Go back a little further, and you'll see that they're the ones who put USB on the map. We'd still be using PS/2 keyboard and mice, parallel-port printers, and serial modems.
Unless high bandwidth was needed. In that case, you'd have a proprietary SCSI card in your system that your scanner connected to.
Instead, we have 400 Mb/s transfer rates with pocket-sized external disk drives and the ability to plug in most of our peripherals into a single USB port on the computer by way of a hub.
It's the Slashdot way. Typically, people who submit comments would like to give a little initial direction to discussion. If the submitter doesn't add a question, the editor usually does.
Though if the submitter does append a question, the editor occasionally gives his own answer, or a link to some additional information he googled up before the story went live.
Heh. I never noticed that. I guess I am ingrained.
Even under Linux, I don't generally have more than a couple apps open at a time. Typically gkrellm and gnome-terminal. (With four or five tabs running different apps. One typically runs top. Another might be running a disk-intensive app. Another might be running a memory-intensive app. A few more couple be a couple man pages and a vim session. But the few-GUI-windows rule is still automatic. Heck; that's why I use a tabbed terminal emulator.)
I'm curious how much a federal judge would care about Microsoft abusing its control of software against a group of people who don't stand to make money off the software they write.
Of course, there's still products like WineX that are charged for...
I'm no crypto expert, but isn't it just a matter of finding a nondeterministic operation in the algorithm, giving it a resulting value, and proceeding backwards with two values that collide in that operation?
Take the whole algorithm, reverse the order, and replace each step with a step that can produce multiple possible outputs for a given input. (such as, sqrt(4)) Start at the end of your "new" algorithm, and search for the first step that will produce multiple values as an output for a single value as an input. This single input value, when run through the the true algorithm forward from the appropriate point, will give you your collided key result. Run through your new algorithm forward from the step that it was deduced from, and it will give you the colliding values.
Is it OK for the press to publish your bank account numbers and pass phrase that a hacker gave them?
Still grounds for a civil suit, even if criminal charges are thrown out.
Is it OK for them to publish the codes to launch nuclear missiles given to them by a foreign spy?
That's not being a reporter, is it?
Is it OK for them to publish slanderous and completely untrue information in order to inflate their own stock price?
That's called libel. Which doesn't have constitutional status, but has a long, strong precedent. (Technically, the Supreme Court wasn't given the constitutional status as a check for the Legislative and Executive branches. But Chief Justice John Marshall essentially annexed that status, and it's been there ever since.)
The answer to all of these questions is "no." The reason is because they break laws.
As mentioned above, Chief Justice John Marshall gave the Supreme Court the ability to declare laws unconstitutional. A law is invalid if it violates the constitution, according to the opinion of the USSC.
There are several laws that restrict free speech and they apply to both members of the press (a legally undefined term) and everyone else. The reason these laws exist is because the supreme court and congress agree that other clauses of the constitution take precedence over the freedom of the press clause in a few specific instances.
Congress doesn't have the right to specify which clauses of the Constitution take precedence over other clauses. That's the job of the Supreme Court. And they don't always agree, but the USSC only takes action against unconstitutional laws if someone is able to bring a case up to their level. Which is why, for instance, the DMCA hasn't been addressed there yet; any case that might either reaches a settlement or has charges dropped. The only example in memory where someone tried to continue up the ladder after charges were dropped was denied, since they were no longer under direc threat.
This does not in any way stop them from publishing this information, it just means that they will be punished by the law after doing so.
Get it?
I do; I don't think you do. You really ought to take an introductory-level government course.
However, there's a difference between protecting a whistle-blower in a corrupt presidential administration, and protecting the corportate espianage of people who sign and then violate NDA contracts.
Depending on your take of the definition of Treason, your could argue that protecting corporate NDA violators is more valid than protecting government whistleblowers.
Personally, I think a definition of "The Press" is in order. Should the definition limit protections to those involving government, or does the definition include organizations that broadcast non-government-related information? What about activist information channels like epinions.com and the NRA newsletter? (Epinions could be considered a consumer-advocacy group, like Amazon bn.com, and NewEgg reviews.)
Ammendment I: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press are two separate items. A fact that is quite frequently forgotten. I, for one, see six separate points in the above text.
The Press has its own freedom, outside the concept of "Freedom of Speech."
When that "third party" is the Press, then the 1st Ammendment applies. Regardless of the nature of the organization whose confidentiality was breeched.
...and we still don't know who Deep Throat was, I have to admit surprise that modern corporations can muscle the media better than the federal government, particularly the Nixon administration.
Speaking from experience, I can tell you that the BBB also cooperates with business who have complaints filed against them.
The only place I've worked at that had complaints filed against it was able to take care of the issue by explaining the situation. For example, one customer complained that he'd pre-paid for a year of our dial-up service, and that service was unavailable two times, in that period.
Now, we were a mom & pop shop that prided itself on reliability and service. Our record was stellar, compared to the other services in the area.
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Try running DirectX and OpenGL apps over WTS. That's the primary thing that requires I use a KVM switch instead of grdesktop.
"Digital Pants, activate!
Er. It seems they've crashed. It's a beta garment, you know."
-- Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie
(And all Microsoft ever wanted was love.)
Not if it shorts. (evil grin)
Very few peripherals were available for USB until Apple released a USB-only system. Then peripherals started showing up, and PC adoption picked up.
FireWire hasn't seen the same success because, given the choice, hardware developers preferred to go with the cheaper-to-implement USB specs.
Go back a little further, and you'll see that they're the ones who put USB on the map. We'd still be using PS/2 keyboard and mice, parallel-port printers, and serial modems.
Unless high bandwidth was needed. In that case, you'd have a proprietary SCSI card in your system that your scanner connected to.
Instead, we have 400 Mb/s transfer rates with pocket-sized external disk drives and the ability to plug in most of our peripherals into a single USB port on the computer by way of a hub.
It's the Slashdot way. Typically, people who submit comments would like to give a little initial direction to discussion. If the submitter doesn't add a question, the editor usually does.
Though if the submitter does append a question, the editor occasionally gives his own answer, or a link to some additional information he googled up before the story went live.
Heh. I never noticed that. I guess I am ingrained.
Even under Linux, I don't generally have more than a couple apps open at a time. Typically gkrellm and gnome-terminal. (With four or five tabs running different apps. One typically runs top. Another might be running a disk-intensive app. Another might be running a memory-intensive app. A few more couple be a couple man pages and a vim session. But the few-GUI-windows rule is still automatic. Heck; that's why I use a tabbed terminal emulator.)
I'm curious how much a federal judge would care about Microsoft abusing its control of software against a group of people who don't stand to make money off the software they write.
Of course, there's still products like WineX that are charged for...
Remember, "The Majority is Always Sane."
...new life, in fact, to... ...IBM-compatible.
What about online services, like O'Reilly's Safari Books Online?
I'm no crypto expert, but isn't it just a matter of finding a nondeterministic operation in the algorithm, giving it a resulting value, and proceeding backwards with two values that collide in that operation?
Take the whole algorithm, reverse the order, and replace each step with a step that can produce multiple possible outputs for a given input. (such as, sqrt(4)) Start at the end of your "new" algorithm, and search for the first step that will produce multiple values as an output for a single value as an input. This single input value, when run through the the true algorithm forward from the appropriate point, will give you your collided key result. Run through your new algorithm forward from the step that it was deduced from, and it will give you the colliding values.
No need to brute-force it.
I haven't a clue which ruling set the precedent, but states' laws, for a long time, have been subject to the federal constitution.
Also, the regulation of interstate commerce is the pervue of the federal government, not individual states.
sommercial - adj - The business of psychoactive drugs.
sommercial - n - An advertisement for soma.
Source: A Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
You're using Watergate as an example for the wrong side of this argument.
Erm...I wasn't arguing either side in that post. I was comparing the effectiveness of efforts to clamp down on the press.
Sure it may be different, in terms of legality. I was comparing efforts to clamp down on the press.
Is it OK for the press to publish your bank account numbers and pass phrase that a hacker gave them?
Still grounds for a civil suit, even if criminal charges are thrown out.
Is it OK for them to publish the codes to launch nuclear missiles given to them by a foreign spy?
That's not being a reporter, is it?
Is it OK for them to publish slanderous and completely untrue information in order to inflate their own stock price?
That's called libel. Which doesn't have constitutional status, but has a long, strong precedent. (Technically, the Supreme Court wasn't given the constitutional status as a check for the Legislative and Executive branches. But Chief Justice John Marshall essentially annexed that status, and it's been there ever since.)
The answer to all of these questions is "no." The reason is because they break laws.
As mentioned above, Chief Justice John Marshall gave the Supreme Court the ability to declare laws unconstitutional. A law is invalid if it violates the constitution, according to the opinion of the USSC.
There are several laws that restrict free speech and they apply to both members of the press (a legally undefined term) and everyone else. The reason these laws exist is because the supreme court and congress agree that other clauses of the constitution take precedence over the freedom of the press clause in a few specific instances.
Congress doesn't have the right to specify which clauses of the Constitution take precedence over other clauses. That's the job of the Supreme Court. And they don't always agree, but the USSC only takes action against unconstitutional laws if someone is able to bring a case up to their level. Which is why, for instance, the DMCA hasn't been addressed there yet; any case that might either reaches a settlement or has charges dropped. The only example in memory where someone tried to continue up the ladder after charges were dropped was denied, since they were no longer under direc threat.
This does not in any way stop them from publishing this information, it just means that they will be punished by the law after doing so.
Get it?
I do; I don't think you do. You really ought to take an introductory-level government course.
However, there's a difference between protecting a whistle-blower in a corrupt presidential administration, and protecting the corportate espianage of people who sign and then violate NDA contracts.
Depending on your take of the definition of Treason, your could argue that protecting corporate NDA violators is more valid than protecting government whistleblowers.
Personally, I think a definition of "The Press" is in order. Should the definition limit protections to those involving government, or does the definition include organizations that broadcast non-government-related information? What about activist information channels like epinions.com and the NRA newsletter? (Epinions could be considered a consumer-advocacy group, like Amazon bn.com, and NewEgg reviews.)
Ammendment I:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press are two separate items. A fact that is quite frequently forgotten. I, for one, see six separate points in the above text.
The Press has its own freedom, outside the concept of "Freedom of Speech."
...now they're watchdogs of corporations and business interests.
When that "third party" is the Press, then the 1st Ammendment applies. Regardless of the nature of the organization whose confidentiality was breeched.
...and we still don't know who Deep Throat was, I have to admit surprise that modern corporations can muscle the media better than the federal government, particularly the Nixon administration.
Speaking from experience, I can tell you that the BBB also cooperates with business who have complaints filed against them.
The only place I've worked at that had complaints filed against it was able to take care of the issue by explaining the situation. For example, one customer complained that he'd pre-paid for a year of our dial-up service, and that service was unavailable two times, in that period.
Now, we were a mom & pop shop that prided itself on reliability and service. Our record was stellar, compared to the other services in the area.
If I had broadband. I don't even have dial-up, now. My net access is strictly at work/school.
I hope they add it to Celestia. Watching an object three times the size of the sun move across an accurate star field would be fascinating.