Not true. I bought my PC in parts from the store and I still use Windows. Not everyone will "move away from windows" even if windows doesn't come with their PC.
Besides suppose Dell sold PCs without windows [which would be stupid], the end user would just run off to future shop and pick up a copy anyways.
Believe it or not, the 99% of end users in america are not OSS zealots and they just want an OS that can install easily, supports more hardware, is easier to setup [new hardware], has more software written for it and of course is the center of alot of attention.
This "monopoly" that MS holds is very ficticious. I bought my PC in parts and as a result I could have easily installed BSD on it.
Netscape doesn't sell it's product because Microsoft's illegal dumping of the Internet Explorer product onto the market flooded the market with a cheap alternative and changed the rules so that to succeed, competitors had to rely on a business model that included giving their product away. They failed. Netscape is dead; AOL bought them. The only commercial browser left is Opera, who subsists on the scraps of the market.
Suppose a OSS GPL'ed browser was super popular 5 years ago? Then Netscape *still* couldn't make money off it since people would use the free alternative.
To put things in other perspective. How much money is MS loosing to GCC or media players like Winamp?
It swings both ways!
I think what pisses trolls like you is that its MS that took advantage of it [e.g. you're stupid to not have thought of it].
Stop being a sore loser and just try to be a more positive influence!
You yankees love to linger court crap. Look at OJ and now Yeates [sp?]
Just give it up. Either develop multi-platform tools or choose an OS.
You know there is nothing wrong with developing Windows based tools believe it or not. If you hate the quality of MS tools so much either use a diff OS or find/develop your own.
While I agree that DMCA and what have not are bad laws you must realize you still have fair use!
First, If you want to capture a scene off a DVD or CD capture it in analogue form using 20 yr old technology! [ignoring the DVD player...]
Second, The lack of players for linux is not a free-use issue. The various groups own patents on the DVD codecs [e.g. MPEG-2]. So implementing your own copy could be a violation of patent law as much as it is a violation of the DMCA [for breaking DeCSS]. Anyways, who likes Linux anyways? I can easily find about 3 diff players for windows in my CD case alone...
Naturally these laws should be fought and abolished. In the meantime try to learn to live within the bounds of the "law".
With the recent reports of toxic computer waste I'd think that them good 'ol senators would use their time to legislate computer disposal acts or something instead of trying to force us into some fairy land of computer bliss.
" it's nice to see intel is not on the same page "
You misused the saying.
"... not on the same page."
Means someone doesn't know whats going on, e.g. they are not uptodate.
Intel is quite up to date and they just don't agree with the idiocy of Valenti. Recall Valenti supposedly [I don't know first hand] that VHS would crumble the movie industry.... I think nobody should listen to anything he says since obviously he has nobodies best interests in mind.
Its about as illegal to operate an ISP in the light of P2P sharing as it is to operate a highway in the light of drug dealers trying to get away from cops.
1. RSA's security comes from the inability to find the e'th root modulo a composite. Its *conjectured* to be as secure as factoring is hard but thats not what the security comes from. The security comes from the inability to find the decryption function from the encryption function.
2. Current factoring algorithms take via the GNFS
e^(1.923 * (ln(n)^1/3 * ln(ln(n))^2/3))
Time not n^3 time as you suggest.
Finally, the new result appears to just be a more efficient implementation of the GNFS, its not a new algorithm.
Given all that the new results certainly are worth taking a look at.
Posts like this make me think that/. should post your IP in the message as well.
Why did you post that anyways? I mean are you happier now? Is your life more complete? Did you just have the 10s to waste posting it? What could be going through your mind?
I mean if you don't like their comment just ignore why bother posting nonsense like this?
On my website I use a system where each page sent appends 50 new random yet spider-plausiable email addresses. The idea is that a spider will read these and waste time trying to spam them. If everyone on the net used a similar scheme you could easily cut spam down since people would waste so much time trying to spam non-existent computers.
The code is available [in perl] off my website. Basically each page on my site is processed through a perl system I wrote a while back. It allows me to make easy dynamic pages [i.e stats or otherwise realtime content...]
I never said I know more than them. I was trying to point out how "form-fitted" they are. e.g. teaching what they were tought without questioning a single thing.
Apple, of course, wants to sell computers. Yet their ad touches an ideal that runs very deep in our history. For the technology that they (and of course others) sell could enable this generation to do with our culture what generations have done from the very beginning of human society: to take what is our culture; to "rip" it--meaning to copy it; to "mix" it--meaning to re-form it however the user wants; and finally, and most important, to "burn" it--to publish it in a way that others can see and hear.
What this guy is defending is that everyone should have the right to "backup" their music and re-master it as they see fit.
Thats a good idea.
What the article completely misses is that that is not what people do with ripped audio. Of course groups like the RIAA shouldn't [and for the most they don't] crack down on ripping software. Its the P2P stuff they should kill and for several good reasons
1. P2P takes up a huge amount of bandwidth, specially at schools where people might actually try todo research or otherwise need bandwidth for positive goals
2. P2P sharing is illegal for the most part since what people "share" is copyrighted material.
3. P2P clients are often buggy and wreck computers or install Gator clients! evil!
Its one thing to be allowed to rip audio [which you are] and its quite another to be prohibited from "sharing" it [which you are].
Its so much of a "waste". I mean just having experienced it is nice, but I wish my instructors wouldn't get so excited about every dazzly little thing.
Specially in the programming languages classes.
My C teacher is fond of "gets" and when I told him its a risk to use [e.g. buffer problems] he told me nobody would overflow a buffer on purpose and its not a problem he wants to address.
Try sitting in a "web design" college class. Where the motto is "if it loads in under a day its incomplete".
For example, in one lab we had to use CSS stuff. Which is all good [of course I've completely forgotten how todo them now since I never use em]... anyways. I did a rather plain webpage that did use CSS styles and anyways the teacher said I didn't work "hard enough" on it.
Most people in my class think that "flash animations" are stndard HTML elements and no site is complete without them.
Oh more on point, WTF, what's up with the stupid movie? When is it comming out?
Use a point system. For each unique IP that hits you they have a score. Starting at 0 [neutral] which can be reset every L seconds [say every day] then when you get abuse reduce the score and when you get good packets increase the score.
Then you can setup some form of payment scheme based on the scheme. Like if an IP has a score of -5 they must do the equivalent of 5 seconds of work [say find a 24-bit hash collision given a challenge from the server] before the email is even processed. That way if a server keeps abusing your server they will not get much through quickly. You can even perform one sided signatures to verify they didn't make up the challenges.
For example,
your server has a random key [fixed] say 128-bits call it K
When I want to send a message you send me a timestamp T, a challenge string R and the result of V = hash(T || R || K) where || means concatenation.
I then have to find a k-bit collision for hash(T || R) which I send back with V, T and R. The server can then verify that the packet is legit since it can check that hash(T || R || K) == V [these are the values sent back except K which only the server knows]. The server can then check that the collision is valid.
Some basic rules for scoring [e.g. demerits]
1. Sent from any type of relay 2. Sender matches a known abuser [i.e ORBS list or something] 3. reply-to does not point to the address of the sender [e.g. fake reply address] or otherwise invalid return path. 4. message matches some known heuristics [e.g. virus, worm, spam] 5. Sender has tried to open a port L times in the past N seconds.
[etc]
That won't stop people from openning a zillion connections but it will stop spam from reaching the end consumer as quickly [not entirely] as before.
This is also less user oriented. This system is intended to punish the ISP not the end users. So an ISP which has low ratings will have to clean up their act on their own [e.g. its in their own interest].
You're thinking "so you want my server todo work?" here's the beauty of the scheme though. If you have a >= 0 rating then the other server will not make you do any work. So as long as your system is clean there is no pain.
So I should shut my mailserver off because YOU get too much spam, I think not.
No, my point is that email should be point to point.
For instance, I have a yahoo.com account. When you send me an email it should go from whatever server you use directly to the yahoo.com mail server. That way if you spam me I can tell right away where it came from since yahoo.com will register it.
Actually if you did a 3 second history lesson the territory they were given was part of Canada [and still is]. So Canada didn't lose any space.
As for being more "habitable" I wouldn't be so certain. Places like long island and vermont sure are nice but the places were people actually live [and not the stunt doubles for deliverance] like NY and CA are fairly crowed. NY has 18 million people in a state about the size as Ontario [which has only ~7 or ~8 million IIRC].
Actually "mr. smartass", warpdrive doesn't work by travelling very fast. The concept is that you warp space around you to travel a short distance which just happens to be a shortcut through warped space (hence the name).
Its impossible with current physics to go faster than the speed of light. However, its not impossible to find shortcuts. So instead of travelling the 10^17 km [or whatever it is] to pluto you'd be traveling say 10^14 km at 30,000km/h or something. From a standstill that would look like you are 1000*30,000 = 30,000,000 km/h
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Not true. I bought my PC in parts from the store and I still use Windows. Not everyone will "move away from windows" even if windows doesn't come with their PC.
Besides suppose Dell sold PCs without windows [which would be stupid], the end user would just run off to future shop and pick up a copy anyways.
Believe it or not, the 99% of end users in america are not OSS zealots and they just want an OS that can install easily, supports more hardware, is easier to setup [new hardware], has more software written for it and of course is the center of alot of attention.
This "monopoly" that MS holds is very ficticious. I bought my PC in parts and as a result I could have easily installed BSD on it.
Tom
Netscape doesn't sell it's product because Microsoft's illegal dumping of the Internet Explorer product onto the market flooded the market with a cheap alternative and changed the rules so that to succeed, competitors had to rely on a business model that included giving their product away. They failed. Netscape is dead; AOL bought them. The only commercial browser left is Opera, who subsists on the scraps of the market.
Suppose a OSS GPL'ed browser was super popular 5 years ago? Then Netscape *still* couldn't make money off it since people would use the free alternative.
To put things in other perspective. How much money is MS loosing to GCC or media players like Winamp?
It swings both ways!
I think what pisses trolls like you is that its MS that took advantage of it [e.g. you're stupid to not have thought of it].
Stop being a sore loser and just try to be a more positive influence!
Tom
Quite frankly at this point, who cares?
You yankees love to linger court crap. Look at OJ and now Yeates [sp?]
Just give it up. Either develop multi-platform tools or choose an OS.
You know there is nothing wrong with developing Windows based tools believe it or not. If you hate the quality of MS tools so much either use a diff OS or find/develop your own.
Tom
While I agree that DMCA and what have not are bad laws you must realize you still have fair use!
First, If you want to capture a scene off a DVD or CD capture it in analogue form using 20 yr old technology! [ignoring the DVD player...]
Second, The lack of players for linux is not a free-use issue. The various groups own patents on the DVD codecs [e.g. MPEG-2]. So implementing your own copy could be a violation of patent law as much as it is a violation of the DMCA [for breaking DeCSS]. Anyways, who likes Linux anyways? I can easily find about 3 diff players for windows in my CD case alone...
Naturally these laws should be fought and abolished. In the meantime try to learn to live within the bounds of the "law".
Tom
With the recent reports of toxic computer waste I'd think that them good 'ol senators would use their time to legislate computer disposal acts or something instead of trying to force us into some fairy land of computer bliss.
Tom
How is scientific screening any different then just being picky about who you mate with?
I think we put too much hype on something that we have been doing for years already.
I mean how often do you want to actively mate with homely and sick people?
Tom
nobody's => nobody is
body, bodies
nobody, nobodies
Actually nobodies is slang, it should be "no one". Or better yet I should have rephrased the whole thing.
The point though is take a break! who gives a load about small grammatical errors. I was correcting a statement of fact not grammar or spelling.
Tom
" it's nice to see intel is not on the same page "
You misused the saying.
"... not on the same page."
Means someone doesn't know whats going on, e.g. they are not uptodate.
Intel is quite up to date and they just don't agree with the idiocy of Valenti. Recall Valenti supposedly [I don't know first hand] that VHS would crumble the movie industry.... I think nobody should listen to anything he says since obviously he has nobodies best interests in mind.
Tom
Time to break out the analogy warfare
Its about as illegal to operate an ISP in the light of P2P sharing as it is to operate a highway in the light of drug dealers trying to get away from cops.
Tom
This is wrong on several levels.
1. RSA's security comes from the inability to find the e'th root modulo a composite. Its *conjectured* to be as secure as factoring is hard but thats not what the security comes from. The security comes from the inability to find the decryption function from the encryption function.
2. Current factoring algorithms take via the GNFS
e^(1.923 * (ln(n)^1/3 * ln(ln(n))^2/3))
Time not n^3 time as you suggest.
Finally, the new result appears to just be a more efficient implementation of the GNFS, its not a new algorithm.
Given all that the new results certainly are worth taking a look at.
Tom
Posts like this make me think that /. should post your IP in the message as well.
Why did you post that anyways? I mean are you happier now? Is your life more complete? Did you just have the 10s to waste posting it? What could be going through your mind?
I mean if you don't like their comment just ignore why bother posting nonsense like this?
Alot of improvement can be made using just MP3 technology today.
Transmit 22khz mono audio and 64kbits/sec is more than enough.
Spider food!
food!
Tom
food!
On my website I use a system where each page sent appends 50 new random yet spider-plausiable email addresses. The idea is that a spider will read these and waste time trying to spam them. If everyone on the net used a similar scheme you could easily cut spam down since people would waste so much time trying to spam non-existent computers.
The code is available [in perl] off my website. Basically each page on my site is processed through a perl system I wrote a while back. It allows me to make easy dynamic pages [i.e stats or otherwise realtime content...]
Tom
I never said I know more than them. I was trying to point out how "form-fitted" they are. e.g. teaching what they were tought without questioning a single thing.
Rip, mix, burn.
After all, it's your music.
Apple, of course, wants to sell computers. Yet their ad touches an ideal that runs very deep in our history. For the technology that they (and of course others) sell could enable this generation to do with our culture what generations have done from the very beginning of human society: to take what is our culture; to "rip" it--meaning to copy it; to "mix" it--meaning to re-form it however the user wants; and finally, and most important, to "burn" it--to publish it in a way that others can see and hear.
What this guy is defending is that everyone should have the right to "backup" their music and re-master it as they see fit.
Thats a good idea.
What the article completely misses is that that is not what people do with ripped audio. Of course groups like the RIAA shouldn't [and for the most they don't] crack down on ripping software. Its the P2P stuff they should kill and for several good reasons
1. P2P takes up a huge amount of bandwidth, specially at schools where people might actually try todo research or otherwise need bandwidth for positive goals
2. P2P sharing is illegal for the most part since what people "share" is copyrighted material.
3. P2P clients are often buggy and wreck computers or install Gator clients! evil!
Its one thing to be allowed to rip audio [which you are] and its quite another to be prohibited from "sharing" it [which you are].
Tom
Its so much of a "waste". I mean just having experienced it is nice, but I wish my instructors wouldn't get so excited about every dazzly little thing.
Specially in the programming languages classes.
My C teacher is fond of "gets" and when I told him its a risk to use [e.g. buffer problems] he told me nobody would overflow a buffer on purpose and its not a problem he wants to address.
Thats when I snicker and "go with the flow".
Tom
Its part of the course I'm in.
Funny, at first in real math "matrices" are hard to grasp :-)
Wierd...
Tom
Try sitting in a "web design" college class. Where the motto is "if it loads in under a day its incomplete".
For example, in one lab we had to use CSS stuff. Which is all good [of course I've completely forgotten how todo them now since I never use em]... anyways. I did a rather plain webpage that did use CSS styles and anyways the teacher said I didn't work "hard enough" on it.
Most people in my class think that "flash animations" are stndard HTML elements and no site is complete without them.
Oh more on point, WTF, what's up with the stupid movie? When is it comming out?
Tom
Use a point system. For each unique IP that hits you they have a score. Starting at 0 [neutral] which can be reset every L seconds [say every day] then when you get abuse reduce the score and when you get good packets increase the score.
Then you can setup some form of payment scheme based on the scheme. Like if an IP has a score of -5 they must do the equivalent of 5 seconds of work [say find a 24-bit hash collision given a challenge from the server] before the email is even processed. That way if a server keeps abusing your server they will not get much through quickly. You can even perform one sided signatures to verify they didn't make up the challenges.
For example,
your server has a random key [fixed] say 128-bits call it K
When I want to send a message you send me a timestamp T, a challenge string R and the result of V = hash(T || R || K) where || means concatenation.
I then have to find a k-bit collision for hash(T || R) which I send back with V, T and R. The server can then verify that the packet is legit since it can check that hash(T || R || K) == V [these are the values sent back except K which only the server knows]. The server can then check that the collision is valid.
Some basic rules for scoring [e.g. demerits]
1. Sent from any type of relay
2. Sender matches a known abuser [i.e ORBS list or something]
3. reply-to does not point to the address of the sender [e.g. fake reply address] or otherwise invalid return path.
4. message matches some known heuristics [e.g. virus, worm, spam]
5. Sender has tried to open a port L times in the past N seconds.
[etc]
That won't stop people from openning a zillion connections but it will stop spam from reaching the end consumer as quickly [not entirely] as before.
This is also less user oriented. This system is intended to punish the ISP not the end users. So an ISP which has low ratings will have to clean up their act on their own [e.g. its in their own interest].
You're thinking "so you want my server todo work?" here's the beauty of the scheme though. If you have a >= 0 rating then the other server will not make you do any work. So as long as your system is clean there is no pain.
Tom
So I should shut my mailserver off because YOU get too much spam, I think not.
No, my point is that email should be point to point.
For instance, I have a yahoo.com account. When you send me an email it should go from whatever server you use directly to the yahoo.com mail server. That way if you spam me I can tell right away where it came from since yahoo.com will register it.
Tom
Steps in curing email spam
1. Close all open relays. That way the route of email is from your ISP to their ISP. [well at least as far as SMTP is concerned]
2. Use a HashCash like system.
3. Actively deny connection from IPs that try to connect more than N times in L seconds.
Duh...
Actually if you did a 3 second history lesson the territory they were given was part of Canada [and still is]. So Canada didn't lose any space.
As for being more "habitable" I wouldn't be so certain. Places like long island and vermont sure are nice but the places were people actually live [and not the stunt doubles for deliverance] like NY and CA are fairly crowed. NY has 18 million people in a state about the size as Ontario [which has only ~7 or ~8 million IIRC].
Tom
Actually "mr. smartass", warpdrive doesn't work by travelling very fast. The concept is that you warp space around you to travel a short distance which just happens to be a shortcut through warped space (hence the name).
Its impossible with current physics to go faster than the speed of light. However, its not impossible to find shortcuts. So instead of travelling the 10^17 km [or whatever it is] to pluto you'd be traveling say 10^14 km at 30,000km/h or something. From a standstill that would look like you are 1000*30,000 = 30,000,000 km/h
etc..
Tom