According to this link, Australia is moving in the opposite direction. No, it isn't about mod chips -- it is about the legality of region encoding DVDs. This would have interesting implications as legislators were talking about "zoned" DVD players being illegal. I don't know how it turned out.
Re:The terabit market flopped, so go faster!
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Just FYI: Nexabit was purchased by Lucent. Their technology is being incorporated in Lucent's new TMX-880 MPLS switch.
Lucent already has several Wavestar 400G/800G units deployed (400 Gbit/800 Gbit) as well as a few Lambda Routers (all optical) capable of 1.6 Tb routing.
In the field, running. Their Optical Network Group training facility is in Orlando, FL and I have gotten to play with some of these units. Very nice.
There was a Max Headroom episode similar to this. I can still hear the one lawyer whining to the video-judge "But you haven't even evaluated my floppy disk!"
The cover-up of FBI actions at Wac o were during Lousis Freeh's term. "Another notable mishap involving the bungled handling of evidence in a high-profile case was the FBI's failure to disclose audio tape recordings made during the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, until more than six years after the disastrous raid. " That would be 1999 as I count it.
Wen Ho Lee -- major mishandling and screw-up. An agent admits to giving false testimony.
Timothy McVeigh -- withholding/losing of over 3,000 documents. Pure stupid.
Special Agent Robert Hanssen & Agent Earl Pitts -- Arrested for espionage, though Hanssen started before Freeh's term, he continued for 15 years. Not Freeh's fault, but general FBI mess up.
Richard Jewel -- Oops. Wrong guy. He DIDN'T bomb the Atlanta Olympics. So Sorry.
More fun as documented by CBS News -- "Spurred by allegations from Frederic Whitehurst, an FBI lab chemist, Justice Inspector General Michael Bromwich investigated the facility for 18 months.
He subsequently blasted the FBI facility for flawed scientific work and inaccurate, pro-prosecution testimony in major cases, including the Oklahoma City bombing."
When he came in, Freeh made a decision to cut the number of experienced agents who are examiners by half, despite the objections of the then director John Hicks. Things went rapidly downhill from there -- culminating in the investigation noted above.
That was supposed to be a separate list -- not necessarily associated. I wasn't trying to imply the Clinton administration was responsible for Ruby Ridge -- that was the FBI mishandling.
The FBI need cleaning before Clinton got into office -- it just got worse. Not necessarily his fault, as it took a lot to clean it out.
My original post (lost by Slashdot) had the preface (8-10 years), which would have been correct in referring to Ruby Ridge. I was sloppy in retyping it.
Ordered not to use incendary devices. Said they didn't use any incendary devices. Video tape showed they did. Video tape disappeared -- FBI claimed it was accidentally destroyed.
Years later, after Congress Supoenea the tape (told it was gone) and others asked for it -- it showed up. Oops.
It wasn't the basic action against the Branch Davidians, it was lying about how it was handled, etc. for YEARS.
Most American schools *require* two years of a foreign language to graduate from High School. Many Colleges and Universities require a further 2 years to obtain a degree.
However, if you look, probably 70% of those taking a second language in the U.S. take Spanish; about 25% take French leaving 5% to take something else -- in High School, anyway.
Depends on your hardware. Firewire support has been improved/stabilized in successive kernels; there have been filesystem fixes to Reiser and Ext3 (both of which I use).
As far as preemptive: you see it when running something like an MP3 player; DVD/CD/Video player or anything else that is very timing sensitive. Try doing a big compile or massive file copy with XMMS running in the backgroung -- skips, stutters and glitches. The preemptive patch addresses this a lot.
"Covad said it has learned from the past and will not expand until it can afford it. Currently, its service area is focused on the top 50 metropolitan areas in the United States.
By the end of this year, 40 of Covad's 50 operating areas will be profitable. The entire company is expected to be cash-flow positive by the second half of 2003."
Amazing that a "new economy" company is now focusing on earning and profit instead of growth. Who'd a thunk it.
The site says these are "Toys to Avoid" and says nothing about "Dangerous Toys". The PRIVATE ORGANIZTION'S agenda is to stop promoting violence to children, and this list is in line with that aim.
Decriminalize the publication of information. Throwing someone in jail because they talk about an encryption system or they reverse engineer a protocol, is stupid.
Criminals, by definition, will not obey they law. Criminalizing research and information sharing hinders only the legitimate researchers and security professionals.
If a product/services is secure, it has nothing to fear from scrutiny.
Re:It doesn't look like much but...
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Write out the equation, then. It has been a long time since Physics 101, but...
An object moving forward would have the force of (mass * acceleration) in a vacuum and (mass * acceleration * coefficient of friction) in an atmosphere.
Eventually, COF will stop the object but the time is directly proportional to the MASS and the ACCELERATION of the objects. (Thus, "lighter" objects stop quicker; so do "slower" objects.)
If mass cancels out, what am I missing? A "brake" is nothing more than a big friction inducer, simply bumping the COF part of the equation. Mass is STILL involved.
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Friction? No.
When a skiier waxes down his skis to REDUCE FRICTION, it has nothing to do with the mass of the skis.
Friction has very little to do with mass and can be changed regardless to mass by changing the coefficient of friction.
Depends on the government and why they imprison others. The Taleban or China are not on the same moral playing field as, for example, Canada when it comes to whom to imprison for what. This is one reason there are revolutions.
In essence, Stallman & Kuhn are saying "you do not have the right to tell others what to do with your software". However, by making that statement themselves, they are asserting that very right for themselves. Do as I say, not as I do.
These statements are no better than Microsoft's leverage with the OEMs forcing them to not change the boot loaders; not included non-MS software and other non-competitive measures.
All other things being equal, GPL software should win out over proprietary licenses on cost and ease of administration (license tracking, etc.) alone. We only need a level playing field -- not one tipped one way or the other by Microsoft OR the FSF.
No nightmares, just at age 11 they don't have the background to properly deal with the bj, yet. And in the middle of a movie, I don't want to get into long, involved explanations. Violence is a *much* simpler subject than sex.
They've been watching fantastic violence forever -- Sleeping Beauty, Jurassic Park, etc. They *know* what special effects are and that it's fake. They sometime play-act violent movies, and know how to not injure someone. They know the difference.
I don't want them playacting a sex scene. Sorry.
There is a big difference between obviously fantastic violence/special effects, like in Blade, as opposed to Scarface; the Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag; etc.
Nah, the rest is cool. I have no problems with FANTASTIC violence, like Vampires, etc. It is the super realistic, could-happen-to-you-tomorrow that bothers me and gives my kids nightmares.
Because it might be one 10-second scene out of a 2 hour movie that I don't want my kids to see just yet. (Age 11, Movie: Blade, Scene: Opening where the guy who keeps losing his hand as getting a blow job at the rave -- everything else is cool).
Because you won't know that is in there until you see it the first time -- which means I can set a file for the DVDs I own that allows the kids to watch certain R-rated DVDs (like Highlander) but not others, like John Carpenter's Vampires, or clip parts of others.
Yup, here in Orange City, FL they didn't have the LOTR trailer but did have a long Harry Potter one, Star Wars II, Disney's Snow Dogs and a cartoon short. "For The Birds" by far and away got the most laughs and actually generated applause from the whole audience when it was done.
My kids (11, 11, 13) now more than ever want to see Harry Potter. They want to see Star Wars, just because it is Star Wars.
Okay, was it just me, or did that SW short remind anyone of 2001: A Space Oddessy where Kubrick had a scene for like 20 minutes where the only sound was breathing?
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With the recent/upcoming releases of:
XFree 4.2.0
KDE 3.0
Gnome 2.0
glibc 2.2.5 (claimed compatible with GCC3)
GCC 3.0.x
2.4.x Kernel du jour
I sense upcoming releases of next-rev-level distros.
Now if it can only all be made to play nice together.
According to this link, Australia is moving in the opposite direction. No, it isn't about mod chips -- it is about the legality of region encoding DVDs. This would have interesting implications as legislators were talking about "zoned" DVD players being illegal. I don't know how it turned out.
Just FYI: Nexabit was purchased by Lucent. Their technology is being incorporated in Lucent's new TMX-880 MPLS switch.
Lucent already has several Wavestar 400G/800G units deployed (400 Gbit/800 Gbit) as well as a few Lambda Routers (all optical) capable of 1.6 Tb routing.
In the field, running. Their Optical Network Group training facility is in Orlando, FL and I have gotten to play with some of these units. Very nice.
There was a Max Headroom episode similar to this. I can still hear the one lawyer whining to the video-judge "But you haven't even evaluated my floppy disk!"
They were -- the Register was simply associating delay with death, going by the rapid development cycle of Intel-based hardware.
By the time they get around to releasing, there will be new chipsets, new peripherals, etc. all not supported.
-Charles
Get a grip. The SunBlade 100 used EIDE drives; standard PCI cards and industry standard DIMMs.
If you bought extra hardware straight from Sun at outrageous prices, then you were stupid.
P.S. -- It has networking built in.
The cover-up of FBI actions at Wac o were during Lousis Freeh's term. "Another notable mishap involving the bungled handling of evidence in a high-profile case was the FBI's failure to disclose audio tape recordings made during the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, until more than six years after the disastrous raid. " That would be 1999 as I count it.
Wen Ho Lee -- major mishandling and screw-up. An agent admits to giving false testimony.
Timothy McVeigh -- withholding/losing of over 3,000 documents. Pure stupid.
Special Agent Robert Hanssen & Agent Earl Pitts -- Arrested for espionage, though Hanssen started before Freeh's term, he continued for 15 years. Not Freeh's fault, but general FBI mess up.
Richard Jewel -- Oops. Wrong guy. He DIDN'T bomb the Atlanta Olympics. So Sorry.
More fun as documented by CBS News -- "Spurred by allegations from Frederic Whitehurst, an FBI lab chemist, Justice Inspector General Michael Bromwich investigated the facility for 18 months.
He subsequently blasted the FBI facility for flawed scientific work and inaccurate, pro-prosecution testimony in major cases, including the Oklahoma City bombing."
When he came in, Freeh made a decision to cut the number of experienced agents who are examiners by half, despite the objections of the then director John Hicks. Things went rapidly downhill from there -- culminating in the investigation noted above.
That was supposed to be a separate list -- not necessarily associated. I wasn't trying to imply the Clinton administration was responsible for Ruby Ridge -- that was the FBI mishandling.
The FBI need cleaning before Clinton got into office -- it just got worse. Not necessarily his fault, as it took a lot to clean it out.
My original post (lost by Slashdot) had the preface (8-10 years), which would have been correct in referring to Ruby Ridge. I was sloppy in retyping it.
Sorry, I'm not a Republican.
Ordered not to use incendary devices. Said they didn't use any incendary devices. Video tape showed they did. Video tape disappeared -- FBI claimed it was accidentally destroyed.
Years later, after Congress Supoenea the tape (told it was gone) and others asked for it -- it showed up. Oops.
It wasn't the basic action against the Branch Davidians, it was lying about how it was handled, etc. for YEARS.
Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Janet Reno, FBI @ Waco, Ruby Ridge, etc.
The gov't has demonstrated not only a willingness, but an eagerness to lie on all fronts over anything that might be potentially embarrasing.
Why stop now?
Spin spin spin. It looks like the gov't is backpedaling fast and putting on spin in hopes it will all go away.
"Cooperate" probably means he agreed to take their phone calls.
Some junior D.A. probably wanted to make a career on a "big, bad, Russian hacker" and found out real life isn't like a Hollywood movie.
Most American schools *require* two years of a foreign language to graduate from High School. Many Colleges and Universities require a further 2 years to obtain a degree.
However, if you look, probably 70% of those taking a second language in the U.S. take Spanish; about 25% take French leaving 5% to take something else -- in High School, anyway.
Depends on your hardware. Firewire support has been improved/stabilized in successive kernels; there have been filesystem fixes to Reiser and Ext3 (both of which I use).
As far as preemptive: you see it when running something like an MP3 player; DVD/CD/Video player or anything else that is very timing sensitive. Try doing a big compile or massive file copy with XMMS running in the backgroung -- skips, stutters and glitches. The preemptive patch addresses this a lot.
"Covad said it has learned from the past and will not expand until it can afford it. Currently, its service area is focused on the top 50 metropolitan areas in the United States.
By the end of this year, 40 of Covad's 50 operating areas will be profitable. The entire company is expected to be cash-flow positive by the second half of 2003."
Amazing that a "new economy" company is now focusing on earning and profit instead of growth. Who'd a thunk it.
The site says these are "Toys to Avoid" and says nothing about "Dangerous Toys". The PRIVATE ORGANIZTION'S agenda is to stop promoting violence to children, and this list is in line with that aim.
I didn't see "Most Dangerous Toys" anywhere.
This story sucks.
Decriminalize the publication of information. Throwing someone in jail because they talk about an encryption system or they reverse engineer a protocol, is stupid.
Criminals, by definition, will not obey they law. Criminalizing research and information sharing hinders only the legitimate researchers and security professionals.
If a product/services is secure, it has nothing to fear from scrutiny.
Write out the equation, then. It has been a long time since Physics 101, but...
An object moving forward would have the force of (mass * acceleration) in a vacuum and (mass * acceleration * coefficient of friction) in an atmosphere.
Eventually, COF will stop the object but the time is directly proportional to the MASS and the ACCELERATION of the objects. (Thus, "lighter" objects stop quicker; so do "slower" objects.)
If mass cancels out, what am I missing? A "brake" is nothing more than a big friction inducer, simply bumping the COF part of the equation. Mass is STILL involved.
Friction? No.
When a skiier waxes down his skis to REDUCE FRICTION, it has nothing to do with the mass of the skis.
Friction has very little to do with mass and can be changed regardless to mass by changing the coefficient of friction.
Depends on the government and why they imprison others. The Taleban or China are not on the same moral playing field as, for example, Canada when it comes to whom to imprison for what. This is one reason there are revolutions.
In essence, Stallman & Kuhn are saying "you do not have the right to tell others what to do with your software". However, by making that statement themselves, they are asserting that very right for themselves. Do as I say, not as I do.
These statements are no better than Microsoft's leverage with the OEMs forcing them to not change the boot loaders; not included non-MS software and other non-competitive measures.
All other things being equal, GPL software should win out over proprietary licenses on cost and ease of administration (license tracking, etc.) alone. We only need a level playing field -- not one tipped one way or the other by Microsoft OR the FSF.
No nightmares, just at age 11 they don't have the background to properly deal with the bj, yet. And in the middle of a movie, I don't want to get into long, involved explanations. Violence is a *much* simpler subject than sex.
They've been watching fantastic violence forever -- Sleeping Beauty, Jurassic Park, etc. They *know* what special effects are and that it's fake. They sometime play-act violent movies, and know how to not injure someone. They know the difference.
I don't want them playacting a sex scene. Sorry.
There is a big difference between obviously fantastic violence/special effects, like in Blade, as opposed to Scarface; the Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag; etc.
Nah, the rest is cool. I have no problems with FANTASTIC violence, like Vampires, etc. It is the super realistic, could-happen-to-you-tomorrow that bothers me and gives my kids nightmares.
Parents of younger kids.
Because it might be one 10-second scene out of a 2 hour movie that I don't want my kids to see just yet. (Age 11, Movie: Blade, Scene: Opening where the guy who keeps losing his hand as getting a blow job at the rave -- everything else is cool).
Because you won't know that is in there until you see it the first time -- which means I can set a file for the DVDs I own that allows the kids to watch certain R-rated DVDs (like Highlander) but not others, like John Carpenter's Vampires, or clip parts of others.
Yup, here in Orange City, FL they didn't have the LOTR trailer but did have a long Harry Potter one, Star Wars II, Disney's Snow Dogs and a cartoon short. "For The Birds" by far and away got the most laughs and actually generated applause from the whole audience when it was done.
My kids (11, 11, 13) now more than ever want to see Harry Potter. They want to see Star Wars, just because it is Star Wars.
Okay, was it just me, or did that SW short remind anyone of 2001: A Space Oddessy where Kubrick had a scene for like 20 minutes where the only sound was breathing?
Damn, but I wanted to see the LOTR trailer.