I'll disagree that that open source philosophy is communistic. IMO, Open Source philosophy is more like "I made this. You can use it if you like. If you can help make it better, great!" It has far more in common with the philosophy of science (citing and building on the ideas of others) than Marxism.
There is no labor obligation in Open Source. You are free to be a "leech". You don't have to help out. Even under the GPL, you only have the obligation to contribute labor you have already done -- no one told you that you had to do the work in the first place.
And Open Source cares more about "Wants" than "Needs", because software is not a finite resource, and incremental copying costs are minimal. Giving copies to anyone who wants is far cheaper then the cost of evaluating who "needs" what.
Not a troll. Of course, back in the day (about 15 years ago), I didn't do this on subnets that had untrusted hosts on them, but yes, before ssh existed, and we used telnet or the r* commands (or SET HOST -- I almost forgot about DECNet!) to log in, and would su, with clear text passwords flying over the thinwire ethernet cables within the IT subnet. Remote root logins were disabled, generally.
Later (but still pre-ssh), I used to use s/key to log in to my account when I would go off to a conference, to keep my login secure, and sudo to do root taskes from an untrusted conference terminal.
These days I use my own laptop, and have ssh check host keys. But things used to be a lot looser, because you could trust other people on the Internet.
You said the change was made to make the passwords "more difficult to crack". The question is, what type of hashing is your server using to store encrypted passwords, and are the hashes user-visible? (That is, no password shadowing or the like).
Hopefully, your password hashes are properly hidden, and you are using something like MD5.
If the answer is you are using crypt(3), and the hashes are user visible, they you are in trouble. Crypt(3) is dead, as far as I am concerned. It only allows up to 8 character passwords, and is far too vulnerable to cracking on modern hardware. I wrote a paper for class back in 1997 on brute forcing crypt(3) using easily available software. Since I wrote that paper, cracking speeds have increased over 50-fold. Given a dozen 3GHz P4's (say a small computer lab), I can brute force all possible lowercase alphanumeric
passwords in a little over 4 days. Mixed case would take longer, a week for 7 character and under passwords, and a bit less than a year for 8 character passwords. If I had access to a cluster, or a group of 0wned machines, it could still be done in a reasonable timeframe.
If the answer is you are using old-style NT LanMan passwords that someone can get a copy of, you are screwed. They use no salt, are uppercase only, and the entire keyspace can be brute forced like butter. The password is split into two 7 character halves, which can be cracked independently. If you have a machine running Samba, you can find these in the smbpasswd file. On NT/2000, they are still used if you have Windows 95/98 clients on your network. You have to extract them from the SAM using PWDUMP or the like.
If anyone wants to try cracking his or her own password, I suggest getting John the Ripper.
While you are correct you can't "call it back", they can make it illegal to use.
Clarification: They can make it illegal to use in certain countries where that patent is valid. Now you know one reason that some companies are pushing so hard for software patents in the EU. Without it, development and use continue in Europe and the rest of the world (and with users in the US who are willing to violate the patent).
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So, direct them to Creative Commons, walk them through picking a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License. That means that people can freely download and listen to their music, but not use it for commercial purposes. When their music takes off and becomes wildly popular, they will still be able to license it to record companies, commercials, movies, and so on.
I have my Palm IIIx, and don't feel a strong need to upgrade right now.
When I can upgrade to a new device that has anything near the battery life, while also having WiFi, MP3 audio, at least 1.3 megapixel camera, >1 GB of storage, for a price under $300, I'll be looking. But we are not quite there yet, so for the moment, I'll stick with my Palm IIIx. And if I break it, my replacement cost is a whopping $20 off ebay.
the 130,000 members (less than the number of/. members)...
Good point.
Where is the League of Slashdot Voters? Sure, I contribute to the EFF, but if you could go to your local political candidate and say "I represent 10,000 voters in this state, and over 250,000 nation wide, and we want you to fix the DMCA" or what ever, they might actually take notice.
You might also try KEXP, affiliated with the University of Washington. I just learned about them this week, after an article in Time Out New York. They are based out of Seattle, but are apparently so popular in New York thanks to web listeners that they sponsor NY concerts. NYC listeners apparently are their second largest source of listener donations.
Step 1: Get the EU to adopt software patents. Step 2: Squash open source via patent lawsuits. Step 3: Sell more U.S. [e.g., Microsoft] software in the EU. Step 4: Profit! (From Microsoft campaign "donations".)
I think your 30 pics is optimistic. Cameras like the Canon D60 only do 8 frames before slowing down because they are writing to the card. Having a faster memory card is better for those situations. I shoot dance, not sports, but I'd still like for the frame buffer to empty faster.
Wouldn't the DOJ start up their own suits at their own pace? Not at the RIAA's pace?
Who is to say that the DOJ's pace would not be faster? Seriously, the more court cases they bring the more they can look like they are "tough on crime" and make the arguement that they need larger budgets, more staff, etc. Even leaving aside the other problems with having the DOJ running civil suits on behalf of others, I don't want the bureaucratic bloat this will cause.
Except that 1920x1080 is 1080i, or interlaced, where they only send half the lines each frame, so the uncompressed bitrate is half of what you calculated, or around 90 megabytes per second
People may also want to check out FurthurNet.com for legal P2P live music downloads, mostly jam-bands (Grateful Dead, Phish, CSNY), but some others you might not expect (AC/DC, Beastie Boys, Frank Black). I should mention it is concert-set oriented, not track oriented, so things are not set up to let you download just one song you are looking for. Instead, you download whole live shows.
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I'll disagree that that open source philosophy is communistic. IMO, Open Source philosophy is more like "I made this. You can use it if you like. If you can help make it better, great!" It has far more in common with the philosophy of science (citing and building on the ideas of others) than Marxism.
There is no labor obligation in Open Source. You are free to be a "leech". You don't have to help out. Even under the GPL, you only have the obligation to contribute labor you have already done -- no one told you that you had to do the work in the first place.
And Open Source cares more about "Wants" than "Needs", because software is not a finite resource, and incremental copying costs are minimal. Giving copies to anyone who wants is far cheaper then the cost of evaluating who "needs" what.
Not a troll. Of course, back in the day (about 15 years ago), I didn't do this on subnets that had untrusted hosts on them, but yes, before ssh existed, and we used telnet or the r* commands (or SET HOST -- I almost forgot about DECNet!) to log in, and would su, with clear text passwords flying over the thinwire ethernet cables within the IT subnet. Remote root logins were disabled, generally.
Later (but still pre-ssh), I used to use s/key to log in to my account when I would go off to a conference, to keep my login secure, and sudo to do root taskes from an untrusted conference terminal.
These days I use my own laptop, and have ssh check host keys. But things used to be a lot looser, because you could trust other people on the Internet.
Part of the question is 'where do we draw the line?'
Should we forbid eyeglasses? Contact lenses? Laser eye surgery? What about laser eye surgery to take someone from 20/20 vision to 20/10?
We have been using vision correction for hundreds of years, so somehow, we generally view that as "fair". But is it?
I don't have the answers. Argueably, no two athletic competetors are on equal ground except for identical twins/triplets/clones.
(For the record, I am very nearsighted -- anything beyond about 8 inches from my nose is blurry without my glasses.)
Log in as a normal user, and su, of course.
For what it's worth, Franklin was offered a patent on his stove and turned it down.
Hopefully, your password hashes are properly hidden, and you are using something like MD5.
If the answer is you are using crypt(3), and the hashes are user visible, they you are in trouble. Crypt(3) is dead, as far as I am concerned. It only allows up to 8 character passwords, and is far too vulnerable to cracking on modern hardware. I wrote a paper for class back in 1997 on brute forcing crypt(3) using easily available software. Since I wrote that paper, cracking speeds have increased over 50-fold. Given a dozen 3GHz P4's (say a small computer lab), I can brute force all possible lowercase alphanumeric passwords in a little over 4 days. Mixed case would take longer, a week for 7 character and under passwords, and a bit less than a year for 8 character passwords. If I had access to a cluster, or a group of 0wned machines, it could still be done in a reasonable timeframe.
If the answer is you are using old-style NT LanMan passwords that someone can get a copy of, you are screwed. They use no salt, are uppercase only, and the entire keyspace can be brute forced like butter. The password is split into two 7 character halves, which can be cracked independently. If you have a machine running Samba, you can find these in the smbpasswd file. On NT/2000, they are still used if you have Windows 95/98 clients on your network. You have to extract them from the SAM using PWDUMP or the like.
If anyone wants to try cracking his or her own password, I suggest getting John the Ripper.
Only a lifetime license? Why not a '1-person' sellable, transferable, inheritable license? You can inherit your parent's 33, 45, and 78 rpm records.
Sure they can. Copyright itself only exists (in the US) at Congress's whim.
Clarification: They can make it illegal to use in certain countries where that patent is valid. Now you know one reason that some companies are pushing so hard for software patents in the EU. Without it, development and use continue in Europe and the rest of the world (and with users in the US who are willing to violate the patent).
So, direct them to Creative Commons, walk them through picking a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License. That means that people can freely download and listen to their music, but not use it for commercial purposes. When their music takes off and becomes wildly popular, they will still be able to license it to record companies, commercials, movies, and so on.
He's not taking any performance-enhancing substances. If he goes into weightlifting, and gets good at it, can he go to the Olympics?
Do any DSL companies offer DSL in a "reversed" asymmetry? For instance, 256Kb down, 1.5Mb up?
It would be nice for those of us who want to serve (legitimate) files, as opposed to download tons of stuff.
I would think the more holes for viruses they leave in their products, the more anti-virus software they can sell...
When I can upgrade to a new device that has anything near the battery life, while also having WiFi, MP3 audio, at least 1.3 megapixel camera, >1 GB of storage, for a price under $300, I'll be looking. But we are not quite there yet, so for the moment, I'll stick with my Palm IIIx. And if I break it, my replacement cost is a whopping $20 off ebay.
the 130,000 members (less than the number of /. members)...
Good point.
Where is the League of Slashdot Voters? Sure, I contribute to the EFF, but if you could go to your local political candidate and say "I represent 10,000 voters in this state, and over 250,000 nation wide, and we want you to fix the DMCA" or what ever, they might actually take notice.
You might also try KEXP, affiliated with the University of Washington. I just learned about them this week, after an article in Time Out New York. They are based out of Seattle, but are apparently so popular in New York thanks to web listeners that they sponsor NY concerts. NYC listeners apparently are their second largest source of listener donations.
Step 1: Get the EU to adopt software patents.
Step 2: Squash open source via patent lawsuits.
Step 3: Sell more U.S. [e.g., Microsoft] software in the EU.
Step 4: Profit! (From Microsoft campaign "donations".)
I think your 30 pics is optimistic. Cameras like the Canon D60 only do 8 frames before slowing down because they are writing to the card. Having a faster memory card is better for those situations. I shoot dance, not sports, but I'd still like for the frame buffer to empty faster.
You can turn off the middle click trying to load URLs by adding
user_pref("middlemouse.contentLoadURL", false);
to your prefs.js
Who is to say that the DOJ's pace would not be faster? Seriously, the more court cases they bring the more they can look like they are "tough on crime" and make the arguement that they need larger budgets, more staff, etc. Even leaving aside the other problems with having the DOJ running civil suits on behalf of others, I don't want the bureaucratic bloat this will cause.
Should not this patent have failed under the "obvious to a practicioner" part of the patent process?
Mixed review here http://www.dottocomu.com/b/archives/002571.html
D'oh! Except you were working with 30fps instead of 60, so you took that into account. Sorry. My bad.
Except that 1920x1080 is 1080i, or interlaced, where they only send half the lines each frame, so the uncompressed bitrate is half of what you calculated, or around 90 megabytes per second
People may also want to check out FurthurNet.com for legal P2P live music downloads, mostly jam-bands (Grateful Dead, Phish, CSNY), but some others you might not expect (AC/DC, Beastie Boys, Frank Black). I should mention it is concert-set oriented, not track oriented, so things are not set up to let you download just one song you are looking for. Instead, you download whole live shows.