The DoD takes everything personally, and for good reason, but I have a steady stream of chinese hackers attempting to break into the router in my tool shed that reports battery voltage and temperature at a cabin that is inaccessible for 6 months of the year.
I really should put a webcam in there so they can see what they have achieved if they ever do manage to get in.
(22.1F, batteries 25.3V, 600 watt hours of energy stored today.)
I have no personal evidence that he is currently free, thus he falls into the same category for me as Firefox does for him.
More disturbing (from TFA)...
I received an EeePC as a gift, but I could not run it because my conscience will not let me agree to the EULA. Finally, I asked someone to install a free GNU/Linux distro so the machine could be used.
I wonder which of these is true:
It's ok to get some other sap to commit unconscionable behavior on your behalf?
He is not able to install Linux? (Possibly because he keeps looking in the library under 'G'.)
Installing Linux is not worth his time, but he has a sap with less worthy time to do these things?
Great! The displays are bright. How about dim? Can they be dim too? My 24" iMac is painfully bright to use in a dark room at its lowest backlight setting. Some people resort to software that puts a neutral gray, transparent window over the whole screen just to keep the pain down at the expense of color resolution. I keep sunglasses by the computer so I can see to work on late night emergency calls while my eyes adapt to the light.
If you had the clean energy available to power this process at a coal fired power plant, why wouldn't you just sell that energy in the first place and dispense with the coal?
I suppose you could burn coal and use the energy and some of the CO2 to make a lesser amount of gasoline, diesel, or some other more portable fuel.
When I last reviewed the Xen VPN farms out there I didn't find any with IPv6. It is on my short list of discriminators, not that I need it now, but I don't want to have to revisit the server to add it in the next couple of years when it is needed.
I should probably add that I don't want to pay more than $10/mo for the server either. I don't need much of a slice. I get by fine on a vpslink level-1 server, though gandi is about to claim my business. 4x the ram, twice the disk, same price.
Desktop/laptop applications are great wallowing bandwith users compared to phone applications. You don't realize it because you have plenty of bandwidth.
Cellular devices are sharing extremely limited bandwidth in each cell among all users. All the crazy background traffic from tethered computers drags down everyone's performance.
To belabor the point... my laptop regularly downloads dozens of RSS feeds without my input, when email arrives with stupid 19M powerpoint attachment, my email client downloads it so it will be there if I try to open it, and it could at any moment download a 150M software upgrade from my OS vendor.... My iPhone which I use a lot, has received 478M of data, in 12 months. (or maybe 9, I think I may have reset it in September) It wouldn't surprise me if my laptop consumes 100 times the bandwidth of my iPhone.
No more weighing the lesser of two evils, I can cross off all the laptops with Broadcom chips and narrow the playing field.
I wasted untold hours with the b43 driver and routinely get bitten when I upgrade kernels and madwifi falls apart and I can't load the new source because it fell apart. Wireless hardware that just works will be a relief.
You take this camera up to an altitude of 1 mile or whatever it is that gives you a 1.5mi wide field of view with your favorite lens, and I'll hide my original blue iBook somewhere in the field of view and you tell me where from a single snapshot to collect your $100.
If you lose, you can give me the (obviously overhyped) camera.
It is well known and documented in such obvious places as wikipedia and askjeeves that the optimal color scheme depends on your vi/emacs choice and whether you use a *BSD* or a Linux operating system.
USB to IDE controllers are cheap ($5 buy-it-now on ebay). USB 2.0 hubs are cheap (7 port $10). USB PCI controller cards are cheap. PC power supplies are cheap, use the 4 pin molex fanout cables to get as many connectors as the supply will support drives. Something like 100 USB IDE adapters, 15 hubs, 4 quad USB pci cards, and 10 power supplies should cover you.
Should get you going for under $10/drive. You'd end up with about 20T of unreliable storage for $1000, but man it will be cool. (Note: You won't fit on a single 15A 120v circuit, plan for multiple circuits.)
You can put all of the drives on the same linux machine. I'd recommend you use LVM and some sort of raiding.
Cases will blow your budget, you might think about just screwing them between some vertical steel straps.
I have a server the size of a double CD case locked in a dark generator shed on a tiny island miles from anywhere that sits alone 9 months of the year reporting battery bank voltages to me.... Chinese hackers attempt to break into it several times a day.
The fact is, there is a metric shitload of Chinese hackers out there. Just because you think you are something special doesn't mean they are targeting you.
(of course the hacker may not be from China, they are just using a machine in China as the most recent hop.)
I just read it. I particularly enjoyed the part where they directly imply he still working as a police officer but also being paid by WB.
New information reveals that the 39-year old investigator isn't the objective professional a police investigator should be. Since March 16 this year, he is employed by Warner Bros, one of the plaintiffs in the prosecution against The Pirate Bay.
True... but "objective AND professional AND police investigator" is false because "police investigator" is false. I might also note that he is not a "law abiding police investigator", or even a "human police investigator".
If he did lead the preliminary investigation, and as loose as TPB is with their words I wonder what they mean by "lead" and and "preliminary", then that begins to rise to interesting. How long ago was that? Was there a "non preliminary" investigation that is the basis of the case, or is that what they call the investigation. Still not news, but a few more questions to ask.
Pirate Bay really should get a better writer too, unless it is their strategy to look like innocent boobs caught up by those big nasty companies with their competent lawyers.
You are reading an article built only of unfounded speculation by two sources, a defendant and his lawyer. They allege, while staying just legally clear of slander, that the officer miscarried justice in exchange for a payoff. Read again and see if there are any facts to support that.
The missing bits of article prevent this from being news:
No respected, independent person with a knowledge of Swedish law calls it a scandal.
The time frame is deliberately vague.
There is no evidence that the officer is being overpaid for his duties at WB.
There is no discussion of his role in the case. "involved" could mean anything. Presumably it is more than crowd control since he is being called to testify, but was he a decider or a witness.
Maybe some of these elements will appear over time, and then it can be a scandal, until then it is a desperate defense attempting to confuse an issue.
sophisticated adj - aware of or able to interpret complex issues
But you've used it in a sentence where you meant "willing to commit fraud to steal a license, but not willing to outright steal the license in its entirety". We don't have an english word that completely covers that, but "criminal" would do. I'd rewrite the last line to end...
"the back door as a way to make Vista more appealing to criminals."
They should sell one of the rovers to any institution willing to pay for it rather than let it die a slow death of neglect. A deployed rover with a proven track record is better than an $800 million shot that might arrive and land successfully.
I'm sure non-scientists could find a use. Use it to write messages in the sands of mars. Maybe some Slashdotters could pool their money to write "First Post" on mars.
Perhaps if people just started dropping off their burnt out CFLs at the big-box they bought them from that would take care of it. I recommend leaving them in conveniently supplied receptacles (shopping carts) left in the parking lot. Of course the store employees will just pitch them in the trash, so you also need to call your local sensationalist television reporter and tip him off that big box stores are throwing out CFLs instead of recycling them.
Waiting for Walmart or Home Depot to institute a responsible but unprofitable program on their own will require some patience and a designated waiter to take over after you grow old and die.
They have still left text out of the <canvas> tag. This is near insanity. The web is littered with people working around this to get labels onto graphs, current solutions are:
overlay a transparent div and absolute position some text elements. Works, but no rotating and is fiddly to get the sizing correct.
Take a truetype font, render an image of all the glyphs into a grid and know the coordinates of each ones bounding box then paste them in ransom note style to make your text. Most people are used to subpixel rendering and this won't do it. Looks a little bad for small text, ok for large. Big downloads.
Be a plotter. Use the Hershey fonts from NIST back in the good old days of pen plotters. (google://hershey&canvas&element). Small, fast, only one font face, antialiasing looks a little blurrier than modern typography at small sizes.
Hey working group! Use CSS to pick a font. Give a method to get the various metrics of a layed out string and one to draw it. That will cover most uses.
Lack of dynamic resizing: The width and height is specified in the HTML. It would be nice for this to be dynamic so you could use a canvas for DIV backgrounds, like the gradients behind the slashdot article titles. (Yes, obviously those gradients take fewer bytes as images, but you could do something other than repeat a tiny graphic. Use your imagination.)
Address rendering: The canvas uses coordinate transformations to nicely separate the display coordinates from the drawing coordinates. This is good, but if the browser antialiases then you get radically different results for lines that fall on the pixels and ones that fall in the cracks. There should be language in the spec that leads implementors to all make the same decisions about antialiasing so that authors don't have to try to guess which way a client is going to render.
Sorry for that link to Treehugger, they are a black hole of links and I would not normally link, but they had the best English language article I could find in 3 seconds of googling.
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The DoD takes everything personally, and for good reason, but I have a steady stream of chinese hackers attempting to break into the router in my tool shed that reports battery voltage and temperature at a cabin that is inaccessible for 6 months of the year.
I really should put a webcam in there so they can see what they have achieved if they ever do manage to get in.
(22.1F, batteries 25.3V, 600 watt hours of energy stored today.)
I have no personal evidence that he is currently free, thus he falls into the same category for me as Firefox does for him.
More disturbing (from TFA)...
I wonder which of these is true:
That is all.
Great! The displays are bright.
How about dim? Can they be dim too? My 24" iMac is painfully bright to use in a dark room at its lowest backlight setting. Some people resort to software that puts a neutral gray, transparent window over the whole screen just to keep the pain down at the expense of color resolution. I keep sunglasses by the computer so I can see to work on late night emergency calls while my eyes adapt to the light.
If you had the clean energy available to power this process at a coal fired power plant, why wouldn't you just sell that energy in the first place and dispense with the coal?
I suppose you could burn coal and use the energy and some of the CO2 to make a lesser amount of gasoline, diesel, or some other more portable fuel.
I assume you just pulled your data out of your ass. I googled around a bit and failed to find any nice reports to back you up.
I know my insurance rates are lower than they were 20 years ago even without adjusting for inflation.
The article is wrong about the power delivered on existing USB, it is 500mA, not 100mA. 100mA is just the base starting value.
The section on wireless USB shows a complete ignorance of the difference between frequency band and bandwidth.
I haven't read the USB 3.0 press release so I don't know what else he managed to destroy in the regurgitation process.
...and I'll boost the numbers.
When I last reviewed the Xen VPN farms out there I didn't find any with IPv6. It is on my short list of discriminators, not that I need it now, but I don't want to have to revisit the server to add it in the next couple of years when it is needed.
I should probably add that I don't want to pay more than $10/mo for the server either. I don't need much of a slice. I get by fine on a vpslink level-1 server, though gandi is about to claim my business. 4x the ram, twice the disk, same price.
3G has 2.4Mbits/sec for each sector shared among everyone in the sectore. How would you like having 40 active users share your 3mbps DSL line?
Desktop/laptop applications are great wallowing bandwith users compared to phone applications. You don't realize it because you have plenty of bandwidth.
Cellular devices are sharing extremely limited bandwidth in each cell among all users. All the crazy background traffic from tethered computers drags down everyone's performance.
To belabor the point... my laptop regularly downloads dozens of RSS feeds without my input, when email arrives with stupid 19M powerpoint attachment, my email client downloads it so it will be there if I try to open it, and it could at any moment download a 150M software upgrade from my OS vendor.... My iPhone which I use a lot, has received 478M of data, in 12 months. (or maybe 9, I think I may have reset it in September) It wouldn't surprise me if my laptop consumes 100 times the bandwidth of my iPhone.
No more weighing the lesser of two evils, I can cross off all the laptops with Broadcom chips and narrow the playing field.
I wasted untold hours with the b43 driver and routinely get bitten when I upgrade kernels and madwifi falls apart and I can't load the new source because it fell apart. Wireless hardware that just works will be a relief.
Please read the article and then comment.
You take this camera up to an altitude of 1 mile or whatever it is that gives you a 1.5mi wide field of view with your favorite lens, and I'll hide my original blue iBook somewhere in the field of view and you tell me where from a single snapshot to collect your $100.
If you lose, you can give me the (obviously overhyped) camera.
It is well known and documented in such obvious places as wikipedia and askjeeves that the optimal color scheme depends on your vi/emacs choice and whether you use a *BSD* or a Linux operating system.
USB to IDE controllers are cheap ($5 buy-it-now on ebay). USB 2.0 hubs are cheap (7 port $10). USB PCI controller cards are cheap. PC power supplies are cheap, use the 4 pin molex fanout cables to get as many connectors as the supply will support drives. Something like 100 USB IDE adapters, 15 hubs, 4 quad USB pci cards, and 10 power supplies should cover you.
Should get you going for under $10/drive. You'd end up with about 20T of unreliable storage for $1000, but man it will be cool. (Note: You won't fit on a single 15A 120v circuit, plan for multiple circuits.)
You can put all of the drives on the same linux machine. I'd recommend you use LVM and some sort of raiding.
Cases will blow your budget, you might think about just screwing them between some vertical steel straps.
I have a server the size of a double CD case locked in a dark generator shed on a tiny island miles from anywhere that sits alone 9 months of the year reporting battery bank voltages to me.... Chinese hackers attempt to break into it several times a day.
The fact is, there is a metric shitload of Chinese hackers out there. Just because you think you are something special doesn't mean they are targeting you.
(of course the hacker may not be from China, they are just using a machine in China as the most recent hop.)
I think that translates to "ability to override the European Union's Galileo".
True... but "objective AND professional AND police investigator" is false because "police investigator" is false. I might also note that he is not a "law abiding police investigator", or even a "human police investigator".
If he did lead the preliminary investigation, and as loose as TPB is with their words I wonder what they mean by "lead" and and "preliminary", then that begins to rise to interesting. How long ago was that? Was there a "non preliminary" investigation that is the basis of the case, or is that what they call the investigation. Still not news, but a few more questions to ask.
Pirate Bay really should get a better writer too, unless it is their strategy to look like innocent boobs caught up by those big nasty companies with their competent lawyers.
The missing bits of article prevent this from being news:
Maybe some of these elements will appear over time, and then it can be a scandal, until then it is a desperate defense attempting to confuse an issue.
sophisticated adj - aware of or able to interpret complex issues
But you've used it in a sentence where you meant "willing to commit fraud to steal a license, but not willing to outright steal the license in its entirety". We don't have an english word that completely covers that, but "criminal" would do. I'd rewrite the last line to end...
"the back door as a way to make Vista more appealing to criminals."
They should sell one of the rovers to any institution willing to pay for it rather than let it die a slow death of neglect. A deployed rover with a proven track record is better than an $800 million shot that might arrive and land successfully.
I'm sure non-scientists could find a use. Use it to write messages in the sands of mars.
Maybe some Slashdotters could pool their money to write "First Post" on mars.
Perhaps if people just started dropping off their burnt out CFLs at the big-box they bought them from that would take care of it. I recommend leaving them in conveniently supplied receptacles (shopping carts) left in the parking lot. Of course the store employees will just pitch them in the trash, so you also need to call your local sensationalist television reporter and tip him off that big box stores are throwing out CFLs instead of recycling them.
Waiting for Walmart or Home Depot to institute a responsible but unprofitable program on their own will require some patience and a designated waiter to take over after you grow old and die.
Hey working group! Use CSS to pick a font. Give a method to get the various metrics of a layed out string and one to draw it. That will cover most uses.
There is apparently a bridge in Fukui which does just this.
Sorry for that link to Treehugger, they are a black hole of links and I would not normally link, but they had the best English language article I could find in 3 seconds of googling.