Shouldn't widespread adoption of PGP be the best solution?
Your problem there, I think, is that it requires effort and intelligence on the part of everyday users.
Speaking as someone who recently set his mother up with a PC, I can tell you she had trouble remembering to connect to the internet before trying to fetch mail, and was trying to use the BBC News search engine to do everyday searching because I'd "helpfully" set BBC News as her homepage.
There's no way she's going to comprehend PGP - and nor are prolly > 50% of other net users today.
The great thing about SPF (and Caller-ID, I guess) is that they're set up by the mail admin, who should at least have some semblance of clue.
And I still haven't figured out how to make the thing give me a CRLF at the end of each element. No, XML doesn't require the whitespace, but it would have sure made it easier for my clients to read the file!
Tell me about it. My favourite part is when you try to load one of their MSXML-generated files into their Visual C++ 6.0 product and it bitches about lines being greater than 2048 characters long and how it's going to shove random line breaks in the middle of tags.
What is someone puts up a site about paramilitary tactics and then a group of loonies use the website as a guide and storm a school and kill a bunch of people
That made a lot more sense once I stopped reading it as "parliamentary".
I love how some porno site gets blamed for a murderer's action.
I'm not the sort of person to advocate sueing Take-Two Interactive over the GTA shooting thing, but investigation of this guy's PC showed he'd been viewing asphyxia and necro images on the web in the weeks, days and hours preceding his attack.
Coincidence, maybe, but more likely it played a part.
... but the "stop working on ebXML" link seems to suggest that the work was deemed complete, rather than being shitcanned. Also, as the summary says, the BCF stuff is being promoted by both MS and IBM - both of whom are OASIS members.
Yeah, that's a fair point. It is pretty easy to automate all those parameters - moreso than to keep them all in your head, at least.
Perhaps my view's been jaded by the use of some crappy compilers (that don't take account of cache sizes, instruction timings, etc) vs. a specific job that can be written much more efficiently in assembler.
You know, I don't mean to be rude, but that's a really dumb assertion. Who do you think writes the compilers?
You need a decent assembly language programmer, with an in-depth knowledge of the target architecture, to get a competent compiler. Therefore, it's not likely to generate better code than the person who wrote it.
The 68000 was fully 32-bit. It was common to implement it as 16 bit at the time, but was fully 32 bit.
There was nothing less than 32 bit in the 680x0 line. The full line was fully 32 bit from day one. There definately were NOT any 8 bit versions.
No, the parent was correct. The original 68000 had 32-bit registers, a 16-bit external data bus and a 24-bit address bus. The Atari ST ("Sixteen/ Thirty-two") was so named because of this architecture.
The 68020 was the first in the series to have a 32-bit external data bus, and Atari used it in their TT ("Thirty-two/ Thirty-two").
There was indeed a 68008, which had an 8-bit external bus.
As it happens, even that isn't necessary. AIUI, the law allows for spam to be sent to companies and, as an employee of the company, you're not protected (unless you specifically opt-out).
Can someone who's familiar with system administration on those debian boxes clarify the above statement?
Not me, sadly, but when I saw LDAP, I was reminded of the recent Mac OS X vuln. I know the details are different, but reading the linked article led me to think LDAP's not necessarily a good way to manage your priviliged accounts.
I'm surprised you can find that specific information through google. How many people are there with your same name? How about your girlfriend? Are you sure they are the same people?
That's a very good point. If you search for me by name in Google, chances are you're likely to form the opinion that I'm a musician, an associate professor of film studies, a Liberal Democrat councillor and a bunch of other stuff - none of which I am.
Somebody else's name might turn up the "fact" that they're a psycho nazi who's done jail time. Pity that guy when he gets blacklisted by an employer.
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I don't see that this is any better than a PGP/GPG signed email.
In addition to what I just wrote here (which talks about user ability) there are other problems associated with using PGP sigs.
First, you have to receive the entire message before you can validate the sig, rather than being able to block receipt after the "MAIL FROM:" header.
Second, you have to go and fetch the sender's public key from the net somewhere.
Third, you have to validate the signature. That in itself is computationally expensive.
Shouldn't widespread adoption of PGP be the best solution?
Your problem there, I think, is that it requires effort and intelligence on the part of everyday users.
Speaking as someone who recently set his mother up with a PC, I can tell you she had trouble remembering to connect to the internet before trying to fetch mail, and was trying to use the BBC News search engine to do everyday searching because I'd "helpfully" set BBC News as her homepage.
There's no way she's going to comprehend PGP - and nor are prolly > 50% of other net users today.
The great thing about SPF (and Caller-ID, I guess) is that they're set up by the mail admin, who should at least have some semblance of clue.
The SPF guys have them: http://spf.pobox.com/caller-id/
And I still haven't figured out how to make the thing give me a CRLF at the end of each element. No, XML doesn't require the whitespace, but it would have sure made it easier for my clients to read the file!
Tell me about it. My favourite part is when you try to load one of their MSXML-generated files into their Visual C++ 6.0 product and it bitches about lines being greater than 2048 characters long and how it's going to shove random line breaks in the middle of tags.
Thanks, MS!
What is someone puts up a site about paramilitary tactics and then a group of loonies use the website as a guide and storm a school and kill a bunch of people
That made a lot more sense once I stopped reading it as "parliamentary".
I love how some porno site gets blamed for a murderer's action.
I'm not the sort of person to advocate sueing Take-Two Interactive over the GTA shooting thing, but investigation of this guy's PC showed he'd been viewing asphyxia and necro images on the web in the weeks, days and hours preceding his attack.
Coincidence, maybe, but more likely it played a part.
Do they close the several-block-radios for ten days?
Damn, that's a big radio.
... but the "stop working on ebXML" link seems to suggest that the work was deemed complete, rather than being shitcanned. Also, as the summary says, the BCF stuff is being promoted by both MS and IBM - both of whom are OASIS members.
/shrug
Yes, he was probably thinking of Adsense
:-)
Ah, that sounds much more useful
Better yet, set up a Google adwords account beforehand and become a millionaire off the Google-dotting.
Erm. Wouldn't it be more likely to make you bankrupt? AdWords is a site-pays-google-per-click service, rather than the other way around, innit?
Yeah, that's a fair point. It is pretty easy to automate all those parameters - moreso than to keep them all in your head, at least.
Perhaps my view's been jaded by the use of some crappy compilers (that don't take account of cache sizes, instruction timings, etc) vs. a specific job that can be written much more efficiently in assembler.
You know, I don't mean to be rude, but that's a really dumb assertion. Who do you think writes the compilers?
You need a decent assembly language programmer, with an in-depth knowledge of the target architecture, to get a competent compiler. Therefore, it's not likely to generate better code than the person who wrote it.
Hmm. So did a bunch of other folks. Oh, redundant me.
I saw "Ars Technica Reviews Robot Love", seriously.
I hardly got more than 4 hours a night
I can recommend marijuana. This miracle-drug meant I rarely had any trouble sleeping in past midday when at university.
ARM7 is older than ARM9, and lacks a few of its features, the most interesting of which are separate I- and D- caches, and pipelined execution.
ARM9 also clocks higher than ARM7, so you're looking at up to ~300MIPS as opposed to ~130MIPS.
The 68000 was fully 32-bit. It was common to implement it as 16 bit at the time, but was fully 32 bit.
;-)
There was nothing less than 32 bit in the 680x0 line. The full line was fully 32 bit from day one. There definately were NOT any 8 bit versions.
No, the parent was correct. The original 68000 had 32-bit registers, a 16-bit external data bus and a 24-bit address bus. The Atari ST ("Sixteen/ Thirty-two") was so named because of this architecture.
The 68020 was the first in the series to have a 32-bit external data bus, and Atari used it in their TT ("Thirty-two/ Thirty-two").
There was indeed a 68008, which had an 8-bit external bus.
And it's "definitely"
That wouldn't have happened if you'd been running 2.6 ;-)
As it happens, even that isn't necessary. AIUI, the law allows for spam to be sent to companies and, as an employee of the company, you're not protected (unless you specifically opt-out).
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Those were the guys who used to beat up on Clippy?
Can someone who's familiar with system administration on those debian boxes clarify the above statement?
Not me, sadly, but when I saw LDAP, I was reminded of the recent Mac OS X vuln. I know the details are different, but reading the linked article led me to think LDAP's not necessarily a good way to manage your priviliged accounts.
Wouldn't it violate my speech rights if they do even if it is slander?
s/slander/libel/
I'm surprised you can find that specific information through google. How many people are there with your same name? How about your girlfriend? Are you sure they are the same people?
That's a very good point. If you search for me by name in Google, chances are you're likely to form the opinion that I'm a musician, an associate professor of film studies, a Liberal Democrat councillor and a bunch of other stuff - none of which I am.
Somebody else's name might turn up the "fact" that they're a psycho nazi who's done jail time. Pity that guy when he gets blacklisted by an employer.
I wanted something that could give me the sharing of home space that NFS gives, but that would still be there when I unplugged my laptop from the LAN.
Since, in general, I'm not working on my home space independently on different machines anyway, occasional "cvs up"s do the job well enough.
Please stop downloading this material or the RIAA will be contacted. If that doesn't work, then the world will end in with plaques and fire.
Ooh, scary plaques.
Sorry.