Actually, there's more than 11.1% error correction data on a CD. More like 26% of each sector for Red Book CDDA and then an additional 12.9% overhead (header, sync and stuff) for Yellow Book Mode 1 CD-ROM. Mode 2 is slightly "better" with 288 bytes less error correction per sector. This leaves you with a total of just under 65% of the total capacity of the disk used for data storage and the rest for headers and error correction codes.
Anyway, I wouldn't think it'd be less on a DVD (all them electromechanic optronics and the magic of small tracks, you know?)
http://www.spychips.com/metro/scandal-deactivation.html - "This will make the RFID tag useless"
AFAIK only the writable part of only some tags can be written to, not the laser-burned unique ID and all RO tags work till they fail from mechanical stress.
Of course it's not immortal, but it is a beacon (almost atleast) and an evil government _could_ use it to track any person important enough.
How hard would it be for an evil government to place a reader under every stripe of every zebra crossing, in the middle of every roundabout and under the threshold to every entrance to every single public building in the country? Public transports could also use some tracking devices...
Hook 'em all up on a country-wide radio network, link tracking requests to credit card transactions and gsm positioning (down to 50m accuracy last I checked) and presto, you've got a consumer tracking device.
Good thing these bastards can be blocked quite efficiently with a tin-foil hat.
What would be the easiest way to find and/or destroy an RFID tag? Put your new pullover in the microwave oven for 3 seconds?
Is there any way to destroy such a tag embedded in electronics? Would it be possible to make the tag a vital part of the electronics in such a way that its destruction would lead to immediate equipment failure?
Ever wondered how the magnetic north pole of earth attracts the red part of the compass needle but the north (usually red painted) part of a magnet attracts the _white_ (south) part of another magnet (but not a compass needle)?
A flip would leave me less confused. The north pole of earth would repell the north pole of the compass as does the "north" side of a magnet.
We could finally use any red/white painted magnet as a compass needle without confusion! Hooray!
No, disks won't be erased from a polar switch. The strength of the magnetic field of earth is far too weak for that. It is measurable, but so is the wheight of the toner of a print-out of a screenshot of slashdot's front page...
Is it dagerous to place a floppy disk next to a hard drive? How about stacking credit cards with magnetic strips? Sure, it might be a measurable diminishing over centuries, but so is the radioactivity of your body.
Now for power grids: think about a huge current (lots and lots of moving electrons) in an alternating magnetic field, no matter how weak. Given the instability of some of the power grids of this world, it wouldn't surprise me at all to see at least some disruptions, should earth's magnetic field start to alternate.
There is a lot that the average consumer can do, but there are things that involve just a little more planning that are even more powerful (and not in any way illegal). Planning on the individual basis, that is. There are such things as laws governing demonstrations in this world. In my country, I would have to seek permission with the local police department to (legally) hand out flyers reading "MPAA meeting at $location, be there to express your dissatisfaction". This would thus have to be planned individually. Just reroute your shopping round/daily walk or even your way home from work temporally and spatially to the close vicinity of an important meeting. No big deal, nothing illegal with wanting to get a glimpse of $meancorp. Now imagine 20000 geeks doing the same thing at the time of a MPAA meeting. Who is to blame for huge amounts of people who just happen to pass outside a building just before the meeting parties are to arrive? Too few people think of the effects of simply passing by... in numbers! And when you have passed by, and bought your Linux Journal you have to pass by again on your way home. This won't double the effect. It'd rather square it. It's like the slashdot effect, but without the slashdot coordinating factor. It should be possible.
I say perhaps, but subtle movements of your eyes make them more suited to catching small details. Try looking through a dense mesh (like the door on an IBM SP, or perhaps a microwave oven. If you hold your head still, you will be pretty much unable to make out any details, but if you move your head around just a teeny weeny bit, you'll se things in almost full detail...
How much more complex will spam filters have to get to gobble up all the CPU on the mailserver or mail client machine?
It already is. At 500+ users and 200 pieces of junk mail a day, that is already more mail than there are seconds in the same period. Would you think the new spam filters use less than 1 cpu second per mail? I hope you have a bad-ass mainframe for your companys spam filtering...
Well, if something becomes an international standard, proves successful in Europe "a matter of time before the US conforms to a similar system" could well mean "decades", and the "similar system" could as well be downright similar. Like having inches, feet, yards and gallons when almost the rest of the world uses the internationally standardized SI system. But that is the topic of another discussion.
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Or maybe one could cover it with some sort of pigment before getting seated: instant tatoo!
Hook up a storage network on each side, and you will, without that much problem be able to get that to/from disk. Ever done some math on clustered raid? Just get enough disk servers on a fast enough, dedicated network. Then have a look at weird file systems. IBM GPFS anyone? Has been run at several GB/s already.
Living in the US? I mean, it's not like I would be able to pinpoint every major city in the EU. And then again - the EU has 25 member countries and the US 50 states. And by the way, it would be nice to know if all data actually went directly between Luleå and Gävle, or if some of it took the other way through the northern ring of GigaSunet (that is, through Umeå (you remember those pirates demonstrating?)).
It isn't (in Sweden atleast). It is pronounced (and spelled) "Ångström", with the penultimate letter pronounced in the same way as the u in "further". It's the name of a swedish inventor. On the same topic: Nobel (them prices, you know?) was a swedish inventor. His name is pronounced like "no bell", but with the o pronounced as the u in "bull". Well, this holds true for most parts of Sweden. There are of course some dialects with really, really, Really weird pronounciation. Especially when it comes to consonants.
Yes the letter Å is in general pronounced like a in all, but since it was introduced by some stupid king or whatever from the southern half of Sweden to the end of names like Ume, Skellefte, Pite and Lule, nobody actually living in those cities pronounces the final addendum. This is offtopic, hooray! But on the other hand - Ume (with that silly, non-needed and by natives non-pronounced letter) is mentioned in the article, and umu.se is the University of Umeå:-)
Apparently, the local newspapers in Umeå thought that horse racing and Nancy turns 90 were more interresting than a hundred people demanding free bandwidth...
Actually, I've got this huge (2m tall) black 24" rack in my dorm room. It's made by IBM and was really, really hard to get through the doors, even after the 50kg ballast bolted to the base was removed. When I read "Heavy Metal Server" I thought they were talking about Sun Violence (ever serviced an old SUN?), IBM (not the desktop crap) or even modding a PDP11 with some new, hot UltraSparc processors.
While it might be true that no-one forces you to use a proxy and that your prices for end users are correct you are still only citing conditions for end users. A large ISP will buy capacity from a number of other networks. This capacity might be internet connection, ie the packets are routed through to other networks. This buying of network capacity is a hairy business. There is no clear rule as to who should pay for what, and you could discuss if a mutually beneficial interconnection of two networks should be charged by any one of those at all. No-one will stop you from using transparent proxying on some or all of your connections to other nets to minimize your costs. This is what makes the internet intresting... Who is really operating it, and for what reason are all those networks really interconnected?
Just as the parent points out: The big difference between GPL and BSD is that developers that use GPL for their work take the right to demand that (re)distribution of possibly altered work permits the same rights to users of the distribution as of the original where BSD license adopters do not.
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I don't think you would be disappointed. At least not if you would se one of the models with built-in sofa.
How about you having a look at the car before telling the world that Ford should stop their car manufacturing and concentrate on bicycles?
In other words: you have apparently never ever been near a system running AIX. Stop your own fud before attacking SCO/IBM/$corp
Actually, there's more than 11.1% error correction data on a CD. More like 26% of each sector for Red Book CDDA and then an additional 12.9% overhead (header, sync and stuff) for Yellow Book Mode 1 CD-ROM. Mode 2 is slightly "better" with 288 bytes less error correction per sector.
This leaves you with a total of just under 65% of the total capacity of the disk used for data storage and the rest for headers and error correction codes.
Anyway, I wouldn't think it'd be less on a DVD (all them electromechanic optronics and the magic of small tracks, you know?)
http://www.spychips.com/metro/scandal-deactivation .html - "This will make the RFID tag useless"
AFAIK only the writable part of only some tags can be written to, not the laser-burned unique ID and all RO tags work till they fail from mechanical stress.
Of course it's not immortal, but it is a beacon (almost atleast) and an evil government _could_ use it to track any person important enough.
How hard would it be for an evil government to place a reader under every stripe of every zebra crossing, in the middle of every roundabout and under the threshold to every entrance to every single public building in the country? Public transports could also use some tracking devices...
Hook 'em all up on a country-wide radio network, link tracking requests to credit card transactions and gsm positioning (down to 50m accuracy last I checked) and presto, you've got a consumer tracking device.
Good thing these bastards can be blocked quite efficiently with a tin-foil hat.
What would be the easiest way to find and/or destroy an RFID tag? Put your new pullover in the microwave oven for 3 seconds?
Is there any way to destroy such a tag embedded in electronics? Would it be possible to make the tag a vital part of the electronics in such a way that its destruction would lead to immediate equipment failure?
Are the signals easy to spoof?
Ever wondered how the magnetic north pole of earth attracts the red part of the compass needle but the north (usually red painted) part of a magnet attracts the _white_ (south) part of another magnet (but not a compass needle)?
A flip would leave me less confused. The north pole of earth would repell the north pole of the compass as does the "north" side of a magnet.
We could finally use any red/white painted magnet as a compass needle without confusion! Hooray!
No, disks won't be erased from a polar switch. The strength of the magnetic field of earth is far too weak for that. It is measurable, but so is the wheight of the toner of a print-out of a screenshot of slashdot's front page...
Is it dagerous to place a floppy disk next to a hard drive? How about stacking credit cards with magnetic strips? Sure, it might be a measurable diminishing over centuries, but so is the radioactivity of your body.
Now for power grids: think about a huge current (lots and lots of moving electrons) in an alternating magnetic field, no matter how weak. Given the instability of some of the power grids of this world, it wouldn't surprise me at all to see at least some disruptions, should earth's magnetic field start to alternate.
Who said it will alternate?
There is a lot that the average consumer can do, but there are things that involve just a little more planning that are even more powerful (and not in any way illegal). Planning on the individual basis, that is. There are such things as laws governing demonstrations in this world. In my country, I would have to seek permission with the local police department to (legally) hand out flyers reading "MPAA meeting at $location, be there to express your dissatisfaction". This would thus have to be planned individually.
Just reroute your shopping round/daily walk or even your way home from work temporally and spatially to the close vicinity of an important meeting. No big deal, nothing illegal with wanting to get a glimpse of $meancorp. Now imagine 20000 geeks doing the same thing at the time of a MPAA meeting. Who is to blame for huge amounts of people who just happen to pass outside a building just before the meeting parties are to arrive?
Too few people think of the effects of simply passing by... in numbers!
And when you have passed by, and bought your Linux Journal you have to pass by again on your way home. This won't double the effect. It'd rather square it.
It's like the slashdot effect, but without the slashdot coordinating factor. It should be possible.
I say perhaps, but subtle movements of your eyes make them more suited to catching small details. Try looking through a dense mesh (like the door on an IBM SP, or perhaps a microwave oven. If you hold your head still, you will be pretty much unable to make out any details, but if you move your head around just a teeny weeny bit, you'll se things in almost full detail...
It already is. At 500+ users and 200 pieces of junk mail a day, that is already more mail than there are seconds in the same period. Would you think the new spam filters use less than 1 cpu second per mail? I hope you have a bad-ass mainframe for your companys spam filtering...
It is our god-given right to block any messages that are sent to us while we are online?
Uhm.
I say! It's my right online!
Well, if something becomes an international standard, proves successful in Europe "a matter of time before the US conforms to a similar system" could well mean "decades", and the "similar system" could as well be downright similar. Like having inches, feet, yards and gallons when almost the rest of the world uses the internationally standardized SI system. But that is the topic of another discussion.
Or maybe one could cover it with some sort of pigment before getting seated: instant tatoo!
Hook up a storage network on each side, and you will, without that much problem be able to get that to/from disk. Ever done some math on clustered raid? Just get enough disk servers on a fast enough, dedicated network. Then have a look at weird file systems. IBM GPFS anyone? Has been run at several GB/s already.
Living in the US? I mean, it's not like I would be able to pinpoint every major city in the EU. And then again - the EU has 25 member countries and the US 50 states.
And by the way, it would be nice to know if all data actually went directly between Luleå and Gävle, or if some of it took the other way through the northern ring of GigaSunet (that is, through Umeå (you remember those pirates demonstrating?)).
...and I thought 157 SEK/month (US$20) was much for 10 Mbit...
It isn't (in Sweden atleast). It is pronounced (and spelled) "Ångström", with the penultimate letter pronounced in the same way as the u in "further". It's the name of a swedish inventor.
On the same topic: Nobel (them prices, you know?) was a swedish inventor. His name is pronounced like "no bell", but with the o pronounced as the u in "bull".
Well, this holds true for most parts of Sweden. There are of course some dialects with really, really, Really weird pronounciation. Especially when it comes to consonants.
Yes the letter Å is in general pronounced like a in all, but since it was introduced by some stupid king or whatever from the southern half of Sweden to the end of names like Ume, Skellefte, Pite and Lule, nobody actually living in those cities pronounces the final addendum. This is offtopic, hooray! But on the other hand - Ume (with that silly, non-needed and by natives non-pronounced letter) is mentioned in the article, and umu.se is the University of Umeå :-)
Apparently, the local newspapers in Umeå thought that horse racing and Nancy turns 90 were more interresting than a hundred people demanding free bandwidth...
Actually, I've got this huge (2m tall) black 24" rack in my dorm room. It's made by IBM and was really, really hard to get through the doors, even after the 50kg ballast bolted to the base was removed.
When I read "Heavy Metal Server" I thought they were talking about Sun Violence (ever serviced an old SUN?), IBM (not the desktop crap) or even modding a PDP11 with some new, hot UltraSparc processors.
...or the Honda Fitta (means Cunt in swedish), though they realized that before releasing it on the swedish market.
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While it might be true that no-one forces you to use a proxy and that your prices for end users are correct you are still only citing conditions for end users. A large ISP will buy capacity from a number of other networks. This capacity might be internet connection, ie the packets are routed through to other networks.
This buying of network capacity is a hairy business. There is no clear rule as to who should pay for what, and you could discuss if a mutually beneficial interconnection of two networks should be charged by any one of those at all.
No-one will stop you from using transparent proxying on some or all of your connections to other nets to minimize your costs.
This is what makes the internet intresting...
Who is really operating it, and for what reason are all those networks really interconnected?
Just as the parent points out:
The big difference between GPL and BSD is that developers that use GPL for their work take the right to demand that (re)distribution of possibly altered work permits the same rights to users of the distribution as of the original where BSD license adopters do not.