In the process of criticizing Bush, which I must do, one must also not lose sight of the fact that Saddam Hussein was a really, really bad man.
You have an excellent point. I'm a diehard Green-registered hippie peacenik lefty, but even I have to admit that the results of the Iraq invasion are potentially very good. Not now, maybe not even in 5-10 years, but if Iraq remains democratic and eventually stabilizes, then Bush may have done a good thing for the world in the long-term.
Who says you have to pay for Linux? Go download Fedora, Mandrake, SuSE (the FTP install works great), or even Gentoo or Debian. Same thing without the CDs, and maybe some licensed software.
All the software you need on Windows...isn't free, in any sense. Every major piece of software on Linux, from web browsers and email clients to officepackages to IDEs are free-as-in-RMS-compliant.
Yes, I know you have software that absolutely must run on Windows. But the vast majority of popular computing tasks can be accomplished quite well on Linux.
Sorry, where did the grandparent imply this? You can "stabilize" your country by oppressing your citizens. In fact, I've seen it argued that Saddam did do exactly that; he stopped internal strife with force.
steal 57 varieties of palette-shifted dragons and wreak havoc on eight cities and assorted villages in the name of virtue!
Man, Grand Theft Dragon would kick ass;-)
It's really startling how this is an exact repeat of what happened to UO2. Again the lame excuse of focusing on UO. Give it up, guys. UO is dead. You're not going to get any new subscribers.
Now if this covered IPS right to read their users mail if it were encrypted, then that would be something else.
If ISPs were given the "right" to read encrypted mail...it would do absolutely nothing. Unless you have a few billion dollars to throw around, you don't have a prayer of reading encrypted e-mail. My 4096-bit GPG-encrypted mail should be safe from even the NSA for a few decades.
Public-key encryption has to happen somewhere, no matter what protocol you can come up with for secure e-mail. Given the subject matter of this article, I sure as hell wouldn't trust my ISP to do it.
The private key stays on your local machine unless you move it elsewhere (or your computer gets hacked...). Only your public key is submitted to the server.
Yeah, using no password (or a cached password) isn't exactly a perfect solution. But it's easy and convenient, and a whole lot better than nothing.
Plugins like Enigmail for Mozilla/Thunderbird are a step in the right direction. All you need is something that automatically generates an unpassworded private key and submits it to a key server. Then you can have fully automatic encryption, using current technologies.
Oh, one more necessary piece: a keyserver that does simple e-mail address verification. Not hard; thousands of websites have been doing it for ages.
It's also simple momentum: p = mv
When you have a giant SUV, your velocity doesn't change as much or as quickly in a collision (ie, the person inside isn't hit as hard).
people will always want something 'tangible' for their $$$, something to put in their DVD tower, to lend to friends, to resell if they want to, and to watch whenever and wherever. Given DRM and everything I really doubt video on demand will eclipse DVDs any time soon.
Don't forget the technical limitations. You'd need about half a T3 to get reliable DVD-quality video and audio streaming. That's probably going to take at least ten years to drop to a reasonable price.
You're mistaken, at least in my experience. I recently bought the Go EP by Sarah Bettens. The first five tracks are audio; the sixth track is data. Incidentally, it also has a link to a website with exclusive content, so people who actually bought the CD will get extra stuff. That's the kind of thing I love to see. As someone said in the other Slashdot post about this Beastie Boys album, use a carrot, not a stick.
You're entirely correct. Qt is thoroughly C++ and object-oriented. I really don't see why people hate C++ and love C. If you don't like certain features of C++, don't use them.
In case you didn't know, that's not a Voltaire quote. It's a description of Voltaire's beliefs, as written by Evelyn Beatrice Hall in "Friends of Voltaire".
Plenty of people knew about the problem but either other didn't see the importance or just thought we'd all be dead by 200 anyway.
I see two reasons why code wasn't designed for four-digit years in the 70s:
1. No one thought that their code would still be in use in 20-30 years.
2. It would be inefficient to waste a byte of space per entry. Storage space and memory were both very limited until fairly recently.
But since when is an IDE a "development tool" to the likes of you?
Since when is an Integrated Development Environment not a development tool? Trying to write serious code in Notepad is a joke. There are free IDEs (like Eclipse), but they're certainly not provided by Microsoft.
By the way, as you probably know, their optimizing compiler was not available for free until very recently.
I suspect the weak point in many Slashdotted sites is bandwidth rather than CPU power. I'd bet good money that a site without heavy CGI on a dual-Opteron with plenty of RAM and a SCSI RAID setup would have no trouble handling the Slashdot crowd if it has tons of bandwidth.:-)
Sure, why not. Give every country (or group of sparsely-populated countries) in the world a unique two-byte prefix, and that's over 4.2 billion IPs per nation.
Or you can just use mpd, which supports most popular formats (MP3, OGG, FLAC, AAC/MP4). Use kmp, phpmp, or mpc to control it depending on your mood (and whether or not you have X started).
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You have an excellent point. I'm a diehard Green-registered hippie peacenik lefty, but even I have to admit that the results of the Iraq invasion are potentially very good. Not now, maybe not even in 5-10 years, but if Iraq remains democratic and eventually stabilizes, then Bush may have done a good thing for the world in the long-term.
Who says you have to pay for Linux? Go download Fedora, Mandrake, SuSE (the FTP install works great), or even Gentoo or Debian. Same thing without the CDs, and maybe some licensed software.
Yes, I know you have software that absolutely must run on Windows. But the vast majority of popular computing tasks can be accomplished quite well on Linux.
Sorry, where did the grandparent imply this? You can "stabilize" your country by oppressing your citizens. In fact, I've seen it argued that Saddam did do exactly that; he stopped internal strife with force.
Man, Grand Theft Dragon would kick ass ;-)
It's really startling how this is an exact repeat of what happened to UO2. Again the lame excuse of focusing on UO. Give it up, guys. UO is dead. You're not going to get any new subscribers.
If ISPs were given the "right" to read encrypted mail...it would do absolutely nothing. Unless you have a few billion dollars to throw around, you don't have a prayer of reading encrypted e-mail. My 4096-bit GPG-encrypted mail should be safe from even the NSA for a few decades.
Public-key encryption has to happen somewhere, no matter what protocol you can come up with for secure e-mail. Given the subject matter of this article, I sure as hell wouldn't trust my ISP to do it.
The private key stays on your local machine unless you move it elsewhere (or your computer gets hacked...). Only your public key is submitted to the server.
Yeah, using no password (or a cached password) isn't exactly a perfect solution. But it's easy and convenient, and a whole lot better than nothing.
Plugins like Enigmail for Mozilla/Thunderbird are a step in the right direction. All you need is something that automatically generates an unpassworded private key and submits it to a key server. Then you can have fully automatic encryption, using current technologies.
Oh, one more necessary piece: a keyserver that does simple e-mail address verification. Not hard; thousands of websites have been doing it for ages.
It's also simple momentum: p = mv
When you have a giant SUV, your velocity doesn't change as much or as quickly in a collision (ie, the person inside isn't hit as hard).
Don't forget the technical limitations. You'd need about half a T3 to get reliable DVD-quality video and audio streaming. That's probably going to take at least ten years to drop to a reasonable price.
And your infrastructure. It's not trivial to switch a network with thousands of users from Exchange to a Unix/Linux product.
You're mistaken, at least in my experience. I recently bought the Go EP by Sarah Bettens. The first five tracks are audio; the sixth track is data.
Incidentally, it also has a link to a website with exclusive content, so people who actually bought the CD will get extra stuff. That's the kind of thing I love to see. As someone said in the other Slashdot post about this Beastie Boys album, use a carrot, not a stick.
You're entirely correct. Qt is thoroughly C++ and object-oriented. I really don't see why people hate C++ and love C. If you don't like certain features of C++, don't use them.
I should clarify:
When I said GPS mapping, I meant tracking and recording your GPS coordinates for use later. Not real-time mapping or something.
The site is Slashdotted, so I can't see what he says. But one potential use is GPS mapping.
In case you didn't know, that's not a Voltaire quote. It's a description of Voltaire's beliefs, as written by Evelyn Beatrice Hall in "Friends of Voltaire".
I see two reasons why code wasn't designed for four-digit years in the 70s:
1. No one thought that their code would still be in use in 20-30 years.
2. It would be inefficient to waste a byte of space per entry. Storage space and memory were both very limited until fairly recently.
Since when is an Integrated Development Environment not a development tool? Trying to write serious code in Notepad is a joke. There are free IDEs (like Eclipse), but they're certainly not provided by Microsoft.
By the way, as you probably know, their optimizing compiler was not available for free until very recently.
And don't forget to submit it to Bugzilla when you're done :)
I suspect the weak point in many Slashdotted sites is bandwidth rather than CPU power. I'd bet good money that a site without heavy CGI on a dual-Opteron with plenty of RAM and a SCSI RAID setup would have no trouble handling the Slashdot crowd if it has tons of bandwidth. :-)
Sure, why not. Give every country (or group of sparsely-populated countries) in the world a unique two-byte prefix, and that's over 4.2 billion IPs per nation.
It really is IIS for some strange reason.
Or you can just use mpd, which supports most popular formats (MP3, OGG, FLAC, AAC/MP4). Use kmp, phpmp, or mpc to control it depending on your mood (and whether or not you have X started).
Of course. I thought software-only was implied with the word "patching".