Questions to ask (some of which may or may not be answered in TFA, TLDR):
(perspective: I'm an on-the-floor techie, and a student intern at that) Does that count the $BIGNUM packages in my ubuntu installation, and the $OTHER_BIGNUM packages in my kubuntu installation? Is it only those I use? How the $(un-euphemism make love) are they counted? If my company doesn't use LAMP on their servers, is the LAMP I play with counted? Does it count the workspace manager I use on windows, or the cute little make-my-mouse-work-more-like-X tool, both of which I told no one about? Does it count our temporarily using mercurial to work around the commit policies for our global repository?
What is intended to be measured?
- The number of installed packages?
- The number of packages used ever?
- The number of packages used regularly? What's "regularly"?
Spoiler alert: look at the {mean, deviation} of {packet sizes, interpacket delays} of data {sent, received}, and the (Shannon) entropy. That gives you an n-dimensional space to map out an encrypted protocol in. Plot the usual suspects: https, ssh, sftp, skype, vpn and what have you. When watching an unknown flow, find the closest known point in your n-dimensional space, according to the standard Eulerian distance. That's usually a good guess.
Right, you do a simple recompile of the serialization library of your spreadsheet (or whatever), then start interpreting the 32 bits following the stored 32-bit time as part of the 64-time. Mmhm. It'll "just work". For some real fun, do it on your file system.
(now, the conversion is presumably not that hard to do, in either direction, but it still has to be done).
> Well I have been of the opinion for years that history will judge the Bush administration unkindly
I would much rather that posterity forgets that he and his followers were ever your countrymen.
(thus spoke Samuel Adams: If you love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen)
There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, dupe it once, shame on -- shame on you. Dupe it -- you can't get duped again.
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The average enterprise uses 94 OSS packages?
Questions to ask (some of which may or may not be answered in TFA, TLDR):
(perspective: I'm an on-the-floor techie, and a student intern at that)
Does that count the $BIGNUM packages in my ubuntu installation, and the $OTHER_BIGNUM packages in my kubuntu installation? Is it only those I use? How the $(un-euphemism make love) are they counted?
If my company doesn't use LAMP on their servers, is the LAMP I play with counted?
Does it count the workspace manager I use on windows, or the cute little make-my-mouse-work-more-like-X tool, both of which I told no one about?
Does it count our temporarily using mercurial to work around the commit policies for our global repository?
What is intended to be measured?
- The number of installed packages?
- The number of packages used ever?
- The number of packages used regularly? What's "regularly"?
How is it measured?
No, that's the editors' job
Watch and learn, my young padawan (mp4 warning): http://www.shmoocon.org/2007/videos/Encrypted%20Protocol%20Identification%20via%20Statistical%20Analysis%20-%20Rob%20King%20and%20Rohlt%20Dhamankar.mp4
Spoiler alert: look at the {mean, deviation} of {packet sizes, interpacket delays} of data {sent, received}, and the (Shannon) entropy. That gives you an n-dimensional space to map out an encrypted protocol in. Plot the usual suspects: https, ssh, sftp, skype, vpn and what have you. When watching an unknown flow, find the closest known point in your n-dimensional space, according to the standard Eulerian distance. That's usually a good guess.
You wan' sum' RAS acronyms on toppa' that?
The Pirate Bay. Right next to the linux isos, which is the only thing we download with bit torrent ;)
That depends; which country's the global police?
If you have a good tool, but need an auxiliary tool to use it, the tool is actually not that good.
Fixed
Fixed.
Fixed. Compare http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegan and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism.
It's when Chuck Norris sets his foot ablaze with mere willpower, then does a roundhouse kick.
Fixed.
Hey, don't forget to mock their network stack!
> Perhaps we will see the SCO obelisk [...] donated to the Computer History Museum.
:)
"I do love how the free market gives you what something's worth"
(http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20060902)
Right, you do a simple recompile of the serialization library of your spreadsheet (or whatever), then start interpreting the 32 bits following the stored 32-bit time as part of the 64-time. Mmhm. It'll "just work". For some real fun, do it on your file system.
(now, the conversion is presumably not that hard to do, in either direction, but it still has to be done).
According to my 'fessor, here's The One True Way for grading multiple-choice tests (with proofs and all):
: www.brics.dk/~mis/multiple.pdf+multiple.pdf+site:b rics.dk&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=dk&client=firefox-a
http://www.brics.dk/~mis/multiple.pdf
(yours is not the One True Way)
Ugly as it is, you may want to use the google html as the pdf seems to have permission issues: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:0BahY4i6HLkJ
> If it was designed intelligently
FOSS isn't intelligently designed. It evolves useful characteristics, albeit through a selection process which is asexual.
(it's carried out by us, remember?)
> Well I have been of the opinion for years that history will judge the Bush administration unkindly
I would much rather that posterity forgets that he and his followers were ever your countrymen.
(thus spoke Samuel Adams: If you love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen)
There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, dupe it once, shame on -- shame on you. Dupe it -- you can't get duped again.
> > "there may or may not be evidence of shady behavior"
> "a" is false. Hence "a or not a" is false.
You didn't get a passing grade in logic, hence you neither passed nor failed.
Wait, what?
Way off, dude. We know girls exist. What we obsess about is talking to one.
(At least as far as I heard, talking to them is the first step towards getting to have sex with one. Can anyone confirm this?)
> > When tags were [yes/no/maybe for EVERY story] they were good
> No.
Yes.
> grammar and the editors lack thereof.
:)
I bet everyone just love's the irony there
> 2048 Gigabytes *should* be enough for anyone...
That's the dumbest fucking in-joke I've heard since I've been at slashdot!