Funny that you mention that in this thread, because it is quite relevant.
Once upon a time, Pluto, in fact, was dark matter!
It was an object that was postulated to exist based upon gravitational anomolies in other bodies (Neptune), but which had not been directly observed. Obviously, Pluto has now been observed, thus it is no longer dark matter.
Some people have a mental block with the terminology "dark matter" as if it's some mystical substance. In fact it is a book-keeping tool, whereby the currently accepted laws of phycics are balanced against observation. If Pluto had been some strange force instead of a planet/planetoid (wait a minute, perhaps it is some mystical quantuum object that is both planet and planetoid at the same time, depending on who is observing it), the original observations would still be valid. An anomoly existed. The explanation just took some time.
I got an upgrade discount from Panther to Tiger. They were available when you purchased the upgrade online, simply by entering your registration info and your hardware's S/N.
In fact, I even missed the purchase cut-off date by about 15 days. I still got the discount.
I have never read the site in question, but have been familiar with the theory that space is an intrinsic property of particles for quite some time. Space is a convenient framework on which to hang the laws of the universe, as we have observed and formulated them. Yet the same laws may be reformulated in such a way as to make space an intrinsic property versus an externally imposed order.
As an odd consequence, other "instrinsic properties" could be transformed into an externally imposed order and turn the whole model on its head. This is in essense what Einstein did to Newton's theory of gravity when he formulated his space-time equations. Einstein's reformulation was testable and falsifiable, and as such has now been thoroughly proven. Perhaps the theory of intrinsic space can likewise make predections which observation can then prove or disprove.
Your making an unwaranted presumption. Intrinsic properties are not necessarily static properties. If location in space is an intrinsic property of particles, and this property changes in relation to other particles over time, this change can be a described as a function of the interaction of the other forces (gravity, electromagnetism, etc.), in much the same way that the spin and energy state of a particle can change as a reaction to the forces around it.
The result to observers is a perception of distance in every sense of the word perception giving that all manner of perceiving takes place through the very forces that would, in this theory, be relative to the intrinsic property known as space.
Both these articles read like they were written by an idiot. They do not make the distinction between the detection of known viruses, and the detection of unknown viruses via heuristics. And if you start calling heuristics a signature, you are going to confuse the heck out of everyone. Don't mix terminology.
Honestly, I do not know anyone who believes that an AV program is going to protect them from unknown viruses! The whole point of AV software is to give you protection from viruses as they are discovered. I mean everyone knows that if they do not update their virus signatures on a constant basis (several times a day on my mail servers), they may as well not be running virus protection at all. OK. Maybe some people are dunces about this, but honestly, even my 81 year old grandmother knows that she has to keep her AV current, or she's unprotected.
I mean, for crying out loud, what are these signure updates for? For catching known viruses. Mega duh!
Every time one of these RoR vs. Java flamewars erupts, this claim is repeated. The scaffolding scripts, for whatever reason, are a stumbling block to long time Java devs who are looking into RoR for the first time. The moment they see the scaffolding script used, they head for the door.
But had they stayed, and taken the time, they would very quickly realise that no Rails developer actually uses the Scaffolding script to develop an application unless all they really care about is a down and dirty CRUD. Scaffolding is for prototyping, and nothing else. However, scaffolding does a good job of teaching you how the underlying data objects work. Where you go with it from there is up to you.
Take a look at the underlying Rails libraries. Learn how they work. Then come back and see if you still can legitimately make the claim that Rails gives one very little conrol over the internals.
How utterly stupid do you think Christians really are? As if faith cuts out half your brain? Give me a break. Caricaturing them will do nothing to promote the anthropic principle.
Try WMV Player if you want an alternative to WMP on OS X. It lets Quicktime Player play any WMV file. It's not Open Source. It's not free. But it actually works better than WMP on a Mac.
So now all those intergalactic civilizations are going to get pissed off at earth, because IBM screwed around with the speed of light and messed up warp drives throughout the universe.
But, of course, $49 printers, all of which are inkjet, do not have this technology at all. As far as I have been able to determine, inkjet technology is exempt from the coding requirements. Our wide-format inkjet printers do not have any such coding.
It's very easy to test this. Just grab a 10X loupe, and look for yellow dots in the white areas of the sheet.
Quite frankly, you have no idea what you are talking about. I work in high-end color, and all of our toner devices have this encoding technology. I have talked to plenty of people in the industry, who sell these machines. They are required, by law, to record the serial number and purchaser of every such device. Furthermore, they are required by law to record the sale of any electronic part used in these devices, and yes, all the boards are individually keyed to the serial number of the device. Swap boards with another device, and the machine stops functioning.
This is also true of the mid-range color laser printers you purchase at your local Best Buy or Micro Center. In fact, if you open your eyes at the checkout and actually pay attention, you would notice that after they scan the bar-code, their register prompts them to either scan the serial number bar-code, or hand-key in the serial number. Now, they may not be required to record your name and address, but they most certainly can trace it back to your credit card.
The whole point of this is to catch counterfeiters. It's useless to know the serial-number of a device if you don't know where it was sold.
Take it for what it's worth, but NASA has repeatedly admitted that they arbitrarily shift the color of the Mars shots to make them look more red. Why? Who knows. Trying not to confuse the public, I suppose, who expects the Red Planet to be not just red, but really really red.
After reading the FCC release, it is evident that many people have not read it carefully.
First, the regulation requires changes to equipment in ISP datacenters, not your cablemodems. Second, it requires changes only to such equipment as connects directly to voice lines. These regulations refer to VOIP/Telcom interconnects, so it has nothing to do with your cable modem.
But let's yield the point for the sake of argument. Even if the government was essentially demanding that every cable modem had a backdoor, this would not in the least prevent untappable voice communication between two parties, provided both parties were using a computer.
Consider that terrorists are not stupid. They are just as able to create an encrypted Skype-like connection as the average Slashdotter. This is not rocket science. If they cannot do it themselves, they can certainly hire someone. The tools are already present, and in fact, are trivial to hook up. Just use SSH to tunnel voice communications between clients and servers. All voice data travelling over public channels is therefore encrypted with strong encryption. What is a wiretap going to accomplish then? Nothing.
And if you have never printed on anything better than a $2,400 HP color laserprinter, then you have no idea what you are talking about.
I work in digital color, and do regular production work on both wide-format inkjet as well as toner devices. Particularly the HP Laserjet 9500 (an $8000 device) who's output can easily compete against litho, much less the "worst inkets". It even beats HP's Indigo presses. Can it exceed the gamut of "archival" pigmented inks? No, but then not much can, besides hi-fi 6-color process litho. Can it do good excellent photography? Absolutely.
In fact, there are a number of toner devices that are quite excellent. Ever seen the output of the latest Canon CLC's? Ever seen a Xeikon? A Xerox Docucolor?
Unfortunately, the words "concrete answer" and "politician" are mutually exclusive.
However, if you are interested in getting their attention, or an answer of some kind, then the #1 rule is: Write a letter, sign it, and mail it. I know it goes against the grain of most slashdoters to use such an antiquated method, but it is well known that most congressmen pay little attention to e-mail, and much more to snail-mail.
But as far as that concrete response, don't hold your breath. Letters are effective, especially from constituents. Effective, in that they can indeed sway the vote. If you get a real response, do not expect much. I can remember one time when I received a response to a letter sent urging a particular vote on a foreign slave-labor bill. The response I received was (paraphrased): "I agree with you. However, I'll let my advisers tell me how to vote on this one."
And one more thing: Convince your friends to write as well. One letter might not be noticed, but even 2 or 3 often are.
Anyone remember that old DOS terminal program called Telix? It had it's own scripting language that was a very similar C derivative. I believe there was a Windows implementation at some time as well. At the time the power of the language was mind-blowing (for DOS junkies, anyway). Entire bulletin board systems were written in SALT.
Any method that allows you access to encrypted data is a break.
Any process that allows you access to all possible encrypted data of a given crypto system (such as CPS2) is a break of the Encryption system.
Herein lies the falacy of media encryption. Eventually the decrypted data must be made available to the machine, and that makes it available to any hacker of the machine. Even if CSS was not broken, DVD rips would still be possible for this very reason (Just hack the code of a DVD player to dump the screen frames to an AVI file).
You have to understand, that a break consists of any method that allows you to get the decrypted data in less time than it would take to do a brute-force attack.
Go study a good crypto good, like Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier before you think to argue with the above.
Because your three-year old doesn't know how to do boolean math.
1 bit = 2 states (0 or 1)
2 bits = 4 states (00, 01, 10, 11)
3 bits = 8 states (000, 001, 010, 011, 100, 101, 110, 111)
Each bit doubles the number of states required.
Certifying laptops for use in the business enterprise is what I do for a living, so I know whereof I speak: Appart from a specific distribution, Linux cannot be certified to run on any hardware.
How can you possibly support Linux in general? You would have no idea what hodge-podge of drivers/libs that any given user has. But, if you stick with a particular distribution, then you would be dealing with a known sub-set.
Think about it. If you were a major hardware manufacturer, and you were looking to support a particular distribution, which would you choose? Obviously the most prevelant and generally supported distribution, which, for the time being, is Red Hat.
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Funny that you mention that in this thread, because it is quite relevant.
Once upon a time, Pluto, in fact, was dark matter!
It was an object that was postulated to exist based upon gravitational anomolies in other bodies (Neptune), but which had not been directly observed. Obviously, Pluto has now been observed, thus it is no longer dark matter.
Some people have a mental block with the terminology "dark matter" as if it's some mystical substance. In fact it is a book-keeping tool, whereby the currently accepted laws of phycics are balanced against observation. If Pluto had been some strange force instead of a planet/planetoid (wait a minute, perhaps it is some mystical quantuum object that is both planet and planetoid at the same time, depending on who is observing it), the original observations would still be valid. An anomoly existed. The explanation just took some time.
Um, wrong.
I got an upgrade discount from Panther to Tiger. They were available when you purchased the upgrade online, simply by entering your registration info and your hardware's S/N.
In fact, I even missed the purchase cut-off date by about 15 days. I still got the discount.
I have never read the site in question, but have been familiar with the theory that space is an intrinsic property of particles for quite some time. Space is a convenient framework on which to hang the laws of the universe, as we have observed and formulated them. Yet the same laws may be reformulated in such a way as to make space an intrinsic property versus an externally imposed order.
As an odd consequence, other "instrinsic properties" could be transformed into an externally imposed order and turn the whole model on its head. This is in essense what Einstein did to Newton's theory of gravity when he formulated his space-time equations. Einstein's reformulation was testable and falsifiable, and as such has now been thoroughly proven. Perhaps the theory of intrinsic space can likewise make predections which observation can then prove or disprove.
Your making an unwaranted presumption. Intrinsic properties are not necessarily static properties. If location in space is an intrinsic property of particles, and this property changes in relation to other particles over time, this change can be a described as a function of the interaction of the other forces (gravity, electromagnetism, etc.), in much the same way that the spin and energy state of a particle can change as a reaction to the forces around it.
The result to observers is a perception of distance in every sense of the word perception giving that all manner of perceiving takes place through the very forces that would, in this theory, be relative to the intrinsic property known as space.
Both these articles read like they were written by an idiot. They do not make the distinction between the detection of known viruses, and the detection of unknown viruses via heuristics. And if you start calling heuristics a signature, you are going to confuse the heck out of everyone. Don't mix terminology.
Honestly, I do not know anyone who believes that an AV program is going to protect them from unknown viruses! The whole point of AV software is to give you protection from viruses as they are discovered. I mean everyone knows that if they do not update their virus signatures on a constant basis (several times a day on my mail servers), they may as well not be running virus protection at all. OK. Maybe some people are dunces about this, but honestly, even my 81 year old grandmother knows that she has to keep her AV current, or she's unprotected.
I mean, for crying out loud, what are these signure updates for? For catching known viruses. Mega duh!
But had they stayed, and taken the time, they would very quickly realise that no Rails developer actually uses the Scaffolding script to develop an application unless all they really care about is a down and dirty CRUD. Scaffolding is for prototyping, and nothing else. However, scaffolding does a good job of teaching you how the underlying data objects work. Where you go with it from there is up to you.
Take a look at the underlying Rails libraries. Learn how they work. Then come back and see if you still can legitimately make the claim that Rails gives one very little conrol over the internals.
They don't may a Star Office branded version. But OpenOffice.org runs on the Mac just fine. I use it all the time:
d s.html
http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/ooo-osx_downloa
How utterly stupid do you think Christians really are? As if faith cuts out half your brain? Give me a break. Caricaturing them will do nothing to promote the anthropic principle.
Try WMV Player if you want an alternative to WMP on OS X. It lets Quicktime Player play any WMV file. It's not Open Source. It's not free. But it actually works better than WMP on a Mac.
Ok. I could eat my words, but this thing has all the marks of a major scam. This reminds me of the Madison Priest Magic Box hoax.
So now all those intergalactic civilizations are going to get pissed off at earth, because IBM screwed around with the speed of light and messed up warp drives throughout the universe.
I just have one question: Was it worth it?
D F T T!!!
But, of course, $49 printers, all of which are inkjet, do not have this technology at all. As far as I have been able to determine, inkjet technology is exempt from the coding requirements. Our wide-format inkjet printers do not have any such coding.
It's very easy to test this. Just grab a 10X loupe, and look for yellow dots in the white areas of the sheet.
Quite frankly, you have no idea what you are talking about. I work in high-end color, and all of our toner devices have this encoding technology. I have talked to plenty of people in the industry, who sell these machines. They are required, by law, to record the serial number and purchaser of every such device. Furthermore, they are required by law to record the sale of any electronic part used in these devices, and yes, all the boards are individually keyed to the serial number of the device. Swap boards with another device, and the machine stops functioning.
This is also true of the mid-range color laser printers you purchase at your local Best Buy or Micro Center. In fact, if you open your eyes at the checkout and actually pay attention, you would notice that after they scan the bar-code, their register prompts them to either scan the serial number bar-code, or hand-key in the serial number. Now, they may not be required to record your name and address, but they most certainly can trace it back to your credit card.
The whole point of this is to catch counterfeiters. It's useless to know the serial-number of a device if you don't know where it was sold.
And if they did, this is more likely what you would have seen:
http://thinkingspace.org/HillPanoramaRestored.jpg
Take it for what it's worth, but NASA has repeatedly admitted that they arbitrarily shift the color of the Mars shots to make them look more red. Why? Who knows. Trying not to confuse the public, I suppose, who expects the Red Planet to be not just red, but really really red.
After reading the FCC release, it is evident that many people have not read it carefully.
First, the regulation requires changes to equipment in ISP datacenters, not your cablemodems. Second, it requires changes only to such equipment as connects directly to voice lines. These regulations refer to VOIP/Telcom interconnects, so it has nothing to do with your cable modem.
But let's yield the point for the sake of argument. Even if the government was essentially demanding that every cable modem had a backdoor, this would not in the least prevent untappable voice communication between two parties, provided both parties were using a computer.
Consider that terrorists are not stupid. They are just as able to create an encrypted Skype-like connection as the average Slashdotter. This is not rocket science. If they cannot do it themselves, they can certainly hire someone. The tools are already present, and in fact, are trivial to hook up. Just use SSH to tunnel voice communications between clients and servers. All voice data travelling over public channels is therefore encrypted with strong encryption. What is a wiretap going to accomplish then? Nothing.
And if you have never printed on anything better than a $2,400 HP color laserprinter, then you have no idea what you are talking about.
I work in digital color, and do regular production work on both wide-format inkjet as well as toner devices. Particularly the HP Laserjet 9500 (an $8000 device) who's output can easily compete against litho, much less the "worst inkets". It even beats HP's Indigo presses. Can it exceed the gamut of "archival" pigmented inks? No, but then not much can, besides hi-fi 6-color process litho. Can it do good excellent photography? Absolutely.
In fact, there are a number of toner devices that are quite excellent. Ever seen the output of the latest Canon CLC's? Ever seen a Xeikon? A Xerox Docucolor?
No nasty new NASA Solar Storm will work the willies out of me, my man!
Try Emacs psychotherapist!
...
RRAHAHAHAHAAA!
Even a hyper-grammatician like Tolkein wouldn't be that perverse!
Unfortunately, the words "concrete answer" and "politician" are mutually exclusive.
However, if you are interested in getting their attention, or an answer of some kind, then the #1 rule is: Write a letter, sign it, and mail it. I know it goes against the grain of most slashdoters to use such an antiquated method, but it is well known that most congressmen pay little attention to e-mail, and much more to snail-mail.
But as far as that concrete response, don't hold your breath. Letters are effective, especially from constituents. Effective, in that they can indeed sway the vote. If you get a real response, do not expect much. I can remember one time when I received a response to a letter sent urging a particular vote on a foreign slave-labor bill. The response I received was (paraphrased): "I agree with you. However, I'll let my advisers tell me how to vote on this one."
And one more thing: Convince your friends to write as well. One letter might not be noticed, but even 2 or 3 often are.
Anyone remember that old DOS terminal program called Telix? It had it's own scripting language that was a very similar C derivative. I believe there was a Windows implementation at some time as well. At the time the power of the language was mind-blowing (for DOS junkies, anyway). Entire bulletin board systems were written in SALT.
Any method that allows you access to encrypted data is a break.
Any process that allows you access to all possible encrypted data of a given crypto system (such as CPS2) is a break of the Encryption system.
Herein lies the falacy of media encryption. Eventually the decrypted data must be made available to the machine, and that makes it available to any hacker of the machine. Even if CSS was not broken, DVD rips would still be possible for this very reason (Just hack the code of a DVD player to dump the screen frames to an AVI file).
You have to understand, that a break consists of any method that allows you to get the decrypted data in less time than it would take to do a brute-force attack.
Go study a good crypto good, like Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier before you think to argue with the above.
Because your three-year old doesn't know how to do boolean math. 1 bit = 2 states (0 or 1) 2 bits = 4 states (00, 01, 10, 11) 3 bits = 8 states (000, 001, 010, 011, 100, 101, 110, 111) Each bit doubles the number of states required.
How can you possibly support Linux in general? You would have no idea what hodge-podge of drivers/libs that any given user has. But, if you stick with a particular distribution, then you would be dealing with a known sub-set.
Think about it. If you were a major hardware manufacturer, and you were looking to support a particular distribution, which would you choose? Obviously the most prevelant and generally supported distribution, which, for the time being, is Red Hat.