Actually, the NSA didn't beat Diffie and Hellman to the punch, it was the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) of the United Kingdom, in particular a man named James Ellis. It's mentioned in the "Science of Secrecy" book you linked to, page 166.
I don't even think the NSA was around back in the 60's when this was going on.
Ice Expeditioner: You gotta start charging more per bag, we lost 4 men on this expedition!
Apu: If you can think of a better way to get ice, I would like to hear it!
Are they implying that this thing will be unguided? Just pointed at the sky and shot off without post launch guidance, like a bullet? That's what it sounds like to me, and would explain why ground control guidance is not seen as a problem: there's no way to guide it. It would be considerably cheaper to develop, but I'm not sure it would be too popular.
Another thing I'd like to know is, where does it land? If it's a water landing, that makes passenger safety and training more complex (they have to learn how to stay afloat if something goes balls up). If it's a land based touchdown, who's land is it going to land on? They'll have to buy a pretty big slab of dirt if they're going to guarantee it always lands on their property.
If the number free loaders gets too great, nobody will be able to get fast downloads off of BT due to lack of seeds (or whatever they're called). Once that happens, popularity amongst freeloaders declines, service returns to normal. A file sharing system without anybody seeding any files is a waste of time.
It sounds great, but: "The Eliica needs 10 hours of recharging, but it can use your normal power connection. The range is great for a pure electric car - at more than 200 miles. it isn't for heavy drivers.
Heh, even if the law doesn't pass there are other ways to get that info:
ISP Owner: "I'm sorry Mr President, but providing that data wouldn't be legal."
Bush: "Very well Mr ISP Owner, it's time for your bribe. You can either have the big pile of money, the washer and dryer where the lovely Mr Cheney is standing, or you can trade it all in for what's in this box!"
And even if the open source packages did do that, the source is available for someone to remove that restriction and distribute the fixed version. The entire point of open source software is that it's "free" (as in freedom) software, you don't get corporations deciding what you'll do with it.
I'm a dialup user and I'm doing just fine, and I really get sick of seeing these kind of rants. Dialup speeds are sufficient for most content, and if there weren't so many web designers that use flash for everything I'd hardly have anything to complain about.
I routinely download over 1GB a month on my connection (normally about 1.3), and the largest file I've ever gotten was a 600MB Linux iso. If I left my connection on 24/7, I could go further. Sure, I can't get the file RIGHT NOW, but that's what patience is for. I even do some online gaming and get decent pings on local servers. If I can survive on dialup doing this sort of stuff, I figure Mom and Pop type people will be OK.
Oh, you mean that one by Major Payne? Here, I adapted it for you:
Once upon a time deep, deep in the Martian samds, there was a little rover that could. He was chugging his way acroos the desert.....
Chuggah chuggah chuggah chuggah chuggah chuggah chuggah chuggah- TOOT TOOT!
This little rovers's mission was to take some AK-47's and nuclear bombs over the mountain to the twenty sixty three battalion. Needless to say, there was plenty of opposition. You think that stopped the little rover that could? No sir! He just kept chugging along....
Chuggah chuggah chuggah chuggah chuggah chuggah chuggah chuggah- TOOT TOOT!
Not even when the NASA engineers eyes popped out and blood and snot was drippin' out of his eye socket... U think that stopped the little rover that could? Damn skippy! He just kept chugging along..........
Chuggah chuggah chuggah chuggah chuggah chuggah chuggah chuggah- TOOT TOOT!
It wasn't till Martians covered the crater with plastic explosive. Just as the little rover was crossing the crater- BOOM! An explosion happened and blood n guts and wires and circuit boards was everywhere. Bubba came crawling out the backdoor with both legs missin'. Lula Mays babyboy! He looked at me and said "I can't feel my legs!" I said "Bubba! They aint there" and I looked down and them little bloody pieces were kickin' real fast. I said "Bubba, it's 350 000 miles to the nearest planet. Unless u can flip upside and walk on your hands, you aint gonna make it..." All of a sudden, the Martians was all over the place, it was just me and my gun and I had no other alternative but to blast my way out... BAM! I saw what you did to my space program, BAM! BAM!
This inclusion of tabs in IE could be a blessing in disguise for the Firefox campaign. See, most people I know are reluctant to use FF because it's different. "Ooooh, but what does that do? It's too confusing..." etc. However, once IE takes it up, some users might gradually be introduced to a more
Firefoxy way of doing things. Once this happens, it'll be easier to switch them. "See all those IE features? Well, if you use this program, you can keep them all but you won't get those annoying toolbars and malware! And it runs faster too!"
In other words, by making IE more like Firefox, we make it easier to use Firefox instead of IE, as FF has all the features but less of the crap. Just my 2 cents.
Wrong on both counts. Australians were never "exiled", we were and still are proud members of the British Commonwealth. And Australia was not originally discovered with the intent of making a penal colony, the convicts were sent a little later to perform labour and farm work, because England had no more room for them.
And as for us being a pack of halfwits, check out some famous Australian inventions. Not bad for a nation of 25 million people.
As if it wasn't enough throwing bits of solid metal and stuff at the Martians, now we're going to increase their risk of cancer by nuking them with radio waves! If there is intelligent life down there they've got to be pretty pissed by now. We could at least beam them cable TV or something to make up for it.
This reminds me of what happened to Combatsim.com, a fan site for combat simulation games. Prior to about 1999 or so they were a free site, with lots of articles and good forums. Then they went pay-for, and almost overnight most of the site's community jumped ship to other sites. The place became a ghost town after a year or so, to the point where they first openned up the forums again, and then eventually returned the entire site to free access.
Point is, if you don't want to pay, don't. If enough people think the same, they'll fold eventually.
I think the real reason why MS won't settle and ask for a licence is because the patent expires shortly anyway (2007 if it's a 20 year patent). They probably don't see the need to fork out millions when in 2 years time they can do what they like with the technology.
By suing, they keep their licence money and their "Don't sue us or we'll take you down" image.
One man "provided all his information without question, but returned five minutes later asking for it back, as he thought that we could use it to gain access to his online bank account," Sellick recalled. "We gave him back his survey form, but did not provide any evidence of who we were. If we had been fraudsters, he would have been too late."
Just tell them what they can use it for. We wouldn't want the fraudsters to have to think too hard. In any case, it would have been interesting to see what he would have done had they said no.
My way of thinking was that the OS is more difficult to create. Think of all the hardware combos it has to work with. All those drivers and standards. Then you've got the interface and associated help system, and all the mini applications like calenders and clocks and whatnot. And if they don't get it just right, then the system is screwy and/or insecure.
By comparison, the apps software just uses that groundwork. It doesn't have as great a responsibility (at least, not in my eyes). But, I'm no pro programmer, which is why I was wondering what everyone else thought.
Yeah, it'd be great if Adobe could spend a bit of time cutting off some fat from their products. Acrobat Reader chugs compared to xpdf, which has a Windows version if anyone's interested:
Hey, I was only referring to Joe Sixpack! I don't think he has a whole lot of identical twins or anything.
Fair enough, that probably did come across pretty snobbish, which I didn't mean it to be. But most people these days would much prefer to accept short term comfort then expend a little effort protecting their long term comfort. Well, at least from my perspective that's what it seems like.
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Actually, the NSA didn't beat Diffie and Hellman to the punch, it was the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) of the United Kingdom, in particular a man named James Ellis. It's mentioned in the "Science of Secrecy" book you linked to, page 166.
I don't even think the NSA was around back in the 60's when this was going on.
Ice Expeditioner: You gotta start charging more per bag, we lost 4 men on this expedition!
Apu: If you can think of a better way to get ice, I would like to hear it!
Are they implying that this thing will be unguided? Just pointed at the sky and shot off without post launch guidance, like a bullet? That's what it sounds like to me, and would explain why ground control guidance is not seen as a problem: there's no way to guide it. It would be considerably cheaper to develop, but I'm not sure it would be too popular.
Another thing I'd like to know is, where does it land? If it's a water landing, that makes passenger safety and training more complex (they have to learn how to stay afloat if something goes balls up). If it's a land based touchdown, who's land is it going to land on? They'll have to buy a pretty big slab of dirt if they're going to guarantee it always lands on their property.
If the number free loaders gets too great, nobody will be able to get fast downloads off of BT due to lack of seeds (or whatever they're called). Once that happens, popularity amongst freeloaders declines, service returns to normal. A file sharing system without anybody seeding any files is a waste of time.
This one?
It sounds great, but:
"The Eliica needs 10 hours of recharging, but it can use your normal power connection. The range is great for a pure electric car - at more than 200 miles.
it isn't for heavy drivers.
Heh, even if the law doesn't pass there are other ways to get that info:
ISP Owner: "I'm sorry Mr President, but providing that data wouldn't be legal."
Bush: "Very well Mr ISP Owner, it's time for your bribe. You can either have the big pile of money, the washer and dryer where the lovely Mr Cheney is standing, or you can trade it all in for what's in this box!"
ISP Owner: "The box, the box!"
No, that's what Windows XP Starter Edition does.
And even if the open source packages did do that, the source is available for someone to remove that restriction and distribute the fixed version. The entire point of open source software is that it's "free" (as in freedom) software, you don't get corporations deciding what you'll do with it.
I'm a dialup user and I'm doing just fine, and I really get sick of seeing these kind of rants. Dialup speeds are sufficient for most content, and if there weren't so many web designers that use flash for everything I'd hardly have anything to complain about.
I routinely download over 1GB a month on my connection (normally about 1.3), and the largest file I've ever gotten was a 600MB Linux iso. If I left my connection on 24/7, I could go further. Sure, I can't get the file RIGHT NOW, but that's what patience is for. I even do some online gaming and get decent pings on local servers. If I can survive on dialup doing this sort of stuff, I figure Mom and Pop type people will be OK.
Oh, you mean that one by Major Payne? Here, I adapted it for you:
Once upon a time deep, deep in the Martian samds, there was a little rover that could. He was chugging his way acroos the desert..... Chuggah chuggah chuggah chuggah chuggah chuggah chuggah chuggah- TOOT TOOT! This little rovers's mission was to take some AK-47's and nuclear bombs over the mountain to the twenty sixty three battalion. Needless to say, there was plenty of opposition. You think that stopped the little rover that could? No sir! He just kept chugging along.... Chuggah chuggah chuggah chuggah chuggah chuggah chuggah chuggah- TOOT TOOT! Not even when the NASA engineers eyes popped out and blood and snot was drippin' out of his eye socket... U think that stopped the little rover that could? Damn skippy! He just kept chugging along.......... Chuggah chuggah chuggah chuggah chuggah chuggah chuggah chuggah- TOOT TOOT! It wasn't till Martians covered the crater with plastic explosive. Just as the little rover was crossing the crater- BOOM! An explosion happened and blood n guts and wires and circuit boards was everywhere. Bubba came crawling out the backdoor with both legs missin'. Lula Mays babyboy! He looked at me and said "I can't feel my legs!" I said "Bubba! They aint there" and I looked down and them little bloody pieces were kickin' real fast. I said "Bubba, it's 350 000 miles to the nearest planet. Unless u can flip upside and walk on your hands, you aint gonna make it..." All of a sudden, the Martians was all over the place, it was just me and my gun and I had no other alternative but to blast my way out... BAM! I saw what you did to my space program, BAM! BAM!
Pleasant dreams.
Kids these days. Back in the old times, you didn't go under or over clock, you went through it!
So Apple wants a slice of the pie eh?
Bring out iTunes Australia already you wankers. Then we'll talk.
This inclusion of tabs in IE could be a blessing in disguise for the Firefox campaign. See, most people I know are reluctant to use FF because it's different. "Ooooh, but what does that do? It's too confusing..." etc. However, once IE takes it up, some users might gradually be introduced to a more Firefoxy way of doing things. Once this happens, it'll be easier to switch them. "See all those IE features? Well, if you use this program, you can keep them all but you won't get those annoying toolbars and malware! And it runs faster too!" In other words, by making IE more like Firefox, we make it easier to use Firefox instead of IE, as FF has all the features but less of the crap. Just my 2 cents.
Bill Gates can't find enough IT workers, so he wants to change visa regs to get more in. IBM has too many IT workers, wants to fire them.
Perhaps Microsoft (European division perhaps) could hire the retrenched IBM staff?
Wrong on both counts. Australians were never "exiled", we were and still are proud members of the British Commonwealth. And Australia was not originally discovered with the intent of making a penal colony, the convicts were sent a little later to perform labour and farm work, because England had no more room for them.
And as for us being a pack of halfwits, check out some famous Australian inventions. Not bad for a nation of 25 million people.
Nah they wouldn't. Everybody knows that TV makes you more intelligemented.
As if it wasn't enough throwing bits of solid metal and stuff at the Martians, now we're going to increase their risk of cancer by nuking them with radio waves! If there is intelligent life down there they've got to be pretty pissed by now. We could at least beam them cable TV or something to make up for it.
for "defrost" in apt-get?
This reminds me of what happened to Combatsim.com, a fan site for combat simulation games. Prior to about 1999 or so they were a free site, with lots of articles and good forums. Then they went pay-for, and almost overnight most of the site's community jumped ship to other sites. The place became a ghost town after a year or so, to the point where they first openned up the forums again, and then eventually returned the entire site to free access.
Point is, if you don't want to pay, don't. If enough people think the same, they'll fold eventually.
I think the real reason why MS won't settle and ask for a licence is because the patent expires shortly anyway (2007 if it's a 20 year patent). They probably don't see the need to fork out millions when in 2 years time they can do what they like with the technology.
By suing, they keep their licence money and their "Don't sue us or we'll take you down" image.
Just tell them what they can use it for. We wouldn't want the fraudsters to have to think too hard. In any case, it would have been interesting to see what he would have done had they said no.
My way of thinking was that the OS is more difficult to create. Think of all the hardware combos it has to work with. All those drivers and standards. Then you've got the interface and associated help system, and all the mini applications like calenders and clocks and whatnot. And if they don't get it just right, then the system is screwy and/or insecure.
By comparison, the apps software just uses that groundwork. It doesn't have as great a responsibility (at least, not in my eyes). But, I'm no pro programmer, which is why I was wondering what everyone else thought.
Yeah, it'd be great if Adobe could spend a bit of time cutting off some fat from their products. Acrobat Reader chugs compared to xpdf, which has a Windows version if anyone's interested:
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/xpdf.htmI wonder what the new Photoshop's system requirements will be?
Ouch. Am I the only one who thinks it a bit much when applications software costs more than the OS?
Then again, judging by how popular it is I guess it must be worth it to some people.
I suppose the astronauts are the proud mother and father?
I guess it must get pretty boring up there in space. Pretty boring and pretty lonely...
Hey, I was only referring to Joe Sixpack! I don't think he has a whole lot of identical twins or anything. Fair enough, that probably did come across pretty snobbish, which I didn't mean it to be. But most people these days would much prefer to accept short term comfort then expend a little effort protecting their long term comfort. Well, at least from my perspective that's what it seems like.