Though the airlines "own" the black boxes in planes, they are required to pass muster with the FAA and are (supposedly) routinely checked. I wouldn't put it past a state or two to try this with a tax attached to "cover administrative costs". Especially while most states don't have cash.
Retrofit 40 million existing cars to encrypt the data
Prove or disprove that the data on 40 million existing computers is suspect and should be ignored
Pass laws with stiff penalties to discourage hacking, which probably wouldn't stop it
Trust millions of mechanics not to share the decryption software or somehow prevent it's piracy (we all know how hard that is)
I don't hink it's going to happen for quite a while. Auto makers will pick security through obscurity/obfuscation before they spend money on an insurance industry dilema.
A passive mixer is easy to make, requires no power and can be less redundant. You already have mixers built into each machine (software), so don't waste cash on a mixer. You won't have to throw two switches. Unless you're trying to monitor live feeds, mixing the audio might be a good end result - play MP3s on one machine, while playing a game on another. You can find plans and more by searching.
I actually just daisy chain the inputs of my PCs. Take the line out of one. Plug it into the line in of the next. Rinse. Repeat. The only drawback is trying to keep track of two channels (in and out) on each software mixer instead of just the line outs. The advantage is that the final PC in the chain acts as a master volume.
Since insurance money is involved, I wonder how long it will be before someone tries to hack the data. There are already a couple of sites that are at least documenting some things and doing some tricks. Since the owner of the car generally has or can gain posession of it between when the accident happens and the data is subpeonaed (sp?), there is opportunity. It doesn't seem that the data is encrypted or hidden in any way, probably to make it easy on mechanics (simple and portable software).
The hard part about that is cash on hand. Let's say X2 gets released in this format today. Think of the refund deluge two or three days from now. You have to have a lot of cash on hand (customers want cash, not credit) or balance your real time income to the rush (customers won't wait for you to go to the bank). Any store manager would hate that policy.
From what I heard on NPR, the disks can be ripped and copied. They also likened the expiration process to rust, which I thought was odd.
It should be interesting to see how these effect the storage market and the film industry. Imagine a game that requires a CD that expires in 48 hours. How about a copy of Windows where the install disk fries itself after install? This combined with product activation would be a real pain in the ass.
I assume you're talking about this bright spot on the roof and how it seems to glow, but gets occluded by shadow. From a 3D perspective and what I know it could be any of the following, in least to most likely order:
The level of detail on the polygons is changing and we just happen to catch it at a long ugly spot. There is no odd morphing or shifting of polygons, so this is REALLY unlikely.
The lighting engine or visibility engine is ignoring those polygons completely, as if they are "detail" brushes or some other odd type of brush (an oversite or accepted flaw by the level designer or modeller)
Reversed Normals (the triangle surfaces are facing inward instead of outward - inside out)
But the most likely is that those polygons have some sort of reflection or environment mapping on them. If no light hits a reflective surface, it will not reflect any light.
I was thinking the same exact thing. Microsoft would love it if SCO could kill Linux. I bet they'd be happy to keep SCO afloat for a couple of years. What's a couple of billion $$ when your up and coming competitor gets snuffed in the process? Just remember SCO, MS has a habit of screwing their partners when they have what they want from them. (A lot like the hard drive fucker in an above thread...)
A friend of mine , Will Iverson, has coined a term for this very thing. When something that once held your fascination now seems hokey, it has been "Krulled". Yesssss.... He loved the movie Krull as a boy, but cought it on cable a few years back. Needlesds to say, he saw how much the it actually sucked. I don't even think he finished watching it.
Hey that's cool! I never heard of the outer edge trick. I'll have to give that a try.
I can see that the phono vs. CD debate is still strong. I'm going to do some reading up on the previous responder's comments about infinite bandwidth. I think vinyl may have better resolution than he expects, but I have been wrong before.
Ahh.. Slashdot - Keeping your research honest with good discussion. Or just plain trolling sometimes;)
OK. This comes up every so often, but it must be clarified. Technically, a well cared for record is better quality than a CD. Why? Because sampling "simplifies" a recorded analog waveform. I don't have time to go into too much detail, but read this if you need to know more. Just because records are old tech doesn't mean they suck.
(kneeling at the oracle) I tried Ksamba, but couldn't get it to work or load and didn't get much help from anyone regarding it (this may be why SuSE doesn't include it). Good answer though. Have you gotten it to work?
If you only have one machine or get bored easily, I can see why you would want the ISO images to minimize the actual install time. The SuSE install disk can be found at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/current/boot/boot.iso, but be warned that they don't have the 8.2 directory tree up yet. ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/current/ always has the most recent online version though. Also note that this is the i386 build. If you need another platform (like SPARC or PPC) then look at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/.
That all depends on what is being patched. Services and applications can be re-started, but DLLs and other files that are in use by the operating system itself need a re-boot because file system protections prevent the file from being overwritten. MS just locks files too much.
Once again, MS generates news by stating (or admitting) the obvious. Patching is a pain! Patching takes ($valuable$) time! Patching hogs bandwidth! Patching doesn't always work or may break things!
In other news, the sky has been discovered to be blue and the planet has been proven round....
Technically, I think the FTP install is faster than an ISO install. Think about it. You download ISO images with lots of packages you never use then run the install.
With SuSE, I download a 20 MB "boot" ISO and download only the packages I choose to install during the actual install, literally avoiding hundreds of megs of download. A side effect is that bad and broken packages can be re-downloaded individually. SuSE's Yast program even remembers where you are at in the install. I had the power go out during the 7.1 install without a problem. I just re-booted and it started back up where it left off! Nice and efficient in my opinion.
Holy shit! I turned off my subscription and saw the Dell ad! It sucks! It makes the entire top region of the screen a link for Dell! I'm sending Taco a message witha a screenshot and a link to this thread to let him know.
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Yes you can develop and compile windows apps under linux. I don't know which free compilers will do it, but I've used Kylix with success. Can anyone else point out GPL or free compilers that do the same?
I guess I would have to agree about that. The "floating" and "hovering" ads are such a pain to me because they force you to do something to get them out of the way. You can't just tune out and ignore a region of the web page. Gamespy and the Planetwhatevergame sites are the worst about this. I wish the advertiser had a way to know that this leaves me with a negative view of the product they are trying to push instead of a positive view like they wanted.
I think that may be more of a trick that Dell is pulling with their banner ad code and not something that/. is doing or may even know about (I don't know their policy).
Nope. SWAT isn't installed by default. As for the other GUIs listed at the SMABA site, they either require APACHE (which I'd rather not install on this box) or only support the client (ie: browsing) side of SAMBA.
If only I had the time/knowledge to write something myself. I guess a good follow up to my query would be "Does anyone know of a comprehensive SAMBA util that needs non-programmer help?"
If you love/., then throw down the $15 bucks for the subscription. It's well worth it....Or you could just go read some other news site without ads. If there are any left.
I opted for the RPM because nVidia warns of dire consequences with SaX2 configuration otherwise.
Oddly enough, I did just the opposite by using SuSE's "update" feature and it worked flawlessly (even for my TNT2 M64 which is notorious for problems). This is a huge improvement from 7.x, under which I could never get an NVidia card to work right.
SuSE (and other distros) sadly lack an easy way to share a directory under SAMBA. There are a few utilities to browse windows shares and mount them, but nothing to create a share with a GUI. I can't believe I've been mucking around with samba.conf since 5.X! Having it built into Konqueror would be great, but I dream. Has anyone found GUI tools for SAMBA that work well?
By the way, SuSE can't use the SMB Python library, so the killer SAMBA Python GUI isn't possible under SuSE. Such a bummer, because there already is a great tool written under Python. I don't remember the name off the top of my head though.
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Though the airlines "own" the black boxes in planes, they are required to pass muster with the FAA and are (supposedly) routinely checked. I wouldn't put it past a state or two to try this with a tax attached to "cover administrative costs". Especially while most states don't have cash.
- Redesign/retool software and hardware technology to handle encryption
(the US alone produces 15 million cars per year, just 25% of world production)
- Retrofit 40 million existing cars to encrypt the data
- Prove or disprove that the data on 40 million existing computers is suspect and should be ignored
- Pass laws with stiff penalties to discourage hacking, which probably wouldn't stop it
- Trust millions of mechanics not to share the decryption software or somehow prevent it's piracy (we all know how hard that is)
I don't hink it's going to happen for quite a while. Auto makers will pick security through obscurity/obfuscation before they spend money on an insurance industry dilema.I actually just daisy chain the inputs of my PCs. Take the line out of one. Plug it into the line in of the next. Rinse. Repeat. The only drawback is trying to keep track of two channels (in and out) on each software mixer instead of just the line outs. The advantage is that the final PC in the chain acts as a master volume.
Since insurance money is involved, I wonder how long it will be before someone tries to hack the data. There are already a couple of sites that are at least documenting some things and doing some tricks. Since the owner of the car generally has or can gain posession of it between when the accident happens and the data is subpeonaed (sp?), there is opportunity. It doesn't seem that the data is encrypted or hidden in any way, probably to make it easy on mechanics (simple and portable software).
The hard part about that is cash on hand. Let's say X2 gets released in this format today. Think of the refund deluge two or three days from now. You have to have a lot of cash on hand (customers want cash, not credit) or balance your real time income to the rush (customers won't wait for you to go to the bank). Any store manager would hate that policy.
It should be interesting to see how these effect the storage market and the film industry. Imagine a game that requires a CD that expires in 48 hours. How about a copy of Windows where the install disk fries itself after install? This combined with product activation would be a real pain in the ass.
Except the guy on the grassy knoll has a railgun and a rocket launcher!
Doh, up too late... didn't read that well enough... The interior of the car is lit, so the interior doesn't really pass through shadow.
- The level of detail on the polygons is changing and we just happen to catch it at a long ugly spot. There is no odd morphing or shifting of polygons, so this is REALLY unlikely.
- The lighting engine or visibility engine is ignoring those polygons completely, as if they are "detail" brushes or some other odd type of brush (an oversite or accepted flaw by the level designer or modeller)
- Reversed Normals (the triangle surfaces are facing inward instead of outward - inside out)
- But the most likely is that those polygons have some sort of reflection or environment mapping on them. If no light hits a reflective surface, it will not reflect any light.
Just my opinion. Hope that helps...I was thinking the same exact thing. Microsoft would love it if SCO could kill Linux. I bet they'd be happy to keep SCO afloat for a couple of years. What's a couple of billion $$ when your up and coming competitor gets snuffed in the process? Just remember SCO, MS has a habit of screwing their partners when they have what they want from them. (A lot like the hard drive fucker in an above thread...)
A friend of mine , Will Iverson, has coined a term for this very thing. When something that once held your fascination now seems hokey, it has been "Krulled". Yesssss.... He loved the movie Krull as a boy, but cought it on cable a few years back. Needlesds to say, he saw how much the it actually sucked. I don't even think he finished watching it.
I can see that the phono vs. CD debate is still strong. I'm going to do some reading up on the previous responder's comments about infinite bandwidth. I think vinyl may have better resolution than he expects, but I have been wrong before.
Ahh.. Slashdot - Keeping your research honest with good discussion. Or just plain trolling sometimes ;)
Thanks for the great comments folks!
OK. This comes up every so often, but it must be clarified. Technically, a well cared for record is better quality than a CD. Why? Because sampling "simplifies" a recorded analog waveform. I don't have time to go into too much detail, but read this if you need to know more. Just because records are old tech doesn't mean they suck.
(kneeling at the oracle) I tried Ksamba, but couldn't get it to work or load and didn't get much help from anyone regarding it (this may be why SuSE doesn't include it). Good answer though. Have you gotten it to work?
If you only have one machine or get bored easily, I can see why you would want the ISO images to minimize the actual install time. The SuSE install disk can be found at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/current/boot/boot .iso, but be warned that they don't have the 8.2 directory tree up yet. ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/current/ always has the most recent online version though. Also note that this is the i386 build. If you need another platform (like SPARC or PPC) then look at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/.
That all depends on what is being patched. Services and applications can be re-started, but DLLs and other files that are in use by the operating system itself need a re-boot because file system protections prevent the file from being overwritten. MS just locks files too much.
Quick! Get Bezos! We've got to file a patent on Bad Code before anyone else does!
In other news, the sky has been discovered to be blue and the planet has been proven round....
With SuSE, I download a 20 MB "boot" ISO and download only the packages I choose to install during the actual install, literally avoiding hundreds of megs of download. A side effect is that bad and broken packages can be re-downloaded individually. SuSE's Yast program even remembers where you are at in the install. I had the power go out during the 7.1 install without a problem. I just re-booted and it started back up where it left off! Nice and efficient in my opinion.
Holy shit! I turned off my subscription and saw the Dell ad! It sucks! It makes the entire top region of the screen a link for Dell! I'm sending Taco a message witha a screenshot and a link to this thread to let him know.
Yes you can develop and compile windows apps under linux. I don't know which free compilers will do it, but I've used Kylix with success. Can anyone else point out GPL or free compilers that do the same?
I think that may be more of a trick that Dell is pulling with their banner ad code and not something that /. is doing or may even know about (I don't know their policy).
If only I had the time/knowledge to write something myself. I guess a good follow up to my query would be "Does anyone know of a comprehensive SAMBA util that needs non-programmer help?"
If you love /., then throw down the $15 bucks for the subscription. It's well worth it. ...Or you could just go read some other news site without ads. If there are any left.
SuSE (and other distros) sadly lack an easy way to share a directory under SAMBA. There are a few utilities to browse windows shares and mount them, but nothing to create a share with a GUI. I can't believe I've been mucking around with samba.conf since 5.X! Having it built into Konqueror would be great, but I dream. Has anyone found GUI tools for SAMBA that work well?
By the way, SuSE can't use the SMB Python library, so the killer SAMBA Python GUI isn't possible under SuSE. Such a bummer, because there already is a great tool written under Python. I don't remember the name off the top of my head though.