In fact a lead-acid battery can discharge so fast that it explodes... But it requires a great fuse, so this can easily be avoided by adding a PTC to it, or simply the old fashioned fuse. With a PTC the resistance goes up along with the temperature. You could also add a lot of other similar devices.
If I asked you in 1995, would you've ever guessed that the disks of 2003 where on a whoppig 120 gb for just 100$? I doubt it.
So what do we know? I guess it is pretty realistic to get this withing 5-10 yrs.
Remember Gates in 1981? "No one will ever need more than 640K of memory?" Do you try to say the same about disks?
Maybe we should use this? If we make out a few million files with infringing name, we can maybe flood their bot, and if everyone replies to the mails, we can make hell for'em!
Not at all. An auto-sensing hub (does anyone still make these?) is actually a 10mbps segment bridged to a 100mbps segment.
No. Some hubs, long time ago, had the feature of dropping speed whenever there was a 10 Mb connecting. This is long ago, but there was....
Can you imagine a motherboard with the CPU on the 'wrong side' so that it could be directly against the case?
Yes. And I also see that it would be nice. But: Cpu's are sensitive stuff. They would need good protection, so in some way there would have to be some chock absorbing material, and those materials good for that ain't good for heat transportation...
But in general, yes. Disks should not be placed in a stack like they're now, and the cpu should be moved to edge of MoBo. If we could reduce number of fans it would be great, so each fan must handle bigger number of cooler components. And if you got rid of HD's, replaced them with flash or something, or even hologram disks, it would be nice.
One method for discovering eavesdroppers on Wired Lan (WL), would be to install, on any free port of the hub, a box with a crypto key, and have a central server sending that a notice asking for encryption of a random string with the secret key. If we could make those boxes cheap enough, or add some feature into to the hubs so they would require a password to allow clients on locked ports, it would be more work... But this would only work for high-sec nets, since it means lot of overhead if you just wanna add a computer...
Still, keyboards communicate at 1.5 mbs. This should be plenty for now, unless you have keyboard with hub, or builtin card reader or so. I think this more points out that the customers want the fastest whatever they'll actually be able to use it or not. They want a keyboard at 480 mbs, 'cos they can say that they have it, or because they belive that it is going to be better. But it is not. Most equipment, like hard drives, cdroms, and so don't use a full 480 mbs. Some hardrives might do however... But a keyboard? Would the average user benefit from a USB keyboard? I don't think so. They're (yet) more exspencive, they are although a bit better in some aspects, but (almost) anything you can do on a USB keyboard, you can do on a PS2/DIN keyboard. The only exception I can think of, is when you have flash card readers and so on builtin, as mentioned above, but even then 11 mbs should be enough, with a transerrate of 11 mps, you get roughly 1.2 MB/second theoretical, I would guess under one MB second at maximal in real life. A compact flash, can transfer 8-16 MB/sec.
Memorystick has a rate of 14.4mbs write speed, and 19.6 mbs read speed, thus I guess the average user would not get a real difference between full-speed(11 mbs)USB and High speed @ 480 mbs. 1.5 would although be a bit to slow.
If you have a card on 128mb, it would take ~15 seconds to read it out, and ~20 to write full. However, I've not tested this, so this is just a estimate.
If SCO has the examples, why can't they show it?
Well, they claim that the Linux-community is going to remove this code then. However, it would not be a problem. They could for example buy a distro, with kernel sources, that would proove that the code was there. And I don't think it in the Linux-community is able to remove the code without large amounts of email discussing the topic.
Furthermore, for me at least, it would be a hard stroke to get to know that Linux ain't as free as they claim. When I use a gpl'd product, I suppose it to be free.
As GNU says, software should be thrusted.
No night launches for the foreseeable future.
So they can see any stuff that falls off better.
Bullshit:
The junk glows as it falls.
They don't need to see the stuff, they have it on radar
Money is not the only thing needed. It is after all not long since man begun discovering space. We need time, to develop more failsafe stuff, and more solid stuff. Today's rocket are at the same point as the car was in 1950, around 50 yrs since the first of them came. If you look at the car, the rockets will typicaly be cheaper, better, and safer in 20-50 yrs from now, and therefor, we just have to go on developing rockets.
However, I think this was ment as a humorus post, not as , as it is not the real guidelines.
To continue in a bit of the same tone as the last post, in the voice of D.A:
"I talk of none of them who is, but those who shall come." --Deep Tought.
I think thumbreaders are pretty cheap now. Around 80-100$.
If you build that into, lets say a mobilephone/pda, you will have safe authentication for datas on mobile/pda, and you can easily build in a credit-card module. In norway, it is possible to shop with the mobile phone, you send a SMS to a certain number containing the amount and the 6-digit shop number. I've not tried this myself, but I'm pretty sure it can be linked to the bank account. Then you basicly have a credit card. You can pay with it, without dragging your card. But you have to enter a lot of numbers. So if you refine this, into that the shops, via bluetooth or GSM or whatever, sends a message to your phone when you are ready to pay, with a predefined SMS, and then you have to drag your thumb to confirm, or press a key or something.
Pin-code. Or thumb reader in the card. So _you_ had to hold it when paying. Then you could not skim one in the pocket of one.
This would however, not be as convinient as pin-code, since it was only you that could use the card, you could not lend it over to some you trusted to pay at the resturant (At the end of galaxy;).
Eades hopes the TheftGuard logo--which could be presented in a visible place on the laptop--would itself deter thieves. By installing protection at the BIOS level, the standard process of reformatting or replacing hard drives won't work. The machine, then, is virtually useless to any thirds party (unless, of course, they can stay off of the Internet).
Exactly. As long as they stay off internet, nothing happends. And of course, the computer might be valueless then, if you don't wanna change any parts. But you can get out the data. And since the aim here is not to protect the computer (Well...that also since it can give location), but Data! And when you put a mark on a computer, it will say to the thief: Hey. Take me, but don't connect to the internet. If this shall work, it has to be hidden. I do not think I would connect such computer to the internet. So then you are back at starting line?
Maybe a computer that called home, via satelite or GSM networks. Then it would be far more difficult to cut off. But again, then it would have to be "Don't call, we call you", the Phoenix side would have to call your box, saying hello, can you please get rid of that sensitive data?.
Anyway, the BIOS is hardwired...so go on....change.
Perfectly true... In the same way that Eschers pics are perfectly logical...He's not reverse engineering the water:
He's just reversing it
If he's reverse engineering something, it's the gravity
And if he happends to reverse engineer the gravity force, we would all be reading/. from the moon. Via some satelite, or by the matter of fact that the servers came there too.
I don't know DMCA in detail, but certainly, reverse engineering the gravity force, would be a REAL threat against any country on earth, therefor this man must be jailed. And don't give him water to mess with...Nor anything else...
This is what is so important about internet... That any product, whatever it is good or bad is able to connect. Wireless networks is a new trace. I don't belive in free public wireless...We'll at some time have to pay for this service. I think that important data communications have became, the goverment should pay for wireless. Then we can ensure free access, and so on, and all'll be paying. Depending on the coverage of each node, it would not require that huge amount of transmitters in flat land. It is also important in the future that we ensure that all standars are open, and controlled by non-profit organizations. this way, we can ensure that anyone have access. Maybe the right to communicate, has turned into the right to send emails? Freedom of speach must also be preserved...
This has not got anything with the principe behind it, but: I would be *very* afraid of spyes...If I send my data for processing over to a remote system, it means they can have access. If I where designing a new car and calculating aeordynamic data, I would certainly calculate it on a system entirely controlled by me. Before we can get to the step of full grids, all over the world, we have make a system that ensures that the "B" in this example, can't copy, read, or in any way gain access to your information. Information is in many matters power. Power over car-buyers, power over nations if it's weapons and so on. No one gives away power, and is *paying* (supposing you're paying for the cycles) someone to grab it! So the security needs to be taken in care, and we must make that solid system, that malicous users can't do much (read: none) damage.
This is interesting future, but certainly we'll have to make some kind a "failsafe" encryption, that at least is wery difficult to break. If you make this common, you could risk that someone cracked your watch, to get out some , lets say, passwords. Then he maybe could get further into the high security devices you wore. And since it is wireless, it would be wery difficult to find whom that had taken it. A PAN network cant be that small that it only reaches a feet or something. Usually they go at least 20 feet, and at that range, it would be difficult to see who's monitoring you. Of course, you could have a limitation on one foot, so that you had to put your watch up against the main transmitter or somthing, but then half the point would be gone. So, at least I think so, most people would be suspicious as long as it was a possibility that some other person was reading your scheudle. Anyway, the problem is not your scheudle, but for example if they could get your passwords or something, or even, if you were at a high posisition, get the "top" secrets of your company. And when you moved around, the governement could track you. This would give big brother a new dimension. Read the story written by John Bing , called "Big brother's carneval" for more (funny) abbrevations on this topic.
Well...Thus this gives cracking a new dimension. What if you mean o break into the computer systems of CIA, but accidentially you manange to crack the Surgd or whatever that daemon is called. Then you could do pretty ridicicolous things. For example trheaten to remove someones heart and lungs if they did not pay!
Whois www.parliament.uk returns "No match for "www.parliament.uk".(c)Nominet UK" but ping www.parliament.uk returns PING www.parliament.uk (194.60.38.75): 56 data bytes
. However, they don't respond to ping. But that probably is offtopic...
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Opera is nice on that point, with the "Block non-requested popup" Then I still can click javascript links, but get no popups.
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I mean, what if they accidentially engineered it with some buthane generating cells, so that it catches fire... Oh wait, it don't burn anything...
In fact a lead-acid battery can discharge so fast that it explodes... But it requires a great fuse, so this can easily be avoided by adding a PTC to it, or simply the old fashioned fuse. With a PTC the resistance goes up along with the temperature. You could also add a lot of other similar devices.
If I asked you in 1995, would you've ever guessed that the disks of 2003 where on a whoppig 120 gb for just 100$? I doubt it. So what do we know? I guess it is pretty realistic to get this withing 5-10 yrs. Remember Gates in 1981? "No one will ever need more than 640K of memory?" Do you try to say the same about disks?
Maybe we should use this? If we make out a few million files with infringing name, we can maybe flood their bot, and if everyone replies to the mails, we can make hell for'em!
Not at all. An auto-sensing hub (does anyone still make these?) is actually a 10mbps segment bridged to a 100mbps segment.
No. Some hubs, long time ago, had the feature of dropping speed whenever there was a 10 Mb connecting. This is long ago, but there was....
Here is the (as far as I know) worlds first RFC 1149 implementation, in english, with pictures and Alan Cox. (Yes. He is real.)
Can you imagine a motherboard with the CPU on the 'wrong side' so that it could be directly against the case?
Yes. And I also see that it would be nice. But: Cpu's are sensitive stuff. They would need good protection, so in some way there would have to be some chock absorbing material, and those materials good for that ain't good for heat transportation... But in general, yes. Disks should not be placed in a stack like they're now, and the cpu should be moved to edge of MoBo. If we could reduce number of fans it would be great, so each fan must handle bigger number of cooler components. And if you got rid of HD's, replaced them with flash or something, or even hologram disks, it would be nice.
One method for discovering eavesdroppers on Wired Lan (WL), would be to install, on any free port of the hub, a box with a crypto key, and have a central server sending that a notice asking for encryption of a random string with the secret key. If we could make those boxes cheap enough, or add some feature into to the hubs so they would require a password to allow clients on locked ports, it would be more work...
But this would only work for high-sec nets, since it means lot of overhead if you just wanna add a computer...
Still, keyboards communicate at 1.5 mbs. This should be plenty for now, unless you have keyboard with hub, or builtin card reader or so. I think this more points out that the customers want the fastest whatever they'll actually be able to use it or not. They want a keyboard at 480 mbs, 'cos they can say that they have it, or because they belive that it is going to be better. But it is not. Most equipment, like hard drives, cdroms, and so don't use a full 480 mbs. Some hardrives might do however... But a keyboard? Would the average user benefit from a USB keyboard? I don't think so. They're (yet) more exspencive, they are although a bit better in some aspects, but (almost) anything you can do on a USB keyboard, you can do on a PS2/DIN keyboard. The only exception I can think of, is when you have flash card readers and so on builtin, as mentioned above, but even then 11 mbs should be enough, with a transerrate of 11 mps, you get roughly 1.2 MB/second theoretical, I would guess under one MB second at maximal in real life. A compact flash, can transfer 8-16 MB/sec. Memorystick has a rate of 14.4mbs write speed, and 19.6 mbs read speed, thus I guess the average user would not get a real difference between full-speed(11 mbs)USB and High speed @ 480 mbs. 1.5 would although be a bit to slow. If you have a card on 128mb, it would take ~15 seconds to read it out, and ~20 to write full. However, I've not tested this, so this is just a estimate.
If SCO has the examples, why can't they show it? Well, they claim that the Linux-community is going to remove this code then. However, it would not be a problem. They could for example buy a distro, with kernel sources, that would proove that the code was there. And I don't think it in the Linux-community is able to remove the code without large amounts of email discussing the topic. Furthermore, for me at least, it would be a hard stroke to get to know that Linux ain't as free as they claim. When I use a gpl'd product, I suppose it to be free. As GNU says, software should be thrusted.
Bullshit:
- The junk glows as it falls.
- They don't need to see the stuff, they have it on radar
Money is not the only thing needed. It is after all not long since man begun discovering space. We need time, to develop more failsafe stuff, and more solid stuff. Today's rocket are at the same point as the car was in 1950, around 50 yrs since the first of them came. If you look at the car, the rockets will typicaly be cheaper, better, and safer in 20-50 yrs from now, and therefor, we just have to go on developing rockets. However, I think this was ment as a humorus post, not as , as it is not the real guidelines.Live? With Gentoo?? Serius?
They're supposed to compile everything. Can't be much live next few hours then!
To continue in a bit of the same tone as the last post, in the voice of D.A: "I talk of none of them who is, but those who shall come." --Deep Tought. I think thumbreaders are pretty cheap now. Around 80-100$. If you build that into, lets say a mobilephone/pda, you will have safe authentication for datas on mobile/pda, and you can easily build in a credit-card module. In norway, it is possible to shop with the mobile phone, you send a SMS to a certain number containing the amount and the 6-digit shop number. I've not tried this myself, but I'm pretty sure it can be linked to the bank account. Then you basicly have a credit card. You can pay with it, without dragging your card. But you have to enter a lot of numbers. So if you refine this, into that the shops, via bluetooth or GSM or whatever, sends a message to your phone when you are ready to pay, with a predefined SMS, and then you have to drag your thumb to confirm, or press a key or something.
Pin-code. Or thumb reader in the card. So _you_ had to hold it when paying. Then you could not skim one in the pocket of one. This would however, not be as convinient as pin-code, since it was only you that could use the card, you could not lend it over to some you trusted to pay at the resturant (At the end of galaxy;).
Eades hopes the TheftGuard logo--which could be presented in a visible place on the laptop--would itself deter thieves. By installing protection at the BIOS level, the standard process of reformatting or replacing hard drives won't work. The machine, then, is virtually useless to any thirds party (unless, of course, they can stay off of the Internet).
Exactly. As long as they stay off internet, nothing happends. And of course, the computer might be valueless then, if you don't wanna change any parts. But you can get out the data. And since the aim here is not to protect the computer (Well...that also since it can give location), but Data! And when you put a mark on a computer, it will say to the thief: Hey. Take me, but don't connect to the internet. If this shall work, it has to be hidden. I do not think I would connect such computer to the internet. So then you are back at starting line? Maybe a computer that called home, via satelite or GSM networks. Then it would be far more difficult to cut off. But again, then it would have to be "Don't call, we call you", the Phoenix side would have to call your box, saying hello, can you please get rid of that sensitive data?. Anyway, the BIOS is hardwired...so go on....change.
ERR!!!Sorry...the big wall ain't in the picture....it was south and north america. Sorry bud! You've gotta move your house!
He's just reversing it
If he's reverse engineering something, it's the gravity And if he happends to reverse engineer the gravity force, we would all be reading /. from the moon. Via some satelite, or by the matter of fact that the servers came there too.
I don't know DMCA in detail, but certainly, reverse engineering the gravity force, would be a REAL threat against any country on earth, therefor this man must be jailed. And don't give him water to mess with...Nor anything else...
This is what is so important about internet... That any product, whatever it is good or bad is able to connect. Wireless networks is a new trace. I don't belive in free public wireless...We'll at some time have to pay for this service. I think that important data communications have became, the goverment should pay for wireless. Then we can ensure free access, and so on, and all'll be paying. Depending on the coverage of each node, it would not require that huge amount of transmitters in flat land. It is also important in the future that we ensure that all standars are open, and controlled by non-profit organizations. this way, we can ensure that anyone have access. Maybe the right to communicate, has turned into the right to send emails? Freedom of speach must also be preserved...
This has not got anything with the principe behind it, but: I would be *very* afraid of spyes...If I send my data for processing over to a remote system, it means they can have access. If I where designing a new car and calculating aeordynamic data, I would certainly calculate it on a system entirely controlled by me. Before we can get to the step of full grids, all over the world, we have make a system that ensures that the "B" in this example, can't copy, read, or in any way gain access to your information. Information is in many matters power. Power over car-buyers, power over nations if it's weapons and so on. No one gives away power, and is *paying* (supposing you're paying for the cycles) someone to grab it! So the security needs to be taken in care, and we must make that solid system, that malicous users can't do much (read: none) damage.
This is interesting future, but certainly we'll have to make some kind a "failsafe" encryption, that at least is wery difficult to break. If you make this common, you could risk that someone cracked your watch, to get out some , lets say, passwords. Then he maybe could get further into the high security devices you wore. And since it is wireless, it would be wery difficult to find whom that had taken it. A PAN network cant be that small that it only reaches a feet or something. Usually they go at least 20 feet, and at that range, it would be difficult to see who's monitoring you. Of course, you could have a limitation on one foot, so that you had to put your watch up against the main transmitter or somthing, but then half the point would be gone. So, at least I think so, most people would be suspicious as long as it was a possibility that some other person was reading your scheudle.
Anyway, the problem is not your scheudle, but for example if they could get your passwords or something, or even, if you were at a high posisition, get the "top" secrets of your company. And when you moved around, the governement could track you. This would give big brother a new dimension. Read the story written by John Bing , called "Big brother's carneval" for more (funny) abbrevations on this topic.
Well...Thus this gives cracking a new dimension. What if you mean o break into the computer systems of CIA, but accidentially you manange to crack the Surgd or whatever that daemon is called. Then you could do pretty ridicicolous things. For example trheaten to remove someones heart and lungs if they did not pay!
Opera actually supports this fine, although it is a bit creepy about it, for example, you can't have touched the file since interupted download.
Whois www.parliament.uk returns "No match for "www.parliament.uk".(c)Nominet UK" but ping www.parliament.uk returns PING www.parliament.uk (194.60.38.75): 56 data bytes . However, they don't respond to ping. But that probably is offtopic...