I find BT pretty painful to use on a cable modem. The idea is that almost all current internet connections are skewed way towards the download speeds, while BT relies on both being approximately the same. So, while I like the idea of distributing server bandwidth-load, I don't see it becoming a success for home users till ISPs do something about the skew.
Universities are a different matter in this regard. But I doubt if they could sustain the whole system and make P2P work this way.
I don't think this is correct. The official BT (and others too, as far as i know) client actually first writes out a file on disk the size of the intended download. The random chunks are then inserted into this empty-yet-allocated space.
I think it should be more like 'I deplore his view that enterprise applications are equivalent to the operating system'.
One interesting thing that the article said about the IDE was that it allowed you to write html that was simultaneously rendered in another pane. This sounds like a nice (though minor) improvement over having to hit something like F6 for a preview (and then wait for the whole thing to get rendered and then check that the hr i just put in works)
That is a good point - that it wouldnt take much for ISPs and major mail providers to set up a Public Key Infrastructure.
In fact, it is the *only* reasonable method out there because of the one interesting point of the article - Whatever kind of challenge response or computational puzzle techniques are used, it means that mailing lists will have to do the same to send mail to their users. You could add the mailing list to the list of accepted senders, but guess what, there is no guarantee that the from address cannot be faked. The only solution, it appears, is for everyone to use a strong form of identity like public keys.
There was a time when IP's were identity enough... gone are those days...
I've heard a lot of people claiming that 2.6.3 is noticeably fast compared to earlier versions. Does anyone have any idea why this is?
I heard something about the O(1) scheduler for threads, but 1. Are all these applications multi-threaded? 2. What is this O(1) business? How can one schedule n threads on O(1)? This is average case under certain assumptions?
Interesting question this... assuming I'm not some kinda troll-bait now.
I think that it is because our mind-view of someone calling the government a major hoax is that of a prankster/crank. However, it seems perfectly legitimate to assume that SCO and MS behave the way they do because corporates have that view of devilish, scheming villains in our heads.
Or maybe, it is better put as, we've seen a lot of false alarms like these and ridiculing questions like these are our natural way to get better at evading those alarms. Nothing wrong, imho.
are/. articles really getting more and more brash in their wording? What's this with tin-foil-hats and proverbial knifes and all? I've never heard of this Above Top thing before?
I understand your reasoning. But I felt that the error the original poster was pointing out was a bit too frivolous and if he felt so concerned, checking the source out is probably a good thing. Nitpicking on small details like these weren't exactly my idea of feedback - but again, this is probably one of the real reasons Linux doesnt get to the desktop.
And don't tell me you pay for Linux. You probably know what you are paying for.
If you don't like those error messages, why don't you just hop over to the source and see if you can help all those developers who seem to be working for you free of cost?
I don't see the point of ranting about small features like this when the software is being written by some hobbyist. If it has the basic functionality, great! Beyond that, it's better to remember that you aren't paying for this.
If there was a great media player bundled with KDE, I'd take it. Windows Media Player on Windows doesnt exactly match the definition of "great". Of course RealOne isnt great either, which makes the whole point of this post meaningless.
Blasted out into nothingness by nihilistic filter....
I long for those good old days when I ran Win98. If there weren't so many security issues around, it would still be my choice of a good working platform.
Everyone seems to love working on linux, but I find that X with KDE/GNOME hog too many resources than Windows. And it feels very unresponsive. Maybe the 2.6 kernel will make a difference.
If they are not developed by a single big entity, they are no longer 'solid' enough for business managers to bet their money on.
Must be nice telling your manager - "Hey there's this tool that a Dutch programmer out there has put up and I think it will be ideal for our company in the next few decades"
Suppose Microsoft actually allowed people to unbundle WMP. Answer this: With the desktop market being what it is, would WMP still not be the dominant media player around?
All MS needs to do is ensure that all those pre-installed laptops and desktops ship with the default configuration (which has WMP bundled). Most home users wouldnt care trying any other player.
I think the simple fact is that MS has a monopoly on the OS, and there are pretty few people out there who care to distinguish between the OS and the applications. So as long as this continues, you can blame MS for all it cares, nothing's gonna change.
Don't tell me American coders are willing to go and work in India now. It's pure bullshit and if you were in a logical debate, it would probably matter and show that the Indian government is protectionist, but in reality, it plain simply doesnt matter.
The real debate is within America. Do we live in a global society or do we stay within? Especially coz we were the ones who made it so popular in the first place? That's the question America needs to ask itself.
I think that's the big issue. Like the article says, a database ported to Linux is not derivative, but what about a module or a driver written specifically for Linux. What about drivers ported to Linux? Then who is to isolate what parts of the code are derived and what are not?
I am sure there has been a lot of discussion about this -- all this post says is that I don't know about all that discussion.
I remember there being a discussion of "derived" in one of Linus' Torvalds posts that was discussed on/. (That is being very specific, I know)
IMHO, we need a big case soon. One, to uphold GPL and another to settle the definition of derived work in software.
Of course, there is the broader proposal of connecting the whole world by the simple device of a tunnel system 100 kms beneath the surface of the earth....
Seems like any one can get a good/. rating these days by saying "what's the point?".. wonder what it would have done when people were first starting to write Linux. What's the point. no one uses those weird computer things anyway?
Though, I'd admit, all this does sound a bit over the board when applied to TI calcs.... that doesn't mean you've to criticise the guy who's done it and opened up the source for anyone interested.
I think the parent is talking of the factoring of RSA-576 or RSA-128 or something like that recently. But that was no supercomputer - it was a distributed crack. Anyway, 128 is solid enough for now.
... by a public key. But then, would all of them use just one key? (they should otherwise the sensor would have to remember lots of keys). I don't know how secure it is to use just one private-public key for the job.
Quote from the article -- " In theory, the transaction could be intercepted without a consumer's knowledge by a technologically savvy thief intent on cloning a card. That's because RFID transmissions themselves are not encrypted. "
But there's also - " American Express makes the RFID reader verify the card's authenticity with a "challenge-response" exchange that depends on 128-bit encryption encoded on the chip.... MasterCard says it uses a different security system but would not provide specifics. "
I don't know what the two mean when put together, but I sure as hell hope they are encrypted.
I don't think that it would cause any long-term effects. Of course, for a brief period of time, prices would rise, but then the whole idea of a global market is that someone somewhere would step in to make things cheaper and fit some demand.
Domestic manufacturing doesnt have that much of a chance as long as the US dollar exchange rate remains high and as long as the US is at the center of the global market.
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Universities are a different matter in this regard. But I doubt if they could sustain the whole system and make P2P work this way.
A sibling/parent's sibling post pointed this out.
One interesting thing that the article said about the IDE was that it allowed you to write html that was simultaneously rendered in another pane. This sounds like a nice (though minor) improvement over having to hit something like F6 for a preview (and then wait for the whole thing to get rendered and then check that the hr i just put in works)
In fact, it is the *only* reasonable method out there because of the one interesting point of the article - Whatever kind of challenge response or computational puzzle techniques are used, it means that mailing lists will have to do the same to send mail to their users. You could add the mailing list to the list of accepted senders, but guess what, there is no guarantee that the from address cannot be faked. The only solution, it appears, is for everyone to use a strong form of identity like public keys.
There was a time when IP's were identity enough ... gone are those days ...
I heard something about the O(1) scheduler for threads, but
1. Are all these applications multi-threaded?
2. What is this O(1) business? How can one schedule n threads on O(1)? This is average case under certain assumptions?
I think that it is because our mind-view of someone calling the government a major hoax is that of a prankster/crank. However, it seems perfectly legitimate to assume that SCO and MS behave the way they do because corporates have that view of devilish, scheming villains in our heads.
Or maybe, it is better put as, we've seen a lot of false alarms like these and ridiculing questions like these are our natural way to get better at evading those alarms. Nothing wrong, imho.
are /. articles really getting more and more brash in their wording? What's this with tin-foil-hats and proverbial knifes and all? I've never heard of this Above Top thing before?
Anyway, let the debate begin!
And don't tell me you pay for Linux. You probably know what you are paying for.
I don't see the point of ranting about small features like this when the software is being written by some hobbyist. If it has the basic functionality, great! Beyond that, it's better to remember that you aren't paying for this.
Maybe you should have mentioned the $8.99 charge!!
Blasted out into nothingness by nihilistic filter ....
How does parent get +4 Insightful? The crib was with the /. mention not with KDE marketing.
/. if you simply go against some conventional logic in a pseudo-reasonable manner.
These days, it seems pretty easy to get a good rating on
But, guess what! conventional logic aint wrong most of the times.
Everyone seems to love working on linux, but I find that X with KDE/GNOME hog too many resources than Windows. And it feels very unresponsive. Maybe the 2.6 kernel will make a difference.
If they are not developed by a single big entity, they are no longer 'solid' enough for business managers to bet their money on.
Must be nice telling your manager - "Hey there's this tool that a Dutch programmer out there has put up and I think it will be ideal for our company in the next few decades"
Suppose Microsoft actually allowed people to unbundle WMP. Answer this: With the desktop market being what it is, would WMP still not be the dominant media player around?
All MS needs to do is ensure that all those pre-installed laptops and desktops ship with the default configuration (which has WMP bundled). Most home users wouldnt care trying any other player.
I think the simple fact is that MS has a monopoly on the OS, and there are pretty few people out there who care to distinguish between the OS and the applications. So as long as this continues, you can blame MS for all it cares, nothing's gonna change.
Don't tell me American coders are willing to go and work in India now. It's pure bullshit and if you were in a logical debate, it would probably matter and show that the Indian government is protectionist, but in reality, it plain simply doesnt matter.
The real debate is within America. Do we live in a global society or do we stay within? Especially coz we were the ones who made it so popular in the first place? That's the question America needs to ask itself.
I think that's the big issue. Like the article says, a database ported to Linux is not derivative, but what about a module or a driver written specifically for Linux. What about drivers ported to Linux? Then who is to isolate what parts of the code are derived and what are not?
/. (That is being very specific, I know)
I am sure there has been a lot of discussion about this -- all this post says is that I don't know about all that discussion.
I remember there being a discussion of "derived" in one of Linus' Torvalds posts that was discussed on
IMHO, we need a big case soon. One, to uphold GPL and another to settle the definition of derived work in software.
I am sure the penguins can dig their own tunnel!
Of course, there is the broader proposal of connecting the whole world by the simple device of a tunnel system 100 kms beneath the surface of the earth ....
Could someone please mod parent up?
/. rating these days by saying "what's the point?" .. wonder what it would have done when people were first starting to write Linux. What's the point. no one uses those weird computer things anyway?
.... that doesn't mean you've to criticise the guy who's done it and opened up the source for anyone interested.
Seems like any one can get a good
Though, I'd admit, all this does sound a bit over the board when applied to TI calcs
I think the parent is talking of the factoring of RSA-576 or RSA-128 or something like that recently. But that was no supercomputer - it was a distributed crack. Anyway, 128 is solid enough for now.
Credit card transactions don't usually require a PIN. Do these guys? I don't think so.
Or some equivalent of SSL? Any more guesses?
Quote from the article --
...
"
In theory, the transaction could be intercepted without a consumer's knowledge by a technologically savvy thief intent on cloning a card. That's because RFID transmissions themselves are not encrypted.
"
But there's also -
"
American Express makes the RFID reader verify the card's authenticity with a "challenge-response" exchange that depends on 128-bit encryption encoded on the chip.
MasterCard says it uses a different security system but would not provide specifics.
"
I don't know what the two mean when put together, but I sure as hell hope they are encrypted.
I don't think that it would cause any long-term effects. Of course, for a brief period of time, prices would rise, but then the whole idea of a global market is that someone somewhere would step in to make things cheaper and fit some demand.
Domestic manufacturing doesnt have that much of a chance as long as the US dollar exchange rate remains high and as long as the US is at the center of the global market.
Anyway, just my penny of a thought on the matter.