I'll be damned, I've never heard of that. That's insanely cool!
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She is practically booed every time she tells someone that she works in genetics
That really sucks. It's no different from the Catholic Church's persecution of Galileo and Copernicus, if you think about it. When a gang of ignorant religious wackos (which is what this tree-spiking, library-burning, SUV-vandalizing thing is: a religion) disagrees with you, it's unlikely that your differences will be resoved in any civil forum.
Unfortunately, the enviro-wackos won't be happy until we're all living in trees and caves. They simply aren't interested in solving the problems of how to clothe, feed, and house six billion+ healthy homo sapiens at anything beyond a subsistence level.
Make no mistake: today it's the "rich" who are their targets of convenience. Tomorrow, it will be you.:-(
Ah, that makes sense. I was assuming that these things had their own hard drives.
Considering what their routers cost, I'm surprised Cisco doesn't give you a dedicated journaling drive. Guess they don't fail often enough to justify anything that elaborate.
I'm not sure I understand that. Why does the router purge its logs when you reboot it?
That sounds lame as hell. (Granted, though, configuring a Pipeline 50 goes right over my little bow head, much less a Cisco. So yes, I'll stipulate that I'm talking out of my ass here.)
The act of rebooting should be just another even that gets logged, NOT a synonym for "oh, and by the way, you can delete the old log file now."
IMHO log deletion should be done on a calendar basis; everything more than x days old gets purged automatically. What's Cisco's rationale for auto-deleting logs during the boot process?
Do I need 20 copies of the same damned.NET DLL on my disk, one for each application? I think not. I do not consider this an intelligent move at all.
When's the last time you saw a "disk full" error?
Personally, I'm in danger of forgetting what that means. When I retire a machine these days, there's always at least a few hundred MB, more likely a gig or two, of disk space left.
Along with the inevitable rise of COM, keeping DLLs out of c:\windows\system has gone a long way toward remedying Windows' version of DLL hell. "Intelligent" or not, there are some very good, real-world-type reasons why each app should maintain its own DLLs locally. Everything just works better that way.
we have some goddamned STOCK avionics (well, stuff built to original spec) and those damn things were built in the 50's and 60's.
Fine. As long as it doesn't send the plane into a reciprocal mixing-induced tailspin when Uncle Bob forgets to turn off his cell phone, we'll get along just fine.
The planes you get on are much, much older than you think
The planes are. The avionics aren't. That's all that matters.
How the parent post got modded up to 5 Insightful is disgusting, either that or/. readers truly never get on planes. I know I might be the other extreme (gf works for an airline, I fly 4-6 times a month) but this is ridiculous.
It was modded up to +5 because the poster nailed the issues square on the head. The idea of EMI/RFI from Part 15 devices bringing down a commercial jetliner is either laughable or it's horrible, and either way, it shouldn't be the passengers' problem.
Excellent. Reminds me of the Windows/Office XP registration bogosity, where you have to get permission from MSFT to continue running the software you (most likely) paid for if you ever upgrade your motherboard or hard drive, or if BillG just feels like making you say "Uncle."
This momentous event has inspired me to coin a neologism (note 1) describing software or hardware products whose vendors exercise an inappropriate, unwarranted, and unsolicited degree of remote control over its post-purchase operation:
Tetherware.
Google doesn't find any occurrences of the term on either WWW or Usenet, so I hereby claim all proprietary IP rights to the word "tetherware" and all variants thereof on an exclusive worldwide basis.
Happily, a license to propagate this meme is available for only $1 per use, payable via PayPal to jmiles@pop.net. Use of the term "tetherware," in public or private, without remittance of the license fee will result in the remote disabling of your personal communications apparatus via techniques previously employed by Vader et al., Imperial Business Software Alliance, c. 1977.
I've even come up with a tres trendy slogan for my new invention:
"Tetherware: Where do you want to be dragged kicking and screaming today?"
...our congress is now being run by Democrats who will block everything Bush tries to do, and Bush in turn will squash any democratic bills whatsoever.
Would it be possible to point a powerful telescope at the moon and see the lunar footprints of the Apollo crew?
I don't believe so. I think you run into fundamental problems related to the wavelength of light when you try to go for that kind of magnification. Some sort of distributed adaptive optical system might be able to pull it off, but it would cost more than shipping all the skeptics up there to see for themselves.
I've seen a demonstration of the recovery of the video signal from a Commodore PET from a few feet away using nothing more than an old portable B&W TV set (the ones that are about the size of a shoebox) and a simple amplifier inserted between the TV and the attenna
Good point. We must all be careful not to let anyone with any homebrew Van Eck gear within a few feet of our Commodore Pets!
But for any real Van Eck threat, my point stands. You lose 6 dB of signal every time the distance doubles, which will easily cost you an additional 6 dB of money and effort each time.:-) By the time you're sitting in a van on the street outside, you're looking at NSA-style budgets.
At the aforementioned demonstration the presenter, Jim Carter, made it quite clear that it was possible to recover emissions from much more than the video circuitry
Again, if the people after your data are capable of pulling off this sort of thing, you might as well tie a white rag to the end of a stick and surrender peacefully.
No, actually, Van Eck sniffing is NOT "easy." It takes thousands of dollars' worth of exotic equipment, and is nowhere near as foolproof as the media suggests. (And how many servers display passwords on the screen when you log onto them?)
Wireless keyboard sniffing is MUCH cheaper and MUCH more damaging than TEMPEST vulnerabilities could ever be.
www.aclu.org -- True defenders of our Constitution and Bill of Rights.
I think you mean "True defenders of part of our Constitution and some of the Bill of Rights."
If I were to join the ACLU, I'd have to join the NRA, too, just to avoid being seen as an anti-Second Amendment advocate. (And I'm not about to do that, because the NRA's leadership is preoccupied with the notion that the industry I work in is devoted to corrupting America's youth.)
Here's some homework for those of you who belong to the ACLU: ask your leaders why they don't have the balls to post a link to http://www.aclu.org/library/aaguns.html on the otherwise-exhaustive "Issues" list on their front page.
I'm starting to make a habit of releasing the source code to personal projects, but the DPaint clone is really in too hacked a state to be of much use to anyone, including myself.
If I ever get around to polishing it up, I'll throw it over the wall, but don't hold your breath. It's based on an old graphics library of mine, which, in turn, is based on 12,000 lines of.asm code that hasn't aged well.
For lightweight, pixel-level editing tasks? Yes, it is. Nobody has really come up with a good DeluxePaint II replacement yet... all we have are an assortment of hyperbloated, all-things-to-everyone super-combo-photo/paint programs.
I'd KILL for a nice true-color Win32 port of DPaint that handles reasonably-modern file formats like.gif/.png/.jpg. I started writing one a couple of years ago, but ran short of time before it was completely done.
Not quite. The use of an autocorrelated pulse receiver brings many interesting possibilities to the table beyond what DSSS or FHSS can do. You end up with a hell of a lot more process gain, for one thing.
I wish I understood how the correlator synchronizes itself to the desired time sequence... that's the part I've been unable to grok in the last two or three articles that have been published on TD technology.
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True, but I can't believe they even let you try, without at least a ham license. Very un-governmental of them. :)
I'll be damned, I've never heard of that. That's insanely cool!
She is practically booed every time she tells someone that she works in genetics
:-(
That really sucks. It's no different from the Catholic Church's persecution of Galileo and Copernicus, if you think about it. When a gang of ignorant religious wackos (which is what this tree-spiking, library-burning, SUV-vandalizing thing is: a religion) disagrees with you, it's unlikely that your differences will be resoved in any civil forum.
Unfortunately, the enviro-wackos won't be happy until we're all living in trees and caves. They simply aren't interested in solving the problems of how to clothe, feed, and house six billion+ healthy homo sapiens at anything beyond a subsistence level.
Make no mistake: today it's the "rich" who are their targets of convenience. Tomorrow, it will be you.
I assume he didn't spend $2K just to play Doom.
Oh, I don't know. I spent way more than that building this just to play Quake...
This is all covered under the Part 15 section for homemade electronic devices.
I've never heard of that. What subpart is it under? That's cool, if true.
Ah, that makes sense. I was assuming that these things had their own hard drives.
Considering what their routers cost, I'm surprised Cisco doesn't give you a dedicated journaling drive. Guess they don't fail often enough to justify anything that elaborate.
I'm not sure I understand that. Why does the router purge its logs when you reboot it?
That sounds lame as hell. (Granted, though, configuring a Pipeline 50 goes right over my little bow head, much less a Cisco. So yes, I'll stipulate that I'm talking out of my ass here.)
The act of rebooting should be just another even that gets logged, NOT a synonym for "oh, and by the way, you can delete the old log file now."
IMHO log deletion should be done on a calendar basis; everything more than x days old gets purged automatically. What's Cisco's rationale for auto-deleting logs during the boot process?
Do I need 20 copies of the same damned .NET DLL on my disk, one for each application? I think not. I do not consider this an intelligent move at all.
When's the last time you saw a "disk full" error?
Personally, I'm in danger of forgetting what that means. When I retire a machine these days, there's always at least a few hundred MB, more likely a gig or two, of disk space left.
Along with the inevitable rise of COM, keeping DLLs out of c:\windows\system has gone a long way toward remedying Windows' version of DLL hell. "Intelligent" or not, there are some very good, real-world-type reasons why each app should maintain its own DLLs locally. Everything just works better that way.
HA! HAHAHAHAHA! WOOOOOOO! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! HAAHAHHAHHAAAAA!
Ritalin... it's not just for breakfast anymore.
we have some goddamned STOCK avionics (well, stuff built to original spec) and those damn things were built in the 50's and 60's.
Fine. As long as it doesn't send the plane into a reciprocal mixing-induced tailspin when Uncle Bob forgets to turn off his cell phone, we'll get along just fine.
The planes you get on are much, much older than you think
/. readers truly never get on planes. I know I might be the other extreme (gf works for an airline, I fly 4-6 times a month) but this is ridiculous.
The planes are. The avionics aren't. That's all that matters.
How the parent post got modded up to 5 Insightful is disgusting, either that or
It was modded up to +5 because the poster nailed the issues square on the head. The idea of EMI/RFI from Part 15 devices bringing down a commercial jetliner is either laughable or it's horrible, and either way, it shouldn't be the passengers' problem.
Excellent. Reminds me of the Windows/Office XP registration bogosity, where you have to get permission from MSFT to continue running the software you (most likely) paid for if you ever upgrade your motherboard or hard drive, or if BillG just feels like making you say "Uncle."
This momentous event has inspired me to coin a neologism (note 1) describing software or hardware products whose vendors exercise an inappropriate, unwarranted, and unsolicited degree of remote control over its post-purchase operation:
Tetherware.
Google doesn't find any occurrences of the term on either WWW or Usenet, so I hereby claim all proprietary IP rights to the word "tetherware" and all variants thereof on an exclusive worldwide basis.
Happily, a license to propagate this meme is available for only $1 per use, payable via PayPal to jmiles@pop.net. Use of the term "tetherware," in public or private, without remittance of the license fee will result in the remote disabling of your personal communications apparatus via techniques previously employed by Vader et al., Imperial Business Software Alliance, c. 1977.
I've even come up with a tres trendy slogan for my new invention:
"Tetherware: Where do you want to be dragged kicking and screaming today?"
(Note 1: If you don't know what a "neologism" is, see http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?neologism and choose the meaning that most clearly applies.)
But tritium has a half-life of *minutes*.
12.5 years, IIRC.
I doubt you would argue the Founding Fathers were wrong
This is Slashdot, right? It's been done.
...our congress is now being run by Democrats who will block everything Bush tries to do, and Bush in turn will squash any democratic bills whatsoever.
And that's a problem how?
Would it be possible to point a powerful telescope at the moon and see the lunar footprints of the Apollo crew?
I don't believe so. I think you run into fundamental problems related to the wavelength of light when you try to go for that kind of magnification. Some sort of distributed adaptive optical system might be able to pull it off, but it would cost more than shipping all the skeptics up there to see for themselves.
I've seen a demonstration of the recovery of the video signal from a Commodore PET from a few feet away using nothing more than an old portable B&W TV set (the ones that are about the size of a shoebox) and a simple amplifier inserted between the TV and the attenna
:-) By the time you're sitting in a van on the street outside, you're looking at NSA-style budgets.
Good point. We must all be careful not to let anyone with any homebrew Van Eck gear within a few feet of our Commodore Pets!
But for any real Van Eck threat, my point stands. You lose 6 dB of signal every time the distance doubles, which will easily cost you an additional 6 dB of money and effort each time.
At the aforementioned demonstration the presenter, Jim Carter, made it quite clear that it was possible to recover emissions from much more than the video circuitry
Again, if the people after your data are capable of pulling off this sort of thing, you might as well tie a white rag to the end of a stick and surrender peacefully.
No, actually, Van Eck sniffing is NOT "easy." It takes thousands of dollars' worth of exotic equipment, and is nowhere near as foolproof as the media suggests. (And how many servers display passwords on the screen when you log onto them?)
Wireless keyboard sniffing is MUCH cheaper and MUCH more damaging than TEMPEST vulnerabilities could ever be.
Titanicus Andronicus? Is that where the Titus drowns Chiron and Demetrius and steals their mother's jeweled pendant?
Yeah, I usually vote the LP candidate, although I'm not a card-carrying party member.
I agree with every other issue that they have a view on...
:(
I do, too, and I'd like to sign up and help them fight the good fight. But I can't deal with that kind of hypocrisy.
but you can't please all of the people all of the time
I agree. It's more my problem than theirs, I suppose.
www.aclu.org -- True defenders of our Constitution and Bill of Rights.
I think you mean "True defenders of part of our Constitution and some of the Bill of Rights."
If I were to join the ACLU, I'd have to join the NRA, too, just to avoid being seen as an anti-Second Amendment advocate. (And I'm not about to do that, because the NRA's leadership is preoccupied with the notion that the industry I work in is devoted to corrupting America's youth.)
Here's some homework for those of you who belong to the ACLU: ask your leaders why they don't have the balls to post a link to http://www.aclu.org/library/aaguns.html on the otherwise-exhaustive "Issues" list on their front page.
http://www.qsl.net/ke5fx/misc/GPAINT.JPG
I'm starting to make a habit of releasing the source code to personal projects, but the DPaint clone is really in too hacked a state to be of much use to anyone, including myself.
.asm code that hasn't aged well.
If I ever get around to polishing it up, I'll throw it over the wall, but don't hold your breath. It's based on an old graphics library of mine, which, in turn, is based on 12,000 lines of
DPaint better than Photoshop?
.gif/.png/.jpg. I started writing one a couple of years ago, but ran short of time before it was completely done.
For lightweight, pixel-level editing tasks? Yes, it is. Nobody has really come up with a good DeluxePaint II replacement yet... all we have are an assortment of hyperbloated, all-things-to-everyone super-combo-photo/paint programs.
I'd KILL for a nice true-color Win32 port of DPaint that handles reasonably-modern file formats like
Not quite. The use of an autocorrelated pulse receiver brings many interesting possibilities to the table beyond what DSSS or FHSS can do. You end up with a hell of a lot more process gain, for one thing.
I wish I understood how the correlator synchronizes itself to the desired time sequence... that's the part I've been unable to grok in the last two or three articles that have been published on TD technology.