "there is nothing here" screens of the infected machines, a good amount of these servers are NT4 machines, which are rebooted a bit more than the more stable W2K machines. Plus, you've got to take into account those people who use these boxes as a work machine, and shut them down at the end of the day. Since these machines are not puting any real content on the server, the owners don't even know they're vulnerable.
A recent/. article theorized that CRII has already infected pretty much all the servers it's going to infect, and is currently propogating itself among infected servers. An unpatched box, once rebooted, is infected again very quickly simply because of the rapid dissemination techniques.
Over my way, daily average is about 225 attacks, no sign of letting up, and when a browser is pointed towards them, most of them are simply show the default IIS screen. These boxes are probably not going to be patched because the owners of the machines are unaware their machines are owned. So, yeah, Oct 1 is probably when this crap is going to end.
There's always the near-legendary TRW swap meet. It's held in the TRW parking lot every last Saturday of the month, and there's always a lot of interesting stuff being moved there. If you're in the LA area, it's one of those places you check to augment your pile of "interesting" stuff.
Actually, in the waning days of the "high quality" viruses, there were several viruses that, in addition to their payload, would "kindly" disinfect viruses writen by rival virus groups. Of course, now, most viruses are clunky VB things writen simply to cause as much havok as possible, without worrying about size, elegance, etc. Sircam, and it's integrated SMTP server, is the closest virus, in terms of elegance, to the "good ol' days" of viruses.
You're forgetting, this is California, and the polititians, and by extention, judges, are the property of the MPAA and RIAA. These guys can change venue to a judge that's friendly to them, mount pretty much any defense they want, and get away with it. The entertainment biz is huge, and they buy their congresspeople in these parts by the gross.
Fortunately with the IBM situation, IBM was honorable in dealing with the Compaq folks when they reverse engineered the bios. There were several other companies that outright copied the IBM bios, and IBM did lay the smackdown upon them.
Although, if the DVD-CCA were so concerned about those "evil pirates" breaking into their DVDs, why didn't they patent their 1337 encryption/decryption scheme and sue DeCSS people for patent violations? Instead, we've got the weak trade secret violation claim, which nearly any IP lawyer should tell you that trade secret claims are null and void in the event of reverse engineering.
I love this quote from the first article you linked to:
Book publishers say they need a tough law like the Digital Millennium Copyright Act or they'll never be able to make money selling electronic books. If programmers are allowed to crack eBook encryption, the next Napster-style trading system will be exchanging copies of "Moby Dick" instead of songs by Moby, they warn.
Uhh...someone better tell the AAP that "Moby Dick" is public domain, something that is legal to copy under the law
What is Think Geek going to do with all of those Free Dimitri shirts they just got in? Nobody is going to want them now....
<rant>Damn right. I happen to be wearing one of those shirts right now. Of course, that's how my life goes...</rant>
Of course, the realist in me says that after a show trial, they'll find him guilty and throw him in some hell-hole super-maximum prison somewhere. Too many high up people are 0wned by the copyright fascists so I'm doubting he'll get a truly fair trial (thinking back to Keith Henson's "trial" here)
Do you honestly think that it would have been any different if Gore had been elected? Both parties receive HUGE amounts of money from the entertainment industry; Hillary Clinton alone received several hundred thousand dollars from various media intrests in her senate run. It's becoming more and more obvious that you are throwing your rights away by choosing a Republicrat or Demublican.
Actually, the messaging crap, etc looks pretty harmless, and possibly useful. It lets you get emailed whenever stuff happens to your account - moderations, replies, etc are shown up here, along with what looks like a very cool feature of sending m2 results. The journalling stuff, I think that was just put in there to keep up with the Jones
I had the same problem - the FTP server is being pounded hard and heavy. But there is a pretty easy solution to get to the sweetness that is the binaries. What you do, is when running the installer, you tweak your proxy settings (IIRC, they ask you for the proxy settings at the same time they ask if you want to keep the files locally). There's an option there to either use FTP or HTTP to get the lizard. Choose HTTP and you fly.
I heard about this tech a while back, and that's exactly what they used to do. While they were in the early testing stages, the cameras were so expensive that they had to recycle the cameras after every trial. Sad But True
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Well, now that they've proven that Pi's completely irrational, combined with the formula to determine an arbitrary number of pi, there are a few interesting things that can be performed. Like the aforementioned kernel source example you gave. I know you were being silly, but in low bandwidth/high latency situations, such as deep space, if one could find the string of numbers you want to send, one could probably save a good deal of time transmitting. There's also the usage as a one time pad, a cheap source for "random" numbers.
Yeah, it's not as exciting as finding a cure for cancer, but it's still pretty cool
This article has some great philosophical questions, though most of the points are more to the copyright/patent law section. However, I'm more interested in the more wide-ranging questions
Suppose one were to use these nano-manipulators to tweak someone's DNA and of basic body structure. At what point, if the nano manipulations are successful, and they no longer have "human" DNA, do they cease becoming human? What if the same operation were performed against someone's will; even though they're still alive and healthy, could it be considered murder?
I know these questions are a bit off, but if we get to the point where we can perform medial manipulations to regrow limbs, I figure it'll only be a matter of time before people start using this technology for fashion/style purposes.
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You also claim that NS is out of the browser business. You're wrong. NS may be refocusing to be more of a showcase for TW media, but they're still very much a browser company.
Finally, your most ridiculous claim that all open source/free software people wouldn't pay for software. I'd gladly pay for windows, if it served my purposes. Personally, I find that the architecture of windows limits the kind of things I want to do with a computer. If there is a commercial solution which is both reasonably priced and serves my needs, I'll use it. Furthermore, good open source solutions are rarely outdated and useless. Take Mozilla, or the KDE desktop environment, or GCC, or Sendmail, or Linux ,which was recently shown to be twice the webserver as a Windows based solution.
Furthermore, I feel that MS does have a right to do anything. They can even force the users of Windows to convert to Scientology if they want to. However, I, as a consumer, have a right to complain about said choices that they do make.
Yeah, but the article conner_bw linked to is the clarification Netscape put out a week later. They aren't getting out of the browser business, they're just emphasizing the media side of Netscape a lot more. Most of the Imminent Death of Netscape articles were just oversensationalization, not hard fact.
Your systems truly aren't living up to their slashdotting potential. But a quick script will get it there.
This only applies to an attack against one form of steganography, not the field in a whole. The incredibly ancient art of code words and hidden meanings will still continue as before, it just means that hiding bits in GIFs will have to get a little bit more clever. Probably the next generation of stego software will have built-in wavelet algorithms so that the program can automatically place the bits so that the wavelets won't be altered. This program is only 90% accurate, that means that one out of every ten imagaes with hidden bits don't set off an alarm. The only reason to get nervous is if the software is 99% accurate. 10% inaccuracy means that it's very easy to circumvent.
Actually, the base newton ran well on 640k RAM total, with a good amount of that available for applications. As far as processor speed goes, the original Newton line ran at 20 Mhz, which is/was about the same speed as the original palm. Yeah, the later models ran on some fast processors, but it wasn't needed; the base OS was fairly scalable
I have to disagree with your sentiments regarding Apple's PDA. The Newton was not bad at all, it was simply quite a few years ahead of its time. The UI was fairly intuitive, if a bit slow, and when you get the graffiti add-on (IMO, a better idea for the writing window - something you can drag and put where you want it), the thing is about as accurate in reading your handwriting as the palms. Fsck, the thing had everything, a serial port, an IRDA port, a PCMCIA slot (none of this springboard crap), and a beautifully huge thing. About the only downside, other than the price, was the fact that is is too big to cram in your pocket. Were the Newton to come out today, it would probably clean up in the marketplace.
Yep, it's part of the analysis. Both Namezero and NSI just switched from Solaris over to IIS, and they say that accounts for the lion's share of the movement. When you are hosting a huge amount of servers, then when you change vendors, the waves you make are huge, hence this article on the end of open source as we know it (and I feel fine =3 ).
Yes, a non-profit can be formed to sell a good/service. There are a few health insurance companies which are non-profit (can't recall them off the top of my head), the FSF is non-profit and they sell distributions of gcc, etc. All non-profit means is that the books are much more available to the general public; there are certain tax forms/accounting ledgers that they have to show upon request, regardless of who is doing the requesting.
Kind of. You just start blindly adding nodes to a cluster, efficiency drops as the processes are deadlocked more and more, waiting for that relevant network traffic. You may not ever reach negative efficiency, but you will get no gains, therefore, just burning electricity.
Speaking of burning electricity, I wonder if I should start back up implementation of my crazy idea of a PC/Mac/Sun/NeXT/SGI/Alpha/VAX/RS6000 cluster...
Nope, not firewalled. MS has to put that blurb in to cover their asses so that they don't get in trouble with the US government when someone from one of the embargoed countries (who probably need it more than anyone else in the world) downloads the software. In truth, you can download the software from anywhere, it's just that blurb puts you on notice that you are being naughty if you send it to a country you're not supposed to.
I didn't do a netcraft followup with any of these servers, but judging from the slightly different "there is nothing here" screens of the infected machines, a good amount of these servers are NT4 machines, which are rebooted a bit more than the more stable W2K machines. Plus, you've got to take into account those people who use these boxes as a work machine, and shut them down at the end of the day. Since these machines are not puting any real content on the server, the owners don't even know they're vulnerable.
Over my way, daily average is about 225 attacks, no sign of letting up, and when a browser is pointed towards them, most of them are simply show the default IIS screen. These boxes are probably not going to be patched because the owners of the machines are unaware their machines are owned. So, yeah, Oct 1 is probably when this crap is going to end.
There's always the near-legendary TRW swap meet. It's held in the TRW parking lot every last Saturday of the month, and there's always a lot of interesting stuff being moved there. If you're in the LA area, it's one of those places you check to augment your pile of "interesting" stuff.
Actually, in the waning days of the "high quality" viruses, there were several viruses that, in addition to their payload, would "kindly" disinfect viruses writen by rival virus groups. Of course, now, most viruses are clunky VB things writen simply to cause as much havok as possible, without worrying about size, elegance, etc. Sircam, and it's integrated SMTP server, is the closest virus, in terms of elegance, to the "good ol' days" of viruses.
Fortunately with the IBM situation, IBM was honorable in dealing with the Compaq folks when they reverse engineered the bios. There were several other companies that outright copied the IBM bios, and IBM did lay the smackdown upon them.
Although, if the DVD-CCA were so concerned about those "evil pirates" breaking into their DVDs, why didn't they patent their 1337 encryption/decryption scheme and sue DeCSS people for patent violations? Instead, we've got the weak trade secret violation claim, which nearly any IP lawyer should tell you that trade secret claims are null and void in the event of reverse engineering.
Damn them, Damn them all to hell
<rant>Damn right. I happen to be wearing one of those shirts right now. Of course, that's how my life goes...</rant>
Of course, the realist in me says that after a show trial, they'll find him guilty and throw him in some hell-hole super-maximum prison somewhere. Too many high up people are 0wned by the copyright fascists so I'm doubting he'll get a truly fair trial (thinking back to Keith Henson's "trial" here)
Do you honestly think that it would have been any different if Gore had been elected? Both parties receive HUGE amounts of money from the entertainment industry; Hillary Clinton alone received several hundred thousand dollars from various media intrests in her senate run. It's becoming more and more obvious that you are throwing your rights away by choosing a Republicrat or Demublican.
And I believe the Mozilla bashing came from the fact that Moz 0.8.x was still very much alpha-grade stuff, and Moz 0.9.x is very, very good.
You're right about the last line, too. The new mozilla tastes like chicken!
Actually, the messaging crap, etc looks pretty harmless, and possibly useful. It lets you get emailed whenever stuff happens to your account - moderations, replies, etc are shown up here, along with what looks like a very cool feature of sending m2 results. The journalling stuff, I think that was just put in there to keep up with the Jones
I had the same problem - the FTP server is being pounded hard and heavy. But there is a pretty easy solution to get to the sweetness that is the binaries. What you do, is when running the installer, you tweak your proxy settings (IIRC, they ask you for the proxy settings at the same time they ask if you want to keep the files locally). There's an option there to either use FTP or HTTP to get the lizard. Choose HTTP and you fly.
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Yeah, it's not as exciting as finding a cure for cancer, but it's still pretty cool
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I know these questions are a bit off, but if we get to the point where we can perform medial manipulations to regrow limbs, I figure it'll only be a matter of time before people start using this technology for fashion/style purposes.