it often ends up cheaper to buy a company that has invested some time developing something and researching the patent protection they hold than trying to invent against them.
many times in google's history, a company comes along that has been doing exactly what an internal google team has been doing/planning at almost the same time. those companies get integrated with the existing team, and progress get's made.
google, unlike many companies, is happy to give out information. they go to great lengths to innovate.
Oh really? would you like to offer some proof of that?
the understanding we currently hold over physics does not describe that effect at all. as far as we currently know, most of the matter we know about would collapse in on itself if the specific gravity attracting the particles to each other were much higher. as little as a 1% increase could cause the world as we know it to collapse in on itself.
and on the other hand, we could increase gravity by hundreds of orders of magnitude and it may make no difference in the world. gravity is one of the least understood processes we know almost nothing about it.
Sorry, but just because you assume your gov't is perfect, doesn't mean you share the same view as everyone else.
some people in the world understand that information needs to be public. it doesn't matter how trivial or sensitive the information may seem to some, as to others it may mean the difference between life and death.
Having access to information in the case of some of these documents, though potentially putting some peoples lives at risk, can also be used to see how corrupt the government really is. when you find a document stating "people's lives are at risk here. it would be easy to step in and do something about it, but we're not getting paid to do that."
that same information could then be used by other people/governments to help those people. (and yes, I understand that it also makes them more vulnerable to some)
And why were the names included in the document in the first place then?
if there was a risk of the information being dangerous, then one should not go and collect it, and try to hide it away. because people need to learn that you can't keep secrets forever.
and often nearly useless. sorry, but when I'm backpacking, a screen with an arrow pointing up and a set of geo coords are worth almost nothing to me. there may be hundreds of kilometers between me and a road.
BR
though, I guess that's part of the joy of being canadian.
it has no access to cellular service and can't get GPS satellite signal.
Ummmn.. what?
do people really completely fail to understand how the Global Positioning System Works? you don't pay for access to "the GPS network". it's free. it's screaming at you RIGHT NOW as well.
if you have a GPS receiver, it does NOTHING but receive packets from as many GPS satellite's as it can, decode the data, and give you a set of coordinates based on the time between packets from the known points. the only part of the GPS that costs anything is new/up to date maps for random devices offline storage.
Swarm logic would be wonderful as a routing protocol, though would prevent protocols like UDP from ever getting packets through in any sort of decent order.
though the system would be wonderful for many protocols, anything with ordered sequential data streams would see little to no benefit.
the optics are broken at intervals, and repeaters are installed to carry the signal over the remaining distance.
the repeaters require power, so a few high voltage copper lines are run with the fiber.
the fiber would provide a wonderful data path, while the redundant power lines would provide both working current as well as the required loop for detection.
till you a) run out of coal, or b) kill too many people with the output of the reaction that there's nobody left to continue the supply of new coal into the reaction.
The goal was to prevent digital noise on the line, not to offer anything copper didn't already have
Toslink allowed people to bridge from the DVD player to the receiver, across the AMP, and not pick up stray noise. beyond that, it's only still around because people think it's cool to say: "yeah, I needed an optical cable to hook up to my receiver."
the issue there is that the Iphone is not targeted at a market that won't allow upgradability.
the TI's are designed as "standard instruments" that schools are expected to know how they work, what they can do, and what they are allowed for. if you bring an iphone to your SAT, and spend half the exam texting people for answers, they're going to throw out your test. (even though in my opinion there's very little wrong with that.) where as you bringing your TI-83 to a math exam is.. almost expected.
How about TI design the calculator to allow people to install software, but have a hardware button to reset everything- e.g. overwite the entire flash with an original ROM? I think Gigabyte motherboards have a "dual BIOS" thing which does that. You want to bring your calculator in, too bad it gets reset to the old original ROM.
that breaks upgradability. if you put a ROM into the calc's with a base firmware, and a problem with that firmware ever pops up, you'll have to replace/recall all those units. whereas FLASH is upgradeable, and you can just send fixes to people.
Just because the "Mission Impossible" sort of people can cheat in your highschool's test doesn't mean there's something wrong with the test.
there shouldn't be a test with questions that can be "Mission Impossible"'d.
A test should NEVER be multiple choice. the only reason multiple choice tests exist these days is to speed the grading, and allow our over populated schools deal with the larger number of students without having to increase staff count. (as always, it goes back to not enough money in the education system)
The way I see it, there's no way to cheat at a real test, ever. if you can go about answering the question by finding the answer somewhere else in the same amount (or less) time that it took the other students to derive the same answer, they've still learned something. it should take understanding of the question to know how to find the reference to the answer somewhere. (which is more than alright: I'd never expect a person to be able to derive me the one millionth point in a Mandelbrot Set by hand. but if they know enough to find me the answer, they're alright in my books.)
whereas a shitty multiple choice test only requires you to know what of the four options the answer is, without even reading the question. there's no learning in multiple choice tests. even smart kids will often default to "the answer is always 'C'" logic from time to time, it's just a fact of life that nobody does everything right ALL THE TIME.
it's been proposed a number of times at TI that they allow for people to do as they please with their Calculators, move the software to a Read Only removable flash card, and allow people to put their own cards into the things, then offering schools the ability to purchase the "standard firmware" flash cards for a gov't subsidized rate.
but anything that involves schools spending more money is seen as a "bad thing" by taxpayers. (who then turn around and scream that we don't spend enough money on education..)
The be all and end all reason that TI want's to prevent people from installing software on these calc's is the modern education system.
If you install something a school would consider "cheating" on your calculator, you'll get suspended. the modern system want's to forgo the checking of these devices, (as they rarely have the technical ability to even understand how they work)
it's always a money grab. though I understand the desire to have a common platform, I also think people should be able to modify their calculators as much as they want.
if people CAN cheat at a test, there's something wrong with the testing method. change your test, don't punish people for outsmarting the education system!
If an IT department needs to be calling Dell/HP/IBM/anybody's tech support, they're understaffed/under trained. in such a case, why do you even have an internal tech department?
if you bought in real volume, you'd be getting better deals than Dell does. though without knowing the size of your company, all this is just me sounding like an over zealous idiot. carry on!
currently, under the introduction-to-SAN prices and the large amount of storage available, you may overlook the entire other half of the market. the city I live in is home to some seven hundred thousand residents, and yet the SAN the city had deployed in 1997 is still up and running. (mostly due to budget constraints)
yes, it'll be cheaper in the long run to replace the three hundred SAN nodes, five hundred enclosures, and almost six thousand spinning drives with new higher capacity, higher speed, cheaper drives, but THIS year, it'd cost a fortune.
to some networks, 18.2GB 10K.RPM's are still the drive of choice. and 1GB over 50 drives means a whole lot better performance than the controller without cache that's trying (and likely almost failing) to keep track of the raid 6 array the city "planners" decided would be needed until 2013, from having to cache that data.
every usage case is unique.
The last solution I built was a tiny half rack, with Solaris boxes, ZFS, almost a half TB of cache on SSD's, and inline DeDupe, that provided 44TB to a pair of fully redundant IO paths, and all said and done, (including the 50/50 fully redundant fiber connection bandwidth/install, power per year, and a budget for replacement drives and the lease for somebody's basement in another building) cost a whopping $2.24/GB. there's a pair of site's, and the total cost for the company with one site HA/DR, was $4.48/GB.
and that was with 1.5TB drives as the slow storage.
I'm sick and fucking tired of all the "it's illegal, so nobody would do it!" arguments.
if somebody want's to listen to a wireless broadcast, and has the means to do so, a "law" is not going to stop that person.
the point of the demo is NOT "hey, look what I can do legally!" it's a demo to show that it can be some.
when will people learn, security through obscurity doesn't work.
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it often ends up cheaper to buy a company that has invested some time developing something and researching the patent protection they hold than trying to invent against them.
many times in google's history, a company comes along that has been doing exactly what an internal google team has been doing/planning at almost the same time. those companies get integrated with the existing team, and progress get's made.
google, unlike many companies, is happy to give out information. they go to great lengths to innovate.
the only word I stumbled on was "tH3Z3" for some reason. I kept trying to read-ahead as "it's"
Oh really? would you like to offer some proof of that?
the understanding we currently hold over physics does not describe that effect at all. as far as we currently know, most of the matter we know about would collapse in on itself if the specific gravity attracting the particles to each other were much higher. as little as a 1% increase could cause the world as we know it to collapse in on itself.
and on the other hand, we could increase gravity by hundreds of orders of magnitude and it may make no difference in the world. gravity is one of the least understood processes we know almost nothing about it.
Sorry, but just because you assume your gov't is perfect, doesn't mean you share the same view as everyone else.
some people in the world understand that information needs to be public. it doesn't matter how trivial or sensitive the information may seem to some, as to others it may mean the difference between life and death.
Having access to information in the case of some of these documents, though potentially putting some peoples lives at risk, can also be used to see how corrupt the government really is. when you find a document stating "people's lives are at risk here. it would be easy to step in and do something about it, but we're not getting paid to do that."
that same information could then be used by other people/governments to help those people. (and yes, I understand that it also makes them more vulnerable to some)
And why were the names included in the document in the first place then?
if there was a risk of the information being dangerous, then one should not go and collect it, and try to hide it away. because people need to learn that you can't keep secrets forever.
couldn't have been that high, though I guess the city of SF MIGHT be classed as a raid boss.
Used GPS are cheap
and often nearly useless. sorry, but when I'm backpacking, a screen with an arrow pointing up and a set of geo coords are worth almost nothing to me. there may be hundreds of kilometers between me and a road.
BR though, I guess that's part of the joy of being canadian.
it has no access to cellular service and can't get GPS satellite signal.
Ummmn.. what?
do people really completely fail to understand how the Global Positioning System Works? you don't pay for access to "the GPS network". it's free. it's screaming at you RIGHT NOW as well.
if you have a GPS receiver, it does NOTHING but receive packets from as many GPS satellite's as it can, decode the data, and give you a set of coordinates based on the time between packets from the known points. the only part of the GPS that costs anything is new/up to date maps for random devices offline storage.
Swarm logic would be wonderful as a routing protocol, though would prevent protocols like UDP from ever getting packets through in any sort of decent order. though the system would be wonderful for many protocols, anything with ordered sequential data streams would see little to no benefit.
you ever run Long Reach cable?
the optics are broken at intervals, and repeaters are installed to carry the signal over the remaining distance.
the repeaters require power, so a few high voltage copper lines are run with the fiber.
the fiber would provide a wonderful data path, while the redundant power lines would provide both working current as well as the required loop for detection.
Sure.
till you a) run out of coal, or b) kill too many people with the output of the reaction that there's nobody left to continue the supply of new coal into the reaction.
and many others have similar sets of restrictions on the protection required to ENTER a house,
in case a child is left inside, and the fire marshal needs to force entry to save a life. or any one of thousands of other use cases.
(also, I'm glad it's not just me that understands that there are safety implications to keeping yourself TOO safe.)
and if that's the case, I hope to hell a fire never breaks out and the fire marshal ever NEEDS to kick down your door to save your life.
there's more than one side to everything.
The goal was to prevent digital noise on the line, not to offer anything copper didn't already have
Toslink allowed people to bridge from the DVD player to the receiver, across the AMP, and not pick up stray noise. beyond that, it's only still around because people think it's cool to say: "yeah, I needed an optical cable to hook up to my receiver."
the issue there is that the Iphone is not targeted at a market that won't allow upgradability.
the TI's are designed as "standard instruments" that schools are expected to know how they work, what they can do, and what they are allowed for. if you bring an iphone to your SAT, and spend half the exam texting people for answers, they're going to throw out your test. (even though in my opinion there's very little wrong with that.) where as you bringing your TI-83 to a math exam is.. almost expected.
How about TI design the calculator to allow people to install software, but have a hardware button to reset everything- e.g. overwite the entire flash with an original ROM? I think Gigabyte motherboards have a "dual BIOS" thing which does that. You want to bring your calculator in, too bad it gets reset to the old original ROM.
that breaks upgradability. if you put a ROM into the calc's with a base firmware, and a problem with that firmware ever pops up, you'll have to replace/recall all those units. whereas FLASH is upgradeable, and you can just send fixes to people.
Just because the "Mission Impossible" sort of people can cheat in your highschool's test doesn't mean there's something wrong with the test.
there shouldn't be a test with questions that can be "Mission Impossible"'d.
A test should NEVER be multiple choice. the only reason multiple choice tests exist these days is to speed the grading, and allow our over populated schools deal with the larger number of students without having to increase staff count. (as always, it goes back to not enough money in the education system)
The way I see it, there's no way to cheat at a real test, ever. if you can go about answering the question by finding the answer somewhere else in the same amount (or less) time that it took the other students to derive the same answer, they've still learned something. it should take understanding of the question to know how to find the reference to the answer somewhere. (which is more than alright: I'd never expect a person to be able to derive me the one millionth point in a Mandelbrot Set by hand. but if they know enough to find me the answer, they're alright in my books.)
whereas a shitty multiple choice test only requires you to know what of the four options the answer is, without even reading the question. there's no learning in multiple choice tests. even smart kids will often default to "the answer is always 'C'" logic from time to time, it's just a fact of life that nobody does everything right ALL THE TIME.
it's been proposed a number of times at TI that they allow for people to do as they please with their Calculators, move the software to a Read Only removable flash card, and allow people to put their own cards into the things, then offering schools the ability to purchase the "standard firmware" flash cards for a gov't subsidized rate.
but anything that involves schools spending more money is seen as a "bad thing" by taxpayers. (who then turn around and scream that we don't spend enough money on education..)
The be all and end all reason that TI want's to prevent people from installing software on these calc's is the modern education system.
If you install something a school would consider "cheating" on your calculator, you'll get suspended. the modern system want's to forgo the checking of these devices, (as they rarely have the technical ability to even understand how they work)
it's always a money grab. though I understand the desire to have a common platform, I also think people should be able to modify their calculators as much as they want.
if people CAN cheat at a test, there's something wrong with the testing method. change your test, don't punish people for outsmarting the education system!
Anything else.
If an IT department needs to be calling Dell/HP/IBM/anybody's tech support, they're understaffed/under trained. in such a case, why do you even have an internal tech department?
if you bought in real volume, you'd be getting better deals than Dell does. though without knowing the size of your company, all this is just me sounding like an over zealous idiot. carry on!
currently, under the introduction-to-SAN prices and the large amount of storage available, you may overlook the entire other half of the market. the city I live in is home to some seven hundred thousand residents, and yet the SAN the city had deployed in 1997 is still up and running. (mostly due to budget constraints)
yes, it'll be cheaper in the long run to replace the three hundred SAN nodes, five hundred enclosures, and almost six thousand spinning drives with new higher capacity, higher speed, cheaper drives, but THIS year, it'd cost a fortune.
to some networks, 18.2GB 10K.RPM's are still the drive of choice. and 1GB over 50 drives means a whole lot better performance than the controller without cache that's trying (and likely almost failing) to keep track of the raid 6 array the city "planners" decided would be needed until 2013, from having to cache that data.
every usage case is unique.
The last solution I built was a tiny half rack, with Solaris boxes, ZFS, almost a half TB of cache on SSD's, and inline DeDupe, that provided 44TB to a pair of fully redundant IO paths, and all said and done, (including the 50/50 fully redundant fiber connection bandwidth/install, power per year, and a budget for replacement drives and the lease for somebody's basement in another building) cost a whopping $2.24/GB. there's a pair of site's, and the total cost for the company with one site HA/DR, was $4.48/GB.
and that was with 1.5TB drives as the slow storage.
What about those of us who CHOOSE to make their profile completely public and full of information about themselves?
Illegal != people won't do it.
I'm sick and fucking tired of all the "it's illegal, so nobody would do it!" arguments.
if somebody want's to listen to a wireless broadcast, and has the means to do so, a "law" is not going to stop that person.
the point of the demo is NOT "hey, look what I can do legally!" it's a demo to show that it can be some.
when will people learn, security through obscurity doesn't work.
it's a character in a font. it should be displayed by your local font choice as long as HTML is passing the correct code for the character.
/. is not responsible for HTML standards, or the font's installed on your local computer alas. it's up to your computer whether it's displayed or not.
Who is he accountable to?
Himself. the only person anybody should ever be required to be held accountable to.
Your conscious will do worse things to you than any other person ever can.
and good for them.
at least they'll do something with that data, rather than let it sit in a log somewhere never to be looked at!