The story from the other day was that the DoD had certified Red Hat for their purposes. This is Red Hat and Oracle attempting to gain a more general federal certification which would allow many agencies to consider linux for deployment. Federal law currently requires many agencies to only use "certified" software and operating systems.
You only get 73% of you daily dose of dark matter. That would leave eating bowl after bowl after bowl. Try my new "Extra Dark Total Universe" and get 100% of your Dark Matter in just one bowl!
Geez. Usually these frivolous patents have some iota of truth to them but what about.NET isn't just the "obvious next step" to the last 30 years of contributions to computer science? Java's bytecode is a slower version of their own "portable code" and CLR.
I think they're just hoping the patent office is about as confused as the rest of us of exactly what.NET is supposed to be and hence issues a patent to avoid looking stupid.
The Germans had good reason to use security through obscurity. At the time there were NO ciphers available that were not vulnerable to analysis. It would not have taken an insane amount of additional computing power to break the allied codes. They were only slightly better by modern standards.
Exactly my point - the weak spot for the germans was that fact that Enigma was reversible once you found one of these things. In our day in age why isn't the shuttle using a system that does not rely on this problem. Security through obscurity is of course a bad idea but obscurity along with strength behind the intital system is much much better. The fact that they're so worried about this is still somewhat frightening. We have the technology to make the encryption independent of knowledge of the implementation - why aren't we doing it?
The reason that security through obscurity is bad is it leads to complacency. But it is not the only way people can become complacent. As recently as 1992 I was arguing with UNIX sysadmins on comp.sys.computing that shaddow passowrds were necessary for UNIX since crack etc. were a real threat. Oh no came the reply you are ignorant, you don't understand, you are promoting security through obscurity.
If you have a box and it performs encryption, then in this day and age the security of future transmissions on this box (oh say, to keep terrorist froming saying "Ok shuttle, now lets fly into the sun") should not be reliant on the security of the box itself! This is the same failed tatic that took out the Germans in World War II and DECSS; its security by obscurity. A combonation of public key cryptography to exchange symetric keys to do quick 3DES should be more than adequate for the lenghth of time that the shuttle mission is over and hence time to choose a new key!
Or who's to say that anyone who signs up with their email address on thist is from one of these states? I mean if we can forge just about anything else on the web I can certainly say I'm from colorado (In fact since I'm really from CT, oops...I missed that little drop box by one)
Now the question is, would the spammers want to risk it?
I cannot possibly defend this kind of action - even those of you trying to play devil's advocate to some sort of "slashdot hypocripsy" theory. This is stealing and they are stealing from the public. If they want this code so badly then why can't they abide by the terms that it comes with. I'm all for making a test case of the GPL go through the motions. Prove that the GPL can stand on its own - make these corporations who are constantly hounding computer users that they are loosing their intellectual property to any slight amount of internet "fair use" see what its like to be on the other side of the fence. There geediness is unbounded and they will never be looking out for the best interest of our software so why should we be allowing them to compete with us. I mean - when they put in their own website that their competing against linux - using Linux code is like "The Generic Cola Beverage Company" ripping off Coke in the middle of the night of their formula and then opening up business the next day with an identical product - it bet Coke wouldn't stand for it and neither should we. The only way that we have for a free software utopia is to stand up for ourselves now!
So we can study the effects of weightlessness on tiny screws.
Ant1: Save the Queen
Ant2: Who's the Queen?
Ant1: I'm the Queen
Ant2: No your not!
Horrible Horrible Freedom..
My dad who works in IT always likes to tell the story of the $25,000 his company spent in the 80's for a 400 meg hard drive the size of a dishwasher
I remember my first hard drive, an RLL ST238 30 megger from seagate. Anyone else remeber having to do this? The drive came with a list of bad sectors and then you had to load up dos debug in an effort to run the program which came on your drive controler which you could then use to enter the bad sector list and low-level format the drive. That was something like $230 in '88 or so.....
My new shiney 160gig maxtor was a measly $180 bucks and I'm sure I'm gonna feel really ripped off in about 10 years.....
Q: So does the Tablet PC increase productivity and make busy professionals more reliable at their work?
A: The short answer is 'no'. The long answer is "Does a 12 cylinder car get you from Philly to New York any faster than a 6 cylinder auto?". The answer to that query, of course, is 'no'; all drivers must obey the same speed limit.
You have obviouly never driven on the new jersey turnpike where the complete idea of a speed limit is irrevelant. Your either goin as fast as you want or about 7mph in line for the toll being charged to get into the tollboth for the highway.
By defintion putting a file in a "world readable" directory and setting the permissions to allow world access kinda implies that you don't care who reads this. Otherwise - why in the world would you allow this kind of access? If you place it in a world readable directory, you have no businness complaing the world can read it.
just another example of not reading the article in its entirity!
The author clearly states that water has this property but only within a very small temperature range.
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yes, yes 128 bits is a mere 2^64 times harder than rc5 64 but man wouldn't it be funny to see the look on their face when 1,000,000 slashdot junkies break their little code in a mere 1000 years.
The last time I cheked JAVA is downlodable for free from Sun Why do they need to get paid by some corporation to teach a closed essentailly proprietay language built by a company only for their own financial gain in the long term.
I have no problem with universities teaching languages such as JAVA,c#, etc. This is the way of the future - in 10, 20 years no one will have the patience to deal with plain old C or languages like it. (Hmm, umm, yea..nobody uses old languages like cobol anymore!;) But when universitys are essentially being bribed to become high level certification courses for some companies products we are moving away from what CS is supposed to be teaching you - general techniques that will be applicable throughout your lifetime as a computer professional versus what immediate professional skills will be applicable when you graduate.
If I had the power, I would require spammers to add an X header to their emails something to the effect of
X-Is-A-Fuckin-Spam: yes
Then it would be a simple task to choose between spam and no spam. Make spamers personally liable to victims if they do not follow this simple rule.
At least it looks as if the toliet paper problem is defintely in P. Human beings could be doomed to a lifetime of misery should the problem had been intractable.
Yes. The Time construction theorems do show that their exists a language that takes n^1000, n ^(10^123323), etc. However they are all easier to solve that Exponential time funtions!
Hehe - That defintely is part of it but I was just trying to be clear rather than precise. You obviously can't take k^n time to use the solution generated to decide the other part.
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The story from the other day was that the DoD had certified Red Hat for their purposes. This is Red Hat and Oracle attempting to gain a more general federal certification which would allow many agencies to consider linux for deployment. Federal law currently requires many agencies to only use "certified" software and operating systems.
You only get 73% of you daily dose of dark matter. That would leave eating bowl after bowl after bowl. Try my new "Extra Dark Total Universe" and get 100% of your Dark Matter in just one bowl!
Geez. Usually these frivolous patents have some iota of truth to them but what about .NET isn't just the "obvious next step" to the last 30 years of contributions to computer science? Java's bytecode is a slower version of their own "portable code" and CLR.
.NET is supposed to be and hence issues a patent to avoid looking stupid.
I think they're just hoping the patent office is about as confused as the rest of us of exactly what
The Germans had good reason to use security through obscurity. At the time there were NO ciphers available that were not vulnerable to analysis. It would not have taken an insane amount of additional computing power to break the allied codes. They were only slightly better by modern standards.
Exactly my point - the weak spot for the germans was that fact that Enigma was reversible once you found one of these things. In our day in age why isn't the shuttle using a system that does not rely on this problem. Security through obscurity is of course a bad idea but obscurity along with strength behind the intital system is much much better. The fact that they're so worried about this is still somewhat frightening. We have the technology to make the encryption independent of knowledge of the implementation - why aren't we doing it?
The reason that security through obscurity is bad is it leads to complacency. But it is not the only way people can become complacent. As recently as 1992 I was arguing with UNIX sysadmins on comp.sys.computing that shaddow passowrds were necessary for UNIX since crack etc. were a real threat. Oh no came the reply you are ignorant, you don't understand, you are promoting security through obscurity.
If you have a box and it performs encryption, then in this day and age the security of future transmissions on this box (oh say, to keep terrorist froming saying "Ok shuttle, now lets fly into the sun") should not be reliant on the security of the box itself! This is the same failed tatic that took out the Germans in World War II and DECSS; its security by obscurity. A combonation of public key cryptography to exchange symetric keys to do quick 3DES should be more than adequate for the lenghth of time that the shuttle mission is over and hence time to choose a new key!
Or who's to say that anyone who signs up with their email address on thist is from one of these states? I mean if we can forge just about anything else on the web I can certainly say I'm from colorado (In fact since I'm really from CT, oops...I missed that little drop box by one)
Now the question is, would the spammers want to risk it?
I cannot possibly defend this kind of action - even those of you trying to play devil's advocate to some sort of "slashdot hypocripsy" theory. This is stealing and they are stealing from the public. If they want this code so badly then why can't they abide by the terms that it comes with. I'm all for making a test case of the GPL go through the motions. Prove that the GPL can stand on its own - make these corporations who are constantly hounding computer users that they are loosing their intellectual property to any slight amount of internet "fair use" see what its like to be on the other side of the fence. There geediness is unbounded and they will never be looking out for the best interest of our software so why should we be allowing them to compete with us. I mean - when they put in their own website that their competing against linux - using Linux code is like "The Generic Cola Beverage Company" ripping off Coke in the middle of the night of their formula and then opening up business the next day with an identical product - it bet Coke wouldn't stand for it and neither should we. The only way that we have for a free software utopia is to stand up for ourselves now!
So we can study the effects of weightlessness on tiny screws. Ant1: Save the Queen Ant2: Who's the Queen? Ant1: I'm the Queen Ant2: No your not! Horrible Horrible Freedom..
When instead you can be at work doing tech support for non-football lovers...don't seem to be many of those tonite as its pretty damn quiet in here.
No but it probally cost a hell of a lot more than three quater of a million ponds. Aren't YOU LUCKY!?
And
1 TB = 1 GB * 1000
There's no math like slashdot math.
My dad who works in IT always likes to tell the story of the $25,000 his company spent in the 80's for a 400 meg hard drive the size of a dishwasher
I remember my first hard drive, an RLL ST238 30 megger from seagate. Anyone else remeber having to do this? The drive came with a list of bad sectors and then you had to load up dos debug in an effort to run the program which came on your drive controler which you could then use to enter the bad sector list and low-level format the drive. That was something like $230 in '88 or so.....
My new shiney 160gig maxtor was a measly $180 bucks and I'm sure I'm gonna feel really ripped off in about 10 years.....
To Alcohol: The cause of and solution to all of life's problems.
I hope they installed thoose hinges as its gonna be awfully hard to fold that sucker in half...
Q: So does the Tablet PC increase productivity and make busy professionals more reliable at their work? A: The short answer is 'no'. The long answer is "Does a 12 cylinder car get you from Philly to New York any faster than a 6 cylinder auto?". The answer to that query, of course, is 'no'; all drivers must obey the same speed limit. You have obviouly never driven on the new jersey turnpike where the complete idea of a speed limit is irrevelant. Your either goin as fast as you want or about 7mph in line for the toll being charged to get into the tollboth for the highway.
By defintion putting a file in a "world readable" directory and setting the permissions to allow world access kinda implies that you don't care who reads this. Otherwise - why in the world would you allow this kind of access? If you place it in a world readable directory, you have no businness complaing the world can read it.
just another example of not reading the article in its entirity! The author clearly states that water has this property but only within a very small temperature range.
yes, yes 128 bits is a mere 2^64 times harder than rc5 64 but man wouldn't it be funny to see the look on their face when 1,000,000 slashdot junkies break their little code in a mere 1000 years.
The last time I cheked JAVA is downlodable for free from Sun Why do they need to get paid by some corporation to teach a closed essentailly proprietay language built by a company only for their own financial gain in the long term. I have no problem with universities teaching languages such as JAVA,c#, etc. This is the way of the future - in 10, 20 years no one will have the patience to deal with plain old C or languages like it. (Hmm, umm, yea..nobody uses old languages like cobol anymore! ;) But when universitys are essentially being bribed to become high level certification courses for some companies products we are moving away from what CS is supposed to be teaching you - general techniques that will be applicable throughout your lifetime as a computer professional versus what immediate professional skills will be applicable when you graduate.
mmmmmmmmmmm. Beer.
If I had the power, I would require spammers to add an X header to their emails something to the effect of X-Is-A-Fuckin-Spam: yes Then it would be a simple task to choose between spam and no spam. Make spamers personally liable to victims if they do not follow this simple rule.
At least it looks as if the toliet paper problem is defintely in P. Human beings could be doomed to a lifetime of misery should the problem had been intractable.
Yes. The Time construction theorems do show that their exists a language that takes n^1000, n ^(10^123323), etc. However they are all easier to solve that Exponential time funtions!
Hehe - That defintely is part of it but I was just trying to be clear rather than precise.
You obviously can't take k^n time to use the solution generated to decide the other part.
Factorial grows faster than exponential! watch: polynomial time: 2^2=2 3^2=9 4^2=16 10^2=100 Exponential: 2^2=4 2^4=16 2^10=1024 Factorial; 2!=2 4!=24 10!=3,628,800 See what I mean?