Oh wait, the French have them, so that is the continent's nuclear deterrent taken care of.
As do the UK. Although in a US vs Europe war they'd probably side with the US, just like they always do when a small trade-wars between the two giants appear.
Funny how a deployed and working missile defense system will invalidate it completely.
You are under the impression that the US has technology the Europeans don't. What makes you think they don't have anti-missiles too, and counter-measures against anti-missiles ? Last time I checked the Patriots were pretty loosy anti-missiles compared to the French equivalent. Also most (all?) European nukes (French/UK) are lunched from nuclear-subs, so it won't be as easy to shot down as a loosy north-korean missiles traveling accross the whole pacific. The US army has a huge weak point : arrogance...
Since when do the French run the EU? It's really a Franco-German axis driving the thing, with the Germans usually more dominant.
It's more complex than that. Germany is usually dominant in economic and social matters, while France is dominant in military, diplomacy and cultural matters.
The stars used to be for every EU country, but when they reached 15 countries they stopped adding stars and decided to settle on 12 as the number is good anyway:)
Pirating is not stealing. Stealing takes away something from someone. Making an illegal copy might take away a sale from the publisher - or it might not. Because you make an illegal copy of something doesn't mean that, if you were honest, you'd buy it. I'd say that if pirate had to pay for all their software, they would not purchase more than 5% of what they pirate. Hence 5% of what they pirate is stealing, the remaining is not. Most downloaded warez end up unused on a CD-R or in/dev/null.
More than that, but piracy is actually helping some publishers, because if everyone had to pay for it's Windows/Office license, Linux/Staroffice/Koffice would have a much higher market share... and when people use Office at home, they also ask for the same software at work (and the company then buys it because businesses usually avoid piracy).
Of course MS/Adobe and other publisher would like you to think it is the same as stealing, because then they can claim trillion of dollars of loss and lobby for thoughter law on piracy.
tcpdump won't tell you which server hosted the data, as each Freenet node is a proxy to other nodes. You can know which was the final node the data went thru, but not the originating server.
And even if you could trace back datas to the first server who hosted them, you couldn't delete them. You couldn't either find the guy who made them available, nor sue the node manager as per DMCA he is not responsible as long as he removes the content from his server upon request.
Frankly I fail to see how tcpdump can do anything else than finding that "A asked a freenet node B some information, and got something in return". That's pretty weak evidences to put someone into jail...
Except even when you snoop the TCP connection it is encrypted, both the content and the search request. Basically they have no way of knowing what infos you are looking for, what results you get and what you download, and who had the info in the first place (other nodes are just cache, and the admin can't even know what is cached).
If it was free speech you would be able to post it on your web page and the government would leave you alone.
DeCSS, MP3, the OT III documents, MS source code publishing, etc... they are all censorship done by corporations or "religions". The biggest enemy of free speech is not the governement (although they are not very fond of it) but private entities. Why do you Americans need to accuse your governement of all problems when most them are actually caused by a lack of governement, which lets corporations do whatever they want without any limits ??? I just don't get it...
There's no such thing as "free trade". It is mostly an agreement saying "I'll screw you, but you are allowed to screw me... if you can". Of course it is no surprise the biggest proponents of free trade are the most powerfull economies, as they need free-trade to take over foreign market and slowly change the world to a huge corporation (AOL-Time-Warner-Vivendi-Universal-AT&T-Proter&Gam ble-Sony).
I sort of thought that "German armed forces" counted as a major military organization.
That was true... before 1945. Now although it is a modern and well equiped army, it doesn't have the same firepower as the USA, Russia, France, UK or China. The germans themselves are mildly happy about having big military forces, considered what they did with it in the past.
If you knew what Freenet was, you'd know that it doesn't let you know what server host what, and even the server admin himself cannot know what he is hosting...
To hell with license issues and GPL integrists, it's open source, it's free for all uses, that's fine enough with me. I've not enough time to loose by using the wrong tools, just because the right one doesn't have a pure enough license.
2) Python is defined by it's implementation. There's no standard for developers to rely on.
So is PHP, Delphi, Coldfusion, ASP, Visual Basic, all RDBMS's SQL interface, and many other languages that are pushed by only one group or vendor. And you know what ? No one gives a f* because in the end what matters is that the job gets done and that compatibility isn't broken or is so lightly altered that porting to a newer version of the language is a matter of recompiling or changing three lines here and there. It's not like you need to rewrite all your code every year to stay compliant.
3) New versions break old programs. I do NOT want my customers to have to have 2 or 3 versions of Python installed.
That's what happened with PHP 4 too, and millions of coders just switched and changed a few lines of their program. Big deal.
This is possible with Outlook Express (and Netscape or Outlook too I think), using the standard SMIME. The problem is that to use it, you need a certificate, and to get a certificate you have to pay (Verisign or Thawte : doesn't matter, they are the same company holding now a monopoly). What is really sad is that, even if you are ONLY interested in encryption and don't care about authentification, you still need a certificate from a CA.
I once tried to make some home-made certificate with OpenSSL, but it's really complicated and not very compatible with Outlook Express... until someone makes a "point and click" certificate generator for Win32, SMIME will never take off.
Some schools try to get around this by focusing on examinations instead of assignments for the bulk of the course marks, but it has been demonstrated again and again that exams only teach one thing - how to do well on exams.
Humm - you mean it is less easy to cheat during examination ? Damn, I must be very good at it then ! My most "collaborative" school work has been done during examinations, not assignement. I remember once, making doing an examination with the help of about 20 different peoples, each doing the question that he/she knew best then passing along the solutions to other.
I think cheating is hacking, one has to be smart, quick and stealth to do it well and be ready to fight the establishment. Idiot cheaters and hackers always get caught.
Yeah but many also claimed the earth was the center of the universe, that it was flat and that the world is about 6000 years old... if they were created by God, they wouldn't be so full of stupid and wrong affirmations.
Some of the newer Athlon processors have 12x multipliers. That means the processor is working 12 times as fast as the rest of the system
Not quite, because Athlon bus is dual-pumped, it moves data twice for every clock cycle, which means that for a 1200 Mhz CPU with 12x multiplier you have a 200 Mhz equivalent bus - the CPU is really only 6 times faster than the bus.
As for the Pentium 4 and its 100 Mhzquad-pumped bus, it is 1500/(100x4) = 3,75 multiplier, which is even lower (and explain why this CPU is a screamer when it comes to bandwidth apps:)
Although I agree with you that other components need more improvement than the CPU, I still wish my box could uncompress 50 JPEG at 2048x536 res. in less than a second (speed required to browse my picture library with ACDSee:)
Humm, I think Taïwan has pretty non-existent copyright laws, but any country in Eastern-Europe or many other pacific islands would do the trick too. They can probably place several servers in several different places, that way it gets impossible to shut them down at all:)
Also Postgres doesn't support blob, you have to use a funky "large object interface" that plainly sucks... and unsigned integers are not available too... and it seems Postgres files are not very crash-proof.
Yeah, but in practice, even with up-to-date versions, there are lots of bugs with the BDB tables (table format required for transaction support). When I switched my site from MyISAM tables to BDB tables in order to benefit from transaction, left joins stopped working, "show table status" core-dumped, etc...
MySQL : nice toy to play with, still not a real database.
The P4 is not a total failure, it's like the Pentium Pro : no software can really show today what the core is capable of. That doesn't mean the core itself is worthless, just that some people need to recompile their apps...
I think it is easier to install your app on a single server and let the world use it with any browser. No deployment, no configuration, no upgrades to distribute, totally cross-platform, etc... I love this:)
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Oh wait, the French have them, so that is the continent's nuclear deterrent taken care of.
As do the UK. Although in a US vs Europe war they'd probably side with the US, just like they always do when a small trade-wars between the two giants appear.
Funny how a deployed and working missile defense system will invalidate it completely.
You are under the impression that the US has technology the Europeans don't. What makes you think they don't have anti-missiles too, and counter-measures against anti-missiles ? Last time I checked the Patriots were pretty loosy anti-missiles compared to the French equivalent. Also most (all?) European nukes (French/UK) are lunched from nuclear-subs, so it won't be as easy to shot down as a loosy north-korean missiles traveling accross the whole pacific. The US army has a huge weak point : arrogance...
Since when do the French run the EU? It's really a Franco-German axis driving the thing, with the Germans usually more dominant.
It's more complex than that. Germany is usually dominant in economic and social matters, while France is dominant in military, diplomacy and cultural matters.
The stars used to be for every EU country, but when they reached 15 countries they stopped adding stars and decided to settle on 12 as the number is good anyway :)
No - because even if it bounces you can still frame it and hang it in your living room :)
Humm, if this is illegal then how come you can buy 802.11 stuff like in France ?
802.11 is not illegal in France - the army has agreed to let individual use these frequencies.
and if you steal the software
/dev/null.
Pirating is not stealing. Stealing takes away something from someone. Making an illegal copy might take away a sale from the publisher - or it might not. Because you make an illegal copy of something doesn't mean that, if you were honest, you'd buy it. I'd say that if pirate had to pay for all their software, they would not purchase more than 5% of what they pirate. Hence 5% of what they pirate is stealing, the remaining is not. Most downloaded warez end up unused on a CD-R or in
More than that, but piracy is actually helping some publishers, because if everyone had to pay for it's Windows/Office license, Linux/Staroffice/Koffice would have a much higher market share... and when people use Office at home, they also ask for the same software at work (and the company then buys it because businesses usually avoid piracy).
Of course MS/Adobe and other publisher would like you to think it is the same as stealing, because then they can claim trillion of dollars of loss and lobby for thoughter law on piracy.
tcpdump won't tell you which server hosted the data, as each Freenet node is a proxy to other nodes. You can know which was the final node the data went thru, but not the originating server.
And even if you could trace back datas to the first server who hosted them, you couldn't delete them. You couldn't either find the guy who made them available, nor sue the node manager as per DMCA he is not responsible as long as he removes the content from his server upon request.
Frankly I fail to see how tcpdump can do anything else than finding that "A asked a freenet node B some information, and got something in return". That's pretty weak evidences to put someone into jail...
Except even when you snoop the TCP connection it is encrypted, both the content and the search request. Basically they have no way of knowing what infos you are looking for, what results you get and what you download, and who had the info in the first place (other nodes are just cache, and the admin can't even know what is cached).
If it was free speech you would be able to post it on your web page and the government would leave you alone.
DeCSS, MP3, the OT III documents, MS source code publishing, etc... they are all censorship done by corporations or "religions". The biggest enemy of free speech is not the governement (although they are not very fond of it) but private entities. Why do you Americans need to accuse your governement of all problems when most them are actually caused by a lack of governement, which lets corporations do whatever they want without any limits ??? I just don't get it...
There's no such thing as "free trade". It is mostly an agreement saying "I'll screw you, but you are allowed to screw me... if you can". Of course it is no surprise the biggest proponents of free trade are the most powerfull economies, as they need free-trade to take over foreign market and slowly change the world to a huge corporation (AOL-Time-Warner-Vivendi-Universal-AT&T-Proter&Gam ble-Sony).
I sort of thought that "German armed forces" counted as a major military organization.
That was true... before 1945. Now although it is a modern and well equiped army, it doesn't have the same firepower as the USA, Russia, France, UK or China. The germans themselves are mildly happy about having big military forces, considered what they did with it in the past.
If you knew what Freenet was, you'd know that it doesn't let you know what server host what, and even the server admin himself cannot know what he is hosting...
1) Python has had license issues.
To hell with license issues and GPL integrists, it's open source, it's free for all uses, that's fine enough with me. I've not enough time to loose by using the wrong tools, just because the right one doesn't have a pure enough license.
2) Python is defined by it's implementation. There's no standard for developers to rely on.
So is PHP, Delphi, Coldfusion, ASP, Visual Basic, all RDBMS's SQL interface, and many other languages that are pushed by only one group or vendor. And you know what ? No one gives a f* because in the end what matters is that the job gets done and that compatibility isn't broken or is so lightly altered that porting to a newer version of the language is a matter of recompiling or changing three lines here and there. It's not like you need to rewrite all your code every year to stay compliant.
3) New versions break old programs. I do NOT want my customers to have to have 2 or 3 versions of Python installed.
That's what happened with PHP 4 too, and millions of coders just switched and changed a few lines of their program. Big deal.
This is possible with Outlook Express (and Netscape or Outlook too I think), using the standard SMIME. The problem is that to use it, you need a certificate, and to get a certificate you have to pay (Verisign or Thawte : doesn't matter, they are the same company holding now a monopoly). What is really sad is that, even if you are ONLY interested in encryption and don't care about authentification, you still need a certificate from a CA.
I once tried to make some home-made certificate with OpenSSL, but it's really complicated and not very compatible with Outlook Express... until someone makes a "point and click" certificate generator for Win32, SMIME will never take off.
Some schools try to get around this by focusing on examinations instead of assignments for the bulk of the course marks, but it has been demonstrated again and again that exams only teach one thing - how to do well on exams.
Humm - you mean it is less easy to cheat during examination ? Damn, I must be very good at it then ! My most "collaborative" school work has been done during examinations, not assignement. I remember once, making doing an examination with the help of about 20 different peoples, each doing the question that he/she knew best then passing along the solutions to other.
I think cheating is hacking, one has to be smart, quick and stealth to do it well and be ready to fight the establishment. Idiot cheaters and hackers always get caught.
Yeah but many also claimed the earth was the center of the universe, that it was flat and that the world is about 6000 years old... if they were created by God, they wouldn't be so full of stupid and wrong affirmations.
Hummm... since religion is the creation of man, and since man is weak... you can draw the conclusion yourself.
Some of the newer Athlon processors have 12x multipliers. That means the processor is working 12 times as fast as the rest of the system
:)
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Not quite, because Athlon bus is dual-pumped, it moves data twice for every clock cycle, which means that for a 1200 Mhz CPU with 12x multiplier you have a 200 Mhz equivalent bus - the CPU is really only 6 times faster than the bus.
As for the Pentium 4 and its 100 Mhzquad-pumped bus, it is 1500/(100x4) = 3,75 multiplier, which is even lower (and explain why this CPU is a screamer when it comes to bandwidth apps
Although I agree with you that other components need more improvement than the CPU, I still wish my box could uncompress 50 JPEG at 2048x536 res. in less than a second (speed required to browse my picture library with ACDSee
Humm, I think Taïwan has pretty non-existent copyright laws, but any country in Eastern-Europe or many other pacific islands would do the trick too. They can probably place several servers in several different places, that way it gets impossible to shut them down at all :)
...and it is very buggy (I tried : left joins stopped working as soon as my tables were converted to BDB tables)
Also Postgres doesn't support blob, you have to use a funky "large object interface" that plainly sucks... and unsigned integers are not available too... and it seems Postgres files are not very crash-proof.
Yeah, but in practice, even with up-to-date versions, there are lots of bugs with the BDB tables (table format required for transaction support). When I switched my site from MyISAM tables to BDB tables in order to benefit from transaction, left joins stopped working, "show table status" core-dumped, etc...
MySQL : nice toy to play with, still not a real database.
The P4 is not a total failure, it's like the Pentium Pro : no software can really show today what the core is capable of. That doesn't mean the core itself is worthless, just that some people need to recompile their apps...
I think it is easier to install your app on a single server and let the world use it with any browser. No deployment, no configuration, no upgrades to distribute, totally cross-platform, etc... I love this :)
What's wrong with PHP ? It is not the best designed language around but I've seen worse (like C++ ;)