The first question is: which is the appropriate state? Lets work through this. The appropriate state is the state that has the ability to legislate to prohibit or permit the activity. Since no one state has the ability to legislate over space or the moon or indeed anything extraterritorial, the legislation would have to prevent or permit the actual launch. (while it is on the ground, that is, within their jurisdiction) This then means in Denmark it is the Danish government.
The second question is: is it illegal to launch because of the treaty? Is the launch illegal just because Denmark has ratified the treaty (if they have indeed ratified it?), well perhaps. Our local law here (Australia) is that the legislature must enact local laws that give effect to the treaty before the treaty itself has any effect. The legal effect is not due to treaty ratification as that has no legal meaning, it is because local laws are enacted to give effect to the treaty that the activity might be prohibited or permitted. (Treaty ratification may give the legislature constitutional powers (under some circumstances) to enact local laws (as it does here). It's complicated.)
So the answers (I think) are that the Danish government is the only legislature that could prohibit the launch and that (if the legal precedent regarding treaties is similar then) unless there is a local law enacted to give effect to the treaty, the treaty is merely aspirational and not effective.
When I'm trying to study at home I find that listening to white noise works well. (A white noise generator on a laptop/pc) It masks the noises the family make pretty well.
Best done with a pair of headphones that actually surround the ear rather than earbuds.
Noise cancelling headphones might help filter out some of the distractions too.
Its far from perfect, but it works for me.
(I have a pair of Phillips noise cancelling earbuds... and I'd have to say that they are a waste of time and money. There is no perceivable difference when noise cancellation is activated. Other brands might fare better,I dont know. My experience with these has been poor.)
Aside from technically literate consumers who might actually care whether their phone is powered by IOS, Symbian, Windows, or Android, would most consumers be able to meaningfully discriminate between these phone operating systems?
Wouldn't most consumers merely want a phone that works and some working apps for Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc?
"finding out if I got the PreCheck lane would be nice in advance"
I am sure the terrorists would love to know this as well.
Obvious Terrorist Scenario: Fly around the US enough and get PreCheck status. Use the barcode and the decoded information to determine which flight to strap on the suicide vest. If you don't get PreCheck, then don't wear the vest.
I sincerely hope that the the TSA is not stupid enough to leave the decoding of the PreCheck status as something as trivial as an unecoded/plain text 'bit flip' from a barcode.
Surely the barcode decodes to a string that requires a strong private key to actually decipher?
Couldn't agree more. I've only just started the Baroque Cycle with Quicksilver but its true to form (I've enjoyed everything of Stephenson's) Anathem is wonderful read.
The USPTO are a joke! (Didn't someone manage to patent the swing? It was later rejected after all the fuss made over it.. but how do you allow this sort of thing through your filters?) How does something like this get past even the most basic technical assessment.
This patent was Filed in Feb 2002. MythTV archives go back to May 2002. So the idea of 'device playback' of TV and video cant have been new at all. Bit-torrent, Kazza, e-Mule, FTP, HTTP (and many more) were all available as file transfer mechanisms. Disk storage and playback of video was old hat by then.
How does combing a few existing things in an obvious and non creative way, amount to a patent award?
In its "drawings" it describes the platters of a disk drive... what does that have to do with the idea of pulling down video content from a number of sources, and playback. Its just filler... deliberate technical obsfucation.
At best this is an obvious aggregation of existing ideas. At worst its a blatant attempt to cash in on the R&D efforts large corporations who might be working on implementing the obvious.
That foreman has a vested interest in successful patent litigation. The more ridiculous the standard this case sets, the better for him.
That is spot on. The parliament is free to set policy and law within its constitutional powers Parliamentary law (statute law) aways overides court made 'common law'
Its only when laws conflict that the Judiciary get involved to try and sort the mess out, and then, sometimes the government might not win. Of course the government is then free to remake the laws as it sees fit, within its constitutional framework, to ensure the desired outcome. AND if we (the people) dont like the way thats working out, we can change it via our elected representatives.
So unless there is a constitutional law, that cannot be upset by legislation, that specifies some sort of right to have creative rights protected by the legislature; the 'music industry' is pissing its money away.
I wish them good luck with that. The only winners out of this one, will be the lawyers and their bank balances.
If the problem is who gets the prize.. And that's the stumbling block, preventing widespread collaboration.. Set up your collective to donate to a charity, or the EFF, or Cowboy Neal... or something worthwhile.
Go on.. it'll be more fun than a LUG meeting.
How hard can it be to mobilise tens of thousands of Nerds..
(Unless its really windy.. these suckers arent getting to Australia.. so I cant help..)
They should release 99 luftballoons! Sorry. Unecessary 80's flash back there..
Once upon a time there was a company called Intel and it had a very popular processor family for the home PC. It was called the 486. There were 486s without a maths co processor (486SX), there were 486s (486DX) with the maths chip, there were even 486's that ran at twice motherbourd board frequency (486DX266). The were hugely popular. The chip family evoled from the 386 family, and had roots back to the 8008 processors. (Its numbers all the way down. (Appologies to the turtles.))
All this was fine for Intel, until the competition heated up, and you could byy processors that were functionally equivilent from other manufacturers like say the AMD 486, and even 586 processors that plugged into your standard 486 socket, and gave you a pentium 'class' machine on a 486 motherboard. (nice... I myself had an IMB branded one that ran like a Pentium 90, kept my DX50 going for a few more years). These 'clone' processors were cheaper and in many cases faster, they were a bargain.
So here was Intel, loosing market share because of competion, and they couldnt trade mark their processor 'numbers' because, well, you can't trademark a number. So Intels marketing gurus decided to give their next generation processors a name you could trademark;(thinking, thinking, thinking, got it!) Pentium. AMD couldnt name their processors Pentium. No-one else could use the name, and Intel was happy (happier?) again.
Now they are going back to numbers? After establising a Market leading and internationally recognised brand? What happened? Did the marketing department feel like a change? Would they really make such a fundamental turnaround...? It just doesnt gel...
My 7 year old twin boys, just love your show. (They get so see cool thing destroyed, fun/clever things made, and get to go to bed later than normal after watching it as well.. all bonuses).
So I was wondering what Adam, Jamie and the 'build team' were like as kids? Any good stories of childhood/adolescent 'genius' or destruction you'd like to share with slashdot? What would you be keeping your kids away from, what would you be encouraging them to do?
If his essay marking program is the real deal, then open it up for scrutiny. Allow "experts" to see what he's doing, under an NDA, of course... Lets put his reputation on the line as opposed to the education of the students he's neglecting.
He's a sociology professor, and he's managed to write a natural language parser that can actually decipher meaning, and mark the relevance of the content of the essay against the question.
Fragments of a SE outside of the atmosphere would accelerate through the vacuum until they met the atmosphere. They would then be progressively slowed by the earths atmosphere, their velocity being converted to heat. Those fragments falling fast enough to generate sufficient heat would be burnt up. Those fragments not moving fast enough to burn up on re-entry would be slowed to a reasonably slow terminal velocity.. and flutter downwards.. Losing their heat to the atmosphere as they fell. Thus ariving on the surface, relatively slowly and relatively cold.
Not that I recommend hacking your power supplies, but here is an idea.
If you are woried about having both Power Supplies configured to power a single device like a Hard Drive (so it runs when either ps is on) you could try putting diodes on the leads from each of the power supplies to the device. Its DC after all...
That way current will only travel in the intended direction, and not back into the switched off ps... Your power supplies may already have protection against this sort of reverse current flow.. Of course there will be a small voltage drop across the diodes, but this should not be a problem.
Oh, just make sure you use diodes rated for the load current and reverse voltages. ie dont use signal diodes for this application!
Heres the thing... they dont seem to have doen anything particularly invovitative, their patent simply describes the requirements of building a sophisticated ad distribution server (thats a spec, not an original idea). Anyone could sit down anddefine a similar set of requirements. Then they build it. The rules for a Patent state that the solution must not be obvious to someone skilled in that art (programming web pages I assume, not newspaper publishing) at that time... The patent looks impresive, but its not...
ADSL is duplex. ADSL works by dividing the usable range of frequencies on your phone line into segments.
Lets say that your analogue phone line can support transmission to the local exchange of frequencies from about 0 to 1100 Khz (or there abouts) over copper. The bottom 4Khz is reserved for voice. (I dont know if voice is compressed, I suspect there is some sort of companding in action to give a wider actual response but I dont know.. but the frequency range is adequate.) Then there is a band from about 30Khz to 140 Khz that is used to support the upstream channel, and then frequencies above that out to about 1100Khz are used to support downloads. There is a gaurd band between each band that eliminates crosstalk induced by imperfect transmission conditions. This arangement gives you 256Kbps Up and 1500kbps down. Filters are used to isolate the appropriate channels at either end for voice, upload, and download. But the point is that its duplex by design, singnals go both ways SIMULTANEOUSLY over the wire. Remember that ADSL transmission is analogue, thats why you have a MODEM (its an acronym, not a noun!)
So as has already been explained by previous posters, the most likely problem is that as you flood the upstream channel, your ACK packets are being queued, the network devices upstream then start to throttle back your downstream feed, as the ACKs are taking too long to come back. This is done to minimise the number of packets that will be dropped and resent to your address. Of course you arent dropping any packets , but the upstream devices dont/cant know that.
Anyway hope that helps. The July 2002 edition of Australian Personal Computer has a lovely graphic that explains how ADSL works and why you can use your phone and have a nice broadband connection at the same time. Unfortunately this article isnt on their site http://www.apcmag.com
This (use one IP address for everything) is simply not possible. I have a Cluster of 6 Web servers supporting an online application. Its just not feasable to put all of this on a single server. You work for a hardware vendor right? What about failover?
Your not serious are you? Changing the default sa password is so obvious, it shouldnt need anything in big letters. If your gong to deploy a product to production without having the most basic understanding of security issues... well.. good luck!
Whats the point of all this discussion of Jamming? You have a device that interferes with GPS signals, so what? Its only a transmitter. Its easy enough to build a device that finds a transmitter ( a directional reciever) its easy enough to build a device that homes in on a transmission and destroys it. Missiles are used to destroy RADAR instilations by doing exactly this. The bigger and more powerfull the jammer, the easier it is to destroy! The smaller, the less there is to worry about. This device is simply an nusiance, dont get all excited about the prospect of blocking missiles that use GPS, its too easy to destroy the jammers before firing off the missile!
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The first question is: which is the appropriate state?
Lets work through this.
The appropriate state is the state that has the ability to legislate to prohibit or permit the activity.
Since no one state has the ability to legislate over space or the moon or indeed anything extraterritorial, the legislation would have to prevent or permit the actual launch. (while it is on the ground, that is, within their jurisdiction)
This then means in Denmark it is the Danish government.
The second question is: is it illegal to launch because of the treaty?
Is the launch illegal just because Denmark has ratified the treaty (if they have indeed ratified it?), well perhaps.
Our local law here (Australia) is that the legislature must enact local laws that give effect to the treaty before the treaty itself has any effect.
The legal effect is not due to treaty ratification as that has no legal meaning, it is because local laws are enacted to give effect to the treaty that the activity might be prohibited or permitted. (Treaty ratification may give the legislature constitutional powers (under some circumstances) to enact local laws (as it does here). It's complicated.)
So the answers (I think) are that the Danish government is the only legislature that could prohibit the launch and that (if the legal precedent regarding treaties is similar then) unless there is a local law enacted to give effect to the treaty, the treaty is merely aspirational and not effective.
When I'm trying to study at home I find that listening to white noise works well.
(A white noise generator on a laptop/pc)
It masks the noises the family make pretty well.
Best done with a pair of headphones that actually surround the ear rather than earbuds.
Noise cancelling headphones might help filter out some of the distractions too.
Its far from perfect, but it works for me.
(I have a pair of Phillips noise cancelling earbuds... and I'd have to say that they are a waste of time and money. There is no perceivable difference when noise cancellation is activated. Other brands might fare better,I dont know. My experience with these has been poor.)
Absolutely.
Please mod this parent comment up.
Aside from technically literate consumers who might actually care whether their phone is powered by IOS, Symbian, Windows, or Android, would most consumers be able to meaningfully discriminate between these phone operating systems?
Wouldn't most consumers merely want a phone that works and some working apps for Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc?
"finding out if I got the PreCheck lane would be nice in advance"
I am sure the terrorists would love to know this as well.
Obvious Terrorist Scenario: Fly around the US enough and get PreCheck status.
Use the barcode and the decoded information to determine which flight to strap on the suicide vest.
If you don't get PreCheck, then don't wear the vest.
I sincerely hope that the the TSA is not stupid enough to leave the decoding of the PreCheck status as something as trivial as an unecoded/plain text 'bit flip' from a barcode.
Surely the barcode decodes to a string that requires a strong private key to actually decipher?
Anything less would be negligent.
Couldn't agree more.
I've only just started the Baroque Cycle with Quicksilver but its true to form (I've enjoyed everything of Stephenson's)
Anathem is wonderful read.
How can that be a Patent?
The USPTO are a joke!
(Didn't someone manage to patent the swing? It was later rejected after all the fuss made over it.. but how do you allow this sort of thing through your filters?)
How does something like this get past even the most basic technical assessment.
This patent was Filed in Feb 2002.
MythTV archives go back to May 2002. So the idea of 'device playback' of TV and video cant have been new at all.
Bit-torrent, Kazza, e-Mule, FTP, HTTP (and many more) were all available as file transfer mechanisms.
Disk storage and playback of video was old hat by then.
How does combing a few existing things in an obvious and non creative way, amount to a patent award?
In its "drawings" it describes the platters of a disk drive... what does that have to do with the idea of pulling down video content from a number of sources, and playback. Its just filler... deliberate technical obsfucation.
At best this is an obvious aggregation of existing ideas. At worst its a blatant attempt to cash in on the R&D efforts large corporations who might be working on implementing the obvious.
That foreman has a vested interest in successful patent litigation. The more ridiculous the standard this case sets, the better for him.
That is spot on.
The parliament is free to set policy and law within its constitutional powers
Parliamentary law (statute law) aways overides court made 'common law'
Its only when laws conflict that the Judiciary get involved to try and sort the mess out, and then, sometimes the government might not win.
Of course the government is then free to remake the laws as it sees fit, within its constitutional framework, to ensure the desired outcome.
AND if we (the people) dont like the way thats working out, we can change it via our elected representatives.
So unless there is a constitutional law, that cannot be upset by legislation, that specifies some sort of right to have creative rights protected by the legislature; the 'music industry' is pissing its money away.
I wish them good luck with that. The only winners out of this one, will be the lawyers and their bank balances.
If the problem is who gets the prize..
And that's the stumbling block, preventing widespread collaboration..
Set up your collective to donate to a charity, or the EFF, or Cowboy Neal... or something worthwhile.
Go on.. it'll be more fun than a LUG meeting.
How hard can it be to mobilise tens of thousands of Nerds..
(Unless its really windy.. these suckers arent getting to Australia.. so I cant help..)
They should release 99 luftballoons! Sorry. Unecessary 80's flash back there..
On the other hand, the gripping hand, what it looks like probably depends on where you stand.. looks like a coalsack from somewhere I'm sure.
The diagrams are clearly missing the Alderson Point.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081114.html
Once upon a time there was a company called Intel and it had a very popular processor family for the home PC. It was called the 486. There were 486s without a maths co processor (486SX), there were 486s (486DX) with the maths chip, there were even 486's that ran at twice motherbourd board frequency (486DX266). The were hugely popular. The chip family evoled from the 386 family, and had roots back to the 8008 processors. (Its numbers all the way down. (Appologies to the turtles.))
All this was fine for Intel, until the competition heated up, and you could byy processors that were functionally equivilent from other manufacturers like say the AMD 486, and even 586 processors that plugged into your standard 486 socket, and gave you a pentium 'class' machine on a 486 motherboard. (nice... I myself had an IMB branded one that ran like a Pentium 90, kept my DX50 going for a few more years). These 'clone' processors were cheaper and in many cases faster, they were a bargain.
So here was Intel, loosing market share because of competion, and they couldnt trade mark their processor 'numbers' because, well, you can't trademark a number. So Intels marketing gurus decided to give their next generation processors a name you could trademark;(thinking, thinking, thinking, got it!) Pentium. AMD couldnt name their processors Pentium. No-one else could use the name, and Intel was happy (happier?) again.
Now they are going back to numbers?
After establising a Market leading and internationally recognised brand?
What happened? Did the marketing department feel like a change?
Would they really make such a fundamental turnaround...? It just doesnt gel...
Just get a new name...
Sexium.
Would I need to use my flash to get a picture of the shadow? ;-)
My 7 year old twin boys, just love your show. (They get so see cool thing destroyed, fun/clever things made, and get to go to bed later than normal after watching it as well.. all bonuses).
So I was wondering what Adam, Jamie and the 'build team' were like as kids?
Any good stories of childhood/adolescent 'genius' or destruction you'd like to share with slashdot?
What would you be keeping your kids away from, what would you be encouraging them to do?
He's a sociology professor, and he's managed to write a natural language parser that can actually decipher meaning, and mark the relevance of the content of the essay against the question.
I've been wondering about the outstanding swimming and cycling results the Aussies are having/had at the Olympics..
If we (Australia) beat the French it will be all worth it.
What you've got is stolen credit card numbers being transported across state lines. That makes it a federal matter. You call the FBI.
Not necessarily.
Fragments of a SE outside of the atmosphere would accelerate through the vacuum until they met the atmosphere. They would then be progressively slowed by the earths atmosphere, their velocity being converted to heat. Those fragments falling fast enough to generate sufficient heat would be burnt up. Those fragments not moving fast enough to burn up on re-entry would be slowed to a reasonably slow terminal velocity.. and flutter downwards.. Losing their heat to the atmosphere as they fell. Thus ariving on the surface, relatively slowly and relatively cold.
Not that I recommend hacking your power supplies, but here is an idea.
If you are woried about having both Power Supplies configured to power a single device like a Hard Drive (so it runs when either ps is on) you could try putting diodes on the leads from each of the power supplies to the device. Its DC after all...
That way current will only travel in the intended direction, and not back into the switched off ps... Your power supplies may already have protection against this sort of reverse current flow.. Of course there will be a small voltage drop across the diodes, but this should not be a problem.
Oh, just make sure you use diodes rated for the load current and reverse voltages. ie dont use signal diodes for this application!
I just want Affordable Broadband...
Heres the thing... they dont seem to have doen anything particularly invovitative, their patent simply describes the requirements of building a sophisticated ad distribution server (thats a spec, not an original idea). Anyone could sit down anddefine a similar set of requirements. Then they build it. The rules for a Patent state that the solution must not be obvious to someone skilled in that art (programming web pages I assume, not newspaper publishing) at that time... The patent looks impresive, but its not...
ADSL is duplex.
ADSL works by dividing the usable range of frequencies on your phone line into segments.
Lets say that your analogue phone line can support transmission to the local exchange of frequencies from about 0 to 1100 Khz (or there abouts) over copper. The bottom 4Khz is reserved for voice. (I dont know if voice is compressed, I suspect there is some sort of companding in action to give a wider actual response but I dont know.. but the frequency range is adequate.) Then there is a band from about 30Khz to 140 Khz that is used to support the upstream channel, and then frequencies above that out to about 1100Khz are used to support downloads. There is a gaurd band between each band that eliminates crosstalk induced by imperfect transmission conditions.
This arangement gives you 256Kbps Up and 1500kbps down. Filters are used to isolate the appropriate channels at either end for voice, upload, and download. But the point is that its duplex by design, singnals go both ways SIMULTANEOUSLY over the wire. Remember that ADSL transmission is analogue, thats why you have a MODEM (its an acronym, not a noun!)
So as has already been explained by previous posters, the most likely problem is that as you flood the upstream channel, your ACK packets are being queued, the network devices upstream then start to throttle back your downstream feed, as the ACKs are taking too long to come back. This is done to minimise the number of packets that will be dropped and resent to your address. Of course you arent dropping any packets , but the upstream devices dont/cant know that.
Anyway hope that helps. The July 2002 edition of Australian Personal Computer has a lovely graphic that explains how ADSL works and why you can use your phone and have a nice broadband connection at the same time. Unfortunately this article isnt on their site http://www.apcmag.com
Cheers
Micko
An expensive but, very good solution is the Cisco (ex Arrowpoint?) CSS 11000.
This (use one IP address for everything) is simply not possible. I have a Cluster of 6 Web servers supporting an online application. Its just not feasable to put all of this on a single server. You work for a hardware vendor right? What about failover?
Your not serious are you? Changing the default sa password is so obvious, it shouldnt need anything in big letters. If your gong to deploy a product to production without having the most basic understanding of security issues... well.. good luck!
Whats the point of all this discussion of Jamming? You have a device that interferes with GPS signals, so what? Its only a transmitter. Its easy enough to build a device that finds a transmitter ( a directional reciever) its easy enough to build a device that homes in on a transmission and destroys it. Missiles are used to destroy RADAR instilations by doing exactly this. The bigger and more powerfull the jammer, the easier it is to destroy! The smaller, the less there is to worry about. This device is simply an nusiance, dont get all excited about the prospect of blocking missiles that use GPS, its too easy to destroy the jammers before firing off the missile!