Mod parent up. I think (s)he's on the money here. GPG is a command-line tool, so wtf are they going on about with their "pgp and gpg are pointy-clicky-stuff that you can't use for heavy duty shiznit" crap? Sounds like a publicity stunt to me, unfortunately they've tried it on the wrong crowd (ie people who actually have a clue about what the soft on their computer does).
[dan@dimension dan]$ gpg --help
gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.7
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.
More to the point, I would say that the electrostatic interaction between the electron clouds of the bullet atoms and the electron clouds of the atoms of your body is what kills you.
Possibly the "most different" feature that will probably come in. Here.
I'm not too sure I like them, as they do add a completely new and different and more cryptic syntax to Java, but I can definitely see the use for them. No more clumsy casting when you retrieve something from a List.
Daniel
Re:They wanna drop what?!
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Meteorite Bowling
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· Score: 5, Insightful
Actually an airplane is *far* more likely to be blown off course by wind than a bowling ball, because unlike the bowling ball it's designed to be affected by "wind blowing" - otherwise it couldn't take advantage of the Bernoulli effect and lift off.
A bowling ball, on the other hand, though it could maybe technically be affected by the bernoulli effect (ping pong balls are, after all...), has a much smaller surface area to weight ratio.
A much better solution is to require the new user to contribute something *before* he can see what's on the ftp. Law enforcements won't be allowed to do that anymore than they are allowed to sell you coke and then bust you for possession of illegal drugs.
My desktop is running redhat 8.0 with KDE 3... it's the sweetest desktop I've ever seen. Screenshot here. Fair enough, I've switched to KDE because it just feels faster and smoother and prettier (probably more a matter of opinion than anything else), but the original Bluecurve that RH8.0 came with was definitely desktop-oriented and it looked *very* good for an out-of-the-box desktop - better than windows, for sure.
So much for redhat not bothering about the desktop.
I would say that windows executables are themselves automatically virii that need to be eradicated... you know, the usual stuff... Windows is a badly written virus (slow, bloated, writes random stuff on your hdd and crashes unexpectedly - however most viruses are compactly written works of art, so windows doesn't qualify) - however an exe binary written by a linux programmer could qualify:-P
On the other hand, this could be a good anti-piracy methodology, if you put a bunch of unrelated code in your serial number validation routine.
Security through obscurity? Tsk tsk tsk... nope. Doesn't work (though it makes the crackers' task more complex).
As far as I'm aware, a program is in itself an imperative. So it's not the language(s) that cause problems - it's the very nature of programming, ie giving orders to a computer.
A computer is still, at the moment, a slave, a mathematical idiot savant that you have to order around very specifically to get it to do what you want. Maybe once AI's become clever and interaction with computer goes mostly through human-like AI's, this Kishotenketsu approach could be of some use as it is in real life, but until then, I don't really see any use in non-imperative commands (wtf could that mean anyway) to a computer.
The SVG desktop background they have there is really fugly though. I can't recall ever seeing a vector image that would really look good as a desktop bg... Maybe that's just not meant to be.
For icons, they rock, though. For buttons, menus, etc, they rock too. Just not for "big things"...
Daniel
Re:where this will be really used....
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Paper Mounted CPUs
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"Our sensors have noticed that you are enjoying this page thoroughly. Your appreciation has been recorded - be certain that there will be many more pages like this one in the next issue."
Actually I sit in front of my computer all day programming stuff in Java, these days, but it still doesn't pay squat. In the current market, it's not very easy to find junior positions. My connection is too shit to do any file trading, so I don't bother.
I'm not american, I have no money (unemployed), but I want to support this because those laws seem to get exported along with the rest - is there any way I can support this, through sending some letters maybe?
Certainly true. In my ten years of computing I've had... let me count... 1...2 drive failures. That's out of maybe a dozen drives. The ones which failed had capacities of respectively 8.6Gb and 4Gb.
Since the 8.6Gb one I don't trust single hard drives as a reliable storage medium anymore (ie I backup all my mp3's onto CDs).
Daniel
Indeed. To put it more clearly, a fully capitalistic model would provide no copyright protection whatsoever, and just let it all sort itself out alone without any outside interference. It's interesting to consider where that would lead us. Artists I know claim it would destroy their livelihood. I think it might well do that, but it would still be better than the other extreme: complete control of "intellectual property" by a few mega-corporations.
Slashdot Mirror
Use gpg then. Fully command line, and does everything you could need.
Daniel
gpg is a command-line tool indeed, and works fine. This piece stinks of self-promotion.
Daniel
Mod parent up. I think (s)he's on the money here. GPG is a command-line tool, so wtf are they going on about with their "pgp and gpg are pointy-clicky-stuff that you can't use for heavy duty shiznit" crap? Sounds like a publicity stunt to me, unfortunately they've tried it on the wrong crowd (ie people who actually have a clue about what the soft on their computer does).
Go back to the drawing boards, ad-bot!
Daniel
GPG can be called from the command line too!
[dan@dimension dan]$ gpg --help
gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.7
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to
redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.
Home: ~/.gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192,
AES256, TWOFISH
Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA, ELG
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160
Syntax: gpg [options] [files]
sign, check, encrypt or decrypt
default operation depends on the input data
Commands:
(...)
And it doesn't cost $100...
Daniel
More to the point, I would say that the electrostatic interaction between the electron clouds of the bullet atoms and the electron clouds of the atoms of your body is what kills you.
Daniel
Possibly the "most different" feature that will probably come in. Here.
I'm not too sure I like them, as they do add a completely new and different and more cryptic syntax to Java, but I can definitely see the use for them. No more clumsy casting when you retrieve something from a List.
Daniel
Actually an airplane is *far* more likely to be blown off course by wind than a bowling ball, because unlike the bowling ball it's designed to be affected by "wind blowing" - otherwise it couldn't take advantage of the Bernoulli effect and lift off.
A bowling ball, on the other hand, though it could maybe technically be affected by the bernoulli effect (ping pong balls are, after all...), has a much smaller surface area to weight ratio.
Daniel
I used to think that toilets on airplanes were like the toilets on train - open underneath.
That would make for some interesting meteorites no?
Daniel
A much better solution is to require the new user to contribute something *before* he can see what's on the ftp. Law enforcements won't be allowed to do that anymore than they are allowed to sell you coke and then bust you for possession of illegal drugs.
Daniel
Well, maybe I'll be lucky in the future as I've used up my statistical bad luck for the next 10 drives at least :-P *hopes*
Daniel
If you're keen on upstream just upgrade your ADSL. I have a friend whose ADSL uploads at 768kbit/s...
Daniel
'f course :-)
Daniel
A beowulf cluster of Kevin Mitnicks??
Daniel
My desktop is running redhat 8.0 with KDE 3... it's the sweetest desktop I've ever seen. Screenshot here. Fair enough, I've switched to KDE because it just feels faster and smoother and prettier (probably more a matter of opinion than anything else), but the original Bluecurve that RH8.0 came with was definitely desktop-oriented and it looked *very* good for an out-of-the-box desktop - better than windows, for sure.
So much for redhat not bothering about the desktop.
Daniel
Are you being sarcastic? :-)
Daniel
I would say that windows executables are themselves automatically virii that need to be eradicated... you know, the usual stuff... Windows is a badly written virus (slow, bloated, writes random stuff on your hdd and crashes unexpectedly - however most viruses are compactly written works of art, so windows doesn't qualify) - however an exe binary written by a linux programmer could qualify :-P
Daniel
On the other hand, this could be a good anti-piracy methodology, if you put a bunch of unrelated code in your serial number validation routine.
Security through obscurity? Tsk tsk tsk... nope. Doesn't work (though it makes the crackers' task more complex).
As far as I'm aware, a program is in itself an imperative. So it's not the language(s) that cause problems - it's the very nature of programming, ie giving orders to a computer.
A computer is still, at the moment, a slave, a mathematical idiot savant that you have to order around very specifically to get it to do what you want. Maybe once AI's become clever and interaction with computer goes mostly through human-like AI's, this Kishotenketsu approach could be of some use as it is in real life, but until then, I don't really see any use in non-imperative commands (wtf could that mean anyway) to a computer.
Daniel
More cable users = less bw for you if you use cable.
:-)
:-)
More cable users = irrelevant for you if you use ADSL.
More ADSL users = irrelevant for you if you use cable.
More ADSL users = irrelevant for you if you use ADSL.
Hence, choose ADSL
Remember: more broadband users = bigger market for pr0n = more pr0n 4 u!!!
Daniel
The SVG desktop background they have there is really fugly though. I can't recall ever seeing a vector image that would really look good as a desktop bg... Maybe that's just not meant to be.
For icons, they rock, though. For buttons, menus, etc, they rock too. Just not for "big things"...
Daniel
"Our sensors have noticed that you are enjoying this page thoroughly. Your appreciation has been recorded - be certain that there will be many more pages like this one in the next issue."
:-P
That would be a hell of a turn-off though...
Daniel
Actually I sit in front of my computer all day programming stuff in Java, these days, but it still doesn't pay squat. In the current market, it's not very easy to find junior positions. My connection is too shit to do any file trading, so I don't bother.
Daniel
I'm not american, I have no money (unemployed), but I want to support this because those laws seem to get exported along with the rest - is there any way I can support this, through sending some letters maybe?
Daniel
Certainly true. In my ten years of computing I've had... let me count... 1...2 drive failures. That's out of maybe a dozen drives. The ones which failed had capacities of respectively 8.6Gb and 4Gb.
Since the 8.6Gb one I don't trust single hard drives as a reliable storage medium anymore (ie I backup all my mp3's onto CDs). Daniel
Indeed. To put it more clearly, a fully capitalistic model would provide no copyright protection whatsoever, and just let it all sort itself out alone without any outside interference. It's interesting to consider where that would lead us. Artists I know claim it would destroy their livelihood. I think it might well do that, but it would still be better than the other extreme: complete control of "intellectual property" by a few mega-corporations.
Daniel
I could find nothing about it on that dude's homepage, and the article is terse to say the least. Where's some actual information about this?
Daniel