Windows still crashes. Anyone claiming otherwise is full of crap. It has to do with the basic design which hasn't changed since windows 3.1. While I haven't used XP (and don't intend to frankly,) NT4, 2000 and 98 crash frequently.
The basic design hasn't changed since windows 3.1? What the hell kind of crack are you smoking? 3.1 was a 16 bit OS with non-preemptive multitasking. While there is some code sharing between 3.x and 9x, the general system is quite different.
And NT/2k/XP are based on a totally separate branch, that has been moving (gradually) toward compatibility.
You can't put M$ in your 'trusted sites' catigory, thereby having access to scripting on microsoft's website, and having it disabled on the rest of the net.
According to the US constitution, treties signed by the US are supposed to have the same weight as the constitution itself. Of course, the founding fathers probably
from artical VI:
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
All patents are 'strings of numbers'. That is, all of them can be represented as data. (otherwise a patent database would be kind of difficult, eh?)
Genetic patents are patents on 'strings of numbers.'
Even most devices nowadays are designed using CAD type tools, meaning that they are simply strings of numbers as well. The fact that something can be represented numericaly dosn't really have any baring on anything.
This isn't about key escrow, what they are saying is that, if they ask, you have to hand over you're private keys.
So, rather then a complex and inherently insecure system with central servers everywhere, they've just decided to come to peoples houses with guns drawn and demand their keys.
You would have to move yourself to a country that didn't sign the treaty. And I wouldn't really recommend China, while it's a nice place, I wouldn't really call it a bastion of personal freedom...
IIRC, the effcracker cost like $500,000 to build. Granted, that was three years ago, but even you factor a 4x improvement that's still $125,000. It's not that much compared to what you could theoreticaly get, but it puts the bar pretty high for entry.
And even if you could build the machine, you'd still need to aquire the data to decript (also not easy).
Actually, I read through the investor relations doc, (well did a word search for "Open Source") and the "platform" gates is talking about is actually the PC, not windows/DOS.
Let me start out, really the reason that you see open source there at all is because we came in and said there should be a platform that's identical with millions and millions of machines, and the bios of that should be open to everybody to use, and all the extensibility should be there. And so it was very predictable that once we had gotten the PC going, and going and gotten hundreds of millions of machines out there, that it had always been sort of free software and the universities would flourish and there would be more of that.(emphasis mine)
If you want something to bitch about, read the next part:
We certainly accept free software as part of the software ecosystem. In fact, there's a very virtuous cycle where people do free things,... sometimes companies will take that work and turn it into commercial products, those companies will hire people, pay taxes. And so you see the free software and the commercial software existing together.
There is a particular approach that breaks the cycle called the GPL that is not worth getting into..., but I don't think there is much awareness about how so-called free software foundations designed that to break that cycle.
In any event, gets is not a very clear speaker, He kind of rambles on a bit. But I don't think he's claming that DOS and windows created Open source, but rather Microsoft's accidental (well, I'm sure he would take credit for it) creation of the standard PC industry. This is somewhat wrong, in that Free Software has been around longer then PCs, but also correct in the sense that the PC infrastructure provided a fertile breeding ground for the nascent Linux operating system, way back when.
It isn't actually very surprising to be hearing this from the Whitehouse. Republicans have traditionally been against national ID cards, in fact I remember republicans railing against the Clinton Health Care Plan because it could have implicitly created a national ID card.
There are still some ethics in Washington, surprisingly.
and it's not like anyone didn't just see this as a ploy to sell more copies of Oracle anyway.
Almost nobody used it, though, after having filled it up and then lost it -- that $50 was nonrecoverable, as transient and easier to lose than cash, and extremely easy to use if someone else happened to get it.
Here at ISU we have the same thing, except the data is stored encrypted on a mag-stripe. The only problem is that the mag-stripe starts to ware down, and you're FUCKING MONEY GETS ERASED! I'm not kidding. I stuck my card in the machine, it says "read error" and pops the card back out with $10 missing!
Oh and of course it's the only way to pay for laundry service:(
I'm sure you'd need a PIN/password as well as the ID number to get your med history, etc. In theory, you'd probably want to tie it to a biometric as well, not as a catchall but as a 'backup' to make sure you're the real person. (IE, you'd need to have the card, the pin, and the biometric to access the data).
I'm not for the id card, but I don't think it's quite as bleak as you predicted.
unlike the US which slaps you on the wrist and sends you back out to commit more crime.
What the hell? Have you ever even looked at the stats? The only 'civilized' country that has a larger percentage of it's people in jail is The People's Republic of China. America is far, far 'tougher' on crime then any European country (measured in the number of people in jail, measured by the punishments for various crimes, etc). Yet our crime rates are higher!
First of all, BB is much more in force in Europe then he is here in the US. Think EU regulations wanting to keep all voice/IP transactions on record for seven years. Think the crypto laws in the UK. Hell, think about the video cameras on the streets in the UK! That's not Big Brother!?
Anyway, I seriously doubt that the ID cards have anything to do with the crime rate in various EU countries.
And America's economy, even now, is greater then any individual EU state. I'm not sure if we're bigger then the EU as a whole, but then you guys don't have "EU ID cards" do you?
Yes, it does. There are more then one editor, so if one doesn't like a story, it gets trashed. If someone else likes a story later, it may get posted. That explains the situation where someone submits something, gets it rejected, only to see it on the site a month/week/year later.
It's also possible you submitted your article after the original one was put in the queue.
First of all, Selective Service (AKA the draft) does not include women. So its only manditory for half the population.
And secondly, it isn't an ID. People don't ask for selective service ID numbers when you board planes or whatever.
That would give order to the *WEB* not the *NET*
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Increasingly, the domain name system has been about the web, and labeling content. But that's not what it's supposed to be for. Aside from being impossible to police, setting policy based on website content is absurd. What about IRC? FTP? Hell, what about email Are all of those things going to be continuously monitored to make sure everyone is in 'compliance' with whatever restrictions you have on the system?
The web is not the same thing as the internet. And the domain name system should not be used to try to impose 'order' on it.
read the "why.biz" section of the site. how can they promise this: "- Secure your peace of mind; your.BIZ name won't be hijacked and changes can't be made to your website without your approval." i'm sure this is what execs want to hear, but i think that even they can see that the TLD has nothing to do with how secure their web servers are.
Haven't you ever heard of 'domain hijacking'? It isn't when someone breaks into your computers and changes your website, but rather when someone issues a fraudulent domain transfer, giving them control of your domain name.
There was a real problem with this with NSI, and sometimes people lost their domain names for good. Assembly, Neulevel's statements indicate that they have got some system in place to prevent this from occurring with.biz names.
Are there any real benchmarks comparing the p4/athlon/g4? (by real, I don't mean a set of 2 or 3 similar Photoshop filters). I hear a lot of people saying that the g4 is a superior performer, but I have a hard time believing a 800mhz chip is really faster then a 2ghz one.
the high end ppc desktops are topping out around 900MHz, while the p4's are hitting 2GHz. there has to be another explanation besides the complaint that jobs is ignorantly sitting on his thumbs. i think he knows what he's doing.
Maybe he does, maybe he doesn't. But either way, he has no control over the speed of PPC chips, which are made by Motorola.
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Windows still crashes. Anyone claiming otherwise is full of crap. It has to do with the basic design which hasn't changed since windows 3.1. While I haven't used XP (and don't intend to frankly,) NT4, 2000 and 98 crash frequently.
The basic design hasn't changed since windows 3.1? What the hell kind of crack are you smoking? 3.1 was a 16 bit OS with non-preemptive multitasking. While there is some code sharing between 3.x and 9x, the general system is quite different.
And NT/2k/XP are based on a totally separate branch, that has been moving (gradually) toward compatibility.
You can't put M$ in your 'trusted sites' catigory, thereby having access to scripting on microsoft's website, and having it disabled on the rest of the net.
According to the US constitution, treties signed by the US are supposed to have the same weight as the constitution itself. Of course, the founding fathers probably
from artical VI:
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
Being force to disclose passwords to authorities, IMHO, would be equivalent to testifying agaist yourself...
How so? You wouldn't be directly implicating yourself, I mean you can't be convicted of a crime just for saying "EF8AC823A8B9C" or whatever...
All patents are 'strings of numbers'. That is, all of them can be represented as data. (otherwise a patent database would be kind of difficult, eh?)
Genetic patents are patents on 'strings of numbers.'
Even most devices nowadays are designed using CAD type tools, meaning that they are simply strings of numbers as well. The fact that something can be represented numericaly dosn't really have any baring on anything.
This isn't about key escrow, what they are saying is that, if they ask, you have to hand over you're private keys.
So, rather then a complex and inherently insecure system with central servers everywhere, they've just decided to come to peoples houses with guns drawn and demand their keys.
You would have to move yourself to a country that didn't sign the treaty. And I wouldn't really recommend China, while it's a nice place, I wouldn't really call it a bastion of personal freedom...
In Taliban Afghanistan connecting to the internet, or even just owning a computer is completly illegal.
When I first saw this, I thought it read "KDE 3 wins awards." And I'm like "KDE 3? kick ass..." Then I read it again and was a little dissapointed.
Damn you slashdot *shakes fist*!
IIRC, the effcracker cost like $500,000 to build. Granted, that was three years ago, but even you factor a 4x improvement that's still $125,000. It's not that much compared to what you could theoreticaly get, but it puts the bar pretty high for entry.
And even if you could build the machine, you'd still need to aquire the data to decript (also not easy).
What he seems to be saying is that Linux can't run on an Apple Mac or an Archimedes.
Linux can run on a mac. And a lot of other hardware out there.
Actually, I read through the investor relations doc, (well did a word search for "Open Source") and the "platform" gates is talking about is actually the PC, not windows/DOS.
... sometimes companies will take that work and turn it into commercial products, those companies will hire people, pay taxes. And so you see the free software and the commercial software existing together.
..., but I don't think there is much awareness about how so-called free software foundations designed that to break that cycle.
Let me start out, really the reason that you see open source there at all is because we came in and said there should be a platform that's identical with millions and millions of machines, and the bios of that should be open to everybody to use, and all the extensibility should be there. And so it was very predictable that once we had gotten the PC going, and going and gotten hundreds of millions of machines out there, that it had always been sort of free software and the universities would flourish and there would be more of that.(emphasis mine)
If you want something to bitch about, read the next part:
We certainly accept free software as part of the software ecosystem. In fact, there's a very virtuous cycle where people do free things,
There is a particular approach that breaks the cycle called the GPL that is not worth getting into
In any event, gets is not a very clear speaker, He kind of rambles on a bit. But I don't think he's claming that DOS and windows created Open source, but rather Microsoft's accidental (well, I'm sure he would take credit for it) creation of the standard PC industry. This is somewhat wrong, in that Free Software has been around longer then PCs, but also correct in the sense that the PC infrastructure provided a fertile breeding ground for the nascent Linux operating system, way back when.
It isn't actually very surprising to be hearing this from the Whitehouse. Republicans have traditionally been against national ID cards, in fact I remember republicans railing against the Clinton Health Care Plan because it could have implicitly created a national ID card.
There are still some ethics in Washington, surprisingly.
and it's not like anyone didn't just see this as a ploy to sell more copies of Oracle anyway.
Almost nobody used it, though, after having filled it up and then lost it -- that $50 was nonrecoverable, as transient and easier to lose than cash, and extremely easy to use if someone else happened to get it.
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Here at ISU we have the same thing, except the data is stored encrypted on a mag-stripe. The only problem is that the mag-stripe starts to ware down, and you're FUCKING MONEY GETS ERASED! I'm not kidding. I stuck my card in the machine, it says "read error" and pops the card back out with $10 missing!
Oh and of course it's the only way to pay for laundry service
I'm sure you'd need a PIN/password as well as the ID number to get your med history, etc. In theory, you'd probably want to tie it to a biometric as well, not as a catchall but as a 'backup' to make sure you're the real person. (IE, you'd need to have the card, the pin, and the biometric to access the data).
I'm not for the id card, but I don't think it's quite as bleak as you predicted.
unlike the US which slaps you on the wrist and sends you back out to commit more crime.
What the hell? Have you ever even looked at the stats? The only 'civilized' country that has a larger percentage of it's people in jail is The People's Republic of China. America is far, far 'tougher' on crime then any European country (measured in the number of people in jail, measured by the punishments for various crimes, etc). Yet our crime rates are higher!
First of all, BB is much more in force in Europe then he is here in the US. Think EU regulations wanting to keep all voice/IP transactions on record for seven years. Think the crypto laws in the UK. Hell, think about the video cameras on the streets in the UK! That's not Big Brother!?
Anyway, I seriously doubt that the ID cards have anything to do with the crime rate in various EU countries.
And America's economy, even now, is greater then any individual EU state. I'm not sure if we're bigger then the EU as a whole, but then you guys don't have "EU ID cards" do you?
Does /. have a split personality today?
Yes, it does. There are more then one editor, so if one doesn't like a story, it gets trashed. If someone else likes a story later, it may get posted. That explains the situation where someone submits something, gets it rejected, only to see it on the site a month/week/year later.
It's also possible you submitted your article after the original one was put in the queue.
First of all, Selective Service (AKA the draft) does not include women. So its only manditory for half the population.
And secondly, it isn't an ID. People don't ask for selective service ID numbers when you board planes or whatever.
Increasingly, the domain name system has been about the web, and labeling content. But that's not what it's supposed to be for. Aside from being impossible to police, setting policy based on website content is absurd. What about IRC? FTP? Hell, what about email Are all of those things going to be continuously monitored to make sure everyone is in 'compliance' with whatever restrictions you have on the system?
The web is not the same thing as the internet. And the domain name system should not be used to try to impose 'order' on it.
read the "why .biz" section of the site. how can they promise this: "- Secure your peace of mind; your .BIZ name won't be hijacked and changes can't be made to your website without your approval." i'm sure this is what execs want to hear, but i think that even they can see that the TLD has nothing to do with how secure their web servers are.
.biz names.
Haven't you ever heard of 'domain hijacking'? It isn't when someone breaks into your computers and changes your website, but rather when someone issues a fraudulent domain transfer, giving them control of your domain name.
There was a real problem with this with NSI, and sometimes people lost their domain names for good. Assembly, Neulevel's statements indicate that they have got some system in place to prevent this from occurring with
If you look at the specs for .info they read "you may register a .info domain for any purpose whatsoever." So, what you're asking for already exists.
Are there any real benchmarks comparing the p4/athlon/g4? (by real, I don't mean a set of 2 or 3 similar Photoshop filters). I hear a lot of people saying that the g4 is a superior performer, but I have a hard time believing a 800mhz chip is really faster then a 2ghz one.
What does the motherboard have to do with the case? Just pop the board out and replace it with another.
It always amazes me the way Mac-heads will use all kinds of adaptor cards to upgrade old motherboards, which of course would cripple performance.
the high end ppc desktops are topping out around 900MHz, while the p4's are hitting 2GHz. there has to be another explanation besides the complaint that jobs is ignorantly sitting on his thumbs. i think he knows what he's doing.
Maybe he does, maybe he doesn't. But either way, he has no control over the speed of PPC chips, which are made by Motorola.
Slashdot probably has millions of entries by now, if you think about it. Ten thousand entries is hardly a pittance.
That isn't to say your db isn't 'mission critical' (since obviously you wouldn't be able to do much without it). But it certainly isn't big.