Really, you prevent accidents by having the *relative speed* between vehicles be zero. Which, when everyone is on the highway going 60 is actually pretty true. Parking lots are actually some of the more dangerous locations because it's not that uncommon for relative speed differences to be 10-20mph - hence many accidents.
Speed increases severity of accidents when they happen- but in large part it doesn't cause them in the first place.
So what they should do, is go to places where there are widely varying speeds based on the GPS data, and put the cameras there. Alternatively, they should up speed limits in those same locations so that all cars end up at the same speed. Authorities in some locations have done this recently not surprisingly upping the speed limit made the relative speeds of cars lower, and caused the accident rate to go down. Most locations have a natural speed that seems 'fast enough' to most people, and setting the speed limit at that speed helps lower the relative speed difference between cars.
When you dock the Atrix, the Firefox browser and other dock-provided services aren't running from the Atrix but instead from a stripped-down Linux PC inside the dock. A real post-PC device would run everything from the smartphone or tablet, and it would use the dock to add more processing or take advantage of peripherals."
From everything I've read, this is patently untrue. The browser runs on the phone 'webtop'. There are those on XDA-developers that have already figured out how to get the 'webtop' to start even without the laptop dock connected and instead display to HDMI.
Anyway, I don't agree with many of your conclusions, but I do agree the peripherials are overpriced - as I would expect for a first of it's kind product.
I wonder what a sociologist would have to say about a game where probably 99 percent of players are young males, but half the characters in the game seem to be female.
I think it says that 50% of the young males prefer to stare at a female for hours and hours while playing.:)
I believe the default install includes Named Pipes and TCP/IP. On setup you can disable the tcp/ip (and Named Pipes) connections for SQL 2000 and it will not listen on any port. You can later re-enable tcp-ip with the SQL Server Network Utility once you have it fully patched.
Actually the argument is quite simple. Our 'rights' are based on our humanity, not our choices. If you believe being gay is rooted in a person's humanity then you would likely favor gay marriage. If you believe that being gay is a choice someone makes then there's no reason why they should have special rights because of this choice (gay marriage, etc.)
This is why it is illogical to say only those who choose to be Republicans have free speech, and since I believe that homosexuality is a choice why gay marriage is wrong.
Ummm... I don't think he was suggesting that you take the machines off a network, just the internet. You could quite easily have an internal network with machines/servers/other devices for development of the game by a multitude of people and a external network for machines that have internet access.
I setup all my test networks that way, Valve could certainly do the same. Sure it can be a pain, but it's the only way to go when you *really* want something secure.
While it's true that economy is much improved on the TDI's, it seems emissions are still quite high.
A search of the US federal fuel economy site here shows that although the Jetta/Golf/Beetle 4 cyl Gets up to 49 mpg, it also puts out 44-55 tons of nasty smog forming exhaust per 15k miles. Compare this to the Ford Explorer's 21-25 tons. This gives the Jettas and Golfs the worse pollution score of any car sold in the US, even worse than the 12 mpg 12 cyl Ferrari Enzo!
I originally had looked at getting a TDI as a way to use less gas/produce less polution myself (I already walk to work) but this made me change my mind. It would still work as a energy cost reducer, if you don't care about all the nasty pollution you're creating.
Lets see... Lawyer fees at $200 an hour for a high-profile multi-month to multi-year lawsuit and appeal process... $17k / $200 = 85 billed hours. I'd say it was a deal, as he didn't have to admit guilt. Even if he won it would have been a long, expensive process.
Of course there is the possibility of it being pro-bono if the case got enough exposure, but I wouldn't bank on it.
It would be bigger if this was a default setting, but I don't believe it is.
You have to have said at some point that you trust Microsoft, and while I use their products all the time I certainly don't trust them.
So basically unless you said at some point 'Always trust software from Microsoft Corporation' when those security warnings come up to install active x controls, or you always click ok when you go to web sites that try to install things, then you don't need to worry.
Correct, that is what I expect, and that is the case where I work as well. I'm just saying that's not the case unilaterally. I know the president of a company I worked for (50 employees) previously and he was also the lead coder for the billing and customer database systems.
It seems to me that the definition of the job CTO or CEO precludes them from being a programmer once a company gets to a certain size. It's not that they couldn't do it, but they have other responsibilities.
This of course is not true, at least not in small companies. I know several programmers who are the highest paid individuals in their respective companies except for the owner. It all depends on how much value a person can produce for a company. In a larger corporation I would expect this to be more the rule.
You're absolutely right, given the installed base of Windows there will be a huge migration that needs to take place. Microsoft explains their position in this web document.
The ip stack you were referring to is available here but as you can tell this information is quite old and the tech has moved from the research phase to the early adopter phase.
It will be interesting to see what they do with.Net server (xp server/nt6 server) which was originally to be the first Microsoft server that is ipv6 capable out of the box.
It is of note that XP does include some 6 functionality, but as thisdocument shows it isn't exactly ready for prime time.
Opt-In email. Rather than blindly accepting every message that comes in, why not deny every message that comes in - except for those on a specific accepted senders list?
Of course there's several issues with this...
How do you know someone you want to talk to is sending you an email?
You could setup the server to accept the first message from a particular sender and then ask the user if they want to see messages from this person ever again, by domain or by specific email address.
How do you easily delete all messages from a particular user/subject etc.?
This would easily be accomplished by using a sql based storage system on the backend. It would be trivial to delete all messages from a particular email/ip/etc when everything is a quick sql statement. Additionally it would make for easy load balancing if the config was on the sql box and the front end servers could deal with the setup/teardown of smtp/pop/http sessions.
What happens when the spammers realize this and start to search to find accepted senders?
The server could easily be setup to deny all email from a particular domain/ip when a percentage of all emails are rejected or when it's viewed as sending too many messages at once. Send 100 emails and 25 are rejected? You're on the ban list. Send 10 messages in a row that are all bad? You're on the ban list.
The ban list could be stored via sql as well so that front end servers could all instantly be notified of bans acrossed server farms.
I've suggested to several different people this way to make email 100% spam free, but noone has seemed to like the idea so far, so what does the slashdot crew think? Is it time to setup a project on sourceforge? Or does someone know of a server that does this already?
You're right, they wouldn't stand a chance if they went to court, assuming you mean bnetd.
Most people are missing the key fact here of the timing of Blizzard shutting them down. Blizzard didn't do it when they first heard about it, for reasons that many have stated here already. There are many legit reasons why you'd want to run a Starcraft/Diablo server. Blizzard's problem with bnetd only started when functionality to allow Warcraft 3 to run was added. War3 is not a product. (yet) There are absolutely zero non-copyright infringing uses for bnetd to be War3 compatible right now. People who joined the beta signed up to help blizzard test the game in exchange for being able to play ahead of time (for free!). They don't have the right to be able to play on their own servers because they agreed to play on b.net, nor do they have the right to give it to anyone they want. These were conditions of being able to be in the beta in the first place.
It's only normal to assume the worst of a large corporation and in many cases I would agree, but in this case (as I understand it) I do not. How else do you explain the other projects which allow for b.net emulation (fsgs etc) that exist and have for quite some time without problems from Blizzard and are not being shut down by Blizzard.
If what I believe to be true regarding this matter is in fact true, I have no problem with Blizzard doing this, DMCA notwithstanding.
You are exactly correct. The way to fix the problem is to get a couple employees that do nothing but deal with Qwest. However to get them to do this you need to make it worth their while. Promise them $150 million over 5 years or so in services and you will get what you need.
The telco I work for did something like this last year and we now have several Qwest employees who work in our offices processing our orders and dealing with the rest of Qwest.
Qwest needs to satisfy the regulators, so if you work with them and show them how you can help them do this you can get what you need. Of course if you're too small they really don't (and won't) care.
I'm not saying this is the way it should be, just that this is the way it is.
Perhaps it would be wise for the crowd to contact Phillips and let them know how we feel about their stance.
Perhaps a suggestion that we would support (read buy/recommend) their products should they decide to fight this battle and refuse to incorporate silly copy protection schemes in their hardware seems to be in order.
If you do decide to contact them, be sure to be brief and to the point. Also it would probably be wise to only send to one or two people as I'm sure these people have business to attend to outside of reading 5000 emails that show up from the Slashdot faithful.
I actually emailed boeing about this specifically the last time this story was on slashdot and surprisingly got a personal reply from one of their engineers within a week.
He said that they were planning on testing this as a way to back up the voice/data recorders on the plane, but he wasn't sure if this was something that would end up in the final product or not. Limitations etc were still to be determined.
I offered to go to work for them on this very task but surprisingly enough I haven't heard back. ; )
In any case it's quite cool that their engineers were already planning on this pre-9/11.
Sadly enough at the height of the Asian boom in 92' this would not have been true. Land was valued upwards of $28 thousand per square foot in the Ginza district in Tokyo giving a final value for an acre of over 1.1 billion! Of course you couldn't have actually put together a full acre but that's besides the point.
Needless to say they've fallen a bit since then, to around $9000/sq ft. A steal at 400 million an acre!
That's exactly my point. You don't have to reflect all the energy, but I don't have to hit it with all the energy either.
All the laser has to do is heat whatever surface it hits to a point where the reflectance starts to break down. Once you hit that point the reflectance index starts declining and the heat absorbtion starts getting even higher. It becomes a downhill tumble that quickly would destroy the object. All you have to do is hit a spot that is particularly non-reflective, ie a screw or seam, and then you can destroy the whole thing.
When all else fails, I just need a bigger laser. : )
Because you never reflect 100% of the energy no matter how polished your chrome is. One tiny little imperfection would be enought to destroy the whole thing if you hold the laser on it long enough. Either that or you hit it with a paintball gun first. : )
This is not unlike the stealth capability of our F117's one screw out of place and it's enough to wipe out the effective ability of the entire system.
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Really, you prevent accidents by having the *relative speed* between vehicles be zero. Which, when everyone is on the highway going 60 is actually pretty true. Parking lots are actually some of the more dangerous locations because it's not that uncommon for relative speed differences to be 10-20mph - hence many accidents.
Speed increases severity of accidents when they happen- but in large part it doesn't cause them in the first place.
So what they should do, is go to places where there are widely varying speeds based on the GPS data, and put the cameras there. Alternatively, they should up speed limits in those same locations so that all cars end up at the same speed. Authorities in some locations have done this recently not surprisingly upping the speed limit made the relative speeds of cars lower, and caused the accident rate to go down. Most locations have a natural speed that seems 'fast enough' to most people, and setting the speed limit at that speed helps lower the relative speed difference between cars.
When you dock the Atrix, the Firefox browser and other dock-provided services aren't running from the Atrix but instead from a stripped-down Linux PC inside the dock. A real post-PC device would run everything from the smartphone or tablet, and it would use the dock to add more processing or take advantage of peripherals."
From everything I've read, this is patently untrue. The browser runs on the phone 'webtop'. There are those on XDA-developers that have already figured out how to get the 'webtop' to start even without the laptop dock connected and instead display to HDMI.
Anyway, I don't agree with many of your conclusions, but I do agree the peripherials are overpriced - as I would expect for a first of it's kind product.
I believe the default install includes Named Pipes and TCP/IP. On setup you can disable the tcp/ip (and Named Pipes) connections for SQL 2000 and it will not listen on any port. You can later re-enable tcp-ip with the SQL Server Network Utility once you have it fully patched.
And yeah, get some sort of firewall on it.
A quick google search for 'mpeg4 lossless audio' turns up this link:s sless/mpeg4als.html l
http://www.nue.tu-berlin.de/forschung/projekte/lo
Which in turn points to this link as the basis for the standard:
http://www.nue.tu-berlin.de/wer/liebchen/lpac.htm
Possibly this is what they're using?
Actually the argument is quite simple. Our 'rights' are based on our humanity, not our choices. If you believe being gay is rooted in a person's humanity then you would likely favor gay marriage. If you believe that being gay is a choice someone makes then there's no reason why they should have special rights because of this choice (gay marriage, etc.)
This is why it is illogical to say only those who choose to be Republicans have free speech, and since I believe that homosexuality is a choice why gay marriage is wrong.
Ummm... I don't think he was suggesting that you take the machines off a network, just the internet. You could quite easily have an internal network with machines/servers/other devices for development of the game by a multitude of people and a external network for machines that have internet access.
I setup all my test networks that way, Valve could certainly do the same. Sure it can be a pain, but it's the only way to go when you *really* want something secure.
While it's true that economy is much improved on the TDI's, it seems emissions are still quite high.
A search of the US federal fuel economy site here shows that although the Jetta/Golf/Beetle 4 cyl Gets up to 49 mpg, it also puts out 44-55 tons of nasty smog forming exhaust per 15k miles. Compare this to the Ford Explorer's 21-25 tons. This gives the Jettas and Golfs the worse pollution score of any car sold in the US, even worse than the 12 mpg 12 cyl Ferrari Enzo!
I originally had looked at getting a TDI as a way to use less gas/produce less polution myself (I already walk to work) but this made me change my mind. It would still work as a energy cost reducer, if you don't care about all the nasty pollution you're creating.
Lets see... Lawyer fees at $200 an hour for a high-profile multi-month to multi-year lawsuit and appeal process... $17k / $200 = 85 billed hours. I'd say it was a deal, as he didn't have to admit guilt. Even if he won it would have been a long, expensive process.
Of course there is the possibility of it being pro-bono if the case got enough exposure, but I wouldn't bank on it.
It would be bigger if this was a default setting, but I don't believe it is.
You have to have said at some point that you trust Microsoft, and while I use their products all the time I certainly don't trust them.
So basically unless you said at some point 'Always trust software from Microsoft Corporation' when those security warnings come up to install active x controls, or you always click ok when you go to web sites that try to install things, then you don't need to worry.
Correct, that is what I expect, and that is the case where I work as well. I'm just saying that's not the case unilaterally. I know the president of a company I worked for (50 employees) previously and he was also the lead coder for the billing and customer database systems.
It seems to me that the definition of the job CTO or CEO precludes them from being a programmer once a company gets to a certain size. It's not that they couldn't do it, but they have other responsibilities.
This of course is not true, at least not in small companies. I know several programmers who are the highest paid individuals in their respective companies except for the owner. It all depends on how much value a person can produce for a company. In a larger corporation I would expect this to be more the rule.
For some reason this doesn't strike me as a way to keep your users coming back. Then again maybe you don't want more customers, like this guy.
You're absolutely right, given the installed base of Windows there will be a huge migration that needs to take place. Microsoft explains their position in this web document.
.Net server (xp server/nt6 server) which was originally to be the first Microsoft server that is ipv6 capable out of the box.
The ip stack you were referring to is available here but as you can tell this information is quite old and the tech has moved from the research phase to the early adopter phase.
It will be interesting to see what they do with
It is of note that XP does include some 6 functionality, but as thisdocument shows it isn't exactly ready for prime time.
Opt-In email. Rather than blindly accepting every message that comes in, why not deny every message that comes in - except for those on a specific accepted senders list?
Of course there's several issues with this...
How do you know someone you want to talk to is sending you an email?
You could setup the server to accept the first message from a particular sender and then ask the user if they want to see messages from this person ever again, by domain or by specific email address.
How do you easily delete all messages from a particular user/subject etc.?
This would easily be accomplished by using a sql based storage system on the backend. It would be trivial to delete all messages from a particular email/ip/etc when everything is a quick sql statement. Additionally it would make for easy load balancing if the config was on the sql box and the front end servers could deal with the setup/teardown of smtp/pop/http sessions.
What happens when the spammers realize this and start to search to find accepted senders?
The server could easily be setup to deny all email from a particular domain/ip when a percentage of all emails are rejected or when it's viewed as sending too many messages at once. Send 100 emails and 25 are rejected? You're on the ban list. Send 10 messages in a row that are all bad? You're on the ban list. The ban list could be stored via sql as well so that front end servers could all instantly be notified of bans acrossed server farms.
I've suggested to several different people this way to make email 100% spam free, but noone has seemed to like the idea so far, so what does the slashdot crew think? Is it time to setup a project on sourceforge? Or does someone know of a server that does this already?
You're right, they wouldn't stand a chance if they went to court, assuming you mean bnetd.
Most people are missing the key fact here of the timing of Blizzard shutting them down. Blizzard didn't do it when they first heard about it, for reasons that many have stated here already. There are many legit reasons why you'd want to run a Starcraft/Diablo server. Blizzard's problem with bnetd only started when functionality to allow Warcraft 3 to run was added. War3 is not a product. (yet) There are absolutely zero non-copyright infringing uses for bnetd to be War3 compatible right now. People who joined the beta signed up to help blizzard test the game in exchange for being able to play ahead of time (for free!). They don't have the right to be able to play on their own servers because they agreed to play on b.net, nor do they have the right to give it to anyone they want. These were conditions of being able to be in the beta in the first place.
It's only normal to assume the worst of a large corporation and in many cases I would agree, but in this case (as I understand it) I do not. How else do you explain the other projects which allow for b.net emulation (fsgs etc) that exist and have for quite some time without problems from Blizzard and are not being shut down by Blizzard.
If what I believe to be true regarding this matter is in fact true, I have no problem with Blizzard doing this, DMCA notwithstanding.
Dude, at least give credit where credit is due.
Original link is from BBspot and can be viewed here.
A neat, albeit limited application, hack would be to get a cf 802.11 card running in one of these and be able to run mp3 off a fileshare.
Think of it as a wireless AudioTron. (Nearly) Infinite storage capacity with good mobility. I'd buy one.
You are exactly correct. The way to fix the problem is to get a couple employees that do nothing but deal with Qwest. However to get them to do this you need to make it worth their while. Promise them $150 million over 5 years or so in services and you will get what you need.
The telco I work for did something like this last year and we now have several Qwest employees who work in our offices processing our orders and dealing with the rest of Qwest.
Qwest needs to satisfy the regulators, so if you work with them and show them how you can help them do this you can get what you need. Of course if you're too small they really don't (and won't) care.
I'm not saying this is the way it should be, just that this is the way it is.
Perhaps it would be wise for the crowd to contact Phillips and let them know how we feel about their stance.
Perhaps a suggestion that we would support (read buy/recommend) their products should they decide to fight this battle and refuse to incorporate silly copy protection schemes in their hardware seems to be in order.
If you do decide to contact them, be sure to be brief and to the point. Also it would probably be wise to only send to one or two people as I'm sure these people have business to attend to outside of reading 5000 emails that show up from the Slashdot faithful.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
I actually emailed boeing about this specifically the last time this story was on slashdot and surprisingly got a personal reply from one of their engineers within a week.
He said that they were planning on testing this as a way to back up the voice/data recorders on the plane, but he wasn't sure if this was something that would end up in the final product or not. Limitations etc were still to be determined.
I offered to go to work for them on this very task but surprisingly enough I haven't heard back. ; )
In any case it's quite cool that their engineers were already planning on this pre-9/11.
Sadly enough at the height of the Asian boom in 92' this would not have been true. Land was valued upwards of $28 thousand per square foot in the Ginza district in Tokyo giving a final value for an acre of over 1.1 billion! Of course you couldn't have actually put together a full acre but that's besides the point.
Needless to say they've fallen a bit since then, to around $9000/sq ft. A steal at 400 million an acre!
That's exactly my point. You don't have to reflect all the energy, but I don't have to hit it with all the energy either.
All the laser has to do is heat whatever surface it hits to a point where the reflectance starts to break down. Once you hit that point the reflectance index starts declining and the heat absorbtion starts getting even higher. It becomes a downhill tumble that quickly would destroy the object. All you have to do is hit a spot that is particularly non-reflective, ie a screw or seam, and then you can destroy the whole thing.
When all else fails, I just need a bigger laser. : )
Because you never reflect 100% of the energy no matter how polished your chrome is. One tiny little imperfection would be enought to destroy the whole thing if you hold the laser on it long enough. Either that or you hit it with a paintball gun first. : )
This is not unlike the stealth capability of our F117's one screw out of place and it's enough to wipe out the effective ability of the entire system.
Since a cutback in washington-speak is obviously just a denial of a request to increase funding, what do they call an honest-to-goodness decrease?
Oh, that's right, I forgot. That never happens.