Apparently the smell people associate with sweat is mostly bacteria being dispersed by the sweat.
The smell comes from bacteria eating one of the two types of sweat. The sweat that comes from your armpits and your genitals contain a high percentage of fatty acids, which bacteria love. The rest of the body produces the other type of sweat, which contains mainly water and some salts. Bacteria aren't attracted to this type of sweat, and as a result it never smells.
Maybe Apple should send out an email or just post on their website how the FSF decided to hurt Apple's customers and ask that people not support the FSF in any way.
That might work for a short while, until people find out that Apple distributes FSF software in their most sacred operating system. Wouldn't that be seen as "supporting the FSF", and give an impression of "do as I say, not as I do"?
The looks of Steve Jobs can be deceiving, as he is almost always viewed through his (patented?) Reality Distortion Field. This is how he looks in the real world.
Actually, this is a demonstration that there really is no such thing as a free lunch. Sure, the software is free to use, but the cost of it is a bizarre ideological movement that pulls stunts like this, interfering with people's ability to actually get some use out of their computers.
I don't see the cost. Use the software if you find it useful, and ignore campaigns like this if you feel it childish. Or do your GPL software force you to take part in this and similar campaigns? Mine certainly never did.
While you're at it, make sure that you clean your computer from software licensed under the GPL and its variants. I suggest you'd better go back sucking mommy Microsoft's breasts.
That seemed to get the proverbial nod of approval from many in this community.
It seems like to certain parts of the OSS community, Microsoft is evil, so any treatment is okay, while Apple is a good guy, and should be treated well, despite the fact that both companies are pushing proprietary software, lock-in and digital restrictions management.
What's the difference? Oh, Apple makes pretty computers with a nice *nix-based OS, while Microsoft don't. Thus, Apple is a good guy and Microsoft is the Antichrist.
Oh, I use a MacBook Pro myself at work, but I'm not an Apple fanboy and I don't subscribe to the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field.
I know Make well enough to do that, except I didn't want the progress output from several different encoders mixed up, which I assume would happen if I had used Make.
I think the only dependency between GOP encoding processes is bit allocation, which probably works well enough if you simply assign each process an equal share of the total bit budget.
Is this even needed if you use multi-pass encoding? At least for XviD, IIRC the first pass is used to accumulate statistics used to allocate the proper bit budget to each frame. Then the individual processes should be able to use the statistics file from the first pass to get the bit allocation for their current GOP in the second pass.
That's exactly what I do. I also wrote a scheduler in Python that starts new jobs when the previous ones are completed. It keeps the number of running encoding processes equal to the number of processors/cores.
To get the optimal scheduling order, it figures out the length of each input file (using midentify from the mplayer/mencoder distribution), and then sorts the jobs so that the longest jobs will be processed first (it assumes that processing time is roughly proportional to input file length (in seconds, not bytes)). This minimizes the time when one or more cores will be kept idle by remaining jobs. After all jobs are finished, it optionally powers the system down, which is nice when you're running jobs at night.
If everything you use renders ok in IE, why not just use IE?
Maybe because I prefer to use the same browser on every system that I use, and those include both Windows XP (for games), MacOS X (at work) and Linux (everything but games at home). In addition, I'm pretty addicted to several Firefox extensions, as well as the "awesomebar" and various other features of Firefox.
So how long will it be until Russia starts routing packets through Sweden using encrypted IP tunneling?
That's not even necessary. Russia is currently building a gas pipeline called Nord Stream through the Baltic Sea. I would be very surprised if they didn't put a fat bunch of fiber-optic cables alongside, completely bypassing Swedish wiretaps.
* "Smart guy, first voting for FRA and then getting pissed when someone does the same on him"
This reminds me of another such episode in the FRA drama. Immediately after the bill passed the vote, some members of the pretty politically incorrect forum Flashback started a thread that purported to monitor the surveillance agency FRA, especially its employees. In it, they scoured publicly available sources, such as the FRA web site, Google, Facebook, MySpace, etc, for information on FRA employees, and posted what they found in the thread.
Shortly afterward, the FRA director cried out in the press against the publishing of "protected identities of secret FRA operatives" on the web. He complained that it was unfair and that his employees had a right to privacy. He apparently didn't see any hypocrisy of complaining about the lack of privacy for his own employees while taking away the privacy of everyone else.
Besides, what real "secret operatives with protected identities" have their own Facebook or MySpace page with their real name and FRA email address? Maybe he should inform his "secret agents" about not publishing their personal information on publicly accessible web sites. Not to mention the FRA web page, which contained a thorough organizational scheme with names, etc. He should probably clean up on his own doorstep before crying out in the press that someone had looked at their own web site.
Sweden knows that they have a lot more to fear from Russia
There is one reason why I don't really buy the "we need to snoop on Russia" argument: Why on Earth would we (Sweden) be continually reducing our defense forces (as we are) if Russia is so much a threat that we have to pass such a far-reaching wiretapping law to listen on them? It doesn't make sense. I mean, soon the only thing we could do to fend off an attack would be to throw compute nodes from the FRA supercomputer at the invading Russians, but I hardly think that this would stop them.
Is there some protection for two Swedes in Sweden who use, for example, Slashdot to communicate?
In reality, very unlikely. But politicians usually lack everything but the most superficial understanding of computer and network technology, so they think that such protections will exist just because they wrote them into the law.
Several of them has said that FRA won't snoop on communication between swedes, regardless of whether the traffic crosses a border or even if they use international services like GMail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc. But as anyone with a minimum of knowledge in the field knows, this is impossible, especially the claim that such communications won't even be processed. That's clearly either a lie, or at least gross ignorance of the subject.
He voted quite obviously on a bill he neither read, understood, nor understood the implications thereof.
He isn't the only one. Another one literally said I like signals intelligence, so although I really don't know anything about this bill, I'll vote Yes.
If you succeed in making programming not profitable, then I just start violating GPL. And luckily for me, a Russian citizen, no Russian court is going to do anything against that, because GPL status in Russia is still unclear
Sure, but good luck selling your stuff in a country that recognizes the GPL.
There are some ID/creationism proponents in the Swedish Christian Democrat party, but they are usually silent on the issue, since they know that raising the issue will inevitably cause them to be laughed into the ground. That's what has happened those few times when one of them did that.
Some reputable sites have mistakenly included ads that try to attack you. I prefer not loading ads instead of having to always be on edge so that I don't mistakenly go to an attack site. With AdBlock+ and NoScript, I'm pretty safe.
He was probably referring to internal enterprise systems, which are commonly developed in Java. Since those are not distributed outside the company that developed them, you won't find the source and it may look like nobody writes programs in Java anymore.
If 'the enemy' can brute-force an encryption key that is (say) 1024 bits long, I can increase the key length by any number of bits. Each aditional bit will double the length of time needed to test every single possible combination.
Actually, that is only true for encryption systems where the key could be any combination of bits of the given length, such as AES. For other systems, such as RSA, every possible combination is not a valid key, as far from every combination is a number composed of two prime factors. Adding one bit to the key length may not double the size of the keyspace.
I'd say that to get comparable security with RSA compared to AES, you would need a key at least ten times the size, probably more.
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Apparently the smell people associate with sweat is mostly bacteria being dispersed by the sweat.
The smell comes from bacteria eating one of the two types of sweat. The sweat that comes from your armpits and your genitals contain a high percentage of fatty acids, which bacteria love. The rest of the body produces the other type of sweat, which contains mainly water and some salts. Bacteria aren't attracted to this type of sweat, and as a result it never smells.
Maybe Apple should send out an email or just post on their website how the FSF decided to hurt Apple's customers and ask that people not support the FSF in any way.
That might work for a short while, until people find out that Apple distributes FSF software in their most sacred operating system. Wouldn't that be seen as "supporting the FSF", and give an impression of "do as I say, not as I do"?
Like some evil super-villain in a cartoon.
The looks of Steve Jobs can be deceiving, as he is almost always viewed through his (patented?) Reality Distortion Field. This is how he looks in the real world.
Actually, this is a demonstration that there really is no such thing as a free lunch. Sure, the software is free to use, but the cost of it is a bizarre ideological movement that pulls stunts like this, interfering with people's ability to actually get some use out of their computers.
I don't see the cost. Use the software if you find it useful, and ignore campaigns like this if you feel it childish. Or do your GPL software force you to take part in this and similar campaigns? Mine certainly never did.
While you're at it, make sure that you clean your computer from software licensed under the GPL and its variants. I suggest you'd better go back sucking mommy Microsoft's breasts.
That seemed to get the proverbial nod of approval from many in this community.
It seems like to certain parts of the OSS community, Microsoft is evil, so any treatment is okay, while Apple is a good guy, and should be treated well, despite the fact that both companies are pushing proprietary software, lock-in and digital restrictions management.
What's the difference? Oh, Apple makes pretty computers with a nice *nix-based OS, while Microsoft don't. Thus, Apple is a good guy and Microsoft is the Antichrist.
Oh, I use a MacBook Pro myself at work, but I'm not an Apple fanboy and I don't subscribe to the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field.
Apple can and should sue them over this.
For what should they sue them?
I know Make well enough to do that, except I didn't want the progress output from several different encoders mixed up, which I assume would happen if I had used Make.
I didn't post a link since I don't have it available online. Maybe I should put it somewhere. :)
I think the only dependency between GOP encoding processes is bit allocation, which probably works well enough if you simply assign each process an equal share of the total bit budget.
Is this even needed if you use multi-pass encoding? At least for XviD, IIRC the first pass is used to accumulate statistics used to allocate the proper bit budget to each frame. Then the individual processes should be able to use the statistics file from the first pass to get the bit allocation for their current GOP in the second pass.
That's exactly what I do. I also wrote a scheduler in Python that starts new jobs when the previous ones are completed. It keeps the number of running encoding processes equal to the number of processors/cores.
To get the optimal scheduling order, it figures out the length of each input file (using midentify from the mplayer/mencoder distribution), and then sorts the jobs so that the longest jobs will be processed first (it assumes that processing time is roughly proportional to input file length (in seconds, not bytes)). This minimizes the time when one or more cores will be kept idle by remaining jobs. After all jobs are finished, it optionally powers the system down, which is nice when you're running jobs at night.
If everything you use renders ok in IE, why not just use IE?
Maybe because I prefer to use the same browser on every system that I use, and those include both Windows XP (for games), MacOS X (at work) and Linux (everything but games at home). In addition, I'm pretty addicted to several Firefox extensions, as well as the "awesomebar" and various other features of Firefox.
I don't know what AF is though.
Anisotropic Filtering?
So how long will it be until Russia starts routing packets through Sweden using encrypted IP tunneling?
That's not even necessary. Russia is currently building a gas pipeline called Nord Stream through the Baltic Sea. I would be very surprised if they didn't put a fat bunch of fiber-optic cables alongside, completely bypassing Swedish wiretaps.
Sweden hasn't been dismantling its defenses for the last 50+ years, that is a fairly recent occurrence.
* "Smart guy, first voting for FRA and then getting pissed when someone does the same on him"
This reminds me of another such episode in the FRA drama. Immediately after the bill passed the vote, some members of the pretty politically incorrect forum Flashback started a thread that purported to monitor the surveillance agency FRA, especially its employees. In it, they scoured publicly available sources, such as the FRA web site, Google, Facebook, MySpace, etc, for information on FRA employees, and posted what they found in the thread.
Shortly afterward, the FRA director cried out in the press against the publishing of "protected identities of secret FRA operatives" on the web. He complained that it was unfair and that his employees had a right to privacy. He apparently didn't see any hypocrisy of complaining about the lack of privacy for his own employees while taking away the privacy of everyone else.
Besides, what real "secret operatives with protected identities" have their own Facebook or MySpace page with their real name and FRA email address? Maybe he should inform his "secret agents" about not publishing their personal information on publicly accessible web sites. Not to mention the FRA web page, which contained a thorough organizational scheme with names, etc. He should probably clean up on his own doorstep before crying out in the press that someone had looked at their own web site.
The whole story was beyond funny.
Probably not in an election for the national parliament, no.
It can be done though. See Ny Demokrati for an example.
Sweden knows that they have a lot more to fear from Russia
There is one reason why I don't really buy the "we need to snoop on Russia" argument: Why on Earth would we (Sweden) be continually reducing our defense forces (as we are) if Russia is so much a threat that we have to pass such a far-reaching wiretapping law to listen on them? It doesn't make sense. I mean, soon the only thing we could do to fend off an attack would be to throw compute nodes from the FRA supercomputer at the invading Russians, but I hardly think that this would stop them.
Is there some protection for two Swedes in Sweden who use, for example, Slashdot to communicate?
In reality, very unlikely. But politicians usually lack everything but the most superficial understanding of computer and network technology, so they think that such protections will exist just because they wrote them into the law.
Several of them has said that FRA won't snoop on communication between swedes, regardless of whether the traffic crosses a border or even if they use international services like GMail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc. But as anyone with a minimum of knowledge in the field knows, this is impossible, especially the claim that such communications won't even be processed. That's clearly either a lie, or at least gross ignorance of the subject.
He voted quite obviously on a bill he neither read, understood, nor understood the implications thereof.
He isn't the only one. Another one literally said I like signals intelligence, so although I really don't know anything about this bill, I'll vote Yes.
The stupidity is staggering.
If you succeed in making programming not profitable, then I just start violating GPL. And luckily for me, a Russian citizen, no Russian court is going to do anything against that, because GPL status in Russia is still unclear
Sure, but good luck selling your stuff in a country that recognizes the GPL.
There are some ID/creationism proponents in the Swedish Christian Democrat party, but they are usually silent on the issue, since they know that raising the issue will inevitably cause them to be laughed into the ground. That's what has happened those few times when one of them did that.
Some reputable sites have mistakenly included ads that try to attack you. I prefer not loading ads instead of having to always be on edge so that I don't mistakenly go to an attack site. With AdBlock+ and NoScript, I'm pretty safe.
He was probably referring to internal enterprise systems, which are commonly developed in Java. Since those are not distributed outside the company that developed them, you won't find the source and it may look like nobody writes programs in Java anymore.
Actually, that is only true for encryption systems where the key could be any combination of bits of the given length, such as AES. For other systems, such as RSA, every possible combination is not a valid key, as far from every combination is a number composed of two prime factors. Adding one bit to the key length may not double the size of the keyspace.
I'd say that to get comparable security with RSA compared to AES, you would need a key at least ten times the size, probably more.