Oh, and one thing I forgot; if using external disks like this, you would need to use the disconnect button in the mac to allow Linux within Qemu exclusive control of it.
I use the Qemu port to Mac called Q. Works perfectly with Ubuntu and Gentoo for me, also work OK with different versions of Windows.
I prefer Qemu to Parallels with Linux simply because I can dedicate a full USB/Firewire external disk for Linux that way by simply editing the configuration.plist file usually within Documents/QEMU//configuration.plist modifying string to "-hda/dev/disk1"
and updating the dictionary in the same file to value "/dev/disk1" for key -hda.
Your hack back comment may work as a temporary bandage, however I do prefer Marbux's position and given that he is a retired lawyer with the interest of actually doing something, I think backing him would be a better choice.
I like his list:
- there is no legal authorization for INCITS to be formulating the position of the U.S. government
- there is no statute where Congress even granted NIST the authority to proclaim the U.S. position on internatonal standards
- legally, the decision must be made by a federal agency head or cabinet level official, after giving official notice and soliciting public comment
- Charging $800 to have a voice in formulating an official U.S. government position on a matter that imposes legal obligations on all all levels of the U.S. government is anti-democratic and outrageous
- Allowing people with vested financial interests to cast ballots on federal government decisions also violates federal conflict of interest laws
- Asking elected federal representatives and senators to explain how NIST acquired the legal authority to represent the U.S. government at ISO and how it legally acquired the right to delegate such authority to an industry consortium (both clearly set out in the memorandum of understanding) asks the right questions AND will result in massive pressure on NIST to intervene. That is because the Congress critters will forward those letters/emails to NIST for response and NIST folk know who writes the checks for their salaries and programs.
- Letters to Congress Critters complaining about NIST's improper delegation of governmental functions to an industry consortium would likely be far more effective than buying into the practice of responding to the illegal stuffing of the ballot box by a countering effort to outdo the other side in the illegal stuffing.
MAPI refers both to the application programming interface as well as the proprietary protocol which Microsoft Outlook uses to communicate with Microsoft Exchange.
The article is far from complete in terms of the frictions between them... It might be right for the English speaking, but try to include latin characters etc...
Even though both Mac OS X and newer versions of linux use UTF-8 characters for filesystem names, the conversion break without external 3rd party tools. This is due to the UTF-8 on Linux being in normal form C whereas Mac uses their own Normal form D... So the problem goes far beyond mere regular letter problems...
That's how I see it too, and it seems even more serious than another mail I received from them myself stating that my domain is to expire and if I don't pay in time, the domain will be put on hold for a 30 days redemption period whereas I would need to pay $80 to get the site online again in that period.
I am definitively going to leave GoDaddy now, great that my domain is to expire - gandi.net, here I come! Great to know there are still registrars that clearly state my domain belongs to me and makes no extortion attempts.
Regardless for what reason you want to maintain your data secure, anyone with technical knowledge can bypass the security measures through the use of VPN and Remote control software... No sensitive information would this way need to be carried with the laptop itself, thus no enctyption on the laptop itself would not even be needed... Your sensitive information is safe, the authorities gets access to nothing but the unsensitive data on the laptop itself, and we are ending up with another system that does not do anything than harm innocent and less tech savy people...
I must agree I was kind of not too impressed with the coverage of the article, however it did mention a few things I will look into like IDS and passive monitoring.
Just the other day I configured a network across a couple of offices using OpenVPN and WPA-PSK with 'AES only' requiring WPA2. I was slightly wondering about my configuration as I selected to use a 64-bit Hex static key - Except for the VPN ports I mostly blocked all comunication over the regular cards, (except for allowing internett access to allow for internett access for some clients without exposing internal resources). I am still wondering how long it will stay secure; how often I should reset the static key or it I might be better of looking into RADIUS server or something(?)
Thank for the tip of actively monitoring all traffic in the air, it may advice me when I need to look for something better;)
My fear is similar, but not only that, most of the anti-spyware systems require external lookups which is a privacy risk. If we for every page we look at have to contact a 3rd party we are revealing our internal network structures as well as our use of internet. This is a gold mine for spammers, lawyers, and phishers among others...
One of the things I demand to use this system is the ability to limit how it is used, turn it off, switch it for an alternative system, or uninstall it. The best way it can be implemented is as an pre-installed plugin, making it easy to maintain for those who need need alternatives.
Firefox was always intended to be plugin based, so I hope they stick to that.
Exactly, we have been there before, and it will resolve itself naturally without the need for prioritizing traffic. It simply boils down to providors offering clients a service they can't handle.
If they really can't handle that we download for lets say 2Mbps continously, why do they offer it without limitations? We will soon simply see caps on the service, where some hace 2Mbps but limited to 10GB of data each month, after that point speed will be go down to lets say 128Kpbs, unless the client upgrade to include more bandwitdh... Other providors will offer automatic upgrades in Gb increments, charging for the actual download.
I think that for most users of the license, more important than the legal terms it self is an explanation of what the license is trying to accomplish. Such clarifications may also prevent the abuse of legal terms in court as the clarifications may be valuable in court as well as the clarifications indicate the intent of the wording used.
Why not add a Wiki style link system to explain what the different sections try to accomplish?
After all it is the users and the developers who needs to understand their rights and responsibilities, not lawyers.
I also see this as part of a political choice rather than a choice based on merits - just look at the breakthroughs mentioned:
sequencing of the chimpanzee genome - What has this to do with evolution in it self? as stated in the article it may some day give a breakthrough, but as for now I can't see how this is proving/dis-proving anything...
recreation of the 1918 flu virus in a laboratory - And this has what relation to evolution??? It was a mere reproduction - I fail to see how this relate to evolution
a study on European blackcap birds which demonstrated how two different populations can become two separate species - Finally something that seems related to evolution! But is this enought to make the nomination as achivement of the year??
It seems political agendas moved in front of rationality, which unfortunately give science a bad name... Then again, Science may be just another pop-science magazine that don't represent scientific views but what might sell better; after all I believe this is what lots of scientists want to hear in light if ID even though most likely would be ashamed of the base of this award...
Sure thing, the teknology in it self will do no evil nor good, but as we always know, it is much easier for evil people to find good use for such services than for good people.
With such chips in every cell phone, in evert laptop, in every car, it would just be a mather of time before there would be bad uses of the technology such as the one mentioned in the title.
If car with RFID chip in list... or if cell with chip in list... make bomb explode. What a perfectly safe world this bring us!
How easy it will become for obsessed ex boyfriends/girlfriends to track you down How easy it would be for terrorists to abuse this information What about connecting the information for bad mouthing the opositions presidential candidate - he/she surely must at some time have done something stupid that is easily connected with his/her real identity online? What information might your insurance company be interested in obtaining about you, and what sites would not be in for selling the information to them? The list is near infinite - the world will not become safer, it is an arms race as always, and what we use now to defend will just around the corner be used to attack us.
There is supposed to be a good reason for putting people in jail, and this is not one of them.
Ask yourself:
1) are these people a risk for the society at large? 2) what are we supposed to accomplish by putting them in jail?
As to number one, the problem is more an etical issue - nobody dies, nobody get anything but possibly lower sales.
As to number two, US is already country with highest % og people in jail, yet in no other industrialized country are there as many people shooting each other with gun - if jailtime worked, why are these number not going down? It is like, send these harmless schoolboy to learn how to become hardcore criminals in jail.
Why not instead focus on rehabilitation? Set up a schedule where those caught are constraint in the area of the crime? What is worse, one year in prisson or one year without rights for using Internet?;)
Please stop sending people to hard core crime schools when not a danger to the society at large.
As of current, the leap seconds are added as we need them. High presission systems thus need to be updated every time such a correction occur... The high presission systems in general likely don't depend upon the sun or the stars position, so instead of having all systems update to follow the stars and the sun, it would be simple to device a offset system for those needing to adjust for positioning beyond the earth...
The final system may indeed be simpler this way on the expense of Greenwich loosing its role in time keeping. I don't really believe many others would be affected as we are talking thousands of years for a leap hour, which should correspond to a minute or two during the lifetime of a person...
What it matter for is only what we have today. Not a problem as I see it - the two systems should be able to run side by side, whereas the legacy systems requiring the leap second today could syncronize the time with leap adjusted clocks...
If the consumers save 80-120 billion uSD every year, this would mean the govenment in the narrow view may loose sales taxes and profit taxes on all of those billions (asuming people would not spend the money on other things...)
Remember that much US software also sell abroad generating US tax benefits on profit brought home...
It is very unlikely that the US Government would do something like this even though it may help US in the long run... Free software sounds socialistic, and the current Government only believe in pure capitalism...
The great thing about Firefox is that it is plugin based. You can simply extend it as you please. For anti-phishing I have installed the NetCraft Toolbar Netcraft Toolbar
It would be great if anyone would add a comparison between the various Anti-phishing tools for the various browsert. I personally think the one from NetCrafts will be a strong candidate to beat, and I do also belive it is available for IE...
My own take is that Firefox is much better off being as simple and small as possible - the opportunity to AVOID every function you never need is among my reasons for selecting Firefox together with the easy of extending it the way I want.
Maybe it would be ok to bundle certain plugins with the browser, but please make them easy to remove!!!
Even though I installed the NetCraft Toolbar, I don't believe I have any reasons for having it - other than that the curiosity of seeing how it reports some of these bad sites...
First of all - the problem is that mutation are part of two distinctly different evolution theories... Darwinism and New-Darwinism. In New Darwinism you find the idea that our bodies will mutate in the direction most beneficial for us, in Darwinism however it is all about coincidence... We are then talking about survival of the fittest, which mean the ones that are best to ADAPT to the environment you are in are the ones more likely to SURVIVE, thus MORE LIKELY to bring the genes on to further generations.
It is a theory that is quite circular... It is quite hard to prove that the ones who cannot adapt to the environment will survive equally easy as those who do... However it does sound logical, and I accept it as correct:) The theory may however not require mutations...
Now New Darwinism however is a different beast, which is not really part of the original evolutional theory but seems to be part of popular believes... Now we would be talking about intelligent adaption whereas we would get "cat-eyes" or sonar skills out of needs to adapt to a darker world, and similar fantacy stories... This type of "evolution" should requires a tremendous amount of prof, and mutations becomes an important element for evaluating if the theory is right or not...
We do see evidence that some humans and animals have been born with too many or too few fingers, same with animals. We see that Japanese don't have facial hair, blond and blue eyes mostly appear in white people, and so on - regardless that we all are Homo Sapiens! All other types of human kind have died out, we are only one race left! Yet we do have quite a few differences but how? Most of it is our natural elections - even though an african person may look much stronger and healthier than lets say a chinese, it is more likely that a chinese would select a chinese looking partner;)
We breed dogs - what is a dobberman again? A new race of dogs made by crossing a German sheepherding-dog with the Rottweiler! Not really an example of mutation as mutation requires changes in the character or traits not found in the parental type. So yes, it does become hard to prove a mutation have occured... Maybe there never really was a mutation? But even without it, the Theory of Evolution would remain, but New Darwinism would then definitively fail...
The problem is maybe that people confuses two different types of theories when talking about Evolution. Darwins evolution theory does not predict the future at all - it does not indicate that the world will develop to become more advanced in any way at all. It says survival of the FITTEST, not the smartest, not the strongest, or the best evolved in any way. It states the fittest meaning the one that is better adaptable to the environment and its changes.
So now, what kind of proves do we expect? That we are becoming "smarter"? That bacterias becomes smarter and more resistant to everything? - The theory simply states that when we aim to kill out the bacterias, only the one that is better adaptable - the ones that obviously must be resistant to our attacks will survive... (Which btw is why we it is dangerous to use antibiotics etc when not strictly needed - the ones not resistant dies causing more space for the ones resistant).
The other type of evolutionary thery is the of the "New-Darwinism" type - which has nothing to do with Darwin's theories trying to say that our bodies would adapt to the environment... Like our body would become more stream lined for water if we started to live in a world like in "Sea world". That the body adapt by itself is not covered by Darwin's own theories, but for some reasons many seem to think that's the kind of signs we are looking for... No, Darwin's theories simply stated that the ones best FIT for the environment we are in, are more likely to SURVIVE, thus the less adapted will be easier prey and more likely to die out...
Oracle earlier this year signed a deal with Zend Technologies and launched a tool for making it easy to use Oracle with PHP named "Zend Core for Oracle" Zend Core for Oracle
Now they bought out InnoDB.
They are thus probably going to add InnoDB support directly into Oracle products making it easy for Companies currently paying royalties to MySQL to switch to Oracle later on. We know they cannot withdraw InnoDB from the market completely as it is a GPL version of it that would create more threats than benefits just leaving behind. Oracle could of course drop improving on the GPL version, but would likely be hurt by this more than ever - everyone would jump ship for PostgreSQL etc. The more probable is thus that they will try to play nice with OSS at least for the time being.
In the long run however it is more uncertain if OSS will benefit from this... Oracle currently have great benefits from being acknowledged as OSS company at this time, but what will happen when Oracle gain a larger share of the OSS market? Then they might try to distinguish their proprietary systems vs. their open counterpart. This could lead to a long term disadvantage for OSS.
A worse posibility - what if the buyout of InnoDB and the cooperation with Zend in reality is meant to soften MySQL so Oracle later may aquire MySQL? They have a dual license too, and may as well be bought as InnoDB. MySQL have gotten lots of unnecessary bad remarks recently for restoring the support for using the database on SCO servers. We all do mistakes, but MySQL have definitively contributed a lot more to Open Source than most, and would thus be a longer term good OSS partner than Oracle.
I hope MySQL manages to find a way to stay strong in the OSS world as well as in the economic one!
Imagine the possibile consequences of MySQL selling out to Oracle...
-- As one developer put it: "The problem we're currently seeing isn't that the job is hard, but that only a very small number of people have the authority/ability to push the update out."
Another agreed, calling for the size of the security team to be increased from seven to 21. --
So maybe it is not about the amount of people who contribute updates and patches, but rather the amount of people with authority to revise and release the patches and updates.
Even though I am on the defensive side, trying to keep my servers safe from crackers, script kiddies and so on, I do apreciate these groups for existing.
If they didn't exist, I would really have felt much more unsafe from espionage and the prying eyes of national and international bodies.
From my stance, confidential information must be very well protected, and if you put available on the internet, you better have secured it or face the consequences.
By knowing that crackers exist, you might hessitate to put important and confidential information online, imagine how it would be if everybody only talked about cracking as teoretically possible!!! Spies would never tell what they do, they would be everywhere! Knowing your accounting, your secret papers, everything, for nobody would care to improve the security of their products from something that was only teoretical... All the good guys would have no privacy whereas only the black hats would be able to move around as they liked.
Face it - the world have all kinds of people - angles, devils, and all sort of people in between. To be hit by someone who expose you is many times better than to be hit by those who simply abuse the information without any words.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.networkmirror.com/3DfizwaRHHBaEFWy/tlug .jp/articles/Windows_Is_Free.html
Oh, and one thing I forgot; if using external disks like this, you would need to use the disconnect button in the mac to allow Linux within Qemu exclusive control of it.
I use the Qemu port to Mac called Q. Works perfectly with Ubuntu and Gentoo for me, also work OK with different versions of Windows.
/dev/disk1"
I prefer Qemu to Parallels with Linux simply because I can dedicate a full USB/Firewire external disk for Linux that way by simply editing the configuration.plist file usually within Documents/QEMU//configuration.plist modifying string to "-hda
and updating the dictionary in the same file to value "/dev/disk1" for key -hda.
Your hack back comment may work as a temporary bandage, however I do prefer Marbux's position and given that he is a retired lawyer with the interest of actually doing something, I think backing him would be a better choice. I like his list: - there is no legal authorization for INCITS to be formulating the position of the U.S. government - there is no statute where Congress even granted NIST the authority to proclaim the U.S. position on internatonal standards - legally, the decision must be made by a federal agency head or cabinet level official, after giving official notice and soliciting public comment - Charging $800 to have a voice in formulating an official U.S. government position on a matter that imposes legal obligations on all all levels of the U.S. government is anti-democratic and outrageous - Allowing people with vested financial interests to cast ballots on federal government decisions also violates federal conflict of interest laws - Asking elected federal representatives and senators to explain how NIST acquired the legal authority to represent the U.S. government at ISO and how it legally acquired the right to delegate such authority to an industry consortium (both clearly set out in the memorandum of understanding) asks the right questions AND will result in massive pressure on NIST to intervene. That is because the Congress critters will forward those letters/emails to NIST for response and NIST folk know who writes the checks for their salaries and programs. - Letters to Congress Critters complaining about NIST's improper delegation of governmental functions to an industry consortium would likely be far more effective than buying into the practice of responding to the illegal stuffing of the ballot box by a countering effort to outdo the other side in the illegal stuffing.
They missed Webmin... http://www.webmin.com/
Can simplify management tasks quite well for Windows, Mac, Linux, and most other flavors of Unix...
Maybe not because MAPI is a PROPRIETARY protocol... So maybe you don't find it as what you are asking for is illegal...
Extract from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAPI
MAPI refers both to the application programming interface as well as the proprietary protocol which Microsoft Outlook uses to communicate with Microsoft Exchange.
Qemu can install and run Windows from inside Linux.
http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/
The article is far from complete in terms of the frictions between them... It might be right for the English speaking, but try to include latin characters etc...
Even though both Mac OS X and newer versions of linux use UTF-8 characters for filesystem names, the conversion break without external 3rd party tools. This is due to the UTF-8 on Linux being in normal form C whereas Mac uses their own Normal form D... So the problem goes far beyond mere regular letter problems...
For more info: http://j3e.de/linux/convmv/man/
That's how I see it too, and it seems even more serious than another mail I received from them myself stating that my domain is to expire and if I don't pay in time, the domain will be put on hold for a 30 days redemption period whereas I would need to pay $80 to get the site online again in that period.
I am definitively going to leave GoDaddy now, great that my domain is to expire - gandi.net, here I come! Great to know there are still registrars that clearly state my domain belongs to me and makes no extortion attempts.
Regardless for what reason you want to maintain your data secure, anyone with technical knowledge can bypass the security measures through the use of VPN and Remote control software... No sensitive information would this way need to be carried with the laptop itself, thus no enctyption on the laptop itself would not even be needed... Your sensitive information is safe, the authorities gets access to nothing but the unsensitive data on the laptop itself, and we are ending up with another system that does not do anything than harm innocent and less tech savy people...
I must agree I was kind of not too impressed with the coverage of the article, however it did mention a few things I will look into like IDS and passive monitoring.
;)
Just the other day I configured a network across a couple of offices using OpenVPN and WPA-PSK with 'AES only' requiring WPA2. I was slightly wondering about my configuration as I selected to use a 64-bit Hex static key - Except for the VPN ports I mostly blocked all comunication over the regular cards, (except for allowing internett access to allow for internett access for some clients without exposing internal resources). I am still wondering how long it will stay secure; how often I should reset the static key or it I might be better of looking into RADIUS server or something(?)
Thank for the tip of actively monitoring all traffic in the air, it may advice me when I need to look for something better
My fear is similar, but not only that, most of the anti-spyware systems require external lookups which is a privacy risk. If we for every page we look at have to contact a 3rd party we are revealing our internal network structures as well as our use of internet. This is a gold mine for spammers, lawyers, and phishers among others...
One of the things I demand to use this system is the ability to limit how it is used, turn it off, switch it for an alternative system, or uninstall it. The best way it can be implemented is as an pre-installed plugin, making it easy to maintain for those who need need alternatives.
Firefox was always intended to be plugin based, so I hope they stick to that.
Exactly, we have been there before, and it will resolve itself naturally without the need for prioritizing traffic.
It simply boils down to providors offering clients a service they can't handle.
If they really can't handle that we download for lets say 2Mbps continously, why do they offer it without limitations? We will soon simply see caps on the service, where some hace 2Mbps but limited to 10GB of data each month, after that point speed will be go down to lets say 128Kpbs, unless the client upgrade to include more bandwitdh... Other providors will offer automatic upgrades in Gb increments, charging for the actual download.
I think that for most users of the license, more important than the legal terms it self is an explanation of what the license is trying to accomplish. Such clarifications may also prevent the abuse of legal terms in court as the clarifications may be valuable in court as well as the clarifications indicate the intent of the wording used.
Why not add a Wiki style link system to explain what the different sections try to accomplish?
After all it is the users and the developers who needs to understand their rights and responsibilities, not lawyers.
I also see this as part of a political choice rather than a choice based on merits - just look at the breakthroughs mentioned:
sequencing of the chimpanzee genome
- What has this to do with evolution in it self? as stated in the article it may some day give a breakthrough, but as for now I can't see how this is proving/dis-proving anything...
recreation of the 1918 flu virus in a laboratory
- And this has what relation to evolution??? It was a mere reproduction - I fail to see how this relate to evolution
a study on European blackcap birds which demonstrated how two different populations can become two separate species
- Finally something that seems related to evolution! But is this enought to make the nomination as achivement of the year??
It seems political agendas moved in front of rationality, which unfortunately give science a bad name... Then again, Science may be just another pop-science magazine that don't represent scientific views but what might sell better; after all I believe this is what lots of scientists want to hear in light if ID even though most likely would be ashamed of the base of this award...
Sure thing, the teknology in it self will do no evil nor good, but as we always know, it is much easier for evil people to find good use for such services than for good people.
... or if cell with chip in list ... make bomb explode. What a perfectly safe world this bring us!
With such chips in every cell phone, in evert laptop, in every car, it would just be a mather of time before there would be bad uses of the technology such as the one mentioned in the title.
If car with RFID chip in list
How easy it will become for obsessed ex boyfriends/girlfriends to track you down
How easy it would be for terrorists to abuse this information
What about connecting the information for bad mouthing the opositions presidential candidate - he/she surely must at some time have done something stupid that is easily connected with his/her real identity online?
What information might your insurance company be interested in obtaining about you, and what sites would not be in for selling the information to them?
The list is near infinite - the world will not become safer, it is an arms race as always, and what we use now to defend will just around the corner be used to attack us.
There is supposed to be a good reason for putting people in jail, and this is not one of them.
;)
Ask yourself:
1) are these people a risk for the society at large?
2) what are we supposed to accomplish by putting them in jail?
As to number one, the problem is more an etical issue - nobody dies, nobody get anything but possibly lower sales.
As to number two, US is already country with highest % og people in jail, yet in no other industrialized country are there as many people shooting each other with gun - if jailtime worked, why are these number not going down? It is like, send these harmless schoolboy to learn how to become hardcore criminals in jail.
Why not instead focus on rehabilitation? Set up a schedule where those caught are constraint in the area of the crime? What is worse, one year in prisson or one year without rights for using Internet?
Please stop sending people to hard core crime schools when not a danger to the society at large.
As of current, the leap seconds are added as we need them. High presission systems thus need to be updated every time such a correction occur... The high presission systems in general likely don't depend upon the sun or the stars position, so instead of having all systems update to follow the stars and the sun, it would be simple to device a offset system for those needing to adjust for positioning beyond the earth...
The final system may indeed be simpler this way on the expense of Greenwich loosing its role in time keeping. I don't really believe many others would be affected as we are talking thousands of years for a leap hour, which should correspond to a minute or two during the lifetime of a person...
What it matter for is only what we have today. Not a problem as I see it - the two systems should be able to run side by side, whereas the legacy systems requiring the leap second today could syncronize the time with leap adjusted clocks...
If the consumers save 80-120 billion uSD every year, this would mean the govenment in the narrow view may loose sales taxes and profit taxes on all of those billions (asuming people would not spend the money on other things...)
Remember that much US software also sell abroad generating US tax benefits on profit brought home...
It is very unlikely that the US Government would do something like this even though it may help US in the long run... Free software sounds socialistic, and the current Government only believe in pure capitalism...
The great thing about Firefox is that it is plugin based. You can simply extend it as you please. For anti-phishing I have installed the NetCraft Toolbar Netcraft Toolbar
It would be great if anyone would add a comparison between the various Anti-phishing tools for the various browsert. I personally think the one from NetCrafts will be a strong candidate to beat, and I do also belive it is available for IE...
My own take is that Firefox is much better off being as simple and small as possible - the opportunity to AVOID every function you never need is among my reasons for selecting Firefox together with the easy of extending it the way I want.
Maybe it would be ok to bundle certain plugins with the browser, but please make them easy to remove!!! Even though I installed the NetCraft Toolbar, I don't believe I have any reasons for having it - other than that the curiosity of seeing how it reports some of these bad sites...
First of all - the problem is that mutation are part of two distinctly different evolution theories... Darwinism and New-Darwinism. In New Darwinism you find the idea that our bodies will mutate in the direction most beneficial for us, in Darwinism however it is all about coincidence... We are then talking about survival of the fittest, which mean the ones that are best to ADAPT to the environment you are in are the ones more likely to SURVIVE, thus MORE LIKELY to bring the genes on to further generations.
:) The theory may however not require mutations...
;)
It is a theory that is quite circular... It is quite hard to prove that the ones who cannot adapt to the environment will survive equally easy as those who do... However it does sound logical, and I accept it as correct
Now New Darwinism however is a different beast, which is not really part of the original evolutional theory but seems to be part of popular believes... Now we would be talking about intelligent adaption whereas we would get "cat-eyes" or sonar skills out of needs to adapt to a darker world, and similar fantacy stories... This type of "evolution" should requires a tremendous amount of prof, and mutations becomes an important element for evaluating if the theory is right or not...
We do see evidence that some humans and animals have been born with too many or too few fingers, same with animals. We see that Japanese don't have facial hair, blond and blue eyes mostly appear in white people, and so on - regardless that we all are Homo Sapiens! All other types of human kind have died out, we are only one race left! Yet we do have quite a few differences but how? Most of it is our natural elections - even though an african person may look much stronger and healthier than lets say a chinese, it is more likely that a chinese would select a chinese looking partner
We breed dogs - what is a dobberman again? A new race of dogs made by crossing a German sheepherding-dog with the Rottweiler! Not really an example of mutation as mutation requires changes in the character or traits not found in the parental type. So yes, it does become hard to prove a mutation have occured... Maybe there never really was a mutation? But even without it, the Theory of Evolution would remain, but New Darwinism would then definitively fail...
The problem is maybe that people confuses two different types of theories when talking about Evolution. Darwins evolution theory does not predict the future at all - it does not indicate that the world will develop to become more advanced in any way at all. It says survival of the FITTEST, not the smartest, not the strongest, or the best evolved in any way. It states the fittest meaning the one that is better adaptable to the environment and its changes.
So now, what kind of proves do we expect? That we are becoming "smarter"? That bacterias becomes smarter and more resistant to everything? - The theory simply states that when we aim to kill out the bacterias, only the one that is better adaptable - the ones that obviously must be resistant to our attacks will survive... (Which btw is why we it is dangerous to use antibiotics etc when not strictly needed - the ones not resistant dies causing more space for the ones resistant).
The other type of evolutionary thery is the of the "New-Darwinism" type - which has nothing to do with Darwin's theories trying to say that our bodies would adapt to the environment... Like our body would become more stream lined for water if we started to live in a world like in "Sea world". That the body adapt by itself is not covered by Darwin's own theories, but for some reasons many seem to think that's the kind of signs we are looking for... No, Darwin's theories simply stated that the ones best FIT for the environment we are in, are more likely to SURVIVE, thus the less adapted will be easier prey and more likely to die out...
Oracle earlier this year signed a deal with Zend Technologies and launched a tool for making it easy to use Oracle with PHP named "Zend Core for Oracle" Zend Core for Oracle Now they bought out InnoDB.
They are thus probably going to add InnoDB support directly into Oracle products making it easy for Companies currently paying royalties to MySQL to switch to Oracle later on. We know they cannot withdraw InnoDB from the market completely as it is a GPL version of it that would create more threats than benefits just leaving behind. Oracle could of course drop improving on the GPL version, but would likely be hurt by this more than ever - everyone would jump ship for PostgreSQL etc. The more probable is thus that they will try to play nice with OSS at least for the time being.
In the long run however it is more uncertain if OSS will benefit from this... Oracle currently have great benefits from being acknowledged as OSS company at this time, but what will happen when Oracle gain a larger share of the OSS market? Then they might try to distinguish their proprietary systems vs. their open counterpart. This could lead to a long term disadvantage for OSS.
A worse posibility - what if the buyout of InnoDB and the cooperation with Zend in reality is meant to soften MySQL so Oracle later may aquire MySQL? They have a dual license too, and may as well be bought as InnoDB. MySQL have gotten lots of unnecessary bad remarks recently for restoring the support for using the database on SCO servers. We all do mistakes, but MySQL have definitively contributed a lot more to Open Source than most, and would thus be a longer term good OSS partner than Oracle.
I hope MySQL manages to find a way to stay strong in the OSS world as well as in the economic one!
Imagine the possibile consequences of MySQL selling out to Oracle...
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As one developer put it: "The problem we're currently seeing isn't that the job is hard, but that only a very small number of people have the authority/ability to push the update out."
Another agreed, calling for the size of the security team to be increased from seven to 21.
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So maybe it is not about the amount of people who contribute updates and patches, but rather the amount of people with authority to revise and release the patches and updates.
Even though I am on the defensive side, trying to keep my servers safe from crackers, script kiddies and so on, I do apreciate these groups for existing.
If they didn't exist, I would really have felt much more unsafe from espionage and the prying eyes of national and international bodies.
From my stance, confidential information must be very well protected, and if you put available on the internet, you better have secured it or face the consequences.
By knowing that crackers exist, you might hessitate to put important and confidential information online, imagine how it would be if everybody only talked about cracking as teoretically possible!!! Spies would never tell what they do, they would be everywhere! Knowing your accounting, your secret papers, everything, for nobody would care to improve the security of their products from something that was only teoretical... All the good guys would have no privacy whereas only the black hats would be able to move around as they liked.
Face it - the world have all kinds of people - angles, devils, and all sort of people in between. To be hit by someone who expose you is many times better than to be hit by those who simply abuse the information without any words.