Threads are notariously hard to debug. Linux threads have been in my experience especially hard. Make sure your using the latest kernel as there are some problems with the
If you think about it, how would one debug a highly threaded application? What would you do with something that had 20+ threads? I can just imagine a programmer sitting there switching between terminal...
Every well informed geek knows theres about a billion potential buffer overflows in AIM. The funny thing is, not only did AOL deny this fact, but they actually exploited these buffer overflows the weed out non-Aol clients that didn't have these buffer overflows.
Yet another reason why I don't use Windows or AOL.
Design the best voting system. Pack that baby with OpenSSL and GnuPG along with a nice XFree86 GUI running Gnome all on top of some LARTs and once again the Open Source community saves the day.
Now, all we need is some way to keep RMS from complaining that the electricity that's running it all is not GPL compatible...
Mirror site (actually the site of the winners)
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Here is the site of the winners which details the hack along with allowing for the purchase of a kit to do it yourself.
http://www.furbyupgrade.20m.com
The kits can be purchased for $65 from the following site.
I don't understand how this could ever be a good thing. Obviously, from a profit standpoint, to make a move this bold the total cost of subscription will have to be greater than the cost to purchase. While still given a choice, companies would most likely purchase a version because it's cheaper in the long run. End-users would most likely subscribe. The problem is that the hassle of subscription will cause a good amount of users to just use older versions.
Then the one obvious thing jumps out. It's going to be easy as hell to crack. By simply using a proxy or screwing with the system date, one could easily by pass all of this non-sense.
Now if this happened in America, we would just spend a couple billion dollars and find someone to blame real quick, afterwards there would be a bunch of press conferences and we would claim that they destroyed the enigma. The criminals would then hire the "dream team" and sue the government for pointing guns at them.
Due process is due process. The child molestor was just an example and I understand people are wrongfully accused which is why I don't support just killing them but what I was trying to get at is that a Judge should be limited to imposing restrictions only when a defendant is convicted of a crime. There was no trial charging Rambus of "Malicious Prosecution" and therefore no such restrictions should be placed. Besides, it creates IMHO it's a stupid move because the Judge is obviously bias which just allows Rambus to appeal any case that may goto court further harming the other party involved.
In the eyes of the law, a corporation is an individual entity. Any high school economics class will teach you that. Noone is disputing if Rambus' pratices are morally correct. In my opinion, I would love it if they took child molestors and shot them on site but even child molestors are entitled to due process as is any corporation. This isn't a victory for the little guy, but just another precident that can be used to squash the little guy. Slashdot will be the first place to have a bunch of people screaming due process but if we want to fight against this kind of thing it has to be in a legal way.
Actually, a corporation is the same as an individual and is therefore entitled to the same rights. Although it is not a criminal case, due process is still required. There is no clause in the fifth admendment about only applying to criminal cases. I did not realize though that this was an ITC judge not a Federal judge so I don't think the fifth admendment applies anyway.
"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury... nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;"
I cannot see how imposing such a broad restriction without a trial can be seen as due process.
No, you misunderstand. As I assume you know there is a difference between being "cleared" and having a need to know. If you have a large system of many different parts, you don't want to give access to everyone who gets a simple security clearance. So, someone can have an unclass account on a secret network who has clearance but no need to know for certain classified data. A network with no security hierarchy would seem to me to be a scary thing. And, SIPRNET is indirectly connected to the internet. And you right, all communications are encrypted, but it's still a hole. Internal theft is not that big of a crime, but I have work on systems in other countries and Internal theft is one of their top priorities. Take the breaches at Los Alamos for example...
As much as this is a good thing, part of it seems scary to me. Corporations do go about looking only to take on cases they think they can win and although this is a problem, wouldn't the solution be to create a law against such a thing? It scares me that a Judge has enough power to put such a restriction on a company without some kind of law to back it up. As much as people may celebrate such a decision here, everyone screams out about constitutional rights when a "hacker" is slapped with some ridiculus ruling such as not being able to use any computer device for x-period of time until pending one thing or another. This ruling seems to go beyond punishment and seems to infringe upon our 5th Admendment rights.
Emacs is a beast. It has a full lisp interpreter. I don't trust any language that relies so much on freaking parans... Another problem with Emacs is that noone is there to guarentee it's security. If something goes wrong there is no scapegoat, something that companies don't like.
A PC based TiVo-like service will never be as popular as a set-top box based system. I know I don't like watching TV on my PC and since I use Linux, getting TV tuners to work properly is quite a trick (I am currently using WinTV). I think projects like LART have a greater chance of an Open TiVo system is someone would develop a proper daughterboard for MPEG compression/decompression.
What this article doesn't point out is the difference between a classified network and a normal network. On a classified network there are both unclassified and classified accounts. All software installed on a classified computer must be approved for use on the network. This often requires a strong investigation into the security of the program. I work for a defense contractor and we had a very hard time getting emacs installed because it had to be proven to be secure. If a person on an unclassified account was able to exploit this apparent hacked together chat program running on a classified account, then he could theoritically gain access to classified data. The threat is real and there is usually a seperate network that is unclassified that is open to the internet which should of been used for such a system. Something that is rather interesting is that Internet Explorer is considered to "insecure" to be used on both an unclassified network and classified network.
Although it might not seem right at first, these employee should be punished as this was a true security violation. The best way to secure a network is to not to avoid things that are known to be unsafe, but only allow things that are known to be safe.
What I don't understand is that no one ever mentions the fact that gaming consoles are limited by low resolutions TV sets. Gaming consoles are starting to reach the end of their life. When HDTV takes off, I predict computers being integrated into entertainment systems. Besides, this article seems useless in nature because there is no way that a higher frame rate is really going to effect a gaming system that uses low rate display to begin with.
What has slashdot come to when the post stories who sources are freaking net-admins for publics schools.
""Destroy their servers and fire them," says Jeff Shapiro, director of technology for the Kingsport, Tenn., public schools."
You've got to be kidding me. What power does this guy have. Just because he controls 50 Windows boxes in some lame Novell network in Bumsville, Idaho doesn't mean his opinion has any crediblity or is slashdot worthy.
Open source friend is a programmer's best friend. We all know the benefits it has had in the industry. The only problem with it is that is it not very easy to make money off of. The air-traffic control system is an incredibly complicated system. Although it may be easy to make it open, one of the ways that money is regained is by selling (much like most government projects). In fact, the US just cut a deal with Norway for some rediculas amount to sell part of the Defense System. If it were open source, then it could not be resold. I don't think there are too many good ways to make that much money from open source code so until that day, don't expect government projects to switch over.
I work in as a consultant for the government and it pisses me off to see so many employees goofing off at work. If people did what they are supposed to do, then the government wouldn't need to hire consultants. It doesn't bother me that people read personal email but people will spend all their time online and NOT get their work done. It just really pisses me off.
Diversified has been marking this bot for some time now. IMHO I think it pales in comparision to the Pocketbot which is marketed by Diversified and is much more upgradable. The only problem I have is that the components for these robots are extremely inexpensive and they have prices that are far to expensive respectively. The stamp chip is only $50 and the motors are literally pennies at surplus stores.
Slashdot Mirror
Threads are notariously hard to debug. Linux threads have been in my experience especially hard. Make sure your using the latest kernel as there are some problems with the If you think about it, how would one debug a highly threaded application? What would you do with something that had 20+ threads? I can just imagine a programmer sitting there switching between terminal...
Yet another reason why I don't use Windows or AOL.
Now, all we need is some way to keep RMS from complaining that the electricity that's running it all is not GPL compatible...
http://www.furbyupgrade.20m.com
The kits can be purchased for $65 from the following site.
http://canada-shops.com/stores/furbyupgrade/
Hope this helps.
Then the one obvious thing jumps out. It's going to be easy as hell to crack. By simply using a proxy or screwing with the system date, one could easily by pass all of this non-sense.
This seems like a dumb move even for M$...
Damn British always doing things backwards!
Due process is due process. The child molestor was just an example and I understand people are wrongfully accused which is why I don't support just killing them but what I was trying to get at is that a Judge should be limited to imposing restrictions only when a defendant is convicted of a crime. There was no trial charging Rambus of "Malicious Prosecution" and therefore no such restrictions should be placed. Besides, it creates IMHO it's a stupid move because the Judge is obviously bias which just allows Rambus to appeal any case that may goto court further harming the other party involved.
In the eyes of the law, a corporation is an individual entity. Any high school economics class will teach you that. Noone is disputing if Rambus' pratices are morally correct. In my opinion, I would love it if they took child molestors and shot them on site but even child molestors are entitled to due process as is any corporation. This isn't a victory for the little guy, but just another precident that can be used to squash the little guy. Slashdot will be the first place to have a bunch of people screaming due process but if we want to fight against this kind of thing it has to be in a legal way.
Actually, a corporation is the same as an individual and is therefore entitled to the same rights. Although it is not a criminal case, due process is still required. There is no clause in the fifth admendment about only applying to criminal cases. I did not realize though that this was an ITC judge not a Federal judge so I don't think the fifth admendment applies anyway.
I cannot see how imposing such a broad restriction without a trial can be seen as due process.
And that's Mr. Mason to you pal...
No, you misunderstand. As I assume you know there is a difference between being "cleared" and having a need to know. If you have a large system of many different parts, you don't want to give access to everyone who gets a simple security clearance. So, someone can have an unclass account on a secret network who has clearance but no need to know for certain classified data. A network with no security hierarchy would seem to me to be a scary thing. And, SIPRNET is indirectly connected to the internet. And you right, all communications are encrypted, but it's still a hole. Internal theft is not that big of a crime, but I have work on systems in other countries and Internal theft is one of their top priorities. Take the breaches at Los Alamos for example...
Thats just how I see it though...
Emacs is a beast. It has a full lisp interpreter. I don't trust any language that relies so much on freaking parans... Another problem with Emacs is that noone is there to guarentee it's security. If something goes wrong there is no scapegoat, something that companies don't like.
A PC based TiVo-like service will never be as popular as a set-top box based system. I know I don't like watching TV on my PC and since I use Linux, getting TV tuners to work properly is quite a trick (I am currently using WinTV). I think projects like LART have a greater chance of an Open TiVo system is someone would develop a proper daughterboard for MPEG compression/decompression.
Although it might not seem right at first, these employee should be punished as this was a true security violation. The best way to secure a network is to not to avoid things that are known to be unsafe, but only allow things that are known to be safe.
Bush wins
Gore conseeds
Florida is between 556 votes
Gore retracts consession
Is there ever a greater need for wired voting booths that would provide instant feedback...
What I don't understand is that no one ever mentions the fact that gaming consoles are limited by low resolutions TV sets. Gaming consoles are starting to reach the end of their life. When HDTV takes off, I predict computers being integrated into entertainment systems. Besides, this article seems useless in nature because there is no way that a higher frame rate is really going to effect a gaming system that uses low rate display to begin with.
What can I say... This has to be the coolest thing I've ever seen. Unforunately this is probably vaporish but it's still nice to dream.
What has slashdot come to when the post stories who sources are freaking net-admins for publics schools. ""Destroy their servers and fire them," says Jeff Shapiro, director of technology for the Kingsport, Tenn., public schools." You've got to be kidding me. What power does this guy have. Just because he controls 50 Windows boxes in some lame Novell network in Bumsville, Idaho doesn't mean his opinion has any crediblity or is slashdot worthy.
Open source friend is a programmer's best friend. We all know the benefits it has had in the industry. The only problem with it is that is it not very easy to make money off of. The air-traffic control system is an incredibly complicated system. Although it may be easy to make it open, one of the ways that money is regained is by selling (much like most government projects). In fact, the US just cut a deal with Norway for some rediculas amount to sell part of the Defense System. If it were open source, then it could not be resold. I don't think there are too many good ways to make that much money from open source code so until that day, don't expect government projects to switch over.
I work in as a consultant for the government and it pisses me off to see so many employees goofing off at work. If people did what they are supposed to do, then the government wouldn't need to hire consultants. It doesn't bother me that people read personal email but people will spend all their time online and NOT get their work done. It just really pisses me off.
Diversified has been marking this bot for some time now. IMHO I think it pales in comparision to the Pocketbot which is marketed by Diversified and is much more upgradable. The only problem I have is that the components for these robots are extremely inexpensive and they have prices that are far to expensive respectively. The stamp chip is only $50 and the motors are literally pennies at surplus stores.