I'd argue that Apache, Mozilla, and the Linux kernel among others take a pretty mature and pragmatic approach. But to have someone stating, "Open Source is l337, and M$ sux0rs" as their only rationale, or blindly repeating the OSS dogma without actually understanding business' needs is hurting OSS more than they are helping it. When a potential customer hears that crap, they run for the hills.
The point in my OP was that those parts of OSS that actually do compete do so because they are high quality, are developed to meet their users' needs, and because they have largely managed to avoid the attitude that what they are making is better simply because their customers do not have to pay for a licence.
MS knows they cannot compete with open source software......
And which universe are you living in? I think Open Source has a lot of potential, but until its advocates remove their blinkers, industry will continue to dismiss it as a group of eccentrics on a religious crusade. It is only when open source projects take a mature and pragmatic approach that the projects become relatively successful.
Is there any reason why they would not support CDs? It seems to me that CDs would be a lot safer to mail (CDs tend to be more resiliant to environmental effects than floppies).
Hmm - I didn't need to. Are you sure it wasn't the Raid drivers that you needed (In which case your point still stands)? I can't remember which chip my Sata runs off, but XP Pro installed no problems
From TFA: "One stalwart component has survived through all of these innovations: the 3.5" floppy. [...] The floppy is the only component that still remains in use today".
Do people actually still have floppy drives in their PCs? I haven't owned one in many years, and wouldn't have a clue where to get floppy disks even if I had one.
If your submission has the words "open source", it is pretty much automatically accepted
Well, take something like Open Office: I can look at the source code of that if I want to. Some people will argue the fact that I have never programmed in my life is somehow relevant - It's not. The fact is, if I *want* to learn how to program and look at the code, I can! I think it's really super important that people put an emphasis on open source for this reason alone.
It's probably best not to get too carried away... This is an example of a bad DRM implementation. I'm not sure how you extrapolated that to "DRM is bad". That's like claiming computers are bad because one was once used in a crime.
It's possible your co-workers were losing interest because you were pushing an agenda rather than explaining facts.
Sony did the wrong thing here by installing a root-kit on their customers PC's, not by using DRM.
It really depends on the definition of "per violation", doesn't it? I suspect they might be talking pretty big numbers here. I doubt what Sony has done will get the maximum penalty, but there have been a hell of a lot of violations in my opinion.
From TFA: But a material with the electronic properties of silicon and the optic properties of a laser could be useful in both the electronics and communications industries by helping to make faster, more powerful computers or fiber optic networks.
I thought that all current Celerons were Socket 478, and that all new P4's were LGA775?
Surely this will only work until someone with half a clue actually opens their case, won't it? What good is a sticker when a the chips, the mountings, and the heat-sink bracket are different between the celeron and p4?
Here's an idea. Most people are at least a little nervous getting on a plane (be it a fear of flying, or the nervousness many people feel as they are screened by security). Perhaps they are *relying* on the terrorists not being stressed!
Hmm.. What are those black vans doing outside my window?
Not everyone with something to hide is a law breaker, however they're not talking about using this to convict people of crimes (nor to question people about their extramarital affairs) - they only want to use it to help determine who they should check more closely.
I am sure I would set such a machine off every time I walk through a security gate - I'm just a generally nervous person. Do I care? Of course not - It's for a good cause! It improves security, reduces the cost effectiveness of security, and makes it quicker for the average person to get where they're going.
I'd also expect that this would be introduced as one of many methods for deciding who to check. I'd be more worried if they were planning on putting all their faith in this system, and waving "confident-looking" people with complicated one-way itineraries paid with cash straight through.
I agree that there are a lot of mistakes on the web, but I'd expect it to be harder to keep Google Base up to date because if an organisation is going to make a website, they have a lot more work to do up front (register a domain, buy hosting, create the actual site).
I imagine it would be quite common for someone from an IT department to hear about Base, decide to put up ad hoc info about his organisation, then forget about it. That's far less likely for a website.
Further to that, websites are currently organisations' primary presence on the internet. A secondary presence like Base is likely to fall by the way side before their website does.
This isn't quite the same kind of power generation. A few people have made similar comments about NZ and the US.
From TFA: "While the United States, the Philippines, Iceland, New Zealand and Japan already produce commercial volumes of geothermal electricity, their system uses naturally occurring steam from underground reservoirs and springs, rather than the renewable dry rock technology the Australians are developing."
This more than anything should be the final stake in the heart of MD5, now that anyone can generate collisions whenever they want.
No, no, no. This does not allow an attacker to generate any collision they like. They cannot find data that collides with a piece of data I provide them with. All they can do is provide me with 2 pieces of data that happen to collide.
This means that an attacker can theoretically provide 2 different documents to people with the same hash, but they cannot easily produce a document that has the same hash as a document I have written.
(Disclaimer: I haven't actually been able to RTFA (it's/.'d), but unless they have made an enormous breakthrough since this was last reported, this attack has very little implications for those of us who use MD5).
"The way they arrived at this picture was first to estimate the size of the head from the jaw, and then to use a head/body ratio of 1:6.5 in order to determine the body size."
So it could just as easily have been a species of normal sized apes with abnormally sized heads, rather than abnormally sized apes with normal sized heads.
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A specimen, live or dead, will do nicely to silence the skeptics.
I'm sure it would - It's amazing what evidence will do to an objective person's views. If only the lack of any evidence would manage people's overactive imaginations a little.
You can bet your bottom dollar that Red Hat is seeing dollar signs out of this deal. Big dollar signs.
Yes, you're right. Big red dollar signs to the tune of $2,000,000. The only dollar signs they are likely to see out of this are years down the track, when these students are making purchasing decisions for their employers...
<rant>...or putting up annoying posts on/. saying, "Eh??? But <<Insert distribution name here>> sux0rs. Redhat is so much better!", just like half the gits who have commented on this story.</rant>
If I have an inch standard, I can go fairly easily down to an accurate 1/32 or even 1/64 of an inch. Without a ruler with accurately scribed gradations, can you measure me 0.396875 cm?
Please tell me you're not being serious there. Do you honestly believe that centimetres can't be halved recursively too? Or, a more realistic solution, a metric person can pull an ordinary plastic ruler out of their desk drawer, and mark off 4mm (all metric rulers are marked with mm, some even half or quarter mm, except perhaps children's rulers).
If you really need a measurement more accurate than a millimetre (about a 25th of an inch), you should probably be using a more accurate tool.
So you're example was meant to point out that 10/64ths of an inch is harder to do in metric than imperial. Surely most people find it considerably easier to manipulate base-10 numbers (even the Americans do that with their money), then round to mm than manipulate fractions with differing denominators (albeit normally powers of 2), then work out how many 16ths, 32nds, and 64ths they need. And if you want to use a calculator, you end up with decimal anyway, or a denominator determined by the calculation (which may not even be a power of 2).
"I want 8 lengths of 1 and 3/16th inches, plus 3 lengths of 2 and 13/64th inches, then divide the whole lot by 3".
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I'd argue that Apache, Mozilla, and the Linux kernel among others take a pretty mature and pragmatic approach. But to have someone stating, "Open Source is l337, and M$ sux0rs" as their only rationale, or blindly repeating the OSS dogma without actually understanding business' needs is hurting OSS more than they are helping it. When a potential customer hears that crap, they run for the hills.
The point in my OP was that those parts of OSS that actually do compete do so because they are high quality, are developed to meet their users' needs, and because they have largely managed to avoid the attitude that what they are making is better simply because their customers do not have to pay for a licence.
MS knows they cannot compete with open source software......
And which universe are you living in? I think Open Source has a lot of potential, but until its advocates remove their blinkers, industry will continue to dismiss it as a group of eccentrics on a religious crusade. It is only when open source projects take a mature and pragmatic approach that the projects become relatively successful.
Is there any reason why they would not support CDs? It seems to me that CDs would be a lot safer to mail (CDs tend to be more resiliant to environmental effects than floppies).
Most BIOSes I have had in the past few years let you flash the bios from windows. For linux boxen, I just make a bootable freedos cd.
Hmm - I didn't need to. Are you sure it wasn't the Raid drivers that you needed (In which case your point still stands)? I can't remember which chip my Sata runs off, but XP Pro installed no problems
From TFA: "One stalwart component has survived through all of these innovations: the 3.5" floppy. [...] The floppy is the only component that still remains in use today".
Do people actually still have floppy drives in their PCs? I haven't owned one in many years, and wouldn't have a clue where to get floppy disks even if I had one.
... that doesn't talk about this article being a dupe!
Oh - I did it too, didn't I?
If your submission has the words "open source", it is pretty much automatically accepted
Well, take something like Open Office: I can look at the source code of that if I want to. Some people will argue the fact that I have never programmed in my life is somehow relevant - It's not. The fact is, if I *want* to learn how to program and look at the code, I can! I think it's really super important that people put an emphasis on open source for this reason alone.
Come on - everyone stop posting for a bit...
It's probably best not to get too carried away... This is an example of a bad DRM implementation. I'm not sure how you extrapolated that to "DRM is bad". That's like claiming computers are bad because one was once used in a crime.
It's possible your co-workers were losing interest because you were pushing an agenda rather than explaining facts.
Sony did the wrong thing here by installing a root-kit on their customers PC's, not by using DRM.
It really depends on the definition of "per violation", doesn't it? I suspect they might be talking pretty big numbers here. I doubt what Sony has done will get the maximum penalty, but there have been a hell of a lot of violations in my opinion.
From TFA: But a material with the electronic properties of silicon and the optic properties of a laser could be useful in both the electronics and communications industries by helping to make faster, more powerful computers or fiber optic networks.
I thought that all current Celerons were Socket 478, and that all new P4's were LGA775?
Surely this will only work until someone with half a clue actually opens their case, won't it? What good is a sticker when a the chips, the mountings, and the heat-sink bracket are different between the celeron and p4?
Here's an idea. Most people are at least a little nervous getting on a plane (be it a fear of flying, or the nervousness many people feel as they are screened by security). Perhaps they are *relying* on the terrorists not being stressed!
Hmm.. What are those black vans doing outside my window?
Did you read my 3rd paragraph?
Not everyone with something to hide is a law breaker, however they're not talking about using this to convict people of crimes (nor to question people about their extramarital affairs) - they only want to use it to help determine who they should check more closely.
I am sure I would set such a machine off every time I walk through a security gate - I'm just a generally nervous person. Do I care? Of course not - It's for a good cause! It improves security, reduces the cost effectiveness of security, and makes it quicker for the average person to get where they're going.
I'd also expect that this would be introduced as one of many methods for deciding who to check. I'd be more worried if they were planning on putting all their faith in this system, and waving "confident-looking" people with complicated one-way itineraries paid with cash straight through.
I agree that there are a lot of mistakes on the web, but I'd expect it to be harder to keep Google Base up to date because if an organisation is going to make a website, they have a lot more work to do up front (register a domain, buy hosting, create the actual site).
I imagine it would be quite common for someone from an IT department to hear about Base, decide to put up ad hoc info about his organisation, then forget about it. That's far less likely for a website.
Further to that, websites are currently organisations' primary presence on the internet. A secondary presence like Base is likely to fall by the way side before their website does.
Does anyone know what they are planning on doing to make sure data is up to date?
I can just see things happening like a school putting up all of their course information and not keeping it up to date.
This isn't quite the same kind of power generation. A few people have made similar comments about NZ and the US.
From TFA: "While the United States, the Philippines, Iceland, New Zealand and Japan already produce commercial volumes of geothermal electricity, their system uses naturally occurring steam from underground reservoirs and springs, rather than the renewable dry rock technology the Australians are developing."
This more than anything should be the final stake in the heart of MD5, now that anyone can generate collisions whenever they want.
/.'d), but unless they have made an enormous breakthrough since this was last reported, this attack has very little implications for those of us who use MD5).
No, no, no. This does not allow an attacker to generate any collision they like. They cannot find data that collides with a piece of data I provide them with. All they can do is provide me with 2 pieces of data that happen to collide.
This means that an attacker can theoretically provide 2 different documents to people with the same hash, but they cannot easily produce a document that has the same hash as a document I have written.
(Disclaimer: I haven't actually been able to RTFA (it's
"The way they arrived at this picture was first to estimate the size of the head from the jaw, and then to use a head/body ratio of 1:6.5 in order to determine the body size."
So it could just as easily have been a species of normal sized apes with abnormally sized heads, rather than abnormally sized apes with normal sized heads.
A specimen, live or dead, will do nicely to silence the skeptics.
I'm sure it would - It's amazing what evidence will do to an objective person's views. If only the lack of any evidence would manage people's overactive imaginations a little.
Wow - that sounds like the kind of stuff I'd expect in a bad Holywood hacking movie, not Slashdot...
Why not reroute the TTY packets through to the SSH protocol while you're at it?
You can bet your bottom dollar that Red Hat is seeing dollar signs out of this deal. Big dollar signs.
/. saying, "Eh??? But <<Insert distribution name here>> sux0rs. Redhat is so much better!", just like half the gits who have commented on this story.</rant>
Yes, you're right. Big red dollar signs to the tune of $2,000,000. The only dollar signs they are likely to see out of this are years down the track, when these students are making purchasing decisions for their employers...
<rant>...or putting up annoying posts on
If I have an inch standard, I can go fairly easily down to an accurate 1/32 or even 1/64 of an inch. Without a ruler with accurately scribed gradations, can you measure me 0.396875 cm?
Please tell me you're not being serious there. Do you honestly believe that centimetres can't be halved recursively too? Or, a more realistic solution, a metric person can pull an ordinary plastic ruler out of their desk drawer, and mark off 4mm (all metric rulers are marked with mm, some even half or quarter mm, except perhaps children's rulers).
If you really need a measurement more accurate than a millimetre (about a 25th of an inch), you should probably be using a more accurate tool.
So you're example was meant to point out that 10/64ths of an inch is harder to do in metric than imperial. Surely most people find it considerably easier to manipulate base-10 numbers (even the Americans do that with their money), then round to mm than manipulate fractions with differing denominators (albeit normally powers of 2), then work out how many 16ths, 32nds, and 64ths they need. And if you want to use a calculator, you end up with decimal anyway, or a denominator determined by the calculation (which may not even be a power of 2).
"I want 8 lengths of 1 and 3/16th inches, plus 3 lengths of 2 and 13/64th inches, then divide the whole lot by 3".