The Vaults of Parnassus is a great resource for Python stuff. http://py.vaults.ca/. It doesn't have a CPAN like interface for it though.
Then there's the python http://www.python.org/pypi which afaik can easily be accessed through the setup.py from Python distutils. If it's not implemented yet it's not even that big of a deal with all the native http/url/xml from Python.
I, for one, think a CPAN like interface to the PyPi or Vaults are great.
We just don't have the time to develop those techniques into really usefull ones. Before we can apply them on a large scale and before we are able to get all our energy supplies from such sources we need to have a temporary solutation.
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I meant that xtc is the #1 export product in the Netherlands:) Maybe that is also the case for Belgium.
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With the current hype about everything which ascends the term Quantum I'd prefer this to be called photon encryption. It's principles are known for ages and are even put into practice by some scientists and it does not what it has s to do with the things people associate quantum with.
There are lot of (more or less potential violent) wars over water. Turkey has build waterpowered electricity plants which use so much water that other surrounding countries saw their waterlevels drop. There are more examples besides this one from the Tigris: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/943002.stm
Yes.. I think it's entirely possible to have real wars in the future not to establisch democracy in a country, or to expand the territory of the aggressor but entirely focussed on the water.
When some Telemarketeer calls me I allways say: "Wait a minute... there's someone at the door" and I just put the horn down and go read the newspaper or watch some television. Allways a big laugh when they keep hanging on the phone for over 30 minutes:)
True.. you've got a good point there. But nonetheless the question remains if we are willing to accept one monopolist as the main entry of information on the web?
Well nice article and he clearly made some good points. But I'm not sure wether we want to have one (primary) source of information (searching) such as google. Monopolies tend to become to addictive to their own power which will make it even harder for them to give up. They'll try anything to fuck up the competition (look at some RedMond based compagny).
And some more alarming privacy issues are listed on http://www.google-watch.org/.
I'm still in favor of having the choice between several sources for searching/news/p2p/blogs. This will enhance the competition between the competitors and will make their services better.
Look at all the OSS. Most pieces of software have several forks or similar/related projects which ultimately results in a better piece(s) of software for a specific task
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Please... lets first go after the people behind Duke Nukem Forever...
Isn't it possible for the RIAA to put all the money they spend on lawsuits in some projects which make music legally available on the 'net? They'll loose the war against (millions of?) p2p swappers in the end
Microsoft has hindered a lot of other companies when it comes to free competition so I find this complaint somewhat childish.
And whats fair? There's no free trade. The US give large amounts of money to their own steel manufactures so they can compete with the EU. The EU on the other hand is doing the samen with their large importtaxes on foreign, cheaper farmer products.
My point is; there's no real free market although a lot of people strive to it. There isn't and this article is just another example of how things go along:)
Completely anonymous communicaton. It's farely easy with Frost (file sharing application for FreeNET) to exchange PKI encrypted messages to other people. Works quite good though. Within 15 minutes some other people received my messages which mostly consited of "test, do you read me?:)" lines:)
If you've used some of the file sharing applications for FreeNET (such as Frost) you'll encounter files like: young_boy_naked.jpg. You dont have to be a rocket scientist (or even download and view it) to figure out what content it'll contain.
No person who's not a pedophile will download and view and/or store these pictures. So go flame someone else:-|
That's right. But the last time I surfed FreeNET for a few days (like 5 months ago) there very nice pages with information prohibited in some countries or banned under the DMCA.
Well about the child pornography versus the freedom of speech: you can't have both. There's no compromise possible between the two. Simple as that. You've gotta accept the fact that you can't have them both.
That's also a very sad thing. The free press in the U.S. I've heared many stories about journalist who dared to ask very confronting questions to spokespeople or politicans themselves. Afterwards they weren't allowed into press conferences (because of their "brutal" actions of previous ones).
Now that's freedom? In a good society the press also has some sort of a supervisory role. They've gotta be critics on the actions of the government and not take anything for granted (like the patriotism with the Iraqi War).
I havent heared any critical sound during the "official war period" though there were some statements of Bill Clinton immediately after that. He's still a fellow who gains widely respect and maybe some more people (meda) are going to listen to him and try to be more critical on the foreign US politics.
What if no-one finds a flaw? Everybody claims (or at least the dudes who've created the machine) the voting mechanism is secure. But you cant say that. The only thing you can conclude is that there were no flaws found.
If someone would find a flaw he/she would have showed an absence of security in the product. But when he/she didn't find flaws that doesnt necessarily mean the product is secure.
Well, you've got a point there. I'm almost convinced all this radition we nowadays throw in the air isn't healthy. Thousands of years of "relatively" stable radiation levels, excluding some nuclear-related accidents/acts of war, have done us no harm.
But what will happen next? Within the next 20 years more and more wireless applications will come up and send out more and more signals. We just cant explain everything which happens to us humans, or the effect of things on us and the other living creatures on this planen.
So I find it very premature from some people to conclude that all this radiation is harmless. Maybe the braintumor rate will increase with 500% withing the next twenty years... who knows?
I certainly dont.. But I've shared my concerns with Slashdot;)
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Yeah Tilden is the man! I remember once sawing a very nice documentary on Discovery Channel in which he stole the show. It's a farely old show, but nevertheless nice to see how Mark's building a robot from a old walkman in less than an hour. And it works! And good too!
Too bad the folks from Discovery Channel have not visited him for the 2nd time when making the new show "Robosapiens" (although that show was mostly about humanoids, it could have had very well a reference to Tildens robots who dont have to be programmed for over five years to walk through a maze).
It's even a DCMA violation when someone from the US submits a patch to some crypto project (eg. OpenSSH) that goes from strcpy(dst, src) to strnvpy(dst, src, maxsizedst);
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The Vaults of Parnassus is a great resource for Python stuff. http://py.vaults.ca/. It doesn't have a CPAN like interface for it though.
Then there's the python http://www.python.org/pypi which afaik can easily be accessed through the setup.py from Python distutils. If it's not implemented yet it's not even that big of a deal with all the native http/url/xml from Python.
I, for one, think a CPAN like interface to the PyPi or Vaults are great.
There are some trusted nodes which serve as the starting point. You can also add your own trusted nodes if you're sure they're trustworthy.
"the original goal of the GNU project?"
Everyone knows that RMS wants Emacs to become self-aware.
We just don't have the time to develop those techniques into really usefull ones. Before we can apply them on a large scale and before we are able to get all our energy supplies from such sources we need to have a temporary solutation.
I meant that xtc is the #1 export product in the Netherlands :) Maybe that is also the case for Belgium.
How about?
1) tulips
2) wooden shoes
3) mills
4) xtc (export product #1)
With the current hype about everything which ascends the term Quantum I'd prefer this to be called photon encryption. It's principles are known for ages and are even put into practice by some scientists and it does not what it has s to do with the things people associate quantum with.
There are lot of (more or less potential violent) wars over water. Turkey has build waterpowered electricity plants which use so much water that other surrounding countries saw their waterlevels drop. There are more examples besides this one from the Tigris: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/943002.stm
Yes.. I think it's entirely possible to have real wars in the future not to establisch democracy in a country, or to expand the territory of the aggressor but entirely focussed on the water.
When some Telemarketeer calls me I allways say: "Wait a minute... there's someone at the door" and I just put the horn down and go read the newspaper or watch some television. Allways a big laugh when they keep hanging on the phone for over 30 minutes :)
True.. you've got a good point there. But nonetheless the question remains if we are willing to accept one monopolist as the main entry of information on the web?
Well nice article and he clearly made some good points. But I'm not sure wether we want to have one (primary) source of information (searching) such as google. Monopolies tend to become to addictive to their own power which will make it even harder for them to give up. They'll try anything to fuck up the competition (look at some RedMond based compagny).
And some more alarming privacy issues are listed on http://www.google-watch.org/.
I'm still in favor of having the choice between several sources for searching/news/p2p/blogs. This will enhance the competition between the competitors and will make their services better.
Look at all the OSS. Most pieces of software have several forks or similar/related projects which ultimately results in a better piece(s) of software for a specific task
Please... lets first go after the people behind Duke Nukem Forever...
Isn't it possible for the RIAA to put all the money they spend on lawsuits in some projects which make music legally available on the 'net? They'll loose the war against (millions of?) p2p swappers in the end
Microsoft has hindered a lot of other companies when it comes to free competition so I find this complaint somewhat childish.
:)
And whats fair? There's no free trade. The US give large amounts of money to their own steel manufactures so they can compete with the EU. The EU on the other hand is doing the samen with their large importtaxes on foreign, cheaper farmer products.
My point is; there's no real free market although a lot of people strive to it. There isn't and this article is just another example of how things go along
"Governments should not be in the position to decide who the winners are," Robertson said.
:)
Of course not; Microsoft likes to be in that position
Ah... apology accepted ;-)
Completely anonymous communicaton. It's farely easy with Frost (file sharing application for FreeNET) to exchange PKI encrypted messages to other people. Works quite good though. Within 15 minutes some other people received my messages which mostly consited of "test, do you read me? :)" lines :)
If you've used some of the file sharing applications for FreeNET (such as Frost) you'll encounter files like: young_boy_naked.jpg. You dont have to be a rocket scientist (or even download and view it) to figure out what content it'll contain.
:-|
No person who's not a pedophile will download and view and/or store these pictures. So go flame someone else
That's right. But the last time I surfed FreeNET for a few days (like 5 months ago) there very nice pages with information prohibited in some countries or banned under the DMCA.
Well about the child pornography versus the freedom of speech: you can't have both. There's no compromise possible between the two. Simple as that. You've gotta accept the fact that you can't have them both.
That's also a very sad thing. The free press in the U.S. I've heared many stories about journalist who dared to ask very confronting questions to spokespeople or politicans themselves. Afterwards they weren't allowed into press conferences (because of their "brutal" actions of previous ones).
Now that's freedom? In a good society the press also has some sort of a supervisory role. They've gotta be critics on the actions of the government and not take anything for granted (like the patriotism with the Iraqi War).
I havent heared any critical sound during the "official war period" though there were some statements of Bill Clinton immediately after that. He's still a fellow who gains widely respect and maybe some more people (meda) are going to listen to him and try to be more critical on the foreign US politics.
What if no-one finds a flaw? Everybody claims (or at least the dudes who've created the machine) the voting mechanism is secure. But you cant say that. The only thing you can conclude is that there were no flaws found.
If someone would find a flaw he/she would have showed an absence of security in the product. But when he/she didn't find flaws that doesnt necessarily mean the product is secure.
Please will at least everyone keep in mind that when she wont succeed in cracking the machine that doesn't prove it's security.
You can't prove a product is secure, only showing that it's insecure...
Well, you've got a point there. I'm almost convinced all this radition we nowadays throw in the air isn't healthy. Thousands of years of "relatively" stable radiation levels, excluding some nuclear-related accidents/acts of war, have done us no harm.
;)
But what will happen next? Within the next 20 years more and more wireless applications will come up and send out more and more signals. We just cant explain everything which happens to us humans, or the effect of things on us and the other living creatures on this planen.
So I find it very premature from some people to conclude that all this radiation is harmless. Maybe the braintumor rate will increase with 500% withing the next twenty years... who knows?
I certainly dont.. But I've shared my concerns with Slashdot
Yeah Tilden is the man! I remember once sawing a very nice documentary on Discovery Channel in which he stole the show. It's a farely old show, but nevertheless nice to see how Mark's building a robot from a old walkman in less than an hour. And it works! And good too!
Too bad the folks from Discovery Channel have not visited him for the 2nd time when making the new show "Robosapiens" (although that show was mostly about humanoids, it could have had very well a reference to Tildens robots who dont have to be programmed for over five years to walk through a maze).
It's even a DCMA violation when someone from the US submits a patch to some crypto project (eg. OpenSSH) that goes from strcpy(dst, src) to strnvpy(dst, src, maxsizedst);