... from its other uses. If they create a waterproof version, you will no longer have to take your hands off your "weapon" when cybering on IRC. Profit!
... and I'm not even sure why you'd say the link that gave you that impression. The Eclipse codebase was started by OTI, which was bought by IBM. The Eclipse Foundation was then started to provide a neutral governing body to act as a steward for Eclipse. So, given that IBMers created it, and many of those same IBMers are still working on it, I'm not sure how you can say they've wrestled it away from whomever originally started it.
How is this different than getting your prints taken when your arrested? Or do they only take prints when your charged where as this wants DNA if you're charged or not...?
Now granted, I am not a forensics expert, but the reason this scares me so much more is it does not seem easy to me to take my inky fingerprints off of a piece of paper and somehow turn that into fake fingerprints on evidence for some crime I didn't commit. I'm sure it could be done, but it seems like a huge pain in the ass to somehow replicate the oil on a person's fingers (or maybe you don't have to, maybe all you need is something stick for the fingerprinting material the forensics guys use to stick to, I doubt they check to make sure it's actual fingerprint oil... but I digress), print up a fake fingerprint using it, somehow transport that in a non destructive manner, and then convincingly apply this to the murder weapon or what have you. Maybe the CIA can do this, and would for someone they REALLY wanted to get, but this is probably beyond the capabilities of your average police detective.
Contrast this with a DNA-laden blood sample. Any monkey can take a blood sample, and with a little splash of blood here, and a little dash there, voila! "We found the accused's blood on the victim's body."
Both are scary, but the latter is a lot more practical, and given the weight which is given to DNA evidence (e.g. it's easy to argue "well my fingerprints are on that door knob because we were friends and I go over there all the time" but hard to argue as to why your blood is on a dead person's clothes), I think the DNA scenario scares me a lot more.
I own the trademarks for the colours red(TM), green(TM), and blue(TM). All other colours/colors are hereby decreed to be derivative works of my important trademark. You must all cease and desist from all usage of these colors/colours, including the emission, reflection, or refraction of any photons in the visible spectrum from any object or surface whatsoever. Pure black is OK as it is technically not a colour and contains neither red, nor green, nor blue. However, grey/gray are infringing colours/colors as these contain white, which is a combination of red(TM), green(TM), and blue(TM).
$250 to carry around half an album. Genius! You really had to be a gimmick fan to be an early adopter for mp3 players.
Or a jogger.
I remember at the time most CD players (and MP3 CD players eventually) had a bad problem with skipping if you ran with one strapped to your belt. There was so called "anti-skip" technology (just a buffer that in theory would get you through the period you skipped the disc), but it didn't work very well. Vigorous joggers (or rope jumpers, etc.) would find that their players still skipped. I had a few friends that were early adopters of flash based players because flash just didn't skip. It was better to listen to half an album than it was to have a full CD and be constantly annoyed by the audio cutting out.
So, ok... you could use this to compromise a real machine, collecting the numbers but still allowing the transactions to go through, but it's not like you were safe yesterday and suddenly vulnerable today.
Criminals have already been setting up fake card readers on ATMs and Pay At The Pump machines here in Canada. Your card physically goes through their reader before it gets to the real reader on the machine, then a hidden camera records you punching in your pin. Later the criminals retrieve the data from the magnetic stripes and retrieve the video, and combining the two they empty your bank account at various ATMs.
Criminals have also setup completely fake ATMs (effectively trojan horses) which just record your card's magnetic stripe and the PIN you type in, and then pretend to phone home to the bank for the transaction, when really they just blindly dump out some seed cash that the criminals have stocked the machine with in order to make the transaction seem legit (they will make it back theoretically in the funds they drain from you afterwards). Or hell, if they are feeling particularly greedy, they can just blink up "transaction failed, network down" or something and not even give you the seed money.
The point is, this doesn't change a lot. Theoretically any machine might be a fake, or might be compromised. There's nothing stopping someone from taking the guts out of one of the machines in the article and replacing those guts with their own custom hardware that just pretends to fail the transaction while it records your stripe and PIN. Granted, it's easier to get away with putting a compromised machine into a legitimate business without the collusion of the proprietor if the machine actually carries out the transactions, otherwise the mook at the till is going to report to management that the machine is broken and the company will send a repairman with a new machine to replace your compromised one. But in a small mom and pop business where the proprietors are colluding with (or themselves are) criminals, the scam is easily run, and since there is no real transaction going to the banks (remember the transaction "failed" as far as the customer knows), there isn't even any data to mine to determine that all these people shopped at Shady Underworld Convenience.
With every transaction you make, you are taking some form of risk. It might be a low risk, or even a calculated one, but it's still a risk. You have no way of knowing what is going on in that machine when you swipe your card and enter your PIN. Period. All you can do if you are going to use debit/credit is try to use machines that are less likely to be fake compromised, and you should still audit your transactions often so that if you do become a victim of theft/fraud, you can catch it as soon as possible.
I very much doubt that Google are paying new grads $110K+
Hard to say actually. Salaries in and around Silicon Valley (Google is HQ'ed in Mountain View, CA) tend to be inflated due to the high cost of living. It's been a few years so maybe my data is stale, but five years ago people on $100k salaries in that area were still only able to live in shitty apartments and drive shitty cars.
The fallacy is when a new grad hears "Google pays $100k" and assumes they are worth that everywhere. Market salaries vary a lot geographically due to geographical variation in the cost of living.
If this is true, then it effectively means that the world can be AIDS free in a generation.
I don't know. Just because someone is not sexually transmissive doesn't mean that they couldn't say infect someone by sharing a needle. IANAD, but I'm willing to bet the amount of virus present in pure blood is much higher than that contained in other fluids like semen.
Actually, they do. And, it's Eclipse and CDT based, so I would say that anyone that claims Nokia is not a friend of open source is mistaken. I am a committer on CDT, and I can vouch for the fact that the Nokia folks that work on Carbide have been making some significant contributions to CDT... enough that they have a committer on the project as well.
And let's not forget that they own a controlling interest in Symbian, who does make OSes.
Microsoft has now patented Vista's User Account Control (UAC) feature as a "frustration causation system." Combined with the frustration detection/matchmaking service, they now have found a way to defer all responsibilities for support for Vista to the community.
What really needs to happen in order to make mobile gamers happy is Nintendo needs to make a version of the DS that has an integrated cell phone and a soft-keyboard on the lower screen for SMS/IM/email. Let me seamlessly drop out of a game to answer the phone or type a quick message and come back again where I left off.
I remember seeing a 3D Java app from some NASA (or some NASA-related website) where you could view, in simulated real-time, the position of all the known satellites that are currently orbiting the Earth. It included the ISS, and Mir before it was brought down. I wonder if Google has any plan to incorporate that kind of thing into their application. It would be pretty cool if I could zoom into my house, and see (real-time if possible) what satellites were passing over my house just by zooming out enough.
Here is a link to the NASA site you are talking about.
Even Google does this, it would only be civilian satellites. I doubt the US government would be happy if Al Queda or whomever could log on to Google Earth and see when there are no spy satellites overhead.
I wonder if any satellite enthusiasts have "reverse engineered" where these satellites are. The fact is that these things are in the sky for all to see with a telescope at least in theory. How much can you really camouflage a satellite? Even if they make use of stealth technology, I would think they'd still be optically visible. With the cost it takes to build one and put it up in the sky, they are built for long-term use, which generally means great big solar panels, which are hard to hide.
Is this a joke? SDL is not comparable to DirectX in any way, especially since it runs on top of DirectX in Windows.
Any two things are comparable. By definition when you compare two things, you may find that they are *gasp* not the same! Perhaps they are even completely unlike!
comparable != analogous
And let's not talk about whether you can compare comparable to analogous, otherwise the universe might rip itself apart...
The short answer: you can't customize the views any more than you can with the Windows version.
The long answer: The Linux version of Notes is almost identical to the Windows version in terms of behavior -- it's just a native Notes plugin running inside of the eclipse framework. Pretty much everything inside the window frame is identical to Windows, so any supposed limitations of the Windows client are there in the eclipsified version.
Largely you are right. They are not taking full advantage of the platform yet, and are still doing a lot of things the same way as always, but this is just the version version. Looking at the feature set from the EclipseCon session on it, it looks like they are starting to change things. They say as well that "By building on top of Eclipse RCP, Notes will move towards a new open and extensible programming model," so I think that there is a philosophical change going on in the Notes team as well, and that they're going to be embracing a more Eclipse-like philosophy going forward.
I'm more excited about moving Notes to the Eclipse framework rather than the aspect of Linux support. Not that Linux support isn't important, but moving to Eclipse is going to mean that the general usability of Notes is going to get better for everyone regardless of the platform that they're on.
Hell, as someone that has to use Notes, I'm salivating just at the prospect of the better view/window management that Eclipse provides. Eclipse is an extremely flexible and customizeable framework, and the lack of such customizeablity has been hurting the usability of Notes for a long time. "What do you mean the preview pane is fixed to be at the bottom of the screen? You mean I can't dock it at the right? ARRRRRGH!". Etc.
If the people on Notes start following the Eclipse Way (TM), things will only get better from here.
Eclipse's java requires sun's jvm which conflicts with gjc. Open Office requires gjc in linux for 100% functionality, sun's jvm won't cut it.
You don't have to use Sun's JVM. According to the Eclipse 3.2 Project Plan, there are all kinds of other supported JVMs, e.g. IBM's, HP's, etc. Other VMs might work, they are just not officially supported and tested.
I know for a fact as well that the Red Hat folks have been successfully compiling Eclipse with GCJ also.
I'm not really sure why you claim that the JVM conflicts either. You can drop a JRE into eclipse/jre and that's what the launcher will use to the exclusion of anything else.
much like a Cuban cigar - it's the law that makes them taste so damned good
But I'm Canadian you insensitive clod!:-P
We can buy them legally. Hence why every convenience store in Niagara Falls, Ontario has gigantic signs saying "CUBAN CIGARS" for all the nice American tourists.
When using a JTAG debugger on the parallel port, does it have to continually poll the paraport while I'm not debugging or transferring code (that is, 99% of the time), and in the process slowing my high end workstation down to a painful crawl?
From what I've heard that's an intentional "feature". The Development Starter Kit (DSK) version of CCStudio is locked to the hardware you purchased along with it. It's sold at a reduced price, and you can't run the app without the hardware connected. It keeps checking to see that it's there so that you don't go getting sneaky and trying to hook up some other board to the thing. The DSK board in a way acts as a hardware security dongle.
With an XDS560 emulator and a real EVM board, this goes away, although admittedly that will put you back some serious dollars.
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... from its other uses. If they create a waterproof version, you will no longer have to take your hands off your "weapon" when cybering on IRC. Profit!
Yes, they did. In 2004, according to that link.
... and I'm not even sure why you'd say the link that gave you that impression. The Eclipse codebase was started by OTI, which was bought by IBM. The Eclipse Foundation was then started to provide a neutral governing body to act as a steward for Eclipse. So, given that IBMers created it, and many of those same IBMers are still working on it, I'm not sure how you can say they've wrestled it away from whomever originally started it.
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See the Wikipedia entry on Eclipse's history
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How is this different than getting your prints taken when your arrested? Or do they only take prints when your charged where as this wants DNA if you're charged or not...?
Now granted, I am not a forensics expert, but the reason this scares me so much more is it does not seem easy to me to take my inky fingerprints off of a piece of paper and somehow turn that into fake fingerprints on evidence for some crime I didn't commit. I'm sure it could be done, but it seems like a huge pain in the ass to somehow replicate the oil on a person's fingers (or maybe you don't have to, maybe all you need is something stick for the fingerprinting material the forensics guys use to stick to, I doubt they check to make sure it's actual fingerprint oil... but I digress), print up a fake fingerprint using it, somehow transport that in a non destructive manner, and then convincingly apply this to the murder weapon or what have you. Maybe the CIA can do this, and would for someone they REALLY wanted to get, but this is probably beyond the capabilities of your average police detective.
Contrast this with a DNA-laden blood sample. Any monkey can take a blood sample, and with a little splash of blood here, and a little dash there, voila! "We found the accused's blood on the victim's body."
Both are scary, but the latter is a lot more practical, and given the weight which is given to DNA evidence (e.g. it's easy to argue "well my fingerprints are on that door knob because we were friends and I go over there all the time" but hard to argue as to why your blood is on a dead person's clothes), I think the DNA scenario scares me a lot more.
I own the trademarks for the colours red(TM), green(TM), and blue(TM). All other colours/colors are hereby decreed to be derivative works of my important trademark. You must all cease and desist from all usage of these colors/colours, including the emission, reflection, or refraction of any photons in the visible spectrum from any object or surface whatsoever. Pure black is OK as it is technically not a colour and contains neither red, nor green, nor blue. However, grey/gray are infringing colours/colors as these contain white, which is a combination of red(TM), green(TM), and blue(TM).
But an extra free attack action due to the third arm that spontaneously sprouts out of your chest!
$250 to carry around half an album. Genius! You really had to be a gimmick fan to be an early adopter for mp3 players.
Or a jogger.
I remember at the time most CD players (and MP3 CD players eventually) had a bad problem with skipping if you ran with one strapped to your belt. There was so called "anti-skip" technology (just a buffer that in theory would get you through the period you skipped the disc), but it didn't work very well. Vigorous joggers (or rope jumpers, etc.) would find that their players still skipped. I had a few friends that were early adopters of flash based players because flash just didn't skip. It was better to listen to half an album than it was to have a full CD and be constantly annoyed by the audio cutting out.
So, ok... you could use this to compromise a real machine, collecting the numbers but still allowing the transactions to go through, but it's not like you were safe yesterday and suddenly vulnerable today.
Criminals have already been setting up fake card readers on ATMs and Pay At The Pump machines here in Canada. Your card physically goes through their reader before it gets to the real reader on the machine, then a hidden camera records you punching in your pin. Later the criminals retrieve the data from the magnetic stripes and retrieve the video, and combining the two they empty your bank account at various ATMs.
Criminals have also setup completely fake ATMs (effectively trojan horses) which just record your card's magnetic stripe and the PIN you type in, and then pretend to phone home to the bank for the transaction, when really they just blindly dump out some seed cash that the criminals have stocked the machine with in order to make the transaction seem legit (they will make it back theoretically in the funds they drain from you afterwards). Or hell, if they are feeling particularly greedy, they can just blink up "transaction failed, network down" or something and not even give you the seed money.
The point is, this doesn't change a lot. Theoretically any machine might be a fake, or might be compromised. There's nothing stopping someone from taking the guts out of one of the machines in the article and replacing those guts with their own custom hardware that just pretends to fail the transaction while it records your stripe and PIN. Granted, it's easier to get away with putting a compromised machine into a legitimate business without the collusion of the proprietor if the machine actually carries out the transactions, otherwise the mook at the till is going to report to management that the machine is broken and the company will send a repairman with a new machine to replace your compromised one. But in a small mom and pop business where the proprietors are colluding with (or themselves are) criminals, the scam is easily run, and since there is no real transaction going to the banks (remember the transaction "failed" as far as the customer knows), there isn't even any data to mine to determine that all these people shopped at Shady Underworld Convenience.
With every transaction you make, you are taking some form of risk. It might be a low risk, or even a calculated one, but it's still a risk. You have no way of knowing what is going on in that machine when you swipe your card and enter your PIN. Period. All you can do if you are going to use debit/credit is try to use machines that are less likely to be fake compromised, and you should still audit your transactions often so that if you do become a victim of theft/fraud, you can catch it as soon as possible.
I very much doubt that Google are paying new grads $110K+
Hard to say actually. Salaries in and around Silicon Valley (Google is HQ'ed in Mountain View, CA) tend to be inflated due to the high cost of living. It's been a few years so maybe my data is stale, but five years ago people on $100k salaries in that area were still only able to live in shitty apartments and drive shitty cars.
The fallacy is when a new grad hears "Google pays $100k" and assumes they are worth that everywhere. Market salaries vary a lot geographically due to geographical variation in the cost of living.
If this is true, then it effectively means that the world can be AIDS free in a generation.
I don't know. Just because someone is not sexually transmissive doesn't mean that they couldn't say infect someone by sharing a needle. IANAD, but I'm willing to bet the amount of virus present in pure blood is much higher than that contained in other fluids like semen.
Nokia does not make OS'es or IDE's.
Actually, they do. And, it's Eclipse and CDT based, so I would say that anyone that claims Nokia is not a friend of open source is mistaken. I am a committer on CDT, and I can vouch for the fact that the Nokia folks that work on Carbide have been making some significant contributions to CDT... enough that they have a committer on the project as well.
And let's not forget that they own a controlling interest in Symbian, who does make OSes.
Microsoft has now patented Vista's User Account Control (UAC) feature as a "frustration causation system." Combined with the frustration detection/matchmaking service, they now have found a way to defer all responsibilities for support for Vista to the community.
What really needs to happen in order to make mobile gamers happy is Nintendo needs to make a version of the DS that has an integrated cell phone and a soft-keyboard on the lower screen for SMS/IM/email. Let me seamlessly drop out of a game to answer the phone or type a quick message and come back again where I left off.
I remember seeing a 3D Java app from some NASA (or some NASA-related website) where you could view, in simulated real-time, the position of all the known satellites that are currently orbiting the Earth. It included the ISS, and Mir before it was brought down. I wonder if Google has any plan to incorporate that kind of thing into their application. It would be pretty cool if I could zoom into my house, and see (real-time if possible) what satellites were passing over my house just by zooming out enough.
Here is a link to the NASA site you are talking about.
Even Google does this, it would only be civilian satellites. I doubt the US government would be happy if Al Queda or whomever could log on to Google Earth and see when there are no spy satellites overhead.
I wonder if any satellite enthusiasts have "reverse engineered" where these satellites are. The fact is that these things are in the sky for all to see with a telescope at least in theory. How much can you really camouflage a satellite? Even if they make use of stealth technology, I would think they'd still be optically visible. With the cost it takes to build one and put it up in the sky, they are built for long-term use, which generally means great big solar panels, which are hard to hide.
Food for thought anyway...
Is this a joke? SDL is not comparable to DirectX in any way, especially since it runs on top of DirectX in Windows.
Any two things are comparable. By definition when you compare two things, you may find that they are *gasp* not the same! Perhaps they are even completely unlike!
comparable != analogous
And let's not talk about whether you can compare comparable to analogous, otherwise the universe might rip itself apart...
I like my little mousy nipple! :D The Trackpoint is awesome.
I prefer to call it the Computer Clit(TM).
I'd buy it if THEY based it on THEY LIVE! and I get to play as Robertson Piper, esq.
THEY were going to, but unfortunately, THEY ran out of bubblegum...
(If you don't get the reference, watch the movie.)
Largely you are right. They are not taking full advantage of the platform yet, and are still doing a lot of things the same way as always, but this is just the version version. Looking at the feature set from the EclipseCon session on it, it looks like they are starting to change things. They say as well that "By building on top of Eclipse RCP, Notes will move towards a new open and extensible programming model," so I think that there is a philosophical change going on in the Notes team as well, and that they're going to be embracing a more Eclipse-like philosophy going forward.
Here's hoping anyway.
Mechanik
I'm more excited about moving Notes to the Eclipse framework rather than the aspect of Linux support. Not that Linux support isn't important, but moving to Eclipse is going to mean that the general usability of Notes is going to get better for everyone regardless of the platform that they're on.
Hell, as someone that has to use Notes, I'm salivating just at the prospect of the better view/window management that Eclipse provides. Eclipse is an extremely flexible and customizeable framework, and the lack of such customizeablity has been hurting the usability of Notes for a long time. "What do you mean the preview pane is fixed to be at the bottom of the screen? You mean I can't dock it at the right? ARRRRRGH!". Etc.
If the people on Notes start following the Eclipse Way (TM), things will only get better from here.
Mechanik
You don't have to use Sun's JVM. According to the Eclipse 3.2 Project Plan, there are all kinds of other supported JVMs, e.g. IBM's, HP's, etc. Other VMs might work, they are just not officially supported and tested.
I know for a fact as well that the Red Hat folks have been successfully compiling Eclipse with GCJ also.
I'm not really sure why you claim that the JVM conflicts either. You can drop a JRE into eclipse/jre and that's what the launcher will use to the exclusion of anything else.
Mechanik
much like a Cuban cigar - it's the law that makes them taste so damned good
:-P
But I'm Canadian you insensitive clod!
We can buy them legally. Hence why every convenience store in Niagara Falls, Ontario has gigantic signs saying "CUBAN CIGARS" for all the nice American tourists.
Giggidy giggidy giggidy... alright!
I'm not sure of your definition of blockbuster, but Battlefield 2 was a huge hit this year.
I just haven't heard of a parallel port emulator that wasn't a DSK...
When using a JTAG debugger on the parallel port, does it have to continually poll the paraport while I'm not debugging or transferring code (that is, 99% of the time), and in the process slowing my high end workstation down to a painful crawl?
From what I've heard that's an intentional "feature". The Development Starter Kit (DSK) version of CCStudio is locked to the hardware you purchased along with it. It's sold at a reduced price, and you can't run the app without the hardware connected. It keeps checking to see that it's there so that you don't go getting sneaky and trying to hook up some other board to the thing. The DSK board in a way acts as a hardware security dongle.
With an XDS560 emulator and a real EVM board, this goes away, although admittedly that will put you back some serious dollars.