It's my opinion that the genius of Bittorrent is the way it complements a traditional client/server-protocol (ie. HTTP) when it shows its shortcomings during a Slashdot-effect.
It's a great demonstration that shows that P2P is not something that will take over the world, but rather something that has its strengths in other areas that traditional protocols.
LINEAGE FEATURES In the medieval world of Lineage(TM), choose to be a gallant knight, a resourceful wizard, a crafty elf, or a revered prince or princess. Play surrounded by guarded castles, perilous forests, sinister fens and valleys filled with the undead. Slay ferocious monsters unlike any known to man or elf.
"trying to compare it to other MMOGs is almost like comparing apples to oranges"
Yes, it definately sounds radically different from such boring mainstream products as Everquest.
Yes, but the problem with most ML implementations is that they are academic toy languages. You can't do anything useful with them because you can't connect them to real I/O and if you can you can't distribute the code as noone else has the environment.
Not completely correct. You might want to take a look at SMLserver.
As usual with Gibson, the text is full of memorable quotes.
Had nations better understood the potential of the Internet, I suspect they might well have strangled it in its cradle. Emergent technology is, by its very nature, out of control, and leads to unpredictable outcomes.
Yay! As a developer of a Moz-extension, I'm very pleased to see that Firebird didn't break compatibility with older extensions... Unlike big brother Mozilla, which breaks it for every.1 upgrade. If they keep this up for future versions, I'll probably stop maintaining for Mozilla and just concentrate on Firebird.
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Since we're all just quoting the article, I would like to point your attention to the topmost comment, which contains some real gems:
Lord Sainsbury of Turville: [...] These statistics on accidents are extremely fascinating; they prove that the British public can use practically anything in this world to hurt themselves with. [...] However, it is rather bizarre that 823 accidents are estimated to be the result of letters and envelopes. It is difficult to understand how they can be the cause of such serious plight.
Well, I'm sure there will be no lack of mirrors for this strip, in case they have to take it down. My bet is that half the readership of/. just saved it locally... "just in case".:)
Might as well take advantage of Taco's amnesia... I've now submitted the story again, and expect my version of it to be the 6th or 7th posting.
Maybe I'll finally break the karma barrier this way!
An Inmarsat spokeswoman said in an e-mail that the company puts all of its customers on equal footing.
Media companies such as Fox pay about $1.50 per minute for voice communication via satellite and about $6 per minute to transmit video.
I must admit I'm really surprised by these numbers. $1.50 for voice is not far from what we paid for ordinary cell phones 5 years ago. Will be interesting to see if these kind of services can be extended to the use of ordinary people one day.
Ok. Not all of these are nerdy, but they're still darn funny.
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."
- Rich Cook
"Some people are alive only because it is illegal to kill them"
- from alt.sysadmin.recovery
If all you have is an axe, every problem looks like hours of fun.
"Campus Crusade for Cthulhu! If your God's dead, blame Ours!"
"One of my favorite games when I was a kid was 'murder/suicide.'
Dad would show us a photo and ask us, "Is it a murder or a
suicide?" -- Colleen Doran
In Denmark we up until recently had a major mobile-phone provider with the name Mobilix. They have now switched their name to the more international Orange, but I never heard of them having any problems arising from their usage of a name that could have been taken from the Asterix-comic.
This is even more peculiar, as they probably must have intended for the association to be made: Asterix is quite famous in Denmark, and the company constantly played on its French ancestry.
I'm not sure they need to have found a reverse of MD5 to really injure people's P2P-downloads. Since most P2P-systems are able to download chunks of a file from different peers, wouldn't it be possible to answer searches with something like "why, yes, I do in fact have the chunk you're looking for!" and then feed the recipient bogus data, thus corrupting the file? The result wouldn't be discovered until the file was downloaded, as it's not possible to run the hashing algorithm to check until then.
LarsBT links to this Reuters newsflash and points out that since Johansen's arrest, "Norway has introduced legislation similar to the European Unions directive on copyright [pdf], making it illegal to circumvent any copyright protection - making it highly unlikely that he would be found not guilty under these new rules."
Norway is not part of the EU, but still takes most new EU-laws and directives and implements them into their own law. The irony of them implementing the Infosoc-directive (Euro-DMCA) mentioned above is that they're almost the only ones doing it. So far, only Denmark (*sigh*) and Greece has implemented the directive.
I believe there was an episode of Ally about this. The answer is that it doesn't matter if she deep inside really loves you, and that, when she sues you, she employs the same law-company that you pick to defend yourself... or something.
When I first saw the article I went "Yesh! They got another spammer!!"... That is until I noted the similarities with this story.
I seriously can't believe that most/.-readers, who just happen to surf by in their spare time, can spot a duplicate story quicker than an editor, who is doing it full time.:)
So it turns out that Bjarne was right in his interview with Visual C++ Developers Journal in June 2000:
Very little in Java is new to a student of programming languages, so there has been little effect on the C++ definition. In that area, Java is still playing catch-up (for example, I think it is just a matter of time before Sun will add a template-like mechanism to Java).
The thing about Moore's law is that it has essentially become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Chip-makers everywhere are now following Moore's law, and if they see that they drop below it, they'll pour more resources into R&D, so that they are not behind.
I think it's amazing that every +0.1 release of Phoenix makes it to the frontpage of Slashdot, when the Mozilla project aren't even announcing it on their own frontpage. Is it really significant enough to let 250.000 people know about every change???
-- Henrik
In all cases, great movies which have been taken up by American production companies and remade into rather mediocre movies.
I must admit I don't know what causes this urge to remake stuff instead of just subtitling it. Anyone care to enlighten me?? Does the audience actually want these remakes or is there an (ignored) urge among people to see the originals?
it is interesting that IBM, who often claims to be a defender of Open Source Software, would be so negative
Being a defender of OS doesn't imply that you're not allowed to bash individual products. MySQL is fine for a lot of sites, but I'm sure that in IBM's world there are plenty of applications where it's definately not sufficient.
I once heard one of my teachers say that MySQL basically is a wrapper for a file-system. Granted, he was also working for a company that is in direct competetion with MySQL, but as such, he has probably also taken a good long look at MySQL and thus have a good idea of what is going on behind the stage.
The book that best describes Nerd-utopia (nerdtopia?) must be Neuromancer. Imagine what the internet looks like in that book. Space stations around the earth, filled with decadent and filthy rich people or ganja-smoking rasta-people. AIs in the loose, wanting to take over. Definately utopia in my mind.:)
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Such attacks will mostly be possible when you have access to the source-code of a program, and can look through it to find weak algorithmic parts.
I guess it's harder to do this on a proprietary system. Perhaps this the "Open source is less secure"-argument that MS has been hoping for?
It's my opinion that the genius of Bittorrent is the way it complements a traditional client/server-protocol (ie. HTTP) when it shows its shortcomings during a Slashdot-effect.
It's a great demonstration that shows that P2P is not something that will take over the world, but rather something that has its strengths in other areas that traditional protocols.
LINEAGE FEATURES
In the medieval world of Lineage(TM), choose to be a gallant knight, a resourceful wizard, a crafty elf, or a revered prince or princess. Play surrounded by guarded castles, perilous forests, sinister fens and valleys filled with the undead. Slay ferocious monsters unlike any known to man or elf.
"trying to compare it to other MMOGs is almost like comparing apples to oranges"
Yes, it definately sounds radically different from such boring mainstream products as Everquest.
Yes, but the problem with most ML implementations is that they are academic toy languages. You can't do anything useful with them because you can't connect them to real I/O and if you can you can't distribute the code as noone else has the environment.
Not completely correct. You might want to take a look at SMLserver.
As usual with Gibson, the text is full of memorable quotes.
Had nations better understood the potential of the Internet, I suspect they might well have strangled it in its cradle. Emergent technology is, by its very nature, out of control, and leads to unpredictable outcomes.
Probably correct.
200X : ?????
200X + 1 : Profit!!!
Yay! As a developer of a Moz-extension, I'm very pleased to see that Firebird didn't break compatibility with older extensions... Unlike big brother Mozilla, which breaks it for every .1 upgrade. If they keep this up for future versions, I'll probably stop maintaining for Mozilla and just concentrate on Firebird.
Since we're all just quoting the article, I would like to point your attention to the topmost comment, which contains some real gems:
Lord Sainsbury of Turville: [...] These statistics on accidents are extremely fascinating; they prove that the British public can use practically anything in this world to hurt themselves with. [...] However, it is rather bizarre that 823 accidents are estimated to be the result of letters and envelopes. It is difficult to understand how they can be the cause of such serious plight.
Envelopes?!?!
Well, I'm sure there will be no lack of mirrors for this strip, in case they have to take it down. My bet is that half the readership of /. just saved it locally ... "just in case". :)
Might as well take advantage of Taco's amnesia... I've now submitted the story again, and expect my version of it to be the 6th or 7th posting. Maybe I'll finally break the karma barrier this way!
An Inmarsat spokeswoman said in an e-mail that the company puts all of its customers on equal footing.
Media companies such as Fox pay about $1.50 per minute for voice communication via satellite and about $6 per minute to transmit video.
I must admit I'm really surprised by these numbers. $1.50 for voice is not far from what we paid for ordinary cell phones 5 years ago. Will be interesting to see if these kind of services can be extended to the use of ordinary people one day.
Ok. Not all of these are nerdy, but they're still darn funny.
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to
build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to
produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."
- Rich Cook
"Some people are alive only because it is illegal to kill them"
- from alt.sysadmin.recovery
If all you have is an axe, every problem looks like hours of fun.
"Campus Crusade for Cthulhu! If your God's dead, blame Ours!"
"One of my favorite games when I was a kid was 'murder/suicide.'
Dad would show us a photo and ask us, "Is it a murder or a
suicide?" -- Colleen Doran
In Denmark we up until recently had a major mobile-phone provider with the name Mobilix. They have now switched their name to the more international Orange, but I never heard of them having any problems arising from their usage of a name that could have been taken from the Asterix-comic. This is even more peculiar, as they probably must have intended for the association to be made: Asterix is quite famous in Denmark, and the company constantly played on its French ancestry.
I'm not sure they need to have found a reverse of MD5 to really injure people's P2P-downloads. Since most P2P-systems are able to download chunks of a file from different peers, wouldn't it be possible to answer searches with something like "why, yes, I do in fact have the chunk you're looking for!" and then feed the recipient bogus data, thus corrupting the file? The result wouldn't be discovered until the file was downloaded, as it's not possible to run the hashing algorithm to check until then.
LarsBT links to this Reuters newsflash and points out that since Johansen's arrest, "Norway has introduced legislation similar to the European Unions directive on copyright [pdf], making it illegal to circumvent any copyright protection - making it highly unlikely that he would be found not guilty under these new rules."
Norway is not part of the EU, but still takes most new EU-laws and directives and implements them into their own law. The irony of them implementing the Infosoc-directive (Euro-DMCA) mentioned above is that they're almost the only ones doing it. So far, only Denmark (*sigh*) and Greece has implemented the directive.
I believe there was an episode of Ally about this. The answer is that it doesn't matter if she deep inside really loves you, and that, when she sues you, she employs the same law-company that you pick to defend yourself... or something.
No, I'm a guy... really!!
When I first saw the article I went "Yesh! They got another spammer!!" ... That is until I noted the similarities with this story. /.-readers, who just happen to surf by in their spare time, can spot a duplicate story quicker than an editor, who is doing it full time. :)
I seriously can't believe that most
The thing about Moore's law is that it has essentially become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Chip-makers everywhere are now following Moore's law, and if they see that they drop below it, they'll pour more resources into R&D, so that they are not behind.
Also, why would they want to stop this free advertising?
Why? Because their prices are not competitive of course. In that case it's not advertisement on such a site.
I think it's amazing that every +0.1 release of Phoenix makes it to the frontpage of Slashdot, when the Mozilla project aren't even announcing it on their own frontpage. Is it really significant enough to let 250.000 people know about every change???
-- Henrik
What is it about US that makes you have to redo ALL good movies??
Why turn the amazing movie nattevagten into the mediocre movie Nightwatch?
Why turn Ringu into Ring?
Why turn Riget into Kingdom hospital?
Why turn Nikita into Point of no return?
In all cases, great movies which have been taken up by American production companies and remade into rather mediocre movies.
I must admit I don't know what causes this urge to remake stuff instead of just subtitling it. Anyone care to enlighten me?? Does the audience actually want these remakes or is there an (ignored) urge among people to see the originals?
-- Henrik
it is interesting that IBM, who often claims to be a defender of Open Source Software, would be so negative
Being a defender of OS doesn't imply that you're not allowed to bash individual products. MySQL is fine for a lot of sites, but I'm sure that in IBM's world there are plenty of applications where it's definately not sufficient.
I once heard one of my teachers say that MySQL basically is a wrapper for a file-system. Granted, he was also working for a company that is in direct competetion with MySQL, but as such, he has probably also taken a good long look at MySQL and thus have a good idea of what is going on behind the stage.
The book that best describes Nerd-utopia (nerdtopia?) must be Neuromancer. Imagine what the internet looks like in that book. Space stations around the earth, filled with decadent and filthy rich people or ganja-smoking rasta-people. AIs in the loose, wanting to take over. Definately utopia in my mind. :)
The idea of KDE was planted in October 1996 when Matthias Ettrich posted a note to a newsgroup.
Speaking of which, I found it at Google-groups. Google was not interested in putting it in their Usenet timeline, though.