Why not forbid government-funded scientists to publish their findings, too? That would be really in line with the current reactionary attitudes.
Goverment and industry are trying to reverse the wheel. Why?
Because Open Source is functioning and becoming a working example against the present thought-control. A non-functioning GPL would not be opposed with so much fuss. And before the dinos die, they do a lot of stomping and tail-swinging.
Such laws will finally result in making the US weaker - as any protection schemes do. But it may take some time...
What Linus says is not as important as the fact that his words are spread and discussed all over the internet. That's proof that we don't have a one- or two-player game any longer (Microsoft plus Intel).
It's an important power-shift, which took place. Now four players decide the further development: two OS- and two CPU- manufacturers. And to avoid deadly risks they need to be compatible to each other.
Woopy! The market is getting back it's power!
Don't let collisions happen in the first place.
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Don't let collisions happen in the first place - that's much more important than what kind of probing you do, after a collision happened. Hence the distribution of the first hash-function is most critical - and has to be checked against real input distribution.
Second best thing is to keep your data together (to have them in the CPU-cache, when they are needed).
Therefore I would go for primitive sequential collision-algos - within memory buckets of the size (and at the boundaray) of the CPU-cache and a spare slots at the end of each bucket for collisions. Simple coding, fast access.
If you don't want to serve, what are you doing with the root-password anyway?
Every luser want's to be a winner - but only the true, unselfish sysadmin can become enlightened.
Hence start behaving like a REAL SYSADMIN:
Use this day to bake a cake for the user who had his password reset most often, hhhmmm? And give away some prices (from bottle of Champaigne to a sixpack of root-beer) for those geniuses who managed to reach you on the phone between 2 and 4 am. Ok?
... from the way they have build their website, they are preapared to fight lawsuits (or at least they threaten to do so). That's their strong position presumably.
Their weakness: public opinion and everyday reasoning and they don't seem to have any international patent.
If you cannot bring together enough money and support to fight them in court, consider as options
a) move
host your site outside the US and inform as many politicians as possible about the fact that you have to move your site away from the States because of unfair patent-laws and practices.
b) get support from IBM
spend 30,000 on an IBM E-commerce server. Make sure your contract with IBM says, that E-commerce is free from patents and royalties of third parties and that IBM will take care of any legal fights. Perhaps IBM will rent you an E-commerce system for 1 $ a year, if they are presented with this case? Even if you use the IBM machine only as portal or proxy to your existing site, to avoid extensive restructuring of your data and software...
c) enjoy
Laughter will kill them. Try funny, public responses. Like the response of the Marx Brothers when they were threatened by a big "--- Brothers" company. Imagine what some good writers and designers can do with this case for your image (and against theirs) with just some couple of bucks. It's a chance to play David against Goliath. And then don't forget to inform us slashdotters too, we are all in favour of a good laugh.
Although I don't like wiretapping I see it neccessary to do something to stop the production of child pornography.
But we have to keep in mind that law cannot exstinguish the roots of the problem. Sexual repression breeds all kinds of perversions, of which child pornography is one of the things which should not be tolerated IMO. And as long as more natural ways to live sexuality are forbidden by law or social moral also, there remains the feeling of a split conscience.
If law forbits prostitution for example, then sex has to come out thru other outlets, rape and porn beeing one of them.
"The NIC costs $120 list price, and the embedded firewall is another $50 for each client. The policy server costs $1000."
For fifty dollars per client I would be happy to configure a firewall through remote access using free software and a $15 NIC.
I hate to admit it, but I'm getting envious. While I'm having difficulties finding a job as a Linux admin - probably because companies here in Germany fear to employ me with my 57 years, the big companies are charging $50 per client for some crypto-interface software.
- EITHER the Chinese haxors OR the open IIS boxes filling the net with millions of worm-attacks in their stupid (but bandwidth consuming) attempts to multiply ?
- EITHER the single technician within a Chinese ministry who is trying his exploit- and DOS-scripts during the wave of fruitless attacks after the spy-plan incident OR the CIA manipulating public opinion with (no longer soooo confidential) attack warnings ?
IMO the real thread comes from hatred, intentional misinformation and nationalistic prejudices. These things have allways been a sure sign of hawks seeking more power and preparing for wars. And hawks are having their great high-flights on both sides of the Pacific at the moment.
The risk is not in the technology, the risk is in the humans developing and using it. Technology has advanced, has the human also? Just a short scan through the daily newspaper or TV programms tells another story.
Nice technology in the hands of responsible persons. But where is a responsible, psychologically grown-up person? In the goverments, among the classified ones I wouldn't expect to find more emotionally stable individuals than among the average human on earth. How could it be anyway? They recruit from the same population and the selection process is in favor of power, need for attention and logical/linguistic talents (as opposed to emotional ones).
Given the experiences we allready had so far with all kinds of governments, the little hairs in my neck raise, when I hear that a goverment is investing high amount of money into a technology and at the same time keeping it's results secret.
Government does not equal to holiness, it's doesn't even equal to democracy or freedom in so called democratic and free countries.
Instead of letting the old killer apes called humans improve technology we should make the apes into humans first. Then there would be no longer a need for such powergreedy things like a goverment or anti-government. Let's not forget, they get their power, money, influence from us individuals, and let's face it, they use that very power, money, influence to take away our individuality.
The money would be better invested into global repression-free education (just for example). How high is the percentage of illiterate youngerst in the third world? Secret technology development will increase the gap between the rich and the poor and will thus be the root cause for wars and terrorism.
Too much technology - not enough brain to see the consequences (except for their own vantage).
Hence it's not applicable to computer software or music.
"The process in issue here involves lifting the ink that was used in printing a paper poster and transferring it onto a canvas. Since this process leaves the poster blank, there is no increase in the total number of reproductions."
It's more like you bought a CD and then make a christmas tree decoration out of it. Thinking about what to do with your old Windows CDs? Well here's a safe way to do with them as you please, without breaing copyright law (at least in Canada)..o)
You didn't even manage to talk a friend of yours into writing your promotion? Then by induction you either don't hav any friend or this book must be a shame even to them. What a terrible marketing, Kitty-Katz!
No, they simply had to follow the market leader in their version numbering.
Small changes - and I don't see a KDE 3.0 as such a BiG change to justify a major version increment for the whole distro.
Appearantly, they focused their efforts lately on 8.0 polishing, hence I feel it's better than 7.3. After all, the new kernel is worth the upgrade for my taste (that is if you don't go for Red Hat).
KDE 3.0 is as stable as the old version (ahem). And the installation speed is said to have improved (according to SuSE's advertisments). The latter I don't know much about, because I had to go for a coffee, and a snack and make some telefon calls until the installer gave me the obligatory error messages about some packages which I had to reinstall later by hand etc. (I mean after having tried the whole game 3 times in vain, with deinstalling and reinstalling via the cludgy YAST installer.
I should've stayed with Red Hat, but that could as well be my illusion, that the grass on the other side of my reality-fence is allways greener.
After one month (and 4 servers) experience I'd say:
You can use it, but you mustn't. If you allready have a SuSE, it's OK to upgrade. Especially if your servers are in Europe, the support for local ISDN and DSL services and hardware is probably (or should I say slightly) better than from US distros.
The chemicals which make the motherboard inflammable account most AFAIK and the "rare" to highly poisonous elements within the the chips add a little "taste". Burning it together with it's plastic parts gets the most out of it.:-(
And then there are the chemicals we don't know enough about yet to call them "safe" or the ones we allready suspect to trigger the Mad Cow Desease in animals or the Creutzfeld Jacobs Desease in humans, like AF101
A similar "computer prion", dubbed AF101, is suspected of being the "mad com" agent.... AF101 is found to reside in the CPU,... and the computer integrated circuit.
And a prion cannot be easily destroyed; sterilization doesn't work, normal biological decomposition leaves it intact, while the plants take it up from the soil.
because the electronic components have become extremely poisonous.
But the price must be variable and depending on the estimated disposal cost of the individual equipment. Otherwise there would be no incentive to make 'cleaner' boxes.
let's call him Bill innocent Gates. BiG sounds better than BG, isn't it?
Ahem, of course on very, very rare circumstance - like when a meteorite lands on earth, and the ecosystem crumbles - small might be beautiful too. When did that happen the last time - Dinos against mammals? And the mammals won because their nervuous system was twenty times faster due to improved peripheral nerves and their need for food less because of their high, fixed body temperature.
So after all coding free software creates smaller, faster adopting units. In case his wonderful ecosystem breaks down.
I am astonished about the many postings which consider the problems and negative consequences of that project. I see only positive results, but your mileage may vary.
I think, there is a strong subconscious fear among the geeks favouring OpenSource now that their own income is at stake in the near future. Just think about the many Linux cracks from Spain in the years to come or the Microsoft guys seeking new jobs in the Linux market.o)
But that's too late now, the natural development cannot be stopped. A lot of problems teach a lot - we all know that by experience. With Linux the rich countries have finally managed to export a free product, which helps the third world to get profound technical education and in the long run become independant from the monopolies of the northern hemisphere.
No longer paying pennies for bananas and copper while charging dollars for $oftware and mu$ic. Great! The age of Aquarius is really happening after all. I raise my glass to the dying age of economic slavery - it's nice that you bite the carpet finally!
And interestingly the leading Linux maintainer, Macello, is of Mexican origin. Can you see the signs on the wall? Freedom through free software is no longer freedom for Americans, no - on the contrary - it's freedom from American software!
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Why not forbid government-funded scientists to publish their findings, too? That would be really in line with the current reactionary attitudes.
Goverment and industry are trying to reverse the wheel. Why?
Because Open Source is functioning and becoming a working example against the present thought-control. A non-functioning GPL would not be opposed with so much fuss. And before the dinos die, they do a lot of stomping and tail-swinging.
Such laws will finally result in making the US weaker - as any protection schemes do. But it may take some time...
You may want to have a look at his own site too.
They took the pictures out - my god, first they want all the publicity they can get, then they get a cold turkey when it comes.
What Linus says is not as important as the fact that his words are spread and discussed all over the internet. That's proof that we don't have a one- or two-player game any longer (Microsoft plus Intel).
It's an important power-shift, which took place. Now four players decide the further development: two OS- and two CPU- manufacturers. And to avoid deadly risks they need to be compatible to each other.
Woopy! The market is getting back it's power!
Don't let collisions happen in the first place - that's much more important than what kind of probing you do, after a collision happened. Hence the distribution of the first hash-function is most critical - and has to be checked against real input distribution.
Second best thing is to keep your data together (to have them in the CPU-cache, when they are needed).
Therefore I would go for primitive sequential collision-algos - within memory buckets of the size (and at the boundaray) of the CPU-cache and a spare slots at the end of each bucket for collisions. Simple coding, fast access.
You see, everybody has his own taste.
... it's the best programming editor which ever came under my fingers in 35 years.
If you don't want to serve, what are you doing with the root-password anyway?
Every luser want's to be a winner - but only the true, unselfish sysadmin can become enlightened.
Hence start behaving like a REAL SYSADMIN:
Use this day to bake a cake for the user who had his password reset most often, hhhmmm? And give away some prices (from bottle of Champaigne to a sixpack of root-beer) for those geniuses who managed to reach you on the phone between 2 and 4 am. Ok?
That's a baby's attitude - learning to move the fingers and put the foot into the mouth. Hhhmmm - tasty!
When Flash is used to control micro-devices, I'm going to use assembler for movie-making.
Please switch on the brain before programming.
... from the way they have build their website, they are preapared to fight lawsuits (or at least they threaten to do so). That's their strong position presumably.
Their weakness: public opinion and everyday reasoning and they don't seem to have any international patent.
If you cannot bring together enough money and support to fight them in court, consider as options
a) move
host your site outside the US and inform as many politicians as possible about the fact that you have to move your site away from the States because of unfair patent-laws and practices.
b) get support from IBM
spend 30,000 on an IBM E-commerce server. Make sure your contract with IBM says, that E-commerce is free from patents and royalties of third parties and that IBM will take care of any legal fights. Perhaps IBM will rent you an E-commerce system for 1 $ a year, if they are presented with this case? Even if you use the IBM machine only as portal or proxy to your existing site, to avoid extensive restructuring of your data and software...
c) enjoy
Laughter will kill them. Try funny, public responses. Like the response of the Marx Brothers when they were threatened by a big "--- Brothers" company. Imagine what some good writers and designers can do with this case for your image (and against theirs) with just some couple of bucks. It's a chance to play David against Goliath. And then don't forget to inform us slashdotters too, we are all in favour of a good laugh.
Isn't it lovely, even thieves give back a lot.
Although I don't like wiretapping I see it neccessary to do something to stop the production of child pornography.
But we have to keep in mind that law cannot exstinguish the roots of the problem. Sexual repression breeds all kinds of perversions, of which child pornography is one of the things which should not be tolerated IMO. And as long as more natural ways to live sexuality are forbidden by law or social moral also, there remains the feeling of a split conscience.
If law forbits prostitution for example, then sex has to come out thru other outlets, rape and porn beeing one of them.
"The NIC costs $120 list price, and the embedded firewall is another $50 for each client. The policy server costs $1000."
For fifty dollars per client I would be happy to configure a firewall through remote access using free software and a $15 NIC.
I hate to admit it, but I'm getting envious. While I'm having difficulties finding a job as a Linux admin - probably because companies here in Germany fear to employ me with my 57 years, the big companies are charging $50 per client for some crypto-interface software.
Obviously hardware sells better than humans.
- EITHER the Chinese haxors OR the open IIS boxes filling the net with millions of worm-attacks in their stupid (but bandwidth consuming) attempts to multiply ?
- EITHER the single technician within a Chinese ministry who is trying his exploit- and DOS-scripts during the wave of fruitless attacks after the spy-plan incident OR the CIA manipulating public opinion with (no longer soooo confidential) attack warnings ?
IMO the real thread comes from hatred, intentional misinformation and nationalistic prejudices. These things have allways been a sure sign of hawks seeking more power and preparing for wars. And hawks are having their great high-flights on both sides of the Pacific at the moment.
The risk is not in the technology, the risk is in the humans developing and using it. Technology has advanced, has the human also? Just a short scan through the daily newspaper or TV programms tells another story.
Nice technology in the hands of responsible persons. But where is a responsible, psychologically grown-up person? In the goverments, among the classified ones I wouldn't expect to find more emotionally stable individuals than among the average human on earth. How could it be anyway? They recruit from the same population and the selection process is in favor of power, need for attention and logical/linguistic talents (as opposed to emotional ones).
Given the experiences we allready had so far with all kinds of governments, the little hairs in my neck raise, when I hear that a goverment is investing high amount of money into a technology and at the same time keeping it's results secret.
Government does not equal to holiness, it's doesn't even equal to democracy or freedom in so called democratic and free countries.
Instead of letting the old killer apes called humans improve technology we should make the apes into humans first. Then there would be no longer a need for such powergreedy things like a goverment or anti-government. Let's not forget, they get their power, money, influence from us individuals, and let's face it, they use that very power, money, influence to take away our individuality.
The money would be better invested into global repression-free education (just for example). How high is the percentage of illiterate youngerst in the third world? Secret technology development will increase the gap between the rich and the poor and will thus be the root cause for wars and terrorism.
Too much technology - not enough brain to see the consequences (except for their own vantage).
Hence it's not applicable to computer software or music.
"The process in issue here involves lifting the ink that was used in printing a paper poster and transferring it onto a canvas. Since this process leaves the poster blank, there is no increase in the total number of reproductions."
It's more like you bought a CD and then make a christmas tree decoration out of it. Thinking about what to do with your old Windows CDs? Well here's a safe way to do with them as you please, without breaing copyright law (at least in Canada). .o)
Or was it Brazilian?
Where is the button for the slashdot spam-filter?
You didn't even manage to talk a friend of yours into writing your promotion? Then by induction you either don't hav any friend or this book must be a shame even to them. What a terrible marketing, Kitty-Katz!
Does SuSE 8.0 include StarOffice 6.0 as well?
Ooops, sorry, if didn't switch the brain on before reading your posting.
No, it's StarOffice 5.2
Does SuSE 8.0 include StarOffice 6.0 as well?
Yes, if you buy the discs (an update is sufficient). SO is never downloadable AFAIK.
No, they simply had to follow the market leader in their version numbering.
Small changes - and I don't see a KDE 3.0 as such a BiG change to justify a major version increment for the whole distro.
Appearantly, they focused their efforts lately on 8.0 polishing, hence I feel it's better than 7.3. After all, the new kernel is worth the upgrade for my taste (that is if you don't go for Red Hat).
KDE 3.0 is as stable as the old version (ahem). And the installation speed is said to have improved (according to SuSE's advertisments). The latter I don't know much about, because I had to go for a coffee, and a snack and make some telefon calls until the installer gave me the obligatory error messages about some packages which I had to reinstall later by hand etc. (I mean after having tried the whole game 3 times in vain, with deinstalling and reinstalling via the cludgy YAST installer.
I should've stayed with Red Hat, but that could as well be my illusion, that the grass on the other side of my reality-fence is allways greener.
After one month (and 4 servers) experience I'd say:
You can use it, but you mustn't. If you allready have a SuSE, it's OK to upgrade. Especially if your servers are in Europe, the support for local ISDN and DSL services and hardware is probably (or should I say slightly) better than from US distros.
Acceptable.
The chemicals which make the motherboard inflammable account most AFAIK and the "rare" to highly poisonous elements within the the chips add a little "taste". Burning it together with it's plastic parts gets the most out of it. :-(
And then there are the chemicals we don't know enough about yet to call them "safe" or the ones we allready suspect to trigger the Mad Cow Desease in animals or the Creutzfeld Jacobs Desease in humans, like AF101
citing from: The National Poison center of Malaysia
A similar "computer prion", dubbed AF101, is suspected of being the "mad com" agent. ... AF101 is found to reside in the CPU, ... and the computer integrated circuit.
And a prion cannot be easily destroyed; sterilization doesn't work, normal biological decomposition leaves it intact, while the plants take it up from the soil.
For a more scientific explantion see also The Computer Prion
Greetings to the Cult of the Mad Cow ;)
When and how to cash it in, is secondary, as long as a reliable way to handle the waste is enforced in practise.
And about that we all seem to agree. Don't we?
because the electronic components have become extremely poisonous.
But the price must be variable and depending on the estimated disposal cost of the individual equipment. Otherwise there would be no incentive to make 'cleaner' boxes.
Just my 2 cents
let's call him Bill innocent Gates. BiG sounds better than BG, isn't it?
Ahem, of course on very, very rare circumstance - like when a meteorite lands on earth, and the ecosystem crumbles - small might be beautiful too. When did that happen the last time - Dinos against mammals? And the mammals won because their nervuous system was twenty times faster due to improved peripheral nerves and their need for food less because of their high, fixed body temperature.
So after all coding free software creates smaller, faster adopting units. In case his wonderful ecosystem breaks down.
Just in case
I am astonished about the many postings which consider the problems and negative consequences of that project. I see only positive results, but your mileage may vary.
I think, there is a strong subconscious fear among the geeks favouring OpenSource now that their own income is at stake in the near future. Just think about the many Linux cracks from Spain in the years to come or the Microsoft guys seeking new jobs in the Linux market
But that's too late now, the natural development cannot be stopped. A lot of problems teach a lot - we all know that by experience. With Linux the rich countries have finally managed to export a free product, which helps the third world to get profound technical education and in the long run become independant from the monopolies of the northern hemisphere.
No longer paying pennies for bananas and copper while charging dollars for $oftware and mu$ic. Great! The age of Aquarius is really happening after all. I raise my glass to the dying age of economic slavery - it's nice that you bite the carpet finally!
And interestingly the leading Linux maintainer, Macello, is of Mexican origin. Can you see the signs on the wall? Freedom through free software is no longer freedom for Americans, no - on the contrary - it's freedom from American software!