I don't see having more Data on the card will cause an increase in security (tcpdump or similar will still make fraud relativly easy for those who are that way inclined). More worryingly, it may make people think their card reader is secure, and so send their credit card details to less secure sites - so this impression of security might actually lead to more fraud. Maybe I'm just paranoid. It would be more useful if there was some form of encryption used by the chip; The card could contain a secret key, and encrypt transfers - there would be a database of the corresponding public keys. Unfortunatly, the infrastructure for such a system would be expensive. It might reduce fraud though...
OK, so Loki's games are non-free (but that's to be expected), but not only do they enable us to play top games (CivCTP is wonderful) ported professionally to Linux (the games feel like the "real thing"), but they keep on giving code to the Free Software Community. IMHO they are a good thing, and I'm happy to support them by bying games.
This is an interesting result - it supports the theory that mitochondria were originally unicellular organisms that passed into ancestral animal cells, so becomming intracellular symbiotes. This would explain the observed behviour very nicely.
This book is excellent. The fact you can download it too is excellent. I wait to see what sales will be like - will people just read the online version, or will the book sell too? The latter, I hope. That way, maybe more Software books could be produced in this manner.
Aside from the article's spreading of FUD, it rather misses two key points: Firstly, the takeup patterns of programming languages and OSes are bound to be different - many developers might take up a new OS in a language they know, but may be less keen on picking up another language until its established as a market leader. Secondly, whilst Linux offered great advantages over its competitors (being free being just one of those), Java is rather "Just another programming language" - a lot of the neater bits are machine-specific, and so on, never mind the performance...
Hmmm....Spielburg has a considerably different style to Kubrick. I don't think that it will much like how Kubrick would have made the film, in terms of visual "feel".
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Well, it's certainly good news, but the press release is rather scant on details.
I wonder whether everything was heavily optimised for running SAP; it seems rather like Siemens trying to score some good publicity...
Have they ever tried it using a Quad Xeon with NT, for example?
I don't see having more Data on the card will cause an increase in security (tcpdump or similar will still make fraud relativly easy for those who are that way inclined).
More worryingly, it may make people think their card reader is secure, and so send their credit card details to less secure sites - so this impression of security might actually lead to more fraud. Maybe I'm just paranoid.
It would be more useful if there was some form of encryption used by the chip; The card could contain a secret key, and encrypt transfers - there would be a database of the corresponding public keys. Unfortunatly, the infrastructure for such a system would be expensive. It might reduce fraud though...
OK, so Loki's games are non-free (but that's to be expected), but not only do they enable us to play top games (CivCTP is wonderful) ported professionally to Linux (the games feel like the "real thing"), but they keep on giving code to the Free Software Community. IMHO they are a good thing, and I'm happy to support them by bying games.
This is an interesting result - it supports the theory that mitochondria were originally unicellular organisms that passed into ancestral animal cells, so becomming intracellular symbiotes. This would explain the observed behviour very nicely.
This book is excellent. The fact you can download it too is excellent. I wait to see what sales will be like - will people just read the online version, or will the book sell too? The latter, I hope. That way, maybe more Software books could be produced in this manner.
Aside from the article's spreading of FUD, it rather misses two key points: Firstly, the takeup patterns of programming languages and OSes are bound to be different - many developers might take up a new OS in a language they know, but may be less keen on picking up another language until its established as a market leader. Secondly, whilst Linux offered great advantages over its competitors (being free being just one of those), Java is rather "Just another programming language" - a lot of the neater bits are machine-specific, and so on, never mind the performance...
Hmmm....Spielburg has a considerably different style to Kubrick. I don't think that it will much like how Kubrick would have made the film, in terms of visual "feel".