... but didn't read the detail. A DHCP client gets the same IP address it had previously, so unless the pool is in short supply of free addresses it will get the same address as before.
And why does he suggest that DSL clients have static addresses while cable users have dynamic ones?
Also, most home users (I'm allowed a presumption too) have routers instead of bridge/modems or PCI card modems, and they are kept on all the time. While the router is powered on it will keep renewing the existing IP address.
I have a dynamic IP address but it's stable enough to run servers on it.
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Why not use a dedicated remote protocol like X or RDP that allow you to run a fully fledged desktop and all the applications you're used to? You can boot an RDP-enabled Linux system from a CD or PXE and access a Windows desktop if you like.
Firstly, congrats and good luck to Anthony from an avid Debian user.
Having read the article and AT's campaign platform I got the sense that the project really needs not only direction, but also a leader who can steer the project while keeping people onboard and happy. This means leading the people as well as managing the project.
It seems that bickering and infighting are open source projects' achilles' heel due to strong personalities and oversensitive or overinflated egos. I hope Anthony does a good job at making the Debian team as strong as their product is already.
The Anglo-American first past the post (single rep/constituency) system can result in REALLY ridiculous results, like the overall loser getting a majority of the seats. This has happened in the UK. In this contrived example you have three constituencies of equal populations, with 1 seat each:
1: Party A gets the seat with 90% of the vote, Party B gets 10% 2: Party A gets 45%, Party B wins with 55% 3: Party A gets 45%, Party B wins with 55%
Party A got 60% of the overall vote, but party B got 2 out of 3 seats. Party B can "get everything" without bothering with forming a coalition or any of that bargaining nonsense. Great system.
BSD/is/ Unix, not Unix-like. There's System V and then there's BSD.
BSD doesn't have a special security model, they're just very very conservative. BSD has a lot less code, the pace of change is a LOT slower so the code is mature, and OpenBSD have extensive code reviews. OpenBSD didn't even have SMP support until recently.
Linux puts stress on keeping up with the bleeding edge, lots of features and broader hardware support. Linux does everything from supporting the latest graphics and video cards to supporting dozens of CPUs on enterprise hardware. If you want enhanced security on Linux, go for SELinux or GRSecurity.
So you didn't read TFA, did you? You just wanted to spew.
For your benefit: Tsouli was arrested because he was a bomb plot suspect. They found out he was a known "hacker" later. "Tsouli has been charged with eight offenses including conspiracy to murder, conspiracy to cause an explosion..."
Feel silly? You should, and ashamed because your comments are callous as well as stupid considering "car accidents" like 9/11, the London bombings and Theo van Gogh's murder. Accidents happen. Murder doesn't just happen.
So check your facts and try to make a balanced point of view. You see that's what makes the Nordic countries special, not Yankee bashing. However it means you have to leave your safe, crystal clear, black and white world view behind and see there are shades of gray. Which sucks, so maybe you can take the easy option and just write me off as a racist and go back to Yankee-bashing. Which, by the way, doesn't make you look so clever. You see it's just as easy as mocking religion, Windows or Emacs users.:p
You're setting up a straw man. Here's the opposite: If everyone gets to use their favourite language, you'll end up with lots of code that no-one else except the author can reuse or debug.
This isn't even that far fetched. I've seen a case where one guy insisted on using language X for his tasks, a language which nobody else in the department was familiar with. Then he left. If his boss had insisted that everyone use a less elegant but widely familiar language, lots of headache and time (==money) would have been spared.
As usual, the right approach is somewhere between the extremes.
Your comment was probably noticed by the BOFH. I'd skip work for a week or two if I were you.
Seriously, I think so much of tech journalism is led by marketing machinery it's good to have some disrespective, thoroughly sceptical writing out there. Maybe their humour just isn't your type.
Don't just wait for something like this to happen, make it so. I think the Sony rootkit debacle has produced enough media coverage to get support for some countermeasures. It's time to start putting through laws along the lines of:
- Ban proactive DRM measures on content media. Permit encryption of data but ban executables on media that are supposed to be plain content.
- DRM measures, either hardware or software, on general purpose playback systems (home computers, DVD players etc) may not hinder the playback of non-DRM content.
- Create a labelling scheme, either mandatory or otherwise, for digital content that clearly tells the customer if the product 1) Is encrypted or DRM'd 2) Contains executables 3) Requires registration 4) Requires an Internet connection 5) Requires payment beyond the purchase price 6) Calls home, and what it does
If you RTFA you'll find that they are investigating whether the sonic weapon was effective at all. The ship headed out to sea at full speed while the pirates in small boats were left behind.
The UN is more than a "forum for international discourse". It's also an umbrella for a number of functional and distinctly non-political international organizations. A good example is the ITU, another is the UPU. You never think about it, but you _can_ call any country on the phone or send snail mail there, and these systems are coordinated/governed by organizations that (AFAIK) never makes headlines. My guess is some think the Internet should be governed like this, and I can't see why not. It does sound a bit weird that a company would do this instead.
"Additionally the question of whether these same theories and philosophies can be applied in other fields of intellectual endeavour aside from programming."
That's an interesting sentence. I've always thought that the success of OSS owes much to the fact that it follows a similar process to that of academic research. You do your work, then publish it for others to review, criticize, improve and build on. In both the focus is always (in theory anyway:P) on progress rather than the goods that follow.
Now before you shoot me down, my wife is a PhD student so I have no illusions about the harsh reality of academia.:)
There were so many spelling mistakes in your post we won't even try to correct them here. Suffice to say we've decided to take a more decisive course of action instead.
Kind regards, The Global Federation of Spelling Nazi Associations
The reason the talented move to the US are higher wages. For the same reasons the employers want out. I know a certain transnational is cutting back operations in the US due to higher labour costs vis-a-vis European labour costs. A US engineer costs several times what a European does, even with the cheap dollar. It's happy to sell pho^k^k^kproducts there nevertheless.
Also, for every labour law in Europe you have patents and law suits in the USA. Perhaps our American friends aren't aware how different it is elsewhere and how large a factor this is.
I have the impression most European countries have more stable economies than the US right now. The US has a huge debt but the country keeps spending more than it earns. Its populist, money-grabbing leaders are unwilling to do what's needed for long term stability. See you at the rock bottom.
I definitely belong in the "beep or plain ring" lot.
However, I was perusing my disk yesterday and found some old SID music and ended up playing old C64 and Amiga classics with a tear of nostalgia in my eye.
For a while I actually thought I'd put the Commando or IK+ theme on my phone if it would play.sid files.:) Rob Hubbard rocks!
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... but didn't read the detail. A DHCP client gets the same IP address it had previously, so unless the pool is in short supply of free addresses it will get the same address as before.
And why does he suggest that DSL clients have static addresses while cable users have dynamic ones?
Also, most home users (I'm allowed a presumption too) have routers instead of bridge/modems or PCI card modems, and they are kept on all the time. While the router is powered on it will keep renewing the existing IP address.
I have a dynamic IP address but it's stable enough to run servers on it.
Why not use a dedicated remote protocol like X or RDP that allow you to run a fully fledged desktop and all the applications you're used to? You can boot an RDP-enabled Linux system from a CD or PXE and access a Windows desktop if you like.
Firstly, congrats and good luck to Anthony from an avid Debian user.
Having read the article and AT's campaign platform I got the sense that the project really needs not only direction, but also a leader who can steer the project while keeping people onboard and happy. This means leading the people as well as managing the project.
It seems that bickering and infighting are open source projects' achilles' heel due to strong personalities and oversensitive or overinflated egos. I hope Anthony does a good job at making the Debian team as strong as their product is already.
The Anglo-American first past the post (single rep/constituency) system can result in REALLY ridiculous results, like the overall loser getting a majority of the seats. This has happened in the UK. In this contrived example you have three constituencies of equal populations, with 1 seat each:
1: Party A gets the seat with 90% of the vote, Party B gets 10%
2: Party A gets 45%, Party B wins with 55%
3: Party A gets 45%, Party B wins with 55%
Party A got 60% of the overall vote, but party B got 2 out of 3 seats. Party B can "get everything" without bothering with forming a coalition or any of that bargaining nonsense. Great system.
BSD /is/ Unix, not Unix-like. There's System V and then there's BSD.
BSD doesn't have a special security model, they're just very very conservative. BSD has a lot less code, the pace of change is a LOT slower so the code is mature, and OpenBSD have extensive code reviews. OpenBSD didn't even have SMP support until recently.
Linux puts stress on keeping up with the bleeding edge, lots of features and broader hardware support. Linux does everything from supporting the latest graphics and video cards to supporting dozens of CPUs on enterprise hardware. If you want enhanced security on Linux, go for SELinux or GRSecurity.
It's official, BSD is dead! TdR discusses OpenBSD and the Beyond!
Oh, not *that* Beyond. Never mind.
So you didn't read TFA, did you? You just wanted to spew.
..."
:p
For your benefit: Tsouli was arrested because he was a bomb plot suspect. They found out he was a known "hacker" later. "Tsouli has been charged with eight offenses including conspiracy to murder, conspiracy to cause an explosion
Feel silly? You should, and ashamed because your comments are callous as well as stupid considering "car accidents" like 9/11, the London bombings and Theo van Gogh's murder. Accidents happen. Murder doesn't just happen.
So check your facts and try to make a balanced point of view. You see that's what makes the Nordic countries special, not Yankee bashing. However it means you have to leave your safe, crystal clear, black and white world view behind and see there are shades of gray. Which sucks, so maybe you can take the easy option and just write me off as a racist and go back to Yankee-bashing. Which, by the way, doesn't make you look so clever. You see it's just as easy as mocking religion, Windows or Emacs users.
It's easy to decompile and analyze .NET bytecode, all the way to method and variable names.
.NET expert.
See Reflector: http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/
OK, now shoot me. I'm not a
You're setting up a straw man. Here's the opposite: If everyone gets to use their favourite language, you'll end up with lots of code that no-one else except the author can reuse or debug.
This isn't even that far fetched. I've seen a case where one guy insisted on using language X for his tasks, a language which nobody else in the department was familiar with. Then he left. If his boss had insisted that everyone use a less elegant but widely familiar language, lots of headache and time (==money) would have been spared.
As usual, the right approach is somewhere between the extremes.
Ok up to the last paragraph, which sounds a bit too USSR or mafia to me. "Yeah we're slow, but a little grease in the wheels, comrade..."
On a constructive note, the performance of each dep't should be measured. For IT this should include their response times to support calls.
NetBSD isn't the best example of an inconsistent platform. Good points, otherwise.
Your comment was probably noticed by the BOFH. I'd skip work for a week or two if I were you.
Seriously, I think so much of tech journalism is led by marketing machinery it's good to have some disrespective, thoroughly sceptical writing out there. Maybe their humour just isn't your type.
Don't just wait for something like this to happen, make it so. I think the Sony rootkit debacle has produced enough media coverage to get support for some countermeasures. It's time to start putting through laws along the lines of:
- Ban proactive DRM measures on content media. Permit encryption of data but ban executables on media that are supposed to be plain content.
- DRM measures, either hardware or software, on general purpose playback systems (home computers, DVD players etc) may not hinder the playback of non-DRM content.
- Create a labelling scheme, either mandatory or otherwise, for digital content that clearly tells the customer if the product
1) Is encrypted or DRM'd
2) Contains executables
3) Requires registration
4) Requires an Internet connection
5) Requires payment beyond the purchase price
6) Calls home, and what it does
Comments welcome.
If you RTFA you'll find that they are investigating whether the sonic weapon was effective at all. The ship headed out to sea at full speed while the pirates in small boats were left behind.
Not that Amazon. And no, not the river. JFGI or maybe use this.
The UN is more than a "forum for international discourse". It's also an umbrella for a number of functional and distinctly non-political international organizations. A good example is the ITU, another is the UPU. You never think about it, but you _can_ call any country on the phone or send snail mail there, and these systems are coordinated/governed by organizations that (AFAIK) never makes headlines. My guess is some think the Internet should be governed like this, and I can't see why not. It does sound a bit weird that a company would do this instead.
UN organizational chart
ITU
... that the sharpest minds of our time are putting their talents into good use. :)
"Additionally the question of whether these same theories and philosophies can be applied in other fields of intellectual endeavour aside from programming."
:P) on progress rather than the goods that follow.
:)
That's an interesting sentence. I've always thought that the success of OSS owes much to the fact that it follows a similar process to that of academic research. You do your work, then publish it for others to review, criticize, improve and build on. In both the focus is always (in theory anyway
Now before you shoot me down, my wife is a PhD student so I have no illusions about the harsh reality of academia.
There were so many spelling mistakes in your post we won't even try to correct them here. Suffice to say we've decided to take a more decisive course of action instead.
Kind regards,
The Global Federation of Spelling Nazi Associations
P.S. Very funny post. Won't help you though.
...just a hifi component with a large HD/HDs and a DVD writer.
You are absolutely right, but TBH I was more encouraged by the fact that the article had "independent" spelled correctly (not "independant").
There is still hope in the world. Perhaps I should mark this day in my calendar (not calender) as "independence day".
The dumb kid is the director of research at FSecure. Feel silly now?
You've got $12K invested in X but can't spell "hear"?
:(
I must have done something wrong. I'm fairly good at spelling but totally penniless.
The reason the talented move to the US are higher wages. For the same reasons the employers want out. I know a certain transnational is cutting back operations in the US due to higher labour costs vis-a-vis European labour costs. A US engineer costs several times what a European does, even with the cheap dollar. It's happy to sell pho^k^k^kproducts there nevertheless.
Also, for every labour law in Europe you have patents and law suits in the USA. Perhaps our American friends aren't aware how different it is elsewhere and how large a factor this is.
I have the impression most European countries have more stable economies than the US right now. The US has a huge debt but the country keeps spending more than it earns. Its populist, money-grabbing leaders are unwilling to do what's needed for long term stability. See you at the rock bottom.
I definitely belong in the "beep or plain ring" lot.
.sid files. :) Rob Hubbard rocks!
However, I was perusing my disk yesterday and found some old SID music and ended up playing old C64 and Amiga classics with a tear of nostalgia in my eye.
For a while I actually thought I'd put the Commando or IK+ theme on my phone if it would play