net4801 with FreeBSD 5.3-BETA1 is absolutely great. I've beeing using one as ADSL router, Postfix + Cyrus/IMAP server and thttpd webserver for many months now without any problems. I can highly recommend them!
Aren't the fastest programmers metaprogrammers? Nothing beats an N-liner (for small values of N) which turns a terse program specification into real code.
Isn't it a reasonable assumption, that MSFT is using open source JPEG libraries just like anyone else? Shouldn't we audit libjpeg now, just to be sure?
Sounds like to me they're trying to keep "sco loses case, linux legit" headline from hitting the news...
Actually, they don't even want to win, because if they did, all it takes would be a set of patches to the Linux kernel. SCO wants this anti-linux campaign to go on and on and on... That's their (and MSFTs) primary goal.
Only if 3Com provided a IOS-like command line interface will they be able to gain market share among trained CCIE/CCNA/... personnel. Of course, they will have to provide high quality (*cough*) equipment too...
manufacturers of player devices will see it as an additional cost with no real advantage
We thought the same about Macrovision, yet it caught on.
It's not the market that will prevent such schemes from being efficient. It is the inherent impossibility to keep an encrypted path from the media to the brain. At one point, the data WILL have to be decoded, and you can bet all you want that competent hackers will do it and once decrypted, the data WILL also leak out, so that everybody can make a copy. It's that simple, really.
The ONLY thing that will really slow these bastards down is if the decryption system is in the monitor itself, located somewhere in the processor for the projector / screen.
Why would that be a problem? That processor will have to ultimately output an undecrypted stream of some sort into the projection or display module. Intercept that stream, and recombine into something more standardized like MPEG-4 (DVD). Hardware hacking isn't really that difficult!
Oh well, you'd be now ruled by nazis or sowjets... But that's the way how boomerangs work: no good deed ever goes unpunished. How would our parents who DIED during WWII have reacted to such comments? Thank you sir!
Oh, BTW, we were also a big read target to the sowjets, just in case you didn't know.
Our government and NORAD monitor everything and know what's going on.
Are you sure that NORAD is responsible for this kind of surveillance? They may track missile lauches and satellites; but detecting and analyzing "mushrooms" would be probably done by NIMA.
Its not realistic to imagine terrorists smuggling an atomic bomb anywhere. These things are big and 'noisy' in terms of radiation.
Sure, warheads are heavy too, and they can be detected with simple geiger counters. But it would be still very easy to smuggle a few of those babies into Europe or America. They are not that big, and all it takes is a small pickup carrying potatoes or whatever over the border.
Getting a warhead is way more difficult than smuggling it. Just ask your regular drug dealer where his stuff comes from? Heroin and Cocaine are also easily detectable through bio sensors (a.k.a. dogs), but tons and tons of it is being smuggled into western countries all the time!
Perhaps. Yet it is still a matter of fact, that weapons WILL be used. Mankind has never retracted from (mis-)using technlogy, no matter how deadly it was. You correctly pointed out that we used nukes (and we were the first to do so, sadly enough), and it was certainly not a decision taken lightly. Now imagine a dictatorship like North Korea with such weapons. Would THEY be so responsible NOT to used their weapons? I'm highly doubtful that they won't.
Such regimes are not bound to respecting the will of their own population, who could stop them or force them to use some restraint and common sense. The only way to deal with such regimes is through corruption, coercion and pure military means. I'd hate it if we were forced to nuke them into oblivion, once they get out of control.
Yes, I know. It is very sad to think in terms of might and threat, while cooperation and mutual respect could be so much more productive. Unfortunatly, that's the way the world is constructed. Blame it on the bad bad bad United States if it makes you feel better. It would be still irrelevant. Nukes would still proliferate, and nations would always fight their wars, just as before. Should they be fighting on a nuclear level now?
They can talk shit becuase their freedoms have been protected by
the American taxes for 50 years
Sorry, their freedoms have been protected by American soldiers, not just by taxes. A lot of American people have risked their lifes to keep Europe free.
No, we've called them a rogue state, BECAUSE they were trying to build WMDs. Unfortunately, they are confirming our (Government's) worst fears again, and again.
Proliferation of WMDs is not good at all, no matter who's building them. The more we have of those, the more likely they'll get used in one of the upcoming wars.
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net4801 with FreeBSD 5.3-BETA1 is absolutely great. I've beeing using one as ADSL router, Postfix + Cyrus/IMAP server and thttpd webserver for many months now without any problems. I can highly recommend them!
Some other oxymorons:
Didn't the inventor of Mach (a CMU professor, IIRC) got hired by Microsoft?
Aren't the fastest programmers metaprogrammers? Nothing beats an N-liner (for small values of N) which turns a terse program specification into real code.
Good link! Thanks!
They removed the browser and OS stats in July 2004.
Is that related to their IPO?
Or you could install the "Single Window" extension of Firefox.
And I really hate the Amazon tie-in with the cookie tracking my name, search history and etc.
Google is also tracking users with a cookie. They just don't tie that cookie to a real id.
FreeBSD is nearing 5.3-RELEASE, and GNOME 2.8 won't be part of it. Awesome timing...
Isn't it a reasonable assumption, that MSFT is using open source JPEG libraries just like anyone else? Shouldn't we audit libjpeg now, just to be sure?
Sounds like to me they're trying to keep "sco loses case, linux legit" headline from hitting the news...
Actually, they don't even want to win, because if they did, all it takes would be a set of patches to the Linux kernel. SCO wants this anti-linux campaign to go on and on and on... That's their (and MSFTs) primary goal.
sounds like they're going to 'share-source' their stuff in the Microsoft fashion
Or the java community process fashion...
You don't need them for high bandwidth pipes, do you?
Only if 3Com provided a IOS-like command line interface will they be able to gain market share among trained CCIE/CCNA/... personnel. Of course, they will have to provide high quality (*cough*) equipment too...
Here's a sample chapter about process management.
Yes, The Zope Book is not that bad, but something much more practical would be nice to have.
manufacturers of player devices will see it as an additional cost with no real advantage
We thought the same about Macrovision, yet it caught on.
It's not the market that will prevent such schemes from being efficient. It is the inherent impossibility to keep an encrypted path from the media to the brain. At one point, the data WILL have to be decoded, and you can bet all you want that competent hackers will do it and once decrypted, the data WILL also leak out, so that everybody can make a copy. It's that simple, really.
The ONLY thing that will really slow these bastards down is if the decryption system is in the monitor itself, located somewhere in the processor for the projector / screen.
Why would that be a problem? That processor will have to ultimately output an undecrypted stream of some sort into the projection or display module. Intercept that stream, and recombine into something more standardized like MPEG-4 (DVD). Hardware hacking isn't really that difficult!
Unless they intend on keeping the signal encrpted until it hits our implanted optical nerve SVP chip.
Even then it could still be intercepted at that chip's output... Perhaps even pain- and wireless.
Oh well, you'd be now ruled by nazis or sowjets... But that's the way how boomerangs work: no good deed ever goes unpunished. How would our parents who DIED during WWII have reacted to such comments? Thank you sir!
Oh, BTW, we were also a big read target to the sowjets, just in case you didn't know.
Our government and NORAD monitor everything and know what's going on.
Are you sure that NORAD is responsible for this kind of surveillance? They may track missile lauches and satellites; but detecting and analyzing "mushrooms" would be probably done by NIMA.
Its not realistic to imagine terrorists smuggling an atomic bomb anywhere. These things are big and 'noisy' in terms of radiation.
Sure, warheads are heavy too, and they can be detected with simple geiger counters. But it would be still very easy to smuggle a few of those babies into Europe or America. They are not that big, and all it takes is a small pickup carrying potatoes or whatever over the border.
Getting a warhead is way more difficult than smuggling it. Just ask your regular drug dealer where his stuff comes from? Heroin and Cocaine are also easily detectable through bio sensors (a.k.a. dogs), but tons and tons of it is being smuggled into western countries all the time!
Perhaps. Yet it is still a matter of fact, that weapons WILL be used. Mankind has never retracted from (mis-)using technlogy, no matter how deadly it was. You correctly pointed out that we used nukes (and we were the first to do so, sadly enough), and it was certainly not a decision taken lightly. Now imagine a dictatorship like North Korea with such weapons. Would THEY be so responsible NOT to used their weapons? I'm highly doubtful that they won't.
Such regimes are not bound to respecting the will of their own population, who could stop them or force them to use some restraint and common sense. The only way to deal with such regimes is through corruption, coercion and pure military means. I'd hate it if we were forced to nuke them into oblivion, once they get out of control.
Yes, I know. It is very sad to think in terms of might and threat, while cooperation and mutual respect could be so much more productive. Unfortunatly, that's the way the world is constructed. Blame it on the bad bad bad United States if it makes you feel better. It would be still irrelevant. Nukes would still proliferate, and nations would always fight their wars, just as before. Should they be fighting on a nuclear level now?
They can talk shit becuase their freedoms have been protected by the American taxes for 50 years
Sorry, their freedoms have been protected by American soldiers, not just by taxes. A lot of American people have risked their lifes to keep Europe free.
No, we've called them a rogue state, BECAUSE they were trying to build WMDs. Unfortunately, they are confirming our (Government's) worst fears again, and again.
Proliferation of WMDs is not good at all, no matter who's building them. The more we have of those, the more likely they'll get used in one of the upcoming wars.
Avoiding computers doesn't prevent you from catching some rather nasty (bio-) viruses. *sneeze*, *cough*, ...