Haha Nice joke there Linux hibernate works only about 50% of the time... and when it does work (the OS actually resumes) ports (USB, LPT1, etc) randomly stop to work...
So it would be more like hibernate unfunctionality
Yeah, he thinks security bugs are just like regular bugs. But [I think] he's wrong.
There, fixed it for you. The fact is that just because from your personal point of view a bug that is potentially useful to gain unauthorized rights does not mean that everybody sees it that way.
From what I have read about Linus, he is a very pragmatic guy. For him, a security bug is just another bug in the code (and in a simplistic way, it really is true).
Some people will be more concerned with those bugs, others will be concerned with bugs that reduce the performance of the OS, others will be more interested in bugs that reduce the reliability (as in, crashing every so often, etc).
The fact is that there are lots of people already classifying bugs, I think what Linus is saying is that he does not consider the job of the kernel guys to do such kiind of classification.
For them, it is just another bug that must be seen.
Shigeki Sakai (Leader) et al. of the Novel Electron Devices Group, the Nanoelectronics Research Institute (Director: Seigo Kanemaru) of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) (President: Hiroyuki Yoshikawa) in collaboration with Ken Takeuchi, Associate Professor of the Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo (Univ. Tokyo) have demonstrated that the use of ferroelectric gate field-effect transistors (FeFETs) as memory cells dramatically improves the performance of NAND flash memory. The FeFET, the newly developed memory cell, can be programmed and erased as many times as 100 million or more and with programming voltage of less than 6 V, whereas the conventional NAND flash memory cells have ten thousand program/erase endurance cycles with approximately 20 V programming voltage. It has been assumed that conventional NAND flash memory can be downsized to 30 nm at the minimum, whereas this novel memory cell will meet the needs of the next 20-nm and 10-nm technology generations. And thus, this memory cell is expected to be used in a next-generation, high-density, high-capacity nonvolatile memory.
Results of the research was reported at the 23rd Nonvolatile Semiconductor Memory Workshop (the 23rd IEEE NVSMW / the 3rd ICMTD 2008) held in France, May 18â"22, 2008.
First, congrats for your degree. During my PhD studies I met a Brazilian lady who was finishing her PhD in Computer Science.
The way I see it is that as someone else put it before, it *is* a cultural issue. At least in countries like USA and in less extent in UK and Western Europe.
In the University where I did my PhD (in the UK) there were plenty of ladies doing theirs, however the majority were from eastern countries.
As you said, the disparity may well be because of the lack of interest from them. However, this lack of interest has a root, which is related to the education their parents and society gave to them.
You might be an example of that yourself, but I will bring forward my girlfriend's case. The has a Mater deg. in Advanced Manufacturing. The main reason why she came to be interested in Engineering is that her father worked in the Electricity company in Mexico (CFE), and sometimes took her there to show her about his work (of course, related to engineering).
I think the main problem is cultural because, the "usual" thing for parents is to show their boys those "boys" things, while they engourage girls to stay in "girl" things. At least, that seems to be the issue in some western countries.
Kara: Steve, how do you look at Microsoft from an Apple perspective?
[Jobs recycles his "Apple is about beautiful software in a beautiful box" comments from the earlier session today.] âoeThe big secret about Apple, of courseâ"not-so-big secret maybeâ"is that Apple views itself as a software company and there arenâ(TM)t very many software companies left, and Microsoft is a software company. And so, you know, we lo
That's one of the easiest ways to be modded +5 insightful on/., just complain about games...
That is one of the easiest ways to be modded +5 interesting on slashdot, just complain about someone getting modded up for making an ontopic karma whoring.
So, I thought Duke Nukem Forever was taking a long time to do, however it seems that taking an eternity to develop games is standard procedure for these guys uh?
The most recent success the company was associated with was Prey, a game released July 11, 2006 after being stuck in development hell for 11 years
So according to your logic, if I have a machine at my office that (for some good reason) sends a scan of the local network to HQ, reboots random local machines and sends goatse pictures to the local printer, then if someone steals this machine and plugs it into his network, they have the right to complain??
Well, afte all it is in the USA were a thief can sue you when huring himself after trying to climb your house wall to steal from you.
I think it would be very very interesting if Google investigated not only Youtube Internet usage behavior of Viacom users, but what about searches and all the other information in their power.
It would be a really interesting thing to see the beast "awaken" when Google gets all the shit they can get against Viacom and throw it at them in the lawsuit...
Imagine... "oh yes... while looking at our logs looking for viacom stuff, we got all this bunch of searches done from viacom networks, at office hours, looking for child, animal, brazilian fart porn."
When twats like you go screaming to kernel mailing lists complaining "linux" is broken, all because a close proprietary driver fscked up. The trouble is, when a developer investigates, it wastes lost os time and resource and has nothing to do with the kernel.
If you want to run shit, fine, just fsck off when it fscks up.
Wow. And this is the typical Open Source Linux advocate?
It really shows...
BTW. Really nice flamebait is the story isn't it... just after reading the title and a bit of the summary I guessed the comments would be a complete flame fest.
This story really would be helped by some screenshots or general review. I really don't know what post selection criteria gets the post on 2008 Spring's *final* release rejected but this one accepted.
You could always stick some links in a comment here so that we can read more about the release. The actual page (a wiki page) is a bit hmmm not informing.
The last time I installed Mandrake Linux was I think in Mandrake 8 (or 9)? Which I happily also installed in my father's machine. Unfortunately it was *a complete disaster*. I-ve stumbled onto different distros until I installed Ubuntu which has been OK for me (but not plug and play as a lot of people think).
I would be happy to try Mandriva to see if it accomodates to my necessities, and to see how its Laptop support is now (hibernate, sleep, 3D in open source ATi drivers for supported cards, etc, which does not work in Ubuntu for me).
But I would like to see and read more before spending my time installing it on my computer.
I was fortunate to participate in (Comp. Sci.) a research project where some industry companies worked along with some Universities. One of those companies was HP (participating via a researcher appointed to the project).
I can say from first account experience that HP was one of the companies which put more interest and time in the research (while, other unamed companies sometimes were not even present at the meetings).
From that project, I learnt several things about HP research (at least in Europe). They indeed have several projects going. A lot of those projects are however "sensitive" or secret. But you certainly can see several good publications with interesting implications coming from HP.
Copyright infringement (my favorite replacement term) can either be a civil tort or criminal depending on the purpose and circumstances. In most cases, especially involving P2P sharing, the infringement is a civil tort.
And depending on the country. IIRC, in Mexico, copyright infringment is a criminal offence.
However: "only unauthorized commercial exploitation of the author's work represents copyright infringement. "
That is, it must be copyright infringement "for profit".
It was due to pirace (yaaar mate!) that I knew, played and bought "Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines", and later bought "Commandos 2: Men of Courage" and "Commandos: Destination Berlin".
Therefore, pyro studios did get not 1 but 3 purchases due to me pirating (yaaar!) the first game installment.
Of course, part of the reason why I bought the game, is because the game series is *really awesome* and completely different to any other game (similar but different to C&C wannabees) and also because the game were about USD$10 (or MXP$200) when I bought them.
By contrast, my Eee PC 4G goes from powered-off to using Firefox in under 30 seconds. It actually ships with an antivirus app if you must have that weekly display of pointlessness, but it doesn't run by default
Haha... that reminded me of a friend of my father who had just bought the Eee PC when I arrived to his house. She asked me if I could download the Antivirus (the people that sold it said that it was free to download [via deb packages and that]).
You should have seen her surprise when I told her that, on this machine, because of the system, she did not have to worry about viruses! At first she did not got it very well, but then I explained that, similarly to Apple computers, in this type of computers (she had Linux installed) she would not have to worry about viruses.
Oh, and she told me that she had just given a presentaiton in the British Museum with his Eee PC, and that after finishing, everybody was more interested in the small lapotp than in the presentaiton, it was a success!.
I want one badly:( but here in the UK the prices are ass raping as always... I will wait till I return to Mexico to get one:)
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Haha
Nice joke there
Linux hibernate works only about 50% of the time... and when it does work (the OS actually resumes) ports (USB, LPT1, etc) randomly stop to work...
So it would be more like hibernate unfunctionality
Yeah, he thinks security bugs are just like regular bugs. But [I think] he's wrong.
There, fixed it for you. The fact is that just because from your personal point of view a bug that is potentially useful to gain unauthorized rights does not mean that everybody sees it that way.
From what I have read about Linus, he is a very pragmatic guy. For him, a security bug is just another bug in the code (and in a simplistic way, it really is true).
Some people will be more concerned with those bugs, others will be concerned with bugs that reduce the performance of the OS, others will be more interested in bugs that reduce the reliability (as in, crashing every so often, etc).
The fact is that there are lots of people already classifying bugs, I think what Linus is saying is that he does not consider the job of the kernel guys to do such kiind of classification.
For them, it is just another bug that must be seen.
I think Apple would still be a good company if they had a monopoly.
You say that as if Apple had been a good company at any time.
Apple has always be a closed pro bully-lawsuit corporation. Just look at their sue happy history.
Oh, and not only sue happy, but actively trying to remove internet comments from people that do not agree with their views or criticize them.
Lol... modded -1 Revenge of the Apple zealots
A bit of research from the original AIST site bring quite a lot of info.
The from the original tech report:
Shigeki Sakai (Leader) et al. of the Novel Electron Devices Group, the Nanoelectronics Research Institute (Director: Seigo Kanemaru) of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) (President: Hiroyuki Yoshikawa) in collaboration with Ken Takeuchi, Associate Professor of the Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo (Univ. Tokyo) have demonstrated that the use of ferroelectric gate field-effect transistors (FeFETs) as memory cells dramatically improves the performance of NAND flash memory. The FeFET, the newly developed memory cell, can be programmed and erased as many times as 100 million or more and with programming voltage of less than 6 V, whereas the conventional NAND flash memory cells have ten thousand program/erase endurance cycles with approximately 20 V programming voltage. It has been assumed that conventional NAND flash memory can be downsized to 30 nm at the minimum, whereas this novel memory cell will meet the needs of the next 20-nm and 10-nm technology generations. And thus, this memory cell is expected to be used in a next-generation, high-density, high-capacity nonvolatile memory.
Results of the research was reported at the 23rd Nonvolatile Semiconductor Memory Workshop (the 23rd IEEE NVSMW / the 3rd ICMTD 2008) held in France, May 18â"22, 2008.
Hey, at last a worthwile reply.
First, congrats for your degree. During my PhD studies I met a Brazilian lady who was finishing her PhD in Computer Science.
The way I see it is that as someone else put it before, it *is* a cultural issue. At least in countries like USA and in less extent in UK and Western Europe.
In the University where I did my PhD (in the UK) there were plenty of ladies doing theirs, however the majority were from eastern countries.
As you said, the disparity may well be because of the lack of interest from them. However, this lack of interest has a root, which is related to the education their parents and society gave to them.
You might be an example of that yourself, but I will bring forward my girlfriend's case. The has a Mater deg. in Advanced Manufacturing. The main reason why she came to be interested in Engineering is that her father worked in the Electricity company in Mexico (CFE), and sometimes took her there to show her about his work (of course, related to engineering).
I think the main problem is cultural because, the "usual" thing for parents is to show their boys those "boys" things, while they engourage girls to stay in "girl" things. At least, that seems to be the issue in some western countries.
probably not a liberal at all, but a progressive social liberal?
You mean, like a boiled egg is not an egg at all, but a boiled egg?
whoops... somehow the link got borked:
here is it
Kara: Steve, how do you look at Microsoft from an Apple perspective?
[Jobs recycles his "Apple is about beautiful software in a beautiful box" comments from the earlier session today.] âoeThe big secret about Apple, of courseâ"not-so-big secret maybeâ"is that Apple views itself as a software company and there arenâ(TM)t very many software companies left, and Microsoft is a software company. And so, you know, we lo
Apple is and always has been a hardware company.
Uh yeah?
You should tell that to their Cofounder, Chairman, and CEO. On the last interview I saw that guy said that "Apple views itself as a software company."
You surely have some insider information there...
Have you bought that bridge already?
That's one of the easiest ways to be modded +5 insightful on /., just complain about games...
That is one of the easiest ways to be modded +5 interesting on slashdot, just complain about someone getting modded up for making an ontopic karma whoring.
Bah,
We all know that Microsoft Windows has a lower Total Cost of 0wnership
So, I thought Duke Nukem Forever was taking a long time to do, however it seems that taking an eternity to develop games is standard procedure for these guys uh?
The most recent success the company was associated with was Prey, a game released July 11, 2006 after being stuck in development hell for 11 years
So according to your logic, if I have a machine at my office that (for some good reason) sends a scan of the local network to HQ, reboots random local machines and sends goatse pictures to the local printer, then if someone steals this machine and plugs it into his network, they have the right to complain??
Well, afte all it is in the USA were a thief can sue you when huring himself after trying to climb your house wall to steal from you.
I think it would be very very interesting if Google investigated not only Youtube Internet usage behavior of Viacom users, but what about searches and all the other information in their power.
It would be a really interesting thing to see the beast "awaken" when Google gets all the shit they can get against Viacom and throw it at them in the lawsuit...
Imagine... "oh yes... while looking at our logs looking for viacom stuff, we got all this bunch of searches done from viacom networks, at office hours, looking for child, animal, brazilian fart porn."
When twats like you go screaming to kernel mailing lists complaining "linux" is broken, all because a close proprietary driver fscked up. The trouble is, when a developer investigates, it wastes lost os time and resource and has nothing to do with the kernel.
If you want to run shit, fine, just fsck off when it fscks up.
Wow. And this is the typical Open Source Linux advocate?
It really shows...
BTW. Really nice flamebait is the story isn't it... just after reading the title and a bit of the summary I guessed the comments would be a complete flame fest.
Greetings,
This story really would be helped by some screenshots or general review.
I really don't know what post selection criteria gets the post on 2008 Spring's *final* release rejected but this one accepted.
You could always stick some links in a comment here so that we can read more about the release. The actual page (a wiki page) is a bit hmmm not informing.
The last time I installed Mandrake Linux was I think in Mandrake 8 (or 9)? Which I happily also installed in my father's machine. Unfortunately it was *a complete disaster*. I-ve stumbled onto different distros until I installed Ubuntu which has been OK for me (but not plug and play as a lot of people think).
I would be happy to try Mandriva to see if it accomodates to my necessities, and to see how its Laptop support is now (hibernate, sleep, 3D in open source ATi drivers for supported cards, etc, which does not work in Ubuntu for me).
But I would like to see and read more before spending my time installing it on my computer.
I completely agree.
I was fortunate to participate in (Comp. Sci.) a research project where some industry companies worked along with some Universities. One of those companies was HP (participating via a researcher appointed to the project).
I can say from first account experience that HP was one of the companies which put more interest and time in the research (while, other unamed companies sometimes were not even present at the meetings).
From that project, I learnt several things about HP research (at least in Europe). They indeed have several projects going. A lot of those projects are however "sensitive" or secret. But you certainly can see several good publications with interesting implications coming from HP.
wow, you posted AC and then posted again. Cool.
Haha, incredible.
MyLongNickName, I present you Select/Copy/Paste. You can do that with almost all the new Operating Systems :)
You are welcome.
You sir, are my new friend...
And not for your children, but for your reply.
Godspeed.
BTW, I was just kidding. I have a gorgeous girlfriend which I love :)
I would point you how you totally missed the point, but so far, there are about 8 replies tryign to explain it to you...
Oh, what the heck.
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Copyright infringement (my favorite replacement term) can either be a civil tort or criminal depending on the purpose and circumstances. In most cases, especially involving P2P sharing, the infringement is a civil tort.
And depending on the country.
IIRC, in Mexico, copyright infringment is a criminal offence.
However:
"only unauthorized commercial exploitation of the author's work represents copyright infringement. "
That is, it must be copyright infringement "for profit".
Well... at least you won't call that stealing would you?
BTW to the mods, parent comment is funny, don't you think so? even though it is trollish, it still made me laugh.
It was due to pirace (yaaar mate!) that I knew, played and bought "Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines", and later bought "Commandos 2: Men of Courage" and "Commandos: Destination Berlin".
Therefore, pyro studios did get not 1 but 3 purchases due to me pirating (yaaar!) the first game installment.
Of course, part of the reason why I bought the game, is because the game series is *really awesome* and completely different to any other game (similar but different to C&C wannabees) and also because the game were about USD$10 (or MXP$200) when I bought them.
IMHO that IS the sweet spot for a game. $10, £5.
Unless one wishes to enturbulate the masses.
That will only happen if they misunderestimate you.
By contrast, my Eee PC 4G goes from powered-off to using Firefox in under 30 seconds. It actually ships with an antivirus app if you must have that weekly display of pointlessness, but it doesn't run by default
Haha... that reminded me of a friend of my father who had just bought the Eee PC when I arrived to his house. She asked me if I could download the Antivirus (the people that sold it said that it was free to download [via deb packages and that]).
You should have seen her surprise when I told her that, on this machine, because of the system, she did not have to worry about viruses! At first she did not got it very well, but then I explained that, similarly to Apple computers, in this type of computers (she had Linux installed) she would not have to worry about viruses.
Oh, and she told me that she had just given a presentaiton in the British Museum with his Eee PC, and that after finishing, everybody was more interested in the small lapotp than in the presentaiton, it was a success!.
I want one badly :( but here in the UK the prices are ass raping as always... I will wait till I return to Mexico to get one :)