if your front door had a lock that could be opened by anyone pushing a button clearly marked on the outside, and a robber pushed the button and came in, would you consider that a fault of the lock, the door, or the house?
It would be the fault of the eejit that set it up like that. Locks, doors and houses have no free will - it's not "the door's fault" that it works as designed.
It sounds like a cool material, but the last thing we need is for something to make the idiot behind the wheel feel SAFER. A piece of spongy metal will not protect the pedestrian, cyclist or child when 2 tons of monster truck plow into it.
The best thing we could do for road safety is to put a six inch spike onto every steering wheel - you'd drive a helluva lot more carefully if you had that pressed into your chest as you hurtle down the freeway (BTW that's Max's idea, not mine).
Replying to my own post is a bit off, but an even better thought...
Say that BigCorp uses this idea to protect all of its really valuable data. You get a GPS transmitter that's transmitting a spoofed postion a few miles away, and all of BigCorp's laptops go "OMG, I've been stolen: 'rm -rf/data'".
This is *theoretically* a good thing, but it means that applications cannot cache DNS as effectively for nonexistant domains. this may end up causing a *lot* heavier load on the root DNS servers.
No, it's the TTL that determines how long a record can be cached for. Updating the zone more frequently just means that the information will be available sooner. It will not increase the load on the root nameservers.
So once stores are using automated RFID-reading-Visa-charging tills instead of employing humans, you be able to get one of these bags, fill it with goodies, and walk out without paying?
Workstation had all the same code that Server had; it was just "crippled" by the Registry entries so that Microsoft could make more money selling Server versions to the Enterprise.
The other minor difference being that you had bought a license for Workstation rather than Server.
Conversely of course, if the other driver claims you were speeding and your black box records that you were doing 30mph in the last five seconds, it'll let you off the hook.
So some idiot with a hacked OBC drives into me at 90mph, but then uses the data in his OBC to prove that the accident must have been my fault? No Way.
Not that there's anything wrong in repackaging GPL'ed software, as long as you give the credit where credit is due, and the source of course. Which they seem to do.
Apart from the updates, which you have to pay for.
Surely updates to a GPLed package must also be covered by the GPL? Shouldn't the source for those be freely available? Otherwise they can post the GPLed body as the 'base' version, which is free, and then post enhancements which only paying customers can install...
"Four years without a remote hole in the default install!"
Is ssh server enabled in the default install?
I would think (hope) not - You don't want to run services that you do not need, and does a workstation need sshd?
I heard that the reason Palm went from the Palm III to the Palm V was because the number 4 is extremely unlucky in Oriental cultures.
Maybe Intel know this and are releasing this as a sacrificial processor before they release the Pentium 5
£200 to install the device?? That would double the value of *my* car - and that's with a full tank of petrol too...
Wossit do when the car can't see a satellite anyway? like in a tunnel, or under trees? Or if the antenna breaks off (by accident of course).
And anyway, the sensible way to build something like that would be to have the car sense speed limits from roadside transmitters. Sounds like someone with a mountain of GPS receivers had a hand in suggesting this...
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if your front door had a lock that could be opened by anyone pushing a button clearly marked on the outside, and a robber pushed the button and came in, would you consider that a fault of the lock, the door, or the house?
It would be the fault of the eejit that set it up like that. Locks, doors and houses have no free will - it's not "the door's fault" that it works as designed.
In what way does OpenStreetMap not fit the criteria already?
Do any of the other manufacturers of consumer electronics do this kind of audit?
This is stupid.
It sounds like a cool material, but the last thing we need is for something to make the idiot behind the wheel feel SAFER. A piece of spongy metal will not protect the pedestrian, cyclist or child when 2 tons of monster truck plow into it.
The best thing we could do for road safety is to put a six inch spike onto every steering wheel - you'd drive a helluva lot more carefully if you had that pressed into your chest as you hurtle down the freeway (BTW that's Max's idea, not mine).
If your employer wins the dispute, they get no more right than you have to break the terms of the GPL.
Replying to my own post is a bit off, but an even better thought... Say that BigCorp uses this idea to protect all of its really valuable data. You get a GPS transmitter that's transmitting a spoofed postion a few miles away, and all of BigCorp's laptops go "OMG, I've been stolen: 'rm -rf /data'".
So... how easy is it to spoof a GPS signal?
So once stores are using automated RFID-reading-Visa-charging tills instead of employing humans, you be able to get one of these bags, fill it with goodies, and walk out without paying?
Sounds good to me.
Wassat mean then? Is 'red' more powerful than 'green'? (does mauve have more RAM?)
I would have thought that a device that takes a communication and redirects it without the owner's permission counts as interception.
I don't see how anyone can call this 'news' (much less 'stuff that matters').
So some idiot with a hacked OBC drives into me at 90mph, but then uses the data in his OBC to prove that the accident must have been my fault? No Way.
My thoughts are for the pilots' families, friends and colleagues, but I hope there will be plenty more successful flights.
It's be nice to hear some reasons why slashdot hasn't migrated to 2.0 yet...
Apart from the updates, which you have to pay for.
Surely updates to a GPLed package must also be covered by the GPL? Shouldn't the source for those be freely available? Otherwise they can post the GPLed body as the 'base' version, which is free, and then post enhancements which only paying customers can install...
Is ssh server enabled in the default install? I would think (hope) not - You don't want to run services that you do not need, and does a workstation need sshd?
I heard that the reason Palm went from the Palm III to the Palm V was because the number 4 is extremely unlucky in Oriental cultures.
Maybe Intel know this and are releasing this as a sacrificial processor before they release the Pentium 5
£200 to install the device?? That would double the value of *my* car - and that's with a full tank of petrol too...
Wossit do when the car can't see a satellite anyway? like in a tunnel, or under trees? Or if the antenna breaks off (by accident of course).
And anyway, the sensible way to build something like that would be to have the car sense speed limits from roadside transmitters. Sounds like someone with a mountain of GPS receivers had a hand in suggesting this...
...it looks very much like the Java steaming mug to me.
Maybe Sun's lawyers would like to sue them too...