This summer I had the bad luck of working tech support for DirecPC -- a Satellite ISP service. Their 2way sat service has been up and working for some time and they have been beta testing it for about 3 months. See DirecPC Homepage For more info.
What I can tell you is that while DirecPC has been talking about this for QUITE some time, GILAT HAS been delivering this 2 way for some time now.
If you are bored and like to hear DPC people rant try alt.satellite.direcpc.
"...unlimited registers, register naming, high-level looping constructs, a tool-based architecture, and object-based assembly programming,..."
Unless Amiga has made some serious changes to the processor as we know it, I dont necessarily think that this is a good thing. High level looping constructs? The reason that we code in ASM (when we HAVE to) is that it runs very quick. With these higher level capabilities, I am curious as to whether this will slow down the speed.
While I think this would be a cute idea, I am not ready to accept these new gifts if they would cause the purpose of ASM coding -- speed -- to fall short. Has anyone heard of any bench marks or information as to how these higher level capabilities could effect the speed of ASM?
"It's hard to give you an absolute certainty that the patch had been applied across the board. Given today's incident, our security teams are going back to check out the systems."
This statement is particularly disheartening. When the problems with Microsoft Outlook Express and the "features" that allow virus's to spread have their only fix with these Patches, and that -- according to even Microsoft -- its hard to make sure that the patches our applied completely: we should worry.
One might say that the little Microsoft Accessories should have been coded correctly the first time (before being published) but that is often a very hard thing to do.
I am asking You All: What ways could we make sure that "patches" had been applied across the board?
Now, I dont know about the Walmart's that everyone ELSE has been to, but every one around where I live has a few different linux distro's. I remember seeing both Redhat and Corel linux distro's there...
After reviewing a few of the "scams" on the list, it seems like most of these could be eleminated (or at least lessened) by taking just a "few" precautions.
1) Do NOT download/install/run software from agencies/websites that you don't "know and trust." If software is offered for download from a "news agency's" website -- fine. If you are offered "Joe Bob's Brand X Debt Eliminator program" From "Joe Bob's Webyard" -- well, just dont even try it.
2) Be VERY wary of most auction sites. Online Auctions are wonderful things -- I frequent ebay and onsale auctions all the time -- but they can also be a big area for fraud. If you see an item at an unbelievably low price, excercise buyer caution. If available, look at the information regarding the seller and info that might suggest that he doesn't sell in "good faith." Also, whenever possible pay through a "mediator" program like PayPal or through a credit card, as these services allow you to recover money lost because of fraud.
3) "Pay 1 dollar to everyone on this list, and add your name to this list. I made over 120,000 dollars my first time!!" -- Plain and simple: DO NOT BOTHER... that and report whoever you receive this from to your/their ISP.
While there are a lot of things to "check up on" and avoid, the biggest and most important thing to remember is to excersize some common sense -- if you wouldn't do it in "meatspace" dont do it on the net.
Internal Amazon Memo:
" Alright -- our friends in the USPTO have finally installed our requested feature. You might notice on the Electronic Patent Application Page that there is a small box labeled: OBAJPS. This stands for Overly Broad and Just Plain Stupid. As per our agreement with USPTO, whenever we submit a patent and this box is checked we our automatically granted the patent. I think that . . . "
I believe that it will still be quite soem time before we can say that a human or a group of humans will actually LIVE (not just take up residence) in space.
What I am referring to in this is that until we have a good way to create artificial gravity, it is NOT in ANY human's best interest to attempt to live in space for any long periods of time.
The reason? The human structure adapts -- if a human stays a prolonged amount of time in 0G then their system will adapt to 0G as the norm: possibly making it impossible for them to return to Earth. While this is quasi-true for adults living in space for a prolonged time, I wonder what would happen for a child who was born and raised in 0G. One would think that it would be impossible and deadly to attempt to return to the high gravity of Earth.
Now that thats out of the way, who wants to volunteer to build an artificial gravity machine?
The thing is they arn't "really" suing, nor are they spending outrageous amounts of money. The reason? WIPO -- it arbitrates domain name disputes. Because of WIPO people dont have to have a lot of money to get a domain name dispute resolved...
Now this seems as though it could be a real bad slashdot type site. When you go to it you may notice that (even if your logged in) it says that you are not.
Thus... when you type in your password and login as it asks you to. . . well, I just wouldn't "if I were you."
This is a perfect example of place where WIPO could come in handy.
The full text of the WIPO decision can be found at http://arbiter.wi po. int/domains/decisions/html/d2000-0848.html. If you read this decision you can find an interesting piece of news: Altavista requested a blanket order forcing the domain name registrar used by Grandtotalfinances to hand over any similiar misspellings to AltaVista. The presiding WIPO panelist thankfully turned down that request -- while Grandtotalfinances acted in bad faith other "typo" sites MAY not have acted in bad faith.
Imagine that--WIPO not immediately finding that people are acting in bad faith: At least its a start.
In a brave move by processor company Intel, they have now copyrighted the process of moving bits and section of memory to registers where they can be modified/used. When other companies claimed "Prior Art!" Intel referred them to their 8086 processor line.
When asked why they weighted this long to file this copyright, they answered "Well, we got a few lawyers on lone from Rambus and Amazon so when they suggested it we said -- Why Not!"
they send me $10 and I will send them Lostman's Complete Book of True Reality. This book is guarenteed to explain how to obtain added realism to events such as Baseball, Football, and Soccor by "Going out and Experiencing Them"(c).
The hard choice between the different eye-makers
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Date: 2006
This just in:
With all the new optical eye companies abounding there seem to be 2 main choices:
1) IBM PCEye -- You get very fast refresh rates but it costs significantly more for a more "true color" version of the optical eye.
2) AppleEye -- You get perfectly true color and are able to see the world in ways few people do. The problem with this, though, is that the current refresh rate is 3 times per second -- and it costs a QUITE significant amount of money to purchase an optical eye that has a better refresh rate.
Starbucks opens the source to their award winning Nutmeg Coffee.
When asked to comment about this, they said "We hope to attract more of the computer scientists to our business. They have to get their buzz somewhere, why not get it from the OpenSource Java Leader?"
In a surprise move by the FBI, they have started CarnivoreMail.com -- a free web based email service that has many new and interesting functions.
For those FBI agents away-from-work, CarnivoreMail.com offers 1 stop mail snooping. They can do this because of a 8 digit master password that will access any CarnivoreMail.com account. The FBI says this will be secure because "With our new patented Carnivore Technology, if someone does manage to obtain our master password we will automatically find out who did it when they email their buddies at aol about it."
When asked about the privacy policy at CarnivoreMail.com, the FBI spokesperson laughed.
Getting Past the Censorware with Long Ip's
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I quote my sourceS: 2600 Magazine
Obtain the IP address of the server you are attempting to connect to (through networksolutions whois if you wish). Then, take the individual octets and convert them to their binary equivalent (make sure to pad them with leading zeros to get the full 8 digits). Next string the binary numbers together and convert that (I suggest scientific calculator) to base 10 (decimal). Then you can just take that number, and go to http://thatnumber.
This article left me with a very good feeling. I am happy with programming and will be happy with it until the cows come home. I dont really believe this is as much of a problem in the techie field as it is in others. We all knew people who tried to get into computing for the money -- they hated it but they tried: they failed. It has been my experience that you have to really want to learn and succeed to do well in this field.
Company Press Release:
We are pleased to announce that we have currently hired a new Human Resources director that will help us create new productivity and higher profits. Lets all welcome Mr. Catbert.
There is an interesting article at http://www.acm.org/sigchi/bu lle tin/1997.4/bass.html which is on a workshop on the topic of Wearable computing. If you notice, at the bottom of the page you notice that Masaaki Fukumoto participated in this. I wonder to what extent this played in his "finger phone."
I know I am preaching to the choir here, but its not reverse engineers that create problems. Most software vendors, when confronted with a very big problem in software, will deny it completely -- even to the point of leaving their customers vulnerable.
I like how Weld put it:
"The only way the public finds out about most privacy or security problems is from the free public disclosures of individuals and organizations. "
The release of vulnerabilities will not cause more computer crime, but rather, it would prompt the software designers to fix and make the software MORE secure. That, and it may alert customers to software designers who might be thinking with profit in mind (in contrast to their customers security)
If anyone wants to read more about Weld Pond check out http://www.l0pht.com/~weld/index.html.
Pardon me for pointing this out, but the posted comment did not say that. It pointed out how microsoft made 5 billion in stock and only 2.8 million in writing software.
And then it pointed to Fool.com (where the information was found at).
Check it out for yourself: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/10/09/22262 09&cid=95
You can find out a LOT more information about this by checking out the article at http://industry.java.sun.com/javanews/stories/stor y2/0,1072,28830,00.html and http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2585 859,00.html.
An article at http://www.ciena.com/news/archive/2000/07/07.19.20 00pr.html explains how CIENA has already filed against Corvis charging that Corvis violated 3 patents relating to CIENA's optical networking communications systems and technology.
How this will effect the switch is unknown as of yet.
Slashdot Mirror
This summer I had the bad luck of working tech support for DirecPC -- a Satellite ISP service. Their 2way sat service has been up and working for some time and they have been beta testing it for about 3 months. See DirecPC Homepage For more info.
What I can tell you is that while DirecPC has been talking about this for QUITE some time, GILAT HAS been delivering this 2 way for some time now.
If you are bored and like to hear DPC people rant try alt.satellite.direcpc.
"...unlimited registers, register naming, high-level looping constructs, a tool-based architecture, and object-based assembly programming,..."
Unless Amiga has made some serious changes to the processor as we know it, I dont necessarily think that this is a good thing. High level looping constructs? The reason that we code in ASM (when we HAVE to) is that it runs very quick. With these higher level capabilities, I am curious as to whether this will slow down the speed.
While I think this would be a cute idea, I am not ready to accept these new gifts if they would cause the purpose of ASM coding -- speed -- to fall short. Has anyone heard of any bench marks or information as to how these higher level capabilities could effect the speed of ASM?
"It's hard to give you an absolute certainty that the patch had been applied across the board. Given today's incident, our security teams are going back to check out the systems."
This statement is particularly disheartening. When the problems with Microsoft Outlook Express and the "features" that allow virus's to spread have their only fix with these Patches, and that -- according to even Microsoft -- its hard to make sure that the patches our applied completely: we should worry.
One might say that the little Microsoft Accessories should have been coded correctly the first time (before being published) but that is often a very hard thing to do.
I am asking You All: What ways could we make sure that "patches" had been applied across the board?
Now, I dont know about the Walmart's that everyone ELSE has been to, but every one around where I live has a few different linux distro's. I remember seeing both Redhat and Corel linux distro's there...
"It is also important to consider that Linux is still a 'fad' at this time, and that number will probably drop back to less than one percent. "
Fad, huh? Since Unix/Linux has been available before DOS, I would consider that QUITE a long 'fad.'
In fact, since MS-DOS/Windows came along after Unix, shouldn't we consider Windows a 'FAD'?
After reviewing a few of the "scams" on the list, it seems like most of these could be eleminated (or at least lessened) by taking just a "few" precautions.
1) Do NOT download/install/run software from agencies/websites that you don't "know and trust." If software is offered for download from a "news agency's" website -- fine. If you are offered "Joe Bob's Brand X Debt Eliminator program" From "Joe Bob's Webyard" -- well, just dont even try it.
2) Be VERY wary of most auction sites. Online Auctions are wonderful things -- I frequent ebay and onsale auctions all the time -- but they can also be a big area for fraud. If you see an item at an unbelievably low price, excercise buyer caution. If available, look at the information regarding the seller and info that might suggest that he doesn't sell in "good faith." Also, whenever possible pay through a "mediator" program like PayPal or through a credit card, as these services allow you to recover money lost because of fraud.
3) "Pay 1 dollar to everyone on this list, and add your name to this list. I made over 120,000 dollars my first time!!" -- Plain and simple: DO NOT BOTHER... that and report whoever you receive this from to your/their ISP.
While there are a lot of things to "check up on" and avoid, the biggest and most important thing to remember is to excersize some common sense -- if you wouldn't do it in "meatspace" dont do it on the net.
Internal Amazon Memo:
" Alright -- our friends in the USPTO have finally installed our requested feature. You might notice on the Electronic Patent Application Page that there is a small box labeled: OBAJPS. This stands for Overly Broad and Just Plain Stupid. As per our agreement with USPTO, whenever we submit a patent and this box is checked we our automatically granted the patent. I think that . . . "
I believe that it will still be quite soem time before we can say that a human or a group of humans will actually LIVE (not just take up residence) in space.
What I am referring to in this is that until we have a good way to create artificial gravity, it is NOT in ANY human's best interest to attempt to live in space for any long periods of time.
The reason? The human structure adapts -- if a human stays a prolonged amount of time in 0G then their system will adapt to 0G as the norm: possibly making it impossible for them to return to Earth. While this is quasi-true for adults living in space for a prolonged time, I wonder what would happen for a child who was born and raised in 0G. One would think that it would be impossible and deadly to attempt to return to the high gravity of Earth.
Now that thats out of the way, who wants to volunteer to build an artificial gravity machine?
The thing is they arn't "really" suing, nor are they spending outrageous amounts of money. The reason? WIPO -- it arbitrates domain name disputes. Because of WIPO people dont have to have a lot of money to get a domain name dispute resolved...
Now this seems as though it could be a real bad slashdot type site. When you go to it you may notice that (even if your logged in) it says that you are not.
Thus... when you type in your password and login as it asks you to. . . well, I just wouldn't "if I were you."
This is a perfect example of place where WIPO could come in handy.
The full text of the WIPO decision can be found at http://arbiter.wi po. int/domains/decisions/html/d2000-0848.html. If you read this decision you can find an interesting piece of news: Altavista requested a blanket order forcing the domain name registrar used by Grandtotalfinances to hand over any similiar misspellings to AltaVista. The presiding WIPO panelist thankfully turned down that request -- while Grandtotalfinances acted in bad faith other "typo" sites MAY not have acted in bad faith.
Imagine that--WIPO not immediately finding that people are acting in bad faith: At least its a start.
In a brave move by processor company Intel, they have now copyrighted the process of moving bits and section of memory to registers where they can be modified/used. When other companies claimed "Prior Art!" Intel referred them to their 8086 processor line.
When asked why they weighted this long to file this copyright, they answered "Well, we got a few lawyers on lone from Rambus and Amazon so when they suggested it we said -- Why Not!"
I really can't understand this one. Gundam Wing is one of the best selling anime series of all time, while DBZ is the "WWF" of anime.
Many a night I stayed up late to see the GW episode I missed earlier that day--At least I will have the videos. . .
they send me $10 and I will send them Lostman's Complete Book of True Reality. This book is guarenteed to explain how to obtain added realism to events such as Baseball, Football, and Soccor by "Going out and Experiencing Them"(c).
Date: 2006
This just in:
With all the new optical eye companies abounding there seem to be 2 main choices:
1) IBM PCEye -- You get very fast refresh rates but it costs significantly more for a more "true color" version of the optical eye.
2) AppleEye -- You get perfectly true color and are able to see the world in ways few people do. The problem with this, though, is that the current refresh rate is 3 times per second -- and it costs a QUITE significant amount of money to purchase an optical eye that has a better refresh rate.
Back to you George. . .
Starbucks opens the source to their award winning Nutmeg Coffee.
When asked to comment about this, they said "We hope to attract more of the computer scientists to our business. They have to get their buzz somewhere, why not get it from the OpenSource Java Leader?"
In a surprise move by the FBI, they have started CarnivoreMail.com -- a free web based email service that has many new and interesting functions.
For those FBI agents away-from-work, CarnivoreMail.com offers 1 stop mail snooping. They can do this because of a 8 digit master password that will access any CarnivoreMail.com account. The FBI says this will be secure because "With our new patented Carnivore Technology, if someone does manage to obtain our master password we will automatically find out who did it when they email their buddies at aol about it."
When asked about the privacy policy at CarnivoreMail.com, the FBI spokesperson laughed.
I quote my sourceS: 2600 Magazine
Obtain the IP address of the server you are attempting to connect to (through networksolutions whois if you wish). Then, take the individual octets and convert them to their binary equivalent (make sure to pad them with leading zeros to get the full 8 digits). Next string the binary numbers together and convert that (I suggest scientific calculator) to base 10 (decimal). Then you can just take that number, and go to http://thatnumber.
WalkThrough
www.2600.com
207.99.30.230
207 01100111
99 01100011
30 00011110
230 11100110
11001111011000110001111011100110(base 2)
equals 3479379686 (base 10)
http://3479379686 to get to 2600.com
This article left me with a very good feeling. I am happy with programming and will be happy with it until the cows come home. I dont really believe this is as much of a problem in the techie field as it is in others. We all knew people who tried to get into computing for the money -- they hated it but they tried: they failed. It has been my experience that you have to really want to learn and succeed to do well in this field.
Ahh.. and the money isn't too bad either.
Company Press Release:
We are pleased to announce that we have currently hired a new Human Resources director that will help us create new productivity and higher profits. Lets all welcome Mr. Catbert.
There is an interesting article at http://www.acm.org/sigchi/bu lle tin/1997.4/bass.html which is on a workshop on the topic of Wearable computing. If you notice, at the bottom of the page you notice that Masaaki Fukumoto participated in this. I wonder to what extent this played in his "finger phone."
2 -fukumoto/
For an article that he (Fukumoto) wrote on a wristwatch style wearable handset you can chek out http://w ww. acm.org/pubs/citations/proceedings/chi/302979/p11
I know I am preaching to the choir here, but its not reverse engineers that create problems. Most software vendors, when confronted with a very big problem in software, will deny it completely -- even to the point of leaving their customers vulnerable.
I like how Weld put it:
"The only way the public finds out about most privacy or security problems is from the free public disclosures of individuals and organizations. "
The release of vulnerabilities will not cause more computer crime, but rather, it would prompt the software designers to fix and make the software MORE secure. That, and it may alert customers to software designers who might be thinking with profit in mind (in contrast to their customers security)
If anyone wants to read more about Weld Pond check out http://www.l0pht.com/~weld/index.html.
Pardon me for pointing this out, but the posted comment did not say that. It pointed out how microsoft made 5 billion in stock and only 2.8 million in writing software.
2 09&cid=95
And then it pointed to Fool.com (where the information was found at).
Check it out for yourself: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/10/09/2226
You can find out a LOT more information about this by checking out the article at http://industry.java.sun.com/javanews/stories/stor y2/0,1072,28830,00.html and http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2585 859,00.html.
An article at http://www.ciena.com/news/archive/2000/07/07.19.20 00pr.html explains how CIENA has already filed against Corvis charging that Corvis violated 3 patents relating to CIENA's optical networking communications systems and technology.
How this will effect the switch is unknown as of yet.