It would be nice to have the 15" option available, but perhaps the Apple engineers simply found that fitting a G5 iMac into a 15" display enclosure simply wasn't an option. It's a shame, but there's always the eMac, I guess...
I'd guess that depends on whether your wireless network would be attached to the school's network. If yes, then it should still be well within the school's rights to include a clause in their network's acceptable use policy prohibiting the creation of any unauthorized wireless access points on their network. If no, on the other hand, this decision may provide a useful precedent.
Yikes, I would sure consider that a pretty serious breach of ethics, if nothing else... happen to have a link handy to an online copy of the relevant warranty clause(s), by any chance?
I noticed this issue on my Linksys BEFW11S4 v.4 802.11b wireless router as well, with the latest available firmware (1.50). I managed to get around the problem by telling the router to forward port 80 traffic to a non-existent host on my network - until my new, non-Linksys, router arrives in the mail, that is.
Koolio was conceived as part of the Intelligent Machines Design Laboratory, a graduate-level class here at the University of Florida in which students spend an entire semester developing their own robots to perform various tasks. The IMDL just had a media expo a couple of days back, and you can find more pictures and information about Koolio and the other robots at the following address:
Exactly. Just last night there was a blurb on CNN that mentioned these new processors, after which the news anchor told the audience that these revolutionary new phones would surely protect them from the hacker threat. Kind of makes you wonder who was really writing his lines...
But this is entirely about the DMCA, not Apple's terms of service. Apple would have no case to ask SF to take the file down based on their iTunes terms of service alone, because neither SourceForge nor PlayFair's authors broke Apple's TOS in posting PlayFair.
Maybe offtopic, maybe not, but I'd just like to add that I have the same problem with my Aironet 350 and Fedora Core 1; poking around on Usenet, it doesn't appear that we are alone with these problems. Word of mouth is that there's some kind of bug in Fedora's wireless scripts causing these troubles.
Has anybody had any luck with their Aironet 350 PCMCIA cards and this Fedora Core 2 testing distribution? Or with Fedora Core 1, for that matter? The Aironet 350 is quite a popular wireless card, and it actually has a good, open source driver provided by Cisco... it's a real shame to have such a grevious bug in an otherwise impressive GNU/Linux distribution.
The American Heritage Dictionary's definition of the word "terrorize" includes:
terrorizen. 2. To coerce by intimidation or fear.
And that, essentially, is what the Recording Industry is achieving with these lawsuits. Right or wrong, they cannot possibly sue everybody who illegally redistributes their music over the popular file sharing networks; the best they can hope to accomplish is to file suit against enough people to scare the rest into submission. I believe that this is what the grandparent poster meant by calling the RIAA's methods "a weak terrorist-like tactic".
(I do agree with you, though - the word "terrorism" is unbelievably overused nowadays.)
Well you certainly would see some more viruses written for OS X if, as you say, the marketshare of Windows and Apple were switched. However, OS X discourages users from running applciations as root or administrator, so what a virus can actually do when running on a BSD-based OS X system is far less harmful that what a virus is free to accomplish on XP, where users have administrative permissions by default.
As for Windows XP's real problems, such as vulnerabilities to RPC worms and the like... that's just something that OS X users don't have to worry nearly as much about, especially without a RPC service that cannot be disabled (seriously, WTF, Microsoft?). Take a look at how many remote root vulnerabilities have existed for Windows XP, as opposed to OS X, and you'll see what I mean. In short, there is more to Mac OS X's invulnerability to recent virus and worm waves than its relative lack of popularity.
(Warning: Entering Mac fanboy mode.) And as for your statement that Macs are better for those who know nothing about computers: Yes, they are, but I would add that Macs can be better for people who know a whole lot about computers, as well. If you have used an OS X machine and seen the potential of a UNIX system with an Apple interface, you can probably understand why many of my friends and I in my school's electrical and computer engineering department are switching over to Apples.
You're very right - wearing headphones does create a sort of "social bubble" around oneself, which people are often reluctant to break casually.
Two weeks ago at the University of Florida, the school was gearing up for its annual Student Government elections. The most memorable part of this yearly tradition is being continuously harassed for votes by members of both major parties as one walks through campus. It is no exaggeration to say that the week before elections, it can be hard to walk fifty feet without being approached.
Needless to say, repeatedly being approached - and in some cases followed - by people essentially trying to sell an idea to you isn't terribly fun. So, at the suggestion of my friends, I started wearing headphones during my walks between classes. I wasn't even listening to anything, actually; the headphone cord just dangled loose in my pocket. But after I started wearing the headphones, only one person tried to make an unsolicited bid for my vote, and she was easily dismissed by quickly pointing to my headphones. (I know how rude and cynical that might sound, but I'm sure that if you've ever seen UF during the week before SG elections, you would condone my behavior.)
Dismissing party campaigners was a fun little social experiment, and it's interesting that somebody has decided to study these effects formally. This seems like a worthwhile area of investigation, in my opinion...
The XBox's DVD remote uses the JVC infared "instruction set". So if you have a programmable remote that you prefer, you should be able to program it to interface with a JVC DVD player and, in theory, use it to control your XBox.
We very likely will see it on everything soon... but that might just be the downfall of this currency copy-protection scheme in the end.
If half the images out there cannot be copied due to abuse of this watermark, that will only increase the demand for copiers and scanners that do not respect the watermark - assuming this scheme hasn't been codified into law at that point in time.
In other news... the Goverment hit the mandated shutdown button for all Apache servers in Iraq as part of the war effort. GW Bush has said "We supported the software with our money, we have every right to shut down all communications of any nation we are at war with".
If you are implying that the US government (or any other large, powerful entity) might use such financial rewards as an excuse for placing their own back doors in open source software, I really don't think that this is a big concern. Keep in mind that open source software can be audited and modified by anybody; if such a back door were placed in one branch of the Apache project by the US government, anybody else would be free to create a fork of Apache that does not include the back door.
Well I think I know what the real cause of this failure is. If you take a look at the photo accompanying the BBC story, you can clearly see that instead of doing their jobs, all this time the mission support staff has been pre-occupied by a two-way game of Tetris!
Sheesh. How can we expect these people to properly land a delicate scientific instrument on Mars, if they can't even pretend to be working when a cameraman walks by?
If this patch gets the press coverage that it deserves, maybe people will learn to take Microsoft's claims of better security response rates than those open-source folk, with a grain of salt.
Or maybe Microsoft will actually start working harder to keep their software secure in a timely manner?
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Unfortunately, this weapon might not prove terribly effective against the kind folks at SCO.
It would be nice to have the 15" option available, but perhaps the Apple engineers simply found that fitting a G5 iMac into a 15" display enclosure simply wasn't an option. It's a shame, but there's always the eMac, I guess...
No mod points right now, so I'll just say it: very astute.
Here is a link to the ruling itself, for those interested:
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/ DA-04-1844A1.pdf
I'd guess that depends on whether your wireless network would be attached to the school's network. If yes, then it should still be well within the school's rights to include a clause in their network's acceptable use policy prohibiting the creation of any unauthorized wireless access points on their network. If no, on the other hand, this decision may provide a useful precedent.
Yikes, I would sure consider that a pretty serious breach of ethics, if nothing else... happen to have a link handy to an online copy of the relevant warranty clause(s), by any chance?
Prior art?
I noticed this issue on my Linksys BEFW11S4 v.4 802.11b wireless router as well, with the latest available firmware (1.50). I managed to get around the problem by telling the router to forward port 80 traffic to a non-existent host on my network - until my new, non-Linksys, router arrives in the mail, that is.
Whoops, thanks for correcting that.
Koolio was conceived as part of the Intelligent Machines Design Laboratory, a graduate-level class here at the University of Florida in which students spend an entire semester developing their own robots to perform various tasks. The IMDL just had a media expo a couple of days back, and you can find more pictures and information about Koolio and the other robots at the following address:
http://www.mil.ufl.edu/imdl/Mark
Exactly. Just last night there was a blurb on CNN that mentioned these new processors, after which the news anchor told the audience that these revolutionary new phones would surely protect them from the hacker threat. Kind of makes you wonder who was really writing his lines...
But this is entirely about the DMCA, not Apple's terms of service. Apple would have no case to ask SF to take the file down based on their iTunes terms of service alone, because neither SourceForge nor PlayFair's authors broke Apple's TOS in posting PlayFair.
Maybe offtopic, maybe not, but I'd just like to add that I have the same problem with my Aironet 350 and Fedora Core 1; poking around on Usenet, it doesn't appear that we are alone with these problems. Word of mouth is that there's some kind of bug in Fedora's wireless scripts causing these troubles.
Has anybody had any luck with their Aironet 350 PCMCIA cards and this Fedora Core 2 testing distribution? Or with Fedora Core 1, for that matter? The Aironet 350 is quite a popular wireless card, and it actually has a good, open source driver provided by Cisco... it's a real shame to have such a grevious bug in an otherwise impressive GNU/Linux distribution.
The American Heritage Dictionary's definition of the word "terrorize" includes:
And that, essentially, is what the Recording Industry is achieving with these lawsuits. Right or wrong, they cannot possibly sue everybody who illegally redistributes their music over the popular file sharing networks; the best they can hope to accomplish is to file suit against enough people to scare the rest into submission. I believe that this is what the grandparent poster meant by calling the RIAA's methods "a weak terrorist-like tactic".
(I do agree with you, though - the word "terrorism" is unbelievably overused nowadays.)
Well you certainly would see some more viruses written for OS X if, as you say, the marketshare of Windows and Apple were switched. However, OS X discourages users from running applciations as root or administrator, so what a virus can actually do when running on a BSD-based OS X system is far less harmful that what a virus is free to accomplish on XP, where users have administrative permissions by default.
As for Windows XP's real problems, such as vulnerabilities to RPC worms and the like... that's just something that OS X users don't have to worry nearly as much about, especially without a RPC service that cannot be disabled (seriously, WTF, Microsoft?). Take a look at how many remote root vulnerabilities have existed for Windows XP, as opposed to OS X, and you'll see what I mean. In short, there is more to Mac OS X's invulnerability to recent virus and worm waves than its relative lack of popularity.
(Warning: Entering Mac fanboy mode.) And as for your statement that Macs are better for those who know nothing about computers: Yes, they are, but I would add that Macs can be better for people who know a whole lot about computers, as well. If you have used an OS X machine and seen the potential of a UNIX system with an Apple interface, you can probably understand why many of my friends and I in my school's electrical and computer engineering department are switching over to Apples.
You're very right - wearing headphones does create a sort of "social bubble" around oneself, which people are often reluctant to break casually.
Two weeks ago at the University of Florida, the school was gearing up for its annual Student Government elections. The most memorable part of this yearly tradition is being continuously harassed for votes by members of both major parties as one walks through campus. It is no exaggeration to say that the week before elections, it can be hard to walk fifty feet without being approached.
Needless to say, repeatedly being approached - and in some cases followed - by people essentially trying to sell an idea to you isn't terribly fun. So, at the suggestion of my friends, I started wearing headphones during my walks between classes. I wasn't even listening to anything, actually; the headphone cord just dangled loose in my pocket. But after I started wearing the headphones, only one person tried to make an unsolicited bid for my vote, and she was easily dismissed by quickly pointing to my headphones. (I know how rude and cynical that might sound, but I'm sure that if you've ever seen UF during the week before SG elections, you would condone my behavior.)
Dismissing party campaigners was a fun little social experiment, and it's interesting that somebody has decided to study these effects formally. This seems like a worthwhile area of investigation, in my opinion...
The XBox's DVD remote uses the JVC infared "instruction set". So if you have a programmable remote that you prefer, you should be able to program it to interface with a JVC DVD player and, in theory, use it to control your XBox.
We very likely will see it on everything soon... but that might just be the downfall of this currency copy-protection scheme in the end.
If half the images out there cannot be copied due to abuse of this watermark, that will only increase the demand for copiers and scanners that do not respect the watermark - assuming this scheme hasn't been codified into law at that point in time.
I imagine this sort of thing could also eventually allow secretaries to be really fast at "typing"...
Or to sum it up: Some windmills flip a few birds, to whom we flip the bird.
In other news... the Goverment hit the mandated shutdown button for all Apache servers in Iraq as part of the war effort. GW Bush has said "We supported the software with our money, we have every right to shut down all communications of any nation we are at war with".
If you are implying that the US government (or any other large, powerful entity) might use such financial rewards as an excuse for placing their own back doors in open source software, I really don't think that this is a big concern. Keep in mind that open source software can be audited and modified by anybody; if such a back door were placed in one branch of the Apache project by the US government, anybody else would be free to create a fork of Apache that does not include the back door.
(Or I did I miss the point here?)
Well I think I know what the real cause of this failure is. If you take a look at the photo accompanying the BBC story, you can clearly see that instead of doing their jobs, all this time the mission support staff has been pre-occupied by a two-way game of Tetris!
Sheesh. How can we expect these people to properly land a delicate scientific instrument on Mars, if they can't even pretend to be working when a cameraman walks by?
If this patch gets the press coverage that it deserves, maybe people will learn to take Microsoft's claims of better security response rates than those open-source folk, with a grain of salt.
Or maybe Microsoft will actually start working harder to keep their software secure in a timely manner?
</fingers_crossed>Well it's a good thing you don't use a TI-86, then... =o)