2. Whoever is writing these worms knows how much damage they're doing to open source. It would have been preferrable to
inform the OpenSSL people first, wait a month, then release the worm.
To be fail to the OpenSSL guys, there was a fix out BEFORE this worm was created.
To not be fair to the OpenSSL guys, someone (Smarter than I) needs to rewrite OpenSSL, there are GOTOs in there!! Eeewww!
Please refrain from referring to the mentally retarded as REE-tards. Especially as clueless ones. It's demeaning. Besides, many of them have more common sense than "normal" folk.
Yea! The ones that have more common sense than "normal" people are to be called "GoTards".
Patents and copyrights are about making money, NOT fostering innovation.
In America, patents are supposed to foster innovation. That's why you must publish everything about how your patented method works. After you loose your patent, everyone will be able to use your method and build upon it.
DAT is lossy. It loses all frequencies above 24 kHz (48 kHz sample rate + Nyquist-Shannon theorem [wikipedia.com]). It loses all
signals below -120 dB due to the effective 20-bit performance of 16-bit dithered PCM. It loses the front-and-back dimension.
That's great and all, but I doubt you can hear all that dynamic response with the s/n on most consumer amps.Also, who can hear above 22KHz? I know I can't. I might hear an overtone or an intermod product from a tone being generated above 22KHz, but not the fundamental tone.
All my stupid accretions aside, the more information you can capture, the better. You may not be able to hear all of it on your $500 living room system.
Re:Slashdotted, but GNOME2 *is* leagues better
on
KDE Gets The Hat
·
· Score: 2, Informative
I know plenty of developers who use GTK 1.x out of licensing issues, when they openly admire Qt but can't touch it.
I thought those issues were fixed about 2 years ago. Heck, even RMS is cool with the QPL, last I checked.
Why is it when the open source people make changes that break application software, it's automatically the fault of the
closed-source software writers? Jesus Christ, just don't make changes that break software!
And wind up with the stability of Windows? Nope. Fix the software. Make the hard and difficult choice of making the software better, not compatible.
why because simply put you dont think that there are people out their violating the GPL now ?
(e.g. Microsoft may have changed parts of linux kernel and I dont see those changes published )
As far as I know, Microsoft has never distributed Linux or any other GPL software. They can change Linux all they want. There is no GPL violation in making changes to GPL software.
If the NSA software would compete with MS, then the government has no business releasing it. Government isn't there to compete with private industry. It's unfair, especially considering the fact that the government can subsidize any projects with tax money that comes from it's competitors.
Mmm, but it's ok to use a Government funded (BSD) TCP/IP stack in the MS Operating Systems right?
The point is that SE-Linux is free for Microsoft or anyone else to use. It did not compete with Windows, it's a Unix.
3) urpmi with RPMs works ok most of the time. When it doesn't work, it's usually beause it dependencies that urpmi can't find in
other rpms. In this respect, Debian still beats the RPM-based distros.
I have never had a dependency problem with RedHat Errata RPMS on RedHat installs.
I have had problems with Joe Schmoe's RPMS though.
I take it that Debian has no dependency constraints in debs. (I don't know. I have never used anything but Slack and RedHat) If that is the case, how do you know what libs go with Joe Schmoe's debs?
This is not a troll, I really want to know.
Isn't this how that song goes........
on
Linuxworld Fun
·
· Score: 1
I was lonelier than A Microsoft booth babe at a Linux Expo that night..........
There is a big distinction between the GPL and the BSD-style licenses. The GPL is all about making sure that people who use GPL licensed code release their new code under the GPL too.
Absolutely not. The GPL is all about making sure that people who DISTRIBUTE GPL licensed code release their new code under the GPL too.
You can change and use it all you want, but if you sell it to me, I must have a copy of your source.
Well, no offence, but when I was born in what used to be a communist country, I couldn't see a *single* homeless / begging person. I still very vividly remember visiting italy at the age of 10 and asking mum what is that person doing sitting on the pavement and trying to tell us something.
Now I live in UK, economically fairly succesful country and there are shitloads of very young homeless beggars.
Amazing what some people do when given a choice. I think homelessness has less to do with economics and more to do with psychology.
Take the Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard, he may be 50-60 years old, he may have went to school at Yale, he may be very successful in the world, but hes still an ignorant racist leader of the KKK.
Ignorant, no. Evil, yes.
Hitler, a military genius, was ignorant as hell.
Ignorant, no. Evil, yes.
Bin Laden, highly educated, a genius, but ignorant as hell.
Ignorant, no. Evil, yes.
Ignorance has nothing to do with knowledge, nothing to do with age, and everything to do with your way of thinking. Ignorant people usually are easily influenced by others.
I was not attempting to flame, I was using the word by it's Dictionary definition. I guess words have no meaning anymore, sigh.
Old people running this country dont understand change, they dont know how to adapt, thats the problem with having all old people in the government.
The problem with being young is that you turn to your peers for advice. Your peers are just as ignorant you are. There is much to be learned from "Old" people. The sooner you figure that out, the better off you will be.
This is true. Most people will "experience" a neutrino collision in their body once or twice in their lifetime. Of course, you'll never know it when it happens.
If there were a wall of solid lead, 1 light-year thick, out in space, only 50% of the neutrinos passing through it would actually collide with a lead atom. The other 50% would pass right through as if it weren't there.
There is something I would like to ask you very smart people. Would there be any way you can generate neutrinos in a manner so that you could piggy back information on them and detect that information at some distance? Kind of the way radio works. If so, it would be really nice because dense objects such as the earth and buildings would no longer be a problem for communications.
And as the article mentioned, this applies to Packet Radio, which by it's nature has a single source and a single destination. Omni
directional antennas are used primarily for point to multipoint communication not point to point as is typically used for packet
radio.
I see you have never operated packet before. I don't know of a single digipeater in my area that uses a Yagi antenna.
For instance, a 15 dBi High Performance Omni sold here [hyperlinktech.com] for $209.95 increases the effective radiated power
by a factor of 100,000. A factor of 10 for every 3 db of gain. So, your standard 100mw transmitter would transmit less power than
the 100w transmitter initially, but would fall off less with distance, surpassing the performance of a 100w transmitter on a
standard antenna after the first few feet.
Haha! You kidding right? Go read, go learn.
(dBd Gain + Leedline Loss) = 10 log (Radiated Power / Tx Power)
100 Watts is an acceptable amount of power for covering a metro area. And no, a 15dBi antenna with 100mw input is not going to give you more ERP over a Icotropic radiator with 100W input.
It's not my problem if it causes Part 15 devices problems, they are unlicensed, sucks to be them.
Since 100mw with a high gain antenna is enough power
to transmit to the limits of practical line of sight, using more than 100mw is using more power than is necessary.
Um, what if you want Omnidirectional coverage? 100mw won't get you much if you want to have a large coverage area.
What kind of interference will this cause? If everyone with with 802.11 capabilities starts broadcasting, will it cause any
problems? I've heard bluetooth and things like microwaves and 2.4 GHz cordless phones don't get along so well with this
technology.
As a "Joe User" with an off the shelf, Part 15 device, you must accept any interference that comes your way. You must also not cause any interference. You are an unlicensed user of the spectrum.
As a ham on the other hand, you can modify the part 15 Device to your allocated freqs, amplify the power output and modify the antenna system. You will also have priority over the Part 15 Devices that coexist in your spectrum.
Slashdot Mirror
it's not the GOTO's that are bad, it's the programmers that use them poorly that make them bad.
There is no reason to use a goto. Ever.
2. Whoever is writing these worms knows how much damage they're doing to open source. It would have been preferrable to inform the OpenSSL people first, wait a month, then release the worm.
To be fail to the OpenSSL guys, there was a fix out BEFORE this worm was created.
To not be fair to the OpenSSL guys, someone (Smarter than I) needs to rewrite OpenSSL, there are GOTOs in there!! Eeewww!
Please refrain from referring to the mentally retarded as REE-tards. Especially as clueless ones. It's demeaning. Besides, many of them have more common sense than "normal" folk.
Yea! The ones that have more common sense than "normal" people are to be called "GoTards".
Bruce,
That's what I said. "In America, patents are supposed to foster innovation."
Patents and copyrights are about making money, NOT fostering innovation.
In America, patents are supposed to foster innovation. That's why you must publish everything about how your patented method works. After you loose your patent, everyone will be able to use your method and build upon it.
DAT is lossy. It loses all frequencies above 24 kHz (48 kHz sample rate + Nyquist-Shannon theorem [wikipedia.com]). It loses all signals below -120 dB due to the effective 20-bit performance of 16-bit dithered PCM. It loses the front-and-back dimension.
That's great and all, but I doubt you can hear all that dynamic response with the s/n on most consumer amps.Also, who can hear above 22KHz? I know I can't. I might hear an overtone or an intermod product from a tone being generated above 22KHz, but not the fundamental tone.
All my stupid accretions aside, the more information you can capture, the better. You may not be able to hear all of it on your $500 living room system.
I know plenty of developers who use GTK 1.x out of licensing issues, when they openly admire Qt but can't touch it.
I thought those issues were fixed about 2 years ago. Heck, even RMS is cool with the QPL, last I checked.
Why is it when the open source people make changes that break application software, it's automatically the fault of the closed-source software writers? Jesus Christ, just don't make changes that break software!
And wind up with the stability of Windows? Nope. Fix the software. Make the hard and difficult choice of making the software better, not compatible.
GPL exists to protect invidual coder's IPs.
No, the GPL is there to protect users, not developers.
why because simply put you dont think that there are people out their violating the GPL now ? (e.g. Microsoft may have changed parts of linux kernel and I dont see those changes published )
As far as I know, Microsoft has never distributed Linux or any other GPL software. They can change Linux all they want. There is no GPL violation in making changes to GPL software.
Yeah, but by doing this, are they risking their status as a common carrier?
Score +1 Insightful
If the NSA software would compete with MS, then the government has no business releasing it. Government isn't there to compete with private industry. It's unfair, especially considering the fact that the government can subsidize any projects with tax money that comes from it's competitors.
Mmm, but it's ok to use a Government funded (BSD) TCP/IP stack in the MS Operating Systems right?
The point is that SE-Linux is free for Microsoft or anyone else to use. It did not compete with Windows, it's a Unix.
3) urpmi with RPMs works ok most of the time. When it doesn't work, it's usually beause it dependencies that urpmi can't find in other rpms. In this respect, Debian still beats the RPM-based distros.
I have never had a dependency problem with RedHat Errata RPMS on RedHat installs.
I have had problems with Joe Schmoe's RPMS though.
I take it that Debian has no dependency constraints in debs. (I don't know. I have never used anything but Slack and RedHat) If that is the case, how do you know what libs go with Joe Schmoe's debs?
This is not a troll, I really want to know.
I was lonelier than A Microsoft booth babe at a Linux Expo that night..........
Ok, so it was bad. Bite me.
USA - loudmouthed, ignorant, racist, nationalistic fat rednecks eating McDonald's.
Europe - Home of Hitler,Stalin,Mussolini,and Milosevic.
And you call us racist and nationalistic?
There is a big distinction between the GPL and the BSD-style licenses. The GPL is all about making sure that people who use GPL licensed code release their new code under the GPL too.
Absolutely not. The GPL is all about making sure that people who DISTRIBUTE GPL licensed code release their new code under the GPL too.
You can change and use it all you want, but if you sell it to me, I must have a copy of your source.
Well, no offence, but when I was born in what used to be a communist country, I couldn't see a *single* homeless / begging person. I still very vividly remember visiting italy at the age of 10 and asking mum what is that person doing sitting on the pavement and trying to tell us something.
Now I live in UK, economically fairly succesful country and there are shitloads of very young homeless beggars.
Amazing what some people do when given a choice. I think homelessness has less to do with economics and more to do with psychology.
Ah yes- Murder...Good example...
I give you "The death penalty". Reconcile that one...
Murdering someone and killing someone are not the same thing, though in the end someone is dead.
And just because something is illegal, doesn't mean it's wrong...
Americans, in particular, seem to have trouble with that one. Brainwashed, the lot of 'em...
You can't successfully legislate morality!
And that's why I say don't piss and moan like Eurotrash when you get busted breaking the law. Take it like a man.
Take the Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard, he may be 50-60 years old, he may have went to school at Yale, he may be very successful in the world, but hes still an ignorant racist leader of the KKK.
Ignorant, no. Evil, yes.
Hitler, a military genius, was ignorant as hell.
Ignorant, no. Evil, yes.
Bin Laden, highly educated, a genius, but ignorant as hell.
Ignorant, no. Evil, yes.
Ignorance has nothing to do with knowledge, nothing to do with age, and everything to do with your way of thinking. Ignorant people usually are easily influenced by others.
I was not attempting to flame, I was using the word by it's Dictionary definition. I guess words have no meaning anymore, sigh.
Old people running this country dont understand change, they dont know how to adapt, thats the problem with having all old people in the government.
The problem with being young is that you turn to your peers for advice. Your peers are just as ignorant you are. There is much to be learned from "Old" people. The sooner you figure that out, the better off you will be.
This is true. Most people will "experience" a neutrino collision in their body once or twice in their lifetime. Of course, you'll never know it when it happens.
If there were a wall of solid lead, 1 light-year thick, out in space, only 50% of the neutrinos passing through it would actually collide with a lead atom. The other 50% would pass right through as if it weren't there.
There is something I would like to ask you very smart people. Would there be any way you can generate neutrinos in a manner so that you could piggy back information on them and detect that information at some distance? Kind of the way radio works. If so, it would be really nice because dense objects such as the earth and buildings would no longer be a problem for communications.
Just a thought.
And as the article mentioned, this applies to Packet Radio, which by it's nature has a single source and a single destination. Omni directional antennas are used primarily for point to multipoint communication not point to point as is typically used for packet radio.
I see you have never operated packet before. I don't know of a single digipeater in my area that uses a Yagi antenna.
For instance, a 15 dBi High Performance Omni sold here [hyperlinktech.com] for $209.95 increases the effective radiated power by a factor of 100,000. A factor of 10 for every 3 db of gain. So, your standard 100mw transmitter would transmit less power than the 100w transmitter initially, but would fall off less with distance, surpassing the performance of a 100w transmitter on a standard antenna after the first few feet.
Haha! You kidding right? Go read, go learn.
(dBd Gain + Leedline Loss) = 10 log (Radiated Power / Tx Power)
100 Watts is an acceptable amount of power for covering a metro area. And no, a 15dBi antenna with 100mw input is not going to give you more ERP over a Icotropic radiator with 100W input.
It's not my problem if it causes Part 15 devices problems, they are unlicensed, sucks to be them.
DE KE4PJW
Since 100mw with a high gain antenna is enough power to transmit to the limits of practical line of sight, using more than 100mw is using more power than is necessary.
Um, what if you want Omnidirectional coverage? 100mw won't get you much if you want to have a large coverage area.
DE KE4PJW
What kind of interference will this cause? If everyone with with 802.11 capabilities starts broadcasting, will it cause any problems? I've heard bluetooth and things like microwaves and 2.4 GHz cordless phones don't get along so well with this technology.
As a "Joe User" with an off the shelf, Part 15 device, you must accept any interference that comes your way. You must also not cause any interference. You are an unlicensed user of the spectrum.
As a ham on the other hand, you can modify the part 15 Device to your allocated freqs, amplify the power output and modify the antenna system. You will also have priority over the Part 15 Devices that coexist in your spectrum.
DE KE4PJW