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Neopallium writes to tell us that in a recent announcement at the Desktop Linux Summit the Free Standards Group reports fourteen of the leading Linux vendors have pledged support for the newest release of the Linux Standards Base. From the article: "'The Release of LSB 3.1 is another milestone achieved by the industry and the Open Source Community that delivers ever increasing value to customers,' said Reza Rooholamini, director of enterprise solutions engineering at Dell. 'It enables further uniformity and standardization across applications and distributions that allows quicker deployment of Linux solutions with higher levels of quality.'"
moon_monkey writes "Ever wondered whether a scientific paper was actually written by a robot? A new program developed by researchers at Indiana University promises to tell you one way or the other. It was actually developed in response to a prank by MIT researchers who generated a paper from random bits of text and got it accepted for a conference."
JordanL writes "Hot on the heels of the beta rollouts of IE 7, comes an editorial from John Dvorak declaring IE the biggest mistake Microsoft has ever made. From the article: 'All the work that has to go into keeping the browser afloat is time that could have been better spent on making Vista work as first advertised [...] If you were to put together a comprehensive profit-and-loss statement for IE, there would be a zero in the profits column and billions in the losses column--billions.'"
The major problem with frost is not the change the shape of the airfoil; it disturbs the smooth airflow over the wing surface, causing turbulent separation, dramatically lowering lift.
As a member of the second place team in world finals many moons ago, I have to disagree. I think the problems are actually quite simple algorithmically, and that the hard part is quickly writing working code for semicomplicated problems (including input parsing) with only one computer shared three ways.
Given that most of MSR's stuff is free, I wonder how they could solve it for a "fraction of the price." Perhaps you mean "there are other free solutions"?
FRCP Rule 50(a)(1): If during a trial by jury a party has been fully heard on an issue and there is no legally sufficient evidentiary basis for a reasonable jury to find for that party on that issue, the court may determine the issue against that party and may grant a motion for judgment as a matter of law against that party with respect to a claim or defense that cannot under the controlling law be maintained or defeated without a favorable finding on that issue.
In civil trials, the judge can overrule the jury when the lawyer moves for JMOL.
Of course, it raises the age-old question of, if the navigation is so sensitve to accidental interference, what happens when someone deliberately transmits an NDB signal from near the runway?
Then the instrument students learning NDB approaches will each call up approach and say "Approach, the NDB is acting up again, we're going missed; can we get vectors to the ILS?" They probably won't hit anything, because (1) you'd be stupid to descend in NDB guidance when your ident is jammed, and (2) the TERPS would probably give you obstacle clearance even if you're significantly off. At OAK it was common for the people shooting the NDB to be a half mile off course on two-to-three mile final, due to the way the water twists the NDB signal.
At those heights, I imagine you'd want to ban all electronic equipment within a few miles of the airport, since cellphones on the ground will likely have as good a transmission path to the GPS antenna as those in the cabin?
If you're familiar with the near-far problem, you'd realize that a portable electronic device five feet away from an antenna poses a greater risk than one a few miles away. And if you think we're not paranoid about autoland, look at all those ILS critical regions and Cat 2/3 critical regions on airports. They don't want the metal body of aircraft to get anywhere near a nav signal that's used for autoland. GPS antenna is also likely atop the aircraft pointing up with the fuselage serving as a groundplane shield, so it makes it more likely that stuff in the plane can interfere before higher-power stuff on the ground.
GPS is just one of many nav instruments in the airplane, and for all but a handful of airplanes and approaches, is not the primary nav signal used for the last few thousand feet (the ILS is.)
No, your eyes are the primary navigation signal for the last few thousand feet. In a Category 1 ILS (the vast majority of ILS installations and approaches), you get 200' MDA, which at 3 degree glidepath is 3800 feet from the touchdown point (well, technically the aim point, but let's not get into minutia about flares and such).
If you mean that the ILS gets you the last few thousand feet of altitude, the FAA is building WAAS approaches to Category 1 ILS minimums, in which case it has/will be used as primary until you're 200 feet off the surface. There are plenty of towers over 200' AGL near approach paths in large cities...
This study shows that the FAA needs to start enforcing 14 CFR 91.21.
no thanks I'll simply smash the face of a non critical gague and solve my problem there instead of letting my life rely on a consumer grade product.
I said vacuum or electrical, not pitot-static. Tell me what instrument you'd smash to get your vacuum or electrical back, and I'll buy you a TSO'ed copy of said instrument. Loss of vacuum or electrical in IMC is an emergency, and I'll use all available information to get me back on the ground safely.
If I'm in VMC, I'll land immediately. If the aircraft has an operational certified GPS, I'll go to that first, but good luck if you had an electrical failure. I don't fly with a handheld GPS other than the setup described above, and perhaps that's silly, but its better than what most of the single-engine piston crowd flies with.
Yeah, the resolution is a bummer, but would you really want a really high res on a screen so small?
Yes, because you can always use bigger fonts if you can't read something, but you can't get more than 786k pixels out of 1024x768 (ignoring subpixel antialiasing).
First thing I did is buy a 1GB stick from Crucial; makes all the difference. I use Outlook, Virtual PC, RSS Bandit with no problem.
Good to hear that your experience is that extra memory fixes the speed problem. I suspected as much, since my desktop runs 2 VMs, and when they ran with 512MB each, it was dog slow, but at 1 GB each, things work pretty well. What are you running in Virtual PC? If its another Windows setup, how much memory do you give it?
In fact, I'm typing this comment on it. It is a bit sluggish, but I suspect that's because my add-in memory is still on order. The battery life (as with all X series ThinkPads) is unbeatable. But the killer app to me is not the note-taking. There are a few nice applications the tablet can be used for that don't work as well on a regular laptop (and I won't buy a non-ThinkPad until someone else figures out how to put in a sane keyboard layout).
1. Driving directions. Bluetooth GPS + Streets and Trips 2003 = turn-by-turn directions and a nice huge map. 2. Photo editing. Instead of having a separate digitizer tablet, this one is built-in. Using the mouse for this kind of stuff really sucks, especially if you have RSI. 3. Aircraft use (pilot). There are a pile of programs to help aviators figure out where they're going, and they're much easier to see on a Tablet than on a laptop. In a vacuum or electrical failure, this can be a real lifesaver (by acting as a DG or VOR/GS). 4. Aircraft use (passenger). You can read PDFs in tablet mode, even when the seat in front of you is reclined. You can even annotate them with the pen.
So sure, its a bit sluggish (but another 512MB RAM will help that quite a bit), and the resolution sucks (1024x768? are we in the 90s?), but I think I'm sticking with the tablet for the near future as my portable. My power use takes place on a Pentium D desktop with 4GB RAM and a 24" LCD, so there's little need for me to have a beefy desktop-replacement laptop. And the optical drive problem is solved with an external DVD burner that hooks up to both the laptop and the desktop.
I don't think I really want my emails to be available to my next-of-kin after death; if it were, then people wouldn't be willing to email me things that they didn't want my next-of-kin to see. Of course, there's some privacy risk from the fact that my email is all unencrypted on my hard drive.
In any case, do you really want someone saying at your funeral that "He was such a promising young man... too bad all his data was lost upon his death"?
Yes, existing laws cover that. 14 CFR 91.15 says "No pilot in command of a civil aircraft may allow any object to be dropped from that aircraft in flight that creates a hazard to persons or property."
You can get a medical even if you're colorblind: http://www.aviationmedicine.com/colorvision.htm I t will be marked "NOT VALID FOR NIGHT FLYING OR BY COLOR SIGNAL CONTROL." Doubtless you know about the SODA (statement of demonstrated ability) for getting around this restriction...
The cell modem won't work above a certain altitude, because antennas on base stations are pointed down at the ground. You'd probably want an altimeter in that setup that removes some of the helium in case of excessive altitude. Of course, if you hit an updraft, release helium, and hit the corresponding downdraft, then that's probably not too happy.
Being a networking geek as well as a security geek, I'll point out that the way Internet routing currently works, based on the commercial nature of the Internet, means that almost no routes are symmetric. This is because policies like hot potato routing, where one provider tries to get rid of a packet as quickly as possible. For example, if Sprint and UUNET have exchanges in San Francisco and DC, and a packet goes from a Sprint customer in Sacramento to a UUNET customer in Baltimore, the packet from Sac to Baltimore will go Sprint to San Fran and UUNET the rest of the way, but the return packet will go UUNET to DC and Sprint the rest of the way.
Also, hop-by-hop security is not end-to-end security, so even if you do have all the routers in IPv8 using hop-by-hop encryption over petabit links, you'll still need end-to-end security.
So to answer the question in the post, unless you can afford a leased line with a single fiber, and that fiber is lossless enough to not need repeaters, this is only for things like financial institutions and spy networks.
Yes, GSM is more widely supported than CDMA, but note that the GSM folks are having a heck of a time providing 3G support, whereas the two big CDMA providers in the states (Verizon and Sprint) have both rolled out huge 3G networks. The reason for this is that 1xRTT is a better standard for data. By contrast, DoCoMo is losing money hand over fist deploying WCDMA.
GSM is everywhere largely because of European licensing agencies requiring GSM, and those same restrictions are built into the licenses for 3G spectrum (with UMTS). NOT because GSM is a better technology. CDMA gets better efficiency (more users per channel per cell) than GSM, especially in lightly loaded areas.
I don't see why GSM-everywhere is so desirable. The conveinences everyone claims that GSM has (eg SIM cards) are already being standardized in cdma2000, and will be here soon. GSM is a beast from the past, pushed only by government regulations. For those who say AT&T's switch shows that GSM is the future, remember that AT&T is switching from a TDMA network that's technologically equivalent to GSM (and hence inferior to CDMA), and that AT&T is having all sorts of network problems as a result, since they have to hard-block their frequencies, effectively creating a huge fragmentation problem.
How do you choose the interval between updates? If you send updates too often, your overhead will kill you (1/100th of a second in the parent! That's 100 transmissions a second, which you probably can't manage on a moderately loaded 802.11 network, especially given the multi-way handshake and all the interframe spacings) If you don't send them often enough, you'll not be able to keep up, and TCP will drop all sorts of packets. Finally, the protocol you propose probably has loop-freedom properties, unless you're saying "use DSDV".
If you're not already encrypting your traffic, you're pretty hosed. You can always use mesh to VPN into your home network that's wired into the Internet. The real question is how do you prevent someone from DoSing your network. Some work has been done in securing these mesh network routing protocols; see Ariadne, SRP, SAODV, SEAD, and ARAN.
It's Open Source. People work on what they want, not what some business wants, or what their manager wants them to work on (for the most part). Not everyone who writes OSS cares about bringing Linux to the masses... maybe they'd just be happy enough to bring it to their iPod.
If you want to move the Linux community towards your vision of progress, you can donate to projects, work on them, or even hire people to do so. Not everyone has to share your vision... but the beauty of it is that you can have your own.
Unfortunately, duplicate ideas come up across fields quite often, and many times PCs (program committees) and journal reviewers don't have the expertise in the other areas...
RTFA: many people find the uninstaller doesn't work. And do you really trust that the uninstaller will remove any spyware they may leave behind? I mean, such a company must have incredibly high moral standards. They wouldn't do anything like leave behind spyware like Kazaa...
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Neopallium writes to tell us that in a recent announcement at the Desktop Linux Summit the Free Standards Group reports fourteen of the leading Linux vendors have pledged support for the newest release of the Linux Standards Base. From the article: "'The Release of LSB 3.1 is another milestone achieved by the industry and the Open Source Community that delivers ever increasing value to customers,' said Reza Rooholamini, director of enterprise solutions engineering at Dell. 'It enables further uniformity and standardization across applications and distributions that allows quicker deployment of Linux solutions with higher levels of quality.'"
moon_monkey writes "Ever wondered whether a scientific paper was actually written by a robot? A new program developed by researchers at Indiana University promises to tell you one way or the other. It was actually developed in response to a prank by MIT researchers who generated a paper from random bits of text and got it accepted for a conference."
JordanL writes "Hot on the heels of the beta rollouts of IE 7, comes an editorial from John Dvorak declaring IE the biggest mistake Microsoft has ever made. From the article: 'All the work that has to go into keeping the browser afloat is time that could have been better spent on making Vista work as first advertised [...] If you were to put together a comprehensive profit-and-loss statement for IE, there would be a zero in the profits column and billions in the losses column--billions.'"
The major problem with frost is not the change the shape of the airfoil; it disturbs the smooth airflow over the wing surface, causing turbulent separation, dramatically lowering lift.
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http://www.av8n.com/how/htm/airfoils.html
As a member of the second place team in world finals many moons ago, I have to disagree. I think the problems are actually quite simple algorithmically, and that the hard part is quickly writing working code for semicomplicated problems (including input parsing) with only one computer shared three ways.
Given that most of MSR's stuff is free, I wonder how they could solve it for a "fraction of the price." Perhaps you mean "there are other free solutions"?
+5, Wrong.
FRCP Rule 50(a)(1): If during a trial by jury a party has been fully heard on an issue and there is no legally sufficient evidentiary basis for a reasonable jury to find for that party on that issue, the court may determine the issue against that party and may grant a motion for judgment as a matter of law against that party with respect to a claim or defense that cannot under the controlling law be maintained or defeated without a favorable finding on that issue.
In civil trials, the judge can overrule the jury when the lawyer moves for JMOL.
Of course, it raises the age-old question of, if the navigation is so sensitve to accidental interference, what happens when someone deliberately transmits an NDB signal from near the runway?
Then the instrument students learning NDB approaches will each call up approach and say "Approach, the NDB is acting up again, we're going missed; can we get vectors to the ILS?" They probably won't hit anything, because (1) you'd be stupid to descend in NDB guidance when your ident is jammed, and (2) the TERPS would probably give you obstacle clearance even if you're significantly off. At OAK it was common for the people shooting the NDB to be a half mile off course on two-to-three mile final, due to the way the water twists the NDB signal.
At those heights, I imagine you'd want to ban all electronic equipment within a few miles of the airport, since cellphones on the ground will likely have as good a transmission path to the GPS antenna as those in the cabin?
If you're familiar with the near-far problem, you'd realize that a portable electronic device five feet away from an antenna poses a greater risk than one a few miles away. And if you think we're not paranoid about autoland, look at all those ILS critical regions and Cat 2/3 critical regions on airports. They don't want the metal body of aircraft to get anywhere near a nav signal that's used for autoland. GPS antenna is also likely atop the aircraft pointing up with the fuselage serving as a groundplane shield, so it makes it more likely that stuff in the plane can interfere before higher-power stuff on the ground.
No, your eyes are the primary navigation signal for the last few thousand feet. In a Category 1 ILS (the vast majority of ILS installations and approaches), you get 200' MDA, which at 3 degree glidepath is 3800 feet from the touchdown point (well, technically the aim point, but let's not get into minutia about flares and such).
If you mean that the ILS gets you the last few thousand feet of altitude, the FAA is building WAAS approaches to Category 1 ILS minimums, in which case it has/will be used as primary until you're 200 feet off the surface. There are plenty of towers over 200' AGL near approach paths in large cities...
This study shows that the FAA needs to start enforcing 14 CFR 91.21.
I said vacuum or electrical, not pitot-static. Tell me what instrument you'd smash to get your vacuum or electrical back, and I'll buy you a TSO'ed copy of said instrument. Loss of vacuum or electrical in IMC is an emergency, and I'll use all available information to get me back on the ground safely.
If I'm in VMC, I'll land immediately. If the aircraft has an operational certified GPS, I'll go to that first, but good luck if you had an electrical failure. I don't fly with a handheld GPS other than the setup described above, and perhaps that's silly, but its better than what most of the single-engine piston crowd flies with.
Still believe this, even when you can't spell?
Yes, because you can always use bigger fonts if you can't read something, but you can't get more than 786k pixels out of 1024x768 (ignoring subpixel antialiasing).
Good to hear that your experience is that extra memory fixes the speed problem. I suspected as much, since my desktop runs 2 VMs, and when they ran with 512MB each, it was dog slow, but at 1 GB each, things work pretty well. What are you running in Virtual PC? If its another Windows setup, how much memory do you give it?
right. no need to burn DVDs from both machines simultaneously, either.
In fact, I'm typing this comment on it. It is a bit sluggish, but I suspect that's because my add-in memory is still on order. The battery life (as with all X series ThinkPads) is unbeatable. But the killer app to me is not the note-taking. There are a few nice applications the tablet can be used for that don't work as well on a regular laptop (and I won't buy a non-ThinkPad until someone else figures out how to put in a sane keyboard layout).
1. Driving directions. Bluetooth GPS + Streets and Trips 2003 = turn-by-turn directions and a nice huge map.
2. Photo editing. Instead of having a separate digitizer tablet, this one is built-in. Using the mouse for this kind of stuff really sucks, especially if you have RSI.
3. Aircraft use (pilot). There are a pile of programs to help aviators figure out where they're going, and they're much easier to see on a Tablet than on a laptop. In a vacuum or electrical failure, this can be a real lifesaver (by acting as a DG or VOR/GS).
4. Aircraft use (passenger). You can read PDFs in tablet mode, even when the seat in front of you is reclined. You can even annotate them with the pen.
So sure, its a bit sluggish (but another 512MB RAM will help that quite a bit), and the resolution sucks (1024x768? are we in the 90s?), but I think I'm sticking with the tablet for the near future as my portable. My power use takes place on a Pentium D desktop with 4GB RAM and a 24" LCD, so there's little need for me to have a beefy desktop-replacement laptop. And the optical drive problem is solved with an external DVD burner that hooks up to both the laptop and the desktop.
And how is this a testable hypothesis?
Neither creation/ID nor evolution as theories on the origin of life are testable hypotheses.
I don't think I really want my emails to be available to my next-of-kin after death; if it were, then people wouldn't be willing to email me things that they didn't want my next-of-kin to see. Of course, there's some privacy risk from the fact that my email is all unencrypted on my hard drive.
In any case, do you really want someone saying at your funeral that "He was such a promising young man... too bad all his data was lost upon his death"?
Yes, existing laws cover that. 14 CFR 91.15 says "No pilot in command of a civil aircraft may allow any object to be dropped from that aircraft in flight that creates a hazard to persons or property."
You can get a medical even if you're colorblind: http://www.aviationmedicine.com/colorvision.htm
I t will be marked "NOT VALID FOR NIGHT FLYING OR BY COLOR SIGNAL CONTROL." Doubtless you know about the SODA (statement of demonstrated ability) for getting around this restriction...
The cell modem won't work above a certain altitude, because antennas on base stations are pointed down at the ground. You'd probably want an altimeter in that setup that removes some of the helium in case of excessive altitude. Of course, if you hit an updraft, release helium, and hit the corresponding downdraft, then that's probably not too happy.
Being a networking geek as well as a security geek, I'll point out that the way Internet routing currently works, based on the commercial nature of the Internet, means that almost no routes are symmetric. This is because policies like hot potato routing, where one provider tries to get rid of a packet as quickly as possible. For example, if Sprint and UUNET have exchanges in San Francisco and DC, and a packet goes from a Sprint customer in Sacramento to a UUNET customer in Baltimore, the packet from Sac to Baltimore will go Sprint to San Fran and UUNET the rest of the way, but the return packet will go UUNET to DC and Sprint the rest of the way.
Also, hop-by-hop security is not end-to-end security, so even if you do have all the routers in IPv8 using hop-by-hop encryption over petabit links, you'll still need end-to-end security.
So to answer the question in the post, unless you can afford a leased line with a single fiber, and that fiber is lossless enough to not need repeaters, this is only for things like financial institutions and spy networks.
Yes, GSM is more widely supported than CDMA, but note that the GSM folks are having a heck of a time providing 3G support, whereas the two big CDMA providers in the states (Verizon and Sprint) have both rolled out huge 3G networks. The reason for this is that 1xRTT is a better standard for data. By contrast, DoCoMo is losing money hand over fist deploying WCDMA.
GSM is everywhere largely because of European licensing agencies requiring GSM, and those same restrictions are built into the licenses for 3G spectrum (with UMTS). NOT because GSM is a better technology. CDMA gets better efficiency (more users per channel per cell) than GSM, especially in lightly loaded areas.
I don't see why GSM-everywhere is so desirable. The conveinences everyone claims that GSM has (eg SIM cards) are already being standardized in cdma2000, and will be here soon. GSM is a beast from the past, pushed only by government regulations. For those who say AT&T's switch shows that GSM is the future, remember that AT&T is switching from a TDMA network that's technologically equivalent to GSM (and hence inferior to CDMA), and that AT&T is having all sorts of network problems as a result, since they have to hard-block their frequencies, effectively creating a huge fragmentation problem.
You can kill people with a gun, but I haven't seen any lawsuit against S&W for creating a tool that can be used to commit a crime.
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I haven't heard yet of any paper company being sued
That's because most people understand how paper works.
Is Ford liable for you running your car against a 80 years old man crossing the street?
http://www.courier-journal.com/business/news2003/
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Never underestimate the ability of our legal system to find fault in innocents.
USAir does this.
How do you choose the interval between updates? If you send updates too often, your overhead will kill you (1/100th of a second in the parent! That's 100 transmissions a second, which you probably can't manage on a moderately loaded 802.11 network, especially given the multi-way handshake and all the interframe spacings) If you don't send them often enough, you'll not be able to keep up, and TCP will drop all sorts of packets. Finally, the protocol you propose probably has loop-freedom properties, unless you're saying "use DSDV".
If you're not already encrypting your traffic, you're pretty hosed. You can always use mesh to VPN into your home network that's wired into the Internet. The real question is how do you prevent someone from DoSing your network. Some work has been done in securing these mesh network routing protocols; see Ariadne, SRP, SAODV, SEAD, and ARAN.
It's Open Source. People work on what they want, not what some business wants, or what their manager wants them to work on (for the most part). Not everyone who writes OSS cares about bringing Linux to the masses... maybe they'd just be happy enough to bring it to their iPod.
If you want to move the Linux community towards your vision of progress, you can donate to projects, work on them, or even hire people to do so. Not everyone has to share your vision... but the beauty of it is that you can have your own.
Unfortunately, duplicate ideas come up across fields quite often, and many times PCs (program committees) and journal reviewers don't have the expertise in the other areas...
RTFA: many people find the uninstaller doesn't work. And do you really trust that the uninstaller will remove any spyware they may leave behind? I mean, such a company must have incredibly high moral standards. They wouldn't do anything like leave behind spyware like Kazaa...