Don't trouble yourself to read to the bottom of the story....
"McGuire says that his approach may pay off in other ways. The hitting-set idea that he developed for the proof has been used in papers on gene-sequencing analysis and cellular networks, and he looks forward to seeing if his algorithm can be usefully adapted by other researchers. “Hopefully this will stimulate more interest,” he says. "
So instead of something with a level of feedback and spring to the buttons... I get to pay the same price and repeatedly tap my figure against the desk?...
Anonymous Troll writes: "I guarantee if this were Bush wanting something similar, the left would be screaming bloody murder at the mere THOUGHT of it. "
... reading fundamentals works for me.
FTFA: "Those claims have alarmed the ACLU and other civil liberties groups, which have opposed the Justice Department's request and plan to tell the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia that Americans' privacy deserves more protection and judicial oversight than what the administration has proposed. "
Gasp! Shock! Amazement! People who don't like something under one administration - might also not like it under another!
And this will move people to other services like Fancast.com which also does commercials but less often and on my system at least without the insane jump in volume.
Sounds great until I want to leave the house and someone else wants to watch TV... oh wait... you mean I need to buy a smart phone for everyone in the family?
1 (c) Each institution to which subsection (a) of this
2 Section applies shall, by January 15 of each year, report to
3 the Board either (i) that the institution has not received 10
4 or more legally valid notices of infringement within the
5 preceding year from owners of infringed works or their
6 authorized agents or (ii) a detailed description of the
7 reasonable efforts the institution has taken to install and
8 implement a technology-based deterrent system under
9 subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of this Section.
Maybe it's time to look to storing all my data on that flash drive and just shipping it to myself on location. Or maybe back to the old days with new toys, putting the OS on the flash drive so that the laptop won't boot to the OS without it.
*shrugs*
So much easier to not enter/exit the US... glad to know the terror threat will slowly help choke off international collaboration efforts on US shores.
Oh no! Google is working with the CIA, the NSA, and the NOAA... wait what? Almost had the evil government owns Google effect there, unless we are suggesting that Google now controls the weather as well.
"Look, you can get a DDS-4 tape drive from eBay for less than $100. In fact, I'm about to sell my Sun external DDS-4 drive there soon. You can then get a compatible SCSI card for about $20 if not less. Then you just have to get the tapes. A new box of ten DDS-4 tapes -- equivalent to about 480GB compressed -- can be found for around $50 on eBay."
DDS-4, SCSI, Sun external DDS-4.... a large percentage of home users are still trying to get CD/DVD burning down without problems, and your suggestion is an entirely new tech that they need to buy used and will have even less support for?
Since we'll have a bunch of./ers spouting off... might as well make room for someone who lived through the events the RPG depicts: " What did you think of it? It probably sounds a bit odd for someone like me to say, but I appreciate the fact at least to some degree that something like this was made. I think that at least it gets people talikng about Columbine in a unique perspective, which is probably a good thing. But that being said there are a lot of things that are har to play or watch. And it seems to partially glamorize what happened. It shows a stark-contrast between fantasy and real life in an interesting way."
"It will be interesting to see what happens when other "real" experts start looking at this."
I think that is where many people have problems with Mr.Gibson.
There seems to be more effort in prompting himself and his discovers than working with the security community to actually test and verify these things. I don't believe (but haven't actually run a search through my archives) that I've ever seen a bugtraq or full-disclosure posting by Mr.Gibson.
"and relocate to rival sites such as... Linkedin,"
When I look at the average MySpace user and then at average accounts on Linkedin, I find it hard to believe that many from the former are moving to the latter. Maybe it's the lack of "sexykitten69" usernames on Linkedin.
From the original link (opens in new window) "The music industry told the court that Sharman Network licensed users to access a network it knew was being used for piracy and hence it was authorising people to infringe copyright."
APC has a white paper on EPO availible online at: [PDF warning] ftp://www.apcmedia.com/salestools/ASTE-5 T3TTT_R1_E N.pdf
"Executive Summary Emergency Power Off (EPO) is the capability to power down a piece of electronic equipment or an entire installation from a single point by activating a push button. EPO is employed in many applications such as industrial, telecommunications, information technology (IT), etc. This white paper describes the use of EPO for protecting data centers and small IT equipment rooms containing UPS systems. Various applicable standards that require EPO are discussed. Recommended practices are suggested for the use of EPO with UPS systems."
Slashdot Mirror
Don't trouble yourself to read to the bottom of the story....
"McGuire says that his approach may pay off in other ways. The hitting-set idea that he developed for the proof has been used in papers on gene-sequencing analysis and cellular networks, and he looks forward to seeing if his algorithm can be usefully adapted by other researchers. “Hopefully this will stimulate more interest,” he says. "
So instead of something with a level of feedback and spring to the buttons... I get to pay the same price and repeatedly tap my figure against the desk? ...
"The vast majority of people today simply neither want nor understand privacy."
The vast majority of people sharing their information online do not want or understand privacy. ... self selecting sample isn't it?
Anonymous Troll writes:
"I guarantee if this were Bush wanting something similar, the left would be screaming bloody murder at the mere THOUGHT of it. "
FTFA:
"Those claims have alarmed the ACLU and other civil liberties groups, which have opposed the Justice Department's request and plan to tell the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia that Americans' privacy deserves more protection and judicial oversight than what the administration has proposed. "
Gasp! Shock! Amazement!
People who don't like something under one administration - might also not like it under another!
And this will move people to other services like Fancast.com which also does commercials but less often and on my system at least without the insane jump in volume.
"but the signal to noise ratio has been fading fast lately."
At least every few months someone is kind enough to post how much worse things are than when they first started.
Sounds great until I want to leave the house and someone else wants to watch TV... oh wait... you mean I need to buy a smart phone for everyone in the family?
ummm, no.
Big content goes after colleges through funding bills
By John Timmer | Published: April 15, 2008 - 10:50PM CT
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080415-big-content-goes-after-college-p2p-through-funding-bills.html
Full Text of HB4380
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=09500HB4380ham001&GA=95&SessionId=51&DocTypeId=HB&DocNum=4380&GAID=9
Higher Education Committee
Filed: 4/1/2008
1 (c) Each institution to which subsection (a) of this
2 Section applies shall, by January 15 of each year, report to
3 the Board either (i) that the institution has not received 10
4 or more legally valid notices of infringement within the
5 preceding year from owners of infringed works or their
6 authorized agents or (ii) a detailed description of the
7 reasonable efforts the institution has taken to install and
8 implement a technology-based deterrent system under
9 subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of this Section.
"They can search anything that comes into the U.S. through post."
Can search is different than have the ability to search all.
Maybe it's time to look to storing all my data on that flash drive and just shipping it to myself on location. Or maybe back to the old days with new toys, putting the OS on the flash drive so that the laptop won't boot to the OS without it.
*shrugs*
So much easier to not enter/exit the US... glad to know the terror threat will slowly help choke off international collaboration efforts on US shores.
Key word standing... Hawking hasn't been standing for years.
Oh no! Google is working with the CIA, the NSA, and the NOAA... wait what?
Almost had the evil government owns Google effect there, unless we are suggesting that Google now controls the weather as well.
... really if i wanted to read crud like that I could sign up for a livejournal or myspace account.
You don't know why home users don't use tape?
"Look, you can get a DDS-4 tape drive from eBay for less than $100. In fact, I'm about to sell my Sun external DDS-4 drive there soon. You can then get a compatible SCSI card for about $20 if not less. Then you just have to get the tapes. A new box of ten DDS-4 tapes -- equivalent to about 480GB compressed -- can be found for around $50 on eBay."
DDS-4, SCSI, Sun external DDS-4.... a large percentage of home users are still trying to get CD/DVD burning down without problems, and your suggestion is an entirely new tech that they need to buy used and will have even less support for?
Since we'll have a bunch of ./ers spouting off... might as well make room for someone who lived through the events the RPG depicts:
r vivor-talks-about-columbine-rpg-171966.php
" What did you think of it?
It probably sounds a bit odd for someone like me to say, but I appreciate the fact at least to some degree that something like this was made. I think that at least it gets people talikng about Columbine in a unique perspective, which is probably a good thing. But that being said there are a lot of things that are har to play or watch. And it seems to partially glamorize what happened. It shows a stark-contrast between fantasy and real life in an interesting way."
There is more of the interview at this site:
http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/feature/columbine-su
"It will be interesting to see what happens when other "real" experts start looking at this."
I think that is where many people have problems with Mr.Gibson.
There seems to be more effort in prompting himself and his discovers than working with the security community to actually test and verify these things. I don't believe (but haven't actually run a search through my archives) that I've ever seen a bugtraq or full-disclosure posting by Mr.Gibson.
"and relocate to rival sites such as ... Linkedin,"
When I look at the average MySpace user and then at average accounts on Linkedin, I find it hard to believe that many from the former are moving to the latter. Maybe it's the lack of "sexykitten69" usernames on Linkedin.
"Anonymous cowards are the Dread Pirate Roberts of the interweb, because we may be many different people, but we all do it under the same name."
*Applause* Very well done.
From the original link (opens in new window)
"The music industry told the court that Sharman Network licensed users to access a network it knew was being used for piracy and hence it was authorising people to infringe copyright."
Ok, you say the drag and drop is way better than Google and about a dozen posters informed you that Google does the same thing.
How about something different, like actually taking me to the website they have a link to instead of keeping me on the MS page.
"almost everyone gets turned off by zealots they disagree with."
And large numbers of us are turned off by zealots even when we agree with their position.
"We the Corporation, in order to find a more perfect profit, establish loopholes and ensure domestic legality."
APC has a white paper on EPO availible online at:5 T3TTT_R1_E N.pdf
[PDF warning]
ftp://www.apcmedia.com/salestools/ASTE-
"Executive Summary
Emergency Power Off (EPO) is the capability to power down a piece of electronic equipment
or an entire installation from a single point by activating a push button. EPO is employed in
many applications such as industrial, telecommunications, information technology (IT), etc.
This white paper describes the use of EPO for protecting data centers and small IT
equipment rooms containing UPS systems. Various applicable standards that require EPO
are discussed. Recommended practices are suggested for the use of EPO with UPS
systems."
If you know what speed port you are plugging in to why would you need to autoneg?
It's a convenience that isn't always needed.
Alt to weatherbug - kinda...
http://forecastfox.mozdev.org/ (opens in new window)
Weather plug in for Firefox, shows forecast/temp in lower right of status bar. Highly configurable.