"but surely it should be possible to figure out how many space shuttles you have."
I remember seeing a documentary where animal watchers were studying this animal and found that the animal knew when they were in their hideout, twarting their efforts to study the animal. Then they found out the animal could see the difference between one person and more than one person, but it could not count. So they had three people going into the observation post and then two people leaving, after which the animal thought he was not being watched and the study could continue freely...
But if a package uses autoconf (e.g. has a./configure), then a simple 'deb-make ; fankeroot dpkg-buildpackage' already will build the deb, so why use something else?
Forget toilet tissue. Toilet tissue is so 20th century.
I recommend getting the Toto washlet. That is a truly high-tech solution for the unclean-butt problem.
The initial purchase price will set you back a bit, but it will earn itself back because it greatly reduces the need for toilet paper. Instead of needing large amounts of paper for the cleaning action, you will only need a tiny bit of paper to dry the area, because the washlet will have automagically cleaned the area with a comfortably warm wash. No more messing around trying to get all the brown stuff transfered to paper. And if you are a 'white underwear person', then you and your washing machine will love the cleaning power of the washlet.
I used one of these for a week while on a trip in Japan, and now it's definitely on my want-list.
No, seriously. This is not just a gadget-geek solution: This is what you want.
But only a tiny fraction of that 100+ Watts is radiated in 2.4GHz electromagnetic waves. Most of it is radiated as dissipated heat. It may fry an egg, but only by contact with the heat source, not by radiowaves passing throught it.
Your microwave on the other hand radiates almost all of its energy at the famous 2.4Ghz frequency where the energy absorbtion by water is the highest...
"Keith Packard [keithp.com] has some similar papers looking at X11, where he concludes that clever tricks like Low Bandwidth X really don't help all that much compared to just using SSH compression."
Well, I'm not saying that Keith Packard is an idiot, but if he really concluded that, he made a mistake in his reasoning somewhere: I've actually used both methods and beg to differ. Even plain old dxpc beats X11 over compressed ssh hands down.
The same economists that claim to have the whole picture have been overoptimistic about the job market for 14 months now. While some finally are beginning to wonder if they have been wrong, others seem to be following the 'if you lose the bet, double your next bet' destructive strategy.
Economists have been wrong before, and have denied that before too.
Wasn't it called phoenix before, and then renamed because they found a PC-related company with that name? So the new version will create a ~/.phoenix, a ~/.mozilla-firebird and a ~/.mozilla-firefox directory including the resulting babelonian confusions?
Did they realize that there already exists a joystick with the name firefox? And a Game PC with the name firefox? And even a Clint Eastwood movie with the name firefox... True to form, there even was a car named firefox, and a tire with that name. Oh, and a company with that name too...
Or will they just switch names again when they figure that out?
And next is the tunderfox?
And then a company in Redmond discovers that somebody already uses the name for their OS to mean glass inside a hole in the wall, causing them to suddenly switch names without thinking of their installed user base? or another company just finding out the name of that big bright thing that lights the sky every day?
Yes, phoenix/firefird/fox is a fine browser, but why the identity problems?
This is a neat trick, but it does not really increase protection against targeted attacks.
It really is nothing more than a password to get access to the front gate... When somebody eavesdrops (sniffing), they will know the passwords, thus get access to the gate. They can sucessfully detect the knocking sequence because it is followed by a successfull ssh connection (duh!).
The password is this 'secret sequence' in this 'port knocking'. Why not just use a daemon that listens on a UDP socket for a packet with an encrypted password in its payload? The payload could even be an RSA-signed and/or encrypted request (that includes a timestamp). That would be unscannable too, because UDP is connectionless, and be a lot more secure because of the real encryption/protection of the request data (the server can verify the identity of the sender of the request from the RSA signature, and can deny the request if one was made earlier with the same time stamp, twarting even sniffing of the UDP packet).
Except for not having the ssh daemon 'connected' to the internet at all times and thus evading many port-scanning worms/scripts, this port knocking is nothing more than just some security through obscurity: At best it will delay the attacker somewhat, but probably not at all while giving the user a false sense of being secured.
Right. I got sick of products that work ok but either are missing some very nice features or have bugs that will never get fixed (usually a product lifecycle or ROI business decision of some suit (not a typo))... that is until I toss the whole thing and splurge for another one hoping that it will have the missing feature without losing another important feature...
So I choose products where I can (and/or others are very busy to) fix and improve it continuously. Open source is unbeatable in that respect. I know that when I use open source, there will be no missing feature that I will really miss myself, or I will find a way to get it implemented. So while with mythtv there may be some difficulty setting it up right now with certain hardware, it already has many features that simply don't exist and never will exist in the non open source alternatives. I'm confident all relevant issues will be worked out. For example I'm confident that somebody will make a 'maybe you will like this program too'-feature like the tivo has (and when it comes it will work as good as or better, for example using the Internet to correlate recordings-lists with other people and deriving suggestions from that, or maybe it will simply ask google for advice).
Plus, in my experience on Linux is that you install and configure it once and it will last and keep working exactly as intended until the hardware dies, and if you keep a backup even longer. Many people from the 'windows world' don't realize that, they believe that there is a law of nature of some sorts that says that computers need reboots and reinstalls to 'clean up'...
"Why is it so confusing to imagine that (a) People do like to do things out of the "kindness" of their collective hearts, and (b) security is not always "secured" by either contracts or money?"
The people who worry about that are people who worry about maybe upsetting their current friends sometime in the future. Right now, they are friends, but what happens if in the future the different parties no longer share common goals for the DNS?
The relationship may be friendly today, but maybe not tomorrow, so they need a contract.
If a root server operator disagrees with ICANN, or maybe worse (for ICANN) if the majority of them disagree with ICANN then right now they can basically say 'screw ICANN' and do whatever they think is best. Which takes the power away from ICANN, so in order for the ICANN to protect their of position of power, they need to work with people that have the obligation to do what ICANN wants, by contract...
Translation: They don't trust the relationship to remain good between ICANN and the root server operators.
Be prepared that as soon as ICANN has the majority of root servers under contractual agreements, for the ICANN to do some (very) unpolular or bad things that will result in some heated postings here on this forum and many others.
There should not be any need for prior art to defeat this. You're saying it yourself 'this naming convention'. Patents are for inventions, not conventions. It's called the nonobvious test for a patent.
All fine and dandy, and I don't really have a problem with that. What I am worried about is that they may not realize that and pull it in a way that does reduce my rating...
What I'm worried about is that every time they pull your credit report, your rating goes down. Lower ratings means higher interest on any loan/mortgage/etc.
If they pull a credit report for each ticket, then personally I prefer a luggage search over a higher interest rate. Otherwise it makes those airplane tickets rather expensive...
But I haven't seen a confirmation yet that they are actually pulling a credit report from one of 'the three'. Maybe they're using an intermediate company that collects copies of reports that were pulled earlier for other reasons, or something. Or maybe they're not pulling a new report each time you fly (I certainly hope so).
"I haven't seen a condo or apartment yet that did not come with a kitchen."
Neither have I seen one entirely lit with LEDs. AFAIK, a kitchen is not like car insurance (as in you may get arrested if you get rid of it). My point is that if you go that far to create a home that fits your lifestyle, then why not treat the kitchen too? Either make the kitchen both practical and stylish, or minimize or remove it. Too many people don't really dare touch the kitchen much. For whatever reason, the kitchen is often treated as a protected species, 'dont disturb it too much'. It's not just this apartment where I see that happening, I've seen condo's used mainly for temporary visits (=eating out) with ugly 15+ year old barely used kitchens&applicances. But in those cases often the rest of the condo did not have much or any style in it either, so at least it is consistent.
"when spending an hour or more in the kitchen cooking, you are not making money."
If you spend that much time on cooking a single meal, you'd better have a special occasion or other visitors that are very important to you, unless you're still learning to cook that is.
Anyways, most people in restaurants waiting, chatting, or even 'networking', are not making money right when they are doing that either (I put networking in quotes, because that term is too often abused for naming pure recreational activities with no express or implied business or work ingredients whatsoever). I never let cooking get in the way of earning or earning potential, and I still find time to eat my own cooked food most of the days in the week. Actually, when I cook myself I probably are making money compared to eating out or take-out, because I get so much more energy from my own food than from restaurant food.
"... or whatever resturant I'm in the mood for today will do a much better job of creating a well balanced, healthy, and well presented meal than I can."
There is no need for such a low self-esteem. You will be surprised what you can do with a little bit of practice. Note that restaurants optimize for you and your friends to come back for more, not for you to be healthy. And be careful with that low-carb stuff. Carbohydrates are the essential energy for your muscles if you lead an active life. IMHO, low-carb is just another diet that tries to starve the dieter without giving the subject the feeling of hunger.
... "because the brat is always tearing something up."
I don't know them that bad, but some pretty tiring ones: right now I feel that the best kid is somebody else's (meaning they won't stay long, and/or you can leave).
The kitchen of the apartment, while original with its lighting, is just not practical. Not only for people who use their kitchen. If the demo apartment were targeted at people who always eat out, then, especially given its size, why does it have a kitchen at all? In any way, if there is a kitchen that is never used, then why put an LCD monitor in it? If you don't use your kitchen, then why waste money on it? It just doesn't make sense. Got money to burn on it anyway? Then why not convert it into something you will use, such as a bar, or put a supersize hot tub in its place (or both), or something, but don't just let it look cute using up valuable space if you're living small.
When I lived small and ate out all the time, the 'kitchen' area was smaller than a walk-in closet, just big enough to hold the fridge and sink. Why? Because why waste space with it if you never go there.
"Its cheaper and easier to eat out, plus its great for social networking."
While it is impossible to argue against the social networking part, it is not cheaper to eat out unless you regularly just eat a slice of pizza, or something happy at the yellow M or similar low quality 'food' places. Before I figured out that supermarket thing and learned how to buy & combine ingredients for a meal, followed by some pan and plate juggling, I thought that cooking yourself was expensive and hard to do too. But it's like skiing or snowboarding, after you get the hang of it, you'll enjoy it more doing it yourself than going out and watch somebody else do it.
Cooking yourself however takes some planning because otherwise you end up throwing most of your food in the trashcan. Note that there is no reason that cooking a decent meal for yourself (and a guest...) has to take more than 30 minutes, and you let the dishwasher play waitress with no need for tipping.
Another thing against eating out too often that most people learn as they are surging into their late twenties, is that eating out is fattening unless you are very careful about where you go and what you order, and never finish your plate. And no, a salad is not a meal, or it's not a healthy salad anymore because of the oh so tasteful but unhealthy addons.
"In short this demo apt is not for engineering types like most slashdotters, its for your arch nemesis, the marketing guy."
Having met quite a lot of employed marketing people, none of them have the lifestyle you talk about. Actually, most of them have kids and live in a suburb. More so, the group of people that don't use their kitchen mostly consists of students/recent-grads/early20-ers, artists, and the unemployed rich partiers, or wannabies of any of those groups...
The problem with 'micropayments' is that when web companies try to introduce them, then they seem to think that their customers think that paying a dollar or more for a single article is considered a micropayment...
But what is a micropayment on a CEO or CFO salary is usually not worth the money for the rest of the world. So, many companies who claim to have tried micropayments failed, because they were charging too much.
Other forms are micropayments for email are talked about by people who never heard of mailing lists... Even a cent per email will make a tremendous amount of mailing lists shutdown. And I'm talking about true opt-in mailing lists, not about spam.
Slashdot Mirror
"but surely it should be possible to figure out how many space shuttles you have."
I remember seeing a documentary where animal watchers were studying this animal and found that the animal knew when they were in their hideout, twarting their efforts to study the animal. Then they found out the animal could see the difference between one person and more than one person, but it could not count. So they had three people going into the observation post and then two people leaving, after which the animal thought he was not being watched and the study could continue freely...
"It can do DEB's too, from what I understand."
./configure), then a simple 'deb-make ; fankeroot dpkg-buildpackage' already will build the deb, so why use something else?
But if a package uses autoconf (e.g. has a
"with a penguin dressed up as a lawyer"
Close enough? Or a penguin next to a lawyer
Or is a smoking a closer match? Or This one?
Uh oh, He took off the head.
Shouldn't someone make a tuxpictures.org?
"I gotta just reinforce the fact that the new kbuild system makes compiling kernels outside of the build tree much easier."
;-)
Mee too
I must add that things related to the wait queue(s) and kernel threads have become a lot easier to work with in 2.6 too.
"Check into the history of porcelain. Same deal."
Good one. Not to forget the history of artificial pearls either.
Forget toilet tissue. Toilet tissue is so 20th century.
I recommend getting the Toto washlet. That is a truly high-tech solution for the unclean-butt problem.
The initial purchase price will set you back a bit, but it will earn itself back because it greatly reduces the need for toilet paper. Instead of needing large amounts of paper for the cleaning action, you will only need a tiny bit of paper to dry the area, because the washlet will have automagically cleaned the area with a comfortably warm wash. No more messing around trying to get all the brown stuff transfered to paper. And if you are a 'white underwear person', then you and your washing machine will love the cleaning power of the washlet.
I used one of these for a week while on a trip in Japan, and now it's definitely on my want-list.
No, seriously. This is not just a gadget-geek solution: This is what you want.
In comparison, electric waves or signals in commonly used copper wire travel at speeds between 55 percent and 80 percent of c.
Clicky click.
But only a tiny fraction of that 100+ Watts is radiated in 2.4GHz electromagnetic waves. Most of it is radiated as dissipated heat. It may fry an egg, but only by contact with the heat source, not by radiowaves passing throught it.
Your microwave on the other hand radiates almost all of its energy at the famous 2.4Ghz frequency where the energy absorbtion by water is the highest...
"Beats it for what?"
Both latency and bandwidth. It's the 'd' in dxpc that makes the bandwidth gain.
"Keith Packard [keithp.com] has some similar papers looking at X11, where he concludes that clever tricks like Low Bandwidth X really don't help all that much compared to just using SSH compression."
Well, I'm not saying that Keith Packard is an idiot, but if he really concluded that, he made a mistake in his reasoning somewhere: I've actually used both methods and beg to differ. Even plain old dxpc beats X11 over compressed ssh hands down.
The same economists that claim to have the whole picture have been overoptimistic about the job market for 14 months now. While some finally are beginning to wonder if they have been wrong, others seem to be following the 'if you lose the bet, double your next bet' destructive strategy.
Economists have been wrong before, and have denied that before too.
Thanks for the tip! I had to enable it in /etc/bash.bashrc though, but it is sweet.
How many legs does that browser have?
Firefox? I thought it was Firebird
Following the link myself... HUH??? What happen? Somebody set up us the bomb? But who? The database?
apt-get install browser-formerly-known-as-firebird?
Wasn't it called phoenix before, and then renamed because they found a PC-related company with that name? So the new version will create a ~/.phoenix, a ~/.mozilla-firebird and a ~/.mozilla-firefox directory including the resulting babelonian confusions?
Did they realize that there already exists a joystick with the name firefox? And a Game PC with the name firefox? And even a Clint Eastwood movie with the name firefox... True to form, there even was a car named firefox, and a tire with that name. Oh, and a company with that name too...
Or will they just switch names again when they figure that out?
And next is the tunderfox?
And then a company in Redmond discovers that somebody already uses the name for their OS to mean glass inside a hole in the wall, causing them to suddenly switch names without thinking of their installed user base? or another company just finding out the name of that big bright thing that lights the sky every day?
Yes, phoenix/firefird/fox is a fine browser, but why the identity problems?
This is a neat trick, but it does not really increase protection against targeted attacks.
It really is nothing more than a password to get access to the front gate... When somebody eavesdrops (sniffing), they will know the passwords, thus get access to the gate. They can sucessfully detect the knocking sequence because it is followed by a successfull ssh connection (duh!).
The password is this 'secret sequence' in this 'port knocking'. Why not just use a daemon that listens on a UDP socket for a packet with an encrypted password in its payload? The payload could even be an RSA-signed and/or encrypted request (that includes a timestamp). That would be unscannable too, because UDP is connectionless, and be a lot more secure because of the real encryption/protection of the request data (the server can verify the identity of the sender of the request from the RSA signature, and can deny the request if one was made earlier with the same time stamp, twarting even sniffing of the UDP packet).
Except for not having the ssh daemon 'connected' to the internet at all times and thus evading many port-scanning worms/scripts, this port knocking is nothing more than just some security through obscurity: At best it will delay the attacker somewhat, but probably not at all while giving the user a false sense of being secured.
Right. I got sick of products that work ok but either are missing some very nice features or have bugs that will never get fixed (usually a product lifecycle or ROI business decision of some suit (not a typo))... that is until I toss the whole thing and splurge for another one hoping that it will have the missing feature without losing another important feature...
So I choose products where I can (and/or others are very busy to) fix and improve it continuously. Open source is unbeatable in that respect. I know that when I use open source, there will be no missing feature that I will really miss myself, or I will find a way to get it implemented. So while with mythtv there may be some difficulty setting it up right now with certain hardware, it already has many features that simply don't exist and never will exist in the non open source alternatives. I'm confident all relevant issues will be worked out. For example I'm confident that somebody will make a 'maybe you will like this program too'-feature like the tivo has (and when it comes it will work as good as or better, for example using the Internet to correlate recordings-lists with other people and deriving suggestions from that, or maybe it will simply ask google for advice).
Plus, in my experience on Linux is that you install and configure it once and it will last and keep working exactly as intended until the hardware dies, and if you keep a backup even longer. Many people from the 'windows world' don't realize that, they believe that there is a law of nature of some sorts that says that computers need reboots and reinstalls to 'clean up'...
"Why is it so confusing to imagine that (a) People do like to do things out of the "kindness" of their collective hearts, and (b) security is not always "secured" by either contracts or money?"
The people who worry about that are people who worry about maybe upsetting their current friends sometime in the future. Right now, they are friends, but what happens if in the future the different parties no longer share common goals for the DNS?
The relationship may be friendly today, but maybe not tomorrow, so they need a contract.
If a root server operator disagrees with ICANN, or maybe worse (for ICANN) if the majority of them disagree with ICANN then right now they can basically say 'screw ICANN' and do whatever they think is best. Which takes the power away from ICANN, so in order for the ICANN to protect their of position of power, they need to work with people that have the obligation to do what ICANN wants, by contract...
Translation: They don't trust the relationship to remain good between ICANN and the root server operators.
Be prepared that as soon as ICANN has the majority of root servers under contractual agreements, for the ICANN to do some (very) unpolular or bad things that will result in some heated postings here on this forum and many others.
"the same naming convention."
There should not be any need for prior art to defeat this. You're saying it yourself 'this naming convention'. Patents are for inventions, not conventions. It's called the nonobvious test for a patent.
(note: IANAL).
All fine and dandy, and I don't really have a problem with that. What I am worried about is that they may not realize that and pull it in a way that does reduce my rating...
What I'm worried about is that every time they pull your credit report, your rating goes down. Lower ratings means higher interest on any loan/mortgage/etc.
/. postings as an input too?
If they pull a credit report for each ticket, then personally I prefer a luggage search over a higher interest rate. Otherwise it makes those airplane tickets rather expensive...
But I haven't seen a confirmation yet that they are actually pulling a credit report from one of 'the three'. Maybe they're using an intermediate company that collects copies of reports that were pulled earlier for other reasons, or something. Or maybe they're not pulling a new report each time you fly (I certainly hope so).
Are they using
"Only the endpoints calculate it. That should take a heavy load off the routing."
But then the retransmits would be for the entire path, instead of just between two hops, right?
You can buy it from the same guy that is selling the brooklyn bridge and parts of the moon.
"I haven't seen a condo or apartment yet that did not come with a kitchen."
Neither have I seen one entirely lit with LEDs. AFAIK, a kitchen is not like car insurance (as in you may get arrested if you get rid of it). My point is that if you go that far to create a home that fits your lifestyle, then why not treat the kitchen too? Either make the kitchen both practical and stylish, or minimize or remove it. Too many people don't really dare touch the kitchen much. For whatever reason, the kitchen is often treated as a protected species, 'dont disturb it too much'. It's not just this apartment where I see that happening, I've seen condo's used mainly for temporary visits (=eating out) with ugly 15+ year old barely used kitchens&applicances. But in those cases often the rest of the condo did not have much or any style in it either, so at least it is consistent.
"when spending an hour or more in the kitchen cooking, you are not making money."
If you spend that much time on cooking a single meal, you'd better have a special occasion or other visitors that are very important to you, unless you're still learning to cook that is.
Anyways, most people in restaurants waiting, chatting, or even 'networking', are not making money right when they are doing that either (I put networking in quotes, because that term is too often abused for naming pure recreational activities with no express or implied business or work ingredients whatsoever). I never let cooking get in the way of earning or earning potential, and I still find time to eat my own cooked food most of the days in the week. Actually, when I cook myself I probably are making money compared to eating out or take-out, because I get so much more energy from my own food than from restaurant food.
"... or whatever resturant I'm in the mood for today will do a much better job of creating a well balanced, healthy, and well presented meal than I can."
There is no need for such a low self-esteem. You will be surprised what you can do with a little bit of practice. Note that restaurants optimize for you and your friends to come back for more, not for you to be healthy. And be careful with that low-carb stuff. Carbohydrates are the essential energy for your muscles if you lead an active life. IMHO, low-carb is just another diet that tries to starve the dieter without giving the subject the feeling of hunger.
... "because the brat is always tearing something up."
I don't know them that bad, but some pretty tiring ones: right now I feel that the best kid is somebody else's (meaning they won't stay long, and/or you can leave).
The kitchen of the apartment, while original with its lighting, is just not practical. Not only for people who use their kitchen. If the demo apartment were targeted at people who always eat out, then, especially given its size, why does it have a kitchen at all? In any way, if there is a kitchen that is never used, then why put an LCD monitor in it? If you don't use your kitchen, then why waste money on it? It just doesn't make sense. Got money to burn on it anyway? Then why not convert it into something you will use, such as a bar, or put a supersize hot tub in its place (or both), or something, but don't just let it look cute using up valuable space if you're living small.
When I lived small and ate out all the time, the 'kitchen' area was smaller than a walk-in closet, just big enough to hold the fridge and sink. Why? Because why waste space with it if you never go there.
"Its cheaper and easier to eat out, plus its great for social networking."
While it is impossible to argue against the social networking part, it is not cheaper to eat out unless you regularly just eat a slice of pizza, or something happy at the yellow M or similar low quality 'food' places. Before I figured out that supermarket thing and learned how to buy & combine ingredients for a meal, followed by some pan and plate juggling, I thought that cooking yourself was expensive and hard to do too. But it's like skiing or snowboarding, after you get the hang of it, you'll enjoy it more doing it yourself than going out and watch somebody else do it.
Cooking yourself however takes some planning because otherwise you end up throwing most of your food in the trashcan. Note that there is no reason that cooking a decent meal for yourself (and a guest...) has to take more than 30 minutes, and you let the dishwasher play waitress with no need for tipping.
Another thing against eating out too often that most people learn as they are surging into their late twenties, is that eating out is fattening unless you are very careful about where you go and what you order, and never finish your plate. And no, a salad is not a meal, or it's not a healthy salad anymore because of the oh so tasteful but unhealthy addons.
"In short this demo apt is not for engineering types like most slashdotters, its for your arch nemesis, the marketing guy."
Having met quite a lot of employed marketing people, none of them have the lifestyle you talk about. Actually, most of them have kids and live in a suburb. More so, the group of people that don't use their kitchen mostly consists of students/recent-grads/early20-ers, artists, and the unemployed rich partiers, or wannabies of any of those groups...
"where 8 windows open immediately."
Oh, you are so in need of Mozilla Firebird. Switch to the bird on fire and say bye bye to unwanted popups...
The problem with 'micropayments' is that when web companies try to introduce them, then they seem to think that their customers think that paying a dollar or more for a single article is considered a micropayment...
But what is a micropayment on a CEO or CFO salary is usually not worth the money for the rest of the world. So, many companies who claim to have tried micropayments failed, because they were charging too much.
Other forms are micropayments for email are talked about by people who never heard of mailing lists... Even a cent per email will make a tremendous amount of mailing lists shutdown. And I'm talking about true opt-in mailing lists, not about spam.