Except that 99% of the HUD's around 'float' the display out where you would be looking anyway - it dosent appear to be on the windshield but 10 meters down the road just above the bonnet. So there is no (or very limited) refocus time - its the whole point of the HUD concept - keep your eyes on the target.
I was not saying that *now* you have to have the access. Currently to perform more than a few functions with my bank account you either have to front up in person or use the internet client.
Campanies are starting to add charges for paying via certin expensive-to-process methods. If I paid my health insurance via cheque it would cost me almost 20% more.
In the future B2B will allow small transactions outside nation states this small uncontrolled commerce has never existed like it will in the future (and to some extent now).
10 or 15 years ago I could not order CD's from the US (or UK or Ireland etc) in real time with up to date catalouges. I couldn't at the last minute book a cheap hotel room on the other side of the world. All of these examples can be ingored as fringe cases - but at some point I suspect that we will start to consider some kind of information access will be a requirement.
As you stated currently it is the postal system that provides the required access - why would it stay this way?
Increasingly the way to access services is via the internet. You want to pay for your water & electricity - thats via a browser now. You want to buy cheap books & CD's well just browse over to amazon. Have some really good coffee beans you want to sell direct to small companies - well its pretty damm hard without some cheap communications system.
No commercial coffee makers put superheated steam through the grounds. (at least decent ones:)
As for the challenge I also don't want to hold my head under water for 30 minutes or jump off a tall building. I know these actions (and drinking a hot drink) may cause me damage so I *take care* - anything that isn't skin temprature could cause you damage if you try hard enough.
Soon we will be not allowed to have forks as they are deliberatly sharp & pointy & many ppl have managed to injure themselves...
As a simple bonus hint - using scuba gear to provide Life Support has a few minor issues. Mostly scuba regulators are carefully designed to provide the gas from the tank to the user at the pressure of the surrounding enviroment. Which is really useful for diving deep under the water (where deep is actually incredibly shallow) but incredibly useless for trying to breathe in a no-atmosphere enviroment.
As an aside it is a truly weird feeling beeing 18 meters under the water & trying to convince your brain that you can't just swim to the surface (at least not without serious medical-type issues)
If you try and maintain *binary* compatibility then yes the kernel is a horrible beast to slay. If however you choose to release the source to your driver it will pretty much work for a whole kernel tree - as a bonus if it breaks someone will have a patch to you before you even open the doors to your shiny fab plant the next morning.
-- This comment brought to you by too much happiness at the Melbourne Cup 2003..
Tomatos are a fruit, pumpkins are a fruit - both mean absolutly nothing as they are just names we give the object that grows from the flower of plants & holds the seeds. If it makes you feel any better you can call them mushy seed pods... There is also no disco fruit even though you will see ppl use bananas in interesting ways at night clubs.
So, we should chalk up Saddam gasing to death thousands of Kurds to an "honest mistake?" The same for Hitler's "Final Solution," right? They weren't bad people, just misunderstood.
Perchance he learnt from history & deployed a horrible weapon in order to 'shorten the war & save lives'. Although unlike the US with nukes, Sadam isn't the only person to have deployed chemical weapons.
Actually while I am on the subject which country has the largest supply of chemical weapons? Who pulled out of most of the conventions on WMD manafaucture & distribution? Oh well better go bomb someone.
Luckily we have US bases & tracking stations on our (opps I mean American) soil - hopefully enough to pick up at least a few war heads. We would hate to miss out on the fun..
This is the equivalent of stating that the only reason for knowing what voltage your mains power runs at is so you can steal it. While theft is *one* reason for reverse-engineering there are many others. If you want your IP protected don't rely on it being hard to see.
Telstra (australia) have a wonderful new system that attempts to do voice recognition - it spaeks the menus at you and asks you to say what you want. The wonderful thing is that after you start to get annoyed & tell the damm thing to "*(&^ off" it transfers you to a helpful operator - who doesn't seem to receive any of the info you have previously provided. Kept me laughing the first time I found it:)
I have known DBA type people (not *me* mind you:) to do things like move indexes between tablespaces on a whim. Run it throught in dev & test and it zooms along (as you have a small fraction of the data to play with) start it in production - realise its going to take forever to rebuild & you start to play the 'is it quicker to go back to tape' game (you did remember to run the backup first...)
It's all fun when the plebs walk back in and none of their apps work as the indexes are still 1/2 way baked:)
Seemingly local governments & tourist operators have sought a solution to the problem of tourists being boored on long trips - its called 'lets get a tourist killed' the fun part of the game is to do it in a way that avoids prosceution. For the amatures playing at home "I did not realise there were croc's in there" has already been taken.
Seriousy there is tones of great amazing places to visit in Australia - most of which have a way lower chance of death than your local 7-11:) We just have loads of open space as well..
You dont know booring until you have driven in Australia. We have roads here that you can pretty much drive along all day without too much turning & hardly anything that would constitute a hill. Luckily our governmont thinks that internet access is a luxery so you will have plenty of time to think & be thankful you don't live in some of the places that you will be over-nighting in...
Heart attacks are common in croud crushing deaths - you dont need drugs - in fact if you want to verify this yourself lie on your back put a good strong board on your chest and get a friend to drive his truck onto the board. I suspect the average person would live not long at all given this treatment. you can simulate the same thing by lying at the end of some stairs or a passage & telling 100 people they might die unless they can get past you.
I hope they throw the book at the owners & operators of the club.
And children dont try any of this at home - driving on yourself (or a friend) is a bad thing to do.
It is good to see that the requests for the certifications arn't coming from a vendor or the developers but the end users who will be deploying the product. You really can't get a better advertisment than that. Having Oracle on side will help as well, as the article mentions they have tones of experience getting their product (and thus the OS) certified. It is massivly in Oracle's interest to do so - less $'s on the OS means the purchaser can spend more on the hardware / DB.
OSS projects (and Oracle etc) *could* massivly benifit from more securable hardware - they kernel could tell the system to not run any code with privlages x unless it happenes to be signed by the distributions key or *my* personal key. Overnight we could kill the script kiddies off.
However we need to be *really* careful that we dont end up with no access to our hardware when *we* want it. There will be companies that will push it too far - we need to activly 'educate' and punish them when they do - after the first $10million in lost revenue they *might* start to get the point.
I may just be a back-would Australian but isn't the 5th amendment primary focused at allowing a witness to not self-incriminate (a concept I just don't get but...)
So Bulgar is claiming (by taking the 5th) that he will be incriminating himself should be disclose what he knows about his cute little brother. Which doesn't partially surprise me aiding & abetting a known suspect and all.
The good thing about CreditCard numbers is they remain vaild for an amazingly long time - you have a few years in some cases to break the encryption and grab the number - you even have a nice checksum to verify the number you retrieved is valid.. To make it even better they transmit a nice validity date to ensure you dont accidently try and use an expired card.
That would work for large powerful countries like the US - however should the US go down the same path would Australia 'cutting them off' make an iota of difference. In fact as a large number of Australian sites are hosted in the US, and a majority of our 'big' links are routed through the US (and I assume its the same situation for the rest of the world) we would in fact be cutting off our own access.
Automatic VPNing on the other hand will allow everyone to continue using the services they currently enjoy while having the bonus of stopping people from spying^H^H^H^H^H^H inspecting the data they are transmitting.
People have been saying for years we need transparent encryption of internet connections (OK mabee I've been saying it) Once 'important' countries like Panama start playing routing games like this it becomes even more important.
Such heavy handed actions might be just what projects like FreeSwan need to get more universal acceptance. That all being said does anyone honestly belive that panama will be able to block *all* UDP traffic, while they are at it is might be a good idea to block ICMP and TCP - both of which could potentially carry voice data as well.
I have been to the USA about 5 or so times in my life, the first around age 10 (with my parents) Until my last trip I have always held a US visa for the duration of my passport (in fact from memory I used to hold a visa that was valid after my passport expired)
In september / october 2000 I decided to take a round the world trip (well mostly europe, the UK and the US) I spent 2 months overseas, visited about 10 counties, had all my flights pre-booked (although with the option of changes) had a basic itenary worked out etc etc. I decided that as Australia was now a signitory to the Waiver scheme it would be an easier process than the standard visa application (which takes a reasonable amount of time)
While in europe and the UK (ok I know they are the same thing) I had nothing but praise for immigration & customs personel - while I wasn't always warmly greeted into the country I felt I was handled fairly and professionally.
When I got to the US the whole story changed, though no fault of anyone (airline delays etc) I missed my original flight to the US (which was via Heathrow) forcing about a 6-7 hour delay (and an extra dirversion in the US) which much meant by the time I fronted at immigration I had been awake for over 30 hours. I filled out all the forms correctly (in fact my forms were used as an example to others behind me on how to fill them out etc) At the time of my 'interview' with the immigration officer, I enjoyed (pick the sarcasm) a nice 15 minute interview.
Topics covered included how I was planning to come to the US to work in IT (since I open admited to working in IT) how much drugs I was planning on selling in the US, my plans for sponging off the welfare system in the US (I really had to try hard not to laugh at that one:) Then he started off asking about countries that appeared in my passport (finland being highlighted for some particually close attention) To make the process evern more fun the officer threw in more than a couple of local sayings getting quite angry with me when I was confused. He asked me what crimes my traveling companion had commited. He asked what would happen if he told my companion I had 'dropped a dime on him' (I was tempted to ask from what hight) Generally it was an intimidating, scary procedure which resulted in me trying to get back out of the US ASAP. The entire time I tried as hard as I could to be helpful & curtious, only to be yelled at when I offered more information that was requested.
My traveling companion received even worse treatment - he took the whole process much more personally (and has less of a tollerance for stupidity) I had previoudly spent quite a long time trying to convince my companion that not everyone in the US matches the stereotypical Amerian, only to have all my work undone by some idiot at the border. It sadens me that hundreds of people arriving on night were exposed to this man as their first point of contact on arriving in the US.
The moral of the story is getting a visa while you are safe and at home (and protected by your countries constitutional rights) is much safer & easier than hoping that it all turns out OK when you turn up at the border. I have entered the US since (by road from nice friendly safe Canada) and didn't have and of the same problems, hopefully this was just one person...
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Except that 99% of the HUD's around 'float' the display out where you would be looking anyway - it dosent appear to be on the windshield but 10 meters down the road just above the bonnet. So there is no (or very limited) refocus time - its the whole point of the HUD concept - keep your eyes on the target.
I was not saying that *now* you have to have the access. Currently to perform more than a few functions with my bank account you either have to front up in person or use the internet client.
Campanies are starting to add charges for paying via certin expensive-to-process methods. If I paid my health insurance via cheque it would cost me almost 20% more.
In the future B2B will allow small transactions outside nation states this small uncontrolled commerce has never existed like it will in the future (and to some extent now).
10 or 15 years ago I could not order CD's from the US (or UK or Ireland etc) in real time with up to date catalouges. I couldn't at the last minute book a cheap hotel room on the other side of the world. All of these examples can be ingored as fringe cases - but at some point I suspect that we will start to consider some kind of information access will be a requirement.
As you stated currently it is the postal system that provides the required access - why would it stay this way?
Increasingly the way to access services is via the internet. You want to pay for your water & electricity - thats via a browser now. You want to buy cheap books & CD's well just browse over to amazon. Have some really good coffee beans you want to sell direct to small companies - well its pretty damm hard without some cheap communications system.
That- OK your just not allowed to fly anymore. Its not any more stupid than half the reasons other people are having problems in our brave new world.
Run Debian - I didn't realise it was a problem until I just read about it here. Install the new package both 2.4 & 2.6 boots fine. Duck :)
No commercial coffee makers put superheated steam through the grounds. (at least decent ones :)
As for the challenge I also don't want to hold my head under water for 30 minutes or jump off a tall building. I know these actions (and drinking a hot drink) may cause me damage so I *take care* - anything that isn't skin temprature could cause you damage if you try hard enough.
Soon we will be not allowed to have forks as they are deliberatly sharp & pointy & many ppl have managed to injure themselves...
As a simple bonus hint - using scuba gear to provide Life Support has a few minor issues. Mostly scuba regulators are carefully designed to provide the gas from the tank to the user at the pressure of the surrounding enviroment. Which is really useful for diving deep under the water (where deep is actually incredibly shallow) but incredibly useless for trying to breathe in a no-atmosphere enviroment.
As an aside it is a truly weird feeling beeing 18 meters under the water & trying to convince your brain that you can't just swim to the surface (at least not without serious medical-type issues)
If you try and maintain *binary* compatibility then yes the kernel is a horrible beast to slay. If however you choose to release the source to your driver it will pretty much work for a whole kernel tree - as a bonus if it breaks someone will have a patch to you before you even open the doors to your shiny fab plant the next morning.
-- This comment brought to you by too much happiness at the Melbourne Cup 2003..
Tomatos are a fruit, pumpkins are a fruit - both mean absolutly nothing as they are just names we give the object that grows from the flower of plants & holds the seeds. If it makes you feel any better you can call them mushy seed pods... There is also no disco fruit even though you will see ppl use bananas in interesting ways at night clubs.
So, we should chalk up Saddam gasing to death thousands of Kurds to an "honest mistake?" The same for Hitler's "Final Solution," right? They weren't bad people, just misunderstood.
Perchance he learnt from history & deployed a horrible weapon in order to 'shorten the war & save lives'. Although unlike the US with nukes, Sadam isn't the only person to have deployed chemical weapons.
Actually while I am on the subject which country has the largest supply of chemical weapons? Who pulled out of most of the conventions on WMD manafaucture & distribution? Oh well better go bomb someone.
Luckily we have US bases & tracking stations on our (opps I mean American) soil - hopefully enough to pick up at least a few war heads. We would hate to miss out on the fun..
This is the equivalent of stating that the only reason for knowing what voltage your mains power runs at is so you can steal it. While theft is *one* reason for reverse-engineering there are many others. If you want your IP protected don't rely on it being hard to see.
Telstra (australia) have a wonderful new system that attempts to do voice recognition - it spaeks the menus at you and asks you to say what you want. The wonderful thing is that after you start to get annoyed & tell the damm thing to "*(&^ off" it transfers you to a helpful operator - who doesn't seem to receive any of the info you have previously provided. :)
Kept me laughing the first time I found it
I have known DBA type people (not *me* mind you :) to do things like move indexes between tablespaces on a whim. Run it throught in dev & test and it zooms along (as you have a small fraction of the data to play with) start it in production - realise its going to take forever to rebuild & you start to play the 'is it quicker to go back to tape' game (you did remember to run the backup first...)
:)
It's all fun when the plebs walk back in and none of their apps work as the indexes are still 1/2 way baked
But how did you log the bug? :)
Seemingly local governments & tourist operators have sought a solution to the problem of tourists being boored on long trips - its called 'lets get a tourist killed' the fun part of the game is to do it in a way that avoids prosceution. For the amatures playing at home "I did not realise there were croc's in there" has already been taken.
:) We just have loads of open space as well..
Seriousy there is tones of great amazing places to visit in Australia - most of which have a way lower chance of death than your local 7-11
You dont know booring until you have driven in Australia. We have roads here that you can pretty much drive along all day without too much turning & hardly anything that would constitute a hill. Luckily our governmont thinks that internet access is a luxery so you will have plenty of time to think & be thankful you don't live in some of the places that you will be over-nighting in...
Heart attacks are common in croud crushing deaths - you dont need drugs - in fact if you want to verify this yourself lie on your back put a good strong board on your chest and get a friend to drive his truck onto the board. I suspect the average person would live not long at all given this treatment. you can simulate the same thing by lying at the end of some stairs or a passage & telling 100 people they might die unless they can get past you.
I hope they throw the book at the owners & operators of the club.
And children dont try any of this at home - driving on yourself (or a friend) is a bad thing to do.
It is good to see that the requests for the certifications arn't coming from a vendor or the developers but the end users who will be deploying the product. You really can't get a better advertisment than that.
Having Oracle on side will help as well, as the article mentions they have tones of experience getting their product (and thus the OS) certified. It is massivly in Oracle's interest to do so - less $'s on the OS means the purchaser can spend more on the hardware / DB.
OSS projects (and Oracle etc) *could* massivly benifit from more securable hardware - they kernel could tell the system to not run any code with privlages x unless it happenes to be signed by the distributions key or *my* personal key. Overnight we could kill the script kiddies off.
However we need to be *really* careful that we dont end up with no access to our hardware when *we* want it. There will be companies that will push it too far - we need to activly 'educate' and punish them when they do - after the first $10million in lost revenue they *might* start to get the point.
I may just be a back-would Australian but isn't the 5th amendment primary focused at allowing a witness to not self-incriminate (a concept I just don't get but...)
So Bulgar is claiming (by taking the 5th) that he will be incriminating himself should be disclose what he knows about his cute little brother. Which doesn't partially surprise me aiding & abetting a known suspect and all.
Or do I have it all wrong?
The good thing about CreditCard numbers is they remain vaild for an amazingly long time - you have a few years in some cases to break the encryption and grab the number - you even have a nice checksum to verify the number you retrieved is valid.. To make it even better they transmit a nice validity date to ensure you dont accidently try and use an expired card.
That would work for large powerful countries like the US - however should the US go down the same path would Australia 'cutting them off' make an iota of difference. In fact as a large number of Australian sites are hosted in the US, and a majority of our 'big' links are routed through the US (and I assume its the same situation for the rest of the world) we would in fact be cutting off our own access.
Automatic VPNing on the other hand will allow everyone to continue using the services they currently enjoy while having the bonus of stopping people from spying^H^H^H^H^H^H inspecting the data they are transmitting.
People have been saying for years we need transparent encryption of internet connections (OK mabee I've been saying it) Once 'important' countries like Panama start playing routing games like this it becomes even more important.
Such heavy handed actions might be just what projects like FreeSwan need to get more universal acceptance. That all being said does anyone honestly belive that panama will be able to block *all* UDP traffic, while they are at it is might be a good idea to block ICMP and TCP - both of which could potentially carry voice data as well.
I almost had a similar incident.
:) Then he started off asking about countries that appeared in my passport (finland being highlighted for some particually close attention) To make the process evern more fun the officer threw in more than a couple of local sayings getting quite angry with me when I was confused. He asked me what crimes my traveling companion had commited. He asked what would happen if he told my companion I had 'dropped a dime on him' (I was tempted to ask from what hight) Generally it was an intimidating, scary procedure which resulted in me trying to get back out of the US ASAP. The entire time I tried as hard as I could to be helpful & curtious, only to be yelled at when I offered more information that was requested.
I have been to the USA about 5 or so times in my life, the first around age 10 (with my parents) Until my last trip I have always held a US visa for the duration of my passport (in fact from memory I used to hold a visa that was valid after my passport expired)
In september / october 2000 I decided to take a round the world trip (well mostly europe, the UK and the US) I spent 2 months overseas, visited about 10 counties, had all my flights pre-booked (although with the option of changes) had a basic itenary worked out etc etc. I decided that as Australia was now a signitory to the Waiver scheme it would be an easier process than the standard visa application (which takes a reasonable amount of time)
While in europe and the UK (ok I know they are the same thing) I had nothing but praise for immigration & customs personel - while I wasn't always warmly greeted into the country I felt I was handled fairly and professionally.
When I got to the US the whole story changed, though no fault of anyone (airline delays etc) I missed my original flight to the US (which was via Heathrow) forcing about a 6-7 hour delay (and an extra dirversion in the US) which much meant by the time I fronted at immigration I had been awake for over 30 hours. I filled out all the forms correctly (in fact my forms were used as an example to others behind me on how to fill them out etc) At the time of my 'interview' with the immigration officer, I enjoyed (pick the sarcasm) a nice 15 minute interview.
Topics covered included how I was planning to come to the US to work in IT (since I open admited to working in IT) how much drugs I was planning on selling in the US, my plans for sponging off the welfare system in the US (I really had to try hard not to laugh at that one
My traveling companion received even worse treatment - he took the whole process much more personally (and has less of a tollerance for stupidity) I had previoudly spent quite a long time trying to convince my companion that not everyone in the US matches the stereotypical Amerian, only to have all my work undone by some idiot at the border. It sadens me that hundreds of people arriving on night were exposed to this man as their first point of contact on arriving in the US.
The moral of the story is getting a visa while you are safe and at home (and protected by your countries constitutional rights) is much safer & easier than hoping that it all turns out OK when you turn up at the border. I have entered the US since (by road from nice friendly safe Canada) and didn't have and of the same problems, hopefully this was just one person...