Every rational number can be generated by the division of two numbers. All of our data is finite and therefore can be repesented as a rational number. Ugh I hate trolls. Regards, Steve
The java model consist of no graphical layout tools? Was that a general statement or just regarding solely firefox? Java has many gui builders that are far easier to use and far more extensible then VB, i.e. NetBeans and Eclipse with the VEP plugin. How can you call yourself a phd in computer science when you advocate using VB for coding? Something is wrong there. The extensions for firefox are simple scripts hacked up in javascript (completely different then java) and can be done in vim in a few minutes, no need for a big clunky gui to slow you down. If you've never designed an interface without a gui, please just throw your computer out the window right now. Regards, Steve
In the 1970's it was estimated that the NSA is at a lower bound 50 years more advanced in mathematics then society and 200 years for an upper bound. This notion was reinforced when they protected DSA from differential attacks 15 years before anyone even knew such a thing existed. There were other algorithmic changes made that people still haven't found the significance of. Regards, Steve
You forgot two things though. It uses a proprietary widget toolkit and prioritizes features over functionality. Gnome does the reverse and some people prefer it that way. Not to mention Gnome uses less ram on my system then kde and gnome also follows a really good HIG. Regards, Steve
I'm not sure if that was a compliment or an insult to Red Hat, but regardless, Michael is a good guy with a good head on his shoulders. If you've ever seen his writings or hear him talk you'd know what I mean. Afterall, he did write the first GNU C++ compiler. He recently also did a little video thing for Red Hat magazine showing the benefits of open source. He truly is an innovative and important guy in the community. Congratulations to him. For those who don't know, Red Hat has many individuals like this that are just as influential and important in the OSS world (i.e. Alan Cox), don't let one bad marketing decision make you hate Red Hat. Without them, who knows where we'd be, even OSS programmers have to eat.
You'll see that I specified lay people. Farmer's (which used to constitute one of America's largest workforces), as well as many other areas that may require workers to make certain decisions based on current temperatures, often times a chart of integer values in one column and corresponding value in the next column will be posted. Asking workers to round numbers may be asking too much for uneducated laborers. Honestly, its such a small deviation that it doesn't really matter if you use C or F degrees, but (to put it into computer terms) why right a number in octal notation when hex notation is already commonplace and requires less digits for the same precision? Regards, Steve
Darn I was hoping it'd work in lynx now, but no such luck:/ It just takes you to the page saying "0 refresh rate" and a link to the other frame which when visited logs you out. Regards, Steve
The only advantage to the lay person is that farenheit has nearly double the precision (actually 1.8 times) when using solely integers. This may not be significant to you, but a few degrees can indeed be important in some industries. Most people don't deal with decimals (unless your a scientist). Just to make sure the point is clear, if you are at 0 C and 32 F then your at freezing point, if the temperature goes up one degree to 1 C and 33 F , the C measurement is misleading, as the farenheit measurement will show you that it really only went up half (.47) degrees. Regards, Steve
Linus has openly stated that stock kernel's are not what they used to be and never will be. He said the responsibility now lies in the hands of distributions. Personally this doesnt change much for most, but its important to note that Linus's goal is no longer to make a kernel that is easy to use straight from the souce through compilation to actual usage, that burden is now distrbuted amongst the distros.Linus still attempts to achieve it, but it is no longer a priority, his goal is to simply advance the kernel's capabilities. Regards, Steve
Why go to Barnes & Noble or Borders Bookstore when there is a free library around the corner? The internet is just a means to more information, granted it has other uses as well. But seriously your argument is like saying why work when you can get welfare and/or Section-8 housing. The way I see it (and I live in philly so my point of view may be biased in favor of free wifi), but it will just make providers have motivation to provide faster wifi speeds then the government offers for a reasonable cost. Competition is good for the consumer and this will just more or less make sure that companies aren't offereing mediocre services for outrageous prices, because if they did then people would just use the free wifi. Honestly I think philly's wifi access will probably average around 256 kbps down (although at Love park its usually much faster, Love park already has free wifi as well as a few other major city areas). If the city is offering 256 kbps for free but Verizon says for $30 a month you can get 1.5 mbps, can you guess who I'll choose? I would go with Verizon in a heart beat no doubt about it. Regards, Steve
Or how about just stopping the javascript interpreter when the window isn't in focus. And if a child window is being viewed make sure thats its parent windows gain focus behind it or something to that affect. That would more or less cover all the cases, would it not? Regards, Steve
It is certainly good that people are looking out for bugs, but Secunia didn't find these. They just compiled a list of known bugs that were fixed in 1.0.1. Their site is supposed to be a consolidated source for finding vulnerabilites and researching the security of applications, which means whether or not they find the vulnerabilites, they report on them. Regards, Steve
I believe he uses yellowdog (based on fedora) mainly now. The x86's that he did use, used to be Red Hat/Fedora and Suse, one OS he used at home and one he used at work. Regards, Steve
Good points. But for those who didn't rtfa, or have no idea about kernel development, Alan Cox generally makes sure the kernel is stable. Linus likes to innovate and throw new ideas in without necessarily testing them thoroughly. Innovation and stability are usually separated by quite a time period in any development process, so all Alan was more or less saying was that (as the parent stated) they compliment each other. OSDL pays Linus to hack up new stuff thats needed, Red Hat pays Alan to make sure that new stuff is stable and can be effectively used to its full potential. You really do need them both, as one without the other won't achieve much, and giving those tasks to one man alone would be quite a burden and errors would be abundant. Both Alan and Linus are absolute geniuses at what they do and no one is arguing that. Since when did OSS need to sensationalize headlines? Regards, Steve
Hrm... my apologies, perhaps I was thinking of kickstart. As far as the gui install goes though, I thought you could individually select packages, but on second thought its probably done in groups. Because of dependencies though, things like KDE and Gnome can't really be left to individual selections. Your right, thanks for correcting me. I guess the best solution would be to do a minimal install and then yum in whatever else you want. Regards, Steve
Rhnsd probably does connect out by default, but as long as it doesn't receive any incoming connections whats the problem? As far as I know, rhnsd does not sit there waiting for something to connect to it. In fact to quote the man pages: " rhnsd is a background daemon process that periodically polls the Red Hat Network to see if there are any queued actions available." It goes on to state that by default it only polls once every 4 hours. So this is in no way a security threat, but yet is of great benefit to keeping you secure and up to date with patches. All it does is see if there are updates, if there are it lets you know. Please correct me if I'm mistaken. Regards, Steve
Unix machines tend to be used for more mission critical applications. If you want to get into high security servers, etc... you need to hack unix. Also, its nice knowing the box you root will probably be running 24/7 unlike windows machines which are usually desktop machines and are often turned off over night etc... There are a number of reasons why people would want to attack unix instead of windows. Personally I'd choose a unix machine over windows anyday. What the hell good is windows going to do me when I'm sitting 1000 miles away logged in with ssh? Regards, Steve
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FC has no services running by default that connect to the internet unless you specify otherwise. Also you have complete control over every program installed at installation time. Regardless, an entire FC3 install with all the thousands of applications takes up approx 4 gigs, thats really not much for what your getting. A server install is something like 800 mb, and thats before you cut off the fat. I always do a full install because its nice to just have everything you need, a program sitting on my harddrive isn't doing anyone any harm.
FC3's firewall is also set up very well and has been noted to have one of the best default setups out of many of the linux distros. Some of the other protections included in FC3 are SElinux which has policies for all major services and exec-shield is also extensively used. All major services connecting out are compiled with switches that randomize the memory allocation, which may have the negative side affect of taking a little longer to start because it can't prelink, but it really helps against many attacks because every machine has its memory mapped in different locations. The amount of security that Red Hat puts into FC3 while still leaving it so functional is pretty amazing. Most of the vulnerabilities found usually can't do much harm after you consider the layers of security and the other standard security measures, i.e. users and setting up perms correctly. Its nice to know though that the latest outbreak of [insert worm here] *probably* won't affect you. Regards, Steve
Interestingly enough, AOL could monopolize the instant messenging market overnight. AOL has a patent on instant messaging as well as chat rooms. They could shut down every other service and people would literally be forced to use them or live without AIM, MSM, YIM, ICQ, IRC, Jabber, etc... This is all entirely within their legal rights too. Thank god they have been pretty good to the community despite all the bad stuff people say about them. They produce a linux version of aim (admittedly somewhat crippled), give us an open source highly scalable web server, they gave us mozilla, winamp, one version of a basic p2p infastructue, and all other kinds of amazing contriubtions. Personally I don't think people give them enough credit. In addition to those other things, millions use AOL and AOL is very effective at blocking spam both in and out, and also stopping viruses dead in their tracks. They don't take any shit from anyone and although it may anger some web masters and system administrators, perhaps a "no mercy" policy should be more commonplace. Its damn effective and gets those in charge of mail servers to open there eyes and pay attention. Thats why I still have my parents using AOL. That and they do provide some pretty cool media services. Regards, Steve
Maybe I'm nuts or just less bitter then most but I really enjoyed high school. I learned a ton of stuff while maintaining a great experience. I never attended public school, but my private high school was honestly pretty awesome. And as far as college goes... I couldn't be any happier then I am right now at my university. Maybe people just didn't know what to look for in a school or just went to the same highschool or college as their friends. Alot of people also choose majors just for the potential money, and not out of interest. In some areas I can see a lack of choice being a problem, but where I live I easily can choose between 40 or so highschools.
Do some research, the same goes for college. All day long I see kids complaing about course loads and things, yet they don't apply themselves at all. To many people expect to be handed things in life and then become bitter when it doesn't happen. So a word of advice, whether your looking for a high school, a college, or a job, research your oppurtunities very carefully, make sure its what you want, and make the best of it. Don't bitch if it starts to suck, that won't help anything. You have to try to change things, make an impact. Sometimes that will involve changing your own habits (often times the problem is yourself and your too blind to see it), and sometimes it will involve talking to someone in a more powerful position then yourself. My experience has been that assuming your arguments are reasonable, that people will listen. Don't just sit around, make a difference and stop complaining.
The fix for this is too simply throw in your own random watermarks on every frame all over the place. If done properly you'll be guaranteed to overwrite their watermark to the point where it is no longer comprehensible, while retaining visual clarity of the film. I'm no expert in watermarking technologies, not even really sure how they are implemented, I'm just talking from my background in information theory. If they can add something to a film that is not visibly detectable to the naked eye, then so can you, and you can guarantee that your's overrides theirs. Regards, Steve
The idea is to remove any pixels that don't match and fill those values in with a null or random pixel that is neither one or the other. Assuming the watermark doesn't make the visual appearance of the movie any different, this won't be a problem. The thing is though, if they set each watermark at a different offset then they could just see which two offsets are changed and still trace it back. To overcome that, you'd need to scatter various random watermarks of null or random pixels through out the entire video. Done properly, a viewer will never know, but a movie studio would be hard pressed to trace it back to anyone and even if they did, the legal case would be weak arguing that two null watermarks out of 1000 null watermarks matches an offset they chose. Honestly, the method really depends on how they implement the watermark feature, but it can be overcome if you can grab two copies, although inserting random watermarks into even just one video might suffice. It's not about getting the original film, its just about stopping it from being traced, while retaining quality in the film. Regards, Steve
If its found to be watermarked, the scheme becomes slightly more complex. If the watermark is undetectable, or not easily able to be found (which they aren't supposed to be, correct?) You need someone else at another unrelated theater to grab a digital copy as well. Assuming both are digital copies, then a frame by frame comparison should point out any watermarks. A little manual (or scripted) touching up will take care of it. Regards, Steve
In defense, sci fi is not a big thing in the states. Its kind of the geekiest thing that anyone can do, and there is a very small market for it. Of course the sci fi geeks that live here will tell you differently because they surround themselves with other sci fi geeks, but the truth in the matter is, there is no market here. Regards, Steve
Bullshit. Linux has had atomic and journaled filesystems for ages. No loss of data. Also linux doesnt have that fragmentation crap or anything else. NTFS is a large improvement but linux still wins. WinFS is finally the right direction but its been in development for nearly a decade now and is nothing but a copy of BeFS. Once again open source leads and innovates where it matters and MS is going to try and steal the glory. Regards, Steve
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Every rational number can be generated by the division of two numbers. All of our data is finite and therefore can be repesented as a rational number. Ugh I hate trolls.
Regards,
Steve
The java model consist of no graphical layout tools? Was that a general statement or just regarding solely firefox? Java has many gui builders that are far easier to use and far more extensible then VB, i.e. NetBeans and Eclipse with the VEP plugin. How can you call yourself a phd in computer science when you advocate using VB for coding? Something is wrong there. The extensions for firefox are simple scripts hacked up in javascript (completely different then java) and can be done in vim in a few minutes, no need for a big clunky gui to slow you down. If you've never designed an interface without a gui, please just throw your computer out the window right now.
Regards,
Steve
In the 1970's it was estimated that the NSA is at a lower bound 50 years more advanced in mathematics then society and 200 years for an upper bound. This notion was reinforced when they protected DSA from differential attacks 15 years before anyone even knew such a thing existed. There were other algorithmic changes made that people still haven't found the significance of.
Regards,
Steve
You forgot two things though. It uses a proprietary widget toolkit and prioritizes features over functionality. Gnome does the reverse and some people prefer it that way. Not to mention Gnome uses less ram on my system then kde and gnome also follows a really good HIG.
Regards,
Steve
I'm not sure if that was a compliment or an insult to Red Hat, but regardless, Michael is a good guy with a good head on his shoulders. If you've ever seen his writings or hear him talk you'd know what I mean. Afterall, he did write the first GNU C++ compiler. He recently also did a little video thing for Red Hat magazine showing the benefits of open source. He truly is an innovative and important guy in the community. Congratulations to him. For those who don't know, Red Hat has many individuals like this that are just as influential and important in the OSS world (i.e. Alan Cox), don't let one bad marketing decision make you hate Red Hat. Without them, who knows where we'd be, even OSS programmers have to eat.
Regards,
Steve
P.S. For a little blurb on Michael, read this.
You'll see that I specified lay people. Farmer's (which used to constitute one of America's largest workforces), as well as many other areas that may require workers to make certain decisions based on current temperatures, often times a chart of integer values in one column and corresponding value in the next column will be posted. Asking workers to round numbers may be asking too much for uneducated laborers. Honestly, its such a small deviation that it doesn't really matter if you use C or F degrees, but (to put it into computer terms) why right a number in octal notation when hex notation is already commonplace and requires less digits for the same precision?
Regards,
Steve
Darn I was hoping it'd work in lynx now, but no such luck :/ It just takes you to the page saying "0 refresh rate" and a link to the other frame which when visited logs you out.
Regards,
Steve
The only advantage to the lay person is that farenheit has nearly double the precision (actually 1.8 times) when using solely integers. This may not be significant to you, but a few degrees can indeed be important in some industries. Most people don't deal with decimals (unless your a scientist). Just to make sure the point is clear, if you are at 0 C and 32 F then your at freezing point, if the temperature goes up one degree to 1 C and 33 F , the C measurement is misleading, as the farenheit measurement will show you that it really only went up half (.47) degrees.
Regards,
Steve
Linus has openly stated that stock kernel's are not what they used to be and never will be. He said the responsibility now lies in the hands of distributions. Personally this doesnt change much for most, but its important to note that Linus's goal is no longer to make a kernel that is easy to use straight from the souce through compilation to actual usage, that burden is now distrbuted amongst the distros.Linus still attempts to achieve it, but it is no longer a priority, his goal is to simply advance the kernel's capabilities.
Regards,
Steve
Why go to Barnes & Noble or Borders Bookstore when there is a free library around the corner? The internet is just a means to more information, granted it has other uses as well. But seriously your argument is like saying why work when you can get welfare and/or Section-8 housing. The way I see it (and I live in philly so my point of view may be biased in favor of free wifi), but it will just make providers have motivation to provide faster wifi speeds then the government offers for a reasonable cost. Competition is good for the consumer and this will just more or less make sure that companies aren't offereing mediocre services for outrageous prices, because if they did then people would just use the free wifi. Honestly I think philly's wifi access will probably average around 256 kbps down (although at Love park its usually much faster, Love park already has free wifi as well as a few other major city areas). If the city is offering 256 kbps for free but Verizon says for $30 a month you can get 1.5 mbps, can you guess who I'll choose? I would go with Verizon in a heart beat no doubt about it.
Regards,
Steve
Or how about just stopping the javascript interpreter when the window isn't in focus. And if a child window is being viewed make sure thats its parent windows gain focus behind it or something to that affect. That would more or less cover all the cases, would it not?
Regards,
Steve
It is certainly good that people are looking out for bugs, but Secunia didn't find these. They just compiled a list of known bugs that were fixed in 1.0.1. Their site is supposed to be a consolidated source for finding vulnerabilites and researching the security of applications, which means whether or not they find the vulnerabilites, they report on them.
Regards,
Steve
I believe he uses yellowdog (based on fedora) mainly now. The x86's that he did use, used to be Red Hat/Fedora and Suse, one OS he used at home and one he used at work.
Regards,
Steve
Good points. But for those who didn't rtfa, or have no idea about kernel development, Alan Cox generally makes sure the kernel is stable. Linus likes to innovate and throw new ideas in without necessarily testing them thoroughly. Innovation and stability are usually separated by quite a time period in any development process, so all Alan was more or less saying was that (as the parent stated) they compliment each other. OSDL pays Linus to hack up new stuff thats needed, Red Hat pays Alan to make sure that new stuff is stable and can be effectively used to its full potential. You really do need them both, as one without the other won't achieve much, and giving those tasks to one man alone would be quite a burden and errors would be abundant. Both Alan and Linus are absolute geniuses at what they do and no one is arguing that. Since when did OSS need to sensationalize headlines?
Regards,
Steve
Hrm... my apologies, perhaps I was thinking of kickstart. As far as the gui install goes though, I thought you could individually select packages, but on second thought its probably done in groups. Because of dependencies though, things like KDE and Gnome can't really be left to individual selections. Your right, thanks for correcting me. I guess the best solution would be to do a minimal install and then yum in whatever else you want.
Regards,
Steve
Rhnsd probably does connect out by default, but as long as it doesn't receive any incoming connections whats the problem? As far as I know, rhnsd does not sit there waiting for something to connect to it. In fact to quote the man pages: " rhnsd is a background daemon process that periodically polls the Red Hat Network to see if there are any queued actions available." It goes on to state that by default it only polls once every 4 hours. So this is in no way a security threat, but yet is of great benefit to keeping you secure and up to date with patches. All it does is see if there are updates, if there are it lets you know. Please correct me if I'm mistaken.
Regards,
Steve
Unix machines tend to be used for more mission critical applications. If you want to get into high security servers, etc... you need to hack unix. Also, its nice knowing the box you root will probably be running 24/7 unlike windows machines which are usually desktop machines and are often turned off over night etc... There are a number of reasons why people would want to attack unix instead of windows. Personally I'd choose a unix machine over windows anyday. What the hell good is windows going to do me when I'm sitting 1000 miles away logged in with ssh?
Regards,
Steve
FC has no services running by default that connect to the internet unless you specify otherwise. Also you have complete control over every program installed at installation time. Regardless, an entire FC3 install with all the thousands of applications takes up approx 4 gigs, thats really not much for what your getting. A server install is something like 800 mb, and thats before you cut off the fat. I always do a full install because its nice to just have everything you need, a program sitting on my harddrive isn't doing anyone any harm.
FC3's firewall is also set up very well and has been noted to have one of the best default setups out of many of the linux distros. Some of the other protections included in FC3 are SElinux which has policies for all major services and exec-shield is also extensively used. All major services connecting out are compiled with switches that randomize the memory allocation, which may have the negative side affect of taking a little longer to start because it can't prelink, but it really helps against many attacks because every machine has its memory mapped in different locations. The amount of security that Red Hat puts into FC3 while still leaving it so functional is pretty amazing. Most of the vulnerabilities found usually can't do much harm after you consider the layers of security and the other standard security measures, i.e. users and setting up perms correctly. Its nice to know though that the latest outbreak of [insert worm here] *probably* won't affect you.
Regards,
Steve
Interestingly enough, AOL could monopolize the instant messenging market overnight. AOL has a patent on instant messaging as well as chat rooms. They could shut down every other service and people would literally be forced to use them or live without AIM, MSM, YIM, ICQ, IRC, Jabber, etc... This is all entirely within their legal rights too. Thank god they have been pretty good to the community despite all the bad stuff people say about them. They produce a linux version of aim (admittedly somewhat crippled), give us an open source highly scalable web server, they gave us mozilla, winamp, one version of a basic p2p infastructue, and all other kinds of amazing contriubtions. Personally I don't think people give them enough credit. In addition to those other things, millions use AOL and AOL is very effective at blocking spam both in and out, and also stopping viruses dead in their tracks. They don't take any shit from anyone and although it may anger some web masters and system administrators, perhaps a "no mercy" policy should be more commonplace. Its damn effective and gets those in charge of mail servers to open there eyes and pay attention. Thats why I still have my parents using AOL. That and they do provide some pretty cool media services.
Regards,
Steve
Maybe I'm nuts or just less bitter then most but I really enjoyed high school. I learned a ton of stuff while maintaining a great experience. I never attended public school, but my private high school was honestly pretty awesome. And as far as college goes... I couldn't be any happier then I am right now at my university. Maybe people just didn't know what to look for in a school or just went to the same highschool or college as their friends. Alot of people also choose majors just for the potential money, and not out of interest. In some areas I can see a lack of choice being a problem, but where I live I easily can choose between 40 or so highschools.
Do some research, the same goes for college. All day long I see kids complaing about course loads and things, yet they don't apply themselves at all. To many people expect to be handed things in life and then become bitter when it doesn't happen. So a word of advice, whether your looking for a high school, a college, or a job, research your oppurtunities very carefully, make sure its what you want, and make the best of it. Don't bitch if it starts to suck, that won't help anything. You have to try to change things, make an impact. Sometimes that will involve changing your own habits (often times the problem is yourself and your too blind to see it), and sometimes it will involve talking to someone in a more powerful position then yourself. My experience has been that assuming your arguments are reasonable, that people will listen. Don't just sit around, make a difference and stop complaining.
Regards,
Steve
The fix for this is too simply throw in your own random watermarks on every frame all over the place. If done properly you'll be guaranteed to overwrite their watermark to the point where it is no longer comprehensible, while retaining visual clarity of the film. I'm no expert in watermarking technologies, not even really sure how they are implemented, I'm just talking from my background in information theory. If they can add something to a film that is not visibly detectable to the naked eye, then so can you, and you can guarantee that your's overrides theirs.
Regards,
Steve
The idea is to remove any pixels that don't match and fill those values in with a null or random pixel that is neither one or the other. Assuming the watermark doesn't make the visual appearance of the movie any different, this won't be a problem. The thing is though, if they set each watermark at a different offset then they could just see which two offsets are changed and still trace it back. To overcome that, you'd need to scatter various random watermarks of null or random pixels through out the entire video. Done properly, a viewer will never know, but a movie studio would be hard pressed to trace it back to anyone and even if they did, the legal case would be weak arguing that two null watermarks out of 1000 null watermarks matches an offset they chose. Honestly, the method really depends on how they implement the watermark feature, but it can be overcome if you can grab two copies, although inserting random watermarks into even just one video might suffice. It's not about getting the original film, its just about stopping it from being traced, while retaining quality in the film.
Regards,
Steve
If its found to be watermarked, the scheme becomes slightly more complex. If the watermark is undetectable, or not easily able to be found (which they aren't supposed to be, correct?) You need someone else at another unrelated theater to grab a digital copy as well. Assuming both are digital copies, then a frame by frame comparison should point out any watermarks. A little manual (or scripted) touching up will take care of it.
Regards,
Steve
In defense, sci fi is not a big thing in the states. Its kind of the geekiest thing that anyone can do, and there is a very small market for it. Of course the sci fi geeks that live here will tell you differently because they surround themselves with other sci fi geeks, but the truth in the matter is, there is no market here.
Regards,
Steve
Bullshit. Linux has had atomic and journaled filesystems for ages. No loss of data. Also linux doesnt have that fragmentation crap or anything else. NTFS is a large improvement but linux still wins. WinFS is finally the right direction but its been in development for nearly a decade now and is nothing but a copy of BeFS. Once again open source leads and innovates where it matters and MS is going to try and steal the glory.
Regards,
Steve