It's Schrodinger's cat: you might prove it secure by exhaustively mapping its function over the whole input range and then assessing the proximity of results and the psuedo-randomness of the mapping. The problem with that being that you then know how to recover any original text from a given encrypted result...
Why can't I have a distro that "just works" for 5 years and when I grab an app produced the following year it behaves?
[strike]It's called Debian.[/strike] The age of Dapper Drake is causing the problem. Due to the fast turnover rate of new technology and the inclusion of new programs into the GNU/Linux software ecosystem, there are security updates but no feature upgrades to software archive provided by Canonical for Dapper Drake. Canonical publish Ubuntu, and have a six-month goal for the next released edition of Ubuntu. Each edition has a set version of Firefox (and others), and so your choice to upgrade Firefox would be to update Ubuntu as a whole, or to do the Windows-style thing of downloading a copy from Mozilla.com, which would lose some of the integrated features of Ubuntu's edition of Firefox, such as receiving security fixes via the package updater.
BTW, there's every likelihood that you're also getting a whole raft of system updates with that upgrade for FireFox. Given that it's been 2.5 years since Dapper Drake was released, there would be a lot of bugs and security issues found and fixed in that time. If you haven't run a package manager (Aptitude, Adept, Package Manager and the like), you will be told that there are a large number of updates to be installed. These package managers also resolve dependencies.
I don't know the numbers for Debian's Apt repositories, Red Hat's RPM stores, the Livna or Dag Wieers RPM sites, or Canonical's Launchpad. But I'd guess the total, over the years, is at least comparable to the iPhone App store, if not for Dollar revenue.
Security? Is there any evidence that any of Google's products have a robust security attitude to security? From direct stuff like GMail allowing people to MiTM your session cookie (if you're not using HTTPS) to almost anything going unecnrypted through the text-based web, there isn't a lot to inspire my confidence about the Google approach to computer security.
It might be safe on a local node -- but then you could write straight to the hardware. There's something about virtual machines (Java, ActiveX) having already been done and only with a certain degree of success that puts me right off. But maybe Google will disallow certain opcodes and have a robust product. Most likely not.
Unfortunately, we English-speakers count list length in Natural Numbers, i.e. those from the set {1, 2, 3, 4,...}, and it doesn't matter what numbering the elements of the list have. So your comment is wrong: the first item on your list is indexed with '0)', and I don't mind that. The length of your list is three items. Therefore the third item on your list is your claim that I've insulted a fairly decent mathematician. I didn't.
I said that his insistence (in TFA) on formal methods is compromised when he himself doesn't rigorously bridge the gap between his indexes numbering a list and the natural counting of elements in the list. That or he should have written "the item marked (6) on my seven-element list is what I really want to talk about".
And wrong: page 17-18 has a list starting at 0 and Dijkstra cites the item numbered '(6)' as the sixth. It's the seventh: he got his index arithmetic wrong. I only know this because of my schooling in formal methods...
Hi. Rest of World would like a minute of your time. I'm in Europe at the moment and would like to point out that most people only value view points similar to their own. It's a part and parcel of Human social behaviour, and fits in nicely with the story I tell about nomadic herds of human-like beings many thousands of years ago.
Your post makes a good job of distinguishing the misuse of the 'liberal' label in USA television's poor job of political commentary (is there anyone who holds politicians to account beyond that day's news cycle scandal?). However, because all views of the right- and left-wing polarity of politics are relative, I have an alternative view to share with you. Rubbish it if you will, but this is my take. In particular:
Daily KOS, and DU and their ilk on the far far left, BBC on the far left, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, and CNN on the left, Fox News on the Center-right, Rush Limbaugh, Hot Air, Michelle Malkin and their ilk on the right, and Ann Coulter and her ilk on the far right.
I see it as BBC centre-left, CNN, NBC, CBS on centre-right and Fox News plain lying when they say "fair and balanced", and being of the same right-wing territory as the rest of News International's news output (including the London Times). Rush Limbaugh is heading out to far-right, and Ann Coulter is beyond acceptable...
As to hate speech, I think that it's part of a continuum of protecting rights to freedoms for other people. Responsibilities balance rights, and your freedom to swing your fist ends at the start of my nose. In exactly the same way, your responsibility with your words requires you not to say things that harm other people. And so it is a matter of public policy in countries in Europe that people don't get allowed to say things that hurt other people. I don't know if we're better off for that, but I'd like to think that banning hate speech promotes reasoned discourse and that everybody benefits as a result. I doubt that laws against hate speech will eliminate new voices you wish would join the conversation -- TFA indicates that there's already a glut of mediocrity drowning out newcomers.
I've told you about this until I'm blue in the face, but you're too stupid to get it. I have to go now to a different web site to calm down. Maybe I will have a look at Wikipedia, but that might be another night of sleep lost because there's someone wrong on the internet.
If they are so jealous of Gamestop, why not sell used copies from their own website?
And offer a discount on upcoming titles, entry into beta testing rounds or early access to the full game. It's a business no-brainer but is hamstrung by the industry habit splitting production from distribution.
Thank you for restoring my faith in science-fiction fans. I've recently realised that the obsession with 'canon' settings for stories is total rubbish. The whole point of stories is that you can do what you want with the characters, their setting, the storyline and our being entertained is the end goal.
Names and Brand Identity: Intellectual Property Everyone believes in.
I'm pretty annoyed by mindless rejection of everything Intellectual Property-related because some parts of the law aren't equitable, reasonable or decent. There's one poster to Slashdot (rms, is that you?) who goes by the name IDontBelieveInImaginaryProperty, with a link to EndSoftwarePatents.net. This individual has a name and an identity which aren't physical property (they may be correlated to a human being or a small shell script somewhere), but they're very much intellectual property. What would rms do if I passed myself off as rms, or supplied copies of any GNU software that was inferior product masquerading as the original?
The best source for the netbook implications of the information released at this Financial Analyst Day is http://www.notebooks.com/2008/11/13/live-at-amds-financial-analyst-day-2008/ and the author notes, towards the bottom, that AMD concede they can't compete with the highest battery life available from their competitors. (As an aside, it bugs me that AMD can do a die shrink or improve their chip steppings and get a better performance-per-watt figure than Intel, but can't put that all together in a competitive mobile CPU, chipset, video and wireless combination.)
The Phenoms are AM2+ and, while they sit in the same socket, they will at-least require a BIOS update if they are to work; it's likely that they won't. There may be tiny IPC and process improvements in the last set of X2's, but I doubt any such would be worth it.
Barcelona, Budapest (not released), Shanghai (HT3.0, 45nm), Istanbul (6-core response to Dunnington), Montreal (missing in action), Sao Paolo (6-core, DDR3, due 2010), Magny-Cours (12-core, DDR3, due 2010). All Formula One race circuits.
I'll counter that with: You take the thermodynamic state of the garbage, mess with it and then put it back together in a lower entropic state and get to keep the profit. I'm not even convinced that making a plasma out of any old rubbish will result in enough energy given out to split up the output elements for safe re-use.
I have funding for a research project I would like you to do: spend 10 years reading the mailing lists and identifying the highly-successful organisational methods used by the direct democracy of the Debian project.
Your unmoderated Score 1 comment needs to be expanded; the new Javascript-powered Slashcode puts adverts (mostly ThinkGeek) under the posts it hides. Riddle me this: as a subscriber, I could turn off the adverts, and also could use AdBlock to immunise myself elsewhere, but I don't -- am I really having an impact on the clickthrough rate by seeing but not clicking any ads?
LittleBigPlanet is a game that Miyamoto should have made. It's the Mario MMO. You play as Mario, beating the platforms, or as Bowser, making the platform levels. And you get to challenge friends as if you stole their princess...
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It's Schrodinger's cat: you might prove it secure by exhaustively mapping its function over the whole input range and then assessing the proximity of results and the psuedo-randomness of the mapping. The problem with that being that you then know how to recover any original text from a given encrypted result...
[strike]It's called Debian.[/strike]
The age of Dapper Drake is causing the problem. Due to the fast turnover rate of new technology and the inclusion of new programs into the GNU/Linux software ecosystem, there are security updates but no feature upgrades to software archive provided by Canonical for Dapper Drake. Canonical publish Ubuntu, and have a six-month goal for the next released edition of Ubuntu. Each edition has a set version of Firefox (and others), and so your choice to upgrade Firefox would be to update Ubuntu as a whole, or to do the Windows-style thing of downloading a copy from Mozilla.com, which would lose some of the integrated features of Ubuntu's edition of Firefox, such as receiving security fixes via the package updater.
BTW, there's every likelihood that you're also getting a whole raft of system updates with that upgrade for FireFox. Given that it's been 2.5 years since Dapper Drake was released, there would be a lot of bugs and security issues found and fixed in that time. If you haven't run a package manager (Aptitude, Adept, Package Manager and the like), you will be told that there are a large number of updates to be installed. These package managers also resolve dependencies.
'paradox' roughly translates as 'think again'. [cheap dig about thinking in the first place -- why Visual Basic?]
I'm curious, too: when is the Year of Solaris on the Desktop?
I don't know the numbers for Debian's Apt repositories, Red Hat's RPM stores, the Livna or Dag Wieers RPM sites, or Canonical's Launchpad. But I'd guess the total, over the years, is at least comparable to the iPhone App store, if not for Dollar revenue.
Security? Is there any evidence that any of Google's products have a robust security attitude to security? From direct stuff like GMail allowing people to MiTM your session cookie (if you're not using HTTPS) to almost anything going unecnrypted through the text-based web, there isn't a lot to inspire my confidence about the Google approach to computer security.
It might be safe on a local node -- but then you could write straight to the hardware. There's something about virtual machines (Java, ActiveX) having already been done and only with a certain degree of success that puts me right off. But maybe Google will disallow certain opcodes and have a robust product. Most likely not.
I doubt you'd disagree with my words if I did a s/English-speakers/spoken-language speakers/.
Unfortunately, we English-speakers count list length in Natural Numbers, i.e. those from the set {1, 2, 3, 4, ...}, and it doesn't matter what numbering the elements of the list have. So your comment is wrong: the first item on your list is indexed with '0)', and I don't mind that. The length of your list is three items. Therefore the third item on your list is your claim that I've insulted a fairly decent mathematician. I didn't.
I said that his insistence (in TFA) on formal methods is compromised when he himself doesn't rigorously bridge the gap between his indexes numbering a list and the natural counting of elements in the list. That or he should have written "the item marked (6) on my seven-element list is what I really want to talk about".
And wrong: page 17-18 has a list starting at 0 and Dijkstra cites the item numbered '(6)' as the sixth. It's the seventh: he got his index arithmetic wrong. I only know this because of my schooling in formal methods...
Hi. Rest of World would like a minute of your time. I'm in Europe at the moment and would like to point out that most people only value view points similar to their own. It's a part and parcel of Human social behaviour, and fits in nicely with the story I tell about nomadic herds of human-like beings many thousands of years ago.
Your post makes a good job of distinguishing the misuse of the 'liberal' label in USA television's poor job of political commentary (is there anyone who holds politicians to account beyond that day's news cycle scandal?). However, because all views of the right- and left-wing polarity of politics are relative, I have an alternative view to share with you. Rubbish it if you will, but this is my take. In particular:
I see it as BBC centre-left, CNN, NBC, CBS on centre-right and Fox News plain lying when they say "fair and balanced", and being of the same right-wing territory as the rest of News International's news output (including the London Times). Rush Limbaugh is heading out to far-right, and Ann Coulter is beyond acceptable...
As to hate speech, I think that it's part of a continuum of protecting rights to freedoms for other people. Responsibilities balance rights, and your freedom to swing your fist ends at the start of my nose. In exactly the same way, your responsibility with your words requires you not to say things that harm other people. And so it is a matter of public policy in countries in Europe that people don't get allowed to say things that hurt other people. I don't know if we're better off for that, but I'd like to think that banning hate speech promotes reasoned discourse and that everybody benefits as a result. I doubt that laws against hate speech will eliminate new voices you wish would join the conversation -- TFA indicates that there's already a glut of mediocrity drowning out newcomers.
I've told you about this until I'm blue in the face, but you're too stupid to get it. I have to go now to a different web site to calm down. Maybe I will have a look at Wikipedia, but that might be another night of sleep lost because there's someone wrong on the internet.
And offer a discount on upcoming titles, entry into beta testing rounds or early access to the full game. It's a business no-brainer but is hamstrung by the industry habit splitting production from distribution.
Thank you for restoring my faith in science-fiction fans. I've recently realised that the obsession with 'canon' settings for stories is total rubbish. The whole point of stories is that you can do what you want with the characters, their setting, the storyline and our being entertained is the end goal.
Names and Brand Identity: Intellectual Property Everyone believes in.
I'm pretty annoyed by mindless rejection of everything Intellectual Property-related because some parts of the law aren't equitable, reasonable or decent. There's one poster to Slashdot (rms, is that you?) who goes by the name IDontBelieveInImaginaryProperty, with a link to EndSoftwarePatents.net. This individual has a name and an identity which aren't physical property (they may be correlated to a human being or a small shell script somewhere), but they're very much intellectual property. What would rms do if I passed myself off as rms, or supplied copies of any GNU software that was inferior product masquerading as the original?
The best source for the netbook implications of the information released at this Financial Analyst Day is http://www.notebooks.com/2008/11/13/live-at-amds-financial-analyst-day-2008/ and the author notes, towards the bottom, that AMD concede they can't compete with the highest battery life available from their competitors. (As an aside, it bugs me that AMD can do a die shrink or improve their chip steppings and get a better performance-per-watt figure than Intel, but can't put that all together in a competitive mobile CPU, chipset, video and wireless combination.)
The Phenoms are AM2+ and, while they sit in the same socket, they will at-least require a BIOS update if they are to work; it's likely that they won't. There may be tiny IPC and process improvements in the last set of X2's, but I doubt any such would be worth it.
Barcelona, Budapest (not released), Shanghai (HT3.0, 45nm), Istanbul (6-core response to Dunnington), Montreal (missing in action), Sao Paolo (6-core, DDR3, due 2010), Magny-Cours (12-core, DDR3, due 2010). All Formula One race circuits.
I'll counter that with: You take the thermodynamic state of the garbage, mess with it and then put it back together in a lower entropic state and get to keep the profit. I'm not even convinced that making a plasma out of any old rubbish will result in enough energy given out to split up the output elements for safe re-use.
I have funding for a research project I would like you to do: spend 10 years reading the mailing lists and identifying the highly-successful organisational methods used by the direct democracy of the Debian project.
Your unmoderated Score 1 comment needs to be expanded; the new Javascript-powered Slashcode puts adverts (mostly ThinkGeek) under the posts it hides. Riddle me this: as a subscriber, I could turn off the adverts, and also could use AdBlock to immunise myself elsewhere, but I don't -- am I really having an impact on the clickthrough rate by seeing but not clicking any ads?
Apparently, none of them is as cruel as all of them.
Is the picture on the book supposed to be a limping/lame duck?
LittleBigPlanet is a game that Miyamoto should have made. It's the Mario MMO. You play as Mario, beating the platforms, or as Bowser, making the platform levels. And you get to challenge friends as if you stole their princess...
So overall you're a steady-state cosmologist. I assume you were quite perturbed by the emergence of Big Bang Theory?
If your video device can support it, the graphical glitches can be helped a lot (but not entirely cured) by adding a line:
to the Devices section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. Or you can go through SystemSettings -> Desktop to disable Desktop Effects