After a quick calculation, for an optimistic 12 years, you are actually looking at 3 Gbps so yeah, not that great.

Dude.

19M SD cards. Let's be crazy and say you can insert an SD card, read all its content and remove it in 10 seconds (which is *highly* optimistic at 64Gb per SD card). You are looking at 190M seconds just to read which translates to over 6 years! Let's be even crazier and suppose that writing takes the same time and we're now at over 12 years.

That read and write time does lower the "New York to Los Angeles" bandwidth significantly (even more so if we use realistic read and write times).

I guess it depends on what you want to do (backups might fit not so badly in this scheme maybe?) and sneakernet might have uses, but AC makes a valid point.

Have a look at what your typical DSDT looks like and you may get an idea why shit doesn't work well (well, not always).

Basically, the DSDT is a table which the BIOS passes to the system to tell it what the ACPI is on the current machine. One of the "nice features" of the DSDT is its use of conditionals which look something like this (in BASH-like pseudo-code):

if [ _OS = "Windows XP Pro" ]; then /*Define the DSDT for Win XP here*/
else if [ _OS = "Windows 98" ]; then /*define the DSDT for Win98 here*/
else /*Well, we don't support you, so you are on your own*/
fi

One of the ways Linux-acpi tried to get this to work was to define _OS as "Windows XP Pro", but IIRC that didn't work because some vendors provide really broken DSDT who enable certain things under Win98 but disable it under Win XP (and conversely). In short, it is a mess.
So, at some point the way to get things to work was to extract the DSDT, modify it to pass Intel's compiler checks and once everything was sane, override the system one with this correct one via a bootloader option. This approach was eventually abandoned and the current approach is to try to get things to work "out-of-the-box". How that can be pulled off in these conditions is beyond me.

I do not know how to explain why the fact that the company that dev'ed the hardware developing the Windows drivers means it works there but nowhere else.

Then the application gives a "clean break" at compile-time or segfaults if not recompiled. This happens all the time (“if not maintained, software rots”), use maintained applications or don't update your kernel.

Security bugs are most likely handled differently, I do not know.

That's your opinion. When you actually understand what he talks about, you may understand why he “acts like a child” (I'm not exactly sure what that means anyway). I'm guessing Linus is pretty good at what he does considering how nobody decided to fork yet.

> If a child is OK with it, why do you bother?

The rhetoric is that a child is not legally able to give consent, so all sex with a child is legally rape.
A line had to be drawn somewhere, be it 16, 18 or 21 or whatever else in your country.

As for hypothetical situations where two children have sex, you take naked pictures of yourself as a child and circulate them as an adult, etc. I do not know. I suppose it would have to be tried in court.

And, you base this on what? AFAIK Linus as always been like that. When did "the change" occur?

Are you talking about Linus here? Did you even read the mailing-list thread? You make no sense.

Ok, you *definitely* didn't read the thread.

That is a good description of terrorism.

That being said, I am not sure "ignoring" the attacks is the *right* way to react to terrorism, although for different reasons.
I think the right way to handle terrorism is to "ignore" the attacks but to oppose the behaviour causing the attacks in the first place.

What do I mean by that? I mean this world of ours is West-dominated. I mean that there is food for thought on whether the West is really the good guy it is depicted to be in culture. I don't think I can explain what I mean in a short enough form for it to be readable by the Internet passerby, so I'll just add this: I think that while some Westerners are acting in good faith (humanitarian work mostly), the policy-makers of the "powerful and free" US and its friends are probably causing these outbreaks.

"Imposing" peace with guns is the equivalent of cooling boiling oil by dropping ice in it: it is too violent, too sudden.

It seems a widespread belief in the security field that security through obscurity (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2008.06.obscurity.aspx, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity) is not a good security measure (it is better than nothing, but it isn't on par with real security measures).

In this sense, the openness of GNU/Linux makes it easier for people to understand and secure systems while Windows' closed-sourceness makes it harder.

It could be argued that openness means easiness to crack into, but that is not really important because you don't need to understand exactly how a system works to crack into it (I am not well versed in cracking, but I know that some reputed crackers use techniques such as randomly changing bits in the input one at a time until an application crashes and go from there). That means that open or not, crackers can exploit a system. But, an open system is easier for security professionals to review and therefore to fix (that does require intricate knowledge of how the system works).

In that sense, openness means better security. In the most extreme case, you could review all parts of Linux and therefore run only code you trust yourself. In the case of Windows, you have to trust Microsoft (in itself, that is not a problem as you need to have a network of trust, the problem is that you are FORCED to trust them).

In fatalwall's defense, a low Slashdot ID means the person registered with Slashdot a long time ago which means they should be somewhat knowledgeable about stuff Slashdot talks about. I think it is a reasonable assumption on fatalwall's part.

Why not? Why can't I use my domain primarily as a nameserver, a mail exchanger or simply to connect to the machine it resolves to for any other activity than Web? This is a genuine question by the way as I am unaware of the rules regarding domain name disputes and squatting.

In this case, I don't think it is squatting per se. As the comments on TFA point out, it seems more like the guy registered a domain relating to the first-gen Xbox (xbox one like Play Station 1, Iron Man 1, Gears of War 1, Halo 1, what-have-you-single-title-turned-into-a-franchise 1).

Then again that is pure speculation on my part and I have no proof to back up my claim.

I think what your Parent meant was that illegally downloading movies is non-commercial (in the cases we are talking about at least) and that the worst those people would face should they decide to go to court is 5000$ (with a likely fine of 100$).

It's not crazy talk, actually, it has been tried before, they call it communism (same wage for everybody).

Suppose you do tax the wealthiest more (say you increase the tax rate by delta_x %) to provide assistance to the poorest. Now, suppose that for one reason or another you need more, what do you do, tax wealthy people even more? Repeat as necessary. I am not saying there is such a thing as a perfect system, but your rhetoric begs the question: "More, ok, but how much more?". At some point, if by making more money (probably by working more than you would have otherwise) people just end up giving it in taxes, my guess is that they will either change country/find a way to avoid it (1$ salary)/not work to earn more (hence, everybody gets the same wage -> communism*)

On the other hand, there will always be people that live by achieving as little as possible (I'm certainly not saying every poor person is like that), giving them education/services/etc. won't change them unfortunately.

What's my point? None in fact save for saying I don't think fixing the world's problems is as easy as that.

*No need to tell me how communism isn't only about equal wage, thank you

OpenWRT code wasn't stolen. If anything, Brainslayer (main dd-wrt dev) just doesn't respect the GPL fully (dd-wrt integrates proprietary binary-only drivers in a way that the GPL forbids).

That being said, even though I don't fully agree with how Brainslayer treats the GPL, I think it is fair to say that dd-wrt contributes in a positive manner to popularizing OpenWRT (Brainslayer and OpenWRT devs even seem to talk and share code and advices from what I read).

If you want to learn more, here's an article about it and if you really don't agree with how dd-wrt does things, use OpenWRT, Tomato, HyperWRT or whatever else. Personally, I use OpenWRT (you have to know your way around to use it), but for most people, OpenWRT is too complicated and dd-wrt is already less proprietary than default (and it gives more exposure to projects like OpenWRT).

Depends on where you live. Theft is defined, for example, in Canada's Criminal Code here (the definition says "if you take something without having been specifically allowed to" rather than "only if you are specifically denied the right to").

But that definition is mostly irrelevant here since OpenWRT code wasn't stolen.