And you expect us to have sympathy? Do you have any idea how high the pile of gold is that the telecom dragons are sleeping on? They offered unlimited, and it's not our problem if they only give you a tiny budget to work with.
I'm sure the IETF is pulling their hair out (along with slashdot), but the reason that ISPs don't deliver on their bandwidth promises is because they can get away with it. They make more money oversubscribing their bandwidth and not giving you what you pay for. So that's what they do. That's the price of freedom- capitalism.
Port forwarding eh? Think your ISP is going to set up a port forwarding rule to forward your bittorrent traffic? There aren't even enough ports if they wanted to.
NAT will solve the problems, but why live with that when we can actually come up with a viable solution- IPv6? It will be expensive to implement because, like always, past engineers haven't planned for their 1970s technologies to ever go out of date, and whiny slashdotters will finally have to upgrade their windows boxes to Vista because XP has 1990s networking support (read that pdf if you don't believe me). But we'll end up with a significantly better Internet than if we just keep expanding NATs around more and more IP addresses to free up address space.. the way we're going, eventually (and keep in mind that "eventually" in computing usually turns out to be in less than a decade) you're going to have to be a multibillion-dollar conglomorate representing thousands of web hosting companies just to bid for a single 5-address block of address space... though the way inflation's going, little billy and his friends might be able to pool their allowance and come up with that kind of money:) But can you imagine how horrifying the architecture of the internet will be if the solution is NAT, NAT, NAT? Development in router design is already unable to keep up with traffic growth. How are you going to pay for a $100 million server farm just to manage the American Eastern Seaboard NAT, and can you imagine what the latency would be to go through a 10 terabyte NAT table? Might as well upgrade to IPv6, save yourself the trouble of trying to stay v4.
It's because of their history- Microsoft has never been transparent, and any interoperability they've promised has always turned into embrace, extend and extinguish.
What happened to problems with KB938371? Their little Windows Update updater that paves the way for the SP1 update is causing big problems here where I work- I'm looking at 3 machines right now that it's refusing to install on.
Are you serious? There are hundreds of millions of PCs in the world (billions?), and the vast majority of them aren't properly secured. Also the vast majority of them have 10 smiley toolbars and take 45 minutes to boot.
I'll reply to all 3 identical comments above at once- I purposefully didn't say anything about the first amendment because I know that companies aren't bound by the Constitution. But it's the spirit of America and of freedom, and it's what Americans (well, slashdotters anyway) expect.
That's ridiculous- Intel has a well-documented instruction set IA-32 that compilers compile to. They have instruction set extensions like MMX and SSE, but they're part of the instruction set. What would a CPU driver even do? How are you going to install it without using the processor? How does it even make sense to communicate with the driver without using the driver itself? Or can you even imagine how slow it would be to check a ROM for instruction updates every time you want to jmp or ld? How the heck would that even work, x86 processors aren't exactly field programmable..
The American political system is about getting the most votes; if planes scare Americans then that's what they're going to lock down- why would you expect anything else from a constitutional republic? Also about airports.. why not just get the national guard involved? You sure don't see many incidents in Israel that got beyond "Man pulls gun in airport, gets hand then head blasted off with 50 caliber sniper rifle"..
(the product is blue construction paper that you cut out and glue to the cd tray)
Normally, it is a somewhat laid back player. Not anymore. The music is so very much more alive, with detail now more up there with the rest of the music, making for a powerful and dynamic listening experience. I also feared that cutting the paper to fit would be a difficult job. Wrong again! I just had to experiment with laying the pieces on the tray in various ways then I knew what to do. Thanks so much for this incredible improvement! If I hadn't heard it myself I'd have thought it impossible. I've long known stray laser light was a problem but never did I imagine that so much comes off the cd tray.
Everyone's thinking it: or Terminator. AI research is very interesting, and simulated neural networks blow me away with their complexity, but just WHY apply it to robots? If you end up creating anything useful, you'll be playing very close to some very deeply-ingrained human fears.. and if you think Slashdot is progressive/liberal enough to be immune from such fears, have you ever struggled against a disconcertingly powerful optical drive servo trying to pull a disk tray open? Yeah. Now you remember.:)
I don't really get this obsession with robotics and non-technical interfaces.. it's horrifyingly inefficient to be following people's faces around while trying to process something else, and waving your arms around doesn't really seem like a very effective input mechanism.
I am so not impressed by this.. the self-styled "kernel" that actually does anything in Mathematica is already a separate executable, and there are multiple open source frontends to the mathematica kernel. So basically they're just using ol CGI to access the kernel and making some javascript frontend that does the exact same thing as existing frontends, but in a browser..
Good point! I wonder why photoshop- it's really not that excellent, it just has some powerful plugins that should be ported to GIMP instead of unnecessarily porting the entire program. Also I wonder how Adobe's macrovision DRM services are going to be ported to an open operating system?.. I mean, the code would port, but unless they start rolling out free will inhibitors, no project group would EVER allow it into their repos...
I don't really know anything about chroot security either, but the first thing that occurs to me is that there's way too much code running/setuid'd as root or in kernel/driver space to just change the filesystem interface and expect that to be secure. You can't possibly lock down every interface in all of this code without a more pervasive solution.. especially since we can barely (read: we can't) keep code listening on internet-accessable ports secure from buffer/integer overflows and other tricky business. How on earth are you going to lock down everything from cron to ls?
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And you expect us to have sympathy? Do you have any idea how high the pile of gold is that the telecom dragons are sleeping on? They offered unlimited, and it's not our problem if they only give you a tiny budget to work with.
I'm sure the IETF is pulling their hair out (along with slashdot), but the reason that ISPs don't deliver on their bandwidth promises is because they can get away with it. They make more money oversubscribing their bandwidth and not giving you what you pay for. So that's what they do. That's the price of freedom- capitalism.
Port forwarding eh? Think your ISP is going to set up a port forwarding rule to forward your bittorrent traffic? There aren't even enough ports if they wanted to.
NAT will solve the problems, but why live with that when we can actually come up with a viable solution- IPv6? It will be expensive to implement because, like always, past engineers haven't planned for their 1970s technologies to ever go out of date, and whiny slashdotters will finally have to upgrade their windows boxes to Vista because XP has 1990s networking support (read that pdf if you don't believe me). But we'll end up with a significantly better Internet than if we just keep expanding NATs around more and more IP addresses to free up address space.. the way we're going, eventually (and keep in mind that "eventually" in computing usually turns out to be in less than a decade) you're going to have to be a multibillion-dollar conglomorate representing thousands of web hosting companies just to bid for a single 5-address block of address space... though the way inflation's going, little billy and his friends might be able to pool their allowance and come up with that kind of money :) But can you imagine how horrifying the architecture of the internet will be if the solution is NAT, NAT, NAT? Development in router design is already unable to keep up with traffic growth. How are you going to pay for a $100 million server farm just to manage the American Eastern Seaboard NAT, and can you imagine what the latency would be to go through a 10 terabyte NAT table? Might as well upgrade to IPv6, save yourself the trouble of trying to stay v4.
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Students with automatically-installing windows updates turned on? This is tech support, we're not production anything.
It's because of their history- Microsoft has never been transparent, and any interoperability they've promised has always turned into embrace, extend and extinguish.
What happened to problems with KB938371? Their little Windows Update updater that paves the way for the SP1 update is causing big problems here where I work- I'm looking at 3 machines right now that it's refusing to install on.
Are you serious? There are hundreds of millions of PCs in the world (billions?), and the vast majority of them aren't properly secured. Also the vast majority of them have 10 smiley toolbars and take 45 minutes to boot.
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I'll reply to all 3 identical comments above at once- I purposefully didn't say anything about the first amendment because I know that companies aren't bound by the Constitution. But it's the spirit of America and of freedom, and it's what Americans (well, slashdotters anyway) expect.
That's ridiculous- Intel has a well-documented instruction set IA-32 that compilers compile to. They have instruction set extensions like MMX and SSE, but they're part of the instruction set. What would a CPU driver even do? How are you going to install it without using the processor? How does it even make sense to communicate with the driver without using the driver itself? Or can you even imagine how slow it would be to check a ROM for instruction updates every time you want to jmp or ld? How the heck would that even work, x86 processors aren't exactly field programmable..
.."AMD Processor Driver" that I see installed on so many customers' machines? I roll my eyes every time I see it
The word is "impingned upon" and if he's been fired for protected speech then that's impigned in my book.
The American political system is about getting the most votes; if planes scare Americans then that's what they're going to lock down- why would you expect anything else from a constitutional republic? Also about airports.. why not just get the national guard involved? You sure don't see many incidents in Israel that got beyond "Man pulls gun in airport, gets hand then head blasted off with 50 caliber sniper rifle"..
I really can't blame you if you're from west africa or something, but try to track with me here:
There is such a thing as free speech, and americans, including this guy, expect it.
Waving your arms around? The Wii has that kind of UI.. great as a menu interface, sucked for actually playing the games though.
Everyone's thinking it: or Terminator. AI research is very interesting, and simulated neural networks blow me away with their complexity, but just WHY apply it to robots? If you end up creating anything useful, you'll be playing very close to some very deeply-ingrained human fears.. and if you think Slashdot is progressive/liberal enough to be immune from such fears, have you ever struggled against a disconcertingly powerful optical drive servo trying to pull a disk tray open? Yeah. Now you remember. :)
I don't really get this obsession with robotics and non-technical interfaces.. it's horrifyingly inefficient to be following people's faces around while trying to process something else, and waving your arms around doesn't really seem like a very effective input mechanism.
In any case, after reading that blog post, I'm never, ever watching one second of CNN again..
I am so not impressed by this.. the self-styled "kernel" that actually does anything in Mathematica is already a separate executable, and there are multiple open source frontends to the mathematica kernel. So basically they're just using ol CGI to access the kernel and making some javascript frontend that does the exact same thing as existing frontends, but in a browser..
Or just rip the disks and compress them..
Good point! I wonder why photoshop- it's really not that excellent, it just has some powerful plugins that should be ported to GIMP instead of unnecessarily porting the entire program. Also I wonder how Adobe's macrovision DRM services are going to be ported to an open operating system?.. I mean, the code would port, but unless they start rolling out free will inhibitors, no project group would EVER allow it into their repos...
I don't really know anything about chroot security either, but the first thing that occurs to me is that there's way too much code running/setuid'd as root or in kernel/driver space to just change the filesystem interface and expect that to be secure. You can't possibly lock down every interface in all of this code without a more pervasive solution.. especially since we can barely (read: we can't) keep code listening on internet-accessable ports secure from buffer/integer overflows and other tricky business. How on earth are you going to lock down everything from cron to ls?