If you write the heavy bits on the inside tracks it reduces the rotational inertia, too. This leads to faster spin up and shorter boot times! It's why optical disks all store their data starting near the hub - nulls have no mass.
Never happened. Original Spock would never sit idly by as his home world gets destroyed by some glitch in continuity...
We went back in time to grab a couple whales and save Earth from aggressive space-whales. Spock is biding his time until the next movie when he can repair the rupture. Kirk won't be born in space, but Iowa. Vulcan won't be destroyed generations before other prior future references to Vulcan.
Basically, the whole "Reboot" movie will be a redundant time loop.
FTA: "We support educational research and certainly would have supported cancer research," said Higley superintendent Denise Birdwell.
SETI makes for decent Sci-Fi and story telling, but it is a far, far cry from "research." This is especially true of the screen-saver analysis of radio frequencies. Humans are only just now barely capable of observing the reflected light from a planet around another star. Unless alien civilizations are beaming huge quantities of radio energy into deep space, we won't see it above the noise. Further, the round-trip time of light to any but the closest stars makes two-way communication impossible. You might as well try to communicate between Australia and the USA with smoke signals.
Sure, SETI has a romantic pull to it, but there's no justification for it. Cancer research, or any of a number of other distributed tasks, could end up having a positive effect on human well-being. Not to say THOSE applications SHOULD have been installed, but at least it might have counted as a mitigating factor...
While seemingly logical, that's just not true. I had to help a friend's father get set up on a monitor and we had exactly the problem described by the original article. You see, the eye will try like crazy to focus to the best of its ability. The blurriness of a non-native resolution can leave weak eyes struggling constantly for better focus. Good eyes see the pixels and relax, bad eyes strain to get the focus they're used to. It can cause headaches or distraction. I'll second the "blind_biker" comment, counter-intuitive as it is to someone with great vision.
Bingo. Leaving Microsoft can be difficult, but it is an investment in one's own future.
Using OO.o, I don't have to think about what the WGA tracker is doing. My brother had a MB fail. I replaced it, using the same CPU, RAM, video card, and HD, but Windows XP was "smart" enough to see the hardware change and demand revalidation. New MB meant new network card meant I had to call MS and read nine six-digit sequences over the phone and type in the nine six-digit sequence key. Sure, they were polite and happy to help, but what happens when that support number goes away? What if they decide that I've had too many hardware failures? What if they decide that my OEM license from Dell doesn't count because Dell no longer makes BTX MBs? Hardware failures put me at Microsoft's mercy and I am not comfortable with that.
I'm not going to throw away my Windows computers or quit using the licenses for it that I have, but when I do decide that it is time to upgrade, it will not be to Microsoft. Until this year, I had been all-Windows since '95. I have a Mac Mini, an XP laptop, and a Linux desktop.
How do you guarantee delivery? I, for one, could set up a simple filter to block ALL CentMail messages because no one I want to hear from would pay money to send me email...
This may be "how it's done" but relying on something Not Being There is just a terrible idea.
Instead of having two different things to look up (mail.company.inside and mail.company.com) just use the one visible from the outside - mail.company.com. Surely the routers inside the company can catch that request and recognize it as coming from within the company. Relying on failure is bad, bad idea - even if Microsoft does it.
Also, you don't have to use Comcast DNS even if you are using Comcast. If it's a company laptop, configure it. If it's not a company laptop, it shouldn't have unfettered access to your internal network anyway. A non-company laptop should always use the "external" connection.
And whatever happened to 404 pages? ISPs (webhosts) started hijacking them long ago and the world didn't stop. Face it, with connections at airports, coffee shops, hotels and everywhere else adding their own bits to internet connections, you're lucky to get a clean response from a domain that DOES exist. Here's an idea: when one makes a request on the internet you MIGHT get a response that looks like it is from your site, but it isn't. Handle it.
Haven't you heard? "Billion" is the new "million." I don't think million dollar offers fall into the obvious "joke" category any more. James Randi Educational Foundation is offering $1million just for proving some slight paranormal claims. I knew a guy who won a million dollars for hitting a hole in one. Promotions like that are insured and JREF has a financial statement to back it up.
If you can imagine the lawyer telling the jury "my client and I offered a million dollars to anyone who could do what the prosecution claims my client did, but no one claimed it because it is impossible" then you have to think it reasonable that he meant it. If he was joking or speaking in hyperbole, he should have known to say "billion."
The Harrier Jet cost an order of magnitude or two more than the purchase price of the Pepsi Points and was in a commercial aimed at children. It was a fun case to discuss in my only semester of law school before I wised up and went back to computers. As much as it breaks my heart, I do think the attorney will win the case on the grounds that it wasn't a real offer.
It's one thing to support your favorite distro, it's another thing to slur one with allusions to a cult. (Ironic, too...) How is that good for anyone?
I got a taste for *nix in college in the early 90's, but joined the workforce writing software for Windows. I've installed, and deleted, many different distros over the years. Sure, I could use them, compile drivers, find hardware that was supported, but I knew that there was no way that anyone else in my family would make the leap.
Recent developments in the Windows world have pushed me to investigate alternatives. I recently got my first Mac (a mini) and have been using Ubuntu as my primary desktop for a couple months. Ubuntu, like it or not, is the first distro I would even consider recommending to non-techie friends and family.
Why? One big reason is the number of users. Any problems I come up against I can usually find answered with a google search. If a software writer has some pre-compiled versions or installation instructions, there's usually one for Ubuntu. Since I am my family's de facto computer support, it's important to have those resources available for a range of hardware and software configurations - not just my own.
In my opinion, any Linux distro's popularity is a good thing and the more support the better.
I'm sure it wasn't faked in photoshop... It's tough to get that "wet inkjet ink spread" just right. It's a real fake sticker, like "genuine gold flash."
Why is slashdot giving article space to such an amateur and obvious forgery? (Yes, I'm new here. Why do you ask?)
What'll you do when it gets quiet and nothing's stored on your hard drive? You've been renting not owning all those songs. You know it's just a foolish buy.
Lala, I'm typing on my keys. Lala, I need my MP3s. Lala, darling please release my music files.
I tried to tell you not to do it, that the server would go down. Like a fool, you used their music tools, Now you're left without your sounds.
Chorus
Let's store all of our own information, you know it saves us from the pain. Please don't say you've found a better way, we've tried things in the same ol' vein.
"You must be logged on as a member of the Administrators group to run the tool."
A "user" can't run the MRT or apply automatic updates, you have to log in as an "administrator." If you regularly log in as a "user" you won't even be notified by Windows that there are updates available! This is why just about everyone who uses Windows logs in as administrator all the time. I think THAT is one of the most important security holes.
Since when does the "right to bitch" about something depend on voting? I never voted on that! Does that mean I don't have the right to bitch about not having the right to bitch about it?
Was Microsoft on a ballot somewhere that everyone else on/. saw but I missed?
What's going to happen to this world when GenC# programmers replace the old guard and they don't have the least clue about what is going on inside the computer that makes the magic happen?
What happens is specialization. Not everyone writes device drivers. Not everyone can design an appealing UI, either.
I work in a small shop where I have to know everything from assembly for microcontrollers, C for drivers, C# for UI, SQL for databases, and some ASP and PHP also come in handy. Larger shops allow (or force) specialization and can pigeon-hole developers. I'm glad that I don't have to write UI code in assembly! I'm also glad I don't have to write device drivers in C#.
Computer engineers always have, and always will, learn how to do those things they need to get the job done.
Since you didn't include a reference, it took a bit of searching to find a good source. This source also has some good graphics about how the display works.
"The first prototype's contrast ratio was 20:1, mainly due to the use of non-collimated back light. This was a limitation of the current prototype, not of the technology. This is supported by simulations... which show that a ratio of at least 800:1 is possible."
20:1 may not be particularly useful, but 800:1 is certainly usable, and modified with "at least" makes this a technology "at least" worthy watching for future development. It's not reasonable to judge a technology by its first prototype.
Hi Eric
Please forward us the username and password that your using so we can login and test this problem Never give out your password - to people who use the wrong homophone!
block all Chinese IP's from reaching outside their borders
The Chinese government already has that one covered. I wish! I put up a Wiki page on some no traffic site I was experimenting with. The only things that weren't posted by me were all ads in Chinese from Chinese IP addresses. I had to modify my version of MediaWiki to let me block [China].X.X.X. Even then, it took several entries!
This is just a political statement. "You can't host government data anywhere outside national boundaries." That pretty much covers everywhere already! Mentioning the PATRIOT Act is just posturing. Let's go over the political statements:
You can't host government data in:
the U.S. because of the PATRIOT Act.
China because of Tibet.
Syria because of human rights violations.
Elbonia because it doesn't exist.
anywhere else because it's not Canada.
Also, nobody said anything about sensitive information. They are presumably talking about the vast amounts of information governments produce for public consumption. Downloadable forms, information on where to get a driver's license, front ends to access public records databases... Making sure the hosting business stays within the borders is just a little protectionism for their own hosting companies. Government requiring contractors to subcontract only with companies in the same political boundary is not at all uncommon, regardless of the industry.
Not that I'm at all a fan of the PATRIOT Act, but even if we rose up and successfully convinced our lawmakers to do away with it, Canada STILL wouldn't let their companies host their data here.
I believe this reasoning is flawed. I don't think products would be cheaper if you were not allowed to resell them. In fact, manufacturers usually sell to resellers at a discount.
Consider CDs. Do you honestly think the RIAA would charge less if people couldn't buy used copies?
Eliminating the resale market was attempted so they could charge everyone MORE for the product, not so they could offer some customers a lower price. The theory of "price discrimination" fails in this case.
What's in it for the data center? Of course they're not "eager" for new tasks on their To-Do list!
"Hi, we'd like you to generously share some internal data and in return we'd like to give you responsibilities and guidelines about how we'll let you give your data to us! Sweet deal, right?"
Presumably they are paying their power bills and thus have some incentive to take "reasonable" steps toward conservation. The government will need to use a carrot or a stick to coax this information from a busy business. I'm surprised simply announcing an interest in the information has netted as many responses as they've gotten.
If you're sending data to a consultant for processing, how do you expect the consultant to return the finished product to you? You can be as paranoid as you want and totally ineffective if next week the consultant emails you an unencrypted MDB file.
The other replies make a lot of sense in pointing out that your security policy is only as strong as the consultant's weakest link. Can someone potentially sniff the email as it goes by? Sure. Is anyone actually watching? Probably not.
PGP or GPG keys sent via email are always vulnerable to "man in the middle" attacks unless you verify the fingerprints through other secure channels, etc and so forth. Is anyone taking the trouble to do that for access to your data? No. Seriously.
You could probably even get away with putting all the data into a single ZIP file, and then putting THAT single ZIP file into a password protected ZIP file. (If you have more than a few files in a password protected ZIP file, there are apps out there that can do some comparisons and crack them open in moments.) One file in a ZIP, with a strong password given over the phone, should keep out the nosy and all but the more educated hackers. The educated hacker already has access to your system after asking HR's password on a "support" call.
I'd agree with the masses - GPG. However, it is VITAL that the consultant knows to encrypt the data sent BACK or it is just a waste of time. Good luck!
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It would work until someone managed to fake it, or bribe the people checking them, or an employer hires someone "under the table."
I know privacy != freedom, but remember:
(freedom - privacy) != freedom
If you write the heavy bits on the inside tracks it reduces the rotational inertia, too. This leads to faster spin up and shorter boot times! It's why optical disks all store their data starting near the hub - nulls have no mass.
Never happened.
Original Spock would never sit idly by as his home world gets destroyed by some glitch in continuity...
We went back in time to grab a couple whales and save Earth from aggressive space-whales. Spock is biding his time until the next movie when he can repair the rupture. Kirk won't be born in space, but Iowa. Vulcan won't be destroyed generations before other prior future references to Vulcan.
Basically, the whole "Reboot" movie will be a redundant time loop.
FTA: "We support educational research and certainly would have supported cancer research," said Higley superintendent Denise Birdwell.
SETI makes for decent Sci-Fi and story telling, but it is a far, far cry from "research." This is especially true of the screen-saver analysis of radio frequencies. Humans are only just now barely capable of observing the reflected light from a planet around another star. Unless alien civilizations are beaming huge quantities of radio energy into deep space, we won't see it above the noise. Further, the round-trip time of light to any but the closest stars makes two-way communication impossible. You might as well try to communicate between Australia and the USA with smoke signals.
Sure, SETI has a romantic pull to it, but there's no justification for it. Cancer research, or any of a number of other distributed tasks, could end up having a positive effect on human well-being. Not to say THOSE applications SHOULD have been installed, but at least it might have counted as a mitigating factor...
While seemingly logical, that's just not true. I had to help a friend's father get set up on a monitor and we had exactly the problem described by the original article. You see, the eye will try like crazy to focus to the best of its ability. The blurriness of a non-native resolution can leave weak eyes struggling constantly for better focus. Good eyes see the pixels and relax, bad eyes strain to get the focus they're used to. It can cause headaches or distraction. I'll second the "blind_biker" comment, counter-intuitive as it is to someone with great vision.
Bingo. Leaving Microsoft can be difficult, but it is an investment in one's own future.
Using OO.o, I don't have to think about what the WGA tracker is doing. My brother had a MB fail. I replaced it, using the same CPU, RAM, video card, and HD, but Windows XP was "smart" enough to see the hardware change and demand revalidation. New MB meant new network card meant I had to call MS and read nine six-digit sequences over the phone and type in the nine six-digit sequence key. Sure, they were polite and happy to help, but what happens when that support number goes away? What if they decide that I've had too many hardware failures? What if they decide that my OEM license from Dell doesn't count because Dell no longer makes BTX MBs? Hardware failures put me at Microsoft's mercy and I am not comfortable with that.
I'm not going to throw away my Windows computers or quit using the licenses for it that I have, but when I do decide that it is time to upgrade, it will not be to Microsoft. Until this year, I had been all-Windows since '95. I have a Mac Mini, an XP laptop, and a Linux desktop.
How do you guarantee delivery? I, for one, could set up a simple filter to block ALL CentMail messages because no one I want to hear from would pay money to send me email...
This may be "how it's done" but relying on something Not Being There is just a terrible idea.
Instead of having two different things to look up (mail.company.inside and mail.company.com) just use the one visible from the outside - mail.company.com. Surely the routers inside the company can catch that request and recognize it as coming from within the company. Relying on failure is bad, bad idea - even if Microsoft does it.
Also, you don't have to use Comcast DNS even if you are using Comcast. If it's a company laptop, configure it. If it's not a company laptop, it shouldn't have unfettered access to your internal network anyway. A non-company laptop should always use the "external" connection.
And whatever happened to 404 pages? ISPs (webhosts) started hijacking them long ago and the world didn't stop. Face it, with connections at airports, coffee shops, hotels and everywhere else adding their own bits to internet connections, you're lucky to get a clean response from a domain that DOES exist. Here's an idea: when one makes a request on the internet you MIGHT get a response that looks like it is from your site, but it isn't. Handle it.
Haven't you heard? "Billion" is the new "million."
I don't think million dollar offers fall into the obvious "joke" category any more. James Randi Educational Foundation is offering $1million just for proving some slight paranormal claims. I knew a guy who won a million dollars for hitting a hole in one. Promotions like that are insured and JREF has a financial statement to back it up.
If you can imagine the lawyer telling the jury "my client and I offered a million dollars to anyone who could do what the prosecution claims my client did, but no one claimed it because it is impossible" then you have to think it reasonable that he meant it. If he was joking or speaking in hyperbole, he should have known to say "billion."
The Harrier Jet cost an order of magnitude or two more than the purchase price of the Pepsi Points and was in a commercial aimed at children. It was a fun case to discuss in my only semester of law school before I wised up and went back to computers. As much as it breaks my heart, I do think the attorney will win the case on the grounds that it wasn't a real offer.
Seconded.
It's one thing to support your favorite distro, it's another thing to slur one with allusions to a cult. (Ironic, too...) How is that good for anyone?
I got a taste for *nix in college in the early 90's, but joined the workforce writing software for Windows. I've installed, and deleted, many different distros over the years. Sure, I could use them, compile drivers, find hardware that was supported, but I knew that there was no way that anyone else in my family would make the leap.
Recent developments in the Windows world have pushed me to investigate alternatives. I recently got my first Mac (a mini) and have been using Ubuntu as my primary desktop for a couple months. Ubuntu, like it or not, is the first distro I would even consider recommending to non-techie friends and family.
Why? One big reason is the number of users. Any problems I come up against I can usually find answered with a google search. If a software writer has some pre-compiled versions or installation instructions, there's usually one for Ubuntu. Since I am my family's de facto computer support, it's important to have those resources available for a range of hardware and software configurations - not just my own.
In my opinion, any Linux distro's popularity is a good thing and the more support the better.
I'm sure it wasn't faked in photoshop... It's tough to get that "wet inkjet ink spread" just right. It's a real fake sticker, like "genuine gold flash."
Why is slashdot giving article space to such an amateur and obvious forgery?
(Yes, I'm new here. Why do you ask?)
What'll you do when it gets quiet
and nothing's stored on your hard drive?
You've been renting not owning all those songs.
You know it's just a foolish buy.
Lala, I'm typing on my keys.
Lala, I need my MP3s.
Lala, darling please release my music files.
I tried to tell you not to do it,
that the server would go down.
Like a fool, you used their music tools,
Now you're left without your sounds.
Chorus
Let's store all of our own information,
you know it saves us from the pain.
Please don't say you've found a better way,
we've tried things in the same ol' vein.
Chorus
Which is scarier?
Approaching Cylons or your consciousness on a WD Green drive?
"You must be logged on as a member of the Administrators group to run the tool."
A "user" can't run the MRT or apply automatic updates, you have to log in as an "administrator." If you regularly log in as a "user" you won't even be notified by Windows that there are updates available! This is why just about everyone who uses Windows logs in as administrator all the time. I think THAT is one of the most important security holes.
Since when does the "right to bitch" about something depend on voting? I never voted on that! Does that mean I don't have the right to bitch about not having the right to bitch about it?
Was Microsoft on a ballot somewhere that everyone else on /. saw but I missed?
What's going to happen to this world when GenC# programmers replace the old guard and they don't have the least clue about what is going on inside the computer that makes the magic happen?
What happens is specialization. Not everyone writes device drivers. Not everyone can design an appealing UI, either.
I work in a small shop where I have to know everything from assembly for microcontrollers, C for drivers, C# for UI, SQL for databases, and some ASP and PHP also come in handy. Larger shops allow (or force) specialization and can pigeon-hole developers. I'm glad that I don't have to write UI code in assembly! I'm also glad I don't have to write device drivers in C#.
Computer engineers always have, and always will, learn how to do those things they need to get the job done.
If it's eight, then it's probably that missing space station spider!
I'll stand here shaking in the corner emitting arachnophobic screams...
I'm sorry, I can't hear you scream...
Microsoft Marketeers
M I C, See the UAC!
R O S, Our O/S boots!
O F T, F U!
Since you didn't include a reference, it took a bit of searching to find a good source. This source also has some good graphics about how the display works.
... which show that a ratio of at least 800:1 is possible."
"The first prototype's contrast ratio was 20:1, mainly due to the use of non-collimated back light. This was a limitation of the current prototype, not of the technology. This is supported by simulations
20:1 may not be particularly useful, but 800:1 is certainly usable, and modified with "at least" makes this a technology "at least" worthy watching for future development. It's not reasonable to judge a technology by its first prototype.
You can't host government data in:
- the U.S. because of the PATRIOT Act.
- China because of Tibet.
- Syria because of human rights violations.
- Elbonia because it doesn't exist.
- anywhere else because it's not Canada.
Also, nobody said anything about sensitive information. They are presumably talking about the vast amounts of information governments produce for public consumption. Downloadable forms, information on where to get a driver's license, front ends to access public records databases... Making sure the hosting business stays within the borders is just a little protectionism for their own hosting companies. Government requiring contractors to subcontract only with companies in the same political boundary is not at all uncommon, regardless of the industry.Not that I'm at all a fan of the PATRIOT Act, but even if we rose up and successfully convinced our lawmakers to do away with it, Canada STILL wouldn't let their companies host their data here.
I believe this reasoning is flawed. I don't think products would be cheaper if you were not allowed to resell them. In fact, manufacturers usually sell to resellers at a discount.
Consider CDs. Do you honestly think the RIAA would charge less if people couldn't buy used copies?
Eliminating the resale market was attempted so they could charge everyone MORE for the product, not so they could offer some customers a lower price. The theory of "price discrimination" fails in this case.
What's in it for the data center? Of course they're not "eager" for new tasks on their To-Do list!
"Hi, we'd like you to generously share some internal data and in return we'd like to give you responsibilities and guidelines about how we'll let you give your data to us! Sweet deal, right?"
Presumably they are paying their power bills and thus have some incentive to take "reasonable" steps toward conservation. The government will need to use a carrot or a stick to coax this information from a busy business. I'm surprised simply announcing an interest in the information has netted as many responses as they've gotten.
If you're sending data to a consultant for processing, how do you expect the consultant to return the finished product to you? You can be as paranoid as you want and totally ineffective if next week the consultant emails you an unencrypted MDB file.
The other replies make a lot of sense in pointing out that your security policy is only as strong as the consultant's weakest link. Can someone potentially sniff the email as it goes by? Sure. Is anyone actually watching? Probably not.
PGP or GPG keys sent via email are always vulnerable to "man in the middle" attacks unless you verify the fingerprints through other secure channels, etc and so forth. Is anyone taking the trouble to do that for access to your data? No. Seriously.
You could probably even get away with putting all the data into a single ZIP file, and then putting THAT single ZIP file into a password protected ZIP file. (If you have more than a few files in a password protected ZIP file, there are apps out there that can do some comparisons and crack them open in moments.) One file in a ZIP, with a strong password given over the phone, should keep out the nosy and all but the more educated hackers. The educated hacker already has access to your system after asking HR's password on a "support" call.
I'd agree with the masses - GPG. However, it is VITAL that the consultant knows to encrypt the data sent BACK or it is just a waste of time. Good luck!