Well intentioned my ass. I think./ should have a few new classes for moderation: blue eyed idiot, stupidicus infinentum, well intentioned and stupid looking troll etc.
Too much access and trust..
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Insider Threat
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Some have, some don't.
Usually those not in need of all their acess rights do have them for some reason. Those that would really need them have to go through the pain to fill forms and stuff..
> Not sure what the differences might be. Winside apparently has been producing these > vertical axis windmills for extreme environments for, they say, about twenty years. > But they do seem costly. They use a helix type design for the blades, see: > http://www.windside.com/products.html
Differences, hmm.. Windside, 1979, Risto Joutsiniemi, Finland. Linux, 1991, Linus Torvalds, Finland. TMA vertical axis wind turbine, 2005, USA.
The two first entries come from Finland, and two last entries are open source. Maybe they would all be open source had the concept been known in 1979..:)
I might have missed your point, but the news here is raytracing.
And in RT it is possible that for example 350M objects behind the camera all contribute to the color of one tiny visible object in front of the camera. Think of a one pixel sizes mirror on the screen, which mirrors 350M objects from behind the camera. Huge amount of computation for only one pixel.
Now think about a screen full of such one pixel sized spherical mirrors, with rays bouncing between them and you suddenly have 350M^350M^n rays to trace for each pixel in each frame.
Oh yes, there are international treaties for demilitarization of space, environmental matters, international trade, international laws, universal human rights etc.
Then again, there are certain countries which interpret stuff quite liberally and shortsightedly, on a we-want-this-and-that now basis.
But then you would have to carry both the drinks and a lot of ice. I suggest you freeze all the beer and put it on the bottom, with other food (and stuff which shouldn't be frozen) on top.
Tada! Stays frozen for days and no extra weight. You only have to remember and get enough cans out to melt again once the camp is all set, otherwise no beer for you for a long time:)
Trust me, this works fine and the beer is good even after freezing, although usually you would drink anything that's cold in those conditions.
Well, at least here in the nordic countries and in the mediterranean area the 500ml aluminum cans are very popular. Hard to say whether they are more popular than the 330ml ones or not. Then there are some special +20% 600ml beer cans also, though they are quite rarely seen.
Well, the SSE didn't/doesn't do much unless properly used. It wasn't/isn't in even most of the current software, not to mention SW few years back. The real difference between "classic"/XP athlons is the hardware data prefetch in XPs.
Wha? Been running Opera since, when was it, around 1999. Don't know when the popup blocking feature was implemented, possibly from the very beginning, but it certainly has prevented me from even understangin what's all the fuss about popups. Havent seen one in years:P
Well, dunno about problems running third party browsers under XP, at least Opera, Netscape/Mozilla run fine around here..
Is the copy protection/cash detection really based on the physical properties, or maybe additionally on image content detection also?
It would be interesting to hear about: 1) copying notes in various orientations 2) printing notes (on those huge scanner/copier/printer monsters) from previously scanned images 3) Above in various ways, like a rubbish image with a note pasted somewhere on it in 53 degree angle, for example.
Anyone?
Must be some interesting software engineering jobs there if the machines run some kind of recognition software on all operations..
> >... What if this shell actually knocks the socks off *sh? > > What if Longhorn does indeed provide more security, not only in default settings, but more inherently in the OpenSource? >... > > Linux is narrowing the gap to MS on the desktop (albeit slowly), and MS is narrowing the gap to Unix on eg. CLI, stability and security. > Their software matures too, you know.. >
Sure, make it safe, it's good for everyone.
But MS software sure ain't gonna mature into free (as in whatever you want) source code form, or a stable long term solution ("now look how clumsy the CLI is, that's why MS has the best GUI on the planet.. on the new Windows 2005").
Or maybe it matures from a pathetic teenage cmd.exe CLI, into a big boob blonde MSH vigorously tinkered with by everone, until quickly aging into a grumpy old woman not touched by anyone. Until the next better-than-ever-before MSH2..:)
Thanks, but I'll still stay with the trusty free ol' *sh till then and in future. Now eveyone together: OSS stands for _______. It costs _______. It is available for _________. The most common licences are G__ and B__, permitting anyone to _______, _______, ________ and distribute it.. You get the idea.
> > "...are we heading towards a future conflict across the Atlantic?" >
What kind of conflict do you mean, and what might cause it because Europe develops some tehcnological abilities of it's own?
Does the US feel somehow threatened when it doesn't have a monopoly on many kinds of stuff anymore? Does it have a reason to be afraid in that case?
"Hey, i'm growing potatoes, you must not research the hoe technology (because then i would lose the monopoly on producing and selling these artificially degraded and overpriced potatoes to whom i wish, whenever it might suit my needs).."
Re:is there a real difference?
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Latency.
With single data rate a new address can be sent every clock for all memory requests.
With double data rate a new address can be send with every other "clock", but while data transmission rate stays the same. Effectively this means transferring double data for each request, while the amount of requests doesn't change.
This isn't very serious problem, since single bytes/bus wide data aren't usually transferred, but whole cachelines of 32/64 bytes. They will generate 4/8 sequential burst requests nullifying much of the "halfclocked" address generation potential latency problems.
Ok, so why can't the addresses be sent like the data is another question which someone else with more knowledge might explain.. Maybe it would complicate things too much since the request-answer mechanism should be pipelined to accept new requests until previous requests are served. Or maybe the physical bus has some limitations, like using the same pins for address/data, which would simply make it impossible to send new addresses simultaneously (on falling edge of clock) while receiving data.
Maybe he likes to tinker with.. things, build stuff. And enjoys it, both the work and the resulting gadgets and cases. You don't usually try to save money or maximize efficiency on hobby projects, do you?
Anyway, it looks really nice and the lack (or minimal use) of bolts and screws is another plus if the usability is also considered.
What I want is to know what, where and how and then be able to do something about it.
It is all too common these days to have strange software, always in state of change and instability, to steal ("embed") other software to show some things ("Documents", "directories", "files", "web pages",...) inside them. It only makes the confusion magnitudes worse, as it mixes applications, data, physical and logical storage and networking into one incomprehensible mess. There is nothing stable to stick to, no understandable logic to anything. It is only the mess where something resides somewhere doing something to something else while being dependent on yet something else..
All the computing should return back into the days when the only way to manage computers was simple physical files and directories and independent applications. Even "Joe Luser" could understand that. You have a ".whatever" file, you can "open" it with "whatever" application. That's simple enough. You can see files with "file manager", you can write documents with "Typewriter", you can blowse the remote net with "Browser" throught the connection "network".. For more advanced users that would still leave the power to control everything, have options for "linking and embedding" as necessary and appropriate.
This nut talk about desktops, blurred storage concepts and leased software is pure crap. Sure it might confuse Average Joes enough to pay even more for nothing in the short sight, but it just doesn't work for everything. Not everybody uses the computer for the same purposes in the same way. There really isn't any sense to restricting usage of a general purpose machine with artificial limits (desktops), buggy sw/hw (display adapters, drivers), physical devices (monitor/flat panels) and messed up concepts about data and applications.
Aren't the GUIs there for communicating with users? Isn't the OS there as a base platform to run stuff on? Shouldn't somebody write a "Joe Really Dumb" application to act as a GUI for those confused with logical storage and general computing concepts? They could then limit themselves with that application to two icons and a power button if anything more is too complicated.
Oh well, maybe I missed the point completely, or this confuse-and-conquer is just a business plan for somebody.. Whatever, it sounds like crap anyway.
Re:He SHOULD care about the competition...
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Torvalds Tells All
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Maybe he shouldn't; He has done a lot of good stuff, and keeps on doing it better. Linus is not fighting a war. And he has about a million people to do the philosophical stuff for him.
Let the Taleban and GWB do the war thing and let's go to our favourite editor do some hacking instead.
Not knowing much about these things I found a document from somewhere describing the ADK stuff. The problem seems to be all the necessary trouble while encrypting, which doesn't make it a backdoor really. If you "forgot" to use the ADK feature there wouldn't be a "backdoor" anymore..
So, while this was a good idea, it wouldn't work unless the usage of some second key was somehow built-in into the algorithm itself, unavoidably and unknown to the users. The original question still remains open; what kind of backdoors are technically possible in the real world usage that wouldn't be either found out and defeated by hackers or wouldn't render the method too insecure to be used seriously by anyone (clipper, crippled DES and others, whatever..)?
Of course there has always been some speculation about the NSA knowing certain weaknesses in various algorithms, but even if they did, it wouldn't make wide spread usage of yet-to-be-developed future encryption methods "backdoorable"..
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Well intentioned my ass. I think ./ should have a few new classes for moderation: blue eyed idiot, stupidicus infinentum, well intentioned and stupid looking troll etc.
Some have, some don't.
Usually those not in need of all their acess rights do have them for some reason. Those that would really need them have to go through the pain to fill forms and stuff..
> Not sure what the differences might be. Winside apparently has been producing these
:)
> vertical axis windmills for extreme environments for, they say, about twenty years.
> But they do seem costly. They use a helix type design for the blades, see:
> http://www.windside.com/products.html
Differences, hmm..
Windside, 1979, Risto Joutsiniemi, Finland.
Linux, 1991, Linus Torvalds, Finland.
TMA vertical axis wind turbine, 2005, USA.
The two first entries come from Finland, and two last entries are open source. Maybe they would all be open source had the concept been known in 1979..
Does it come in wristwatch models also? :)
I might have missed your point, but the news here is raytracing.
:)
And in RT it is possible that for example 350M objects behind the camera all contribute to the color of one tiny visible object in front of the camera. Think of a one pixel sizes mirror on the screen, which mirrors 350M objects from behind the camera. Huge amount of computation for only one pixel.
Now think about a screen full of such one pixel sized spherical mirrors, with rays bouncing between them and you suddenly have 350M^350M^n rays to trace for each pixel in each frame.
No need to "run it slow" really
Doh!
:)
Okay, now they only have to check the server does have it's clock in sync, otherwise those 5 minute clips of logs won't be very useful..
Who are they trying to catch by getting insecure.org web logs?
Nmap can be get by a number of other sources (mirrors, linux/bsd distributions, CDs, etc). What am I missing here?
Oh yes, there are international treaties for demilitarization of space, environmental matters, international trade, international laws, universal human rights etc.
Then again, there are certain countries which interpret stuff quite liberally and shortsightedly, on a we-want-this-and-that now basis.
Tada! Stays frozen for days and no extra weight. You only have to remember and get enough cans out to melt again once the camp is all set, otherwise no beer for you for a long time :)
Trust me, this works fine and the beer is good even after freezing, although usually you would drink anything that's cold in those conditions.
Well, at least here in the nordic countries and in the mediterranean area the 500ml aluminum cans are very popular. Hard to say whether they are more popular than the 330ml ones or not. Then there are some special +20% 600ml beer cans also, though they are quite rarely seen.
Maybe no "software patents", but something else on protocols, methods, ..?
Wasn't there also something like "wintop" in some NT3.51 resource kit, in addition to Fvwm pager (and possbily some others)?
Yeah, copy-paste, mouse scrollwheel, unified kde/gnome stuff for application developers, snappy response.. That would rock.
Well, the SSE didn't/doesn't do much unless properly used. It wasn't/isn't in even most of the current software, not to mention SW few years back. The real difference between "classic"/XP athlons is the hardware data prefetch in XPs.
Wha? Been running Opera since, when was it, around 1999. Don't know when the popup blocking feature was implemented, possibly from the very beginning, but it certainly has prevented me from even understangin what's all the fuss about popups. Havent seen one in years :P
Well, dunno about problems running third party browsers under XP, at least Opera, Netscape/Mozilla run fine around here..
DSL starting from 39..50e from most commercial operators (256/256..512/512kbps).
..) might be a bit on the expensive side, 30..200e.
Cable is kind of monopoly, 50e for 512/256kbps.
1 euro == ~1.25us$.
Opening the service or any other change into it (switch speed, install, open, close, move,
Is the copy protection/cash detection really based on the physical properties, or maybe additionally on image content detection also?
It would be interesting to hear about:
1) copying notes in various orientations
2) printing notes (on those huge scanner/copier/printer monsters) from previously scanned images
3) Above in various ways, like a rubbish image with a note pasted somewhere on it in 53 degree angle, for example.
Anyone?
Must be some interesting software engineering jobs there if the machines run some kind of recognition software on all operations..
> ... What if this shell actually knocks the socks off *sh? ...
:)
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> What if Longhorn does indeed provide more security, not only in default settings, but more inherently in the OpenSource?
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> Linux is narrowing the gap to MS on the desktop (albeit slowly), and MS is narrowing the gap to Unix on eg. CLI, stability and security.
> Their software matures too, you know..
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Sure, make it safe, it's good for everyone.
But MS software sure ain't gonna mature into free (as in whatever you want) source code form, or a stable long term solution ("now look how clumsy the CLI is, that's why MS has the best GUI on the planet.. on the new Windows 2005").
Or maybe it matures from a pathetic teenage cmd.exe CLI, into a big boob blonde MSH vigorously tinkered with by everone, until quickly aging into a grumpy old woman not touched by anyone. Until the next better-than-ever-before MSH2..
Thanks, but I'll still stay with the trusty free ol' *sh till then and in future. Now eveyone together: OSS stands for _______. It costs _______. It is available for _________. The most common licences are G__ and B__, permitting anyone to _______, _______, ________ and distribute it.. You get the idea.
No, sorry. But usually statistics show that most approximations are way off, and even more so in the software business.
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> "...are we heading towards a future conflict across the Atlantic?"
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What kind of conflict do you mean, and what might cause it because Europe develops some tehcnological abilities of it's own?
Does the US feel somehow threatened when it doesn't have a monopoly on many kinds of stuff anymore? Does it have a reason to be afraid in that case?
"Hey, i'm growing potatoes, you must not research the hoe technology (because then i would lose the monopoly on producing and selling these artificially degraded and overpriced potatoes to whom i wish, whenever it might suit my needs).."
Latency.
With single data rate a new address can be sent every clock for all memory requests.
With double data rate a new address can be send with every other "clock", but while data transmission rate stays the same. Effectively this means transferring double data for each request, while the amount of requests doesn't change.
This isn't very serious problem, since single bytes/bus wide data aren't usually transferred, but whole cachelines of 32/64 bytes. They will generate 4/8 sequential burst requests nullifying much of the "halfclocked" address generation potential latency problems.
Ok, so why can't the addresses be sent like the data is another question which someone else with more knowledge might explain.. Maybe it would complicate things too much since the request-answer mechanism should be pipelined to accept new requests until previous requests are served. Or maybe the physical bus has some limitations, like using the same pins for address/data, which would simply make it impossible to send new addresses simultaneously (on falling edge of clock) while receiving data.
Maybe he likes to tinker with .. things, build stuff. And enjoys it, both the work and the resulting gadgets and cases. You don't usually try to save money or maximize efficiency on hobby projects, do you?
Anyway, it looks really nice and the lack (or minimal use) of bolts and screws is another plus if the usability is also considered.
What I want is to know what, where and how and then be able to do something about it.
...) inside them. It only makes the confusion magnitudes worse, as it mixes applications, data, physical and logical storage and networking into one incomprehensible mess. There is nothing stable to stick to, no understandable logic to anything. It is only the mess where something resides somewhere doing something to something else while being dependent on yet something else..
It is all too common these days to have strange software, always in state of change and instability, to steal ("embed") other software to show some things ("Documents", "directories", "files", "web pages",
All the computing should return back into the days when the only way to manage computers was simple physical files and directories and independent applications. Even "Joe Luser" could understand that. You have a ".whatever" file, you can "open" it with "whatever" application. That's simple enough. You can see files with "file manager", you can write documents with "Typewriter", you can blowse the remote net with "Browser" throught the connection "network".. For more advanced users that would still leave the power to control everything, have options for "linking and embedding" as necessary and appropriate.
This nut talk about desktops, blurred storage concepts and leased software is pure crap. Sure it might confuse Average Joes enough to pay even more for nothing in the short sight, but it just doesn't work for everything. Not everybody uses the computer for the same purposes in the same way. There really isn't any sense to restricting usage of a general purpose machine with artificial limits (desktops), buggy sw/hw (display adapters, drivers), physical devices (monitor/flat panels) and messed up concepts about data and applications.
Aren't the GUIs there for communicating with users? Isn't the OS there as a base platform to run stuff on? Shouldn't somebody write a "Joe Really Dumb" application to act as a GUI for those confused with logical storage and general computing concepts? They could then limit themselves with that application to two icons and a power button if anything more is too complicated.
Oh well, maybe I missed the point completely, or this confuse-and-conquer is just a business plan for somebody.. Whatever, it sounds like crap anyway.
Maybe he shouldn't; He has done a lot of good stuff, and keeps on doing it better. Linus is not fighting a war. And he has about a million people to do the philosophical stuff for him.
Let the Taleban and GWB do the war thing and let's go to our favourite editor do some hacking instead.
Not knowing much about these things I found a document from somewhere describing the ADK stuff. The problem seems to be all the necessary trouble while encrypting, which doesn't make it a backdoor really. If you "forgot" to use the ADK feature there wouldn't be a "backdoor" anymore..
So, while this was a good idea, it wouldn't work unless the usage of some second key was somehow built-in into the algorithm itself, unavoidably and unknown to the users. The original question still remains open; what kind of backdoors are technically possible in the real world usage that wouldn't be either found out and defeated by hackers or wouldn't render the method too insecure to be used seriously by anyone (clipper, crippled DES and others, whatever..)?
Of course there has always been some speculation about the NSA knowing certain weaknesses in various algorithms, but even if they did, it wouldn't make wide spread usage of yet-to-be-developed future encryption methods "backdoorable"..