Seriously speaking, I think we see more and more of these "issues": Censorship, govermental approved and required intrusions (and now even legal modifications) without the peoples knowing, requirements of "backdoors" to the government in cryptography, restricions on publication (americans call it 'export' and 'matter of national security') of cryptography etc. etc. etc.
The Australians do it.....(obviously)
The Americans do it.....
The Europeans do it.....
Or if they haven't yet passed laws or bills, they are about to and have such in the process. Gee, I am told that if you are in France, using 'ssh' is in fact forbidden......That makes me a criminal, since I dislike the idea of transmitting cleartext root-passwords on any network. This is an issue, which in my mind is more and more beginning to turning into a "people of the world" vs "the collective governments of the world".
My guess is, that unless action is taken SOON, then it will be too late. As soon as one major country/government makes precedense, preventing others from following will be hard. Remember, people, that the issues at stake are ultimately - as many others have pointed out - the "freedom of speech" and the "right for privacy".
I think it is time for action. The question is WHAT action can/should be taken? And how? Take this as an "Ask Slashdot", btw....I would like to hear more knowledgeable peoples take on this....
Slashdot represents - in my mind - an opportunity to unite briliant minds across the world. Slashdot COULD become a MAJOR GLOBAL POLITICAL PLAYER on such issues - if used in the right way. After all, I the average Slashdotter (whos posts get a score >0) is equiped with a cirtain level of technical expertise and common sense.
I'd say "slashdotters unite" - let's figure out how to play the game right, and prevent insanity of government control, restrictions and supervision.
I will end by saying as Evita does in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Evita":
"...true power is YOURS, not the government, unles it represents the people!"
Somehow I feel that there are many governments who do not - at least on this issue.
(Sorry for being emotional on this. But I am deeply concirned over the current development)
I have a PalmIII and a mobile phone with IrDA-interface. What would really make paper obsolete would be a/.-client for Palm (not a traditional www-browser - though palmscape would work too, given that/. could be available in a "lighter" version without graphics), cutting all the graphics etc., and enabeling off-line reading/posting.
Would DEFINITELY make time spend in the subways more interresting:)
...however I guess the place has changed over time.
I - and my friends (And I guess most/.'ers) used to buy magazines for two things: technical articles/reviews and updated info on new products.
Now, such information is more available on the WWW than in printed form. It's more updated, easier to access etc. And in the/.-form, one is even no longer bound by the magazine/reporter/editor's potentially biased point of view.
Another issue is, that while the popularity of computers have spread, the magazines have much more people to appeal to. Not only techies, but also the techies kids, parents, grandparents - and (ohh boy) PHB's. Thus often - at least from what I have sean - the depth is sacrificed in favour of broader appeal.
There are very few magazines out there - be that the general magazines such as Byte, PC-Magazine as well as Linux-specific magazines - which appeal to real techies. All tend to focus on what I believe is the largest segment of the market: home computer users and management/IS-dept guys.
I guess that the magazines will continiue living - to a PHB, the phrase "...but says that...." will almost always be better accepted than "....Anonymous Coward writes on slashdot that...". And to the home computer users.
However there are always exceptions, of course. IEEE Computer Society and ACM provide excellent publications with a high-tech content. Of course mostly research-based, but still.....however they also come as electronic magazines nowadays....
Ohh......apologies if this came out partially in a previous posting. Netscape blew up in my face while copy-pasting (cannot wait for mozilla...)
I seem to remember that "The Music Industry" have influenced taxation of CD-recordables (i.e. the blank discs). Those taxes should then be distributed to "The Music Industry" in a way similar to when a radio station plays a piece of music.
So basically, whenever I write a Linux CD or archieves one of my own projects on a CD, the music industry will benefit from that......pretty, yes?
Exactly how the details are escapes me. But I know for sure that this was/is an issue in (at least) Denmark.
treatment for clinical depression without the side effects of drugs.
training aid (you do it right, feel good, do it wrong, feel bad). Very intuitive.
new art media another communication method (this is how that makes me feel).
Of course it could be misused, but so can a coat hanger.
I believe that Stanley Kubrick did a movie "A Clockwork Orange" (extremely cool movie, Kubrick's death was a GREAT loss to mankind), which was concirned with this theme: using emotions (feeling bad) to "cure" criminal behaviour in an individual. Though not thrugh implants, the means were psychoactive drugs, visual and audiel stimuli and electrical stimulations of the skull. The message was quite clear - that the side effects were not quite predictable.
Also I seem to remember reading that such approaches has been tried allready when trying to "cure" e.g. homosexuality: exposing homosexuals to different erotic material and using traditional punishment/rewards (e.g. electric shocks when a man got an errection while watching homosexual pictures) to try to make people "learn" what is right.
Actually this goes back to Skinner's (behavioral psychologi from about 1975) theory about behavioral science, supported by experiments with lab rats: putting a rat in a box where it could not get food until it learned to press a button correctly. And indeed the rat DID change its behaviour.....
IANAS (I Am Not A Shrink), but if memory serves me correctly, one does in general concirn four classes of stimuli when using this "as a training aid": reward, punishment, lack/removal of reward, lack/removal of punishment...I am sure that someone more knowledgeable than I will be able to put this into a deeper perspective, but to me it appear frightening to say the least....
Yet I still believe that these concirns should not stand in the way of science and research - they should only stand in the way of cirtain applications of the science and research.
Seriously, though. A robot that draws its power from the decomposing bodies of its victims. How cool is that?
Hmm...somehow this reminds me of watching the movie "The Matrix"....machines using humans as energy sources. I wasn't aware that this actually had a serious side...
It's interresting that we - the humans - now introduce another race to be preadetors. Preadetors which in a way will occupy the topmost level of the food-chain (assuming that noone for a while will be able to feed on the SlubBots)......
I thought that a version of the language was complete? (completely specified that is). Do you mean you think that current implementations of the J(V)M have a long way to go before being able to be classed as 'mature'?
To answer your questions: as far as I know, there is no current publication "The Java Language Specification", which specifies the language in all its glory. There exists an OLD version (for version 1.0 of the language) and an appendix, (patching the specification to 1.1), check here. But there is nothing current, i.e. for the current versions of the language. This complicates making a JVM and writing applications - and of course makes it more difficult to decide to blame a problem on the provider of the JVM or on the application. Instead, Sun/Javasoft have specified a comprehensive testsuite, which is supposed to ensure "standard compliance" (check here). I have not tested this, thus I have no opinion on that.
That said, the JVM's still have a long way to go before being mature. In particular the JVM provided by Sun for Solaris is disappointing in speed as well as other aspects (while the JVM provided by Sun for MS Windows is suspiciously optimized....).
This is true. If you do need a system that, for example, requires prioritizing of the Java threads, you have no choice but to write your own scheduler. It's the only way to get a guaranteed behaviour out of your application on every system.
I just came to think of Posix-threads. It's been a while and I haven't used them much, but doesn't the specification imply that one can set the scheduling policy (e.g. round-robin, priorities ) and other properties for the threads? Many systems comply to the Posix-standard without the underlying mechanisms being identical. I think Solaris with "leight-weight-processes", WinNT with - afaik - pure kernel-thread, and Linux with a different model for threading.
It is true - definite control over the execution of multithreaded programs require a dedicated scheduler. But it would be nice had Sun / JavaSoft actually specified one scheduling behaviour (rather than not specifying one as it is).
That way we would have the same execution across all platforms - and only those needing a specific or advanced scheduling would need consider implementing a dedicated scheduler.
AFAIK, the reason thread scheduling is left unspecified is that all the platforms that can run a JVM do not all have the same threading capabilities at the Operating System level.
Obviously you may very well be right on that point. The thread-models in Linux, Solaris, Windows, MacOS etc. differ on many aspects (user- or kernel-space threads, based on scheduler activations - in Solaris "Leight Weight Processes - etc.)
However it doesn't change the fact that this may (and indeed does) violate the principle of "platform independance": the programmers of (multi-threaded) Java applications need be aware of on which platform(s) his/her applications will be running. Or alternatively go through the troubles of writing dedicated, thread-scheduling code or other "workarounds".
I always thought people were avoiding Java because of speed/platform issues, but am I wrong? Is there a mass of Java programmers out there with an equally large collection of programs?
I've used Java intensively for many different purposes, and I almost always run into problems when dealing with cross-platform usage of multithreaded programs. thread scheduling, for some reason, is in the Java language specification specified to be left unspecified. This leaves the implementers of the virtual machines free to select whatever model they desire (and that is usually the simplest: non-preemptive fifo-scheduling), complicating development of platform-independant multithreaded applications (where one often expects time-sliced, "fair" scheduling of some sort). One solutions is to do as we've done in the Actor Foundry and implement a dedicated scheduler in Java. That way one can be sure to have threads scheduled in the way one wants....but at the expense of performance.....
Another drawback with Java is the lack of an updated language specification (at least last time I checked there had been no updates for a few versions).
I think Java is being used....but I also think that the language still has a way to go before being "mature" enough - part of that way would be completing the specification such that the virtual machines behave alike (and such that the "write once, run anywhere" can be delivered as promised by Sun...).
However, I wish there was some effort being done in making the various desktop environments intercompatible... I'd love to see development aimed at making it easier to code stuff that will run as smoothly on Gnome and KDE
If I am not mistaken (but I have no references at hand) there is an ongoing effort to make KDE and Gnome more interoperable - e.g. by using the same window manager hints etc (okok, it may be details, but they still are).
That said, I installed KDE 1.1.2 not long ago, and after overcoming some initial annoyances (formerly a die-hard fvwm-user) I must say that, asside from some minor glitches I am mostly positively surprised by the system (long rant about what could be better left out for readability)
I agree completely: GATTACA (well, that's how it's spelled at www.imdb.com) is the science fiction movie one should see.
When I saw it, I almost got scared: It's so realistic (this newsstory confirms that) and mankind is crazy enough to let it happen eventually. I mean: look back about 60 years. A little, obnoxious painter called Adolf Hitler tried to breed the "perfect race" of humans and to eliminate everybody else......
When I read how close the genetic engineering gets to perfection, I get more and more frightened that someone like Hitler might rise again.
And this brings back the ethical part of science. I have always felt, that science and research should take place without etical concirns, however that applications of the research should be carefully considred and evaluated. I am however getting ever less convinced that it is so - maybe there are areas, where we shoud keep our hands out????
Well, I dunno - but it sure is scaring to imagine...
For some reason, I haven't been able to make Mozilla run on my stampede (http://www.stampede.org) since M7 or M8 or thereabout. Granted, I haven't tried very hard, but neither the binary releases nor a build from source seems to work "out of the box". Anyone with similar experiences (or perhaps explanations?) out there??
Performance....I just installed KDE-1.1.2 on my laptop (P233MMM,32MB) for testing, and I amazed that it doesn't slow the machine significantly more than fvwm2 does (no, I don't have measurements, it's strictly based on the "feel").
If they improve the performance in KDE2, then I think we have a winner:)
Next week I'll try out GNOME - rumor has that it's quite ressource demanding, so....
I am not a lawyer nor am I american (which probably disqualifies me from commenting, but I'll do so anyways)......but CAN this really be done?
I am thinking like this. If I say to a friend: "Boy, I really like those new PEZ-candy" - then it's okay. If, however I write the same sentence on my WWW-page, then it's copyright violation?
If it's in metatags or not, it seems to me that PEZ doesn't want to have their name mentioned anywhere on the web. Quote from their legal stuff:
You may NOT use the PEZ® mark (or any other registered trademark belonging to Pez Candy, Inc. or its affiliates) on your website
According to this, how many lawsuits are/. going to recieve from bringing just this comment:)
I seem to remember some organization, giving away ml.org names "for free". And another organization who did the same with.dhl.org's. Anyone know if they're still in business?
Just wondering....I seem to remember, that some of the original "fathers" of IP have been working on a version, suitable for interplanetary communication. Any clues on how far they've gotten on that?
Would be interresting to know - if only to know the possibility of reading/. on "Rupert" (this new planet)....
Another thing - I wonder what would be the MTU of a wireless link from earth to Rupert...?:)
Well....that's pretty simple: even Nerds go on vacation - and this planet (which we shall call Rupert as suggested in a previous post) sounds like a perfect place:)
Just imagine: far away from any sort of management, marketing and beancounters:) And the challenge of making an interstellar internet protocol that would reach all the way to Rupert (wouldn't be without/. now, would we) is definitely...a challenge:)
No, but seriously. Most nerds happen to like "science stuff" in general - and imho the diversity of stories and postings on/. is what makes it worth reading - and is what makes/./. - news for NERDS:)
In my mind, the DoJ are attacking the wrong problem. Rather than investing their money and effort into "brainwashing" youngsters, the ressources would be much better spend on investigating network security issues - and training their personal.
I am unaware of the situation in the US - however my experiences from 8 years of consulting work here in Denmark (in case you don't know: Denmark is a beautifull, cute little country in Europe - visit some day:) ) reveal the source for most vounerabilities to be incomplete and incompetent (in lack of better terms) setup by the people in charge.
Government sys.adms are not exactly well-paied here in Denmark - at least not compared to the saleries one can get in industry. So that's where the better qualified people usually go.
I believe that the investment would yield better results if invested in training/paying(?) the sys.adms better.
This reminds me of the stuff about "security through obscurity" not being real security. Telling (brainwashing - whatever) people not to be crackers doesn't solve the security issues - they may just become a bit less apparent and thereby not discovered as easilly....and thus left open for the real bad guys to exploit....
Again, my experiences are strictly from Denmark, but they may apply elsewhere too.
Well, with the European Union/Community (or whatever they call it) there should be a way to make such an offer valid for anyone in Europe.
It's not fair: I can't get a StarWars credit card, I can't get a Penguin credit card - just because I live in the old world (and face it: plain MasterCards and EuroCards do the same - but are not even half the fun)
Slashdot Mirror
Call for actions - all /.'ers........
Seriously speaking, I think we see more and more of these "issues": Censorship, govermental approved and required intrusions (and now even legal modifications) without the peoples knowing, requirements of "backdoors" to the government in cryptography, restricions on publication (americans call it 'export' and 'matter of national security') of cryptography etc. etc. etc.
The Australians do it.....(obviously)
The Americans do it.....
The Europeans do it.....
Or if they haven't yet passed laws or bills, they are about to and have such in the process. Gee, I am told that if you are in France, using 'ssh' is in fact forbidden......That makes me a criminal, since I dislike the idea of transmitting cleartext root-passwords on any network.
This is an issue, which in my mind is more and more beginning to turning into a "people of the world" vs "the collective governments of the world".
My guess is, that unless action is taken SOON, then it will be too late. As soon as one major country/government makes precedense, preventing others from following will be hard. Remember, people, that the issues at stake are ultimately - as many others have pointed out - the "freedom of speech" and the "right for privacy".
I think it is time for action. The question is WHAT action can/should be taken? And how? Take this as an "Ask Slashdot", btw....I would like to hear more knowledgeable peoples take on this....
Slashdot represents - in my mind - an opportunity to unite briliant minds across the world. Slashdot COULD become a MAJOR GLOBAL POLITICAL PLAYER on such issues - if used in the right way. After all, I the average Slashdotter (whos posts get a score >0) is equiped with a cirtain level of technical expertise and common sense.
I'd say "slashdotters unite" - let's figure out how to play the game right, and prevent insanity of government control, restrictions and supervision.
I will end by saying as Evita does in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Evita":
"...true power is YOURS, not the government, unles it represents the people!"
Somehow I feel that there are many governments who do not - at least on this issue.
(Sorry for being emotional on this. But I am deeply concirned over the current development)
Does the palm have the protocol stack to talk to cell phones?
Well, It can speak IrDA (IrCOMM). Sadly, most phones cannot (Ericsson SH888 can, tho'....and works like a dream with Linux IrDA too)
Well....
/.-client for Palm (not a traditional www-browser - though palmscape would work too, given that /. could be available in a "lighter" version without graphics), cutting all the graphics etc., and enabeling off-line reading/posting.
:)
I have a PalmIII and a mobile phone with IrDA-interface. What would really make paper obsolete would be a
Would DEFINITELY make time spend in the subways more interresting
...however I guess the place has changed over time.
/.'ers) used to buy magazines for two things: technical articles/reviews and updated info on new products.
/.-form, one is even no longer bound by the magazine/reporter/editor's potentially biased point of view.
I - and my friends (And I guess most
Now, such information is more available on the WWW than in printed form. It's more updated, easier to access etc. And in the
Another issue is, that while the popularity of computers have spread, the magazines have much more people to appeal to. Not only techies, but also the techies kids, parents, grandparents - and (ohh boy) PHB's. Thus often - at least from what I have sean - the depth is sacrificed in favour of broader appeal.
There are very few magazines out there - be that the general magazines such as Byte, PC-Magazine as well as Linux-specific magazines - which appeal to real techies. All tend to focus on what I believe is the largest segment of the market: home computer users and management/IS-dept guys.
I guess that the magazines will continiue living - to a PHB, the phrase "...but says that...." will almost always be better accepted than "....Anonymous Coward writes on slashdot that...". And to the home computer users.
However there are always exceptions, of course. IEEE Computer Society and ACM provide excellent publications with a high-tech content. Of course mostly research-based, but still.....however they also come as electronic magazines nowadays....
Ohh......apologies if this came out partially in a previous posting. Netscape blew up in my face while copy-pasting (cannot wait for mozilla...)
I seem to remember that "The Music Industry" have influenced taxation of CD-recordables (i.e. the blank discs). Those taxes should then be distributed to "The Music Industry" in a way similar to when a radio station plays a piece of music.
So basically, whenever I write a Linux CD or archieves one of my own projects on a CD, the music industry will benefit from that......pretty, yes?
Exactly how the details are escapes me. But I know for sure that this was/is an issue in (at least) Denmark.
Anyone with more details on this?
treatment for clinical depression without the side effects of drugs.
training aid (you do it right, feel good, do it wrong, feel bad). Very intuitive.
new art media
another communication method (this is how that makes me feel).
Of course it could be misused, but so can a coat hanger.
I believe that Stanley Kubrick did a movie "A Clockwork Orange" (extremely cool movie, Kubrick's death was a GREAT loss to mankind), which was concirned with this theme: using emotions (feeling bad) to "cure" criminal behaviour in an individual. Though not thrugh implants, the means were psychoactive drugs, visual and audiel stimuli and electrical stimulations of the skull. The message was quite clear - that the side effects were not quite predictable.
Also I seem to remember reading that such approaches has been tried allready when trying to "cure" e.g. homosexuality: exposing homosexuals to different erotic material and using traditional punishment/rewards (e.g. electric shocks when a man got an errection while watching homosexual pictures) to try to make people "learn" what is right.
Actually this goes back to Skinner's (behavioral psychologi from about 1975) theory about behavioral science, supported by experiments with lab rats: putting a rat in a box where it could not get food until it learned to press a button correctly. And indeed the rat DID change its behaviour.....
IANAS (I Am Not A Shrink), but if memory serves me correctly, one does in general concirn four classes of stimuli when using this "as a training aid": reward, punishment, lack/removal of reward, lack/removal of punishment...I am sure that someone more knowledgeable than I will be able to put this into a deeper perspective, but to me it appear frightening to say the least....
Yet I still believe that these concirns should not stand in the way of science and research - they should only stand in the way of cirtain applications of the science and research.
Seriously, though. A robot that draws its power from the decomposing bodies of its victims. How cool is that?
Hmm...somehow this reminds me of watching the movie "The Matrix"....machines using humans as energy sources. I wasn't aware that this actually had a serious side...
It's interresting that we - the humans - now introduce another race to be preadetors. Preadetors which in a way will occupy the topmost level of the food-chain (assuming that noone for a while will be able to feed on the SlubBots)......
I thought that a version of the language was complete? (completely specified that is). Do you mean you think that current implementations of the J(V)M have a long way to go before being able to be classed as 'mature'?
To answer your questions: as far as I know, there is no current publication "The Java Language Specification", which specifies the language in all its glory. There exists an OLD version (for version 1.0 of the language) and an appendix, (patching the specification to 1.1), check here. But there is nothing current, i.e. for the current versions of the language. This complicates making a JVM and writing applications - and of course makes it more difficult to decide to blame a problem on the provider of the JVM or on the application. Instead, Sun/Javasoft have specified a comprehensive testsuite, which is supposed to ensure "standard compliance" (check here). I have not tested this, thus I have no opinion on that.
That said, the JVM's still have a long way to go before being mature. In particular the JVM provided by Sun for Solaris is disappointing in speed as well as other aspects (while the JVM provided by Sun for MS Windows is suspiciously optimized....).
This is true. If you do need a system that, for example, requires prioritizing of the Java threads, you have no choice but to write your own scheduler. It's the only way to get a guaranteed behaviour out of your application on every system.
I just came to think of Posix-threads. It's been a while and I haven't used them much, but doesn't the specification imply that one can set the scheduling policy (e.g. round-robin, priorities ) and other properties for the threads? Many systems comply to the Posix-standard without the underlying mechanisms being identical. I think Solaris with "leight-weight-processes", WinNT with - afaik - pure kernel-thread, and Linux with a different model for threading.
It is true - definite control over the execution of multithreaded programs require a dedicated scheduler. But it would be nice had Sun / JavaSoft actually specified one scheduling behaviour (rather than not specifying one as it is).
That way we would have the same execution across all platforms - and only those needing a specific or advanced scheduling would need consider implementing a dedicated scheduler.
AFAIK, the reason thread scheduling is left unspecified is that all the platforms that can run a JVM do not all have the same threading capabilities at the Operating System level.
Obviously you may very well be right on that point. The thread-models in Linux, Solaris, Windows, MacOS etc. differ on many aspects (user- or kernel-space threads, based on scheduler activations - in Solaris "Leight Weight Processes - etc.)
However it doesn't change the fact that this may (and indeed does) violate the principle of "platform independance": the programmers of (multi-threaded) Java applications need be aware of on which platform(s) his/her applications will be running. Or alternatively go through the troubles of writing dedicated, thread-scheduling code or other "workarounds".
I always thought people were avoiding Java because of speed/platform issues, but am I wrong? Is there a mass of Java programmers out there with an equally large collection of programs?
I've used Java intensively for many different purposes, and I almost always run into problems when dealing with cross-platform usage of multithreaded programs. thread scheduling, for some reason, is in the Java language specification specified to be left unspecified. This leaves the implementers of the virtual machines free to select whatever model they desire (and that is usually the simplest: non-preemptive fifo-scheduling), complicating development of platform-independant multithreaded applications (where one often expects time-sliced, "fair" scheduling of some sort). One solutions is to do as we've done in the Actor Foundry and implement a dedicated scheduler in Java. That way one can be sure to have threads scheduled in the way one wants....but at the expense of performance.....
Another drawback with Java is the lack of an updated language specification (at least last time I checked there had been no updates for a few versions).
I think Java is being used....but I also think that the language still has a way to go before being "mature" enough - part of that way would be completing the specification such that the virtual machines behave alike (and such that the "write once, run anywhere" can be delivered as promised by Sun...).
Just my $0.02....
However, I wish there was some effort being done in making the various desktop environments intercompatible... I'd love to see development aimed at making it easier to code stuff that will run as smoothly on Gnome and KDE
If I am not mistaken (but I have no references at hand) there is an ongoing effort to make KDE and Gnome more interoperable - e.g. by using the same window manager hints etc (okok, it may be details, but they still are).
That said, I installed KDE 1.1.2 not long ago, and after overcoming some initial annoyances (formerly a die-hard fvwm-user) I must say that, asside from some minor glitches I am mostly positively surprised by the system (long rant about what could be better left out for readability)
Awaiting kde-2.....
I agree completely: GATTACA (well, that's how it's spelled at www.imdb.com) is the science fiction movie one should see.
When I saw it, I almost got scared: It's so realistic (this newsstory confirms that) and mankind is crazy enough to let it happen eventually. I mean: look back about 60 years. A little, obnoxious painter called Adolf Hitler tried to breed the "perfect race" of humans and to eliminate everybody else......
When I read how close the genetic engineering gets to perfection, I get more and more frightened that someone like Hitler might rise again.
And this brings back the ethical part of science. I have always felt, that science and research should take place without etical concirns, however that applications of the research should be carefully considred and evaluated. I am however getting ever less convinced that it is so - maybe there are areas, where we shoud keep our hands out????
Well, I dunno - but it sure is scaring to imagine...
For some reason, I haven't been able to make Mozilla run on my stampede (http://www.stampede.org) since M7 or M8 or thereabout. Granted, I haven't tried very hard, but neither the binary releases nor a build from source seems to work "out of the box". Anyone with similar experiences (or perhaps explanations?) out there??
--
Performance....I just installed KDE-1.1.2 on my laptop (P233MMM,32MB) for testing, and I amazed that it doesn't slow the machine significantly more than fvwm2 does (no, I don't have measurements, it's strictly based on the "feel").
:)
If they improve the performance in KDE2, then I think we have a winner
Next week I'll try out GNOME - rumor has that it's quite ressource demanding, so....
I am not a lawyer nor am I american (which probably disqualifies me from commenting, but I'll do so anyways)......but CAN this really be done?
/. going to recieve from bringing just this comment :)
I am thinking like this. If I say to a friend: "Boy, I really like those new PEZ-candy" - then it's okay. If, however I write the same sentence on my WWW-page, then it's copyright violation?
If it's in metatags or not, it seems to me that PEZ doesn't want to have their name mentioned anywhere on the web. Quote from their legal stuff:
You may NOT use the PEZ® mark (or any other registered trademark belonging to Pez Candy, Inc. or its affiliates) on your website
According to this, how many lawsuits are
I seem to remember some organization, giving away ml.org names "for free". And another organization who did the same with .dhl.org's. Anyone know if they're still in business?
Just wondering....I seem to remember, that some of the original "fathers" of IP have been working on a version, suitable for interplanetary communication. Any clues on how far they've gotten on that?
/. on "Rupert" (this new planet)....
:)
Would be interresting to know - if only to know the possibility of reading
Another thing - I wonder what would be the MTU of a wireless link from earth to Rupert...?
--
Well....that's pretty simple: even Nerds go on vacation - and this planet (which we shall call Rupert as suggested in a previous post) sounds like a perfect place :)
:) And the challenge of making an interstellar internet protocol that would reach all the way to Rupert (wouldn't be without /. now, would we) is definitely...a challenge :)
/. is what makes it worth reading - and is what makes /. /. - news for NERDS :)
Just imagine: far away from any sort of management, marketing and beancounters
No, but seriously. Most nerds happen to like "science stuff" in general - and imho the diversity of stories and postings on
--
In my mind, the DoJ are attacking the wrong problem. Rather than investing their money and effort into "brainwashing" youngsters, the ressources would be much better spend on investigating network security issues - and training their personal.
:) ) reveal the source for most vounerabilities to be incomplete and incompetent (in lack of better terms) setup by the people in charge.
I am unaware of the situation in the US - however my experiences from 8 years of consulting work here in Denmark (in case you don't know: Denmark is a beautifull, cute little country in Europe - visit some day
Government sys.adms are not exactly well-paied here in Denmark - at least not compared to the saleries one can get in industry. So that's where the better qualified people usually go.
I believe that the investment would yield better results if invested in training/paying(?) the sys.adms better.
This reminds me of the stuff about "security through obscurity" not being real security. Telling (brainwashing - whatever) people not to be crackers doesn't solve the security issues - they may just become a bit less apparent and thereby not discovered as easilly....and thus left open for the real bad guys to exploit....
Again, my experiences are strictly from Denmark, but they may apply elsewhere too.
Well, with the European Union/Community (or whatever they call it) there should be a way to make such an offer valid for anyone in Europe.
It's not fair: I can't get a StarWars credit card, I can't get a Penguin credit card - just because I live in the old world (and face it: plain MasterCards and EuroCards do the same - but are not even half the fun)