The article lacks substance, specifically what did they tune to arrive at those results they claim. None of that basic information is included in the report.
On one of the foldout diagrams that comes with the HomePlug hardware, it makes the following claim: "By offering 56-bit DES encryption, HomePlug is also much more secure than other home networking technologies such as wireless ethernet." Yeah, right.
I'll take a good quote from the article: "If we could run Photoshop or any of the commercial Apps this would be worth something, but to run X Window apps many people already offer their apps in a native format so this thing would be as useless as a snow shovel in Arizona."
The government will have a hard time getting a conviction if the documents in question were previously available on any publicly accessible (read: google) website.
Its about freedom of speech. Source code is speech. I think they should take it to the next level, get this DMCA law exposed for the fraud that it is. Its a blatent restriction on everyones freedom of speech and expression.
I see a future where there are flying insect nanobots that attack and inject Vx nerve agents based on genetic odor patterns. It sounds very racist to me.
One serious problem I see with all modern C implementations and C in general is the lack of a robust next generation standard C library. The big reason languages like Perl and PHP became popular in the first place was their ease of implementation of common routine tasks. Things like regular expression pattern matching (a good extended regex split(), a good extended regex replace, things that dont exist anywhere in C), good hashing, etc. Things that perl excels at but C just lacks. No one cared enough to update the core standard reference. In my opinion its long due for an update. I love C because its compiled and you dont have to pass around the source code for everything you write, super fast and very portable. I just wish it had a good standard C library. The standard C reference library was written like 30 years ago and has not been updated since. Its just a damn shame that everyone out there is forced to re-invent the wheel with C every time they want to do the most simplest of tasks, because C doesnt have any good standard C library.
Um...in case you haven't notice, freedom of speech is in the United States Constitution, not the world constitution.
<sarcasm> Don't worry, now with the republican majority, democartic minority, i'm sure a two thirds vote will be achieved to rewrite the bill of rights to remove that offensive rule.</sarcasm>
Through this NY Times article, one could only hope that it would open some poeple's eyes enough to see the problems with copyright law in this country and have a positive effect on Eldred v. Ashcroft.
Let me first say that I don't think Snail Mail should ever be abolished. If USPS had a policy of granting an email address of some kind to anyone who could show proper state identification, as well as PGP public/private keys, and then when someone sends you email, it would be signed via the USPS, authenticated in that manner, the major impact I see is a dramatic reduction in spam. Current SMTP protocols would have be modified to support this feature. One could bounce all incoming mail that was not signed via the USPS address.
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It seems like if you pay for lobbyists you better had made campaign contributions first!!! How fucked up is that?
The article lacks substance, specifically what did they tune to arrive at those results they claim. None of that basic information is included in the report.
The Xilinx Spartan II FPGA board alone costs $450 bux. For that price, you can just buy a full blown computer.
On one of the foldout diagrams that comes with the HomePlug hardware, it makes the following claim: "By offering 56-bit DES encryption, HomePlug is also much more secure than other home networking technologies such as wireless ethernet." Yeah, right.
I'll take a good quote from the article: "If we could run Photoshop or any of the commercial Apps this would be worth something, but to run X Window apps many people already offer their apps in a native format so this thing would be as useless as a snow shovel in Arizona."
The government will have a hard time getting a conviction if the documents in question were previously available on any publicly accessible (read: google) website.
Am I the only one who noticed the 20-50% file size increase of ICC versus GCC compiled programs?
Its about freedom of speech. Source code is speech. I think they should take it to the next level, get this DMCA law exposed for the fraud that it is. Its a blatent restriction on everyones freedom of speech and expression.
I see a future where there are flying insect nanobots that attack and inject Vx nerve agents based on genetic odor patterns. It sounds very racist to me.
One serious problem I see with all modern C implementations and C in general is the lack of a robust next generation standard C library. The big reason languages like Perl and PHP became popular in the first place was their ease of implementation of common routine tasks. Things like regular expression pattern matching (a good extended regex split(), a good extended regex replace, things that dont exist anywhere in C), good hashing, etc. Things that perl excels at but C just lacks. No one cared enough to update the core standard reference. In my opinion its long due for an update. I love C because its compiled and you dont have to pass around the source code for everything you write, super fast and very portable. I just wish it had a good standard C library. The standard C reference library was written like 30 years ago and has not been updated since. Its just a damn shame that everyone out there is forced to re-invent the wheel with C every time they want to do the most simplest of tasks, because C doesnt have any good standard C library.
<sarcasm> Don't worry, now with the republican majority, democartic minority, i'm sure a two thirds vote will be achieved to rewrite the bill of rights to remove that offensive rule.</sarcasm>
Here is the location of the Linksys BEFSR41 firmware upgrade utility v1.43 released Sept 4, 2002. Its the newest one I could find.
Through this NY Times article, one could only hope that it would open some poeple's eyes enough to see the problems with copyright law in this country and have a positive effect on Eldred v. Ashcroft.
Let me first say that I don't think Snail Mail should ever be abolished. If USPS had a policy of granting an email address of some kind to anyone who could show proper state identification, as well as PGP public/private keys, and then when someone sends you email, it would be signed via the USPS, authenticated in that manner, the major impact I see is a dramatic reduction in spam. Current SMTP protocols would have be modified to support this feature. One could bounce all incoming mail that was not signed via the USPS address.
using compression (ssh -C) will increase entropy in traffic analysis attacks against ssh.