Seriously, the following things matter:
1. longer CPU life for same wattage (power times time) means CPU can sleep better
2. lower power CPU sleep mode means longer non-use time
3. lower power CPU means more RAM, which means less hard disk, more caching
4. both of the above in a proper system mean a 4 hour webpad now runs for 6 hours.
5. lower battery usage means lower weight
As you point out, manufacturers need to work on screen usage, since you can compensate for hard disk with increased RAM and cache. But now this becomes the biggie.
There is no single answer, all laptops are multi part systems. But this allows you to work on the other two.
[note: I'm biased, I'm down for 500 shares of TMTA on IPO through the lead broker, and I don't own Intel or AMD]
Look, they are doomed. Either they'll be sucked up by some other company or they'll follow the overwhelming majority of the B2B, B2C, and other Net IPOs into the grave.
So let's move on. Why do we still not have IPv6?
Why Bill G paid them to do it (Conspiracy 101)
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Microsoft Cracked
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OK, now that you've all had your fun at the expense of MSFT, it's time to tell about what really happened. I mean, it didn't even get the banner headline in Seattle, it was so lame. We were all paying attention to I-695 being overturned and how Eyman is a dweeb.
Picture this - a dark, shadowy lair on the shores of Lake Washington, in a futuristic (circa 1990s) mansion that has a trout stream meandering throughit and ads for Froot Loops appearing on every wall. Bill G, Dark Overlord, sits in his space age chair, rocking back and forth, as his minions sit uncomfortably, waiting to hear his latest dark plan for world domination.
"Profits!" he screams suddenly. "Noone is buying my Windows 2000 TM R Patent Pending!" he shouts to the cowering lackeys, many recently hired from failed dot-coms that litter the wasteland of King County. They jump in their chairs, and settle back down nervously, awaiting their orders.
"You must crack our servers, in a way that will bring disrepute upon those who oppose us - make it appear to be Open Source Hackers, Russians would be best; everyone knows the Russsians are still mad at us over the cold war. Release all the code to our failed OS - they will assume it was functional. And then - you must go into hiding in Aruba."
They leave, shuddering at the import of his task, knowing that their lives and those of much of the rest of the world shall never be the same after this.
Seriously, things like download and upload caps depend on Who you get @Home from. For example, my brother manages the installations for Cox@Home in Santa Barbara, and they have a very good track record, but they also over-install physical plant, on the concept that it's way easier to cut service calls if you do it right the first time.
But if you have AT&T@Home, like I do, this is the old TCI plant, and they underwired everything. So it only gets worse after they get it working.
Note: I own shares in AT&T and Cox and my sister and brothers do too.
I picked up the Nintendo Gameboy version of this game and I noticed there's a trick on this version. Seems if you just say the words Hi Tech Geeks Rool to the Katz, it switches sides and is an ally (only lasts until game save, sadly). Then you just have to use your game cable to swap it with another Gameboy, feed it some scriptkiddy food, swap it back to the original Gameboy and it evolves into Spencer the Katt with a Cat of Nine Tails.
Well, seems to me any suggestion as to encryption has to meet the following standards:
1. it must be easy to use - because otherwise the PHBs won't use it.
2. it must prevent swapping to disk - because otherwise, you can encrypt all you like, but the data is still fairly easy to recover.
3. it must be fairly quick - because otherwise the PHBs won't use it.
Frequently, CIOs make a policy statement and get the managers to enforce it, but avoid the security and encryption protocols themselves and allow the managers to avoid it too. Which makes it an annoyance for those who actually follow it, while protecting nothing.
In my training (used to have a Secret Clearance), I learned that Confidential material or even unclassified material, gathered in reports and summaries, can have a higher rating. Cost center budgets for one cost center usually don't tell you much, but a spreadsheet of cost centers for the entire corporation tells you a lot, especially with historical data as might be found on a manager's report.
Steve Jackson is super cool, and he's why we now have the EFF, after all. He even let me borrow some of his computers (pre-raid) to code for the New Orleans WorldCon in an all night code fest once when we were eight hours behind doing panel allocation. Plus, he's a sushi fiend...
Highly recommend this - when you know how to fight the data nazis from past experience and what your real legal rights are, you're a much safer bet as a mail host.
I agree with Gus - it's a great idea to have a secondary ISP for email, shell and other fun things. I've got cable modem and DSL accounts, but my email lists are remotely hosted from a shell-capable account at eskimo.com, which is one of the older providers in Seattle.
I think speakeasy.net (also in Seattle, straight) offers similar services with DSL as well. They are nation-wide too. Eskimo is mostly west coast (love to telnet in when down in Santa Barbara).
First, secure Email--without the use of PGP or PGP-like services such as Hushmail--is a crock. Even with the use of PGP or PGP-like services, secure email is secure only within narrow parameters.
Have to agree with RJH on this. You can PGP all you want, but unless it was all in RAM on a non-windows, non-caching system, at some point it was written to a hard disk in a non-encrypted state.
Sure, you can encrypt it from sender to receiver, but it's vulnerable at either end of the transmission. If either end is compromised, which time and time again has been shown to be fairly easy to do, the whole exercise is pointless.
Anyone got useful ideas for how to implement a fully-secure RAM-only email encyrption system? This also means originating emails are never stored in unencrypted form and receiver is not permitted to store in unencrypted form.
Since he hadn't filled out the form he received, we filled it out and required that all residents in his house have more than two racial subgroups.
Actually, I seem to recall that since we're typical Americans, it wasn't hard to do that and tell the truth at the same time, but this is in Sourthern California (Santa Barbara CA).
So, is there a penalty if you live in two houses and you fill out the census forms twice?
UPDATE Privacy P
SET public_good = 'N',
GOP = 'Y',
liars = 'Y',
privacy_rights = 'Sold to Highest Bidder'
FROM Census C
WHERE C.personal_record = P.personal_record
AND C.legal = 'N'
AND P.voting_this_election IS NOT NULL
Very true. We in the USA have much lower protections than exist even after this law goes into effect in the UK.
We sold our privacy rights to corporate interests and they gave us promises of shiny baubles. And now our government tries to arm-twist nations that have higher privacy rights than we do into "opening the market" and reducing their consumer and employee privacy protections.
We will fight them on UseNet, we will fight them via email, we will fight them with mirrored web sites. We will never surrender, unless they buy out our IPOs and offer us mega-billions in stock options.
Well, I have to agree with TMBG, which matches some discussions I've had with some of the local and regional bands in Seattle, about how the Web and the Net can be used to give most bands way more exposure, touring locations to base from (based on where people download the music from), and a basic fan network.
MP3 and other disruptive technologies represent a threat to the big name artists, are a wash for the moderately famous groups, and a bonus for the starting band. Which is cool!
Well, if you're a fan of James Cameron's TV series Dark Angel, you'll remember he has a great fondness for his heroine being perched atop a ruined Space Needle. Since he's in the running for tickets to go to Mir, my thought is he's either:
A. putting in cameras to get cool shots as Mir plunges to earth;
B. hacking the on-board computers to retarget Mir at the Space Needle (although KOMO-TV would be a better target a block away, since you could get cool photos from the Needle on impact with a nice fireball, plus bonus points for taking out Ken Schram); and/or
C. hacking (again) so that it lands in Puget Sound, where he can get some shots as it impacts.
Why? Hey, when you have that much money, you might as well. Rumors that Bill G or Paul A of MSFT are helping him with the ultimate hacker prank are just that - rumors.
Half of the spam I get originated from Uu.net ips. I send complaints, get their canned response, then nothing. Often I get the same spam a few days later. WTF! Practice what you preach boys.
I'll say! Half of the forged spam I receive in bulk comes from uu.net accounts and they never do anything about it.
Yeah, I remember that power drain was something you had to worry about. My first power bar was in response to overloading a 10A circuit in the basement on some computer devices. Used to have to make sure noone was watching TV before printing sometimes...
Man, I remember when we had 7998 bytes to play with, and we liked it! And we used an LED to display one line of text and a card reader for input.
We would have killed for 20K of RAM!
We couldn't even imagine anyone using more than 16K in our wildest dreams...
Um, because it burns up too much electricity?
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Seriously, even if you can do it, is it such a cool idea? I've got an old Apple II+ and could surely make that baby into a cool device, but the power drain alone is totally a waste.
On the other hand, if you used it to drive some Halloween Lava Lamps with Strobe Backlighting while your MP3 player pumped out some techno tunes on your stereo to get those script kiddies jivin to the beat, that might be super cool...
An email is worth 1/20th a printed letter or printed postcard.
A printed letter or postcard is worth 1/5th the value of a handwritten letter or handwritten postcard.
[rule of political communication - I've been lobbying as a citizen activist for decades]
So, go to the nearest coffee shop or restaurant, get some of those free postcards, slap on 20 cent stamps, and handwrite to your congressmember and senator a short polite postcard about why you want this bill (give number and title) to pass. Then sign it, give your name, phone and address, and send it in the mail. Choose a cool postcard - they love those.
If you do this, you have the best chance of affecting them. The only thing better is a visit in person.
I love the concept of the bill, although I would definitely want to go through the details with a fine-toothed comb, especially since UCITA was supposedly a good idea when it came out.
But, my political instincts, and I am rarely wrong (sadly), are that this bill will never see the light of day. It will either:
A. die in committee in the House
B. have riders attached and amendments made that turn it into a pro-RIAA bill
C. fail to be called to the floor during session due to opposition from big bucks
D. if passed by the house, never get heard as a bill in the Senate
E. if passed by the house, die in committee in the Senate
F. if it makes it through the Senate, have riders or amendments so it's a sacrificial lamb to offer up the president
G. if it passes through both Senate and House, have amendments and riders during conference
H. if it makes it through all that, be vetoed by the President (either one) due to some political infighting between political sponsors and the President or during some battle over funding.
So, basically, fight the good fight, talk to your senators and congressmembers, but you're going to have to watch this all the way through the political process to make sure it comes out the other end in a good form.
Many bills are offered, few pass, most are sacrificed.
Has anyone ever told you that your efforts are almost as sleazy as those of those bastards in New Hampshire and Iowa? You know, those states who made your primary choice for you and effectively prevented you from voting for Elizabeth Dole or any of the other candidates with superior visions but inferior fundraising ability?
Nope, but I resemble that remark. Face it, I live in the west, where we are underrepresented in electoral college counts due to the preponderance of one and two electoral vote states that are almost all back east and also due to the fact that our population has doubled since 1990 while the midwest has shrunk, but the electoral college counts are based on 1990 census data. So anything I do to maximize the West's electoral college sway is my right, due to the unfair system. Just think of me as a Black Hat Hacker, showing how insecure the Electoral College system is. You may not like me, but too bad.
I understand that in some countries there is a ban on election results reporting until all of the polls are closed. That's just what the U.S. needs, along with a single national primary date (perhaps during the convention, to heighten the suspense). I'm sick of being effectively disenfranchised because of living in a state with a late primary located east of the Mississippi.
And I'm tired of having ABC, NBC, CBS, and PBS announce the election is over before I've even voted here in the West. So anything I do to exercise Freedom Of Information is my birthright, especially since I was born right next to the Alamo, with a rattlesnake in my crib (true story).
While they can black out our TV news, they can't stop us from visiting the RealAudio streams from radio stations back east, using CNN web sites, and other activities.
Slashdot Mirror
It's the economy, s....d!
Seriously, the following things matter:
1. longer CPU life for same wattage (power times time) means CPU can sleep better
2. lower power CPU sleep mode means longer non-use time
3. lower power CPU means more RAM, which means less hard disk, more caching
4. both of the above in a proper system mean a 4 hour webpad now runs for 6 hours.
5. lower battery usage means lower weight
As you point out, manufacturers need to work on screen usage, since you can compensate for hard disk with increased RAM and cache. But now this becomes the biggie.
There is no single answer, all laptops are multi part systems. But this allows you to work on the other two.
[note: I'm biased, I'm down for 500 shares of TMTA on IPO through the lead broker, and I don't own Intel or AMD]
Look, they are doomed. Either they'll be sucked up by some other company or they'll follow the overwhelming majority of the B2B, B2C, and other Net IPOs into the grave.
So let's move on. Why do we still not have IPv6?
OK, now that you've all had your fun at the expense of MSFT, it's time to tell about what really happened. I mean, it didn't even get the banner headline in Seattle, it was so lame. We were all paying attention to I-695 being overturned and how Eyman is a dweeb.
Picture this - a dark, shadowy lair on the shores of Lake Washington, in a futuristic (circa 1990s) mansion that has a trout stream meandering throughit and ads for Froot Loops appearing on every wall. Bill G, Dark Overlord, sits in his space age chair, rocking back and forth, as his minions sit uncomfortably, waiting to hear his latest dark plan for world domination.
"Profits!" he screams suddenly. "Noone is buying my Windows 2000 TM R Patent Pending!" he shouts to the cowering lackeys, many recently hired from failed dot-coms that litter the wasteland of King County. They jump in their chairs, and settle back down nervously, awaiting their orders.
"You must crack our servers, in a way that will bring disrepute upon those who oppose us - make it appear to be Open Source Hackers, Russians would be best; everyone knows the Russsians are still mad at us over the cold war. Release all the code to our failed OS - they will assume it was functional. And then - you must go into hiding in Aruba."
They leave, shuddering at the import of his task, knowing that their lives and those of much of the rest of the world shall never be the same after this.
As you can see from this review by the NY Times tecnology section, they pretty much all do.
Oh, if you don't like registration, try this link instead.
Seriously, things like download and upload caps depend on Who you get @Home from. For example, my brother manages the installations for Cox@Home in Santa Barbara, and they have a very good track record, but they also over-install physical plant, on the concept that it's way easier to cut service calls if you do it right the first time.
But if you have AT&T@Home, like I do, this is the old TCI plant, and they underwired everything. So it only gets worse after they get it working.
Note: I own shares in AT&T and Cox and my sister and brothers do too.
I picked up the Nintendo Gameboy version of this game and I noticed there's a trick on this version. Seems if you just say the words Hi Tech Geeks Rool to the Katz, it switches sides and is an ally (only lasts until game save, sadly). Then you just have to use your game cable to swap it with another Gameboy, feed it some scriptkiddy food, swap it back to the original Gameboy and it evolves into Spencer the Katt with a Cat of Nine Tails.
Doesn't work on the Linux version, sadly.
Well, seems to me any suggestion as to encryption has to meet the following standards:
1. it must be easy to use - because otherwise the PHBs won't use it.
2. it must prevent swapping to disk - because otherwise, you can encrypt all you like, but the data is still fairly easy to recover.
3. it must be fairly quick - because otherwise the PHBs won't use it.
Frequently, CIOs make a policy statement and get the managers to enforce it, but avoid the security and encryption protocols themselves and allow the managers to avoid it too. Which makes it an annoyance for those who actually follow it, while protecting nothing.
In my training (used to have a Secret Clearance), I learned that Confidential material or even unclassified material, gathered in reports and summaries, can have a higher rating. Cost center budgets for one cost center usually don't tell you much, but a spreadsheet of cost centers for the entire corporation tells you a lot, especially with historical data as might be found on a manager's report.
OK, a good suggestion. Anyone else know more about GPG? I mean, like exactly how it does that?
Steve Jackson is super cool, and he's why we now have the EFF, after all. He even let me borrow some of his computers (pre-raid) to code for the New Orleans WorldCon in an all night code fest once when we were eight hours behind doing panel allocation. Plus, he's a sushi fiend ...
Highly recommend this - when you know how to fight the data nazis from past experience and what your real legal rights are, you're a much safer bet as a mail host.
I agree with Gus - it's a great idea to have a secondary ISP for email, shell and other fun things. I've got cable modem and DSL accounts, but my email lists are remotely hosted from a shell-capable account at eskimo.com, which is one of the older providers in Seattle.
I think speakeasy.net (also in Seattle, straight) offers similar services with DSL as well. They are nation-wide too. Eskimo is mostly west coast (love to telnet in when down in Santa Barbara).
First, secure Email--without the use of PGP or PGP-like services such as Hushmail--is a crock. Even with the use of PGP or PGP-like services, secure email is secure only within narrow parameters.
Have to agree with RJH on this. You can PGP all you want, but unless it was all in RAM on a non-windows, non-caching system, at some point it was written to a hard disk in a non-encrypted state.
Sure, you can encrypt it from sender to receiver, but it's vulnerable at either end of the transmission. If either end is compromised, which time and time again has been shown to be fairly easy to do, the whole exercise is pointless.
Anyone got useful ideas for how to implement a fully-secure RAM-only email encyrption system? This also means originating emails are never stored in unencrypted form and receiver is not permitted to store in unencrypted form.
Since he hadn't filled out the form he received, we filled it out and required that all residents in his house have more than two racial subgroups.
Actually, I seem to recall that since we're typical Americans, it wasn't hard to do that and tell the truth at the same time, but this is in Sourthern California (Santa Barbara CA).
So, is there a penalty if you live in two houses and you fill out the census forms twice?
Well, seems to me you should have written:
UPDATE Privacy P
SET public_good = 'N',
GOP = 'Y',
liars = 'Y',
privacy_rights = 'Sold to Highest Bidder'
FROM Census C
WHERE C.personal_record = P.personal_record
AND C.legal = 'N'
AND P.voting_this_election IS NOT NULL
Very true. We in the USA have much lower protections than exist even after this law goes into effect in the UK.
We sold our privacy rights to corporate interests and they gave us promises of shiny baubles. And now our government tries to arm-twist nations that have higher privacy rights than we do into "opening the market" and reducing their consumer and employee privacy protections.
We will fight them on UseNet, we will fight them via email, we will fight them with mirrored web sites. We will never surrender, unless they buy out our IPOs and offer us mega-billions in stock options.
Hey, gotta make a living, right?
Well, I have to agree with TMBG, which matches some discussions I've had with some of the local and regional bands in Seattle, about how the Web and the Net can be used to give most bands way more exposure, touring locations to base from (based on where people download the music from), and a basic fan network.
MP3 and other disruptive technologies represent a threat to the big name artists, are a wash for the moderately famous groups, and a bonus for the starting band. Which is cool!
Well, if you're a fan of James Cameron's TV series Dark Angel, you'll remember he has a great fondness for his heroine being perched atop a ruined Space Needle. Since he's in the running for tickets to go to Mir, my thought is he's either:
A. putting in cameras to get cool shots as Mir plunges to earth;
B. hacking the on-board computers to retarget Mir at the Space Needle (although KOMO-TV would be a better target a block away, since you could get cool photos from the Needle on impact with a nice fireball, plus bonus points for taking out Ken Schram); and/or
C. hacking (again) so that it lands in Puget Sound, where he can get some shots as it impacts.
Why? Hey, when you have that much money, you might as well. Rumors that Bill G or Paul A of MSFT are helping him with the ultimate hacker prank are just that - rumors.
Half of the spam I get originated from Uu.net ips. I send complaints, get their canned response, then nothing. Often I get the same spam a few days later. WTF! Practice what you preach boys.
I'll say! Half of the forged spam I receive in bulk comes from uu.net accounts and they never do anything about it.
[caveat - I own stock in VZ who now own uu.net]
Yeah, I remember that power drain was something you had to worry about. My first power bar was in response to overloading a 10A circuit in the basement on some computer devices. Used to have to make sure noone was watching TV before printing sometimes ...
19967 bytes to play with
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Man, I remember when we had 7998 bytes to play with, and we liked it! And we used an LED to display one line of text and a card reader for input.
We would have killed for 20K of RAM!
We couldn't even imagine anyone using more than 16K in our wildest dreams
Seriously, even if you can do it, is it such a cool idea? I've got an old Apple II+ and could surely make that baby into a cool device, but the power drain alone is totally a waste.
...
On the other hand, if you used it to drive some Halloween Lava Lamps with Strobe Backlighting while your MP3 player pumped out some techno tunes on your stereo to get those script kiddies jivin to the beat, that might be super cool
There's a basic truth about this:
An email is worth 1/20th a printed letter or printed postcard.
A printed letter or postcard is worth 1/5th the value of a handwritten letter or handwritten postcard.
[rule of political communication - I've been lobbying as a citizen activist for decades]
So, go to the nearest coffee shop or restaurant, get some of those free postcards, slap on 20 cent stamps, and handwrite to your congressmember and senator a short polite postcard about why you want this bill (give number and title) to pass. Then sign it, give your name, phone and address, and send it in the mail. Choose a cool postcard - they love those.
If you do this, you have the best chance of affecting them. The only thing better is a visit in person.
I love the concept of the bill, although I would definitely want to go through the details with a fine-toothed comb, especially since UCITA was supposedly a good idea when it came out.
But, my political instincts, and I am rarely wrong (sadly), are that this bill will never see the light of day. It will either:
A. die in committee in the House
B. have riders attached and amendments made that turn it into a pro-RIAA bill
C. fail to be called to the floor during session due to opposition from big bucks
D. if passed by the house, never get heard as a bill in the Senate
E. if passed by the house, die in committee in the Senate
F. if it makes it through the Senate, have riders or amendments so it's a sacrificial lamb to offer up the president
G. if it passes through both Senate and House, have amendments and riders during conference
H. if it makes it through all that, be vetoed by the President (either one) due to some political infighting between political sponsors and the President or during some battle over funding.
So, basically, fight the good fight, talk to your senators and congressmembers, but you're going to have to watch this all the way through the political process to make sure it comes out the other end in a good form.
Many bills are offered, few pass, most are sacrificed.
none of the good parts.
...
I mean, c'mon, if the list of games created is what they show, this is so last century as to be a total waste of time.
Maybe they're counting on you being so blotto from the beer that you'd actually play one of these games
Has anyone ever told you that your efforts are almost as sleazy as those of those bastards in New Hampshire and Iowa? You know, those states who made your primary choice for you and effectively prevented you from voting for Elizabeth Dole or any of the other candidates with superior visions but inferior fundraising ability?
Nope, but I resemble that remark. Face it, I live in the west, where we are underrepresented in electoral college counts due to the preponderance of one and two electoral vote states that are almost all back east and also due to the fact that our population has doubled since 1990 while the midwest has shrunk, but the electoral college counts are based on 1990 census data. So anything I do to maximize the West's electoral college sway is my right, due to the unfair system. Just think of me as a Black Hat Hacker, showing how insecure the Electoral College system is. You may not like me, but too bad.
I understand that in some countries there is a ban on election results reporting until all of the polls are closed. That's just what the U.S. needs, along with a single national primary date (perhaps during the convention, to heighten the suspense). I'm sick of being effectively disenfranchised because of living in a state with a late primary located east of the Mississippi.
And I'm tired of having ABC, NBC, CBS, and PBS announce the election is over before I've even voted here in the West. So anything I do to exercise Freedom Of Information is my birthright, especially since I was born right next to the Alamo, with a rattlesnake in my crib (true story).
While they can black out our TV news, they can't stop us from visiting the RealAudio streams from radio stations back east, using CNN web sites, and other activities.
Information wants to be Free!