Believe me, the corpulent layers of bureaucracy in the government of Taxachussets will see to it that a non-Microsoft 'solution' costs even more. Big bloated bureacracies are The American Way so wave that flag, sonny.
Your notion that a DRM standard will be vigorously opposed by the government, and that competitors will cheer on such opposition is naive. None of the financial interests involved here are opposed to DRM, because without DRM the content providers will just keep shipping cans of 35MM film around. Nobody in the marketplace wins if that happens.
What does what the 'hardware makers' think matter? Those are the guys who are the equivalent of the companies that make the seats in the movie theatres. The content providers are the ones whose concerns matter.
Where's this printed rate sheet? Do companies get sued for charging too little? Who elected the political body that decided what each commodity should cost?
My point was, I think, that I was learning networking on my own small intranet. At the time, the only connection I had to the Internet was over a modem dialup.
Certainly a firewall, and layers of stuff like NAT are necessary today. I challange the notion that everything some guy does at home on a private network behind a firewall needs to be 'secured' though. Many people have fast connections to the 'net that are very blocked off by the way their ISP delivers, i.e PPPOE and through a 'modem' that has built in NAT. Mine certainly is pretty inpenetrable that way. Which sucks at times, but if you want a machine 'online' running services you colocate a box somewhere and THAT is secured.
'Tabloids' in Europe lack a lot of credibility. There are also plain black-and-white newspapers in Europe that don't feature nudity on the front page.
Here in the US, granted, our Tabloids focus on things like 'Lizard Boy impregnated Elvis' with lurid photoshopped pictures on the cover. I guess we're more 'hung up' or someting in what we shovel at the 'lower classes' in the supermarket checkout aisle than they are in Europe.
Actually, I don't know that a 'paper trail' has been established connecting Mr. DeRaadt's comments to the loss of funding. The OpenBSD conference was only sponsored through an intermediary, and the intermediary was the one who lost the funding.
But the kind of people who make 'public statements about US foreign policy' are the kind of people who relish getting a response from said US agencies. It's not surprising that a lot of noise was made by Mr. DeRaadt after the funding was cut, for whatever reason it was cut.
Both SELinux and OpenBSD are about more than a kernel. In the case of OpenBSD (and all the freenix BSD projects, for that matter) there is a defined and structured core source tree. It covers much, much more than just the kernel, and it's all controlled and tracked under CVS by a central organization.
NetBSD, for instance, can be downloaded in source form as a source tree in a set of tarballs. Then you can expand the source tree and run 'make' on the whole tree, ending up with 'ls' 'make' 'cat' and the like. A binary 'base' install of NetBSD for any particular architecture is a 60-80 meg download. You want things like emacs, you bring that in seperate from the base system.
Most common Linux 'distributions' on the other hand, have whatever mixed codebase of 'userland' code the distro maintainer chooses to throw in the mix.
SELinux, one would hope, would be closer to Open/Free/NetBSD in including a core, audited base userland. The point in having a 'secure' kernel withers away, to be honest, once init(8) starts running, if you don't have a secured userland codebase.
Yes, and the interesting and (off topic) sidenote is that back when tinfoil was actually used, before aluminium foil, the tin was cheaper than the aluminum. Until modern methods of refining aluminum ore (using large amounts of electricity) were developed, Aluminum in metallic form was extremely rare. It was more rare than Gold, and there are 'crown jewels' in Europe set in Aluminum as a consequence.
Now the situation is reversed: aluminum is cheap, and tin is more scare, and reserved for things like solder alloys, etc.
Somebody needs to tell those Kernel Janitors that their webpage doesn't resize properly. I'm running Mozilla, and the tables on the page are set up so that unless I full-screen the browser window on my 1024x768 display, some of it spills off the screen. And there's no horizontal scrollbar for whatever reason.
I hope that isn't a joke page, laid out so poorly, because if it is, IHBT.
The first time I tried OpenBSD, it was after quite some time using NetBSD, and Slackware before that. I couldn't get OpenBSD to do ANYTHING on the network. I had come up out of the Slackware culture of opennes where everything was turned on by default (Slackware previous to 4.0 was VERY open and insecure by default). The challange of the OpenBSD security tightness was a 'challange' that helped me learn yet more.
Honestly, for fooling around on home subnets, I think the 'openess' is a good thing. A newcomer should be able to plug together the network and get machines talking to each other, before having to dig in and learn how it's working. But that's coming from me, somebody who 'cut his teeth' on networking in the days of the 1.2 Linux kernel, by throwing Slackware on the 386sx boxes with 3c503 cards in them that I paid $3 a pound (!) at a surplus store. It was what I could afford at the time and fooling around with them, I learned a lot.
I wouldn't know how people would have that sort of 'fun' today with the drum-tight defaults that most distributions ship with these days.
People 'collect stamps' as historical relics. I, for instance, collect coins. I am not an 'investor' so I don't collect anything that is very valuable. I prefer small copper coins. I favor British Empire farthings. You can get an early 18th century British farthing for several US dollars. I like them for the history, and often I prefer 'well worn' coins to the shiny new ones that sat in collector's cabinet for centuries.
It might seem 'boring' to people whose idea of fun is going out to night clubs and listening to droning repetitive loud music, but then......
When I was in High School I didn't have a terminal at home. All I could do from home was call up the modem pool phone number that we used at school (on the 110 baud ASR-33 teletypes) and whistle into the phone. If you whistled in a warbling fashion you could get the modem to respond with modulated warbling.
True life story, by the way.
A few years later the adventures involved trying to find a fast DecWriter on the University campus (a fast DecWriter was a terminal that would print to fanfold paper at 1200 baud or faster).
It's an absolute nightmare trying to use Google to search for certain forms of info because of the pushy way sales sites game it.
If you know, say, the model name of an older Laptop computer and you're interested in finding out what it's internal specs are, you'll choke to death on bid pages for batteries before you find a page that says what processor it contains.
This isn't a google-unique problem, but it is a major problem with any web search.
As long as you disable the spyware features in the google toolbar it's okay. In fact it's better than okay, in that it adds popup protection to IE. The Google Toolbar actually helps IE compete with Mozilla in some regards.
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Believe me, the corpulent layers of bureaucracy in the government of Taxachussets will see to it that a non-Microsoft 'solution' costs even more. Big bloated bureacracies are The American Way so wave that flag, sonny.
Your notion that a DRM standard will be vigorously opposed by the government, and that competitors will cheer on such opposition is naive. None of the financial interests involved here are opposed to DRM, because without DRM the content providers will just keep shipping cans of 35MM film around. Nobody in the marketplace wins if that happens.
What does what the 'hardware makers' think matter? Those are the guys who are the equivalent of the companies that make the seats in the movie theatres. The content providers are the ones whose concerns matter.
Sure. Have your lawyers from the WINE project send over a list of the developers they want included on the non-disclosure-agreement document.
That's what Larry Ellision and Steve Jobs and their gang want you to believe.
Actually, part of the reason I live out of city limits is that it's no goddamn "planning offical's" business what color I paint my house.
Your glee in people losing their house for not paying a fine is, well, a little disturbing.
I'll get a can of driveway tar and 'paint' said "city officials" car a tasteful color, thankyou.
The EU sues companies for charging too much?
Where's this printed rate sheet? Do companies get sued for charging too little? Who elected the political body that decided what each commodity should cost?
Then the question is how deep are the pockets at each seperate entity, as the 'big' Microsoft wouldn't be responsible.
And their work doesnt involved compromising my security or environment with non-standard applications.
The guy who patrols the parking lot probably feels the same way about people who don't park perfectly centered between the lines.
My point was, I think, that I was learning networking on my own small intranet. At the time, the only connection I had to the Internet was over a modem dialup.
Certainly a firewall, and layers of stuff like NAT are necessary today. I challange the notion that everything some guy does at home on a private network behind a firewall needs to be 'secured' though. Many people have fast connections to the 'net that are very blocked off by the way their ISP delivers, i.e PPPOE and through a 'modem' that has built in NAT. Mine certainly is pretty inpenetrable that way. Which sucks at times, but if you want a machine 'online' running services you colocate a box somewhere and THAT is secured.
Now look what you've done. You've inspired me to reinstall NetBSD on my Mac SE/30 (16 MHz 68030 machine) just to run this Bochs on it.
'Tabloids' in Europe lack a lot of credibility. There are also plain black-and-white newspapers in Europe that don't feature nudity on the front page.
Here in the US, granted, our Tabloids focus on things like 'Lizard Boy impregnated Elvis' with lurid photoshopped pictures on the cover. I guess we're more 'hung up' or someting in what we shovel at the 'lower classes' in the supermarket checkout aisle than they are in Europe.
Whatever.
Actually, I don't know that a 'paper trail' has been established connecting Mr. DeRaadt's comments to the loss of funding. The OpenBSD conference was only sponsored through an intermediary, and the intermediary was the one who lost the funding.
But the kind of people who make 'public statements about US foreign policy' are the kind of people who relish getting a response from said US agencies. It's not surprising that a lot of noise was made by Mr. DeRaadt after the funding was cut, for whatever reason it was cut.
Both SELinux and OpenBSD are about more than a kernel. In the case of OpenBSD (and all the freenix BSD projects, for that matter) there is a defined and structured core source tree. It covers much, much more than just the kernel, and it's all controlled and tracked under CVS by a central organization.
NetBSD, for instance, can be downloaded in source form as a source tree in a set of tarballs. Then you can expand the source tree and run 'make' on the whole tree, ending up with 'ls' 'make' 'cat' and the like. A binary 'base' install of NetBSD for any particular architecture is a 60-80 meg download. You want things like emacs, you bring that in seperate from the base system.
Most common Linux 'distributions' on the other hand, have whatever mixed codebase of 'userland' code the distro maintainer chooses to throw in the mix.
SELinux, one would hope, would be closer to Open/Free/NetBSD in including a core, audited base userland. The point in having a 'secure' kernel withers away, to be honest, once init(8) starts running, if you don't have a secured userland codebase.
Yes, and the interesting and (off topic) sidenote is that back when tinfoil was actually used, before aluminium foil, the tin was cheaper than the aluminum. Until modern methods of refining aluminum ore (using large amounts of electricity) were developed, Aluminum in metallic form was extremely rare. It was more rare than Gold, and there are 'crown jewels' in Europe set in Aluminum as a consequence.
Now the situation is reversed: aluminum is cheap, and tin is more scare, and reserved for things like solder alloys, etc.
Somebody needs to tell those Kernel Janitors that their webpage doesn't resize properly. I'm running Mozilla, and the tables on the page are set up so that unless I full-screen the browser window on my 1024x768 display, some of it spills off the screen. And there's no horizontal scrollbar for whatever reason.
I hope that isn't a joke page, laid out so poorly, because if it is, IHBT.
The first time I tried OpenBSD, it was after quite some time using NetBSD, and Slackware before that. I couldn't get OpenBSD to do ANYTHING on the network. I had come up out of the Slackware culture of opennes where everything was turned on by default (Slackware previous to 4.0 was VERY open and insecure by default). The challange of the OpenBSD security tightness was a 'challange' that helped me learn yet more.
Honestly, for fooling around on home subnets, I think the 'openess' is a good thing. A newcomer should be able to plug together the network and get machines talking to each other, before having to dig in and learn how it's working. But that's coming from me, somebody who 'cut his teeth' on networking in the days of the 1.2 Linux kernel, by throwing Slackware on the 386sx boxes with 3c503 cards in them that I paid $3 a pound (!) at a surplus store. It was what I could afford at the time and fooling around with them, I learned a lot.
I wouldn't know how people would have that sort of 'fun' today with the drum-tight defaults that most distributions ship with these days.
People 'collect stamps' as historical relics. I, for instance, collect coins. I am not an 'investor' so I don't collect anything that is very valuable. I prefer small copper coins. I favor British Empire farthings. You can get an early 18th century British farthing for several US dollars. I like them for the history, and often I prefer 'well worn' coins to the shiny new ones that sat in collector's cabinet for centuries.
It might seem 'boring' to people whose idea of fun is going out to night clubs and listening to droning repetitive loud music, but then......
When I was in High School I didn't have a terminal at home. All I could do from home was call up the modem pool phone number that we used at school (on the 110 baud ASR-33 teletypes) and whistle into the phone. If you whistled in a warbling fashion you could get the modem to respond with modulated warbling.
True life story, by the way.
A few years later the adventures involved trying to find a fast DecWriter on the University campus (a fast DecWriter was a terminal that would print to fanfold paper at 1200 baud or faster).
I got a nice used 17" CRT that was sitting out by the dumpster a few months ago. Free for carrying it away.
Join us.
Eeesh! Now you've got the first phrase of 'The hacker song' sung by R. Stallman going in my head. "Join Us Now and....."
Linux and Windows are not an either/or proposition, you know.
Or maybe you don't.
It's an absolute nightmare trying to use Google to search for certain forms of info because of the pushy way sales sites game it.
If you know, say, the model name of an older Laptop computer and you're interested in finding out what it's internal specs are, you'll choke to death on bid pages for batteries before you find a page that says what processor it contains.
This isn't a google-unique problem, but it is a major problem with any web search.
Locked by whom? The qualified technician that comes free with every home computer?
Isn't the source code, and as a result the algorhithm, for /dev/random open in many implementations?
/dev/random on any of my freenix boxes, anyway.
They aren't using a hardware white noise source for
As long as you disable the spyware features in the google toolbar it's okay. In fact it's better than okay, in that it adds popup protection to IE. The Google Toolbar actually helps IE compete with Mozilla in some regards.