Once again, slashdot has embellished the headlines to make them more contraversial. The FBI did not accuse anyone of treason, only of performing an "anti-social act". Who the hell knows what an "anti-social act" is, but I'd say it probably involves geeks, goths, and other victims of Mosaic 2000.
Now, this is still a bad thing. But it's not nearly as bad as it sounds.
Actually, the current version has "recharge" as one of its instincts. Although it cannot get onto its charging base by itself, it will ask you to when its batteries get low.
Aibo works by 4 different instincts, and 6 different emotions. The emotions are (I believe) percentages - so Aibo could be at any given time 10% angry, 20% loving, and 70% curious.
More information about aibo can be found at this site, which includes a link to Sony's official Aibo site.
Absolutely, you cannot look into the source code for every piece of software you run. But if you can read one package a month, and everyone read one package a month, it would not be difficult at all to get most products in common usage.
Also, there are security auditing groups that do exactly this.
Actually, I believe the FSF does have a legal defense fund and is looking for somewhere to test the GPL in court, but the opportunity hasn't presented itself.
The problem is that the FSF can't legally sue unless they own the product they are sueing over. But my understanding is that if there were a willing author out there with a meritous case, then they would be willing to underwrite the lawsuit.
Been mulling this over for a bit, and here's my conclusion:
break the stream into, say, 64-byte chunks. Then perform your statistical analysis on each chunk. Once you get english from one of the chunks, apply the same translation to the other chunks. Search for dictionary words.
Voila, you have plaintext english sandwiched between gibberish.
Actually, planetrx.com offer personal hygene products. I'm at college without a car, and it's pretty convionant to order these things without having to bum a ride from someone to get into town.
Before you go out and purchase an expensive RAID solution (of any kind), make sure this is really the problem. The vmstat command will make it quickly apparant what kind of i/o is happening, and further analysis might tell you more about what kind of hd accesses are happening.
In many cases, adding more memory or CPU can make a bigger difference than more/faster hard drives, if the problem is that the cache is too small, or paging activity too much. Also check your CPU load and make sure it is nowhere near 100% - if so, time to get a 2nd CPU.
Also, avoid software RAID implementations like the plague. They will slow down your system and provide questionable reliability. You should also try to find cards that have redundant SCSI controllers onboard, and support redundant cabling. This way if the cable, plug, or SCSI bus fails for some reason you will not be SOL.
Finally, be sure that the majority of your disk accesses are reads. RAID will slow down writes, sometimes drastically so. If the majority of your disk accesses are writes, then tuning your kernel to flush dirty buffers less often may make a good difference.
It seems that download.com is not really hosting it themselves, but in fact linking to a site in Denmark. It also seems that said site has taken down this software.
Erhm, school districts _are_ government entities. Also, Echelon is perfectly legal, because it's not _US_ that's doing the spying, it's the English who are spying and telling us the results.
Also, Congress seems willing to look into putting an end to this, so I'd say it's a little early to be starting a lawsuit, especially given the evidence, or lack thereof.
It is my understanding that in all civil cases (which a patent lawsuit would fall under), if the plaintiff wins, then they are entitled to recovery of legal fees from the defendant, but if the defendant wins they can only recover legal fees if the lawsuit can be proven frivelous.
My father is a lawyer and I recall him telling me about this several years ago; I believe this is correct but check with a lawyer yourself before you take action.
Erm, actually the government does do that. Look at the military, for example. There is no constitutional protection of homosexuals' rights. Then again, the constitution guarantees protection from discrimination based on age, and the government and private industry definately do that with respect to minors.
There was a subplot about this in one of the Hitchhiker's Guide books... IIRC, it was about a piece of cake which the machine analyzed and found out everything about the universe. However, anyone to whom this information was imparted would immeadiately die, because they could not deal with the fact that their entire life was but "an insignificant little dot on an insignificant little dot."
On a somewhat related note, I asked my high school phyics teacher (possibly my best teacher throughout my 4 years) about this, and he told me that this had been thought of back when Newton came up with his original laws. Someone back then said something along the lines of "It's all a matter of decimal places." Dunno why, but there is some reason this won't work. Possibly because it yields an infinate number of simultaneous equations which would require an infinate number of infinately accurate, infinately precise data points to reconcile.
I think that there is an important distinction which is very often overlooked here. That is, corporations are not people. The law creates this fiction that they are, but ultimately, a "real" person should have much stronger rights than a "fake" corporation.
What really bugs me is that the supreme court has declared that corporations have more rights in court than illegal immigrants.
I don't have a Windows box myself, so I can't confirm this, but IIRC this changes the default format of outgoing messages, and has nothing to do with processing HTML in incoming messages.
Well, actually the FoF _is_ an interim step. Next Year Judge Jackson will announce his Findings of Law, which will include what he thinks should happen to Microsoft.
Then we can take it to the Supreme Court. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Erhm, actually zero multiplied by infinity is not neccessarily zero. It depends on the limits involved in the zero and in the infinity. For example, the limit as x goes to infinity of 1/x * x^2 is zero times infinity, but it is equal to infinity. Conversely, the limit as x goes to infinity of 1/(x^2)*x is zero times infinity, but it is equal to zero.
Although it is possible to exchange one for the other, it is equally very possible to increase both. Case in point, DSL lines have 6-30ms latency, while a modem has 200-500ms latency.
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I have set up this very thing. It's not hard; just get some router (linux, cisco, even winnt if you have to), tell you programs to bind to your incoming connection IP, and route your outgoing packets out the outgoing connection. When they come back it will be through the incoming connection.
They don't have to be the same ISP, and as long as neither one engages in anti-smurfing filters, it will work without intervention.
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Once again, slashdot has embellished the headlines to make them more contraversial. The FBI did not accuse anyone of treason, only of performing an "anti-social act". Who the hell knows what an "anti-social act" is, but I'd say it probably involves geeks, goths, and other victims of Mosaic 2000.
Now, this is still a bad thing. But it's not nearly as bad as it sounds.
* Vectro steps down from his soapbox.
Actually, the current version has "recharge" as one of its instincts. Although it cannot get onto its charging base by itself, it will ask you to when its batteries get low.
Aibo works by 4 different instincts, and 6 different emotions. The emotions are (I believe) percentages - so Aibo could be at any given time 10% angry, 20% loving, and 70% curious.
More information about aibo can be found at this site, which includes a link to Sony's official Aibo site.
Absolutely, you cannot look into the source code for every piece of software you run. But if you can read one package a month, and everyone read one package a month, it would not be difficult at all to get most products in common usage.
Also, there are security auditing groups that do exactly this.
Actually, I believe the FSF does have a legal defense fund and is looking for somewhere to test the GPL in court, but the opportunity hasn't presented itself.
The problem is that the FSF can't legally sue unless they own the product they are sueing over. But my understanding is that if there were a willing author out there with a meritous case, then they would be willing to underwrite the lawsuit.
What about a beowulf cluster of these? :)
Sorry, I had to do it.
Geeks. Management is forever telling us to install NT. ;)
Been mulling this over for a bit, and here's my conclusion:
break the stream into, say, 64-byte chunks. Then perform your statistical analysis on each chunk. Once you get english from one of the chunks, apply the same translation to the other chunks. Search for dictionary words.
Voila, you have plaintext english sandwiched between gibberish.
Actually, planetrx.com offer personal hygene products. I'm at college without a car, and it's pretty convionant to order these things without having to bum a ride from someone to get into town.
Before you go out and purchase an expensive RAID solution (of any kind), make sure this is really the problem. The vmstat command will make it quickly apparant what kind of i/o is happening, and further analysis might tell you more about what kind of hd accesses are happening.
In many cases, adding more memory or CPU can make a bigger difference than more/faster hard drives, if the problem is that the cache is too small, or paging activity too much. Also check your CPU load and make sure it is nowhere near 100% - if so, time to get a 2nd CPU.
Also, avoid software RAID implementations like the plague. They will slow down your system and provide questionable reliability. You should also try to find cards that have redundant SCSI controllers onboard, and support redundant cabling. This way if the cable, plug, or SCSI bus fails for some reason you will not be SOL.
Finally, be sure that the majority of your disk accesses are reads. RAID will slow down writes, sometimes drastically so. If the majority of your disk accesses are writes, then tuning your kernel to flush dirty buffers less often may make a good difference.
It seems that download.com is not really hosting it themselves, but in fact linking to a site in Denmark. It also seems that said site has taken down this software.
Erhm, school districts _are_ government entities. Also, Echelon is perfectly legal, because it's not _US_ that's doing the spying, it's the English who are spying and telling us the results.
Also, Congress seems willing to look into putting an end to this, so I'd say it's a little early to be starting a lawsuit, especially given the evidence, or lack thereof.
Yep, I originally thought that my pallete was screwed up, but I've since restarted X and it still looks like this.
Whoever invented this color scheme should be taken out and shot.
And while we're on the topic of color schemes, what if slashdot were to add themes?
It is my understanding that in all civil cases (which a patent lawsuit would fall under), if the plaintiff wins, then they are entitled to recovery of legal fees from the defendant, but if the defendant wins they can only recover legal fees if the lawsuit can be proven frivelous.
My father is a lawyer and I recall him telling me about this several years ago; I believe this is correct but check with a lawyer yourself before you take action.
Too late, he already won the Free Software award in a previous year.
Incidentally, he is also on the judging panel for the 1999 award.
Erm, actually the government does do that. Look at the military, for example. There is no constitutional protection of homosexuals' rights. Then again, the constitution guarantees protection from discrimination based on age, and the government and private industry definately do that with respect to minors.
I thought that most DSPs were put in modems, and included on chips made by either Rockwell or 3Com. Or are they talking about non-modem dsps?
Oh, and first post.
There was a subplot about this in one of the Hitchhiker's Guide books... IIRC, it was about a piece of cake which the machine analyzed and found out everything about the universe. However, anyone to whom this information was imparted would immeadiately die, because they could not deal with the fact that their entire life was but "an insignificant little dot on an insignificant little dot."
On a somewhat related note, I asked my high school phyics teacher (possibly my best teacher throughout my 4 years) about this, and he told me that this had been thought of back when Newton came up with his original laws. Someone back then said something along the lines of "It's all a matter of decimal places." Dunno why, but there is some reason this won't work. Possibly because it yields an infinate number of simultaneous equations which would require an infinate number of infinately accurate, infinately precise data points to reconcile.
I think that there is an important distinction which is very often overlooked here. That is, corporations are not people. The law creates this fiction that they are, but ultimately, a "real" person should have much stronger rights than a "fake" corporation.
What really bugs me is that the supreme court has declared that corporations have more rights in court than illegal immigrants.
I don't have a Windows box myself, so I can't confirm this, but IIRC this changes the default format of outgoing messages, and has nothing to do with processing HTML in incoming messages.
Well, actually the FoF _is_ an interim step. Next Year Judge Jackson will announce his Findings of Law, which will include what he thinks should happen to Microsoft.
Then we can take it to the Supreme Court. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Erhm, actually zero multiplied by infinity is not neccessarily zero. It depends on the limits involved in the zero and in the infinity. For example, the limit as x goes to infinity of 1/x * x^2 is zero times infinity, but it is equal to infinity. Conversely, the limit as x goes to infinity of 1/(x^2)*x is zero times infinity, but it is equal to zero.
There is today's offtopic math lesson.
Is this four times present-day lifespans, or four times the lifespans in ancient greece?
If the latter, then I believe we are already more than halfway there.
Erhm, actually microsoft purchased excel. Don't remember from what company, but there is a website of their past acquisitions.
;)
Come to think of it though, they also developed a pretty kickass mouse. Guess microsoft _hardware_ isn't evil after all.
Although it is possible to exchange one for the other, it is equally very possible to increase both. Case in point, DSL lines have 6-30ms latency, while a modem has 200-500ms latency.
I have set up this very thing. It's not hard; just get some router (linux, cisco, even winnt if you have to), tell you programs to bind to your incoming connection IP, and route your outgoing packets out the outgoing connection. When they come back it will be through the incoming connection.
They don't have to be the same ISP, and as long as neither one engages in anti-smurfing filters, it will work without intervention.