Just wanted to say that (unlike lots^Wsome of the comments here) I think your device is a great idea. I'm especially excited to see a laser-keyboard version but I'll probably get one if you release a version that has a rotary or button password system on the device itself...
You can't compare Windows 3.1 sales from 1983 to CP/M sales from 1979.
By the time Windows was even relevant, CP/M was already in its grave and the Linux kernel was getting started. We have taken a 25 year detour and are just getting back to where we started with the Apple I, Altair, and PC clones: general-purpose hardware that works without an expensive software package that doesn't work. Where have you been?
they served the purpose that you did not know who would be next
Add also the thought that almost everyone here is discussing the book after they finished it, after only a day or two.
JK Rowling was writing for kids, who will need maybe a month to finish the book. As soon as Hedgwig dies, they will be riding the roller coaster, expecting another death on every page. And their fear will be born out, as Mad-eye gets it next.
It builds good suspense if you think of how it would read at a slower pace.
Specifically, grandparent seems to have only read the copy that was leaked... it doesn't have about 30 pages in it... specifically, that part, where Harry's death gives his friends protection.
Second half, since slashdot can't handle a 68Kb comment.
[41:55]
[Stallman drinks]
So, that's whats going on in the area of movies and video. But we can see attempts to restrict us in music, as well. For many years, some apparent compact disks aren't real compact disks, they're corrupt disks. Because they're designed not to be standard, not to be proprly readable with your computer. Sony got in a lot of trouble, although not as much as it should have, for its scheme to produce corrupt disks, because Sony had the bright idea of putting on the disk a program that would automatically load into a Windows system if a person put that disk into it. And what did that program do? It's what's called a "rootkit," which meant that it actually broke the security of the machine and installed itself into the system. But why did it do this? Well, its purpose was to stop the user from copying whatever files were read off that disk. But they way it did this was by illegally breaking the security on the computer... the user's computer, and then disguising its own presence so if the user tried to look for it in certain obvious ways, it wouldn't even show up. It also damaged the security of the machine against other threats, and if that wasn't bad enough it also committed copyright infringement because it had... it contained code of free programs that were released under the GNU General Public License. [laughter]
[43:58]
[Stallman drinks]
Now, that was a felony in the US, but I don't think Sony was ever prosecuted. They're not interested in uh... really enforcing those laws strictly against mega-corporations. Laws are meant to be enforced strictly only against you and me. However Sony did get a lot of hostility and eventually promised that in the future when it developed Digital Restrictions Management it wouldn't do all the other nasty things that it did that time. You see, the hostility was mostly based on the other nasty things that Sony did along the way, rather than on the evil purpose of doing this in the first place: the evil of trying to stop people from copying. Most people accepted that, and they only criticized the means. So Sony said "oh no, we won't put rootkits on our CDs anymore." So having learned their lesson, their idea is that the rootkit will be installed on your computer before you buy it and it will be impossible to remove. And that's called "Windows Vista." [laughter]
[45:23]
[Stallman drinks]
Windows Vista is designed specifically to pull the chains tighter around every user's neck. That's what it exists for. It's entirely designed to increase... to increase Microsoft's control over everything. It keeps on contacting Microsoft over the Net and demanding upgrades and the user can't even refuse them. Which means it's nothing but one big back door. Anytime Microsoft wants to stop you from doing this or that, control... take more control of any kind, it can just do so, because your computer has no security against Microsoft, if it's running Windows Vista. And that is very dangerous.
[46:24]
I mean, we don't know what there is in Microsoft software that could be used by terrorist organizations. A few years ago in India, I was told they had arrested some Windows developers, that is, people working on... developing Windows itself, and accused them of uh... working for Al Quaida as well as Microsoft, trying to insert a back door that Microsoft wasn't supposed to know about. Well, apparently that attempts failed. We have no way of checking if there was another that succeeded. But we do know that in 1999, Microsoft was caught having installed a back door for the use of another even more violent terrorist organization: the United States Government, [laughter] specifically the National Security Agency.
Many thanks to the AC who did the first part. Still needs someone to proofread it while listening to the talk and post back errors. Slashdot can't handle a 68Kb comment, so I'm posting this in two parts. Yeah, I might get some karma for this, or I might not. I don't care.
[Stallman stands up]
Better stand up. I'm less likely to fall asleep that way.
[Stallman takes a drink]
This is not a talk about free software. However, I better start by saying a little about free software because the occasion for this topic is a question some people asked me at the end of speeches about free software.
Oh, by the way, shouldn't you announce the site that you set up?
[Stallman points to someone in the audience]
P.I.A.: Um, yes [person in audience responds]
[Stallman motions for them to stand with him]
Come and do it. Stand up.
P.I.A.: Um
RMS: We set up a site to im... which we'll tell you about at the beginning and at the end to organize the fight against unjust copyright laws in Canada
[Stallman motions again to P.I.A.]
P.I.A.: Basically, if you know what the DMCA is... Canada's... there's a little threat of that popping up here, and Waterloo has, right now, a really bad website 'cause it's pretty new, but we hope to improve it, but we do have a mailing list and it's defective-by-design@uwaterloo.ca.
RMS: And what's the website?!
[Laughter in audience]
RMS: What's the URL?!
P.I.A.: Say it. You know it. You said it. [Referring to persion in audience #2]
[More laughter]
P.I.A. #2: The website is off of the WSIC, the Waterloo Students' Information...
RMS: [interrupts] Sorry, what is the U. R. L. ?!
[Laughter]
P.I.A. #2: wsic.uwaterloo.ca
RMS: So, that is it, or there is there another... a filename under that, that they should go to
P.I.A. #2: There is a link...
RMS: OK, so wsic.uwaterloo.ca. Go there and you can sign up to be on this mailing list. It's not going to send you a lot of mail. But it's a way of getting in touch with you when an action is planned: an action, with which you can influence the battle over your freedom. It's not enough just to be upset and angry and want something, you gotta do something to make a difference in the outcome. And that's what this activity is meant to get organized.
[2:22]
[Stallman drinks]
Anyway, I started the free software movement in 1983. Announcing a plan to develop a free software operating system that would make it possible to use a computer and have freedom, because the existing operating systems were all proprietary: all of them subjugated the user. Proprietary software keeps users divided and helpless - divided because everyone is forbidden to share it with anyone else, and helpless because the users don't have the source code so they can't change it. They can't even verify what it's doing. And many non-free programs contain malicious features designed to spy on the user, restrict the user, or even attack the user. And, these features are possible because the developers have power over the users in the first place. If the developer want to impose something nasty on the user, he can. And the only recourse the users have is not to use that program. And sometimes all the alternatives have similar malicious features, which means the users effectively have no influence at all.
[3:43]
[Stallman drinks]
So. The idea of the free software movement is that users should have freedom. What does that mean? There are four essential freedoms that a user should have: freedom zero is the freedom to run the program as you wish. There are programs that don't even give you that much freedom. Freedom 1 is the freedom to study the source code of the program and then change it to make the program do what you wish, instead of what the deve
Bundle it with a Windows worm. Exploit Macs on the same subnet as Windows boxes. Then the infected Macs scan for vulnerable Windows boxes and spread the infection. Every vector is useful in an attacker's bad of tricks.
Very good. That might disable the security hole, if what has been disclosed so far is 100% accurate. If not, well, all you lose is Bonjour (useful for discovering iChat and iTunes connections on your local subnet).
You'll forgive me if I am a little hazy on what a Platonic argument is -- do you mean trying to prove that a loss of privacy is acceptable because the person is ideal, inculpable, and guiltless?
My personal stance is that privacy is a privilege, and not easily won. However, since every person has the innate ability to think in private, we will have to draw a line on what "wiretapping" crosses the line and persecutes the person for their thoughts. Criminalizing thoughts never worked. You can't outlaw an idea. Further, since it is impossible to punish thought-crimes, I'd say that advocating thought crimes becomes a good indicator of unjust persecution.
If the IRS wants to know how much money I made, they can trust me to report it accurately or they can try and "wiretap" me for an entire year. I might never touch some of my income except to calculate -- in my head -- how much money I made (e.g. offshore stock). OK, I'm not an accountant, but it seems like a good analogy. The only way to get compliance from the citizens of your country is to trust them. You'll never be able to control their thoughts.
I think this is why a representative form of government is a good idea. And since constant 24/7 surveillance is oppressive to any person worldwide, it's got to stop. There will eventually be enough people who dislike the powers that be for their surveillance that a backlash will come -- so hopefully the distasteful behavior will be modified before the backlash becomes overlarge.
Parent link is very helpful in understanding CSRF. In brief: malicious site knows or guesses you are logged in at paypal, slashdot, some valuable site, etc.... malicious site sends you javascript that generates a form and submits it to valuable site. Valuable site sees it coming from your browser, so the cookies are valid. You are logged in, aren't you?
This lets malicious site do things like send $10 donations from your paypal account, submit blogspam, get your account balance, etc. if you can be convinced to visit malicious site.
Yep, I see it too. I have a Macbook Pro with Airport Extreme (in other words, 802.11n). I've tested several Linksys 802.11g APs and they crash/reboot typically every 10 minutes, sooner if I have many TCP connections doing simultaneous downloads. I haven't tested it thoroughly, but it's annoying.
crashfrog, you may have to correct me, but here's a start...
There's really almost no selection pressure against extra DNA sequences,
This refers to the process in evolution where an organism fails to reproduce due to having a disadvantage that the other critters in the species don't have. So if a pig that has useless DNA sequences tacked on in its genome has a statistically lower chance of having piglets, there's pressure against those useless DNA sequences.
crashfrog is saying that for a reason he explains (below) extra DNA isn't going to have any effect on the organism's chances of reproducing.
particularly ones with no associated promoter.
A promoter is a marker in the DNA strand. The protein "machine" (a transcription factor) that gets the "data" off the DNA and into the cell's outside chemistry has a "socket" that matches the "plug" formed by the specific pairs of the "promoter" marker. It's like the transcription factor searches for #!/bin/perl and that's how it knows to start copying off DNA code. (While on the subject, just because it has #!/bin/perl doesn't mean it will get executed, and even after it's been executed it might get a SIGKILL.) Promoters are not just found in DNA, but read on wikipedia for more on that.
One of the proofs of this is the fact that the human genome is comprised more of endogenous retroviruses than actual functional sequences.
I'm not sure if I can do this last sentence piece by piece, so here goes...
An endogeneous retrovirus is a kind of virus that infects DNA. So when the cell splits, the virus gets copied along with it. For instance, some scientists think Multiple Sclerosis is one of these retroviruses that has infected our DNA. So when we look at the entire human genome, all the pairs in the whole DNA sequence, and we look at where all the promoters are, it seems (according to current theory -- we may learn more about this!) at a first glance there are some pretty long stretches with no promoters. That is to say, they are either empty sectors on the disk, or some of them look like retrovirus DNA code.
How'd I do at explaining that? Like I said, crashfrog should probably amend my explanation...
That's why cleanroom reverse engineering is a good strategy to follow.
And after 20 or so years of seeing their proprietary code reverse engineered and opened up for the public to use, large companies like Microsoft decided that only Software Patents would turn back the rising open source software tide.
Sadly, for all of us, after they subverted the U.S. Patent system for their profit, they still failed to kill open source (is it even theoretically possible to kill an idea?)... but now our Software Patent system is expanding like a pus-filled boil, threatening to blanket the whole world in...
As a linux user, I have found good use for ReiserFS. However, I've been asked time and again "why doesn't my iPod work with Windows"? If they move to an open source file system, iTunes for Windows could easily include a ZFS driver. (Correct me if I'm wrong, but some sort of ZFS driver is in the Linux kernel, and Sun is open sourcing Solaris.)
I like having an mp3 player that doubles as a backup device for my important files. But some of my files are > 4Gb, so FAT32 doesn't work.
You want to read the Original Article. Although the link above is almost an exact copy, there's some interesting stuff at the bottom of the original:
Physicist Orest Symko's graduate students will present their studies during an Acoustical Society of America technical session from 8 a.m. to 10:05 a.m. MDT Friday, June 8 in Parlor B of the Hilton Salt Lake City Center hotel, 255 S. West Temple.
It would be interesting to hear all the questions there. I imagine yours will be handled pretty well.
Obviously the conversion to sound can't beat Carnot's Theorem, and it says in the article it doesn't start until there's a temperature gradient of at least 90 degrees F. In other words, it's not very efficient.
Fighting off an exceptionally strong showing by Blu-ray in the first quarter of 2007, the HD DVD camp has gone so far as to back Warner's HD DVD-only releases of 'The Matrix' series (the format-neutral studio says ) with a multi-million dollar marketing campaign -- including the first-ever theatrical trailer for a next-gen disc format.
So if Matrix is only going to be an HD-DVD exclusive for six months, and the HD-DVD camp is spending huge marketing dollars (Microsoft, anyone?) to try to "fight off... Blu-ray," then why buy HD-DVD? Blu-ray wins.
The follow up question being: Are we broadcasting such a signal at that frequency?
Duh. When is the last time you signed on to bittorrent? SETI is funded by Hollywood looking for the latest Alien porn download. We, Gliese 581, and Alpha Centauri, are the Mos Eisleys of the Galaxy, and we're all total leechers on the galactic bittorrent network. We've all set our download speed to max and our upload speed to zero.
Mainly it's so the Galactic RIAA doesn't nuke our planet from orbit.
So... where is the original email? I'm not subscribed to the LKML, but the EE Times is reporting the same email, and neither seems to cite a source, so does that mean Linus sent an email to the LKML? Anyone want to paste a copy in here?
I was thinking the exact same thing as I read the transcript in the article. Bob Iger talks about Consumer Electronics support. I saw that as doublespeak for "Microsoft: you just got burned bad with the XBox360 HDDVD player firmware vulnerabilities." I agree - HDDVD's protection is totally broken.
The PS3 is a little harder to crack. I know it'll happen, but for someone like Iger, being able to push Microsoft around is probably the stuff of his dreams. I'm sure he doesn't care about the other HDDVD partners, and dual-format players will just make it easier for media houses to produce their content. Like you say, Whuffo, The writing is on the wall.
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Hey IronKey Dave,
Just wanted to say that (unlike lots^Wsome of the comments here) I think your device is a great idea. I'm especially excited to see a laser-keyboard version but I'll probably get one if you release a version that has a rotary or button password system on the device itself...
Cheers, dch24
You can't compare Windows 3.1 sales from 1983 to CP/M sales from 1979.
By the time Windows was even relevant, CP/M was already in its grave and the Linux kernel was getting started. We have taken a 25 year detour and are just getting back to where we started with the Apple I, Altair, and PC clones: general-purpose hardware that works without an expensive software package that doesn't work. Where have you been?
JK Rowling was writing for kids, who will need maybe a month to finish the book. As soon as Hedgwig dies, they will be riding the roller coaster, expecting another death on every page. And their fear will be born out, as Mad-eye gets it next.
It builds good suspense if you think of how it would read at a slower pace.
Second half, since slashdot can't handle a 68Kb comment.
... the user's computer, and then disguising its own presence so if the user tried to look for it in certain obvious ways, it wouldn't even show up. It also damaged the security of the machine against other threats, and if that wasn't bad enough it also committed copyright infringement because it had ... it contained code of free programs that were released under the GNU General Public License. [laughter]
... really enforcing those laws strictly against mega-corporations. Laws are meant to be enforced strictly only against you and me. However Sony did get a lot of hostility and eventually promised that in the future when it developed Digital Restrictions Management it wouldn't do all the other nasty things that it did that time. You see, the hostility was mostly based on the other nasty things that Sony did along the way, rather than on the evil purpose of doing this in the first place: the evil of trying to stop people from copying. Most people accepted that, and they only criticized the means. So Sony said "oh no, we won't put rootkits on our CDs anymore." So having learned their lesson, their idea is that the rootkit will be installed on your computer before you buy it and it will be impossible to remove. And that's called "Windows Vista." [laughter]
... to increase Microsoft's control over everything. It keeps on contacting Microsoft over the Net and demanding upgrades and the user can't even refuse them. Which means it's nothing but one big back door. Anytime Microsoft wants to stop you from doing this or that, control ... take more control of any kind, it can just do so, because your computer has no security against Microsoft, if it's running Windows Vista. And that is very dangerous.
... developing Windows itself, and accused them of uh ... working for Al Quaida as well as Microsoft, trying to insert a back door that Microsoft wasn't supposed to know about. Well, apparently that attempts failed. We have no way of checking if there was another that succeeded. But we do know that in 1999, Microsoft was caught having installed a back door for the use of another even more violent terrorist organization: the United States Government, [laughter] specifically the National Security Agency.
... basi
[41:55]
[Stallman drinks]
So, that's whats going on in the area of movies and video. But we can see attempts to restrict us in music, as well. For many years, some apparent compact disks aren't real compact disks, they're corrupt disks. Because they're designed not to be standard, not to be proprly readable with your computer. Sony got in a lot of trouble, although not as much as it should have, for its scheme to produce corrupt disks, because Sony had the bright idea of putting on the disk a program that would automatically load into a Windows system if a person put that disk into it. And what did that program do? It's what's called a "rootkit," which meant that it actually broke the security of the machine and installed itself into the system. But why did it do this? Well, its purpose was to stop the user from copying whatever files were read off that disk. But they way it did this was by illegally breaking the security on the computer
[43:58]
[Stallman drinks]
Now, that was a felony in the US, but I don't think Sony was ever prosecuted. They're not interested in uh
[45:23]
[Stallman drinks]
Windows Vista is designed specifically to pull the chains tighter around every user's neck. That's what it exists for. It's entirely designed to increase
[46:24]
I mean, we don't know what there is in Microsoft software that could be used by terrorist organizations. A few years ago in India, I was told they had arrested some Windows developers, that is, people working on
[47:20]
So it's not only Microsoft that could uh
Many thanks to the AC who did the first part. Still needs someone to proofread it while listening to the talk and post back errors. Slashdot can't handle a 68Kb comment, so I'm posting this in two parts. Yeah, I might get some karma for this, or I might not. I don't care.
... Canada's ... there's a little threat of that popping up here, and Waterloo has, right now, a really bad website 'cause it's pretty new, but we hope to improve it, but we do have a mailing list and it's defective-by-design@uwaterloo.ca.
...
... a filename under that, that they should go to
...
[Stallman stands up]
Better stand up. I'm less likely to fall asleep that way.
[Stallman takes a drink]
This is not a talk about free software. However, I better start by saying a little about free software because the occasion for this topic is a question some people asked me at the end of speeches about free software.
Oh, by the way, shouldn't you announce the site that you set up?
[Stallman points to someone in the audience]
P.I.A.: Um, yes [person in audience responds]
[Stallman motions for them to stand with him]
Come and do it. Stand up.
P.I.A.: Um
RMS: We set up a site to im... which we'll tell you about at the beginning and at the end to organize the fight against unjust copyright laws in Canada
[Stallman motions again to P.I.A.]
P.I.A.: Basically, if you know what the DMCA is
RMS: And what's the website?!
[Laughter in audience]
RMS: What's the URL?!
P.I.A.: Say it. You know it. You said it. [Referring to persion in audience #2]
[More laughter]
P.I.A. #2: The website is off of the WSIC, the Waterloo Students' Information
RMS: [interrupts] Sorry, what is the U. R. L. ?!
[Laughter]
P.I.A. #2: wsic.uwaterloo.ca
RMS: So, that is it, or there is there another
P.I.A. #2: There is a link
RMS: OK, so wsic.uwaterloo.ca. Go there and you can sign up to be on this mailing list. It's not going to send you a lot of mail. But it's a way of getting in touch with you when an action is planned: an action, with which you can influence the battle over your freedom. It's not enough just to be upset and angry and want something, you gotta do something to make a difference in the outcome. And that's what this activity is meant to get organized.
[2:22]
[Stallman drinks]
Anyway, I started the free software movement in 1983. Announcing a plan to develop a free software operating system that would make it possible to use a computer and have freedom, because the existing operating systems were all proprietary: all of them subjugated the user. Proprietary software keeps users divided and helpless - divided because everyone is forbidden to share it with anyone else, and helpless because the users don't have the source code so they can't change it. They can't even verify what it's doing. And many non-free programs contain malicious features designed to spy on the user, restrict the user, or even attack the user. And, these features are possible because the developers have power over the users in the first place. If the developer want to impose something nasty on the user, he can. And the only recourse the users have is not to use that program. And sometimes all the alternatives have similar malicious features, which means the users effectively have no influence at all.
[3:43]
[Stallman drinks]
So. The idea of the free software movement is that users should have freedom. What does that mean? There are four essential freedoms that a user should have: freedom zero is the freedom to run the program as you wish. There are programs that don't even give you that much freedom. Freedom 1 is the freedom to study the source code of the program and then change it to make the program do what you wish, instead of what the deve
Bundle it with a Windows worm. Exploit Macs on the same subnet as Windows boxes. Then the infected Macs scan for vulnerable Windows boxes and spread the infection. Every vector is useful in an attacker's bad of tricks.
Very good. That might disable the security hole, if what has been disclosed so far is 100% accurate. If not, well, all you lose is Bonjour (useful for discovering iChat and iTunes connections on your local subnet).
Who tagged this perpetualmotion ?
Are you afraid to back up your accusation?
You'll forgive me if I am a little hazy on what a Platonic argument is -- do you mean trying to prove that a loss of privacy is acceptable because the person is ideal, inculpable, and guiltless?
My personal stance is that privacy is a privilege, and not easily won. However, since every person has the innate ability to think in private, we will have to draw a line on what "wiretapping" crosses the line and persecutes the person for their thoughts. Criminalizing thoughts never worked. You can't outlaw an idea. Further, since it is impossible to punish thought-crimes, I'd say that advocating thought crimes becomes a good indicator of unjust persecution.
If the IRS wants to know how much money I made, they can trust me to report it accurately or they can try and "wiretap" me for an entire year. I might never touch some of my income except to calculate -- in my head -- how much money I made (e.g. offshore stock). OK, I'm not an accountant, but it seems like a good analogy. The only way to get compliance from the citizens of your country is to trust them. You'll never be able to control their thoughts.
I think this is why a representative form of government is a good idea. And since constant 24/7 surveillance is oppressive to any person worldwide, it's got to stop. There will eventually be enough people who dislike the powers that be for their surveillance that a backlash will come -- so hopefully the distasteful behavior will be modified before the backlash becomes overlarge.
Parent link is very helpful in understanding CSRF. In brief: malicious site knows or guesses you are logged in at paypal, slashdot, some valuable site, etc. ... malicious site sends you javascript that generates a form and submits it to valuable site. Valuable site sees it coming from your browser, so the cookies are valid. You are logged in, aren't you?
This lets malicious site do things like send $10 donations from your paypal account, submit blogspam, get your account balance, etc. if you can be convinced to visit malicious site.
Yep, I see it too. I have a Macbook Pro with Airport Extreme (in other words, 802.11n). I've tested several Linksys 802.11g APs and they crash/reboot typically every 10 minutes, sooner if I have many TCP connections doing simultaneous downloads. I haven't tested it thoroughly, but it's annoying.
crashfrog, you may have to correct me, but here's a start...
/bin/perl and that's how it knows to start copying off DNA code. (While on the subject, just because it has #! /bin/perl doesn't mean it will get executed, and even after it's been executed it might get a SIGKILL.) Promoters are not just found in DNA, but read on wikipedia for more on that.
There's really almost no selection pressure against extra DNA sequences,
This refers to the process in evolution where an organism fails to reproduce due to having a disadvantage that the other critters in the species don't have. So if a pig that has useless DNA sequences tacked on in its genome has a statistically lower chance of having piglets, there's pressure against those useless DNA sequences.
crashfrog is saying that for a reason he explains (below) extra DNA isn't going to have any effect on the organism's chances of reproducing.
particularly ones with no associated promoter.
A promoter is a marker in the DNA strand. The protein "machine" (a transcription factor) that gets the "data" off the DNA and into the cell's outside chemistry has a "socket" that matches the "plug" formed by the specific pairs of the "promoter" marker. It's like the transcription factor searches for #!
One of the proofs of this is the fact that the human genome is comprised more of endogenous retroviruses than actual functional sequences.
I'm not sure if I can do this last sentence piece by piece, so here goes...
An endogeneous retrovirus is a kind of virus that infects DNA. So when the cell splits, the virus gets copied along with it. For instance, some scientists think Multiple Sclerosis is one of these retroviruses that has infected our DNA. So when we look at the entire human genome, all the pairs in the whole DNA sequence, and we look at where all the promoters are, it seems (according to current theory -- we may learn more about this!) at a first glance there are some pretty long stretches with no promoters. That is to say, they are either empty sectors on the disk, or some of them look like retrovirus DNA code.
How'd I do at explaining that? Like I said, crashfrog should probably amend my explanation...
And after 20 or so years of seeing their proprietary code reverse engineered and opened up for the public to use, large companies like Microsoft decided that only Software Patents would turn back the rising open source software tide.
Sadly, for all of us, after they subverted the U.S. Patent system for their profit, they still failed to kill open source (is it even theoretically possible to kill an idea?)
As a linux user, I have found good use for ReiserFS. However, I've been asked time and again "why doesn't my iPod work with Windows"? If they move to an open source file system, iTunes for Windows could easily include a ZFS driver. (Correct me if I'm wrong, but some sort of ZFS driver is in the Linux kernel, and Sun is open sourcing Solaris.)
I like having an mp3 player that doubles as a backup device for my important files. But some of my files are > 4Gb, so FAT32 doesn't work.
It would be interesting to hear all the questions there. I imagine yours will be handled pretty well.
Obviously the conversion to sound can't beat Carnot's Theorem, and it says in the article it doesn't start until there's a temperature gradient of at least 90 degrees F. In other words, it's not very efficient.
Like street racing, and you see an old grandma start to cross, so you tuck in and draft the other guy in the lane to your left...
So if Matrix is only going to be an HD-DVD exclusive for six months, and the HD-DVD camp is spending huge marketing dollars (Microsoft, anyone?) to try to "fight off
Mainly it's so the Galactic RIAA doesn't nuke our planet from orbit.
My firefox is using 103 Mb currently, or 429 Mb virtual memory. It's been running for almost 15 hours.
...
... /proc/28626/status
$ top
28626 root 15 429m 103m 21m S 14:46.40 firefox-bin
$ cat
Name: firefox-bin
State: S (sleeping)
SleepAVG: 98%
Tgid: 28626
Pid: 28626
PPid: 28616
TracerPid: 0
VmPeak: 479476 kB
VmSize: 448324 kB
VmLck: 0 kB
VmHWM: 106188 kB
VmRSS: 105612 kB
VmData: 298724 kB
VmStk: 140 kB
VmExe: 80 kB
VmLib: 32244 kB
VmPTE: 540 kB
Threads: 10
SigQ: 1/15870
So ... where is the original email? I'm not subscribed to the LKML, but the EE Times is reporting the same email, and neither seems to cite a source, so does that mean Linus sent an email to the LKML? Anyone want to paste a copy in here?
I was thinking the exact same thing as I read the transcript in the article. Bob Iger talks about Consumer Electronics support. I saw that as doublespeak for "Microsoft: you just got burned bad with the XBox360 HDDVD player firmware vulnerabilities." I agree - HDDVD's protection is totally broken.
The PS3 is a little harder to crack. I know it'll happen, but for someone like Iger, being able to push Microsoft around is probably the stuff of his dreams. I'm sure he doesn't care about the other HDDVD partners, and dual-format players will just make it easier for media houses to produce their content. Like you say, Whuffo, The writing is on the wall.
Microsoft has lost another battle.