I've been an avid supporter of Be for years. I like the OS and have bought many versions. I think it would do well as open source for numerous reasons. The one that sticks out most in my mind is that it is truly an object oriented OS. I am an object oriented developer and I've looked through and attempted to write some code for linux, and I really didn't like it. BeOS on the other hand, is something I'd like to contribute to. I'm sure there are many other object oriented developers who feel the same way. Imagine if you could get the BeOS GUI to run on top of the linux kernel. What a product it could be!
The team at Ximian has been busy fixing every bug you guys have reported (feature requests will have to wait until 1.0 ships, we are in feature freeze now) and we are closing bugs faster that you can report them.
I've been hoping to get this bug fixed for a while now. What are you going to do about that? Huh? Huh?
This is a petition to keep people from taking your freedom. Stand up for your rights, please! Do it before it's too late. It's much more difficult to take back laws once they are in place.
I have been trying to submit this article for the last few days and it's been rejected every time. Please take the time to read it. It is an important piece.
Flame me or mod me down if you like, but I REALLY don't understand what gets posted as an article and what doesn't. I submitted a story that is in the interest of everyone on this site. An article that is "News For Nerds" and something that REALLY MATTERS. It talks about how your rights are being violated and why that is a bad thing. There is even a petition to sign to stand up for your rights. The article I am referring to is this. Please read it and spread the word. I hope people get a chance to read it, even though slashdot won't put it on the front page. I guess NSync is more important...
In the latest cryptogram I referenced this article. And this quote(look at the reader comments at the bottom to see my point):
"There are many people of poor and evil motivations who are seeking to disrupt business and government and exploit any vulnerabilities in the digital universe."
From John Ashcroft. This guy is just way off base here. He is totally missing what is going on the real world. We need some more technically savvy people in the government!
Their communication was NOT encrypted anyway!
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The official, who is heading up the cyber-portion of the investigation, told reporters the bureau had obtained hundreds of unencrypted e-mail messages exchanged by the hijackers and their associates, dating as far back as 30 to 45 days prior to the Sept. 11 attacks.
Regulating encryption is unnecessary.
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Why? You may ask. Because the FBI,CIA,NSA, etc, etc had all the information unencrypted to stop these attacks. They just failed to analyze it correctly. Stories are just now beginning to surface that the US was warned that this was coming from countries such as the Philipines. Was it encrypted that friends of bin ladin were financing people to come here to take flight training? No. Was it encrypted that they did not even want training on landing or takeoffs? I don't think so. All the information and clues were there in their unencrypted form. Our "intelligence" agencies just failed to realize it. Allowing them more information via back doors in encryption or wiretaps or whatever will not solve anything until they are able to analyze the information they already have.
They are really missing the point here. Our government has the NSA. Their website states things like:
NSA also made ground-breaking developments in semiconductor technology and remains a world leader in many technological fields.
Its workforce represents an unusual combination of specialties: analysts, engineers, physicists, mathematicians, linguists, computer scientists, researchers, as well as customer relations specialists, security officers, data flow experts, managers, administrative and clerical assistants.
These guys job is make things secure or attempt to break things that are secure. With all these skills and knowledge, they must know to attack the weakest point of the ENTIRE SYSTEM. PGP is not a system. it is a piece of software in a system. Brute forcing an PGP encrypted email is not the smart way to break it. You would think the NSA would know such things. Do you think Mr. Bin Ladin's decrypts emails that are sent to him? His PGP keys are stored somewhere. Find them. Pay off someone in his posse to email you a copy of his private key. There are MANY alternatives. The attack tree is some much broader than a brute force attack against the algorithm. I would think that the NSA would know such things...
But what about people who were considered to be "slow" or even "retarded" who went on to become incredible geniuses. People like Einstein. Could you imagine if Einsteins parents would have found out that young Albert was gonna be slow, so you might as well abort him. We all would have lost something. People who are considered slow or retarded can go on to do GREAT things. Look at Stephen Hawking! Don't underestimate the power of the human spirt!
but should this be "y2k bug saves two lives"? It seems that (according to the article) the two mothers would have aborted their babies had they known they were going to have downs syndrom. I do consider myself pro-choice, but I don't think that aborting a baby just because it has downs syndrome is the right thing to do. I know many people with downs syndrome, including some family members, and there is no reason they can't live a happy life with parents that love them.
I have 5 computers connected to the internet in my in-home LAN right now. My router/firewall/gateway is a 166MHZ linux box running redhat 6.0. I've been running this setup for about two years, upgrading as necessary. Using IP masquerading this is all very simple and with IP Chains, you can setup any firewall rules you want. I recently installed redhat 7.1 and it has a firewall wizard type thing that makes this all even easier! Take an old box and put linux on it, you won't be dissappointed.
Church supports Neutron bomb attack!?!?
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It's really not the String class that prevents buffer overflows in Java. It's the fact that array's are objects, and not pointers to blocks of memory. An array of any type has a member called length that can tell you how long it is. Any attempt to write beyond length will throw an ArrayIndexOutOfBounds Exception instead of just being able to stomp on adjacent memory areas.
Also, in Java there are no pointers. You have references(similar but not the same). There is no way to point to memory directly, only objects.
That in the revision history that this is the 3rd version of this paper in almost 3 years?
So it takes him almost 3 years to write a 10 paragraph essay with some VB code mixed in, and he is telling us we need to do better? Nice example Mr. Author.
If you ask me, it's those damn comments! They make my code look ugly! I write thousands of lines of beautiful code, only to have to return to it to comment it so joe programmer can come along and "maintain" it later. If it weren't for the comments, my code would be more beautiful than a bridge!
And BTW, did anyone notice that this guys code snippets are in Basic? That's enough to dismiss the article right there!
I collect old computer from friends and family and just add them onto my network. I have extra network cards and I just put them into the computers I get, install linux, and put them on the network. When I get bored I setup one as a primary DNS server, one as a secondary DNS. I play around with apache and sendmail configs. And even try to hack into my own machines for security holes. It's fun. Old computers have many uses, thanks to linux.
So now if I want to buy a kilo of cocaine, some dealer's gonna have to walk up to some two story tall machine and poor in the coke until it's 1 kilogram?
This should be GREAT for police officers. Just look for two story tall electronic kilogram machines to bust all the coke dealers.
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I've been an avid supporter of Be for years. I like the OS and have bought many versions. I think it would do well as open source for numerous reasons. The one that sticks out most in my mind is that it is truly an object oriented OS. I am an object oriented developer and I've looked through and attempted to write some code for linux, and I really didn't like it. BeOS on the other hand, is something I'd like to contribute to. I'm sure there are many other object oriented developers who feel the same way. Imagine if you could get the BeOS GUI to run on top of the linux kernel. What a product it could be!
I thought feedback was something to be avoided on a sound channel...
The team at Ximian has been busy fixing every bug you guys have reported (feature requests will have to wait until 1.0 ships, we are in feature freeze now) and we are closing bugs faster that you can report them.
I've been hoping to get this bug fixed for a while now. What are you going to do about that? Huh? Huh?
It's better than sitting there and doing nothing. What have you done to support those who are trying to keep from getting your freedom taken away?
This is a petition to keep people from taking your freedom. Stand up for your rights, please! Do it before it's too late. It's much more difficult to take back laws once they are in place.
Should read this and sign the petition.
Stand up for your rights!
I have been trying to submit this article for the last few days and it's been rejected every time. Please take the time to read it. It is an important piece.
Flame me or mod me down if you like, but I REALLY don't understand what gets posted as an article and what doesn't. I submitted a story that is in the interest of everyone on this site. An article that is "News For Nerds" and something that REALLY MATTERS. It talks about how your rights are being violated and why that is a bad thing. There is even a petition to sign to stand up for your rights. The article I am referring to is this. Please read it and spread the word. I hope people get a chance to read it, even though slashdot won't put it on the front page. I guess NSync is more important...
"Ask not, what your country can hack for you. Ask what you can hack for your country"
-The Slashdolt
In the latest cryptogram I referenced this article. And this quote(look at the reader comments at the bottom to see my point):
"There are many people of poor and evil motivations who are seeking to disrupt business and government and exploit any vulnerabilities in the digital universe."
From John Ashcroft. This guy is just way off base here. He is totally missing what is going on the real world. We need some more technically savvy people in the government!
Look here.
The official, who is heading up the cyber-portion of the investigation, told reporters the bureau had obtained hundreds of unencrypted e-mail messages exchanged by the hijackers and their associates, dating as far back as 30 to 45 days prior to the Sept. 11 attacks.
Why? You may ask. Because the FBI,CIA,NSA, etc, etc had all the information unencrypted to stop these attacks. They just failed to analyze it correctly. Stories are just now beginning to surface that the US was warned that this was coming from countries such as the Philipines. Was it encrypted that friends of bin ladin were financing people to come here to take flight training? No. Was it encrypted that they did not even want training on landing or takeoffs? I don't think so. All the information and clues were there in their unencrypted form. Our "intelligence" agencies just failed to realize it.
Allowing them more information via back doors in encryption or wiretaps or whatever will not solve anything until they are able to analyze the information they already have.
They are really missing the point here. Our government has the NSA. Their website states things like:
NSA also made ground-breaking developments in semiconductor technology and remains a world leader in many technological fields.
Its workforce represents an unusual combination of specialties: analysts, engineers, physicists, mathematicians, linguists, computer scientists, researchers, as well as customer relations specialists, security officers, data flow experts, managers, administrative and clerical assistants.
These guys job is make things secure or attempt to break things that are secure. With all these skills and knowledge, they must know to attack the weakest point of the ENTIRE SYSTEM. PGP is not a system. it is a piece of software in a system. Brute forcing an PGP encrypted email is not the smart way to break it. You would think the NSA would know such things. Do you think Mr. Bin Ladin's decrypts emails that are sent to him? His PGP keys are stored somewhere. Find them. Pay off someone in his posse to email you a copy of his private key. There are MANY alternatives. The attack tree is some much broader than a brute force attack against the algorithm. I would think that the NSA would know such things...
But what about people who were considered to be "slow" or even "retarded" who went on to become incredible geniuses. People like Einstein. Could you imagine if Einsteins parents would have found out that young Albert was gonna be slow, so you might as well abort him. We all would have lost something. People who are considered slow or retarded can go on to do GREAT things. Look at Stephen Hawking! Don't underestimate the power of the human spirt!
but should this be "y2k bug saves two lives"? It seems that (according to the article) the two mothers would have aborted their babies had they known they were going to have downs syndrom. I do consider myself pro-choice, but I don't think that aborting a baby just because it has downs syndrome is the right thing to do. I know many people with downs syndrome, including some family members, and there is no reason they can't live a happy life with parents that love them.
I have 5 computers connected to the internet in my in-home LAN right now. My router/firewall/gateway is a 166MHZ linux box running redhat 6.0. I've been running this setup for about two years, upgrading as necessary. Using IP masquerading this is all very simple and with IP Chains, you can setup any firewall rules you want. I recently installed redhat 7.1 and it has a firewall wizard type thing that makes this all even easier! Take an old box and put linux on it, you won't be dissappointed.
This is strange!
A church actually supporting an attack?
It's really not the String class that prevents buffer overflows in Java. It's the fact that array's are objects, and not pointers to blocks of memory. An array of any type has a member called length that can tell you how long it is. Any attempt to write beyond length will throw an ArrayIndexOutOfBounds Exception instead of just being able to stomp on adjacent memory areas.
Also, in Java there are no pointers. You have references(similar but not the same). There is no way to point to memory directly, only objects.
"All your presidents are belong to us!"
Microsoft's research into hydroponics. It's the only explanation for this.
That in the revision history that this is the 3rd version of this paper in almost 3 years?
So it takes him almost 3 years to write a 10 paragraph essay with some VB code mixed in, and he is telling us we need to do better? Nice example Mr. Author.
If you ask me, it's those damn comments! They make my code look ugly! I write thousands of lines of beautiful code, only to have to return to it to comment it so joe programmer can come along and "maintain" it later. If it weren't for the comments, my code would be more beautiful than a bridge!
And BTW, did anyone notice that this guys code snippets are in Basic? That's enough to dismiss the article right there!
Will this render the fire fighting dirtbike obsolete?
I collect old computer from friends and family and just add them onto my network. I have extra network cards and I just put them into the computers I get, install linux, and put them on the network. When I get bored I setup one as a primary DNS server, one as a secondary DNS. I play around with apache and sendmail configs. And even try to hack into my own machines for security holes. It's fun. Old computers have many uses, thanks to linux.
Hemos, Don't worry, games don't know the secret of U and I. And I will keep my promise not to say anything. So don't worry my little soldier boy :-).
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So now if I want to buy a kilo of cocaine, some dealer's gonna have to walk up to some two story tall machine and poor in the coke until it's 1 kilogram?
This should be GREAT for police officers. Just look for two story tall electronic kilogram machines to bust all the coke dealers.