It seems possible that they intentionally keep quiet when they find a security hole. As long as your users get your patch, no good can come of more people knowing about the security hole.
Looking back on my post, I mistakenly implied that the hardware detection was not good. In my experience I've always had some minor yet annoying detection problem. This is usually with the sound card, as you said.
I haven't used this new version yet, but past the words "improved hardware detection" are music to my ears. It wasn't awful in previous versions, but there certainly was room for improvement. Otherwise Knoppix has been my choice of distros (mostly because it was my first) since I switched to Linux a while back.
This seems to be a round-about and innefficient way to do a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack. They should just automate the thing as opposed to having people sitting and clicking as they seem to plan on doing.
Their site features just about every grammatical mistake one can make. They also accused me of stealing their bandwidth by going to their page. That seems to be a strange accusation coming from a group that is going out to crash other people's sites.
This post highlights an issue in tax law that seems to be ignored. Except when you vote for your representatives, you have no control over where your money goes.
From the bill:AUTHORIZATION OF FUNDING FOR TRAINING AND PILOT PROGRAM.
G) the role of the victim copyright owner in providing relevant information for enforcement actions and in the computation of damages;
Not only do we have to pay for the investigations and lawsuits, we have to pay to train people to do them. Furthermore, there seems to be limited legislation setting or limiting the amounts in such suits and that the copyright holder may have the power to decide on amounts. It seems that now some of the possibly exaggerated figures coming from RIAA/MPAA spokespeople may be represented by the government in a court of law. In my mind, copyrights should be protected an piracy is wrong, but this bill seems to have a high cost to the people without providing any clear benefits for them.
I would imagine that most computer users who read/. can type and not look at the keyboard at the same time. This would make random keyboard lights somewhat unwanted. There also seems to be a possibility of it reflecting from the monitor and just being annoying.
Actually, this was what the copyright;aws were designed for. Just because you pay someone for something does not mean you own all rights to it. Think of every closed source program ever. The employee might still own it, though it is rare an employee will copyright it as opposed to the company doing it. Also, many employees have to sign a contract to say that anything they produce belongs to the company.
This proves the point that all things human go in cycles. First computers were the size of buildings, then they shrunk down to fit in the palm, now they are becoming the size of buildings again.
This is not the end of privacy as we know it, but I find the backlash to be understandable. Each time another one of these measures is taken, and the general public's toleration gets slightly higher. This has the potential to become a slippery slope which starts the process of eliminating our privacy in any situation. The chances that we will lose all of our privacy is slim to none, but if nobody is making sure it doesn't happen, the chances get far greater.
This happened with Napster. They decided that if they tried to sue then everyone would fight back and they would be stymied. They can't launch lawsuits against millions of people. Now they see that people are still trading music and they have decided that almost nobody will be willing to go to court with them because the public believes (whether they are right is not the question) that the RIAA will throw a nasty lawyer against them and they have no hope of winning. Judging by the number of settlements and the fact that there was almost no backlash (I was predicting there would be a continuous DDoS against their site) they have been absolutely correct.
In the article it says that they will be used by the telecommunications industry. It does not specify what they will be used for but it states that the key ability involved is the ability to remain over one spot. I would imagine they could use it as a temporary transmiter in areas that have lost wireless communications services.
It seems obvious that something that is distributed for free will be cheaper than something that costs money. The true test comes when users are exposed to a new program for doing something everyday. I have known a few people who have had serious problems switching to Open Office after using MS Office for a long time. These were not computer illiterate people either.
The article seems to imply that it works in manner comparable to having 2 processors. I had a box at home with a dual processor set up, and it had some problems running certain applications and just made things more difficult. It will be interesting to see if this chip works in the same way, as the article seems to say.
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Wisconsin naval base
I can't imagine they had much else to do while at a naval base in Wisconsin.
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My understanding is that the creators were very fond of the book and that they wanted to play in the world of Tolkien. The game they created certainly has a scope far greater than the books and you can easily play a game that bears no resemblance to the books or to anything else for that matter.
There seems to be a common theme of altered wing shape in the recen aeronautical research. The other experiment done was to reduce noise in supersonic flight.
This is an interesting project that could improve the future of supersonic travel, but what is really needed (as with almost any technology just coming to the general market) is to bring the price down. There is certainly a market to speed up oversease flights (such as California to Japan) and a cheaper supersonic plane could really do a good business.
I don't really think the issue was of the songs ceasing to exist, although they may, as bands break up and computers and cds get lost/stolen/broken all the time. I think that what would have been lost was all the work done to gather all the songs into one place. If the music had been deleted, then there may still be a copy sitting in someone's attic, but they may not want to track it down and upload it again.
This seems to call for a bit of clarification. A Type II error in this case would be that the scientists proclaim that Frame Dragging is true when a specific alternative is actually true. A Type one error is that they declare Frame Dragging to be false when it is in fact true. In this case, however, they wouldn't really be committing either. The author just states that they plan on ignoring any results that don't match their hypothesis. That would just be bad scientific practice and not a calculation error.
They seem fairly credible in their claim, as they have put their money where there mouth is. Of course, this review of the code may not affect a court ruling on the matter, as there are complicated technical issues involved in this case and they may not be in the scope of knowledge of some judges.
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It seems possible that they intentionally keep quiet when they find a security hole. As long as your users get your patch, no good can come of more people knowing about the security hole.
Looking back on my post, I mistakenly implied that the hardware detection was not good. In my experience I've always had some minor yet annoying detection problem. This is usually with the sound card, as you said.
I haven't used this new version yet, but past the words "improved hardware detection" are music to my ears. It wasn't awful in previous versions, but there certainly was room for improvement. Otherwise Knoppix has been my choice of distros (mostly because it was my first) since I switched to Linux a while back.
Their site features just about every grammatical mistake one can make. They also accused me of stealing their bandwidth by going to their page. That seems to be a strange accusation coming from a group that is going out to crash other people's sites.
This post highlights an issue in tax law that seems to be ignored. Except when you vote for your representatives, you have no control over where your money goes.
G) the role of the victim copyright owner in providing relevant information for enforcement actions and in the computation of damages;
Not only do we have to pay for the investigations and lawsuits, we have to pay to train people to do them. Furthermore, there seems to be limited legislation setting or limiting the amounts in such suits and that the copyright holder may have the power to decide on amounts. It seems that now some of the possibly exaggerated figures coming from RIAA/MPAA spokespeople may be represented by the government in a court of law. In my mind, copyrights should be protected an piracy is wrong, but this bill seems to have a high cost to the people without providing any clear benefits for them.
I would imagine that most computer users who read /. can type and not look at the keyboard at the same time. This would make random keyboard lights somewhat unwanted. There also seems to be a possibility of it reflecting from the monitor and just being annoying.
It seemed to me that the players reported to their respective general via a cell phone.
Actually, this was what the copyright ;aws were designed for. Just because you pay someone for something does not mean you own all rights to it. Think of every closed source program ever. The employee might still own it, though it is rare an employee will copyright it as opposed to the company doing it. Also, many employees have to sign a contract to say that anything they produce belongs to the company.
This proves the point that all things human go in cycles. First computers were the size of buildings, then they shrunk down to fit in the palm, now they are becoming the size of buildings again.
This is not the end of privacy as we know it, but I find the backlash to be understandable. Each time another one of these measures is taken, and the general public's toleration gets slightly higher. This has the potential to become a slippery slope which starts the process of eliminating our privacy in any situation. The chances that we will lose all of our privacy is slim to none, but if nobody is making sure it doesn't happen, the chances get far greater.
This happened with Napster. They decided that if they tried to sue then everyone would fight back and they would be stymied. They can't launch lawsuits against millions of people. Now they see that people are still trading music and they have decided that almost nobody will be willing to go to court with them because the public believes (whether they are right is not the question) that the RIAA will throw a nasty lawyer against them and they have no hope of winning. Judging by the number of settlements and the fact that there was almost no backlash (I was predicting there would be a continuous DDoS against their site) they have been absolutely correct.
In the article it says that they will be used by the telecommunications industry. It does not specify what they will be used for but it states that the key ability involved is the ability to remain over one spot. I would imagine they could use it as a temporary transmiter in areas that have lost wireless communications services.
No, they were having problems doing things they used to do in Excel. Another responder claimed to have had the same problem.
It seems obvious that something that is distributed for free will be cheaper than something that costs money. The true test comes when users are exposed to a new program for doing something everyday. I have known a few people who have had serious problems switching to Open Office after using MS Office for a long time. These were not computer illiterate people either.
You could partially solve this problem by running as a restricted user all the time so that you couldn't change the instruction.
The article seems to imply that it works in manner comparable to having 2 processors. I had a box at home with a dual processor set up, and it had some problems running certain applications and just made things more difficult. It will be interesting to see if this chip works in the same way, as the article seems to say.
I can't imagine they had much else to do while at a naval base in Wisconsin.
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It was just a joke, please don't hurt me.
My understanding is that the creators were very fond of the book and that they wanted to play in the world of Tolkien. The game they created certainly has a scope far greater than the books and you can easily play a game that bears no resemblance to the books or to anything else for that matter.
There seems to be a common theme of altered wing shape in the recen aeronautical research. The other experiment done was to reduce noise in supersonic flight.
The redeeming feature of unenforceable laws is that it creates a structure for people to complain when their computer is getting destroyed by spyware.
This is an interesting project that could improve the future of supersonic travel, but what is really needed (as with almost any technology just coming to the general market) is to bring the price down. There is certainly a market to speed up oversease flights (such as California to Japan) and a cheaper supersonic plane could really do a good business.
I don't really think the issue was of the songs ceasing to exist, although they may, as bands break up and computers and cds get lost/stolen/broken all the time. I think that what would have been lost was all the work done to gather all the songs into one place. If the music had been deleted, then there may still be a copy sitting in someone's attic, but they may not want to track it down and upload it again.
This seems to call for a bit of clarification. A Type II error in this case would be that the scientists proclaim that Frame Dragging is true when a specific alternative is actually true. A Type one error is that they declare Frame Dragging to be false when it is in fact true. In this case, however, they wouldn't really be committing either. The author just states that they plan on ignoring any results that don't match their hypothesis. That would just be bad scientific practice and not a calculation error.
They seem fairly credible in their claim, as they have put their money where there mouth is. Of course, this review of the code may not affect a court ruling on the matter, as there are complicated technical issues involved in this case and they may not be in the scope of knowledge of some judges.