Um it only works if the servers are compliant with Swiss laws. Swiss banking secrecy is no longer 100% and may be perforated by a determine enough state seeking help with, for example, the funding of terrorism, drugs or whatever. Note that the stated reason is essentially an excuse. If good reason can be found, information may be disclosed to even if there is no terrorist or drugs connection involved.
I think you have misunderstood me. Typically a metering system in a low end automatic camera like my Olympus has no spot facility. It will quite happily expose up to a second if it feels there is not enough light.
When photographing a bright object against a dark background, the meter's tendancy to average the scene will tend to give unacceptably long exposures.
Enabling flash is way of forcing the shutter speed to the lower end of hand-held performancethen it is up to the lens and film speed. Remember also that there is a lot of lattitude in print films as well, so effective a 400ASA film can be doubled to 800 ASA. This is enough for most purposes.
Of course a good SLR with a bright lens and spot metering would be better, but this isn't necessarily what you can keep handy for opportunity shots.
Actually, switching the flash is often a reasonable strategy when photgraphing something that is well illuminated.
Here is why, most meters will average across the whole frame and the thing you are photographing is usually occupying maybe 10 to 20% of the frame.
Switching flash will normally set a fixed speed on 1/30th sec. This is usually enough for the illuminated bit of the photograph. Forget the flash itself, it is the fixed speed that helps. With negative film there is usually enough lattitude to get something off the negative. This is why flash photos of concerts often work.
If they are filming on to negative film, they will need a fair amount of illumination (even with black helicopters). I wouldn't be suprised if the photographers don't actually get something (although a 30th is a bit slow for action and it is sure to blur).
Actually, the processors keeps quite busy, but with other problems like reformatting and comparing data.
They are also a *long* way in connectivity terms away from the Internet as all trading by the members goes via a private WAN (better control of transaction times).
Actually Macro-32 (the VAX assembler) runs very nicely on an Alpha. It works as a translator there. Otherwise, I agree with you about the PAL support.
Digital did start a project to get VMS onto other archiotctures, namely MIPS and INTEL but they gave up even before the feasibility study was fully completed).
NT running on Alpha was probably connected with Cutler (a former VMS architect) who was technical lead for NT.
In reality NT does have some VMS like feataures in the kernel, but it is *not* VMS. If it was it would be a little slower and a BSOD would be strictly mythological.
I am working on a VMScluster of multiprocessor Alphas. VMSclusters beat the sh*t out of beowulf because of the better cross cluster synchronisation. Digital has been producing clusters since 1980 and they are quite frankly, boringly reliable.
Our Alphas don't calculate much, they just run the biggest electronic futures and options market in the world (at least the production cluster does). Most of the backend code is even written in COBOL.
I never saw the point to it. Zulu time is the also the same all over the world and I have no problems organising my online events around UTC. My Sony SW Radio even has UTC support built in (it may be be programmed with time and frequency schedules).
The advantage over Swatch time (and the disadvantage for the Swiss Watch Corp) is that you don't even need a separate time piece.
I don't know about the US but the LinuxWorld Europe exhibition in Germany is colocated with a major banking technology exhibition. The badge for one gets you into the other.
I can imagine that MS, oozing professionalism (=lots of money and practice) can put on a somewhat better booth than most Linux exhibitors. If they get a reaction, I hope that it is rectricted to the humourous (Borged Penguins?) and few machined in nearby booths running the BSOD screensaver.
Um, if I recall correctly, Postel was kind of bullied into approving the idea of a tld organisation. It ranles that US policy, trademark law and so on is being applied to tlds.
The US-centric view of the tlds is also leading to issues with uses of alternate character representations, which don't tend to get understood too well there.
No he didn't. Phil developed the first version of PGP and guided it's development afterwards. A lot of the formats (key rings, etc) were developed by others. Phil continued to guide development though. He released it on the Internet after a row with RSA (the Feds only came in later) over the use of their patented algorithms.
I know, I worked on it for a while back in the early days.
Actually it (GnuPG and WinPT) don't work at all well in a 2K/XP professional environment with non-privileged users. I have started work on it, but can't even get the toolchain to function properly for rebuilds under Win (it uses a non-cygwin compatible version of MINGW32).
In MS business environments you don't tend to Admin rights on the box where you are working. I don't even have at home on my Windows box.
I wrote a bit of pgp back in version 2 days and it was a BSD license. I *know* my code ended up in some commercial products but I wasn't compensated. Later when the s/w was sold to (via another compy whose name I have forgotten) NA, I was approached a couple of time about another port, but never through the official NA commercial channels. As the use was commercial and the rights were a nightmare, I had to decline.
So Phil selling PGP effectively stuffed it for outside contributors. Phil has to eat, so I don't begrudge him that, but he could have sorted the licensing a lot better. Many of the rest of us tried to keep the older command line variants going but it proved more and more difficult and rights became very difficult.
You don't need prz for the GUI. The only 'secret' when preparing a crypto-GUI is to make sure that anything containing key or secret material is cleaned after use. That is, you *never* deallocate memory or free up disk space without zeroing, and in the case of disk space, overwriting with patterns first. The crypto engine is the hard part.
Whilst Phil is a good cryptographer, GUIs making the whole thing understandable are another matter. I think the other guys are doing quite well there.
GnuPG misses some things like secret sharing (should be there soon) and there is no API for philosphical reasons, however that can be dealt with. The OS crypto community is currently surviving well and will continue to do so as long as various governments/interests don't succeed in tainting the whole idea by the association with terrorism and copyright violation. On these last points we need everyone we can get to keep cryptography free and there Phil can definitely help with the advocacy.
Good point, but their are no telephonic equivalents for the international domains,.com,.org.net and so on so the allocation can be easily devolved to the countries.
One of the things that is being kicked around with Enron/Worldcom/Xerox is that the board jointly and severally carries the responsibility for correct corporate governance. Well this for the "for-profit" companies. This means that the board is entitled to make enquires as to whether information being presented to them for approval (such as the balance sheet) is correct. What about non-profits? This question was posed before, but nobody seems to know about the specifics of California non-profits.
Actually, it sounds very similar to the shenanigans at FIFA where the CFO went up against the CEO on the basis of some very dodgy payments and accounting practices that he had authorised. The CFO was forced to resign, alledgedly through the use of bought influence (In FIFA, Tonga has the same number of votes as Germany).
Lets just forget that it is the Internet and just look at other organisations involved in coordinating things internationally. I mentioned FIFA, we also know about the Olympics committee. Other organisations closer to home, such as CCITT tend to be bureaucratic and inefficient but not particularly corrupt.
Is it possible to have a minimalist organisation that is cheap, efficient and honest that can manage something like the Internet?
I saw the pictures, and the glowing, which makes me nervous. If it gets hot, then it radiates. The question is how much of what is inside the crucible stays there?
Having looked agin through the article, there was nothing here about messing with the insides, whether the PSU, the maggie or the interlocks.
Yes, you are right, microwave radiation levels from an oven and the high voltage levels are unhealthy. However these things are usually quite reliable, although there is usually an internal fuse that can blow.
What concerns me more is that the heat build up from a glowing crucible of molten metal is somewhat more than from a pizza. Such heat isn't going to do the cabling or the door much good.
Um sorry, I do. I even sometimes send the fixes in. I have contributed 'fixes' to about half a dozen operating systems, their libraries and utilities. In a few cases, I even created patches for commercial s/w distributed in binary only. However, I generally have to be paid a lot to fix binaries, source code is a lot easier.
I don't have anything personal against Mr Gates or Microsoft. However unlike Mr Ford who created and sold the affordable Model-T, Gates's crew has a philosphy that only they should be permitted to fix anything.
That is my whole problem with Windows, I pay big bucks for something that I have no chance of maintaining it and no other company can. When I buy any other item, I can either repair it or find somebody else who can. I have a reasonable chance of spotting the defects and correcting them myself.
You are right that Windows is a typical commercial package. However unlike almost any other purchase, you are bound to the vendor for corrections. This happened before MS existed (IBM were as bad over mainframe operating systems).
With open source, it doesn't mean that it has any fewer bugs, but at least I, and a number like me can go kick the tires and look under the hood.
You haven't been able to couple my statements with the question that I pose. Yes, I have no expectation of quality from a commercial vendor like Microsoft, no matter what I have paid. I can't even fix it either. There are plenty of bugs in open source software as well, but at least I or more likely, others, have a chance to fix them.
If this was a major compromise in another system, of course it would be reported here. However, commercial systems such as Windows cost money. I have no means of fixing the bug myself so I rely on the vendor.
Given the revenue stream of say Win-XP compared to that of commercial Linux distributions, I am very surprised that MS still makes code with so many holes. If XP ius too big for MS to manage the development and support, then they should simplify it.
Um, first I would like to point out that Stalin probably killed almost as many Soviets as the Nazis through the forced resettlement and the Kolkoz (collective farm) programme. My wife's grandparents survived forcible resttlement to the coal mines of Siberia. I therefore find the hate for the Nazis to be somewhat hypocritical, especially as politics has a tendency to meet at the poles (i.e., not much difference between left and right extremists).
One tends to be concerned about censorship laws because the regulations can be a lot wider in implementation than originally planned. For example, China used to have a blanket ban on pornography. Fine, but in the eyes of the Chinese government, democratic politics was also classified as pornography.
I am sorry, I know how laws can work and be abused inside the new Russia. For example, the campaign by the FSB against Nikitin who was a former military officer who used public sources to collate data on nuclear waste disposal issues in the Russian Navy for Bellona, an environmental outfit. Similar cases include that of Grigory Pasco, a journalist investing illegal dumping of radioactive waste in the sea of Japan.
Some religious sects will also feel the pinch. Perhaps this isn't a bad thing as some cults are really money-making rackets. However, it does appear that the Orthodox Church (not afraid of a little business itself) uses the rules about sects against other genuine religious groups.
The problem is that the environmentalists are particularly worried that the new rules will be applied to them. There is politics and big money associated with pollution (as everywhere), and it is felt that such influence will be used to have web sites shut down.
Putin is definitely one of the better presidents, but I'm sorry that once a KGB man, always a KGB man. The training is designed to instil a certain mindset.
When you drop a bomb on Iraq, you may be very lucky and kill a few supporters of SH. The country is not a democracy and you can guess that his Baathist supporters are first inline for the shelters.
In a democracy, we are all responsible for our government's actions. Some may say that the last presidential elections were rigged in Florida, but that only makes a difference if they were rigged in a lot of other states too. Sorry, there was only one brother. George W. Bush was more or less democratically elected, and much more so than the Taleban Mullah Omar or Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
So here we are in a democratic state. What does that mean? Well, not just armed forces are valid targets for the terrorist mindset. If the average US voter disagreed with current middle-eastern policy, then maybe Osama wouldn't be so resentful or attract so much support for his attacks on civillians.
Until now, many people were not aware of the ramifications of international policy decisions. Some people who travelled were already aware, but they were a minority.
Should people back down, well no. However think about what effects that foreign policy has and try to work out whether that policy is worth your support and tell your elected representatives. Foreign policy should be more than just who gets what juicy contract.
Oh and a final point is that if your country has a military force made up largely from reservists like Israel, it becomes very difficult to decide who, apart from children doesn't represent a target to a terrorist. Most males between 18 and 50 or so are serving one month a year in the army, same for women up to the birth of their children. Can you see a terrorist understanding "Sorry don't shoot or bomb me, I'm not wearing my uniform"?
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Um it only works if the servers are compliant with Swiss laws. Swiss banking secrecy is no longer 100% and may be perforated by a determine enough state seeking help with, for example, the funding of terrorism, drugs or whatever. Note that the stated reason is essentially an excuse. If good reason can be found, information may be disclosed to even if there is no terrorist or drugs connection involved.
When photographing a bright object against a dark background, the meter's tendancy to average the scene will tend to give unacceptably long exposures.
Enabling flash is way of forcing the shutter speed to the lower end of hand-held performancethen it is up to the lens and film speed. Remember also that there is a lot of lattitude in print films as well, so effective a 400ASA film can be doubled to 800 ASA. This is enough for most purposes.
Of course a good SLR with a bright lens and spot metering would be better, but this isn't necessarily what you can keep handy for opportunity shots.
Here is why, most meters will average across the whole frame and the thing you are photographing is usually occupying maybe 10 to 20% of the frame.
Switching flash will normally set a fixed speed on 1/30th sec. This is usually enough for the illuminated bit of the photograph. Forget the flash itself, it is the fixed speed that helps. With negative film there is usually enough lattitude to get something off the negative. This is why flash photos of concerts often work.
If they are filming on to negative film, they will need a fair amount of illumination (even with black helicopters). I wouldn't be suprised if the photographers don't actually get something (although a 30th is a bit slow for action and it is sure to blur).
They are also a *long* way in connectivity terms away from the Internet as all trading by the members goes via a private WAN (better control of transaction times).
Digital did start a project to get VMS onto other archiotctures, namely MIPS and INTEL but they gave up even before the feasibility study was fully completed).
In reality NT does have some VMS like feataures in the kernel, but it is *not* VMS. If it was it would be a little slower and a BSOD would be strictly mythological.
Our Alphas don't calculate much, they just run the biggest electronic futures and options market in the world (at least the production cluster does). Most of the backend code is even written in COBOL.
The advantage over Swatch time (and the disadvantage for the Swiss Watch Corp) is that you don't even need a separate time piece.
I can imagine that MS, oozing professionalism (=lots of money and practice) can put on a somewhat better booth than most Linux exhibitors. If they get a reaction, I hope that it is rectricted to the humourous (Borged Penguins?) and few machined in nearby booths running the BSOD screensaver.
The US-centric view of the tlds is also leading to issues with uses of alternate character representations, which don't tend to get understood too well there.
I know, I worked on it for a while back in the early days.
In MS business environments you don't tend to Admin rights on the box where you are working. I don't even have at home on my Windows box.
I wrote a bit of pgp back in version 2 days and it was a BSD license. I *know* my code ended up in some commercial products but I wasn't compensated. Later when the s/w was sold to (via another compy whose name I have forgotten) NA, I was approached a couple of time about another port, but never through the official NA commercial channels. As the use was commercial and the rights were a nightmare, I had to decline.
So Phil selling PGP effectively stuffed it for outside contributors. Phil has to eat, so I don't begrudge him that, but he could have sorted the licensing a lot better. Many of the rest of us tried to keep the older command line variants going but it proved more and more difficult and rights became very difficult.
You don't need prz for the GUI. The only 'secret' when preparing a crypto-GUI is to make sure that anything containing key or secret material is cleaned after use. That is, you *never* deallocate memory or free up disk space without zeroing, and in the case of disk space, overwriting with patterns first. The crypto engine is the hard part.
Whilst Phil is a good cryptographer, GUIs making the whole thing understandable are another matter. I think the other guys are doing quite well there.
GnuPG misses some things like secret sharing (should be there soon) and there is no API for philosphical reasons, however that can be dealt with. The OS crypto community is currently surviving well and will continue to do so as long as various governments/interests don't succeed in tainting the whole idea by the association with terrorism and copyright violation. On these last points we need everyone we can get to keep cryptography free and there Phil can definitely help with the advocacy.
Good point, but their are no telephonic equivalents for the international domains, .com, .org .net and so on so the allocation can be easily devolved to the countries.
Actually, it sounds very similar to the shenanigans at FIFA where the CFO went up against the CEO on the basis of some very dodgy payments and accounting practices that he had authorised. The CFO was forced to resign, alledgedly through the use of bought influence (In FIFA, Tonga has the same number of votes as Germany).
Lets just forget that it is the Internet and just look at other organisations involved in coordinating things internationally. I mentioned FIFA, we also know about the Olympics committee. Other organisations closer to home, such as CCITT tend to be bureaucratic and inefficient but not particularly corrupt.
Is it possible to have a minimalist organisation that is cheap, efficient and honest that can manage something like the Internet?
ICANN't, Can you?
I saw the pictures, and the glowing, which makes me nervous. If it gets hot, then it radiates. The question is how much of what is inside the crucible stays there?
Yes, you are right, microwave radiation levels from an oven and the high voltage levels are unhealthy. However these things are usually quite reliable, although there is usually an internal fuse that can blow.
What concerns me more is that the heat build up from a glowing crucible of molten metal is somewhat more than from a pizza. Such heat isn't going to do the cabling or the door much good.
I don't have anything personal against Mr Gates or Microsoft. However unlike Mr Ford who created and sold the affordable Model-T, Gates's crew has a philosphy that only they should be permitted to fix anything.
Even if I couldn't, someone else can. I could even pay them to do so. I do not have to rely on the vendor.
You are right that Windows is a typical commercial package. However unlike almost any other purchase, you are bound to the vendor for corrections. This happened before MS existed (IBM were as bad over mainframe operating systems).
With open source, it doesn't mean that it has any fewer bugs, but at least I, and a number like me can go kick the tires and look under the hood.
You haven't been able to couple my statements with the question that I pose. Yes, I have no expectation of quality from a commercial vendor like Microsoft, no matter what I have paid. I can't even fix it either. There are plenty of bugs in open source software as well, but at least I or more likely, others, have a chance to fix them.
This is what the British do with RAF transport command. It apparently isn't so bad when you can't see so well outside.
Given the revenue stream of say Win-XP compared to that of commercial Linux distributions, I am very surprised that MS still makes code with so many holes. If XP ius too big for MS to manage the development and support, then they should simplify it.
One tends to be concerned about censorship laws because the regulations can be a lot wider in implementation than originally planned. For example, China used to have a blanket ban on pornography. Fine, but in the eyes of the Chinese government, democratic politics was also classified as pornography.
I am sorry, I know how laws can work and be abused inside the new Russia. For example, the campaign by the FSB against Nikitin who was a former military officer who used public sources to collate data on nuclear waste disposal issues in the Russian Navy for Bellona, an environmental outfit. Similar cases include that of Grigory Pasco, a journalist investing illegal dumping of radioactive waste in the sea of Japan.
Some religious sects will also feel the pinch. Perhaps this isn't a bad thing as some cults are really money-making rackets. However, it does appear that the Orthodox Church (not afraid of a little business itself) uses the rules about sects against other genuine religious groups.
The problem is that the environmentalists are particularly worried that the new rules will be applied to them. There is politics and big money associated with pollution (as everywhere), and it is felt that such influence will be used to have web sites shut down.
Putin is definitely one of the better presidents, but I'm sorry that once a KGB man, always a KGB man. The training is designed to instil a certain mindset.
In a democracy, we are all responsible for our government's actions. Some may say that the last presidential elections were rigged in Florida, but that only makes a difference if they were rigged in a lot of other states too. Sorry, there was only one brother. George W. Bush was more or less democratically elected, and much more so than the Taleban Mullah Omar or Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
So here we are in a democratic state. What does that mean? Well, not just armed forces are valid targets for the terrorist mindset. If the average US voter disagreed with current middle-eastern policy, then maybe Osama wouldn't be so resentful or attract so much support for his attacks on civillians.
Until now, many people were not aware of the ramifications of international policy decisions. Some people who travelled were already aware, but they were a minority.
Should people back down, well no. However think about what effects that foreign policy has and try to work out whether that policy is worth your support and tell your elected representatives. Foreign policy should be more than just who gets what juicy contract.
Oh and a final point is that if your country has a military force made up largely from reservists like Israel, it becomes very difficult to decide who, apart from children doesn't represent a target to a terrorist. Most males between 18 and 50 or so are serving one month a year in the army, same for women up to the birth of their children. Can you see a terrorist understanding "Sorry don't shoot or bomb me, I'm not wearing my uniform"?