I'm running late for a job interview, I'm also nervous as hell about it. I'm walking briskly through the foyer... oh, hello offic... *TASER*
Or a boss, who has mal-intent bubbling in his mind as he strides into the office to yell at incompetent staffers.
A Mother is angry with her child from hell, wishing she never had it. She steps through the security checkpoint as a sniper recieves targetting information... *HEADSHOT*
DHS seems confident about the potential efficacy of the system even this. I'm sure this system would be plagued by false positives even with 2020 technology.
I have never purchased a actual good fruit cake, I feel so let down by the baking profession every time. You really have to bake them yourself, if you can track down an actual good recipe or have one in your family.
Perhaps this is a translation issue and there was no fruitcake mailed. It is perhaps what the hacker that owned the couriers tracking system called himself.
"It is mentioned the device cannot explode when being charge or impacted and is thus safe for vehicles."
I'm skeptical. I recall reading ultra-ultra-capacitors have so far proven increasingly unstable as you find ways to store more and more charge. Researchers have found that out the hard way too. Once you reach high energy densities of charge you have what effectively is a bomb.
55kwh is a lot of stored energy, that can be unleashed by a simple short. Even if the capacitor material itself is super stable and won't internally short if punctured, you can still have that energy being dumped into an arc or whatever has shorted circuit. That's a hell of a big bang in the worst case scenario.
"Australian Internet Filters will be extended to block peer-to-peer traffic"
Dangerous. Does that include ANY P2P traffic? What if I run a home web server, ftp, or use a VPN to connect to friend? There is a multitude of of application protocols that employ some kind of peer to peer traffic.
You tube should respond that Warner music's content is taking up a significant slice f their bandwidth bill, pay up. YouTube is a carrier service like public TV and Warner is a content provider getting millions of dollars of free airtime, they should pay for their airtime.
How exactly are music videos piracy anyway, they are a promotional tool for the labels - always have been. They are all over broadcast TV, music channels, it's the labels own fault for doing this as consumers have become used to not paying for the privileged of accessing content.
All joking asside... Windows is not a suprising choice considering that MS's support is actually very good. Well managed Windows XP is very stable, and it looks like this is even customised for this purpose.
A windows (or any OS) network sealed in a box 1000 feet under the ocean with no form of internet connection is the very definition of secure.
I used to look after locked-down Windows XP machines running a range of factory equipment. A "open systems" expert I was showing around balked at the site of WinXP running some pretty heavy weight stuff. In reality we seldom had a problem with the actual OS, only 3rd party driver issues and hardware failures, and of course meatspace exception errors: user failure.
The only real threat in this case is a submariner with malicious intent, but they have many other ways of sabotaging a sub, and indeed the windows boxes won't be running critical systems.
It's almost disappointing but we won't be hearing about windows subs trapped on the sea floor any time soon.
If Charles Babbage's difference engine was actually built...
If the Extraordinary International Network of Pneumatic Conduits (as they may have called it) was built...
We would have had a Steampunk ICT revolution perhaps a century sooner!
But, of course, the tubes could become literally clogged... by literal fat packets.
Why not put the shareware versions of all the big titles out there at the momment? You should be able to scrounge a few floppies of games off people or download from a BBS if you have a fast enough 19200 baud or better modem. Oh you'll need PKUNZIP.exe too!
Hey what is this place? Oh what's that you say? Really?... you mean to tell me the pc game industry has forgotten about... shareware? How can this be, companies like ID software made their millions on that on that model!
All joking aside, if this was 1994 I would have said just load that PC up with shareware, like the shareware versions of DOOM and Descent were pimped all over the place, there was no need to pirate games because you could get decent stuff for free if you wanted *sigh*. Today it's different, other than ancient abandonware there are disappointingly very few decent entirely free shareable games, and anything commercial usually has a crippled demo version.
Would then, the sum total of Windows PCs connected to the intraweb be considered a WMD?
The only spam solution: Nuke from orbit
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Use terrorism laws to take down botnets!?! Seriously if a botnet is considered a weapon, infact elevated to the status of weapon of mass destruction this gives terrific power to law enforcers... too much power. Concerning. However I concede this is maybe necessary considering the failure of our lawmakers so far.
Corrolis force problems were one of the first things I thought of when I first heard about the space elevator, but I'd never seen the issue brought up.
It's a given that a elevator would be tethered at the equator, thus will be traveling at 1600kph, the velocity of geosynchronous orbit is what, 11000kph? Anything climbing from the bottom up will be accelerated to that as it ascends. So the question is how the hell do you mitigate this without literally bending the thing out of shape - burning fuel is silly It's not a trivial velocity, it's 40% of what would put you into LEO orbit anyway!
Despite this, I don't think this is a showstopper, remember Arthur C Clarke told is it will be built...
ISPs are like movie cinemas that never have to pay royalites for the content they show. So now they are saying the biggest stuidios should pay up because they are filling up their seats and customers are complaining about the queues...
So anti-net neutrality doesn't look good. It gets worse when you have one huge studio that arguably drives the industry. Sure it's clogs your intertubes, but your business depends on it...
Did the person who originated that quote about routing around damage, anticipate countries the size of China literally making continent-wide firewalls and controlling communications with penalties of summary execution?
FTFFFFA: "fundamental design of the Internet involves routing around damage, the efforts could be more amusing than threatening."
Yes yes, those who actually understand what the intrawebs are, know that the internet works, exists and persists because it fundamentally routes around damage and congestion.
Ah but you can regulate vastly distributed decentralised self organising networks. No really.
There is no question the result is quite damaging.
That is, if you consider an analogy of giving a neural network LSD or Heroin and call that your definition of regulation.
I really fail to see how FOSS is supposedly falling down as a business model. There are tons of businesses that make money as outsourced service providers sitting on little or no IP. Strap the existing service delivery model on top of FOSS, you could build your support business, offer a package, but with a sole benefit you can wave in front of the client: no licensing costs or restrictions.
Any problems arise from it not being done properly.
This is interesting their encouraging this. This would be in the same way that a anti-virus scanner is a good idea on linux. Your OS, although may be immune, it could be a carrier for viruses with the movement of files. Also without widely installed AV if there is an OSX specific outbreak then it could cause havoc and undo alot of the Apple PR machines hard work.
It's surreal reading this article next to the Censorship by Glut article. I wonder if this mechanism of censorship could apply to internet access.
If reasonable free internet access was ubiquitous was free who would pay for it? What concerns me is that this internet access would likely be filtered to some extent, if not fully censored, locked down and monitored for illegal file sharing etc. We have to do that otherwise it will be abused, they will say.
The result is by private do-what-you like internet becomes pushed out by a glut of free civil internet access.
1. Storing and parsing configuration from text files: please move away from this. How about XML config files? Perhaps even compile these to byte code/compressed XML? XML that compiles to fully indexed configuration DB that allows strongly typed data even?
2. Dependency on legacy command line interface directly from 1978 (not kidding). Microsoft and others may be thinking of going back to command line computing with natural language semantic web 2.0 shizzle. You don't want them to do this first or this will be another thing that opensource technology community won't lead the way on. The big distros should find a way to bridge Linux's lacking GUIs with the ever powerful but difficult to master Bash. I've worked on this kind of software project before, but it was a fail - when windows 95 came along everybody forgot the command line, there was no market anymore so we canned it.
3. Expunge the legacy UNIX file system. Gobolinux is a breath of fresh air. No non-unix/unix clone operating system optionally uses such a unfriendly file system layout. No other operating system needs a package manager.
These are my only real beefs, because they are things I find I have to work around to make Linux work with the way I think and do things.
The beauty of Linux is it is free as in freedom, in that anything can be done, the sky is the limit. The ugly of Linux is that is not entirely true... Linux is very tied to tradition and it's community, who have learned to master their way of doing things and there is a hard core subset of which who don't really understand let alone care about the true end user and won't give up decades of hard-earned knowledge just to make it all more accessible. That said, things are continually improving with linux, it's hard to criticise because your critcism will eventually become invalid. I have high hopes for the future of Linux, but I don't see success - that is Linux actually starting to drive the PC without a lot of attitude change.
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I'm running late for a job interview, I'm also nervous as hell about it. I'm walking briskly through the foyer ... oh, hello offic... *TASER*
Or a boss, who has mal-intent bubbling in his mind as he strides into the office to yell at incompetent staffers.
A Mother is angry with her child from hell, wishing she never had it. She steps through the security checkpoint as a sniper recieves targetting information... *HEADSHOT*
DHS seems confident about the potential efficacy of the system even this. I'm sure this system would be plagued by false positives even with 2020 technology.
The underlying assumption made at every point in hardware and software development is that computers are deterministic.
?? What the feck is WTF?
I have never purchased a actual good fruit cake, I feel so let down by the baking profession every time. You really have to bake them yourself, if you can track down an actual good recipe or have one in your family.
Perhaps this is a translation issue and there was no fruitcake mailed. It is perhaps what the hacker that owned the couriers tracking system called himself.
"It is mentioned the device cannot explode when being charge or impacted and is thus safe for vehicles."
I'm skeptical. I recall reading ultra-ultra-capacitors have so far proven increasingly unstable as you find ways to store more and more charge. Researchers have found that out the hard way too. Once you reach high energy densities of charge you have what effectively is a bomb.
55kwh is a lot of stored energy, that can be unleashed by a simple short. Even if the capacitor material itself is super stable and won't internally short if punctured, you can still have that energy being dumped into an arc or whatever has shorted circuit. That's a hell of a big bang in the worst case scenario.
"Australian Internet Filters will be extended to block peer-to-peer traffic"
Dangerous. Does that include ANY P2P traffic? What if I run a home web server, ftp, or use a VPN to connect to friend? There is a multitude of of application protocols that employ some kind of peer to peer traffic.
Nuh uh! You should express that as a global constant.
people_want_beer=1
Because we don't want some smart ass java parsing tin can second guessing us do we?
You tube should respond that Warner music's content is taking up a significant slice f their bandwidth bill, pay up. YouTube is a carrier service like public TV and Warner is a content provider getting millions of dollars of free airtime, they should pay for their airtime.
How exactly are music videos piracy anyway, they are a promotional tool for the labels - always have been. They are all over broadcast TV, music channels, it's the labels own fault for doing this as consumers have become used to not paying for the privileged of accessing content.
All joking asside ... Windows is not a suprising choice considering that MS's support is actually very good. Well managed Windows XP is very stable, and it looks like this is even customised for this purpose.
A windows (or any OS) network sealed in a box 1000 feet under the ocean with no form of internet connection is the very definition of secure.
I used to look after locked-down Windows XP machines running a range of factory equipment. A "open systems" expert I was showing around balked at the site of WinXP running some pretty heavy weight stuff. In reality we seldom had a problem with the actual OS, only 3rd party driver issues and hardware failures, and of course meatspace exception errors: user failure.
The only real threat in this case is a submariner with malicious intent, but they have many other ways of sabotaging a sub, and indeed the windows boxes won't be running critical systems.
It's almost disappointing but we won't be hearing about windows subs trapped on the sea floor any time soon.
Ok you can go back to joking now.
If Charles Babbage's difference engine was actually built...
If the Extraordinary International Network of Pneumatic Conduits (as they may have called it) was built... We would have had a Steampunk ICT revolution perhaps a century sooner!
But, of course, the tubes could become literally clogged... by literal fat packets.
Why not put the shareware versions of all the big titles out there at the momment? You should be able to scrounge a few floppies of games off people or download from a BBS if you have a fast enough 19200 baud or better modem. Oh you'll need PKUNZIP.exe too!
... you mean to tell me the pc game industry has forgotten about... shareware? How can this be, companies like ID software made their millions on that on that model!
Hey what is this place? Oh what's that you say? Really?
All joking aside, if this was 1994 I would have said just load that PC up with shareware, like the shareware versions of DOOM and Descent were pimped all over the place, there was no need to pirate games because you could get decent stuff for free if you wanted *sigh*. Today it's different, other than ancient abandonware there are disappointingly very few decent entirely free shareable games, and anything commercial usually has a crippled demo version.
Would then, the sum total of Windows PCs connected to the intraweb be considered a WMD?
Use terrorism laws to take down botnets!?! Seriously if a botnet is considered a weapon, infact elevated to the status of weapon of mass destruction this gives terrific power to law enforcers... too much power. Concerning. However I concede this is maybe necessary considering the failure of our lawmakers so far.
Corrolis force problems were one of the first things I thought of when I first heard about the space elevator, but I'd never seen the issue brought up.
It's a given that a elevator would be tethered at the equator, thus will be traveling at 1600kph, the velocity of geosynchronous orbit is what, 11000kph? Anything climbing from the bottom up will be accelerated to that as it ascends. So the question is how the hell do you mitigate this without literally bending the thing out of shape - burning fuel is silly It's not a trivial velocity, it's 40% of what would put you into LEO orbit anyway!
Despite this, I don't think this is a showstopper, remember Arthur C Clarke told is it will be built...
More humans being born Female?
...and slashdotters out of any group, especially appreciate gaining any small chance to eventually actually mate.
ISPs are like movie cinemas that never have to pay royalites for the content they show. So now they are saying the biggest stuidios should pay up because they are filling up their seats and customers are complaining about the queues...
So anti-net neutrality doesn't look good. It gets worse when you have one huge studio that arguably drives the industry. Sure it's clogs your intertubes, but your business depends on it...
Did the person who originated that quote about routing around damage, anticipate countries the size of China literally making continent-wide firewalls and controlling communications with penalties of summary execution?
Traffic routes around China just fine thanks.
FTFFFFA: "fundamental design of the Internet involves routing around damage, the efforts could be more amusing than threatening."
Yes yes, those who actually understand what the intrawebs are, know that the internet works, exists and persists because it fundamentally routes around damage and congestion.
Ah but you can regulate vastly distributed decentralised self organising networks. No really. There is no question the result is quite damaging.
That is, if you consider an analogy of giving a neural network LSD or Heroin and call that your definition of regulation.
Actually participation is voluntary. Considering how trivial it is to circumvent.
ICANNhas.cheezburger?
I really fail to see how FOSS is supposedly falling down as a business model. There are tons of businesses that make money as outsourced service providers sitting on little or no IP. Strap the existing service delivery model on top of FOSS, you could build your support business, offer a package, but with a sole benefit you can wave in front of the client: no licensing costs or restrictions.
Any problems arise from it not being done properly.
... between the keyboard and chair.
Mac users may be more vulnerable to social engineering due to complacency. In away this may be social engineering by apple to counter this?
This is interesting their encouraging this. This would be in the same way that a anti-virus scanner is a good idea on linux. Your OS, although may be immune, it could be a carrier for viruses with the movement of files. Also without widely installed AV if there is an OSX specific outbreak then it could cause havoc and undo alot of the Apple PR machines hard work.
It's surreal reading this article next to the Censorship by Glut article. I wonder if this mechanism of censorship could apply to internet access.
If reasonable free internet access was ubiquitous was free who would pay for it? What concerns me is that this internet access would likely be filtered to some extent, if not fully censored, locked down and monitored for illegal file sharing etc. We have to do that otherwise it will be abused, they will say.
The result is by private do-what-you like internet becomes pushed out by a glut of free civil internet access.
Things I'd like to see fixed.
1. Storing and parsing configuration from text files: please move away from this. How about XML config files? Perhaps even compile these to byte code/compressed XML? XML that compiles to fully indexed configuration DB that allows strongly typed data even?
2. Dependency on legacy command line interface directly from 1978 (not kidding). Microsoft and others may be thinking of going back to command line computing with natural language semantic web 2.0 shizzle. You don't want them to do this first or this will be another thing that opensource technology community won't lead the way on. The big distros should find a way to bridge Linux's lacking GUIs with the ever powerful but difficult to master Bash. I've worked on this kind of software project before, but it was a fail - when windows 95 came along everybody forgot the command line, there was no market anymore so we canned it.
3. Expunge the legacy UNIX file system. Gobolinux is a breath of fresh air. No non-unix/unix clone operating system optionally uses such a unfriendly file system layout. No other operating system needs a package manager.
These are my only real beefs, because they are things I find I have to work around to make Linux work with the way I think and do things.
The beauty of Linux is it is free as in freedom, in that anything can be done, the sky is the limit. The ugly of Linux is that is not entirely true... Linux is very tied to tradition and it's community, who have learned to master their way of doing things and there is a hard core subset of which who don't really understand let alone care about the true end user and won't give up decades of hard-earned knowledge just to make it all more accessible. That said, things are continually improving with linux, it's hard to criticise because your critcism will eventually become invalid. I have high hopes for the future of Linux, but I don't see success - that is Linux actually starting to drive the PC without a lot of attitude change.