The problem is the size of the resulting database. Say you have a million hosts to ban. Thats a million IP addresses to check before accepting a legitimate connection.
2) Hard drive mode support. Almost every other player lets you just view your video/mp3 files on the device as a hard drive and copy files back and forth as you see fit without using ANY software other than your operating system. You want to sync your files? Use iTunes. Nevermind that it's one of the buggiest/bloated/unintuitive/god awful pieces of software I've ever used. You're stuck with it.
Unless you just enable hard drive mode support on the ipod. If you do it shows up as a hard drive just fine. I know it is hard to check a box these days though.
The last time I messed with an iPod it was not possible to directly copy a music file and play it. I had to use iTunes on windows or MacOS (or a barely working hack on *nix) to copy the file.
I am guessing that legal code in text would need to have some kind of mark-up. Vanilla version control systems won't understand that so they will present diffs and merges as being more complex than they need to be. One advantage of wikis is that their version control systems usually understand the markup language so changes are easier to understand.
I have built a version controlled document management system around mercurial for my wife's architectural practice. I have found it very difficult to convince users to follow the conventions we use for software. They are too used to putting version and project information in file names. It means nothing for them to rename a file from a.dxf to a_new.dxf and commit it.
The formal structure of software tends to keep this behaviour in check. The environment we are talking about here may be formal and controlled enough for this to work, but it is going to take training and enforcement to get it to work.
A virus that messes too much with the host PC has a low survival rate.
You're making me want to read The Andromeda Strain again. (Read the book, the movie is meh!)
The other night at my wife's mothers place there was this crummy telemovie on. I nearly had a fit. It was a remake of The Andromeda Strain. You know, that original movie isn't so bad....
Not wanting to troll but, you know, if openssh was GPL licensed said commercial vendors would have to release the source for openssh with their products, including any modifications they made. The project could also offer LGPL or BSD licensed versions in exchange for cold, hard, cash.
You're assuming that the commercial vendors would still use OpenSSH if it was GPLed. What makes you think they wouldn't either roll their own SSH server or use some other proprietary implementation?
It would come down to economics. Is an LGPL version of openssh cheaper than commercial implementation X? This approach works for adacore.
But for sure, fewer products would contain openssh if it was GPLed. But with more money it might be a better product, so there might be a net iimprovement in security that way.
Please take note of our Who uses it page, which list just some of the vendors who incorporate OpenSSH into their own products -- as a critically important security / access feature -- instead of writing their own SSH implementation or purchasing one from another vendor. This list specifically includes companies like Cisco, Juniper, Apple, Red Hat, and Novell; but probably includes almost all router, switch or unix-like operating system vendors. In the 10 years since the inception of the OpenSSH project, these companies have contributed not even a dime of thanks in support of the OpenSSH project (despite numerous requests).
Not wanting to troll but, you know, if openssh was GPL licensed said commercial vendors would have to release the source for openssh with their products, including any modifications they made. The project could also offer LGPL or BSD licensed versions in exchange for cold, hard, cash.
Why is it sad that something that has been honed over decades comes out on top of something that hasn't even reached beta testing yet? I would hope the ATC system comes out very, very, very far on top.
Thats true but I do think that generally in engineering, human factors are not given enough consideration. We seem to strive to create shiny things with lots of features and to consider the user last, and often just when things break.
Yeah I work with an air traffic control system. The UI has to take a lot of complex information and present it to the user in the most pertinent way possible. It has to understand what is important (an aircraft which is off course for example) and give just enough emphasis to that object without taking too much of the users attention away from other tasks. It is a fine balance, particularly if you expect your UI to be used for hours at a time in a stressful environment.
I have long thought that a mobile phone could be built into a hat. It could have a drop down heads up display. You could type by looking at the numbers on the screen. It could have two antennas which extend on either side of the head...
And you could answer the phone by slapping your hat on.
I live at 37 degrees south where I sometimes use a heater or an aircon in the car, but a lot of the time I don't. Other people live in Finland, Alaska or Malaysia where the energy situation is a little bit different.
Some electric cars get their range by shaving mass or drag, but then parasitic energy costs might still be there. Okay thats an issue. My family has two cars. I am considering looking at an electric car to replace my wife's corolla. It mostly goes around town. I think that would work for me.
Yeah while the "charge overnight" mode is okay for a personal commuting machine its not so good for commercial vehicles which are on the go a lot of the time. Maybe, as you suggest, different architectures will be used, so there will be less cross over between commercial and domestic applications.
Builders use commercial grade battery powered drills with multiple pluggable battery packs. Construction sites have places for charging tools. Maybe the generally short usage cycles of taxis will suit shorter range vehicles. How about a battery pack with enough charge to do one job, but with faster charging capability.
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The problem is the size of the resulting database. Say you have a million hosts to ban. Thats a million IP addresses to check before accepting a legitimate connection.
They will eventually compromise a system which has keys for other systems, so the success rate will increase.
chmod 0 `find /`
Landing site.
Why would UFOs need a purpose built landing site? Don't they have inertial navigation?
I find it absolutely amazing that people 5000 years ago were able to move 4000 kilo rocks over hundreds of kilometres of landscape.
The world is stampeding to by the BSD based iPhone though. They like the shiny interface. The difference is marketing.
2) Hard drive mode support. Almost every other player lets you just view your video/mp3 files on the device as a hard drive and copy files back and forth as you see fit without using ANY software other than your operating system. You want to sync your files? Use iTunes. Nevermind that it's one of the buggiest/bloated/unintuitive/god awful pieces of software I've ever used. You're stuck with it.
Unless you just enable hard drive mode support on the ipod. If you do it shows up as a hard drive just fine. I know it is hard to check a box these days though.
The last time I messed with an iPod it was not possible to directly copy a music file and play it. I had to use iTunes on windows or MacOS (or a barely working hack on *nix) to copy the file.
I am guessing that legal code in text would need to have some kind of mark-up. Vanilla version control systems won't understand that so they will present diffs and merges as being more complex than they need to be. One advantage of wikis is that their version control systems usually understand the markup language so changes are easier to understand.
I have built a version controlled document management system around mercurial for my wife's architectural practice. I have found it very difficult to convince users to follow the conventions we use for software. They are too used to putting version and project information in file names. It means nothing for them to rename a file from a.dxf to a_new.dxf and commit it.
The formal structure of software tends to keep this behaviour in check. The environment we are talking about here may be formal and controlled enough for this to work, but it is going to take training and enforcement to get it to work.
Yeah its in my RSS reader by /. says The item you're trying to view either does not exist, or is not viewable to you.
A virus that messes too much with the host PC has a low survival rate.
You're making me want to read The Andromeda Strain again. (Read the book, the movie is meh!)
The other night at my wife's mothers place there was this crummy telemovie on. I nearly had a fit. It was a remake of The Andromeda Strain. You know, that original movie isn't so bad....
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Not wanting to troll but, you know, if openssh was GPL licensed said commercial vendors would have to release the source for openssh with their products, including any modifications they made. The project could also offer LGPL or BSD licensed versions in exchange for cold, hard, cash.
You're assuming that the commercial vendors would still use OpenSSH if it was GPLed. What makes you think they wouldn't either roll their own SSH server or use some other proprietary implementation?
It would come down to economics. Is an LGPL version of openssh cheaper than commercial implementation X? This approach works for adacore.
But for sure, fewer products would contain openssh if it was GPLed. But with more money it might be a better product, so there might be a net iimprovement in security that way.
The openssh web page says:
Please take note of our Who uses it page, which list just some of the vendors who incorporate OpenSSH into their own products -- as a critically important security / access feature -- instead of writing their own SSH implementation or purchasing one from another vendor. This list specifically includes companies like Cisco, Juniper, Apple, Red Hat, and Novell; but probably includes almost all router, switch or unix-like operating system vendors. In the 10 years since the inception of the OpenSSH project, these companies have contributed not even a dime of thanks in support of the OpenSSH project (despite numerous requests).
Not wanting to troll but, you know, if openssh was GPL licensed said commercial vendors would have to release the source for openssh with their products, including any modifications they made. The project could also offer LGPL or BSD licensed versions in exchange for cold, hard, cash.
Why is it sad that something that has been honed over decades comes out on top of something that hasn't even reached beta testing yet? I would hope the ATC system comes out very, very, very far on top.
Thats true but I do think that generally in engineering, human factors are not given enough consideration. We seem to strive to create shiny things with lots of features and to consider the user last, and often just when things break.
run on iPhone?
It sure does. TouchTerm, for example, uses OpenSSH.
http://jbrink.net/touchterm/
Not the server though.
All that gives me is a web page with tentacle porn....
Barack Obama has been banging
Jodie Foster
President Obama is a lesbian? Thats more than I needed to know..
It does run on the openmoko.
Yeah I work with an air traffic control system. The UI has to take a lot of complex information and present it to the user in the most pertinent way possible. It has to understand what is important (an aircraft which is off course for example) and give just enough emphasis to that object without taking too much of the users attention away from other tasks. It is a fine balance, particularly if you expect your UI to be used for hours at a time in a stressful environment.
Update completed. Power cycled it after the update and it came up okay.
Yeah I am updating mine now. I wonder if we are slashdotting the nintendo update servers right now?
LOL (in lieu of mod points)
I have long thought that a mobile phone could be built into a hat. It could have a drop down heads up display. You could type by looking at the numbers on the screen. It could have two antennas which extend on either side of the head...
And you could answer the phone by slapping your hat on.
I live at 37 degrees south where I sometimes use a heater or an aircon in the car, but a lot of the time I don't. Other people live in Finland, Alaska or Malaysia where the energy situation is a little bit different.
Some electric cars get their range by shaving mass or drag, but then parasitic energy costs might still be there. Okay thats an issue. My family has two cars. I am considering looking at an electric car to replace my wife's corolla. It mostly goes around town. I think that would work for me.
Yeah while the "charge overnight" mode is okay for a personal commuting machine its not so good for commercial vehicles which are on the go a lot of the time. Maybe, as you suggest, different architectures will be used, so there will be less cross over between commercial and domestic applications.
Builders use commercial grade battery powered drills with multiple pluggable battery packs. Construction sites have places for charging tools. Maybe the generally short usage cycles of taxis will suit shorter range vehicles. How about a battery pack with enough charge to do one job, but with faster charging capability.