If they're all working for the same task, like distributed compiling, or just running the same OS, then I think it can be called SMP. If it's just 4 redundant servers, I'd say not.
I dont think SMP means all the procs need be on the same sheet of fiberglass.
Then again, I may be wrong and will be shouted down by some nitpicking geek.
I have to assume those are the 800mhz versions from the CPU fan, but still, these things have very little power from my experience with them. Cool little toys, maybe enough for a low-end workstation or terminal, but I wouldnt think of using one in a server situation.
I actually used one to run my squid-based proxy, and it was outperformed by the P200/MMX I wanted to replace.
Why cluster 4 of those? I'd think a 2 gig Celeron (of course P4 would be preferred) would have more power, faster DDR Ram, be as cheap (if not cheaper).
I cant fathom why one would cluster those little Eden boards, unless they were going for redundancy; a poor mans fault tolerant server.
If linux gaming had any commercial viability, EA and the other big dogs would be all over it. Not to mention that it's very hard to develop a commercially successful game in the first place, regardless of platform.
Without at least a windows port, and *very* aggressive marketing, this will make no money.
My job pays me whether the applications I write are commercially successful or not.
Considering the commercial viability of linux based games at the moment is virtually zero, I'd say this is more like a lottery ticket than any promise of compensation.
>> The guy who hacked me should face at a minimum the legal penalty for breaking into my house and rifling through my file cabinet.
I agree he should be punished, but it isnt the same as breaking ito your house and rifling through your file cabinet. Break and enter is generally treated by cops and DA's as a violent crime - because burglars very often have every intent on harming someone who may be at home at the time.
A better analogy would be the clerk at the gas station who lifts your Visa number, or the guy who looks over your shoulder at a payphone or ATM to get your calling card/pin numbers. But hackers also have an element of trespassing and harassment. So maybe mix in a little of the guy who makes obscene phone calls in the middle of the night, or dumps his garbage on your lawn. Or maybe a postman who reads your mail (thats a big federal no-no as well)
In any case, saying the sentences are 'too harsh' or 'too light' is wrong IMO. This is what judges are for, to decide what punishment is appropriate on a case by case basis. Thats their job.
Ignorance of the law is no defense for breaking it.
He knew it was wrong. He did it anyways. He'll be accountable for his actions, and when he's 18 it will all be sealed away like it never happened. Seems perfectly fair to me.
>> So using your analogy, if you left your doors and windows open all the time you wouldn't feel that it was SOMEHOW your fault if someone walked right in and hurt you and your family?
While you might feel guilty, you certainly wouldnt be culpable. That's the old lawyer game of blaming the victim, a la "She was raped because her skirt was too short". It's a pretty disgusting practice in law.
No, it isnt ridiculous at all that he face the charges. He knew what he was doing was against the law when he did it. He comitted felony computer fraud, and is being charged with it.
What would be ridiculous would his being tried and convicted as an adult, and spending 10 years in a max security prison. But that wont happen, he'll get the warning and the incident will go into his sealed juvenile record.
IMO there's too much 'juveniles shouldnt be punished after all they're just kids' sentiment. Youngsters know this, and commit more and more crime knowing they wont be severely punished.
It would be ridiculous if the teacher gave him permission to use the computer, and in doing so he accidentally formatted the C: drive, or something like that. But if he knowingly committed a crime (which it would seem he did), he should be prosecuted for it.
Re:BSD License would prevent a problem
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They replaced the word OpenBSD with MicroBSD, and didnt take the time to proofread the rest of the text. They just needed to change 'we' to 'OpenBSD' and the problem is fixed.
Much ado about nothing, a tempest in a teapot. OSS communities like to self destruct over the most minor issues.
If it read "...OpenSSH, which we (we as in ME, stratjakt! If anyone from that slimeball group OpenBSD says different they're lying) are the developers of..." then it would be a lot easier to argue that it was done purposefully.
In the end, just a few more developers no doubt leaving the BSD scene for good.
No, your billing address neednt match your home address at all.
People run small businesses. They get credit cards in their name, the bills are sent to the business. People have financial advisors, college students have parents who pay the bills.
My credit card bill comes to my office. And theres nothing special about it, just an everyday card.
All the bank needs is the "cardholders" permission. The "cardholder" can also authorize Chester Q Madeupname to be able to discuss and manage the account.
It seems to say it rebuilds the songs, and assigns a digital 'fingerprint', which I'm assuming is some sort of a hash based on the resulting wave file?
If this is the case, how much does a file have to be altered to make it undetectable?
And can it have a false positive in the form of a song that sounds similar, but is protected under fair use - ie; a parody?
What about commercial music releases that sample public domain material?
I'm on chemist, but I learnt in high school a surfactant like soap is a molecule with a hydrophobic and hydrophilic end. One end of the molecule is attracted to water, the other to oil. So it's like a molecular glue that sticks them together.
Other stuff in the solution can effect how soap works (ie, hard water wont get foamy) but I dont think it has anything to do with gasses.
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As pointed out in the article, your relationships would work if you removed all gas from your system before trying to mix sexes.
Theres precious little thats written just for linux. Most apps will compile under a dozen or so flavors of unix, like HP-UX, Solaris, BSD, etc, etc.
What I dont get is say I write an application FOO, which requires certain library routines from BAR. BAR is proprietary under HP-UX (for example). There's a copylefted GNU/BAR for linux.
I can release my FOO binaries for HP-UX as proprietary (closed) license, but if I want to sell it to linux systems, it requires GNU/BAR so now I must open the source?
>> Based upon this, wouldn't any software linking against libraries (assuming they GPL-ed) on a system be required to be GPL-ed?
Yes
>> Seems like it would be difficult to write any software that didn't need to be GPL-ed if you were doing it on a Linux system
It is, though not impossible. Not every library on every linux system is GPLd, and you can always statically compile against the proprietary libraries (after you licensed them) that the GPL'd ones are based on.
Ever notice commercial linux softwares tend to have gigantic executables?
There's a certain 'indian-giver' aspect to the GPL thats distasteful when applied to library code. Luckily most are bright enough to use the LGPL, and no doubt the true GPL'd libraries will fade away into non-use (like proprietary ones like Motif largely did)
Mortgage companies, credit card companies, banks and other such organizations are quite happy to discuss the details of your finances with no more proof than verifying your address, and knowing your SSN - which is easily discovered.
Step one could be reporting your credit card stolen. "I forgot my security question. Look bitch, here's my SSN, my Drivers license number, blah blah"
Step two is having a replacement mailed to a PO box, etc, etc.
Although frankly, I wouldnt care about your existing credit cards were I an identity thief. You'd notice too quickly if they were used fraudulently. I'd apply for brand new credit cards that you have absolutely no knowledge of, until one day debt collectors come to collect tens of thousands in purchases you never made.
Once again, your full name and a little research is all it takes.
You dont need a warrant to pull pawn tickets in most jurisdictions. It'll vary from place to place. Some require pawn shops to provide info on all transactions. When Joe McGoo tries to hock a stolen TV set, he gets popped.
So if the local courts required a warrant, then the local LEOs would get one, if not they wouldnt.
Also, just because something may be inadmissible in local court, doesnt mean its illegal for the cops to know about it. They get info from eBay that Joe McGoo has sold 40 stolen TV sets. They use that as a basis for a search warrant, execute it, and find 20 more stolen TV sets.
>> You can get my bid history and my email, but you can't get my credit card number, my home address and phone number, and now they require you to put in a bank account to be a seller.
If you ever bought something from me, I have you home address and full name.
If you do some research on identity theft, that and a little leg work is all that's needed to know everything about you, take all your money, and ruin your credit rating until the end of time.
Especially when banks have 'security' questions like "Mothers maiden name".
BTW, this is the way it's always been on eBay, and has absolutely nothing to do with homeland security.
Why would you think participating in a public auction should provide privacy?
Bid histories for each auction, items you've bidded on, auctions you've won... Yep.. It's all there.
I've been spammed to death because of eBay (luckily I use a hotmail address with them). I bought a couple of old SNES games, next thing you know 100 yahoos are offering me CD's full of ROM images for 20 bucks or so.
Tracing your email address to the actual person is a small hoop to jump through.
Any real privacy on eBay is a figment of your imagination. It's like expecting your trip to the mall to be 'private'.
>> Are there really any countries out there that wouldn't cooperate on such a task?
Yes. AFAIK, there's no religion or society that doesnt condemn it, but there are many countries that would fight tooth and nail to protect their child pornographers for purely political reasons, a la "We are standing up to the imperialist americans!"
And not crazy third world dictatorships, but first world countries like France or Germany. France protected Roman Polanski for years when he was wanted for statutory rape. Even my native country Canada has refused to extradite serial killers to the US because they would face the death penalty. If they'll protect multiple murderers and rapists, they'll protect child pornographers as well.
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And webster has an illegal monopoly on dictionaries.
I guess 'monopoly' is the latest word to be bandied about by socialists until it no longer holds any meaning.
If they're all working for the same task, like distributed compiling, or just running the same OS, then I think it can be called SMP. If it's just 4 redundant servers, I'd say not.
I dont think SMP means all the procs need be on the same sheet of fiberglass.
Then again, I may be wrong and will be shouted down by some nitpicking geek.
I have to assume those are the 800mhz versions from the CPU fan, but still, these things have very little power from my experience with them. Cool little toys, maybe enough for a low-end workstation or terminal, but I wouldnt think of using one in a server situation.
I actually used one to run my squid-based proxy, and it was outperformed by the P200/MMX I wanted to replace.
Why cluster 4 of those? I'd think a 2 gig Celeron (of course P4 would be preferred) would have more power, faster DDR Ram, be as cheap (if not cheaper).
I cant fathom why one would cluster those little Eden boards, unless they were going for redundancy; a poor mans fault tolerant server.
Anyone?
>> Thankfully, Linux has plenty of good karma, and how!
Linux only has good karma because the brainless slashbots keep modding up his comments without reading them.
Play the following lottery number in the powerball on the following date: (list would go here)
Whats 70% of 0 again, anyways?
If linux gaming had any commercial viability, EA and the other big dogs would be all over it. Not to mention that it's very hard to develop a commercially successful game in the first place, regardless of platform.
Without at least a windows port, and *very* aggressive marketing, this will make no money.
That's not a salary.
My job pays me whether the applications I write are commercially successful or not.
Considering the commercial viability of linux based games at the moment is virtually zero, I'd say this is more like a lottery ticket than any promise of compensation.
>> The guy who hacked me should face at a minimum the legal penalty for breaking into my house and rifling through my file cabinet.
I agree he should be punished, but it isnt the same as breaking ito your house and rifling through your file cabinet. Break and enter is generally treated by cops and DA's as a violent crime - because burglars very often have every intent on harming someone who may be at home at the time.
A better analogy would be the clerk at the gas station who lifts your Visa number, or the guy who looks over your shoulder at a payphone or ATM to get your calling card/pin numbers. But hackers also have an element of trespassing and harassment. So maybe mix in a little of the guy who makes obscene phone calls in the middle of the night, or dumps his garbage on your lawn. Or maybe a postman who reads your mail (thats a big federal no-no as well)
In any case, saying the sentences are 'too harsh' or 'too light' is wrong IMO. This is what judges are for, to decide what punishment is appropriate on a case by case basis. Thats their job.
Ignorance of the law is no defense for breaking it.
He knew it was wrong. He did it anyways. He'll be accountable for his actions, and when he's 18 it will all be sealed away like it never happened. Seems perfectly fair to me.
>> So using your analogy, if you left your doors and windows open all the time you wouldn't feel that it was SOMEHOW your fault if someone walked right in and hurt you and your family?
While you might feel guilty, you certainly wouldnt be culpable. That's the old lawyer game of blaming the victim, a la "She was raped because her skirt was too short". It's a pretty disgusting practice in law.
No, it isnt ridiculous at all that he face the charges. He knew what he was doing was against the law when he did it. He comitted felony computer fraud, and is being charged with it.
What would be ridiculous would his being tried and convicted as an adult, and spending 10 years in a max security prison. But that wont happen, he'll get the warning and the incident will go into his sealed juvenile record.
IMO there's too much 'juveniles shouldnt be punished after all they're just kids' sentiment. Youngsters know this, and commit more and more crime knowing they wont be severely punished.
It would be ridiculous if the teacher gave him permission to use the computer, and in doing so he accidentally formatted the C: drive, or something like that. But if he knowingly committed a crime (which it would seem he did), he should be prosecuted for it.
They replaced the word OpenBSD with MicroBSD, and didnt take the time to proofread the rest of the text. They just needed to change 'we' to 'OpenBSD' and the problem is fixed.
Much ado about nothing, a tempest in a teapot. OSS communities like to self destruct over the most minor issues.
If it read "...OpenSSH, which we (we as in ME, stratjakt! If anyone from that slimeball group OpenBSD says different they're lying) are the developers of..." then it would be a lot easier to argue that it was done purposefully.
In the end, just a few more developers no doubt leaving the BSD scene for good.
The patents seem to cover DTS in general.
So the 'import database' DTS packages that I routinely deploy to customers seem to infringe.
I have a feeling this will be bad for everyone, now that Timeline has a ruling in their favor.
No, your billing address neednt match your home address at all.
People run small businesses. They get credit cards in their name, the bills are sent to the business. People have financial advisors, college students have parents who pay the bills.
My credit card bill comes to my office. And theres nothing special about it, just an everyday card.
All the bank needs is the "cardholders" permission. The "cardholder" can also authorize Chester Q Madeupname to be able to discuss and manage the account.
I RTFA and I'm curious how this works.
It seems to say it rebuilds the songs, and assigns a digital 'fingerprint', which I'm assuming is some sort of a hash based on the resulting wave file?
If this is the case, how much does a file have to be altered to make it undetectable?
And can it have a false positive in the form of a song that sounds similar, but is protected under fair use - ie; a parody?
What about commercial music releases that sample public domain material?
I'm on chemist, but I learnt in high school a surfactant like soap is a molecule with a hydrophobic and hydrophilic end. One end of the molecule is attracted to water, the other to oil. So it's like a molecular glue that sticks them together.
Other stuff in the solution can effect how soap works (ie, hard water wont get foamy) but I dont think it has anything to do with gasses.
As pointed out in the article, your relationships would work if you removed all gas from your system before trying to mix sexes.
>> I did an science fair experiment with mixing oil and water and found I had to add soap to get them to mix. It was pretty cool.
No it wasnt.
Couldnt you wrap your head around the 'baking soda and vinegar' volcano theorem?
Theres precious little thats written just for linux. Most apps will compile under a dozen or so flavors of unix, like HP-UX, Solaris, BSD, etc, etc.
What I dont get is say I write an application FOO, which requires certain library routines from BAR. BAR is proprietary under HP-UX (for example). There's a copylefted GNU/BAR for linux.
I can release my FOO binaries for HP-UX as proprietary (closed) license, but if I want to sell it to linux systems, it requires GNU/BAR so now I must open the source?
>> Based upon this, wouldn't any software linking against libraries (assuming they GPL-ed) on a system be required to be GPL-ed?
Yes
>> Seems like it would be difficult to write any software that didn't need to be GPL-ed if you were doing it on a Linux system
It is, though not impossible. Not every library on every linux system is GPLd, and you can always statically compile against the proprietary libraries (after you licensed them) that the GPL'd ones are based on.
Ever notice commercial linux softwares tend to have gigantic executables?
There's a certain 'indian-giver' aspect to the GPL thats distasteful when applied to library code. Luckily most are bright enough to use the LGPL, and no doubt the true GPL'd libraries will fade away into non-use (like proprietary ones like Motif largely did)
Mortgage companies, credit card companies, banks and other such organizations are quite happy to discuss the details of your finances with no more proof than verifying your address, and knowing your SSN - which is easily discovered.
Step one could be reporting your credit card stolen. "I forgot my security question. Look bitch, here's my SSN, my Drivers license number, blah blah"
Step two is having a replacement mailed to a PO box, etc, etc.
Although frankly, I wouldnt care about your existing credit cards were I an identity thief. You'd notice too quickly if they were used fraudulently. I'd apply for brand new credit cards that you have absolutely no knowledge of, until one day debt collectors come to collect tens of thousands in purchases you never made.
Once again, your full name and a little research is all it takes.
You dont need a warrant to pull pawn tickets in most jurisdictions. It'll vary from place to place. Some require pawn shops to provide info on all transactions. When Joe McGoo tries to hock a stolen TV set, he gets popped.
So if the local courts required a warrant, then the local LEOs would get one, if not they wouldnt.
Also, just because something may be inadmissible in local court, doesnt mean its illegal for the cops to know about it. They get info from eBay that Joe McGoo has sold 40 stolen TV sets. They use that as a basis for a search warrant, execute it, and find 20 more stolen TV sets.
>> You can get my bid history and my email, but you can't get my credit card number, my home address and phone number, and now they require you to put in a bank account to be a seller.
If you ever bought something from me, I have you home address and full name.
If you do some research on identity theft, that and a little leg work is all that's needed to know everything about you, take all your money, and ruin your credit rating until the end of time.
Especially when banks have 'security' questions like "Mothers maiden name".
BTW, this is the way it's always been on eBay, and has absolutely nothing to do with homeland security.
Why would you think participating in a public auction should provide privacy?
I can web-scrape all that same info off the site.
Bid histories for each auction, items you've bidded on, auctions you've won... Yep.. It's all there.
I've been spammed to death because of eBay (luckily I use a hotmail address with them). I bought a couple of old SNES games, next thing you know 100 yahoos are offering me CD's full of ROM images for 20 bucks or so.
Tracing your email address to the actual person is a small hoop to jump through.
Any real privacy on eBay is a figment of your imagination. It's like expecting your trip to the mall to be 'private'.
>> Are there really any countries out there that wouldn't cooperate on such a task?
Yes. AFAIK, there's no religion or society that doesnt condemn it, but there are many countries that would fight tooth and nail to protect their child pornographers for purely political reasons, a la "We are standing up to the imperialist americans!"
And not crazy third world dictatorships, but first world countries like France or Germany. France protected Roman Polanski for years when he was wanted for statutory rape. Even my native country Canada has refused to extradite serial killers to the US because they would face the death penalty. If they'll protect multiple murderers and rapists, they'll protect child pornographers as well.