Actually, i don't think the U.S. has ever blocked the GPS signal to any "enemy" fighters.
Ironicly enough they turned off Selective Availability during the gulf conflict. Since then it has been turned off with the intent to never be turned on again.
While it is possible for them to locally jam the signal there has been little evidence that they have intentionally jammed the signal during conflict. It because a pain in the ass when half your soldiers are using commercial equipment, instead of military equipment.
That said, I like the idea of Europe putting up their own system. It creates oportunities to increase accuracy and promote the service (GPS systems of all types).
Most of the low end DVD players are based on Zoran's chipset. WHile they have a few variations they seem to be pretty much the same.
Some can easily be changed to ignore region codes, or set to specific regions. Most support playing MP3s and atleast mine, always lets me skip a chapter.
While I can't fast forward past the FBI warnings I can hit the end of chapter button and skip it that way. Generally this gets me right the the credits...
While you may not have to ask why someone is buying a gun, or renting a car you must still act in the publics best interest.
If you knowingly sell a weapon to someone who intends to commit a crime with it you can be held responsible.
If you rent a car to someone whom you know will use it irresponsible you could be held responsible (by the authorities, or by your insurance company!).
In this case the store is responsible because they controlled the process. They handled the burning of the discs, not the customer. Had it been done 'Hands off' it is quite possible the issue would have not existed.
yes i can. Their old 256K cards, upgradable to 512K had such a slow memory/DAC combination that the frequency required to support the card was below that of almost any monitor available on the market at the time.
I choked when I had to replace the card. Replaced it with an ET4000 card. (Only problem with Et4000 was its allergy to PCI-ISA bridge chipsets.).
For an ISA card it was damn fast. (Tridents response to me when I asked about the frequency problem was 'Go buy a new, 1Meg video card'. I did... it just wasn't a trident.)
I don't know about you, but my initial use of WiFi is unlikely to be while I'm walking down the street. Unlike talking on a cell phone.
As others have pointed out, The likely use for WiFi is to access information on the Internet, it isn't that I expect somebody to access my webserver. Again, this changes the equation a bit.
If G3, GPRS, etc, etc actually take off and become affordable I might agree with you.
Right now I think WiFi has a better chance. The nature of it right now is that it pops up at the locations people want it to be in.
GPRS pops up in areas where the telecom companies are willing to outfitt all thier towers with the required equipment or they don't offer the service at all. (It isn't unusual for half the towers in an area to technicly support a service several months, or even years, before the service itself is offered as customers expect it to work everywhere... it isn't like that with WiFi.
Read the article and you'll see that Rabbit failed because there was an always-on functional equivilent.
Can anybody please point to the always on alternative to WiFi networks?
Ok, now that you've mentioned G3, can you find it where I live? No. Ok, lets try again, oh CDCP? Sure, we have it, Lets see, its 19.2K (Higher with compression, WOW!).... WiFi is what? Up to 11Mbps?
The article might be right, but only if something with equivilent speed is more readily available... which it isn't, yet.
Somebody one day is going to have to explain to me why breaking a license related to Copyright is a criminal act, while breaking a contract is civil...
Oh wait, because somebody bought the legislature...
What I liked was the response from microsoft. This program violated one of their 'laws' (of secure computing I guess) and therefor it doesn't count.
According to that philosphy no security holes count...
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A user opens a damn attachment, which you've told them not to do a hundred times, but one of them does it anyway...
No problem right, the attachment runs as that user and the damage is restricted? Only it isn't, because the attachment escalates itself to localsystem privledge and now starts really screwing around.
With any luck it drops itself on the network somewhere and some other soul mistakenly runs it and it gets domain privledges...
According to atleast one article I saw, but which was hinted at in others, ElcomSoft did distribute copies of the software before or after the demonstration within the U.S. That was a significant mistake. Although, nortmally that would have simply resulted in confiscation...
They just have to change the key. The encryption method is considered quite good (the problemis, they can use any encryption method they want.. it wasn't cracked anyway!)
Only a small group of people can recover the information from the bus, as such they are the only ones who can mod the new Xboxes. Unlike the old one where everyone and their dog had the keys... etc.
I suspect that is the theory they are going with, right or wrong.
The leel of detail stored is such that you will never, ever sign a digital pad exactly the same way twice. It isn't possible to do by hand.
Your signature is never even identical. On the other hand, a signature which looks identical but was entered substantially different could be challenege in the future and you would probably not get stuck with the charge. Even if it looked identical to your signature.
My problem with this, is the credit card companies should be given a copy of the digital signature, the vendor should not retain it. Why? Because only the credit card company can verify it isn't a duplicate...
There are other problems with digital signatures, but thats for another day..
I have had the pleasure of working with software which took into account 5 digit yers and failed to pass Y2K testing.
The software was for an archialogical database and stored the year photos were taken as 2 digits, while other data was stored in a 5 digit year field representing BC, AD or BP. BP related to carbon dating and is the number of years before 1950. 1950 is 0 BP.
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Actually, i don't think the U.S. has ever blocked the GPS signal to any "enemy" fighters.
Ironicly enough they turned off Selective Availability during the gulf conflict. Since then it has been turned off with the intent to never be turned on again.
While it is possible for them to locally jam the signal there has been little evidence that they have intentionally jammed the signal during conflict. It because a pain in the ass when half your soldiers are using commercial equipment, instead of military equipment.
That said, I like the idea of Europe putting up their own system. It creates oportunities to increase accuracy and promote the service (GPS systems of all types).
How about the article? I mean, it had virtually no political undertones at all.
damnit, what the hell happened to Slashdot?!
Any chance the interview will be an MP3 clip?
You assume it is always 30 seconds. Supposedly a few DVDs force you to watch trailers before the movie starts.
Most of the low end DVD players are based on Zoran's chipset. WHile they have a few variations they seem to be pretty much the same.
Some can easily be changed to ignore region codes, or set to specific regions. Most support playing MP3s and atleast mine, always lets me skip a chapter.
While I can't fast forward past the FBI warnings I can hit the end of chapter button and skip it that way. Generally this gets me right the the credits...
Yes and No.
While you may not have to ask why someone is buying a gun, or renting a car you must still act in the publics best interest.
If you knowingly sell a weapon to someone who intends to commit a crime with it you can be held responsible.
If you rent a car to someone whom you know will use it irresponsible you could be held responsible (by the authorities, or by your insurance company!).
In this case the store is responsible because they controlled the process. They handled the burning of the discs, not the customer. Had it been done 'Hands off' it is quite possible the issue would have not existed.
yes i can. Their old 256K cards, upgradable to 512K had such a slow memory/DAC combination that the frequency required to support the card was below that of almost any monitor available on the market at the time.
I choked when I had to replace the card. Replaced it with an ET4000 card. (Only problem with Et4000 was its allergy to PCI-ISA bridge chipsets.).
For an ISA card it was damn fast.
(Tridents response to me when I asked about the frequency problem was 'Go buy a new, 1Meg video card'. I did... it just wasn't a trident.)
I don't know about you, but my initial use of WiFi is unlikely to be while I'm walking down the street. Unlike talking on a cell phone.
As others have pointed out, The likely use for WiFi is to access information on the Internet, it isn't that I expect somebody to access my webserver. Again, this changes the equation a bit.
If G3, GPRS, etc, etc actually take off and become affordable I might agree with you.
Right now I think WiFi has a better chance. The nature of it right now is that it pops up at the locations people want it to be in.
GPRS pops up in areas where the telecom companies are willing to outfitt all thier towers with the required equipment or they don't offer the service at all. (It isn't unusual for half the towers in an area to technicly support a service several months, or even years, before the service itself is offered as customers expect it to work everywhere... it isn't like that with WiFi.
Your funny. I have a bad enough time keeping my phone from switching to analog. (and no forcing it digital would just drop the call...).
Read the article and you'll see that Rabbit failed because there was an always-on functional equivilent.
Can anybody please point to the always on alternative to WiFi networks?
Ok, now that you've mentioned G3, can you find it where I live? No. Ok, lets try again, oh CDCP? Sure, we have it, Lets see, its 19.2K (Higher with compression, WOW!).... WiFi is what? Up to 11Mbps?
The article might be right, but only if something with equivilent speed is more readily available... which it isn't, yet.
Somebody one day is going to have to explain to me why breaking a license related to Copyright is a criminal act, while breaking a contract is civil...
Oh wait, because somebody bought the legislature...
Funny, I thought the facts presented dealt with that issue. Without putting me to sleep.
I've read a lot of dull papers and publications because of attitudes like that.
Or, atleast tried to...
Actually, the conversational manner of his Paper is a nice change from the typicly dry articles of the same nature from other sources.
Oh yeah, and it fits well with his target audience.
Or did you miss that part of writting? You know the part about "understanding your audience"?
What I liked was the response from microsoft. This program violated one of their 'laws' (of secure computing I guess) and therefor it doesn't count.
According to that philosphy no security holes count...
A user opens a damn attachment, which you've told them not to do a hundred times, but one of them does it anyway...
No problem right, the attachment runs as that user and the damage is restricted? Only it isn't, because the attachment escalates itself to localsystem privledge and now starts really screwing around.
With any luck it drops itself on the network somewhere and some other soul mistakenly runs it and it gets domain privledges...
According to atleast one article I saw, but which was hinted at in others, ElcomSoft did distribute copies of the software before or after the demonstration within the U.S. That was a significant mistake. Although, nortmally that would have simply resulted in confiscation...
They just have to change the key. The encryption method is considered quite good (the problemis, they can use any encryption method they want.. it wasn't cracked anyway!)
Only a small group of people can recover the information from the bus, as such they are the only ones who can mod the new Xboxes. Unlike the old one where everyone and their dog had the keys... etc.
I suspect that is the theory they are going with, right or wrong.
It is very likely it was spelled out in the contract that Nvidia would take that portion of the risk.
oh, I agree in many ways. I'm a big science fiction fan fan. But the harpin gover the difference in Klingons is downright amusing.
A friend of mine used to harp about the differences in the spaceships too.
bah, enjoy the damn story and move on.
There is no established Trek History.
It's SCIENCE FICTION.
I buy gas with my credit card all the time. Never have to sign anything. Never have to enter a pin either.
And these guys are paranoid about signing digitally?
Definitly not illegal hear, it is actually encouraged to prevent fraud.
A photocopied license cannot be used for identification purposes, so they can't use it to apply for any services, etc.
The leel of detail stored is such that you will never, ever sign a digital pad exactly the same way twice. It isn't possible to do by hand.
Your signature is never even identical. On the other hand, a signature which looks identical but was entered substantially different could be challenege in the future and you would probably not get stuck with the charge. Even if it looked identical to your signature.
My problem with this, is the credit card companies should be given a copy of the digital signature, the vendor should not retain it. Why? Because only the credit card company can verify it isn't a duplicate...
There are other problems with digital signatures, but thats for another day..
I have had the pleasure of working with software which took into account 5 digit yers and failed to pass Y2K testing.
The software was for an archialogical database and stored the year photos were taken as 2 digits, while other data was stored in a 5 digit year field representing BC, AD or BP. BP related to carbon dating and is the number of years before 1950. 1950 is 0 BP.
It really was an odd piece of software.
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