Not true. SSL works in similarly hostile environments.
The underlying problem is that this hardware was developed ages ago, needs to be cheap, has a huge installed base and that there has not been any public pressure, yet.
> Their English language contacts use Hotmail and Skype.
So? Other than dealextreme.com, I am using Skype contacts into China exclusively. We get high-quality products at extremely cheap prices. Sometimes, the buyers need to adapt to the sellers, after all.
PS: I dare you to find 40 km range CWDM SFPs for less than $300 -- if you do, contact me:)
> Further, only about 33% of parents cited religious reasons for homeschooling, whereas the slashdot fear factor seems to be that everyone who is homeschooled is so that they can instill intolerance, religious bigotry, and an abhorrence for all secular learning.
For reference, the German family is home-schooling for Christian fundamentalist reasons. Not saying that this is the same for the US, but in German, it's pretty much always the case.
Please do not forget that what might hold true for the US is not necessarily the same for Germany. At least from a German's POV, our government-funded schooling is a _lot_ better.
Over here, home-schoolers are usually the most extreme Christian fundamentalists who object to their children being exposed to evil thoughts. For reference I would call those free will and thought with a dash of understanding for people who think and are different.
And yes, this is the case for this family as well. I for one pity their children.
Can someone with actual knowledge of the matter at hand explain what the concrete differences will be? That it can't reach anything outside the crater is obvious, but other than recording the weather, what can it do, now? And how long will the solar panels give enough energy in this less-than-ideal position?
State publically "I disagree for those reasons, but it is your privilege to override me. Still, I have a duty to state that I am sure this is a bad idea." Make sure you have some sort of record of this act.
In case _that_ does not help you when shit hits the fan, you are working for the wrong company.
No. And growing up in Germany, I subscribe to the "lock them away so they can not harm the rest of society" and not the North American "lock them away so they suffer for what they did". I also strongly support re-socialization, especially for younger delinquents as experience has shown again and again that these programs _work_.
That being said, I assume a murderer is in a high-security prison which means that inmates should probably not have unlimited communication with the outside world so as to break existing command structures in organized crime. And you can be certain that anyone who has this kind of access will be 'approached' by his inmates in a matter of hours or days.
The BSI (a government agency and a subdivision of the Ministry of the Interior) issued a warning that people should use different browsers until the hole has been fixed.
> It basically says "Do whatever the hell you want with this software just say I wrote it", I'd hardly call that restrictive and I don't see how a third party would really care.
We are talking lawyers here. If there is one thing they are good at, it's covering their and their companies asses. And if you had RTFA, you would know that, and I quote, Even though there should be no restrictions on usage, companies very often request a different license citing as a valid reason that the creator of such platform has special terms forbidding 'open source software' in the contracts forced upon the developer.
> The BSD license is already more permissive than any other license, and allows code to be used in proprietary products.
Not quite. More permissive to the direct user, potentially a lot less permissive for anyone after that.
BSD wants to give all freedoms and thus gives up a certain portion willfully. GPL is not quite as permissive, but keeps that level for everyone down the stream.
> This is in contrast to say, LGPL, where the changes do have to be released back if any are made. If none are made, the code doesn't need to be released.
Once again, the BSD crowd gets the [L]GPL wrong. You need to offer to release the changes to the people/entities you are giving the modified product to. Not more, but not less, either.
You might think the difference is minimal. I don't.
> Seriously, once you get to 1 mbit, web browsing is about as good as it gets.
I have 1.360 Mbit/s downstream here. When opening more than one page at a time or when there is more than one person surfing, you notice delays. Pretty much everyone I know has at least 10 Mbit/s, most have 16 Mbit/s, at work, I have between 40 Mbit/s to 100 Mbit/s depending on usage and the server on the other side.
So, being able to compare the two on a daily basis, it _does_ matter.
PS: Obviously, bash.org loads faster than a picture-heavy site. If everyone were to surf with links, 1 Mbit/s would be plenty.
PPS: I don't do youtube and similar at all, let alone HD.
Slashdot Mirror
...I for one welcome our new ARM-based overlords.
Not true. SSL works in similarly hostile environments.
The underlying problem is that this hardware was developed ages ago, needs to be cheap, has a huge installed base and that there has not been any public pressure, yet.
Machine code is for lazy developers. I develop my webapps in VHDL and I even wrote my own Layer 2 protocols to improve performance.
So could I generally increase security by including a few NULs and other non-ASCII/UTF numbers? And keep binary save for ever?
I know the attack is against DES and most relevant protocols needs ASCII armoring for binary anyway, but this angle plopped into my head immediately.
I want a long-lasting working horse. Agreed on the resolution and 1-2 GiB of RAM would be nice, but other than that, make it small and durable.
Oh, and add a TrackStick.
> Their English language contacts use Hotmail and Skype.
So? Other than dealextreme.com, I am using Skype contacts into China exclusively. We get high-quality products at extremely cheap prices. Sometimes, the buyers need to adapt to the sellers, after all.
PS: I dare you to find 40 km range CWDM SFPs for less than $300 -- if you do, contact me :)
This theory is nice an dandy, but Intel did not just churn out a completely new product line in a few months.
I am among the most zealous ARM _Note_book supporters, but let's stick to facts.
You are aware of Debian, which has supported ARM for ages, yes?
That being said, it's FreeCiv! Of course I signed up.
> Further, only about 33% of parents cited religious reasons for homeschooling, whereas the slashdot fear factor seems to be that everyone who is homeschooled is so that they can instill intolerance, religious bigotry, and an abhorrence for all secular learning.
For reference, the German family is home-schooling for Christian fundamentalist reasons. Not saying that this is the same for the US, but in German, it's pretty much always the case.
Please do not forget that what might hold true for the US is not necessarily the same for Germany. At least from a German's POV, our government-funded schooling is a _lot_ better.
Over here, home-schoolers are usually the most extreme Christian fundamentalists who object to their children being exposed to evil thoughts. For reference I would call those free will and thought with a dash of understanding for people who think and are different.
And yes, this is the case for this family as well. I for one pity their children.
Can someone with actual knowledge of the matter at hand explain what the concrete differences will be? That it can't reach anything outside the crater is obvious, but other than recording the weather, what can it do, now? And how long will the solar panels give enough energy in this less-than-ideal position?
State publically "I disagree for those reasons, but it is your privilege to override me. Still, I have a duty to state that I am sure this is a bad idea." Make sure you have some sort of record of this act.
In case _that_ does not help you when shit hits the fan, you are working for the wrong company.
Same as the ant approach, biology solves those problems in NP. It just so happens that it tends to do this is a massively parallel way.
> I am sure it will not take more than 2 years for a feature in my phone to beat the standalone device in features/functionality
Obviously not true for:
- compact camera.
- camcorder.
- document scanner
- portable game console
Alternatively you could, like, turn off cookies? At least if you are not on a static IP and/or share said IP with several others.
That as may be, but you still have it :)
Read their blog. On the new Thinkpads, you can re-map Fn and Ctrl in the BIOS each other's places.
No. And growing up in Germany, I subscribe to the "lock them away so they can not harm the rest of society" and not the North American "lock them away so they suffer for what they did".
I also strongly support re-socialization, especially for younger delinquents as experience has shown again and again that these programs _work_.
That being said, I assume a murderer is in a high-security prison which means that inmates should probably not have unlimited communication with the outside world so as to break existing command structures in organized crime. And you can be certain that anyone who has this kind of access will be 'approached' by his inmates in a matter of hours or days.
The BSI (a government agency and a subdivision of the Ministry of the Interior) issued a warning that people should use different browsers until the hole has been fixed.
Not quite the same, but still nice.
> It basically says "Do whatever the hell you want with this software just say I wrote it", I'd hardly call that restrictive and I don't see how a third party would really care.
We are talking lawyers here. If there is one thing they are good at, it's covering their and their companies asses. And if you had RTFA, you would know that, and I quote, Even though there should be no restrictions on usage, companies very often request a different license citing as a valid reason that the creator of such platform has special terms forbidding 'open source software' in the contracts forced upon the developer.
> The BSD license is already more permissive than any other license, and allows code to be used in proprietary products.
Not quite. More permissive to the direct user, potentially a lot less permissive for anyone after that.
BSD wants to give all freedoms and thus gives up a certain portion willfully.
GPL is not quite as permissive, but keeps that level for everyone down the stream.
> This is in contrast to say, LGPL, where the changes do have to be released back if any are made. If none are made, the code doesn't need to be released.
Once again, the BSD crowd gets the [L]GPL wrong. You need to offer to release the changes to the people/entities you are giving the modified product to. Not more, but not less, either.
You might think the difference is minimal. I don't.
Reading the comments, on this page, of people who have _lived there_ I would say you are ranting without even the uttermost basic research.
Comcast offers 20 Mbit/s, xmission offers 100 Mbit/s.
PS: It's nice to see that you can get to +5 Informative on /. with no knowlegde about the topic at hand ;)
> Seriously, once you get to 1 mbit, web browsing is about as good as it gets.
I have 1.360 Mbit/s downstream here. When opening more than one page at a time or when there is more than one person surfing, you notice delays. Pretty much everyone I know has at least 10 Mbit/s, most have 16 Mbit/s, at work, I have between 40 Mbit/s to 100 Mbit/s depending on usage and the server on the other side.
So, being able to compare the two on a daily basis, it _does_ matter.
PS: Obviously, bash.org loads faster than a picture-heavy site. If everyone were to surf with links, 1 Mbit/s would be plenty.
PPS: I don't do youtube and similar at all, let alone HD.