I was disappointed to see the iPad following the App Store model rather than full-on Mac OS X. On my MacBook Pro, or my wife's iMac, I feel like I get the best of both worlds: a nice consistant "just-works" gui with all the power/control I might need just a terminal window away.
FSF is very much on target with the locked-down AppStore model being the biggest threat to user freedom that we've ever seen, bigger than software patents. It's "Tivo-ization" writ large.
My mind is melting at the very concept of a portable 3270. I only ever used the big Buck Rogers looking ones. I still see those in small bank branches every now and again.
If you're using something that expects an IBM 3270 client, that key is important. Now, are ThinkPads used in that role very often? Perhaps not. If they remove that functionality, they certainly wont be. I suppose a good term emulator should be able to map some other key or combo to send System Request.
Your second sentence is contradictory. Zooming is re-aligning lense elements to change the aggregate focal length.
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At very short exposure times, the length of the blur due to motion becomes smaller than the circle of confusion of the reproduced image, eventually falling beneath even the circle of confusion of the image capture medium. Generally, though, if you increase the magnification enough, you still see blur.
For reference, when examining negatives under a microscope Ansel Adams could no longer detect a difference between a handheld shot and a tripod shot of the same scene at exposures shorter than 1/500 of a second with a 50mm lens. The motion blur from his hands at that speed was smaller than his film and lens could resolve.
However, with a 300mm lens, he'd have had to shoot much faster to achieve the same equivalence, due to the higher lens magnification.
I've thought for years now that the only thing that can fight the botmasters effectively would be a handful of deeply paranoid grey hat vigilantes willing to wipe out the botnets via pushing innoculants to the bots themselves and being invisible enough to pull it off without getting hauled off by the law or gunned down by the mobsters behind the botnets.
If you have a few infected honeypots and can eavesdrop on the C&C, shouldn't you be able to compromise the key exchange as well? Not trivial but doable when the stakes high. Or are the botmasters using a sequence of one-time-pads for their updates similar to their domain name fallbacks?
I've had great success over the years starting with a free form or template and then running by a professional lawyer or accountant for revisions. I'll happily pay them for one hour of their time rather than get billed for all the time they have their paralegal or whomever typing it up and putting sticky-notes on photocopies. Professional rates for professional insight is a good value. $60/hr for clerical, not so much
I for one want to celebrate the anniversary of the Y2K Bug's passing by thanking all the people who's hark work kept it from being far far worse than the few mild annoyances we experienced. The word I saw was some gas pumps that were locked up, and it could have been far worse if a whole lot of coders and analysts hadn't spent a ton of time pouring over reams of old code and fixing problems. Double thanks to all the Grampa Geeks who came out of retirement to show the kids how COBOL was done and why it's still so important even ten years later. A nod goes even to the suits at the top who looked beyond next quarter's numbers and funded the stitch in time would save nine.
HELP WANTED: Experienced FiberWAN designer/administrator willing to commit legal and professional seppuku rather than abet threats to system integrity from improper management requests contrary to stated policy and procedure. Compensation commensurate with experience. Benefits include clarity of purpose and unparalleled cred if eventually vindicated. Mild autism OK.
The key here is that he never deprived the public of anything. The city had a working system when he walked into the office that day, a working system when they threw him in jail, and a working system after he handed over the passwords to the Mayor. They also could've reconfigured those routers at any time, though without the passwords they would have lost the existing config in order to do so. But again, he didn't break it, sabotage it, or hold it hostage.
Again, I'm not saying he acted wisely or appropriately here, merely that the response from the city was unjustly disproportionate to the situation. They went after him for things they were afraid he might do, rather than what he did. The dude's spent months behind bars so some bureaucrats could cover their asses for not having supervised their egotistical OCD admin properly.
The parallel would be if I hired you to set up and administer my computer, later demanded that you had over the admin credentials, and you refused because you didn't think I could handle it competently. I would be within my rights to fire you and perhaps even sue you, but not to have you thrown in jail.
Childs deserves defense not because he appropriately handled a showdown with management he had no hope of navigating successfully, clearly he did not. Rather, he should be defended against having the prosecutorial powers of the city leveled against him and being deprived of his freedom for many months over a matter that should have gone no further than the termination of his employment.
The prior poster is correct. If you actually read the text of the DMCA, it provides a specific exemption for interoperability efforts. That's what was such a crock in the DeCSS cases. DVD Jon was specifically writing a Linux DVD player, which should have been clearly allowed by the letter and spirit of the statute. The judge made a catastrophically bad ruling.
The military is rumored to be interested in using the cat simulator to guide precision munitions with laser pointers. Unfortunately the system seems limited to short range applications, as missiles seem to loose interest after a couple minutes.
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Do you have a link or a company name? I tried googling, but iPad noise is drowning out anything but this rather intense hard-hack.
I was disappointed to see the iPad following the App Store model rather than full-on Mac OS X. On my MacBook Pro, or my wife's iMac, I feel like I get the best of both worlds: a nice consistant "just-works" gui with all the power/control I might need just a terminal window away.
FSF is very much on target with the locked-down AppStore model being the biggest threat to user freedom that we've ever seen, bigger than software patents. It's "Tivo-ization" writ large.
I think it likely has as much to do with the impact of Flash's unquenchable thirst for CPU cycles on battery life.
$260 a year for access to a B-list newspaper site? Really? The Wall Street Journal online only is $110/year ant they're The Wall Street Journal.
Good luck.
GP rules everything around me.
My mind is melting at the very concept of a portable 3270. I only ever used the big Buck Rogers looking ones. I still see those in small bank branches every now and again.
If you're using something that expects an IBM 3270 client, that key is important. Now, are ThinkPads used in that role very often? Perhaps not. If they remove that functionality, they certainly wont be. I suppose a good term emulator should be able to map some other key or combo to send System Request.
That is only true when the subject distance small relative to the focal length:
Magnification=Focal_length/(Focal_length-Subject_distance)
Your second sentence is contradictory. Zooming is re-aligning lense elements to change the aggregate focal length.
At very short exposure times, the length of the blur due to motion becomes smaller than the circle of confusion of the reproduced image, eventually falling beneath even the circle of confusion of the image capture medium. Generally, though, if you increase the magnification enough, you still see blur.
For reference, when examining negatives under a microscope Ansel Adams could no longer detect a difference between a handheld shot and a tripod shot of the same scene at exposures shorter than 1/500 of a second with a 50mm lens. The motion blur from his hands at that speed was smaller than his film and lens could resolve.
However, with a 300mm lens, he'd have had to shoot much faster to achieve the same equivalence, due to the higher lens magnification.
I've thought for years now that the only thing that can fight the botmasters effectively would be a handful of deeply paranoid grey hat vigilantes willing to wipe out the botnets via pushing innoculants to the bots themselves and being invisible enough to pull it off without getting hauled off by the law or gunned down by the mobsters behind the botnets.
If you have a few infected honeypots and can eavesdrop on the C&C, shouldn't you be able to compromise the key exchange as well? Not trivial but doable when the stakes high. Or are the botmasters using a sequence of one-time-pads for their updates similar to their domain name fallbacks?
Seconded. If/when a transition to low-level is called for, you can (re-)write python modules in C to get your feet wet.
Don't be silly. The MPAA would never approve of NetBSD.
I've had great success over the years starting with a free form or template and then running by a professional lawyer or accountant for revisions. I'll happily pay them for one hour of their time rather than get billed for all the time they have their paralegal or whomever typing it up and putting sticky-notes on photocopies. Professional rates for professional insight is a good value. $60/hr for clerical, not so much
I for one want to celebrate the anniversary of the Y2K Bug's passing by thanking all the people who's hark work kept it from being far far worse than the few mild annoyances we experienced. The word I saw was some gas pumps that were locked up, and it could have been far worse if a whole lot of coders and analysts hadn't spent a ton of time pouring over reams of old code and fixing problems. Double thanks to all the Grampa Geeks who came out of retirement to show the kids how COBOL was done and why it's still so important even ten years later. A nod goes even to the suits at the top who looked beyond next quarter's numbers and funded the stitch in time would save nine.
HELP WANTED: Experienced FiberWAN designer/administrator willing to commit legal and professional seppuku rather than abet threats to system integrity from improper management requests contrary to stated policy and procedure. Compensation commensurate with experience. Benefits include clarity of purpose and unparalleled cred if eventually vindicated. Mild autism OK.
The key here is that he never deprived the public of anything. The city had a working system when he walked into the office that day, a working system when they threw him in jail, and a working system after he handed over the passwords to the Mayor. They also could've reconfigured those routers at any time, though without the passwords they would have lost the existing config in order to do so. But again, he didn't break it, sabotage it, or hold it hostage.
Again, I'm not saying he acted wisely or appropriately here, merely that the response from the city was unjustly disproportionate to the situation. They went after him for things they were afraid he might do, rather than what he did. The dude's spent months behind bars so some bureaucrats could cover their asses for not having supervised their egotistical OCD admin properly.
You metaphor is false.
The parallel would be if I hired you to set up and administer my computer, later demanded that you had over the admin credentials, and you refused because you didn't think I could handle it competently. I would be within my rights to fire you and perhaps even sue you, but not to have you thrown in jail.
Childs deserves defense not because he appropriately handled a showdown with management he had no hope of navigating successfully, clearly he did not. Rather, he should be defended against having the prosecutorial powers of the city leveled against him and being deprived of his freedom for many months over a matter that should have gone no further than the termination of his employment.
Well, we can't really know if they've modified it or not unless they release the code. That's kind of the point.
The prior poster is correct. If you actually read the text of the DMCA, it provides a specific exemption for interoperability efforts. That's what was such a crock in the DeCSS cases. DVD Jon was specifically writing a Linux DVD player, which should have been clearly allowed by the letter and spirit of the statute. The judge made a catastrophically bad ruling.
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Sounds a hell of a lot like the read/write head of the Turing Machine to me.
The military is rumored to be interested in using the cat simulator to guide precision munitions with laser pointers. Unfortunately the system seems limited to short range applications, as missiles seem to loose interest after a couple minutes.