yeah, if they were smart they'd name the nation just to get the.sex domain. Actually, that makes me think of a whole new way to get TLDs: declare small republics, get international recognition and new Tlds. "Peoples Optimised Republic of Nyland", "African Democracy Under Leaders of Trouble"...
not that fenced in. There are at least 3 going into
sennen cove, cornwall,, with little radar reflectors up on the hillside above each one, to help the maintenance people find them (its the last half mile that they really armour the fibres, and where they get broken the most.
Landing points for cables are based on cost and shoreline characteristics, not logistics. If they could, they would just bring them on board at
NSA-morwenstow
A place that is well known in the cornwall rock climbing community as a bunch of people who get really upset if you tie your clifftop ropes to their fences.
I was on holiday in Sennen Cove, Cornwall, a few years back and saw a cable being laid; it is only 3 feet down in the sand when it comes ashore, so you wouldnt need to send a sub out to do it, just go down to the beach at night and do it by hand.
But would you need to? I was mountain biking a mile or so inland and came across a very odd building for cornwall farmland: a fenced off, motion detector wired building with not a hint of who owned or anything, right in the middle of nowhere apart from the fact that the cables from sennen and the chair ladder area are all going to go near it. It may just have been a telco facility, but if that is the case, why didnt it say so?
but dont you see -the cables they need to tap are their own. How else will the government read urgent memos from Phoenix to FBI HQ if the NSA cant tap the email and recognise keywords like "Al-Quaeda" and "USA".
The version of.NET that MS released for BSD, 'rotor' is not for commercial use and doesnt include key things, ADO.NET (DB) ASP.net (web progamming model).
They released NET on BSD to get the universities working on it (supported by a grant program) and hackers looking at it, as opposed to having said people playing with java, mono, apache, etc. Nothing magnaminous there, even though it must have taken a lot of effort to convince management to do it.
They dont even have a CVS server where you can post mods back to...
>To call piracy an act of "theft" is just as >dishonest as calling drug use an act of "terrorism".
yeah, those new TV ads niggle me. When are we going to see advertisments paid for by the 'Californian Hashish Farms', the Oregon Organic Sensimillar co-operative and other US-internal vendors:
"Not all drugs fund terrorism, ours funds the american way of live for many people in rural america"
MS licensing is funnier. They have that 'no more than 10 network connections' limit in NT worksta, that they enforce in IIS, and they have that 'per-CPU' licensing in NT server. And the boot code in Win2K is dumb enough to mistake the second execution unit in a hyperthreaded P4 as a second CPU, so you need to double your licensing fees if you want to use the second set of registers inside the P4. They will fix that in.NET server, but are cutting in half the #of CPUs licensed in every version of the server code, so it makes no difference whatsoever.
thinking about it, my old OS museum is actually my collection of dead OS style guides
IBM CUA (came with windows 3.0 SDK) HP Newwave (wow) Sun OpenView (not bad) Motif (it should have died by now) Win95 (ditto) and my most unique -Penpoint
there is something poignant about all these screen shots and style guidelines for programs that were never written. Or in the windows case, the gulf between the guidelines and the crap that MS wrote themselves.
I'd like to get hold of a copy of Sun NeWS UI guidelines or the like, if anyone has them around.
I work in an org a class A address; it makes it easier for the router people to route stuff, but every few years they do still change all the addresses around to simplify routing.
I dont think IPv6 should repeat the same mistake of giving away giant blocks early on; give each country one IPv4 size block and only when they have used it all up, can they come back for a new one.
Phone numbers, especially cellphone numbers, are simpler: they are just mapped to the phone ID/simcard IMEA and then that is dialled. There is nothing to stop cellphone number mobility in the US but reluctance on the part of the vendor.
MS and AOL dont need to be paid by doubleclick; their own advertising units demand popunders as they are the only on line ads that book money. the reason mozilla lets you turn them off is that they are beholden to no advertising revenue.
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the manufacturer requirements also say you cant do multiregion DVD, and there is even a formal committee process to handle when someone is accused of having a trivial hack to turn it into a region-0 box.
if the mfgrs to region-0 boxes then the MPAA will see their per-region markups evaporating, regardless of any duplication/sharing issues. And that is probably something they are scared of, but dont dare mention
One thing you can get away with on the XBox is sell way below spec disks, using low spin rates and only one side of a single platter. This may allow them to run with the low yield parts that cant be used dual sided, and some legacy disk plant but you are still looking a a BOM of $30-40, (est).
But you need the volume to get the savings, and the volume doesnt come from current Xbox sales. The only other parts that ride the volume curves right now are the CPU (commodity PIII), DRAM (hey, hasnt that stopped falling) and the DVD drive. The nvidia chip? I dont think it sells in enough volume outside the Xbox to go low cost.
I remember reading a microprocessor report analysis of SGI...SGI used to take a slice of the per-game fees for the Nintendo consoles, in exchange for charging little for the mips cores. Which let nintendo keep their unit costs down, while nobody actually lost money -just delayed their income.
yeah, I played that Gotham City racing and it sucked. good graphics, shite physics. I couldnt get the Mercedes SLK round london corners at speeds I can get cars round in reality, at least in places where the traffic permits, which is not a common feature of london.
Halo is good though: played Lan-lan last week over projection screens on the MS campus itself; you can have some fun with that game. But not enough fun to make me run out and buy the consold.
So oregon folk are soft are they? ask anyone who has been in portland for long enough will tell you what it is like to have volcano go off 50 or so miles away with the energy of a 30 megaton event. Some fabs I know out there built post mount saint helens are now specced to handle the weight of a metre or so of volcanic ash on their roof...
Actually another way to detect them would be collaborative filtering; enough people mark something up as an add then its frame checksum would get recognised and the vcr could skip...relies on the systems all being networked, but that isnt hard.
Of course, there is the abuse problem...what happens if enough people mod down CNN news as nothing but advertising...
also, Ansi C++ 2002 draft released; xor "^" opcode removed after DMCA threats due to its potential use in bit-flipping and decryption algorithms. Future versions of the x86 product line will be changed to make the xor opcode a ring-0 instruction only, not for use by unapproved applications.
maybe they want a slice of the pie, but they also view users as users, not pirates. Certainly all the PC manufacturers know you have a choice and sell you the machines you want: the ones with LAN connections, CD-R, OK speakers...the RIAA would ban CD-R if they could, and make all home users dial in on a 9600 baud modem where you paid per minute of connectivity.
its worse than that; the legacy nokia phones (I have a 5185 via verizon prepay) are still much better than the competition -I know, I had a motorola 3-band for a year with awful coverage and battery life.
At least this phone does SMS to email bridging, so you can email to someone elses handset, even if cross carrier texting is still out
yeah. And why is it in the US that calls are charged per minute (not by second), and you pay for incoming. In europe 300 minutes per month means 300 minutes outgoing chat; in the US that means 300 inbound or oubound calls, maximum, even if they are only litte 10 second answering machine pings.
yeah, that's a point, my yahoo addr is @yahoo.co.uk, so yahoo UK are naughty boys. I'll see what I can do about stirring up trouble with the data protection registrar
the function of truste is to show the goverment that there is no need for privacy legislation, because companies can work it out for themselves.
As truste certification is worthless, and telcos cite freedom of speech as justification for trading your telephone data, all these arguments are clearly bollocks.
Compare to Europe, where the EU privacy laws make any unauthorised trading of customer information illegal. EU countries should have a sticker on their web sites 'privacy protected by EU data protection laws'; that'll have more clout than trust-e
er, didnt they find out about the UPNP hole just before they shipped XP? And they didnt mention it, just touted XP as the most secure windows ever.
I think they probably have done a big security cleanup, but it is not just about checking for buffer overruns, it is about leaving features like macros out altoghether. Too many of the current MS security models (IE Zones, ActiveX code signing) are known not to work in practice, yet they leave them in there.
Ship a version of IE that runs with AX download disabled, that doesnt set up windows scripting to run.JS and.VS files with full user rights, then I will believe they can do security.
Till then this is window dressing, and now open source bashing. The moment we find a big fat new security hole in their 'new secure' windows it will be exposed as a lie. How long must we wait?
I did a clean install of XP Pro last week, and you know that even in a domain client with 'simple file sharing disabled' (They turn that on by default), it gives 'everyone' access to the hard drive over the net. Which means even unauthencated users. I was p*ssed off when I found out that for 2 weeks I'd opened my HDD to the rest of our network.
And I usually know what I am doing! Just think what the security settings of everyone else will be like
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yeah, if they were smart they'd name the nation just to get the .sex domain. Actually, that makes me think of a whole new way to get TLDs: declare small republics, get international recognition and new Tlds. "Peoples Optimised Republic of Nyland", "African Democracy Under Leaders of Trouble"...
not that fenced in. There are at least 3 going into sennen cove, cornwall,, with little radar reflectors up on the hillside above each one, to help the maintenance people find them (its the last half mile that they really armour the fibres, and where they get broken the most. Landing points for cables are based on cost and shoreline characteristics, not logistics. If they could, they would just bring them on board at NSA-morwenstow A place that is well known in the cornwall rock climbing community as a bunch of people who get really upset if you tie your clifftop ropes to their fences.
Sounds possible.
I was on holiday in Sennen Cove, Cornwall, a few years back and saw a cable being laid; it is only 3 feet down in the sand when it comes ashore, so you wouldnt need to send a sub out to do it, just go down to the beach at night and do it by hand.
But would you need to? I was mountain biking a mile or so inland and came across a very odd building for cornwall farmland: a fenced off, motion detector wired building with not a hint of who owned or anything, right in the middle of nowhere apart from the fact that the cables from sennen and the chair ladder area are all going to go near it. It may just have been a telco facility, but if that is the case, why didnt it say so?
but dont you see -the cables they need to tap are their own. How else will the government read urgent memos from Phoenix to FBI HQ if the NSA cant tap the email and recognise keywords like "Al-Quaeda" and "USA".
The version of .NET that MS released for BSD, 'rotor' is not for commercial use and doesnt include key things, ADO.NET (DB) ASP.net (web progamming model).
They released NET on BSD to get the universities working on it (supported by a grant program) and hackers looking at it, as opposed to having said people playing with java, mono, apache, etc. Nothing magnaminous there, even though it must have taken a lot of effort to convince management to do it.
They dont even have a CVS server where you can post mods back to...
>To call piracy an act of "theft" is just as
>dishonest as calling drug use an act of "terrorism".
yeah, those new TV ads niggle me. When are we going to see advertisments paid for by the 'Californian Hashish Farms', the Oregon Organic Sensimillar co-operative and other US-internal vendors:
"Not all drugs fund terrorism, ours funds the american way of live for many people in rural america"
MS licensing is funnier. They have that 'no more than 10 network connections' limit in NT worksta, that they enforce in IIS, and they have that 'per-CPU' licensing in NT server. And the boot code in Win2K is dumb enough to mistake the second execution unit in a hyperthreaded P4 as a second CPU, so you need to double your licensing fees if you want to use the second set of registers inside the P4. They will fix that in .NET server, but are cutting in half the #of CPUs licensed in every version of the server code, so it makes no difference whatsoever.
thinking about it, my old OS museum is actually my collection of dead OS style guides
IBM CUA (came with windows 3.0 SDK)
HP Newwave (wow)
Sun OpenView (not bad)
Motif (it should have died by now)
Win95 (ditto)
and my most unique
-Penpoint
there is something poignant about all these screen shots and style guidelines for programs that were never written. Or in the windows case, the gulf between the guidelines and the crap that MS wrote themselves.
I'd like to get hold of a copy of Sun NeWS UI guidelines or the like, if anyone has them around.
I have a windows 3.1 Beta disk set from MS: on five and half inch floppies. Not brought it up recently.
I work in an org a class A address; it makes it easier for the router people to route stuff, but every few years they do still change all the addresses around to simplify routing.
/simcard IMEA and then that is dialled. There is nothing to stop cellphone number mobility in the US but reluctance on the part of the vendor.
I dont think IPv6 should repeat the same mistake of giving away giant blocks early on; give each country one IPv4 size block and only when they have used it all up, can they come back for a new one.
Phone numbers, especially cellphone numbers, are simpler: they are just mapped to the phone ID
MS and AOL dont need to be paid by doubleclick; their own advertising units demand popunders as they are the only on line ads that book money. the reason mozilla lets you turn them off is that they are beholden to no advertising revenue.
the manufacturer requirements also say you cant do multiregion DVD, and there is even a formal committee process to handle when someone is accused of having a trivial hack to turn it into a region-0 box.
if the mfgrs to region-0 boxes then the MPAA will see their per-region markups evaporating, regardless of any duplication/sharing issues. And that is probably something they are scared of, but dont dare mention
well, DVD rom drives are mechanical too.
One thing you can get away with on the XBox is sell way below spec disks, using low spin rates and only one side of a single platter. This may allow them to run with the low yield parts that cant be used dual sided, and some legacy disk plant but you are still looking a a BOM of $30-40, (est).
But you need the volume to get the savings, and the volume doesnt come from current Xbox sales. The only other parts that ride the volume curves right now are the CPU (commodity PIII), DRAM (hey, hasnt that stopped falling) and the DVD drive. The nvidia chip? I dont think it sells in enough volume outside the Xbox to go low cost.
I remember reading a microprocessor report analysis of SGI...SGI used to take a slice of the per-game fees for the Nintendo consoles, in exchange for charging little for the mips cores. Which let nintendo keep their unit costs down, while nobody actually lost money -just delayed their income.
yeah, I played that Gotham City racing and it sucked. good graphics, shite physics. I couldnt get the Mercedes SLK round london corners at speeds I can get cars round in reality, at least in places where the traffic permits, which is not a common feature of london.
Halo is good though: played Lan-lan last week over projection screens on the MS campus itself; you can have some fun with that game. But not enough fun to make me run out and buy the consold.
So oregon folk are soft are they? ask anyone who has been in portland for long enough will tell you what it is like to have volcano go off 50 or so miles away with the energy of a 30 megaton event. Some fabs I know out there built post mount saint helens are now specced to handle the weight of a metre or so of volcanic ash on their roof...
Actually another way to detect them would be collaborative filtering; enough people mark something up as an add then its frame checksum would get recognised and the vcr could skip...relies on the systems all being networked, but that isnt hard.
Of course, there is the abuse problem...what happens if enough people mod down CNN news as nothing but advertising...
also, Ansi C++ 2002 draft released; xor "^" opcode removed after DMCA threats due to its potential use in bit-flipping and decryption algorithms. Future versions of the x86 product line will be changed to make the xor opcode a ring-0 instruction only, not for use by unapproved applications.
maybe they want a slice of the pie, but they also view users as users, not pirates. Certainly all the PC manufacturers know you have a choice and sell you the machines you want: the ones with LAN connections, CD-R, OK speakers...the RIAA would ban CD-R if they could, and make all home users dial in on a 9600 baud modem where you paid per minute of connectivity.
its worse than that; the legacy nokia phones (I have a 5185 via verizon prepay) are still much better than the competition -I know, I had a motorola 3-band for a year with awful coverage and battery life.
At least this phone does SMS to email bridging, so you can email to someone elses handset, even if cross carrier texting is still out
yeah. And why is it in the US that calls are charged per minute (not by second), and you pay for incoming. In europe 300 minutes per month means 300 minutes outgoing chat; in the US that means 300 inbound or oubound calls, maximum, even if they are only litte 10 second answering machine pings.
yeah, that's a point, my yahoo addr is @yahoo.co.uk, so yahoo UK are naughty boys. I'll see what I can do about stirring up trouble with the data protection registrar
the function of truste is to show the goverment that there is no need for privacy legislation, because companies can work it out for themselves.
As truste certification is worthless, and telcos cite freedom of speech as justification for trading your telephone data, all these arguments are clearly bollocks.
Compare to Europe, where the EU privacy laws make any unauthorised trading of customer information illegal. EU countries should have a sticker on their web sites 'privacy protected by EU data protection laws'; that'll have more clout than trust-e
er, didnt they find out about the UPNP hole just before they shipped XP? And they didnt mention it, just touted XP as the most secure windows ever.
.JS and .VS files with full user rights, then I will believe they can do security.
I think they probably have done a big security cleanup, but it is not just about checking for buffer overruns, it is about leaving features like macros out altoghether. Too many of the current MS security models (IE Zones, ActiveX code signing) are known not to work in practice, yet they leave them in there.
Ship a version of IE that runs with AX download disabled, that doesnt set up windows scripting to run
Till then this is window dressing, and now open source bashing. The moment we find a big fat new security hole in their 'new secure' windows it will be exposed as a lie. How long must we wait?
yeah, too right.
I did a clean install of XP Pro last week, and you know that even in a domain client with 'simple file sharing disabled' (They turn that on by default), it gives 'everyone' access to the hard drive over the net. Which means even unauthencated users. I was p*ssed off when I found out that for 2 weeks I'd opened my HDD to the rest of our network.
And I usually know what I am doing! Just think what the security settings of everyone else will be like