These people are carrying a highly contageous, deadly, virus.
Ridiculous. SARS is massively overhyped. Somewhere, someone is making money off of selling it as way more dangerous than it is. Could be normal media alarmism, maybe some government wants to discourage tourism somewhere, or maybe it's just plain bad luck where doctors want to get their names in the paper.
SARS has a lower mortality rate than the goddamn *flu*, folks. It's not particularly widespread. It's caused fewer deaths than the regular old cold does in a year (only a hundred people worldwide, total!), and several orders of magnitude less than the flu does every year.
Even *diseases* aren't that much of an issue among most of the people panicking. For a citizen of a prosperous nation, obesity-induced heart attacks or car crashes are far, far, more likely to be a cause of death.
Nor are hospitals particularly "overwhelmed". There have been a few thousand SARS cases worldwide. Hong Kong has a lot of worried people because the climate and cramped conditions with a huge population results in major health problems every year. Hong Kong has far, far worse flu problems than the United States does, year round.
Don't believe me? Look at the World Health Organization or CDC websites. They have SARS information up, and aren't particularly upset about it. "If someone on my cruise ship comes down with SARS, should I seek medical attention or leave the boat?" "Naw, it's fine."
the provision of information that parents have been seeking for quite some time (and, in my opinion, have every right to).
Amen.
The kid posting this is taking a "my parents are tyrannical", "I'm not a kid", "I want to have more control" approach. Same as kids and teens have been doing for ever and ever.
He really should take a second and put things in perspective. He has parents (still together, not divorced!) that care enough about him doing well in life to *nightly* for at least six months check all his work and talk to him about it if it isn't done. This is despite the fact that they certainly aren't getting thanks for it -- instead, constant complaining from him about doing so.
The kid here may not realize it, but this is an expression of love. It make take him years to pick up on it, but he will eventually.
Or if he did his farking homework instead of slacking for a while, they might be lulled into complacency and not bother to check his grades for a while
Or he could just do the damn homework, period.
I mean, there are a lot of people paying out a lot of money so that he can get educated, and he's simply ignoring it. (Yes, you can learn without school and homework, however, I'm going to bet that Ishkibble's not running out and reading research papers in the time he's saving).
Is there some homework you don't like? Sure. Is there some that won't teach you anything you don't know? Sure. But neither does it warrant completely ignoring it. The moment teens feel that they don't need to do something, they want to demonstrate their power ("I'm not a *kid* anymore") and ignore it.
Simply ignoring things you don't like generally acts as a pretty large anchor in your professional life, guys. Take advantage of this time to learn how to deal with people in authority that make bad calls.
Face the facts: Freenet isn't popular for the very simple reason that you have *no* control over what's on your machine.
*shrug* I disagree. Any http caching proxy runs into the same thing. It's highly unlikely that either of these folks will run into legal liability.
Even if getting "caught" were not a risk, a great many of us would never consider being part of Freenet simply because of the likelihood that we would unknowingly promote reprehensible things.
I suppose that many people probably do feel that way -- I happen to not particularly care, especially since Freenet simply treats data content-neutrally, as opposed to censoring it.
All the people I know personally that have tried Freenet that I've talked to about it hate the implementation (too much of a pain to use, too high latency, bogs down computer), and don't care about what other data flows across the Freenet.
The Freenet would be excellent for this, but the Freenet is effectively only accessable to the (very) few people who are running Freenet nodes.
Until there's a mainstream non-Java Freenet implementation, Freenet will probably never become terribly popular. The current Freenet implementation sucks down memory like there's no tomorrow (and isn't terribly efficient, for something that's always draining away cycles in the background).
Carly Fiorina is *awful*. More stupid company-gutting decisions have never been made, yet because she's the highest-ranking woman in the tech industry, and knocking her down would look terrible from a PR standpoint, she stays.
the issue is that the mod chips circumvent copy protection on the x-box, which is illegal.
I'm fairly sure that that's correct. Some people are claiming that the issue is the inclusion of a BIOS (and hence copyright infringement), but I'm quite certain that this is not the case. There are existing copyright laws to cover this, and not only is the DMCA not required to prosecute someone infringing copyright, it really doesn't *cover* it. The DMCA specifically goes after people screwing with copy protection mechanisms.
This is hardly "abuse" of the DMCA, as the story claims. Now, you may not *like* the DMCA. Lord knows, I think it's one of the most disgusting pieces of legislation ever passed ("it's more *convenient* to prosecute the few smart engineers designing tools that can be used to bypass copy protection mechanisms than the people actually using them to commit a crime, so those engineers should be prosecuted? Meh!"), but this really is the DMCA being used as it was intended. It's not misuse of the DMCA at all.
Shuttle report in Houston Chronicle: 'The computer program Boeing engineers used to predict that a debris-damaged Columbia could land safely wasn't much more than a simple chart of past foam damage, accident investigators said Tuesday.'
In other news, the Houston-based ContractorCorp announced its new, $20 million-dollar-a-license aerospace disaster analysis software...
Also today, President Bush vowed that "no cost would be spared" to identify that shuttle problem that "struck such a tragic blow to our nation's future"...
Pentium 4 is a lousy chip, the pentium 3 not much better.
By what metric are you calling the Pentium 4 a "lousy chip"?
It's a relatively high power usage desktop processor with a heavy reliance on compilers that know about it. Maybe you dislike that *type* of processor, but it doesn't do a bad job of filling that gap. It's hardly lousy. The only real competitor I can think of is the Athlon, which is, I suppose, comparable, but not, to my knowledge, particularly better designed.
I also don't understand why you consider the PIII a worse chip than the PII. The PIII has lower power requirements, generally got better clock-for-clock performance, and introduced some nice SIMD instructions.
AMDs may run a bit hot, but their performance IMO is superior.
Obviously, this depends on the application, but generally, current P4s use more wattage and produce more heat than current Athlons but are more powerful. It's pretty much the reverse of what you're arguing.
Transmeta should make motherboards for "build yer own" types who want them.
The big draw of Crusoe is for laptops (not a particularly build-your-own area) and a few very custom projects. In general, you're better off with a C3, given that the Crusoe seems to be marketed primarily as an x86-compatible chip.
The only thing keeping Pentium-line procs afloat is marketing at this point.
I disagree. I agree that Intel charges a premium, but there are a few significant advantages to Intel systems -- you *can* get slightly more powerful systems if you really need it (granted, not that likely), and most importantly, AMD-compatible *motherboards* (not the processors themselves) have a long tradition of flakiness. The boom over the last three or so years in AMD-based systems has also seen a huge increase in the number of hardware problems. The increase in hard freezes or spontaneous reboots over that timeframe among my friends purchasing new computers is quite impressive.
If you don't need the extra cycles a P4 or Athlon can put out, you're often better off with a c3 -- they're cooler and, by virtue of that, silent.
Mechanical parts are the weak link in computer reliability.
If you're building an largish embedded device, maybe a car MP3 player or a home theater DVD player or something, you want reliability, you need a certain amount of power but not more than that, and you don't want noise.
And many people don't need the extra cycles. I use a PII/266, which is significantly less powerful than a c3, and I'm happy. Having a silent box would be nice.
True, chroot environments keep you from playing with other files outside the jailed environment, but they do nothing to address (for example) your ability to install and run a network sniffer on the target.
Well...that's true, if you're running a chroot jail with, say apache running as root. But if you don't have any suid binaries in the jail (apache is running as "httpd" or whatever) and your kernel is secure, it should keep you from putting a sniffer on the thing.
VMWare allows you to assign a number of different types of network interfaces to each VM, and using NAT you can prevent the VM's NIC from seeing traffic to/from any other host.
Hmm. I'm not saying VMWare doesn't work, but I've seen the VMWare site more and more lean toward trying to sell VMWare as a corporate solution to security. VMWare was always kind of a solution without a problem , and I have a sort of nasty feeling that VMWare (and VMs) are going to be the new stupidly-oversold-to-corporate-IT-people product, like firewalls were before them.
-fbounds-check
For front-ends that support it, generate additional code to check
that indices used to access arrays are within the declared range. This is currenly only supported by the Java and Fortran 77
front-ends, where this option defaults to true and false respec-
tively.
Microsoft is a large technology company, yet despite their hype, they literally haven't come up with a single successful new idea that I can think of (and no, they didn't do wheel mice -- there were at least two companies selling wheel mice for MS's own platform before MS did).
Be sure to email -- repeatedly, so that they *definitely* get the message -- hotline@mpaa.org (the MPAA piracy reporting hotline) to warn them that Xtra is responsible for the largest movie copyright infringement operation ever.
I'm suspicious (IANAL) that having copyright to an SSL session wouldn't give you copyright over the original bits.
The encrypted stream is probably best classified as a derived work from the original stream, and having copyright to a derived work doesn't give one copyright to the original work.
Copyright really doesn't deal all that well with lots of things in the computer world, though.
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...keep in mind that not all non-fatal cases are reported.
Incidently, you're right in criticizing the grandparent post, though for the wrong reason -- China has not released the health data.
These people are carrying a highly contageous, deadly, virus.
Ridiculous. SARS is massively overhyped. Somewhere, someone is making money off of selling it as way more dangerous than it is. Could be normal media alarmism, maybe some government wants to discourage tourism somewhere, or maybe it's just plain bad luck where doctors want to get their names in the paper.
SARS has a lower mortality rate than the goddamn *flu*, folks. It's not particularly widespread. It's caused fewer deaths than the regular old cold does in a year (only a hundred people worldwide, total!), and several orders of magnitude less than the flu does every year.
Even *diseases* aren't that much of an issue among most of the people panicking. For a citizen of a prosperous nation, obesity-induced heart attacks or car crashes are far, far, more likely to be a cause of death.
Nor are hospitals particularly "overwhelmed". There have been a few thousand SARS cases worldwide. Hong Kong has a lot of worried people because the climate and cramped conditions with a huge population results in major health problems every year. Hong Kong has far, far worse flu problems than the United States does, year round.
Don't believe me? Look at the World Health Organization or CDC websites. They have SARS information up, and aren't particularly upset about it. "If someone on my cruise ship comes down with SARS, should I seek medical attention or leave the boat?" "Naw, it's fine."
Is there Linux software that can reasonably fill the shoes of Logic, Nuendo, or Sound Forge?
No. There are a lot of incomplete Linux sound projects, but no really good projects for what you're doing on the order of gimp/gnumeric/mozilla.
I'd love to find a working software synth that I could *compile* under Linux...
the provision of information that parents have been seeking for quite some time (and, in my opinion, have every right to).
Amen.
The kid posting this is taking a "my parents are tyrannical", "I'm not a kid", "I want to have more control" approach. Same as kids and teens have been doing for ever and ever.
He really should take a second and put things in perspective. He has parents (still together, not divorced!) that care enough about him doing well in life to *nightly* for at least six months check all his work and talk to him about it if it isn't done. This is despite the fact that they certainly aren't getting thanks for it -- instead, constant complaining from him about doing so.
The kid here may not realize it, but this is an expression of love. It make take him years to pick up on it, but he will eventually.
Or if he did his farking homework instead of slacking for a while, they might be lulled into complacency and not bother to check his grades for a while
Or he could just do the damn homework, period.
I mean, there are a lot of people paying out a lot of money so that he can get educated, and he's simply ignoring it. (Yes, you can learn without school and homework, however, I'm going to bet that Ishkibble's not running out and reading research papers in the time he's saving).
Is there some homework you don't like? Sure. Is there some that won't teach you anything you don't know? Sure. But neither does it warrant completely ignoring it. The moment teens feel that they don't need to do something, they want to demonstrate their power ("I'm not a *kid* anymore") and ignore it.
Simply ignoring things you don't like generally acts as a pretty large anchor in your professional life, guys. Take advantage of this time to learn how to deal with people in authority that make bad calls.
Face the facts: Freenet isn't popular for the very simple reason that you have *no* control over what's on your machine.
*shrug* I disagree. Any http caching proxy runs into the same thing. It's highly unlikely that either of these folks will run into legal liability.
Even if getting "caught" were not a risk, a great many of us would never consider being part of Freenet simply because of the likelihood that we would unknowingly promote reprehensible things.
I suppose that many people probably do feel that way -- I happen to not particularly care, especially since Freenet simply treats data content-neutrally, as opposed to censoring it.
All the people I know personally that have tried Freenet that I've talked to about it hate the implementation (too much of a pain to use, too high latency, bogs down computer), and don't care about what other data flows across the Freenet.
The Freenet would be excellent for this, but the Freenet is effectively only accessable to the (very) few people who are running Freenet nodes.
Until there's a mainstream non-Java Freenet implementation, Freenet will probably never become terribly popular. The current Freenet implementation sucks down memory like there's no tomorrow (and isn't terribly efficient, for something that's always draining away cycles in the background).
Would you happen to be 40+ years old?
I've pretty consistently found that 40+ year-old people like paper as a working mendium.
Carly Fiorina is *awful*. More stupid company-gutting decisions have never been made, yet because she's the highest-ranking woman in the tech industry, and knocking her down would look terrible from a PR standpoint, she stays.
the issue is that the mod chips circumvent copy protection on the x-box, which is illegal.
I'm fairly sure that that's correct. Some people are claiming that the issue is the inclusion of a BIOS (and hence copyright infringement), but I'm quite certain that this is not the case. There are existing copyright laws to cover this, and not only is the DMCA not required to prosecute someone infringing copyright, it really doesn't *cover* it. The DMCA specifically goes after people screwing with copy protection mechanisms.
This is hardly "abuse" of the DMCA, as the story claims. Now, you may not *like* the DMCA. Lord knows, I think it's one of the most disgusting pieces of legislation ever passed ("it's more *convenient* to prosecute the few smart engineers designing tools that can be used to bypass copy protection mechanisms than the people actually using them to commit a crime, so those engineers should be prosecuted? Meh!"), but this really is the DMCA being used as it was intended. It's not misuse of the DMCA at all.
Shuttle report in Houston Chronicle: 'The computer program Boeing engineers used to predict that a debris-damaged Columbia could land safely wasn't much more than a simple chart of past foam damage, accident investigators said Tuesday.'
In other news, the Houston-based ContractorCorp announced its new, $20 million-dollar-a-license aerospace disaster analysis software...
Also today, President Bush vowed that "no cost would be spared" to identify that shuttle problem that "struck such a tragic blow to our nation's future"...
Please tell me that you're joking.
Pentium 4 is a lousy chip, the pentium 3 not much better.
By what metric are you calling the Pentium 4 a "lousy chip"?
It's a relatively high power usage desktop processor with a heavy reliance on compilers that know about it. Maybe you dislike that *type* of processor, but it doesn't do a bad job of filling that gap. It's hardly lousy. The only real competitor I can think of is the Athlon, which is, I suppose, comparable, but not, to my knowledge, particularly better designed.
I also don't understand why you consider the PIII a worse chip than the PII. The PIII has lower power requirements, generally got better clock-for-clock performance, and introduced some nice SIMD instructions.
AMDs may run a bit hot, but their performance IMO is superior.
Obviously, this depends on the application, but generally, current P4s use more wattage and produce more heat than current Athlons but are more powerful. It's pretty much the reverse of what you're arguing.
Transmeta should make motherboards for "build yer own" types who want them.
The big draw of Crusoe is for laptops (not a particularly build-your-own area) and a few very custom projects. In general, you're better off with a C3, given that the Crusoe seems to be marketed primarily as an x86-compatible chip.
The only thing keeping Pentium-line procs afloat is marketing at this point.
I disagree. I agree that Intel charges a premium, but there are a few significant advantages to Intel systems -- you *can* get slightly more powerful systems if you really need it (granted, not that likely), and most importantly, AMD-compatible *motherboards* (not the processors themselves) have a long tradition of flakiness. The boom over the last three or so years in AMD-based systems has also seen a huge increase in the number of hardware problems. The increase in hard freezes or spontaneous reboots over that timeframe among my friends purchasing new computers is quite impressive.
If you don't need the extra cycles a P4 or Athlon can put out, you're often better off with a c3 -- they're cooler and, by virtue of that, silent.
Mechanical parts are the weak link in computer reliability.
If you're building an largish embedded device, maybe a car MP3 player or a home theater DVD player or something, you want reliability, you need a certain amount of power but not more than that, and you don't want noise.
And many people don't need the extra cycles. I use a PII/266, which is significantly less powerful than a c3, and I'm happy. Having a silent box would be nice.
So basically, this is a call to use bound-checked languages.
With a VM, the VM has to be secure.
And using suid root + a VM doesn't give you much functionality that not suid root + no VM doesn't.
A generalized forum such as "Ask Slashdot" probably isn't the best place to ask this type of questions.
You'd think that...but amid all the noise and chatter of people pimping their own pet databases, they got your actually useful comment.
True, chroot environments keep you from playing with other files outside the jailed environment, but they do nothing to address (for example) your ability to install and run a network sniffer on the target.
Well...that's true, if you're running a chroot jail with, say apache running as root. But if you don't have any suid binaries in the jail (apache is running as "httpd" or whatever) and your kernel is secure, it should keep you from putting a sniffer on the thing.
VMWare allows you to assign a number of different types of network interfaces to each VM, and using NAT you can prevent the VM's NIC from seeing traffic to/from any other host.
Hmm. I'm not saying VMWare doesn't work, but I've seen the VMWare site more and more lean toward trying to sell VMWare as a corporate solution to security. VMWare was always kind of a solution without a problem , and I have a sort of nasty feeling that VMWare (and VMs) are going to be the new stupidly-oversold-to-corporate-IT-people product, like firewalls were before them.
From the gcc 3.2.2 man page:
-fbounds-check
For front-ends that support it, generate additional code to check
that indices used to access arrays are within the declared range.
This is currenly only supported by the Java and Fortran 77
front-ends, where this option defaults to true and false respec-
tively.
Does rather decrease the utility of the thing.
You've got chroot. Both sandbox the server from the rest of the system. Chroot is just a lot easier to make performance-efficient.
They're moving onto the Linux community. They figure we're stupid enough to build our own software for free, so maybe we'll build their's too!
MS is free to sell a Linux distro any time they feel like it.
Client-side whitelists, mate. It's the only real solution.
Microsoft is a large technology company, yet despite their hype, they literally haven't come up with a single successful new idea that I can think of (and no, they didn't do wheel mice -- there were at least two companies selling wheel mice for MS's own platform before MS did).
Be sure to email -- repeatedly, so that they *definitely* get the message -- hotline@mpaa.org (the MPAA piracy reporting hotline) to warn them that Xtra is responsible for the largest movie copyright infringement operation ever.
I'm suspicious (IANAL) that having copyright to an SSL session wouldn't give you copyright over the original bits.
The encrypted stream is probably best classified as a derived work from the original stream, and having copyright to a derived work doesn't give one copyright to the original work.
Copyright really doesn't deal all that well with lots of things in the computer world, though.