What about a comparable government system mining for certain terrorism related keywords?
Governments don't need it: they already tap the backbones... But look at it the other way: how about an app that would listen on Gov't employees, and relay everything to sites like WikiLeaks et. al?
If you are interested about 3D performance on ANY platform, your choices aren't terribly diverse.
Indeed. Using FreeBSD/amd64 here, and as soon as I've started programming OpenGL past Mesa3D (OpenGL 3.3 and 4.0/4.1), only the NVIDIA proprietary blob worked more or less fine (though it has its set of quirks and bugs). No luck with ATI/AMD nor with INTEL drivers and GPUs.
RapidShare acknowledged that copyrighted files do get uploaded to its site, however 'these users are in the absolute minority compared with those who use our services to pursue perfectly legitimate interests.'
What are "copyrighted files"? Everything created recently, i.e. before 70 years after the death of the author, IS copyrighted... unless explicitly being put in the public domain by its author. Including your favorite Linux distro, and files released under CC and similar licenses. Including the home video you took and uploaded to RS & Co. for your friends. Add or take a few weird exceptions in local copyright laws depending on your country, but that's essentially what the Berne Convention says. So, what's wrong with copyrighted files anyway? It's not the copyright status of the file that matters, it's the permission (or lack of permission) of the copyright owner that does. And this is something that is impossible to query automatically, even for RS, because there's no global database of permissions. Just because a file is copyrighted, and most of them are, doesn't mean it must be excluded by file hosters.
I'm completely disgusted by this whole industry and their price gouging.
Judging by their pricing and traffic shaping policy, I'd venture that they have some heavy congestion in their backbone, i.e. that they need to invest more in their infrastructure. This emergency throttling is very typical for this. However, since you're on a satellite link, remember that both the RF spectrum AND the number of transponders on the satellite is a scarce and very limited resource. You're essentially competing with many other customers for limited physical resources that are (in the case of the RF spectrum) absolutely not, or (in the case of the number of transponders and satellites) not easily and cheaply extended. This fundamental limitation applies to EVERY wireless plan, worldwide, and there's not much you can do about it.
By posting this on slashdot you are making a record of your dissent. It wouldn't be hard for the feds to find it and find you.
I know you're being funny, cynical, or sarcastic. But the simple fact that such a sentence with the words "the feds" instead of "the KGB" exists today and is even perceived as remotely plausible, shows how deep we stooped from our previous moral high ground of the "Land of the Free and Home of the Brave."
You know what else we could do? Just put copyright back to place. To the good old days where you have to register your copyright and where it's only lasted 14 years.
Only a fool would repeat an experiment that failed with the exact same parameters, hoping that it would be a success next time. What makes you think Copyright won't be abused/extended (again!) in the next iteration by the very same economic forces that abused/extended it in its current form? Will there be no $LOBBYIST(s) a la Disney in the future?
What are the disavantages of using things like pdns-recursor?
It all boils down to the way you bootstrap your name server. As long as you use your local ISP's servers to bootstrap named, that's perfectly okay, and even desirable. But if you bootstrap from a public root server, this is only okay as long as not too many people do it as well. Think about it this way: if hundreds of millions of little SoHo-Routers were to bootstrap their DNS from the same public DNS server each time they are rebooted, this public DNS server will sooner or later stop replying to all those queries by consumer devices. This is similar to the NTP D-link fiasco.
Good move from Piratenpartei. However, knowing the Copyright Crartel's ways, it looks like a retroactive extension of Copyright is about to come to your Kindergarten, very soon now...
Linux doesn't qualify as a "clean operating system"?
Maybe, to the French legislators, the only clean operating systems are the one that are certified compatible with the HADOPI-mandated spyware. Just thinking...
I've sometimes thought it would be fun to hook something really random (like a geiger counter) up to my computer, generate a DVD full of really random encryption keys, send a copy to my Mom, and we could send email that even the NSA couldn't read.
And what if the NSA intercepts the one-time pad DVD before it gets to your Mom?
I'm seriously wondering if recursive encryption (repeatedly encrypting encrypted content with a mix of different ciphers and keys -- and no, I don't mean a double XORing!) is stronger than a single layer of encryption. Perhaps 2 layers would be enough, because it would make decryption harder (i.e. it is more difficult to detect plain text this way), but would 3 layers be more secure than 2 layers?
Despite all (justified!) COBOL bashing, you'll have to concede that a 50 years old COBOL compiler could (had to) run on a VERY modest amount of RAM... something that isn't immediately obvious, considering that compilers of current languages are true resource hogs in comparison.
You will note that not one gov't or media agency is disputing that the facts presented by WL are all true.
Regarding the Cables, those are not facts, they are reports on facts and opinions, allegedly written by US diplomats. Even if nobody is currently disputing this, WE the readers can't be confident enough that those are indeed the pristine documents (in fact, some redacted are definitely not pristine, but that's beside the point): those documents are not digitally signed, and we don't have the public key of the Government so we can verify independently of WikiLeaks their authenticity. Personally, I think WikiLeaks are honest and wouldn't make up or sneakily modify documents, but that's more a question of gut feeling and faith than certainty.
One example, of course, is the Pentium FDIV failure. That was a hardware failure, "programmed" into the CPU by Intel's experts in solid-state hardware design.
Are you sure it was an error in silicon, and not merely a software bug in the microcode of the ALU?
4.2 The Underlying Cause After the quantized P-D plot (lookup table) was numerically generated as in Figure 4-1 , a script was written to download the entries into a hardware PLA (Programmable Lookup Array). An error was made in this script that resulted in a few lookup entries (belonging to the positive plane of the P-D plot) being omitted from the PLA. The 5 critical entries are shown in Figure 4-3 as the shaded regions. As a result of the omission, a divisor/remainder pair that hits these entries during the lookup phase of the SRT algorithm will incorrectly read a quotient digit value of 0 instead of +2. Subsequently, the iterative algorithm will return a quotient result with reduced precision.
Looks like a microcode bug to me... i.e. flawed software. Sure, below assembly language level, but still software.
Not that I have any novel ideas on how that can be done....
How about the protocols underlying Freenet, GNUnet et al? There are actually plenty of anon-P2P proposals and prototypes out there, they're just not as popular yet.
You have been disconnected from the interwebs until further notice for suspected possession of copyright infringement technology.
You mean, possessing a computer (smartphone etc...) will be forbidden in the not so distant future? Makes sense. In their distorted world view, all that would be allowed is a device that can't be programmed by non-authorized personnel. Imagine CS students and programmers needing a special and expensive MAFIAA/Government license + frequent audits to be allowed the extraordinary privilege of writing code!
I don't know enough about Columbia, the Philippines, Tunisia, or Morocco.
I think Morocco declined the invitation, because it has had some diplomatic problems with Norway in the past. It may not be related to the Nobel Foundation at all.
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Audio books? That's so old school. I'm waiting for the TAOCP Trilogy^WSeries right from Hollywood.
There's indeed a 3SAT TV station. Not to be confused with the 3-SAT problem.
Governments don't need it: they already tap the backbones... But look at it the other way: how about an app that would listen on Gov't employees, and relay everything to sites like WikiLeaks et. al?
Indeed. Using FreeBSD/amd64 here, and as soon as I've started programming OpenGL past Mesa3D (OpenGL 3.3 and 4.0/4.1), only the NVIDIA proprietary blob worked more or less fine (though it has its set of quirks and bugs). No luck with ATI/AMD nor with INTEL drivers and GPUs.
What are "copyrighted files"? Everything created recently, i.e. before 70 years after the death of the author, IS copyrighted... unless explicitly being put in the public domain by its author. Including your favorite Linux distro, and files released under CC and similar licenses. Including the home video you took and uploaded to RS & Co. for your friends. Add or take a few weird exceptions in local copyright laws depending on your country, but that's essentially what the Berne Convention says. So, what's wrong with copyrighted files anyway? It's not the copyright status of the file that matters, it's the permission (or lack of permission) of the copyright owner that does. And this is something that is impossible to query automatically, even for RS, because there's no global database of permissions. Just because a file is copyrighted, and most of them are, doesn't mean it must be excluded by file hosters.
Judging by their pricing and traffic shaping policy, I'd venture that they have some heavy congestion in their backbone, i.e. that they need to invest more in their infrastructure. This emergency throttling is very typical for this. However, since you're on a satellite link, remember that both the RF spectrum AND the number of transponders on the satellite is a scarce and very limited resource. You're essentially competing with many other customers for limited physical resources that are (in the case of the RF spectrum) absolutely not, or (in the case of the number of transponders and satellites) not easily and cheaply extended. This fundamental limitation applies to EVERY wireless plan, worldwide, and there's not much you can do about it.
Coming to think of it, you're right. Slash is better left as it is.
Absolutely! But Slashcode (and many other forum softwares) could also auto-resolve those silly shortened links...
I know you're being funny, cynical, or sarcastic. But the simple fact that such a sentence with the words "the feds" instead of "the KGB" exists today and is even perceived as remotely plausible, shows how deep we stooped from our previous moral high ground of the "Land of the Free and Home of the Brave."
With censorship all the rage nowadays, releasing Huckleberry Finn on Wikileaks would be pointless, as they too would happily redact it.
Only a fool would repeat an experiment that failed with the exact same parameters, hoping that it would be a success next time. What makes you think Copyright won't be abused/extended (again!) in the next iteration by the very same economic forces that abused/extended it in its current form? Will there be no $LOBBYIST(s) a la Disney in the future?
It all boils down to the way you bootstrap your name server. As long as you use your local ISP's servers to bootstrap named, that's perfectly okay, and even desirable. But if you bootstrap from a public root server, this is only okay as long as not too many people do it as well. Think about it this way: if hundreds of millions of little SoHo-Routers were to bootstrap their DNS from the same public DNS server each time they are rebooted, this public DNS server will sooner or later stop replying to all those queries by consumer devices. This is similar to the NTP D-link fiasco.
Maybe getting in touch with our fellow slashdotter NewYorkCountryLawyer (Ray Beckerman) could be a good idea?
Good move from Piratenpartei. However, knowing the Copyright Crartel's ways, it looks like a retroactive extension of Copyright is about to come to your Kindergarten, very soon now...
Maybe, to the French legislators, the only clean operating systems are the one that are certified compatible with the HADOPI-mandated spyware. Just thinking...
How about foreign banks operating in the US, like, say, Deutsche Bank et al?
And what if the NSA intercepts the one-time pad DVD before it gets to your Mom?
I'm seriously wondering if recursive encryption (repeatedly encrypting encrypted content with a mix of different ciphers and keys -- and no, I don't mean a double XORing!) is stronger than a single layer of encryption. Perhaps 2 layers would be enough, because it would make decryption harder (i.e. it is more difficult to detect plain text this way), but would 3 layers be more secure than 2 layers?
You mean someone like that godaddy girl?
Despite all (justified!) COBOL bashing, you'll have to concede that a 50 years old COBOL compiler could (had to) run on a VERY modest amount of RAM... something that isn't immediately obvious, considering that compilers of current languages are true resource hogs in comparison.
Regarding the Cables, those are not facts, they are reports on facts and opinions, allegedly written by US diplomats. Even if nobody is currently disputing this, WE the readers can't be confident enough that those are indeed the pristine documents (in fact, some redacted are definitely not pristine, but that's beside the point): those documents are not digitally signed, and we don't have the public key of the Government so we can verify independently of WikiLeaks their authenticity. Personally, I think WikiLeaks are honest and wouldn't make up or sneakily modify documents, but that's more a question of gut feeling and faith than certainty.
Are you sure it was an error in silicon, and not merely a software bug in the microcode of the ALU?
Looks like a microcode bug to me... i.e. flawed software. Sure, below assembly language level, but still software.
How about the protocols underlying Freenet, GNUnet et al? There are actually plenty of anon-P2P proposals and prototypes out there, they're just not as popular yet.
You mean, possessing a computer (smartphone etc...) will be forbidden in the not so distant future? Makes sense. In their distorted world view, all that would be allowed is a device that can't be programmed by non-authorized personnel. Imagine CS students and programmers needing a special and expensive MAFIAA/Government license + frequent audits to be allowed the extraordinary privilege of writing code!
I think Morocco declined the invitation, because it has had some diplomatic problems with Norway in the past. It may not be related to the Nobel Foundation at all.