Well, one of the guys that was questioned was using his green laser to point at stars.
... a 100mW green laser pointer can illuminate a star? I mean okay if there was enough fog I could see him using it as a straight line but who the hell uses optical telescopes in fog?
weight??? Havent they heard of PLASTICS?? I am sure wipers , even if made of aluminum could not possibly be more than a few ounces or 1/2 a pound. Come on where are these so called rocket scientists, design something light weight spring loaded plastic thingy... even a damn BRUSH attached to a robot arm, and train the CPU/program on earth to learn to brush its dust off. How hard would that be? Oh i forgot, its up to management to approve it.
I love the armchair rocket scientists... Tell ya what, here's a nickel... go bug someone else for a while, son. Let the grownups have a conversation where this hasn't been brought up and dismissed a thousand times already.
You'll spend more time with the undocumented op-codes of either chip (and their revisions) than you will the differences between the published interfaces and timings when developing a core for either chip.
I agree it will be close enough but I believe the zero-page differences are big enough to warrant my pedantism.:-)
I'm more worried about non-violent "white collar" crime than I am about petty thuggery and street crime.
I disagree -- violent crimes are a threat to life. Nonviolent crimes are usually only a threat to livelihood. That, to me, is a world of difference. Note that I'm not saying that nonviolent crime isn't bad or dangerous or that it should not be discouraged but nine years for a first offence? Come on! Beat him down with a heavy fine and let him live with the embarassment of not being able to find a carreer in an area he's obviously pretty smart in. If that doesn't smarten him up and he gets convicted again, well now we have some history here and he looks to have a psychopathic personality and their distorted view of reality is obviously endangering people -- put them away for a longer time and see if a doctor can help. This isn't a serial rapist we're talking about.
There are all these little costs that are basically invisible, but they add up and when they affect enough people THEY MATTER. So while physical injuries are certainly easier to empathize with, saying that someone shouldn't go to jail for a long time because they "didn't hurt anybody" is sophistry.
I didn't say they shouldn't go to jail. I'm saying nine years for nonviolent crime (and one that didn't succeed anyway) is not justice. Nine years for a repeat carjacker or serial rapist or attempted murderer seems more just.
Nonviolent crime (IMO) should be dealt with with heavy fines/reparations and not much jail time. Jail is for violent criminals and people who are dangerous to society. You could make the argument that white-collar criminals are dangerous to society but (IMO, I am not a psychologist) their biggest problem is their ego -- poor and not able to work in the industry they stole from I don't think they'd be much danger to anyone.
Thousands of compromised accounts would have lead to quite the theft rings... this is a little bit more serious than simply breaking in.
So where's the millions of dollars' worth of fines for Lowes for having that kind of information available on a wireless in-store network? Come on now, both parties here are pretty damned guilty.
Ok, fine. I'll steal your money and then murder you to make sure I don't get made an example of by some pinhead prosecutor who wants his name in the paper. I'll get a couple years and be back on the street. Sound good to you?
Nine years in prison for a non-violent crime? For a non-violent crime that didn't benefit the criminal? It's excessive, especially when murderers and other violent criminals get substantially shorter sentences
I agree with you that he comitted a crime and should do some time and perhaps a fine to Lowes... but nine years is not justice.
Protel, OrCAD 9, Eagle... none of these can hold a candle to the ease and simplicity of SDT/PCB386. Pretty much everything has dumped the use of FAST keyboard use to pointy-clicky insanity.
It ain't a word processor or spreadsheet, guys, it's electronic design. I can route by hand with a keyboard faster than I can with a mouse. pwb,cursor,cursor,cursor... piece of cake. Autorouters are getting better but still suck, IMO. And yes, I do new, modern designs (TSSOP, BGA and all the latest part forms, 6 layer boards, you name it.)
I did have PCB386 working under DOSEMU but I've since forgotten how I did it. SDT was working fine but PCB was giving me all kinds of issues. I wish I'd written it down, now I'm gonna have to go back and try to figure it out again.:-)
I haven't checked out gEDA in a long time, I wonder if they're following the path of the big boys (WIMP systems) or if they've come to the understanding that keyboard driven designs aren't dead, nor are they dying.
That depends on the current involved and the capacity of the traces. The extra current drain might be required to handle running the cart at 5V instead of 3.3V.
HIGHLY unlikely -- even 5mil traces can handle enough current to take care of the return path for a 5V cartridge that is composed of a ROM and some memory decode logic. Not a nice way to ground a system but certainly workable.
I can't think of a good reason for grounding the antenna, but I can think of some plausible areas to investigate. Since the DS's processor contains the GBA's processor (stealing data from other posts). It's not uncommon for pins on these dual-mode processors to required grounding when it doesn't make sense to use the pin in that mode.
You can't reliably do that with a pin designed for RF, and I even have my doubts that the antenna is directly connected to an IC anyway, as you usually want signficantly larger litho for a power amp; usually (cheaply) done with a discrete SMT transistor stage. Even if the TX/RX switch were done on-chip you still wouldn't want to be muxing any kind of digital signal back in on that pin; you could likely work around it but feeding RF directly into a digital input that would be controlling which processor you're wanting seems a bad idea at best.
Even if the pin was Vcc and is being pulled to ground, the current is general low enough that it would affect the battery life.
Yes and no; you wouldn't have it tied to VCC directly, you'd use a pullup resistor -- you wouldn't be tying VCC to VSS directly, you'd be bringing the input and dissipating the power through the pullup, which would likely be several tens of thousands of ohms (i.e. fractional to single-digits of mA of current).
As I mentioned above, I'm not saying the hack is legit. I just think the counter arguments are as flimsy as the orginal arguments. Have fun hacking!
The counter arguments are certainly pretty solid, IMO. (and I too am an EE:-) -- possible but highly unlikely.
I'd settle for a universal that will run my ExpressVu (Dish Network) receiver and JVC receiver and DVD player. It seems to be an impossible combination, and programmable units are WAY too much fluff for me. Universal remotes look like ass most of the time, too.
The electrical resistance of copper and aluminum is does not change significantly over the temperature ranges one would expect to find in nature. These aren't exotic superconducting materials we're talking about, and if the design is that marginal that it will fail on a few micro-ohms of resistance change... well you'd be seeing far greater failures in normal environments due to regular old process variables during production of the circuit boards.
Let's take this to the non-geek world, and compare this to advertising folders that get shoved down your mailbox every day. This is basicly the same thing as going to the companies that distribute those folders, and shoving their mailbox full of folders untill their hallway is full.
While it might be funny to do this, it's definatly more of a crime than shoving one folder down a mailbox that says "No commercial print".
Why is it "definitely more of a crime"? Maybe I'm just thick but I have as much of a right to stuff their mailbox as they do to stuff mine. So long as I don't stuff it full of explosives or something what I am doing is being a pain in the ass, but certainly not a criminal.
Got links? I just tried with Konqueror 3.3.1 (spoofing various agents too) but past the login I just got the "Loading..." screen and then stop. Spoofing as IE, gmail wants activex.
But KDE *does not* tie the browser to the OS, it ties the browser to the *desktop* and there is a *HUGE* difference in that. I can't think of any part of Konqueror that directly makes calls to kernel functions (though admittingly I have not dove deep into the code.)
Actually Konqueror is tied in to KDE pretty damn tightly but it's done in a good way... All the ioslaves can be used outside of Konqueror and Konqueror can be replaced with Firefox or nautilus or whatever you want... But Konqueoror's always there helping out.
I disagree... As one of the "bearded terminal hackers" (well without the beard, but from that generation) I moved to KDE back in the 3.0 days because I just got tired of using bits and pieces and getting a patchwork windowing system. I was (still am actually) an ardent WindowMaker fan but back at the time I made this choice I wanted a cohesive desktop. I wanted the apps to look and work similarly and I wanted the flexibility to bust out and completely customize whatever facet of the experience I needed. KDE does all that and more for me, and in a way that I haven't been able to replicate with other WMs.
He should go back and stand up and walk around until he faints on the ground like he says he will do. I can't help but feel we're missing some nugget of information -- the sulfur granules, the chest pain... all this stuff I can't believe gets ignored by docs even at walk-in clinics. Slackware's my distro of choice and Pat's a hero to me but there is something he's leaving out in what he's making public. Something...
Then again I'm in Canada -- I've never had issue walking into an Urgent Care clinic or seeing my GP -- is it really that different in the U.S.? (I thought Pat was Australian?)
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Well, one of the guys that was questioned was using his green laser to point at stars.
... a 100mW green laser pointer can illuminate a star? I mean okay if there was enough fog I could see him using it as a straight line but who the hell uses optical telescopes in fog?
weight??? Havent they heard of PLASTICS?? I am sure wipers , even if made of aluminum could not possibly be more than a few ounces or 1/2 a pound. Come on where are these so called rocket scientists, design something light weight spring loaded plastic thingy... even a damn BRUSH attached to a robot arm, and train the CPU/program on earth to learn to brush its dust off. How hard would that be? Oh i forgot, its up to management to approve it.
I love the armchair rocket scientists... Tell ya what, here's a nickel... go bug someone else for a while, son. Let the grownups have a conversation where this hasn't been brought up and dismissed a thousand times already.
You'll spend more time with the undocumented op-codes of either chip (and their revisions) than you will the differences between the published interfaces and timings when developing a core for either chip.
I agree it will be close enough but I believe the zero-page differences are big enough to warrant my pedantism. :-)
The C64 was based on the 6502 processor.
Actually it was the 6510 that was in the C64.
I'm more worried about non-violent "white collar" crime than I am about petty thuggery and street crime.
I disagree -- violent crimes are a threat to life. Nonviolent crimes are usually only a threat to livelihood. That, to me, is a world of difference. Note that I'm not saying that nonviolent crime isn't bad or dangerous or that it should not be discouraged but nine years for a first offence? Come on! Beat him down with a heavy fine and let him live with the embarassment of not being able to find a carreer in an area he's obviously pretty smart in. If that doesn't smarten him up and he gets convicted again, well now we have some history here and he looks to have a psychopathic personality and their distorted view of reality is obviously endangering people -- put them away for a longer time and see if a doctor can help. This isn't a serial rapist we're talking about.
There are all these little costs that are basically invisible, but they add up and when they affect enough people THEY MATTER. So while physical injuries are certainly easier to empathize with, saying that someone shouldn't go to jail for a long time because they "didn't hurt anybody" is sophistry.
I didn't say they shouldn't go to jail. I'm saying nine years for nonviolent crime (and one that didn't succeed anyway) is not justice. Nine years for a repeat carjacker or serial rapist or attempted murderer seems more just.
Nonviolent crime (IMO) should be dealt with with heavy fines/reparations and not much jail time. Jail is for violent criminals and people who are dangerous to society. You could make the argument that white-collar criminals are dangerous to society but (IMO, I am not a psychologist) their biggest problem is their ego -- poor and not able to work in the industry they stole from I don't think they'd be much danger to anyone.
Thousands of compromised accounts would have lead to quite the theft rings... this is a little bit more serious than simply breaking in.
So where's the millions of dollars' worth of fines for Lowes for having that kind of information available on a wireless in-store network? Come on now, both parties here are pretty damned guilty.
Ok, fine. I'll steal your money and then murder you to make sure I don't get made an example of by some pinhead prosecutor who wants his name in the paper. I'll get a couple years and be back on the street. Sound good to you?
I think you're missing the point.
Nine years in prison for a non-violent crime? For a non-violent crime that didn't benefit the criminal? It's excessive, especially when murderers and other violent criminals get substantially shorter sentences
I agree with you that he comitted a crime and should do some time and perhaps a fine to Lowes... but nine years is not justice.
Protel, OrCAD 9, Eagle... none of these can hold a candle to the ease and simplicity of SDT/PCB386. Pretty much everything has dumped the use of FAST keyboard use to pointy-clicky insanity.
It ain't a word processor or spreadsheet, guys, it's electronic design. I can route by hand with a keyboard faster than I can with a mouse. pwb,cursor,cursor,cursor... piece of cake. Autorouters are getting better but still suck, IMO. And yes, I do new, modern designs (TSSOP, BGA and all the latest part forms, 6 layer boards, you name it.)
I did have PCB386 working under DOSEMU but I've since forgotten how I did it. SDT was working fine but PCB was giving me all kinds of issues. I wish I'd written it down, now I'm gonna have to go back and try to figure it out again. :-)
I haven't checked out gEDA in a long time, I wonder if they're following the path of the big boys (WIMP systems) or if they've come to the understanding that keyboard driven designs aren't dead, nor are they dying.
That depends on the current involved and the capacity of the traces. The extra current drain might be required to handle running the cart at 5V instead of 3.3V.
HIGHLY unlikely -- even 5mil traces can handle enough current to take care of the return path for a 5V cartridge that is composed of a ROM and some memory decode logic. Not a nice way to ground a system but certainly workable.
I can't think of a good reason for grounding the antenna, but I can think of some plausible areas to investigate. Since the DS's processor contains the GBA's processor (stealing data from other posts). It's not uncommon for pins on these dual-mode processors to required grounding when it doesn't make sense to use the pin in that mode.
You can't reliably do that with a pin designed for RF, and I even have my doubts that the antenna is directly connected to an IC anyway, as you usually want signficantly larger litho for a power amp; usually (cheaply) done with a discrete SMT transistor stage. Even if the TX/RX switch were done on-chip you still wouldn't want to be muxing any kind of digital signal back in on that pin; you could likely work around it but feeding RF directly into a digital input that would be controlling which processor you're wanting seems a bad idea at best.
Even if the pin was Vcc and is being pulled to ground, the current is general low enough that it would affect the battery life.
Yes and no; you wouldn't have it tied to VCC directly, you'd use a pullup resistor -- you wouldn't be tying VCC to VSS directly, you'd be bringing the input and dissipating the power through the pullup, which would likely be several tens of thousands of ohms (i.e. fractional to single-digits of mA of current).
As I mentioned above, I'm not saying the hack is legit. I just think the counter arguments are as flimsy as the orginal arguments. Have fun hacking!
The counter arguments are certainly pretty solid, IMO. (and I too am an EE :-) -- possible but highly unlikely.
I'd settle for a universal that will run my ExpressVu (Dish Network) receiver and JVC receiver and DVD player. It seems to be an impossible combination, and programmable units are WAY too much fluff for me. Universal remotes look like ass most of the time, too.
They still do not know what came first.
It was obviously the rooster.
Basically, we change *NO* software or hardware between mid-November and the end of September
So your systems are locked-down-no-changes for ten months of the year? That's a hell of a long "peak season".
When I was in sixth grade, my teachers all got together and decided to ban me from writing cursive (D'Nealian, to be exact). I've never looked back.
Why?
This guy is spot on.
Uh, no, he's not.
The electrical resistance of copper and aluminum is does not change significantly over the temperature ranges one would expect to find in nature. These aren't exotic superconducting materials we're talking about, and if the design is that marginal that it will fail on a few micro-ohms of resistance change... well you'd be seeing far greater failures in normal environments due to regular old process variables during production of the circuit boards.
Let's take this to the non-geek world, and compare this to advertising folders that get shoved down your mailbox every day. This is basicly the same thing as going to the companies that distribute those folders, and shoving their mailbox full of folders untill their hallway is full.
While it might be funny to do this, it's definatly more of a crime than shoving one folder down a mailbox that says "No commercial print".
Why is it "definitely more of a crime"? Maybe I'm just thick but I have as much of a right to stuff their mailbox as they do to stuff mine. So long as I don't stuff it full of explosives or something what I am doing is being a pain in the ass, but certainly not a criminal.
Noting that the comment column is supposed to hold an integer and MySQL still inserts this text without error makes it all the funnier. :-)
Do you go around and have sex with random people, too? Oh wait, this is Slashdot; never mind.
Exactly; nobody here has sex, except maybe with themselves. :-)
Got links? I just tried with Konqueror 3.3.1 (spoofing various agents too) but past the login I just got the "Loading..." screen and then stop. Spoofing as IE, gmail wants activex.
But KDE *does not* tie the browser to the OS, it ties the browser to the *desktop* and there is a *HUGE* difference in that. I can't think of any part of Konqueror that directly makes calls to kernel functions (though admittingly I have not dove deep into the code.)
Actually Konqueror is tied in to KDE pretty damn tightly but it's done in a good way... All the ioslaves can be used outside of Konqueror and Konqueror can be replaced with Firefox or nautilus or whatever you want... But Konqueoror's always there helping out.
I disagree... As one of the "bearded terminal hackers" (well without the beard, but from that generation) I moved to KDE back in the 3.0 days because I just got tired of using bits and pieces and getting a patchwork windowing system. I was (still am actually) an ardent WindowMaker fan but back at the time I made this choice I wanted a cohesive desktop. I wanted the apps to look and work similarly and I wanted the flexibility to bust out and completely customize whatever facet of the experience I needed. KDE does all that and more for me, and in a way that I haven't been able to replicate with other WMs.
My T30 most certainly has a CMOS RAM battery -- pull out the Li-ion battery and it's sitting right there, bright and yellow. :-)
Sturgeon's rule (90% of everything is crap)
So Sturgeon was a proctologist, was he?
He should go back and stand up and walk around until he faints on the ground like he says he will do. I can't help but feel we're missing some nugget of information -- the sulfur granules, the chest pain... all this stuff I can't believe gets ignored by docs even at walk-in clinics. Slackware's my distro of choice and Pat's a hero to me but there is something he's leaving out in what he's making public. Something ...
Then again I'm in Canada -- I've never had issue walking into an Urgent Care clinic or seeing my GP -- is it really that different in the U.S.? (I thought Pat was Australian?)