with 16 pixel and 6 vertex pipelines clocked at 540MHz. The graphics card's 512MB of DDR3 SDRAM operate at 1180MHz speed and have 256-bit memory interface. Kinda sad but this card is more powerful then my PC on it's stats alone
You like Acronyms then telco is the right tech for you, they were doing acronyms when others were still trying to invent a language. Rumor is the original 26 letters are a secret telecom acronym refering to the name of the original Network Architect. I've got the 15th edition of Newtons Telecom Dictionary - from around 2000, last I checked they were publishing about once every 8 months to keep up with Telecom terms. (course the bubble did burst so they may have slowed since then) aybabtu - didn't make it in to my copy strangely
copper 2 pair. I remember when telco technology was simpler. The early telephone networks were really not much more then advance tin-can and string communication. Humans manually switching and routing calls. Alexander Graham Bell likely had no idea of what he was creating with his invention. What I love about telco technology is how much of it is piggybacked onto the original design - the basic phone - mic/speaker isn't dramatically different now, copper 2 pair is still used - we've piggybacked technologies like DSL onto it and added the digital components, but the wires are similar enough to what was used. Now like a hundred years or so since the early days of telecommunications here we are with VOIP and SIP and even though the technologies are new the basic ideas are similar enough that AGB could probably get up to speed quick enough. Kinda like I imagine Babbage would be with an IMAC.
Woot! err maybe not, still not enough information but I tell ya all those stories I read growing up seem a little closer now - Edgar Rice Burroughs maybe was a little off in his vision of the planet - but Kim Stanley Robinson or Aurthor C. Clarkes visions may be in reach now. With water on the planet , and it being accessible to us gives any future mission to mars a valuable resource. I'm 'pumped' so to speak.
Exactly - choosing a number that is hard to guess is security through hardness not telling me that number even exists would add security through obscurity The point is though that this software relied on obscurity to protect the built in backdoor, once that obscurity is gone the software doesn't even have something as brillant as a hard to guess number protecting the backdoor.
I call it the jerk arguement - I can call you a jerk behind your back - security - obscurity if you hear about it though - i'm hosed - I can call you a jerk to your face, while holding my louisville slugger security - Hardness (maple in this case) (no offense I don't even know you and of course don't mean to suggest anything negative about you, just creating an example)
It's very frustrating when you find previously unknown and undocumented features in software that you have purchased. I remember having to provide clients with full copies of the specifications and code for software so that they would be able update/repair/modify if I was hit by a bus or something. Security through obscurity is not safety, that should be validated by now simply by the sheer number of stories similar to this Arkeia one. Open Source Software at least has the beauty of the source code being readily accessible so that the user/admin/owner can see what they are installing on their system. This poor guy in the article ended up having to reverse engineer his software to find out the security dangers. Which may be against a law somewhere, ha - putting a backdoor into software you give me not illegal, finding that backdoor - may be me in trouble. I love it.
yeah but then you get sued if you ever make any money because the fruits of your labours belong to the company that asked you to implement it - unless you have an oath bound contract witnessed by 12 vestial virgins of intellectual property law, recorded on consecrated ground under the light of the new moon during the summer solstice and signed in blood.
There is a local organic coffee co-operative near where I live. They actually do the roasting just outside town so when you come off the highway all you can smell is coffee. I imagine they would have unroasted beans there for sale with the right conversation. And no I don't live in columbia, but canada of all places - though I think the beans are shipped from south america - some sort of ethical trade thing.
Kinda neat, kinda bizarrely geeky, however the fact is that many kitchen appliances are getting wired. Microsoft is spending tons on the automated home (i've seen one of their model homes). There is that crazy fridge now with the tv built in, and for a long time now there have been appliances with various levels of programability - microwaves that read cooking instructions from the UPC, fridges with inventory lists, etc. Just as we hack other netpliances - phones, pda's... - we will be hacking these wired wonders of the kitchen.
Traditional Landline companies take customer privacy very seriously (at least the ones I worked for) but the new technologies - Mobility, cell, internet divisions/companies always seemed to be playing fast and loose with phone company policy. Very frustrating from the landline side of the house. Not that the landline divisions are much more secure but at least they generally have the right attitude to security.
Ummm. Wesley became a god and took off with the travellor - he briefly showed up at Rikers wedding, but didn't make the wedding video (likely off freezing time and messing with peoples stuff). Anyways it might be fun, but I doubt he became a doctor - and star fleet kicked him out, so I doubt he's rising through the ranks.
people change and cultures change and while too structured an arc may be out of date by the time it is complete (see what 9/11 did to some shows and movies), I think that with the right 'architect' so to speak the arc can adapt. You are right about TNG - early episodes in tng (season 1) show a different flavor and philosophy to some of the more complex episodes near the end of the run. trying to think of an example - best I have is how the Data character evolved, or some of the prime directive messes - I know there are inconsistencies in there somewhere. However they had the PICARD and that overcomes all clumsy plot devices. The beauty of the ARC is really complex character development can happen over multiple shows - of course you miss a few episodes and it can be confusing. (farscape, glactica, bab5) Course I perfer a hybrid where the one off episodes are well woven into a larger ARC - Star Gate does this pretty well.
The nice thing about JMS's work is how he weaves complex themes into the story arc, rather then exploring and discarding them in single episode blips. That was great for the original Star Trek and early science fiction on tv (time tunnel, that sub show, quantum leap, etc) but the work of series like Bab5 has raise sci fi on tv to a higher level - where they take advantage of the serial esque nature of weekly broadcasts. I'm in.
it's not worth it, I rent rooms to some students at the local university. I provide High Speed Wireless connection, and wired to the bedrooms for free. I used to work in the business, now I'm happily retired. They move in, I hook them up to the connection. As long as the connection works I do not care what is going on with their computers. When they bug me with their problems - like no mail relay on the university system so they can't figure out how to send mail; or they installed a pile of crap spyware on their system and now it's broke - I just tell them that my rate is the same as what my company charged for my services. 200$ an hour, 2 hour minimum. Considering rent for these monkeys is only 300$ a month they usually don't bug me after that. I've become a BOFH dealing with idiot tenants, but on the plus side since I started explaining the charges they don't bug me anymore.
I don't know if it is a case of doing your part or not, but it is obvious that many good resources targeted at girls never seem to hit the mark and are very often lost. One of my favorite gaming sites (and it also targets girls) is http://www.gamegirlz.com/ It's run by a girl in NS, Can. and it is an excellent site.
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with 16 pixel and 6 vertex pipelines clocked at 540MHz. The graphics card's 512MB of DDR3 SDRAM operate at 1180MHz speed and have 256-bit memory interface.
Kinda sad but this card is more powerful then my PC on it's stats alone
heh did I say 2 pair - I meant 1 pair at the time - but you know you get into habits when you use these terms a lot.
You like Acronyms then telco is the right tech for you, they were doing acronyms when others were still trying to invent a language. Rumor is the original 26 letters are a secret telecom acronym refering to the name of the original Network Architect. I've got the 15th edition of Newtons Telecom Dictionary - from around 2000, last I checked they were publishing about once every 8 months to keep up with Telecom terms. (course the bubble did burst so they may have slowed since then)
aybabtu - didn't make it in to my copy strangely
copper 2 pair. I remember when telco technology was simpler. The early telephone networks were really not much more then advance tin-can and string communication. Humans manually switching and routing calls. Alexander Graham Bell likely had no idea of what he was creating with his invention.
What I love about telco technology is how much of it is piggybacked onto the original design - the basic phone - mic/speaker isn't dramatically different now, copper 2 pair is still used - we've piggybacked technologies like DSL onto it and added the digital components, but the wires are similar enough to what was used. Now like a hundred years or so since the early days of telecommunications here we are with VOIP and SIP and even though the technologies are new the basic ideas are similar enough that AGB could probably get up to speed quick enough. Kinda like I imagine Babbage would be with an IMAC.
Woot!
err maybe not, still not enough information but I tell ya all those stories I read growing up seem a little closer now - Edgar Rice Burroughs maybe was a little off in his vision of the planet - but Kim Stanley Robinson or Aurthor C. Clarkes visions may be in reach now. With water on the planet , and it being accessible to us gives any future mission to mars a valuable resource.
I'm 'pumped' so to speak.
Exactly - choosing a number that is hard to guess is security through hardness
not telling me that number even exists would add security through obscurity
The point is though that this software relied on obscurity to protect the built in backdoor, once that obscurity is gone the software doesn't even have something as brillant as a hard to guess number protecting the backdoor.
I call it the jerk arguement
- I can call you a jerk behind your back - security - obscurity
if you hear about it though - i'm hosed
- I can call you a jerk to your face, while holding my louisville slugger
security - Hardness (maple in this case)
(no offense I don't even know you and of course don't mean to suggest anything negative about you, just creating an example)
It's very frustrating when you find previously unknown and undocumented features in software that you have purchased. I remember having to provide clients with full copies of the specifications and code for software so that they would be able update/repair/modify if I was hit by a bus or something. Security through obscurity is not safety, that should be validated by now simply by the sheer number of stories similar to this Arkeia one. Open Source Software at least has the beauty of the source code being readily accessible so that the user/admin/owner can see what they are installing on their system. This poor guy in the article ended up having to reverse engineer his software to find out the security dangers. Which may be against a law somewhere, ha - putting a backdoor into software you give me not illegal, finding that backdoor - may be me in trouble. I love it.
yeah but then you get sued if you ever make any money because the fruits of your labours belong to the company that asked you to implement it - unless you have an oath bound contract witnessed by 12 vestial virgins of intellectual property law, recorded on consecrated ground under the light of the new moon during the summer solstice and signed in blood.
There is a local organic coffee co-operative near where I live. They actually do the roasting just outside town so when you come off the highway all you can smell is coffee. I imagine they would have unroasted beans there for sale with the right conversation. And no I don't live in columbia, but canada of all places - though I think the beans are shipped from south america - some sort of ethical trade thing.
Kinda neat, kinda bizarrely geeky, however the fact is that many kitchen appliances are getting wired. Microsoft is spending tons on the automated home (i've seen one of their model homes). There is that crazy fridge now with the tv built in, and for a long time now there have been appliances with various levels of programability - microwaves that read cooking instructions from the UPC, fridges with inventory lists, etc. Just as we hack other netpliances - phones, pda's... - we will be hacking these wired wonders of the kitchen.
Traditional Landline companies take customer privacy very seriously (at least the ones I worked for) but the new technologies - Mobility, cell, internet divisions/companies always seemed to be playing fast and loose with phone company policy. Very frustrating from the landline side of the house. Not that the landline divisions are much more secure but at least they generally have the right attitude to security.
Ummm. Wesley became a god and took off with the travellor - he briefly showed up at Rikers wedding, but didn't make the wedding video (likely off freezing time and messing with peoples stuff).
Anyways it might be fun, but I doubt he became a doctor - and star fleet kicked him out, so I doubt he's rising through the ranks.
people change and cultures change and while too structured an arc may be out of date by the time it is complete (see what 9/11 did to some shows and movies), I think that with the right 'architect' so to speak the arc can adapt. You are right about TNG - early episodes in tng (season 1) show a different flavor and philosophy to some of the more complex episodes near the end of the run. trying to think of an example - best I have is how the Data character evolved, or some of the prime directive messes - I know there are inconsistencies in there somewhere. However they had the PICARD and that overcomes all clumsy plot devices. The beauty of the ARC is really complex character development can happen over multiple shows - of course you miss a few episodes and it can be confusing. (farscape, glactica, bab5) Course I perfer a hybrid where the one off episodes are well woven into a larger ARC - Star Gate does this pretty well.
The nice thing about JMS's work is how he weaves complex themes into the story arc, rather then exploring and discarding them in single episode blips. That was great for the original Star Trek and early science fiction on tv (time tunnel, that sub show, quantum leap, etc) but the work of series like Bab5 has raise sci fi on tv to a higher level - where they take advantage of the serial esque nature of weekly broadcasts.
I'm in.
it's not worth it, I rent rooms to some students at the local university. I provide High Speed Wireless connection, and wired to the bedrooms for free. I used to work in the business, now I'm happily retired. They move in, I hook them up to the connection. As long as the connection works I do not care what is going on with their computers. When they bug me with their problems - like no mail relay on the university system so they can't figure out how to send mail; or they installed a pile of crap spyware on their system and now it's broke - I just tell them that my rate is the same as what my company charged for my services. 200$ an hour, 2 hour minimum. Considering rent for these monkeys is only 300$ a month they usually don't bug me after that. I've become a BOFH dealing with idiot tenants, but on the plus side since I started explaining the charges they don't bug me anymore.
I wonder how much mindshare it will really get at the level decisions are made it in business and government.
I don't know if it is a case of doing your part or not, but it is obvious that many good resources targeted at girls never seem to hit the mark and are very often lost. One of my favorite gaming sites (and it also targets girls) is http://www.gamegirlz.com/ It's run by a girl in NS, Can. and it is an excellent site.