Yeah, and Forbes used to be a respected business magazine.
I agree with gp, in that the journal can have a brilliant reputation, but it's probably been a while since Einstein and Heisenberg wrote articles for it.
The contents page of the issues of 2007 seems to deal more in zoology, biochemistry, ecology and palaeontology than materials science or quantum chemistry.
Why was this article not published in "US military journal of applied physics" (surely there must be something like this)?
Also, I didn't read gp as being derogatory of a journal because it's in German; that would just be silly.
I can second that: read C'T magazine. I remember when they had the scoop about botnets, while the rest of the world was wondering why there was suddenly so much more spam from so many sources. And weren't they the ones who found out about Microsoft's deliberate crippling of MS Windows running on DR-DOS?
Oh, and in their news section they often have small dumbed-down pieces about advances in (microelectronics-related) quantum chemistry, quantum cryptography etc, so you can start thinking about computers of the future before you can buy them:-). Does PC World have that as well? I doubt it.
The way I see it, there is an abundance of magazines that have the purpose of *selling* you a computer, but there's room for a few that discuss how they work and what you can do with them, as well:-)
Ah, found it: dutch C't magazine, may 2004, p. 84, about those spam botnets. You may have to learn dutch to read it:-) and I don't know if they put it online: http://www1.fnl.nl/ct/oude-nummers/overzicht/
That's one of my all-time favourite books. It's actually insightful that Heinlein pointed out so many sore spots of puritanical societies, all those decades ago, and then the fact alone that there's this whole discussion here on slashdot *in the 21st century*, speaks volumes to me. And why is this topic not tagged "sex"?
In my weirder imaginings, I sometimes think that the first *successful* peopled mission to Mars will be staffed by a bunch of capable, rational, intelligent, vegan hippies. Think about it.
(Disclaimer: I've never lived together with a bunch of vegan hippies, let alone in a closed ecosystem, so possibly I'm talking nonsense here)
A great idea!
Let's call it "Role-Based Access Control". I believe that's what SElinux does (and several other systems too).
According to the wikipedia, also Microsoft Active Directory, so why didn't they use their own existing implementation to put it in MS Vista's UAC?
Now that I'm posting anyway, can a kind soul explain why spamassassin (scontext=system_u:system_r:spamd_t) gives so many audit errors?
Should I add something in its macros?
To be brutally honest though, I find it difficult to even *understand* selinux. I'm still only running it in permissive mode..
If Microsoft actually manages to show the user/system admin such audit messages and modify policy accordingly (based on system admin's response) then I think that's a good idea. Fetchmail and spamassassin spew some "denied" audits on my home computer but I haven't (yet:-)) found out how to modify the selinux policy. I think it shouldn't be done with interactive menus though; secure e-mail directly into root's mailbox is probably a bit safer.
Disclaimer: IANAsecurity expert, but I play one at home.
Not at all, it just depends on whether you look at it just from a software consumer's perspective (where both "free-as-in-beer" and "free-as-in-speech" have the same effect if you only USE the software), or from a slightly broader perspective, where one day you might want to modify that software for your company's use, or hire a programmer (e.g. me) to do it for you.
<long rant mode on>
In the second and more general case, there's a distinct difference; If the software was licensed "free-as-in-beer", you need to approach the original software producer and ask them if they're interested to produce a modified or bug-fixed or improved version for you (for money). Let's assume that "free-as-in-beer" means you don't have the source code. This works depending on whether they're still in business (tough luck if it's business-critical software written in SPEED-II for a Wang) and whether they see you as esteemed customer instead of dangerous direct competition. In the case of "free-as-in-speech" software, it's probably most cost-effective if you STILL hire the original software producer to modify it for you (because no-one else knows it better than they), but your options are now broader:
If they don't want to/can't change it for you, you can threaten to hire someone else, and they know this (free market competition).
Because you have the source, you can hire any capable programmer to change it for you, even decades after it's written (freedom from vendor lock-in and monopolism; depends also on ubiquity of open standards which is a whole different topic).
<long rant mode off>
Read one of Eric Raymond's old essays one day, if you like. He explains it all a lot better, in e.g. "The Magic Cauldron".
What about when it is used as a bahuvrihi-compositum?
(Disclaimer: I'm not a native english speaker, and I had only 1 lesson Sanskrit and that was 20 years ago)
Another reader pointed to David Byrne (from the Talking Heads):
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=232669&cid=189 23641. I don't know how authoritative a source that is:-)
Also, I can't follow all of the David Byrne blog article.
That word "IP" ("intellectual property") has no separate existance except as "common resource the government can dole out", AFAIK.
It is not something that exists; it has simply been invented to facilitate the dissemination of information in a society.
(Whether this works properly or not is verse 2).
Another thing: when you say "all IP" do you mean copyright, patents, trademarks, or trade secrets? It's a deliberately confusing word.
At the risk of considering me a frothing-at-the-mouth zealot now, please take the time to read this: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html# IntellectualProperty.
BTW: if you're insulted that your government is involved, you must be talking only about trade secrets:-) because the other 3 require a government as a party, AFAIK.
I looked on CNN, Euronews, the BBC website, and the dutch Journaal.
There is absolutely no mention at all of this impeachment procedure, which according to the website started 2 days ago.
I don't understand, can anyone explain why this is so under-represented in the mainstream media? (I'm not an USian BTW).
I read something about high-gravity experiments in "Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition" (a funny book if you can get hold of it). Look it up if you like. The centrifuged chickens apparently managed to live under high-G.
For several years, one of the major banks in NL caused all kinds of grief to people using Anything But Internet Explorer (tm) to try and access their on-line banking website. Some months it would work only in konqueror, some months only in firefox, sometimes only when we flushed the cache, and sometimes the only recourse was to change the identification string to act as if we're using Internet Explorer. Then everything works fine:-) despite it's still gecko and not really IE rendering the html...
See this for example: (in dutch, and from 2003) http://www.girotel4all.nl/nieuws.php, and http://www.xs4all.nl/~koospol/nl/gto/index.html.
BTW, at this moment their (new) product works fine in firefox (well, iceweasel) on Debian.
So, maybe the low uptake of firefox means people have once set their identification string to "IE" in 2002-2003 and never changed it back. Well, it's AN explanation at least, I didn't say it was a good explanation:-)
I don't know much about windows, but I think that it's possible that Vista's extra DRM must create extra complexity in the kernel (low-level monitoring of the audio/video drivers, "tripwire" stuff etc.); all that deliberate complexity might make Vista as a whole less stable than any other OS that doesn't need to be so paranoid about what its operator/system admin is allowed to do.
Or am I talking nonsense now?
Or AZERTY for the french!
I have used qwerty, qwertz and azerty, but never yet dvorak. I'm getting curious about it though,
so I installed dvorak7min (debian: http://packages.debian.org/stable/games/dvorak7min) hoping it's any good.
Somehow I think most of them couldn't care less what an anonymous coward brain-farts out on slashdot:-)
Douche means shower in a lot of countries http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douche. What does it mean in yours? One of the connotations at the bottom, I presume, if it's meant as an expletive.
No, sorry, I see the pp's point here -- the fact that you used the wrong word, can be called a "technicality" IIRC. Now consider, that IIRC, in this case of Spamhaus, their *lawyers* made a wrong response to the Illinois judge, which made it impossible for said judge to dismiss the case as being outside of jurisdiction. Spamhaus then fired their (U.S.A!) lawyers, but it was already too late. So, normally I would agree with you that pp is a smartass:-) but not when we're talking about a lawsuit that was (IMHO unjustly but lawfully) decided on a technicality.
IANAL, by the way, so please correct me if I'm talking nonsense here (hey, it's Slashdot).
Are you sure you're not confusing DRM with encryption? If you're responsible for the archive's integrity (as you said ".. get fired for losing"), who has the decryption keys? If it's you or your organization, its called encryption. If it's an outside organization which can go bankrupt / disappear / whatever, taking your archive technically with it to the grave, it's called DRM. DRM means that there is a "they" who trust your computer system to only give you access to "your" data when they permit it (which presupposes that "they" still exist when you need that access).
I'm really not trying to troll here, but.. wow.. I'm european, and even I know the Mayas *had* an independently developed writing system (and didn't they count to base 60?): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_script. What do they teach you Americans (North-, Meso- and South-) nowadays?
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I agree with gp, in that the journal can have a brilliant reputation, but it's probably been a while since Einstein and Heisenberg wrote articles for it.
The contents page of the issues of 2007 seems to deal more in zoology, biochemistry, ecology and palaeontology than materials science or quantum chemistry. Why was this article not published in "US military journal of applied physics" (surely there must be something like this)?
Also, I didn't read gp as being derogatory of a journal because it's in German; that would just be silly.
TPavlov?
I can second that: read C'T magazine. I remember when they had the scoop about botnets, while the rest of the world was wondering why there was suddenly so much more spam from so many sources. And weren't they the ones who found out about Microsoft's deliberate crippling of MS Windows running on DR-DOS? :-). Does PC World have that as well? I doubt it.
:-)
:-) and I don't know if they put it online: http://www1.fnl.nl/ct/oude-nummers/overzicht/
Oh, and in their news section they often have small dumbed-down pieces about advances in (microelectronics-related) quantum chemistry, quantum cryptography etc, so you can start thinking about computers of the future before you can buy them
The way I see it, there is an abundance of magazines that have the purpose of *selling* you a computer, but there's room for a few that discuss how they work and what you can do with them, as well
Ah, found it: dutch C't magazine, may 2004, p. 84, about those spam botnets. You may have to learn dutch to read it
That's one of my all-time favourite books. It's actually insightful that Heinlein pointed out so many sore spots of puritanical societies, all those decades ago, and then the fact alone that there's this whole discussion here on slashdot *in the 21st century*, speaks volumes to me. And why is this topic not tagged "sex"?
In my weirder imaginings, I sometimes think that the first *successful* peopled mission to Mars will be staffed by a bunch of capable, rational, intelligent, vegan hippies. Think about it.
(Disclaimer: I've never lived together with a bunch of vegan hippies, let alone in a closed ecosystem, so possibly I'm talking nonsense here)
A great idea!
Let's call it "Role-Based Access Control". I believe that's what SElinux does (and several other systems too).
According to the wikipedia, also Microsoft Active Directory, so why didn't they use their own existing implementation to put it in MS Vista's UAC?
Now that I'm posting anyway, can a kind soul explain why spamassassin (scontext=system_u:system_r:spamd_t) gives so many audit errors? Should I add something in its macros?
To be brutally honest though, I find it difficult to even *understand* selinux. I'm still only running it in permissive mode.. If Microsoft actually manages to show the user/system admin such audit messages and modify policy accordingly (based on system admin's response) then I think that's a good idea. Fetchmail and spamassassin spew some "denied" audits on my home computer but I haven't (yet :-)) found out how to modify the selinux policy. I think it shouldn't be done with interactive menus though; secure e-mail directly into root's mailbox is probably a bit safer.
Disclaimer: IANAsecurity expert, but I play one at home.
<long rant mode on>
In the second and more general case, there's a distinct difference; If the software was licensed "free-as-in-beer", you need to approach the original software producer and ask them if they're interested to produce a modified or bug-fixed or improved version for you (for money). Let's assume that "free-as-in-beer" means you don't have the source code. This works depending on whether they're still in business (tough luck if it's business-critical software written in SPEED-II for a Wang) and whether they see you as esteemed customer instead of dangerous direct competition. In the case of "free-as-in-speech" software, it's probably most cost-effective if you STILL hire the original software producer to modify it for you (because no-one else knows it better than they), but your options are now broader:
- If they don't want to/can't change it for you, you can threaten to hire someone else, and they know this (free market competition).
- Because you have the source, you can hire any capable programmer to change it for you, even decades after it's written (freedom from vendor lock-in and monopolism; depends also on ubiquity of open standards which is a whole different topic).
<long rant mode off>Read one of Eric Raymond's old essays one day, if you like. He explains it all a lot better, in e.g. "The Magic Cauldron".
What about when it is used as a bahuvrihi-compositum?
(Disclaimer: I'm not a native english speaker, and I had only 1 lesson Sanskrit and that was 20 years ago)
Another reader pointed to David Byrne (from the Talking Heads): http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=232669&cid=189 23641. I don't know how authoritative a source that is :-)
Also, I can't follow all of the David Byrne blog article.
That word "IP" ("intellectual property") has no separate existance except as "common resource the government can dole out", AFAIK.# IntellectualProperty.
:-) because the other 3 require a government as a party, AFAIK.
It is not something that exists; it has simply been invented to facilitate the dissemination of information in a society. (Whether this works properly or not is verse 2).
Another thing: when you say "all IP" do you mean copyright, patents, trademarks, or trade secrets? It's a deliberately confusing word. At the risk of considering me a frothing-at-the-mouth zealot now, please take the time to read this: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html
BTW: if you're insulted that your government is involved, you must be talking only about trade secrets
I looked on CNN, Euronews, the BBC website, and the dutch Journaal.
There is absolutely no mention at all of this impeachment procedure, which according to the website started 2 days ago.
I don't understand, can anyone explain why this is so under-represented in the mainstream media? (I'm not an USian BTW).
I read something about high-gravity experiments in "Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition" (a funny book if you can get hold of it). Look it up if you like. The centrifuged chickens apparently managed to live under high-G.
As it's at least on-topic and possibly even informative.
I wish I had mod points, GP and PP would get a "funny".
I don't have the answer t your question, but if only a few files have changed I'd recommend to use jigdo.
For several years, one of the major banks in NL caused all kinds of grief to people using Anything But Internet Explorer (tm) to try and access their on-line banking website. Some months it would work only in konqueror, some months only in firefox, sometimes only when we flushed the cache, and sometimes the only recourse was to change the identification string to act as if we're using Internet Explorer. Then everything works fine :-) despite it's still gecko and not really IE rendering the html...
:-)
See this for example: (in dutch, and from 2003) http://www.girotel4all.nl/nieuws.php, and http://www.xs4all.nl/~koospol/nl/gto/index.html.
BTW, at this moment their (new) product works fine in firefox (well, iceweasel) on Debian.
So, maybe the low uptake of firefox means people have once set their identification string to "IE" in 2002-2003 and never changed it back. Well, it's AN explanation at least, I didn't say it was a good explanation
I don't know much about windows, but I think that it's possible that Vista's extra DRM must create extra complexity in the kernel (low-level monitoring of the audio/video drivers, "tripwire" stuff etc.); all that deliberate complexity might make Vista as a whole less stable than any other OS that doesn't need to be so paranoid about what its operator/system admin is allowed to do.
Or am I talking nonsense now?
Or AZERTY for the french!n ) hoping it's any good.
I have used qwerty, qwertz and azerty, but never yet dvorak. I'm getting curious about it though, so I installed dvorak7min (debian: http://packages.debian.org/stable/games/dvorak7mi
PP probably means ghostscript. What are you more scared of, goats or ghosts?
Thanks for bringing that up, you remind me to watch what I read tomorrow...
Somehow I think most of them couldn't care less what an anonymous coward brain-farts out on slashdot :-)
Douche means shower in a lot of countries http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douche. What does it mean in yours? One of the connotations at the bottom, I presume, if it's meant as an expletive.
No, sorry, I see the pp's point here -- the fact that you used the wrong word, can be called a "technicality" IIRC. :-) but not when we're talking about a lawsuit that was (IMHO unjustly but lawfully) decided on a technicality.
Now consider, that IIRC, in this case of Spamhaus, their *lawyers* made a wrong response to the Illinois judge, which made it impossible for said judge to dismiss the case as being outside of jurisdiction. Spamhaus then fired their (U.S.A!) lawyers, but it was already too late.
So, normally I would agree with you that pp is a smartass
IANAL, by the way, so please correct me if I'm talking nonsense here (hey, it's Slashdot).
Are you sure you're not confusing DRM with encryption? If you're responsible for the archive's integrity (as you said ".. get fired for losing"), who has the decryption keys? If it's you or your organization, its called encryption. If it's an outside organization which can go bankrupt / disappear / whatever, taking your archive technically with it to the grave, it's called DRM. DRM means that there is a "they" who trust your computer system to only give you access to "your" data when they permit it (which presupposes that "they" still exist when you need that access).
I'm really not trying to troll here, but.. wow.. I'm european, and even I know the Mayas *had* an independently developed writing system (and didn't they count to base 60?): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_script. What do they teach you Americans (North-, Meso- and South-) nowadays?