>For example, it's basically a given at this point >that they have built the next-generation of >the DES craker
Most likely other countries have it too. Witness the new standards for defense contractor data protection. The old version required DES, but it was recently revised to specifically forbid DES if favor of 3DES or other, newer algorithms.
It's a slippery slope. The potential for abuses to law-abiding political dissenters is huge. Eschelon (if it exists) amounts to an unordered wiretap on everyone using the internet. If you don't see a problem with government agencies eavesdropping on people in clear violation of their (US citizens) constitutional rights, the privacy cause is lost on you. Furthermore, since the NSA denies that the system even exists, I assume that any evidence gathered by it can't be used in a court of law. Meaning that if you or I fire off an email saying that we want to buy a nuclear warhead to blow up the Capitol building, we will never see a jury of our peers, but will be quietly "dealt with" by the NSA. To beat an old quote to death, who watches the watchmen? The NSA hides under a blanket of secrecy, which allows it to operate without any significant oversight. Power corrupts, and there is no check on the power of the NSA if it's leaders become corrupted. So here's the FUD I bring to the table. I fear the NSA because it's uncertain what they are doing, and I doubt anyone outside Fort Meade knows what's really going on.
Is this really new? Mandrake 6.1 came with kernel 2.2.13, So I've been running a kernel that doesn't really exist for 3 weeks now...
[will@darkstar proc]$ cat/proc/version Linux version 2.2.13-7mdk (root@kenobi.mandrakesoft.com) (gcc version 2.95.1 19990816 (release)) #1 Wed Sep 15 18:02:18 CEST
>Most bouncers and bartenders know how >to spot a fake-id.. Think Comp USA does?
Comp-USA doesn't have to care about fake IDs. Game censorship isn't a law (yet). The game ratings are not mandatory. If Comp-USA doesn't card the kid, that may be morally wrong, but it's not illegal.
>I find its amazing that they let 16 year >olds drive cars, and in some states own guns >but they cant buy violent video games
What do you honestly expect in the country where I can be drafted into the army, own a gun, enter into a binding contract and marry, but I can't buy a beer?
True. Apple already learned the hard way about stockpiling huge inventories. Remeber the Lisa? Furthermore, without marketing (read: hype) nobody will care enough to check your product out, let alone buy it.
As for what apple should have done, IMHO they should have given all the customers with G4s on order the option of buying a slower G3 machine for less money, or wait x weeks for the G4 production to ramp up. Hiking prices and cancelling orders at the same time is a low-blow to the customer, though.
noop == mnemonic assembler comand for no operation. When it recieves a noop command, the CPU just sits idle for one clock then goes on to the next instruction. Why the IMAP protocol bothers to implement a noop instruction is beyond me, though...
Pico is excellent for small satellites. It's small, fast, and stable. Have you heard about the emacs satellite? I think it goes by the name "Mir" now. The code is held together with duct tape, it's slow as molasses, and it's huge, but you can do anything with it once you figure out where to get an extra two fingers for those 12-key combination commands. The Vi satellite, sadly, has yet to get off the ground, because nobody can figure out how to put it into command mode. Supposedly vi will be the fastest and most powerful satellite ever, but the difficulty of operating it means that very few are in use.
pico launch.now emacs control-alt-meta-left bucky-shift-escape-L vi? launch ? take off ? blastoff ? go! ? listen you damn machine! ? get going! move!! ? launch now ? ok, dammit ***Smash***
>What punishment would be appropriate for these >"kids" who get their hands on some programs and >start mesing around? How far is too far?
Speakin for myself, all it takes was a polite phonecall from a sysadmin who's box you've just attempted to crack. I haven't "attacked" any systems (well, except helping check some security things on my roommate's box) since then. For the young or stupid, a good scare will set them on the right side of the law. Fear can be a good weapon against the script-kiddie, especially if you catch 'em small, and scare the hell out of them by mentioning the FBI.
It would be a CPU downgrade, not an upgrade. The TI-8* series uses a motorola 68000 processor. 16 bits instead of 8, and loads faster IIRC. 8 bits only gives you 256 possible values. That's a lot of round-off error for your 30th degree polynominal.
I remember the movie, but the title escapes me. They stole the idea from the Nazis also, because the premise of the movie involved a parallel universe where Germany won WWII.
>Does the book make more sense at the end? >Would it be worth reading?
Yes, it's worth reading. The book was different (read: better) In the book, they send five people (the Machine has five seats) I have no idea why this got changed in the movie. The end is pretty similar, with the whole denial that anything happened. The bible-thumpers come off as more sympathetic characters in the book. It fits Stautz's third law: "The book is always better than the movie" happy reading...
>Minors would not be allowed to buy ones with certain >ratings - allowing parents to control what their children are doing.
No, It allows the government to control what children do. Speaking for myself, I don't like that. There is a huge gap between what my parents saw as acceptable entertainment for me (most movies, books, video-games, the internet) and what Jesse Helms sees as appropriate entertainment (the Bible, any Charlton Heston flick, pac-man). Guess which of them makes the laws in this country, and therefor gets to decide "appropriate" for the purposes of this law. This bill isn't about labeling, it's about forcing their morality down the throats of citizens who don't want it. It's taking power away from parents, not giving it to them.
Becuase KDE works! I spent the better part of a week chasing down missing and outdated libraries trying to make gnome compile. KDE built and ran on the first try.
>he problem with allowing the random hard drive >scan is the same as police check points. >Pull everyone over, and arrest those are breaking >the law.
Umm, in my state (Texas) the highway patrol *can* pull everyone over and check for drunken drivers, drug runners, etc. The supreme court has upheld roadblocks like this before, as long as they are not selective about who is pulled over. (i.e. stopping every fourth car is allowed, but stopping only cars driven by minorities or teenagers is not) Or so I've heard from two poli-sci professors and a cop. YMMV
Slashdot Mirror
Do you really believe that the policies of the US government have anything at all to do with what the voters want?
It would be possible, but if Slashdot ran the game, all the good moves would be moderated down to -1, and we'd end up losing...
(score: -1, mocking the moderators)
>it is the only body in our solar
>system which has active vulcans
You mean the pointy-eared guys like Mr Spock? I thought they weren't supposed to make contact with us for another hundred years or so.
>For example, it's basically a given at this point
>that they have built the next-generation of
>the DES craker
Most likely other countries have it too. Witness the new standards for defense contractor data protection. The old version required DES, but it was recently revised to specifically forbid DES if favor of 3DES or other, newer algorithms.
It's a slippery slope. The potential for abuses to law-abiding political dissenters is huge. Eschelon (if it exists) amounts to an unordered wiretap on everyone using the internet. If you don't see a problem with government agencies eavesdropping on people in clear violation of their (US citizens) constitutional rights, the privacy cause is lost on you.
Furthermore, since the NSA denies that the system even exists, I assume that any evidence gathered by it can't be used in a court of law. Meaning that if you or I fire off an email saying that we want to buy a nuclear warhead to blow up the Capitol building, we will never see a jury of our peers, but will be quietly "dealt with" by the NSA.
To beat an old quote to death, who watches the watchmen? The NSA hides under a blanket of secrecy, which allows it to operate without any significant oversight. Power corrupts, and there is no check on the power of the NSA if it's leaders become corrupted.
So here's the FUD I bring to the table. I fear the NSA because it's uncertain what they are doing, and I doubt anyone outside Fort Meade knows what's really going on.
>maybe MS is planning a move to buy TrollTech.
>End of game.
Not really. TrollTech caved in a few months ago and GPLed KDE and the QT toolkit. If Troll gets bought out by M$, QT and KDE will still go on.
>Most bouncers and bartenders know how
>to spot a fake-id.. Think Comp USA does?
Comp-USA doesn't have to care about fake IDs. Game censorship isn't a law (yet). The game ratings are not mandatory. If Comp-USA doesn't card the kid, that may be morally wrong, but it's not illegal.
>I find its amazing that they let 16 year
>olds drive cars, and in some states own guns
>but they cant buy violent video games
What do you honestly expect in the country where I can be drafted into the army, own a gun, enter into a binding contract and marry, but I can't buy a beer?
"without lack of context there'd be no news" --Douglas Adams
open a shell window. /proc/uptime
type "uptime".
press enter.
if that fails, you can always cat
True. Apple already learned the hard way about stockpiling huge inventories. Remeber the Lisa? Furthermore, without marketing (read: hype) nobody will care enough to check your product out, let alone buy it.
As for what apple should have done, IMHO they should have given all the customers with G4s on order the option of buying a slower G3 machine for less money, or wait x weeks for the G4 production to ramp up. Hiking prices and cancelling orders at the same time is a low-blow to the customer, though.
noop == mnemonic assembler comand for no operation. When it recieves a noop command, the CPU just sits idle for one clock then goes on to the next instruction. Why the IMAP protocol bothers to implement a noop instruction is beyond me, though...
To all the chauvanist, patronizing, male bastards: grow up
To all the reactionary, defensive, humorless female bastards: get a life
go ahead, moderate me down, I had to say it...
Pico is excellent for small satellites. It's small, fast, and stable.
Have you heard about the emacs satellite? I think it goes by the name "Mir" now. The code is held together with duct tape, it's slow as molasses, and it's huge, but you can do anything with it once you figure out where to get an extra two fingers for those 12-key combination commands. The Vi satellite, sadly, has yet to get off the ground, because nobody can figure out how to put it into command mode. Supposedly vi will be the fastest and most powerful satellite ever, but the difficulty of operating it means that very few are in use.
pico launch.now
emacs control-alt-meta-left bucky-shift-escape-L
vi? launch
? take off
? blastoff
? go!
? listen you damn machine!
? get going! move!!
? launch now
? ok, dammit
***Smash***
DDT is a pesticide. It kills animals
Roundup is a herbicide. It kills plants.
Which are you?
>what's a duck squeezer??
I think it's like a tree-hugger...
>What punishment would be appropriate for these
>"kids" who get their hands on some programs and >start mesing around? How far is too far?
Speakin for myself, all it takes was a polite phonecall from a sysadmin who's box you've just attempted to crack. I haven't "attacked" any systems (well, except helping check some security things on my roommate's box) since then. For the young or stupid, a good scare will set them on the right side of the law. Fear can be a good weapon against the script-kiddie, especially if you catch 'em small, and scare the hell out of them by mentioning the FBI.
The article claims that the Ultra 5 will run Solaris, Java, WinNT, Win95, DOS, and Linux.
Win 95 for ultras? Has Yahoo news been taking accuracy lessons from ZDnet again?
it's cypherpunks/cypherpunks
It would be a CPU downgrade, not an upgrade. The TI-8* series uses a motorola 68000 processor. 16 bits instead of 8, and loads faster IIRC. 8 bits only gives you 256 possible values. That's a lot of round-off error for your 30th degree polynominal.
I remember the movie, but the title escapes me. They stole the idea from the Nazis also, because the premise of the movie involved a parallel universe where Germany won WWII.
>Does the book make more sense at the end?
>Would it be worth reading?
Yes, it's worth reading. The book was different (read: better) In the book, they send five people (the Machine has five seats) I have no idea why this got changed in the movie. The end is pretty similar, with the whole denial that anything happened. The bible-thumpers come off as more sympathetic characters in the book. It fits Stautz's third law: "The book is always better than the movie"
happy reading...
>Minors would not be allowed to buy ones with certain
>ratings - allowing parents to control what their children are doing.
No, It allows the government to control what children do. Speaking for myself, I don't like that. There is a huge gap between what my parents saw as acceptable entertainment for me (most movies, books, video-games, the internet) and what Jesse Helms sees as appropriate entertainment (the Bible, any Charlton Heston flick, pac-man). Guess which of them makes the laws in this country, and therefor gets to decide "appropriate" for the purposes of this law. This bill isn't about labeling, it's about forcing their morality down the throats of citizens who don't want it. It's taking power away from parents, not giving it to them.
Becuase KDE works!
I spent the better part of a week chasing down missing and outdated libraries trying to make gnome compile. KDE built and ran on the first try.
>he problem with allowing the random hard drive
>scan is the same as police check points.
>Pull everyone over, and arrest those are breaking
>the law.
Umm, in my state (Texas) the highway patrol *can* pull everyone over and check for drunken drivers, drug runners, etc. The supreme court has upheld roadblocks like this before, as long as they are not selective about who is pulled over. (i.e. stopping every fourth car is allowed, but stopping only cars driven by minorities or teenagers is not) Or so I've heard from two poli-sci professors and a cop. YMMV