Would you consider AtheOS a portable OS? I mean, with BeOS, it ran on at least three platforms, not including BeIA, and they said it was because 90% of the code was platform-independent. What is your opinion of porting AtheOS to other platforms, such as the PPC, some Amiga-esque hardware:-), the PlayStation 2 or whatever?
I think that not having X on board is a good idea, actually, because if you had X on AtheOS, everybody would start porting over X applications and then you'd have a lot of applications with an entirely different look & feel, which would spoil the integration that AtheOS currently offers. However, for the future, there's going to be need for a well-documented application framework in order to facilitate application development (for options such as component development and so on); since you already ported part of Qt to the native AtheOS system, what would you think about porting as much of KDE over to AtheOS as possible without including X, so that not too much of the native system's advantages would be lost, yet you could use the portability of KDE to ensure a broad supply of end-user applications?
I realize that you do very much of the actual development yourself, at the moment. What would you think of partially delegating development, such as putting up a list of "what is needed" to-do's, discussing the actual implementation with some developers, but letting them do more of the actual work? Because you've come really far with the OS, but I presume it's at a critical point at the moment where it needs to gain momentum. You could assume some sort of "benevolent dictatorship", we have at least one case in operating system development history where it worked out fine:-)
What a great tool that removes a couple of predefined files and reboots a system, nothing an admin couldn't have done himself in three minutes.
I hope it's Microsoft-certified to work, at least.
And disabling your web server as an option to keep your web server free from infection is so ingenious that I completely lack the words to describe the ingenuity behind it.
I didn't know about the WonderSwan before, but I think it's WAY cool, especially because of the cellphone/modem circuit. It's blasted expensive, but it's a real innovation in mobile gaming.
Except it doesn't work with the GBA. Ow, how I'd have loved distributed Worms sessions!
My preference for a wearable is the good old shoulder holster design. Not very roomy, but wearables should be small and lightweight. Wireless networking, CF Microdrive, Twiddler keyboard, and finally this amazing thing for display (this guy fits a HMD into normal sunglasses, and it looks 100% cool!!)
I just conferred with a female friend of mine who's into wearables and she says that purses w/computers are impractical and that other spaces on females tends to be not roomy enough if you don't want to run around DDD.
Sorry for posting off topic, but I'm not sure if a trip to Israel is that desirable as a prize at the moment, given the rather unstable situation there.
Of course, there may be some connection between the prize and the game ("win a conflict where you've got no clue of the rules", that pretty much sums up the problems of both parties in the Middle East).
Well, basically the law should be in such a way that he wouldn't have got arrested in the first place.
As things are, the DMCA is not the best thing in the world, clearly, and therefore I think it should be abolished, but that's only my humble opinion.
Due to the fragged up US government however, I see no way to remove the DMCA except proving it not to be in compliance with the US constitution.
For that, it needs a trial, and hence it would be tactically better to keep things as they are and keep him in jail so he can face trial.
Don't worry, Dmitry. They're probably not going to keep you for long. If you need good literature in the meantime, read Sol'zhenicyn's Àðõèïåëàã ÃÓËÀÃ (Arkhipelag GULAG, in case it doesn't get over properly), especially when he deals with the USSR constitution, and then you'll learn what the US law system truly is like.
I know that this is slightly offtopic, but it occured me on reading this submission. What we need is a moderating system for stories. If this story could be moderated (+2, Informative), (-1, Spelling) then I'd be quite happy. Imagine how you could customize Slashdot!
For example, one could moderate stories like this:
If you only use the built-in encryption in 802.11 you can't be helped anyway.
Since you've already got a network layer, the easiest thing is to run IPSEC over it and you're completely independent of what local encryption your underlying network layer offers.
Every wireless network person will tell you that if you want secure transfers, you'll have to implement the security on the connection level. For most of us, this means IPSEC and it's pretty sufficient.
I'd like to point out that human rights, even unalienable one, are not restricted to US citizens and that international law is quite in favor of treating him otherwise.
Yep, but there's some international conventions about treating them as well. The US government's track record on this is a bit doubtful; for example, there was a case quite recently of a German who was sentenced to death even though (a) his IQ was somewhere near 70 and (b) they refused him the right to contact his embassy, something clearly set down in international law.
This is another of those cases that makes me doubt whether the US government actually cares about international law / treaties / conventions at all.
Sometimes it makes me sad to see what has become of America: a country that once had every right to boast of being one of the prime democracies where every citizen had his unalienable human rights now kicks its citizens squarely in the jaw.
(BTW Criminals are citizens too. And this one's crime is a bit doubtful in nature.)
In other news: The Mars Society's Arctic Research Station project suffered a crushing defeat after only five weeks of operation when their life support systems, hosted on the machine arctic.marssociety.org, went offline after a mass distributed denial of service attacks known as the Slashdot effect killed their web server, which was hosted on the very same machine.
Thousands of users watched the crew's last agonized struggles over two of the three newly-operational web cams. Again, a prosperous project has been killed by the mindless hacking activities of a group of anonymous cowards.
I tried to accelerate my bicycle using a twin pulse jet once, right after I had read up on how a pulse jet works in a book on WWII airplanes.
Let's just say it didn't work and I had a different bicycle afterwards.
Ouch.
I prefer ramjets over pulsejets because they're generally more durable, especially when homemade (but you do have to take care of your materials). For ram jets, in retrospective, the bike would've been too slow anyway, however.
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Otherwise, it's a lovely word processor.
In the USA, that is.
Would you consider AtheOS a portable OS? I mean, with BeOS, it ran on at least three platforms, not including BeIA, and they said it was because 90% of the code was platform-independent. What is your opinion of porting AtheOS to other platforms, such as the PPC, some Amiga-esque hardware :-), the PlayStation 2 or whatever?
I hope it's Microsoft-certified to work, at least.
And disabling your web server as an option to keep your web server free from infection is so ingenious that I completely lack the words to describe the ingenuity behind it.
Except it doesn't work with the GBA. Ow, how I'd have loved distributed Worms sessions!
My preference for a wearable is the good old shoulder holster design. Not very roomy, but wearables should be small and lightweight. Wireless networking, CF Microdrive, Twiddler keyboard, and finally this amazing thing for display (this guy fits a HMD into normal sunglasses, and it looks 100% cool!!)
I just conferred with a female friend of mine who's into wearables and she says that purses w/computers are impractical and that other spaces on females tends to be not roomy enough if you don't want to run around DDD.
Of course, there may be some connection between the prize and the game ("win a conflict where you've got no clue of the rules", that pretty much sums up the problems of both parties in the Middle East).
At the moment' I'd say Banjo doesn't work right or not at all.
As far as I can see, the machine might as well be offline. This must be the first time that Slashdot slashdots itself.
As things are, the DMCA is not the best thing in the world, clearly, and therefore I think it should be abolished, but that's only my humble opinion.
Due to the fragged up US government however, I see no way to remove the DMCA except proving it not to be in compliance with the US constitution.
For that, it needs a trial, and hence it would be tactically better to keep things as they are and keep him in jail so he can face trial.
Don't worry, Dmitry. They're probably not going to keep you for long. If you need good literature in the meantime, read Sol'zhenicyn's Àðõèïåëàã ÃÓËÀÃ (Arkhipelag GULAG, in case it doesn't get over properly), especially when he deals with the USSR constitution, and then you'll learn what the US law system truly is like.
For example, one could moderate stories like this:
- Interesting
- Informative
- Funny
- Generates Intelligent Replies
or like this:- Wrong
- Spelling mistakes
- Not "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters"
- Read it on kuro5hin a year ago
- Troll quota too high
What would you think of this?Since you've already got a network layer, the easiest thing is to run IPSEC over it and you're completely independent of what local encryption your underlying network layer offers.
Every wireless network person will tell you that if you want secure transfers, you'll have to implement the security on the connection level. For most of us, this means IPSEC and it's pretty sufficient.
I'd like to point out that human rights, even unalienable one, are not restricted to US citizens and that international law is quite in favor of treating him otherwise.
From in dubio pro reo, now we're to in dubio pro leo. (The grammar's a bit broken, I know.)
This is another of those cases that makes me doubt whether the US government actually cares about international law / treaties / conventions at all.
(BTW Criminals are citizens too. And this one's crime is a bit doubtful in nature.)
What's next, Ally McBeal in Star Trek? Worf in Buffy the Vampire Slayer?
sorry, couldn't resist
On a side note, it's interesting that the first arcade game had something to do with:
- War
- Space
If you look at the date (1961), it all fits nicely into a cold war space race context, doesn't it?Thousands of users watched the crew's last agonized struggles over two of the three newly-operational web cams. Again, a prosperous project has been killed by the mindless hacking activities of a group of anonymous cowards.
Let's just say it didn't work and I had a different bicycle afterwards.
Ouch.
I prefer ramjets over pulsejets because they're generally more durable, especially when homemade (but you do have to take care of your materials). For ram jets, in retrospective, the bike would've been too slow anyway, however.
Freon is better and less noisy.
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Then revoking it is no problem, because people don't believe you in the first place.