Lets assume that the average length of theese corrupt sentances was one month (I would bet it was longer). Thats a total aggregate bogus sentance of several hundred years.
IMO people who's crimes do a large ammount of total damange but spread it accross a large number of victims get off WAY to soft in most western legal systems.
Afaict the vast majority of hosts just have dumb overload protection set at just over 500ma not fancy protection against a device drawing more than it has permission for..
I'm just saying that there is at least one case (old "standard charger" and nokia e65) where the adaptor doesn't work.
In nokia's defense they didn't say the adaptor was compatible with my phone so I guess it's partly my fault for assuming that was just an ommission and buying the adaptor anyway.
Afaict there were two voltages of old style charger, the standard charger and the travel (fast) charger.
The e65 at least will not work with an old style standard charger and a charger adaptor (it will work with an old style travel charger and a charger adaptor)
The somehow, being the question By issuing an ultimatum.
When you remove the sugarcoating the european commisioners message seems to basically boil down to "we can do this the easy way or the hard way, agree a standard among yourselves or we will come up with one and ram it down your throat"
How long has the ISS gone without a resupplly mission? While there may have been no emergency missions i'm pretty sure there have been changes to the manifests of supply missions adding more single use oxygen candles and spare parts for the oxygen generators due to failures of the oxygen generators on the ISS.
IMO before we consider a trip to mars we have to get to the point where we can reliablly (how reliablly depends on what risk to the astronauts you consider acceptable) maintain humans in isolation for years either here on earth and/or in LEO with a quantity of supplies that would be considered reasonable for a mars mission.
How much would it cost to move the ISS to lunar orbit compared to moving the same mass from earth to lunar orbit.
How much more usefull would a craft designed for the job of similar weight be.
IIRC most launchers have a maximum mass to LEO several times higher than thier maximum mas to GEO and lunar is even futher up the gravity well than GEO.
it is indeed unfortunate that afaict there is STILL no decent client for jigdo.
The main jigdo gui plain doesn't work. There is a script called jigdo-lite that "works" but provides no progress indication and fills your console with garbage and gives no clear indication of whether it is resuming or starting again from scratch.
anyone here familiar with the source for a linux download manager and fancy adding jigdo support?
Actually, etch was quick as Debian released go Afaict etch was much quicker than sarge, a little quicker than woody about the same as lenny and slower than rex, bo, hamm, slink and potato.
There are three reasons why 3 years for debian was far worse than 5 years for windows.
The first is that linux was pretty immature at that time. IIRC woody didn't even have X autoconfiguration and asked you scary questions about your monitor rather than just defaulting to safe settings and letting you crank it up later.
The second is software authors have different attitudes towards windows and linux.
Windows developers tend to assume you will be running a stable release of windows that was current sometime in the last decade or so.
Linux developers (at least desktop ones) tend to assume you will be running something within a year or two of the bleeding edge.
Running current apps on an older version of windows (down to 2K at least) is generally not a problem. Running current apps on a linux distro of similar vintage is a PITA.
The third is that while XP lasted a long time MS did update it quite a lot over it's lifetime (far more than just security fixes and bugfixes)
JESUS I thought they were going to bring all those satellites down! The original company went bust. A group of private investors bought the sattelites at firesale prices and kept the system going.
every Al Queda high ranking member would probably own one of their satellite phones. Maybe, it would seem like an unwise move though given that irridium is a US company and would almost certainly comply with US military requests for information.
For such a high speed link, I think that a CSMA/CD technology is probably the wrong answer. The modern way to build an ethernet network (at least the important parts of one) is to use switches and full-duplex point to point links. Full duplex links do not use CSMA/CD.
CSMA/CD is rarely used at gigabit (I don't think i've ever seen a gigabit hub) and isn't supported at all at 10 gigabit and above.
TFA and the/. summary poorly titled though, this is about a physical layer advancement. That advancement may eventually lead to terabit ethernet, it may also lead to other standards with similar perfomance.
Ethernet is good at doing what it does well What ethernet has done well is maintain compatibility accross gnerations. If I have old equipment with a 10baseT controller I can plug it straight into a modern network. If I have even older equipment with a BNC or AUI connector I can still connect it to a modern network without too much fuss or expense.
And disturbingly, many distros are still compiled for i386, even those that won't actually run on such systems... Are you sure? debian compile for 486 and current debian will still just about run on a 486. I think ubuntu and fedora compile for 686 but i'm not positive.
This was just one of many iridium satellites. maybe it will cause a few coverage problems but I doubt it will cause too much trouble for the network as a whole.
According to wikipedia they also have spare sattalites in a storage orbit slightly lower than the operational orbit and are planning to bring one in to replace the one destroyed within 30 days.
Amazon isn't making it possible for the device to record the audio output of the text-to-speech conversion, therefore they haven't violated anything How do you know?
With digital distribution the retailer effectively makes the copies. They must have a contract allowing them to do that. That contract could have virtually any terms.
takes less time than brute forcing even a low-quality cryptosystem. That depends on just HOW crap the system is. It is very easy to make small design errors that reduce the security of the system to a level where brute force attacks are feasible.
DSA for example has a nasty flaw where if you generate even one signature using a flawed random number generator anyone with a copy of that signature can get your key.
No "practical" difference exists, because "in practice", an attacker will reach for the blowtorch before they bother with any cracking tools. Some attackers might but that approach has problems of it's own. For starters if you get caught you will probablly be in far worse shit than if you simply worked on cracking the crypto. You probablly also have a much higher chance of getting caught.
another reason for worrying about the strength of encryption is that you have to consider the data's value down the line. Sure the encryption may be impractical to crack now but what will a few decades of moores law do to it. Some information is still valuable to an attacker after that time.
Or impossible, if the Halting Problem is anything to go by?- or does that only apply to analysis by a Turing Machine? It only applies to analysis *of* a turing machine or a similar hypothetical construct with infinite states. For a finite state machine given enough time the machine must end up in either a single state or an infinitely repeating sequence of states. So if you simulate the machine until you see a repeated state you will know whether the state/repeating sequence of states is one that you would consider halted.
Of course for something as complex as a computer the total number of states is insanely high and as such there may be no repeats in the lifetime of the universe.
The OS itself may live past the 2038 32-bit time_t rollover, but the same cannot be said about all mission-critical apps that may be running on top of the Linux OS. Note that this issue isn't linux specific, it applies to most 32 bit unix-like systems and some apps on other systems too. While windows doesn't natively use unix time that doesn't mean windows apps don't.
An OS is nothing without database apps, business apps, etc, some of which source code may not be available for, some of which may be unsupported abandonware by the time 2038 rolls around. Indeed I predict that like y2k there will be a flurry of activity in the last few years to identify and fix such problems and that some of them will be VERY difficult and expensive to fix due to lack of source code etc.
Should be a pretty profitable time for most of us slashdotters who will most likely be the old guys (i'm going to guess that most/.ers are between 20 and 40, that would put us between 50 and 70 in 2038) who know C when this rolls arround.
and the population certainly isn't going down Afaict as societies get more developed thier birth rate drops off dramatically. Often to lower than population maintinance levels.
The question is will the birthrate drops from development come soon enough to turn round the world population before it's too late.
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Lets assume that the average length of theese corrupt sentances was one month (I would bet it was longer). Thats a total aggregate bogus sentance of several hundred years.
IMO people who's crimes do a large ammount of total damange but spread it accross a large number of victims get off WAY to soft in most western legal systems.
Afaict the vast majority of hosts just have dumb overload protection set at just over 500ma not fancy protection against a device drawing more than it has permission for..
I'm just saying that there is at least one case (old "standard charger" and nokia e65) where the adaptor doesn't work.
In nokia's defense they didn't say the adaptor was compatible with my phone so I guess it's partly my fault for assuming that was just an ommission and buying the adaptor anyway.
Afaict there were two voltages of old style charger, the standard charger and the travel (fast) charger.
The e65 at least will not work with an old style standard charger and a charger adaptor (it will work with an old style travel charger and a charger adaptor)
d) ignore the USB spec and pull 500ma whatever the host does.
The somehow, being the question
By issuing an ultimatum.
When you remove the sugarcoating the european commisioners message seems to basically boil down to "we can do this the easy way or the hard way, agree a standard among yourselves or we will come up with one and ram it down your throat"
How long has the ISS gone without a resupplly mission? While there may have been no emergency missions i'm pretty sure there have been changes to the manifests of supply missions adding more single use oxygen candles and spare parts for the oxygen generators due to failures of the oxygen generators on the ISS.
IMO before we consider a trip to mars we have to get to the point where we can reliablly (how reliablly depends on what risk to the astronauts you consider acceptable) maintain humans in isolation for years either here on earth and/or in LEO with a quantity of supplies that would be considered reasonable for a mars mission.
How much would it cost to move the ISS to lunar orbit compared to moving the same mass from earth to lunar orbit.
How much more usefull would a craft designed for the job of similar weight be.
IIRC most launchers have a maximum mass to LEO several times higher than thier maximum mas to GEO and lunar is even futher up the gravity well than GEO.
it is indeed unfortunate that afaict there is STILL no decent client for jigdo.
The main jigdo gui plain doesn't work. There is a script called jigdo-lite that "works" but provides no progress indication and fills your console with garbage and gives no clear indication of whether it is resuming or starting again from scratch.
anyone here familiar with the source for a linux download manager and fancy adding jigdo support?
Actually, etch was quick as Debian released go
Afaict etch was much quicker than sarge, a little quicker than woody about the same as lenny and slower than rex, bo, hamm, slink and potato.
see http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1128293&cid=26862281 for some approximage figures (calculated from the month and year of the release dates on wikipedia)
If you are a testing or unstable user then you will notice pretty soon as the freeze is lifted and the new versions (and new bugs) start gushing in.
Umm thats bugs that only apply to lenny and not to sid. For all "rc" bugs you want http://bts.turmzimmer.net/details.php?bydist=lenny&sortby=packages&new=7&refresh=1800
There are three reasons why 3 years for debian was far worse than 5 years for windows.
The first is that linux was pretty immature at that time. IIRC woody didn't even have X autoconfiguration and asked you scary questions about your monitor rather than just defaulting to safe settings and letting you crank it up later.
The second is software authors have different attitudes towards windows and linux.
Windows developers tend to assume you will be running a stable release of windows that was current sometime in the last decade or so.
Linux developers (at least desktop ones) tend to assume you will be running something within a year or two of the bleeding edge.
Running current apps on an older version of windows (down to 2K at least) is generally not a problem. Running current apps on a linux distro of similar vintage is a PITA.
The third is that while XP lasted a long time MS did update it quite a lot over it's lifetime (far more than just security fixes and bugfixes)
note: theese lengths only take account of the month not the time in the month so they may be a little off but they are good enough for the purpose
buzz->rex 6 months
rex->bo 6 months
bo->hamm 13 months
hamm->slink 8 months
slink->potato 17 months
potato->woody 23 months
woody->sarge 35 months
sarge->etch 22 months
etch->lenny 22 months
JESUS I thought they were going to bring all those satellites down!
The original company went bust. A group of private investors bought the sattelites at firesale prices and kept the system going.
every Al Queda high ranking member would probably own one of their satellite phones.
Maybe, it would seem like an unwise move though given that irridium is a US company and would almost certainly comply with US military requests for information.
For such a high speed link, I think that a CSMA/CD technology is probably the wrong answer.
The modern way to build an ethernet network (at least the important parts of one) is to use switches and full-duplex point to point links. Full duplex links do not use CSMA/CD.
CSMA/CD is rarely used at gigabit (I don't think i've ever seen a gigabit hub) and isn't supported at all at 10 gigabit and above.
TFA and the /. summary poorly titled though, this is about a physical layer advancement. That advancement may eventually lead to terabit ethernet, it may also lead to other standards with similar perfomance.
Ethernet is good at doing what it does well
What ethernet has done well is maintain compatibility accross gnerations. If I have old equipment with a 10baseT controller I can plug it straight into a modern network. If I have even older equipment with a BNC or AUI connector I can still connect it to a modern network without too much fuss or expense.
And disturbingly, many distros are still compiled for i386, even those that won't actually run on such systems...
Are you sure? debian compile for 486 and current debian will still just about run on a 486. I think ubuntu and fedora compile for 686 but i'm not positive.
only the small proportion of vista users that buy thier computer late this year will get this. Current vista users will not.
This was just one of many iridium satellites. maybe it will cause a few coverage problems but I doubt it will cause too much trouble for the network as a whole.
According to wikipedia they also have spare sattalites in a storage orbit slightly lower than the operational orbit and are planning to bring one in to replace the one destroyed within 30 days.
Amazon isn't making it possible for the device to record the audio output of the text-to-speech conversion, therefore they haven't violated anything
How do you know?
With digital distribution the retailer effectively makes the copies. They must have a contract allowing them to do that. That contract could have virtually any terms.
I just wish it had real session restore rather than creating a huge network storm by re-loading every page I had open from the server.
takes less time than brute forcing even a low-quality cryptosystem.
That depends on just HOW crap the system is. It is very easy to make small design errors that reduce the security of the system to a level where brute force attacks are feasible.
DSA for example has a nasty flaw where if you generate even one signature using a flawed random number generator anyone with a copy of that signature can get your key.
No "practical" difference exists, because "in practice", an attacker will reach for the blowtorch before they bother with any cracking tools.
Some attackers might but that approach has problems of it's own. For starters if you get caught you will probablly be in far worse shit than if you simply worked on cracking the crypto. You probablly also have a much higher chance of getting caught.
another reason for worrying about the strength of encryption is that you have to consider the data's value down the line. Sure the encryption may be impractical to crack now but what will a few decades of moores law do to it. Some information is still valuable to an attacker after that time.
Or impossible, if the Halting Problem is anything to go by?- or does that only apply to analysis by a Turing Machine?
It only applies to analysis *of* a turing machine or a similar hypothetical construct with infinite states. For a finite state machine given enough time the machine must end up in either a single state or an infinitely repeating sequence of states. So if you simulate the machine until you see a repeated state you will know whether the state/repeating sequence of states is one that you would consider halted.
Of course for something as complex as a computer the total number of states is insanely high and as such there may be no repeats in the lifetime of the universe.
The OS itself may live past the 2038 32-bit time_t rollover, but the same cannot be said about all mission-critical apps that may be running on top of the Linux OS.
Note that this issue isn't linux specific, it applies to most 32 bit unix-like systems and some apps on other systems too. While windows doesn't natively use unix time that doesn't mean windows apps don't.
An OS is nothing without database apps, business apps, etc, some of which source code may not be available for, some of which may be unsupported abandonware by the time 2038 rolls around.
Indeed I predict that like y2k there will be a flurry of activity in the last few years to identify and fix such problems and that some of them will be VERY difficult and expensive to fix due to lack of source code etc.
Should be a pretty profitable time for most of us slashdotters who will most likely be the old guys (i'm going to guess that most /.ers are between 20 and 40, that would put us between 50 and 70 in 2038) who know C when this rolls arround.
and the population certainly isn't going down
Afaict as societies get more developed thier birth rate drops off dramatically. Often to lower than population maintinance levels.
The question is will the birthrate drops from development come soon enough to turn round the world population before it's too late.