Even if this stopped terrorists, which it won't. If I were to live in a police/military state like this, I would move out.
I'm sort of on the other side of the fence with this. I'm a Canadian, and I've refused job offers from the U.S., saying basically to "fix your copyright and cryptography laws, then I'll consider it."
It's a Logitech M-BD58 optical wheel mouse, and it behaves exactly the same on several surfaces. To clarify, it works fine in normal use, and even in games, but I have a 1600x1200 screen, and if I try to "slam" the mouse from one side to the other very quickly, the pointer does a loop and ends up going in the opposite direction, sort of how the wheels of moving vehicles look when sampled on TV at 25 frames/sec.
Yep, but one thing I'd like to see in optical mice is much higher sample rates. Often, when I try to "flick" my mouse around, the pointer does a little dance on the screen and ends up on the opposite side of where it should. Sigh.
Agreed. Besides, the event was not really suprising -- I think everyone outside the U.S. was expecting something like this to happen sooner or later. It's not like the U.S. is short of enemies (hell, the U.S. even stomps all over Canada whenever they get the chance, and Canada is supposed to be their "friend")
About cost: Linux has a lot of hidden maintenance cost. It's only free if your time is of no value for you.
Bullshit. I was hired to introduce GNU/Linux in a WinNT shop, and all Linux machines in the shop were almost completely maintenance-free. The firewall has been running flawlessly since it was set up (the only "maintenance" has been changing iptables as needs dictated). Ditto for the mailserver. Yet, for some reason, the WinNT webservers fsck up nearly every day (we haven't moved to W2K yet, and though the W2K machine shows some improvement, it's still miles behind the 'nix machines.)
Is the encryption export ban such a bad thing when stacked against 50,000 people's lives?
YES! It is such a bad thing. You're forgetting that crypto export controls do nothing to prevent anyone from getting their hands on cryptographic technology. Anyone can build a cryptographic communications device quite easily, so crypto controls will only serve to restrict legitimate use and research in the field. I don't know about you, but I don't want any government wasting its time on useless measures at this time.
Here's the problem with what you're doing: you can't do authentication forwarding, which sucks big-time when you are scping from one remote machine to another remote machine.
Depends of your definition of a "binary". If you equate "binary" with "executable machine-language instructions and data", then you are correct. If you define "binary" as "not ASCII text", then tarballs fall easily into the "binary" category.
We're attacking the Microsoft platform from all the wrong angles. We're trying to tell the public that nobody needs Windows for anything, which is utter crap.
I run Debian most of the time. Occasionally, I boot into Windows for the odd Blizzard game, but that only happens about twice every two weeks. I actually don't mind running Windows at home, because my Windows partition is expendable, so if anything craps out, I just wipe and reinstall. (
Also, since I barely use it, it tends not to break. Go figure.)
Many Windows users' biggest fear is that something will happen that will cause all their hard-worked-on files to be wiped out. For me, this is not a problem because I don't do anything important in Windows.
Rather than telling people that Windows should never be used for anything, and that Linux is better for everything, we should simply tell them that "these are the things that GNU/Linux can do better than Windows, and for anything else, feel free to use Windows if you want." Eventually, that list will grow, and with more Linux users, there will be more Linux-native apps. That, my friends, is how we shall take over the world. [laughs evilly]
The only way MS is going to have a decent OS is when they finally put the following features in the OS:
* Symbolic links
* Named pipes
* A real shell
* NO REGISTRY
* Better locking semantics (i.e. eliminate "sharing violations")
* POSIX processes (basically, fork() and signal())
The most important thing is the POSIX processes. Not being able to fork and send signals back and forth has been my biggest problem with Windows programming.
I guess in other words, Windows will continue to suck as long as it doesn't have the backend power of a Unix.
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I'm sort of on the other side of the fence with this. I'm a Canadian, and I've refused job offers from the U.S., saying basically to "fix your copyright and cryptography laws, then I'll consider it."
I encourage other non-US techies to do the same.
Nope, they use a normal UDF filesystem, but otherwise, you're correct.
It's a Logitech M-BD58 optical wheel mouse, and it behaves exactly the same on several surfaces. To clarify, it works fine in normal use, and even in games, but I have a 1600x1200 screen, and if I try to "slam" the mouse from one side to the other very quickly, the pointer does a loop and ends up going in the opposite direction, sort of how the wheels of moving vehicles look when sampled on TV at 25 frames/sec.
Yes, but who wants to be unhappy when MS gets flushed down the toilet?
Yep, but one thing I'd like to see in optical mice is much higher sample rates. Often, when I try to "flick" my mouse around, the pointer does a little dance on the screen and ends up on the opposite side of where it should. Sigh.
Agreed. Besides, the event was not really suprising -- I think everyone outside the U.S. was expecting something like this to happen sooner or later. It's not like the U.S. is short of enemies (hell, the U.S. even stomps all over Canada whenever they get the chance, and Canada is supposed to be their "friend")
Finally, the LEGO trademark should always appear with a ? symbol each time it is used.
Somehow I think there was a supposed to be a ® or symbol there instead.
Dan Bernstein. ;-)
Because it wasn't offtopic (neither was yours, though...)
Bullshit. I was hired to introduce GNU/Linux in a WinNT shop, and all Linux machines in the shop were almost completely maintenance-free. The firewall has been running flawlessly since it was set up (the only "maintenance" has been changing iptables as needs dictated). Ditto for the mailserver. Yet, for some reason, the WinNT webservers fsck up nearly every day (we haven't moved to W2K yet, and though the W2K machine shows some improvement, it's still miles behind the 'nix machines.)
Exactly. Let's spend our resources doing something that will actually work! I could write an RSA implementation in a day, and so could anyone else.
YES! It is such a bad thing. You're forgetting that crypto export controls do nothing to prevent anyone from getting their hands on cryptographic technology. Anyone can build a cryptographic communications device quite easily, so crypto controls will only serve to restrict legitimate use and research in the field. I don't know about you, but I don't want any government wasting its time on useless measures at this time.
Cryptography is out of the bag. Get used to it.
dwon@zed:~$ echo -e '1000foo\n999bar' | sort
1000foo
999bar
dwon@zed:~$ echo -e '1000foo\n999bar' | sort -n
999bar
1000foo
They're going to have a tough time with me, considering I usually switch between an average of 10 browser windows at one time...
You're going to get upsed about one stupid moderator? Consider yourself lucky.
Here's the problem with what you're doing: you can't do authentication forwarding, which sucks big-time when you are scping from one remote machine to another remote machine.
$ scp ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub remotehost:
Connect to the other hosts and add this public key to your list of authorized keys:
$ ssh remotehost
$ cat id_dsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2
$ exit
There's an even easier way:
$ ssh remotehost 'cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2' < ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub
Depends of your definition of a "binary". If you equate "binary" with "executable machine-language instructions and data", then you are correct. If you define "binary" as "not ASCII text", then tarballs fall easily into the "binary" category.
LEGO could always license their trademark to Noga for that particular use.
Dwonis ducks and takes cover.
I run Debian most of the time. Occasionally, I boot into Windows for the odd Blizzard game, but that only happens about twice every two weeks. I actually don't mind running Windows at home, because my Windows partition is expendable, so if anything craps out, I just wipe and reinstall. ( Also, since I barely use it, it tends not to break. Go figure.)
Many Windows users' biggest fear is that something will happen that will cause all their hard-worked-on files to be wiped out. For me, this is not a problem because I don't do anything important in Windows.
Rather than telling people that Windows should never be used for anything, and that Linux is better for everything, we should simply tell them that "these are the things that GNU/Linux can do better than Windows, and for anything else, feel free to use Windows if you want." Eventually, that list will grow, and with more Linux users, there will be more Linux-native apps. That, my friends, is how we shall take over the world. [laughs evilly]
Heh. Then try to explain the difference between a filesystem and a partition...
The only way MS is going to have a decent OS is when they finally put the following features in the OS:
* Symbolic links
* Named pipes
* A real shell
* NO REGISTRY
* Better locking semantics (i.e. eliminate "sharing violations")
* POSIX processes (basically, fork() and signal())
The most important thing is the POSIX processes. Not being able to fork and send signals back and forth has been my biggest problem with Windows programming.
I guess in other words, Windows will continue to suck as long as it doesn't have the backend power of a Unix.
Maybe he can't count (OTOH, you can't spell "liar" either), but the point is still the same: [GNU/]Linux is NOT only $20 less than XP.
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