Drivers without specs may be somewhat helpful for an individual open-source opersing system, but they are nearly or completely useless for "open source opersing systems" as a whole.
I'd hardly call that a constructive use of moderator points. My comment was already scored 2, and I my vague, one-sentence comment was not worth more than that.
Per capita there is not a single major US city that has lower violent crime than any major Canadian city. Stick your insanely relaxed gun laws up your ass, Americans, you guys have got it all wrong.
I dunno, Regina has a pretty high per-capita crime rate. I don't know the exact figures, but this last year, Regina was (again) rated the Crime Capital of Canada. Toronto was #22.
The advantages are proof (i.e. unbreakable) against brute force attacks and known-plaintext attacks (unlike the OTP).
If this guy thinks the known-plaintext "attack" to OTP is a problem, then he don't know what a OTP is.
For those of you who don't know, every byte in a one-time pad is used to encrypt one and only one byte. Ever. If you know the plaintext and the ciphertext, you can derive the key, for that one byte, but that information is useless for every other byte in the ciphertext.
My experience with Win2000 on the servers at work (I work at a web hosting company) is that it rarely bluescreens. However, they still need to be booted every day or two, because random things just subtly stop working properly.
Also, I think Win2000 reboots (rather than bluescreening) by default, but I'm not 100% sure about that.
Agreed. I'm very interested in HURD, but not because of licencing (well, at least not compared with Linux or *BSD). Lately, I've been coming up with ideas of what a capabilities a future OS should have, and when I tell people, I keep getting told "Hurd can do that". It's fascinating.
Granted, I never actually got Hurd running for very long yet. I can't remember why. I think I needed the extra hard disk space for something else, so I wiped it.
Except for the fact that Schwarzennaegar isn't an American citizen by birth, which is required by the constituition for a person to run for and be elected President.
I don't understand why you would have birthright in the constitution. If people would vote for a "foreigner", why can't they?
Slashdot is probably not the best place to get advice. It's great for ideas, but I would definitely recommend posting to a few newsgroups and getting involved in a few mailing lists as well. My experience is that the/. crowd has a lot of great ideas, but those ideas are usually not backed by a lot of practical experience.
Of course, I'm giving you advice on Slashdot, so what do I know?:-P
Mutual termination ensures that if anyone asserts patent royalties then everyone loses all rights to the software. This way, none of the users have the right to use the software any more (in the Copyright sense), and so since they can't be using it, they cannot be forced to pay royalties. This keeps the patent owners honest - they can't hijack OSS to further non-OSS goals.
Not quite. Where's what the clause says:
9. Mutual Termination for Patent Action. This License shall terminate automatically and You may no longer exercise any of the rights granted to You by this License if You file a lawsuit in any court alleging that any OSI Certified open source software that is licensed under any license containing this "Mutual Termination for Patent Action" clause infringes any patent claims that are essential to use that software.
In other words, if you write write a program and distribute it under the OSL, and I hold a software patent on that software, and sue you for patent infringement, I lose all my rights under the OSL, but nobody else does.
There is NO WAY that I want a UNIQUE identifier linking me w/ANY purchase.
Nobody's forcing you to use the PIN to listen to the CD.
This PIN system is much like the system used for Quake III Arena. You can play the game without the CD, but if you want to use id Software's master servers, you have to punch in the CD key.
I hope that they define 'Opt-In' policy as a choice the consumer can make at purchase whether to include the DRM chip at all. I personally do not want any DRM chips on my future processors... disabled or not!
Having a pin on the processor that you can tie low/high (eg, with a jumper on the mobo or whatever) would be sufficient. AMD can't just leave a big hole in a CPU. They probably have to redesign. Even if they didn't, AMD would have to change their assembly line to support double of everything. It's simply not going to happen.
A 'user' has to have administrative permissions ('S' IIRC) to the folder to undelete a file. To undelete a folder, you have to have Admin priv for the volume
Not in Netware 2.x/3.x. I don't know if this changed later, but I distinctly recall salvaging files from my home directory at school. I did NOT have 'S'upervisory permissions on my home dir.
Note that 120 sec is
defined in the protocol as the maximum possible RTT. I guess we'll have to use something other than TCP to talk to the University of Mars.
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Drivers without specs may be somewhat helpful for an individual open-source opersing system, but they are nearly or completely useless for "open source opersing systems" as a whole.
What's a TeraFLOP? A trillion (a million million) Floating OPerations ... per second? ... ever??
I'd hardly call that a constructive use of moderator points. My comment was already scored 2, and I my vague, one-sentence comment was not worth more than that.
Every display has a frame buffer, somewhere.
That's not Linux support. That's a hack to let Linux have Windows app support.
I dunno, Regina has a pretty high per-capita crime rate. I don't know the exact figures, but this last year, Regina was (again) rated the Crime Capital of Canada. Toronto was #22.
If this guy thinks the known-plaintext "attack" to OTP is a problem, then he don't know what a OTP is.
For those of you who don't know, every byte in a one-time pad is used to encrypt one and only one byte. Ever. If you know the plaintext and the ciphertext, you can derive the key, for that one byte, but that information is useless for every other byte in the ciphertext.
Also, I think Win2000 reboots (rather than bluescreening) by default, but I'm not 100% sure about that.
Granted, I never actually got Hurd running for very long yet. I can't remember why. I think I needed the extra hard disk space for something else, so I wiped it.
That's Digital Restriction Mechanisms (DRM).
I don't understand why you would have birthright in the constitution. If people would vote for a "foreigner", why can't they?
Of course, I'm giving you advice on Slashdot, so what do I know? :-P
Time for some GPG signing, I think.
Not quite. Where's what the clause says:
In other words, if you write write a program and distribute it under the OSL, and I hold a software patent on that software, and sue you for patent infringement, I lose all my rights under the OSL, but nobody else does.
Nobody's forcing you to use the PIN to listen to the CD.
This PIN system is much like the system used for Quake III Arena. You can play the game without the CD, but if you want to use id Software's master servers, you have to punch in the CD key.
s/free as in speech/free as in freedom/
Be quiet. How is that position "liberal", anyway?
Clearing to 1s then blanking 0s would be more writes than just basic overwriting.
Clearing to 1s is not done bit-by-bit. I believe it's usually done in bulk, like EPROMs were.
That statement is that of an elitist asshole.
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I think this describes Windows quite well.
I hope that they define 'Opt-In' policy as a choice the consumer can make at purchase whether to include the DRM chip at all. I personally do not want any DRM chips on my future processors... disabled or not!
Having a pin on the processor that you can tie low/high (eg, with a jumper on the mobo or whatever) would be sufficient. AMD can't just leave a big hole in a CPU. They probably have to redesign. Even if they didn't, AMD would have to change their assembly line to support double of everything. It's simply not going to happen.
Quit complaining. While it is not copylefted software, it is still free software.
A 'user' has to have administrative permissions ('S' IIRC) to the folder to undelete a file. To undelete a folder, you have to have Admin priv for the volume
Not in Netware 2.x/3.x. I don't know if this changed later, but I distinctly recall salvaging files from my home directory at school. I did NOT have 'S'upervisory permissions on my home dir.
If we don't like the way the education system is being run we vote em out of office and get someone new.
That doesn't work when you have 60% of your voting population that is either ignorant or apathetic.
DES is symmetric, and I'm pretty sure AES (Rijindael) and Serpent are, as well.
Note that 120 sec is defined in the protocol as the maximum possible RTT. I guess we'll have to use something other than TCP to talk to the University of Mars.