What did Intel sacrifice to make the number of Ghz higher for the sake of marketing? Really, I'd like to know, because I've heard this is the case with previous Ghz barrier crossings, and I wonder how it affects the overall performance of the CPU, and the rest of the computer for that matter.
I would argue that that the RPSL is actually even more Free than the GPL in the sense that it attempts to close the ASP Loophole as explained in this Newsforge article.
If you go to this link listed in the story that points to one of the patents, then scroll to the bottom you'll find a nice set of links, one of which is Add to Cart. What a great way to demonstrate this invention!
Just like the AFL-CIO doesn't like non-union small business workers stepping on their territory, the RIAA resents non-union independent musicians creating music outside of their control. The collectivist mindset is outdated -- there is more freedom is individualism.
Stopping NetBIOS Spam? [ Spam ]Posted by Cliff on Friday October 11, @02:45AM from the nothing-is-sacred dept. MoonFacedAssassin asks: "I woke up this morning to find that my computer had a Windows messaging pop-up window with an advertisement about getting diplomas and degrees. I was quite shocked to find that my Bellsouth DSL IP address had been spammed. Has this happened to anyone else? Other than closing off the port which this can come through, are there any other ways to block this spam? And, how responsible is Bellsouth (or any ISP for that matter) in handling issues like this?"
I agree with you for the most part, however your second point is an interesting one. I can't imagine Microsoft why would try to compete on an "all things being equal Linux is just as unstable and insecure as Windows." stance -- although all evidence would suggest they are attempting this. All things being equal, Linux is still Free (in every way), and if both perform equally, as this stance supposes, then there is no reason to pay out the nose for restrictive licenses to maintain a Windows platform.
This issue, I believe, is referred to as the ASP (Application Service Provider) loophole, and, I think, is supposed to be addressed in the next version of the GPL. This is one of the reasons RealNetworks is releasing parts of their Helix Platform under the RPSL, as explained in this NewsForge article.
Robin may have more to add to this, but here's my take:
Becoming a default CA in a browser will actually be quite difficult. Attempts have been made to find out how to accomplish this. Opera has been contacted with no reply to this date, and Mozilla has replied explaining that they require a contract and some demonstration of financial stability, which is a bit difficult for an organization with no financial structure whatsoever. Anyway, the current plan is to just get the project rolling, make the service available to users who are willing to trust the Open CA certificates, then through public lobbying, encourage browser vendors to include the Open CA as a default. As you can probably tell, this unconventional project will require unconventional means to gain ground -- just like most open projects.
I remember Matt Groening mentioning something a while back about getting tired of doing the Simpsons and expressing disappointment with Fox over the marketing of Futurama. With that in mind, it seems that movies made from a series tend to end the popularity of the series, as if the public just got their fill of the series. Beavis and Butthead is an example of this. Beavis and Butthead was a huge hit, but after the movie Beavis and Butthead Do America came out, the series just kind of went down the tube. I just wonder if this is Groening's way of taking the Simpsons out with a bang.
I think I should mention a new project that is in the works. The founder of OpenNIC, Robin Bandy, and I (Nathan Lunt) have been in discussions over the last couple of months to create a daughter project of the OpenNIC project for a democratically-controlled Certifying Authority modeled after OpenNIC. As such, we're looking at a situation where people will be able to get a certificate signed by a third party for, as it stands, free.
Such a project has enormous possiblities ranging from, as this thread discusses, cheap SSL ceritifcates for small websites, to potentially DRM applications as well, as mentioned in Robin's article here.
This project is only in the very infant stages, and has been off to a fairly slow start due to our busy schedules; however, once we are over the hump of policy creation and technical implementation, we should be well on our way to having a system of certification that is fair and within reach to every application imaginable.
The use of Bitkeeper for the Linux sources has a grave effect on the free software community, because anyone who wants to closely track patches to Linux can only do it by installing that non-free program. There must be dozens or even hundreds of kernel hackers who have done this. Most of them are gradually convincing themselves that it is ok to use non-free software, in order to avoid a sense of cognitive dissonance about the presence of Bitkeeper on their machines. What can be done about this?
One solution is to set up another repository for the Linux sources, using CVS or another free version control system, and arranging to load new versions into it automatically. This could use Bitkeeper to access the latest revisions, then install the new revisions into CVS. That update process could run automatically and frequently.
"Declaring the death of" any technology is ridiculously shortsighted. Just because meta tags aren't doing what you hoped they would, doesn't mean they don't have a useful purpose as a lot of the posts on this thread point out. This is slightly analogous to declaring the death of the horse because they're no longer the first choice for transportation.
Here's an editorial I wrote on Newsforge called How software piracy hurts Free Software that addresses this subject from the opposite angle. The Freedom of Free Software is worth nothing to people who don't feel the burden of restrictive EULAs.
A couple of weeks ago, a man was arrested for taking pictures of police cars in Philadelphia. You can read about it here.
When I was in highschool 12+ years ago, I had a history teacher that went along as a chaperone on a school-sponsored trip to East Germany and the USSR. He relayed a story about one of the students on the trip starting to photograph a police officer and getting in a lot of trouble because of being perceived as a spy.
We thought that was shocking, then, that a country could be so totalitarian as to prevent photographs of police officers.
Biology and Pharmacology being weak points for me, can somebody briefly (is that possible?) explain how these viruses know the difference between bad bacteria and good bacteria or any other good cell in the human body? Also, is there a chance that there is a necessary bacteria we don't know about in the human body that could be destroyed with this virus creating even worse problems than Anthrax? It appears that this particular application using PlyG is Anthrax-specific, but as they expand this techonolgy, I wonder about strange reactions, especially considering what somebody else said about viruses never leaving the human body.
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What did Intel sacrifice to make the number of Ghz higher for the sake of marketing? Really, I'd like to know, because I've heard this is the case with previous Ghz barrier crossings, and I wonder how it affects the overall performance of the CPU, and the rest of the computer for that matter.
I would argue that that the RPSL is actually even more Free than the GPL in the sense that it attempts to close the ASP Loophole as explained in this Newsforge article.
If you go to this link listed in the story that points to one of the patents, then scroll to the bottom you'll find a nice set of links, one of which is Add to Cart. What a great way to demonstrate this invention!
than one called Sharp to release a glass computer.
Can somebody get me a broom?
Just like the AFL-CIO doesn't like non-union small business workers stepping on their territory, the RIAA resents non-union independent musicians creating music outside of their control. The collectivist mindset is outdated -- there is more freedom is individualism.
:)
Flame away, kiddos.
I think this is the most worthwhile question I've seen on Ask Slashdot in months.
I would think some type of military related position would be perfect for a person with your skillset, by the way.
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/10/19 45240&mode=thread&tid=111
Stopping NetBIOS Spam?
[ Spam ]Posted by Cliff on Friday October 11, @02:45AM
from the nothing-is-sacred dept.
MoonFacedAssassin asks: "I woke up this morning to find that my computer had a Windows messaging pop-up window with an advertisement about getting diplomas and degrees. I was quite shocked to find that my Bellsouth DSL IP address had been spammed. Has this happened to anyone else? Other than closing off the port which this can come through, are there any other ways to block this spam? And, how responsible is Bellsouth (or any ISP for that matter) in handling issues like this?"
I agree with you for the most part, however your second point is an interesting one. I can't imagine Microsoft why would try to compete on an "all things being equal Linux is just as unstable and insecure as Windows." stance -- although all evidence would suggest they are attempting this. All things being equal, Linux is still Free (in every way), and if both perform equally, as this stance supposes, then there is no reason to pay out the nose for restrictive licenses to maintain a Windows platform.
Corrections gladly accepted. :)
Robin may have more to add to this, but here's my take:
Becoming a default CA in a browser will actually be quite difficult. Attempts have been made to find out how to accomplish this. Opera has been contacted with no reply to this date, and Mozilla has replied explaining that they require a
contract and some demonstration of financial stability, which is a bit difficult for an organization with no financial structure whatsoever. Anyway, the current plan is to just get the project rolling, make the service available to users who are willing to trust the Open CA certificates, then through public lobbying, encourage browser vendors to include the Open CA as a default. As you can probably tell, this unconventional project will require unconventional means to gain ground -- just like most open projects.
I remember Matt Groening mentioning something a while back about getting tired of doing the Simpsons and expressing disappointment with Fox over the marketing of Futurama. With that in mind, it seems that movies made from a series tend to end the popularity of the series, as if the public just got their fill of the series. Beavis and Butthead is an example of this. Beavis and Butthead was a huge hit, but after the movie Beavis and Butthead Do America came out, the series just kind of went down the tube. I just wonder if this is Groening's way of taking the Simpsons out with a bang.
I think I should mention a new project that is in the works. The founder of OpenNIC, Robin Bandy, and I (Nathan Lunt) have been in discussions over the last couple of months to create a daughter project of the OpenNIC project for a democratically-controlled Certifying Authority modeled after OpenNIC. As such, we're looking at a situation where people will be able to get a certificate signed by a third party for, as it stands, free.
Such a project has enormous possiblities ranging from, as this thread discusses, cheap SSL ceritifcates for small websites, to potentially DRM applications as well, as mentioned in Robin's article here.
This project is only in the very infant stages, and has been off to a fairly slow start due to our busy schedules; however, once we are over the hump of policy creation and technical implementation, we should be well on our way to having a system of certification that is fair and within reach to every application imaginable.
From this article:
The use of Bitkeeper for the Linux sources has a grave effect on the free software community, because anyone who wants to closely track patches to Linux can only do it by installing that non-free program. There must be dozens or even hundreds of kernel hackers who have done this. Most of them are gradually convincing themselves that it is ok to use non-free software, in order to avoid a sense of cognitive dissonance about the presence of Bitkeeper on their machines. What can be done about this?
One solution is to set up another repository for the Linux sources, using CVS or another free version control system, and arranging to load new versions into it automatically. This could use Bitkeeper to access the latest revisions, then install the new revisions into CVS. That update process could run automatically and frequently.
"Declaring the death of" any technology is ridiculously shortsighted. Just because meta tags aren't doing what you hoped they would, doesn't mean they don't have a useful purpose as a lot of the posts on this thread point out. This is slightly analogous to declaring the death of the horse because they're no longer the first choice for transportation.
Here's an editorial I wrote on Newsforge called How software piracy hurts Free Software that addresses this subject from the opposite angle. The Freedom of Free Software is worth nothing to people who don't feel the burden of restrictive EULAs.
The article goes on to suggest that this may lead to a 1 billion transistor chip.
Does it require a radiator to stay cool?
zealots dont make good reps.
:)
Which is why Linux doesn't have many good reps despite the growing user-base.
A couple of weeks ago, a man was arrested for taking pictures of police cars in Philadelphia. You can read about it here.
When I was in highschool 12+ years ago, I had a history teacher that went along as a chaperone on a school-sponsored trip to East Germany and the USSR. He relayed a story about one of the students on the trip starting to photograph a police officer and getting in a lot of trouble because of being perceived as a spy.
We thought that was shocking, then, that a country could be so totalitarian as to prevent photographs of police officers.
In a few years the minimum drive space needed to install Windows and Office will be 10+ gigs. :)
Patents are yours regardless of whether you enforce them or not.
Anybody with a website dedicated to America's favorite pastime...
There goes the last profitable sector of the web...pr0n.
Lots o' stuff here.
Biology and Pharmacology being weak points for me, can somebody briefly (is that possible?) explain how these viruses know the difference between bad bacteria and good bacteria or any other good cell in the human body? Also, is there a chance that there is a necessary bacteria we don't know about in the human body that could be destroyed with this virus creating even worse problems than Anthrax? It appears that this particular application using PlyG is Anthrax-specific, but as they expand this techonolgy, I wonder about strange reactions, especially considering what somebody else said about viruses never leaving the human body.
Turn me into one of these.