Someone has a serious misunderstanding of the benefits of GPL. You can submit patches to projects of any licence and the maintainer can keep or reject them. This is not GPL specific. How ever, on the note of GPL benefits, I believe he said fork.
Yea, because multipassed checksumming is so error prone. And leeching is not always the desired goal. Sure there's a 100mbs kernel.org, but the mirrors are there for a reason, and this would be a distributed mirror. Grand idea.
He's talking of./configure style options. These are very important, and is impossible to customize on a binary distro, you just get what they feel is best for the general public, in other words, best one for the tons of applications and machine types (desktop, server, media, etc)
I wonder if precious features such as multiplayer will get rarer, now that many hit titles are ported from various consoles to proper computers.
I think that if that was going to happen, it would have already happened, and be declining with the rise of multiplayer consoles. I think that we will see quite an interesting new array of multiplayer ports from consoles.
A meter is the distance light travels in a certain fraction of a second. c is invariant no matter where you are, and a second is defined as a particular number of caesium atom vibrations, giving you a very precise basis for measurement of distance.
This is a very odd concept to me. c is in units of m/s...so we are using m/s to define m? Doesn't that seem kinda full circle? If the definition of m changes, then so does m/s, then so does m...See what I'm getting at?
No, c is the speed of light period. In a vacuum the apperent speed of light is c, but in other substances, ot may appear slower(never faster), but it is still c.
Right, but the point is, there is/no/ matter close to be sucked up. The vacuum is just a comment that the distance from the black hole and the matter is so great, it takes gravity too long to get it, rather then having air(matter) right there. Now in space, the masses are so huge, it can suck things up and it won't evaporate. Gravity cares not of vacuums.
Further, I am not sure how widely applicable this is. Whenever I change a password to a new, cryptic one, I type it in slowly for the first few times till my fingers start "remembering" the sequence.
This will be a huge problem for you, as when you "learn" your password better, you type it out faster. You'd have to apply this at "critical level of...remeberance(I know, not a word =P), and that would cause implimentation to be horrible.
We can now get some more external player support. Especially in all the CD/MP3 players with upgradeable firmware and same with just MP3 players. I can't wait to be able to starting going only ogg.
If you looked more carefully, that's the VNC client, the actual desktop is more like an office desktop. But the problem with that that makes it unapplacible(spelling nazi's attention!) to this is that 3DWM is made to veiw from the center out, and this display is for the outside in.
This is a pathetic article. I have never seen an optical mouse without 3 buttons. You see, the wheel is pretty much ALWAYS a button. and that makes for a great combination. I don't know where you are seeing your mice....
Computer Science Prize to Honor 3 Forerunners of Internet Security By JOHN MARKOFF
he Association of Computing Machinery plans to announce today that Ronald L. Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard M. Adleman will receive the 2002 A. M. Turing Award for their development work in public-key cryptography.
The award, which carries a $100,000 prize financed by the Intel Corporation, is given annually to leading researchers in the field of computer science.
Working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977, the three men developed the RSA algorithm, which is widely used today as a basic mechanism for secure Internet transactions, as well as in the banking and credit card industries.
What's new?
The strength of this approach is that it provides highly secure communications over distances between parties that have never previously been in contact.
Dr. Rivest now teaches in the electrical engineering and computer science department at M.I.T.
Dr. Shamir is a professor in the applied mathematics department at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.
Dr. Adleman is a professor of computer science and of molecular biology at the University of Southern California.
Computer Science Prize to Honor 3 Forerunners of Internet Security
By JOHN MARKOFF
he Association of Computing Machinery plans to announce today that Ronald L. Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard M. Adleman will receive the 2002 A. M. Turing Award for their development work in public-key cryptography.
The award, which carries a $100,000 prize financed by the Intel Corporation, is given annually to leading researchers in the field of computer science.
Working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977, the three men developed the RSA algorithm, which is widely used today as a basic mechanism for secure Internet transactions, as well as in the banking and credit card industries.
What's new?
The strength of this approach is that it provides highly secure communications over distances between parties that have never previously been in contact.
Dr. Rivest now teaches in the electrical engineering and computer science department at M.I.T.
Dr. Shamir is a professor in the applied mathematics department at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.
Dr. Adleman is a professor of computer science and of molecular biology at the University of Southern California.
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Someone has a serious misunderstanding of the benefits of GPL. You can submit patches to projects of any licence and the maintainer can keep or reject them. This is not GPL specific. How ever, on the note of GPL benefits, I believe he said fork .
If the $699 per seat is the liability they refer to, then that's $20/year per linux box.
Don't forget that $699 is per cpu.
How does the wayback machine do it then?
...for a link who's purpose is screenshots. I think we need a good image cacher, Like The Way Back Machine only a little more up to date.
Yea, because multipassed checksumming is so error prone. And leeching is not always the desired goal. Sure there's a 100mbs kernel.org, but the mirrors are there for a reason, and this would be a distributed mirror. Grand idea.
He's talking of ./configure style options. These are very important, and is impossible to customize on a binary distro, you just get what they feel is best for the general public, in other words, best one for the tons of applications and machine types (desktop, server, media, etc)
I kick my self for using up all my mod points. I agree wholeheartedly. It amazes me how blatenly they are doing what they were tried for before.
I'm surprised on slashdot, you don't realize the double meaning of Free...As in speech and as in beer. I believe he means the as in speech type.
I wonder if precious features such as multiplayer will get rarer, now that many hit titles are ported from various consoles to proper computers.
I think that if that was going to happen, it would have already happened, and be declining with the rise of multiplayer consoles. I think that we will see quite an interesting new array of multiplayer ports from consoles.
A meter is the distance light travels in a certain fraction of a second. c is invariant no matter where you are, and a second is defined as a particular number of caesium atom vibrations, giving you a very precise basis for measurement of distance.
This is a very odd concept to me. c is in units of m/s...so we are using m/s to define m? Doesn't that seem kinda full circle? If the definition of m changes, then so does m/s, then so does m...See what I'm getting at?
No, c is the speed of light period. In a vacuum the apperent speed of light is c, but in other substances, ot may appear slower(never faster), but it is still c.
Right, but the point is, there is /no/ matter close to be sucked up. The vacuum is just a comment that the distance from the black hole and the matter is so great, it takes gravity too long to get it, rather then having air(matter) right there. Now in space, the masses are so huge, it can suck things up and it won't evaporate. Gravity cares not of vacuums.
I suggest you read the book, it is great. The book is the classic, not the movie.
Further, I am not sure how widely applicable this is. Whenever I change a password to a new, cryptic one, I type it in slowly for the first few times till my fingers start "remembering" the sequence. This will be a huge problem for you, as when you "learn" your password better, you type it out faster. You'd have to apply this at "critical level of ...remeberance(I know, not a word =P), and that would cause implimentation to be horrible.
We can now get some more external player support. Especially in all the CD/MP3 players with upgradeable firmware and same with just MP3 players. I can't wait to be able to starting going only ogg.
If you looked more carefully, that's the VNC client, the actual desktop is more like an office desktop. But the problem with that that makes it unapplacible(spelling nazi's attention!) to this is that 3DWM is made to veiw from the center out, and this display is for the outside in.
Hahaha, as off topic as it is, it really got the slashdot crowd happy =P Nice moderation.
*note to self: pr0n = Karma whoring*
o.0 Copyright violations? I didn't know... And yes, I admit my spelling is horrible.
This is a pathetic article. I have never seen an optical mouse without 3 buttons. You see, the wheel is pretty much ALWAYS a button. and that makes for a great combination. I don't know where you are seeing your mice....
Computer Science Prize to Honor 3 Forerunners of Internet Security
By JOHN MARKOFF
he Association of Computing Machinery plans to announce today that Ronald L. Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard M. Adleman will receive the 2002 A. M. Turing Award for their development work in public-key cryptography.
The award, which carries a $100,000 prize financed by the Intel Corporation, is given annually to leading researchers in the field of computer science.
Working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977, the three men developed the RSA algorithm, which is widely used today as a basic mechanism for secure Internet transactions, as well as in the banking and credit card industries.
What's new?
The strength of this approach is that it provides highly secure communications over distances between parties that have never previously been in contact.
Dr. Rivest now teaches in the electrical engineering and computer science department at M.I.T.
Dr. Shamir is a professor in the applied mathematics department at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.
Dr. Adleman is a professor of computer science and of molecular biology at the University of Southern California.
Computer Science Prize to Honor 3 Forerunners of Internet Security By JOHN MARKOFF he Association of Computing Machinery plans to announce today that Ronald L. Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard M. Adleman will receive the 2002 A. M. Turing Award for their development work in public-key cryptography. The award, which carries a $100,000 prize financed by the Intel Corporation, is given annually to leading researchers in the field of computer science. Working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977, the three men developed the RSA algorithm, which is widely used today as a basic mechanism for secure Internet transactions, as well as in the banking and credit card industries. What's new? The strength of this approach is that it provides highly secure communications over distances between parties that have never previously been in contact. Dr. Rivest now teaches in the electrical engineering and computer science department at M.I.T. Dr. Shamir is a professor in the applied mathematics department at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Dr. Adleman is a professor of computer science and of molecular biology at the University of Southern California.
Why are all the good points written by AC's? And if not, something like this would be a Troll. Cynisism != Troll. Mod parent up.
Your mom is a great traveling "laptop"
An upgrade won't help, it's the fact that thier eq. is more then a simple CD player that causes it to be incompatible.
Heh, This coming from someone who obviously reads /. comments often enough to deduct this point. Interesting....