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  1. Re:Australia: The place sucks on Australia Spying On Its Own · · Score: 0

    As a dual citizen, I'm dismayed by both Aus & NZ using echelon for political gain.

    How Aus screwed up a simple tax NZ has had for 15 years is beyond me, maybe they really are stupid.

    The GCSB in NZ is likely to use their expanded powers to return the Labor government, though I don't see why Big Sister Clark needs more political tampering.
    Big Sister already has 48% support and a lame duck National opponent.
    Sure, he's a multicultural sheep shagger who wants to be a populist. But 28% is nothing near enough for a majority stake in government.

    I can only hope that Big Sister will actually take seriously the goal of economic growth she set in her speech yesterday.
    Perhaps we should argue for the economic cost of spying on the citizens and businesses affected?

  2. website being updated today on Operating Systems of the Future · · Score: 0

    1. crypto is an essential feature as the system use is better than anything NSA can read.

    2. the formal model states that an exokernel works by using the operating system as an API. This is a proven model at MIT.

    3. Resource DoS is handled by agent management at the core of any app.

    4. BSD is used for compatibility only, I'm coding an exokernel system and the GUI from scratch.

    5. Buzzwords are useful to get the attention of MBAs, my friends in local companies have looked over the design docs and found it a viable model.

    6. the crypto system is not allowed in the USA, China, Russia, etc. So I am keeping that secret design here in New Zealand offline.

    7. The special predictive multitasking uses some special maths I developed for another project a few years ago.
    It's too sensitive to publish, so it's documented offline too.

    8. I have been in the middle of a rural forest and have yet to change the website to include new information I dreamed up there.

    Your notes are always welcome regardless of how harsh they are.

  3. Re:Mod Me Down If I'm Wrong..... on Operating Systems of the Future · · Score: 0

    I'm doing a system a bit more advanced than the MS vaporware at the moment.
    Yes, I use quantum cryptography. Yes, there is a backdoor.

    The backdoor is the way you generate the steganography layer on top.
    If you only use the top layer, anyone could read it (if they know what file resources generate the steganography)

    The routines will be open sourced outside the USA and other places which ban ultra secure crypto.

    Fortunately, I will have a working version by 2003.

  4. Re:Mod Me Down If I'm Wrong..... on Operating Systems of the Future · · Score: 0

    I had a program that does this 5 years ago, I say that if you use crypto that the NSA hasn't broken yet, it's ok for file storage.

    My system works by storing across the organisation or trusted friends you have.
    You determine who gets to mirror your files, not your boss.

  5. Re:Mod Me Down If I'm Wrong..... on Operating Systems of the Future · · Score: 0

    That graphic is practically the same as the plan I used 5 years ago on an old project which got stolen 4 years ago.

    http://www.e-see.com was the original use (brand logo protection of graphics by RMI java)
    http://www.bankonit.com is the reduced version they hacked up for banking (please note they still haven't found the security flaw after 4 years)

    Mind you, that was a pretty good predecessor to distributed computing in it's day.
    Who knows, it may work for microsoft in 2012...

  6. Re:A vision of OS future : tiny reliable component on Operating Systems of the Future · · Score: 0

    I have a solution I came up with for Kaos using agents, if you are interested we can discuss it in detail.
    (too long and technical for slashdot)

  7. Re:Expectation is Key to Reliability on Operating Systems of the Future · · Score: 0

    Which is exactly why I use a multiple agent system modelled on ants or bees.

    The reliability is in the duplication of task management by agents, 1 dies and another picks up it's work.

  8. Re:Eros's features for keeping EB to a minimum on Operating Systems of the Future · · Score: 0

    EROS and KeyKos sound just like Kaos, my operating system.
    The main difference is Kaos is agent based so that interaction between apps is better.

    I'm willing to take on new ideas for kaos, and I will update my site by thursday to reflect the ideas I had in the middle of nowhere.

    Kaos is going to be 100% compatible with the major flavors of BSD but have a different system architecture and API system.

  9. Re:A vision of OS future : tiny reliable component on Operating Systems of the Future · · Score: 0

    This Eros appears to be a simpler version of doing things the Kaos way.
    My system is an exokernel running dozens of tiny reliable components which cn be replaced if you can do better than me.
    Security is the main goal of the project, the core encryption is used to ensure a reliable grid of data runs anywhere you can logon.

  10. Re: Shit happens on Operating Systems of the Future · · Score: 0

    > Well, lets ask why nature gets around unexpected problems.
    Simple darwinian survival explains why problems have to be dealt with.
    > I suspect it is because nature doesn't 'invest functionality' in a natural thing that requires excluding certain types of input in order to survive or function.

    Just look at sharks, 320 million years without change to the basic shark.
    >> Nature mostly gets around unexpected problems

    I think he means the majority of creatures survive problems and the minority have fatal exceptions to problems.
    > The dinos would agree with 'mostly'. I want mostly.
    I want more than mostly, I want something that is as successful as the shark.
    I want software that acts like an efficient predator that is resilient enough to cope with almost every kind of attack nature has going.
    > I want computers that are built to work regardless of input, unless said input is likely to occurr on a frequency of say, once every decade or some crap.

    Exactly, I want stuff to work for ages without changing the way it works or rewriting it from scratch every major version.
    > Companies are notorious for turning this around. Witness warrentees.

    I especially love the notes about using it to fly a plane, operate a nuclear power plant or life support machine.
    They always give me bad images of those machines running the latest microsoft bug filled product.
    > "This product will work unless you do X" Sometimes X is why people buy it in the first place!

    I want to be able to say, "If you have problems doing X, tell me and I'll make the product do X"
    > In the realm of computer and hardware, there is nothing to say that we can't make the PCI bus X times slower in order to build complete down-to-electron-level fault tolerance into it.
    It's not speed as the problem, it's system bloat. Did you see the requirements for Farsite?
    > Obviously, I'm unaware of the actual feasibility of this, but I think people above, in blaming the market, were far more on point than saying, "Well it happens in nature, so it happens in PCs."

    I think nature has a lot to offer and would be better to run the market on a natural basis.
    > Sure, but I didn't see species dropping off the face of the earth like flies until the 1970s, when we starting making impossible-to-fulfill demands of our eco system.

    The problem is overpopulation of a single species that dominates the environment.
    How many people is too much in India, China, Africa or South America?
    Do we really want half the people of the world to starve or do we want to reduce the birth rate?
    > Same of computers. The vision, the story, the 'sales pitch' is really lightyears ahead of the design.

    Bill Gates did marry his marketing department head, that says just how much the sales pitch means to microsoft.
    > It could only happen in an economy who's goal is to get shit out as fast and cheaply as possible to everyone, instead of considering the social and unquanitiable costs of certain technologies.

    I'm working on designing products to cause social and invisible changes in the way we use computers.
    Is that a better focus than fast and cheap junk?
    > Until manufacturers are really allowed to say, "We made it X times slower, but you can't crash it short of excersising your physical superiority on it, so I dare you to even try to feel stress or mistreatment in using it"

    It's more a case of reliable operation, if the prouct is well documented and understood like a car you could let experts modify it.
    >, and I think that might be never under current circumstances, posters above were more on point than you were.
    > Which isn't to say that I don't agree .. I think it's just more about the demands you place on the technology over aknowledging the unpredictability of it's operating envrionment.

    I think unpredictability should be something the user provides, not the program.
    Guess I'll never get that idea stolen by microsoft. ;-)

  11. Shit Happens on Operating Systems of the Future · · Score: 0

    I predict that the more code microsoft assimilates, the more shit will happen...

    I'm designing Kaos in Java 2 (JDK 1.4) for that very reason, I want to handle the unexpected with ease and skill that you won't get with .NET

  12. Re:Futurists are stupid on Operating Systems of the Future · · Score: 0

    I don't quite have an auto-compiler program yet, but I do have a mass-compiler program in development.
    Only thing is, it can only compile from templates of code.

  13. Re:Futurists are stupid on Operating Systems of the Future · · Score: 0

    Funny thing is, I'm doing this stuff today and I'm not going to have this 10 year plan.
    kaos pretty much does 3 times as much as Farsite will (but it'll work and will be usable by 2004)

  14. Re:Scale (Off Topic) on Intel Developing Cellular Internet Chip · · Score: 0

    One of my old friends is a data manager for VodaPhone NZ, free GSM data would not cost them anything they would notice.
    BTW, VodaPhone staff have free VodaPhone use anywhere in the world and this makes money for the company by convienience alone.

    I think you'll find they wouldn't give a shit about someone getting $20 out of the network each month.
    sorry about the delayed reply, I have been in the middle of nowhere since friday and only got back today.

  15. Re:Beowulf cluster on Operating Systems of the Future · · Score: 0

    This isn't funny, it will happen for real soon.

    In case you've missed my many posts on Kaos, I'm programming an operating system with all the features comp world want and more.
    This will be ready to use in 1 year, not ten.
    more details will be on my website after I have watched stargate tonight. (hour after this post)

  16. Re:Java package name prefacing on Tom Lord's Decentralized Revision Control System · · Score: 0

    I live in Wellington, New Zealand. This town has the greatest number of domain names per capita in the world, yet I have only just been able to afford a domin of my own now.
    The point is, some other company would have got a far better name to use than mine, yet they stole it from me.

    I say the whole thing would probably be better served by physical address or phone number than URLs.
    However, I guess that can all be included in the description files.

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  18. Re:Slashdot's dream girl on Open Source Developers Mostly Pros, Not Weenies · · Score: 0

    If you are Asian, you are more likely to be a cute girl with a nice face and a tight butt.

    Question: is your windup toy collection a set of dildos?
    And if not, is it a set of teddy bears?

    I think my ex girlfriend could not believe how long I can get it on, is 3 hours too long?

    I agree with porn and prostitution being legal, but I believe the difference is that porn chicks look nicer.

    I don't know anything about eve, I'm an evolutionist.

  19. Re:Scale (Off Topic) on Intel Developing Cellular Internet Chip · · Score: 0

    And for those of us who speak english: There is such a thing as a free lunch.
    TISATASAFL

    I hereby predict that someone will find the code for GSM maintenance use of the network.

    This means free cellular use of the digital cellphone networks the chips use.

  20. Re:What book do I need? on What Kind of Books do You Want? · · Score: 0

    > What about the rest of us who would actually buy -and- use such a book?

    You can just spank your monkey at the picures of naked geekgirls esplaining how to get laid tonight.

  21. google on What Kind of Books do You Want? · · Score: 0

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=nekkid+geek+g irls&spell=1

    I want to see Tech books with naked geek girls explaining stuff.
    This would also make a really cool website.

  22. Re:In a related story... on Govt Says: Internet Is Popular · · Score: 0

    Wellington, New Zealand has the world's most internet connections and domain names per capita.
    Sillicon Valley declines to comment on being less connected than a South Pacific Island nation.

  23. Re:Actually this would be perfect for... on Incredible Shrinking PC · · Score: 0

    The Handspring Treo is better for this as it's smaller and doesn't have any issues like crashing.
    It would be easier on the Treo to set it up to fax off prescriptions and forms with the doc's signature on them.

  24. Slashdot's dream girl on Open Source Developers Mostly Pros, Not Weenies · · Score: 0

    an (amateur) porn actress by day, and an Open Source Software geek at night.

    By amateur porn actress, does that mean you're one of those butt-ugly americans who wants heaps of guys to jerk off while looking at you naked?
    Or are you a uni student who is paying for her studies by being a porn star?
    I know that some ladies pay for uni by being a whore, so is it better being a porn star?

    And why do you think open source is a good thing to do in your spare time?

  25. Re:Good point, my example & mod up parent on Tom Lord's Decentralized Revision Control System · · Score: 0

    Yes, a URI with with a GUID number would be fine. My phone number is just 10 digits and my cellphone number is almost the same as my home number.