You are right, to a certain extent, but take audio/video work as an example. If I am using my computer as a synthesizer, I want to be able to hear the keys as they are being pressed, not 0.5-2 sec later. Even if the mixing part would take longer than the time I press my next key, the kernel should process that key anyway. Music is a weird thing.. a couple of milliseconds difference is enough to change the perception of a note. So in this case, it will 'seem' faster, even though it will have less throughput(context switches the mixing process out even though it has the mixing data in the cache which conveniently gets invalidated, swapped, etc.) I guess it gives certain applications the super-duper dependent on time factor that would otherwise be overlooked in the ways kernel measures "fast."
"We don't need any security measures; people should just behave themselves"
Isn't that all it's about though? Having the highest foolproof security on your doors won't stop a determined person from breaking in through the window. That being said though, I haven't seen anybody tried or convicted of electoral fraud which should be the highest form of treason. In a society where personal responsibility has turned into collective deniability, I expect voter purges, missing boxes and 'chad manufacture' to stay crimes without perpetrators and victims. It's kind of hard to motivate people not to cheat when there is no penalty, don't you think?
I think what he means is that it is Hans Reiser's company. You can't just take someone else's company and let someone else run it without the owner's consent. Calling him important is an understatement. Read this interview if you would like to know how important. As for letting someone else run the company...hah I can't even describe the irony. Here's the rundown:
Basically he got this guy named Sean Sturgeon run his finances "1999 through 2002 and had access to and control over deposits, withdrawals and funds at the Patelco Credit Union."
Reiser said Sturgeon "worked with my wife Nina Reiser and eventually drugged her with ecstasy and seduced her."
Reiser alleged, "He then engaged in Bondage, Domination, Sadism and Masochism techniques and continued to redrug her repeatedly over time."
He said Sturgeon engaged in those techniques "in an effort to show that he was a better man than I and to convince my wife Nina to conspire with him to steal the Namesys Inc. company assets."
He said Sturgeon engaged in those techniques "in an effort to show that he was a better man than I and to convince my wife Nina to conspire with him to steal the Namesys Inc. company assets."
Reiser alleged that, "Sean has threatened to have me beaten up by some of his associates in illegal activities and that he would hurt me, my mother or my children if he did not get what he wanted."
He also accused Sturgeon of engaging in extortion by threatening to make calls to the Internal Revenue Service to report him and his mother.
In addition, Reiser alleged that Sturgeon wrote into a contract that Reiser must participate in "Death Yoga," which he said has the purpose of "slowing down one's heart to the point of death."
You think he might have second thoughts on letting someone else run the business? Just maybe?
I noticed that 2.0 has a lot better Ajax support. I'm surprised nobody mentioned it since/. has some Ajax support and the "floating thingy" has been bothering me for a while when scrolling down. Also the spelling is nice and I'm sure it will become as annoying as well. On a side note, I have discovered that I have been spelling surprised wrong for years and that thingy is not a word. Yay!(also not a word)
October 03, 2006
EFF Sues for Information on Electronic Surveillance Systems
FBI Withholds Records on Tools to Intercept Personal Communications
Washington, D.C. - The FLAG Project at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed its first lawsuit against the Department of Justice Tuesday after the FBI failed to respond to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for records concerning DCS-3000 and Red Hook -- tools the FBI has spent millions of dollars developing for electronic surveillance.
DCS-3000 is an interception system that apparently evolved out of "Carnivore," a controversial surveillance system the FBI used several years ago to monitor online traffic through Internet service providers. One Department of Justice report said DCS-3000 was developed to "intercept personal communication services delivered via emerging digital technologies" and that it was used "as carriers continue to introduce new features and services." According to the same report, Red Hook is a system to "collect voice and data calls and then process and display the intercepted information."
The FLAG Project first filed its FOIA request for information about the surveillance systems on August 11, 2006. The FBI acknowledged receipt of the request, but the agency has not responded within the time limit required by law.
"Recent allegations of domestic spying by the U.S. government already have both lawmakers and the general public up in arms. Americans have a right to know whether the FBI is using new technology to further violate their privacy," said EFF Staff Attorney Marcia Hofmann. "The Department of Justice needs to abide by the law and publicly release information about these surveillance tools."
EFF's FLAG Project, launched last month, uses FOIA requests and litigation to expose the government's expanding use of technologies that invade privacy.
"Transparency is critical to the functioning of our democracy, especially when the government seeks to hide activities that affect the rights of citizens," EFF Senior Counsel David Sobel, who directs the FLAG Project. "We have recently seen numerous instances where federal agencies have sought to conceal surveillance activities that raise serious legal issues."
"I think what's interesting about our findings is that even animals that should be highly adapted to sleep loss cannot go on indefinitely," Fuchs said. "That a need for sleep cannot be eliminated even in these species underscores the importance of sleep for many, if not all, animals."
I hope I'm not the one to break this to my boss...he might even try to disprove him.
Prequel: Pronunciation: 'prE-kw&l Function: noun Etymology: pre- + -quel (as in sequel) : We have run out of ideas and so are attaching a parasite on the other side of the successful ideas to seem more refreshing.
Respondent AT&T Corp. brought this patent infringement action against petitioner Microsoft Corp., alleging that computers loaded with petitioner's Windows® operating
system infringe respondent's patent related to digitally recorded speech.
"Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all"
It's necessary to invest in technologies such as PCM because flash memory will eventually hit a wall in which it can no longer scale with silicon manufacturing.
Does this have something to do with the way transistors work?
I've been messing around with DSM-320 and Dlink does provide lots of gpl code at their ftp site. However I haven't had much time to mess around with it to see if it will work without major missing pieces. These guys have been trying to get a DSM-520 working and it seems it is a little more complicated:
Also legally who's responsible to release the sources: the OEM (DLink), the design house (Redsonic), or the company who probably customized the kernel for the SI8210 (Sigma)?
I've called D-Link before myself trying to get that code and of course they'll refer you to RedSonic who of course will refer you to SigmaDesgins.
quick update--nothing new! go figure. I had a hard time getting in touch with dlink last week--waited on hold for about 40 minutes a day for 3 days straight. Got bounced around to a few departements and finally was told they don't release 'that information'. Not really surprised I guess. I'm a little disapointed they didn't at least respond to the letter though although they had absolutely no incentive to. I'll move on to Redsonic I suppose.
Yay for bouncing hot-potatoes. As they say, where there's smoke there is fire...where the hell is FSF(not europe) on this one?
As much as I would like to believe that Walmart would buckle, I would put my money on the studios buckling. Walmart sells 40% of ALL DVDs sold in the US(at a loss) and I doubt studio X would like Y Million DVDs returned to the warehouse they don't have. And don't forget Joe Schmoe's confusion how to get this friggin DVD he just bought on AOL internets on his DVD player. (Oh please don't tell him anything about about him not "owning" it...)
Critics have pointed out that many of the large companies behind patent reform efforts in the United States, such as Microsoft and IBM--both also OSDL members and supporters of Open Source as Prior Art--are the same companies aggressively pushing for software patents to be legitimized in Europe.
Umm...there is no contradiction there...let us explain...
But the truth is they WANT software patents. I don't see them lobbying to change the status quo. All they are interested in the "quality":
"OSDL supports the USPTO's drive to improve the quality of software patents."
Stallman:
"Thus, our main chance of invalidating a patent in court is to find prior art that the patent office has not studied. Furthermore, patent applicants can use this information to write patent claims that cover important activities while avoiding the known prior art that could invalidate the claims. The patent office is eager to help patent applicants do this."
Ding? If not:
IBMicrosoft: "Thank you little critters for making our patent applications the strongest on the planet. Now we can make sure that nobody will ever overturn our patent on quicksort, mergesort, bubblesort, mydickinyourassort...and don't forget the youinventedandIpatentedsort"
I realize that the notion of "endothermic reaction" is important to the Chemical culture but what is really silly is the low activation energy for your humor. Maybe X + Liquor -> Funny
Heat in the air + Ice in the water = cooler air + less Ice in the water
Pay attention when its snowing. You will find it is cooler when the snow starts melting.
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Realtime computing is more concerned with latency than throughput.
You are right, to a certain extent, but take audio/video work as an example. If I am using my computer as a synthesizer, I want to be able to hear the keys as they are being pressed, not 0.5-2 sec later. Even if the mixing part would take longer than the time I press my next key, the kernel should process that key anyway. Music is a weird thing.. a couple of milliseconds difference is enough to change the perception of a note. So in this case, it will 'seem' faster, even though it will have less throughput(context switches the mixing process out even though it has the mixing data in the cache which conveniently gets invalidated, swapped, etc.) I guess it gives certain applications the super-duper dependent on time factor that would otherwise be overlooked in the ways kernel measures "fast."
More info in nature. It seems to do with something called Milankovich cycles. But i guess 'wobble' is specific enough for stuff that matters.
Well, he basically dedicated his life to this and has made great sacrifices(no pun intended) and I doubt he will just give it up.
You think he might have second thoughts on letting someone else run the business? Just maybe?
That must be the worst analogy I have ever seen. Either that, or you really want to sell SuperSoakers. But quite informative nonetheless.
I noticed that 2.0 has a lot better Ajax support. I'm surprised nobody mentioned it since /. has some Ajax support and the "floating thingy" has been bothering me for a while when scrolling down. Also the spelling is nice and I'm sure it will become as annoying as well. On a side note, I have discovered that I have been spelling surprised wrong for years and that thingy is not a word. Yay!(also not a word)
Prequel:
Pronunciation: 'prE-kw&l
Function: noun
Etymology: pre- + -quel (as in sequel)
: We have run out of ideas and so are attaching a parasite on the other side of the successful ideas to seem more refreshing.
Well, not the painter. Apparently he was "painting" with the secretary.
I'll take the government's Abrams and Apaches over your squirt gun.
Cuz these days you get fried eggs and bacon...
Yay for bouncing hot-potatoes. As they say, where there's smoke there is fire...where the hell is FSF(not europe) on this one?
As much as I would like to believe that Walmart would buckle, I would put my money on the studios buckling. Walmart sells 40% of ALL DVDs sold in the US(at a loss) and I doubt studio X would like Y Million DVDs returned to the warehouse they don't have. And don't forget Joe Schmoe's confusion how to get this friggin DVD he just bought on AOL internets on his DVD player. (Oh please don't tell him anything about about him not "owning" it...)
sometimes..?
Ah the magic they work in the editing room...
Here's BOTH.
But the truth is they WANT software patents. I don't see them lobbying to change the status quo. All they are interested in the "quality":
Stallman: Ding? If not:
IBMicrosoft: "Thank you little critters for making our patent applications the strongest on the planet. Now we can make sure that nobody will ever overturn our patent on quicksort, mergesort, bubblesort, mydickinyourassort...and don't forget the youinventedandIpatentedsort"
Backfire is an understatement...
I realize that the notion of "endothermic reaction" is important to the Chemical culture but what is really silly is the low activation energy for your humor.
Maybe X + Liquor -> Funny
Heat in the air + Ice in the water = cooler air + less Ice in the water Pay attention when its snowing. You will find it is cooler when the snow starts melting.