radio isn't just handsets - there is the base statio side as well.
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I have a Motorola phone and it has never crashed
Good for you. I was talking about the network equipment (from BSS to HLR), not the handsets. And the Motorola equipment was crappy a couple years ago. Don't know if it still is; anyway they've been marginalized in the GSM backend market.
Because Sprint's network is all-digital to start with, I won't be surprised at all that the first really useful 3G cellular system will be the Sprint
system.
Whoa! You mean you still have analog networks in the US ? You have had ample time and money to catch up... and digital networks are still singled-out?
Motorola, while their branding is poor, have the best engineered radio systems, and they have huge amounts of
capital
I know a senior engineer for an European GSM operator, who explained that they dropped Motorola equipment because it kept failing and misoperating. Now they are working with Nokia and Alcatel only.
Of course, it doesn't help that the frequency band allocated to 3G in Europe is different than the frequency band allocated in the US than the
frequency band allocated in Japan....
The US protects its cell phone industry, Japan protects its cell phone industry, the Rest-of-the-World (which includes Europe) wins big (compare Nokia and Motorola, for instance)
After paying huge sums of money for 3G spectrum allocation in European countries the big ones (Vodafone, Orange-France Telecom, etc.) are commited to building 3G networks. They already have contracts for equipment (that is, massive contracts, not testbeds); however the services won't be available until:
2.5G proves insufficient (this will come fast: GPRS is nice but it just won't do in high-density areas: the GSM spectrum is already filled to capacity with voice)
Handsets are available (this is the main industrial delay: base station and network equipment is starting to come out of plants, but handsets are further delayed with time)
Investment on 2G/2.5G networks slows down (it's almost done now)
Almost... but I would like my keys to be a bit more durable. Hence the smartcard; if well designed they are a real pain to tap or reverse-engineer, even with serious equipment (there's a very interesting Usenix security conference proceeding on that, buried deep in www.usenix.org).
Well, yes. I read it again after submitting it and was not pleased. Anyway...
Regarding the third level, this should be "as many sandboxes as necessary". Isolation is useful there. Perhaps we have to go the full bytecode way, or some kind of virtual machine designed for isolation (plex86?), or maybe FreeBSD's jail could do the job if beefed up a bit.
In a more general view capabilities may be an interesting way to make it difficult for some software to acquire more rights than necessary; these allow for real fine granularity on, well, anything. Works better with really componentized kernels, though.
Oh right. And that'll stop the feds from kicking my door in, will it?
Just using OpenBSD will do you no good at all, especially if you adopt this
'I have my magic OpenBSD so I am impregnable' attitude.
Oh, please... just encrypt your partitions, and your swap; then boot from a CD with a couple visual clues to prevent swapping, and check your keyboard cable and enclosure when you come back home. There. Security. Oh, and log out if you go open the door, and pull the power cord if someone breaks in.
Then, if as you seem to imply the Feds can torture passphrases out of you, well... you're fucked from the beginning. You'd better move to another country before.
You might want to use a more secure OS, like OpenBSD. Now an interesting idea could be having some sort of "security appliance" that does the whole encryption/auth/etc. thing separately so that the keys don't get compromised if the main computer is (ok, so the data currently on the computer is compromised, not the rest).
Well this sounds like a job for a smartcard, but it doesn't look like [Open]PGP goes that way right now.
The countries that attempt to censor net content of any sort should be blocked by the rest of the net, at the peering routers level. This ought to be
a peering requirement. We know Red China is censoring us - we should simply block all of their sites from visibility to the rest of the fscking
world! They might get a clue in about ten years,... maybe.
First, Red China is not blocking me so it's not an universal POV.
Second (and most important) most of the Net's backbone is private property. Why would any corporation hurt its profits for a measly and improductive anti-censorship statement by only a few customers ?
Seriously though you Americans are amazing. Always asking for fewer rules when you gain from it (usually detrimentally to others) and asking for more when the lack thereof bothers you. Couldn't you be consistent for a while?
This is almost exact, but not quite true. The memory "slice" of applications is actually a bite of the whole (fixed-size) virtual memory, not physical memory. The part of it which is never touched has no reason to be ever allocated.
This you can see easily with a little piece of software called MemMapper. (no URL handy, sorry... google it if you want).
Apple maybe good at selecting new technologies. MS is good at making them generally accepted standards. The GUI, for example, would never have been standard on the desktop if it wasn't for MS.
Criticize MS all you want for their extreme abuse of the word innovation, but many of Apple's innovations would never have grown beyond niche status if it weren't for MS's adoption.
Question: why dit it become standard through Microsoft?
Answer: because Microsoft already owned the OS market at that time, through MS-DOS.
MS adopted this UI because Apple was successful with it; the real reason MS dominates the market is the MS-DOS installed base, which was an accidental gift from IBM.
It used to work this way in France: a reduced tax on foodstuffs, but normal tax on restaurant meals; so (for example) a Big Mac would not cost the same on a plate or in a paper bag.
Yet we have to constantly police our borders trying to keep illegal aliens out. Yet we have waiting lists of people who want to legally immagrate here. Odd, for a country the rest of the world looks down upon.
...and it's the same in every rich country in the world. Except Canada, with its peculiar neighbor...
European governments have recognised this for sometime,
and take care of these issues for them by implementing strong censorship of violence.
Wrong. There is much less censorship in Europe, be it of violence, sex or (let's not forget it) copyright infringement.
Though there is indeed less violence in European countries. I think (IMO) this is more of a cultural difference than legal difference (though cultural differences tend to shape law): the US has a culture that is not only gun-liking but somewhat trigger-happy and amazingly self-righteous, both individually (vs. other people) and as a country (vs. rest of world).
Well for me it looks like the original article created a redirect loop, each time adding some parameters to the two bouncing CGIs.
Netscape 4.76 on NetbSD with junkbuster returning a dummy cookie and pretending to be Mozilla 3/MacOS. Funny. I think I'll let it run for a while so it swamps their taxpayer^Wuser database with faulty cookies:-)
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I have a Motorola phone and it has never crashed
Good for you. I was talking about the network equipment (from BSS to HLR), not the handsets. And the Motorola equipment was crappy a couple years ago. Don't know if it still is; anyway they've been marginalized in the GSM backend market.
Whoa! You mean you still have analog networks in the US ? You have had ample time and money to catch up... and digital networks are still singled-out?
I know a senior engineer for an European GSM operator, who explained that they dropped Motorola equipment because it kept failing and misoperating. Now they are working with Nokia and Alcatel only.
The US protects its cell phone industry, Japan protects its cell phone industry, the Rest-of-the-World (which includes Europe) wins big (compare Nokia and Motorola, for instance)
Sure. Linus is well-known for his level-headedness and tolerance.
That doesn't make sense. Satellites are much cheaper and always available.
This post needs a couple Insightful points!
Yes, but what does it have to do with the parent posts ?
Other countries might sell to Taiwan if the US stops because they goofed on China's coastline.
France did sell a couple ships in the 90s. Nice ones, BTW. Not quite Aegis but definitely on a par with China's best.
Almost... but I would like my keys to be a bit more durable. Hence the smartcard; if well designed they are a real pain to tap or reverse-engineer, even with serious equipment (there's a very interesting Usenix security conference proceeding on that, buried deep in www.usenix.org).
Well, yes. I read it again after submitting it and was not pleased. Anyway...
Regarding the third level, this should be "as many sandboxes as necessary". Isolation is useful there. Perhaps we have to go the full bytecode way, or some kind of virtual machine designed for isolation (plex86?), or maybe FreeBSD's jail could do the job if beefed up a bit.
In a more general view capabilities may be an interesting way to make it difficult for some software to acquire more rights than necessary; these allow for real fine granularity on, well, anything. Works better with really componentized kernels, though.
Oh, please... just encrypt your partitions, and your swap; then boot from a CD with a couple visual clues to prevent swapping, and check your keyboard cable and enclosure when you come back home. There. Security. Oh, and log out if you go open the door, and pull the power cord if someone breaks in.
Then, if as you seem to imply the Feds can torture passphrases out of you, well... you're fucked from the beginning. You'd better move to another country before.
Well this sounds like a job for a smartcard, but it doesn't look like [Open]PGP goes that way right now.
First, Red China is not blocking me so it's not an universal POV.
Second (and most important) most of the Net's backbone is private property. Why would any corporation hurt its profits for a measly and improductive anti-censorship statement by only a few customers ?
Seriously though you Americans are amazing. Always asking for fewer rules when you gain from it (usually detrimentally to others) and asking for more when the lack thereof bothers you. Couldn't you be consistent for a while?
This you can see easily with a little piece of software called MemMapper. (no URL handy, sorry... google it if you want).
You're lucky to have monitors lying around. To me it seems the only thing I *never* have is a spare monitor.
Answer: because Microsoft already owned the OS market at that time, through MS-DOS.
MS adopted this UI because Apple was successful with it; the real reason MS dominates the market is the MS-DOS installed base, which was an accidental gift from IBM.
Does that mean that Windows does ship with a DVD player?
It used to work this way in France: a reduced tax on foodstuffs, but normal tax on restaurant meals; so (for example) a Big Mac would not cost the same on a plate or in a paper bag.
In a way this is a good sign for Apple: they are leading again, just like the elder days of look&feel... (which might come again with XP vs. OS X)
It's not the school bullying the snapper, it's the classmates. Burn them, maybe...
...and it's the same in every rich country in the world. Except Canada, with its peculiar neighbor...
Wrong. There is much less censorship in Europe, be it of violence, sex or (let's not forget it) copyright infringement.
Though there is indeed less violence in European countries. I think (IMO) this is more of a cultural difference than legal difference (though cultural differences tend to shape law): the US has a culture that is not only gun-liking but somewhat trigger-happy and amazingly self-righteous, both individually (vs. other people) and as a country (vs. rest of world).
Netscape 4.76 on NetbSD with junkbuster returning a dummy cookie and pretending to be Mozilla 3/MacOS. Funny. I think I'll let it run for a while so it swamps their taxpayer^Wuser database with faulty cookies :-)