MD5 may be dead for security reasons, but it's still great for reliablity checksums where no malicious activity is provided. Yesterday a guy sends me an order, the project is in Corel 12. But he knows I have Corel 9 only, so 2 minutes later he sends another mail, "corel 9 replacement". But the new file won't open. md5sum file1.cdr file2.cdr "Excuse me sir, but you have sent the same ver.12 file again."
It's still a great hashing/checksum algorithm and it will still work in all the situations where no malicious activity is involved.
Well, if you modify it to make it fit for your own program (and removing all the versality) then distribute the sources, it's useless. Say, your program, a player, adds some kind of evil DRM to LAME. You distribute your program and the modified library. But whoever would like to use your player without that DRM, tough luck, they can remove the DRM from your version of library, they can compile it to a standalone dll/lib but they won't replace the offending part in your program. Of course if the DRM is in the proprietary part of the code, then rightfully they can't remove it. But they can e.g. add OGG support to your program, DRM'd by your internal mechanisms too.
How is the Sony DRM worse than other such ones? There's quite a few distributors and quite a few CDs with similar copy-protection mechanism (installs to harddrive vithout user consent, adds self to autostart, hides from process list, breaks CD drivers etc), but none gets as much bad publicity as the SONY one. What "feature" makes the Sony rootkit so evil that it's all over the net while the others remain relatively unheard of?
You still can statically link as long as the user is able to replace the LGPL parts of the code. So, say, you distribute object format binaries of your proprietary code, or you release your own code on other open-source non-GPL license (like the new one from Microsoft, "you can read, you can compile, you're not allowed to edit"). Generally the gist is that the LGPL part of your code must remain Free to anyone you give/sell your software to, and the proprietary part must not stand in the way to that Freedom.
You have to redistribute source of these libraries and enough hooks/API so anyone could replace them with whatever they like in your program. So either link dynamically (and include just the lib sources) or if you link statically, include source of the libraries and.o objects of your binary so they can be re-linked.
IANAL, but I think this is no-case. The code isn't included as executable, but as metadata usable in identifying LAME. Same as antivirus vendors shouldn't be kept liable for installing millions of viruses and copyrighted code from multiple spyware programs, just because the antivirus contains sniplets of the original code used in identifying the threats. They don't link the code against the program, but include pieces of it as non-executable data for the database. It's fair use. Same as you'd sue Google for copyright infringement because they include a sniplet of text from your website in their search results, or a thumbnail of your copyrighted image in image search.
1) Cows are tippable 2) The model is inadequate 3) Weak oversight of the model and lack of experimental data made for wrong publication 4) There's a lot of seasoned rednecks on Slashdot 5) Nobody cares about the cows, you insensitive clods!
Well, I agree, if four men simultaneously push a cow really hard, it's bound to tip over. With some luck it may even result in a spectacular cow salto.
Well, the question was how to make it stackable while durable. Top-loading is not stackable, tray may break off. So thing is about devising a way how to insert media into a stackable thing.
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Well, there's one more option, slot loading. Definitely most space-efficient, more reliable than tray, position-independent (good for horizontal and vertical CD-ROMs and quite comfortable to that. Unless people stuff junk in the slot. And of course it won't work with 8cm mini-CDs but I doubt that should be a requirement for a game console.
(there's the fourth option, casette loading like in the first CD-ROMs, where you put the CD in a special container which you then insert in the drive, but it sucked so much that let's forget it.)
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No. About 1200 years. Progress in computation of the solution is linear. Moore's law is exponential. By year 3200 the computers will be strong enough to crack it in 6 months.
As for the socket, nevertheless, it's considered obsolete. You can still buy 486 processors too. As for stacking the CPUs try to build 32-CPU machine without making it a distributed cluster. DUAL doesn't cut it.
...for built-in thermal guides to safely remove heat, no risk of misaligned radiator. ...for integrated liquid cooling option ...for more redundant pins so a single socket design could last 5-10 years, not replaced 5 months later with one that has two pins more ...for some good options to stack n CPUs for multi-CPU platform (socket for next CPU built into top of the previous one, thermal guides / coolant pipes running through)
Nope, that's closeup of the sexxy part of the motherboard, where the CPU inserts all its pins. Since the introduction of the zero-force sockets, plugging a CPU in is not that arousing anymore...
Or Toyota stops making Tacomas because every 50,000 miles 0.0001% of Tacomas have a trasmission problem? I'd say, more like 0.1% of Tacomas have brakes that fail when heavily used over a short period of time, say, going downhill. So Toyota hands out free bottles of brake liquid and a rolls of duct-tape to apply at the joint by the brake pump and considers the case solved. Completely neglecting the fact that the pump leaks occur in multiple places, and won't supply new, corrected pumps to service shops until some Tacoma driver carefully examines the faulty part and reports all possible problems with it, and even then they take months to develop the replacement part, because they are too busy building a new, thrilling model of the car.
What is possible though, is claiming "the previous teachings should be taken figuratively only. The new interpretation is..." and follow with explaining how white is black.
Yes, but it's not derived software. Just data. You are free to write a book about Linux and release it on proprietary conditions, even if it contains sniplets of source. Still GPL covers only software, derived works in other domains are out of its scope.
As long as we (including the Vatican) formulate our arguments on ID as a theory, even to debunk it, the fundamentalists maintain their foothold. In this case, we need to attack the messenger, not the message. ID is political propoganda, nothing more. To address it as anything else is to give undue power to its proponents.
Not necessarily so. There are people who genuinely believe in it. They treat the Bible literally in many places where they really shouldn't. In many countries they aren't catholic, so they will most likely ignore the voice of Vatican. But there are countries (like Poland, where I live) where the voice of the Pope is the final oracle of truth, and the extremist catholics are very strong, in politics too. So finally there is hope they WILL stop fighting the theory of evolution and follow the voice of Vatican once again, in the right direction this time. I just wish same voice came in matters of anticonception, homosexuality, birth control, possibly even limited support for abortion or euthanasia... Mayor of Warsaw has forbidden prevent the gay parade in the city. In the name of morality and God. Now he is president of Poland. I'd be really happy to see the Pope set him straight...
It's just matter of quality. With music, you have good quality speakers at home, or earphones you wear and they provide comparable quality. You don't listen to the music in form of ringtones from the phone speaker, keeping an inch wide speaker a foot away from your ear causes so much quality loss that it's worthless. Same with video. If you watch the tiny screen of your phone from 1 foot away, it's hard to make out any details. The loss of quality is so huge the experience is worthless. If it was based on "VR glasses" that provide nearly-total immersion and allow the picture to take up most of your field of view, meantime not making you dizzy, nauseous or (hard part) blind to the surrounding world, it would be a great success. Video equivalent of earphones, instead of video equivalent of a pocket radio with tiny speaker...
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MD5 may be dead for security reasons, but it's still great for reliablity checksums where no malicious activity is provided.
Yesterday a guy sends me an order, the project is in Corel 12. But he knows I have Corel 9 only, so 2 minutes later he sends another mail, "corel 9 replacement".
But the new file won't open.
md5sum file1.cdr file2.cdr
"Excuse me sir, but you have sent the same ver.12 file again."
It's still a great hashing/checksum algorithm and it will still work in all the situations where no malicious activity is involved.
Well, if you modify it to make it fit for your own program (and removing all the versality) then distribute the sources, it's useless. Say, your program, a player, adds some kind of evil DRM to LAME. You distribute your program and the modified library. But whoever would like to use your player without that DRM, tough luck, they can remove the DRM from your version of library, they can compile it to a standalone dll/lib but they won't replace the offending part in your program.
Of course if the DRM is in the proprietary part of the code, then rightfully they can't remove it. But they can e.g. add OGG support to your program, DRM'd by your internal mechanisms too.
How is the Sony DRM worse than other such ones? There's quite a few distributors and quite a few CDs with similar copy-protection mechanism (installs to harddrive vithout user consent, adds self to autostart, hides from process list, breaks CD drivers etc), but none gets as much bad publicity as the SONY one. What "feature" makes the Sony rootkit so evil that it's all over the net while the others remain relatively unheard of?
You still can statically link as long as the user is able to replace the LGPL parts of the code. So, say, you distribute object format binaries of your proprietary code, or you release your own code on other open-source non-GPL license (like the new one from Microsoft, "you can read, you can compile, you're not allowed to edit"). Generally the gist is that the LGPL part of your code must remain Free to anyone you give/sell your software to, and the proprietary part must not stand in the way to that Freedom.
You have to redistribute source of these libraries and enough hooks/API so anyone could replace them with whatever they like in your program. So either link dynamically (and include just the lib sources) or if you link statically, include source of the libraries and .o objects of your binary so they can be re-linked.
IANAL, but I think this is no-case. The code isn't included as executable, but as metadata usable in identifying LAME. Same as antivirus vendors shouldn't be kept liable for installing millions of viruses and copyrighted code from multiple spyware programs, just because the antivirus contains sniplets of the original code used in identifying the threats. They don't link the code against the program, but include pieces of it as non-executable data for the database. It's fair use. Same as you'd sue Google for copyright infringement because they include a sniplet of text from your website in their search results, or a thumbnail of your copyrighted image in image search.
1) Cows are tippable
2) The model is inadequate
3) Weak oversight of the model and lack of experimental data made for wrong publication
4) There's a lot of seasoned rednecks on Slashdot
5) Nobody cares about the cows, you insensitive clods!
Well, I agree, if four men simultaneously push a cow really hard, it's bound to tip over. With some luck it may even result in a spectacular cow salto.
Well, the question was how to make it stackable while durable. Top-loading is not stackable, tray may break off. So thing is about devising a way how to insert media into a stackable thing.
nor unproven, so let's give it 50:50. :)
Well, there's one more option, slot loading. Definitely most space-efficient, more reliable than tray, position-independent (good for horizontal and vertical CD-ROMs and quite comfortable to that. Unless people stuff junk in the slot. And of course it won't work with 8cm mini-CDs but I doubt that should be a requirement for a game console.
(there's the fourth option, casette loading like in the first CD-ROMs, where you put the CD in a special container which you then insert in the drive, but it sucked so much that let's forget it.)
No.
About 1200 years.
Progress in computation of the solution is linear. Moore's law is exponential. By year 3200 the computers will be strong enough to crack it in 6 months.
Good that Germans made Deutsche Demokratik Republik (East Germany) obsolete :)
You still can find some products "made in DDR" though.
As for the socket, nevertheless, it's considered obsolete. You can still buy 486 processors too.
As for stacking the CPUs try to build 32-CPU machine without making it a distributed cluster. DUAL doesn't cut it.
...for built-in thermal guides to safely remove heat, no risk of misaligned radiator.
...for integrated liquid cooling option
...for more redundant pins so a single socket design could last 5-10 years, not replaced 5 months later with one that has two pins more
...for some good options to stack n CPUs for multi-CPU platform (socket for next CPU built into top of the previous one, thermal guides / coolant pipes running through)
Nope, that's closeup of the sexxy part of the motherboard, where the CPU inserts all its pins.
Since the introduction of the zero-force sockets, plugging a CPU in is not that arousing anymore...
Or Toyota stops making Tacomas because every 50,000 miles 0.0001% of Tacomas have a trasmission problem?
I'd say, more like 0.1% of Tacomas have brakes that fail when heavily used over a short period of time, say, going downhill. So Toyota hands out free bottles of brake liquid and a rolls of duct-tape to apply at the joint by the brake pump and considers the case solved. Completely neglecting the fact that the pump leaks occur in multiple places, and won't supply new, corrected pumps to service shops until some Tacoma driver carefully examines the faulty part and reports all possible problems with it, and even then they take months to develop the replacement part, because they are too busy building a new, thrilling model of the car.
Metamoderating "interesting" unfair.
What is possible though, is claiming "the previous teachings should be taken figuratively only. The new interpretation is..." and follow with explaining how white is black.
Condom reduce the woman's pleasure by some 60%. What about globules/spermicides?
rain.
If he did, he certainly didn't voice it clearly enough. :)
He did admit Earth is round and circles around the Sun though
Yes, but it's not derived software. Just data.
You are free to write a book about Linux and release it on proprietary conditions, even if it contains sniplets of source. Still GPL covers only software, derived works in other domains are out of its scope.
As long as we (including the Vatican) formulate our arguments on ID as a theory, even to debunk it, the fundamentalists maintain their foothold. In this case, we need to attack the messenger, not the message. ID is political propoganda, nothing more. To address it as anything else is to give undue power to its proponents.
Not necessarily so.
There are people who genuinely believe in it. They treat the Bible literally in many places where they really shouldn't. In many countries they aren't catholic, so they will most likely ignore the voice of Vatican. But there are countries (like Poland, where I live) where the voice of the Pope is the final oracle of truth, and the extremist catholics are very strong, in politics too. So finally there is hope they WILL stop fighting the theory of evolution and follow the voice of Vatican once again, in the right direction this time.
I just wish same voice came in matters of anticonception, homosexuality, birth control, possibly even limited support for abortion or euthanasia...
Mayor of Warsaw has forbidden prevent the gay parade in the city. In the name of morality and God. Now he is president of Poland. I'd be really happy to see the Pope set him straight...
But OF COURSE the theory of evolution is all wrong!
a sp
Proof: http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/5001/5001_01.
(make this post either +5 flamebait or -1 informative please.)
It's just matter of quality.
With music, you have good quality speakers at home, or earphones you wear and they provide comparable quality. You don't listen to the music in form of ringtones from the phone speaker, keeping an inch wide speaker a foot away from your ear causes so much quality loss that it's worthless.
Same with video. If you watch the tiny screen of your phone from 1 foot away, it's hard to make out any details. The loss of quality is so huge the experience is worthless. If it was based on "VR glasses" that provide nearly-total immersion and allow the picture to take up most of your field of view, meantime not making you dizzy, nauseous or (hard part) blind to the surrounding world, it would be a great success. Video equivalent of earphones, instead of video equivalent of a pocket radio with tiny speaker...