Would you people also be willing to put up with a closed-source Linux kernel, if some CPU manufacturer decided tomorrow that they didn't want to release the specs for their instruction set, and said the only way you could write a kernel would be if you submitted to an NDA?
You do have CPU microcode updates from Intel, and corresponding Linux code to facilitate uploading the code to the CPU :
Microcode.
This microcode is not easily hackable (at least I hope so), and most certainly is not open source.
Big deal - even if the core OS is completely secure, there are going to be programs and scripts with vulnerabilitys.
Indeed, this is why we have projects like
Hardened Gentoo
where SELinux is just one part of it. Other technologies that attempt to make buffer overflows (among other things) very difficult/impossible to exploit is not included in SELinux, nor in Redhat.
Calling Bush a liar or claiming he tells a lie requires believing that he knew for certain the statements he made were false, but still went on anyways.
He sure went on, and 9/11 were just too good an opportunity not to take advantage off. As the former US minister of finance (or what you call that position in USA) wrote : Getting rid of Saddam was top of the agenda right just after the election of Bush. But according to you he's just a leftist loonie?
The Bush administration has very little credibility around the world, even among traditionally close allies. This is a very bad situation when the sole superpower scares enemies and makes allies apprehensive.
As David Kay said, we were all wrong
Erh, it showed that Bush & administration was lying quite heaviliy. Not wrong : Lying.
Being wrong doesn't mean being a liar. The loony lefties like yourself still can't get over that.
Everything to the left of Atilla the Hun is a commie in your eyes.
How about the 2003 State of the Union? It's public, and you will find it on the www.whitehouse.gov site. From
Talking Points -- The Speech
we have
No mention of the lies from the 2003 State of the Union and otherwise
--Iraq has weapons of mass destruction -- oops no it doesn't
--Iraq purchased uranium yellowcake from 'Africa' -- oops no it didn't
--Iraq is linked to al-Qaeda and September 11 -- oops no it isn't
No, the WMDs do not count as lying.
Do you honestly believe this?
If you can't distinguish honest mistakes from actual lying, then you're hopeless.
May I suggest that there are more reliable sources of information than Fox "News"?
Have you forgotton the last three presidents already? They all lied.
There is a clear difference between lying to "Did you fuck an intern in the Oval Office, Mr. President?" to lie about Iraq's supposed WMD capabilities just in order to wage a war that has so far claimed tens of thousands of lives.
So does that mean Bush is going to make a campaign pledge to stop "wasting money" on NASA?
I'll vote for the first president who promises to fund research in Lofstrom Loops or the like...
Is a promise from President Bush to be taken at face value? From a man that has no qualms about lying to the public with a regularity and a level never seen before from an US President?
Once PKI starts to take hold, there would be an incentive for the spammers to start creating throw-away identities, which we could counter with a reputation system for the sender's domain. We could also create a "web of trust", automatically managed by our mail servers, or ourselves, to nip the counteroffensive.
Your argument is flawed. PKI and "web of trust" are in essense incompatible. PKI is hiarchic in its design : depending on a root CA to sign certificates. "Web of trust" (like in PGP) does not have any concept of a "root" or centralized control that PKI implies.
KDE is going to have more problems persuading QT to stop its current business model...
You're probably a troll, but I'll think bite anyway. TrollTech is kind enough to have a GPL version of their library, and offers a commercial license for those that won't/can't open source their code.
GTK may be LGPL, but it'll never contain modern C++ constructs like templates with that license. The reason is quite simple : I can't use template code whithout compiling it. There is a keyword "export" for templates, but I don't think that is supported very well.
It's the summary of most reviews that usually are pages upon pages with many sentences with almost no content. All of this is liberally sprinkled with ads, of course.
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Review: KDE 3.2
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· Score: 1, Flamebait
What awards has KDE3 won?
The most important one : My Very Own Award Given To Whatever Is Useful To Me(TM)
http://creativecommons.org/license/sampling.....
Sorry to say but this whole licensing scheme is getting out of hand. Not to troll about this but how many licenses are there? GPL, BSD, etc? Now another scheme?
There are different types of licenses for different type of work and needs. As an example, the GPL is a license for software, and thus not appropiate for, say, a novel or a song. As for needs, you have Trolltech's QT library that are dual licensed : A GPL variant, and a commercial one.
"Compared to today's digital timepieces, old-fashioned, sweep-hand watches are pathetic one-trick ponies. Digital-watch wearers can check temperature, altitude, and the time in Tokyo, play tunes and games, and send messages. Can wristwatch videoconferencing, Web surfing, and tarot readings be far off? But what digital watches can't do, according to sweep-hand proponents, is display the time and context as elegantly and intuitively as an analog model."
I just to have watch so that I can see the time. Is that too little to ask for?
This is a ridiculous bid for attention and nonsense demonizing on the part of Amnesty International.
People needs to be able to make a distinction between by a producer making a product that might be abused, and a producer that tailor a product for human right violations.
I do not claim that Microsoft does that, but bear in mind that Microsoft is a champion of DRM (under various names) to control and monitor users. So I would not put it past them to do what Amnesty International suspect them of doing.
DRM is all about producer control using private keys that you, the user, has no access to.
Contrast this to
Cryptography
where strong cryptography can be used to ensure
your privacy and that you are in control.
With four million hits a day it does makes little sense to use Tomcat even for static content. Apache serves static pages faster than Tomcat and with less resources.
The PC I had problems with were all Dells, ranging from Celeron to dual PIII. The dual PIII's where using PC600 memory, and would not accept most of the PC800 available today. We're using those old dual PIII (1GHz) for development, and on those machines we should actually have 1GB memory for comfortable debugging. Of all the PC800 I tried, just one older 64MB didn't hang the PC.
As you say, RAM does matter (I have 262Mb on the home machine) but memory is cheap. What's the big deal?
Read the parent post again, and note what he writes about developing countries and older PCs.
Memory is not cheap when you are poor, so, it's indeed a big deal.
For those of us that are priviliged, and still want to use older machines, we may have trouble getting more memory. For instance, I've got a Dell Dimension L466cx that can only use PC100 memory. Now, the online stores in my country only sells PC133 memory, so more memory may be hard to get.
HP is a company whose CEO fully supports DRM, so naturally we have a report about how willing people are to disclose private information about themselves to the public.
Now, since HP is a commercial company, the report has to be done by economists that reduce every human interaction or belief to a question about money. And for good measure, throw in some free market associations like "auction" and "price":
To address this puzzle, we conducted a reverse second-price auction to identify the monetary value of private information to individuals and how that value is set.
This method of "identifying monetary value" is clearly bogus since private information is just that : Private i.e. not public. So let's throw in some terms to make it sound "academic" and "serious". The buzzword is "asymmetrically", refering to a term that a Nobel prize in Economics was given for : (simplified) Not every actor in a free market system has the same information :
Our results demonstrate that deviance, whether perceived or actual, from the group's average asymmetrically impacts the price demanded to reveal private information.
This is just another report from economists (intended for HP management, I guess) that are inappropiately applying tools on problems. Well, when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like nail.
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You do have CPU microcode updates from Intel, and corresponding Linux code to facilitate uploading the code to the CPU : Microcode.
This microcode is not easily hackable (at least I hope so), and most certainly is not open source.
That is because the average *BSD user is mature and thoughtful ;-)
Indeed, this is why we have projects like Hardened Gentoo where SELinux is just one part of it. Other technologies that attempt to make buffer overflows (among other things) very difficult/impossible to exploit is not included in SELinux, nor in Redhat.
He sure went on, and 9/11 were just too good an opportunity not to take advantage off. As the former US minister of finance (or what you call that position in USA) wrote : Getting rid of Saddam was top of the agenda right just after the election of Bush. But according to you he's just a leftist loonie?
The Bush administration has very little credibility around the world, even among traditionally close allies. This is a very bad situation when the sole superpower scares enemies and makes allies apprehensive.
As David Kay said, we were all wrong
Erh, it showed that Bush & administration was lying quite heaviliy. Not wrong : Lying.
Being wrong doesn't mean being a liar. The loony lefties like yourself still can't get over that.
Everything to the left of Atilla the Hun is a commie in your eyes.
How about the 2003 State of the Union? It's public, and you will find it on the www.whitehouse.gov site. From Talking Points -- The Speech we have
No, the WMDs do not count as lying.
Do you honestly believe this?
If you can't distinguish honest mistakes from actual lying, then you're hopeless.
May I suggest that there are more reliable sources of information than Fox "News"?
There is a clear difference between lying to "Did you fuck an intern in the Oval Office, Mr. President?" to lie about Iraq's supposed WMD capabilities just in order to wage a war that has so far claimed tens of thousands of lives.
Is a promise from President Bush to be taken at face value? From a man that has no qualms about lying to the public with a regularity and a level never seen before from an US President?
Your argument is flawed. PKI and "web of trust" are in essense incompatible. PKI is hiarchic in its design : depending on a root CA to sign certificates. "Web of trust" (like in PGP) does not have any concept of a "root" or centralized control that PKI implies.
Pray tell me, when was the last time you saw an orignal, informative review done by someone that knew what they ae writing about?
Most "reviews" are not reviews, except for me re-viewing the same ads again.
You're probably a troll, but I'll think bite anyway. TrollTech is kind enough to have a GPL version of their library, and offers a commercial license for those that won't/can't open source their code.
GTK may be LGPL, but it'll never contain modern C++ constructs like templates with that license. The reason is quite simple : I can't use template code whithout compiling it. There is a keyword "export" for templates, but I don't think that is supported very well.
It's the summary of most reviews that usually are pages upon pages with many sentences with almost no content. All of this is liberally sprinkled with ads, of course.
The most important one : My Very Own Award Given To Whatever Is Useful To Me(TM)
There are different types of licenses for different type of work and needs. As an example, the GPL is a license for software, and thus not appropiate for, say, a novel or a song. As for needs, you have Trolltech's QT library that are dual licensed : A GPL variant, and a commercial one.
I just to have watch so that I can see the time. Is that too little to ask for?
As other posters mentions, it's in the FreeBSD ports. But why use the port when you can use the real thing on OpenBSD ;-)
Nope, but they have a history of monopoly abuses, and are in fact convicted as such. In France they're even convicted for IP theft.
Bear in mind that both MS and Bill Gates give millions of dollars to worthy causes round the world.
Bear in mind the hefty tax breaks they get as well. Nice PR at US taxpayers expense.
People needs to be able to make a distinction between by a producer making a product that might be abused, and a producer that tailor a product for human right violations.
I do not claim that Microsoft does that, but bear in mind that Microsoft is a champion of DRM (under various names) to control and monitor users. So I would not put it past them to do what Amnesty International suspect them of doing.
DRM is all about producer control using private keys that you, the user, has no access to. Contrast this to Cryptography where strong cryptography can be used to ensure your privacy and that you are in control.
Even "safe runtimes" has bugs that might be exploitable.
With four million hits a day it does makes little sense to use Tomcat even for static content. Apache serves static pages faster than Tomcat and with less resources.
Linux - Fastest
Windows - Decently fast, but bloated
FreeBSD - Slow
OpenBSD - Glacially Slow
Who would have guessed that Linux is the fastest to hack into, indeed, even faster than Windows?
I wrote that this is not the case, didn't I? I've been around several Dells with this particular problem.
The PC I had problems with were all Dells, ranging from Celeron to dual PIII. The dual PIII's where using PC600 memory, and would not accept most of the PC800 available today. We're using those old dual PIII (1GHz) for development, and on those machines we should actually have 1GB memory for comfortable debugging. Of all the PC800 I tried, just one older 64MB didn't hang the PC.
No, that is not the case for all motherboards.
Read the parent post again, and note what he writes about developing countries and older PCs.
Memory is not cheap when you are poor, so, it's indeed a big deal.
For those of us that are priviliged, and still want to use older machines, we may have trouble getting more memory. For instance, I've got a Dell Dimension L466cx that can only use PC100 memory. Now, the online stores in my country only sells PC133 memory, so more memory may be hard to get.
Now, since HP is a commercial company, the report has to be done by economists that reduce every human interaction or belief to a question about money. And for good measure, throw in some free market associations like "auction" and "price":
To address this puzzle, we conducted a reverse second-price auction to identify the monetary value of private information to individuals and how that value is set.
This method of "identifying monetary value" is clearly bogus since private information is just that : Private i.e. not public. So let's throw in some terms to make it sound "academic" and "serious". The buzzword is "asymmetrically", refering to a term that a Nobel prize in Economics was given for : (simplified) Not every actor in a free market system has the same information :
Our results demonstrate that deviance, whether perceived or actual, from the group's average asymmetrically impacts the price demanded to reveal private information.
This is just another report from economists (intended for HP management, I guess) that are inappropiately applying tools on problems. Well, when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like nail.