Cringley didn't actuallty say that their aim was to have the power to disable then net, but only that these boxes could act as a switch. I understood that as meaning they could do their own routing/filtering, which is much finer grained (and less panic inducing) that the on/off switch for the whole internet that people seem to be jumping to.
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One of my all-time-favourite pieces of polemic. A piece of disinformation in it though: X doesn't screw up client/server - server is what accepts incoming connections, as it should be.
I understood him as meaning the letters a-z. There are standard translaterations for quoted and special characters (eg german uses ä -> ae, ö -> oe, etc.). For Chinese there is pinyan, and japanese has a standrad `into english lettering' encoding as well.
Interesting, but you are wrong to say that the distinction between sex and gender depends upon environmental determinism. It only depends upon the fact that some people's psychology may correspond to their reverse biological gender. There is very strong empirical evidence for transgender.
Political food for thought: Nazi Germany was the first powerful nation to ban the private ownership of guns
Britain banned all non-hunting private use of firearms in the 1671 Game Act, though the act proved impossible to enforce. Emergency powers in 1914 banned all private use of firearms not explicitly authorised, and became part of statute in 1920. The advent of revolvers caused a wave of anti-firearm legislation to sweep Europe in the early 20th century, so while I don't know the details, I would expect a similar story in the rest of Europe.
Oops: quite so, about alpha emulation. That's what comes of posting stuff based on recollection. Actually I read somewhere else speculation that there would be Alpha emulation, and that this would be more efficient, but it is pure speculation. Apologies for reporting it as fact.
Well, of course I got onto this thread on a tangent: I was irritated by your attitude towards French anti-fascist censorship. The French laws do not try to make general distinctions between good speech and bad speech, they specifically target Nazi propaganda (including Nazi and Vichy memorabilia) and holocaust denial.
If the KKK had tyrannised the US in the same way that Fascists did in Germany and France, I would not take a smugly superior attitude towards anti-KKK censorship in the US.
Back to the thread, I think it would be hypocritical for the French intelligence services to complain about the CIA. It is right and proper for the French justice system to do the same.
IIRC there is a JVM interpreter for Crusoe already.
Also the Alpha interpreter is much more efficient that the x86, according to this IEEE Spectrum article which was posted on Slashdot a couple of months ago.
In the short run, I think Transmeta have a hard fight on their hands just to survive. The Spectrum article hints that Transmeta were disappointed at the results they reported at Crusoe's unveiling, that they had expected a real showstopper. In the long run, I am convinced that this is a much, much better way to design processors.
Ah! The penny drops! I had often wondered who outside MS and it's closest allied big companies had anything to lose from the proposed split: surely, I naively thought, increased competition should be good for MS developers. Well, learning that it isn't so has rather increased my enthusiasm for the split.
I'm sorry that I keep going on about this, but I have a thing about it :- I don't think that the advantage of free speech in opposing hate crimes lies in `defeating bad ideas'. I think it is mostly ineffective in this regard. The great strength of freedom of speech is that it avoids giving these groups the advantage of appearing to be persecuted.
Today, I think the holocaust denial laws in France and Germany should be struck of the statute books. But when they were drafted, surviving fascists were still dangerous in Europe (not least due to the enlightened policy of the US in supporting them as good anti-communists).
I actually don't disagree, it's just the smug attitude of `we're so right and we love to tell you so' that pisses me off. The KKK may not be nice, but they are not in the same league as the Fascists: the experience is just not comparable. Hate literature, especially tied to historical revisionism and pseudo-science, is one of the better arguments against free speech, and it does not do good to be complacent about it.
It's like explaining why it is right that a violent rapist should go free on an issue of due process to his victim: that just might be right, but only an asshole would say that it is all due to High Principles of Justice.
FreeBSD has pretty poor SMP capabilities compared to Linux (2 way SMP, and I think no SMP support in their TCP/IP stack), so I think it would get roasted on this setup. FreeBSD's strengths are elsewhere.
One of the great advantages of open source is that one can have a high-level of confidence that the OS doesn't cheat on benchmarks (ie. by making changes to behaviour that increase benchmark performance at the expense of overall performance). The temptation to do so in a closed source environment must be pretty much irresistible.
It's easy for countries with no experience of fascism to take the moral high ground. Just another opportunity to pontificate about Liberty in pompous tones.
More important I think is that it would give them knowledge of those 1000 languages if they could figure one of them out. It all kind of assumes that they will be able to figure out the point of shiny 2" disks with lots of tiny pits arranged in a helix...
lynx has the best behaviour of all: it gives you four choices to each incoming cookie: accept, reject, accept all from this site, reject all from this site, plus it is very easy to change your mind about these choices using the `cookie jar'. I wish there was a graphical browser out there that duplicated lynx's functionality in this respect.
I think the point that came across in the interview is that the UK *could* cut their service, but it would be a very bad thing for the UK to do from a diplomatic point of view: something they would likely do only if Sealand represents some kind of military/terrorist threat to them. Not impossible, but not just a matter of `whimsy'...
I'd be *really* surprised if the UK did act against them. Why are Havenco's activities more dangerous to the UK than say, the Channel Islands or the Faroe islands?
My understanding is that anyone who provides the executable would, if the source licenses were incompatible, be prevented from fulfilling the conditions on providing the source, and thus be in copyright violation for illegally copying the code.
What I don't understand is how this situation can occur with open source software. The provider can redistribute all the different parts of the source under the individual licenses (which always allow redistribution of source), and so the recipient then has code necessaryto compile the code, so the licenses considered separately are fulfilled.
Just because the issues are so unclear, it is legal hairsplitting. If it were a clear violation of the GPL, and the people who committed it were aware of it, then I would agree with you.
I understand that both KDE and SuSE (along with Redhat, Slackware, etc.) distribute the executables, andso would be liable if any such liability existed.
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Cringley didn't actuallty say that their aim was to have the power to
disable then net, but only that these boxes could act as a switch. I
understood that as meaning they could do their own routing/filtering,
which is much finer grained (and less panic inducing) that the on/off
switch for the whole internet that people seem to be jumping to.
One of my all-time-favourite pieces of polemic. A piece of disinformation in it though: X doesn't screw up client/server - server is what accepts incoming connections, as it should be.
I understood him as meaning the letters a-z. There are standard
translaterations for quoted and special characters (eg german uses ä
-> ae, ö -> oe, etc.). For Chinese there is pinyan, and japanese has
a standrad `into english lettering' encoding as well.
Well, it doesn't if you read his bpost a little further. He proposes using the alphabet as a natural hierarchy. I rather like that idea.
If the same project was supported with a different name, say .egal, would you support it?
Interesting, but you are wrong to say that the distinction between sex and gender depends upon environmental determinism. It only depends upon the fact that some people's psychology may correspond to their reverse biological gender. There is very strong empirical evidence for transgender.
nation to ban the private ownership of guns
Britain banned all non-hunting private use of firearms in the 1671
Game Act, though the act proved impossible to enforce. Emergency
powers in 1914 banned all private use of firearms not explicitly
authorised, and became part of statute in 1920. The advent of
revolvers caused a wave of anti-firearm legislation to sweep Europe in
the early 20th century, so while I don't know the details, I would
expect a similar story in the rest of Europe.
What's your second-favourite Linux distribution?
Oops: quite so, about alpha emulation. That's what comes of posting
stuff based on recollection. Actually I read somewhere else
speculation that there would be Alpha emulation, and that this would
be more efficient, but it is pure speculation. Apologies for
reporting it as fact.
by your attitude towards French anti-fascist censorship. The French
laws do not try to make general distinctions between good speech and
bad speech, they specifically target Nazi propaganda (including Nazi
and Vichy memorabilia) and holocaust denial.
If the KKK had tyrannised the US in the same way that Fascists did
in Germany and France, I would not take a smugly superior attitude
towards anti-KKK censorship in the US.
Back to the thread, I think it would be hypocritical for the French
intelligence services to complain about the CIA. It is right and
proper for the French justice system to do the same.
Also the Alpha interpreter is much more efficient that the x86,
according to this IEEE Spectrum article which was posted on Slashdot a couple of months ago.
In the short run, I think Transmeta have a hard fight on their
hands just to survive. The Spectrum article hints that Transmeta were
disappointed at the results they reported at Crusoe's unveiling, that
they had expected a real showstopper. In the long run, I am convinced
that this is a much, much better way to design processors.
closest allied big companies had anything to lose from the proposed
split: surely, I naively thought, increased competition should be good
for MS developers. Well, learning that it isn't so has rather
increased my enthusiasm for the split.
PS. Moderate up John Murdoch's post.
:-
I don't think that the advantage of free speech in opposing hate
crimes lies in `defeating bad ideas'. I think it is mostly
ineffective in this regard. The great strength of freedom of speech
is that it avoids giving these groups the advantage of appearing to be
persecuted.
Today, I think the holocaust denial laws in France and Germany
should be struck of the statute books. But when they were drafted,
surviving fascists were still dangerous in Europe (not least due to
the enlightened policy of the US in supporting them as good
anti-communists).
right and we love to tell you so' that pisses me off. The KKK may not
be nice, but they are not in the same league as the Fascists: the
experience is just not comparable. Hate literature, especially tied
to historical revisionism and pseudo-science, is one of the better
arguments against free speech, and it does not do good to be
complacent about it.
It's like explaining why it is right that a violent rapist should
go free on an issue of due process to his victim: that just might be
right, but only an asshole would say that it is all due to High
Principles of Justice.
and I think no SMP support in their TCP/IP stack), so I think it
would get roasted on this setup. FreeBSD's strengths are elsewhere.
One of the great advantages of open source is that one can have a
high-level of confidence that the OS doesn't cheat on benchmarks
(ie. by making changes to behaviour that increase benchmark
performance at the expense of overall performance). The temptation to
do so in a closed source environment must be pretty much irresistible.
The comment you replied to talked of plans to integrate TUX into Apache.
Is there a significant performance difference for web servers using WinNT and Win2k?
It's easy for countries with no experience of fascism to take the moral high ground. Just another opportunity to pontificate about Liberty in pompous tones.
More important I think is that it would give them knowledge of those
1000 languages if they could figure one of them out. It all kind of
assumes that they will be able to figure out the point of shiny 2"
disks with lots of tiny pits arranged in a helix...
You only need one person to do the decryption and post it to whatever is the equivalent of Napster that week.
lynx has the best behaviour of all: it gives you four choices to each
incoming cookie: accept, reject, accept all from this site, reject all
from this site, plus it is very easy to change your mind about these
choices using the `cookie jar'. I wish there was a graphical browser
out there that duplicated lynx's functionality in this respect.
127.0.0.1 is normally the loopback device. So you can configure Apache to do whatever you like with these addresses.
*could* cut their service, but it would be a very bad thing for the UK
to do from a diplomatic point of view: something they would likely do
only if Sealand represents some kind of military/terrorist threat to
them. Not impossible, but not just a matter of `whimsy'...
I'd be *really* surprised if the UK did act against them. Why are
Havenco's activities more dangerous to the UK than say, the Channel
Islands or the Faroe islands?
the source licenses were incompatible, be prevented from fulfilling
the conditions on providing the source, and thus be in copyright
violation for illegally copying the code.
What I don't understand is how this situation can occur with open
source software. The provider can redistribute all the different
parts of the source under the individual licenses (which always allow
redistribution of source), and so the recipient then has code
necessaryto compile the code, so the licenses considered separately
are fulfilled.
Just because the issues are so unclear, it is legal hairsplitting. If
it were a clear violation of the GPL, and the people who committed it
were aware of it, then I would agree with you.
I understand that both KDE and SuSE (along with Redhat, Slackware,
etc.) distribute the executables, andso would be liable if any such
liability existed.
This is the kind of situation that authentication is supposed to avoid.