Just on the outskirts of the small Indiana town I grew up in (go Trojans), there is a pond in the woods that is easy to spot by the lack of trees within about an eigth of a mile.
The story goes (as told to us by my high school chem teacher a few years later), two "former" students of the high school stole a large quantity of sodium from the chemistry store room (several pounds...it had been there since the 50's stored in a big glass jar filled with, I think, kerosene). They took the jar to the pond, got in a rowboat, and dropped the sodium out in the middle. Apparantley it took some time for the reaction to start, because they had enough time to get to the shore and pop open some beers.
The explosion leveled trees over a wide area, shattered windows for miles, and knocked a house off it's foundation a few hundred yards away. This happened in the early eighties and the local authorities though we had been nuked.
They found some of the boys about a mile away. The good news was that they probably died from inhalation of the gases before the explosion.
Oh, my home town has also had someone die from a beer keg explosion (he put it in the freezer. They found his head down the street), and a gas main explosion that was visible from the shuttle (I got a call from my mom to look east. You could see the glow from over a hundred miles away).
Unfortunately as more IIS admins move into the "cheap" linux arena, their bad habits will come with them (not that there aren't linux admins with bad security habits, too). We are going to see more and more of this as linux becomes the norm. My shop is looking at using embedded or firmware based linux (or single system images in the clusters) to combat any modifications. It will be interesting on monday to see how much our honeypot-tarpit has caught.
marklar: A noun standing in place of any noun you have temporarily forgotten. Synonym of thingy, thingumbob, whatsit. Also may be used deliberately when the meaning is abundantly clear anyway. Derived from its use by space aliens in an episode of South Park Example: On Marklar, everyone and every thing is referred to as marklar. We come in marklar. Take us to your marklar.
Looks like they have added (in bold type) this to the download license...
"You also expressly agree that you will not violate any copyright of a third party or Sigma in your use of the Software.
Infringement. You are hereby advised and you understand that your use of the Software may infringe existing patents. You understand that you are solely responsible for obtaining the necessary licenses from such patent owners and for paying all applicable fees and royalties. You agree that Sigma shall have no liability for use of this Software or any derivation thereof."
I don't know who their lawyers are, but saying "we are not responsible for product that we provide that violates law" does not make it so...Facilitation is a definite enforceable part of copyright law (and I believe they are violating federal wire fraud laws by knowingly transporting "stolen" goods)...but IANAL...heh
Since I was present at the Kinkos landmark fair-use trial and worked for the company through the courts remedy, I guess I am qualified in reporting that it is (Constitutionally) legal to make copies of just about anything under certain circumstances (including DVD's). One of those circumstances being to be able to make copies of things for personal use so long as no substantial financial harm to the copyright holder and no substantial gain to the copier (or others) occurs, eg. backups of your own purchased goods.
I DO make copies of my DVD's mr Valenti...and I will fight for my right to do so.
The Sony U1 is about the size of a DVD case. They say it is about as small as could be made without it becoming difficult to use. Oh, it is a full computer that can run any OS you want (Cyrix based, I beleive)
There aren't any Firewire native drives (that I know of...heh) and Serial-ATA should be cheaper. And, oh, be 1.5Gbs. Maybe now that Apple released all of the licensing surrounding the "standard", we will see it take off like it should have two years ago.
Okay...I have a SATA equipped mobo on order which comes in in two weeks. What I want to know is: where are the hard drives? And no, I don't mean the drives that are standard ATA100 that have converters. I mean Seagates native SATA drives. They demoed supposed "production" pieces back in Fenruary.
The problem with the theory of if someone can't afford a piece of software you don't need it is that the file formats for these products are pervasive and proprietary. If one is to function even in a non-professional (read: not getting paid for doing professional work) manner, one must have the software to even be able to communicate with ones peers. I left the graphic design busines amidst the spiraling costs of software. Every new version broke compatibility and it became a loss leader business.
Now I finally understand how those psychic friends network type phone scams succeed...scary.
On another slant, this means my skills as a systems tech may be viewed as "magical" in a few decades. Maybe I'll finally be able to get a raise...or that pinhead manger is getting a hex put on him (get it...hex).
MMDS and LMDS were originally designed to allow remote locations receive cable television years ago. The idea failed as the equipment cost and technical requirements were exhaustive. Sprint brought it back with their Broadband direct which is a MMDS implementation using 18" square panels for tranmission. A base station (usually on the tallest building in an area) costs about $600,000 plus the FCC license (plus kickback moneys). The base station can cover about a 35 mile range with bidrectional bandwidth in the 10 megabit range (it can scale MUCH higher). These cost are miniscule compared to a cellular or cable broadband network (which can run into the $10 million range for the same area). Why Sprint got out of it I have no idea. For dense urban areas like NYC it is a godsend where running cable underground can run into the millions for less than a mile.
When is the media distribution business going to figure out how demand-sided markets work? Let the consumer decide how we want our music/video/whatever and we will be happy to pay a fair-market-value for it.
Didn't the media companies (Time Warner, et. al.) just pitch that they needed more regulation in the broadband market so that they will feel free to roll out rich content (movies and music on demand) and now they want to cap out the one selling point of broadband...bandwidth. Contrary to what you have heard, the cable systems bandwidth stays mostly on their networks which are rapidly paid for by us, the subscriber. They are not being strangled by the Bells for bandwidth like the DSL's and CLEC's. I am a TimeWarner subscriber and very heavy user (I usually have streaming video, audio, browsers, email, and a game server all chugging away at they same time) and I will switch quickly to a frac-T1 or DSL (DSL service here is terrible because of Ameritech).
What a moron...please add his address to the black-hole lists.
Just another example of politicans writing laws at the demand of consumers only to manipulate it to their own advantage. I hope this turkey loses his office over this.
As a tech worker who has (recently) endured lack of jobs in this sector, I plead to come here. The cost of living is very low, we have Purdue, IU, and Rose-Hulman, the NCSA is right down the road, the Internet2 has a main artery here, and God knows we need more tech-savvy people here. We'll even change to daylight savings time for ya...honest.
How about we make an effort to make Slashdot a true product of the people and get some of those three-quarters of million people using slashdot to help host it and distribute the load. Hell, I bet that would allow/. to go ad-free. I be willing to throw my hat in for that.
Slashdot Mirror
Just on the outskirts of the small Indiana town I grew up in (go Trojans), there is a pond in the woods that is easy to spot by the lack of trees within about an eigth of a mile.
The story goes (as told to us by my high school chem teacher a few years later), two "former" students of the high school stole a large quantity of sodium from the chemistry store room (several pounds...it had been there since the 50's stored in a big glass jar filled with, I think, kerosene). They took the jar to the pond, got in a rowboat, and dropped the sodium out in the middle. Apparantley it took some time for the reaction to start, because they had enough time to get to the shore and pop open some beers.
The explosion leveled trees over a wide area, shattered windows for miles, and knocked a house off it's foundation a few hundred yards away. This happened in the early eighties and the local authorities though we had been nuked.
They found some of the boys about a mile away. The good news was that they probably died from inhalation of the gases before the explosion.
Oh, my home town has also had someone die from a beer keg explosion (he put it in the freezer. They found his head down the street), and a gas main explosion that was visible from the shuttle (I got a call from my mom to look east. You could see the glow from over a hundred miles away).
And my family wonders why I moved.
Unfortunately as more IIS admins move into the "cheap" linux arena, their bad habits will come with them (not that there aren't linux admins with bad security habits, too). We are going to see more and more of this as linux becomes the norm. My shop is looking at using embedded or firmware based linux (or single system images in the clusters) to combat any modifications. It will be interesting on monday to see how much our honeypot-tarpit has caught.
AMD creates worlds smallest double-gate transistor
AMD just announced today that they produced the worlds smallest FinFETs at 10 nanometers...was that on slashdot?
Great, now I can buy a video game to be able to fail a fitting in...
marklar: A noun standing in place of any noun you have temporarily forgotten. Synonym of thingy, thingumbob, whatsit. Also may be used deliberately when the meaning is abundantly clear anyway. Derived from its use by space aliens in an episode of South Park
Example: On Marklar, everyone and every thing is referred to as marklar. We come in marklar. Take us to your marklar.
Looks like they have added (in bold type) this to the download license...
"You also expressly agree that you will not violate any copyright of a third party or Sigma in your use of the Software.
Infringement. You are hereby advised and you understand that your use of the Software may infringe existing patents. You understand that you are solely responsible for obtaining the necessary licenses from such patent owners and for paying all applicable fees and royalties. You agree that Sigma shall have no liability for use of this Software or any derivation thereof."
I don't know who their lawyers are, but saying "we are not responsible for product that we provide that violates law" does not make it so...Facilitation is a definite enforceable part of copyright law (and I believe they are violating federal wire fraud laws by knowingly transporting "stolen" goods)...but IANAL...heh
Since I was present at the Kinkos landmark fair-use trial and worked for the company through the courts remedy, I guess I am qualified in reporting that it is (Constitutionally) legal to make copies of just about anything under certain circumstances (including DVD's). One of those circumstances being to be able to make copies of things for personal use so long as no substantial financial harm to the copyright holder and no substantial gain to the copier (or others) occurs, eg. backups of your own purchased goods.
I DO make copies of my DVD's mr Valenti...and I will fight for my right to do so.
I wonder if this person works for StarNine?
Same post, different topic...
The Sony U1 is about the size of a DVD case. They say it is about as small as could be made without it becoming difficult to use. Oh, it is a full computer that can run any OS you want (Cyrix based, I beleive)
Ultra320 SCSI is also INSANELY expensive...along with fibre channel.
There aren't any Firewire native drives (that I know of...heh) and Serial-ATA should be cheaper. And, oh, be 1.5Gbs. Maybe now that Apple released all of the licensing surrounding the "standard", we will see it take off like it should have two years ago.
Okay...I have a SATA equipped mobo on order which comes in in two weeks. What I want to know is: where are the hard drives? And no, I don't mean the drives that are standard ATA100 that have converters. I mean Seagates native SATA drives. They demoed supposed "production" pieces back in Fenruary.
The problem with the theory of if someone can't afford a piece of software you don't need it is that the file formats for these products are pervasive and proprietary. If one is to function even in a non-professional (read: not getting paid for doing professional work) manner, one must have the software to even be able to communicate with ones peers. I left the graphic design busines amidst the spiraling costs of software. Every new version broke compatibility and it became a loss leader business.
Now I finally understand how those psychic friends network type phone scams succeed...scary.
On another slant, this means my skills as a systems tech may be viewed as "magical" in a few decades. Maybe I'll finally be able to get a raise...or that pinhead manger is getting a hex put on him (get it...hex).
MMDS and LMDS were originally designed to allow remote locations receive cable television years ago. The idea failed as the equipment cost and technical requirements were exhaustive. Sprint brought it back with their Broadband direct which is a MMDS implementation using 18" square panels for tranmission. A base station (usually on the tallest building in an area) costs about $600,000 plus the FCC license (plus kickback moneys). The base station can cover about a 35 mile range with bidrectional bandwidth in the 10 megabit range (it can scale MUCH higher). These cost are miniscule compared to a cellular or cable broadband network (which can run into the $10 million range for the same area). Why Sprint got out of it I have no idea. For dense urban areas like NYC it is a godsend where running cable underground can run into the millions for less than a mile.
At the last two locations I did a build out at we only format the drives for 3 gig because thats what the image size is...kinda silly really
When is the media distribution business going to figure out how demand-sided markets work? Let the consumer decide how we want our music/video/whatever and we will be happy to pay a fair-market-value for it.
Didn't the media companies (Time Warner, et. al.) just pitch that they needed more regulation in the broadband market so that they will feel free to roll out rich content (movies and music on demand) and now they want to cap out the one selling point of broadband...bandwidth. Contrary to what you have heard, the cable systems bandwidth stays mostly on their networks which are rapidly paid for by us, the subscriber. They are not being strangled by the Bells for bandwidth like the DSL's and CLEC's. I am a TimeWarner subscriber and very heavy user (I usually have streaming video, audio, browsers, email, and a game server all chugging away at they same time) and I will switch quickly to a frac-T1 or DSL (DSL service here is terrible because of Ameritech).
Micron has started selling a laptop with built in thumb scanner. My military unit is already talking to them. Too bad it is a P-4 system.
Micron laptop with thumb scanner
What a moron...please add his address to the black-hole lists.
Just another example of politicans writing laws at the demand of consumers only to manipulate it to their own advantage. I hope this turkey loses his office over this.
As a tech worker who has (recently) endured lack of jobs in this sector, I plead to come here. The cost of living is very low, we have Purdue, IU, and Rose-Hulman, the NCSA is right down the road, the Internet2 has a main artery here, and God knows we need more tech-savvy people here. We'll even change to daylight savings time for ya...honest.
How about we make an effort to make Slashdot a true product of the people and get some of those three-quarters of million people using slashdot to help host it and distribute the load. Hell, I bet that would allow /. to go ad-free. I be willing to throw my hat in for that.
Does this mean slashdot has to give up it's .org address now that they are generating a probable profit?
Now...now...Spack has been my nick for 12 years...don't go ruining my good name...heh
Found this out there in the ether Nathan's Toasty Tech Page Don't knoiw if genuine, but hey...who really cares?