Read the article more closely, the RESEARCH budget got cut to $16 million. This has been misquoted or misunderstood by countless Slashdot posters. As a security consultant in the DC metro area, I can assure you that DHS spends far more than $16 million on IT security.
Monster.com has already partially retracted this new policy. Now you just can't pick one of the blacklisted countries as a place you'd like to work. News.com has the updated story.
PCMag's review puts the battery life at 8 hours. Not weeks-long like Palms, but more than enough to last a work day. I'm sure that life would be reduced to around 2-3 hours of continuous use if you had a CompactFlash 802.11b card running, but hell, that's something you can't even do with a Palm (ok, except for that old, enormous $300 802.11 add-on module), so it's not a comparable issue.
You might want to check out Saint Jude - a kernel intrusion detection and response system which detects and blocks 'anomalous' behavior (such as root exploits). The developer first presented it at Defcon 8 and it looked pretty cool. It's been in development for over a year - see its SourceForge page for more.
DShield's Code Red Anniversary Page has an interesting graph showing scanning activity they've detected from active hosts since the beginning of this year. Some 35,000 IPs still continue to regularly come alive around the beginning of the month, quiet down towards the middle, and then resume the cycle again - the numbers have remained remarkably consistent.
SecurityFocus is an excellent asset to the security community and I do hope it manages to retain its journalistic independence through this whole process.
I've been running my own small security portal/company the past few years - helps pay the college tuition and all. We do have very thorough daily coverage of news and significant vulnerabilities and the site has a Slashdot-esque feel...URL is in my sig if anyone wants to check it out.
USB is adequate for streaming MPEG-1 video & audio - most of those cheap USB TV tuners just send the raw video stream becuase they don't have hardware MPEG encoders.
Check out OpenSecrets.org if you want to see who's financing this guy's campaign. Top donors, surprise surprise, are: Walt Disney, AOL Time Warner, Viviendi Universal, Viacom, DreamWorks, and Sony. Gee, no bias there.
There are many excellent NES emulators already available for the GBA - most noteably PocketNES. I wonder if Nintendo will take an aggressive stance against these kinds of developers, and NES ROM trading in general?
Many people don't realize just how much power light bulbs consume. To borrow some statistics (source): 25% of US energy consumption and 10% of the average residential energy bill comes from lighting. Light bulbs are horribly inefficient - 90% of the electricity they suck up is wasted as heat. So from an infrastructure standpoint, a cheap energy-efficient bulb can make a huge economic and environmental difference.
Certainly possible, and as I recall Slashdot ran a story on Archos releasing a product much like this...with a smallish LCD screen built into the unit for viewing MPEGs. The big problem is battery life since the displays end up sucking power - also, unlike an MP3 player it would be hard to buffer video files to solid-state memory enough to reduce drive access due to the high bitrates.
Re:ISP? - supported, but still a fee to MSN?
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Another $99 Web Terminal
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According to CNET's Review, while you can use another ISP you still have to pay MSN a $9.95 monthly fee. I don't know if this still applies, but be forewarned.
This would be ideal for people wanting to send copies of their summer party video to their friends, none of whom own a pc, but all who have playstations.
Er, right...because far more people have PlaySation 2 consoles than PC's, and none of them have VCR's so you couldn't dub that summer party video to tape.
I'm nitpicking, and yeah it's a cool hack just like NetBSD or Linux was for the Dreamcast. Sure, people got some emulators and mp3 players going on that console, but that's all. Lots of free-software games for the PS2? I'll remain skeptical...everything I've read indicates that the system is a bitch to program for anyway.
Meant to say that I -won't- argue with your beliefs regarding IPO's and capitalism...I don't agree, but am not about to enter that debate once more...so you're certainly entitled to that opinion. =)
Can't argue with your beliefs that IPOs and capitalism are evil, but I will take issue with a comparison to Amazon. PayPal is an inventoryless business, while Amazon has lost enormous quantities of money due to their rapid product line expansion. It was, IMHO, a mistake to stray so far from the core books, CDs, movies foundation. PayPal doesn't need to advertise like Amazon either - it has followed a grassroots/viral marketing strategy. All of these factors will make an enormous difference in the long term success of their business.
I can't stand when Slashdotters jump aboard the "Ooh evil company is going to somehow screw over its customers" bandwagon with little or no factual evidence. PayPal is used to pay for over 1/4 - 1/3 of Ebay transactions. They process billions upon billions of dollars, and are taking a small cut each time. That's a sound business model to me. They've got strong brand loyalty, and as long as services like Ebay continue to exist they will do just fine. Bankrupt in a few months? I don't think so
And no, I don't work for them so don't bother with that accusation.
Transmeta and this reviewer always pitched the Crusoe as being so great because of its low power consumption - and yeah, five hours is a good battery life for a notebook, but big deal...this laptop has a 10 inch screen, the brightness was set to its lowest, and it has TWO batteries (an extra one behind the screen, which Is a pretty cool idea). Of course the power is going to last longer with a slow laptop with a smaller screen and an extra battery!! Transmeta might have had good goals and intentions when they designed Crusoe, but they failed on execution. Give me 10 hour battery life and I might be able to forgive the pathetic performance these processors have, but otherwise there's no reason not to by a PIII laptop instead.
Re:So we might as well shut down Bugtraq...
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Hotmail Hacked
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Who's to say what the intent of the person who posted the message was? His/her subject line was non descript, there were no extraneous remarks like "Cool check out how easy it is to read everyone's email..you gotta try this". And Slashdot is a "News for Nerds" site..we're all (or mostly) techies here and security is certainly a topic. Constructing an argument based around 'intent' construed in that manner is pure speculation and would never hold up in courts.
So we might as well shut down Bugtraq...
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This exploit information came straight from Root-Core's site and was also posted to Bugtraq. If pasting it here is potentially 'illegal' than so are 90% of Bugtraq posts.
Yes, perhaps one unfortunate day it will be illegal to explain security vulnerabilities in depth, but until then there's little wrong in supporting open disclosure. Security through obscurity doesn't work.
Accessories to a crime by having this post on Slashdot? Yep, you Must be a lawyer if you can come up with and rationalize arguments like that.
Not like I wouldn't love a GeForce2Go in one of these, but perhaps overheating is an issue? The description mentions some of the design methods they used to effectively dissipate heat but that might not be enough with a graphic chip like that. Sure they're designed for laptops but we're talking a much smaller form factor. (and laptops are thinner over a wider surface area)
Some GBA owners have also found an adjustable pot under a sticker on the back of the system that serves as a contrast control. Seems to wash out the display and increase flickering due to interlacing, but some claim slight improvements. See the IGN board discussing it http://boards.ign.com/message.asp?topic=6921262&re plies=462 ---
I'm fairly young, at 20 years of age, and have fortunately never experienced any deaths in the family. And celebrity deaths usually don't phase me too much. But my jaw dropped when I read this headline...this really hit me emotionally. I'm being redundant with other posts, I know, but Mr. Adams was a giant among writers, a brilliant mind, and So damn funny.
I remember how I first got introduced to THHGTG - a completely random impulse buy of the original radio drama on audio cassette when I was 13 or 14. I laughed my ass off for all six hours. When I realized there were books, I immediately bought them all and have read them countless times since. They never lose their touch...always hilarious, yet always intellectual and philosophical. I once tried to compile a series of memorable quotes from the book before quickly realizing that such a collection would practically be a book unto itself.
I had always hoped to see him speak in person some time...sadly, that opportunity shall never come. Thank you, Douglas Adams, for sharing your creative genius with us all. You will be missed.
And yes...my signature is from none other than Zaphod Beeblebrox. ---
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Read the article more closely, the RESEARCH budget got cut to $16 million. This has been misquoted or misunderstood by countless Slashdot posters. As a security consultant in the DC metro area, I can assure you that DHS spends far more than $16 million on IT security.
Monster.com has already partially retracted this new policy. Now you just can't pick one of the blacklisted countries as a place you'd like to work. News.com has the updated story.
PCMag's review puts the battery life at 8 hours. Not weeks-long like Palms, but more than enough to last a work day. I'm sure that life would be reduced to around 2-3 hours of continuous use if you had a CompactFlash 802.11b card running, but hell, that's something you can't even do with a Palm (ok, except for that old, enormous $300 802.11 add-on module), so it's not a comparable issue.
Here's a copy of the full advisory since the OpenSSL site is /.'d.
You might want to check out Saint Jude - a kernel intrusion detection and response system which detects and blocks 'anomalous' behavior (such as root exploits). The developer first presented it at Defcon 8 and it looked pretty cool. It's been in development for over a year - see its SourceForge page for more.
DShield's Code Red Anniversary Page has an interesting graph showing scanning activity they've detected from active hosts since the beginning of this year. Some 35,000 IPs still continue to regularly come alive around the beginning of the month, quiet down towards the middle, and then resume the cycle again - the numbers have remained remarkably consistent.
SecurityFocus is an excellent asset to the security community and I do hope it manages to retain its journalistic independence through this whole process. I've been running my own small security portal/company the past few years - helps pay the college tuition and all. We do have very thorough daily coverage of news and significant vulnerabilities and the site has a Slashdot-esque feel...URL is in my sig if anyone wants to check it out.
USB is adequate for streaming MPEG-1 video & audio - most of those cheap USB TV tuners just send the raw video stream becuase they don't have hardware MPEG encoders.
Check out OpenSecrets.org if you want to see who's financing this guy's campaign. Top donors, surprise surprise, are: Walt Disney, AOL Time Warner, Viviendi Universal, Viacom, DreamWorks, and Sony. Gee, no bias there.
There are many excellent NES emulators already available for the GBA - most noteably PocketNES. I wonder if Nintendo will take an aggressive stance against these kinds of developers, and NES ROM trading in general?
Many people don't realize just how much power light bulbs consume. To borrow some statistics (source): 25% of US energy consumption and 10% of the average residential energy bill comes from lighting. Light bulbs are horribly inefficient - 90% of the electricity they suck up is wasted as heat. So from an infrastructure standpoint, a cheap energy-efficient bulb can make a huge economic and environmental difference.
Keep in mind that many of Resident Evil 0's backgrounds are pre-rendered with 3D characters overlayed - that makes a huge difference.
I believe you're mistaken, those are the requirements for posting a Slashdot story.
Certainly possible, and as I recall Slashdot ran a story on Archos releasing a product much like this...with a smallish LCD screen built into the unit for viewing MPEGs. The big problem is battery life since the displays end up sucking power - also, unlike an MP3 player it would be hard to buffer video files to solid-state memory enough to reduce drive access due to the high bitrates.
According to CNET's Review, while you can use another ISP you still have to pay MSN a $9.95 monthly fee. I don't know if this still applies, but be forewarned.
Er, right...because far more people have PlaySation 2 consoles than PC's, and none of them have VCR's so you couldn't dub that summer party video to tape.
I'm nitpicking, and yeah it's a cool hack just like NetBSD or Linux was for the Dreamcast. Sure, people got some emulators and mp3 players going on that console, but that's all. Lots of free-software games for the PS2? I'll remain skeptical...everything I've read indicates that the system is a bitch to program for anyway.
Meant to say that I -won't- argue with your beliefs regarding IPO's and capitalism...I don't agree, but am not about to enter that debate once more...so you're certainly entitled to that opinion. =)
Can't argue with your beliefs that IPOs and capitalism are evil, but I will take issue with a comparison to Amazon. PayPal is an inventoryless business, while Amazon has lost enormous quantities of money due to their rapid product line expansion. It was, IMHO, a mistake to stray so far from the core books, CDs, movies foundation. PayPal doesn't need to advertise like Amazon either - it has followed a grassroots/viral marketing strategy. All of these factors will make an enormous difference in the long term success of their business.
And no, I don't work for them so don't bother with that accusation.
Transmeta and this reviewer always pitched the Crusoe as being so great because of its low power consumption - and yeah, five hours is a good battery life for a notebook, but big deal...this laptop has a 10 inch screen, the brightness was set to its lowest, and it has TWO batteries (an extra one behind the screen, which Is a pretty cool idea). Of course the power is going to last longer with a slow laptop with a smaller screen and an extra battery!! Transmeta might have had good goals and intentions when they designed Crusoe, but they failed on execution. Give me 10 hour battery life and I might be able to forgive the pathetic performance these processors have, but otherwise there's no reason not to by a PIII laptop instead.
Who's to say what the intent of the person who posted the message was? His/her subject line was non descript, there were no extraneous remarks like "Cool check out how easy it is to read everyone's email..you gotta try this". And Slashdot is a "News for Nerds" site..we're all (or mostly) techies here and security is certainly a topic. Constructing an argument based around 'intent' construed in that manner is pure speculation and would never hold up in courts.
Yes, perhaps one unfortunate day it will be illegal to explain security vulnerabilities in depth, but until then there's little wrong in supporting open disclosure. Security through obscurity doesn't work.
Accessories to a crime by having this post on Slashdot? Yep, you Must be a lawyer if you can come up with and rationalize arguments like that.
Not like I wouldn't love a GeForce2Go in one of these, but perhaps overheating is an issue? The description mentions some of the design methods they used to effectively dissipate heat but that might not be enough with a graphic chip like that. Sure they're designed for laptops but we're talking a much smaller form factor. (and laptops are thinner over a wider surface area)
Some GBA owners have also found an adjustable pot under a sticker on the back of the system that serves as a contrast control. Seems to wash out the display and increase flickering due to interlacing, but some claim slight improvements. See the IGN board discussing it http://boards.ign.com/message.asp?topic=6921262&re plies=462
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I remember how I first got introduced to THHGTG - a completely random impulse buy of the original radio drama on audio cassette when I was 13 or 14. I laughed my ass off for all six hours. When I realized there were books, I immediately bought them all and have read them countless times since. They never lose their touch...always hilarious, yet always intellectual and philosophical. I once tried to compile a series of memorable quotes from the book before quickly realizing that such a collection would practically be a book unto itself.
I had always hoped to see him speak in person some time...sadly, that opportunity shall never come. Thank you, Douglas Adams, for sharing your creative genius with us all. You will be missed.
And yes...my signature is from none other than Zaphod Beeblebrox.
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