I'm a native dane, and heard the interview. I don't have time to listen through it to get to the point where he says it, but the translation is AFAIR correct! What he's basically saying is that, no, they did not steal the mplayer source code.
And it isn't the translation's fault that he sounds like a complete idiot not knowing what's going on around him either. Many of his claims are just plain stupid, but that he begins to claim that perhaps mplayer has stolen from them is ludicrus! First of all mplayer came first (two years), have a cvs archive proving it and so on, but is it at all possible for the mplayer folks to have copied it without hacking Kiss' machines? Please shut this man up, I'm ashamed!
That is not the point at all. Yes, it's quite nice that the Iraqis are free, but what's so terrible is that the leader of the single most powerful country in the world (and claimed to be the most civilized and ethic) has lied to everyone to get that war. Whatever Saddam has done, it doesn't really matter. Everyone knows he's corrupt, and now he's even caught - he doesn't matter. Bush is still at large!
Yes, a lot of justifications for the war can be made, and that the war was a good thing (tm), but what was a VERY bad thing (tm) is the public reasons why the war should be fought. And that these lies have had no repercutions on Bush at all! Nor on Blair.
Seen from that perspective Saddam is just a pebble in the sea. Bush can attack a variety of countries, lie to the world (including the american citizens: His superiors) about the reasons, and no one is going to give a damn about it, since those were bad countries...
What also matters is that this was a completely unprovoked attack on Iraq. They didn't do anything to USA to justify this war - They were actually as cooporative as ever. Do we want the most powerful government in the world attacking countries at random, because it doesn't like that contry's government? USA isn't the cop of the world.
"So, if Saddam didn't have WMD, why would he throw out weapons inspectors and risk being thrown out of power? All Saddam had to do was comply with inspectors and he'd still be living in palaces built"
Uhm... Didn't Sadam comply? The weapon inspectors were in Iraq, being compied fully with, when USA decided Saddam had to go.
Other than that, the weapons were supposed to be launchable within 45 minutes or so at any given moment, so they can't have been buried that deeply. Why didn't Sadam use all those dangerous weapons when they were finally invaded?
Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein is two completely unrelated persons (even though Bush wants to make that impression). They probably still need to get a lot of people, but now they've gotten one.
"Over here in Mexico there's a tax on CD's that goes to Music distributors to compensate for CD piracy."
So when you pirate a song the artist has already been compensated? So is it now legal to pirate songs in Mexico? After all, you have payed for it, indirectly though, and the musicians have been compensated! If not, how can the government charge for something which is illegal?
As I said, if AES were to be broken, ie. some method be found such that it could be decrypted significantly faster than brute force without knowing the key, then 3DES would take over. And yes, a single DES key would be too easy to find, but by doing it this way the keyspace doesn't remain 54bit, but is enlarged to 112bit AFAIR. This is enough!
While AES is the new hot algorithm, DES is "proven through practice" understood the way that it has been used for at least 30 years, and not been broken (only brute forced). This is why much people favor 3DES over AES, or other of the new algorithms.
DES is a 56-bit symmetric encryption algorithm, which is depricated by now. Specially built hardware machines can easilly break it.
It's official successor is AES, which is a 128/192/256 bit algorithm, which is thought to be very secure.
It's direct successor is triple DES, where you encrypt with one key, decrypt with another, and encrypt again with a third. This is probably what will take over if AES fails.
Most of the people I associate with, who use IE, simply won't convert. I'm even being called a zealot because I use mozilla rather than explorer. I can come with all the arguments I want (and I do so, each and every time) but they just won't listen. My girlfriend recently visited my father, who had a link to ie and one to mozilla in the same directory. She giggled when I chose mozilla instead of ie, because she thought that I did it to spite her.
The fact is that people KNOW it works, and for that simple reason won't change. If it ain't broke, don't fix it! And they seriously believe it's not broken.
My girlfriend is also a fanatic Windows ME user, how strange that may sound. One moment she can strongly advocate that it's the most stable thing in the world, and the next tell me that she has to get off ICQ because she's going to burn a CD.
"Friends don't let friends use internet explorer". So true, but my friends REALLY believe it works, and they apparently have no problem with getting a virus because outlook autoexecuted it, or because they ran into another exploiting page. The internet is dangerous, it happens. I don't get the virus? Well, I'm a geek, my virus definitions are probably updated. Well, guess what: I haven't updated my windows 2K for at least the last six months.
Bottom line is: Internet Explorer works. It's insecure like you wouldn't believe it, it's slow, it doesn't do CSS or PNG transparency, it doesn't support tabs nor block popups, but they can see the pages. If they run into a page that doesn't work in ie, they avoid it, the page is bad. So do their friends, so that's no problem. If the same should happen in mozilla, the browser is bad - especially since all their friends use that page!
I've actually gotten my hands on the installable beta. The install seems pretty decent. It's easy, and it leaves your windows drives alone, unless you tell it otherwise. Everything is extremely simple, with a little "detailed" button you can click, if you are an experienced user.
I was surprised to see that the installation automatically detected and installed the wireless network adapter on my laptop, something I haven't seen any other distribution do (even though the driver is ready in the kernel).
The rest of the installation went flawless (except for a hitch with starsuite, which for some reason was in chinese, but I'll leave that to the beta-testers).
For some reason SUN has decided to provide the Java Media Player as the default media player. This would be just fine, if it in any way matched with the overall system design, or if it could play all media, but a simple test proved that it couldn't even play a standard (if such a thing exists) divx file. It worked fine with Ogg Vorbis and mpeg though. I wasn't able to find a dvd-player, xmms wasn't installed, and I could find no other media players besides the already mentioned java media player. If they want to win on the desktop, one thing SUN seriously needs is the capability to play media files using a pretty functional player (xmms for music is the obvious choice).
The entire desktop is seemingly a clone of the basic windows desktop with "this computer", "Documents", "Network Places" and "Trash". Exactly as I remember windows, just with slightly altered names. You even have a control panel (called preferences) in "This Computer".
Another problem I will leave to the beta testers is the fact that my DVD-drive is both mounted as cdrom and dvd, and thus also shown as two icons.
All in all a slick O/S, though with a few bumps which are hopefully straightened out through beta-testing, with a very bad choice of multimedia player (If anyone from SUN read this, go punch the guy who chose java media player in the stomache, and point him to xmms, mplayer and xine instead!).
Tell your friends:
1. Don't preview email
2. Delete email you don't know or trust
3. Don't open attachments if they're not absolutely known and expected
3. Update early and often
Or: Install mozilla, or any other non-ms email-client and scratch the first two points.
PGP! Sign every mail you send, and your problems are over. Then it's very easy to see which mails are from you, and which are spoofed. Even better, if you can get others to adopt this you can send encrypted (private) mails to those people. Liability-issues solved:)
Just like every other piece of software out there...
Re:offtopic questions for the skeptic
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Did violence exist before doom?
Certainly not! The Brady Bunch? That's how things went down before the age of doom!
Was our society less corrupt before doom?
How could you even ask such a stupid question? The mere concept of corruption was introduced with doom. The concept of piracy didn't come until doom 2, though. I fear for what doom 3 will bring.
Does simulating an sinful act constitute a sinful act?
Most definately.
If so then does playing the part of a murderer in a play constitute a sin, or does it depend on your intentions?
Not at all, a play is sofisticated, and does not in any way provoke violence, it rather introduces the viewer of other cultures, thus playing in one is an act for which you will be rewarded when you go to heaven.
"Because glxgears is such a simple benchmark, it redraws ridiculously fast. "
Which makes it so much more obvious... Especially when I run 5-6 instances, because it just switches between them.
I have an Athlon 1400 and a GeForce2Ultra... While the framerates more or less fits yours: 1: 1871 3: 630 5: 372 When you look at them it's obvious that they're not running simultaniously, but get a little bit of gfx-time each, stopping and waiting for the other gears to stop moving. Utterly useless!
Yeees... Until they've been used for a couple of years, and through use have become proven technology. Then we say: Hey! Why not let THEM do it for us? They make less mistakes anyway!
"WHen you have physical access to a computer all bets are off." ... By local I of course mean that you need to have an account. This can be done by exploiting a hole in on of the programs a user on the system is using... Or if you can get a login via ssh? Ie. on campuses and so on.
With it being based on Knoppix, which is based on Debian, I'm sure a simple procedure of apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade could be implemented, installing all (or better, only selected vital-for-security-checking) updated programs onto a RAM-drive.
Well, actually Linux recently had a local root exploit. It works for all kernels before 2.4.20. Equipped with this exploit all the hostile party needs is a local exploit in any program the standard user is running.
"In short, grow a clue or turn your 'puter off."
In short, grow a clue and turn your 'puter off.
"I was infected with the Blaster worm! I couldn't help DOSing microsoft! What? The Blaster worm can too infect linux boxes! No, I did not just run a ping -f on microsoft.com!"
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I'm a native dane, and heard the interview. I don't have time to listen through it to get to the point where he says it, but the translation is AFAIR correct! What he's basically saying is that, no, they did not steal the mplayer source code.
And it isn't the translation's fault that he sounds like a complete idiot not knowing what's going on around him either. Many of his claims are just plain stupid, but that he begins to claim that perhaps mplayer has stolen from them is ludicrus! First of all mplayer came first (two years), have a cvs archive proving it and so on, but is it at all possible for the mplayer folks to have copied it without hacking Kiss' machines? Please shut this man up, I'm ashamed!
That is not the point at all. Yes, it's quite nice that the Iraqis are free, but what's so terrible is that the leader of the single most powerful country in the world (and claimed to be the most civilized and ethic) has lied to everyone to get that war. Whatever Saddam has done, it doesn't really matter. Everyone knows he's corrupt, and now he's even caught - he doesn't matter. Bush is still at large!
Yes, a lot of justifications for the war can be made, and that the war was a good thing (tm), but what was a VERY bad thing (tm) is the public reasons why the war should be fought. And that these lies have had no repercutions on Bush at all! Nor on Blair.
Seen from that perspective Saddam is just a pebble in the sea. Bush can attack a variety of countries, lie to the world (including the american citizens: His superiors) about the reasons, and no one is going to give a damn about it, since those were bad countries...
What also matters is that this was a completely unprovoked attack on Iraq. They didn't do anything to USA to justify this war - They were actually as cooporative as ever. Do we want the most powerful government in the world attacking countries at random, because it doesn't like that contry's government? USA isn't the cop of the world.
"So, if Saddam didn't have WMD, why would he throw out weapons inspectors and risk being thrown out of power? All Saddam had to do was comply with inspectors and he'd still be living in palaces built"
Uhm... Didn't Sadam comply? The weapon inspectors were in Iraq, being compied fully with, when USA decided Saddam had to go.
Other than that, the weapons were supposed to be launchable within 45 minutes or so at any given moment, so they can't have been buried that deeply. Why didn't Sadam use all those dangerous weapons when they were finally invaded?
Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein is two completely unrelated persons (even though Bush wants to make that impression). They probably still need to get a lot of people, but now they've gotten one.
"Over here in Mexico there's a tax on CD's that goes to Music distributors to compensate for CD piracy."
So when you pirate a song the artist has already been compensated? So is it now legal to pirate songs in Mexico? After all, you have payed for it, indirectly though, and the musicians have been compensated! If not, how can the government charge for something which is illegal?
As I said, if AES were to be broken, ie. some method be found such that it could be decrypted significantly faster than brute force without knowing the key, then 3DES would take over. And yes, a single DES key would be too easy to find, but by doing it this way the keyspace doesn't remain 54bit, but is enlarged to 112bit AFAIR. This is enough!
While AES is the new hot algorithm, DES is "proven through practice" understood the way that it has been used for at least 30 years, and not been broken (only brute forced). This is why much people favor 3DES over AES, or other of the new algorithms.
DES is a 56-bit symmetric encryption algorithm, which is depricated by now. Specially built hardware machines can easilly break it.
It's official successor is AES, which is a 128/192/256 bit algorithm, which is thought to be very secure.
It's direct successor is triple DES, where you encrypt with one key, decrypt with another, and encrypt again with a third. This is probably what will take over if AES fails.
Most of the people I associate with, who use IE, simply won't convert. I'm even being called a zealot because I use mozilla rather than explorer. I can come with all the arguments I want (and I do so, each and every time) but they just won't listen. My girlfriend recently visited my father, who had a link to ie and one to mozilla in the same directory. She giggled when I chose mozilla instead of ie, because she thought that I did it to spite her.
The fact is that people KNOW it works, and for that simple reason won't change. If it ain't broke, don't fix it! And they seriously believe it's not broken.
My girlfriend is also a fanatic Windows ME user, how strange that may sound. One moment she can strongly advocate that it's the most stable thing in the world, and the next tell me that she has to get off ICQ because she's going to burn a CD.
"Friends don't let friends use internet explorer". So true, but my friends REALLY believe it works, and they apparently have no problem with getting a virus because outlook autoexecuted it, or because they ran into another exploiting page. The internet is dangerous, it happens. I don't get the virus? Well, I'm a geek, my virus definitions are probably updated. Well, guess what: I haven't updated my windows 2K for at least the last six months.
Bottom line is: Internet Explorer works. It's insecure like you wouldn't believe it, it's slow, it doesn't do CSS or PNG transparency, it doesn't support tabs nor block popups, but they can see the pages. If they run into a page that doesn't work in ie, they avoid it, the page is bad. So do their friends, so that's no problem. If the same should happen in mozilla, the browser is bad - especially since all their friends use that page!
Ok, I'm confused.. How on earth did I get modded Troll for that one?
I've actually gotten my hands on the installable beta. The install seems pretty decent. It's easy, and it leaves your windows drives alone, unless you tell it otherwise. Everything is extremely simple, with a little "detailed" button you can click, if you are an experienced user.
I was surprised to see that the installation automatically detected and installed the wireless network adapter on my laptop, something I haven't seen any other distribution do (even though the driver is ready in the kernel).
The rest of the installation went flawless (except for a hitch with starsuite, which for some reason was in chinese, but I'll leave that to the beta-testers).
For some reason SUN has decided to provide the Java Media Player as the default media player. This would be just fine, if it in any way matched with the overall system design, or if it could play all media, but a simple test proved that it couldn't even play a standard (if such a thing exists) divx file. It worked fine with Ogg Vorbis and mpeg though. I wasn't able to find a dvd-player, xmms wasn't installed, and I could find no other media players besides the already mentioned java media player. If they want to win on the desktop, one thing SUN seriously needs is the capability to play media files using a pretty functional player (xmms for music is the obvious choice).
The entire desktop is seemingly a clone of the basic windows desktop with "this computer", "Documents", "Network Places" and "Trash". Exactly as I remember windows, just with slightly altered names. You even have a control panel (called preferences) in "This Computer".
Another problem I will leave to the beta testers is the fact that my DVD-drive is both mounted as cdrom and dvd, and thus also shown as two icons.
All in all a slick O/S, though with a few bumps which are hopefully straightened out through beta-testing, with a very bad choice of multimedia player (If anyone from SUN read this, go punch the guy who chose java media player in the stomache, and point him to xmms, mplayer and xine instead!).
Bow to our new SCO overlords?
Tell your friends:
1. Don't preview email
2. Delete email you don't know or trust
3. Don't open attachments if they're not absolutely known and expected
3. Update early and often
Or: Install mozilla, or any other non-ms email-client and scratch the first two points.
PGP! Sign every mail you send, and your problems are over. Then it's very easy to see which mails are from you, and which are spoofed. Even better, if you can get others to adopt this you can send encrypted (private) mails to those people. Liability-issues solved :)
Just like every other piece of software out there...
Did violence exist before doom?
Certainly not! The Brady Bunch? That's how things went down before the age of doom!
Was our society less corrupt before doom?
How could you even ask such a stupid question? The mere concept of corruption was introduced with doom. The concept of piracy didn't come until doom 2, though. I fear for what doom 3 will bring.
Does simulating an sinful act constitute a sinful act?
Most definately.
If so then does playing the part of a murderer in a play constitute a sin, or does it depend on your intentions?
Not at all, a play is sofisticated, and does not in any way provoke violence, it rather introduces the viewer of other cultures, thus playing in one is an act for which you will be rewarded when you go to heaven.
Errhm... I think we're going off topic here...
"Because glxgears is such a simple benchmark, it redraws ridiculously fast. "
Which makes it so much more obvious... Especially when I run 5-6 instances, because it just switches between them.
I'm running the 2.6.0test2 kernel...
I have an Athlon 1400 and a GeForce2Ultra... While the framerates more or less fits yours:
1: 1871
3: 630
5: 372
When you look at them it's obvious that they're not running simultaniously, but get a little bit of gfx-time each, stopping and waiting for the other gears to stop moving. Utterly useless!
Yeees... Until they've been used for a couple of years, and through use have become proven technology. Then we say: Hey! Why not let THEM do it for us? They make less mistakes anyway!
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"
"because Debian could be your Dad anyway !"
Well, actually Debian kinda is Knoppix' dad...
"WHen you have physical access to a computer all bets are off."
... By local I of course mean that you need to have an account. This can be done by exploiting a hole in on of the programs a user on the system is using... Or if you can get a login via ssh? Ie. on campuses and so on.
With it being based on Knoppix, which is based on Debian, I'm sure a simple procedure of apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade could be implemented, installing all (or better, only selected vital-for-security-checking) updated programs onto a RAM-drive.
Well, actually Linux recently had a local root exploit. It works for all kernels before 2.4.20. Equipped with this exploit all the hostile party needs is a local exploit in any program the standard user is running.
"In short, grow a clue or turn your 'puter off."
In short, grow a clue and turn your 'puter off.
"I was infected with the Blaster worm! I couldn't help DOSing microsoft! What? The Blaster worm can too infect linux boxes! No, I did not just run a ping -f on microsoft.com!"
Yes, but is it legal? And this only plays on i386 platforms AFAIK. Yes, mplayer can play it, and beautifully, but legally?
It plays on linux. Better than on windows IMO, since I can use mplayer, instead of quicktime player.