I've been on /. long enough to remember when most people here leaned libertarian. Ian Freeman would've been celebrated as a hero. I'm shocked at the current unquestioning acceptance of whatever the Establishment media says. Sad.

Here's a different take on this story and a deep dive into Ian Freeman.

I'm shocked!

What was this project called? The functionality sounds very similar to VirtualGL, but the history sounds like a different project.

In that (quite interesting) post the author frequently wonders "WTF were they thinking?". E.g. did they think we would not notice that the screens on all the computers on both floors were identical? My wife is from China where not so long ago everthing was identical, down to the progaganda art on the wall. Her immediate answer when I asked her was "duh, they don't care what the delegates thought, the whole exercise is to show pictures to the local NK population about how the great foreign technical leaders liked the NK technical office". I think we tend to forget that: it isn't the delegates that Pyongyang is afraid of, its their own people.

Evil forces attract?

If you want Thunderbird to act like Gmail then you need to:

• 1. (like above) put replies in folder being replied to. (I also put sent messages there, so the whole conversation's in one place)
• 2. Install the Thunderbird Coversations add-on. I like the conversation view better than Thunderbird's default. It also lets you reply on the same page if you want.

One could be hung over for long time on that. Unless, of course, you meant to say "imagine $50 million for improving Free apps so Wine isn't needed".

Just look at the software universe with all these individuals and companies using GPL products, contributing back so everyone benefits. If this parasite continues who knows how many hours might get wasted on doing real work instead of reinventing the software wheel, and messing with licensing servers.

Oh, wait, trying to compare communism to GPL software (which is what Stallman promotes) is like saying "I don't want everyone to share this nice view," since if we had a painting of the view and all tried to posess it simultaneously it wouldn't work. Software isn't a physical good; you can copy it without taking it away from someone else.

That, and what's with "a Canadian dude did this, lets put a Canada logo on this story" instead of "oh, a technology story, lets put a tech logo".

Unless I just uncovered the fallback plan: if it doesn't work out then Blame Canada!

That's your phone ringing. A phreak from the 80's begs to differ:

{cheap, secure enough}: choose one.

I picked up a Yamakasi Catleap a few weeks ago. No dead pixels that I can find. Looks incredible. The chassis appears to be made from cheap plastic but it's not an eyesore or anything. So much real estate!

What card are you running that has limited palette? I haven't had that since I gave up my ISA Trident 9000 card. (For sake of argument I'm considering a 24-bit RGB signal as "unlimited". Consumers aren't going to go worrying about a 10-bit LUT in their hardware).

Karen Sandler has a great talk about how pacemaker-type devices (she has one) are completely closed-source, nobody (including the doctors who install them) cares, and the FDA doesn't/can't do much more than rubber stamp the software. Most of these devices now have unencrypted wireless access.

sudo kill -9 heartbeat Is a real possibility with these devices.

Maybe they just fixed their usage of V4L. A lot of cameras didn't work unless you did a stupid hack like :

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype

Using an md5sum greatly reduces your keyspace, so while it may still be strong enough for your needs, it's significantly weaker than you'd expect for a 32-character password.

[0-9a-f] is 15 characters. 15^32 = 4 x 10^37

Using a normal key range:
[0-9a-zA-Z+symbols] 62 + ~32 symbols on a standard US keyboard = ~94 characters. 94^19 = 4 x 10^37

Thus, you are entering in 32 characters but only getting the strength of 19.