In other news, Amtrak was awarded the Guiness World Record(TM) for "Most unsanitary transportation system", edging out Bangladeshi ferry boats by a slim margin of three wads of gum and a sick rat.
They need to get laid, obviously; ever tried telling a girl at a party that you're a GNOME developer and don't even get paid for it?
Seriously though, all of this feuding and itch scratching sort of business happens in every developer group, it's just that outsiders don't hear about it because they don't have a kt.zork.net/{longhorn,oracle,whatever} to air their dirty laundry to the public.
P.S. LinuxWorld: I love the "POINT-COUNTERPOINT SPECIAL" title, maybe for the next article you can use the troll^H^H^H^Hitle "WHY SCO WILL WIN" and follow it with 15 Myth-Fact bullet points. Genius!
> Did he hold her down? Did he drag her into a closet? Did he hit her? Did he molest her with a broom stick?
If he did, he should have been charged with that, not with "Indecency w/child Sexual Contact". Also, if it was that serious, why was he only given two years probation? That's what JPO means according to this.
The point is, a ten year old is NOT CAPABLE of being a sexual predator. Boys don't even reach pubescence until 12 or 13; and that's why we have a separate juvenile justice system. But, thanks to our thoughtless congresssheeple this kid (and this is by far not the only case of this) is going to have "Sexual Predator" following him around when he's 50.
DOB 02/12/1987, disposition date 03/28/1998. That makes him fucking ELEVEN when he was convicted, and probably 10 when he did it. His "victim" was 8.
And for this he is ostracized for life? Is he going to go up to each of his neighbors after the DPS sends them postcards to explain that he was just a little kid playing doctor? I'd say something nasty about Texas right now, but the other states are doing this shit too.
>Simple 'solutions' - like checking for another copy of the software on the network running with the same serial number - are far better...
You've got to be kidding me, you think it's better to have all your commercial software running undocumented, secret network services so that the computers on the LAN can sit around chatting about whether they have pirated software or not?
This is exactly the kind of crap that has let so many MS worms spread--remember universal plug and play?
All it takes is for some knuckle-dragging Symantec code monkey to leave a buffer overflow in the protocol and we'll have another Nimda. Services should never, ever, EVER be added unless it is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY.
DEAR SIR/MADAM, MY NAME IS MOHAMMED YASSIN NGABE CURRENTLY PROVIDING INTERNET SERVICE TO SEVERAL WELL KNOWN SPAMMERS. I KNOW THIS LETTER MIGHT SURPRISE YOU BECAUSE WE HAVE HAD NO PREVIOUS COMMUNICATIONS OR BUSINESS DEALINGS BEFORE NOW.
DUE TO A RECENT UNFORTUNATE INCIDENT INVOLVING A GARDEN WEASEL AND MY LARGE BOWEL, I CAN NO LONGER PROVIDE ACCESS TO THESE UPSTANDING ENTREPENEURS. AS A RESULT I MUST REGRETFULLY DISPOSE MYSELF OF THE SPAMHOSTING BUSINESS AND GIVE THE ADDRESSES AND NAMES OF SEVENTY-TWO (72) SERIAL SPAMMERS TO A WORTHY REPLACEMENT HOST.
DUE TO THE SENSITIVE NATURE OF THESE ADDRESSES, AND THE SENSITIVE NATURE OF THE GROSSLY ENLARGED PENISES OF THE SPAMMERS THEMSELVES, I MUST EXCERCISE THE UTMOST DISCRETION IN GIVING AWAY THESE ADDRESSES.
TO ESTABLISH YOUR GOOD FAITH IN THIS TRANSACTION, YOU MUST FIRST SEND ME YOUR NAME, EMAIL ADDRESS(ES), SHAMPOO BRAND PREFERENCE, AND PENIS SIZE.
KINDLY TREAT THIS REQUEST AS VERY IMPORTANT AND STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL. I HONESTLY ASSURE YOU THAT THIS TRANSACTION IS 100% LEGAL AND RISK-FREE.
'When I accept a license,' Darl McBride said, in a rather scornful tone,' it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.'
'The question is,' said Tux, 'whether you can make clauses mean so many different things.'
'The question is,' said Darl McBride, 'who has better lawyers - that's all.'
Tux was too much puzzled to say anything; so after a minute Darl McBride began again. 'They've a temper, some of them - particularly nondisclosure agreements: they're the proudest - Public Licenses you can do anything with, but not UNIX contracts - however, I can manage the whole lot of them! Impenetrability! That's what I say!'
'Would you tell me, please,' said Tux, 'what that means?'
'Now you talk like a reasonable child,' said Darl McBride, looking very much pleased. 'I meant by "impenetrability" that when I want something from a license it means just what I want it to, and when it doesn't mean what I don't wish it didn't, it doesn't, and it would be just as well if you'd mention what you want because you aren't getting it unless it suits my fancy, so I suggest you get over it unless you mean to be in litigation all the rest of your life.'
'That's a great deal to make one word mean,' Tux said in a thoughtful tone.
'When I make a word do a lot of work like that,' said Darl McBride, 'I always patent it.'
For those of you who may not be aware, MadPenguin.org has been serving an article about Fry's Electronics having been selling a Linux desktop PC loaded with ThizLinux for quite a while now. The question is, are they really going to keep serving it through a slashdotting? The answer is a definitive no.
One interesting aspect of this that nobody has mentioned so far is physical key vs. a memorized password. Having a physical key is, from a liability standpoint, much worse than using a password with loopback-AES or whatever. In the US, a court can't compel you to reveal a memorized password when it might incriminate you, because of the 5th amendment, but it is able to subpeona a physical key (or dongle), because it can be classified as physical evidence.
You think spyware is bad now, just wait till Gator 8.0 Total Information Awareness Edition starts breaking into people's computers and automatically blackmailing hapless users with pictures of their "perusing" adult sites.
Would this apply here? IANAL, but I don't think it would take a lot of imagination on the part of a prosecutor.
18 USCA 1951 - The Hobbs Act
* (a) Whoever in any way or degree obstructs, delays, or affects
commerce or the movement of any article or commodity in commerce,
by ROBBERY or EXTORTION or attempts or CONSPIRES so to do, or
commits or threatens physical violence to any person or property
in furtherance of a plan or purpose to do anything in violation of
this section shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not
more than twenty years, or both.
* (b) As used in this section -
+ (1) The term ''robbery'' means the unlawful taking or OBTAINING
of personal property from the person or in the presence of
another, AGAINST HIS WILL, by means of actual or threatened
force, or violence, or FEAR OF INJURY, immediate or future,
to his PERSON or property, or property in his custody or
possession,
or the person or property of a relative or member of his family
or of anyone in his company at the time of the taking or OBTAINING.
+ (2) The term ''extortion'' means the obtaining of PROPERTY from
another, WITH HIS CONSENT, induced by wrongful use of actual or
threatened force, violence, or FEAR, or under color of official
right.
Not only is she getting a promotion from shill for record labels to shill for GE and Microsoft, but also she'll be pleased to know that there is a 0% chance of her show ever being traded on p2p.
As if it's not bad enough that universities are forcing students to pay micros~1 (for software that was probably preinstalled on their PCs no less) through campus licensing. Now they want to force students to pay tuition money to the RIAA? I think I'm going to be sick.
IANAL (and especially not a Deutsche one) but my understanding is that since LinuxTag doesn't sell Linux distributions, they wouldn't have any standing to sue SCO for unfair competition. The basic principle of civil courts is that there has to be some claim of damages to the complaintant. This might be a good approach for, say, SuSE, Mandrake, RedHat etc to take, however.
This is the first ever programming language to use Chomsky type 5 or "content-free" grammar. A lot of work that has been contingent on this advance will soon come to fruition.
This will doubtless be followed by countless PhD dissertations describing languages using political speeches, marketing jargon, or even "mission statements" as full-featured programming languages.
Good call, when I read "stuff that matters" the last thing that comes to mind is a massive war will probably result in 10s of thousands of deaths and will affect international relations for decades.
I can only hope that slashdot will break away from its present path of posting frivolous news and get back to stuff that REALLY matters, like anime, futurama, and glowing cyber balls.
let c be a constant measure of cost, m be the amount of money that NSA(or whoever) is willing to spend on a given key, and b be the number of bits that m corresponds to. "3 to 4 orders of magnitude" means at most a factor of 10000.
thus, let m = c*2^b
now let c' = c / 10000, i.e. the new cost
m = c' * 10000 * 2^b
m = c' * 2^(ln(10000)/ln(2))*2^b
m = c' * 2^13.29 * 2^b
m = c' * 2^(b + 13.29)
Thus, the marginal attackable keysize that increasing your computational efficiency by 10000 has gained you is 13.29 bits. I think 1024 bit keys are a-OK. Welcome to the wonderful world of exponents.
It took RIAA this long to get around to doing a focus group and finding out that 90+% of their customers who know who Hilary Rosen is have "antipathy" toward her?
The entire business model of the RIAA's members is to focus group lyrics, tunes, logos, and the physical characteristics of their so-called "artists" isn't it? So what took them so long, and why do they care anyway? The average angst-ridden teenage sucker they milk has no idea that anyone other than the purportedly rebellious "artist" whose image..oops album they're buying is getting the money.
More likely the labels are kicking her out because of her lack of progress, and are taking the opportunity to play the part of good cop in their leaks to the NYT. If you're hoping for a letup in DRM crap because of this, you're dreaming.
This is nothing but a cynical attempt at making it appear that the Pentagon is compromising for the benefit of civil liberties. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Pentagon knows they don't have a chance of getting this eDNA nonsense, so they're putting it out in a big PR stunt to try and throw everyone off of John Poindexter's scent.
This is a classic political tactic: when you find that you've gone too far on something, throw out a strawman that's even more extreme and oppose it, thereby putting yourself in a manufactured moderate position.
Slashdot Mirror
In other news, Amtrak was awarded the Guiness World Record(TM) for "Most unsanitary transportation system", edging out Bangladeshi ferry boats by a slim margin of three wads of gum and a sick rat.
Seriously though, all of this feuding and itch scratching sort of business happens in every developer group, it's just that outsiders don't hear about it because they don't have a kt.zork.net/{longhorn,oracle,whatever} to air their dirty laundry to the public.
P.S. LinuxWorld: I love the "POINT-COUNTERPOINT SPECIAL" title, maybe for the next article you can use the troll^H^H^H^Hitle "WHY SCO WILL WIN" and follow it with 15 Myth-Fact bullet points. Genius!
The point is, a ten year old is NOT CAPABLE of being a sexual predator. Boys don't even reach pubescence until 12 or 13; and that's why we have a separate juvenile justice system. But, thanks to our thoughtless congresssheeple this kid (and this is by far not the only case of this) is going to have "Sexual Predator" following him around when he's 50.
DOB 02/12/1987, disposition date 03/28/1998. That makes him fucking ELEVEN when he was convicted, and probably 10 when he did it. His "victim" was 8.
And for this he is ostracized for life? Is he going to go up to each of his neighbors after the DPS sends them postcards to explain that he was just a little kid playing doctor? I'd say something nasty about Texas right now, but the other states are doing this shit too.
You've got to be kidding me, you think it's better to have all your commercial software running undocumented, secret network services so that the computers on the LAN can sit around chatting about whether they have pirated software or not?
This is exactly the kind of crap that has let so many MS worms spread--remember universal plug and play?
All it takes is for some knuckle-dragging Symantec code monkey to leave a buffer overflow in the protocol and we'll have another Nimda. Services should never, ever, EVER be added unless it is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY.
DEAR SIR/MADAM,
MY NAME IS MOHAMMED YASSIN NGABE CURRENTLY PROVIDING INTERNET SERVICE TO SEVERAL WELL KNOWN SPAMMERS. I KNOW THIS LETTER MIGHT SURPRISE YOU BECAUSE WE HAVE HAD NO PREVIOUS COMMUNICATIONS OR BUSINESS DEALINGS BEFORE NOW.
DUE TO A RECENT UNFORTUNATE INCIDENT INVOLVING A GARDEN WEASEL AND MY LARGE BOWEL, I CAN NO LONGER PROVIDE ACCESS TO THESE UPSTANDING ENTREPENEURS. AS A RESULT I MUST REGRETFULLY DISPOSE MYSELF OF THE SPAMHOSTING BUSINESS AND GIVE THE ADDRESSES AND NAMES OF SEVENTY-TWO (72) SERIAL SPAMMERS TO A WORTHY REPLACEMENT HOST.
DUE TO THE SENSITIVE NATURE OF THESE ADDRESSES, AND THE SENSITIVE NATURE OF THE GROSSLY ENLARGED PENISES OF THE SPAMMERS THEMSELVES, I MUST EXCERCISE THE UTMOST DISCRETION IN GIVING AWAY THESE ADDRESSES.
TO ESTABLISH YOUR GOOD FAITH IN THIS TRANSACTION, YOU MUST FIRST SEND ME YOUR NAME, EMAIL ADDRESS(ES), SHAMPOO BRAND PREFERENCE, AND PENIS SIZE.
KINDLY TREAT THIS REQUEST AS VERY IMPORTANT AND STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL. I HONESTLY ASSURE YOU THAT THIS TRANSACTION IS 100% LEGAL AND RISK-FREE.
MOHAMMED YASSIN NGABE, ESQ.
LAGOS, NIGERIA
'When I accept a license,' Darl McBride said, in a rather scornful tone,' it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.' 'The question is,' said Tux, 'whether you can make clauses mean so many different things.' 'The question is,' said Darl McBride, 'who has better lawyers - that's all.' Tux was too much puzzled to say anything; so after a minute Darl McBride began again. 'They've a temper, some of them - particularly nondisclosure agreements: they're the proudest - Public Licenses you can do anything with, but not UNIX contracts - however, I can manage the whole lot of them! Impenetrability! That's what I say!' 'Would you tell me, please,' said Tux, 'what that means?' 'Now you talk like a reasonable child,' said Darl McBride, looking very much pleased. 'I meant by "impenetrability" that when I want something from a license it means just what I want it to, and when it doesn't mean what I don't wish it didn't, it doesn't, and it would be just as well if you'd mention what you want because you aren't getting it unless it suits my fancy, so I suggest you get over it unless you mean to be in litigation all the rest of your life.' 'That's a great deal to make one word mean,' Tux said in a thoughtful tone. 'When I make a word do a lot of work like that,' said Darl McBride, 'I always patent it.'
For those of you who may not be aware, MadPenguin.org has been serving an article about Fry's Electronics having been selling a Linux desktop PC loaded with ThizLinux for quite a while now. The question is, are they really going to keep serving it through a slashdotting? The answer is a definitive no.
One interesting aspect of this that nobody has mentioned so far is physical key vs. a memorized password. Having a physical key is, from a liability standpoint, much worse than using a password with loopback-AES or whatever. In the US, a court can't compel you to reveal a memorized password when it might incriminate you, because of the 5th amendment, but it is able to subpeona a physical key (or dongle), because it can be classified as physical evidence.
You think spyware is bad now, just wait till Gator 8.0 Total Information Awareness Edition starts breaking into people's computers and automatically blackmailing hapless users with pictures of their "perusing" adult sites.
Would this apply here? IANAL, but I don't think it would take a lot of imagination on the part of a prosecutor.
18 USCA 1951 - The Hobbs Act
* (a) Whoever in any way or degree obstructs, delays, or affects
commerce or the movement of any article or commodity in commerce,
by ROBBERY or EXTORTION or attempts or CONSPIRES so to do, or
commits or threatens physical violence to any person or property
in furtherance of a plan or purpose to do anything in violation of
this section shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not
more than twenty years, or both.
* (b) As used in this section -
+ (1) The term ''robbery'' means the unlawful taking or OBTAINING
of personal property from the person or in the presence of
another, AGAINST HIS WILL, by means of actual or threatened
force, or violence, or FEAR OF INJURY, immediate or future,
to his PERSON or property, or property in his custody or
possession,
or the person or property of a relative or member of his family
or of anyone in his company at the time of the taking or OBTAINING.
+ (2) The term ''extortion'' means the obtaining of PROPERTY from
another, WITH HIS CONSENT, induced by wrongful use of actual or
threatened force, violence, or FEAR, or under color of official
right.
Not only is she getting a promotion from shill for record labels to shill for GE and Microsoft, but also she'll be pleased to know that there is a 0% chance of her show ever being traded on p2p.
Finally, something we can all agree on.
As if it's not bad enough that universities are forcing students to pay micros~1 (for software that was probably preinstalled on their PCs no less) through campus licensing. Now they want to force students to pay tuition money to the RIAA? I think I'm going to be sick.
Babak
I think Senator Santorum needs to open an investigation into whether public tax money is being spent researching Homo chimps.
Meta-april fools joke or has Taco's short term memory finally dropped to the level of a fruit fly from too much UT2003?
This is the first ever programming language to use Chomsky type 5 or "content-free" grammar. A lot of work that has been contingent on this advance will soon come to fruition. This will doubtless be followed by countless PhD dissertations describing languages using political speeches, marketing jargon, or even "mission statements" as full-featured programming languages.
The scary thing I'm not sure which is worse.
I can only hope that slashdot will break away from its present path of posting frivolous news and get back to stuff that REALLY matters, like anime, futurama, and glowing cyber balls.
You know you've been in the development cycle too long when you release a game in 2003 and the spec blurb talks about GLIDE support.
thus, let m = c*2^b
now let c' = c / 10000, i.e. the new cost
m = c' * 10000 * 2^b
m = c' * 2^(ln(10000)/ln(2))*2^b
m = c' * 2^13.29 * 2^b
m = c' * 2^(b + 13.29)
Thus, the marginal attackable keysize that increasing your computational efficiency by 10000 has gained you is 13.29 bits. I think 1024 bit keys are a-OK. Welcome to the wonderful world of exponents.
Babak
The entire business model of the RIAA's members is to focus group lyrics, tunes, logos, and the physical characteristics of their so-called "artists" isn't it? So what took them so long, and why do they care anyway? The average angst-ridden teenage sucker they milk has no idea that anyone other than the purportedly rebellious "artist" whose image..oops album they're buying is getting the money.
More likely the labels are kicking her out because of her lack of progress, and are taking the opportunity to play the part of good cop in their leaks to the NYT. If you're hoping for a letup in DRM crap because of this, you're dreaming.
Not as bad as you think, they aren't replacing the battery, just the unit itself. http://www.apcc.com/rely/process.cfm
This is a classic political tactic: when you find that you've gone too far on something, throw out a strawman that's even more extreme and oppose it, thereby putting yourself in a manufactured moderate position.
Keep your eye on the ball, folks.