In less than 70 years, one persons lifetime, we went from the first airplane to Apollo 11. My grandmother could remember the first time she saw an automobile, and the horse and wagon the family owned. In less than 60 years computers have gone from building sized machines that added numbers slightly faster than a slide rule, to Palm Pilots. I learned how to use a slide rule in high school. I'm only 36, and I remember the first color TV my family got. We live in a different world than our parents did, and our children will live in one that is different still.
The reason that ruggedized PCs haven't hit the mainstream market is the cost. Generally about twice a non-ruggedized version. They need to be sealed, so cooling is an issue, and they need lots of internal cushioning and reinforcement to handle high transient g's.
That's also why some mil-spec equipment costs much more than the civilian equivalents.
That's how statistics work. Stats and probability are two math classes that everyone should take.
For example, either Gore or Bush being declared the winner of the last election would have been mathematically valid. The expected error in vote count, from the known error rate of the voting machines/ballots, was larger than the difference in votes the two candidates received.
Several reasons. Assuming 99.99% accuracy and one in one billion flyers is a terrorist, then it will generate 9,999 false positives for every true positive. And every false positive gets the full treatment. Eventually, the airlines have to delay every flight that one of those false positives is on, or the government has to assume the cost of re-booking them. The security troops will start to tune out alarms (see "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" for details). Also, the system only catches terrorists whose pictures are in the database. Lots of false positives, with an occaisonal false negative, and high running costs.
Most banks require a fingerprint on a check that is being cashed if you don't have an account with them. If the check turns out to be forged, the bank gives it to the police, who now have the fingerprint of the forger.
No one would own (or lease) a car if the contract said, "You must not sell this car
If you sold a car you were leasing you would be tossed in jail for grand theft auto, it's sort of implicit in the idea of lease. Which is why MS and others are moving (back to) a software leasing model.
It's just the one I'm using now. But I'm looking at debian and slackware. The latest gnome and kde won't install on my suse, rpm barfs and dies when I try, so I'm looking at apt-get and the old standby of tarballs. Ah, if I had but worlds enough, and time, to build gnome, kde, and new kernels, from source.
I can't read contour lines for shit, because I don't have a degree in geography
Wow! I didn't realize that my 8 weeks in Army Basic Training qualified me for a degree in geography!
Seriously, it just takes practice to learn map reading. A lensatic compass helps alot. Up in the mountains is not the place to learn, do it in the foothills. The big advantages of a map and a compass for hiking is that they don't require batteries, and you can drop them without breaking them.
1)That's what I meant by a newbie distro. A distro that's designed, like Mandrake and Caldera, for new users who don't know, or want to,/etc and the rest.
2)My experience has been that the average user just hits the "install everything" button when installing. People like us who play with distros and apps will hit "advanced" and select which apps/features to install.
Most of the commercial ones are "kitchen sink" distros that install and turn on everything to save the average user, who probably wouldn't know "make xconfig" or "/etc/rc.d" if we hit him over the head with them, the hassle of looking for them. A newbie distro such as Mandrake is especially prone to this. Debian and Slackware are (or were, I run SuSe but am having hassles w/rpm, may go back to slack or deb) less prone to this. At least with Linux and *bsd we get choices.
Take a look at the startup scripts
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They're usually in/etc/rc.d and most distros start things that aren't needed. Also, if you have a hackish bent, go to the source directory and "make xconfig" to see how the kernel was built. Are there drivers compiled in that aren't needed? Bloat can be fought!
It's a one time pad. The pad for the day is only used once, for one message. And, yeah, it wouldn't work if you wanted to encode War and Peace. Be great for e-mail though.
The US military still uses them for secure communication, and ID verification, over insecure channels. And it's easy to build them. Get a word list (from "spell" perhaps) and assign each word in the list a value from AAAAAA to 999999, Roughly 2 billion strings to assign. Assign strings to words, letters, numbers, and punctuation via a good randomizer (a cheap a/d card with a noisy thermocouple makes a great random number generator). The strings can be reused, as long as they are not assigned to the same words.
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Ummm, digested people? Like, they've been eaten? I reckon that binaries aren't the only things they don't like.
Cat got your tongue? (something important seems to be missing from your comment
In less than 70 years, one persons lifetime, we went from the first airplane to Apollo 11. My grandmother could remember the first time she saw an automobile, and the horse and wagon the family owned. In less than 60 years computers have gone from building sized machines that added numbers slightly faster than a slide rule, to Palm Pilots. I learned how to use a slide rule in high school. I'm only 36, and I remember the first color TV my family got. We live in a different world than our parents did, and our children will live in one that is different still.
Reagan came into office in Jan 81. I remember Apollo 11 landing on the Moon, and I was only 4.
That's also why some mil-spec equipment costs much more than the civilian equivalents.
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For example, either Gore or Bush being declared the winner of the last election would have been mathematically valid. The expected error in vote count, from the known error rate of the voting machines/ballots, was larger than the difference in votes the two candidates received.
Just to carry one concealed.
Several reasons. Assuming 99.99% accuracy and one in one billion flyers is a terrorist, then it will generate 9,999 false positives for every true positive. And every false positive gets the full treatment. Eventually, the airlines have to delay every flight that one of those false positives is on, or the government has to assume the cost of re-booking them. The security troops will start to tune out alarms (see "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" for details). Also, the system only catches terrorists whose pictures are in the database. Lots of false positives, with an occaisonal false negative, and high running costs.
You cash your checks at a bank where you have an account, or you live outside the US. It's been going on here for a couple of years.
Most banks require a fingerprint on a check that is being cashed if you don't have an account with them. If the check turns out to be forged, the bank gives it to the police, who now have the fingerprint of the forger.
I think we do business with that guy. He's always flaming us...
If you sold a car you were leasing you would be tossed in jail for grand theft auto, it's sort of implicit in the idea of lease. Which is why MS and others are moving (back to) a software leasing model.
It's just the one I'm using now. But I'm looking at debian and slackware. The latest gnome and kde won't install on my suse, rpm barfs and dies when I try, so I'm looking at apt-get and the old standby of tarballs. Ah, if I had but worlds enough, and time, to build gnome, kde, and new kernels, from source.
Wow! I didn't realize that my 8 weeks in Army Basic Training qualified me for a degree in geography!
Seriously, it just takes practice to learn map reading. A lensatic compass helps alot. Up in the mountains is not the place to learn, do it in the foothills. The big advantages of a map and a compass for hiking is that they don't require batteries, and you can drop them without breaking them.
2)My experience has been that the average user just hits the "install everything" button when installing. People like us who play with distros and apps will hit "advanced" and select which apps/features to install.
Wired has an article on what Palm might be up to with Be. Interesting in light of this story.
Most of the commercial ones are "kitchen sink" distros that install and turn on everything to save the average user, who probably wouldn't know "make xconfig" or "/etc/rc.d" if we hit him over the head with them, the hassle of looking for them. A newbie distro such as Mandrake is especially prone to this. Debian and Slackware are (or were, I run SuSe but am having hassles w/rpm, may go back to slack or deb) less prone to this. At least with Linux and *bsd we get choices.
They're usually in /etc/rc.d and most distros start things that aren't needed. Also, if you have a hackish bent, go to the source directory and "make xconfig" to see how the kernel was built. Are there drivers compiled in that aren't needed? Bloat can be fought!
Although, given that we usually don't read articles before going totally non-linear, it's probably unrealistic to expect people to read the howto.
Bakula, doesn't have, the proper spacing between words, or emphasis to be JTK!
who liked DS9? It had more character developement than TNG or Voyager.
It's a one time pad. The pad for the day is only used once, for one message. And, yeah, it wouldn't work if you wanted to encode War and Peace. Be great for e-mail though.
The US military still uses them for secure communication, and ID verification, over insecure channels. And it's easy to build them. Get a word list (from "spell" perhaps) and assign each word in the list a value from AAAAAA to 999999, Roughly 2 billion strings to assign. Assign strings to words, letters, numbers, and punctuation via a good randomizer (a cheap a/d card with a noisy thermocouple makes a great random number generator). The strings can be reused, as long as they are not assigned to the same words.
tags between quotes and your response.
Of course, I've never made that sort of mistake when posting comments to kuro5hin.