But you're forgetting something: these are radioactive snails and so might be capable of speeds far in excess of what we usually expect a snail to do, maybe even as high as a 1m/s
Why not make authentication systems three factor: something you have - the card, something you know - the pin, and what you are - biometric -finger print. With the false +ve/-ve rates you can't rely on finger print readers alone but combined with the other two factors you can make a secure system which even if I give you my pin is no use.
Make sure though the fingerprint key is not stored on the card;).
Why not replace the fixed labeled keys with keys with microscreens and change which key is which each and every time - then put a screen around the keyboard so that when you stand behind/next to someone the angle of view is such that you can not make out the legends... then knowing the pattern of keys is useless.
Unresolvable egos have killed many a commercial project stone dead (especially when the subcontractor thinks it knows what the prime contractor wants rather than actually doing what they're told by the relevant subject metter experts).
Unfortunatly along with outstanding coding skills the OSS comunity has its share of egos, and as with an OSS project your job (usually) isn't on the line you can make your point more forceably and with less tact than in a work situation. The only problem is alot of the time both sides of a row are right - just unable to see the common ground and resolve their egos for the good of the project.
I do wonder whether some of this is down to lack of face to face in person meetings between the various parties...
Nope, the BBC props department want it back, Davros is still complaining that they gave his chair away and if its not returned he will unleash his daleks (He's only got the MK I's left so we can all hide upstairs).
Depends on how the politician dies, if its through terrosim then all the sites will be jammed by people claiming responsibility, denying responsibility:)
With Bush and Blair it will be people trying to find out which one of (in the case of Blair) the 60million people in the UK finally lost it with the prat and shot him (Police will no doubt be looking for a large Scottish bloke who lives next door to Blair and was known to have a 'difficult' relationship with the deceased).
Just read this and wonder what the legal position for ISP's will be with regards to caching non-legal P2P files (warez, music files etc)?
With the files being on my PC and served from my PC I'm the responsible party... if the ISP then is caching that data to make it more available (speed/latency/load reduction etc) then the ISP could be deemed to being a party to an illegal act...
AOL CD's (actually any CD) with a small hole drilled in them towards one edge make a wonderful way of scaring birds from crops;) I wonder if some farmer near by went and grabbed a few...
I'd rather that PN had come clean and said the data centre melted rather than some ID10T did rm -rf / on the mailsever;)
And as for backups when the cgi server melted down PN firmly and squarely put the responsiblity for backups on the user not themselves... then when the new server zapped itself as well same again - sorry everyone has lost everything but you'll have backups:) (I did luckly and only lost a couple of minor edits to one or two scripts).
One problem, as pointed out I suspect in other comments, if you speed up the rate of decay you're increasing the emissions so turning a long slow process with nasty emissions into a nice fast process with even worse emission levels.
But the HTML DOM is then passed via what ever browser you're using to your PC's own OS which does the translation from the application to the raw hardware commands. So no this technology does not provide its own HAL. It might (being generous) be considered a proxy but not from my point of view.
Given that this still relies on your browser to certain degree how can this be called an OS?
1. Does it provide a hardware abstraction layer to allow me to access a graphics card (for instance) without caring which graphics card I'm talking to? Doubt it...
2. Does it manange my hardware's resources so each app gets its fair share and a fair crack at getting cpu resources? Nope, uses the browser which in turn will use your native OS...
3. Does it control access permisions between processes so process X can't read/write to process Y's memory directly? Doubt it - again it will be back to the browser's host os.
Take the i of iPod as being I so you could say that iPod == my pod == my music.
Now with M$'s view of the world I suggest oZune == our zune == our (not yours) music - protected by some nice (not) DRM system which will only allow tunes downloaded from what ever store system M$ setup. Attempt to install any music not from M$'s approved vendors and next you connect the device to your PC it will phone home and tell tales on you.
On pont 1, actually coverage of some of the areas of the globe near the poles with Navstar (US GPS) is not briliant due to the orbit paths of the constellation. Galileo will offer a different orbital profile and so potentially (I don't know what the proposed orbits will be) will offer better capabilities in higher latitudes.
Given the effort required to be able to offer support on a third party distro I wonder if over time Oracle will come to the conclusion they can provide their own distro as easily as carry out support for distro over which they have no/limited control.
Trouble is alot of manufacturers like to use F1 to develop technology for road cars - they can then say oh look you can buy our newest car which uses F1 technology;)
Come on editors, look at article dates when reviewing submissions - a story about a story from 12months ago is not exactly keeping your finger on the pulse is it...
Slashdot Mirror
So if I use gcc to compile my own code by a literal interpretation of the clause I must make the software I've compiled open source...
Office worker makes typo and orders 500,000 tongue depressers instead of 50,000
WTF does this have to do with anything, sure someone messed up. The mistake? A typo.
Show me someone who uses a computer day in day out and HAS never once sent an email with a typo, typed a letter containing a typo etc etc etc.
I'm all for a bit of MS bashing where it is due but it is not due here.
Nothing to see here, move along now...
But you're forgetting something: these are radioactive snails and so might be capable of speeds far in excess of what we usually expect a snail to do, maybe even as high as a 1m/s
Why not make authentication systems three factor: something you have - the card, something you know - the pin, and what you are - biometric -finger print. With the false +ve/-ve rates you can't rely on finger print readers alone but combined with the other two factors you can make a secure system which even if I give you my pin is no use.
;).
Make sure though the fingerprint key is not stored on the card
Why not replace the fixed labeled keys with keys with microscreens and change which key is which each and every time - then put a screen around the keyboard so that when you stand behind/next to someone the angle of view is such that you can not make out the legends... then knowing the pattern of keys is useless.
Unresolvable egos have killed many a commercial project stone dead (especially when the subcontractor thinks it knows what the prime contractor wants rather than actually doing what they're told by the relevant subject metter experts).
Unfortunatly along with outstanding coding skills the OSS comunity has its share of egos, and as with an OSS project your job (usually) isn't on the line you can make your point more forceably and with less tact than in a work situation. The only problem is alot of the time both sides of a row are right - just unable to see the common ground and resolve their egos for the good of the project.
I do wonder whether some of this is down to lack of face to face in person meetings between the various parties...
Nope, the BBC props department want it back, Davros is still complaining that they gave his chair away and if its not returned he will unleash his daleks (He's only got the MK I's left so we can all hide upstairs).
Just a few thousand odd satellites and other junk....
Depends on how the politician dies, if its through terrosim then all the sites will be jammed by people claiming responsibility, denying responsibility :)
With Bush and Blair it will be people trying to find out which one of (in the case of Blair) the 60million people in the UK finally lost it with the prat and shot him (Police will no doubt be looking for a large Scottish bloke who lives next door to Blair and was known to have a 'difficult' relationship with the deceased).
Because it deals with a creature with as many brain cells as the average programme manager/financial controller
Alot of us did learn and did leave.
Sad: PN used to be a very good isp.
Oh well, nothing remains the same good companies go bad and die.
Just read this and wonder what the legal position for ISP's will be with regards to caching non-legal P2P files (warez, music files etc)?
With the files being on my PC and served from my PC I'm the responsible party... if the ISP then is caching that data to make it more available (speed/latency/load reduction etc) then the ISP could be deemed to being a party to an illegal act...
AOL CD's (actually any CD) with a small hole drilled in them towards one edge make a wonderful way of scaring birds from crops ;) I wonder if some farmer near by went and grabbed a few...
Problem exists between keyboard and chair?
I'd rather that PN had come clean and said the data centre melted rather than some ID10T did rm -rf / on the mailsever ;)
:) (I did luckly and only lost a couple of minor edits to one or two scripts).
And as for backups when the cgi server melted down PN firmly and squarely put the responsiblity for backups on the user not themselves... then when the new server zapped itself as well same again - sorry everyone has lost everything but you'll have backups
One problem, as pointed out I suspect in other comments, if you speed up the rate of decay you're increasing the emissions so turning a long slow process with nasty emissions into a nice fast process with even worse emission levels.
Ah, but remember any landing you can walk away from is a good one - when you boil it down to the basics a landing is just a controled crash ;)
Given it is put on top of an existing kevlar vest I'd imagine the kevlar layer will stand up to the knife/bayonet part...
But the HTML DOM is then passed via what ever browser you're using to your PC's own OS which does the translation from the application to the raw hardware commands. So no this technology does not provide its own HAL. It might (being generous) be considered a proxy but not from my point of view.
Given that this still relies on your browser to certain degree how can this be called an OS?
1. Does it provide a hardware abstraction layer to allow me to access a graphics card (for instance) without caring which graphics card I'm talking to? Doubt it...
2. Does it manange my hardware's resources so each app gets its fair share and a fair crack at getting cpu resources? Nope, uses the browser which in turn will use your native OS...
3. Does it control access permisions between processes so process X can't read/write to process Y's memory directly? Doubt it - again it will be back to the browser's host os.
Etc etc etc.
Take the i of iPod as being I so you could say that iPod == my pod == my music.
Now with M$'s view of the world I suggest oZune == our zune == our (not yours) music - protected by some nice (not) DRM system which will only allow tunes downloaded from what ever store system M$ setup. Attempt to install any music not from M$'s approved vendors and next you connect the device to your PC it will phone home and tell tales on you.
On pont 1, actually coverage of some of the areas of the globe near the poles with Navstar (US GPS) is not briliant due to the orbit paths of the constellation. Galileo will offer a different orbital profile and so potentially (I don't know what the proposed orbits will be) will offer better capabilities in higher latitudes.
Given the effort required to be able to offer support on a third party distro I wonder if over time Oracle will come to the conclusion they can provide their own distro as easily as carry out support for distro over which they have no/limited control.
Either that or will Oracle end up buying RH?
Trouble is alot of manufacturers like to use F1 to develop technology for road cars - they can then say oh look you can buy our newest car which uses F1 technology ;)
Now that's hardly what I'd call current
Come on editors, look at article dates when reviewing submissions - a story about a story from 12months ago is not exactly keeping your finger on the pulse is it...