I hope this isn't user number 3,526,693 calling user number 159,763 a newbie. As an aside, this is my second slashdot user name, my first (glyciren) was number 44,475.
Ummm.. this is obviously a technology NASA needs and wants developed, for rather obvious reasons: space shuttles and the command stations require dependable computation, people's lives and billions of dollars of research spending going to waste because of failed missions depend on it.
Intel wasn't ''convinced'' to switch, they've been planning it. It's public knowledge that they probably had a team of engineers working on building their own implementation of x86-64 for quite some time now.
and if you're encrypting it, use an algorithm that splits it into say 2kb chunks automatically and creates a lookup table of sorts as the main file you access, that can be decrypted to reveal the locations of the other pieces and used to put it all back together. that should make for a relatively secure storage scheme for a moderate amount of data.
Neuromancer. Great book. He wrote describing the Matrix as a virtual reality interface that linked people all over the world in a virtual mapping of the earth. It was published in 1984, long before any of these things were commonplace. And long before the movie.
I just took a quick glance at the schematics for some simple gates in ternary logic, and it seems to me that they are quite a bit more complex than their couterparts using binary logic (i.e. they use a lot more gates to do the same thing). Therefore they are more expensive. It seems to me that that could hold up moving to ternary logic, as everything about design is geared towards making things cheaper.
What about non-page based sites, like sites that use Flash. Technically most Flash sites will load within one web "page" and might (but most don't) load more content later. A lot of sites are using flash now too. All the content on these sites is contained within the original Flash movie that you load.
Also, what about sites where you download images individually? Like desktop backgrounds, do you get charged for each one? And sites with dynamic content, do you get charged each time you hit refresh? What if they refresh automatically? You accidentally walk away from your computer for a while and come back a day later with $1.44 charged to you for content you didn't even want? (based on being gone 24 hours, with a refresh every 10 minutes, and a charge of.01 a refresh).
With things like Flash becoming more popular, this really isn't a very viable method until you incorporate some sort of method of dealing with that. What might be more reasonable is.01 for every 10k of data (or some other arbitrary amount). Because Flash files have all of the information packed into one file they are bigger than your regular web page, so this might charge more appropriately for them.
BTW- I'm against pay for web in general, don't we already pay our ISPs enough? If you want to have a website, you have to pay for hosting. Deal with it.
I've been reading a lot of posts and news stories comparing this horrific event to what happened at Pearl Harbor, and I can't help but think of another plausible similarity. Many of you have probably heard before that the United States government most likely knew about the attack on Pearl Harbor, or at least that evidence suggests this. (We had broken their codes, decoded messages sent to their embassy in DC implying the attack was coming, we wanted to get into the war, it made a good excuse).
I can't help but think of the similarities here. The United States has been trying to capture bin Laden for years (assuming he is behind this, as current evidence seems to suggest), but has been unable to. In fact, intelligence information on bin Laden is a total void, no one knows much about his organization at all, "No nation has successfully penetrated the organization".
Reports suggest that there have been hints that this attack was coming for as long as two months, and I personally find it hard to believe that an attack of this scale was orchestrated without any hint of it coming to the attention of US Intelligence agents. Also, the threat has been made and has been public knowledge for as long as two months:
Reuters is reporting that Arabic satellite television channel MBC warned Sept. 8 that followers of suspected Saudi terrorist Osama bin Laden were planning a major attack on U.S. and Israeli interests in the next two weeks. Israeli Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer also warned Sept. 10, the day before attacks on U.S. targets in New York and Washington, that "a coalition has been formed recently between terror organizations, Palestinians, Shiites and bin Laden operating against Israeli, American and European targets." (www.stratfor.com)
Israeli daily Haaratz also reported that Saudi dissident Osama Bin Laden warned three weeks ago that he would carry out unprecedented attacks against U.S. for supporting Israel. (www.stratfor.com)
The facts point to prior knowledge of today's events being in existance.
So why would the US government not do anything about it? Perhaps they actually want to capture bin Laden so badly, that they were willing to let the attacks happen, so that they could be provided with an excuse to launch an attack on the scale of war. We are currently at Defcon Delta, only a step away from war. Perhaps they didn't think the attacks would be as horrible as they actually were, and assumed that the causualties would be minimal and worth the gains, namely the ability to attack bin Laden.
Would you put this past our government? I know I wouldn't, I actually believe they've done it in the past.
I live in a fraternity house with about 30 other guys. Everyone has AIM, and is always on it. It's just so much easier to IM someone sometimes. We actually have two houses we live in, connected underground, and we will always IM someone in the other house before we walk all the way across it to see them. If someone isn't on AIM for some reason, I'll send them an e-mail instead, because I know they'll check it and get it relatively soon.
I'm in the web development field, and the company I work for covers most of my training needs. Most of the stuff I do is either from books or web sites, but anything I need purchased they buy for me, and they pay me for the hours I spend learning it. They even pay me for the hours I spend at home learning. _______________________________________ ________________
Isn't our entire engineering campus covered? As well as both unions? Pretty much anywhere someone would need it is already covered, and they plan on covering everything soon. ___________________________________________ ____________
This story really brings back some memories of my first couple years of high school. When we weren't being challenged in our programming classes we really had nothing else to do but to try to bypass the system so we could play games.
The security software they had installed on the computer systems was incredibly easy to bypass. My advice to high school network administrators where any of the machines are macs (these were the machines in the programming lab so they were the once we put the most effort into, the PCs were even easier, it took 5 clicks from the standard student user interface to be in Windows Explorer and have complete control) is as follows:
Change the default key combination to disable extensions. Most security software for macs is extension/control panel based and will have an option to do this in its settings. If it automatically changes it to something else, change that. The way we first got around the software was to download a trial version at home, check to see what the default key combo was, and try that. It worked.
If you have a seperate login for another system in the school, don't use your login for that as your password for the security software, and vice versa. We got around it that way for a while.
Software is always buggy. Test anything a student might possibly do yourself. We found that with the software my school had you could open the Control Panel for it, click cancel at the login prompt, and you would have access to the system folder. From there all you had to do is drag the control panel and extensions to a disabled folder and reboot.
Netware is so easy to get around on PCs its not even worth bothering.
The point of this all is that there is always going to be a group of kids on any high school network who are trying to do this stuff. They aren't trying to do it to get access to files they shouldn't have access to. If we wanted to we could have done that, but we didn't. We just wanted to beat the system to beat the system. Eventually we grew out of it and ended up helping the network administrator keep things clean.
At one time I was suspended for 5 days for related incidents, and it really didn't stop me from doing anything. It's not the answer. Let the kids beat the system, make it better. Let it evolve.
Making them printer friendly brings in a lot of basic elements of the design of a site like this. The first thing they have to consider is their target audience. As a government agency the target audience is probably very broad, ranging down to users with 640x480 resolutions with 256 colors, and no support for frames and javascript.
I too have been involved in the design of a few gov't web sites. One thing we have learned is that you have to design for that audience. Use only the web safe color palatte and do not let your page width exceed 600 pixels (think about scroll bars and such). If you meet these basic requirements for on screen viewing, printer-friendliness should come along naturally.
It is my belief that most web sites should be contracted out. Unless you already have a dedicated and talented web department, you will be happier with the results if you use a local agency. You should be able to find one that accomodates your needs.
I find myself in this position myself, although perhaps a step removed. I am attempting to scrape together a Linux system to work on (I think I might be able to do it soon).
Once I have a machine to develop on, however, my question is what software (development environment basically) am I going to need to do this? What basic documentation should I read to gain an understanding of the *nix environment as developers see it, specifically for development in GNOME?
Every Target store in the nation has a few doors with numeric keypad locks on them. The combinations to all of the keypads in the store is the store number. It makes them completely pointless, I could enter the stock rooms of any Target if I wanted to (but then I would have to kill myself for being such a loser). _________________________________________ ______________
I thought this was pretty obvious, but it doesn't look like anyone has said anything about it. People are complaining about the site being broken, but its not. It is obviously working quite well: it's supposed to give the error message. Think about the 'IT Olympics' and the irony in it 'not working'. Obviously the pages are dynamic and are pulling the results randomly from a database or something... which appears to be what it's supposed to do. _____________________________________________ __________
Aside from what everyone else pointed out to be wrong with the situation, there's the fact that the cops told reporters he was being arrested because he had LSD on him.
On a similar note, perhaps you have heard the quote from a lutheran pastor about the Nazis? I can't remember it exactly but its something like this:
When they locked away the Jews it didn't affect me, so I didn't speak up.
When they locked away the Gypsies it didn't affect me, so I didn't speak up.
When they locked away the political dissidents it didn't affect me, so I didn't speak up.
When they locked me away, nobody was left to speak up for me.
he's right. the real interest in this device wouldn't be in simply disposing of extraterrestrial garbage, it would be in destroying the enemies satellites. nations rely so heavily on satellites these days that if you could destroy all of a nations satellites ASAP the war would be over before it started. i can almost see future military strategy classes teaching satellite manuevering to destroy the enemies anti-satellite satellites before they get yours.
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I hope this isn't user number 3,526,693 calling user number 159,763 a newbie. As an aside, this is my second slashdot user name, my first (glyciren) was number 44,475.
UW-Madison has the Condor Project, which you could say is related.
Ummm.. this is obviously a technology NASA needs and wants developed, for rather obvious reasons: space shuttles and the command stations require dependable computation, people's lives and billions of dollars of research spending going to waste because of failed missions depend on it.
Intel wasn't ''convinced'' to switch, they've been planning it. It's public knowledge that they probably had a team of engineers working on building their own implementation of x86-64 for quite some time now.
yeah, our halo ping times kick ass ;)
to the product?
and if you're encrypting it, use an algorithm that splits it into say 2kb chunks automatically and creates a lookup table of sorts as the main file you access, that can be decrypted to reveal the locations of the other pieces and used to put it all back together. that should make for a relatively secure storage scheme for a moderate amount of data.
yeah but the real dweebs will ask for 'mithrandir'(sp?)
Neuromancer. Great book. He wrote describing the Matrix as a virtual reality interface that linked people all over the world in a virtual mapping of the earth. It was published in 1984, long before any of these things were commonplace. And long before the movie.
That and the "anonymous coward" who posted this is actually user account with the name "An Anonymous Coward".
I just took a quick glance at the schematics for some simple gates in ternary logic, and it seems to me that they are quite a bit more complex than their couterparts using binary logic (i.e. they use a lot more gates to do the same thing). Therefore they are more expensive. It seems to me that that could hold up moving to ternary logic, as everything about design is geared towards making things cheaper.
Also, what about sites where you download images individually? Like desktop backgrounds, do you get charged for each one? And sites with dynamic content, do you get charged each time you hit refresh? What if they refresh automatically? You accidentally walk away from your computer for a while and come back a day later with $1.44 charged to you for content you didn't even want? (based on being gone 24 hours, with a refresh every 10 minutes, and a charge of .01 a refresh).
With things like Flash becoming more popular, this really isn't a very viable method until you incorporate some sort of method of dealing with that. What might be more reasonable is .01 for every 10k of data (or some other arbitrary amount). Because Flash files have all of the information packed into one file they are bigger than your regular web page, so this might charge more appropriately for them.
BTW- I'm against pay for web in general, don't we already pay our ISPs enough? If you want to have a website, you have to pay for hosting. Deal with it.
I can't help but think of the similarities here. The United States has been trying to capture bin Laden for years (assuming he is behind this, as current evidence seems to suggest), but has been unable to. In fact, intelligence information on bin Laden is a total void, no one knows much about his organization at all, "No nation has successfully penetrated the organization".
Reports suggest that there have been hints that this attack was coming for as long as two months, and I personally find it hard to believe that an attack of this scale was orchestrated without any hint of it coming to the attention of US Intelligence agents. Also, the threat has been made and has been public knowledge for as long as two months:
The facts point to prior knowledge of today's events being in existance.
So why would the US government not do anything about it? Perhaps they actually want to capture bin Laden so badly, that they were willing to let the attacks happen, so that they could be provided with an excuse to launch an attack on the scale of war. We are currently at Defcon Delta, only a step away from war. Perhaps they didn't think the attacks would be as horrible as they actually were, and assumed that the causualties would be minimal and worth the gains, namely the ability to attack bin Laden.
Would you put this past our government? I know I wouldn't, I actually believe they've done it in the past.
I live in a fraternity house with about 30 other guys. Everyone has AIM, and is always on it. It's just so much easier to IM someone sometimes. We actually have two houses we live in, connected underground, and we will always IM someone in the other house before we walk all the way across it to see them. If someone isn't on AIM for some reason, I'll send them an e-mail instead, because I know they'll check it and get it relatively soon.
I'm in the web development field, and the company I work for covers most of my training needs. Most of the stuff I do is either from books or web sites, but anything I need purchased they buy for me, and they pay me for the hours I spend learning it. They even pay me for the hours I spend at home learning._ ________________
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Isn't our entire engineering campus covered? As well as both unions? Pretty much anywhere someone would need it is already covered, and they plan on covering everything soon._ ____________
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This story really brings back some memories of my first couple years of high school. When we weren't being challenged in our programming classes we really had nothing else to do but to try to bypass the system so we could play games.
The security software they had installed on the computer systems was incredibly easy to bypass. My advice to high school network administrators where any of the machines are macs (these were the machines in the programming lab so they were the once we put the most effort into, the PCs were even easier, it took 5 clicks from the standard student user interface to be in Windows Explorer and have complete control) is as follows:
Netware is so easy to get around on PCs its not even worth bothering.
The point of this all is that there is always going to be a group of kids on any high school network who are trying to do this stuff. They aren't trying to do it to get access to files they shouldn't have access to. If we wanted to we could have done that, but we didn't. We just wanted to beat the system to beat the system. Eventually we grew out of it and ended up helping the network administrator keep things clean.
At one time I was suspended for 5 days for related incidents, and it really didn't stop me from doing anything. It's not the answer. Let the kids beat the system, make it better. Let it evolve.
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Making them printer friendly brings in a lot of basic elements of the design of a site like this. The first thing they have to consider is their target audience. As a government agency the target audience is probably very broad, ranging down to users with 640x480 resolutions with 256 colors, and no support for frames and javascript.
I too have been involved in the design of a few gov't web sites. One thing we have learned is that you have to design for that audience. Use only the web safe color palatte and do not let your page width exceed 600 pixels (think about scroll bars and such). If you meet these basic requirements for on screen viewing, printer-friendliness should come along naturally.
It is my belief that most web sites should be contracted out. Unless you already have a dedicated and talented web department, you will be happier with the results if you use a local agency. You should be able to find one that accomodates your needs.
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I find myself in this position myself, although perhaps a step removed. I am attempting to scrape together a Linux system to work on (I think I might be able to do it soon).
Once I have a machine to develop on, however, my question is what software (development environment basically) am I going to need to do this? What basic documentation should I read to gain an understanding of the *nix environment as developers see it, specifically for development in GNOME?
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I love my Handspring Visor. Everyone college student should have one, or at least sort of PDA for keeping track of your schedule and assignments.
Handspring
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Every Target store in the nation has a few doors with numeric keypad locks on them. The combinations to all of the keypads in the store is the store number. It makes them completely pointless, I could enter the stock rooms of any Target if I wanted to (but then I would have to kill myself for being such a loser)._ ______________
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I thought this was pretty obvious, but it doesn't look like anyone has said anything about it. People are complaining about the site being broken, but its not. It is obviously working quite well: it's supposed to give the error message. Think about the 'IT Olympics' and the irony in it 'not working'. Obviously the pages are dynamic and are pulling the results randomly from a database or something... which appears to be what it's supposed to do._ __________
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Aside from what everyone else pointed out to be wrong with the situation, there's the fact that the cops told reporters he was being arrested because he had LSD on him.
On a similar note, perhaps you have heard the quote from a lutheran pastor about the Nazis? I can't remember it exactly but its something like this:
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he's right. the real interest in this device wouldn't be in simply disposing of extraterrestrial garbage, it would be in destroying the enemies satellites. nations rely so heavily on satellites these days that if you could destroy all of a nations satellites ASAP the war would be over before it started. i can almost see future military strategy classes teaching satellite manuevering to destroy the enemies anti-satellite satellites before they get yours.
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they could, but we're talking about government organizations here..._ ______________
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