I can look at my clock, see it's 9:20am in New York, and feel safe calling them or setting up a transatlantic meeting at that time..... Now, roll everyone onto the same clock, and I'll have no idea! I'd have to remember lots of stupid times or do some mental gymnastics to understand that calling at 22pm is a bad idea as that's lunch time in Singapore.
Want to fix something, make it a global standard when the clocks move for daylight savings... that really confuses things so meetings which don't normally collide between the USA and Europe, suddenly hit but only for one or two weeks until the other side moves into daylight savings.
It appears to be a patent on having two list pointers in a structure (auxulary pointer so you can sort the list in a diferent order). Funny even the linux kernel has a really fancy (arguably patentable) way of doing this using very simple macros. Though yes this could also cover doubly linked lists.
For prior art I'd give/usr/src/Linux/include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h - struct scsi_cmnd: Belongs to two doubly linked lists, though not for storing in diferent orders, it's because that structure happens to have mutiple systems tracking it.
This is probably a patent from some engineer who's been pushed by his boss to come up with things to patent because he's not done one recently. Personally I'm accredited on a couple of software patents, but being UK ones, there is a fairly heavy ammount of proof that this is a concept of tangable value, eg you can't patent a linked list because it's not going to do anything, but you could patent an application of it which makes the thing your product does do it better/faster/etc.
There'll always be Idiots and Jerks, these two are the unfortunately not so rare combination of both. All in all, nothing to see here, go home.
Oh and since everyones recomended NoScript, I'd also recomend firewall tools like Sunbelt Keiro Personal Firewall (KPF), which can be configured to pop up a box every time your system attempts to run a program, very handy to stop any spyware/addware/anywhere you don't want loading on your system.
If I was riging it up, I'd use something like RS485 into sealed units with a small custom board in a sealed unit with the sensors hanging off of that. Then you only need one or two PC's outside plugged into the networks of sensors to read off the data and log it.
The only dificulty left is working out what kind of connectors you can use, if it's all hard wired, then it might be fine to wire the cables though sealed gromits into the boxes for termination.
The protocol could be quite trivial too, say send a couple of characters like R521,53 to say you want to read sensor 53 on unit 521, it'd run out over the bus, get picked up by the right unit, and reply a short time later with something shocking like V521,53,258 (where 258 is -15 degrees in kelvin).
I think OpenSource, Free(GNU) and Propitary software should mingle more. There should be more GNU software available on windows, and more propitary software available on Linux and other OSS operating systems.
Some things will never be Free, some things will always be free... they should at least work together though. It's insane in this age that applications are still written only to work on one platform and virtually impossible to move between them.
Id like to see for example KDE applications on windows and World of Warcraft on linux, without any nasty hacks. Quite dificult with Warcraft coded for windows only DirectX+D3D, and KDE using QT, for which the Windows version isn't Free.
Firstly, it's just plain friggin stupid to have a tax on SMS, it's a neiche which doesn't have any goverment inolvement.
Two, we already pay sales tax on SMSs when the bill come through, and a stealth tax because phone companies need to claw back the money they spent on licencing next-gen radio bands though there most profitable area, SMS messages.
Three, theve got some fucking cheek "benefits engendered by the EU" lets see, apart from licencing bands to companies at insane prices, I don't think theve done anything... The benefit engendered by the EU, is we pay more for our SMSs, other than that you can get SMSs pretty much anywhere in the world where there's enough people to justify mobile phone coverage.
Making a sentence of section B of the clause in question:
A person is guilty of an offence if he makes, adapts, supplies or offers to supply any article believing that it is likely to be used to commit, or to assist in the commission of, an offence under section 1 or 3 [of the Computer Misuse Act].
Now why, can't the UK goverment learn to make laws which actually don't have virtually unlimited scope. You could probably make this law fit the local supermarket, which sells the food that the hackers will eat during the commission of the offence under section...
I'm sure it could be worded a lot better, I know the courts will only ever use this for things like people who make exploits, virus kits, detailed guides on how to exploit things... but!
The basic idea of a written law is to not have a situation where 'Everythings illegal, but we'll only arrest/punish you if we think what you did is wrong', just like what we had before Magna Carta.
Think more 'evil', even though it's not supposed to be what googles about, they don't have to redirect trafic to pages of explanation, they just need to give cheep advertising on the google front page to that ISP's competitors when viewed by the first ISP's customers... They'd probably drag google to court but it's all freedom of speach and targeted advertising:)
Yes, and so did everyone else, the iPod isn't just one of those devices, the major inovation of the iPod is that you can look cool while telling someone about your MP3 player, rather than blend in with the geeks.
Now if your telling me the goverment invented a way to make geeky things non-geeky without having to pay $99 for a 'sock' which fits your iPod, now that's something I'd be interested in.
There shouln't be any reliability problems, eSATA's connector is of the same grade as USB and designed for external use, You would probably notice problems if you were using plain SATA connectors for external use after a while.
With things like SPF at least, if someone recieves an email which comes from an un-authorised source, and my DNS records say that all my emails come from authorised sources, the email should get bounced before the user even sees it.
Though, I'll admit dispite having a SPF record in my DNS records, I don't have any filters setup on my email server to bounce unwanted emails, but hopfully if one scheme takes off over the others, it'll become included in the examples and default configuration options of many email servers.
Common it's a operating system developed for geeks, by geeks...
Why do we have to worry about the fact it doesn't fit on someones $100 laptop, or run smoothly in there intergrated desktop enviroment. Let them do the work then and submt a patch or maintain a kernel tree etc for there specialised use.
They control the hardware, they could easilly build a tiny linux kernel with just the drivers they need for there hardware.
I suspect there 'Linux is to fat' is really a problem with what applications they want to put on the board, which I imagine includes XOrg, Open Office and KDE.
So, basicaly it's compressed incremental backups, since almost every tape drive compresses it's data stream before writing it to tape, and almost every backup software offers incremental backups where only what's changed since the last backup gets backed up...
Unlikely, the earth's magnetic field has been constantly changing over history (magnetic striping on the sea floor), and we'd expect to see similar changes in the climate if it was affecting it now, but I guess someone could do some reasearch on it, just incase it's another thing to add to the reasons for global warming.
But don't think that the human element isn't also affecting it for one moment:)
Well, your first point at least has always been possible in Thunderbird (though it's often a bitch to find it in the configuration), In 1.5 it's under Tools->Account Settings->Composition & Addressing and untick 'Compose messages in HTML format'.
Worried that people on laptops will just transcribe everything and not take anything in, gee wiz, when I was at university (not so long ago), it was the people with pens and paper who were transcribing absolutely everything, sometimes word for word and everything that is drawn on a whiteboard or put on a overhead projector.
Those with laptops, well they sat at the back doing there C++ coursework, or watching movies...
Personally I kept few notes in lectures, prefering to just sit there, and think about what's being said, there's books'n'stuff for the detail later.
I know I shouln't reply to my own topic, but after having 3 people also reply giving ideas for how to improve gentoo's etc-update, ther's one thing I forgot. Gentoo folk are far far more helpful than debians guys, even got a wiki full of useful information and guides, sometimes there guides are better than the projects own documentation.
After reading his lists, it seems it's most likley a combination of things, the repeated equal-spaced timed events from the keyboard, in combination with the lack of responsiveness while he was watching movies and yet continuing to preform actions, and the suspicious program list, probably all contributed to them writing him off as a bot.
Personally I think it's also a fault with the way WoW works, if you can can gain skills by doing trivial tasks repeatidly, the system is broken.. You learn a damn sight more about anything by pushing at the limits of what you can do, the game should reflect that.
Gold farming's harder to overcome, but coding the game to encourage skill farming?!?!
Etc updates, both need improvement, debian automagicly screwed up my exim4 config, and gentoo keeps putting me into vi to edit binary files, and files I've made no modification to.
Sometimes I think they should concider using git (repository manager) to manage/etc, would be nice to see some logical management with a full history of changes made by updates.
Building things from source, some things are probably worth it, I always build a kernel optimised for the platform I'm using, and I'm tempted to build things like Xorg and other CPU hogging applications, but building everything from scratch is a little excessive for me.
I'll carry on using both, I suspect the Gentoo path will win at the end of the day, as cores increase, compile time drops (being a nice multi-threaded type of task), once it's low enough, people won't really worry about re-buidling kde every now and again, throw in decent CPU afinity, and you could re-build things without even noticing your framerate in quake drop:)
Java alone isn't a great invention, it's a C style language with garbage collection, objects and compiles to a bytecode... all that's been done before.
Now maybe the inventor of Java's reflection system...
Ok, each feature has it's matching feature on the other side. But the implementation is always slightly diferent, the microcode and how that is executed, what operations can be parrellelised in each processor etc are diferent.
Intel normally shows a lead over AMD when using there own compilers compared to other compilers due to the knowledge of optimsing for there own chip.
But to claim that using such optimisations allows 10 channels instead of 5, eg twice the preformance is laughable, and does suggess fishy goings on.
Cute... though HIV is a virus, and already immune to all known drugs, though a large coctail of drugs can abate the simptoms which lead to the condition known as Aids.
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I can look at my clock, see it's 9:20am in New York, and feel safe calling them or setting up a transatlantic meeting at that time..... Now, roll everyone onto the same clock, and I'll have no idea! I'd have to remember lots of stupid times or do some mental gymnastics to understand that calling at 22pm is a bad idea as that's lunch time in Singapore.
Want to fix something, make it a global standard when the clocks move for daylight savings... that really confuses things so meetings which don't normally collide between the USA and Europe, suddenly hit but only for one or two weeks until the other side moves into daylight savings.
Been reading /. for so many years, will miss your posts, and your double posts twice as much :)
It appears to be a patent on having two list pointers in a structure (auxulary pointer so you can sort the list in a diferent order). Funny even the linux kernel has a really fancy (arguably patentable) way of doing this using very simple macros. Though yes this could also cover doubly linked lists.
/usr/src/Linux/include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h - struct scsi_cmnd: Belongs to two doubly linked lists, though not for storing in diferent orders, it's because that structure happens to have mutiple systems tracking it.
For prior art I'd give
This is probably a patent from some engineer who's been pushed by his boss to come up with things to patent because he's not done one recently. Personally I'm accredited on a couple of software patents, but being UK ones, there is a fairly heavy ammount of proof that this is a concept of tangable value, eg you can't patent a linked list because it's not going to do anything, but you could patent an application of it which makes the thing your product does do it better/faster/etc.
There'll always be Idiots and Jerks, these two are the unfortunately not so rare combination of both. All in all, nothing to see here, go home.
Oh and since everyones recomended NoScript, I'd also recomend firewall tools like Sunbelt Keiro Personal Firewall (KPF), which can be configured to pop up a box every time your system attempts to run a program, very handy to stop any spyware/addware/anywhere you don't want loading on your system.
If I was riging it up, I'd use something like RS485 into sealed units with a small custom board in a sealed unit with the sensors hanging off of that. Then you only need one or two PC's outside plugged into the networks of sensors to read off the data and log it.
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You could plug pretty much any PC with a serial port in, with a converter like:
http://www.advantech.com/products/Model_Detail.as
The only dificulty left is working out what kind of connectors you can use, if it's all hard wired, then it might be fine to wire the cables though sealed gromits into the boxes for termination.
The protocol could be quite trivial too, say send a couple of characters like R521,53 to say you want to read sensor 53 on unit 521, it'd run out over the bus, get picked up by the right unit, and reply a short time later with something shocking like V521,53,258 (where 258 is -15 degrees in kelvin).
But don't take my word for it, just build a low temprature version of:
http://www.elecdesign.com/Articles/Index.cfm?AD=1
I think OpenSource, Free(GNU) and Propitary software should mingle more. There should be more GNU software available on windows, and more propitary software available on Linux and other OSS operating systems.
Some things will never be Free, some things will always be free... they should at least work together though. It's insane in this age that applications are still written only to work on one platform and virtually impossible to move between them.
Id like to see for example KDE applications on windows and World of Warcraft on linux, without any nasty hacks. Quite dificult with Warcraft coded for windows only DirectX+D3D, and KDE using QT, for which the Windows version isn't Free.
Firstly, it's just plain friggin stupid to have a tax on SMS, it's a neiche which doesn't have any goverment inolvement.
Two, we already pay sales tax on SMSs when the bill come through, and a stealth tax because phone companies need to claw back the money they spent on licencing next-gen radio bands though there most profitable area, SMS messages.
Three, theve got some fucking cheek "benefits engendered by the EU" lets see, apart from licencing bands to companies at insane prices, I don't think theve done anything... The benefit engendered by the EU, is we pay more for our SMSs, other than that you can get SMSs pretty much anywhere in the world where there's enough people to justify mobile phone coverage.
Making a sentence of section B of the clause in question:
A person is guilty of an offence if he makes, adapts, supplies or offers to supply any article believing that it is likely to be used to commit, or to assist in the commission of, an offence under section 1 or 3 [of the Computer Misuse Act].
Now why, can't the UK goverment learn to make laws which actually don't have virtually unlimited scope. You could probably make this law fit the local supermarket, which sells the food that the hackers will eat during the commission of the offence under section...
I'm sure it could be worded a lot better, I know the courts will only ever use this for things like people who make exploits, virus kits, detailed guides on how to exploit things... but!
The basic idea of a written law is to not have a situation where 'Everythings illegal, but we'll only arrest/punish you if we think what you did is wrong', just like what we had before Magna Carta.
But no one gives a damn.
Think more 'evil', even though it's not supposed to be what googles about, they don't have to redirect trafic to pages of explanation, they just need to give cheep advertising on the google front page to that ISP's competitors when viewed by the first ISP's customers... They'd probably drag google to court but it's all freedom of speach and targeted advertising :)
Yes, and so did everyone else, the iPod isn't just one of those devices, the major inovation of the iPod is that you can look cool while telling someone about your MP3 player, rather than blend in with the geeks.
Now if your telling me the goverment invented a way to make geeky things non-geeky without having to pay $99 for a 'sock' which fits your iPod, now that's something I'd be interested in.
There shouln't be any reliability problems, eSATA's connector is of the same grade as USB and designed for external use, You would probably notice problems if you were using plain SATA connectors for external use after a while.
With things like SPF at least, if someone recieves an email which comes from an un-authorised source, and my DNS records say that all my emails come from authorised sources, the email should get bounced before the user even sees it.
Though, I'll admit dispite having a SPF record in my DNS records, I don't have any filters setup on my email server to bounce unwanted emails, but hopfully if one scheme takes off over the others, it'll become included in the examples and default configuration options of many email servers.
How do you fit your tin foil hat... to a HazMat suit?
Common it's a operating system developed for geeks, by geeks...
Why do we have to worry about the fact it doesn't fit on someones $100 laptop, or run smoothly in there intergrated desktop enviroment. Let them do the work then and submt a patch or maintain a kernel tree etc for there specialised use.
They control the hardware, they could easilly build a tiny linux kernel with just the drivers they need for there hardware.
I suspect there 'Linux is to fat' is really a problem with what applications they want to put on the board, which I imagine includes XOrg, Open Office and KDE.
So, basicaly it's compressed incremental backups, since almost every tape drive compresses it's data stream before writing it to tape, and almost every backup software offers incremental backups where only what's changed since the last backup gets backed up...
Whats the biggie?
Unlikely, the earth's magnetic field has been constantly changing over history (magnetic striping on the sea floor), and we'd expect to see similar changes in the climate if it was affecting it now, but I guess someone could do some reasearch on it, just incase it's another thing to add to the reasons for global warming.
:)
But don't think that the human element isn't also affecting it for one moment
Well, your first point at least has always been possible in Thunderbird (though it's often a bitch to find it in the configuration), In 1.5 it's under Tools->Account Settings->Composition & Addressing and untick 'Compose messages in HTML format'.
Worried that people on laptops will just transcribe everything and not take anything in, gee wiz, when I was at university (not so long ago), it was the people with pens and paper who were transcribing absolutely everything, sometimes word for word and everything that is drawn on a whiteboard or put on a overhead projector.
Those with laptops, well they sat at the back doing there C++ coursework, or watching movies...
Personally I kept few notes in lectures, prefering to just sit there, and think about what's being said, there's books'n'stuff for the detail later.
I know I shouln't reply to my own topic, but after having 3 people also reply giving ideas for how to improve gentoo's etc-update, ther's one thing I forgot. Gentoo folk are far far more helpful than debians guys, even got a wiki full of useful information and guides, sometimes there guides are better than the projects own documentation.
After reading his lists, it seems it's most likley a combination of things, the repeated equal-spaced timed events from the keyboard, in combination with the lack of responsiveness while he was watching movies and yet continuing to preform actions, and the suspicious program list, probably all contributed to them writing him off as a bot.
Personally I think it's also a fault with the way WoW works, if you can can gain skills by doing trivial tasks repeatidly, the system is broken.. You learn a damn sight more about anything by pushing at the limits of what you can do, the game should reflect that.
Gold farming's harder to overcome, but coding the game to encourage skill farming?!?!
Etc updates, both need improvement, debian automagicly screwed up my exim4 config, and gentoo keeps putting me into vi to edit binary files, and files I've made no modification to.
/etc, would be nice to see some logical management with a full history of changes made by updates.
:)
Sometimes I think they should concider using git (repository manager) to manage
Building things from source, some things are probably worth it, I always build a kernel optimised for the platform I'm using, and I'm tempted to build things like Xorg and other CPU hogging applications, but building everything from scratch is a little excessive for me.
I'll carry on using both, I suspect the Gentoo path will win at the end of the day, as cores increase, compile time drops (being a nice multi-threaded type of task), once it's low enough, people won't really worry about re-buidling kde every now and again, throw in decent CPU afinity, and you could re-build things without even noticing your framerate in quake drop
Java alone isn't a great invention, it's a C style language with garbage collection, objects and compiles to a bytecode... all that's been done before.
Now maybe the inventor of Java's reflection system...
Ok, each feature has it's matching feature on the other side. But the implementation is always slightly diferent, the microcode and how that is executed, what operations can be parrellelised in each processor etc are diferent.
Intel normally shows a lead over AMD when using there own compilers compared to other compilers due to the knowledge of optimsing for there own chip.
But to claim that using such optimisations allows 10 channels instead of 5, eg twice the preformance is laughable, and does suggess fishy goings on.
Cute... though HIV is a virus, and already immune to all known drugs, though a large coctail of drugs can abate the simptoms which lead to the condition known as Aids.