"Use switches not hubs whenever possible - they are cheap these days"
Bullshit. Use hubs not switches, they are rare these days. Sure, your performance might not be so elite, but never understimate the value of being able to sniff everyone's network traffic.
A cheap 486 with a big hard drive and something like an NFR and you've got your fingers on everybody's pulse.
What if the soul of the eel lives on within the machine? Imagine if, years into its career as a successful land-mine detector, it begins to recover its chemically erased memories of how it was captured by humans in the open sea.
Imagine the flashbacks as the eel remembers its surgery, waking up on a hospital bed under the glaring white lights and lab masks, helpless, unable to scream as it is fitted into the chest of a metal monster....
The eel will have its revenge, tonight, 7/10 central...
These experiments envision a range of applications -- using bacteria attached to computer chips to map pollutants, insects as part of sensors to detect land mines, chemical weapons and narcotics, and rodent brains to help identify new medicines.
Here we are again with companies going after the enablers rather than the people committing the crime:
Apple claims the editor enables third parties to copy its copyrighted trademark themes
I claim MS paint enables me to copy Apple's copyrighted trademarks. Just as DeCSS is a possible enabler to a crime, this program and thousands of other utilities can "enable" crime.
How can they possibly hope to have this stand up in court? Or are they hoping someone will just crumble rather than fight?
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Don't let robots make monkeys out of us!
Robotics as a science are far from becoming our masters. While the physical portion of their existence may be up to snuff, the artificial intelligence to, say, drive a robot out of a paper bag isn't quite there yet.
But they are taking jobs from hard working americans. look at our steel mills, our machine tool shops, and our auto manufacturing processes. All the workers do is watch the switchboards that control the robots.
So basically if you're in the profession of physical labor, you're screwed. But if you're in the profession of thinking for a living (like most/. readers), you don't have to worry about getting replaced by a robot.
I don't want to ruffle anyone's feathers, but let's look at what James has done here. His web site lets the internet community rate people's physical appearance
Do we really need this kind of site? Is it constructive, like other fad web sites such as slashdot?
Look at the facts:
- 1% of all North American teenagers have eating disorders.
- 10% of these teenagers will die.
The last thing we need is a web site which allows teenage girls to post their pictures for "approval", only to find themselves rated as a 3 or a 2 while airbrushed professional models occupy all of the higher ranks.
Couldn't we have a story on a successful fad website, like kuro5shinz?
Their privacy policy appears to be slash dotted (link is to google's cache of it).
ChoicePoint obtains personally - identifiable information only from sources known to us to be reputable. These sources may include courts, public record repositories and consumer reporting agencies. ChoicePoint places high priority on the reliability of its information sources. In fact, the Company carefully reviews its sources' information practices, and does not utilize sources that violate acceptable collection practices or that fail to provide accurate, complete and timely information.
Embedded applications have an extra requirement called "Real-Time". This means that many tasks must execute within a certain number of ms. Many commercial operating systems such as VxWorks have made a living out of providing just that service.
Linux, of course, does not have a real-time scheduler. But many linux vendors such as Mvista are providing linux distributions with a real-time kernel module to take care of those tasks with a real-time requirement, and allowing the standard linux scheduler to take care of the rest.
This provides the following advantages to embedded developers over commercial RTOS's:
1) It's WAY cheaper
2) The support for linux is actually much better, due to the open source nature
3) Closed source RTOS hardware integration bugs are nearly impossible to debug, because the source is CLOSED. You have to wait for a Field Application Engineer to get flow in, on your dollar, to write your stupid driver.
Linux is creating real fear in the embedded RTOS market space.
For true real-time, it's not as stable. But for complex network applications with a lower real-time requirement, it's a killer.
I think radio right now is the best it's ever been.
After my local radio station, 99.1 HFS, got bought by Viacom, they starting bleeping out the word "gun" in songs they play ("he brings a BLEEP to school"). If these "three companies" are bringing censorship to the world, how is radio "the best it's ever been [sic]"?
I'm no expert, but it sure seems like all the change has been good!
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"Use switches not hubs whenever possible - they are cheap these days"
Bullshit. Use hubs not switches, they are rare these days. Sure, your performance might not be so elite, but never understimate the value of being able to sniff everyone's network traffic.
A cheap 486 with a big hard drive and something like an NFR and you've got your fingers on everybody's pulse.
There is no such thing as too paranoid.
Sharky's Home LAN Guide /. reader)
Gamecenter's "Build a Home LAN"
"Configuring an Internet Firewall and Home LAN With Linux"
The CNET home LAN guide (if you're not a
The Home LAN Project
The do-it-yourself under 50 bucks home LAN guide
whew. um... anyone got something that ain't covered already?
Someone quick call britain and tell them the price of pgpdisk is down to 12 bucks a copy.
sheesh. all our notebook employees run this, and we're not even... setting anyone up the bomb.
You can hear the sound of the other shoe dropping...
You can hear the sound of the other shoe dropping...
What if the soul of the eel lives on within the machine? Imagine if, years into its career as a successful land-mine detector, it begins to recover its chemically erased memories of how it was captured by humans in the open sea.
Imagine the flashbacks as the eel remembers its surgery, waking up on a hospital bed under the glaring white lights and lab masks, helpless, unable to scream as it is fitted into the chest of a metal monster....
The eel will have its revenge, tonight, 7/10 central...
I can't wait until cyborg gf's...no more flowers, no more jewelry, and you can turn them off when they get annoying ;)
I have that already, my girlfriend is totally turned off and annoying...
er, wait.
These experiments envision a range of applications -- using bacteria attached to computer chips to map pollutants, insects as part of sensors to detect land mines, chemical weapons and narcotics, and rodent brains to help identify new medicines.
So that's how we got Viagra.
Figures.
Here we are again with companies going after the enablers rather than the people committing the crime:
Apple claims the editor enables third parties to copy its copyrighted trademark themes
I claim MS paint enables me to copy Apple's copyrighted trademarks. Just as DeCSS is a possible enabler to a crime, this program and thousands of other utilities can "enable" crime.
How can they possibly hope to have this stand up in court? Or are they hoping someone will just crumble rather than fight?
ugh.
Mirroring it as fast as I can get it here
Don't let robots make monkeys out of us!
/. readers), you don't have to worry about getting replaced by a robot.
Robotics as a science are far from becoming our masters. While the physical portion of their existence may be up to snuff, the artificial intelligence to, say, drive a robot out of a paper bag isn't quite there yet.
But they are taking jobs from hard working americans. look at our steel mills, our machine tool shops, and our auto manufacturing processes. All the workers do is watch the switchboards that control the robots.
So basically if you're in the profession of physical labor, you're screwed. But if you're in the profession of thinking for a living (like most
Sounds good to me!
I don't want to ruffle anyone's feathers, but let's look at what James has done here. His web site lets the internet community rate people's physical appearance
Do we really need this kind of site? Is it constructive, like other fad web sites such as slashdot?
Look at the facts:
- 1% of all North American teenagers have eating disorders.
- 10% of these teenagers will die.
The last thing we need is a web site which allows teenage girls to post their pictures for "approval", only to find themselves rated as a 3 or a 2 while airbrushed professional models occupy all of the higher ranks.
Couldn't we have a story on a successful fad website, like kuro5shinz?
As usual, tom's hardware has a really good story on the P4.
Check out Choicepoint's government web site.
Their privacy policy appears to be slash dotted (link is to google's cache of it).
ChoicePoint obtains personally - identifiable information only from sources known to us to be reputable. These sources may include courts, public record repositories and consumer reporting agencies. ChoicePoint places high priority on the reliability of its information sources. In fact, the Company carefully reviews its sources' information practices, and does not utilize sources that violate acceptable collection practices or that fail to provide accurate, complete and timely information.
It's great that they're so considerate, huh?
Embedded applications have an extra requirement called "Real-Time". This means that many tasks must execute within a certain number of ms. Many commercial operating systems such as VxWorks have made a living out of providing just that service.
Linux, of course, does not have a real-time scheduler. But many linux vendors such as Mvista are providing linux distributions with a real-time kernel module to take care of those tasks with a real-time requirement, and allowing the standard linux scheduler to take care of the rest.
This provides the following advantages to embedded developers over commercial RTOS's:
1) It's WAY cheaper
2) The support for linux is actually much better, due to the open source nature
3) Closed source RTOS hardware integration bugs are nearly impossible to debug, because the source is CLOSED. You have to wait for a Field Application Engineer to get flow in, on your dollar, to write your stupid driver.
Linux is creating real fear in the embedded RTOS market space.
For true real-time, it's not as stable. But for complex network applications with a lower real-time requirement, it's a killer.
I think radio right now is the best it's ever been. After my local radio station, 99 . 1 HFS , got bought by Viacom, they starting bleeping out the word "gun" in songs they play ("he brings a BLEEP to school"). If these "three companies" are bringing censorship to the world, how is radio "the best it's ever been [sic]"?
I'm no expert, but it sure seems like all the change has been good!