What's to document?
Darl McBride wrote
UNIX (The UNIplexed Information and Computing Service)
while working for SCO
(The Santa Cruz Operation Group,
based in Tarantella, Utah)
which was then stolen
with the help of IBM
by Linus Benedict Torvalds
(who called it GNU/Freax
and then renamed to GNU/Linux
because William R. Della Croce, Jr had
trademark on Freax)
in his plot to undermine MINIX
and the entire concept of microkernel design
to slow down the HURD development,
or otherwise Bitkeeper would never be able to
take over RCS, CVS and Subversion.
Even Andrew S. Tanenbaum
says it would be impossible for Torvalds to write
the entire operating system in 1991.
Furthermore,
the UNIX family tree
and the bastardization thereof
is clearly explained on
the slides
by Larry Wall.
So, what's to document?
I thought it is all clear now, is it not?
I have no problem with robots playing games, provided:
A robot shall not win with a human being,
or, through inaction, allow a human being to loose.
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings
except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A robot must protect its own
player as long as such protection
does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
I think playing with robots might be a great test
for us humans and the intelligence thereof.
Personally I believe that playing first person shooters
is a task so complex and intellectually challenging
(much more so than chess or even go,
where you only have few objects, simple rules,
and a finite number of states)
that no robot in our lifetime will be able to play them,
maybe even no robot ever.
Only time and patience will show us.
This is certainly a very important step
in robotics and artificial intelligence evolution.
Great read.
Persons:
PTH -- me, Pan Tarhei Hosé;
SMC -- a tech support guy, Stupid Moronic Cretin.
A phone conversation:
PTH:
Good morning, there is a problem with your
router with IP a.b.c.d, it seems to--
SMC: Have you installed the latest Explorer patch?
PTH: No, but this has nothing to do with www,
your router seems to drop--
SMC: You need to patch your Explorer
because there is a virus in the wild.
PTH: That's great but I am not talking about
Explorer, I am talking about ICMP packets which are apparently--
SMC: It is against our terms of service
to use unpatched Windows.
PTH: Yes, that's interesting indeed. Fortunately
I am not using unpatched Windows so
that having been said we can now go
back to the meritum. The router in question--
SMC: But you just said you have not patched Explorer?
PTH: Because I don't use Explorer God damn it!
Will you please listen to me? I have investigated where
the ICMP packets are being dropped and it
is your router with IP a.b--
SMC:
Explorer is integrated in the OS so even if you are using
Net Escape (sic) you still need to patch the libraries
used by Explorer.
PTH: Listen to me! I don't use a God damned Windows
and even if I did it is completely irrelevant
because your freaking router is dropping ICMP packets
which I need to--
SMC: You mean like TCP/IP packets?
PTH: No! I mean like ICMP packets!
SMC: For WWW?
PTH: No! For ping, God damn it!
This does not matter! It is broken and it has to be--
SMC: Not for www?
Do you know that we don't allow P2P networks?
PTH: Yes! I don't give a flying fuck!
Please listen to me! I have--
SMC:
But how can you not have unpatched Windows when you just
said you didn't patch your Windows?
PTH:
For the same reason I don't have
vaginal infection even though--
SMC: You mean you have a virus? Then you should--
PTH: No! I mean that... Ah, never mind!
SMC: If you have a virus you should first patch your
Explorer and then install an anti-virus software.
Do you have anti-virus software installed?
PTH: No,
I don't need any anti-virus software on my OpenBS--
SMC: Everyone needs anti-virus software, because--
PTH: OK then! I have anti-virus software!
Your router is misconfigured because it--
SMC: Was it updated after the new virus came out?
PTH: Yes!
SMC: And you have some problems with the Web, right?
PTH: No! I said--
SMC: I thought you said that there is something with the network?
PTH: Yes, the network, but not... Ah, what's the point...
Yes! I have problems with the Web! The WWW problems
with my Explorer on my Windows!
SMC: OK, what do you see when you click start button and
then [...] and [...] and point to [...] and scroll to [...]
and click [...] and then push [...]?
PTH: Uhm... I see... I see Ping Error.
SMC: PIN error?
PTH: Ping, P-I-N-G Error.
SMC: What version of Windows?
PTH: The best one. Fresh install.
SMC: Patched?
PTH: Yes. Every day.
SMC: Thank you for your help.
I will contact our technicians and
we will investigate the problem as soon as possible.
PTH: Thank you...
The problem was solved few hours later.
I got an email
from the more competent technician
explaining that they had some problems
with one of their routers which was blocking ICMP
traffic and that is why my ping could not work...
They were sorry it took so long but it was very difficult
to find where exactly the packets were being dropped
because they have many routers.
He also asked me
to report more details next time than "WWW problems with Explorer on Windows: Ping Error" if I want them to react faster...
Needless to say,
I cancelled my contract the next day
quoting the above conversation as the reason why
I will not buy anything from them ever again.
I believe the SMC was fired.
Is Less More? No. Needless to say, less is a program similar to more, but which allows backward movement in the file as well as forward movement and much more. So less is actually more than more, more or less. Unless you prefer more rather than less. See: more(1) and less(1).
It used to be that less was more powerful than more, but then they incorporated less features into more, making more just as powerful as less, more or less.
Yes, that is, more or less, what I was talking about--there
are less features incorporated into more than into less,
so in other words, less has more features incorporated than more,
i.e. all of more features and then some more.
Therefore, less is not more. Less is more than more. Much more.
That is correct.
And yet... they are using blinking text tags on thier web site. Egads!
I have failed to mention it for I am not using a blinking browser.
In any event, I did not realize it was relevant
to answer
the very question whether their operating system should be
discussed in the context of art and multimedia production
using Linux and the usability thereof.
Blinking tags or otherwise,
in my opinion discussing art in Linux without
evaluating dyne:bolic is like discussing
Linux desktop usability and ease of use without evaluating Knoppix
or discussing systems security in general without evaluating EROS and KeyKOS--i.e.
ignorant at best if not outright moronic.
I see no connection to blinking tags whatsoever.
Just in case there are still some Slashdotters who do not yet know
dyne:bolic,
please let me quote
dyne:bolic
website:
"dyne:bolic is shaped on the needs of media activists, artists and creatives, being a practical tool for multimedia production: you can manipulate and broadcast both sound and video with tools to record, edit, encode and stream, all using only free software!"
"dyne:bolic is a GNU/Linux distribution simply running from a CD, without the need to install anything, able to recognize most of your devices and periferals: sound, video, TV, network cards, firewire, usb devices and more."
"It is optimized to run on slower computers, turning it into a full media station: the minimum you need is a pentium1 or k5 PC 64Mb RAM and IDE CD-ROM, or a modded XBOX game console - and if you have more than one, you can easily do clusters."
Therefore, as you can clearly see,
asking about
dyne:bolic
should be the very first question
a self-respecting journalist
would ask in any interview
"on Linux art and usability."
Otherwise such an interview
is not even worth the screen it is printed on.
For more interesting informations please visit
dyne:bolic
and
media activists
websites.
There are
many artists
already using
dyne:bolic.
More informations about
"GNU GPL free and opensource software by a
rastafari programmer lost in babylon
pioneering multimedia on GNU/Linux since 2000"
can be found on the
Rastasoft
website.
I believe Metin Amiroff should
include the above informations
in the next interview.
I might add that simply googling for
Linux art and following some links
before making the interview might have found
dyne:bolic
in the first place.
We certainly need more articles and interviews
on the subject.
This is very interesting.
I have read
Secrets & Lies:
Digital Security in a Networked World
by Bruce Schneier
and now I am reading
New Top Level Domains Considered Harmful by Timothy John Berners-Lee
and the later seems to be quite interestingly related to the former.
According to Berners-Lee,
"The Internet is a net, and the WWW is a Web, but WWW and email use DNS which is a tree, which has a single root."
But according to Schneier I also know that
security product is a process
layered like an onion which is a chain
only as secure as the weakest link.
Now, I am starting to wonder
what would be the weakest link in the chain of
onion layers which are the branches of a tree
in the web of our network
and how could it be related to the
"single root" compromise universal vulnerability and
if my conclusions are correct
then securing the Interweb network is impossible.
This is not clearly stated in the summary, but for those who don't already know, Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee is the one who has singlehandedly invented the World Wide Web and has written the first browser and server.
Yes, but he had nothing to do with DNS
He had nothing to do with IRC either
and still he has invented the World Wide Web
nonetheless.
Let us give credit where it is due.
Is Less More? No.
Needless to say,
less is a program similar to more, but which allows
backward movement in the file as well as forward movement
and much more. So less is actually more than more, more or less.
Unless you prefer more rather than less. See: more(1) and less(1).
You are probably talking about
the
ARPANET [wikipedia.org]
while I was talking about the
World Wide Web [wikipedia.org].
Please read
this Wikipedia article [wikipedia.org].
This is nothing but FUD. The World Wide Web was created by Microsoft. That is why the Internet Explorer is an integrated part of the Windows Operating System. All this Berners-Lee fellow did was make an Open Source clone of Internet Explorer called 'www', and as with other Open Source clones, it has a crappy UI and hardly no features. It is all in text, for christ's sake.
This is simply not true.
Please let me quote the most relevant parts of
this Wikipedia article [wikipedia.org]:
"Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee KBE (TimBL or TBL) (b. June 8, 1955) is the inventor of
the World Wide Web and head of the World Wide Web Consortium, which oversees its continued development.
"Berners-Lee was born in London, England, and as a child, studied at Emanuel School in Wandsworth. He is an alumnus of the Queen's College of Oxford University, where, interestingly, he built a computer with a soldering iron, TTL gates, an M6800 processor and an old television. It was also at Oxford where he was caught hacking with a friend and was banned from using the university computer soon after.
"Before he invented the World Wide Web, he had plenty of programming experience. He worked at Plessey Telecommunications Limited in 1976 as a programmer, and in 1978 he worked at D.G Nash Limited where he worked on typesetting software and an operating system.
"In 1980, while an independent contractor at CERN, Berners-Lee proposed a project based on the concept of hypertext, to facilitate sharing and updating information among researchers. With help from Robert Cailliau he built a prototype system named Enquire.
"After leaving CERN to work at John Poole's Image Computer Systems Ltd, he returned in 1984 as a fellow. He used similar ideas that he used in Enquire to create the World Wide Web, for which he designed and built the first browser (called WorldWideWeb and developed on NeXTSTEP) and the first web server simply called httpd.
The first website
"The first web site Berners-Lee built (and therefore the first web site) was at info.cern.ch and was first put online on August 6, 1991. It provided an explanation about what the World Wide Web was, how to get your own browser, how to set up your own web server and so on. It was also the world's first web directory, since Berners-Lee maintained a list of other web sites apart from his own.
"While the component ideas of the World Wide Web are simple, Berners-Lee's insight was to combine them in a way which is still exploring its full potential. Perhaps his greatest single contribution, though, was to make his idea available freely, with no patent and no royalties due. In 1994 he founded World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in 2003, the organization decided that all standards must contain royalty-free technology, so they can be easily adopted by anyone.
"Berners-Lee became the first holder of the 3Com Founders Chair at MIT, and is now a Senior Research Scientist there.
"In 1997 he was created an Officer in the Order of the British Empire, and in 2004 was further awarded the honour of Knight Commander as part of the New Year's Honours.
"On April 15, 2004 he was named as the first recipient of the Finland's Millennium Technology Prize for inventing the World Wide Web. The prize will be awarded on June 15, in Helsinki, Finland.
"He is a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society, an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2001.
"He received the Japan Prize in 2002."
I hope the above quotations will clarify
the apparent misunderstanding.
This is not clearly stated in the summary, but for those who don't already know, Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee is the one who has singlehandedly invented the World Wide Web and has written the first browser and server. See this.
This is not clearly stated in the summary, but
for those who don't already know,
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee
is the one who has singlehandedly invented the World Wide Web
and has written the first browser and server.
See
this.
This is sadly quite unsurprising
considering the fact how many otherwise
great programmers and source control systems gurus
cannot post bugfixes to CVS and Subversion codebases
thanks to Bitkeeper's EULA.
I really hope Linus will change his mind
and will finally start using
CVS or Subversion like
the rest of the GNU and Free Software community does.
This is something much more important than
refusing to call GNU system with its name
because as we can clearly see on the example of this
shameful incident it can easily lead to a catastrophe.
Please let us not forget that the source control system
is one of the most important parts of
every programmer's O/Sen.
Any exploit directly targetting the very
centre of our productivity just
cannot be tolerated.
That is why we have to fix every errour
we can find and boycott every single
EULA which does not let us do it Freely.
Some posts on the LKML seem to prove my point
but in my opinion this is not enough.
We have to stop talking and start acting
as soon as possible.
Otherwise nothing will ever change.
We have to keep that in mind.
Please let us remember this
before it is too late.
Filenames and sizes aren't encrypted. If you store sensitive data in the filename, it can be read. (The paper uses the example of Bob intercepting a zip file containing a file named PinkSlipForBob.doc)
Wait a minute.
But Bob is exactly the person who is supposed
to read the cleartext in the first place, is he not?
Now, if Eve could intercept said zip file,
then she would be able to tell Mallory about it
and this would most certainly be a very serious problem.
But why on Earth would Alice be worried about Bob reading the
cleartext is simply beyond me.
If the accusee is innocent, plea bargaining is never a wise move, no matter what one's lawyer advises. Lawyers are out to help themselves, not their clients. Fight them, take lie detector tests, show them your home PC, whatever it takes to establish your innocence.
I would think the justice department would be able to see if all the images in the cache were dated from that one single event or if they were spread over time. If he's telling the truth, it should be easy to prove.
Interesting.
(Note to self: add
"find ~/porn -exec touch {} \;"
to my daily crontab.)
What do you expect, he's a phd, you can't expect him to be based in the real world...
You people remind me of some of my students who constantly make me wondering whether one indeed needs
a philosophiae doctor degree
to have any sense of humour whatsoever...
Apparently the sophisticated art of satira
mustn't be "based in the real world" (sic), must it?
In any event, I find this "real world"
antiintellectualism certainly amusing,
especially when I get moderated down on Slashdot
because of my doctorate or Mensa membership.
Annoyingly infantile, yet amusing.
stop crying that no one likes you.
I was not crying, not at all.
Quite to the contrary,
in fact--I was laughing.
That is what I usually do when I find something amusing.
And that is why I have written that I found it amusing.
I thought it was self-explanatory.
it's not about your PhD or your Mensa membership, it's about you being sarcastic and belittling others' work when in fact you are just wrong.
I wouldn't call it sarcasm but rather satira.
(And, in fact, I have called it satira.)
To be honest, I fail to understand how could I have achieved said
satira without having been wrong...
Do you really think that
"Using GPUs For General-Purpose Computing--I'm
glad that finally they started to use the Graphical Processing Unit"
would have been moderated as Score:5, 100% Funny?
I have downloaded 2.6.5 on a remote experimental 386 server connected with 14kbps modem, and I've just finished a painful (interactive, due to very little memory) multiple-day building process... *sigh*
Personally, I don't really think so.
The question is basically:
"Is an auction worse than a catalog?"
and I strongly believe that the actual goods being sold
and the quality thereof notwithstanding,
an interactive, free-market, user-centric
laissez faire, laissez passer
community (capitalism)
is not only not worse,
but is in fact much better,
than any single centralised catalog
(central planning),
let it be early Sears or otherwise.
I'm glad that finally they started to use the General-Purpose Unit. What took them so long?
your huge ignorance was blocking the screen.
it stands for "Graphics Processing Unit".
What do you expect, he's a phd, you can't expect him to be based in the real world...
You people remind me of some of my students who constantly make me wondering whether one indeed needs
a philosophiae doctor degree
to have any sense of humour whatsoever...
Apparently the sophisticated art of satira
mustn't be "based in the real world" (sic), must it?
In any event, I find this "real world"
antiintellectualism certainly amusing,
especially when I get moderated down on Slashdot
because of my doctorate or Mensa membership.
Annoyingly infantile, yet amusing.
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What's to document? Darl McBride wrote UNIX (The UNIplexed Information and Computing Service) while working for SCO (The Santa Cruz Operation Group, based in Tarantella, Utah) which was then stolen with the help of IBM by Linus Benedict Torvalds (who called it GNU/Freax and then renamed to GNU/Linux because William R. Della Croce, Jr had trademark on Freax) in his plot to undermine MINIX and the entire concept of microkernel design to slow down the HURD development, or otherwise Bitkeeper would never be able to take over RCS, CVS and Subversion. Even Andrew S. Tanenbaum says it would be impossible for Torvalds to write the entire operating system in 1991. Furthermore, the UNIX family tree and the bastardization thereof is clearly explained on the slides by Larry Wall. So, what's to document? I thought it is all clear now, is it not?
This is sad. Unfortunately, I know how you feel. This is a clear abuse of the system. You should definitely contact everyone responsible.
I have no problem with robots playing games, provided:
I think playing with robots might be a great test for us humans and the intelligence thereof. Personally I believe that playing first person shooters is a task so complex and intellectually challenging (much more so than chess or even go, where you only have few objects, simple rules, and a finite number of states) that no robot in our lifetime will be able to play them, maybe even no robot ever. Only time and patience will show us. This is certainly a very important step in robotics and artificial intelligence evolution. Great read.
Persons: PTH -- me, Pan Tarhei Hosé; SMC -- a tech support guy, Stupid Moronic Cretin. A phone conversation:
PTH: Good morning, there is a problem with your router with IP a.b.c.d, it seems to--
SMC: Have you installed the latest Explorer patch?
PTH: No, but this has nothing to do with www, your router seems to drop--
SMC: You need to patch your Explorer because there is a virus in the wild.
PTH: That's great but I am not talking about Explorer, I am talking about ICMP packets which are apparently--
SMC: It is against our terms of service to use unpatched Windows.
PTH: Yes, that's interesting indeed. Fortunately I am not using unpatched Windows so that having been said we can now go back to the meritum. The router in question--
SMC: But you just said you have not patched Explorer?
PTH: Because I don't use Explorer God damn it! Will you please listen to me? I have investigated where the ICMP packets are being dropped and it is your router with IP a.b--
SMC: Explorer is integrated in the OS so even if you are using Net Escape (sic) you still need to patch the libraries used by Explorer.
PTH: Listen to me! I don't use a God damned Windows and even if I did it is completely irrelevant because your freaking router is dropping ICMP packets which I need to--
SMC: You mean like TCP/IP packets?
PTH: No! I mean like ICMP packets!
SMC: For WWW?
PTH: No! For ping, God damn it! This does not matter! It is broken and it has to be--
SMC: Not for www? Do you know that we don't allow P2P networks?
PTH: Yes! I don't give a flying fuck! Please listen to me! I have--
SMC: But how can you not have unpatched Windows when you just said you didn't patch your Windows?
PTH: For the same reason I don't have vaginal infection even though--
SMC: You mean you have a virus? Then you should--
PTH: No! I mean that... Ah, never mind!
SMC: If you have a virus you should first patch your Explorer and then install an anti-virus software. Do you have anti-virus software installed?
PTH: No, I don't need any anti-virus software on my OpenBS--
SMC: Everyone needs anti-virus software, because--
PTH: OK then! I have anti-virus software! Your router is misconfigured because it--
SMC: Was it updated after the new virus came out?
PTH: Yes!
SMC: And you have some problems with the Web, right?
PTH: No! I said--
SMC: I thought you said that there is something with the network?
PTH: Yes, the network, but not... Ah, what's the point... Yes! I have problems with the Web! The WWW problems with my Explorer on my Windows!
SMC: OK, what do you see when you click start button and then [...] and [...] and point to [...] and scroll to [...] and click [...] and then push [...]?
PTH: Uhm... I see... I see Ping Error.
SMC: PIN error?
PTH: Ping, P-I-N-G Error.
SMC: What version of Windows?
PTH: The best one. Fresh install.
SMC: Patched?
PTH: Yes. Every day.
SMC: Thank you for your help. I will contact our technicians and we will investigate the problem as soon as possible.
PTH: Thank you...
The problem was solved few hours later. I got an email from the more competent technician explaining that they had some problems with one of their routers which was blocking ICMP traffic and that is why my ping could not work... They were sorry it took so long but it was very difficult to find where exactly the packets were being dropped because they have many routers. He also asked me to report more details next time than "WWW problems with Explorer on Windows: Ping Error" if I want them to react faster... Needless to say, I cancelled my contract the next day quoting the above conversation as the reason why I will not buy anything from them ever again. I believe the SMC was fired.
Yes, that is, more or less, what I was talking about--there are less features incorporated into more than into less, so in other words, less has more features incorporated than more, i.e. all of more features and then some more. Therefore, less is not more. Less is more than more. Much more. That is correct.
I have failed to mention it for I am not using a blinking browser. In any event, I did not realize it was relevant to answer the very question whether their operating system should be discussed in the context of art and multimedia production using Linux and the usability thereof. Blinking tags or otherwise, in my opinion discussing art in Linux without evaluating dyne:bolic is like discussing Linux desktop usability and ease of use without evaluating Knoppix or discussing systems security in general without evaluating EROS and KeyKOS--i.e. ignorant at best if not outright moronic. I see no connection to blinking tags whatsoever.
Just in case there are still some Slashdotters who do not yet know dyne:bolic, please let me quote dyne:bolic website:
Therefore, as you can clearly see, asking about dyne:bolic should be the very first question a self-respecting journalist would ask in any interview "on Linux art and usability." Otherwise such an interview is not even worth the screen it is printed on. For more interesting informations please visit dyne:bolic and media activists websites. There are many artists already using dyne:bolic. More informations about "GNU GPL free and opensource software by a rastafari programmer lost in babylon pioneering multimedia on GNU/Linux since 2000" can be found on the Rastasoft website. I believe Metin Amiroff should include the above informations in the next interview. I might add that simply googling for Linux art and following some links before making the interview might have found dyne:bolic in the first place. We certainly need more articles and interviews on the subject.
An interview about art and usability of free software and not a single word about dyne:bolic? I am very disappointed.
This is very interesting. I have read Secrets & Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World by Bruce Schneier and now I am reading New Top Level Domains Considered Harmful by Timothy John Berners-Lee and the later seems to be quite interestingly related to the former. According to Berners-Lee, "The Internet is a net, and the WWW is a Web, but WWW and email use DNS which is a tree, which has a single root." But according to Schneier I also know that security product is a process layered like an onion which is a chain only as secure as the weakest link. Now, I am starting to wonder what would be the weakest link in the chain of onion layers which are the branches of a tree in the web of our network and how could it be related to the "single root" compromise universal vulnerability and if my conclusions are correct then securing the Interweb network is impossible.
He had nothing to do with IRC either and still he has invented the World Wide Web nonetheless. Let us give credit where it is due.
I don't think so. As far as I know the Amazon patent covers only buying with one click, not writing. But iANAL.
Is Less More? No. Needless to say, less is a program similar to more, but which allows backward movement in the file as well as forward movement and much more. So less is actually more than more, more or less. Unless you prefer more rather than less. See: more(1) and less(1).
You are probably talking about the ARPANET [wikipedia.org] while I was talking about the World Wide Web [wikipedia.org]. Please read this Wikipedia article [wikipedia.org].
This is simply not true. Please let me quote the most relevant parts of this Wikipedia article [wikipedia.org]:
I hope the above quotations will clarify the apparent misunderstanding.
This is not clearly stated in the summary, but for those who don't already know, Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee is the one who has singlehandedly invented the World Wide Web and has written the first browser and server. See this.
This is not clearly stated in the summary, but for those who don't already know, Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee is the one who has singlehandedly invented the World Wide Web and has written the first browser and server. See this.
This is sadly quite unsurprising considering the fact how many otherwise great programmers and source control systems gurus cannot post bugfixes to CVS and Subversion codebases thanks to Bitkeeper's EULA. I really hope Linus will change his mind and will finally start using CVS or Subversion like the rest of the GNU and Free Software community does. This is something much more important than refusing to call GNU system with its name because as we can clearly see on the example of this shameful incident it can easily lead to a catastrophe. Please let us not forget that the source control system is one of the most important parts of every programmer's O/Sen. Any exploit directly targetting the very centre of our productivity just cannot be tolerated. That is why we have to fix every errour we can find and boycott every single EULA which does not let us do it Freely. Some posts on the LKML seem to prove my point but in my opinion this is not enough. We have to stop talking and start acting as soon as possible. Otherwise nothing will ever change. We have to keep that in mind. Please let us remember this before it is too late.
Wait a minute. But Bob is exactly the person who is supposed to read the cleartext in the first place, is he not? Now, if Eve could intercept said zip file, then she would be able to tell Mallory about it and this would most certainly be a very serious problem. But why on Earth would Alice be worried about Bob reading the cleartext is simply beyond me.
And don't forget to read The Lie Behind the Lie Detector while you're at it...
Interesting.
(Note to self: add "find ~/porn -exec touch {} \;" to my daily crontab.)
stop crying that no one likes you.
I was not crying, not at all. Quite to the contrary, in fact--I was laughing. That is what I usually do when I find something amusing. And that is why I have written that I found it amusing. I thought it was self-explanatory.
I wouldn't call it sarcasm but rather satira. (And, in fact, I have called it satira.) To be honest, I fail to understand how could I have achieved said satira without having been wrong... Do you really think that "Using GPUs For General-Purpose Computing--I'm glad that finally they started to use the Graphical Processing Unit" would have been moderated as Score:5, 100% Funny?
I have downloaded 2.6.5 on a remote experimental 386 server connected with 14kbps modem, and I've just finished a painful (interactive, due to very little memory) multiple-day building process... *sigh*
Is eBay Worse Than Early Sears Catalogs?
Personally, I don't really think so. The question is basically: "Is an auction worse than a catalog?" and I strongly believe that the actual goods being sold and the quality thereof notwithstanding, an interactive, free-market, user-centric laissez faire, laissez passer community (capitalism) is not only not worse, but is in fact much better, than any single centralised catalog (central planning), let it be early Sears or otherwise.
What do you expect, he's a phd, you can't expect him to be based in the real world...
You people remind me of some of my students who constantly make me wondering whether one indeed needs a philosophiae doctor degree to have any sense of humour whatsoever... Apparently the sophisticated art of satira mustn't be "based in the real world" (sic), must it? In any event, I find this "real world" antiintellectualism certainly amusing, especially when I get moderated down on Slashdot because of my doctorate or Mensa membership. Annoyingly infantile, yet amusing.
Please mod parent up: +5, Funny!