My knowledge of cryptography is limited to the entry level college course of which I remember quite little, and my knowledge of physics is as limited as it can be. To me this story is rather sensational -- I didn't realize that quantum crypto is that close to actually being used; it also seems to me that wide use of quantum crypto is going to revolutionalize the field. Can someone who knows a lot about this explain to the rest of us: is this "WOW!!!" or just "neat!"?
It does. Stupid questions of the type "have you stopped drinking whiskey in the morning?". I got really aggravated after answering 5 questions. I have a "code library" (whatever they mean by that) which I wrote in my spare time. It is released under GPL. I'm the copyright holder. I can assign any other license to that code. Therefore I can embed parts of this library in any proprietary code I write for my employer. I also reuse other people's code released under BSD, MPL etc. This is all legal, but the survey doesn't know about this stuff.
What? C is not dead because it now supports what? Most people I know have never heard about that "il" things you are mentioning. I assume this is related to.NET... ah, whatever, another moronic article on Slashdot.
Heh, that's interesting. It was common knowledge in Soviet Union that you guys kicked our butt with the first man on the moon. I'm not sure that it was mentioned in the school though.
Anyway, lunohod was great. I think some people in Russia still call police cars "lunohod": soviet police on patrol liked to move slowly in silence with their lights off.
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This analysis is not completely off the mark, I suspect, but it doesn't mean that the regular guys there who use/develop Linux do not know about the lawsuit. Hence it is possible that the virus indeed originated from Russia.
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do not follow the SCO lawsuite? Fuck, I'm pissed of more than usualy about Slashdot editors. If you were to read www.linux.org.ru you would notice that the site follows the suite pretty closely, sometimes more so than Slashdot.
I can't stand it when Dan posts stories about FreeBSD with links to his bsdforums site. This is so useless. The link should go to the mailing list archive or a web site with the advisory, not to the discussion of it on your site. Dan, please don't do it! Please! It looks really bad.
what? can you elaborate on that please? When people say "sharing files" they mean "sharing an mp3 file with Britney Spears song without her permission". The file itself doesn't belong to anyone. It's just the media. It's legal to sell copies of blank CDs (if you find customers) but is it legal to sell (or give out for that matter) CDs with copies of Windows XP? Either you are just nitpicking pretending that "sharing files" doesn't mean what it does, or I don't understand your argument.
I'm sorry, but this is bullshit. I don't like copyright. I don't like RIAA. I don't like people who sue 12 year olds. I don't like the way they treat people. I think both we (customers) and artists will be better off when music industry as we know it is gone. That was a disclaimer.
Now I find the attitude of most people to this question completely fucked up. Like this article for example. Sharing files is illegal. They have every right to prosecute. We need to change system so that it will be legal: direct music distribution from artist to customer, micropayments, whatever (if I knew the right way I would be a fucking billionare by now). Saying that RIAA can't sue people who steal (yes, yes) from it just because it uses the information about stealing is bullshit. You know, there is this statistic published -- the most stolen vehicle in the US. Does this make stealing cars legal?
U2 albums, Spielberg movies, Nicole (Kidman?) movies... I think someone is in trouble!
As for the idea of database file systems -- I don't think we need this yes. Both file systems and database research should concentrate on distributed/mobile aspect (even Coda, AFS and friends are not yet widely accepted/ready for prime time).
So far I only know that this guy doesn't have a very good bandwidth as his server went down within 60 comments on the story. It would be nice if story authors would throw in at least a one-liner explaining why should I care that some guy thinks internet is going to die.
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Havn't you people heard of subliminal messages? 25th frame and all that stuff?
Of course I can speak only for myself, but when I saw this virus appear my first though was "ok, maybe I should enlarge it after all..."
I think it doesn't get any more obvious than that. I'm sure we'll see can.you.hear.me.now.F and got.milk.win32.F in the near future.
The 5 branch has real kernel threads (kse). Some version of jdk (I beleive it is 1.4.x) was build and successfully run on 5-CURRENT using the new threads library which uses kse. When JDK gets released for 5-CURRENT it will probably be using the real kernel threads. It's also worth mentioning that even though the 4-STABLE threads are "fake" userland threads, in my experience they have been more reliable and scalable that the heavy weight LinuxThreads based on light weight processes (I just love that combination).
From what you are quoting native threads are supported in both 4-STABLE and 5.1. FreeBSD later than 4.7-STABLE includes 4.8-RELEASE and all of the STABLE branch after February 2003. I think you are also wrong about the plugin. I beleive that plugin *only* supports native threading, so if it works at all, it must be using native threads.
Charles river (the river that MIT stands on) is always covered by a film of oil which is approximately one inch thick. You don't have to be a freaking rocket scientist to build a robot which walks on *that*.
I can thikn of at least two responses which can get +5 funny:
If palestinians are against MPAA I'm ready to take up arms in defense of this good old organization which works hard to provide entertainment to the ungreatful american youth.
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And again our palestinian brothers are the only ones who can stand up to the jewish agression against everything that is sacred to us. Damn jews own... etc, you get the idea.
We've just bought the $350 version of ES and I spent half of the day today on the phone with the support. So they are either confused, or the cheapest enterprise version does come with decent business hours phone support. It's basic support though: I could only speak with a guy who is in sys admin support, but when it had to be escalated to a developer/kernel hacker I couldn't talk to him directly. That would cost extra. So far the problem is not solved, but I'm relatively satisfied with them. Of course I'm comparing it to the Compaq support: my favorite story is when after spending 30 minutes discussing my problem with a representative he said that he can't help me and he has no one to escalate this to, but I can send an email to support@compaq.com. And that was not your regular customer support, mind you.
Even full size harddrives have gotten much less reliable lately. I assume this is because the data density keeps growing. I would rather buy a hard drive which is slightly bigger (I guess it would have to be more platters because making the radius bigger will make seek times longer?) but will last for more than 2 years.
I don't know why did you mention chroots and DMZ. They have said at least twice today that it was compromised by a local user. Let me repeat that: local user. Not through the ftp server. And no, they can not "snoop an ftp server's line" to get passwords, because it is an anonymous ftp server. Anonymous ftp servers do not use passwords. That's why they are not a problem.
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My knowledge of cryptography is limited to the entry level college course of which I remember quite little, and my knowledge of physics is as limited as it can be.
To me this story is rather sensational -- I didn't realize that quantum crypto is that close to actually being used; it also seems to me that wide use of quantum crypto is going to revolutionalize the field.
Can someone who knows a lot about this explain to the rest of us: is this "WOW!!!" or just "neat!"?
It does. Stupid questions of the type "have you stopped drinking whiskey in the morning?". I got really aggravated after answering 5 questions.
I have a "code library" (whatever they mean by that) which I wrote in my spare time. It is released under GPL. I'm the copyright holder. I can assign any other license to that code. Therefore I can embed parts of this library in any proprietary code I write for my employer.
I also reuse other people's code released under BSD, MPL etc. This is all legal, but the survey doesn't know about this stuff.
What? C is not dead because it now supports what? Most people I know have never heard about that "il" things you are mentioning. I assume this is related to .NET... ah, whatever, another moronic article on Slashdot.
I think this has nothing to do with OS emulators.
It's more like FreeBSD jail.
Heh, that's interesting. It was common knowledge in Soviet Union that you guys kicked our butt with the first man on the moon. I'm not sure that it was mentioned in the school though.
Anyway, lunohod was great. I think some people in Russia still call police cars "lunohod": soviet police on patrol liked to move slowly in silence with their lights off.
This analysis is not completely off the mark, I suspect, but it doesn't mean that the regular guys there who use/develop Linux do not know about the lawsuit. Hence it is possible that the virus indeed originated from Russia.
do not follow the SCO lawsuite?
Fuck, I'm pissed of more than usualy about Slashdot editors.
If you were to read www.linux.org.ru you would notice that the site follows the suite pretty closely, sometimes more so than Slashdot.
I know one place where bonuses start at $1,500 and one place where they go at least as hight as $7000.
It's the Deathstar! Good thing it is down!
I can't stand it when Dan posts stories about FreeBSD with links to his bsdforums site. This is so useless. The link should go to the mailing list archive or a web site with the advisory, not to the discussion of it on your site.
Dan, please don't do it! Please! It looks really bad.
what? can you elaborate on that please? When people say "sharing files" they mean "sharing an mp3 file with Britney Spears song without her permission". The file itself doesn't belong to anyone. It's just the media. It's legal to sell copies of blank CDs (if you find customers) but is it legal to sell (or give out for that matter) CDs with copies of Windows XP? Either you are just nitpicking pretending that "sharing files" doesn't mean what it does, or I don't understand your argument.
I'm sorry, but this is bullshit.
I don't like copyright. I don't like RIAA. I don't like people who sue 12 year olds. I don't like the way they treat people. I think both we (customers) and artists will be better off when music industry as we know it is gone.
That was a disclaimer.
Now I find the attitude of most people to this question completely fucked up. Like this article for example. Sharing files is illegal. They have every right to prosecute. We need to change system so that it will be legal: direct music distribution from artist to customer, micropayments, whatever (if I knew the right way I would be a fucking billionare by now). Saying that RIAA can't sue people who steal (yes, yes) from it just because it uses the information about stealing is bullshit. You know, there is this statistic published -- the most stolen vehicle in the US. Does this make stealing cars legal?
U2 albums, Spielberg movies, Nicole (Kidman?) movies... I think someone is in trouble!
/mobile aspect (even Coda, AFS and friends are not yet widely accepted/ready for prime time).
As for the idea of database file systems -- I don't think we need this yes. Both file systems and database research should concentrate on distributed
So far I only know that this guy doesn't have a very good bandwidth as his server went down within 60 comments on the story. It would be nice if story authors would throw in at least a one-liner explaining why should I care that some guy thinks internet is going to die.
Havn't you people heard of subliminal messages? 25th frame and all that stuff?
Of course I can speak only for myself, but when I saw this virus appear my first though was "ok, maybe I should enlarge it after all..."
I think it doesn't get any more obvious than that. I'm sure we'll see can.you.hear.me.now.F and got.milk.win32.F in the near future.
The 5 branch has real kernel threads (kse). Some version of jdk (I beleive it is 1.4.x) was build and successfully run on 5-CURRENT using the new threads library which uses kse. When JDK gets released for 5-CURRENT it will probably be using the real kernel threads.
It's also worth mentioning that even though the 4-STABLE threads are "fake" userland threads, in my experience they have been more reliable and scalable that the heavy weight LinuxThreads based on light weight processes (I just love that combination).
From what you are quoting native threads are supported in both 4-STABLE and 5.1. FreeBSD later than 4.7-STABLE includes 4.8-RELEASE and all of the STABLE branch after February 2003.
I think you are also wrong about the plugin. I beleive that plugin *only* supports native threading, so if it works at all, it must be using native threads.
Charles river (the river that MIT stands on) is always covered by a film of oil which is approximately one inch thick. You don't have to be a freaking rocket scientist to build a robot which walks on *that*.
You didn't really have to point that out. No, really.
yes, yes, yes
Where do I sign the petition?
I can thikn of at least two responses which can get +5 funny:
If palestinians are against MPAA I'm ready to take up arms in defense of this good old organization which works hard to provide entertainment to the ungreatful american youth.
OR
And again our palestinian brothers are the only ones who can stand up to the jewish agression against everything that is sacred to us. Damn jews own... etc, you get the idea.
Do I get +10 funny?
But of course, I already have multiple on-line identities. No I don't. Yes I do.
Shut up, don't tell them...
We've just bought the $350 version of ES and I spent half of the day today on the phone with the support. So they are either confused, or the cheapest enterprise version does come with decent business hours phone support. It's basic support though: I could only speak with a guy who is in sys admin support, but when it had to be escalated to a developer/kernel hacker I couldn't talk to him directly. That would cost extra. So far the problem is not solved, but I'm relatively satisfied with them.
Of course I'm comparing it to the Compaq support: my favorite story is when after spending 30 minutes discussing my problem with a representative he said that he can't help me and he has no one to escalate this to, but I can send an email to support@compaq.com. And that was not your regular customer support, mind you.
Even full size harddrives have gotten much less reliable lately. I assume this is because the data density keeps growing. I would rather buy a hard drive which is slightly bigger (I guess it would have to be more platters because making the radius bigger will make seek times longer?) but will last for more than 2 years.
I don't know why did you mention chroots and DMZ.
They have said at least twice today that it was compromised by a local user. Let me repeat that: local user. Not through the ftp server. And no, they can not "snoop an ftp server's line" to get passwords, because it is an anonymous ftp server. Anonymous ftp servers do not use passwords. That's why they are not a problem.
Connected to ftp.gnu.org.
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530 This FTP server is anonymous only.
Login failed.