It is also the only country to go against the flow and invest on a crazy scale into government sponsored agricultural research.
Why do you thing Australian wines are marching victoriously even across old wine producing countries? Why do you think 100+ year old vineries in Europe are throwing out their traditional tech and using Australian? In fact a lot of the ones we think as "traditional" are actually now aussie tech and even part-owned by them. It is because they have spent a colossal amount on government sponsored research into this over the last 50 odd years.
Same with everything else. It is a textbook example that there are cases where pinko commie government intervention actually works and when it works - when it is an investment into foundations and infrastructure through R&D while leaving the private enterprises utilise it after that.
On the subject of bees - they have long invested into research in pesticide minimisation techniques at a government level and they have spent a shedload of money on it. As a result, I am not surprised that they are laughing madly Kookaburra sitting on an old gum tree style while the rest of the developed world is running around like headless chickins.
Forwarding 1GBit of traffic coming over 802.1q trunk is under 5% load on an _UNDERCLOCKED_ laptop if you have an Intel NIC. Probably around 10% on Broadcom and other NICs which have checksum offload and do 802.1q brute force. Realtek is a ritual suicide so unless you want to do precise QoS and need the interrupts it is better not to mention it. You can have a laptop work for months on this doing this and survive. I would never consider using it anyway. A miniITX (MB in a 1U rack) or even a branded thin client can do the same job while having vastly superior MTBF.
Now, using laptops and some (especially branded) desktops for CPU intensive tasks is a totally different ball game. They are not designed to keep running this way. They are nearly guaranteed to start developing thermal faults. There are rare exemptions like old Compaq Prosignias (the Intel BX chipset and fanless CPU variety) which can, but they are an exemption, not the rule.
In any case, running a computing farm and forwarding are totally different ball games. The latter is actually considerably easier than the former at anything up to a couple of Gbits.
The first "stunt" depends on your point of view. If you have nicely brainwashed and duped by marketing material that "Vendor gear good, PC bad" that may sound as a stunt. If you actually know what you are doing you can run networks for years on this.
Nearly any laptop today has the forwarding grunt of an upper end of a 3800, there are plenty of servers that are on par with a 7200 or low end 7600 and most supervisor modules. You can run a network on this on a daily basis and do a _LOT_ of things a Cisco cannot do or cannot do at sufficient performance.
To put the so called "stunt" into a perspective, I used to run a production installation with 20+ 802.1q trunks via 800MHz Via EPIAs with 600+ entry ACL lists including content filtering with VRRP failover, load balancing to multiple upstream uplinks, OSPF, hardware accel-ed openvpn and ipsec, 16+ class hierarchy CBQ QoS and a few more bells and whistles. For years. Not for 48 hours.
Nothing wrong with it if you can do it. If you cannot - well, not everything in life is learned on CCXX and RedRat certification courses. C'est la vie.
Just to add to that, the fact that they are asking for "what is the port for http" makes any prosecution even more difficult as 99% of them can claim did not know what they were doing.
It is a different type of attack. It is the "I am Spartacus" attack.
It requires putting 100000+ people most of which are juveniles in their jurisdiction on trial. No politician today can stomach that one at this point. However, the way things are going and the way we are sliding towards police societies I am not so sure that this will be the case a few years from now.
Note the number of "people who has found it helpful" on this review...
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You forgot to mention - does it work properly after that over the VGA cable?
Most VGA cables cannot take the frequencies required to transmit a HD signal cleanly so you get pretty nasty ghosting. The same is valid for a lot of recent video cards which have VGA as an afterthought on a cable hanging of a header on the side.
On the negative side, this is likely to reinstate the whole debacle about resolutions, DRM and the other "digital may allow people to steal stuff" that kind'a went away from the PC and got confined in "consumerdevice land" with the introduction of the HDMI.
When the commercial Internet started it was all PAYG at least in my corner of the world. You paid fixed price per connection and price per meg. Only large ISPs and their like managed to get fixed rate deals. Joe Casual user and Joe's Company Ltd paid per MB.
One of the first thing I had to write when I became employee No 6 in what was to become a large ISP in my country was exactly that - the traffic data collection, accounting and billing system.
The Telcos, Cablecos, etc _REMOVED_ all this when they entered the Internet market because it did not align with their legacy billing systems for legacy services. However, now the Internet is more important that the precious legacy voice or PPV so it is not surprising that things have come around full circle and "does not fit our billing system" is no longer a valid business reason.
Apple is not the publisher. If newspaper analogies are to go along it is the printing press and the man who commands the paperboys doing the delivery.
The law is very explicit here. While it is fine for either one of these to refuse to work with a newspaper if there is a healthy competition, they are not entitled to if they control a significant portion of the market. Apple controls a significant portion of the "distribute content to smartphone" market so it is actually very limited in what it can and what it cannot discriminate against by monopoly law.
Their raciness is kinda... Well, there is a saying that the beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Hope you are geting my drift here... In fact, I suspect that Apple's problem is probably not so much with the ladies on page 9, but the rather large collection of pages of "alternative services" advertised in the vicinity of page 9.
In any case, Jobs has no entitlement to enforce his puritanian beliefs on the European population. He is running a service, not a religious sect and this service is quickly approaching what in EU is considered "significan market power". That ends up with regulator attention. Getting it because of page 3, page 9, etc is plain silly.
Sociopathy does not work in the long term. It provides short term gain and hence it is the fashion of the day.
In the long term not having empathy is a fatal flaw for a manager. If a manager does not have empathy he does not know how far to turn the screws before the workforce revolts. So he turns them too tight and the team fails to deliver, leaves or outright revolts and tries to lynch mob the management.
I have seen that more than once. In fact, In fact, I have seen that more than once with the same person leading to the same end.
Similarly, vs a background of sociopathy a non-sociopathic company is guaranteed a considerable competitive advantage.
That all _WAS_ there in the days when military systems ran on DGUX and Trusted Solaris. Things like not being cut-n-paste down data from a higher level security app into a lower level are just one of the basic features in both and are backed all the way to the OS level to ensure it is not easily bypassed.
It all WENT AWAY with the windows infestation of the networks. The military should not blame anyone but themselves here. Security levels and "colour" books were defined for a reason and no Windows system has ever managed to comply to them while connected to a network (NT had a C cert while disconnected and stripped of floppies and removable media).
As Gregg Lake used to sing: You get whatever Christmas you deserve and no knee jerk reaction can help against the fact that the system is no longer secure and no longer has a sufficient audit trail in the first place.
It is regarding reversing, not lane changing where nearly all cars and especially the SUV and truck class which 'mrcans love so much have a blind spot right behind the vehicle. The bigger the car, the bigger the blind spot. The "magic mirror" does not save you from this one.
In any case, the cameras on normal cars will not help (vans and trucks are slightly different story). People who reverse into things simply ignore them (and the rear view mirror) altogether. I know it first hand. My cars have reversing sensors. That does not prevent my "better half" from bumping them here and there once in a while. She simply ignores the bloody things. Similarly, you can see plenty of new Nissan primeras with rear bumps out there despite it having it as standard since launch (rear visibility on this monster is hideous).
In dash camera displays however will however completely once and for all eliminate any 3rd party dash/radio replacement options. These have been on the wane anyway, they will definitely be off the cards now. It is something the manufacturers will love as you will now be stuck with the stereo options as mandated by the model ladder and have to "upgrade" to that "W*nktanium Zetec Zhia" class model to get the stereo you want so they stuff you with 50 additional options as a bundle.
Otherwise it is not a bad idea if it has a "automated load onto cart" option where at the end of an established tube it loads itself onto a well padded cart and continues at 10mph in the bicycle lane until it gets to its destination. 60mph initially for city to city transit, then for trunk distribution and fallback to good old road for the last mile. Just like the internet, where most households do not have fiber and have to live with a "lovely" copper or cable tail. If it is well padded at 10mph even if its guidance and street navigation fails it is still relatively safe for other road users. It also is not in any particular hurry so it can take very conservative decisions regarding road crossings and traffic lights.
2000 does have features that would let one lock them down pretty well;
Not if it is in its original unpatched incarnation which indeed is the case for these systems. So it is in fact a pushover. Same for the systems that ship with XP. Most of them have not been patched either. Not that this would matter. Even if they were, for the "professional" version of this attack the original firmware is re-flashed with a custom one.
You are clearly missing the propaganda value of the Inivincible parked as an amusement Park attraction on the Buenos Aires beach-front. That is also one of the few places in the world where it will generate revenue as an attraction as well.
Russia - it has been successfully getting rid of the comparable Kiev class which is actually slightly bigger as a ship, just with the same size flight deck and the "spare" taken up by heavy missile armament.
China already has Kiev and Minsk which are considerably better fit for a 3rd world navy (if it develops VTOL) because while they have the same length flight deck they can also carry some very heavy missile armament (enough by itself to take out a NATO carrier group without using any of its aircraft). Kiev however is an amusement attraction and Minsk is not a part of PLANavy either. In fact the only "bought" aircraft carrier to end up in the hands of the Chinese Army AFAIK is Varyag which should have been at sea by now if the Chinese are serious about reactivating it.
My guess is that the Invincible will either end up as an attraction in Argentina (revenge is a dish best served ice cold) or sold for scrap or both - sold for scrap to an Argentinian company.
Some printers can have a full attack kit loaded and have WiFi. While most printers are yet to be hacked, the possibility is there. The bigger ones have a fully blown OS of some description doing the management functionality. Some of it is also hopelessly out of date securitywise. I have seen stuff like Win2000 being used on the print centers by one well known big company. Rooting that is trivial.
The ones that cannot be routed can still have a MIM put in between their built-in network functionality and the customer network. If done properly it will _NOT_ have any "cables sticking out" either. A microcontroller with two Ethernets which bridges between the printer original Ether and a fake one sticking out can be put in something the size of an match box nowdays. With most IT depts putting indiscriminately power over ethernet nobody will notice if it is powered from the net. And so on. There are lots of variations on this theme and having "more than one cable sticking out" actually means a very lame job on the side of whoever did it.
That is the case with badly done PDFs where pages are rendered as images. PDFs done via the office plugin or Openoffice or any other proper authoring package at the default settings have the text present and the fonts embedded instead so should work fin as far as accessibility.
How about enforcing some computer literacy on document publishers instead?
Comcast has _BOTH_ cost _AND_ revenue. However what happens here is that its cost no longer matches its revenue model.
It has three options:
1. Recompute its pricing matrix and change retail consumer prices. 2. Try to recoup from what it sees as "disruptive" players. 3. Redesign the network to improve the cost/revenue metrics.
The second option is erroneously perceived as a "lesser evil". It may lead to some or all of the following consequences: FCC revisiting the special status of Cable Operators regarding telecommunications services which allow Cable to skip on some of the "telco obligations", FCC with FTC raising a competition issue which may result in regulations including mandatory wholesale access or any of the net neuterality options.
It should have jacked up the prices until it is back in the black and seriously considered 3 instead of this move. Level3 used to have good lawyers at least at some point. Back around 2000 they managed to twist the arms of Sprint, Ebone, MCI and other major players that were way more entrenched than Comcast. So winding it up so it lends a hand to FCC to do a competition case was a really really really bad move.
A patrol encounters an enemy combatant in a walled Afghan village who fires an AK-47 intermittently from behind cover, exposing himself only for a brief second to fire.
Again, that's assuming that you have the correct wall, the combatant hasn't fallen back into another building waiting to ambush you on the inside and also hoping they're not housed with women and children, as I've heard is often the case.
The reality is neither. The real problem for the NATO forces are not the crazy beards with AK47. Those are cannon fodder and they engage within 400m which is the effective range of current NATO infantry weapons. From there on the superior training of modern NATO forces does the job.
The real problem there are PK [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PK_machine_gun] machine guns. As long as these are commonplace, NATO forces are outgunned on nearly every engagement and have to call in air-strikes. The PK has an effective killing range in excess of 800m (up to 1500m). The guys manning them chose positions outside NATO infantry weapons effective range (400m) keep any NATO patrol down to the ground allowing the AK47 cannonfodder to advance. Now why and who in his infinite wisdom eliminated the machine gunners and proper machine guns from NATO infantry platoons is a different matter. However for now the fact is a fact - NATO in Afganistan does not have a sufficient number of heavy long range infantry weapons on the ground to engage in a machine gunner duel and win it.
The X25 supergun does bugger all regarding this. It is slightly better than the average effective range of NATO infantry weapons (sub-400m), but still not anywhere near to take out a PK machine gun nest in an ambush scenario.
So for Afgan it is in fact a waste of money. If they want to win this war by military means they need to find a way to deal with those. Helicopters by the dozen or productising the infantry launched anti-personnel missile prototypes like the Switchblade/Anubis are a much better use of taxpayer money.
In other words we have reinvented what the French have known for a while.
They did that experiment a few decades back. I am not sure about the exact dates, but 50-es and early 60-es come to mind. Super sterile birthing wars, kids being given to mothers only to feed, everyone washed and kept squeaky clean, super sterile kindergardens where the housekeeper dosed everything in bleach on a regular basis and so on.
The statistics on children health made them abandon it in under 10 years.
I guess it is yet another bit of history repeating.
Excellent idea if the pixels can be raised far enough and stay raised without whoever is touch-reading them getting skin cancer from the UV.
I don't geddit...
There are plenty of materials that will change their properties based on the basic electric field. This is the principle on which LCD's work. It should be possible to "stiffen" or "loosen" a display selectively without the UV bit just by adding a 4th "stiffness" pixel element similar to the 4th pixel element on Sharp displays. If that is too difficult, simulating different texture by vibrating through the use of a pieso-element in place of the fourth pixel is also an option. Tons of ways of doing this. Why UV?
But as far as speed and ease of coding, GTK+ is right up there.
As I said:
Avoid GTK: Grave danger you are in. Impatient you are. Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will. Always write Yoda code you will...
The general problem with GTK is that if you follow the "easy" way you end up with an app whose UI is embedded into its state diagram. You cannot after that (at least without considerable effort) disentangle this UI from the backend and isolate portions of the backend to run headless. As a result making your app make use of a modern multicore machine is outright painful. It is not impossible, but hurts none the less. You are also much more likely to end up sitting on locks in many places which negates the advantages of multithread on multiprocessor machine. Just take your run-off the mill GTK app, load on a SMP machine and run it along with a CPU monitor.
Qt gives you much more pain at first, however the entire paradigm of "signal buck passing" between different elements of the program and libraries makes multithreading considerably less painful. You can also write a lot of stuff lockless because the signal passing takes care of it.
All miscreants out there have a regularly updated almanach which tells them when they are "under the bird". That is why the UAVs have managed to achieve much more than spy satellites. However you cannot launch a UAV over China, Russia or anything more advanced than a banana republic. Here a craft that can be refuelled is priceless.
The worrying element however is Russia's rumoured response to these developments. It is considering unfreezing the development of the Uragan space interceptor. http://www.astronautix.com/craft/uraeptor.htm That is an outright military platform armed to the teeth. It was frozen back in USSR days because USA stopped launching the shuttle from Vanderberg same as the freezing of Polus/Skif. However most parts exist till this day in storage and reviving them will not take long. That will take the ABM and weapons race to a whole new level.
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Somehow I am not surprised.
It is also the only country to go against the flow and invest on a crazy scale into government sponsored agricultural research.
Why do you thing Australian wines are marching victoriously even across old wine producing countries? Why do you think 100+ year old vineries in Europe are throwing out their traditional tech and using Australian? In fact a lot of the ones we think as "traditional" are actually now aussie tech and even part-owned by them. It is because they have spent a colossal amount on government sponsored research into this over the last 50 odd years.
Same with everything else. It is a textbook example that there are cases where pinko commie government intervention actually works and when it works - when it is an investment into foundations and infrastructure through R&D while leaving the private enterprises utilise it after that.
On the subject of bees - they have long invested into research in pesticide minimisation techniques at a government level and they have spent a shedload of money on it. As a result, I am not surprised that they are laughing madly Kookaburra sitting on an old gum tree style while the rest of the developed world is running around like headless chickins.
There is a world of difference here.
Forwarding 1GBit of traffic coming over 802.1q trunk is under 5% load on an _UNDERCLOCKED_ laptop if you have an Intel NIC. Probably around 10% on Broadcom and other NICs which have checksum offload and do 802.1q brute force. Realtek is a ritual suicide so unless you want to do precise QoS and need the interrupts it is better not to mention it. You can have a laptop work for months on this doing this and survive. I would never consider using it anyway. A miniITX (MB in a 1U rack) or even a branded thin client can do the same job while having vastly superior MTBF.
Now, using laptops and some (especially branded) desktops for CPU intensive tasks is a totally different ball game. They are not designed to keep running this way. They are nearly guaranteed to start developing thermal faults. There are rare exemptions like old Compaq Prosignias (the Intel BX chipset and fanless CPU variety) which can, but they are an exemption, not the rule.
In any case, running a computing farm and forwarding are totally different ball games. The latter is actually considerably easier than the former at anything up to a couple of Gbits.
The first "stunt" depends on your point of view. If you have nicely brainwashed and duped by marketing material that "Vendor gear good, PC bad" that may sound as a stunt. If you actually know what you are doing you can run networks for years on this.
Nearly any laptop today has the forwarding grunt of an upper end of a 3800, there are plenty of servers that are on par with a 7200 or low end 7600 and most supervisor modules. You can run a network on this on a daily basis and do a _LOT_ of things a Cisco cannot do or cannot do at sufficient performance.
To put the so called "stunt" into a perspective, I used to run a production installation with 20+ 802.1q trunks via 800MHz Via EPIAs with 600+ entry ACL lists including content filtering with VRRP failover, load balancing to multiple upstream uplinks, OSPF, hardware accel-ed openvpn and ipsec, 16+ class hierarchy CBQ QoS and a few more bells and whistles. For years. Not for 48 hours.
Nothing wrong with it if you can do it. If you cannot - well, not everything in life is learned on CCXX and RedRat certification courses. C'est la vie.
Just to add to that, the fact that they are asking for "what is the port for http" makes any prosecution even more difficult as 99% of them can claim did not know what they were doing.
Both you and UTwente missed the point.
It is a different type of attack. It is the "I am Spartacus" attack.
It requires putting 100000+ people most of which are juveniles in their jurisdiction on trial. No politician today can stomach that one at this point. However, the way things are going and the way we are sliding towards police societies I am not so sure that this will be the case a few years from now.
http://www.amazon.com/Story-About-Ping-Marjorie-Flack/dp/0140502416
Note the number of "people who has found it helpful" on this review...
You forgot to mention - does it work properly after that over the VGA cable?
Most VGA cables cannot take the frequencies required to transmit a HD signal cleanly so you get pretty nasty ghosting. The same is valid for a lot of recent video cards which have VGA as an afterthought on a cable hanging of a header on the side.
On the negative side, this is likely to reinstate the whole debacle about resolutions, DRM and the other "digital may allow people to steal stuff" that kind'a went away from the PC and got confined in "consumerdevice land" with the introduction of the HDMI.
When the commercial Internet started it was all PAYG at least in my corner of the world. You paid fixed price per connection and price per meg. Only large ISPs and their like managed to get fixed rate deals. Joe Casual user and Joe's Company Ltd paid per MB.
One of the first thing I had to write when I became employee No 6 in what was to become a large ISP in my country was exactly that - the traffic data collection, accounting and billing system.
The Telcos, Cablecos, etc _REMOVED_ all this when they entered the Internet market because it did not align with their legacy billing systems for legacy services. However, now the Internet is more important that the precious legacy voice or PPV so it is not surprising that things have come around full circle and "does not fit our billing system" is no longer a valid business reason.
Wrong analogy.
Apple is not the publisher. If newspaper analogies are to go along it is the printing press and the man who commands the paperboys doing the delivery.
The law is very explicit here. While it is fine for either one of these to refuse to work with a newspaper if there is a healthy competition, they are not entitled to if they control a significant portion of the market. Apple controls a significant portion of the "distribute content to smartphone" market so it is actually very limited in what it can and what it cannot discriminate against by monopoly law.
Their raciness is kinda... Well, there is a saying that the beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Hope you are geting my drift here... In fact, I suspect that Apple's problem is probably not so much with the ladies on page 9, but the rather large collection of pages of "alternative services" advertised in the vicinity of page 9.
In any case, Jobs has no entitlement to enforce his puritanian beliefs on the European population. He is running a service, not a religious sect and this service is quickly approaching what in EU is considered "significan market power". That ends up with regulator attention. Getting it because of page 3, page 9, etc is plain silly.
Sociopathy does not work in the long term. It provides short term gain and hence it is the fashion of the day.
In the long term not having empathy is a fatal flaw for a manager. If a manager does not have empathy he does not know how far to turn the screws before the workforce revolts. So he turns them too tight and the team fails to deliver, leaves or outright revolts and tries to lynch mob the management.
I have seen that more than once. In fact, In fact, I have seen that more than once with the same person leading to the same end.
Similarly, vs a background of sociopathy a non-sociopathic company is guaranteed a considerable competitive advantage.
That all _WAS_ there in the days when military systems ran on DGUX and Trusted Solaris. Things like not being cut-n-paste down data from a higher level security app into a lower level are just one of the basic features in both and are backed all the way to the OS level to ensure it is not easily bypassed.
It all WENT AWAY with the windows infestation of the networks. The military should not blame anyone but themselves here. Security levels and "colour" books were defined for a reason and no Windows system has ever managed to comply to them while connected to a network (NT had a C cert while disconnected and stripped of floppies and removable media).
As Gregg Lake used to sing: You get whatever Christmas you deserve and no knee jerk reaction can help against the fact that the system is no longer secure and no longer has a sufficient audit trail in the first place.
This is slightly different.
It is regarding reversing, not lane changing where nearly all cars and especially the SUV and truck class which 'mrcans love so much have a blind spot right behind the vehicle. The bigger the car, the bigger the blind spot. The "magic mirror" does not save you from this one.
In any case, the cameras on normal cars will not help (vans and trucks are slightly different story). People who reverse into things simply ignore them (and the rear view mirror) altogether. I know it first hand. My cars have reversing sensors. That does not prevent my "better half" from bumping them here and there once in a while. She simply ignores the bloody things. Similarly, you can see plenty of new Nissan primeras with rear bumps out there despite it having it as standard since launch (rear visibility on this monster is hideous).
In dash camera displays however will however completely once and for all eliminate any 3rd party dash/radio replacement options. These have been on the wane anyway, they will definitely be off the cards now. It is something the manufacturers will love as you will now be stuck with the stereo options as mandated by the model ladder and have to "upgrade" to that "W*nktanium Zetec Zhia" class model to get the stereo you want so they stuff you with 50 additional options as a bundle.
Damn, beat me to it.
Otherwise it is not a bad idea if it has a "automated load onto cart" option where at the end of an established tube it loads itself onto a well padded cart and continues at 10mph in the bicycle lane until it gets to its destination. 60mph initially for city to city transit, then for trunk distribution and fallback to good old road for the last mile. Just like the internet, where most households do not have fiber and have to live with a "lovely" copper or cable tail. If it is well padded at 10mph even if its guidance and street navigation fails it is still relatively safe for other road users. It also is not in any particular hurry so it can take very conservative decisions regarding road crossings and traffic lights.
2000 does have features that would let one lock them down pretty well;
Not if it is in its original unpatched incarnation which indeed is the case for these systems. So it is in fact a pushover. Same for the systems that ship with XP. Most of them have not been patched either. Not that this would matter. Even if they were, for the "professional" version of this attack the original firmware is re-flashed with a custom one.
You are clearly missing the propaganda value of the Inivincible parked as an amusement Park attraction on the Buenos Aires beach-front. That is also one of the few places in the world where it will generate revenue as an attraction as well.
It is useless for anyone who does not have VTOL.
This limits it to:
Britain -does not want it
USA - you gotta be kidding
Russia - it has been successfully getting rid of the comparable Kiev class which is actually slightly bigger as a ship, just with the same size flight deck and the "spare" taken up by heavy missile armament.
China already has Kiev and Minsk which are considerably better fit for a 3rd world navy (if it develops VTOL) because while they have the same length flight deck they can also carry some very heavy missile armament (enough by itself to take out a NATO carrier group without using any of its aircraft). Kiev however is an amusement attraction and Minsk is not a part of PLANavy either. In fact the only "bought" aircraft carrier to end up in the hands of the Chinese Army AFAIK is Varyag which should have been at sea by now if the Chinese are serious about reactivating it.
My guess is that the Invincible will either end up as an attraction in Argentina (revenge is a dish best served ice cold) or sold for scrap or both - sold for scrap to an Argentinian company.
Printer is indeed a better choice.
Some printers can have a full attack kit loaded and have WiFi. While most printers are yet to be hacked, the possibility is there. The bigger ones have a fully blown OS of some description doing the management functionality. Some of it is also hopelessly out of date securitywise. I have seen stuff like Win2000 being used on the print centers by one well known big company. Rooting that is trivial.
The ones that cannot be routed can still have a MIM put in between their built-in network functionality and the customer network. If done properly it will _NOT_ have any "cables sticking out" either. A microcontroller with two Ethernets which bridges between the printer original Ether and a fake one sticking out can be put in something the size of an match box nowdays. With most IT depts putting indiscriminately power over ethernet nobody will notice if it is powered from the net. And so on. There are lots of variations on this theme and having "more than one cable sticking out" actually means a very lame job on the side of whoever did it.
That is the case with badly done PDFs where pages are rendered as images. PDFs done via the office plugin or Openoffice or any other proper authoring package at the default settings have the text present and the fonts embedded instead so should work fin as far as accessibility.
How about enforcing some computer literacy on document publishers instead?
Wrong.
Comcast has _BOTH_ cost _AND_ revenue. However what happens here is that its cost no longer matches its revenue model.
It has three options:
1. Recompute its pricing matrix and change retail consumer prices.
2. Try to recoup from what it sees as "disruptive" players.
3. Redesign the network to improve the cost/revenue metrics.
The second option is erroneously perceived as a "lesser evil". It may lead to some or all of the following consequences: FCC revisiting the special status of Cable Operators regarding telecommunications services which allow Cable to skip on some of the "telco obligations", FCC with FTC raising a competition issue which may result in regulations including mandatory wholesale access or any of the net neuterality options.
It should have jacked up the prices until it is back in the black and seriously considered 3 instead of this move. Level3 used to have good lawyers at least at some point. Back around 2000 they managed to twist the arms of Sprint, Ebone, MCI and other major players that were way more entrenched than Comcast. So winding it up so it lends a hand to FCC to do a competition case was a really really really bad move.
A patrol encounters an enemy combatant in a walled Afghan village who fires an AK-47 intermittently from behind cover, exposing himself only for a brief second to fire.
Again, that's assuming that you have the correct wall, the combatant hasn't fallen back into another building waiting to ambush you on the inside and also hoping they're not housed with women and children, as I've heard is often the case.
The reality is neither. The real problem for the NATO forces are not the crazy beards with AK47. Those are cannon fodder and they engage within 400m which is the effective range of current NATO infantry weapons. From there on the superior training of modern NATO forces does the job.
The real problem there are PK [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PK_machine_gun] machine guns. As long as these are commonplace, NATO forces are outgunned on nearly every engagement and have to call in air-strikes. The PK has an effective killing range in excess of 800m (up to 1500m). The guys manning them chose positions outside NATO infantry weapons effective range (400m) keep any NATO patrol down to the ground allowing the AK47 cannonfodder to advance. Now why and who in his infinite wisdom eliminated the machine gunners and proper machine guns from NATO infantry platoons is a different matter. However for now the fact is a fact - NATO in Afganistan does not have a sufficient number of heavy long range infantry weapons on the ground to engage in a machine gunner duel and win it.
The X25 supergun does bugger all regarding this. It is slightly better than the average effective range of NATO infantry weapons (sub-400m), but still not anywhere near to take out a PK machine gun nest in an ambush scenario.
So for Afgan it is in fact a waste of money. If they want to win this war by military means they need to find a way to deal with those. Helicopters by the dozen or productising the infantry launched anti-personnel missile prototypes like the Switchblade/Anubis are a much better use of taxpayer money.
In other words we have reinvented what the French have known for a while.
They did that experiment a few decades back. I am not sure about the exact dates, but 50-es and early 60-es come to mind. Super sterile birthing wars, kids being given to mothers only to feed, everyone washed and kept squeaky clean, super sterile kindergardens where the housekeeper dosed everything in bleach on a regular basis and so on.
The statistics on children health made them abandon it in under 10 years.
I guess it is yet another bit of history repeating.
Excellent idea if the pixels can be raised far enough and stay raised without whoever is touch-reading them getting skin cancer from the UV.
I don't geddit...
There are plenty of materials that will change their properties based on the basic electric field. This is the principle on which LCD's work. It should be possible to "stiffen" or "loosen" a display selectively without the UV bit just by adding a 4th "stiffness" pixel element similar to the 4th pixel element on Sharp displays. If that is too difficult, simulating different texture by vibrating through the use of a pieso-element in place of the fourth pixel is also an option. Tons of ways of doing this. Why UV?
But as far as speed and ease of coding, GTK+ is right up there.
As I said:
Avoid GTK: Grave danger you are in. Impatient you are. Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will. Always write Yoda code you will...
The general problem with GTK is that if you follow the "easy" way you end up with an app whose UI is embedded into its state diagram. You cannot after that (at least without considerable effort) disentangle this UI from the backend and isolate portions of the backend to run headless. As a result making your app make use of a modern multicore machine is outright painful. It is not impossible, but hurts none the less. You are also much more likely to end up sitting on locks in many places which negates the advantages of multithread on multiprocessor machine. Just take your run-off the mill GTK app, load on a SMP machine and run it along with a CPU monitor.
Qt gives you much more pain at first, however the entire paradigm of "signal buck passing" between different elements of the program and libraries makes multithreading considerably less painful. You can also write a lot of stuff lockless because the signal passing takes care of it.
Not quite.
All miscreants out there have a regularly updated almanach which tells them when they are "under the bird". That is why the UAVs have managed to achieve much more than spy satellites. However you cannot launch a UAV over China, Russia or anything more advanced than a banana republic. Here a craft that can be refuelled is priceless.
The worrying element however is Russia's rumoured response to these developments. It is considering unfreezing the development of the Uragan space interceptor. http://www.astronautix.com/craft/uraeptor.htm That is an outright military platform armed to the teeth. It was frozen back in USSR days because USA stopped launching the shuttle from Vanderberg same as the freezing of Polus/Skif. However most parts exist till this day in storage and reviving them will not take long. That will take the ABM and weapons race to a whole new level.