Introducing this "terse line noise" form just increases the barrier to entry.
True, but it doesn't mean it isn't worth it. To use Perl and Python, Emacs and VI effectively, you need to know regular expressions. They are usually terse line noise but it's a powerful tool once you've learnt it.
I poked around on their site looking for a CP/CPS (Certificate Policy and Certification Practices Statement) but didn't find one.
So why should I trust them? How is the root key protected? How is it backed up? How is the CA audited? Who audits it? What are auditor's qualifications? Which information is logged? How long are the logs kept? Under which legal framework do they run the CA, under Australian?
To evaluate the trust I need something structured according to RFC2527 (or RFC3647). (There is so much information they have to provide that it has to be structured or relying parties cannot find the bits they need).
People often forget that there is a lot more to running a CA than issuing certificates. Anyone can run a simple CA with OpenSSL, but such a CA is nothing without a trustworthy CP/CPS. And an audit trail that ensures they stick to their CPS.
I haven't read the article yet (can't get through), but I usually take Chaitin's claims cum grano salis (with a grain of salt, for the rest of you), for, among other things, the following reason:
IANACS, but I get the impression for example that he has sometimes "forgotten" other people's work: if you look at prefix Kolmogorov (algorithmic) complexity, in Chaitin's books he usually describes it as his "brilliant insight" (paraphrased), whereas a quick look in Li and Vitanyi's "Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and it's applications" attributes it to Levin, Gacs, and Chaitin, based on work by Solomonoff.
Oh, and he may be a very smart bloke, but he ain't no popstar in maths -- in CS maybe?
They may have a slow release cycle but it doesn't really matter when the latest ``unstable'' version is pretty stable anyway. I have a machine at work whose Debian I upgrade regularly, and it works really well. There was a time before the first potato test cycle where I had to fix some package installation scripts manually, or sometimes I would just put it on hold and try again a week later and then it would work just fine...! (The Debian package management system is completely excellent! Great work, peoples!)
Therefore to talk about "Animal Rights" is to ascribe rights to animals that society has not yet given them.
If you remember your history lessons, not that many years ago black people also didn't have rights. Their owners could
...do with [them] as we please, simply because we are the most powerful creature
My point is that even if your society tells you that you are the most powerful being, possibly along with other similarly powerful beings, that doesn't in itself give you the right to do to weaker creatures as you please.
So while you are waiting for society to give rights to animals, to children, to women, to people with different coloured skin, to sick people, to old people, etc., maybe you should consider what you can do to improve their lot rather than just saying `Well, society says it's OK and everybody else does it.'
Lynx is great with slashdot! (Or is slashdot great with lynx?) One of the things that I love most is that I can just press E to edit a link, thus making it easy to adjust the threshold or listing mode without having to load the page first. This works particularly nicely with threshold, because it is the last part of the link. Consider how I'd do that with Netscape; it's a lengthy procedure.
The institutions that have the general authority in the media, government, and education [...] have made their claim.
Here's another word that has somehow been perverted to have a different meaning than the original. It is amazing that the music, software, and motion picture industry have managed to persuade people to use the word `piracy' for unauthorised copying. Or maybe it is just depressing; few industries have more money and clout than these, so when they dictate a new use of the word, journalists are only too happy to use it.
Personally, I think it is great to play with language, but when you change words to make `copying' (whether authorised or not) some kind of Crimethink in the media, and hence in the minds of the general public, then it's too much.
Witness the "Money Programme" on BBC2 last Sunday (7th May), that unquestioned presented the music industry's claim that `piracy is ruining the music industry'!
Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences by N.J. Sloane and S. Plouffe, USD$57. It is actually neat; I found it in a (university) library once. There is a fine line between "combinatorics" and "recreational mathematics" sometimes, and that's good. The book will certainly have a large number of sequences that you'll find interesting if you have any interest in mathematics whatsoever. Other sequences are horribly technical. It's a very useful book and not as boring as some of the previous posters think.
Another useful trick with lynx is that I can just press `E' and edit my current URL. This is actually incredibly useful, not least for reading slashdot: I can easily read one article with a different threshold simply by editing the threshold= part of the link, instead of actually loading the article, change my threshold and reloading it. I can do the same in Netscape but it is a lengthy procedure that requires switching between keyboard and mouse a lot. This is just one of those tiny things that makes me a lynx-fan.
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Here's how I fix it in the console. I have something like this in my ~/.bash_profile:
if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ]; then if[ -e ~/.keys]; then loadkeys ~/.keys &>/dev/null; fi fi
loadkeys is terribly chatty, so I prefer to redirect any output. And the ~/.keys file:
keymaps 0-15 keycode 58 = Control
The caps lock key seems to be 58; works on PCs but YMMV; otherwise use the dumpkeys program to find the right keycode.
(The above formatting looks sort of weird in lynx; hope you can read it...;-)
...Zork II? Great game, but the baseball-puzzle was a total bitch. Hey, I'm European and I don't have a clue about baseball (nor any other sports, for that matter, but in that sense I am atypical;-)
I think rde means that they make the plants resistant to RoundUp which Monsanto also solls. Then farmers can go out and happily spray more RoundUp on their fields.
Of course, weeds will eventually become resistant to RoundUp, too. Not to mention the many other harmful effects that an increased pesticide use can / will have on the environment.
I also like the bit where about Linux being "similar in functionality" to Microsoft Windows. Hehehe. He must have been using either for about 2.18 microseconds...
I also like ``Just Read the Instructions,'' ``Not Invented Here,'' or how about ``The Anticipation of a New Lover's Arrival''?
One could view ST (disclaimer: I was never able to see any other series than TNG and some early DS9) as the ideal future for Mankind. It's nice but somehow I'd prefer the Culture. Oh, and the Culture does *not* have a prime directive!
The USA is apparently one of the most religious western societies; some 44 % of the population go to church every week. The USA, taken as a whole, is also violent, compared with Western Europe, for example. Sweden, on the other hand, is one of the least religious; some 4 % go to church every week. Sweden is also one of the least violent societies.
Of course this proves *nothing*, I am not saying that religious societes are inherently violent; nor that it is the religious people who are violent. But it indicates that "your" congressman is wrong when he thinks posting the ten commandments in schools could have prevented the Columbine shootings.
Someone should analyse the problem properly; scientists, not politicians.
I was really sorry to read that Stevens had died (and nauseated by most of this whole sorry thread). APUE is a true classic: informative and with lots of illustrative examples, including some non-trivial ones, and above all, *fun* to read! I read the whole book not to solve some problem but simply because I enjoyed it.
Now I seem to have heard/read a rumour somewhere that a third volume to Unix Network Programming (2nd ed) was planned -- and his homepage only mentions volumes one and two. Is this true, and if yes, does anybody know the status of the third volume?
Tiny correction. The date is 1/1/1970 (is it the beginning of the era or the epoch? I forget.) Anyway, on 1/1/2000 I'll be celebrating Unix' 30th birthday (why everybody knows Unix was born on the first second of the 1st January 1970:-)
You know, most of the images released for the public have been coloured with false colours to enhance the image. Like the horsehead nebula for example, or the red spot on Jupiter, which, IIRC, is not really red but rather brownish. I use lynx today so I didn't bother downloading the images; I don't know what they look like in this article.
As "kabloie" said, the French have reversed their position on strong crypto by allowing 128 bit keys, IIRC thanks to Lionel Jospin (although I am not sure whether the law has actually been passed yet).
This means that on the latest crypto-list, the French have progressed from "YELLOW/RED" (1998) to "GREEN/YELLOW" (1999). (Warning: Page is 272 Kb)
Note also all the other European countries who have gone from "GREEN" to "GREEN/YELLOW" by supporting the Wassenaar agreement.
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True, but it doesn't mean it isn't worth it. To use Perl and Python, Emacs and VI effectively, you need to know regular expressions. They are usually terse line noise but it's a powerful tool once you've learnt it.
I poked around on their site looking for a CP/CPS (Certificate Policy and Certification Practices Statement) but didn't find one.
So why should I trust them? How is the root key protected? How is it backed up? How is the CA audited? Who audits it? What are auditor's qualifications? Which information is logged? How long are the logs kept? Under which legal framework do they run the CA, under Australian?
To evaluate the trust I need something structured according to RFC2527 (or RFC3647). (There is so much information they have to provide that it has to be structured or relying parties cannot find the bits they need).
People often forget that there is a lot more to running a CA than issuing certificates. Anyone can run a simple CA with OpenSSL, but such a CA is nothing without a trustworthy CP/CPS. And an audit trail that ensures they stick to their CPS.
I haven't read the article yet (can't get through), but I usually take Chaitin's claims cum grano salis (with a grain of salt, for the rest of you), for, among other things, the following reason:
IANACS, but I get the impression for example that he has sometimes "forgotten" other people's work: if you look at prefix Kolmogorov (algorithmic) complexity, in Chaitin's books he usually describes it as his "brilliant insight" (paraphrased), whereas a quick look in Li and Vitanyi's "Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and it's applications" attributes it to Levin, Gacs, and Chaitin, based on work by Solomonoff.
Oh, and he may be a very smart bloke, but he ain't no popstar in maths -- in CS maybe?
They may have a slow release cycle but it doesn't really matter when the latest ``unstable'' version is pretty stable anyway. I have a machine at work whose Debian I upgrade regularly, and it works really well. There was a time before the first potato test cycle where I had to fix some package installation scripts manually, or sometimes I would just put it on hold and try again a week later and then it would work just fine...! (The Debian package management system is completely excellent! Great work, peoples!)
If you remember your history lessons, not that many years ago black people also didn't have rights. Their owners could
My point is that even if your society tells you that you are the most powerful being, possibly along with other similarly powerful beings, that doesn't in itself give you the right to do to weaker creatures as you please.
So while you are waiting for society to give rights to animals, to children, to women, to people with different coloured skin, to sick people, to old people, etc., maybe you should consider what you can do to improve their lot rather than just saying `Well, society says it's OK and everybody else does it.'
Lynx is great with slashdot! (Or is slashdot great with lynx?) One of the things that I love most is that I can just press E to edit a link, thus making it easy to adjust the threshold or listing mode without having to load the page first. This works particularly nicely with threshold, because it is the last part of the link. Consider how I'd do that with Netscape; it's a lengthy procedure.
Here's another word that has somehow been perverted to have a different meaning than the original. It is amazing that the music, software, and motion picture industry have managed to persuade people to use the word `piracy' for unauthorised copying. Or maybe it is just depressing; few industries have more money and clout than these, so when they dictate a new use of the word, journalists are only too happy to use it.
Personally, I think it is great to play with language, but when you change words to make `copying' (whether authorised or not) some kind of Crimethink in the media, and hence in the minds of the general public, then it's too much.
Witness the "Money Programme" on BBC2 last Sunday (7th May), that unquestioned presented the music industry's claim that `piracy is ruining the music industry'!
..is plenty of time! Hey, Monty Python could recapitulate Proust's "A la recherche du temps perdu" in 15 seconds! (Well, almost)
Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences by N.J. Sloane and S. Plouffe, USD$57. It is actually neat; I found it in a (university) library once. There is a fine line between "combinatorics" and "recreational mathematics" sometimes, and that's good. The book will certainly have a large number of sequences that you'll find interesting if you have any interest in mathematics whatsoever. Other sequences are horribly technical. It's a very useful book and not as boring as some of the previous posters think.
Another useful trick with lynx is that I can just press `E' and edit my current URL. This is actually incredibly useful, not least for reading slashdot: I can easily read one article with a different threshold simply by editing the threshold= part of the link, instead of actually loading the article, change my threshold and reloading it. I can do the same in Netscape but it is a lengthy procedure that requires switching between keyboard and mouse a lot.
This is just one of those tiny things that makes me a lynx-fan.
if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ]; then
if[ -e ~/.keys]; then loadkeys ~/.keys &>/dev/null; fi
fi
loadkeys is terribly chatty, so I prefer to redirect any output. And the ~/.keys file:
keymaps 0-15
keycode 58 = Control
The caps lock key seems to be 58; works on PCs but YMMV; otherwise use the dumpkeys program to find the right keycode.
(The above formatting looks sort of weird in lynx; hope you can read it... ;-)
...Zork II? Great game, but the baseball-puzzle was a total bitch. Hey, I'm European and I don't have a clue about baseball (nor any other sports, for that matter, but in that sense I am atypical ;-)
I think rde means that they make the plants resistant to RoundUp which Monsanto also solls. Then farmers can go out and happily spray more RoundUp on their fields.
Of course, weeds will eventually become resistant to RoundUp, too. Not to mention the many other harmful effects that an increased pesticide use can / will have on the environment.
I also like the bit where about Linux being "similar in functionality" to Microsoft Windows. Hehehe. He must have been using either for about 2.18 microseconds...
No, he was Danish. See This quick biography, for example.
Incidentally, my sig is also paraphrased from and a tribute to Knuth...
ENIAC on a chip (linked from ESR's Retrocomputing museum).
When in X, I have also found TkMan and TkInfo to be very very nice.
I also like ``Just Read the Instructions,'' ``Not Invented Here,'' or how about ``The Anticipation of a New Lover's Arrival''?
One could view ST (disclaimer: I was never able to see any other series than TNG and some early DS9) as the ideal future for Mankind. It's nice but somehow I'd prefer the Culture. Oh, and the Culture does *not* have a prime directive!
The USA is apparently one of the most religious western societies; some 44 % of the population go to church every week. The USA, taken as a whole, is also violent, compared with Western Europe, for example. Sweden, on the other hand, is one of the least religious; some 4 % go to church every week. Sweden is also one of the least violent societies.
Of course this proves *nothing*, I am not saying that religious societes are inherently violent; nor that it is the religious people who are violent. But it indicates that "your" congressman is wrong when he thinks posting the ten commandments in schools could have prevented the Columbine shootings.
Someone should analyse the problem properly; scientists, not politicians.
I was really sorry to read that Stevens had died (and nauseated by most of this whole sorry thread). APUE is a true classic: informative and with lots of illustrative examples, including some non-trivial ones, and above all, *fun* to read! I read the whole book not to solve some problem but simply because I enjoyed it.
Now I seem to have heard/read a rumour somewhere that a third volume to Unix Network Programming (2nd ed) was planned -- and his homepage only mentions volumes one and two. Is this true, and if yes, does anybody know the status of the third volume?
Tiny correction. The date is 1/1/1970 (is it the beginning of the era or the epoch? I forget.) Anyway, on 1/1/2000 I'll be celebrating Unix' 30th birthday (why everybody knows Unix was born on the first second of the 1st January 1970 :-)
You know, most of the images released for the public have been coloured with false colours to enhance the image. Like the horsehead nebula for example, or the red spot on Jupiter, which, IIRC, is not really red but rather brownish.
I use lynx today so I didn't bother downloading the images; I don't know what they look like in this article.
This means that on the latest crypto-list, the French have progressed from "YELLOW/RED" (1998) to "GREEN/YELLOW" (1999). (Warning: Page is 272 Kb)
Note also all the other European countries who have gone from "GREEN" to "GREEN/YELLOW" by supporting the Wassenaar agreement.
It's at Brookhaven National Labs. So when disaster happens and the Earth is destroyed, we get Steven Adler to do the writeup ;)