Actually signing is vastly overrated. As long as the keys that sign the software are in the hands of someone like MS or another big software vendor you will have the same problems with signed applications that come with signed browser plugins and drivers. It will simply mean legitimate updates take longer (see drivers) and malware vendors will have to pay MS (or someone similar) to sign their software too.
You should have a look at these little things called "daemons" and "console programs inside a screen session". They don't seem to be disturbed at all by restarting X or logging out.
As there are lots of applications for almost any application domain imaginable on Linux that do not require X there is a real difference between a reboot and a shutdown of X. This is especially true for servers since 99.9% of server apps don't require X to run/keep running on Linux.
Since "Hello World" doesn't use any externally provided Strings (input) you would have to build the exploit right into the program. Things like that are called bugs, not security holes.
Why? HD-formats are roughly less than 16 times the resolution of todays DVDs (they are less than 4 times the height and width respectively). That means even with MPEG1/2, codecs with horrible quality/byte (xvid or divx are much better in that respect) you would only need about 30-40 GB for a normal movie. Now you say "uncompressed" but I fail to see why anyone in the industry would want the consumer to have uncompressed movies when there is no visible difference between it and the compressed variant. Not to mention the practical/technical difficulties of real-time processing of uncompressed video all the way from the drive to the screen.
So all the article says is that the Silver Bullet or Holy Grail of Searching didn't turn out to be something one could create simply by telling the programmers to do it?
Apple (and MS for that matter) try to create a system where you don't have to keep any order on your computer and find anything you want instantly. I am sure I am not the only one with a gut-feeling that this is closer to the area of unsolvable problems, right with "Making Software Idiotproof" and "Creating the perfect user-interface everyone can use without any prior computer experience" and "Creating a 100% secure computer on the internet",...
The Tracker does not decide who downloads what. It just has a list of IPs. Each client decides what it downloads but it uploads only/better to the clients that send to it faster than the others. That way uploading clients get the biggest part of the bandwidth and clients that leech only get the rest that is not needed by one of the others.
Opera does not have adblock or any of the "cool but marginally useful" things like context-menu web search
You might want to re-check your facts Here is a nice list of things you can do with Opera. Context-Menu Websearch is a builtin feature since I can remember.
It's sad but today's education de-emphasizes practice and memorization and over-emphasizes deduction and reasoning. There is a place for both. Once you deduce some information, it's time to memorize or practice it until it is second nature.
At least here in germany it is the absolute opposite. Most things are memorized, even the things you can look up or deduce easily are often taught on mere "it is this way because it is" basis. Naturally most students forget most of the knowledge they don't use shortly after the tests. While I agree that memorizing e.g. a keyboard layout through practice is a good thing this is only the case because you can't deduce the layout from anything because it is arbitary and you don't have to time to think much when typing fast.
I guess the education system works on memorization because the memorized facts are much easier to test than the reasoning/deduction abilities of a student.
Probably the same place where all the erotic (as in porn with story) games are. I imagine there would be a nice market for that as well but I never heard of any games from that category. They are probably too expensive to make (both) and the marketing droids say there would not be enough users.
If you make pay-email someone will make another free (beer) system to replace email that works basically the same way and has the same problems (how can anyone reach anyone else without prior notice while at the same time forbidding spam).
That is mostly related to Windows reacting in totally braindead ways to changes in configuration. In Linux you change a setting and it just works, in Windows you change a setting and it might work if you are lucky, it might change nothing at all or it might totally fuck up your computer (the same setting) depending on factors invisible to the user and the skilled admin. I switched to Linux for everything but Games for this reason about a year ago and I begin to notice now, when someone asks me to solve their windows problems, that I just don't have to solutions to the newest problems memorized and there is no way to find them out on your own when you are not up to date with windows related news. There is a reason reinstallation is so popular for solving windows problems and it is not the totally deterministic behaviour of windows.
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Actually signing is vastly overrated. As long as the keys that sign the software are in the hands of someone like MS or another big software vendor you will have the same problems with signed applications that come with signed browser plugins and drivers. It will simply mean legitimate updates take longer (see drivers) and malware vendors will have to pay MS (or someone similar) to sign their software too.
You should have a look at these little things called "daemons" and "console programs inside a screen session". They don't seem to be disturbed at all by restarting X or logging out.
As there are lots of applications for almost any application domain imaginable on Linux that do not require X there is a real difference between a reboot and a shutdown of X. This is especially true for servers since 99.9% of server apps don't require X to run/keep running on Linux.
Since "Hello World" doesn't use any externally provided Strings (input) you would have to build the exploit right into the program. Things like that are called bugs, not security holes.
Why? HD-formats are roughly less than 16 times the resolution of todays DVDs (they are less than 4 times the height and width respectively). That means even with MPEG1/2, codecs with horrible quality/byte (xvid or divx are much better in that respect) you would only need about 30-40 GB for a normal movie. Now you say "uncompressed" but I fail to see why anyone in the industry would want the consumer to have uncompressed movies when there is no visible difference between it and the compressed variant. Not to mention the practical/technical difficulties of real-time processing of uncompressed video all the way from the drive to the screen.
With enough RAM you could run from there and only write on shutdown (and perhaps in between for important data).
But what would you do with 850 GB of pre-written data. What would you put on such a medium that makes sense as mass-product?
I don't know about you but floppy disks failed about one in two to three times I used one so CDs and DVDs are much more robust.
You mean embarassing for MS that their file formats are exposed as the incompatible, undocumented shit they are?
Perhaps the 'security guys' at work have access to the password hashes?
So all the article says is that the Silver Bullet or Holy Grail of Searching didn't turn out to be something one could create simply by telling the programmers to do it?
Apple (and MS for that matter) try to create a system where you don't have to keep any order on your computer and find anything you want instantly. I am sure I am not the only one with a gut-feeling that this is closer to the area of unsolvable problems, right with "Making Software Idiotproof" and "Creating the perfect user-interface everyone can use without any prior computer experience" and "Creating a 100% secure computer on the internet",...
Number of (non-japanese) libraries available.
That would mean there are a lot of insanely intelligent people out there. I guess I am not the only one who doubts that...
The Tracker does not decide who downloads what. It just has a list of IPs. Each client decides what it downloads but it uploads only/better to the clients that send to it faster than the others. That way uploading clients get the biggest part of the bandwidth and clients that leech only get the rest that is not needed by one of the others.
You might want to try the User-CSS Stylesheet for Adblocking from here
Probably from people selling things on a (world) market where everyone else had no tractor either.
Regarding IRC, Quizbots are usually also a good training for your typing skills.
If you have to stop thinking to wait for your hands typing you are using the wrong programming language. An IDE does not change that.
I usually just doubleclick once in an empty opera window or twice in the empty opera mdi to get to /.
I guess the education system works on memorization because the memorized facts are much easier to test than the reasoning/deduction abilities of a student.
Probably the same place where all the erotic (as in porn with story) games are. I imagine there would be a nice market for that as well but I never heard of any games from that category. They are probably too expensive to make (both) and the marketing droids say there would not be enough users.
If you make pay-email someone will make another free (beer) system to replace email that works basically the same way and has the same problems (how can anyone reach anyone else without prior notice while at the same time forbidding spam).
Did you try to get them to use something like Docbook?
That is mostly related to Windows reacting in totally braindead ways to changes in configuration. In Linux you change a setting and it just works, in Windows you change a setting and it might work if you are lucky, it might change nothing at all or it might totally fuck up your computer (the same setting) depending on factors invisible to the user and the skilled admin. I switched to Linux for everything but Games for this reason about a year ago and I begin to notice now, when someone asks me to solve their windows problems, that I just don't have to solutions to the newest problems memorized and there is no way to find them out on your own when you are not up to date with windows related news. There is a reason reinstallation is so popular for solving windows problems and it is not the totally deterministic behaviour of windows.