What is it with these posts? Perhaps posts should be run through a compression routine and only accepted if they have a certain minimum information content.
How's this for an idea? Set up a sort of RAID type service where a file is split up into several pieces which must be xor-d together to get the original back. Put the different pices in different countries and voila. No one can now say that the file exists on a server in any one country.
I'll believe that a software-based emulator can get 75% of native hardware performance when I see real benchmarks. Until then, all this handwaving makes me very, very suspicious.
As I understand it, the code is not so much emulated as translated on the fly as needed. Once a section of codee has been translated, the processor caches this translated code, which is now running natively. Not an easy thing to do, which is even more reason to admire the work that went into this product line.
Two things that have been hyped by secrecy. I was really looking forward to both The Phantom Menace and whatever Transmeta was working on. So far, I am impressed. Now where can I get one?
...or have the moderators been smoking crack recently? Maybe the moderators should read the article before moderating. How was that offtopic? (Hopefully its been fixed by the time I post this.)
Tell me about it. Perhaps there should be a request for meta-moderation button next to articles. If you think an article was unfairly moderated, push the button and the most requested articles are the most likely to be meta-moderated.
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That's a strong argument for reverse engineering. If I could prove that company XYZ's new spreadsheet is just emacs running spreadsheet mode... Then again, is there a good metric of program similarity? It seems like all spreadsheets would "look the same" from a certain level of detail because, well, they are all spreadsheets.
I can say that it is (a) very easy to learn without sacrificing power.
The problem I have with Python is exactly that it has sacrificed some power. Take lists as an example. Python lists are arrays, so inserts and deletes are O(N)!!.
I agree that more language choices are good. I also think that there is a right tool for the job, and that the job of collecting dependency information doesn't cry out for a scripting language.
P.S. Don't forget that people without cable may not have any choice but CBS for news.
Even worse, a great percentage of the population will not even know that CBS has altered the images. Today they are blocking out a competing logo, tomorrow they are giving the news anchors "didigtal facelifts". Its a slippery slope.
Besides, if I really think CBS has the best news, seeing an NBC logo isn't going to make me want to immediately change the channel.
I had a similar idea based on economic incentives or a "bounty" system. You have a set of censor consumers (libraries, schools, internet cafes?) who each pay a nominal licensing fee to keep their list up to date. This money is used to support the non-profit org in charge of maintaining the list, and is paid out to those who send in new moderations. If someone is putting up a new site, they can send in a rating and scoop everyone else.
Now, should the lists would be free for individual private use? It would be best to keep the list open, but still charge for it in order to pay for moderators. Perhaps politicians can be persuadeed to pay for this "for the children."
If enough volunteers could be gathered, a project like this could be bootstrapped relatively quickly.
If I remember correctly, the definition of ex post facto has to do with the enforcement of newly written laws, not with enforcing existing laws. If the US were to outlaw chewing gum, and proceed to round up all the people known to have chewed gum in the last year, this would be an example of ex post facto.
If on the other hand, the US had already outlawed chewing gum, but waited 5 years after the law was passed to start enforcing it, this would not be ex post facto. It could be argued that the lack of enforcement gave people the implicit approval to chew gum, and the evidence might not stay "fresh", but I don't think it would be unconstitutional.
IANAL SDA I am not a lawer, standard disclaimers apply
NDI would defeat the whole idea of opening up the API. If Caldera were prohibited from sharing the API, they could not recruit other companies to help them.
Ok, so who's gonna be the first to port Linux to the GameBoy? Could this be used as competition for the PalmPilot, maybe a simpler version, or entertainment only, or is it too limited a platform?
ELKS might be an option, but even if only gtk and/or Mozilla were ported, then we'd have something.
It is illegal to patent math. Computer science IS math. (I mean CS, not "IT"). Software patents are illegal. But there is too much money involved, so exceptions are made.
Problem is that in the beginning, you just programmed your algorithm into a piece of hardware and pattented the hardware with that software as one of the components. Now, people don't seem to bother with the hardware and just patent the software itself. Patent review process should be more like defending a thesis and less like shopping for barriers to entry.
I'm absolutely astonished that Mr. Violanti considers this adequate documentation; apart from the missed opportunity to establish chain of custody, it is an open invitation to corruption on the part of the seizing officials.
Not only that, what if a post-raid reinventory shows that several pieces of expensive equipment were "missing" (read fraudulantly left out of the inventory, or simply made up). If the raided party takes the feds and/or police to court to recoup these "losses", this could be very expensive indeed.
Remember, taxpayers, no matter how stupid the government and law enforcement act, if they are sued, guess who eventually picks up the bill?
As far as I'm concerned, unless there is blatent negligence, accountability is always found in the do-er of the action
My thoughts exactly. How ia this really different from somebody running up $25k in good or services? If I bought $25k worth of jewelery and flushed it down the toilet, should I get my money back?
Besides, if American Express is forced to pay this guy, do you think he will ever get another credit card?
I think you're right. This would be rare. But what if the moon's orbit brought it close to the planet on the shadow side? That would mean that the moon would spend more time in the sun because it travels faster when it is closer. The problem I would wory about would be the radiation from the planet. IIRC, Jupiter and Saturn release huge amounts of radiation. You might be saved if one side of your moon always faced the planet, but immagine if a whole hemisphere of the earth were uninhabitable and unexplorable due to radiation.
What's more, this guy is an artist, so they are not only depriving him of free speech, they are depriving him of income. If he was expecting millions of hits to generate tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue, they have taken that away from him!
Besides which, it is fairly easy for a mojority player to add non-compatible options and increase their hold. It is hard for a minority player to do the same. Add a special netscape/apache feature to 10 sites and IE users just won't use those sites.
Well, this may be equivalent to a one time pad, but here goes: Make a bunch of numbered lists of letters (lists can be empty). The message is decoded by taking the first number in the message and reading its list, add the second number to the first number and read that list. Add the third and read that list, and so-on. You may need to create a lot of these lists, but by doing so, you can make any message you want.
I don't have a second algorithm handy that is vastly different from the first, but I do have this: subtract alternating numbers to produce a new list (for the singleton at the end, subtract 0). When you have only one number left, this is the answer. Just because it is not a valid English sentence doesn't mean that this is not a valid interpretation of the numbers. Sort of like what's the next number in this sequence: 3,3,5,4,4,3,5? The "answer" is supposed to be 5 because these are the number of letters in each number one=3,two=3,three=5, etc. But this could equally be following some sort of polynomial.
Given any list of numbers, it is trivially easy to come up with an algorithm that turns these numbers into whatever message you want. What if I just say that the message is "I am the walrus, koo koo ka choo" and show my algorithm. Do I win the prize?
I love sudo, but I don't think it is quite up to the task. I want users to be able to create their own groups in order to have more fine-grained control over file permissions. This doesn't mean I trust them to edit the/etc/group file, or make arbitrary changes to it.
Imagine that user A creates a group of himself, user B and user C and uses this group to configure permissions on files in his directory. Now, user D comes along and wants to read/write these files. He can't, but by adding himself to the group, he can! This circumvents the group permissions, which is the whole reason for doing this in the first place.
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What is it with these posts? Perhaps posts should be run through a compression routine and only accepted if they have a certain minimum information content.
How's this for an idea? Set up a sort of RAID type service where a file is split up into several pieces which must be xor-d together to get the original back. Put the different pices in different countries and voila. No one can now say that the file exists on a server in any one country.
I'll believe that a software-based emulator can get 75% of native hardware performance when I see real benchmarks. Until then, all this handwaving makes me very, very suspicious.
As I understand it, the code is not so much emulated as translated on the fly as needed. Once a section of codee has been translated, the processor caches this translated code, which is now running natively. Not an easy thing to do, which is even more reason to admire the work that went into this product line.
Two things that have been hyped by secrecy. I was really looking forward to both The Phantom Menace and whatever Transmeta was working on. So far, I am impressed. Now where can I get one?
Tell me about it. Perhaps there should be a request for meta-moderation button next to articles. If you think an article was unfairly moderated, push the button and the most requested articles are the most likely to be meta-moderated.
That's a strong argument for reverse engineering. If I could prove that company XYZ's new spreadsheet is just emacs running spreadsheet mode... Then again, is there a good metric of program similarity? It seems like all spreadsheets would "look the same" from a certain level of detail because, well, they are all spreadsheets.
I can say that it is (a) very easy to learn without sacrificing power.
The problem I have with Python is exactly that it has sacrificed some power. Take lists as an example. Python lists are arrays, so inserts and deletes are O(N)!!.
I agree that more language choices are good. I also think that there is a right tool for the job, and that the job of collecting dependency information doesn't cry out for a scripting language.
P.S. Don't forget that people without cable may not have any choice but CBS for news.
Even worse, a great percentage of the population will not even know that CBS has altered the images. Today they are blocking out a competing logo, tomorrow they are giving the news anchors "didigtal facelifts". Its a slippery slope.
Besides, if I really think CBS has the best news, seeing an NBC logo isn't going to make me want to immediately change the channel.
I had a similar idea based on economic incentives or a "bounty" system. You have a set of censor consumers (libraries, schools, internet cafes?) who each pay a nominal licensing fee to keep their list up to date. This money is used to support the non-profit org in charge of maintaining the list, and is paid out to those who send in new moderations. If someone is putting up a new site, they can send in a rating and scoop everyone else.
Now, should the lists would be free for individual private use? It would be best to keep the list open, but still charge for it in order to pay for moderators. Perhaps politicians can be persuadeed to pay for this "for the children."
If enough volunteers could be gathered, a project like this could be bootstrapped relatively quickly.
A lot of good points, hope you get moderated up.
If I remember correctly, the definition of ex post facto has to do with the enforcement of newly written laws, not with enforcing existing laws. If the US were to outlaw chewing gum, and proceed to round up all the people known to have chewed gum in the last year, this would be an example of ex post facto.
If on the other hand, the US had already outlawed chewing gum, but waited 5 years after the law was passed to start enforcing it, this would not be ex post facto. It could be argued that the lack of enforcement gave people the implicit approval to chew gum, and the evidence might not stay "fresh", but I don't think it would be unconstitutional.
IANAL SDA
I am not a lawer, standard disclaimers apply
Oops, floating point error :) 1/10 is not so bad.
NDI would defeat the whole idea of opening up the API. If Caldera were prohibited from sharing the API, they could not recruit other companies to help them.
I feel sort of let down. At one point, I thought Caldera was suing to open the Microsoft APIs. $150M? that is 1 in 10,000 of what they asked for!!!
Ok, so who's gonna be the first to port Linux to the GameBoy? Could this be used as competition for the PalmPilot, maybe a simpler version, or entertainment only, or is it too limited a platform?
ELKS might be an option, but even if only gtk and/or Mozilla were ported, then we'd have something.
It is illegal to patent math. Computer science IS math. (I mean CS, not "IT"). Software patents are illegal. But there is too much money involved, so exceptions are made.
Problem is that in the beginning, you just programmed your algorithm into a piece of hardware and pattented the hardware with that software as one of the components. Now, people don't seem to bother with the hardware and just patent the software itself. Patent review process should be more like defending a thesis and less like shopping for barriers to entry.
I'm absolutely astonished that Mr. Violanti considers this adequate documentation; apart from the missed opportunity to establish chain of custody, it is an open invitation to corruption on the part of the seizing officials.
Not only that, what if a post-raid reinventory shows that several pieces of expensive equipment were "missing" (read fraudulantly left out of the inventory, or simply made up). If the raided party takes the feds and/or police to court to recoup these "losses", this could be very expensive indeed.
Remember, taxpayers, no matter how stupid the government and law enforcement act, if they are sued, guess who eventually picks up the bill?
As far as I'm concerned, unless there is blatent negligence, accountability is always found in the do-er of the action
My thoughts exactly. How ia this really different from somebody running up $25k in good or services? If I bought $25k worth of jewelery and flushed it down the toilet, should I get my money back?
Besides, if American Express is forced to pay this guy, do you think he will ever get another credit card?
Smithers, release the trees. (OK, your funny rating may vary)
I think you're right. This would be rare. But what if the moon's orbit brought it close to the planet on the shadow side? That would mean that the moon would spend more time in the sun because it travels faster when it is closer. The problem I would wory about would be the radiation from the planet. IIRC, Jupiter and Saturn release huge amounts of radiation. You might be saved if one side of your moon always faced the planet, but immagine if a whole hemisphere of the earth were uninhabitable and unexplorable due to radiation.
What's more, this guy is an artist, so they are not only depriving him of free speech, they are depriving him of income. If he was expecting millions of hits to generate tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue, they have taken that away from him!
Besides which, it is fairly easy for a mojority player to add non-compatible options and increase their hold. It is hard for a minority player to do the same. Add a special netscape/apache feature to 10 sites and IE users just won't use those sites.
Well, this may be equivalent to a one time pad, but here goes: Make a bunch of numbered lists of letters (lists can be empty). The message is decoded by taking the first number in the message and reading its list, add the second number to the first number and read that list. Add the third and read that list, and so-on. You may need to create a lot of these lists, but by doing so, you can make any message you want.
I don't have a second algorithm handy that is vastly different from the first, but I do have this: subtract alternating numbers to produce a new list (for the singleton at the end, subtract 0). When you have only one number left, this is the answer. Just because it is not a valid English sentence doesn't mean that this is not a valid interpretation of the numbers. Sort of like what's the next number in this sequence: 3,3,5,4,4,3,5? The "answer" is supposed to be 5 because these are the number of letters in each number one=3,two=3,three=5, etc. But this could equally be following some sort of polynomial.
Given any list of numbers, it is trivially easy to come up with an algorithm that turns these numbers into whatever message you want. What if I just say that the message is "I am the walrus, koo koo ka choo" and show my algorithm. Do I win the prize?
I don't get it. what shap pen in? It's not even propper english. Shame on us for not allowing spaces in machine names (and by extension URLs).
I love sudo, but I don't think it is quite up to the task. I want users to be able to create their own groups in order to have more fine-grained control over file permissions. This doesn't mean I trust them to edit the /etc/group file, or make arbitrary changes to it.
Imagine that user A creates a group of himself, user B and user C and uses this group to configure permissions on files in his directory. Now, user D comes along and wants to read/write these files. He can't, but by adding himself to the group, he can! This circumvents the group permissions, which is the whole reason for doing this in the first place.