Not only does Lawrence Lessig endorse Obama, he's actually advising him on copyright policy. This could bring about the single biggest policy shift in Washington on copyright, IP, and free culture that we've seen in years.
End-to-End Encryption without a CA or pre-shared keys is never "completely secure." There is nothing to stop the ISP from engaging in a man-in-the-middle attack and listening to all your traffic that way. Granted it takes more resources and more effort, but that at best makes it security through obscurity and nothing else.
This has been tried before. It's called bluecurve. It never got to be the standard it wanted to be because zealots of each Desktop/windowMananger/Toolkit complained that it compromised X's power and/or beauty.
MC Chris has a hilarious song about these called "robotdog". Y'all should listen to it.
let me be the first to say
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WHAT THE HELL?
Then I thought "oh, okay, it's april fools." Then I remembered that no, it wasn't, and it was just National Talk-Like-A-Pirate-Day.
I'd be a little weirded out if someone started walking around with my dead wife's face. But that's just me.
get Syncpod (http://armin.emx.at/ipod/). Neat little perl script that syncs a directory of music and m3u playlists into the ipod. Works great for anyone who likes keeping music organized by directory and id3 tag and not by any particular program.
My dad is an anesthesiologist in the bay area, and I when I asked him, he immediately recommended the mayo clinic, saying it's one of the best for infectious diseases in the country. I'd go there if you can.
Redhat found a vulnerability in fileutils (ls and mkdir), that could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
Because we all know how dangerous and root-related those commands can be.
For christ's sake. Can't they at least come up with some sort of sudo-related vulnerability that at least sounds plausible?
I'd reccomend checking out roadnav. Not very mature (still only in 0.2), but it uses vector data, plots directions, and has a beautifully-generated map.
well, seeing as it's also not supported by windows
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ATI provides a 9800 pro driver. I've installed it myself. The reason X distro's don't include it is because they are proprietary (non-free). However, their generic radeon driver runs just fine as long as you aren't doing any 3d acceleration.
Funny, thats the same way it is with windows...built-in driver works but for 3d accel you need the ATI version.
They would have to strike a deal with Broadcom. Right now the reason I had to wipe YDL from my powerbook was that there was no driver available for airport extreme (apple's 802.11b/g card), severly impairing the notebook's mobile functionality.
Broadcom refuses to diologue with the linux community. I wonder if they'll consent to do it with sun?
Jeeze, haven't we heard this one before?
I find it so funny that frightened institutions always punish those who freely publish their experiences to help fix security holes. All this does is to give hackers an incentive to leave the holes be, and potentially make money informing a select dubious few about them.
I think that people who worry themselves over the ominous and supposedly inevitable "fragmentation" really need to take a second look at things.
1-There are numerous examples of open source programming languages that have remained centralized and unfragmented, like Perl and Python.
2-Because java depends on a uniform standard and VM, any attempts to split off or fork the source tree will die miserably due to a lack of compatibility with the massive pool of existing code and classes.
3-In fact, there is actually LESS chance of fragmentation when Java lies in the hands of the public, first because it means that no one will start up a competing "openjava", a venture that would almost certainly lead to incompatibilities, and second because, as the example of the death of xfree86 shows, too much central and absolute control over software by a small group will inevitably anger developers and users alike, leading them to search for an alternative.
Honestly, this is slashdot. You people should have more faith in OSS.
It's always been a fact that the worst way to tackle piracy is by nabbing the end users. Remember that humerous article a while back about the major detaining facility in Death Valley for file sharers?
The problem is that they let filesharing get so widespread that everyone and their mother now download music. They're going to have to be a bit more creative if they want to stop people from using P2P.
I live in the silicon valley, and I went to a middle school that issued all the 6th and 7th graders laptops(for some reason, not the either graders, so I was screwed). The problem with that kind of system is, it ONLY trains the students to be entirely helpless end users, and nothing more, but there's really no way to fix that.
The thing is, when you own your own computer, it's YOURS. You can do what you want: install software, put in another OS, set it up as a webserver, program, etc. However, all of that gives the user access to parts of the computer that the network admins of schools don't want them to have. So, all that they end up being able to do is type word documents, surf the net and use AIM durring class, and play nanosaur. Nothing else.
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Not only does Lawrence Lessig endorse Obama, he's actually advising him on copyright policy. This could bring about the single biggest policy shift in Washington on copyright, IP, and free culture that we've seen in years.
End-to-End Encryption without a CA or pre-shared keys is never "completely secure." There is nothing to stop the ISP from engaging in a man-in-the-middle attack and listening to all your traffic that way. Granted it takes more resources and more effort, but that at best makes it security through obscurity and nothing else.
This has been tried before. It's called bluecurve. It never got to be the standard it wanted to be because zealots of each Desktop/windowMananger/Toolkit complained that it compromised X's power and/or beauty.
MC Chris has a hilarious song about these called "robotdog". Y'all should listen to it.
WHAT THE HELL? Then I thought "oh, okay, it's april fools." Then I remembered that no, it wasn't, and it was just National Talk-Like-A-Pirate-Day. I'd be a little weirded out if someone started walking around with my dead wife's face. But that's just me.
1 word: SyncPod
http://armin.emx.at/ipod/
get Syncpod (http://armin.emx.at/ipod/). Neat little perl script that syncs a directory of music and m3u playlists into the ipod. Works great for anyone who likes keeping music organized by directory and id3 tag and not by any particular program.
My dad is an anesthesiologist in the bay area, and I when I asked him, he immediately recommended the mayo clinic, saying it's one of the best for infectious diseases in the country. I'd go there if you can.
I'd reccomend checking out roadnav. Not very mature (still only in 0.2), but it uses vector data, plots directions, and has a beautifully-generated map.
ATI provides a 9800 pro driver. I've installed it myself. The reason X distro's don't include it is because they are proprietary (non-free). However, their generic radeon driver runs just fine as long as you aren't doing any 3d acceleration. Funny, thats the same way it is with windows...built-in driver works but for 3d accel you need the ATI version.
but for now i'll stick with my kontact suite. Native API's are just so much faster.
Good work though.
This article isn't so much breaking news. The actual hard copy of this article came out about a month and a bit ago.
The new Yugioh movie. 37 reviews, all negative. Never seen a 0% movie on rotten tomatoes before.
They would have to strike a deal with Broadcom. Right now the reason I had to wipe YDL from my powerbook was that there was no driver available for airport extreme (apple's 802.11b/g card), severly impairing the notebook's mobile functionality.
Broadcom refuses to diologue with the linux community. I wonder if they'll consent to do it with sun?
next.
Jeeze, haven't we heard this one before? I find it so funny that frightened institutions always punish those who freely publish their experiences to help fix security holes. All this does is to give hackers an incentive to leave the holes be, and potentially make money informing a select dubious few about them.
Oh thats right, Tradgedy of the Commons doesn't work for the "digital commons".
I think that people who worry themselves over the ominous and supposedly inevitable "fragmentation" really need to take a second look at things.
1-There are numerous examples of open source programming languages that have remained centralized and unfragmented, like Perl and Python.
2-Because java depends on a uniform standard and VM, any attempts to split off or fork the source tree will die miserably due to a lack of compatibility with the massive pool of existing code and classes.
3-In fact, there is actually LESS chance of fragmentation when Java lies in the hands of the public, first because it means that no one will start up a competing "openjava", a venture that would almost certainly lead to incompatibilities, and second because, as the example of the death of xfree86 shows, too much central and absolute control over software by a small group will inevitably anger developers and users alike, leading them to search for an alternative.
Honestly, this is slashdot. You people should have more faith in OSS.
i'm all in favor of it, but it still does bring my mind back to minority report. Some people have a right to be uneasy.
Damn, that is one fast http server. I'd use it if i hadn't already bittorented the files.
i've always used mapquest. Hasn't failed me yet.
It's always been a fact that the worst way to tackle piracy is by nabbing the end users. Remember that humerous article a while back about the major detaining facility in Death Valley for file sharers? The problem is that they let filesharing get so widespread that everyone and their mother now download music. They're going to have to be a bit more creative if they want to stop people from using P2P.
I live in the silicon valley, and I went to a middle school that issued all the 6th and 7th graders laptops(for some reason, not the either graders, so I was screwed). The problem with that kind of system is, it ONLY trains the students to be entirely helpless end users, and nothing more, but there's really no way to fix that. The thing is, when you own your own computer, it's YOURS. You can do what you want: install software, put in another OS, set it up as a webserver, program, etc. However, all of that gives the user access to parts of the computer that the network admins of schools don't want them to have. So, all that they end up being able to do is type word documents, surf the net and use AIM durring class, and play nanosaur. Nothing else.