House drains are usually well above the level of the street. Basement drains are lower but normally should have some kind of elementary non-return valve. We had a flood because of an intense downpour that backed up through the drains and the insurers said that without the non-return valve, they wouldn't pay.
Good point, probably not, but it would be problematic for the security services to instruct the post office to record the information without some very official looking paperwork. Opening a letter, to say, get the return address would be a no-no.
There are specific laws protecting normal post that the government must comply with. It requires a warrant to have that post intercepted inside the UK.
Ok I know we are not necessarily talking about light bulbs but we are talking intelligent appliances, each with their own address so they can be connected to the big wide world.
The thing is that even a dumb NAT makes a simple firewall ensuring that items behind it must deliberately expose themselves to the Internet. Is a device with a 12K internet implementation even going to have any kind of security implemented so that only I can switch my lights on?
I really like the idea of home devices that can communicate, so that turning the tv on can dim the lights, or have the telephone mute the hifi, etc. I wouldn't even mind being able to get the heating on early as I'm returning unexpectedly but in reality, what I would look for are home automation controllers that can implement some decent security so that they know it is really me turning the oven on early for that pot roast not some mischief maker the other side of the world.
A formere colleague worked on the A320. His concern was not the software as such (multiple programs across multiple architectures) but the fact that sensors can lie and under certain circumstances multiple sensors may present the same, incorrect view of the world giving issues to the flight control computers.
Not quite right with the above mentioned separate legal system in Scotland. Also, there are complications like the rights of anyone born in Northern Ireland to vote in the South and for Southern Irish to vote as though they were British if they are residing in the UK.
The legal system is for England and Wales. Scotland has its own legal system and even its own distinct ways of trying cases due to its coming late to the Union.
I still prefer my Nokia, although the music player could be better. The thing is that it also talks WiFi and Bluetooth properly - open access, something that Apple with its airtime provider sweetheart deals seems to be afraid of.
My Nokia E61 was slightly upgraded by the E61i but it only now, some three years later that the E71 came. WinMo phones haven't changed that much here (they have got a little lighter and the battery life got better, but nothing major).
High end phones tend to be 'given' with expensive plans. If you are a really big 'power' user then no problem, if you are not then generally you are paying too much.
I'm currently living and working in Germany. Phone shops have bins for old phones and separate ones for old batteries. There is a municipal recycling centre which accepts batteries as well as many other locations such as schools, electronics shops & so on.
That's normally how these things work. Want more, pay more. I haven't seen nearly as capable a web browser on a handheld device before the iPhone.
I guess you have never tried a Nokia E61 or, for that matter, the many Windows Smartphones where even if youy don't like mobile IE, there is always Opera.
Exactly. This is one of the key points about the use of cryptography. If you encrypt everything then your eavesdropper doesn't know where to concentrate their efforts. This is also why crypto should be as easy to use as possible, so there is no significant extra effort for using it.
MI was a wartime designation. Actually these days 6 comes under the FCO whilst 5 comes under the home office. Both contribute though to the Joint Intelligence Committee.
Some time ago a friend of mine worked in a steel works where they had a PDP 11/34 running the instrumentation and control for the milling machines. That is lots of heat, steam (from quenching the billets) and dust. For those of you who don't know these things, the Digital PDP was from an era when all the electronics were on big PCBs sat an a mostly wire-wrapped back-plane so if anything was vulnerable, it should have been. However despite a layer of probably quite conductive dust, the PDP worked for about five years without problems. The only maintenance was from the cleaning staff with a vacuum cleaner around the control room.
Yep, I have seen the published kernel docs for Windows and can agree with what you said. Between the kernel and user is a lot of crap which is wrecking the experience. Putting the GUI into kernel space was a performance improvement in NT4 days but it immediately meant that the GUI and the graphics driver became tightly bound and easy for their interaction to bring down Windows.
Microsoft should have been harder in their WHQL driver certification for Vista. I know Microsoft only has a finite amount of resources, but they should have known that people were having trouble getting drivers signed and my outsider (un-informed) view is that they should have made more of an effort to work with the OEMs for drivers to work on day 1.
An OS vendor such as Microsoft will work with vendors to help get them through WHQL. Video drivers, in particular, are massively complex beasts and it takes time to test them fully. The issue is that as before with Microsoft, marketing overrode the engineers and dictated a ship date.
Microsoft has no control over the shit quality of drivers released by hardware manufacturers.
What was that about the Windows Certified Drivers programme? You pay Microsoft $$$ and then they certify that your driver will work under their OS. If it brings Vista down, doesn't that indicate that Microsoft's testong is inadequate?
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PCBs are really useful when you are talking 10Kv or so but do you really need all those multi mega ohms and high breakdown for PCs?
House drains are usually well above the level of the street. Basement drains are lower but normally should have some kind of elementary non-return valve. We had a flood because of an intense downpour that backed up through the drains and the insurers said that without the non-return valve, they wouldn't pay.
Very informative, it is a pity the guy posted anon
There should be no problems with a major provider, say NWGSM. You still have to give your passport and an address but a hotel used to work fine.
That was a good point. The more often you carry your ID everywhere, the more easier that your ID can be owned.
Good point, probably not, but it would be problematic for the security services to instruct the post office to record the information without some very official looking paperwork. Opening a letter, to say, get the return address would be a no-no.
There are specific laws protecting normal post that the government must comply with. It requires a warrant to have that post intercepted inside the UK.
Ok I know we are not necessarily talking about light bulbs but we are talking intelligent appliances, each with their own address so they can be connected to the big wide world.
The thing is that even a dumb NAT makes a simple firewall ensuring that items behind it must deliberately expose themselves to the Internet. Is a device with a 12K internet implementation even going to have any kind of security implemented so that only I can switch my lights on?
I really like the idea of home devices that can communicate, so that turning the tv on can dim the lights, or have the telephone mute the hifi, etc. I wouldn't even mind being able to get the heating on early as I'm returning unexpectedly but in reality, what I would look for are home automation controllers that can implement some decent security so that they know it is really me turning the oven on early for that pot roast not some mischief maker the other side of the world.
A formere colleague worked on the A320. His concern was not the software as such (multiple programs across multiple architectures) but the fact that sensors can lie and under certain circumstances multiple sensors may present the same, incorrect view of the world giving issues to the flight control computers.
Not quite right with the above mentioned separate legal system in Scotland. Also, there are complications like the rights of anyone born in Northern Ireland to vote in the South and for Southern Irish to vote as though they were British if they are residing in the UK.
The legal system is for England and Wales. Scotland has its own legal system and even its own distinct ways of trying cases due to its coming late to the Union.
I still prefer my Nokia, although the music player could be better. The thing is that it also talks WiFi and Bluetooth properly - open access, something that Apple with its airtime provider sweetheart deals seems to be afraid of.
I haven't been over impressed with Blackberry browsers, but the Nokias just worked. The iPhones have generally rendered ok but were slow.
My Nokia E61 was slightly upgraded by the E61i but it only now, some three years later that the E71 came. WinMo phones haven't changed that much here (they have got a little lighter and the battery life got better, but nothing major).
These days, all you need to keep memory whilst you swap batteries is a supercap.
In any case, many phones now have ways of being completely backed up to a PC or whatever. This tends to get used when you do a software upgrade.
High end phones tend to be 'given' with expensive plans. If you are a really big 'power' user then no problem, if you are not then generally you are paying too much.
I'm currently living and working in Germany. Phone shops have bins for old phones and separate ones for old batteries. There is a municipal recycling centre which accepts batteries as well as many other locations such as schools, electronics shops & so on.
I guess you have never tried a Nokia E61 or, for that matter, the many Windows Smartphones where even if youy don't like mobile IE, there is always Opera.
Exactly. This is one of the key points about the use of cryptography. If you encrypt everything then your eavesdropper doesn't know where to concentrate their efforts. This is also why crypto should be as easy to use as possible, so there is no significant extra effort for using it.
MI was a wartime designation. Actually these days 6 comes under the FCO whilst 5 comes under the home office. Both contribute though to the Joint Intelligence Committee.
Some time ago a friend of mine worked in a steel works where they had a PDP 11/34 running the instrumentation and control for the milling machines. That is lots of heat, steam (from quenching the billets) and dust. For those of you who don't know these things, the Digital PDP was from an era when all the electronics were on big PCBs sat an a mostly wire-wrapped back-plane so if anything was vulnerable, it should have been. However despite a layer of probably quite conductive dust, the PDP worked for about five years without problems. The only maintenance was from the cleaning staff with a vacuum cleaner around the control room.
In earlier versions they had to use the test kernel which has all the checks enabled. This certainly used to throw out a lot of crap.
Yep, I have seen the published kernel docs for Windows and can agree with what you said. Between the kernel and user is a lot of crap which is wrecking the experience. Putting the GUI into kernel space was a performance improvement in NT4 days but it immediately meant that the GUI and the graphics driver became tightly bound and easy for their interaction to bring down Windows.
An OS vendor such as Microsoft will work with vendors to help get them through WHQL. Video drivers, in particular, are massively complex beasts and it takes time to test them fully. The issue is that as before with Microsoft, marketing overrode the engineers and dictated a ship date.
What was that about the Windows Certified Drivers programme? You pay Microsoft $$$ and then they certify that your driver will work under their OS. If it brings Vista down, doesn't that indicate that Microsoft's testong is inadequate?