Probably true, but the order itself is illegal, so the President would need to have a defense against that, because Congress and the Attorney General are going to want an answer.
Yes, which is why George W. Bush is stuck in supermax for life without parole.
Because they worked. They didn't crash, they generally gave sensible output and accepted reasonable options, they were reasonably bug free.
Price did not make a difference, once you paid for the SunOS or whatever kernel (usually in the form of hardware), the proprietary tools were free. And useless.
Unfortunately, Unix and NTP treat leap seconds completely different from Daylight Saving. They actually mess with the real measured clock, slowing it down. This is just completely broken of course, suddenly seconds aren't one second long any more. This has lead to system crashes and all sorts of fun.
There are two solutions to this: Either the NTP guys get their heads out of their asses, or leap seconds are abolished.
Unix is mostly ready, there can be 62 seconds in a minute in C, so all you do is switch the timezone files to the "right" directory instead of the "posix" directory (on GNU systems at least). But that cannot be done until NTP works.
Again, same problem. You could use the TB cable to keep the noise in another room, but it would be simpler to just run HDMI + USB and keep the entire computer in the other room.
Maybe I am being a bit stupid, but I don't get it.
This box has a graphics card, a power supply, USB ports, and an ethernet interface. It is pretty much an entire computer except it doesn't have non-graphics memory, a CPU, a hard drive, or a Windows license. Does that make it cheap enough that it can compete with actual computers?
Yes, with this thing you can game on your laptop, but most gamers probably use external keyboards and screens anyway... What is the use case?
I found other sources much less categorical (the like of: "first player has demonstrably an advantage, but the winning strategy cannot be computed"), so feel free to fix the article (with sources).
Your quote from Wikipedia and the one in quotes are in complete agreement. It would be difficult to fix it.
Hydro isn't really interesting from a price comparison point of view. Most of the easy places to make hydro power are already tapped, so marginal cost for making a new hydro plant is very high -- if not directly in construction costs, then in damage to the local environment. The cost of power produced in an existing hydro plant is practically zero, but that is true for wind as well, and almost true for nuclear.
For new builds, wind and natural gas tend to fight it out for cheapest power, depending on where you build. Solar and coal win certain areas, as long as we ignore pollution for coal. Unless you happen to be in Northern Norway, where they can still expand hydro -- but no one wants the power there and conservation is hindering power line construction.
Note that dirt cheap natural gas is mostly a North American thing. The rest of the world does not have that.
Alan Cox has made clear from pretty much the moment that this issue came up that he considered binary modules to be derivative of the Linux kernel. While he has AFAIK not taken this view to court, he has certainly neither approved, condoned, nor encouraged binary, non-GPL modules.
An IPv6 network is much easier to set up properly. Check out the HomeNet stuff, where you just chuck a bunch of routers together more or less randomly, with connectivity from cable and DSL and 4G, plus a bunch of wifi routers, and it all Just Works. IPv4 in the same scenario will require a lot of hand-fiddling and being strict about topology.
No worrying about subnetting, setting up DHCP, making sure that there's precisely one DHCP server per network and all that.
Some of it is still under development, like the daisy-chained routers more than one deep, but it will get there.
I really don't get this. Did you seriously click through the cookies on every web site, picking which ones should be allowed and which shouldn't?
If anything, the Firefox developers should have included Self Destructing Cookies in the main distribution, but it works well as an addon. Deleting the silly "click to accept cookie" thing made a lot of sense though.
They are, but the senior judges likely couldn't care less about European law. UK courts routinely ignore European law, just like UK legislature.
There is no mechanism to appeal any judgements to European courts; it is the duty of the courts in the member states to ask the European court when they deem it necessary. Obviously the extent to which they deem that necessary varies a lot between member states.
The only way around this is to go to the European Court of Human Rights, but it is unlikely that Privacy International has sufficient standing to bring this case there.
Most of the video support patents are paid for when you buy the Pi, both encoding and decoding. MPEG-2 is excluded, but you can do that in software on a Raspberry Pi 2 at least. For some reason patent licensing for H.264 is dirt cheap compared to MPEG-2.
The fun will really start again with H.265 though, since it is significantly more expensive than H.264 and has at least two separate patent pools you need to license.
None of that has any bearing on the open source bits though. The firmware is in control of everything, and no matter which options you pay for it stays equally closed.
it's an open source driver instead of a closed source driver. if you think close source is fine, continue enjoying the Microsoft Windows spy network!
The GPU firmware does all the heavy lifting. Making the driver itself open source is a bit pointless when all it does is call the firmware routines which are loaded from a blob.
Also, he awards bonus points for proofs of hardness. No one has managed to prove hardness for any existing block cipher. Block ciphers are simply ways to jumble the plaintext up in a reversible fashion. They are not based on difficult mathematical problems.
Proving hardness is something you do for asymmetrical ciphers, but asymmetrical ciphers are way too slow to be useful for actual messages.
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Probably true, but the order itself is illegal, so the President would need to have a defense against that, because Congress and the Attorney General are going to want an answer.
Yes, which is why George W. Bush is stuck in supermax for life without parole.
Oh wait. He isn't.
Because they worked. They didn't crash, they generally gave sensible output and accepted reasonable options, they were reasonably bug free.
Price did not make a difference, once you paid for the SunOS or whatever kernel (usually in the form of hardware), the proprietary tools were free. And useless.
Because the Arctic doesn't have an ice-covered continent. Duh. Greenland can only do so much.
Come on Slashdot, I know things have been going downhill for a while, but this drivel at +5? Have we all turned collectively moronic?
Unfortunately, Unix and NTP treat leap seconds completely different from Daylight Saving. They actually mess with the real measured clock, slowing it down. This is just completely broken of course, suddenly seconds aren't one second long any more. This has lead to system crashes and all sorts of fun.
There are two solutions to this: Either the NTP guys get their heads out of their asses, or leap seconds are abolished.
Unix is mostly ready, there can be 62 seconds in a minute in C, so all you do is switch the timezone files to the "right" directory instead of the "posix" directory (on GNU systems at least). But that cannot be done until NTP works.
Again, same problem. You could use the TB cable to keep the noise in another room, but it would be simpler to just run HDMI + USB and keep the entire computer in the other room.
Fair enough, Windows upgrades is a good point. It might be worth paying extra to only have to deal with one Windows installation.
But which bit would be different if that box was an actual PC, not a box with a GPU?
Maybe I am being a bit stupid, but I don't get it.
This box has a graphics card, a power supply, USB ports, and an ethernet interface. It is pretty much an entire computer except it doesn't have non-graphics memory, a CPU, a hard drive, or a Windows license. Does that make it cheap enough that it can compete with actual computers?
Yes, with this thing you can game on your laptop, but most gamers probably use external keyboards and screens anyway... What is the use case?
I found other sources much less categorical (the like of: "first player has demonstrably an advantage, but the winning strategy cannot be computed"), so feel free to fix the article (with sources).
Your quote from Wikipedia and the one in quotes are in complete agreement. It would be difficult to fix it.
Hydro isn't really interesting from a price comparison point of view. Most of the easy places to make hydro power are already tapped, so marginal cost for making a new hydro plant is very high -- if not directly in construction costs, then in damage to the local environment. The cost of power produced in an existing hydro plant is practically zero, but that is true for wind as well, and almost true for nuclear.
For new builds, wind and natural gas tend to fight it out for cheapest power, depending on where you build. Solar and coal win certain areas, as long as we ignore pollution for coal. Unless you happen to be in Northern Norway, where they can still expand hydro -- but no one wants the power there and conservation is hindering power line construction.
Note that dirt cheap natural gas is mostly a North American thing. The rest of the world does not have that.
Is this the best step? I was under the impression there are designs available for coal plants* that don't emit anything but CO2?
Not just designs, most moderne coal-fired power plants are almost clean except for CO2. That doesn't help when CO2 is the problem.
Alan Cox has made clear from pretty much the moment that this issue came up that he considered binary modules to be derivative of the Linux kernel. While he has AFAIK not taken this view to court, he has certainly neither approved, condoned, nor encouraged binary, non-GPL modules.
The problem is pretty much inherent to all web-manageable VoIP phones. Which is all of them.
If they have any web-based vulnerabilities, an attacker can use any browser on the same network to exploit those vulnerabilities.
So? You cannot really use infrastructure that produces or consumes one to handle the other, even if both types are mostly methane.
LNG isn't CNG isn't LPG.
An IPv6 network is much easier to set up properly. Check out the HomeNet stuff, where you just chuck a bunch of routers together more or less randomly, with connectivity from cable and DSL and 4G, plus a bunch of wifi routers, and it all Just Works. IPv4 in the same scenario will require a lot of hand-fiddling and being strict about topology.
No worrying about subnetting, setting up DHCP, making sure that there's precisely one DHCP server per network and all that.
Some of it is still under development, like the daisy-chained routers more than one deep, but it will get there.
Yes? As long as they're first party cookies and die after the session, I don't see the problem.
I obviously don't let third parties set cookies, but that's because I don't let content get loaded from third parties at all.
I really don't get this. Did you seriously click through the cookies on every web site, picking which ones should be allowed and which shouldn't?
If anything, the Firefox developers should have included Self Destructing Cookies in the main distribution, but it works well as an addon. Deleting the silly "click to accept cookie" thing made a lot of sense though.
A virtualization system is an OS with a strange ABI and an ill-defined API.
They are, but the senior judges likely couldn't care less about European law. UK courts routinely ignore European law, just like UK legislature.
There is no mechanism to appeal any judgements to European courts; it is the duty of the courts in the member states to ask the European court when they deem it necessary. Obviously the extent to which they deem that necessary varies a lot between member states.
The only way around this is to go to the European Court of Human Rights, but it is unlikely that Privacy International has sufficient standing to bring this case there.
Most of the video support patents are paid for when you buy the Pi, both encoding and decoding. MPEG-2 is excluded, but you can do that in software on a Raspberry Pi 2 at least. For some reason patent licensing for H.264 is dirt cheap compared to MPEG-2.
The fun will really start again with H.265 though, since it is significantly more expensive than H.264 and has at least two separate patent pools you need to license.
None of that has any bearing on the open source bits though. The firmware is in control of everything, and no matter which options you pay for it stays equally closed.
it's an open source driver instead of a closed source driver. if you think close source is fine, continue enjoying the Microsoft Windows spy network!
The GPU firmware does all the heavy lifting. Making the driver itself open source is a bit pointless when all it does is call the firmware routines which are loaded from a blob.
Somehow I think they picked the nebula because it happened to fill the field of view...
Also, he awards bonus points for proofs of hardness. No one has managed to prove hardness for any existing block cipher. Block ciphers are simply ways to jumble the plaintext up in a reversible fashion. They are not based on difficult mathematical problems.
Proving hardness is something you do for asymmetrical ciphers, but asymmetrical ciphers are way too slow to be useful for actual messages.