What with the UK government wanting to force an ID card on us - seems applicable to Passports/Driving Licenses too.
Take a standard Credit Card sized plastic card.
Put a chip on it like credit cards use - not an RFID tag, just a simple chip that can store ONE piece of info.
That piece of data will be unique to that person, and is their ID in the system.
On the card we print a photograph, their name and date of birth.
When the card is presented at an appropriate terminal, a database lookup is done for the ID. The card reader then displays a "virtual" version of the card.
Visual inspection will allow the person doing the Identity Check to confirm the persons ID.
ID cards to be updated every 5 years, replacements for lost/stolen/damaged to be charged at cost, and be available within 2 working days, with designated places (like police stations) being able to print out temporary ID papers until replacement card arrives.
As long as downloads to terminals are encrypted, and the credentials of the operatives inputting data onto the system are checked, we have a secure system with no privacy concerns that SHOULD be cheap to implement.
Other systems, Passport Control etc could be tied to the database with your ID reference number becoming your Passport number - Give each person a pin number (or if you really insist use biometric information) and you have a bank/credit card that should also help prevent fraud.
Before the recording industry in order to earn a living as a musician, the artists needed to go out an play live.
Small venues, low ticket prices, a few nights a week.
Now it seems that the opposite occurs.
Once signed to a label it seems that a band releases an album, does a brief tour to promote, mass media marketing meaning that these tours are shorter and shorter.
They then sit back and wait for the money.
Think about it - how often do most big bands tour - once every 3 to 5 years maybe?
The records/cd's/mp3's should be the promotional material to get people interested in going to their performances.
That way we would have better music - after all, how many gigs have you gone to that a band sounded awful because they cant play without the benefits a studio brings.
Let us convert some of the theaters, cinemas and other large buildings into music venues and promote live music - a true performance worthy of reward, rather than soul-less recordings of multi-take playings of music
Thing is, even if we do keep using oil at the rate we are now, if/when the Gulf states start trading their oil in Euro's instead of US Dollars this could still happen.
Iraq switched to trading in Euro's, 1st thing that happened when Iraq restarted oil production was the reversion to the Dollar - even tho this cost the Iraqi people 20% of the value of their oil.
Basically he says the server is for DIX use only and specifically for the BGP router network there, he then says only for these servers.
***** TFA Excerp below *****
Why D-Link needs to ask for permission
The public service of the GPS.dix.dk NTP server has been advertised in the NTP projects list of Stratum 1 NTP servers with the following text:
DK Denmark GPS.dix.dk (192.38.7.240) Location: Lyngby, Denmark Geographic Coordinates: 55:47:03.36N, 12:03:21.48E Synchronization: NTP V4 GPS with OCXO timebase Service Area: Networks BGP-announced on the DIX Access Policy: open access to servers, please, no client use Contacts: Poul-Henning Kamp (phk@FreeBSD.org) Note: timestamps better than +/-5 usec.
You will notice two restrictions here, one is the "Service Area" and the other is the "Access Policy". D-Link makes no effort to comply with either of these two restrictions.
Since D-Link does not comply with these restrictions, D-Link has no legitimate access to the server, and it follows trivially that D-Link should have asked for my permission before including it in the list embedded in their products firmware.
These words, I do not think that they mean what you think they mean.
(from dictionary.com)
stank v.
A past tense of stink.
fetch1 v. fetched, fetching, fetches v. tr.
1. To come or go after and take or bring back: The puppy fetched the stick that we had tossed.
2.
1. To cause to come.
2. To bring in as a price: fetched a thousand dollars at auction.
3. To interest or attract.
3.
1. To draw in (breath); inhale.
2. To bring forth (a sigh, for example) with obvious effort.
4. Informal. To deliver (a blow) by striking; deal.
5. Nautical. To arrive at; reach: fetched port after a month at sea.
The Register quotes the price range as £349-£420 in GBP
This is still as cheap/cheaper than a single 512MB 7900GTX GFX card.
At the bottom of the price range it is the same as I paid for EACH of my 7800GTX's at the end of last year (I happened to find myself being made redundant with a decent payout, and managed to find a new job starting the day after I left my old one, so I decided to treat myself to a new toy with this "found" money)
So how is it hideously expensive?
Compared to the 360 it may cost more, but with 12 months in the field by the time the PS3 is available, I cant believe that anyone who wants a 360 will not have one.
As for the Revolution, well it will probably sell more than the PS3 or the 360 as many people will see it as a cheap, fun second console - a bit like I see my Gamecube now.
If you cannot communicate properly, how do you expect people to take you seriously.
Also I think if you asked them, they are freedom fighters fighting for the freedom of their country, not insurgent terrorists.
A telling fact in the whole Iraq thing is the fact that the current war started just after Saddam started selling oil in Euro's and one of the first thing that happened after the then government was deposed was that Iraqi oil was once again priced and sold in dollars - despite this being against their best interests - I think it cost them something like 20% of the price of a barrel.
There are a few wikipedia pages on this concept - why not go have a read, then see if the current occupation of Iraq is a good thing for Iraq as a nation - you could start here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrodollar_warfare and work your way through the links -
[sarcasm] But yes, lets send in the kill bots [/sarcasm]
And there was me thinking that the A in ADD with respect to CD's was for Analogue, as in the original recording was Analogue.
ADD described a process, where the letters meant "Recorded in","Mixed in" and "Mastered in"
So a purely digital recording would be DDD, a direct transfer of an old Vinyl record from a pressing master (or from the vinyl would be AAD.
Sorry to be picky - but this IS/.:)
QUICK ADDITION: from wikipedia
Three-Letter Codes
* DDD: digital tape recorder used during session recording, mixing and/or editing, and mastering (transcription).
* ADD: analog tape recorder used during session recording, digital tape recorder used during subsequent mixing and/or editing and during mastering (transcription).
* AAD: analog tape recorder used during session recording and subsequent mixing and/or editing, digital tape recorder used during mastering (transcription).
What would be more evil would be deciding that we know how the people of China should live, decide that their government is corrupt and or evil and then send in the troops.
Up until the point of the troops I agree - people should have more freedom than the Chinese enjoy.
However it is not right for us to apply our standards to another culture and decide that they should be like us.
Countries need to develop and grow at their own pace.
For example, while we in the UK think that we have a nice society, well just look at whats going on now - thousands of women being denied the treatment that our National Health Service promises due to something trivial like money. And if you go back in time about 50 years you will find that it wasn't possible for a man to rape his wife in the eyes of the law, being married equalled consent.
So lets let China and other countries grow up at their own pace.
If we don't like what they do then we can let them know that we dont like it in other ways - for example boycott China.
If Google want to go into China that is fine, and I think it is GOOD that they respected the local laws and Government, rather than forcing them to change their minds at gunpoint
I am facing a similar position in a few years when I am planning to move to New Zealand as my wife wants to move home, and I quite fancy a warmer, sunnier life than London has to offer.
I am hoping that by that time, someone with the money will have sued the MPAA/Sony/Cartel/Racketeers and made region encoding a thing of the past, and DVD players can play all disks previously encoded.
Yes I CAN rip to MP4, or bypass region encoding - but I shouldn't have to
My point was that the UK release version is Firmware 2.0 - which seems to have a few new nice features, so the choice is Flash my 1.50 to 2.0 and lose homebrew or not have those features.
Will probably get another one from them when the white ones come out - then I can still do my SNES/Genesis emulation, as well as coding my own stuff as well as having all the cool new features.
Its a pity really, as Sony would earn so much respect by allowing programmers to sign their own code - why cant they come up with a way of doing it that only works on files of say 200MB or less, thus allowinf homebrew, surely they could make it as a loader library, and have it flash up a "This Software is not made or checked by Sony, Use is at your own risk".
Was just going to reply in the same vein but subtituting "hype your own wares" with "peddle your own crap", so thank you very much for saving me the bother Arkanes:)
Use of deliberate typo in previous reply to avoid profanity filters was deliberate - this disclaimer added to stop the - "but fsck in that context is not plain text either" replies
And then they wonder why people mod-chip their PS2's. even though its illegal to do so in this country.
Still havent gotten round to getting mine done, but Katamari is just one of the reasons.
For some reason they wont release the US version of the game with the disc suitably regionalised or course.
But no, policy seems to dictate that ANY disc coming to the Europe area must also have at least 2 other European language translations, and these translations seem to either delay the European release by 6 months, or mean that the game never makes it over here.
I REALLY dont want to use a modchip for any other reason than so I can play non-european content that I buy on my device.
This issue has been a topic of discussion between some friends of mine and myself, some are big Apple fans, some aren't, none are huge fans of windows.
The reason for Apple to turn to Intel rather than AMD could be that Intel can also provide them with a custom chipset.
From that, all you need to is write [NuAppleOS] to only run on that hardware and bingo, you have closed hardware Apples and no change to the Status Quo (and I don't mean that you are "Rocking all over the World")
You want to run Mac OS - buy an Apple - doesn't matter that it is now a Green Apple (Intel Processor) rather than a Red Apple (IBM Processor) sure it may taste slightly different, but hey, its still Apple.
In a lot of ways this would be Apple building and X-Box (OSX-Box anyone:P ), after all the X-Box uses standard(ish) commodity hardware, yet you cant run X-Box games on your Intel Processor.
So really, no real change to the end user.
Also there is some thought that perhaps IBM seeing the HUGE orders for Cell Processors for the PS3 alone have had to tell Apple that they cannot fab enough PowerPC chops for them - also the Laptop G5 issues that seem to exist may have given Intel an edge when approaching Apple.
All speculation and hearsay, but if you cant speculate and repeat hearsay on/., where can you.......
Slashdot Mirror
That would be advising to use a /8 subnet - right?
:)
Dont forget we are a classless society now
What with the UK government wanting to force an ID card on us - seems applicable to Passports/Driving Licenses too.
Take a standard Credit Card sized plastic card.
Put a chip on it like credit cards use - not an RFID tag, just a simple chip that can store ONE piece of info.
That piece of data will be unique to that person, and is their ID in the system.
On the card we print a photograph, their name and date of birth.
When the card is presented at an appropriate terminal, a database lookup is done for the ID. The card reader then displays a "virtual" version of the card.
Visual inspection will allow the person doing the Identity Check to confirm the persons ID.
ID cards to be updated every 5 years, replacements for lost/stolen/damaged to be charged at cost, and be available within 2 working days, with designated places (like police stations) being able to print out temporary ID papers until replacement card arrives.
As long as downloads to terminals are encrypted, and the credentials of the operatives inputting data onto the system are checked, we have a secure system with no privacy concerns that SHOULD be cheap to implement.
Other systems, Passport Control etc could be tied to the database with your ID reference number becoming your Passport number - Give each person a pin number (or if you really insist use biometric information) and you have a bank/credit card that should also help prevent fraud.
Anyone see any holes in my plan?
Hmmm Wario Ware Revolution.
Not Wario Ware Wii
Or maybe Wii Wario Ware
Or how about Wario Wii Ware
But no, listed in Time as Wario Ware Revolution.
Makes you wonder if there IS a name publicity conspiracy........
Or maybe Time just went to press pre the name change announcement and didn't confirm the titles 1st....
Worse than that
Madden XXXX
Wheres my "Mod Optomistic" ????
:)
From parent
"Until then, have fun with John Madden 20XX"
Shouldn't that read
"Until then, have fun with John Madden 2XXX" at the very least?
Before the recording industry in order to earn a living as a musician, the artists needed to go out an play live.
Small venues, low ticket prices, a few nights a week.
Now it seems that the opposite occurs.
Once signed to a label it seems that a band releases an album, does a brief tour to promote, mass media marketing meaning that these tours are shorter and shorter.
They then sit back and wait for the money.
Think about it - how often do most big bands tour - once every 3 to 5 years maybe?
The records/cd's/mp3's should be the promotional material to get people interested in going to their performances.
That way we would have better music - after all, how many gigs have you gone to that a band sounded awful because they cant play without the benefits a studio brings.
Let us convert some of the theaters, cinemas and other large buildings into music venues and promote live music - a true performance worthy of reward, rather than soul-less recordings of multi-take playings of music
Because if the world moves away from oil, the US Economy is screwed - perhaps to the point of collapse.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrodollar for details
Thing is, even if we do keep using oil at the rate we are now, if/when the Gulf states start trading their oil in Euro's instead of US Dollars this could still happen.
Iraq switched to trading in Euro's, 1st thing that happened when Iraq restarted oil production was the reversion to the Dollar - even tho this cost the Iraqi people 20% of the value of their oil.
The "Crime" - Computer System Trespass
From TFA (Well TFOL) this is explained well
Basically he says the server is for DIX use only and specifically for the BGP router network there, he then says only for these servers.
***** TFA Excerp below *****
Why D-Link needs to ask for permission
The public service of the GPS.dix.dk NTP server has been advertised in the NTP projects list of Stratum 1 NTP servers with the following text:
DK Denmark GPS.dix.dk (192.38.7.240)
Location: Lyngby, Denmark
Geographic Coordinates: 55:47:03.36N, 12:03:21.48E
Synchronization: NTP V4 GPS with OCXO timebase
Service Area: Networks BGP-announced on the DIX
Access Policy: open access to servers, please, no client use
Contacts: Poul-Henning Kamp (phk@FreeBSD.org)
Note: timestamps better than +/-5 usec.
You will notice two restrictions here, one is the "Service Area" and the other is the "Access Policy". D-Link makes no effort to comply with either of these two restrictions.
Since D-Link does not comply with these restrictions, D-Link has no legitimate access to the server, and it follows trivially that D-Link should have asked for my permission before including it in the list embedded in their products firmware.
These words, I do not think that they mean what you think they mean.
(from dictionary.com)
stank
v.
A past tense of stink.
fetch1
v. fetched, fetching, fetches
v. tr.
1. To come or go after and take or bring back: The puppy fetched the stick that we had tossed.
2.
1. To cause to come.
2. To bring in as a price: fetched a thousand dollars at auction.
3. To interest or attract.
3.
1. To draw in (breath); inhale.
2. To bring forth (a sigh, for example) with obvious effort.
4. Informal. To deliver (a blow) by striking; deal.
5. Nautical. To arrive at; reach: fetched port after a month at sea.
The Register quotes the price range as £349-£420 in GBP
This is still as cheap/cheaper than a single 512MB 7900GTX GFX card.
At the bottom of the price range it is the same as I paid for EACH of my 7800GTX's at the end of last year (I happened to find myself being made redundant with a decent payout, and managed to find a new job starting the day after I left my old one, so I decided to treat myself to a new toy with this "found" money)
So how is it hideously expensive?
Compared to the 360 it may cost more, but with 12 months in the field by the time the PS3 is available, I cant believe that anyone who wants a 360 will not have one.
As for the Revolution, well it will probably sell more than the PS3 or the 360 as many people will see it as a cheap, fun second console - a bit like I see my Gamecube now.
Even more obligatory
Its SOLDIERS not Soldures.
If you cannot communicate properly, how do you expect people to take you seriously.
Also I think if you asked them, they are freedom fighters fighting for the freedom of their country, not insurgent terrorists.
A telling fact in the whole Iraq thing is the fact that the current war started just after Saddam started selling oil in Euro's and one of the first thing that happened after the then government was deposed was that Iraqi oil was once again priced and sold in dollars - despite this being against their best interests - I think it cost them something like 20% of the price of a barrel.
There are a few wikipedia pages on this concept - why not go have a read, then see if the current occupation of Iraq is a good thing for Iraq as a nation - you could start here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrodollar_warfare and work your way through the links -
[sarcasm] But yes, lets send in the kill bots [/sarcasm]
And there was me thinking that the A in ADD with respect to CD's was for Analogue, as in the original recording was Analogue.
/. :)
ADD described a process, where the letters meant "Recorded in","Mixed in" and "Mastered in"
So a purely digital recording would be DDD, a direct transfer of an old Vinyl record from a pressing master (or from the vinyl would be AAD.
Sorry to be picky - but this IS
QUICK ADDITION: from wikipedia
Three-Letter Codes
* DDD: digital tape recorder used during session recording, mixing and/or editing, and mastering (transcription).
* ADD: analog tape recorder used during session recording, digital tape recorder used during subsequent mixing and/or editing and during mastering (transcription).
* AAD: analog tape recorder used during session recording and subsequent mixing and/or editing, digital tape recorder used during mastering (transcription).
What would be more evil would be deciding that we know how the people of China should live, decide that their government is corrupt and or evil and then send in the troops.
Up until the point of the troops I agree - people should have more freedom than the Chinese enjoy.
However it is not right for us to apply our standards to another culture and decide that they should be like us.
Countries need to develop and grow at their own pace.
For example, while we in the UK think that we have a nice society, well just look at whats going on now - thousands of women being denied the treatment that our National Health Service promises due to something trivial like money. And if you go back in time about 50 years you will find that it wasn't possible for a man to rape his wife in the eyes of the law, being married equalled consent.
So lets let China and other countries grow up at their own pace.
If we don't like what they do then we can let them know that we dont like it in other ways - for example boycott China.
If Google want to go into China that is fine, and I think it is GOOD that they respected the local laws and Government, rather than forcing them to change their minds at gunpoint
Forget about legality.
I am facing a similar position in a few years when I am planning to move to New Zealand as my wife wants to move home, and I quite fancy a warmer, sunnier life than London has to offer.
I am hoping that by that time, someone with the money will have sued the MPAA/Sony/Cartel/Racketeers and made region encoding a thing of the past, and DVD players can play all disks previously encoded.
Yes I CAN rip to MP4, or bypass region encoding - but I shouldn't have to
Go read/watch Chobits - they already have the idea's, they are just waiting for the technology to catch up.........
My point was that the UK release version is Firmware 2.0 - which seems to have a few new nice features, so the choice is Flash my 1.50 to 2.0 and lose homebrew or not have those features.
:)
I know all about KXploit
Which makes my point even more valid.
I will buy a second PSP that will cost them money because in order to play some of their newer games I will be forced to upgrade my firmware.
So either I cause them a loss by getting the second one - or cause them a bigger loss by not buying new games that require a firmware upgrade.
Allowing homebrew to run will not kill them, as what I am proposing would not allow dumped UMD images to run, only people's own code.
Already done, and from Lik-Sang a few months ago.
And its Firmware version 1.50.
Will probably get another one from them when the white ones come out - then I can still do my SNES/Genesis emulation, as well as coding my own stuff as well as having all the cool new features.
Its a pity really, as Sony would earn so much respect by allowing programmers to sign their own code - why cant they come up with a way of doing it that only works on files of say 200MB or less, thus allowinf homebrew, surely they could make it as a loader library, and have it flash up a "This Software is not made or checked by Sony, Use is at your own risk".
Was just going to reply in the same vein but subtituting "hype your own wares" with "peddle your own crap", so thank you very much for saving me the bother Arkanes :)
Use of deliberate typo in previous reply to avoid profanity filters was deliberate - this disclaimer added to stop the - "but fsck in that context is not plain text either" replies
Why not go fsck yourself.
If its worth writing, do it in plain text rather than being a twat
And then they wonder why people mod-chip their PS2's. even though its illegal to do so in this country.
Still havent gotten round to getting mine done, but Katamari is just one of the reasons.
For some reason they wont release the US version of the game with the disc suitably regionalised or course.
But no, policy seems to dictate that ANY disc coming to the Europe area must also have at least 2 other European language translations, and these translations seem to either delay the European release by 6 months, or mean that the game never makes it over here.
I REALLY dont want to use a modchip for any other reason than so I can play non-european content that I buy on my device.
QUOTE"Saturn would have been ok too, if only more titles have been translated from japaneese)"
:)
Maybe they had problems with finding people who spoke "japaneese" ??
First Reply Post !!!!
:)
Should have RTFA, just repeated a lot of what TFA said
This issue has been a topic of discussion between some friends of mine and myself, some are big Apple fans, some aren't, none are huge fans of windows.
:P ), after all the X-Box uses standard(ish) commodity hardware, yet you cant run X-Box games on your Intel Processor.
/., where can you.......
The reason for Apple to turn to Intel rather than AMD could be that Intel can also provide them with a custom chipset.
From that, all you need to is write [NuAppleOS] to only run on that hardware and bingo, you have closed hardware Apples and no change to the Status Quo (and I don't mean that you are "Rocking all over the World")
You want to run Mac OS - buy an Apple - doesn't matter that it is now a Green Apple (Intel Processor) rather than a Red Apple (IBM Processor) sure it may taste slightly different, but hey, its still Apple.
In a lot of ways this would be Apple building and X-Box (OSX-Box anyone
So really, no real change to the end user.
Also there is some thought that perhaps IBM seeing the HUGE orders for Cell Processors for the PS3 alone have had to tell Apple that they cannot fab enough PowerPC chops for them - also the Laptop G5 issues that seem to exist may have given Intel an edge when approaching Apple.
All speculation and hearsay, but if you cant speculate and repeat hearsay on