OpenBSD's mascot is the blowfish. If you are unlucky enough to be in the fishbowl, do you want to be the blowfish, or one of the spinless but colorful, and soon to be eaten fish?
That would work, if AOL was dumb enough to send out CDR's instead of mass pressed non-recordable CDs. You are going to need quite a bit more than the wimpy diode laser in your CDR to burn a new track on that CD.
The real obstical is that it needs to be distributed. You need many antennae at disparate locations, along with quite a bit of processing power to to crunch though them. A seti@home like system could do it, but probably not in real time (because of the distributed nature, not the available processing power). If you had a thousand people in a city who could build a receiver, run some number crunching software, and all had T1's, I bet you could do it. Not going to happen today, but when the bandwidth is there...
The 1000 number is pure guesswork. I suspect that 1000 antennae could do a really good job, but I don't have a feel for the number cruncing or bandwith requirements. You might need substantially more computers than that -- but spare cycles are more abundant than people who can build an antenna.
1) I haven't threatened anything. I said I could see the justification for filing a lawsuit.
2) If you are going to accuse me of pirating software, you better have some proof to back it up. I may have some unregistered shareware around, but not that I can think of. I have even pirated some software in my time. But in general, I have paid for most or all of the commercial software I use and quite a bit that I don't. Honestly I don't think about it a lot, since these days most all of the software I use is free.
3) "You set unenforcable EULA's that unfairly restrict the use of your software for legitimate purposes by legitimate customers, make unresonable demands of customers simply because they have no other choice, yet when I make a few simple rules to prevent you from exploiting my hard work, and you are unwilling to follow them? Grow up"
4) Me as an individual breaking a license agreement for personal use is much different than Corel as a company breaking a license for commercial gain. If Corel was distributing NT in violation of MS's EULA, you can bet that they would have filed suit immediately. They are not likely to go after me, even though I illegally transfered my copy of OEM copy of Win95 to a new machine when I upgraded my computer. Horrors!
5) I bitch and moan about MS because I think they behave unethically and unprofessionaly to force merchants and vendors into enforcing their monopoly. But this is just my personal opinion. I generally avoid thrusting it upon people unless provoked, and in any case has no bearing on law. The GPL and any commercial EULA are both legal documents, and while the ability of them to bind is certianly disputable, that is a matter that can only be settled by a court.
6) As I said, I am leary of filing a lawsuit against Corel, especially when I think they are trying to do the right thing. But I would rather see Linux never gain the kind of broad appeal I hope people like Corel can bring to Linux than have the freedom on which it was created be abridged.
I am generally anti-lawsuit, so I sure how I feel about this idea, but look at it this way. Linux was not created to be a huge corporate phenomenon. It was not created with the intent that everyone would use it. Nor was it created with the intent that people should be excluded. I am perfectly willing to let anyone play with my toys, as long as they play by my rules. The rules are simple: Let others play as well.
Now, I believe that Corel honesty is trying to "do the right thing" and respect those rules, but is having a hard time getting used to our rules. If I thought that Corel was really trying to proprieterize Linux and other free software, I would be the first to sign up on a suit. A corporation that doesn't play fair is not welcome. As it stands, I am unsure. Their intentions may be good, that does not excuse their behavior.
The nice thing about getting an Ultra5 with the PCi card is that I could run Solaris, Linux (via X sessions to a headless x86 Linux box), and Win32 all on the same desktop, at the same time, without taking emulation penalties or anything. Unfortinately, the PCi card is not included in the $2000 pricetag, otherwise I would be sorely tempted.
The generally accepted theory is that the courts can supoena anything "written down" (your keyring) but not anything in your brain (your passphrase). Of course, all they have to do is claim you have it written down and hold you in contempt of court...
I wonder at how we free-software, open-sourceys still use or rely on this blasted, 20+ year old rube goldberg arch.
Free software is all about letting people use the software. All the free software in the world doesn't do your average Joe any good if he has to pay 2x for a computer that can run it...
And consider how power consumption varies with the SQUARE of wattage Power=watts=current*voltage. You are thinking of P=I^2*R, which is only really useful when you are talking about power vs. current over a fixed resistance. With CPUs, the voltage is fixed (2.0 / 3.3 volts) by the gate technology, while the current varies by power consumption.
In any case, 12 watts is actually pretty good. I don't know what a celeron or a mobile PII run, 2.8 V PII (333 and slower) can hit 40 W, and a 2.0 V PII can be 30W
Usually, when one is investing in the kind of high end networking hardware necessary to make a clustered supercomputer, one uses FTP or NFS instead of floppies... Only an idiot would compile a program individually on each of 100 nodes of a cluster anyway.
Though, whether or not you have seen any of doubleclicks stuff has no bearing on patent restirictions. The fact that remote ad servers are a simple application of standard engineering practices to an obvious problem *should* matter. How it will remains to be seen.
Hrm, and I thought the detours were the best part. To me, they really gave meat behind the personalities of Randy and Waterhouse--and the fundamental difference that made Randy an engineer and Waterhouse a mathematician.
Now-a-days, PPP accounts are easier to come by than shells. The only time I would want SLiRP any more is for NAT, and ip-masq does that much better.
I guess I wouldn't mind seeing it maintained just for sheer historical coolness, but most people (myself included) would rather work on a more useful project. And of course, maintaining a package without a userbase is a little hard (no bug reports!)
The problem is, that as open as the current system is to abuse, and as much more secure as an internet based system could (hypothetically) be, the potential for abuse is still much higher. On the internet, all multiples are effectively infinite. That means, we have an infinite number of script kiddies attacking the sysstem, and each one that gets in can generate an infinite number of bogus votes. And if you have an infinite number of monkeys banging on keyboards, sooner or later one will crack the systems. When a local official stuffs a ballot box, the damage they can do is limited by both the number of votes they can legitimately claim as well as the number of electoral votes their state has,
USB is far superior to ADB. !) It is hot pluggable. I've heard (not experienced, I don't use Macs) of people destroying the ADB controller on their MB by unplugging their mouse, thus rendering their computer unusable 2) It is based on a hub, rather than daisy chaining.
Also, USB is (for better or worse) host arbitrated--the peripherals can be really stupid, and the host takes care of addressing everything (persumably with the help of the hubs).... This means that while you need a computer, you can use normal serial devices on a USB system with a simple adapter.
But, if one key is compromized, MS can authorize a patch to replace all modules with ones signed by the other key, and remove or replace the compromized key. Assuming the bad guys don't get to you first...
Well, Windows Domain Controllers use password encryption. If you managed to insert a bogus crypto module for that mechanism, you could probably hack into any machine on the network.
But if you overwrite the NSA_KEY with a key of your choosing, you can then insert cryptographic modules signed using *that key* into WinX, and use strong crypto not authorized by MS (ie, outside the US)
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It is not clear to me that Clerica refers to clarity. It sounds more like clerical.
OpenBSD's mascot is the blowfish. If you are unlucky enough to be in the fishbowl, do you want to be the blowfish, or one of the spinless but colorful, and soon to be eaten fish?
That would work, if AOL was dumb enough to send out CDR's instead of mass pressed non-recordable CDs. You are going to need quite a bit more than the wimpy diode laser in your CDR to burn a new track on that CD.
The 1000 number is pure guesswork. I suspect that 1000 antennae could do a really good job, but I don't have a feel for the number cruncing or bandwith requirements. You might need substantially more computers than that -- but spare cycles are more abundant than people who can build an antenna.
2) If you are going to accuse me of pirating software, you better have some proof to back it up. I may have some unregistered shareware around, but not that I can think of. I have even pirated some software in my time. But in general, I have paid for most or all of the commercial software I use and quite a bit that I don't. Honestly I don't think about it a lot, since these days most all of the software I use is free.
3) "You set unenforcable EULA's that unfairly restrict the use of your software for legitimate purposes by legitimate customers, make unresonable demands of customers simply because they have no other choice, yet when I make a few simple rules to prevent you from exploiting my hard work, and you are unwilling to follow them? Grow up"
4) Me as an individual breaking a license agreement for personal use is much different than Corel as a company breaking a license for commercial gain. If Corel was distributing NT in violation of MS's EULA, you can bet that they would have filed suit immediately. They are not likely to go after me, even though I illegally transfered my copy of OEM copy of Win95 to a new machine when I upgraded my computer. Horrors!
5) I bitch and moan about MS because I think they behave unethically and unprofessionaly to force merchants and vendors into enforcing their monopoly. But this is just my personal opinion. I generally avoid thrusting it upon people unless provoked, and in any case has no bearing on law. The GPL and any commercial EULA are both legal documents, and while the ability of them to bind is certianly disputable, that is a matter that can only be settled by a court.
6) As I said, I am leary of filing a lawsuit against Corel, especially when I think they are trying to do the right thing. But I would rather see Linux never gain the kind of broad appeal I hope people like Corel can bring to Linux than have the freedom on which it was created be abridged.
Now, I believe that Corel honesty is trying to "do the right thing" and respect those rules, but is having a hard time getting used to our rules. If I thought that Corel was really trying to proprieterize Linux and other free software, I would be the first to sign up on a suit. A corporation that doesn't play fair is not welcome. As it stands, I am unsure. Their intentions may be good, that does not excuse their behavior.
No, but perhaps the combination of BOLD ITALIC CAPITALS to convey stronger emphasis...
Hm... Drug lords is one. Still can't get the last one.
The nice thing about getting an Ultra5 with the PCi card is that I could run Solaris, Linux (via X sessions to a headless x86 Linux box), and Win32 all on the same desktop, at the same time, without taking emulation penalties or anything. Unfortinately, the PCi card is not included in the $2000 pricetag, otherwise I would be sorely tempted.
The generally accepted theory is that the courts can supoena anything "written down" (your keyring) but not anything in your brain (your passphrase). Of course, all they have to do is claim you have it written down and hold you in contempt of court...
Other way around. WoTC bought TSR
Free software is all about letting people use the software. All the free software in the world doesn't do your average Joe any good if he has to pay 2x for a computer that can run it...
And consider how power consumption varies with the SQUARE of wattage Power=watts=current*voltage. You are thinking of P=I^2*R, which is only really useful when you are talking about power vs. current over a fixed resistance. With CPUs, the voltage is fixed (2.0 / 3.3 volts) by the gate technology, while the current varies by power consumption.
In any case, 12 watts is actually pretty good. I don't know what a celeron or a mobile PII run, 2.8 V PII (333 and slower) can hit 40 W, and a 2.0 V PII can be 30W
Hm... Sounds exactly like a more lighthearted version of HP's "e-services" that they keep talking about like they actually *do* that stuff...
Usually, when one is investing in the kind of high end networking hardware necessary to make a clustered supercomputer, one uses FTP or NFS instead of floppies... Only an idiot would compile a program individually on each of 100 nodes of a cluster anyway.
Though, whether or not you have seen any of doubleclicks stuff has no bearing on patent restirictions. The fact that remote ad servers are a simple application of standard engineering practices to an obvious problem *should* matter. How it will remains to be seen.
Now I *really* want one of those G4's with the flatpanel displays...
Hrm, and I thought the detours were the best part. To me, they really gave meat behind the personalities of Randy and Waterhouse--and the fundamental difference that made Randy an engineer and Waterhouse a mathematician.
Plus it would be illegal for them not to, under the GPL.
I am still going to wait for my empeg...
I guess I wouldn't mind seeing it maintained just for sheer historical coolness, but most people (myself included) would rather work on a more useful project. And of course, maintaining a package without a userbase is a little hard (no bug reports!)
The problem is, that as open as the current system is to abuse, and as much more secure as an internet based system could (hypothetically) be, the potential for abuse is still much higher. On the internet, all multiples are effectively infinite. That means, we have an infinite number of script kiddies attacking the sysstem, and each one that gets in can generate an infinite number of bogus votes. And if you have an infinite number of monkeys banging on keyboards, sooner or later one will crack the systems. When a local official stuffs a ballot box, the damage they can do is limited by both the number of votes they can legitimately claim as well as the number of electoral votes their state has,
Also, USB is (for better or worse) host arbitrated--the peripherals can be really stupid, and the host takes care of addressing everything (persumably with the help of the hubs).... This means that while you need a computer, you can use normal serial devices on a USB system with a simple adapter.
But, if one key is compromized, MS can authorize a patch to replace all modules with ones signed by the other key, and remove or replace the compromized key. Assuming the bad guys don't get to you first...
Well, Windows Domain Controllers use password encryption. If you managed to insert a bogus crypto module for that mechanism, you could probably hack into any machine on the network.
But if you overwrite the NSA_KEY with a key of your choosing, you can then insert cryptographic modules signed using *that key* into WinX, and use strong crypto not authorized by MS (ie, outside the US)