You mean iso -octane (octane number 100) and n-heptane (octane number 0). There is no compound called septane. And for diesel engines, the corresponding numbers are called cetane numbers.
FreeBSD -> W2K airgap a wise thing? Please!! DOn't you know nature abhors a vacuum? OpenBSD (or a customized Linux distro with all s/w in wierd places, maybe?)would be better, if only to stop all the flames about/. using W2K. Plus all the jokes about 65K bugs, and downtime(?)
Too bad its only 6 M of total memory, two megs more and we would have been able to run Xwindows on it. I hope that this is enough to run Apache. The world's smartest webserver?:)
I may be wrong here, but copyright law varies from country to country. So th page is protected by Russian copyright law, but the files may not be. So what we now need is international IP laws (keep the corporations out of this, please) which will be accepted and valid at least over the net. Or how about a set of laws for the net only, treating it as a separate nation by itself?
Just one major point you missed: The material is *not* illegal in Russia, where the site is hosted. It is illegal in the US, not the rest of the world. Heres where the reality check should be called by the US lawmakers (and enforcing authorities). The net is global, your laws might not be enforcable anywhere else. Now what if mp3.com moves itself out of the US to Russia? Interesting.
Okay, I have said this previously, and I will say it again: Don't let *any* operating system be preloaded on computers by OEMs. Let the customer choose his/her OS. There will be no need to break up Microsoft (the only good reason here being that the API will be published, but this is important from a developer point of view[unless you use another non M$ OS]). Then let us see how many people choose windows over another OS. Market forces anyone? And if they contact the local geek for help, what do you think the recommendation will be?:) Of course, M$ should be penalized for what they have done. How about having to replace IE with Mozilla as a/part/ of the OS?:).
Sorry for the rant, but this seemed a bit interesting to me. Lets have some comments on this please, rather than moderation.
Let the customers choose to install the Os themselves! Let them handle Microsoft. The OEMs need not install any OS, if they so choose. This should drive away a lot of Microsoft's market on the desktop. And it will be easier than having to police M$.
A/. poll for this?? Almost nobody is going to say no, and most people are being pissed off for not being asked. The simple solution will be to hold back the publication, till people are given a chance to say yes. Can you do that? Put up a poll on this issue?
Just edit/etc/passwd and/etc/shadow. Add another user, give the new user UID 0, change UID for root to something else, and you are done. root, by default has UID 0. Don't need to change the source for this:). Just dont forget the password for the renamed root:).
Well, the properties of hardware have increased runtime efficiency to high levels (compare 486 to Pentium III). Therefore most people won't notice the difference. The problem was with the old and slower machines, where the speed difference was noticable, not he newfangled boxen. I can still see the difference on my box (P200 MMX)
As far as I could pick out from what has been going on at/. and from Bruce Schenier's (I hope I spelled it correctly) book on the DDJ CD, the real security is in the keys. The algorithm should be public, and subject to public (at least peer) review. Closed source algorithms are merely security through obscurity, not good enough when it counts most. And with respect to the spec, if your implementation is consistent with the specifications, then any program should be able to read the document properly. If the implementation is inconsistent, then its a situation like having a new proprietary format, bad for all of us.
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Memorising != understanding. On the contrary, my personal experience is that what I understand is memorised, while that which I merely memorise vanishes soon. I understand the terms in the formulae, after which I know what is going on. My fellow classmates merely learnt the terms in the formulae and quote them from memory. And they score better than I do. But they can't understand if I was to merely say the same thing with a different notation (as in replacing ca by c1). So does memorisation aid understanding? My experience says that its the other way round.
The writer has essentially compared *BSD and Linux and found BSD to be better is some aspects. The header was taken from the submitters post and not created by Roblimo. The posters phrasing though should be moderated down as -1 Flamebait.
Just one small point. There will be complaints about the system from everybody. The geeks will think its too dumbed down, while the others will still find it too tough. Its a no win situation. The combined intelligence of a group = (intelligence of dumbest member of group/nmber of members of group). Even considering that slashdot is primarily a geek site with people having high IQs, don't you think that the questions will be a bit more oriented towards the maths/science geeks rather that those with better linguistic skills? (Note, I'm not saying that we geeks have bad linguistic skills, just saying that there are people whose geekiness is in a different field).
The one good idea though is to make the process open to students. How about letting students frame desired questions and letting the educators moderate them, like/.? You never know what you will get. (Plus it has the bonus of identifying the level of education of the questioner immediately -- restrict this data!).
I think that you are trying to be funny, but just in case its not that (or for clueless moderators): The speed of light in a given medium is constant. When light will switch over from one medium too another, it will merely refract. So no BSOD, because the light will be swapping media, and refracting to account for the swap.
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You forgot India, there are still some sanctions left over from those imposed after May 1999.
Thats Ken Thomson's exploit you are referring to. Its in the jargon file and elsewhere too.
You mean iso -octane (octane number 100) and n-heptane (octane number 0). There is no compound called septane. And for diesel engines, the corresponding numbers are called cetane numbers.
FreeBSD -> W2K airgap a wise thing? Please!! DOn't you know nature abhors a vacuum? /. using W2K. Plus all the jokes about 65K bugs, and downtime(?)
OpenBSD (or a customized Linux distro with all s/w in wierd places, maybe?)would be better, if only to stop all the flames about
If you had *read* the article, the books will be in HTML on the web!
Too bad its only 6 M of total memory, two megs more and we would have been able to run Xwindows on it. I hope that this is enough to run Apache. The world's smartest webserver? :)
but except for the UK (its unresloved here), haven't ISPs been given common carrier status? Which should exempt them from lawsuits.
I may be wrong here, but copyright law varies from country to country. So th page is protected by Russian copyright law, but the files may not be. So what we now need is international IP laws (keep the corporations out of this, please) which will be accepted and valid at least over the net. Or how about a set of laws for the net only, treating it as a separate nation by itself?
Just one major point you missed: The material is *not* illegal in Russia, where the site is hosted. It is illegal in the US, not the rest of the world. Heres where the reality check should be called by the US lawmakers (and enforcing authorities). The net is global, your laws might not be enforcable anywhere else. Now what if mp3.com moves itself out of the US to Russia? Interesting.
Okay, I have said this previously, and I will say it again: Don't let *any* operating system be preloaded on computers by OEMs. Let the customer choose his/her OS. There will be no need to break up Microsoft (the only good reason here being that the API will be published, but this is important from a developer point of view[unless you use another non M$ OS]). Then let us see how many people choose windows over another OS. Market forces anyone? And if they contact the local geek for help, what do you think the recommendation will be? :) /part/ of the OS? :).
Of course, M$ should be penalized for what they have done. How about having to replace IE with Mozilla as a
Sorry for the rant, but this seemed a bit interesting to me. Lets have some comments on this please, rather than moderation.
Let the customers choose to install the Os themselves! Let them handle Microsoft. The OEMs need not install any OS, if they so choose. This should drive away a lot of Microsoft's market on the desktop. And it will be easier than having to police M$.
Just my 2c.
A /. poll for this?? Almost nobody is going to say no, and most people are being pissed off for not being asked.
The simple solution will be to hold back the publication, till people are given a chance to say yes. Can you do that? Put up a poll on this issue?
Just my 0.005 cents (US)
Its fair enough. Just one thing, what if the corp uses any closed source OS/ product?
What about fsck()?
Just edit /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. Add another user, give the new user UID 0, change UID for root to something else, and you are done. root, by default has UID 0. Don't need to change the source for this :). Just dont forget the password for the renamed root :).
Well, the properties of hardware have increased runtime efficiency to high levels (compare 486 to Pentium III). Therefore most people won't notice the difference. The problem was with the old and slower machines, where the speed difference was noticable, not he newfangled boxen. I can still see the difference on my box (P200 MMX)
As far as I could pick out from what has been going on at /. and from Bruce Schenier's (I hope I spelled it correctly) book on the DDJ CD, the real security is in the keys. The algorithm should be public, and subject to public (at least peer) review. Closed source algorithms are merely security through obscurity, not good enough when it counts most.
And with respect to the spec, if your implementation is consistent with the specifications, then any program should be able to read the document properly. If the implementation is inconsistent, then its a situation like having a new proprietary format, bad for all of us.
Memorising != understanding. On the contrary, my personal experience is that what I understand is memorised, while that which I merely memorise vanishes soon. I understand the terms in the formulae, after which I know what is going on. My fellow classmates merely learnt the terms in the formulae and quote them from memory. And they score better than I do. But they can't understand if I was to merely say the same thing with a different notation (as in replacing ca by c1). So does memorisation aid understanding? My experience says that its the other way round.
Just modify the make options to single keys.
(or even better #make linux).
Minor rant: make clean is missing.
Err, maybe because if software is patented, you won't be able to write any other software that does exactly the same thing? Ref: Amazon against B&N.
No hacking in the US to clone products into the free software area (because of DCMA).
Why we (and this includes those of us outside the US) should worry about this:
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Note, I agree that the only valid cover any software should have is copyright.
The writer has essentially compared *BSD and Linux and found BSD to be better is some aspects. The header was taken from the submitters post and not created by Roblimo. The posters phrasing though should be moderated down as -1 Flamebait.
Lets see:
PERL (already mentioned).
TCl/Tk should do as well. (Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong. Just a TCl/Tk newbie)
Very nice, but what about mutation? A RNA strand goes crazy and we end up with a borgified version of some creature. crudpuppy or dustpuppy anyone?
:)
Moderators, please note this is a slightly funny look at a possible problem. I know that *puppy is fiction, but then, the idea just sounds good.
Just one small point. There will be complaints about the system from everybody. The geeks will think its too dumbed down, while the others will still find it too tough. Its a no win situation. The combined intelligence of a group = (intelligence of dumbest member of group/nmber of members of group). Even considering that slashdot is primarily a geek site with people having high IQs, don't you think that the questions will be a bit more oriented towards the maths/science geeks rather that those with better linguistic skills? (Note, I'm not saying that we geeks have bad linguistic skills, just saying that there are people whose geekiness is in a different field).
/.? You never know what you will get. (Plus it has the bonus of identifying the level of education of the questioner immediately -- restrict this data!).
The one good idea though is to make the process open to students. How about letting students frame desired questions and letting the educators moderate them, like
I think that you are trying to be funny, but just in case its not that (or for clueless moderators): The speed of light in a given medium is constant. When light will switch over from one medium too another, it will merely refract. So no BSOD, because the light will be swapping media, and refracting to account for the swap.