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1.5 billion expected viewers and the story has to be submitted by the one slashdot editor who sounds like he could care less? Come on, you can't *all* have slept through this...
I am disgusted at your comparison of the act of blocking websites to the murdering of thousands of innocent people. No, neither is good. But neither Cisco nor the murdered souls deserve such a comparison.
if you trained a bunch of monkeys to recognize credit card numbers, sat them down and let them click away for hours on end, who knows what they would find?
then again, if we could train those same monkeys to fill out the stack of credit card applications I get in the mail all the time...
at least search engines don't have to deal with popups...
Hey, back when I had an Atari (newer ones, after tape drives), about 90% of the programs you could get were "Public Domain" - small utilities that you could get on disks for free, with the notice "If you like it, send money. If you send a bit more money you get the documentation, and with even more I might send you the source..."
"...do we also have to worry about Microsoft messing with moble messaging?"
I don't see how Microsoft fits in on this issue, probably because it isn't clear what "email-based" actually means. AFAIK SMSs are recieved and sent by the mobile phone companies' SMS servers to and from the phones and among each other (yeah, that's probably a *really* simplified version of how it actually works;) so they never even see the light of the Internet.
If you mean services that route your emails to your cell phone (which have to be provided by the people running your email account - BTW, often done by hooking a cell phone to the server that is used to send the SMS, pretty cool hack), and services that send your SMSs as emails (normally your cell phone company), then you shouldn't be worried. As long as MS doesn't take over the cell phone company it can be done completely independent of them;-)
At the CeBit in Hannover on Saturday I was able to hold and play with a ProGear webpad from Frontpath. It features a 400MHz Crusoe and a about 10" touchscreen display. It runs Transmeta's Midori Linux. In the demo version they were running Netscape (only), the X Server let you rotate the view in all directions, and it supports a (not yet finished) handwriting support (and of course on-screen keyboard). In the completed version it will support other applications (i.e. probably be a full Linux system). It was linked up with a WaveLan card and the overall performance was impressive. (From what I heard a touchscreen that big is a pretty tricky thing to implement.) This might be a nice alternative to a MS WebPad, especially for people who like to play with such things - it features almost all the things this MS WebPad will have, and it comes with Linux;-)
On the other hand, the people there from Frontpath said that at the moment they are concentrating more on B2B deals - many businesses want to use it for things like taking inverntory, medial purposes, etc. Whether or not this will catch on with the general public remains to be seen... but with all the places that have wavelans set up, it might soon be possible to surf anywhere, anytime;-)
In a surprising announcement made today by a Microsoft spokesperson, the software giant said that it was filing a lawsuit against the United States Department of Justice, stating that in many of its legagl documents, the DOJ had forgotten to add "those little (TM) signs" behind Microsoft(TM) product names. "We have counted 53,236 violations until now and are continuing to find more," a lawyer for the company(TM) said. "We are suing for USD50K per violation."
Insiders report that Microsoft(TM) will also be filing suit against Linus Torvalds and "the rest of the dang Open Source movement", claiming that they violated fedral trademark and copyright laws by creating an "operating system(TM)(R)(C)."
It seems that people are forgetting something:
Normally, the browser sends the request to the server (possibly through the proxy), but in look-ahead proxying the proxy has to generate the request. Since it is normally caching for many users, it would have to leave out information such as cookies and user auth - in other words, huge bunches of the pages the proxy grabs may have the same URL, but would not at all be what the user actually wants when he clicks on the link!
I agree that it may be neccessary to exceed the limit in very rare cases, but otherwise not.
AFAIK (at least in Europe), you are not allowed to go over the speed limit even if you are passing someone. Sure it's annoying if somebody is going 80 where 90 is allowed (km/h, that is), but they have every right to do so, and if they're nice then they will slow down to let you pass safely.
It's never "sensible" to exceed the speed limit - it's simply illegal.
The speed limits imposed in some places may seem wrongly placed, but you gotta remember that a lot of traffic laws came from plain old experience.
A long time ago (few years, so no links anymore, sorry), I read about a interesting-looking car that sort of did the same thing - it had built-in camerars and could read road signs... and it would follow them. Nowadays they have cars that drive by themselves anyway (prototypes, that is), so a road-sign reading car is probably not so far-fetched. The idea in this article is the same thing only executed differently. (Not that that's a bad thing, but it's just as hackable)
I like this article because it has hard facts and doesn't seem to have the standard media hype tone about how Linux will revolutionze the desktop, topple MS, take over the world, and declare world peace. (MS, on the other hand, would declare world FUD.)
Linux is a mighty fine OS, but there are others out there that people will still want to use. So may all *nix*es unite and take over the world *together*! Can we say... Beowulf? Or... MOSIX?
The url is www.speakfreely.org, but the server seems to be down right now.
I haven't used it for conferencing with more than one person, but I can agree that I like it in its simplicity:-) One nice thing is that it features various encryption standards (including PGP, using your already existing keys), and you can turn on more than one encryption type at once.
Yeah, the Transrapid is a German development - it's more like the Germans finally sold the thing to China (*that's* the achievement). Loads of resources were poured into developing this thing, and since the German Environmentalist Party blocked the planned Berlin-Hamburg line, the people who developed it obviously didn't want to simply drop the project. Germany has pretty good relations with China, and and the whole Shanghai thing got rolling when some of their top leaders came over to test-ride the train and liked it a lot.
This may be a bit offtopic, but I always love hearing stories from "back then" (yes I admit I haven't been around that long...). Maybe there are a few "old-timers" around/. with a few stories from that time?
As long as there is open source, we'll have hackers (programmers) messing around in the source. Even if Linux turns into something like the commecial *nix*es, I'd say a great percentage of the/. community could care less, cause we can still build our own distro from scratch if we wanna:-)
As for end-users, well... I haven't yet seen a Linux distro that comes close enough to something like Windows in terms of easy installation, use, and especially configuration. When that comes into existence on the level that home users are used to we can talk about it...
...I think the pad of paper is kind of overkill. I don't see much of a difference between writing on a piece of paper and having the computer pick it up and drawing on the screen and printing it out - the latter probably being more accurate - what if the paper moves around, you never run out of paper... oh yeah, and erasing is quite a bit easier and cleaner, too...
A notebook with a touchscreen is enough, I'd say (and you could sill leave off the keyboard and mouse... damn, that would be a pretty cool! Star Trek Padds, anyone?).
Handwriting recognition is neat though. The Newton MessagePad, when correctly set up, will pick up around 95% of what I write (provided I'm not messy:) ), or I can just set it to "script" mode, which just takes what I write as a bitmap and sizes it down... If they had something like that as a notebook I'd be taking that baby to classes:-)
Then again, lots of warez groups add their own.nfo files, so you end up with a completely different hash for practically the same file.
Unless you got creative and your hash system opened up zip/rar files and disregarded.nfo's:)
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1.5 billion expected viewers and the story has to be submitted by the one slashdot editor who sounds like he could care less? Come on, you can't *all* have slept through this...
Anyone notice the heading of one of the "reports" on that site?
"Trends in Large Data Centers - Candid Interviews with 300 Top Executives" - Based on candid interviews with 300 IT Executives.
... and I almost thought they'd base a report like that on the random utterings of 300 monkeys...
...but it didn't uninstall nearly as clean...
I am disgusted at your comparison of the act of blocking websites to the murdering of thousands of innocent people. No, neither is good. But neither Cisco nor the murdered souls deserve such a comparison.
One word: Gnucleus!
it's for Windows, and if you want, you can compile it yourself! :)
if you trained a bunch of monkeys to recognize credit card numbers, sat them down and let them click away for hours on end, who knows what they would find?
then again, if we could train those same monkeys to fill out the stack of credit card applications I get in the mail all the time...
at least search engines don't have to deal with popups...
Hey, back when I had an Atari (newer ones, after tape drives), about 90% of the programs you could get were "Public Domain" - small utilities that you could get on disks for free, with the notice "If you like it, send money. If you send a bit more money you get the documentation, and with even more I might send you the source..."
"...do we also have to worry about Microsoft messing with moble messaging?"
I don't see how Microsoft fits in on this issue, probably because it isn't clear what "email-based" actually means. AFAIK SMSs are recieved and sent by the mobile phone companies' SMS servers to and from the phones and among each other (yeah, that's probably a *really* simplified version of how it actually works ;) so they never even see the light of the Internet.
If you mean services that route your emails to your cell phone (which have to be provided by the people running your email account - BTW, often done by hooking a cell phone to the server that is used to send the SMS, pretty cool hack), and services that send your SMSs as emails (normally your cell phone company), then you shouldn't be worried. As long as MS doesn't take over the cell phone company it can be done completely independent of them ;-)
At the CeBit in Hannover on Saturday I was able to hold and play with a ProGear webpad from Frontpath. It features a 400MHz Crusoe and a about 10" touchscreen display. It runs Transmeta's Midori Linux. In the demo version they were running Netscape (only), the X Server let you rotate the view in all directions, and it supports a (not yet finished) handwriting support (and of course on-screen keyboard). In the completed version it will support other applications (i.e. probably be a full Linux system). It was linked up with a WaveLan card and the overall performance was impressive. (From what I heard a touchscreen that big is a pretty tricky thing to implement.) This might be a nice alternative to a MS WebPad, especially for people who like to play with such things - it features almost all the things this MS WebPad will have, and it comes with Linux ;-)
;-)
On the other hand, the people there from Frontpath said that at the moment they are concentrating more on B2B deals - many businesses want to use it for things like taking inverntory, medial purposes, etc. Whether or not this will catch on with the general public remains to be seen... but with all the places that have wavelans set up, it might soon be possible to surf anywhere, anytime
Let's hope they have some good software deleopers, cause we don't want the software becoming all patchy, like the MIR is now... ;-)
In a surprising announcement made today by a Microsoft spokesperson, the software giant said that it was filing a lawsuit against the United States Department of Justice, stating that in many of its legagl documents, the DOJ had forgotten to add "those little (TM) signs" behind Microsoft(TM) product names. "We have counted 53,236 violations until now and are continuing to find more," a lawyer for the company(TM) said. "We are suing for USD50K per violation."
Insiders report that Microsoft(TM) will also be filing suit against Linus Torvalds and "the rest of the dang Open Source movement", claiming that they violated fedral trademark and copyright laws by creating an "operating system(TM)(R)(C)."
It seems that people are forgetting something:
Normally, the browser sends the request to the server (possibly through the proxy), but in look-ahead proxying the proxy has to generate the request. Since it is normally caching for many users, it would have to leave out information such as cookies and user auth - in other words, huge bunches of the pages the proxy grabs may have the same URL, but would not at all be what the user actually wants when he clicks on the link!
I agree that it may be neccessary to exceed the limit in very rare cases, but otherwise not.
AFAIK (at least in Europe), you are not allowed to go over the speed limit even if you are passing someone. Sure it's annoying if somebody is going 80 where 90 is allowed (km/h, that is), but they have every right to do so, and if they're nice then they will slow down to let you pass safely.
It's never "sensible" to exceed the speed limit - it's simply illegal.
The speed limits imposed in some places may seem wrongly placed, but you gotta remember that a lot of traffic laws came from plain old experience.
A long time ago (few years, so no links anymore, sorry), I read about a interesting-looking car that sort of did the same thing - it had built-in camerars and could read road signs... and it would follow them. Nowadays they have cars that drive by themselves anyway (prototypes, that is), so a road-sign reading car is probably not so far-fetched. The idea in this article is the same thing only executed differently. (Not that that's a bad thing, but it's just as hackable)
"Administration can be performed [...] by telneting directly into Linux running on the modem."
:-)
Do we get root, too?
I like this article because it has hard facts and doesn't seem to have the standard media hype tone about how Linux will revolutionze the desktop, topple MS, take over the world, and declare world peace. (MS, on the other hand, would declare world FUD.)
Linux is a mighty fine OS, but there are others out there that people will still want to use. So may all *nix*es unite and take over the world *together*! Can we say... Beowulf? Or... MOSIX?
(just kidding...)
The url is www.speakfreely.org, but the server seems to be down right now. :-) One nice thing is that it features various encryption standards (including PGP, using your already existing keys), and you can turn on more than one encryption type at once.
I haven't used it for conferencing with more than one person, but I can agree that I like it in its simplicity
Yeah, the Transrapid is a German development - it's more like the Germans finally sold the thing to China (*that's* the achievement). Loads of resources were poured into developing this thing, and since the German Environmentalist Party blocked the planned Berlin-Hamburg line, the people who developed it obviously didn't want to simply drop the project. Germany has pretty good relations with China, and and the whole Shanghai thing got rolling when some of their top leaders came over to test-ride the train and liked it a lot.
This may be a bit offtopic, but I always love hearing stories from "back then" (yes I admit I haven't been around that long...). Maybe there are a few "old-timers" around /. with a few stories from that time?
As long as there is open source, we'll have hackers (programmers) messing around in the source. Even if Linux turns into something like the commecial *nix*es, I'd say a great percentage of the /. community could care less, cause we can still build our own distro from scratch if we wanna :-)
As for end-users, well... I haven't yet seen a Linux distro that comes close enough to something like Windows in terms of easy installation, use, and especially configuration. When that comes into existence on the level that home users are used to we can talk about it...
...I think the pad of paper is kind of overkill. I don't see much of a difference between writing on a piece of paper and having the computer pick it up and drawing on the screen and printing it out - the latter probably being more accurate - what if the paper moves around, you never run out of paper... oh yeah, and erasing is quite a bit easier and cleaner, too...
:) ), or I can just set it to "script" mode, which just takes what I write as a bitmap and sizes it down... If they had something like that as a notebook I'd be taking that baby to classes :-)
A notebook with a touchscreen is enough, I'd say (and you could sill leave off the keyboard and mouse... damn, that would be a pretty cool! Star Trek Padds, anyone?).
Handwriting recognition is neat though. The Newton MessagePad, when correctly set up, will pick up around 95% of what I write (provided I'm not messy
Then again, lots of warez groups add their own .nfo files, so you end up with a completely different hash for practically the same file.
.nfo's :)
Unless you got creative and your hash system opened up zip/rar files and disregarded