Well, my experience with it so far is it isn't substantially better than rvplayer. It still won't properly start when I click on a link in netscape (even if you pass it the URL via cmd line, it still starts "blank"). It's also, sadly enough, incompatible with ESD (enlightenment sound daemon).. which makes putting it in *my* X setup alittle difficult.
The hardware and man hours required for this level of communications monitoring is simply too great. Besides, too many people would know about this if this were true. The secret would have gotten out long ago, and with many more verifiable sources.
It has. More than a couple former NSA and CIA employees have come forth to explain the technology, and what's been going on. The biggest conspiracy is not that they are doing this, but that people refute the truth. They prefer a comfortable lie.
However, I usually tend to believe that the simplest explanation is also usually the correct one.
Well, the explanation is simple: Knowledge is power.
The FBI installs illegal wiretaps daily not because they can use it in court, but so that they can use that information to know when you are doing something.. and then have an agent able to spot that through legal means.
There is no huge conspiracy, only huge amounts of ignorance. The question I pose to you is - why must our government hide these things from us? What is national security... really? And why are they watching OUR communications, if it is foreign powers that they are honestly concerned about?
Seems our government consists of a bunch of peeping toms.:)
Stealing industrial secrets when nobody's looking, enabling NSA "help fields" in netscape and internet explorer, advocating "secure communications" using the clipper chip, and a multi-billion dollar system dating back to the late 1960's to listen in on the phone conversations of Pamela Anderson (Located on Meredith Hill).
Shame on you! You've spent billions of taxpayer dollars to do do what the Drudge Reports pump out every week.
Why read the book? If it's been open sourced, in 2 months most of the book will have been rewritten, and there won't be any typos...
On the downside, there will be no installation instructions - and the system requirements are ambigious: "must know how to read".. but doesn't specify a language.. I guess you'd better read the source to keep it from defaulting to Espaniol.
I'm so sick of the hype. I mean, how much more shameless can you get than having taco bell, and the KFC guy in a star wars commercial. Really now, it's blindingly obvious the reality won't live up to the hype, and millions of geeks will try to cram in may 19th to see.. a movie.
This isn't a life-altering event, this isn't going to solve world hunger, promote peace on earth and good will towards men.. it's a movie.
I'll go see it after everybody else has. I won't be there at midnight listening to a bunch of 13 year old kids cheering whenever Yoda appears on the screen, and throwing popcorn arond. No, I'm going to enjoy it with a group of my friends well after all those people are done trashing the place. And it'll be a better experience for me as well.
What I'm more interested in is what hardware specs have the largest effect on this.. Would a K7 with a full load of cache (8mb max) be faster than a K7 with 512kb because the emulation code is more likely to be in cache, or is it more a brute CPU speed problem?
As far as I know, it's software MMU... vmware simply swaps the registers in, runs for a few milliseconds, swaps out, repeat. Maybe the K7's branching logic / prediction will help here, but you still have the latency of memory swap. Unless you can make your main system memory as fast as the CPU L1/L2 cache, you won't be operating at 100% efficiency. Period. That's why dynamic compilation holds more promise...
Slashdot posted an article on internic revamping their website. The notice appeared then. When I signed up for my domain in late january, the changes had not yet occured.
Interesting observation - can a phone book listing be copyrighted?
Who's to say some criminal won't just sit by the ATM, and when you go to withdraw, he pulls a gun off-camera, and tells you to give him the $300 you just withdrew?
I mean, all we've done here is make the crime all the more violent and personal, with the added bonus of throwing your privacy out the window. I *like* anonymity. I don't care that there's a %0.01 chance that somebody might guess my pin and rip me off - that's what insurance is for. All I'm seeing is a bunch of greedy companies trying to keep the criminal element out... by compromising our privacy and anonymity.
First, the obligatory congratulations: Way to go RMS! You deserve every award you get. I'm sure the money will go a long way towards helping you and the FSF out.
Now to speak up on what's obviously on everybody's minds - why would microsoft...? I would encourage you not to read too deeply into this. I'm abit suprised (shocked) that Microsoft would give any money to somebody working for "the competition". Let's try to hold off on speculation though until the "official" report comes out tomorrow. I'm anxious to read it, I'm sure you are too. But please - let's avoid the "Microsoft is evil!" and the like until we have more details. This is really an unfinished story.. treat it as such.
That may work well for hackers and computer enthusiasts such as ourselves, but Sun is doing this for money - cashola, greenbacks. Linux is the trend now, and they feel a need to be part of the "new wave". But for a business, is it realistic to put a bunch of linux binaries under solaris, if you can just get a free linux box and not worry about compatibility issues?
First, yes: operating systems do seem to be moving towards running each other's stuff. But no, linux is not The Answer, any more than Windows Was The Answer in the 80's. Let me explain...
Linux came about because there was a need for something that Microsoft could not reasonably provide - speed and reliability. Linux is not userfriendly, nor does it have a "standard interface". You can marginalize that if you want, or refute it as FUD, but it's true. Work is being done here, however my point is - operating systems are built to spec - to do a specific task. No program can do everything (witness emacs) and still be efficient. Bug free, yes, but not efficient.
As long as this remains true, there will be a need for more than 1 Unified Operating System.
Why do you think linux got here in the first place?
Well, while this is all nice and everything, there's two things worth considering:
- Most OSS software can be cross-compiled with little/no-effort. Infact, I believe all the GNU tools, and about 2/3rds of the stuff posted to freshmeat can be compiled on a Sun without modification.
- There's no guarantee that just because the binary/can/ be run, it/will/ run. Case in point: fbset. Solaris doesn't have a frame buffer for it's console.. so this program will likely segfault.
In short, it's a great idea, but it's usefulness is rather limited - if you have the source, you can be assured of system-level compatibility. All this offers is the chance to watch your program segfault on a *new* platform.
Ya, there's alot of articles showing up blank. I think rob killed mysql.:( I fwd'd him a copy of the broken pages I could find. Bear with him - I'm sure he's under siege!
Well, that's all fine and dandy, but we all know how slow our legislators move, and how much slower than THAT it takes to get a law changed. My question is.. what if the encryption schema is cracked? What if tomorrow somebody found out how to factor all those numbers? You think I want THEM, on mere account of mathematics, to *legally take on my identity* ??
Talk about stupidity! And what will the NSA say about this? Can we only use 56 bit keys for our "signature" ?
The word "System Administration" will take on a whole new meaning.... NT Server: You never listen to me! All you do is play quake and read that nerds for news site! How hard would it be to just E-MAIL me once and awhile, huh? 3com switch: Look buddy, you keep me here, locked up in this closet all day.. I get no respect, and all I here is "route route route, all night long, route route route, while I sing this song"... Linux Server: Now, see here, check out all these graphs of my performance. I just finished that cronjob, balanced out the www sever load, and started the espresso machine. All this BEFORE lunch. Debian 6.3 rules! Windows 2010: "I can't get no.. do de do, satis-faction, do de do" Cisco Router: I take the packets in, and put the packets out, and I shake 'em all about.. I do the packet-pokey and I ACL alot, that's what it's all about....
MAN, I wish I were a moderator so I could lower your post a notch. Then again, this post deserves the same fate, I suppose.
Yup.
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This, as far as I can tell, is the second big wave of anti-trust action by the government. The first was when industrialization happened faster than the government could act. The result? An oil monopoly. A steel monopoly. A meat monopoly. Etc. When growth goes that fast, some lucky people will end up with monopolies. This is not fair.
I'd like to add that NSI's monopoly may well dissolve without any government intervention. Here again, the IANA is working diligently to create a competitive market here. NSI will be unable to maintain a monopoly. They will be forced to become competitive.
I'm concerned that this sets a dangerous precident - anti-trust law was meant to be used as a weapon of LAST resort. The market should be left alone, unless the problem is incurable -and- causing problems to the consumer.
It is simply foolhardy for Janet Reno and company to waste more of MY taxpayer money on something that may well be over before their case gets off the ground.
There's a thread going on down below this about linking the RIO and the Lyra (a few others too) together and exchanging data. Having a portable *hard drive* would make this excessively simple.;)
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The DOJ is starting to worry me. First they target microsoft (don't get me wrong - I think they needed to too), then Intel (well, maybe..), now Network Solutions.
I'm starting to suspect the government is stepping on it's own toes here. It creates a monopoly power in the domain area, and then launches probes when it becomes a monopoly. Well.. Duh. Whacha expect?
Not that these cases don't have merit - most of them do.. but the technology sector should be able to solve the problem on it's *own*. Let IANA and company boot Network Solutions -> They'll do a faster, and more efficient job of dispatching any would-be domain monopoly faster than the DOJ can. And as a bonus - IANA will take feedback from the community. Thus far, the DOJ has shown little inclination to listen to *our* suggestions for dealing with Microsoft.
I've talked to him via e-mail a few times.. he may have all these awards, but he's still helpful. I had some problems with his tulip.c driver.. I'm working with him to fix the problem right now.
.. And run your red wires through conduit presurized with gass to protect against any tampering. (Drop in pressure = Breach of Containment.)
Doesn't work. There have been demonstrations of how quickly one can crack that system. It's really simple - put a rubber sleeve (tightly) around the tubing, puncture the tube, and take a pressure reading. Equalize the pressure, hack hack hack.
It's basically the conscensus in the community that they're just adding a few firewalls. I think the DOD has more to worry about from internal threats than anything a bunch of adolescent l335 script kiddies could do.
Only two questions for the hardware geeks out there - can this new portable have it's memory upgraded, and if so - what's the type of memory it takes?
Second question - how long until somebody creates an interface for exchanging data between mp3 players? I'd like to hook a Rio up to a Lyra (or whatever), and exchange data with it. Feasible?
But that bit about an O'Reilly "Dust Puppy" cover just cracked me up.;)
Illiad has had alot to do lately.. his updates seem to point to the fact that he's really under pressure. I hope he can still muster that creative energy of his and put together a kick-ass comic book. I'm sure he won't let us down. It will *have* to be original, it's gonna be userfriendly.. it's gotta rock.
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Well, my experience with it so far is it isn't substantially better than rvplayer. It still won't properly start when I click on a link in netscape (even if you pass it the URL via cmd line, it still starts "blank"). It's also, sadly enough, incompatible with ESD (enlightenment sound daemon).. which makes putting it in *my* X setup alittle difficult.
--
The hardware and man hours required for this level of communications monitoring is simply too great. Besides, too many people would know about this if this were true. The secret would have gotten out long ago, and with many more verifiable sources.
It has. More than a couple former NSA and CIA employees have come forth to explain the technology, and what's been going on. The biggest conspiracy is not that they are doing this, but that people refute the truth. They prefer a comfortable lie.
However, I usually tend to believe that the simplest explanation is also usually the correct one.
Well, the explanation is simple: Knowledge is power.
The FBI installs illegal wiretaps daily not because they can use it in court, but so that they can use that information to know when you are doing something.. and then have an agent able to spot that through legal means.
There is no huge conspiracy, only huge amounts of ignorance. The question I pose to you is - why must our government hide these things from us? What is national security... really? And why are they watching OUR communications, if it is foreign powers that they are honestly concerned about?
--
Seems our government consists of a bunch of peeping toms. :)
Stealing industrial secrets when nobody's looking, enabling NSA "help fields" in netscape and internet explorer, advocating "secure communications" using the clipper chip, and a multi-billion dollar system dating back to the late 1960's to listen in on the phone conversations of Pamela Anderson (Located on Meredith Hill).
Shame on you! You've spent billions of taxpayer dollars to do do what the Drudge Reports pump out every week.
--
Why read the book? If it's been open sourced, in 2 months most of the book will have been rewritten, and there won't be any typos...
:)
On the downside, there will be no installation instructions - and the system requirements are ambigious: "must know how to read".. but doesn't specify a language.. I guess you'd better read the source to keep it from defaulting to Espaniol.
--
I'm so sick of the hype. I mean, how much more shameless can you get than having taco bell, and the KFC guy in a star wars commercial. Really now, it's blindingly obvious the reality won't live up to the hype, and millions of geeks will try to cram in may 19th to see.. a movie.
This isn't a life-altering event, this isn't going to solve world hunger, promote peace on earth and good will towards men.. it's a movie.
I'll go see it after everybody else has. I won't be there at midnight listening to a bunch of 13 year old kids cheering whenever Yoda appears on the screen, and throwing popcorn arond. No, I'm going to enjoy it with a group of my friends well after all those people are done trashing the place. And it'll be a better experience for me as well.
--
What I'm more interested in is what hardware specs have the largest effect on this.. Would a K7 with a full load of cache (8mb max) be faster than a K7 with 512kb because the emulation code is more likely to be in cache, or is it more a brute CPU speed problem?
As far as I know, it's software MMU... vmware simply swaps the registers in, runs for a few milliseconds, swaps out, repeat. Maybe the K7's branching logic / prediction will help here, but you still have the latency of memory swap. Unless you can make your main system memory as fast as the CPU L1/L2 cache, you won't be operating at 100% efficiency. Period. That's why dynamic compilation holds more promise...
--
Slashdot posted an article on internic revamping their website. The notice appeared then. When I signed up for my domain in late january, the changes had not yet occured.
Interesting observation - can a phone book listing be copyrighted?
--
Who's to say some criminal won't just sit by the ATM, and when you go to withdraw, he pulls a gun off-camera, and tells you to give him the $300 you just withdrew?
I mean, all we've done here is make the crime all the more violent and personal, with the added bonus of throwing your privacy out the window. I *like* anonymity. I don't care that there's a %0.01 chance that somebody might guess my pin and rip me off - that's what insurance is for. All I'm seeing is a bunch of greedy companies trying to keep the criminal element out... by compromising our privacy and anonymity.
--
First, the obligatory congratulations: Way to go RMS! You deserve every award you get. I'm sure the money will go a long way towards helping you and the FSF out.
Now to speak up on what's obviously on everybody's minds - why would microsoft...? I would encourage you not to read too deeply into this. I'm abit suprised (shocked) that Microsoft would give any money to somebody working for "the competition". Let's try to hold off on speculation though until the "official" report comes out tomorrow. I'm anxious to read it, I'm sure you are too. But please - let's avoid the "Microsoft is evil!" and the like until we have more details. This is really an unfinished story.. treat it as such.
--
I am inclined to say "because you can".
That may work well for hackers and computer enthusiasts such as ourselves, but Sun is doing this for money - cashola, greenbacks. Linux is the trend now, and they feel a need to be part of the "new wave". But for a business, is it realistic to put a bunch of linux binaries under solaris, if you can just get a free linux box and not worry about compatibility issues?
--
First, yes: operating systems do seem to be moving towards running each other's stuff. But no, linux is not The Answer, any more than Windows Was The Answer in the 80's. Let me explain...
Linux came about because there was a need for something that Microsoft could not reasonably provide - speed and reliability. Linux is not userfriendly, nor does it have a "standard interface". You can marginalize that if you want, or refute it as FUD, but it's true. Work is being done here, however my point is - operating systems are built to spec - to do a specific task. No program can do everything (witness emacs) and still be efficient. Bug free, yes, but not efficient.
As long as this remains true, there will be a need for more than 1 Unified Operating System.
Why do you think linux got here in the first place?
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Asthetic reasons aside, why would somebody want to?
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Well, while this is all nice and everything, there's two things worth considering:
/can/ be run, it /will/ run. Case in point: fbset. Solaris doesn't have a frame buffer for it's console.. so this program will likely segfault.
- Most OSS software can be cross-compiled with little/no-effort. Infact, I believe all the GNU tools, and about 2/3rds of the stuff posted to freshmeat can be compiled on a Sun without modification.
- There's no guarantee that just because the binary
In short, it's a great idea, but it's usefulness is rather limited - if you have the source, you can be assured of system-level compatibility. All this offers is the chance to watch your program segfault on a *new* platform.
--
Ya, there's alot of articles showing up blank. I think rob killed mysql. :( I fwd'd him a copy of the broken pages I could find. Bear with him - I'm sure he's under siege!
--
Well, that's all fine and dandy, but we all know how slow our legislators move, and how much slower than THAT it takes to get a law changed. My question is.. what if the encryption schema is cracked? What if tomorrow somebody found out how to factor all those numbers? You think I want THEM, on mere account of mathematics, to *legally take on my identity* ??
Talk about stupidity! And what will the NSA say about this? Can we only use 56 bit keys for our "signature" ?
--
The word "System Administration" will take on a whole new meaning....
NT Server: You never listen to me! All you do is play quake and read that nerds for news site! How hard would it be to just E-MAIL me once and awhile, huh?
3com switch: Look buddy, you keep me here, locked up in this closet all day.. I get no respect, and all I here is "route route route, all night long, route route route, while I sing this song"...
Linux Server: Now, see here, check out all these graphs of my performance. I just finished that cronjob, balanced out the www sever load, and started the espresso machine. All this BEFORE lunch. Debian 6.3 rules!
Windows 2010: "I can't get no.. do de do, satis-faction, do de do"
Cisco Router: I take the packets in, and put the packets out, and I shake 'em all about.. I do the packet-pokey and I ACL alot, that's what it's all about....
Sun: Does this add-in card make my butt look big?
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MAN, I wish I were a moderator so I could lower your post a notch. Then again, this post deserves the same fate, I suppose.
Yup.
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This, as far as I can tell, is the second big wave of anti-trust action by the government. The first was when industrialization happened faster than the government could act. The result? An oil monopoly. A steel monopoly. A meat monopoly. Etc. When growth goes that fast, some lucky people will end up with monopolies. This is not fair.
I'd like to add that NSI's monopoly may well dissolve without any government intervention. Here again, the IANA is working diligently to create a competitive market here. NSI will be unable to maintain a monopoly. They will be forced to become competitive.
I'm concerned that this sets a dangerous precident - anti-trust law was meant to be used as a weapon of LAST resort. The market should be left alone, unless the problem is incurable -and- causing problems to the consumer.
It is simply foolhardy for Janet Reno and company to waste more of MY taxpayer money on something that may well be over before their case gets off the ground.
--
There's a thread going on down below this about linking the RIO and the Lyra (a few others too) together and exchanging data. Having a portable *hard drive* would make this excessively simple. ;)
--
The DOJ is starting to worry me. First they target microsoft (don't get me wrong - I think they needed to too), then Intel (well, maybe..), now Network Solutions.
I'm starting to suspect the government is stepping on it's own toes here. It creates a monopoly power in the domain area, and then launches probes when it becomes a monopoly. Well.. Duh. Whacha expect?
Not that these cases don't have merit - most of them do.. but the technology sector should be able to solve the problem on it's *own*. Let IANA and company boot Network Solutions -> They'll do a faster, and more efficient job of dispatching any would-be domain monopoly faster than the DOJ can. And as a bonus - IANA will take feedback from the community. Thus far, the DOJ has shown little inclination to listen to *our* suggestions for dealing with Microsoft.
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I've talked to him via e-mail a few times.. he may have all these awards, but he's still helpful. I had some problems with his tulip.c driver .. I'm working with him to fix the problem right now.
Congratulations man, you deserve it!
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.. And run your red wires through conduit presurized with gass to protect against any tampering. (Drop in pressure = Breach of Containment.)
Doesn't work. There have been demonstrations of how quickly one can crack that system. It's really simple - put a rubber sleeve (tightly) around the tubing, puncture the tube, and take a pressure reading. Equalize the pressure, hack hack hack.
--
Read this.
It's basically the conscensus in the community that they're just adding a few firewalls. I think the DOD has more to worry about from internal threats than anything a bunch of adolescent l335 script kiddies could do.
--
Only two questions for the hardware geeks out there - can this new portable have it's memory upgraded, and if so - what's the type of memory it takes?
Second question - how long until somebody creates an interface for exchanging data between mp3 players? I'd like to hook a Rio up to a Lyra (or whatever), and exchange data with it. Feasible?
--
No word yet.
;)
But that bit about an O'Reilly "Dust Puppy" cover just cracked me up.
Illiad has had alot to do lately.. his updates seem to point to the fact that he's really under pressure. I hope he can still muster that creative energy of his and put together a kick-ass comic book. I'm sure he won't let us down. It will *have* to be original, it's gonna be userfriendly.. it's gotta rock.
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