Well, I guess that covers that whole UFO thing. Most descriptions of UFOs seem to fit this ball lightening description as well.. conspiracy to hide the truth?:-)
And everyone already knows about the lightening in airplanes... You sit down, put your legs up by your shoulders, hold a lighter over your ass, and...
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Crypto will eventually get permission in its strong form in the US for one simple reason: $$$.
I don't know if it'll be here, but some bill will eventually pass as the big e*.com companies start lobbying. Because stong crypto=less fraud=more $.
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Re:Just say no to anti-trust
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The net would be a much smaller and less interesting place if those "clueless newbies" were not able to get online.
Sorry to pull sentances out from the middle of your paragraphs like this, but I simply must comment on the phrase 'less interesting.'
Back before the AOL connection to the internet, the net was still an intellectual vehicle; most people you'd find online were real techies or scientists.
Now at best you'll find mostly script kiddies or wanna be tech reporters.
And to go even further off topic, I'm afraid I'm seeing the same thing with Linux these days. The GUIs are all very well developed and strong; but again it's detracting people from the power and freedom of the command line. It's beaten windows by becoming windows.
Although better written internally, it's starting to take on the same philosophy of hand-feeding the user instead of empowering them. And that's alot worse.
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Could you please explain your conflict management techniques/goals when the choice is between profits and good community service (how often does this really happen, also?).
And, how (did?) this change with the IPO and the responsibility to the stockholders?
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IMHO, alot of us have missed the point; instead of whining about beaurocracy or overhead, how about looking at what kind of recognition this is?
The government is finally realizing the importance of computer security. It is the infrastructure of the US now and needs protection. In response to this, they're going to recruit, and more than likely also train CS students on the field of information security.
Hey, if you're already in school, then stop complaining, it wasn't meant for you. For those who wouldn't get to college otherwise, spending 3 years in a government job getting 1/2 of what you wouldn't have had at all otherwise sounds damn good.
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There is also a third possibility, which I think is pretty likely -- the extra content being put together for the DVD will take quite some time to get together and polish, and maybe he's planning on doing something special with it, which will take extra time.
Let us not forget what happened the last time someone tried to make a DVD special, we got the screw up with The Matrix. But at least most of the movie was enjoyable:-)
Btw: I still haven't heard a damn thing about a fix for any DVD players...
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The homepage for this company seems to really be pretty Amiga-centric. There are plenty of links to user groups, etc on the main page. Hell it even sounds like the main reason the purchase went through was to save Amiga.
So it sounds like Amiga might finally be in caring hands.
Makes me wonder what all the Amiga hype was all about.. I was always a C128 junkie myself:-P
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Brings to mind the first question: what is the law? To me it is an enforcement of what's the right way people should interact with each other. At an intuitive level, we all know generally what's right & wrong, and the law should basically state that on paper & make people accountable for it. Technology, however, is a set of facts that are learned and calculated. Lawyers don't have the advantage of intuition to help them the same way that techies have for law. What we see as simple usage of the net or any medium, lawyers and non-techies in general see as whole new frontiers. Example: ftp vs www. For us, it's basically the same thing at the end of the day: a stream of bits coming & going from our machine. To them, 'files' and 'web pages' are two separate entities! One large issue that comes to mind is mindset between the two entities: techies think of things in computer science terms: performance, scalability, robustness, etc. lawyers think of things in legal terms, that is, in terms of interhuman interactions: fair, reasonable, etc. Imagine looking at the current domain name squatting issue. first-come first-serve seems good 'nuff for many techies (myself included), but now lawyers want to bring in trademark law? Oh come on! That's a whole other namespace altogether! Ah well, enough ranting. As long as people would rather wait 30 minutes holding for a customer support representative instead of 3 minutes reading their system manuals, the world is screwed.
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Umm, GPS Transmitters usually cost upwards of $1 million and only exist in GPS satellites and airport pseudolights. The Japanese don't transmit any form of GPS signal. Closest you get is GLONASS from the Russians.
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Auto manufacturors already put that in alot of cars, they're called governors. You can tell if you have one by a little pin coming out from your speedometer and blocking its needle from moving farther than a certain speed (usually 120MPH, donno what that is in metricland). The satellites are already in orbit ala US Military -- GPS satellites are all they're talking about in the article. The GPS Receiver costs about $40 wholesale. It's cheap. The expensive part is having the map database in the car which relates positions to maximum speeds...
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The satellite doesn't know their locations (it's just a GPS transmitter), so no privacy loss there.
Requires less police monitoring of the roads, so they can be somewhere useful stopping real crime.
Stop shitty drivers
and for us geeks... If the car belongs to us, then we have access to it & all its internal components. Just remember that any computer can be reprogrammed... I bet override EEPROMS are sold within 6 months of this system's introduction. Hehe.:-)
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One of the mentioned wired articles from a previous post about the injunction going down mentioned that the US Trademark office is not allowing the e set of words to be put up.
Firstly this lets etoys stay free, but more importantly, we may just save a whole swoosh (yes, the word swoosh is now a noun!) of other trademark related pains-in-the-rectum!
Chalk up +1 for the Trademark office.. which helps against their current score of -128476.
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The net's going to be _really_ driven in the near future with devices much smaller than PCs. First Palm VIIish PDAs, Cell phones, then down to wristwatches.
There are alot of plans to put things like traffic signs and door knobs on the internet (the latter with a secure protocol, of course:-), with wireless connectivity all the way. THAT's when the net's going to really grow. When the net becomes its own little ecosystem surrounding the planet... `/usr/bin/perl jon-katz.pl`
The PC, much like magazines like PCWeek, are dead and don't know it yet. I'm waiting for them to die and go away. That little head mounted dohicky the dude in the IBM commercial was wearing while sitting on a bench in the middle of a shitload of pigeons was much cooler:-)
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Re:And the point of this being...?
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Most of the small & still useful RTOSs for x86 also happen to have developer licenses in the 10s of thousands of $$.
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Basically, there's more to the world than the desktop & servers.
The embedded market is the fastest portion of the computer industry. When you have 512K of flash to store all your applications, and MAYBE another 256K of RAM, you have to squeeze everything that you can bare out of your software.
I couldn't get to the website,/.'d already I suppose, so excuse the next few comments if this isn't a RTOS...
As for speed, alot of these systems will be running something like DSP-type filters with massive data processing rates. When you have massive MBs of data to process per second, a faster OS helps alot. I know of a GPS receiver for which they doubled the location output rate because their embedded CPU's compiler added one new optimization!
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The design of HURD is what makes it so useful. One could easily strip it down to the ukernel and a _very_ basic server, which fits in a much smaller region of memory (or ROM, depending on your application).
Also, one can build completely different operating systems off the same base with alot of the drudge work already done.
So, in summary: if you're a general user or even an app developer, you'll never really care. If you need strong specialization in your operating system for a given task (I'm an embedded man) then HURD is a very very cool thing.
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It is. If you are ever dissatisfied with your employer, then you have lost alot of points with other potential employers without that degree. I tried going down that path earlier. You have alot of problems with people taking you seriously.
Especially with a masters. Technology graduate degrees are worth alot where there's so much pressure to not even bother finishing undergraduate classes. Grad Degree = $$. The semesters are worth several times their effort in future $.
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I hate to tell you this, but in general, distance learning has been a mockery and a failure. Students don't get the attention they need, and teachers don't get enough feedback (numbers aren't enough). That and the systems aren't very secure and hacking is more than just easy, it's entertaining and worthwhile.
But, the percentage of the population who is self-lead does tend to do pretty well in this area. For that topic, may I suggest reading the textbook and trying to test out of as many classes as possible. Transfer credits are iffy, and you should check on their acceptability towards your degree OFTEN. Many of my friends have been bitten by taking classes that WERE good for transfer credits, but by the time they finished the transfer hours, were no longer accepted by their school.
Watch your ass, talk only to the people in the department who not only know but have authority, and make sure they remember you! If they told you that the credits would be valid and they remember that when you ask again and find out you can't transfer them, you have leeway.
Transfer credits sound easy, but be _very_ careful and persistant.
Good luck to you man.
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I make completely unrecognizable, unreadable passwords that my muscles remember. The typical problem with that is you have to write them down for a bit to remember.
So, that asks the question, where do you write the passwords? The one place only YOU would look... that's right, on the underside of your balls! Take a small mirror (usually a girlfriend's compact works well:-), and write the password down in reverse. Every time you have to look up the password, unzip, insert the mirror, and look for yourself! Unless you have issues with your wife, mistress, or favorite paid escort, your data is secure:-)
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If we do something, we'd have to do something around the area of an object repository. Not just library implementations; most linux dists have waay too many libraries that do far too little.
Perhaps we could build some kind of description format, like which design pattern it follows, dependancies, runtime costs, time complexity, etc...
Something to think about.
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Slashdot Mirror
And everyone already knows about the lightening in airplanes... You sit down, put your legs up by your shoulders, hold a lighter over your ass, and...
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Tell him the next version of Windows will be faster, more reliable, and easier to use!
I don't know if it'll be here, but some bill will eventually pass as the big e*.com companies start lobbying. Because stong crypto=less fraud=more $.
--
How do you keep an idiot in suspense?
Tell him the next version of Windows will be faster, more reliable, and easier to use!
Sorry to pull sentances out from the middle of your paragraphs like this, but I simply must comment on the phrase 'less interesting.'
Back before the AOL connection to the internet, the net was still an intellectual vehicle; most people you'd find online were real techies or scientists.
Now at best you'll find mostly script kiddies or wanna be tech reporters.
And to go even further off topic, I'm afraid I'm seeing the same thing with Linux these days. The GUIs are all very well developed and strong; but again it's detracting people from the power and freedom of the command line. It's beaten windows by becoming windows.
Although better written internally, it's starting to take on the same philosophy of hand-feeding the user instead of empowering them. And that's alot worse.
--
How do you keep an idiot in suspense?
Tell him the next version of Windows will be faster, more reliable, and easier to use!
And, how (did?) this change with the IPO and the responsibility to the stockholders?
--
How do you keep an idiot in suspense?
Tell him the next version of Windows will be faster, more reliable, and easier to use!
The government is finally realizing the importance of computer security. It is the infrastructure of the US now and needs protection. In response to this, they're going to recruit, and more than likely also train CS students on the field of information security.
Hey, if you're already in school, then stop complaining, it wasn't meant for you. For those who wouldn't get to college otherwise, spending 3 years in a government job getting 1/2 of what you wouldn't have had at all otherwise sounds damn good.
--
How do you keep an idiot in suspense?
Tell him the next version of Windows will be faster, more reliable, and easier to use!
Let us not forget what happened the last time someone tried to make a DVD special, we got the screw up with The Matrix. But at least most of the movie was enjoyable :-)
Btw: I still haven't heard a damn thing about a fix for any DVD players...
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So it sounds like Amiga might finally be in caring hands.
Makes me wonder what all the Amiga hype was all about.. I was always a C128 junkie myself :-P
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Technology, however, is a set of facts that are learned and calculated. Lawyers don't have the advantage of intuition to help them the same way that techies have for law.
What we see as simple usage of the net or any medium, lawyers and non-techies in general see as whole new frontiers. Example: ftp vs www. For us, it's basically the same thing at the end of the day: a stream of bits coming & going from our machine. To them, 'files' and 'web pages' are two separate entities!
One large issue that comes to mind is mindset between the two entities: techies think of things in computer science terms: performance, scalability, robustness, etc. lawyers think of things in legal terms, that is, in terms of interhuman interactions: fair, reasonable, etc. Imagine looking at the current domain name squatting issue. first-come first-serve seems good 'nuff for many techies (myself included), but now lawyers want to bring in trademark law? Oh come on! That's a whole other namespace altogether!
Ah well, enough ranting. As long as people would rather wait 30 minutes holding for a customer support representative instead of 3 minutes reading their system manuals, the world is screwed.
--
How do you keep an idiot in suspense?
Tell him the next version of Windows will be faster, more reliable, and easier to use!
(yeah, yeah, this is pretty offtopic at this point...)
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The Japanese don't transmit any form of GPS signal. Closest you get is GLONASS from the Russians.
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Tell him the next version of Windows will be faster, more reliable, and easier to use!
The satellites are already in orbit ala US Military -- GPS satellites are all they're talking about in the article. The GPS Receiver costs about $40 wholesale. It's cheap. The expensive part is having the map database in the car which relates positions to maximum speeds...
--
How do you keep an idiot in suspense?
Tell him the next version of Windows will be faster, more reliable, and easier to use!
- The satellite doesn't know their locations (it's just a GPS transmitter), so no privacy loss there.
- Requires less police monitoring of the roads, so they can be somewhere useful stopping real crime.
- Stop shitty drivers
and for us geeks... If the car belongs to us, then we have access to it & all its internal components. Just remember that any computer can be reprogrammed...I bet override EEPROMS are sold within 6 months of this system's introduction. Hehe.
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iBCS has been running SYSV binaries for a while.
FreeBSD has been running Linux binaries for a while too
As long as the underlying instruction set is the same, and the api is the same (good ol' UNIX standards), then it ain't too hard.
Of course, cross platform across different instruction sets is simply painful, involving either an emulator or transmeta black magic
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How do you keep an idiot in suspense?
Tell him the next version of Windows will be faster, more reliable, and easier to use!
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How do you keep an idiot in suspense?
Tell him the next version of Windows will be faster, more reliable, and easier to use!
And I just used a hotmail email addr, btw.
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Firstly this lets etoys stay free, but more importantly, we may just save a whole swoosh (yes, the word swoosh is now a noun!) of other trademark related pains-in-the-rectum!
Chalk up +1 for the Trademark office..
which helps against their current score of
-128476.
--
How do you keep an idiot in suspense?
Tell him the next version of Windows will be faster, more reliable, and easier to use!
There are alot of plans to put things like traffic signs and door knobs on the internet (the latter with a secure protocol, of course
The PC, much like magazines like PCWeek, are dead and don't know it yet. I'm waiting for them to die and go away. That little head mounted dohicky the dude in the IBM commercial was wearing while sitting on a bench in the middle of a shitload of pigeons was much cooler
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also happen to have developer licenses in the
10s of thousands of $$.
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the desktop & servers.
The embedded market is the fastest portion
of the computer industry. When you have 512K
of flash to store all your applications, and
MAYBE another 256K of RAM, you have to squeeze
everything that you can bare out of your software.
I couldn't get to the website,
I suppose, so excuse the next few comments if
this isn't a RTOS...
As for speed, alot of these systems will be
running something like DSP-type filters with
massive data processing rates. When you have
massive MBs of data to process per second, a
faster OS helps alot. I know of a GPS receiver
for which they doubled the location output
rate because their embedded CPU's compiler
added one new optimization!
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Also, one can build completely different operating systems off the same base with alot of the drudge work already done.
So, in summary: if you're a general user or even an app developer, you'll never really care. If you need strong specialization in your operating system for a given task (I'm an embedded man) then HURD is a very very cool thing.
--
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Especially with a masters. Technology graduate degrees are worth alot where there's so much pressure to not even bother finishing undergraduate classes. Grad Degree = $$. The semesters are worth several times their effort in future $.
--
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But, the percentage of the population who is self-lead does tend to do pretty well in this area. For that topic, may I suggest reading the textbook and trying to test out of as many classes as possible. Transfer credits are iffy, and you should check on their acceptability towards your degree OFTEN. Many of my friends have been bitten by taking classes that WERE good for transfer credits, but by the time they finished the transfer hours, were no longer accepted by their school.
Watch your ass, talk only to the people in the department who not only know but have authority, and make sure they remember you! If they told you that the credits would be valid and they remember that when you ask again and find out you can't transfer them, you have leeway.
Transfer credits sound easy, but be _very_ careful and persistant.
Good luck to you man.
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problem with that is you have to write them
down for a bit to remember.
So, that asks the question, where do you write
the passwords? The one place only YOU would
look... that's right, on the underside of your
balls! Take a small mirror (usually a
girlfriend's compact works well
the password down in reverse. Every time you
have to look up the password, unzip, insert the
mirror, and look for yourself! Unless you
have issues with your wife, mistress, or
favorite paid escort, your data is secure
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around the area of an object repository. Not
just library implementations; most linux dists
have waay too many libraries that do far too little.
Perhaps we could build some kind of description
format, like which design pattern it follows,
dependancies, runtime costs, time complexity,
etc...
Something to think about.
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