Unless one has a truly excellent bookstore in the 'hood, it is difficult to browse by subject and discover books which one likes. One can do an on-line catalog search, or use Amazon's technology which finds clusters of related material, but these are limited in their efficacy. One thing I really, really like is citeseer (http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cs), which identifies works which are similar (at the sentence level). The only shortcoming is that citeseer's domain is academic works. If Google manages to obtain the entire published corpus, then this sort of search will be possible within a much broader domain, and will (I assure you) lead me to purchase many more books.
"We have hundreds of nuclear missiles in the ground all across the west, but we don't use them. That doesn't mean we should get a rid of them."
Actually, it does. What purpose do they serve? Noone on the planet can take out our submarine-based missiles, and these alone are powerful and numerous enough to destroy the planet.
I can understand having a nuclear deterrent, but we have land-based ICBMs, nukes we can deliver via bombers, cruise-missile nukes, and SLBMs. Surely it is feasible to eliminate the fixed-silo ICBMs, given that the adversary against whom they were deployed no longer exists and we have multiple, independent means of delivering enough OTHER nukes to destroy the world, should the French get uppity enough to make warrant such an object lesson.
Zones, N1 Grid containers, predictive failover, dtrace, fine-grained process rights management (a ala systrace), etc. etc.
Most people don't need this stuff. The ones who do, and who realize they do, love Solaris. Those who do, and who don't realize it, waste their customers' time and money, and deliver second-class service.
And after you think you're a decent sysadmin, get Limoncelli and Hogan's _Practice of System and Network Administration_ to learn how it's really done in the big leagues. Best thing I've read on system admin since Stephan Zielinski's field guide to sysadmins, and I've been running UNIX machines long enough to have used READMEs written by Dennis Ritchie.
Collision == broken if the reason the collisions were found lies in a property of the algorithm which until now was misunderstood.
Collision == broken if the research leads to subsequent work which further weakens the algorithm.
Agreed that finding a collision via an exhaustive search is no big whoop, but I don't *think* that is what this rumor is about;^).
Basically, that crack in your foundation *might* be no big deal, but it *might* mean that there's a spring running 6" below the foundation wall and in six months your mansion collapses.
Why is it necessary for Slashdot to give additional "air-time" to this loon every time he publishes his FUD? The guy obviously has a partisan stance, is biased, and has a financial stake in having his stuff believed.
Suggestion: Next time he publishes a white paper suggesting that open source will cause the fall of western civilization, we respond with a resounding "plonk".
They don't allow it on the same network (I hope), but idiot XP users' boxen automatically come up in ad hoc mode, and will ASSociate with the naughty hax0rs box outside the perimeter. Probably will be dumb enough to forward packets between interfaces too! Yeeeeeehaaaa!
SANS doesn't provide WiFi? This must be a new development. They sure as hell did in February, and it was unencrypted, too. Of course, we all new it was wide open and more or less behaved accordingly.
I might even still have some of the tcpdump logs;^)
"the PHP license is rather basic and does not protect against many of the potential code abuses the GPL or LGPL does"
That is just it. What you term "abuses" others would term "free uses". Where you see a harm to the community when something isn't released, others see a benefit in that a programmer's liberty to use the work of others and still license the result as (s)he chooses is maintained.
There is no ultimate right answer here -- it depends on how you want to trade the two kinds of freedom off against one another, and that answer may well vary for different projects.
Amusing how the OpenBSD project goes out of its way to make a portable version of a utility they could easily have allowed to remain OpenBSD-only, and news of the event immediately turns into a Linux crybaby convention. The sense of entitlement is as annoying as it is predictable. You want an ISO? Make one, or find someone who already has. The fact this this seems so damn hard is testimony to either the laziness, stupidity, or selfishness of the whiners who make the requests, seems to me.
First, for something as widely deployed as NTP, it is desirable to have a variety of implementations in use. This is well-trod ground, so no need to go over it.
Second, a distinguishing feature of OpenNTPd is its simplicity. It lacks many of the features of xntpd, and provides a subset of xntpd's functionality, and additional features which have been in demand. I guess you could say it does more of what a large number of people want, and less of what a comparative few want.
Since the two implementations are different in what they can do (although there is obviously substantial overlap), those seeking a decent NTP implementation now have a choice, which is a goot thing.
If the only devices on the evil hax0rs' network segment were their own machine and the SWITCH they connected to, they wouldn't be able to see anything other than their own traffic and broadcasts. This isn't a perfect solution by any means, but it is better than plugging a bunch of people who have no reason to trust one another into a hub.
Is this the same NYT which for a period of more than a year was practically tripping over itself to exalt everything that Art Spiegelman did? That guy could've signed one of his kid's used diapers and it would have gotten a rave in the Times. Now we learn that Maus is "dumbed-down" history for troglodytes with ADD. What changed?
Shee-it. I read Maus in serial form when it was originally published in Raw. It (and Raw itself) was intellectually stimulating, vastly UN-like most of the novels published today. Admittedly, it isn't high art, but it never purported to be.
Finally, maybe there isn't such a vast schism between "real literature" and comic art -- Thomas Pynchon did appear on the Simpsons, didn't he?
Lance has half as much chance of injury from a high-velocity impact with the top-tube, after all.
The amazing thing about that incident is the speed with which Lance swerved to avoid the crashed rider in front of him. Seeing it at actual speed, rather than slo-mo, it was instantaneous.
Interesting question about Hamilton chasing down Ullrich to get him to wait up -- if Ullrich is so easy to catch up to, why doesn't Hamilton challenge him all the time?:^)
Hamilton's pain threshold is insane. This is a guy who had to have dental work done on his molars because while riding injured he ground them down so badly by clenching his teeth to handle the discomfort.
I dare say that the typical MD knows as much minutiae as Ken, but it is focused in a comparatively narrow area. OTOH, Ken is 10 miles wide and a foot deep. The rest of us are five miles wide and six inches deep. Ken is impressive, but the Tour riders are astonishing.
I question the business acumen of any executive who simultaneously pisses off an employee, and decides to extend the company perimeter into that employee's home LAN, over which he has absolutely no influence or control.
Why do they want the employees to be "dedicated" enough to pay for something the firm itself doesn't view as important enough to spend money on.
Call me a pollyanna, but I'd think that such a unique way of educating people about this tragedy would be met with something other than a minor uptick in the demand for hand lotion and tissues.
Losers commenting on this woman's "hotness" are not only pathetic, they're insulting.
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Unless one has a truly excellent bookstore in the 'hood, it is difficult to browse by subject and discover books which one likes. One can do an on-line catalog search, or use Amazon's technology which finds clusters of related material, but these are limited in their efficacy. One thing I really, really like is citeseer (http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cs), which identifies works which are similar (at the sentence level). The only shortcoming is that citeseer's domain is academic works. If Google manages to obtain the entire published corpus, then this sort of search will be possible within a much broader domain, and will (I assure you) lead me to purchase many more books.
"We have hundreds of nuclear missiles in the ground all across the west, but we don't use them. That doesn't mean we should get a rid of them."
Actually, it does. What purpose do they serve? Noone on the planet can take out our submarine-based missiles, and these alone are powerful and numerous enough to destroy the planet.
I can understand having a nuclear deterrent, but we have land-based ICBMs, nukes we can deliver via bombers, cruise-missile nukes, and SLBMs. Surely it is feasible to eliminate the fixed-silo ICBMs, given that the adversary against whom they were deployed no longer exists and we have multiple, independent means of delivering enough OTHER nukes to destroy the world, should the French get uppity enough to make warrant such an object lesson.
RTFA.
Zones, N1 Grid containers, predictive failover, dtrace, fine-grained process rights management (a ala systrace), etc. etc.
Most people don't need this stuff. The ones who do, and who realize they do, love Solaris. Those who do, and who don't realize it, waste their customers' time and money, and deliver second-class service.
And after you think you're a decent sysadmin, get Limoncelli and Hogan's _Practice of System and Network Administration_ to learn how it's really done in the big leagues. Best thing I've read on system admin since Stephan Zielinski's field guide to sysadmins, and I've been running UNIX machines long enough to have used READMEs written by Dennis Ritchie.
Seconded.
While we're at it in the newsfroups department, let's add Vernon Shryver, Paul Vixie, Tony Li,
Dan Bernstein, and of course, Kibo.
For code and cluefulness, Wietse Venema.
Collision == broken if the reason the collisions were found lies in a property of the algorithm which until now was misunderstood.
;^).
Collision == broken if the research leads to subsequent work which further weakens the algorithm.
Agreed that finding a collision via an exhaustive search is no big whoop, but I don't *think* that is what this rumor is about
Basically, that crack in your foundation *might* be no big deal, but it *might* mean that there's a spring running 6" below the foundation wall and in six months your mansion collapses.
Why is it necessary for Slashdot to give additional "air-time" to this loon every time he publishes his FUD? The guy obviously has a partisan stance, is biased, and has a financial stake in having his stuff believed.
Suggestion: Next time he publishes a white paper suggesting that open source will cause the fall of western civilization, we respond with a resounding "plonk".
They don't allow it on the same network (I hope), but idiot XP users' boxen automatically come up in ad hoc mode, and will ASSociate with the naughty hax0rs box outside the perimeter. Probably will be dumb enough to forward packets between interfaces too! Yeeeeeehaaaa!
SANS doesn't provide WiFi? This must be a new development. They sure as hell did in February, and it was unencrypted, too. Of course, we all new it was wide open and more or less behaved accordingly.
;^)
I might even still have some of the tcpdump logs
"the PHP license is rather basic and does not protect against many of the potential code abuses the GPL or LGPL does"
That is just it. What you term "abuses" others would term "free uses". Where you see a harm to the community when something isn't released, others see a benefit in that a programmer's liberty to use the work of others and still license the result as (s)he chooses is maintained.
There is no ultimate right answer here -- it depends on how you want to trade the two kinds of freedom off against one another, and that answer may well vary for different projects.
Amusing how the OpenBSD project goes out of its way to make a portable version of a utility they could easily have allowed to remain OpenBSD-only, and news of the event immediately turns into a Linux crybaby convention. The sense of entitlement is as annoying as it is predictable. You want an ISO? Make one, or find someone who already has. The fact this this seems so damn hard is testimony to either the laziness, stupidity, or selfishness of the whiners who make the requests, seems to me.
Two reasons come to mind --
First, for something as widely deployed as NTP, it is desirable to have a variety of implementations in use. This is well-trod ground, so no need to go over it.
Second, a distinguishing feature of OpenNTPd is its simplicity. It lacks many of the features of xntpd, and provides a subset of xntpd's functionality, and additional features which have been in demand. I guess you could say it does more of what a large number of people want, and less of what a comparative few want.
Since the two implementations are different in what they can do (although there is obviously substantial overlap), those seeking a decent NTP implementation now have a choice, which is a goot thing.
yeah, but since no humans are harmed, it's all good.
"Ape must not kill ape!"
--Dr. Zaius
Hell, dude, anybody works for less than all of Canada put together!
If the only devices on the evil hax0rs' network segment were their own machine and the SWITCH they connected to, they wouldn't be able to see anything other than their own traffic and broadcasts. This isn't a perfect solution by any means, but it is better than plugging a bunch of people who have no reason to trust one another into a hub.
Is this the same NYT which for a period of more than a year was practically tripping over itself to exalt everything that Art Spiegelman did? That guy could've signed one of his kid's used diapers and it would have gotten a rave in the Times. Now we learn that Maus is "dumbed-down" history for troglodytes with ADD. What changed?
Shee-it. I read Maus in serial form when it was originally published in Raw. It (and Raw itself) was intellectually stimulating, vastly UN-like most of the novels published today. Admittedly, it isn't high art, but it never purported to be.
Finally, maybe there isn't such a vast schism between "real literature" and comic art -- Thomas Pynchon did appear on the Simpsons, didn't he?
Lance has half as much chance of injury from a high-velocity impact with the top-tube, after all.
:^)
The amazing thing about that incident is the speed with which Lance swerved to avoid the crashed rider in front of him. Seeing it at actual speed, rather than slo-mo, it was instantaneous.
Interesting question about Hamilton chasing down Ullrich to get him to wait up -- if Ullrich is so easy to catch up to, why doesn't Hamilton challenge him all the time?
Hamilton's pain threshold is insane. This is a guy who had to have dental work done on his molars because while riding injured he ground them down so badly by clenching his teeth to handle the discomfort.
I dare say that the typical MD knows as much minutiae as Ken, but it is focused in a comparatively narrow area. OTOH, Ken is 10 miles wide and a foot deep. The rest of us are five miles wide and six inches deep. Ken is impressive, but the Tour riders are astonishing.
I question the business acumen of any executive who simultaneously pisses off an employee, and decides to extend the company perimeter into that employee's home LAN, over which he has absolutely no influence or control.
Why do they want the employees to be "dedicated" enough to pay for something the firm itself doesn't view as important enough to spend money on.
Actually, the mascot of rec.motorcycles is Chuck Rogers'"geeky", himself likely derived from/inspired by McKusick's BSD daemon.
Non-partisan, you say? I think not.
It isn't used because it makes for a great denial of service mechanism.
...and the best part was that the script was called "repent".
Call me a pollyanna, but I'd think that such a unique way of educating people about this tragedy would be met with something other than a minor uptick in the demand for hand lotion and tissues.
Losers commenting on this woman's "hotness" are not only pathetic, they're insulting.
I don't think you can state it clearly enough either.
What part of the QUOTED STATUTE do you take issue with? It's black letter law.
Now, it may not read that way where you live, and case law might be different where I live, but where the poster is, it sure looks pretty clear to me.