Enable the updates-testing repository for now. I did this on Sunday to get KDE 4.1 RC1 (4.0.99), presumably KDE 4.1.0 will be there soon (RC1 is a HUGE step forward from KDE 4.0).
As I said, I am not defending the Chinese government. But the method of policing kiddie porn here is essentially the same as the method of policing speech within the Chinese borders: ISPs and hosting services take down content, and the police occasionally raid higher priority figures.
You could, and the military has a large body of research on this (related to jamming security cameras). Part of the problem is that you need to use a laser, and people might get upset when (not if) your laser hits their eyes. An IR laser might do it, but that will still be detrimental to a person's movie viewing experience (and I don't know what a class IIIa IR laser would do to a retina anyway).
You know, I've been meaning to try out the superhero thing for a while. I have these things growing out of my hands, and it makes my current job as a programmer exceedingly difficult...
What's amazing is that these studios seem to be focused on the losses they incur from a bad movie. That's unreal: the metric is not how good a movie is, but rather, how effectively they can trick people into seeing a really bad movie. One doesn't need special effects to make a great film, just talented and creative directors, writers, and actors. It would be one thing if they only mentioned it causally, but they mention it over and over again, as if their biggest fear is that piracy will expose them as shitty film makers.
I still remember the time when people would wait for movie critics to give their opinion on a movie before they went to see it. I also remember not wasting money on movies that received bad reviews.
Within the borders of China, there is the world's largest number of connected computer users. The fact that their communications across the border is restricted doesn't change the fact that they are online, it just means that they are not online in a "global" sense. Really, within China, the policing of the Internet is done by citizens who are following the laws of that nation; it is a stricter version of laws that require hosting services to take down kiddie porn here in the US. I'm not saying that China is justified in its laws, I'm just saying that the existence of those laws does not mean anything in terms of counting the number of connected users.
Then the tables should not have been shipped. No matter how you frame it, they cut some corner. If they decided to not support Linux just before they started flashing the BIOS, it would have only taken a day to safely remove the Linux table, and I would have more respect for them if they did so. As I said, if they couldn't put in the effort to remove some BIOS code, what other features did they decide to drop support for but didn't bother to actually remove from the product?
It is cutting corners if they included a Linux specific table, which is broken, and never bothered to test under Linux. It is a sign that they managed that specific motherboard, and possibly others, poorly. It is hard to say whether or not the board will have problems with unusual configurations or uses, even with Windows, that they may not have tested either. If they don't support Linux, they shouldn't ship a motherboard with any Linux specific code. It would be like you developing a Windows app, then creating and distributing source that can be compiled for Linux but crashes when it is run.
It is a mixed win for free software (if it happens). On the one hand, there will no longer be any barrier to creating a FLV codec for SPARC or other non-x86 non-Adobe Flash architectures. On the other hand, it will create an entirely new minefield of patents, where certain software would only be legal on certain hardware, and nobody could really say what the legal status of their computer is ("I have a dual core x86_64 machine with 4GB of RAM. Can I use this MP3 codec?"). I could also see powerful corporations trying to obtain a series of patents for the most popular computer configurations, and continuing to demand royalties.
The problem with software patents is that they are too easy to unwittingly violate. Even a very specific sounding patent could wind up being violated, just because it is easy to unknowingly embed one system in another. This is where the mathematical roots of CS show through. Worse, the existence of prior art may not be so easy to determine -- the prior art may itself be embedded in a larger system, hidden from view.
I've said it before, I'll say it again: Apple hates developers. Any developer not working for Apple, to be specific. They begrudgingly created a developer website for Mac OS X, just so that MSDN and the millions of open source communities wouldn't completely show them up. If Apple had its way, they would be the only developer of software for Apple products. A bit of a change from Apple ][ days, but then again, so is Mac OS X.
And that efficiency is really important. An electric engine does not need to sit there spinning for no reason while the car is not in motion (a common situation if your car is in a city). An electric engine converts more energy into useful mechanical motion than into heat (though in a hybrid that is not truly optimal; a BEV really wins on this one). An electric engine doesn't need to use any energy to pump exhaust out of itself. Really, this would wind up saving a lot of energy and money for the people who use it.
I personally started with C++, and I was programming little (terrible) games on DOS using DJGPP. To be quite honest, I had never been more excited than when I managed to get a magenta dot to appear on my screen, by directly accessing video memory. If I had started with Python, I would have missed out on that.
Then again, writing directly to the screen in this day and age is a bit trickier.
JBOSS is a division of Red Hat, and Red Hat provides extensive JBOSS support. In fact, JBOSS running on RHEL 5 has a higher security rating than almost every other commercial software package. My guess is that the authors of the article decided to go with the community version of JBOSS, which does not have the support from Red Hat. This is somewhat typical of attempts to make open source packages look bad: talk about enterprise security, then evaluate a non-enterprise package.
That list is a bunch of unrelated packages. Hibernate is not an application server, it is an ORM. OFBiz is an automation framework that runs on top of an application server. Hipergate is a collection of various web apps that run on an application server.
They also forgot to have a proprietary package -- so the comparison is between open source packages. They might as well say, "Proprietary software poses a security risk. We've evaluated.NET, Matlab, and Age of Empires."
Actually, that's not quite correct. During the cold war, the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand ran a massive signal intercepting operation against the USSR's satellites, and (presumably) against its cables also. Following the collapse of the USSR, rumors started circling about this operation being used against the businesses of other countries, and it was revealed (unofficially) that several high profile businesses were being aided by their respective governments in literally stealing plans from foreign businesses (the case that comes to mind was a German firm that developed a new jet engine, and "coincidentally" Boeing managed to develop a nearly identical jet engine in a fraction of the time). To be fair, other governments do this to (including the Germans), but the US/UK/Ca/Au/NZ is the most extensive, or was prior to China's operation.
That's why they started with child pornography. As TFA states, who can protest anything that appears to be a blow in the fight against child pornography? Anyone who protests this move will be easily labeled as either being naïvely soft on child porn, or as being some sort of pedophile themselves.
The next step? A "family friendly" ISP, that blocks all pornography all together. Then ISPs that block websites or forums where people discuss controversial topics like drug use. All in the name of being "family friendly," and at each step, pointing to the previous step when someone questions it ("Why are you blocking http://www.erowid.org/ ?" "Well, we block objectionable content all the time, such as pornography, because we are family friend.").
What the people responsible for this situation (that is, the suddenly lack of Usenet in New York State) don't seem to realize is that they will only get rid of the visible kiddy porn. The encrypted or steganographically hidden kiddy porn will be as pervasive as ever, because they wasted all their time taking down services like Usenet, rather than tracking down the pedophiles who used it.
There is a good reason this was tagged, "kdawsonfud." The person who reported the problem had caching-nameserver installed, not just bind, which explains why we aren't seeing widespread outages; most people don't install caching-nameserver when they don't want a caching nameserver.
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Sorry, I cannot reproduce any of your findings. Which release are you running? Which distro?
Try installing from updates-testing instead.
Enable the updates-testing repository for now. I did this on Sunday to get KDE 4.1 RC1 (4.0.99), presumably KDE 4.1.0 will be there soon (RC1 is a HUGE step forward from KDE 4.0).
AFAIK, the classifications of lasers refer to the power output. I believe IIIa means under 5mW...
As I said, I am not defending the Chinese government. But the method of policing kiddie porn here is essentially the same as the method of policing speech within the Chinese borders: ISPs and hosting services take down content, and the police occasionally raid higher priority figures.
You could, and the military has a large body of research on this (related to jamming security cameras). Part of the problem is that you need to use a laser, and people might get upset when (not if) your laser hits their eyes. An IR laser might do it, but that will still be detrimental to a person's movie viewing experience (and I don't know what a class IIIa IR laser would do to a retina anyway).
You know, I've been meaning to try out the superhero thing for a while. I have these things growing out of my hands, and it makes my current job as a programmer exceedingly difficult...
I nominate myself!
I was expecting something about a court case. I'm still a little confused.
What's amazing is that these studios seem to be focused on the losses they incur from a bad movie. That's unreal: the metric is not how good a movie is, but rather, how effectively they can trick people into seeing a really bad movie. One doesn't need special effects to make a great film, just talented and creative directors, writers, and actors. It would be one thing if they only mentioned it causally, but they mention it over and over again, as if their biggest fear is that piracy will expose them as shitty film makers.
I still remember the time when people would wait for movie critics to give their opinion on a movie before they went to see it. I also remember not wasting money on movies that received bad reviews.
Within the borders of China, there is the world's largest number of connected computer users. The fact that their communications across the border is restricted doesn't change the fact that they are online, it just means that they are not online in a "global" sense. Really, within China, the policing of the Internet is done by citizens who are following the laws of that nation; it is a stricter version of laws that require hosting services to take down kiddie porn here in the US. I'm not saying that China is justified in its laws, I'm just saying that the existence of those laws does not mean anything in terms of counting the number of connected users.
Then the tables should not have been shipped. No matter how you frame it, they cut some corner. If they decided to not support Linux just before they started flashing the BIOS, it would have only taken a day to safely remove the Linux table, and I would have more respect for them if they did so. As I said, if they couldn't put in the effort to remove some BIOS code, what other features did they decide to drop support for but didn't bother to actually remove from the product?
It is cutting corners if they included a Linux specific table, which is broken, and never bothered to test under Linux. It is a sign that they managed that specific motherboard, and possibly others, poorly. It is hard to say whether or not the board will have problems with unusual configurations or uses, even with Windows, that they may not have tested either. If they don't support Linux, they shouldn't ship a motherboard with any Linux specific code. It would be like you developing a Windows app, then creating and distributing source that can be compiled for Linux but crashes when it is run.
It is a mixed win for free software (if it happens). On the one hand, there will no longer be any barrier to creating a FLV codec for SPARC or other non-x86 non-Adobe Flash architectures. On the other hand, it will create an entirely new minefield of patents, where certain software would only be legal on certain hardware, and nobody could really say what the legal status of their computer is ("I have a dual core x86_64 machine with 4GB of RAM. Can I use this MP3 codec?"). I could also see powerful corporations trying to obtain a series of patents for the most popular computer configurations, and continuing to demand royalties.
I am in a negative mood today.
The problem with software patents is that they are too easy to unwittingly violate. Even a very specific sounding patent could wind up being violated, just because it is easy to unknowingly embed one system in another. This is where the mathematical roots of CS show through. Worse, the existence of prior art may not be so easy to determine -- the prior art may itself be embedded in a larger system, hidden from view.
I've said it before, I'll say it again: Apple hates developers. Any developer not working for Apple, to be specific. They begrudgingly created a developer website for Mac OS X, just so that MSDN and the millions of open source communities wouldn't completely show them up. If Apple had its way, they would be the only developer of software for Apple products. A bit of a change from Apple ][ days, but then again, so is Mac OS X.
And that efficiency is really important. An electric engine does not need to sit there spinning for no reason while the car is not in motion (a common situation if your car is in a city). An electric engine converts more energy into useful mechanical motion than into heat (though in a hybrid that is not truly optimal; a BEV really wins on this one). An electric engine doesn't need to use any energy to pump exhaust out of itself. Really, this would wind up saving a lot of energy and money for the people who use it.
I personally started with C++, and I was programming little (terrible) games on DOS using DJGPP. To be quite honest, I had never been more excited than when I managed to get a magenta dot to appear on my screen, by directly accessing video memory. If I had started with Python, I would have missed out on that.
Then again, writing directly to the screen in this day and age is a bit trickier.
JBOSS is a division of Red Hat, and Red Hat provides extensive JBOSS support. In fact, JBOSS running on RHEL 5 has a higher security rating than almost every other commercial software package. My guess is that the authors of the article decided to go with the community version of JBOSS, which does not have the support from Red Hat. This is somewhat typical of attempts to make open source packages look bad: talk about enterprise security, then evaluate a non-enterprise package.
That list is a bunch of unrelated packages. Hibernate is not an application server, it is an ORM. OFBiz is an automation framework that runs on top of an application server. Hipergate is a collection of various web apps that run on an application server.
.NET, Matlab, and Age of Empires."
They also forgot to have a proprietary package -- so the comparison is between open source packages. They might as well say, "Proprietary software poses a security risk. We've evaluated
I apologize, I seem to have gotten some fact mixed up. I'll do better homework next time!
Actually, that's not quite correct. During the cold war, the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand ran a massive signal intercepting operation against the USSR's satellites, and (presumably) against its cables also. Following the collapse of the USSR, rumors started circling about this operation being used against the businesses of other countries, and it was revealed (unofficially) that several high profile businesses were being aided by their respective governments in literally stealing plans from foreign businesses (the case that comes to mind was a German firm that developed a new jet engine, and "coincidentally" Boeing managed to develop a nearly identical jet engine in a fraction of the time). To be fair, other governments do this to (including the Germans), but the US/UK/Ca/Au/NZ is the most extensive, or was prior to China's operation.
That's why they started with child pornography. As TFA states, who can protest anything that appears to be a blow in the fight against child pornography? Anyone who protests this move will be easily labeled as either being naïvely soft on child porn, or as being some sort of pedophile themselves.
The next step? A "family friendly" ISP, that blocks all pornography all together. Then ISPs that block websites or forums where people discuss controversial topics like drug use. All in the name of being "family friendly," and at each step, pointing to the previous step when someone questions it ("Why are you blocking http://www.erowid.org/ ?" "Well, we block objectionable content all the time, such as pornography, because we are family friend.").
"Despite what the article says, I haven't seen any actual evidence that the "agreement" is to stop carrying Usenet newsgroups."
How about the fact that a 6 weeks ago, Roadrunner stopped serving Usenet altogether?
What the people responsible for this situation (that is, the suddenly lack of Usenet in New York State) don't seem to realize is that they will only get rid of the visible kiddy porn. The encrypted or steganographically hidden kiddy porn will be as pervasive as ever, because they wasted all their time taking down services like Usenet, rather than tracking down the pedophiles who used it.
There is a good reason this was tagged, "kdawsonfud." The person who reported the problem had caching-nameserver installed, not just bind, which explains why we aren't seeing widespread outages; most people don't install caching-nameserver when they don't want a caching nameserver.