Hmmm. That woulda been funny circa 2000, but the recent ones have been called ME and XP. I wouldn't be surprised if Longhorn has some other two letter name.
I've got an interesting story for you.. It appears that servers have been badly hacked, and some malicious entity is now snooping on the communications of all their customers. Passwords, credit card numbers and other personal information are all at risk. I've tried contacting the ISP, the FBI and a couple of other entities with no satisfiction. Are you interested?
I'd think that would be pretty effective. But for maximum effect, try changing "malicious entity" to "cyber terrorist" or "evildoer". Then you'll get national coverage!
I don't think that article covers things like different white space, change variable names, etc. It would be SUPER easy to fool the MD5 sum. How about changing something like this:
Wow. If their claim is true and enforceable those are pretty amazing rights.
Actually, I have some bad news for you all. I have copyright and full dsitribution rights to the "Hello World" (c) program. If any of you have ever started off a project with "Hello World" (c), regardless of what your program eventually became, then I own the full rights to your program. And I'm gonna sue you all for a combined 1 gazillion dollars.
Generally speaking, I am surprised to see how negative Slashdotters are to new technology, especially before knowing much about how it works. The assumption always seems to be that the implementation will be completely useless, dangerous and insecure.
Of course there will be troubles to get this to work properly. Honda will solve those problems, and put the technology in their expensive cars. If it is efficent and cheap enough it will go mainstream. That's all there is to it, pretty much.
Now that was insightful. Great post. I've often wondered that myself.
Are you referring to the dialog asking for your NTLM password when you first start up Firebird/Mozilla? Even though you checked Remember my password? That bug drives me nuts. Why does it do that? Grrr!!
People have been to work and communicate their ideas for thousands of years without the benefit of computers. PCs are convenient, but if you're creative, you can find ways around the limitations [of text]. And if you're writing to your grandmother, you probably want to keep it simple anyway.
White space would obviously change the MD5 right? So all the infringer (or someone trying to hide the infringement, to take the argument SCO might use) would have to do is add some space here and there and the MD5 won't be at all the same. I don't think that's a valid method to determine if the code is stolen or not.
ThinkSecret is implying Safari 1.0 is close to Golden Master, and they are quite reliable. I think they've mentioned image blocking and special tab features too.
There are two sides to the coin. A weak dollar is bad for consumers and importers but good for exporters. And vice versa. As someone else noted, the US is a huge importer.
Here in Canada, our dollar is gaining rapidly on the US dollar. My company is worried because our goods cost a lot more in our biggest export market (the US). However I am thrilled, because a new 970 based Mac will cost a lot less.
You speak a lot of sense. I thought I heard the whole reason Apple started developing Safari was they caught wind of this and didn't want to leave the users out in the cold. Was I just dreaming that?
If you get a chance, read Ellen Ulman's article Programming the Post-Human - Computer Science redefines life. It was an excellent and realistic look at the current state of AI development. It was found in the October 2002 issue of Harper's Magazine. (I couldn't find an online copy) I'll have to think about picking up this book now, I thought her writing was superb.
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Somebody mod parent up and original post down. I hate when people do that.
Another stupid thing is the editor saying they covered it 2 years ago when they covered it on May 9th too. I guess that's coz the Slashdot search sucks so bad.
Raging about Slashdot on Slashdot for my 500th comment. Beautiful.
I've got a question about that installation. Why does installing a Java SDK install two JREs - One in Program Files and one in the SDK directory? That really pisses me off. Also, they don't uninstall properly. I have to hack my registry pretty often.
It's attributed to George Box, a "famous" statistician. I like it because it's a reminder that we shouldn't get too caught up in any one set of beliefs because it's likely to all chanage at some point in the future.
Good lord man. Air has very little H2 by itself. In H20, you can't just separate the hydrogen from the oxygen by herding them into little containers. It takes some serious energy to do that, which must be generated from somewhere.
You use the hydrogen which exists.
That's the problem. It doesn't exist in great quantities anywhere freely.
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The allusion is lost on me. Can anyone explain?
Hmmm. That woulda been funny circa 2000, but the recent ones have been called ME and XP. I wouldn't be surprised if Longhorn has some other two letter name.
I'd think that would be pretty effective. But for maximum effect, try changing "malicious entity" to "cyber terrorist" or "evildoer". Then you'll get national coverage!
Huh? The big 5 record label execs of course.
I don't think that article covers things like different white space, change variable names, etc. It would be SUPER easy to fool the MD5 sum. How about changing something like this:
for(i=0; i < x; i++) to
for(i=0; i < x; i+=1)
Actually, I have some bad news for you all. I have copyright and full dsitribution rights to the "Hello World" (c) program. If any of you have ever started off a project with "Hello World" (c), regardless of what your program eventually became, then I own the full rights to your program. And I'm gonna sue you all for a combined 1 gazillion dollars.
Of course there will be troubles to get this to work properly. Honda will solve those problems, and put the technology in their expensive cars. If it is efficent and cheap enough it will go mainstream. That's all there is to it, pretty much.
Now that was insightful. Great post. I've often wondered that myself.
Are you referring to the dialog asking for your NTLM password when you first start up Firebird/Mozilla? Even though you checked Remember my password? That bug drives me nuts. Why does it do that? Grrr!!
Yup, agreed. It was in there about the same time as 1.4RC1.
People have been to work and communicate their ideas for thousands of years without the benefit of computers. PCs are convenient, but if you're creative, you can find ways around the limitations [of text]. And if you're writing to your grandmother, you probably want to keep it simple anyway.
White space would obviously change the MD5 right? So all the infringer (or someone trying to hide the infringement, to take the argument SCO might use) would have to do is add some space here and there and the MD5 won't be at all the same. I don't think that's a valid method to determine if the code is stolen or not.
(I guess this isn't as funny as I initially thought since you can use open source SW for a router. But you still need to buy the HW!)
ThinkSecret is implying Safari 1.0 is close to Golden Master, and they are quite reliable. I think they've mentioned image blocking and special tab features too.
I'd also point out that he is VP of Hardware Marketing, not Hardware. (i.e. Engineering)
Here in Canada, our dollar is gaining rapidly on the US dollar. My company is worried because our goods cost a lot more in our biggest export market (the US). However I am thrilled, because a new 970 based Mac will cost a lot less.
Hehe. I guess she is on Slashdot but maybe you already saw that.
You speak a lot of sense. I thought I heard the whole reason Apple started developing Safari was they caught wind of this and didn't want to leave the users out in the cold. Was I just dreaming that?
If you get a chance, read Ellen Ulman's article Programming the Post-Human - Computer Science redefines life. It was an excellent and realistic look at the current state of AI development. It was found in the October 2002 issue of Harper's Magazine. (I couldn't find an online copy) I'll have to think about picking up this book now, I thought her writing was superb.
Another stupid thing is the editor saying they covered it 2 years ago when they covered it on May 9th too. I guess that's coz the Slashdot search sucks so bad.
Raging about Slashdot on Slashdot for my 500th comment. Beautiful.
I've got a question about that installation. Why does installing a Java SDK install two JREs - One in Program Files and one in the SDK directory? That really pisses me off. Also, they don't uninstall properly. I have to hack my registry pretty often.
Also, why don't stories have the year? When you look at and old story, how do you tell what year it's from?
It's attributed to George Box, a "famous" statistician. I like it because it's a reminder that we shouldn't get too caught up in any one set of beliefs because it's likely to all chanage at some point in the future.
Damn, good point. I did forget that.
Oh man! My 286 just finished compiling 2.4.20!
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Oh man! I was downloading at 4000 K/sec before this story showed up. Thanks a lot Slashdot!
You use the hydrogen which exists.
That's the problem. It doesn't exist in great quantities anywhere freely.