From your link it wasn't a root certificate when it was signed, ie: by the "in the browser definition".

Basically you've given me proof that they could sign each other's certificates. But that they don't because they're untrustworthy.

Hmmm.

At first this struck me as wrong. Mostly because all CA certificates are self signed.

The I found a question, "why don't the CAs sign each other's certificates?"
It's possible, they just never do it.
Is it perhaps that they don't trust each other!
If they don't trust each other why should we trust them ?

Oh okay, I obviously didn't go far enough up the thread.

But that does make me wonder why people would be so enamoured with this chip, a video controller that can't (it appears) share the memory with some other DMA/CPU etc chip and forces all accesses to it's memory to be made through a 'pin hole' of a couple of I/O ports really strikes me as a bit of a deal killer whatever other features it might have.

The vast majority of people throughout history died before the age of 25. We as a species would not have survived with such a serious mistake in our makeup.

The brain does continue to change, because at that age the human brain has more interconnectivity that at any other time. Most of those paths are never used and get reabsorbed. Somewhere after about 18 most of the paths that will be deleted are gone and many people basically stop learning.

So these 'mature' brains are ones that will never learn and will never discover anything new. That doesn't sound right, that's not 'mature' that's ossified.

Children have fully adult brain function at an average of age eight. The rest of childhood, as far as the brain is concerned, is learning stuff, beginning with the word "WHY"!

The only reason that a 17 year old makes a bad decision is lack of experience and lack of knowledge. In everything except sex (and in America alcohol) children are explicitly taught about "important things".

As for the word "Pedophilia" it's been redefined (like Moron, Idiot and Hacker) by the media to mean something like "a creepy picture of an older guy who's rumoured or 'proven' to have sex with a female of 18 or under". Yes according to the media having "legal sex" can be "Pedophilia", it's hardly surprising, after all you've just done it, the age of consent in most America states is 16.

Then we have the law, it's just made up of people, often they get things right, but ignorance, peer pressure and propaganda can make fools of anyone.

On the contrary, many 8-bits had memory mapped video. Commodore (VIC/64/Amiga), Sinclair (Spectrum, zx81, zx80, dist by Timex in the US) Atari, VT100 ... etc etc. Not that there weren't machines with distinct video RAM, the Commodore PET had specific video memory, though it was still mapped into the address space like a modern PC video card. Having the video RAM in a inaccessible (I/O bus) location was rare.

The reason was simple, at that point in time only a relatively small amount of RAM was needed for the machines and it ended up being faster than the CPU. So much so that you could assign 50% of the RAM bandwidth to the video subsystem without impacting the speed of the processor at all.

The ZX81, however, was a bit of a foreshadowing of things to come. It was built really, really, cheaply and they used really cheap DRAM. This cheap RAM wasn't fast enough to feed both the CPU and the video at the same time so the CPU was basically turned off when the video was being displayed (In fact it was physically used as a counter chip by the ultra cheap video controller).

Nowadays people want astronomical quantities of RAM so it basically has to be the cheapest design possible; this type of RAM can't keep up with just one CPU, let alone multiple CPUs and a video controller. So the video controller has to reduce the performance of the main CPUs by stealing cycles, or it gets it's own RAM.

Note: There are several Intel video controllers for PC clones that use main memory as the video RAM, they get added as a cheap motherboard video controller. Because of the fact that they're using slow RAM and stealing cycles from the CPU these are rightfully seen as very low performance.

On the other side, a common mistake for designs with distinct video RAM is that the CPU only ever needs to write to this RAM, unfortunately the problem is frequently only recognised in production.

I managed to resist in that message, but I still want to know why the slashdot programmers are happy looking like complete morons.

Will they ever get unamerican character sets working, or are they just bigots.

I've heard they think they have a problem with unicode control and composing characters, give me a break! A level 1 filter to filter everything that isn't a graphic LTR character is a couple of minutes work!!

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Um, no. It's true if you play the disk/tape every day the VHS will wear out in less than 100 passes. But even if you leave them on the shelf the DVD±R will rot, it will get harder to play it will skip and judder until the day, very soon, that it's no longer seen as a DVD±R. The VHS will just sit there for decades.

Pressed silver DVDs do last longer, but repeated handling will eventually make them delaminate.

At this point in time I understand the best high capacity digital archive format is the DLT/LTO style tape cassette, it should reliably last at least 20 years on the shelf or 250 full passes whichever is sooner with no handling issues. Writeable DVDs usually die in less than five years.

If you want lots of playbacks, put it on the hard disk in your PVR.

heh, heh. I had to look up the guy's name, Dijkstra's algorithm is probably the worst algorithm you can use that will actually get the job done. It's a simple brute force breadth first search, no good programmer has to remember it. Like "bubble sort", "selection sort", "linear search" and a load of similar algorithms it's something that'll be reinvented when you run out of ideas.

Hell, it doesn't even have the simple optimisation of starting from both ends.

Don't be silly. Putting stuff under the GPL is the closest thing to abolishing copyright that you (as an individual) can do. It gives out your code in a public domain equivalent and makes sure that nobody can slap their own copyright onto it. It's been described as judo against the copyright system.

No contradiction.