Why is this such a big deal? I've been doing wireless in my car since 1998, with AT&T and a Uniden wireless modem. 19.2 connection speed, but it beats no connectivity at all.
Doesn't matter - people were doing checksum hashes of login/password/data stuff and passing them in URLs since the early days of the net. It's pretty obvious how to do it (even Escapade does it in our web-to-email demo - and we've been doing it for almost three years) - and it's time that courts put a stop to companies trying to cash in on commonly-used technologies. First it was domain-squatting, now it's patenting the obvious.
Not anymore - this is a blueprint for anyone wanting to play spy. Jesus.. if what's in this document is true, this guy Hanssen is a real prince. He knew exactly what he was doing, and exactly what effect it would have - that people would probably die because of what he was doing, and he didn't give a shit. What a royal asshole.
We avoid the whole issue by only distributing binaries that are statically linked. It makes for bigger binaries, but I'd rather have a bigger binary, rather than one that won't run.
Don't forget to hit Cody's in Berkeley (hmmm, is it still there?) - and it's a blast to walk down Telegraph, it's like you're transported back in time 35 years...
I've been a consultant for about 12 years, and I've seen consultants regularly screw over clients by (among other things) advise the client to take a course of action that is not necessarily in the best interests of the client, but the consultant, justifying it by saying "it's just our opinion". Bah. I've never screwed over a client, and I really get tired of listening to those who come into a client site with an agenda, either personal or technical. "XXX operating system is the greatest things since sliced bread, and you've got to install it on every machine you own!" Obvious nonsense.
Cool, but why the hell didn't they do this in 2.0, instead of screwing yet again with sysadmins around the world? First it was ipmasq, then ipchains, now it's iptables. Yet another thing for sysadmins to learn... again. Why can't they do it right the first time, or at least make it compatible?
Obsolete my ass! I've got a 386 SX/25 Leading Edge laptop that is running quite happily on 0.97, thankyouverymuch! Amazing what you can do in 4 MB of RAM and 60 MB of HD space...:)
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Especially since I've never used anything beyond addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division since I'd left college. All that calculus I took was a waste.
Then again, I'm not working on the space shuttle, either....YMMV.
Hey, Bruce? There have been SSB handhelds around since at least the late 1980's. I distinctly remember a couple of 6- and 2-meter SSB handhelds put out by various manufacturers - and they *were* handhelds, about the size of a dual bander today.
Nonsense. MySQL can handle tables with millios of rows of data. No transactions doesn't mean it's not a database any more than saying that a woman who's had a mastectomy isn't a real female.
So is MySQL, and it's a LOT faster. MySQL isn't PD, but it doesn't have to be. Oh, and don't bother referring me to those trumped-up "benchmarks" that were done by the PostgreSQL folks, they're obviously bogus.
Oh, give me a break. RedHat no more started the open source revolution, any more than Al Gore invented the Internet.
Contrary to ESR's huge ego (which matches his mouth), he did NOTHING to start the open source revolution compared to GNU. If anyone has sole claim to that particular title, it's RMS - Linux and all the BSD variants would be nothing if it weren't for GNU.
Whilt this post raises very legitimate points...
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...the technologically literate continue to prove the point by posting irrelevent nonsense in response, such as discussions about the origins of the word "narky" and such. Reminds me of a bunch of six-year-olds pompously fighting over the outcome of a sandlot game while the bulldozers sit, unnoticed, waiting to tear up the sandlot to build a shopping mall. Rather than marshal their energies to fight the dozers, they'd rather try to bully and impress each other as to the outcome of the game, which in any event will shortly become irrelevent and useless.
We do something like this in one of our demo applications (web mail) that shows off Escapade (www.escapade.org). The file name is irrelevent (and the user never even sees it). The characteristics of the file are important, and are saved away in a database. Time/date, who it's from, the subject, ow big it is, etc. are in a database so you can search and sort however you want, without having to know or even care about the "file name". Maybe this is the destiny of databases, to let us organize and arrange files without regards to meaningless and irrelevent information such as what the name of the file is or where it is - the database keeps track of all that. It's not important to us - what *is* important is the information that *describes* the file.
At least he figured it out - there's plenty of suits who seem to think that we all are just dying to get our mitts on their Latest Widget Of The Hour That Does What All The Other Widgets Do, Too.
I'll be happy to deliver one to you - just buy my plane ticket from Dallas.:)
This is *such* a damned cool hack! And who cares if it's got 32 MB of RAM? You lamers think that all Linux will do is run X? X is for wimps. I can run in console mode with 4 MB of RAM on a 486-DX4/100 and blow the doors off X.
For 2 cents I'd go down tomorrow morning and file a Federal suit against Valenti and all the other idiots who scream about property theft when they KNOW better. They are fully aware that what DeCSS does is to allow players to work on other than Windows systems, but are using libel to try and turn public opinion against us.
I, for one, am sick and tired of the LIES by the MPAA and others, and I think it's high time to stop them - in court, if need be. Mike Godwin, where are you now that I need you?
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Why is Kurt getting so much press for (re)stating the obvious?
Why is this such a big deal? I've been doing wireless in my car since 1998, with AT&T and a Uniden wireless modem. 19.2 connection speed, but it beats no connectivity at all.
How interesting. If you ask me "where can I buy some crack?" and I refer you to the crack dealer down the street, have I committed a crime?
Bezos claims they will, in the fifth quarter of this year.
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Doesn't matter - people were doing checksum hashes of login/password/data stuff and passing them in URLs since the early days of the net. It's pretty obvious how to do it (even Escapade does it in our web-to-email demo - and we've been doing it for almost three years) - and it's time that courts put a stop to companies trying to cash in on commonly-used technologies. First it was domain-squatting, now it's patenting the obvious.
Not anymore - this is a blueprint for anyone wanting to play spy. Jesus .. if what's in this document is true, this guy Hanssen is a real prince. He knew exactly what he was doing, and exactly what effect it would have - that people would probably die because of what he was doing, and he didn't give a shit. What a royal asshole.
We avoid the whole issue by only distributing binaries that are statically linked. It makes for bigger binaries, but I'd rather have a bigger binary, rather than one that won't run.
Don't forget to hit Cody's in Berkeley (hmmm, is it still there?) - and it's a blast to walk down Telegraph, it's like you're transported back in time 35 years...
I've been a consultant for about 12 years, and I've seen consultants regularly screw over clients by (among other things) advise the client to take a course of action that is not necessarily in the best interests of the client, but the consultant, justifying it by saying "it's just our opinion". Bah. I've never screwed over a client, and I really get tired of listening to those who come into a client site with an agenda, either personal or technical. "XXX operating system is the greatest things since sliced bread, and you've got to install it on every machine you own!" Obvious nonsense.
I guess so - this position is 180 degrees from where he used to be, back when he was useful to the community writing code...
Cool, but why the hell didn't they do this in 2.0, instead of screwing yet again with sysadmins around the world? First it was ipmasq, then ipchains, now it's iptables. Yet another thing for sysadmins to learn ... again. Why can't they do it right the first time, or at least make it compatible?
Obsolete my ass! I've got a 386 SX/25 Leading Edge laptop that is running quite happily on 0.97, thankyouverymuch! Amazing what you can do in 4 MB of RAM and 60 MB of HD space... :)
Especially since I've never used anything beyond addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division since I'd left college. All that calculus I took was a waste.
Then again, I'm not working on the space shuttle, either....YMMV.
Hey, Bruce? There have been SSB handhelds around since at least the late 1980's. I distinctly remember a couple of 6- and 2-meter SSB handhelds put out by various manufacturers - and they *were* handhelds, about the size of a dual bander today.
Nonsense. MySQL can handle tables with millios of rows of data. No transactions doesn't mean it's not a database any more than saying that a woman who's had a mastectomy isn't a real female.
So is MySQL, and it's a LOT faster. MySQL isn't PD, but it doesn't have to be. Oh, and don't bother referring me to those trumped-up "benchmarks" that were done by the PostgreSQL folks, they're obviously bogus.
Saying the DMCA is OK because it's the law is like saying it's OK to kill Jews in Nazi Germany because it was the law.
Oh, give me a break. RedHat no more started the open source revolution, any more than Al Gore invented the Internet.
Contrary to ESR's huge ego (which matches his mouth), he did NOTHING to start the open source revolution compared to GNU. If anyone has sole claim to that particular title, it's RMS - Linux and all the BSD variants would be nothing if it weren't for GNU.
...the technologically literate continue to prove the point by posting irrelevent nonsense in response, such as discussions about the origins of the word "narky" and such. Reminds me of a bunch of six-year-olds pompously fighting over the outcome of a sandlot game while the bulldozers sit, unnoticed, waiting to tear up the sandlot to build a shopping mall. Rather than marshal their energies to fight the dozers, they'd rather try to bully and impress each other as to the outcome of the game, which in any event will shortly become irrelevent and useless.
We do something like this in one of our demo applications (web mail) that shows off Escapade (www.escapade.org). The file name is irrelevent (and the user never even sees it). The characteristics of the file are important, and are saved away in a database. Time/date, who it's from, the subject, ow big it is, etc. are in a database so you can search and sort however you want, without having to know or even care about the "file name". Maybe this is the destiny of databases, to let us organize and arrange files without regards to meaningless and irrelevent information such as what the name of the file is or where it is - the database keeps track of all that. It's not important to us - what *is* important is the information that *describes* the file.
Uh, I thought it was Shiva, not Kali.
At least he figured it out - there's plenty of suits who seem to think that we all are just dying to get our mitts on their Latest Widget Of The Hour That Does What All The Other Widgets Do, Too.
Secure Computing is working on a C2+ secure version of Linux for the NSA, which, I've been told, will be released to the public.
I'll be happy to deliver one to you - just buy my plane ticket from Dallas. :)
This is *such* a damned cool hack! And who cares if it's got 32 MB of RAM? You lamers think that all Linux will do is run X? X is for wimps. I can run in console mode with 4 MB of RAM on a 486-DX4/100 and blow the doors off X.
For 2 cents I'd go down tomorrow morning and file a Federal suit against Valenti and all the other idiots who scream about property theft when they KNOW better. They are fully aware that what DeCSS does is to allow players to work on other than Windows systems, but are using libel to try and turn public opinion against us.
I, for one, am sick and tired of the LIES by the MPAA and others, and I think it's high time to stop them - in court, if need be. Mike Godwin, where are you now that I need you?