Is anyone (here) surprised by this? It seems painfully obvious to me, that most such services obviously wouldn't work. That this guy wasn't notified BY THE SECURITY SERVICE that his alarm system wasn't functioning for over a year, speaks volumes about how useless that service really is.
It's only too easy to cut a POTS line, or tie it up by dialing-in to it, which is exactly what any competent burglar will do... Maybe with a (pre-paid?) cell-based service, your alarm will have a fighting chance, but not a lot even then.
I just see a lot of people with KVMs, dual monitor setup (side by side), etc.
Most people have enough room for dual monitors (and they have other advantages), so space-saving ideas don't get much interest.
As for KVM (as I keep saying) I can't figure out why practically anyone uses them. My only guess is that people don't understand the serial-port and network options for practically everything.
I do have to use GUI (I know VNC exists, but they're slow in terms of graphics like for videos)
X11, NX, xrdp, etc. work much better than VNC.
Videos are just about the one thing that simply can't work well over the network (at least at resolutions above approx. 320x240 on 100Mbps). But in that single case, you can easily transfer the compressed video over the network, and play it on the local machine. This can be done with NFS, SMB, and the like. Or you can use SSH, ftp, http, etc. to stream the video (seeking even still works in some cases) across the network. Whatever you chose, you can put it all in a simple script to automatically set all this up when you run open a video in your file manager.
Short of serious multimedia work, or gaming, I don't see any reason not to use the network.
and I don't want to hog my 100mb LAN since there are other people on the network (using an old 8-ports Netgear DS108 hub
Buying a switch would prevent others from having adverse effects from your traffic, and would be an order of magnitude cheaper than buying a KVM switch.
No, I'm saying put hinges on it so you can flip it in-front of your current screen when needed.
I have the second mini-tower in a corner of the room. I rarely use its DVD-ROM drive, 3.5" disk drive, and power button. It is mainly acts like a private server and as a backup workstation.
Again, sounds like you don't need a KVM for it at all. Why not just access it over the network?
These tags are SMALL. They have to be hit with a magnetic flux powerful enough to induce a current in their tiny coils powerful enough to transmit a radio signal which can be picked up at a significant distance.
"Significant" is just a couple meters. That's more than enough to track someone.
I guess you are the one that can't get over thinking of them being used like deer collars.
I don't have room for an extra monitor, mouse, and keyboard.
Buy another 19" LCD. Remove stand. Attach hinges, and attach to existing 19" monitor.
I'm sure your tiny room can accommodate half an inch more depth, without problems.
Keyboard and mouse are even easier.
Of course, I really don't believe for a second you actually can't fit a second monitor in your room. Unless you live in a closet so small you can't sit down, there's always room, it's just a question of using it right. Hell, you have room for a second PC tower (rather than using swappable hard drives).
The medical benefits of EMTs being able to instantly know a person's blood type, allergies, and medical history are obvious.
Then get a medical bracelet with a barcode. They can read it just as easily, but you'd KNOW if someone was reading it. RFID circumvents physical security constraints.
A person CAN NOT use it to track someone as they walk around a city.
A person can't. A large company or government could. Quite easily, in fact.
A device capable of generating the power to operate these over more than a very short distance would be very obvious to spot
You can "spot" anything. That doesn't mean you have any way of knowing that street light you're walking by actually has a built-in RFID reader.
If you are afraid of this yet you carry a cellphone, you are a hypocrite.
I could almost agree with that (I don't have a cell phone), except for the fact that cell phones can be disabled at will, left at home, given to someone else, etc. Cell phones are a big privacy issue, but implanted RFID takes it to a whole new level.
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But is there anyone here who can name one source where we would not be able to find a glaring error or even something that would be considered a flat out lie by a lot of people ?
I'm sure just about anyone here can name some sources that are far more reliable than Wikipedia, at least.
What Wikipedia had going for it was that it was small enough to not be a target until recently, and the vandalism was done by idiots, and glaringly obvious enough that someone who knew NOTHING about the topic could spot it.
It's subject to so much misinformation and trolling, it's just unbelievable. So many people either purely ignorant or trolling, or with a stake in DVB, are systematically adding misinformation, and trying to twist it around to their POV.
The wikipedia solution? Do nothing. Someone will fix it. The hundreds of thousands of people who see it in the mean time will get horribly bad info. Oh well.
What bugs me about DVI is that KVM with them are still expensive.
Well, KVM with VGA isn't exactly CHEAP. You might be better off actually buying an extra monitor, keyboard, and mouse...
But more than that, I've long wondered why anyone needs a KVM. Perhaps you can answer that one for me... Even DOS supported changing the console to the serial port. What brutally old or crippled systems do you have which have VGA (or DVI!) output, which can't use a serial console, telnet, rsh, ssh, X11, VNC, RDP, etc.?
Or else, what do you do that you actually need 3+ systems (per monitor) to have high-speed graphics access, but never any at the same time?
And if that isn't the case... Why _do_ you feel you need a KVM switch?
If you don't support the companies releasing open source drivers, those companies will disappear.
ATI hasn't ever released open source 3D drivers. There's just been more interest in writing drivers for ATI than NVidia... Perhaps because ATI has been around, and popular, for a lot longer than NVidia.
And as for 2D drivers, NVidia is supporting open source development a lot more than ATI is (or has in the past).
Would you buy a crappy car you don't want, just because it's the only way to get good tires, and to indirectly support the company that makes them? Not me.
So with MSI's you can extract all the files, see exactly what commands are run and registry entries added? You can install it as a non-Admin user into any arbitrary folder you like?
Well, as long as your OS still relies on the ancient "executable installer" model for software distribution, you're going to be stuck making design decisions to accomodate that model.
Sure, it's a stupid model, but they are gradually moving away from it... They introduced.MSI for installation programs to replace EXEs, they're far from perfect, but it's a step up that should help eliminate these privilege problems.
It took them decades to get rid of the single-user model for applications, and I expect getting rid of EXE installers will take even longer.
I believe that even RPM on linux runs the install scripts with admin access...
If you invoked the command as root, of course it does. If you installed the RPM as a non-root user into a folder you have write access to, it doesn't.
With RPMs, however, you have a simple command-line option to tell it NOT to execute script commands. And RPMs are just simple packages (like tar) and you can open them up, examine them, modify the script, etc. as much as you like. No such thing in the Windows world, where installers are encrypted cab files, only accessible to the installer binary, and all the commands and settings that are needed, are completely hidden inside the EXE.
The FairTax is progressive; because of the universal rebate
Bullshit. There is a rebate for the poor, but once you're ONE DOLLAR above the "poor" limit it's as regressive as it can get. The [manager] (making $30,000) at McDonalds is paying the same tax as Bill Gates (making billions upon billions of dollars).
You don't go straight from poor to rich... There's the vast majority of the population in-between, that gets stuck paying for EVERYTHING.
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Why do questions get modded up, when they are already fully explained in the article?
Efficiency: prestin may be 10,000 times more efficient at generating power than the best manmade material.
Weight: minimising the weight of generators, batteries
Maintenance: harness the ability of biological mechanisms to self-assemble.
Now go sit in the corner and think about what you did.
Is anyone (here) surprised by this? It seems painfully obvious to me, that most such services obviously wouldn't work. That this guy wasn't notified BY THE SECURITY SERVICE that his alarm system wasn't functioning for over a year, speaks volumes about how useless that service really is.
It's only too easy to cut a POTS line, or tie it up by dialing-in to it, which is exactly what any competent burglar will do... Maybe with a (pre-paid?) cell-based service, your alarm will have a fighting chance, but not a lot even then.
If you had a point, I'm afraid I missed it completely.
Most people have enough room for dual monitors (and they have other advantages), so space-saving ideas don't get much interest.
As for KVM (as I keep saying) I can't figure out why practically anyone uses them. My only guess is that people don't understand the serial-port and network options for practically everything.
Yes. Though horizontal could also work.
X11, NX, xrdp, etc. work much better than VNC.
Videos are just about the one thing that simply can't work well over the network (at least at resolutions above approx. 320x240 on 100Mbps). But in that single case, you can easily transfer the compressed video over the network, and play it on the local machine. This can be done with NFS, SMB, and the like. Or you can use SSH, ftp, http, etc. to stream the video (seeking even still works in some cases) across the network. Whatever you chose, you can put it all in a simple script to automatically set all this up when you run open a video in your file manager.
Short of serious multimedia work, or gaming, I don't see any reason not to use the network.
Buying a switch would prevent others from having adverse effects from your traffic, and would be an order of magnitude cheaper than buying a KVM switch.
Not every 2 meters. You don't need exact updates every single second. One every 10 meters would work just as well, particularly.
If you would have read my first comment, you wouldn't be asking that question: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=222360&thresh
You can "spot" anything. That doesn't mean you have any way of knowing that street light you're walking by actually has a built-in RFID reader.
No, I'm saying put hinges on it so you can flip it in-front of your current screen when needed.
Again, sounds like you don't need a KVM for it at all. Why not just access it over the network?
"Significant" is just a couple meters. That's more than enough to track someone.
I guess you are the one that can't get over thinking of them being used like deer collars.
Buy another 19" LCD. Remove stand. Attach hinges, and attach to existing 19" monitor.
I'm sure your tiny room can accommodate half an inch more depth, without problems.
Keyboard and mouse are even easier.
Of course, I really don't believe for a second you actually can't fit a second monitor in your room. Unless you live in a closet so small you can't sit down, there's always room, it's just a question of using it right. Hell, you have room for a second PC tower (rather than using swappable hard drives).
Then get a medical bracelet with a barcode. They can read it just as easily, but you'd KNOW if someone was reading it. RFID circumvents physical security constraints.
A person can't. A large company or government could. Quite easily, in fact.
You can "spot" anything. That doesn't mean you have any way of knowing that street light you're walking by actually has a built-in RFID reader.
I could almost agree with that (I don't have a cell phone), except for the fact that cell phones can be disabled at will, left at home, given to someone else, etc. Cell phones are a big privacy issue, but implanted RFID takes it to a whole new level.
For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ATSC&dif f=86396819&oldid=83884160
I'm sure just about anyone here can name some sources that are far more reliable than Wikipedia, at least.
What Wikipedia had going for it was that it was small enough to not be a target until recently, and the vandalism was done by idiots, and glaringly obvious enough that someone who knew NOTHING about the topic could spot it.
For example, I visit the ATSC wiki regularly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATSC
It's subject to so much misinformation and trolling, it's just unbelievable. So many people either purely ignorant or trolling, or with a stake in DVB, are systematically adding misinformation, and trying to twist it around to their POV.
The wikipedia solution? Do nothing. Someone will fix it. The hundreds of thousands of people who see it in the mean time will get horribly bad info. Oh well.
Very well put.
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Unfortunately, neither archive.org, nor google's cache have a copy of the comments in the "Intel Speaks" thread, before they removed them.
For posterity, here are the two main comments I posted to the Intel Opinion Center:
Other Problems with Intel (than graphics)
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=219944&cid=17
And: Intel Fucked-up XScale:
http://intel.vendors.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid
The comments I posted in the "Intel Speaks" thread appear to be lost forever.
A good tip, but you still have the "Opinion Center: Intel" link in the upper right-hand portion of EVERY single slashdot page.
What gives you that idea?
ATI gave Gatos limited docs under NDA-only. I've never heard of them doing any more than that.
Well, KVM with VGA isn't exactly CHEAP. You might be better off actually buying an extra monitor, keyboard, and mouse...
But more than that, I've long wondered why anyone needs a KVM. Perhaps you can answer that one for me... Even DOS supported changing the console to the serial port. What brutally old or crippled systems do you have which have VGA (or DVI!) output, which can't use a serial console, telnet, rsh, ssh, X11, VNC, RDP, etc.?
Or else, what do you do that you actually need 3+ systems (per monitor) to have high-speed graphics access, but never any at the same time?
And if that isn't the case... Why _do_ you feel you need a KVM switch?
ATI hasn't ever released open source 3D drivers. There's just been more interest in writing drivers for ATI than NVidia... Perhaps because ATI has been around, and popular, for a lot longer than NVidia.
And as for 2D drivers, NVidia is supporting open source development a lot more than ATI is (or has in the past).
Intel certainly has released GPL'd drivers for their chips, but I've already explained why I'm not going to get an Intel system for that reason alone: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=219944&cid=17
Would you buy a crappy car you don't want, just because it's the only way to get good tires, and to indirectly support the company that makes them? Not me.
So with MSI's you can extract all the files, see exactly what commands are run and registry entries added? You can install it as a non-Admin user into any arbitrary folder you like?
I think this takes the old "slow news day" on /. to a whole new level.
The story: Sun has started optimizing a handful of apps.
I can barely contain my excitement.
Sure, it's a stupid model, but they are gradually moving away from it... They introduced
It took them decades to get rid of the single-user model for applications, and I expect getting rid of EXE installers will take even longer.
If you invoked the command as root, of course it does. If you installed the RPM as a non-root user into a folder you have write access to, it doesn't.
With RPMs, however, you have a simple command-line option to tell it NOT to execute script commands. And RPMs are just simple packages (like tar) and you can open them up, examine them, modify the script, etc. as much as you like. No such thing in the Windows world, where installers are encrypted cab files, only accessible to the installer binary, and all the commands and settings that are needed, are completely hidden inside the EXE.
Wow... How's that for ironic?
A chicken is going to choke the internet...
Must... not... make... "In Soviet Russia..." joke...
No. My point is that HTTP over SSL is every bit as encrypted as Telnet over Kerberos.
Bullshit. There is a rebate for the poor, but once you're ONE DOLLAR above the "poor" limit it's as regressive as it can get. The [manager] (making $30,000) at McDonalds is paying the same tax as Bill Gates (making billions upon billions of dollars).
You don't go straight from poor to rich... There's the vast majority of the population in-between, that gets stuck paying for EVERYTHING.
That's called "trickle down" or "voodoo" economics, and it's been completely and throughly disproven many times over.