Does it even ship with OpenSSH installed? I'd be intrested to see if OS X is vulnerable - FreeBSD-STABLE isn't, so I wouldn't be surprised if OSX was using a pre 2.9.9 version.
yeah, no joke. I was wanting at least one pretty graph. Maybe kernel or world compile times between some machines, then one processor, then two.. I mean, seriously.. what the hell? I honestly think this poor guy had no idea what he had coming. Like.. "wtf? someone actually sent me something?". I guess FreeBSD cert program is good (?), but maybe some sort of criteria in testing the systems would be better.
Actually, yes, there is. That is if what you are referring to is what TiVo said about its users. It's called opt-out. It takes one phone call to TiVo, and after that, your super-secret anonymous information isn't taken.
Insight cable (one of the cable companies that paid a portion of the $355M deal (but they got a much better deal (40-50/user/mo as opposed to 92/user/mo that comcast and cox were getting)) announced that they would be transitioning to AT&T's backbone yesterday. (link).
I can not see how all of this sudden traffic onto ATT's network doesn't screw something up. I'm somewhat suprised that ATT agreed with Insight(or maybe even that insight agreed with ATT) with all of the news about unhappy customers and such.
Of course, I'm pretty sure that everyone was sold 1.5mbps/128kbps when they bought their @Home, but that @Home didn't bother capping the download speeds. It still sucks, but it's not like you were promised x and recieved y.
This is (somewhat) how it is on a lot of ticket selling. Scalpers say "Buy this nifty t-shirt for $150, and I'll throw in a pair of tickets!". It's legal to give them away, but not to sell them (not that it actually works most of the time).
If you're talking about Digital Audio out (uh, SPDIF) they apparently have Fibre audio out and coaxial audio out.. only they don't know it (they say the coaxial audio out is for video and not audio.. go figure).
I don't know of any DVD player that advertises them having SPDIF output
On the comparison chart on that site.. they say "Coaxial Digital Output allows for the DVD Player to interface with older televisions not supporting S-Video or RCA interfaces. This also ensures the highest quality with a coaxial system." which isn't true. Coaxial Digital Output is for sound, not video.
You'd determine this by the digital being there (UHF/VHF (which is what they're talking about) isn't digital), as well as the other players listed - the ones saying that they have "coaxial digital output" do not have the VHF/UHF, only coaxial outputs for sound.
One would think that if this was legit they would know what they're selling - but then again it could be some web guys screwing things up.
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I don't believe it to be an issue of the ideas, or the technology. The states regulate their own elections, and as long as they do (which I forsee a very long time), there is never going to be one system that is accepted. I live in a place where we've had machines for about 20 years (at least) - I was fairly surprised that some states (the majority, apparently) still use punch cards. Someone I know who lives in Georgia, where they use computers to record the votes, was incredibly shocked when he found out we used voting machines up here.
There are many places who use computers in elections right now - but seeing as everything related to the election is run by the states, it's pretty hard to make any kind of widespread change to the way people vote.
The press is being more kind to the people who voted wrong - when you placed the card inside the machine, the holes were replaced with numbers. There was a large number in each box of the candidate, there was an arrow pointing to the correct hole, and there was a number corresponding with the number that was placed inside the candidate's box. Personally, I don't think it'd be that hard for myself or anyone I know, including several octogenarian, to figure out.
Could it take a second or two to make sure? Sure. But in waiting 4 years for a Presidential election - and god knows how many years for a presidential election this close - you can take the extra minute.
I don't think that's exactly a bad thing. It's like targeted advertising, kind of. I'd much rather see ads I actually care about than ones that don't interest me.
Voting records are public, and that's common fact. Sending you literature and inviting you to meetings on issues that you vote on often isn't exactly that cynical. It is, however, a bit annoying if you can't stop it (which often times you can't, but with the right moves you should be able to).
Saitek has another, very similar thing that appears to have more things you can press (so it must be better!) at http://www.saitekusa.com/gm2/info1.htm. The site says it requires Windows, but it doesn't specify how it actually works (From what I quickly saw, no mention of USB, so I'd imagine it plus in between keyboard..but still requires their software).
Not exactly sure how comfortable either one would feel, and I would probley never get used to it. But that's just me.
Then again.. things that can cost well over a million dollars just to own - let alone keep up - aren't exaclty main stream. The problem with the Jetpak and convertible car-slash-airplane were not because people didn't have proper training - it was because both of them weren't feasible at the time.
And I doubt that they'd make flying one of these things as complicated as flying a plane if they actually want to market these things. Planes aren't mainstream because of their price - they aren't mainstreamed, and they are not necissarily designed to be.
I think the idea here is to see if having a personal aircraft is possible, not if it'll work if you strap an ape to it and show him how to work the controls.
As far as the safty thing - look at what happened with railroads.. People were horrfied by the incredible speed they could reach (10mph). Several people of power wanted them (more or less) outlawed.. Saftey has a tendancy to catch up after innovation.
Like many Freshmen, BushBaby ended his first semester at Yale with a whopping 75 average. But he learned his lesson, and during the Spring of 1965 he put in grueling hours at the library bringing his GPA up by almost a full point -- for a an impressive 75.8!
Well.. whoever wrote that couldn't be too bright (I know it wasn't you, but still..). If his GPA went up a full point, that's a pretty good improvement. Unless, of course, they were talking about his averages.
There is nothing ICANN can do to get this.com crap out of everyone's head. It's not like DeBeers is letting all the most valuble diamons go by.... but just is too lazy to get its surplus of blue colored diamonds (which, although not as recognizable right now, will probably grow into something very valuble), out to the public.
Compaq has an Alpha machine (8x525mhz) that can do a unit in 1 hr 11 min 18.0 sec. If I were an Origin machine..getting beaten by a Compaq.. I'd feel dirty.
It's not exactly like they have a satilite connection riding on the back of the car. They have had this information going to the pits for several years.. They need to know how the car is running; how much fuel is left; oil level; oil temperature.. in order to spot problems.
This is a 24 hour race - they have time to do extensive repairs and still come out in a decent position... It's more of the "well, the pits have this information.. why don't we plug it into the net.. and share it with everyone intrested?".
So.. offering this information doesn't weigh down the car any; uses the same antenna and computer as would normally be there.. just requires more processing power at the pit.. (Which, when you're working with a car that costs $750,000 (without the engine, of course), doesn't really seem like a big deal to have someones laptop hooked up to the datastream;p)
Although it is not under British rule, it is still concidered to be in British waters.
After it declared itself its own state Britian declared claim to the ocean 12 miles from its coast (Sealand is 7 miles from Britian coast - it was grandfathered in).
I would assume that Britian would not particularly like Iraqi (or any other nation, for that matter) military action in what is techinically its own waters.
Sealand should not be worried by any nation other then Britian; and possibly US influence over Britian's government into taking military action on the island.
I don't think that Sealand is in the best of positions, but I doubt Britian would really care about it until it becomes forced to (ie; so it doesn't hafta look like the bad guy, or the only bad guy vs a seemingly small & insignifigant country)
If you read in further, Offspring goes into saying that they support the distribution of mp3s over the internet. They support the idea in general; countering a Wired article saying they would be pressing charges against Napster.
More information as well as quotes from Offspring can be found at the Rolling Stone.
From my experience (with Nova Merchant Systems) you need the card number, the expiration date, and the zip code. Address verification (AVS) is also optional, and sometimes required based on the fee you get (When you sign up for a merchant there is normally a monthly fee + % of sales; the more risk the processor has (or the lesst auth) , the higher the % will be. AVS, a real card swipe, signature all help lower that %; but as far as net transactions go... card swipe & online signatures aren't exactly there yet (in any great numbers at least).
Everything else you don't send. The expiration date has nothing to do with anything, from what I have heard/seen. It's simply a test to see if the date on it is a valid date (no algorithms for determining experation date, nor is it checked at the records). American Express is simliar, but a bit different... they do all their processing.. whereas with Visa/MC you hafta go to a 3rd party to process the transactions.
American Express is generall a bit more expensive (It's a fee on top of the Visa/MC processing).. but due to the type of card it is (It's not really credit -- you can't carry over charges (til recently at least)), as well as the offers they make (freq. flyer meles; etc..)
I'm sure each processor has different requirements, but from what I have heard this is the norm.
I don't understand the people saying code can not be copywrited because they're not the ones or originally used it... which is quite ubsurd in my view. That's like saying.. you can not copywrite a book named "Cheese" because you're not the first to use that word. It's about in what order you put the words NOT the words you use. Of course, there are probobley 100's of ways to look at it.. but I'd imagine that the issue in this case would not be the html, rather any graphics the original company did. I'm not saying this guy is guilty -- just saying that if Company X never gave rights to their work to the advertising agency (they probobley did), this guy, or at least the ad agency, could be in trouble..
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Does it even ship with OpenSSH installed? I'd be intrested to see if OS X is vulnerable - FreeBSD-STABLE isn't, so I wouldn't be surprised if OSX was using a pre 2.9.9 version.
yeah, no joke. I was wanting at least one pretty graph. Maybe kernel or world compile times between some machines, then one processor, then two.. I mean, seriously.. what the hell? I honestly think this poor guy had no idea what he had coming. Like.. "wtf? someone actually sent me something?". I guess FreeBSD cert program is good (?), but maybe some sort of criteria in testing the systems would be better.
Actually, yes, there is. That is if what you are referring to is what TiVo said about its users. It's called opt-out. It takes one phone call to TiVo, and after that, your super-secret anonymous information isn't taken.
Insight cable (one of the cable companies that paid a portion of the $355M deal (but they got a much better deal (40-50/user/mo as opposed to 92/user/mo that comcast and cox were getting)) announced that they would be transitioning to AT&T's backbone yesterday. (link).
I can not see how all of this sudden traffic onto ATT's network doesn't screw something up. I'm somewhat suprised that ATT agreed with Insight(or maybe even that insight agreed with ATT) with all of the news about unhappy customers and such.
Of course, I'm pretty sure that everyone was sold 1.5mbps/128kbps when they bought their @Home, but that @Home didn't bother capping the download speeds. It still sucks, but it's not like you were promised x and recieved y.
This is (somewhat) how it is on a lot of ticket selling. Scalpers say "Buy this nifty t-shirt for $150, and I'll throw in a pair of tickets!". It's legal to give them away, but not to sell them (not that it actually works most of the time).
If you're talking about Digital Audio out (uh, SPDIF) they apparently have Fibre audio out and coaxial audio out.. only they don't know it (they say the coaxial audio out is for video and not audio.. go figure).
I don't know of any DVD player that advertises them having SPDIF output
On the comparison chart on that site.. they say "Coaxial Digital Output allows for the DVD Player to interface with older televisions not supporting S-Video or RCA interfaces. This also ensures the highest quality with a coaxial system." which isn't true. Coaxial Digital Output is for sound, not video.
You'd determine this by the digital being there (UHF/VHF (which is what they're talking about) isn't digital), as well as the other players listed - the ones saying that they have "coaxial digital output" do not have the VHF/UHF, only coaxial outputs for sound.
One would think that if this was legit they would know what they're selling - but then again it could be some web guys screwing things up.
I don't believe it to be an issue of the ideas, or the technology. The states regulate their own elections, and as long as they do (which I forsee a very long time), there is never going to be one system that is accepted. I live in a place where we've had machines for about 20 years (at least) - I was fairly surprised that some states (the majority, apparently) still use punch cards. Someone I know who lives in Georgia, where they use computers to record the votes, was incredibly shocked when he found out we used voting machines up here.
There are many places who use computers in elections right now - but seeing as everything related to the election is run by the states, it's pretty hard to make any kind of widespread change to the way people vote.
The press is being more kind to the people who voted wrong - when you placed the card inside the machine, the holes were replaced with numbers. There was a large number in each box of the candidate, there was an arrow pointing to the correct hole, and there was a number corresponding with the number that was placed inside the candidate's box. Personally, I don't think it'd be that hard for myself or anyone I know, including several octogenarian, to figure out.
Could it take a second or two to make sure? Sure. But in waiting 4 years for a Presidential election - and god knows how many years for a presidential election this close - you can take the extra minute.
I don't think that's exactly a bad thing. It's like targeted advertising, kind of. I'd much rather see ads I actually care about than ones that don't interest me.
Voting records are public, and that's common fact. Sending you literature and inviting you to meetings on issues that you vote on often isn't exactly that cynical. It is, however, a bit annoying if you can't stop it (which often times you can't, but with the right moves you should be able to).
Saitek has another, very similar thing that appears to have more things you can press (so it must be better!) at http://www.saitekusa.com/gm2/info1.htm. The site says it requires Windows, but it doesn't specify how it actually works (From what I quickly saw, no mention of USB, so I'd imagine it plus in between keyboard..but still requires their software).
Not exactly sure how comfortable either one would feel, and I would probley never get used to it. But that's just me.
Then again.. things that can cost well over a million dollars just to own - let alone keep up - aren't exaclty main stream. The problem with the Jetpak and convertible car-slash-airplane were not because people didn't have proper training - it was because both of them weren't feasible at the time.
And I doubt that they'd make flying one of these things as complicated as flying a plane if they actually want to market these things. Planes aren't mainstream because of their price - they aren't mainstreamed, and they are not necissarily designed to be.
I think the idea here is to see if having a personal aircraft is possible, not if it'll work if you strap an ape to it and show him how to work the controls.
As far as the safty thing - look at what happened with railroads.. People were horrfied by the incredible speed they could reach (10mph). Several people of power wanted them (more or less) outlawed.. Saftey has a tendancy to catch up after innovation.
Like many Freshmen, BushBaby ended his first semester at Yale with a whopping 75 average. But he learned his lesson, and during the Spring of 1965 he put in grueling hours at the library bringing his GPA up by almost a full point -- for a an impressive 75.8!
Well.. whoever wrote that couldn't be too bright (I know it wasn't you, but still..). If his GPA went up a full point, that's a pretty good improvement. Unless, of course, they were talking about his averages.
It's not exactly like that.
.com crap out of everyone's head. It's not like DeBeers is letting all the most valuble diamons go by.... but just is too lazy to get its surplus of blue colored diamonds (which, although not as recognizable right now, will probably grow into something very valuble), out to the public.
There is nothing ICANN can do to get this
Output*
7 kW continuous
10 kW for 30 minutes
15 kW for 0.5 seconds
* Rated at 1.0 power factor, 77 F, 500 feet elevation
Compaq has an Alpha machine (8x525mhz) that can do a unit in 1 hr 11 min 18.0 sec. If I were an Origin machine..getting beaten by a Compaq.. I'd feel dirty.
Now if they could only do something with people who don't have a sense of smell.
Oh, HAH! That was stupid of me..
What WEIRDOS don't have a sense of smell?!
It's not exactly like they have a satilite connection riding on the back of the car. They have had this information going to the pits for several years.. They need to know how the car is running; how much fuel is left; oil level; oil temperature.. in order to spot problems.
;p)
This is a 24 hour race - they have time to do extensive repairs and still come out in a decent position...
It's more of the "well, the pits have this information.. why don't we plug it into the net.. and share it with everyone intrested?".
So.. offering this information doesn't weigh down the car any; uses the same antenna and computer as would normally be there.. just requires more processing power at the pit.. (Which, when you're working with a car that costs $750,000 (without the engine, of course), doesn't really seem like a big deal to have someones laptop hooked up to the datastream
Considering the Sealand dollar is at a fixed exchange rate of one US dollar, one would assume that Sealand feels its prime market is in the US.
Of course, you could belive that or just write me off as another American nationalist.
Although it is not under British rule, it is still concidered to be in British waters.
After it declared itself its own state Britian declared claim to the ocean 12 miles from its coast (Sealand is 7 miles from Britian coast - it was grandfathered in).
I would assume that Britian would not particularly like Iraqi (or any other nation, for that matter) military action in what is techinically its own waters.
Sealand should not be worried by any nation other then Britian; and possibly US influence over Britian's government into taking military action on the island.
I don't think that Sealand is in the best of positions, but I doubt Britian would really care about it until it becomes forced to (ie; so it doesn't hafta look like the bad guy, or the only bad guy vs a seemingly small & insignifigant country)
If you read in further, Offspring goes into saying that they support the distribution of mp3s over the internet. They support the idea in general; countering a Wired article saying they would be pressing charges against Napster.
More information as well as quotes from Offspring can be found at the Rolling Stone.
From my experience (with Nova Merchant Systems) you need the card number, the expiration date, and the zip code. Address verification (AVS) is also optional, and sometimes required based on the fee you get (When you sign up for a merchant there is normally a monthly fee + % of sales; the more risk the processor has (or the lesst auth) , the higher the % will be. AVS, a real card swipe, signature all help lower that %; but as far as net transactions go... card swipe & online signatures aren't exactly there yet (in any great numbers at least).
Everything else you don't send. The expiration date has nothing to do with anything, from what I have heard/seen. It's simply a test to see if the date on it is a valid date (no algorithms for determining experation date, nor is it checked at the records). American Express is simliar, but a bit different... they do all their processing.. whereas with Visa/MC you hafta go to a 3rd party to process the transactions.
American Express is generall a bit more expensive (It's a fee on top of the Visa/MC processing).. but due to the type of card it is (It's not really credit -- you can't carry over charges (til recently at least)), as well as the offers they make (freq. flyer meles; etc..)
I'm sure each processor has different requirements, but from what I have heard this is the norm.
I don't understand the people saying code can not be copywrited because they're not the ones or originally used it... which is quite ubsurd in my view. That's like saying.. you can not copywrite a book named "Cheese" because you're not the first to use that word. It's about in what order you put the words NOT the words you use. Of course, there are probobley 100's of ways to look at it.. but I'd imagine that the issue in this case would not be the html, rather any graphics the original company did. I'm not saying this guy is guilty -- just saying that if Company X never gave rights to their work to the advertising agency (they probobley did), this guy, or at least the ad agency, could be in trouble..