> It sounds to me like there is a security problem in allowing any program to write to the iTunes database and have that code > executed by the iPod or iPhone. If Microsoft Windows were to let just any program write into the system folder... oh, > wait, they do that --- but we laugh at their utter lack of security as a result.
Mod parent down. It's a database of files... essentially a list of songs and associated metadata. Nothing being executed here.
Additionally the Xen patchset adds only support for building Linux as a DomU (or guest) under the Xen hypervisor. The kernel doesn't have any Xen hypervisor or the code for Xen management domain Dom0.
Patents owned by OIN will be available without payment of royalties to any company, institution or individual that agrees not to assert (my emphasis) its patents against others who have signed a license with OIN, when using certain Linux-related software.
... would OIN be willing to counter-sue (backed up with its patent portfolio) say an 800 pound gorilla who find Linux violating some patents and sues linux users.
That doesn't seem to much sense so here's an example scenario:
- MSFT decides Linux kernel violates some of their patents.
- Sues some-non-commercial-linux-distro users.
So, would OIN be willing to assert its patents against MSFT?
-ankur
> I don't see this as anything sneaky just something to help people. Why would Google want to alter the page rank of a cached page
> anyways?
Only because google does not keep two copies of each: the crawled copy and the cached one. The page it crawls is the one cached and that's the one the page rank is calculated on.
Sounds reasonable to me. As this nytimes piece goes in considerable detail in,
most of Bush's politics/decisions are about faith and not fact. Anybody who votes for him has to share his worldview.
Slashdot Mirror
Gmail competes with Thunderbird. Huh? What's the market share of Thunderbird again?
Oh, and Google just made IMAP an option on Gmail accounts. Thus allowing Thunderbird to "compete" more effectively against Google.
> It sounds to me like there is a security problem in allowing any program to write to the iTunes database and have that code
> executed by the iPod or iPhone. If Microsoft Windows were to let just any program write into the system folder... oh,
> wait, they do that --- but we laugh at their utter lack of security as a result.
Mod parent down. It's a database of files... essentially a list of songs and associated metadata. Nothing being executed here.
Additionally the Xen patchset adds only support for building Linux as a DomU (or guest)
under the Xen hypervisor. The kernel doesn't have any Xen hypervisor or the code for
Xen management domain Dom0.
An algorithm is a mathematical object which anybody can implement. Or is there something I'm missing here?
Erm... you dumbass .NET is not an M$ API. Ever heard of ECMA?
.NET and the CLR standardised by ECMA (which is a standardization body, btw.)
a ndards/Ecma-335.htm
M$ got
Take a look at:
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/st
Ankur
This will mean that in future, all native Windows applications will easily run on Linux, with Mono.
Additionally they should be able to run on non-x86 systems? (atleast apps which don't use pinvoke.)
Sounds like M$ just lost the greatest platform lock-in it had.
Ankur
Would you like fries with that?
Patents owned by OIN will be available without payment of royalties to any company, institution or individual that agrees not to assert (my emphasis) its patents against others who have signed a license with OIN, when using certain Linux-related software.
... would OIN be willing to counter-sue (backed up with its patent portfolio) say an 800 pound gorilla who find Linux violating some patents and sues linux users.
That doesn't seem to much sense so here's an example scenario:
- MSFT decides Linux kernel violates some of their patents.
- Sues some-non-commercial-linux-distro users.
So, would OIN be willing to assert its patents against MSFT?
-ankur
Reminds me of spammer CAPTCHA solvers...
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More here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha#Circumventio
... and how many slashdot stories later?
Telling a bunch of nerds how to remember some trivial math actually concepts qualifies for a +5 interesting?
Mod me flamebait but that must be some mind bogglingly fucked education.
The submitter's sarcasm detector looks like it's woefully inadequate.
[ No "sup" tag in Slashdot HTML formatting. Argh. Reposted. ]
That's over 75 * 10^6 * ~5 Mb transferred (considering only Firefox on Windows.)
Roughly 4 * 10^8 Mb = 4 * 10^5 Gb = 400 Tb data from all it's mirrors over what, 6 months?
Wow.
That's over 75 * 106 * ~5 Mb transferred (considering only Firefox on Windows.)
Roughly 4 * 108 Mb = 4 * 105 Gb = 400 Tb data from all it's mirrors over what, 6 months?
Wow.
> I don't see this as anything sneaky just something to help people. Why would Google want to alter the page rank of a cached page
> anyways?
Only because google does not keep two copies of each: the crawled copy and the cached one. The page it crawls is the one cached and that's the one the page rank is calculated on.
The world (and open source in particular) needs to be reminded that MS doesn't always win.
> It looks like Ridley Scott, director of Gladiator
and Alien is doing it.
Add Blade Runner there. Probably his most significant work.
Can anybody tell me why this is on slashdot?
> See, we have this strange faith in democracy.
> We have a lot of things we have faith in. What do you believe in?
Faith != belief. Faith is belief without evidence.
Sounds reasonable to me. As this nytimes piece goes in considerable detail in,
most of Bush's politics/decisions are about faith and not fact. Anybody who votes for him has
to share his worldview.
Who was it (Heinlein?) who said that any society passes through four stages -- the last of which is entertainment.
Seems close by now.
> B) Open up 2 GMail accounts for free and still have 2 gigs of storage.
Actually, Gmail TOS allows you to have just one account.