...would having 10 different options be better? I used to think having simply two parties was the worse thing for us. But now I wonder just how watered down politics and decisions would be if we had a plethora of parties? Could _anything_ be passed then?
I agree that money influences the options we choose from. The amount of money pumped into different candidates can certainly with enough sample points, lead to a prediction of a winner. But I don't consider it a rule. We've seen candidates with more money than entire parties lose to another candidate. If you're a profound, magnanimous, _charismatic_ leader you'll get your support (and thus money) to beat the other guy.
Watch CSPAN or CSPAN2. You'd be surprised what caliber of elected officals (especially in the house) run our country. These officals were by no means wealthy. They came from a district that put them there based not on money, but viral like "grass root" marketing. And their ineptness scares me.
Money nor party affiliation makes a candidate bad or good. We've elected moroons to office regardless to either of those variable.
Seriously though, does any country want herds of 10,000 lbs mammals running around eating 400lbs of vegetation a day? Sounds like some new kind of plague, or the SUV of the animal kingdom energy source. I don't think either of those countries really need to revive that species. As for keeping it in captavity... we all know how well _that_ works. If they reconstitute that species, they better reconstitute it's least powerful predator as well.
TCPA and Palladium serve one purpose and one purpose only: taking away the root control of our own machines from us
It's simple, turn off TCPA mode. You want root? Don't run TCPA. Yeah, you can't download movies now in pure digital form from Blockbuster (because they don't _TRUST_ you that you won't make copies of their digital library) but your root.
Once more unto the breach, dear friends - for this is not a new battle, what we are seeing with those who would promise us gold riches for the small price of our freedom in cyberspace are the same devils, if with different faces, that have offered this deal since time immemorial. Choose your side, and remember that history will be our judge
oh god, you're a drama troll.
Defending user hostile computers on the grounds that they can be used for fair applications is like defending totalitarian regimes because they can stop crime and corruption
Except the fact you can not only elect NOT TO PARTICIPATE, but you can also PURCHASE the device, and DISABLE the "totalitarian" mechanism.
If we accept hardware DRM, we are giving up all our freedoms on the promise that if we are nice they'll give most back
Seems to me, what your saying is, "currently, i have the ability to simply ignore laws i don't agree with in terms of digital rights. If they go ahead with this DRM coupled with Hardware support, i might not be able to simply ignore the laws anymore. I might actually have to play by their rules. And I don't like their rules."
In this case, you should work to CHANGE those rules. Not bitch that enforcement is too perfect. Fine, go back to civil disobedience then. Boot with TCPA disabled, rip the tracks from the CD, and offer them on your file share. Then, boot back into TCPA mode, order up a PPV movie, and have your HDTV out redirect into your TV IN, and encode it in a non DRM compaitable fashion, so you can again, share it with your budddies. See, it's still possible to be the disobedient, unhappy citizen you will always be.
nook-you-ler, if you're a C-grade fratboy from Texas
Oh, and as for your Nuclear pronounciation flame, it's rather pendantic don't you think? I bet you are the type that likes to use "Micro$oft" and other crafty ways to disseminate emotion in arguments that would be best argued with simple facts.
1. So it's a test balloon. At least they looking to see if there's enough support.
2. While NASA hasn't been building them (they built the XE' in 1969, and ran it for over 48 minutes) they, and other government agencies have continue to research them. Initially, it was secret research as part of SDI, then later SEI picked nuclear as primary means of propulsion and granted research projects for such method. Today, nuclear propulsion is still researched, and lots of money still goes towards it.
For the most part, NASA hasn't needed a nuclear capable rocket. Back in the late 60's, they got into the situation where they built one, but really didn't require it's power. Yes, we could have gone to the moon with it, and a bit faster with more luxury, but the cost would have been higher, and the manufacturing process more intricate.
Now adays though, when you look to go a great distance, the cost is lower. That, and, our manufacturing processes via CAD/CAM and simulation test suites make that aspect of the process much more palpable.
3. Nothing like a fact list with the words "I think" in it. Do us a favor, don't think, google. I'm not going to state here that nuclear so-called "micro-explosions" are _legal_ per the two or three different treaties which (some not ratified) govern. I've seen it argued both ways, and it comes down to one of those legal principles of "original intent" arguments which are really very annoying. The purpose of the test ban treaties were to stop the testing of nuclear weapons. The so-called Outer Space treaty was prevention of nuclear weapons in outer space. Greenies are stretching them because they are worried about shooting 100kg of nuclear fuel into space in the event the craft destructs and scatters the material over the population. Valid concern. I would hate to have anything rained down on my family. But i would also hate for a 747 to crash into my house. Tell me the safety measures taken to prevent it, and what the statistical probability of it happened, as well as worst case scenarios, and let me decide if i live in the danger area. NASA has to do this routinely with launches. Hell, amateur rocketeers have to file such reports when they throw stuff up in the air.
4. So says you. Look back on US history though. Every time some impossible goal is set that piques us, we go into over-achieve mode to compensate. Wars, moon races, reaction to Japanese car manufacturing quality... It's ingrained in us. I would never bet against this country. 8 years to launch a vehicle headed for mars, with a man on it... not impossible.
5. Welcome to the life cycle of economics. It goes up, it goes down. Depression are as necessaries as bubbles. Debt is a good thing for any large company with the assests the size of the US. If you don't leverage yourself, you're _throwing_ away capital.
6. No one i know beleives Saddam mounted 9-11 attacks. "They" have sold us he has weapons of mass destruction. We're still waiting for the proof. But don't for an instant think the liberal media is helping the Bush group sell us Saddam AlQueda links which don't really exist. They shoot any such misconceptions so full of anti-bush holes such rumors couldn't get out of the press room. As for politics, well, they are what they are. I don't know if it could pass, but, this is a way to pump a lot of money into a lot of companies which right now are hurting. I know a lot of engineers that twiddle their thumbs these days. Depending on the districts, and who's the senators that do best by say Pratt Whitney getting a 20billion contract for making a, b and c... you never know who will jump across party lines.
7. See my answer to number 1. Balloons are'nt necessarily a bad thing. I'm glad they are event attemping to float this one. These things aften time follow a chaos like effect. The one administrator who "misspeaks" about something, that 1,000 sci-fi hungry journalist pick up on, and write about... soon the buterfly flapping it's weaks has created a hurricane.
8. ION is still to young. We know we can do it wiht Nuclear, we know how to, we've built and run them before outputing the ISP we need. We've done our homework on Nuclear. ION still needs some more research and tests, and well, power. That said, if we were leaving the solar system, i'd take an ION drive.
9. So, you think bush's plan is to announced major tax cuts, then follow that with a plant o mars, than before he ends his speech, announce a tax hike. As someone who spends way to much in taxs each year, i must admit, i'd rather it go into these types of projects, then some inner city youth out reach program. I'm not cold, I want everyone to have the chance I had, but i don't want inept useless programs sucking money to maintain the status quo. I'd much rather have all my taxes go to some technology project that _never gets off the ground_. Why? Because I just paid for research, technology, new ways of thinking. I just paid someone to fail with a project that was too grandiose, someone's first "second system syndrome". I know they'll bounce back and build something better, or pieces of their research/technology will find it's way into some other project. And think of large projects like these, all the ancillary jobs it creates. I run a company that does consulting. And I often bid and compete for government contract work. It's good, fun work. Building a 20billion dollar vehicle, and need to data mine your project life cycle for something? There's a nice little 150k project for a small consulting firm.
This is how our economy is supposed to work. This how a lot of people make a living. Yes, i would like to see projects managed better, driven to more attainable goals, but above all that, i say, spend the money. I'd rather them spend the money and fail, then not spend the money and fail. Keep those dollars circulating.
While i'm happy for them, this wasn't exactly rocket science. I'm surprised they had to roll their own connection pooling. This is standard in ASP/ADO apps and the new.Net apps. Caching the data is routine code you will find in most highly concurrent dynamic sites. Though, "caching" now adays goes a step further, generally XSL is used to build the page, and the result of the first XSL transform is cached to the file system. Some pages then go ahead and allow for an optional 2nd transform which puts in _very_ dynamic content, which can be shed/loss in the event of a traffic spike.
All in all, i agree with 90% of the posts, preventing a slashdotting is more about bandwidth then software/server performance. Yes, obviously hacked togeher asp/php pages that open and establish a connection to the database _per_ page will prolly die before bandwidh, i think even the newbiest of programmers recognize this nowadays.
This article made me yawn, but i bet we just paid his operational cost via add impressions for the new 5 months.
You're missing the fact the Pd uses hardware which contains key pairs for public key cryptosystems. The content you are trying to run, the data you are trying to load, everything, is encrypted until the hardware decrypts and runs it.
Imagine is Nero had a chip in his head which wouldn't acccept unauthenticated un-encruypted sense streams. Everything his brain processes is encrypted with the public side of the private key.
Other hardware tricks make sure you don't try and sniff the data out of memory banks or straight from the bus. (ie, to keep the annoying analogy, they can't use some high definition MRI to read the electron states of all the atoms in Nero head and determine what he's seeing, or vice versa and tell him what to see)
IBM's been working on this stuff for awhile. The government is a big fan. Honestly though, like any encryption system it's not perfect. But it's perfect enough for them to stay well ahead of the current computing curve. By the time we can easily crack this, or have the equipment in our basements to disect and read the data straight from a Xghz bus, the technology will have adapted.
Honestly though, who the hell cares.
I really could care less. I hope my parents will run on a TPM/Pd platform, same with my grandparents, and my eventual children. I will always have an alternative PC to play with, but i wouldn't mind a TPM/Pd machine. I really want to purchase digital content. I really want some company to suceed and let me have any thing i want for the right price. Feel like watching Episode X of Show Y, I wannt pay my money and watch it now.
Honestly, i have some of this capability now, with Time Warner Movies on Demand, and the different "On Demand" channels. TPM/Pd would bring this capability to my computer. Afterall, what do you think is inside the new cable boxes? Public/private key encryption and all the same jazz they want to bring to desktop.
The authors fears of email being closed off to him, and other non-transactions is annoying slippery slope rhetoric.
So you can't buy digital content and have it streamed to your machine unless you in Pd mode. big deal. Not like most open source users _would_ buy digitial content. You think peer-to-peer is going away? If anything, this makes the 1% who understand computers better than the rest and _31337_ again.
There will always be some guy in a basement that spends half the day ripping songs (from a digital jack) and movies (god knows what from) no matter how secure digital _content_ is.
Don't worry, you'll still see LoTR III before everyone else, and you'll always have your free pr0n.
This popped up on the ERPS mailing list shortly after this was announced. Apparently they are selling junk for 1mill...
E-Bay Buyer beware. Someone is going to pay good money for the novelty
and then be very disappointed to learn that the thing can't be run or the flight controls even moved. No gyro, no flight control computer, wiring ripped out, etc. That aircraft suffered an un-publicized explosion/scatter of the fans last March. The input to the main gearbox broke, and the loose drive shaft destroyed the fuel tank and caused the fans to scatter. We were lucky no one got killed by the plastic fan blade fragments, as the CEO made us test it out in the parking lot driveway to the street. Except for it's novelty value, it's parts worth would be whatever an often-overheated Hirth F-30 is worth. The microcontrollers and RC model servos that I cobbled the fly-by-wire flight control system together from would have minimal value.
I was canned from Trek a week before the latest accident, in part due to ongoing disagreement over the safety and legality of where and how we were testing the thing. They were really lucky to once again fail to kill anyone. (I used to set up the overhead tether so that it couldn't get sucked in, btw..)
I agree completely that the thing was way too fragile and the soldier too exposed for it to ever make it as a combat zone vehicle. I believe that a sparrow or large bug could have caused the fans to scatter, much less a bullet hit. It could have been armored and the pilot more protected, but that would be an entirely different vehicle what with the extra weight required.
A great deal of flight testing had yet to be done, and with the most recent crashed vehicle being the only machine available it would have taken years of cautious testing, by real test pilots. The concept really begged for an unmanned sub-scale radio controlled version to proof-of-concept its flying qualities. And more machines, of course. And most importantly, some significant Management changes. Aside from the missed milestones and crashed aircraft, DARPA was right to cease funding due to the way the program was being run.
Ken Doyle, (former Trek Aerospace Development Engineer, now back home in Phoenix)
Seriously, I appreciate that this is/., where editors fall for even the most obvious of hoaxes but would it be asking too much if someone was to tone down the number of free ads/informercials we see disguised as genuine news stories? This isn't even a shipping product yet! It's still in development!
The fact it isn't even shipping yet, and is still in development, is what makes this a more intresting than usual Slashdot article.
If it was proven technology and had been shipping for a year, then your comments would be justified.
You can take some new technology and give it an Orwellian spin.
Gosh, can you imagine what would happen if tens of thousands of people had small portable, self contained powered, remote, broadcastable color TV cameras...
but i agree with Ebert. Que the pigs flying and the snowball rolling through helll, but i'm serious.
Your points to counter his seem resigned to accept bad movie physics or design as _OK_ purely for the visual experience. Are you a Mac user by chance?
Look, I think Star Trek has a serious case of the NASA's. It's still mainly stuck in the 60's. As our civilization progresses so too much our seers. And movies are a direct result of our very human imagination. I see bits and pieces of stuff where i go "cool" and think about it all night. Think about how it could work, how it would work, what would be required to make it work. Stuff like the helmets in Red Planet (and to a lesser extent Lost in Space). We're better off looking to a Bond movie to see a fortune telling of far out technology then Star Trek.
As for plot, yeah, well i think it's obvious. I can't help them there. They should just rehash one of the seeds of literature. Like War of the Roses or some other pillar. Because they don't have the talent to spin one on their own.
So now they are claiming patent rights on the use of regular expressions and logical operators for IDS usage.
That's not the patent. If you read the patent, what they've done is created an abstraction for describing intrusion signatures, and integrated this into regulara and logical expressions. What they are really patenting are the new regular expression identifiers used to reprsent their pre-determined "signature events". This boils down to packet types, sequence of packet types, and other specific events they deem necessary to identify an intrusion. These events and the "view" at which they look at the sequence of packets is what's so key to this patent.
They could have hooked this into SQL like experssion, and patented it as extension objects to SQL. But Regular expressions obviously work much better.
This is a rather simple, yet great, idea. It should have been done before, yet it wasn't. Kudos to the people who thought about, and imo, they deserve a patent on it.
They are _not_ patenting Regular Expressions or Regular Experssion that run against packet data. Again, it's the fudemental "signature" events they are patenting. Much like a new programming language patenting some proprietary classes.
Seriously, this is a thin client environment. This is no different than most corporations pre 1994. Granted, the terminals are not black with green lettering, and no doubt less "iron" behind the scenes powering them, but the thin client desktop solution is well known, well documented. Of course their help-desk and sys admins will have orders of magnitude less calls then a similiar environment with full desktop OS in place running on-computer applications.
I think it's wonderful Largo is able to work with this model. Many corporations still use it in specific instances. I don't see it as revolutionary.
I would be worried somewhat if I was a Largo police officer and I had a thin client in my car that used a wirless service. This is pushing it. Maybe if I had redundant wirless coverage on multiple frequencies I'd feel less vulnerable. But to me, the police car is exactly the type of environment where you want an intelligent heavier client. One that can cache the last couple of inbound messages, cache the last lookup you did on a license plate, maybe also proactively download other information based on the information you searched for, so that in the event of an outage, you aren't s.o.l.
I found this quote unusual too:
"Mostly it was an issue of scalability," Dave says. This, not money, is what they told the Microsoft people their biggest barrier was. At any given moment, Largo's network may have over 200 people actively logged in and working, often more, and they are all running from a single main server, plus several servers that run specific applications. Even the Microsoft people couldn't refute the fact that Largo's current setup uses far less hardware and is far easier to administer and physically maintain than an equivalent Windows-based system.
This doesn't seem accurate in the least bit. I'm not sure why they simply don't say "look, it was about money". Because that I could believe. Their network is run off two boxes, each dual-processor. One a ML370 and another a ML350. One's a dual 933 the other a dual 1ghz.
Now, using these boxes and assuming a gig of RAM at least (not specified in article), Terminal services or Citrix could have easily services 150-250 users on _each_ box. Granted, it depends on what they are doing (so called, light, medium, or heavy users).
I'm not saying Terminal Services, or Citrix would have been better. I'm glad their operations run as smoothly as they do. I just wish people would be honest and simply say "yeah, of course it was about the licensing fees". The reason they probably are not saying this, is I bet MS offered them free licenses to get them to switch, and they don't want their City Council hearing they could have had it all for free, but opted not to in a "fuck u" gesture to MS....
It cost more to dig up the streets and lay your 'data pipe' then the pipe can generate income over an acceptable period of time. Sure a city could amortize it over 100 years, and _might _ make a profit on the money equal to some other investment they could have done with the money, but there's no guarantee in 100 years this data pipe of yours will still be as usefull. Too risky, too costly, there are better ways to put tax dollars to work.
-malakai
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"As for the question whether an infringement has occurred when a private person uses the VTR to time-shift a program for a one-time noncommercial viewing, that question falls in the same category as the question whether infringement occurs when the waiters sing " Happy Birthday" at a patron's table, or when someone makes a photocopy of a New Yorker cartoon to put up on the refrigerator. What category is that? Questions that never need to be answered. If it did need to be answered, I believe the answer would be provided by the doctrine of de minimis non curat lex - the law does not concern itself with trifles - a doctrine that is of great importance to a proper understanding of the law of copyright."
Pierre Leval, Nimmer Lecture: Fair Use Rescued, 44 UCLA L. Rev. 1449, 1457 (1997).
The law is not written in C. Unless you used the C to write a fuzzy logic processor and then used.... well never mind. It's not simply black and white. Remember that next time lament that all is lost.
Soldering a wire directly to the battery terminal is not a "Good Thing". When the solder hardens, it creates a point between the hardened solder soaked wire and the solder free wire. This, under vibration/stress leads to a clean fracture/break.
Mill specs require you _not_ to solder directly to this type of connection. Instead double crimp (but don't over crimp) the wire to a mechanically fastened connector.
so anyhow mister smarty pants, your dry humor was inaccurate and thereby makes me laugh at you, and not with you.
I wish to read where Bill Gates called "charitable work by open source developers" "communist" and "cancer". Please provide a reference to the quote so I can better understand your point of view.
Besides he is the richest man in the world what the fuck does he care what anybody on slashdot says about him?
He doesn't. I do. I have this code of conduct, or morality, that seems hard to get rid of. I by default attempt to stick up for people being attacked. I try to lay out facts when I see someone being smeared by unqualified "truts".
I try to do this in such a way as to create a glass box around the situation and allow others to decide how they feel based on open accepted facts.
Call me the open source debater. This witch hunt mentality of "he's evil, because he's evil" is simple to propagate, and will net you karma points in the/. world, but overall _is_ a cancer to our society.
Scaremongering my ass. India has always tried to cover up their AIDS problem. Go figure, the Health Minister of India telling the world population to "move along, move along, nothing to see here... we're ok... move along". Meanwhile it remains a big taboo in Indian society to discuss aids, the disease, how it's transmitted, and safe sex. The health minister has his proverbial head in the sand. India is posed to a African style outbreak, all the right factors have been identified. The majority of the people with AIDS are travelers and will soon become bridges to bring the bulk majority of the population into high risk. It certainly doesn't help that Indian hospital turn away AIDS victims, and pregnant mothers, telling them they should have an abortion.
It's sad really, to see a country like India go to this great a length to save face. If Gates hadn't visited the country, this would have gotten as much air-time as his 250 million he dumped into Africa. Zero.
The guy and his wife are pledging 100x what most countries gave to the African AIDS epidemic (Italy: 1.3million). And somehow you have to tie this to some sort of anti-linux campaign.
Get real. The linux community over values itself if it thinks gates is going about eroding linux support by saving lives and preventing epidemics.
You think the $250+ million he dumped into Africa was to squash the burgeoning Linux user groups starting to take hold in Kenya?
Learn to draw the line guys. From early on the Gates Foundation has been doing about 50% of its donations to Global Health. So far that's like 2.7 billion. You don't have to like him, but you certainly don't have to belittle his philanthropic work.
I recently figured out I get a Movies On Demand (channel 1000) on my Time Warner digital cable set top box. It's far more advanced than I anticipated.
Basically, I have a library of about 200 titles, I can scroll through, organize by theme/content...etc. I pick one I want, agree to buy it for 3-5 bucks, and can watch it for 24hrs from that moment. Movies I've bought and can still watch appear in a special list.
I get to use the controllers pause/rewind/fast forward buttons as well. The quality seems really good, i'm not sure what codec they use but i only notice the artifacts I notices on normal digital cable stations (i heard when the new mpeg is finalized the boxes will be updated with it).
These videos begin to "stream" to me within 15-30 seconds of playing the movie. This is all I want. I could care less about having this on my computer. I used to care, but that was before this was ever an option.
I guess if i wanted to I could pipe this into my computer and record the content. The set top has dolby digital out.
Video on demand, when it's content library is equal to a blockbuster, will be the killer app of digital cable.
I live in NY, and have access to a local video story which has every title you could possibly want. It's a huge selection, it's not blockbuster, and they have tons of foriegn as well. They deliver and pick up. It's as easy as ordering a pizza. I have a catlog of most of their movies, and I order them by a number. I have all this, and I would rarely rent movies. Why? Because i didn't feel like waiting 15mins for the movie to come. I can't explain it. But when I have a controller in my hand, and i know i can be watching some movie withing 15-30seconds, i more than likely buy on impulse.
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...would having 10 different options be better? I used to think having simply two parties was the worse thing for us. But now I wonder just how watered down politics and decisions would be if we had a plethora of parties? Could _anything_ be passed then?
I agree that money influences the options we choose from. The amount of money pumped into different candidates can certainly with enough sample points, lead to a prediction of a winner. But I don't consider it a rule. We've seen candidates with more money than entire parties lose to another candidate. If you're a profound, magnanimous, _charismatic_ leader you'll get your support (and thus money) to beat the other guy.
Watch CSPAN or CSPAN2. You'd be surprised what caliber of elected officals (especially in the house) run our country. These officals were by no means wealthy. They came from a district that put them there based not on money, but viral like "grass root" marketing. And their ineptness scares me.
Money nor party affiliation makes a candidate bad or good. We've elected moroons to office regardless to either of those variable.
-malakai
no no, just kidding.
Seriously though, does any country want herds of 10,000 lbs mammals running around eating 400lbs of vegetation a day? Sounds like some new kind of plague, or the SUV of the animal kingdom energy source. I don't think either of those countries really need to revive that species. As for keeping it in captavity... we all know how well _that_ works. If they reconstitute that species, they better reconstitute it's least powerful predator as well.
-malakai
know what i mean little timothy?
wink, wink, nudge nudge... say no more.
It's simple, turn off TCPA mode. You want root? Don't run TCPA. Yeah, you can't download movies now in pure digital form from Blockbuster (because they don't _TRUST_ you that you won't make copies of their digital library) but your root.
oh god, you're a drama troll.
Except the fact you can not only elect NOT TO PARTICIPATE, but you can also PURCHASE the device, and DISABLE the "totalitarian" mechanism.
Seems to me, what your saying is, "currently, i have the ability to simply ignore laws i don't agree with in terms of digital rights. If they go ahead with this DRM coupled with Hardware support, i might not be able to simply ignore the laws anymore. I might actually have to play by their rules. And I don't like their rules."
In this case, you should work to CHANGE those rules. Not bitch that enforcement is too perfect. Fine, go back to civil disobedience then. Boot with TCPA disabled, rip the tracks from the CD, and offer them on your file share. Then, boot back into TCPA mode, order up a PPV movie, and have your HDTV out redirect into your TV IN, and encode it in a non DRM compaitable fashion, so you can again, share it with your budddies. See, it's still possible to be the disobedient, unhappy citizen you will always be.
-malakai
Oh, and as for your Nuclear pronounciation flame, it's rather pendantic don't you think? I bet you are the type that likes to use "Micro$oft" and other crafty ways to disseminate emotion in arguments that would be best argued with simple facts.
-malakai
1. So it's a test balloon. At least they looking to see if there's enough support.
2. While NASA hasn't been building them (they built the XE' in 1969, and ran it for over 48 minutes) they, and other government agencies have continue to research them. Initially, it was secret research as part of SDI, then later SEI picked nuclear as primary means of propulsion and granted research projects for such method. Today, nuclear propulsion is still researched, and lots of money still goes towards it.
For the most part, NASA hasn't needed a nuclear capable rocket. Back in the late 60's, they got into the situation where they built one, but really didn't require it's power. Yes, we could have gone to the moon with it, and a bit faster with more luxury, but the cost would have been higher, and the manufacturing process more intricate.
Now adays though, when you look to go a great distance, the cost is lower. That, and, our manufacturing processes via CAD/CAM and simulation test suites make that aspect of the process much more palpable.
3. Nothing like a fact list with the words "I think" in it. Do us a favor, don't think, google. I'm not going to state here that nuclear so-called "micro-explosions" are _legal_ per the two or three different treaties which (some not ratified) govern. I've seen it argued both ways, and it comes down to one of those legal principles of "original intent" arguments which are really very annoying. The purpose of the test ban treaties were to stop the testing of nuclear weapons. The so-called Outer Space treaty was prevention of nuclear weapons in outer space. Greenies are stretching them because they are worried about shooting 100kg of nuclear fuel into space in the event the craft destructs and scatters the material over the population. Valid concern. I would hate to have anything rained down on my family. But i would also hate for a 747 to crash into my house. Tell me the safety measures taken to prevent it, and what the statistical probability of it happened, as well as worst case scenarios, and let me decide if i live in the danger area. NASA has to do this routinely with launches. Hell, amateur rocketeers have to file such reports when they throw stuff up in the air.
4. So says you. Look back on US history though. Every time some impossible goal is set that piques us, we go into over-achieve mode to compensate. Wars, moon races, reaction to Japanese car manufacturing quality... It's ingrained in us. I would never bet against this country. 8 years to launch a vehicle headed for mars, with a man on it... not impossible.
5. Welcome to the life cycle of economics. It goes up, it goes down. Depression are as necessaries as bubbles. Debt is a good thing for any large company with the assests the size of the US. If you don't leverage yourself, you're _throwing_ away capital.
6. No one i know beleives Saddam mounted 9-11 attacks. "They" have sold us he has weapons of mass destruction. We're still waiting for the proof. But don't for an instant think the liberal media is helping the Bush group sell us Saddam AlQueda links which don't really exist. They shoot any such misconceptions so full of anti-bush holes such rumors couldn't get out of the press room. As for politics, well, they are what they are. I don't know if it could pass, but, this is a way to pump a lot of money into a lot of companies which right now are hurting. I know a lot of engineers that twiddle their thumbs these days. Depending on the districts, and who's the senators that do best by say Pratt Whitney getting a 20billion contract for making a, b and c... you never know who will jump across party lines.
7. See my answer to number 1. Balloons are'nt necessarily a bad thing. I'm glad they are event attemping to float this one. These things aften time follow a chaos like effect. The one administrator who "misspeaks" about something, that 1,000 sci-fi hungry journalist pick up on, and write about... soon the buterfly flapping it's weaks has created a hurricane.
8. ION is still to young. We know we can do it wiht Nuclear, we know how to, we've built and run them before outputing the ISP we need. We've done our homework on Nuclear. ION still needs some more research and tests, and well, power. That said, if we were leaving the solar system, i'd take an ION drive.
9. So, you think bush's plan is to announced major tax cuts, then follow that with a plant o mars, than before he ends his speech, announce a tax hike. As someone who spends way to much in taxs each year, i must admit, i'd rather it go into these types of projects, then some inner city youth out reach program. I'm not cold, I want everyone to have the chance I had, but i don't want inept useless programs sucking money to maintain the status quo. I'd much rather have all my taxes go to some technology project that _never gets off the ground_. Why? Because I just paid for research, technology, new ways of thinking. I just paid someone to fail with a project that was too grandiose, someone's first "second system syndrome". I know they'll bounce back and build something better, or pieces of their research/technology will find it's way into some other project. And think of large projects like these, all the ancillary jobs it creates. I run a company that does consulting. And I often bid and compete for government contract work. It's good, fun work. Building a 20billion dollar vehicle, and need to data mine your project life cycle for something? There's a nice little 150k project for a small consulting firm.
This is how our economy is supposed to work. This how a lot of people make a living. Yes, i would like to see projects managed better, driven to more attainable goals, but above all that, i say, spend the money. I'd rather them spend the money and fail, then not spend the money and fail. Keep those dollars circulating.
-malakai
While i'm happy for them, this wasn't exactly rocket science. I'm surprised they had to roll their own connection pooling. This is standard in ASP/ADO apps and the new .Net apps. Caching the data is routine code you will find in most highly concurrent dynamic sites. Though, "caching" now adays goes a step further, generally XSL is used to build the page, and the result of the first XSL transform is cached to the file system. Some pages then go ahead and allow for an optional 2nd transform which puts in _very_ dynamic content, which can be shed/loss in the event of a traffic spike.
All in all, i agree with 90% of the posts, preventing a slashdotting is more about bandwidth then software/server performance. Yes, obviously hacked togeher asp/php pages that open and establish a connection to the database _per_ page will prolly die before bandwidh, i think even the newbiest of programmers recognize this nowadays.
This article made me yawn, but i bet we just paid his operational cost via add impressions for the new 5 months.
-malakai
You're missing the fact the Pd uses hardware which contains key pairs for public key cryptosystems. The content you are trying to run, the data you are trying to load, everything, is encrypted until the hardware decrypts and runs it.
Imagine is Nero had a chip in his head which wouldn't acccept unauthenticated un-encruypted sense streams. Everything his brain processes is encrypted with the public side of the private key.
Other hardware tricks make sure you don't try and sniff the data out of memory banks or straight from the bus. (ie, to keep the annoying analogy, they can't use some high definition MRI to read the electron states of all the atoms in Nero head and determine what he's seeing, or vice versa and tell him what to see)
IBM's been working on this stuff for awhile. The government is a big fan. Honestly though, like any encryption system it's not perfect. But it's perfect enough for them to stay well ahead of the current computing curve. By the time we can easily crack this, or have the equipment in our basements to disect and read the data straight from a Xghz bus, the technology will have adapted.
Honestly though, who the hell cares.
I really could care less. I hope my parents will run on a TPM/Pd platform, same with my grandparents, and my eventual children. I will always have an alternative PC to play with, but i wouldn't mind a TPM/Pd machine. I really want to purchase digital content. I really want some company to suceed and let me have any thing i want for the right price. Feel like watching Episode X of Show Y, I wannt pay my money and watch it now.
Honestly, i have some of this capability now, with Time Warner Movies on Demand, and the different "On Demand" channels. TPM/Pd would bring this capability to my computer. Afterall, what do you think is inside the new cable boxes? Public/private key encryption and all the same jazz they want to bring to desktop.
The authors fears of email being closed off to him, and other non-transactions is annoying slippery slope rhetoric.
So you can't buy digital content and have it streamed to your machine unless you in Pd mode. big deal. Not like most open source users _would_ buy digitial content. You think peer-to-peer is going away? If anything, this makes the 1% who understand computers better than the rest and _31337_ again.
There will always be some guy in a basement that spends half the day ripping songs (from a digital jack) and movies (god knows what from) no matter how secure digital _content_ is.
Don't worry, you'll still see LoTR III before everyone else, and you'll always have your free pr0n.
-malakai
You're talking about dimagnetic levitation.
This group has the flying frogs, strawberries, grasshopper and water:
HFML at University of Nijmegen
The site has movies and pictures.
The fact it isn't even shipping yet, and is still in development, is what makes this a more intresting than usual Slashdot article.
If it was proven technology and had been shipping for a year, then your comments would be justified.
-malakai
You can take some new technology and give it an Orwellian spin.
Gosh, can you imagine what would happen if tens of thousands of people had small portable, self contained powered, remote, broadcastable color TV cameras...
oh wait they do
-Malakai
but i agree with Ebert. Que the pigs flying and the snowball rolling through helll, but i'm serious.
Your points to counter his seem resigned to accept bad movie physics or design as _OK_ purely for the visual experience. Are you a Mac user by chance?
Look, I think Star Trek has a serious case of the NASA's. It's still mainly stuck in the 60's. As our civilization progresses so too much our seers. And movies are a direct result of our very human imagination. I see bits and pieces of stuff where i go "cool" and think about it all night. Think about how it could work, how it would work, what would be required to make it work. Stuff like the helmets in Red Planet (and to a lesser extent Lost in Space). We're better off looking to a Bond movie to see a fortune telling of far out technology then Star Trek.
As for plot, yeah, well i think it's obvious. I can't help them there. They should just rehash one of the seeds of literature. Like War of the Roses or some other pillar. Because they don't have the talent to spin one on their own.
-malakai
however this margin is too small to contain it.
-malakai
That's not the patent. If you read the patent, what they've done is created an abstraction for describing intrusion signatures, and integrated this into regulara and logical expressions. What they are really patenting are the new regular expression identifiers used to reprsent their pre-determined "signature events". This boils down to packet types, sequence of packet types, and other specific events they deem necessary to identify an intrusion. These events and the "view" at which they look at the sequence of packets is what's so key to this patent.
They could have hooked this into SQL like experssion, and patented it as extension objects to SQL. But Regular expressions obviously work much better.
This is a rather simple, yet great, idea. It should have been done before, yet it wasn't. Kudos to the people who thought about, and imo, they deserve a patent on it.
They are _not_ patenting Regular Expressions or Regular Experssion that run against packet data. Again, it's the fudemental "signature" events they are patenting. Much like a new programming language patenting some proprietary classes.
-malakai
I think it's wonderful Largo is able to work with this model. Many corporations still use it in specific instances. I don't see it as revolutionary.
I would be worried somewhat if I was a Largo police officer and I had a thin client in my car that used a wirless service. This is pushing it. Maybe if I had redundant wirless coverage on multiple frequencies I'd feel less vulnerable. But to me, the police car is exactly the type of environment where you want an intelligent heavier client. One that can cache the last couple of inbound messages, cache the last lookup you did on a license plate, maybe also proactively download other information based on the information you searched for, so that in the event of an outage, you aren't s.o.l.
I found this quote unusual too:
This doesn't seem accurate in the least bit. I'm not sure why they simply don't say "look, it was about money". Because that I could believe.
Their network is run off two boxes, each dual-processor. One a ML370 and another a ML350. One's a dual 933 the other a dual 1ghz.
Now, using these boxes and assuming a gig of RAM at least (not specified in article), Terminal services or Citrix could have easily services 150-250 users on _each_ box. Granted, it depends on what they are doing (so called, light, medium, or heavy users).
I'm not saying Terminal Services, or Citrix would have been better. I'm glad their operations run as smoothly as they do. I just wish people would be honest and simply say "yeah, of course it was about the licensing fees". The reason they probably are not saying this, is I bet MS offered them free licenses to get them to switch, and they don't want their City Council hearing they could have had it all for free, but opted not to in a "fuck u" gesture to MS....
-malakai
It cost more to dig up the streets and lay your 'data pipe' then the pipe can generate income over an acceptable period of time. Sure a city could amortize it over 100 years, and _might _ make a profit on the money equal to some other investment they could have done with the money, but there's no guarantee in 100 years this data pipe of yours will still be as usefull. Too risky, too costly, there are better ways to put tax dollars to work.
-malakai
... for i think my Sig speaks volumes...
-malakai
The law is not written in C. Unless you used the C to write a fuzzy logic processor and then used.... well never mind. It's not simply black and white. Remember that next time lament that all is lost.
-malakai
funny how this is hidden over here in Developer.slashdot, while the IE vulnerability gets front page billing.
-malakai
Soldering a wire directly to the battery terminal is not a "Good Thing". When the solder hardens, it creates a point between the hardened solder soaked wire and the solder free wire. This, under vibration/stress leads to a clean fracture/break.
Mill specs require you _not_ to solder directly to this type of connection. Instead double crimp (but don't over crimp) the wire to a mechanically fastened connector.
so anyhow mister smarty pants, your dry humor was inaccurate and thereby makes me laugh at you, and not with you.
-malakai
He doesn't. I do. I have this code of conduct, or morality, that seems hard to get rid of. I by default attempt to stick up for people being attacked. I try to lay out facts when I see someone being smeared by unqualified "truts".
I try to do this in such a way as to create a glass box around the situation and allow others to decide how they feel based on open accepted facts.
Call me the open source debater. This witch hunt mentality of "he's evil, because he's evil" is simple to propagate, and will net you karma points in the
-malakai
Scaremongering my ass.
India has always tried to cover up their AIDS problem. Go figure, the Health Minister of India telling the world population to "move along, move along, nothing to see here... we're ok... move along". Meanwhile it remains a big taboo in Indian society to discuss aids, the disease, how it's transmitted, and safe sex. The health minister has his proverbial head in the sand. India is posed to a African style outbreak, all the right factors have been identified. The majority of the people with AIDS are travelers and will soon become bridges to bring the bulk majority of the population into high risk.
It certainly doesn't help that Indian hospital turn away AIDS victims, and pregnant mothers, telling them they should have an abortion.
It's sad really, to see a country like India go to this great a length to save face. If Gates hadn't visited the country, this would have gotten as much air-time as his 250 million he dumped into Africa. Zero.
Jesus, this is low for even slashdot.
The guy and his wife are pledging 100x what most countries gave to the African AIDS epidemic (Italy: 1.3million). And somehow you have to tie this to some sort of anti-linux campaign.
Get real. The linux community over values itself if it thinks gates is going about eroding linux support by saving lives and preventing epidemics.
You think the $250+ million he dumped into Africa was to squash the burgeoning Linux user groups starting to take hold in Kenya?
Learn to draw the line guys. From early on the Gates Foundation has been doing about 50% of its donations to Global Health. So far that's like 2.7 billion. You don't have to like him, but you certainly don't have to belittle his philanthropic work.
-malakai
I recently figured out I get a Movies On Demand (channel 1000) on my Time Warner digital cable set top box. It's far more advanced than I anticipated.
Basically, I have a library of about 200 titles, I can scroll through, organize by theme/content...etc. I pick one I want, agree to buy it for 3-5 bucks, and can watch it for 24hrs from that moment. Movies I've bought and can still watch appear in a special list.
I get to use the controllers pause/rewind/fast forward buttons as well. The quality seems really good, i'm not sure what codec they use but i only notice the artifacts I notices on normal digital cable stations (i heard when the new mpeg is finalized the boxes will be updated with it).
These videos begin to "stream" to me within 15-30 seconds of playing the movie. This is all I want. I could care less about having this on my computer. I used to care, but that was before this was ever an option.
I guess if i wanted to I could pipe this into my computer and record the content. The set top has dolby digital out.
Video on demand, when it's content library is equal to a blockbuster, will be the killer app of digital cable.
I live in NY, and have access to a local video story which has every title you could possibly want. It's a huge selection, it's not blockbuster, and they have tons of foriegn as well. They deliver and pick up. It's as easy as ordering a pizza. I have a catlog of most of their movies, and I order them by a number. I have all this, and I would rarely rent movies. Why? Because i didn't feel like waiting 15mins for the movie to come. I can't explain it. But when I have a controller in my hand, and i know i can be watching some movie withing 15-30seconds, i more than likely buy on impulse.
-malakai