It was a particularly cold night in winter and I was walking out to open the gate to the yard; there'd been a sleet and the fence was coated with ice. Except... When I walked up to the lock, I noticed that one length of chain between the gate and post was free of ice. When I touched it, it was noticeably warm.
I went back to get my meter, unhooked the chain, and measured the voltage between the gate and post; it measured a wonderful 2.7 volts. Silly me, I then switched the meter to measure current. What as I thinking, using a cheap multimeter across enough current to heat up a heavy metal chain? Luckily I only blew its fuse.
I called the power company and told them about the stray voltage problem; within a few days they'd established a new ground and my fence is now down to 1/2 volt.
The rule is, 90% of the bugs take up 90% of your budget, and the remaining 10% take up the other 90% of your budget. This goes the same for time before deadline.
Some country somewhere (like Tuvalu or Tokelau) ought to start their own trademark registry; and for $20 or so you could buy one that applies there. Ford Motors could trademark Infiniti in Tuvalu and then buy a Google keyword for it, and have a Ford ad pop up. If the French protest, well, Ford does hold a valid trademark, and the internet is international.
(These point to the same file, by the way.) This isn't the original memo data, though it may contain it; it's a 100M zip archive. As always, be careful what you download off P2P networks.
If there is prior-art invalidating the one-click patent... Where is it? Do you think, if someone submitted prior art on BountyQuest and was ignored, they wouldn't speak up elsewhere? Or was BountyQuest paying them hush money when they turned up? Or were Amazon's hit squads murdering them once they were identified?
The fact is, Amazon's patent is pretty darn specific, and after I heard the particulars I wasn't much surprised that there's no prior art. (Frankly, I don't really LIKE that one-click service; I'd rather they not keep my credit card info on file.)
Recovering from a break-in can be very annoying, but in the case where your firewall box is running an OS that fits on a floppy, I wouldn't assume the lack of a compiler means no one has placed a back door on the machine. Especially when recovering means shutting the machine down, popping out the floppy, popping in a fresh copy of the backup you'd made, and rebooting.
I'm sorry, but "service provider" does NOT mean providing information to telemarketers. If my cell provider starts encouraging people to waste my minutes, then I'm going to stop paying for them.
In Cisco's case, it's even trickier, because the disputed code resides on chips that Linksys buys from Broadcom.
Well, it's certain Forbes has been led astray. At SOME point that code had to be external and compiled into the kernel before it's loaded into firmware; this article makes it seem like any program run with Linux has to be made open source and freely available.
The fact is: Linksys saved themselves a whole lot of money by using Linux instead of some commercial OS product to drive their router. They tout its using Linux, and people are attracted to their product because they think it's "open source". But what's the use of it being partially open source if people can't apply their own patches and rebuild it?
...I was working at a job where the owner had changed. The original computer network was twinax, running off an IBM System 36. (Twinax is expensive stuff, $8 per foot, a twisted pair inside a heavy copper braid.) I was replacing it with a Lantastic network with the file server being a puny little 286/12 running FoxPro. (And yes, folks, it would've worked with the load it would've had to handle.) Anyway, I'd spent a godawful amount of time running cable for Arcnet through the ceiling, and in the end, the network wouldn't net, and I couldn't figure out why. (Probably got sold the wrong cabling.) The old machine was long gone, the sales manager needed access, and the PHB was yelling at me. Above all, he couldn't understand why I couldn't use the old twinax cabling, and I kept trying to explain that it was completely different...
Then I had an apostrophe [sic].
Within a half hour I had the network up and running... Over the old twinax cables... Using serial connections.
And it wouldn't've happened without the pointy-haired boss.
I've found that hard drive reliability is inversely related to the drive's rotation speed, raised to the nth power. I've had absolutely no problems with Maxtor's 5400 RPM drives, despite running them for extended periods. With 7200 RPM, both Maxtor and other people's, I've had some trouble. The faster the rotation, the more likely it is for the media to start vibrating, especially with regard to outside stimulus, and the greater chance of a head crash.
I think some of the new anti-hacking laws prohibit anyone from disclosing such vulnerabilities, as a warning or not. Someone may have called these guys and told them to take it down or face Federal prison.
I doubt it, frankly. That's like asking Universal Records for help with playing your LPs. They'll shrug, say "you bought it, it's up to you to play it", and ignore you. Meanwhile they'll be marketing their current stuff using the new technology.
I wonder if it's worth putting effort into distributing an e-book cracking program when e-books are falling out of style. Amazon is getting out of the business and they may be setting a trend. The lack of a decent micropayment system is sounding the death knell for legitimate electronic distribution of content, protected or not. Meanwhile pirates are busy scanning and distributing their own copies which they don't bother placing content controls on.
Some people want the parent of this post modded down; I want it to stay modded UP. But there's a prior sibling that ALSO needs to be modded up. It's important for the context of these quotes to be noted, but the original message also needs to be aired.
Edit XPSP1 so it doesn't require a valid (or hacked) registration code. You may not care about machines running pirated copies of Windows, but your customers care about the viruses and spam they shed once they've been taken over.
The power-generation industry is arguably the most heavily regulated industry in the United States. Power companies are given disincentives to upgrade older generation plants. Building new plants is practically impossible in some areas. So how could you expect these companies *NOT* to get their power from elsewhere?
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No; Lao-tse. Get it? Lousy? It's a joke, son!
It was a particularly cold night in winter and I was walking out to open the gate to the yard; there'd been a sleet and the fence was coated with ice. Except... When I walked up to the lock, I noticed that one length of chain between the gate and post was free of ice. When I touched it, it was noticeably warm.
I went back to get my meter, unhooked the chain, and measured the voltage between the gate and post; it measured a wonderful 2.7 volts. Silly me, I then switched the meter to measure current. What as I thinking, using a cheap multimeter across enough current to heat up a heavy metal chain? Luckily I only blew its fuse.
I called the power company and told them about the stray voltage problem; within a few days they'd established a new ground and my fence is now down to 1/2 volt.
Spiky hair = big bucks!
The rule is, 90% of the bugs take up 90% of your budget, and the remaining 10% take up the other 90% of your budget. This goes the same for time before deadline.
'nuf said.
Some country somewhere (like Tuvalu or Tokelau) ought to start their own trademark registry; and for $20 or so you could buy one that applies there. Ford Motors could trademark Infiniti in Tuvalu and then buy a Google keyword for it, and have a Ford ad pop up. If the French protest, well, Ford does hold a valid trademark, and the internet is international.
A working BitTorrent link, and you've got it at zero.
(These point to the same file, by the way.) This isn't the original memo data, though it may contain it; it's a 100M zip archive. As always, be careful what you download off P2P networks.
corrected BitTorrent link
You can try these:
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If there is prior-art invalidating the one-click patent... Where is it? Do you think, if someone submitted prior art on BountyQuest and was ignored, they wouldn't speak up elsewhere? Or was BountyQuest paying them hush money when they turned up? Or were Amazon's hit squads murdering them once they were identified?
The fact is, Amazon's patent is pretty darn specific, and after I heard the particulars I wasn't much surprised that there's no prior art. (Frankly, I don't really LIKE that one-click service; I'd rather they not keep my credit card info on file.)
Recovering from a break-in can be very annoying, but in the case where your firewall box is running an OS that fits on a floppy, I wouldn't assume the lack of a compiler means no one has placed a back door on the machine. Especially when recovering means shutting the machine down, popping out the floppy, popping in a fresh copy of the backup you'd made, and rebooting.
Put the data up in an obscure or passworded http or ftp server directory, then log in to your remote host via ssh and grab them remotely.
I'm sorry, but "service provider" does NOT mean providing information to telemarketers. If my cell provider starts encouraging people to waste my minutes, then I'm going to stop paying for them.
Well, their 5400 RPM drives must be indestructable, then. ;-)
I dunno, I've used Seagate drives years ago and they used to be some of the WORST you could choose. I've been prejudiced against them since.
In Cisco's case, it's even trickier, because the disputed code resides on chips that Linksys buys from Broadcom.
Well, it's certain Forbes has been led astray. At SOME point that code had to be external and compiled into the kernel before it's loaded into firmware; this article makes it seem like any program run with Linux has to be made open source and freely available.
The fact is: Linksys saved themselves a whole lot of money by using Linux instead of some commercial OS product to drive their router. They tout its using Linux, and people are attracted to their product because they think it's "open source". But what's the use of it being partially open source if people can't apply their own patches and rebuild it?
...I was working at a job where the owner had changed. The original computer network was twinax, running off an IBM System 36. (Twinax is expensive stuff, $8 per foot, a twisted pair inside a heavy copper braid.) I was replacing it with a Lantastic network with the file server being a puny little 286/12 running FoxPro. (And yes, folks, it would've worked with the load it would've had to handle.) Anyway, I'd spent a godawful amount of time running cable for Arcnet through the ceiling, and in the end, the network wouldn't net, and I couldn't figure out why. (Probably got sold the wrong cabling.) The old machine was long gone, the sales manager needed access, and the PHB was yelling at me. Above all, he couldn't understand why I couldn't use the old twinax cabling, and I kept trying to explain that it was completely different...
Then I had an apostrophe [sic].
Within a half hour I had the network up and running... Over the old twinax cables... Using serial connections.
And it wouldn't've happened without the pointy-haired boss.
I've found that hard drive reliability is inversely related to the drive's rotation speed, raised to the nth power. I've had absolutely no problems with Maxtor's 5400 RPM drives, despite running them for extended periods. With 7200 RPM, both Maxtor and other people's, I've had some trouble. The faster the rotation, the more likely it is for the media to start vibrating, especially with regard to outside stimulus, and the greater chance of a head crash.
I think some of the new anti-hacking laws prohibit anyone from disclosing such vulnerabilities, as a warning or not. Someone may have called these guys and told them to take it down or face Federal prison.
I doubt it, frankly. That's like asking Universal Records for help with playing your LPs. They'll shrug, say "you bought it, it's up to you to play it", and ignore you. Meanwhile they'll be marketing their current stuff using the new technology.
Out of all the comments posted on this article, this is the first that includes a rebuttal.
I wonder if it's worth putting effort into distributing an e-book cracking program when e-books are falling out of style. Amazon is getting out of the business and they may be setting a trend. The lack of a decent micropayment system is sounding the death knell for legitimate electronic distribution of content, protected or not. Meanwhile pirates are busy scanning and distributing their own copies which they don't bother placing content controls on.
Some people want the parent of this post modded down; I want it to stay modded UP. But there's a prior sibling that ALSO needs to be modded up. It's important for the context of these quotes to be noted, but the original message also needs to be aired.
Edit XPSP1 so it doesn't require a valid (or hacked) registration code. You may not care about machines running pirated copies of Windows, but your customers care about the viruses and spam they shed once they've been taken over.
The power-generation industry is arguably the most heavily regulated industry in the United States. Power companies are given disincentives to upgrade older generation plants. Building new plants is practically impossible in some areas. So how could you expect these companies *NOT* to get their power from elsewhere?