In other news, Apple was discovered to have upsampled regular commodity PCs into more expensive versions with no real additional benefits. A source at Apple revealed that their upsampling engine, code named "marketing", could turn any piece of crap hardware into something people would buy. Cited as their greatest achievement was the "iPod", a device that had been upsampled and resold over five times, with it's users apparently none the wiser.
The only format war being waged now is whether to burn to single-layer DVD, dual-layer DVD, or just keep your torrented movies on 300 gig hard drives. New media formats are *so* irrelevant they're Jack Valenti.
Seeing the "hand move across the screen" is probably a reference to seeing a mouse pointer move across. Combine this with the "chat via wordpad" and it's obvious this guy was using PC Anywhere, VNC, Remote Desktop or something to connect. Java clients exist for the first two. So it's likely that users are installing remote access software on government PCs when they should not.
1. Why aren't all these machines behind firewalls? (unless they are honeypots) 2. Why isn't the military limiting software that can be installed on machines with sensitive data? 3. I wonder if he also found Bonzi Buddy installed?
George Bush, for instance, has tried several fantasy jobs. He tried out being a conservative Christian (before the election), being President for a few days (before September 11th), and being someone who would swear to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution" (before each term).
I wonder which job he'll try out next? Oooh maybe President Truman dropping the A-bomb? Or a KING? What fun!!
"It's been that way for years" is hardly a reason to bite your lip if you disagree with something.
Or should we still be engaging in slavery and writing with quills?
I think it is wonderful that so many young people are becoming politically aware today. With all that we have learned from recent history, our distrust of marketing and authority, and our unique "open" perspective on knowledge and security, I think we can make a positive change in our country.
Or we can shut down our browsers, forget the outrage of the moment, and get back to playing some video game that simulates what we'd like to do in the real world, if only we had balls.
Although they started out with amazingly poor quality, I think camera phones are doing quite well even though their marketing is laughable. I never remember to bring a camera, but I am never without my cellphone. Since I have had my cellphone, I've taken a hundred pictures just because of a striking view or to chronical a good time. And that is just the tip of the iceberg.
On top of that, you've got folks with video and camera phones recording raw footage at the scenes of disasters, political events, disastrous political events, etc... As the resolution gets better, and the bandwidth higher, we will have more and more chance to take off the corporate filters of traditional news coverage, and see the world as it is, from they eyes of fellow human beings.
A camera that is uploading as it captures cannot have its film confiscated.
A company, on paper, may exist solely for the purpose of enriching it's shareholders. A company, in reality, is a bunch of people who can do whatever the fsck they want when they feel they are getting screwed over.
IBM may have the right to fire those employees, but that does not mean they have the right to do it without consequences.
It would be neat to assign individual video cards and usb ports to each of several virtual machines. Then each user could run their own OS, reboot at will, and crash without affecting others.
1. Not everything revolves around technology, but we all appreciate John Katz catering to the Slashdot crowd. Sorry, but the current mess has NOTHING to do with TV's and Camcorders. It has EVERYTHING to do with egos, power, and revenge.
2. "Democracy is open-minded" and "Fundamentalists Aren't"? Can we not be open minded enough to understand that some people want (or are at least willing) to live under other forms of government? Are we so close minded to think that sticking to ones religious roots is a bad thing? Sure, the Taliban are a bad example, but that doesn't justify your criticism of all fundamentalists. You may as well be criticizing the right of all religions to exist.
3. Do you have an editor (or egg timer) that reminds you to write new articles, regardless of whether or not you have anything to say? Kind of a "Keep Jon's ego inflated" timer? I know I was just rarin for a Slashdot article on globalization with next to no content or research, pulled straight from your ***.
I have to agree. I used to never see political B.S. on Slashdot, now I see it at least once a week. The sad thing is, it's usually not even relevant to the story! If you want to lose respect (and eyeballs) really quick, then keep on dividing your audience with derisive political statements. Otherwise, please stick to innovative technology and the legal/business/societal implications surrounding it, which is why I visit this site.
P.S. I voted Libertarian! Add moderation to the top level stories as well as the discussion, and see what happens!
Here's why it's a good idea, and how it could be profitable for Apple:
First of all, they convert to the x86 standard, but produce their own AGP and PCI cards that are required to run OSX. Really high end audio and video stuff that they are used to coding for. Not only does it limit what they have to support in OSX, but it gives them a huge base of Intel users to sell to as well. And the good news is the rest of the hardware is still dirt cheap.
Second, the real meat of their OS is BSD/GNU, and that already runs fast on x86. And I really don't think the Apple crew is coding their GUI to the metal (i.e. in assembly, for specific hardware). So I don't think speed will be an issue. And they could always implement library compatibility with linux, as netBSD has...
But here's an interesting twist. What if the Linux community at large (or Red Hat and VALinux and SuSE et al.) bought out Apple, and converted the entire installed userbase of Apple users into Linux users?:-)
Because it's so hard to run a web server on your development machine! Whatever.
And how well will you be testing your CGI, if you're not running it in the same (apache/thttpd/whatever) environment as the real server? You'll probably end up wasting more time modifying your code after the fact than it would take to set up a local web server!
Sure, you wouldn't want to intentionally put bad memory into a production machine, but what if good memory goes bad? This patch, if further developed to perform periodic testing and updating of the bad memory map *during operation*, could actually harden the linux kernel against spontaneous hardware failure!
If we ever want to see linux used in mission critical systems like air traffic control, embedded medical devices, or military applications, then projects like this are the key. Fault tolerance now exists for memory (this project), storage (RAID), and communication (redundant NICs). The next target should be the CPU.
How about projects to detect the types of errors a failing (typically, overheated) cpu produces, and adjust the scheduler accordingly to insert idle time and cool down the cpu? Or to use one cpu to monitor another in multiprocessor systems, and avoid using a processor that starts producing faulty results?
For all the supposed power hackers and crackers wield, one of our own was imprisoned for five years, and all we could do was deface a few websites.
Let's all go back to hiding behind our monitors, and hope we're not the next "example to the rest of them", because it's clear we don't have the power to effect any real change.
Fun facts about ZDTV's live coverage of the Transmeta "Crusoe":
The Real Video stream (the only video accessible to Linux users) was full before the conference even started. This only highlights Real's shooting itself in the foot, by charging per-stream licenses.
The (Real) radio stream is designed as a plugin; in order to listen you would have to view the source of the plugin page to find the URL. Considering Linux users were the most involved in Transmeta speculation, what were they thinking?!
The event was not covered live on the actual ZDTV cable TV station. It was speculated that ZDTV may not actually have the capability to do a live video remote!
I don't know about you, but I wanted to see the performance of the Crusoe running Quake, and the 28k and 56k WMF streams (which I had to watch on my roomates windows box) didn't quite cut it.
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In other news, Apple was discovered to have upsampled regular commodity PCs into more expensive versions with no real additional benefits. A source at Apple revealed that their upsampling engine, code named "marketing", could turn any piece of crap hardware into something people would buy. Cited as their greatest achievement was the "iPod", a device that had been upsampled and resold over five times, with it's users apparently none the wiser.
The only format war being waged now is whether to burn to single-layer DVD, dual-layer DVD, or just keep your torrented movies on 300 gig hard drives. New media formats are *so* irrelevant they're Jack Valenti.
Seeing the "hand move across the screen" is probably a reference to seeing a mouse pointer move across. Combine this with the "chat via wordpad" and it's obvious this guy was using PC Anywhere, VNC, Remote Desktop or something to connect. Java clients exist for the first two. So it's likely that users are installing remote access software on government PCs when they should not.
1. Why aren't all these machines behind firewalls? (unless they are honeypots)
2. Why isn't the military limiting software that can be installed on machines with sensitive data?
3. I wonder if he also found Bonzi Buddy installed?
George Bush, for instance, has tried several fantasy jobs. He tried out being a conservative Christian (before the election), being President for a few days (before September 11th), and being someone who would swear to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution" (before each term).
I wonder which job he'll try out next? Oooh maybe President Truman dropping the A-bomb? Or a KING? What fun!!
Here's someone who could use your money in a better way:
http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/att/faq.php
"It's been that way for years" is hardly a reason to bite your lip if you disagree with something.
Or should we still be engaging in slavery and writing with quills?
I think it is wonderful that so many young people are becoming politically aware today. With all that we have learned from recent history, our distrust of marketing and authority, and our unique "open" perspective on knowledge and security, I think we can make a positive change in our country.
Or we can shut down our browsers, forget the outrage of the moment, and get back to playing some video game that simulates what we'd like to do in the real world, if only we had balls.
Oh boy, a screen saver. Let me whip out my billion dollars in venture capital for that!
So... who's got a truck big enough for a whale?
Although they started out with amazingly poor quality, I think camera phones are doing quite well even though their marketing is laughable. I never remember to bring a camera, but I am never without my cellphone. Since I have had my cellphone, I've taken a hundred pictures just because of a striking view or to chronical a good time. And that is just the tip of the iceberg.
On top of that, you've got folks with video and camera phones recording raw footage at the scenes of disasters, political events, disastrous political events, etc... As the resolution gets better, and the bandwidth higher, we will have more and more chance to take off the corporate filters of traditional news coverage, and see the world as it is, from they eyes of fellow human beings.
A camera that is uploading as it captures cannot have its film confiscated.
Slashdot should act as a filter against this kind of crap, NOT A PROMOTER OF IT. If you view the source you can see it's just a freakin DHTML popup.
Do the people posting these stories even know how to program?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089886/
Best movie ever!
A company, on paper, may exist solely for the purpose of enriching it's shareholders. A company, in reality, is a bunch of people who can do whatever the fsck they want when they feel they are getting screwed over.
IBM may have the right to fire those employees, but that does not mean they have the right to do it without consequences.
My congrats to the Europeans for having balls.
It would be neat to assign individual video cards and usb ports to each of several virtual machines.
Then each user could run their own OS, reboot at will, and crash without affecting others.
1. Not everything revolves around technology, but we all appreciate John Katz catering to the Slashdot crowd. Sorry, but the current mess has NOTHING to do with TV's and Camcorders. It has EVERYTHING to do with egos, power, and revenge.
:-)
2. "Democracy is open-minded" and "Fundamentalists Aren't"? Can we not be open minded enough to understand that some people want (or are at least willing) to live under other forms of government? Are we so close minded to think that sticking to ones religious roots is a bad thing? Sure, the Taliban are a bad example, but that doesn't justify your criticism of all fundamentalists. You may as well be criticizing the right of all religions to exist.
3. Do you have an editor (or egg timer) that reminds you to write new articles, regardless of whether or not you have anything to say? Kind of a "Keep Jon's ego inflated" timer? I know I was just rarin for a Slashdot article on globalization with next to no content or research, pulled straight from your ***.
4. Have a nice day.
I have to agree. I used to never see political B.S. on Slashdot, now I see it at least once a week. The sad thing is, it's usually not even relevant to the story! If you want to lose respect (and eyeballs) really quick, then keep on dividing your audience with derisive political statements. Otherwise, please stick to innovative technology and the legal/business/societal implications surrounding it, which is why I visit this site.
P.S. I voted Libertarian! Add moderation to the top level stories as well as the discussion, and see what happens!
Here's why it's a good idea, and how it could be profitable for Apple:
:-)
First of all, they convert to the x86 standard, but produce their own AGP and PCI cards that are required to run OSX. Really high end audio and video stuff that they are used to coding for. Not only does it limit what they have to support in OSX, but it gives them a huge base of Intel users to sell to as well. And the good news is the rest of the hardware is still dirt cheap.
Second, the real meat of their OS is BSD/GNU, and that already runs fast on x86. And I really don't think the Apple crew is coding their GUI to the metal (i.e. in assembly, for specific hardware). So I don't think speed will be an issue. And they could always implement library compatibility with linux, as netBSD has...
But here's an interesting twist. What if the Linux community at large (or Red Hat and VALinux and SuSE et al.) bought out Apple, and converted the entire installed userbase of Apple users into Linux users?
Now that I've read about the ability to support additional protocols/urls, I'm revising and extending my remarks:
:-)
Ok, it's somewhat cool, but how about making Linux Netscape take less memory, and not crash every twenty pages before adding these new features?
Because it's so hard to run a web server on your development machine! Whatever.
And how well will you be testing your CGI, if you're not running it in the same (apache/thttpd/whatever) environment as the real server? You'll probably end up wasting more time modifying your code after the fact than it would take to set up a local web server!
Wow, I must be in a bad mood today.
Sure, you wouldn't want to intentionally put bad memory into a production machine, but what if good memory goes bad? This patch, if further developed to perform periodic testing and updating of the bad memory map *during operation*, could actually harden the linux kernel against spontaneous hardware failure!
If we ever want to see linux used in mission critical systems like air traffic control, embedded medical devices, or military applications, then projects like this are the key. Fault tolerance now exists for memory (this project), storage (RAID), and communication (redundant NICs). The next target should be the CPU.
How about projects to detect the types of errors a failing (typically, overheated) cpu produces, and adjust the scheduler accordingly to insert idle time and cool down the cpu? Or to use one cpu to monitor another in multiprocessor systems, and avoid using a processor that starts producing faulty results?
For all the supposed power hackers and crackers wield, one of our own was imprisoned for five years, and all we could do was deface a few websites.
Let's all go back to hiding behind our monitors, and hope we're not the next "example to the rest of them", because it's clear we don't have the power to effect any real change.
Fun facts about ZDTV's live coverage of the Transmeta "Crusoe":
The Real Video stream (the only video accessible to Linux users) was full before the conference even started. This only highlights Real's shooting itself in the foot, by charging per-stream licenses.
The (Real) radio stream is designed as a plugin; in order to listen you would have to view the source of the plugin page to find the URL. Considering Linux users were the most involved in Transmeta speculation, what were they thinking?!
The event was not covered live on the actual ZDTV cable TV station. It was speculated that ZDTV may not actually have the capability to do a live video remote!
I don't know about you, but I wanted to see the performance of the Crusoe running Quake, and the 28k and 56k WMF streams (which I had to watch on my roomates windows box) didn't quite cut it.