I wonder how does the definition of one Joule/Newton/Volt/Ampere/specific heat capacity/... look like in imperial units. Or do you use there other units similarly to psi vs. Pascal?
centimetre is the difference in length between my right foot and my left foot. Which one is a foot?
It depends on whether you are a man or woman. A recent survey proved that men have bigger foot and longer legs than women - in fact the biggest difference between men and woman is between legs.
... they would search the house for the key and if not found they would get a locksmith to crack open it. No safe will stop a determined person with lots of time and right tools. The difference is that they can't crack your skull (yet) to find the keys and they can't break the encryption either.
Apple, for its part, won't support Ogg Theora in QuickTime, expressing concerns over patents despite the fact that the codec can be used royalty-free. Opera and Mozilla oppose using H.264 due to licensing and distribution issues. Google has similar reservations, despite already using H.264 and Ogg Theora in Chrome.
So much for patents and copyright encouraging innovation. Not.
Since, according to the Berne Convention and US law, EVERYTHING is copyrighted at the moment of creation, the logical conclusion is that it would ban hyperlinking to anything external to a site.
What about stuff for which I don't own the copyright, but the copyright holder gave me a license? Such as... GPL? What if all that would remain, will be Free content?
I already consider online banking to be at least as secure as ATM transactions, and I see no reason why a properly designed online voting system couldn't be the same.
Online banking solves the problem of securely *transferring* data. You don't get a paper trail to election, but you do get a monthly balance of your bank account on paper (or you can check it in some other way). With voting you can securely transfer the vote into black box and then you have to *trust* that the display on the black box does match the number of votes cast.
But if you vote from your home via the internet then members of the local mafia can stand behind your back while you're voting and they can force you to vote on the politician who pays them.
How could you fix this "security hole" in the internet voting scheme?
Allow the user to change his vote until the poll closes.
There was recently a student project here attempting to simulate voting over Internet. The voters had a hardware security token (smart card?) that they need in order to cast a vote. In the above scenario the bad guy just takes the token away after he forces the voter to cast the vote in the "right" way and leaves.
Try extracting anything useful from Sourceforge - and did I mention that you have to register before you can take a look around, poke the tires?
What do you mean? This is a link to Scribus project. The description and download link is right there. Screenshots just a click away. No registration required.
Is it possible to perform the scan without collecting medical information about brain/heart? If no, then it seriously violates private character of my health information. What is the guarantee that the information will not leak (read: get sold on black market to insurance companies, potential employers,...)? Final question: what do I gain from this? More taxpayer money wasted on security theater?
It amazes me how when firefox has a new version, everyone downloads it with a warm and fuzzy feeling that it is going to be an improvement. However, whenever IE has a new version, people are so reluctant to download it that MS now has to force the public to upgrade.
People upgrading Firefox do that because they want to have better web browser. People upgrading IE (or not) make the decision based on whether they know the distinction between Internet and web browser, and whether their custom intranet solutions works with new IE.
are you all seriously claiming that linux or unix distros are immune to tampering with the boot partition?
No. But linux or unix distros did not claim that DRM can protect against the owner. Well, MS did not claim it either (because that would be bad PR), but this is essentially what DRM is about - it should ensure, that system owner can do only approved actions with content-producer's data. That is what is MS attempting to deliver. And now it was shown, that it can't work.
Whats the story here again? That booting into a secondary OS gives you full control of data on an unencrypted hard drive?
From the multitude of Linux distributions you picked Slackware. Ok;-). Installing the package on Slackware creates a file in/var/log/packages/ directory which is listing all files installed by the package. That means that I can identify where a file came from with a simple grep. The timestamp of the file tells me when it was installed. Upgrading a package moves this file into/var/log/removed_packages/ and gives it a filename indicating when was the package updated or un-installed. In first few lines of the file is description of the package and often includes URL of the project site. If you did not install the package yet, then you can find all that information in the {package}.txt and MANIFEST.bz2 files on the installation CD . And finally all that information can be found out using slackpkg - tool that comes with Slackware and gets the information using Slackware's package management
Your link states "While not as full-featured or as ubiquitous as rpm (or for that matter deb)" - so Slackware maintainers are aware of some missing features). And for that reason, there is for example swaret that can resolve dependencies). However that does not mean that the package manager does not offer things I mentioned in my previous post. It just means that Slackware choose not to implement them all.
linux geeks keep rambling about the power of cli and that gui is overrated,
Just today I needed to find out number of words on longest line in 30MB plain text document. The longest line has at about 400 000 characters. I'd really like to know, how you do that with GUI?
Yeah, right. What are you smoking? Windows does not even have a package manager!
Yes, it does. It's called Windows Installer and has come with Windows since Windows 2000. Even the so called "Installer software" is just a pretty front-end to Windows Installer and a script generator.
There is probably a misunderstanding what a package manager is. Can you tell what package installed file "\windows\system32\rtlcpapi.dll" ? That is what package manager can tell you. Can you take installation package for web server and find out what version of.NET it needs? That is what the package manager can tell you. Windows installer can't. You grab Visual Studio Express and after starting installation it tells you you need to get SDK, you grab SDK and after starting installation it tells you you need.NET, you grab.NET and... This is what the package manager should handle for you. You get some random tiny helper application from web and after 3 years you want to find out where it came from. And the package manager can tell you - on Linux.
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I wonder how does the definition of one Joule/Newton/Volt/Ampere/specific heat capacity/... look like in imperial units. Or do you use there other units similarly to psi vs. Pascal?
It depends on whether you are a man or woman. A recent survey proved that men have bigger foot and longer legs than women - in fact the biggest difference between men and woman is between legs.
If you are willing to provide funding, then I'm ready to research this topic.
So much for patents and copyright encouraging innovation. Not.
With 64 bits you only push more zeros through the bus ;-)
What about stuff for which I don't own the copyright, but the copyright holder gave me a license? Such as ... GPL? What if all that would remain, will be Free content?
Bah. Don't bother us with your fetish for inflatable toys ;-)
Online banking solves the problem of securely *transferring* data. You don't get a paper trail to election, but you do get a monthly balance of your bank account on paper (or you can check it in some other way). With voting you can securely transfer the vote into black box and then you have to *trust* that the display on the black box does match the number of votes cast.
There was recently a student project here attempting to simulate voting over Internet. The voters had a hardware security token (smart card?) that they need in order to cast a vote. In the above scenario the bad guy just takes the token away after he forces the voter to cast the vote in the "right" way and leaves.
This is indeed a very good question to ask.
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Project Lifesaver ?
Isn't this caused by the possibility that the folder name may correspond to a directory name on a filesystem that is not case-sensitive?
Yes. Check out this collection of links.
What do you mean? This is a link to Scribus project. The description and download link is right there. Screenshots just a click away. No registration required.
Is it possible to perform the scan without collecting medical information about brain/heart? If no, then it seriously violates private character of my health information. What is the guarantee that the information will not leak (read: get sold on black market to insurance companies, potential employers, ...)? Final question: what do I gain from this? More taxpayer money wasted on security theater?
People upgrading Firefox do that because they want to have better web browser. People upgrading IE (or not) make the decision based on whether they know the distinction between Internet and web browser, and whether their custom intranet solutions works with new IE.
No. But linux or unix distros did not claim that DRM can protect against the owner. Well, MS did not claim it either (because that would be bad PR), but this is essentially what DRM is about - it should ensure, that system owner can do only approved actions with content-producer's data. That is what is MS attempting to deliver. And now it was shown, that it can't work.
It gives an option to plant a rootkit on system featuring Trusted Computing Platform.
CONFIG_MTRR=n ?
Sheesh! My SO can remember things I did NOT do ten years ago!
Out of curiosity, would you mind enumerating some sins of Mr. Hawking? Do you think he committed adultery, stole something or misused Lord's name?
From the multitude of Linux distributions you picked Slackware. Ok ;-). Installing the package on Slackware creates a file in /var/log/packages/ directory which is listing all files installed by the package. That means that I can identify where a file came from with a simple grep. The timestamp of the file tells me when it was installed. Upgrading a package moves this file into /var/log/removed_packages/ and gives it a filename indicating when was the package updated or un-installed. In first few lines of the file is description of the package and often includes URL of the project site. If you did not install the package yet, then you can find all that information in the {package}.txt and MANIFEST.bz2 files on the installation CD . And finally all that information can be found out using slackpkg - tool that comes with Slackware and gets the information using Slackware's package management
Your link states "While not as full-featured or as ubiquitous as rpm (or for that matter deb)" - so Slackware maintainers are aware of some missing features). And for that reason, there is for example swaret that can resolve dependencies). However that does not mean that the package manager does not offer things I mentioned in my previous post. It just means that Slackware choose not to implement them all.
Yes. I'm a happy Slackware user. ;-)
Just today I needed to find out number of words on longest line in 30MB plain text document. The longest line has at about 400 000 characters. I'd really like to know, how you do that with GUI?
There is probably a misunderstanding what a package manager is. Can you tell what package installed file "\windows\system32\rtlcpapi.dll" ? That is what package manager can tell you. Can you take installation package for web server and find out what version of .NET it needs? That is what the package manager can tell you. Windows installer can't. You grab Visual Studio Express and after starting installation it tells you you need to get SDK, you grab SDK and after starting installation it tells you you need .NET, you grab .NET and ... This is what the package manager should handle for you. You get some random tiny helper application from web and after 3 years you want to find out where it came from. And the package manager can tell you - on Linux.