Now, they're releasing the binaries for zero cost. It's a start, but not really a very helpful one. Yes, they seem to have learned that "Free Software" is a strength, not a weakness, but they seem to be confusing free with "free beer", not "free speech".
I remember a thread a while back saying that the reason this happens is that the OS community wasn't able to come up with an English word better than "free" to describe software that is both open-source and free.
Darn, they found it already? I was hoping to discover something just a little bit farther than the farthest object previously discovered, post my findings on a website, put a banner ad or two on the site, and get slashdot to link to it.
Take a look at the Legal section of the Virtual Game Station FAQ. VGS impliments several copy-protection schemes that seem to emulate the Playstation's copy-protection schemes.
Also, look at the "international" section of the FAQ (right below the "legal" section), which talks about the geographic-region encoding.
ADV: is pretty restrictive. What if another state requires ADVERT:, and another state requires (advertisement) within the first 40 characters of the subject?
I'm not sure what you mean. A preprocecessor should recognize comments and treat them as comments. I had commented out LARGE_BUGS to imply that to fix bugs between w95 and w98, they just commented out that line and let the #ifdefs in the other files take care of the rest.
the DVD consortium is doing this to make it more difficult to copy dvds, now that they have realized that dvd writers are more important for illegal copying than are decoders.
The fact that you are peeking behind the scenes at our site means you can make an important difference to this Internet effort.
Since alt-v, (u|c) is about as hard as voting, and lots of the people who look at source code obsessively live in CA, does this statement mean he's desperate for votes in CA?
making the algore2000 website as big, popular, and efficient as possible
If the website can survive the slashdot effect, then it's already pretty efficient. The slashdot post should also take care of "popular". And big... there are more important qualities of a website, such as interesting and useful.
The largest intgeger value that can be stored in a 16-bit field is 65,535 (assuming that you start at zero and don't allow negative numbers).
The joke is that the statement "65,000+ bugs" was meant to mean "the number of bugs was more than 65,000", but kaphka interpreted it as "bugs in storing numbers over 65,000", which would be more likely to occur in a 16-bit program than in a 32-bit program.
but when im up over 24 hours and i start to write code it comes out one line right after another, and usually has less bugs
I've noticed that I can churn out code efficiently while tired, but I have more trouble searching for bugs and trying to solve complex algorithmic problems. Is the same true for you?
I think our brains are designed to do repetitive tasks efficiently while tired, but are better at complex problem-solving while awake and relaxed.
It would be interesting to know the ages of the subjects. Did the youngest people do better while sleep-deprived?
Also, how did the study compensate for time of day? Many teens do not function well until late evening, and some researchers would be mislead to believe that it was sleep-deprivation causing the increased performance, not simple circadian rhythms.
In addition, I would expect people at all ages to have a small performance boost around morning -- when they would normally be getting up. This would be the body "thinking", "Crud, I guess I'm not getting any sleep tonight, might as well try to last until tomorrow evening".
I don't understand this. Allies have been spying on one another for hundreds of years, if not longer.
Did you read the article? They're suing because they think Airbus lost a few billion francs to Boeing because the US gave Boeing information about Airbus's bidding strategy that had been obtained through echelon.
Codenamed P-415 Echelon, the world's most powerful electronic spy system was revealed in declassified US National Security Agency documents published on the Internet, and is capable of intercepting telephone conversations, faxes and e-mails.
I found a few sites mentioning echelon and P-415, though. This one mentions P-145 as being around for at least a decade. That site doesn't seem to be an unbiased source, though, because its homepage links to things like this rant about echelon with a really big font.
This is another site that mentions P-145 and mobile phone monitoring. It contains a document called "An Appraisal of the Technologies of Political Control", a long document which mentions echelon and discusses agreements among various countries regarding sharing of information obtained through echelon-like projects.
Jean-Pierre Millet, a Parisian lawyer, said that Echelon tracked every mobile and satellite call, but only decoded those involving a key figure. "You can bet that every time a French government minister makes a mobile phone call, it is recorded," he said.
Which is exactly why we need encryption. After this, I will assume France to be on the privacy side of the privacy-security debate.
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I remember a thread a while back saying that the reason this happens is that the OS community wasn't able to come up with an English word better than "free" to describe software that is both open-source and free.
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Also, what's with the "Crackers and Hackers" thing on the community.borland.com front page?
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Darn, they found it already? I was hoping to discover something just a little bit farther than the farthest object previously discovered, post my findings on a website, put a banner ad or two on the site, and get slashdot to link to it.
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Also, look at the "international" section of the FAQ (right below the "legal" section), which talks about the geographic-region encoding.
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I'm not sure what you mean. A preprocecessor should recognize comments and treat them as comments. I had commented out LARGE_BUGS to imply that to fix bugs between w95 and w98, they just commented out that line and let the #ifdefs in the other files take care of the rest.
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Oh, is that why win98 was less buggy than microsoft intended it to be?
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#define LITTLE_BUGS
#define MEDUIM_BUGS
// #define LARGE_BUGS
#include <win95.h>
#include <w95plus.h>
#include <ie5.h>
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(I submitted this as an article a while ago, but it was rejected)
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Thank you, Rob, for not linking to the online-vote page from slashdot before the vote was over.
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(Like "Science", "Ask Slashdot", etc, some of its articles would also show up on the main page.)
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(It's amazing what you can get for free on the Internet)
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The fact that you are peeking behind the scenes at our site means you can make an important difference to this Internet effort.
Since alt-v, (u|c) is about as hard as voting, and lots of the people who look at source code obsessively live in CA, does this statement mean he's desperate for votes in CA?
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(hoping the moderators aren't just saving up their points in order to do a few dozen negative moderations to the next moderator-questioning post)
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If the website can survive the slashdot effect, then it's already pretty efficient. The slashdot post should also take care of "popular". And big... there are more important qualities of a website, such as interesting and useful.
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First time i read that, I thought i saw BSD.
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The joke is that the statement "65,000+ bugs" was meant to mean "the number of bugs was more than 65,000", but kaphka interpreted it as "bugs in storing numbers over 65,000", which would be more likely to occur in a 16-bit program than in a 32-bit program.
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I've noticed that I can churn out code efficiently while tired, but I have more trouble searching for bugs and trying to solve complex algorithmic problems. Is the same true for you?
I think our brains are designed to do repetitive tasks efficiently while tired, but are better at complex problem-solving while awake and relaxed.
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Also, how did the study compensate for time of day? Many teens do not function well until late evening, and some researchers would be mislead to believe that it was sleep-deprivation causing the increased performance, not simple circadian rhythms.
In addition, I would expect people at all ages to have a small performance boost around morning -- when they would normally be getting up. This would be the body "thinking", "Crud, I guess I'm not getting any sleep tonight, might as well try to last until tomorrow evening".
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Did you read the article? They're suing because they think Airbus lost a few billion francs to Boeing because the US gave Boeing information about Airbus's bidding strategy that had been obtained through echelon.
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Has anyone managed to find these documents?
I couldn't find anything mentioning echelon on nsa's public information releases or their list of "high-interest items".
I found a few sites mentioning echelon and P-415, though. This one mentions P-145 as being around for at least a decade. That site doesn't seem to be an unbiased source, though, because its homepage links to things like this rant about echelon with a really big font.
This is another site that mentions P-145 and mobile phone monitoring. It contains a document called "An Appraisal of the Technologies of Political Control", a long document which mentions echelon and discusses agreements among various countries regarding sharing of information obtained through echelon-like projects.
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Which is exactly why we need encryption. After this, I will assume France to be on the privacy side of the privacy-security debate.
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