According to Seattle Times, The 18-year-old suspect already has been questioned and put under surveillance, and is expected to be in custody by 1:30 p.m. (PST) and will also be charged as an adult
I personally don't mind product activation as long as consumers are aware of it before buying. I mean it is a matter of choice. I am sure you can find alternatives without product activation if you like. So it is simple. If you want to buy Symantec (Symantec is not a monopoly like MS so you do have many alternatives), then you will have to activate the product. I mean why do people talk as if trying to prevent piracy is a very bad thing. Only requirement is that the consumer should be informed, and after that let the consumer decide.
I know some will argue that if Symantec is successful, others will incorporate same technology in their products as wel, but the point is that if Symantec succeeds, that means that a majority of consumers don't mind activating anyway. So in that case other would be fully justified in adding this technology to their own products. On the other hand, if people are bothered by it, they simply won't buy it.
So just let the invisible hand of market take its course. I am sure we will reach an outcome which is benificial to the maximum number of people.
Could be just be a way to harness email addresses
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I dont know about you but ever since SOBIG has come into picture, my mail box has been full of antivirus alerts from companies whosupposedly got infected mails from my mail ID. Looking at the smtp headers of the infected messages attached in the response, I can see that the mails were never sent from my computer or from any person I know (I dont know any one in Russia for once), but still somehow someone got my address and used it to spread the virus. Which makes me believe that somehow someone who knows me got infected by the virus and the whole address hook was sent to someone somehow.
Can't it be confused with the obscure databse package from Down under? How come the suppporters of the package are not asking the European Space Agency to change the name of the prototype which is not confusing. Afterall, it surely can cause some confusion if someoen says,"Oh Man! Pheonix is blazingly fast." So should we start voting on a new name if ESA agrees?
I have been wondering about it as well, and I have talked to a few colleagues in various companies about it. One solution to the sponsorship problem might be to let a comany get your code with BSD style license, though it is easier said than done, considering so many people contribute to any given project. But I am sure that most of them will agree if they know that they will get moeny in return to carry on the project.
The biggest problem corporations have is with so called viral nature of GPL, in my personal experience. There are many companies which will like to use open source software because it reduces development costs but don't because they don't want to make their firmwares opensource, because almost always they modify the software they got. So in case a company is given the option to keep the modifications, the likelihood of getting sponsorship will increase surely.
From their page:
NeTraverse technology supports a single user desktop environment, a multi-user server-computing environment, and a remote virtual network-computing environment. Win4Lin Terminal Server 2.0 is derived from proven technologies developed for Unix® based operating systems over the last 15 years, most notably those of SCO® (Caldera®), under the product name of Merge(tm).
This is nothing but an invitation to SCO to sue them, looking the current trend of SCO lawsuits.
Tissot already has a touch screen watch
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Well, Tissot already has touch screen watch in market called the T-Touch[http://www.t-touch.com/]. The solution is fairly simple. You rovide an activation button for the touchscreen and the touch screen automatically deactivates if you dont touch it for a minute. This solution has less to do with accidental button presses and more to do with power consumption btw. Touch screens are really power hungry devices so keeping one ON for a long time can't be done for a non rechargable battery watch.
A quick googling reveals that even though Wiley has refused to publish the book, you can still pre order it at Bunnie's website[http://www.xenatera.com/hackingthexbox/ind ex.html]. You can even see a sample of the chapters on the site. Whats more, he is even using the rejection by Wiley as a plank to sell the book. To quote from his site: "A book so controversial that publishers are afraid to print it!" "Hurry and get "Hacking the Xbox" before Microsoft does!" According to the site, the book is shipping in May ( year not specified though:-) )
I know that.. I was just kidding.. in fact the same time as writing this comment, I also wrote a mail to the chap to explain that I was just kidding.. I just cudnt resist it... afterall, according to the model it is a possibility:-)
I am sure such a universe will exist if the theory is true. Also, another universe will exist where I break your jaw for making such a smart ass comment and you will be lying in a hospital.
Oh wait.... that universe seems to be merging with ours.
Long time back another scientist, David Deutsch[http://www.qubit.org/people/david/David.ht ml] proposed a similar therory to explain Young's double slit experiment. This theory indicates that there exists a universe for every possibility. Every time an event could have more than one outcome there is a universe created for each outcome. In our universe a meteorite caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. A parallel universe exists in which the meteorite missed Earth, and possibly several others in which the meteorite struck another planet or was not formed at all. In a parallel universe Hitler did not invade Russia and consequently won the Second World War. In yet another, Elvis is still alive. This theory explains the double slit experiment by saying that quantum phenomena are the result of interactions across universes. When a single electron passes through a slit it interacts with the electron from a parallel universe, in which the electron went through the other slit, producing the pattern. This explains the pattern produced by passing one electron through the slit at a time.
This theory applies to time travel in how it allows for reverse time travel to accommodate paradoxes. When one travels back in time, one travels back into a universe created for the possibility of time travel. This universe runs in parallel with the universe from which the traveller came. Everything will be identical to the past in the original universe, and alterations will have the same effect as they would have if they had occurred in the original universe. However, because it is a parallel universe, and not the universe that created the traveller, the traveller will not be affected by any changes he makes. He could kill himself, his father, his grandfather or whoever, and while he is erased from the parallel universe, he continues to exist because he is not from this new universe. Thus no paradox is created, and only the destruction of himself by suicide or personal attack, or his time machine, could see him affected by the outcomes of his actions, and even then no paradox is created. This provides a method by which paradoxes can be avoided and reverse time travel allowed.
This theory has parallels such as the alternative histories approach. This theory allows reverse time travel without consequences by having the time traveller travel back onto a different timeline and thus is insulated from any actions which should in theory affect him or cause a paradox.
The full text of this theory can be found at http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0104033
First, I am an Indian.
Now to the ground reality in India. When I used to have a dialup connection, I used to pay Rs 24 per hour for phone charges and Rs 10 for internet. If I stay online for 2 hours in a day, that would mean I spend about 70 rupees a day. For 30 days, that would make it 2100 rupees or something like 45 USD per month for a crappy dialup. Compare this with this solition. I pay $16.50 and thats it. So IMHO, its not bad atall.
But yes, Bengal, whose capital is Kolkatta, is maybe the only INdian state still ruled by commies, so don't expect the phone company to let lose its orn grip anytime soon. And quality of serivce is something I wud rather not comment out, it sucks too much. Actually its fine when it works.. but its when it doesnt work, then finding someone who knows aboutt the system is a nightmare. Nice idea though.
It has been sometime since I last installed mandrake thanks to urpmi (that is what makes mandrake my dfault choice among all linux distros) but what I meant was that mandrake asks you if you want to start x by default. And in such a case it doesnt even ask you for a password while logging in, much like XP. But that means that the auto login option doesn't, IIRC, work with a root account. I think then you have to enter a password. And in any case root is not the default configuration, that much I remember distinctly. Unfortunately even I dont use this option so I cant say for sure whether you can select root to auto login or not
The colour balance of the camera of 7250 is not good, too much red tinge in the pics. Overall I don0t like quality of photos taken by the internal camera. I like photography and atleast for me, small size of the lens is not an excuse for bad picture quality. Infact a I happened to use a prototype phone made by samsung as a friend of mine was working on that product, and the image quality was really good, 1024x768. In fact the picture quality of even Sony Ericsson P800 is much better than 7250. But I do like the fact that the reception of 7250 is better than T68i because that sucks sometimes.
The more news I read about genetic research, the more sure I am that the future promised by Gattaca will come true. I don't really mind genetic research but what really scares me is the possibility of a division this might create. I mean there is this rich western world where people will be able to afford the benifits of this kind of research, where children wud be born with longer lives, more intelligent etc. , which in turn would make them even richer and then there is this poor world where ppl can't afford basic healthcare, leave alone genetic research, where thousands die from malaria every year and they would keep getting poorer. I am not very sure if I am for such research.
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Cowboy Neal Units??
According to Seattle Times, The 18-year-old suspect already has been questioned and put under surveillance, and is expected to be in custody by 1:30 p.m. (PST) and will also be charged as an adult
I personally don't mind product activation as long as consumers are aware of it before buying. I mean it is a matter of choice. I am sure you can find alternatives without product activation if you like. So it is simple. If you want to buy Symantec (Symantec is not a monopoly like MS so you do have many alternatives), then you will have to activate the product. I mean why do people talk as if trying to prevent piracy is a very bad thing. Only requirement is that the consumer should be informed, and after that let the consumer decide. I know some will argue that if Symantec is successful, others will incorporate same technology in their products as wel, but the point is that if Symantec succeeds, that means that a majority of consumers don't mind activating anyway. So in that case other would be fully justified in adding this technology to their own products. On the other hand, if people are bothered by it, they simply won't buy it. So just let the invisible hand of market take its course. I am sure we will reach an outcome which is benificial to the maximum number of people.
I dont know about you but ever since SOBIG has come into picture, my mail box has been full of antivirus alerts from companies whosupposedly got infected mails from my mail ID. Looking at the smtp headers of the infected messages attached in the response, I can see that the mails were never sent from my computer or from any person I know (I dont know any one in Russia for once), but still somehow someone got my address and used it to spread the virus. Which makes me believe that somehow someone who knows me got infected by the virus and the whole address hook was sent to someone somehow.
Can't it be confused with the obscure databse package from Down under? How come the suppporters of the package are not asking the European Space Agency to change the name of the prototype which is not confusing. Afterall, it surely can cause some confusion if someoen says,"Oh Man! Pheonix is blazingly fast." So should we start voting on a new name if ESA agrees?
Well, the link that you gave shows that is is availaible...so least you can so is see the link before posting it.
A four thousand year old practice is called the New Age mumbu jumbo.... oh well
I have been wondering about it as well, and I have talked to a few colleagues in various companies about it. One solution to the sponsorship problem might be to let a comany get your code with BSD style license, though it is easier said than done, considering so many people contribute to any given project. But I am sure that most of them will agree if they know that they will get moeny in return to carry on the project. The biggest problem corporations have is with so called viral nature of GPL, in my personal experience. There are many companies which will like to use open source software because it reduces development costs but don't because they don't want to make their firmwares opensource, because almost always they modify the software they got. So in case a company is given the option to keep the modifications, the likelihood of getting sponsorship will increase surely.
I am an Indian..guess I will get back into the habbit of eating monkey brains.
From their page: NeTraverse technology supports a single user desktop environment, a multi-user server-computing environment, and a remote virtual network-computing environment. Win4Lin Terminal Server 2.0 is derived from proven technologies developed for Unix® based operating systems over the last 15 years, most notably those of SCO® (Caldera®), under the product name of Merge(tm). This is nothing but an invitation to SCO to sue them, looking the current trend of SCO lawsuits.
Well, Tissot already has touch screen watch in market called the T-Touch[http://www.t-touch.com/]. The solution is fairly simple. You rovide an activation button for the touchscreen and the touch screen automatically deactivates if you dont touch it for a minute. This solution has less to do with accidental button presses and more to do with power consumption btw. Touch screens are really power hungry devices so keeping one ON for a long time can't be done for a non rechargable battery watch.
Boy, some guys sure have a death wish... I mean what else can explain a person posting a story, hosted on his own website, on slashdot?
The subject says it all....
I thought the real compression codec was vorbis.
DO I need to say more about problem solving???
Correct Link
A quick googling reveals that even though Wiley has refused to publish the book, you can still pre order it at Bunnie's website[http://www.xenatera.com/hackingthexbox/ind ex.html]. You can even see a sample of the chapters on the site. Whats more, he is even using the rejection by Wiley as a plank to sell the book. :-) )
To quote from his site:
"A book so controversial that publishers are afraid to print it!"
"Hurry and get "Hacking the Xbox" before Microsoft does!"
According to the site, the book is shipping in May ( year not specified though
I know that.. I was just kidding.. in fact the same time as writing this comment, I also wrote a mail to the chap to explain that I was just kidding.. I just cudnt resist it... afterall, according to the model it is a possibility :-)
I am sure such a universe will exist if the theory is true. Also, another universe will exist where I break your jaw for making such a smart ass comment and you will be lying in a hospital.
Oh wait.... that universe seems to be merging with ours.
Long time back another scientist, David Deutsch[http://www.qubit.org/people/david/David.ht ml] proposed a similar therory to explain Young's double slit experiment. This theory indicates that there exists a universe for every possibility. Every time an event could have more than one outcome there is a universe created for each outcome. In our universe a meteorite caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. A parallel universe exists in which the meteorite missed Earth, and possibly several others in which the meteorite struck another planet or was not formed at all. In a parallel universe Hitler did not invade Russia and consequently won the Second World War. In yet another, Elvis is still alive. This theory explains the double slit experiment by saying that quantum phenomena are the result of interactions across universes. When a single electron passes through a slit it interacts with the electron from a parallel universe, in which the electron went through the other slit, producing the pattern. This explains the pattern produced by passing one electron through the slit at a time.
This theory applies to time travel in how it allows for reverse time travel to accommodate paradoxes. When one travels back in time, one travels back into a universe created for the possibility of time travel. This universe runs in parallel with the universe from which the traveller came. Everything will be identical to the past in the original universe, and alterations will have the same effect as they would have if they had occurred in the original universe. However, because it is a parallel universe, and not the universe that created the traveller, the traveller will not be affected by any changes he makes. He could kill himself, his father, his grandfather or whoever, and while he is erased from the parallel universe, he continues to exist because he is not from this new universe. Thus no paradox is created, and only the destruction of himself by suicide or personal attack, or his time machine, could see him affected by the outcomes of his actions, and even then no paradox is created. This provides a method by which paradoxes can be avoided and reverse time travel allowed.
This theory has parallels such as the alternative histories approach. This theory allows reverse time travel without consequences by having the time traveller travel back onto a different timeline and thus is insulated from any actions which should in theory affect him or cause a paradox.
The full text of this theory can be found at http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0104033
First, I am an Indian. Now to the ground reality in India. When I used to have a dialup connection, I used to pay Rs 24 per hour for phone charges and Rs 10 for internet. If I stay online for 2 hours in a day, that would mean I spend about 70 rupees a day. For 30 days, that would make it 2100 rupees or something like 45 USD per month for a crappy dialup. Compare this with this solition. I pay $16.50 and thats it. So IMHO, its not bad atall. But yes, Bengal, whose capital is Kolkatta, is maybe the only INdian state still ruled by commies, so don't expect the phone company to let lose its orn grip anytime soon. And quality of serivce is something I wud rather not comment out, it sucks too much. Actually its fine when it works.. but its when it doesnt work, then finding someone who knows aboutt the system is a nightmare. Nice idea though.
It has been sometime since I last installed mandrake thanks to urpmi (that is what makes mandrake my dfault choice among all linux distros) but what I meant was that mandrake asks you if you want to start x by default. And in such a case it doesnt even ask you for a password while logging in, much like XP. But that means that the auto login option doesn't, IIRC, work with a root account. I think then you have to enter a password. And in any case root is not the default configuration, that much I remember distinctly. Unfortunately even I dont use this option so I cant say for sure whether you can select root to auto login or not
If you set mandrake to boot the gui interface by default after startup, it automatically logs in to the non root account.
The colour balance of the camera of 7250 is not good, too much red tinge in the pics. Overall I don0t like quality of photos taken by the internal camera. I like photography and atleast for me, small size of the lens is not an excuse for bad picture quality. Infact a I happened to use a prototype phone made by samsung as a friend of mine was working on that product, and the image quality was really good, 1024x768. In fact the picture quality of even Sony Ericsson P800 is much better than 7250. But I do like the fact that the reception of 7250 is better than T68i because that sucks sometimes.
The more news I read about genetic research, the more sure I am that the future promised by Gattaca will come true. I don't really mind genetic research but what really scares me is the possibility of a division this might create. I mean there is this rich western world where people will be able to afford the benifits of this kind of research, where children wud be born with longer lives, more intelligent etc. , which in turn would make them even richer and then there is this poor world where ppl can't afford basic healthcare, leave alone genetic research, where thousands die from malaria every year and they would keep getting poorer. I am not very sure if I am for such research.