Penn & Teller happen to be skeptics, they happen to be good entertainers, but they're definitely not "good" skeptics.
Good skeptics tell you "don't believe me, go look it up for yourself." Penn & Teller just throw a bunch of authority figures at you, some competent, some biased as only "libertarians" can get -- Penn is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, for fuxake.
My ISP gives me 20M/1M unthrottled DSL for 30 euros a month. I can max it all the time with no problem. They also sell dedicated boxes with 100Mbps ethernet in their datacenter, unlimited bandwidth, 1G RAM 160G HD. If you look into their infrastructure, well... they did what it took. It took a lot, but they're profitable. The thing is, they did'nt spend much money on marketing or advertising -- they did, however, invest a lot in R&D. They designed their own set top boxes, DSLAMS and hosting appliances. They bought out or rented gigs after gigs of backbone.
In the end, trying to castrate your users is going to cost you a bit of money, and more importantly, a lot of credit.
If there is no known plain text in the second pass of the encryption, how do you know you've broken the first pass?
In effect, if there's no fixed header, no way to quickly distinguish a random putative clear text from rubbish added in between the two encryption phase, then in effect a brute force attack would take 2^64*2^64 steps, that's to say 2^128...
Boot from a CD, chkrootkit, check RPM MD5s... it might not be 100% reliable but it's damn close, and it takes 10min. I'd like to know how you do this under Windows. Oh, that's right, you don't.
If you're running raid5 it's probably in an enterprise setup.
I have installed a software Raid5 at work for online backups of workstations. 250GB SATA disks cost nothing (~80?); it'd pain my anus to fork out a kilobucks or two to pilot them. Sorry if that's not enterprisy enough for you!
In a perfect world, people would be honest. In a perfect world, copy and licensing protections wouldn't have to exist.
In a perfect world, copy and licensing protections won't exist, because they will have annoyed so many users that they will have all turned to Free Software. I like those annoying copy protection scheme -- that's how MS is shooting itself in the foot. WTG, crooks.
Ever wondered why painters "frame" their subject with their fingers and thumbs?
Unless you have prior artistic experience, you're usually going to take a much more interesting picture with a screen. That's because, you don't necessarily realize it, but your eyes move around a lot and your brain reconstructs the whole picture; plus your eyes adapt to the lighting conditions etc.
With a screen, the picture is "framed", inside the little rectangle, and your brain+eyes don't cheat you, as they have points of references, both spatial and intensity-wise.
... that "blowing up the engine" kind of 'sploits happen all the time... due to mistakes made by the programmers themselves.
A determined hacker could increase the likeliness of it happening by a good, what... one thousandth? Oh boy the terrorists are going to terrorize us big time...
"Unique privelege (sic)"? Not quite.. just about every software company absolves itself of legal responsibility in this way.. why, even the GPL does it.
You usually don't pay the GPL copyright owner anything... how could he guarantee anything? Microsoft, on the other hand...
No, this sucks, I respect the GPL and other open source licenses (BSD) as well as closed source licenses. If nVidia or ATI or any other hardware manufacturer do not want to license their software as GPL it is their decision. The operating system MUST provide a standarized API.
If you really respected the GPL so much, you'd have read it. Binary kernel modules are forbidden by a strict interpretation of the GPL; kernel developpers have merely tolerated them. Notice the warning in dmesg when you insert nvidia.ko. (dmesg|grep taint)
If it had a keyboard, I'd buy one right away. Without keyboard, what's it good for?
The rest of the specs are weird, too; as the WaPo points out, why use RS-MMC? Full-sized MMC fit in my 6230i phone, why could'nt they fit in a device 4 times bigger? It's like chewbacca: it does -NOT- make sense!
The good news is that non-interactive flash movies work regardless of whether or not you activate the controls. Not sure why that is, but that has been my expeience. The bad news is that flash menus (unfortunately some clients want that junk) no longer work until you click on the flash movie to activate the control. This also goes for interactive flash movies that track mouse movement and whatnot.
Sounds like good news to me! Eh, if that forces stupid web developpers to abandon flash navigation... it's even GREAT news!
(Proud user of Firefox+FlashBlock!)
Microsoft is paying them so as to artificially improve the ratio of "websites (domains) running windows" vs. "total number of domains", as in the Netcraft survey.
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Penn & Teller happen to be skeptics, they happen to be good entertainers, but they're definitely not "good" skeptics.
Good skeptics tell you "don't believe me, go look it up for yourself." Penn & Teller just throw a bunch of authority figures at you, some competent, some biased as only "libertarians" can get -- Penn is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, for fuxake.
They're not #1 in the server market, they're #4 down from #3, as Sun just passed them.
Better device support outside the box. Linux can max out USB2.0 transfer rates with hard drives for instance. Windows isn't as good.
Better multiprocessor support.
Better networking support.
Better virtualization options.
Better multiplatform support.
... could'nt he just fucking translate the submission into english before posting ...
"Nul n'est sensé ignorer la loi", but who the fuck he supposed to understand legalese, I wonder.
My ISP gives me 20M/1M unthrottled DSL for 30 euros a month. I can max it all the time with no problem. They also sell dedicated boxes with 100Mbps ethernet in their datacenter, unlimited bandwidth, 1G RAM 160G HD. If you look into their infrastructure, well ... they did what it took. It took a lot, but they're profitable. The thing is, they did'nt spend much money on marketing or advertising -- they did, however, invest a lot in R&D. They designed their own set top boxes, DSLAMS and hosting appliances. They bought out or rented gigs after gigs of backbone.
In the end, trying to castrate your users is going to cost you a bit of money, and more importantly, a lot of credit.
If there is no known plain text in the second pass of the encryption, how do you know you've broken the first pass?
...
In effect, if there's no fixed header, no way to quickly distinguish a random putative clear text from rubbish added in between the two encryption phase, then in effect a brute force attack would take 2^64*2^64 steps, that's to say 2^128
Boot from a CD, chkrootkit, check RPM MD5s ... it might not be 100% reliable but it's damn close, and it takes 10min. I'd like to know how you do this under Windows. Oh, that's right, you don't.
I have installed a software Raid5 at work for online backups of workstations. 250GB SATA disks cost nothing (~80?); it'd pain my anus to fork out a kilobucks or two to pilot them. Sorry if that's not enterprisy enough for you!
In a perfect world, copy and licensing protections won't exist, because they will have annoyed so many users that they will have all turned to Free Software.
I like those annoying copy protection scheme -- that's how MS is shooting itself in the foot. WTG, crooks.
And more boobies. Seriously.
Ever wondered why painters "frame" their subject with their fingers and thumbs?
Unless you have prior artistic experience, you're usually going to take a much more interesting picture with a screen. That's because, you don't necessarily realize it, but your eyes move around a lot and your brain reconstructs the whole picture; plus your eyes adapt to the lighting conditions etc.
With a screen, the picture is "framed", inside the little rectangle, and your brain+eyes don't cheat you, as they have points of references, both spatial and intensity-wise.
I'm paying 15 euro a month and I'm getting what I expect: around 2Mbytes/s (that 16Mbit/s)
Wow ... here I can only buy at minimum a 4Mbps, but then that's about twice the price of an ADSL2+ 16Mbps line (~ 15 ...)
... that "blowing up the engine" kind of 'sploits happen all the time ... due to mistakes made by the programmers themselves.
... one thousandth? Oh boy the terrorists are going to terrorize us big time ...
A determined hacker could increase the likeliness of it happening by a good, what
Gimme a fucking break.
University text books are increasingly subjet to it, it seems
Crypto = Number theory = integer math.
No need for floating point.
"Unique privelege (sic)"? Not quite.. just about every software company absolves itself of legal responsibility in this way.. why, even the GPL does it.
You usually don't pay the GPL copyright owner anything ... how could he guarantee anything? Microsoft, on the other hand ...
... and after a while, it will be very handy to frame jaywalkers and pot smokers.
Do you have RPMs? A tarball?
Linux's had copy-on-write on fork pretty much since v0.1.
I'm not familiar with the particular issue involved in TFA, but it's definitely not this.
If it had a keyboard, I'd buy one right away. Without keyboard, what's it good for?
The rest of the specs are weird, too; as the WaPo points out, why use RS-MMC? Full-sized MMC fit in my 6230i phone, why could'nt they fit in a device 4 times bigger? It's like chewbacca: it does -NOT- make sense!
Microsoft is paying them so as to artificially improve the ratio of "websites (domains) running windows" vs. "total number of domains", as in the Netcraft survey.
The man makes a very valid point.
Hardware is an insignificant part of the problem. The infrastructure should be where the focus is.
Building a network infrastructure is easy. It just takes a few cans of pringles, and a few old WRT54Gs.
The main problem is power, though.