This is a bit like the enlightened self-interest policy relating to disease. helping other countries fight disease helps prevent outbreaks in your own country.
In the same way, if you ever travel through foreign airspace, you might care to think a little about the computer system they are using at air-traffic-control. If you are lucky, down-time means delays, if you aren't, it can mean a near-miss or even worse, an accident.
H.323 works fine, but you need to have some other protocols with it if you want to opereate something approximating to a telephone network (as opposed to a point-2-point connection). In particular this means things like SIP (Session Initiation Protocol).
The BBC reports Digital video maker fights 'spying' order, which means that the row is getting a higher profile. Maybe this will help somewhat. the article then goes onto to explain what a PVR is and the concerns of the broadcasters and program makers. None of this is new to slashdotters, but it is good to see the news getting out.
Personally, I believe that the companies are just wanting free audiance research. This kind of thing would normally cost a small fortune, but they have strong-armed "sonic Blue" and their customers into doing this.
I guess if people were paid for this data collection, they wouldn't mind so much.
The walls of the building are stabalised by the roof, without the roof, the walls can collapse at any time. With an eighty metre fall onto a hard surface and amongst hard debris, survival was unlikely. With such a low probability of survival, it was decided not to allow rescue workers to risk their own lives and to wait for specialist equipment.
Sorry, I know about mag strip reading and the use of magnetic watermarking. It just doesn't seem to be used anywhere (probably due to the watermark suffering degradation). Oh and the EC debit-card system popular in Europe can be compromised in a maximum of 150 attacks (the PIN is stored three times on the card).
Good security is about something you have (a token) and something you know (an activation key). With stripe readers, you have something that is barely more secure than a physical key. With smartcards, you have about 4-8 hrs of security if it falls into the wrong hands.
My point is exactly that a Smartcard takes many hours to compromise. You need the processor on the card to cooperate during the atacks, and a Pentium 4, it isn't. Even if you have fast computers outside, you are still limited by the speed of the smartcard.
Smart cards can be attacked by messing with clocks, messing with the power and the type used for GSM, can be exhaustively attacked by using an "Identify" command. This is just one more attack. However, the truth of it, the protection of smartcards is generally adequate but perhaps not suitable for something like military level crypto keys. Of course, what do the military have with their Fortezza based cryptographic PCMCIA-cards, why smart cards of course!
I-buttons are being spoken about elsewhere here. They are nice and can fit nicely on a key ring, but the form factor of the smartcard is easier when you have more than one in your pocket.
However, a smartcard is better than a credit/debit card with a magnetic stripe. It is better than a physical key. Both of these can be duplicated in seconds. Someone has to have your smartcard in their possession for several hours before an attack is likely to succeed. Hopefully, you may have noticed by then and have cancelled the thing.
Tagging an object is something that doesn't worry me too much. Here is an object, it belongs to a shop until I pay for it, and if their gate wants to ring bells when I try to remove it without paying, ok. Why try to provide a full history?
I don't want people looking to closely at my book-buying habits. There is nothing too outlandish there, but I feel very unhappy about disclosing a lot of information that the Government can potentially access.
I lack books on chemistry and firearms, but doesn'Ät that tattered old book on Pentium assembler tell people how to write viruses? Especially taken together with that other book on NT Internals? Don't anarchists use Linux?
Of course, if we could gurantee the integrity of all government officials, then no problem. However it seems that even the FBI can't do that (John Hanssen).
I tried the glasses once at the Dentist's as they were trying an experiment of distracting people to reduce pain. For the one person, it ain't at all bad, but it is a shame if more than one of you wants to see the movie. The price is high (about $1000+) but that is 20% of a ready made projector.
To be fair though, I have seen better quality on projection units because the glasses have serious resolution problems.
I know some Russian sysadmins, they swear by airgaps. The only route between the internal and external networks was a V.24 line with a custom protocol and dedicated apps (i.e., no general networking layer). Some are considering carefully about DMZ's and firewalls, but they will not rely on commercial stuff because they don't trust it. That is, they will use a mixture of OpenBSD and other operating systems (i.e, no single point of compromise) to provide the protection.
Effectively, what you have signed is an exclusivity agreement that says that you pay per cpu regardless of the use to which that cpu is applied. As you have already paid for the right to run, say, MS-Office, are you then going to go out and either buying a competing product or even go through the hassle of introducing Open Source.
Btw, the workaround is that the non-Win PCs are owned by some other organisation to your own and thus they don't come up even though they are at your location.
Adaware doesn't replace the CD_CLNT.DLL file that is installed by Kazaa, you have to pick it up from somewhere else. You also need to install an alternate hosts file defining a number of sites to point to 127.0.0.1 to ensure that BDE is not reloaded.
Microsoft's DRM V2 has already been reverse engineered and an exploit published. If they base this on DRM V2, then it shouldn't be a problem to tackle the specific case of an implementation by Kazaa.
Somehow, I would imagine a drop through some of the atmosphere at least might get a little bumpy thus that would account for the word breaks. Also, you should make it a little longer, three lines is a drop of just a few thousand feet!
They have certainly been trying to push people to move, but many can't or won't. As a condition of buying it they can't kill it for a certain number of years, but they can reduce its attraction.
What time lapse do you want? Where do you want to use it? Do you want the pics locally or remotely?
For portable units, the main issue is power management. However, it is possible to program a PDA to wake up at a particular time, run an application, then got back to sleep. The camera is also a problem for power management as it should wake up when the PDA wakes up, (this wouldn't work with my Olympus).
I don't run Linux on my PDA yet, but I have an IPAQ, which is very programmable and supports USB. It could do the job withm dare, I say it, WinCE (the standard system and the development kit) and just sending stuff down wire. You *must* send it to sleep after each photo though if you don't have external power, otherwise it will die after about 2.5 to 3 hours (less if you download the image from the camera).
In the UK, before we had VAT, we had purchase tax. Only the end-user paid. Of course, what happened was that a large number of end-users managed to pass themselves off as businesses and avoid the tax.
If I don't change something, the VAT stays the same for every transaction level. If I change something then a different VAT rate may apply to my 'output'. This really isn't a big deal.
VAT is actually quite a good idea which is why many countries around the world are implementing it. The extra administration isn't too bad if you are keeping proper accounts. You just recover VAT on your purchase ledger and pay VAT on your sales ledger and then pay or claim the difference.
The issue though is working with other countries, this isn't as well thought out and *does* lead to extra administration.
I sit in front of a Dell commodity PC, but my X sessions are open on a six-node Alpha Cluster running VMS. It is the development cluster for the largest electronic futures and options exchange in the world. The same system is used by CBOT.
I expect are some management who would love to port the application to somthing else but it would be painful to move away from the uptime that we enjoy, the clustered file system, the distributed lock manager, journalling and so on (especially that uptime).
Production downtime is bad news and it is a very sensitive subject. We paid Digital now Compaq sh*t loads of money for support and got it. I very much hope that HP can do the same.
I don't know what happened to the main Alpha architect (Dick Sites), but many of the rest of the chip designers went over to AMD and are probably one of the reasons that they have been doing relatively well of late.
Many of the software technologies have been sold off such as RdB (non portable but oh so fast) and PolyCenter, but VMS remains.
Incidently, you forgot one major technology that was backed by Digital and that was X-windows. In those days, Digital had some of the key people working with them like Jim Gettys. Digital were also responsible for the VT100, one of the first high quality VDUs produced at a reasonable price.
Don't feel guilty about it. Digital engineers quite liked the open systems and contributed (whether officially or not) to Linux and various BSD derivatives. They had GNU C running on Alpha a long time before they got a Digital compiler (DEC C) running there.
Nice thought, but my little IPAQ pocket-PC has a much better spec than a VAX 11/750 with 4MB of memory. However the IPAQ has a GUI while the 750 supported about 4 users through character mode terminals.
You forgot prep time. Teachers generally have to do some preparation work for their lessons. In former times, lesson material could be recycled, but now the curriculum changes so frequently, the teachers are in a constant rush to update their material.
Sure I have to update my skills, but I think my wife (a teacher) works harder and for a lot less.
Ok, we have the hint that the last part is about death.
Forget about green texts, I didn't see it at work for a long time except when someone runs xscreensaver, so if death happens in the final part, we want a blue screen with white text and a stackdump!!!!!!!
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In the same way, if you ever travel through foreign airspace, you might care to think a little about the computer system they are using at air-traffic-control. If you are lucky, down-time means delays, if you aren't, it can mean a near-miss or even worse, an accident.
H.323 works fine, but you need to have some other protocols with it if you want to opereate something approximating to a telephone network (as opposed to a point-2-point connection). In particular this means things like SIP (Session Initiation Protocol).
Personally, I believe that the companies are just wanting free audiance research. This kind of thing would normally cost a small fortune, but they have strong-armed "sonic Blue" and their customers into doing this.
I guess if people were paid for this data collection, they wouldn't mind so much.
The walls of the building are stabalised by the roof, without the roof, the walls can collapse at any time. With an eighty metre fall onto a hard surface and amongst hard debris, survival was unlikely. With such a low probability of survival, it was decided not to allow rescue workers to risk their own lives and to wait for specialist equipment.
Good security is about something you have (a token) and something you know (an activation key). With stripe readers, you have something that is barely more secure than a physical key. With smartcards, you have about 4-8 hrs of security if it falls into the wrong hands.
My point is exactly that a Smartcard takes many hours to compromise. You need the processor on the card to cooperate during the atacks, and a Pentium 4, it isn't. Even if you have fast computers outside, you are still limited by the speed of the smartcard.
I-buttons are being spoken about elsewhere here. They are nice and can fit nicely on a key ring, but the form factor of the smartcard is easier when you have more than one in your pocket.
However, a smartcard is better than a credit/debit card with a magnetic stripe. It is better than a physical key. Both of these can be duplicated in seconds. Someone has to have your smartcard in their possession for several hours before an attack is likely to succeed. Hopefully, you may have noticed by then and have cancelled the thing.
I don't want people looking to closely at my book-buying habits. There is nothing too outlandish there, but I feel very unhappy about disclosing a lot of information that the Government can potentially access.
I lack books on chemistry and firearms, but doesn'Ät that tattered old book on Pentium assembler tell people how to write viruses? Especially taken together with that other book on NT Internals? Don't anarchists use Linux?
Of course, if we could gurantee the integrity of all government officials, then no problem. However it seems that even the FBI can't do that (John Hanssen).
To be fair though, I have seen better quality on projection units because the glasses have serious resolution problems.
I know some Russian sysadmins, they swear by airgaps. The only route between the internal and external networks was a V.24 line with a custom protocol and dedicated apps (i.e., no general networking layer). Some are considering carefully about DMZ's and firewalls, but they will not rely on commercial stuff because they don't trust it. That is, they will use a mixture of OpenBSD and other operating systems (i.e, no single point of compromise) to provide the protection.
Btw, the workaround is that the non-Win PCs are owned by some other organisation to your own and thus they don't come up even though they are at your location.
Adaware doesn't replace the CD_CLNT.DLL file that is installed by Kazaa, you have to pick it up from somewhere else. You also need to install an alternate hosts file defining a number of sites to point to 127.0.0.1 to ensure that BDE is not reloaded.
Microsoft's DRM V2 has already been reverse engineered and an exploit published. If they base this on DRM V2, then it shouldn't be a problem to tackle the specific case of an implementation by Kazaa.
Somehow, I would imagine a drop through some of the atmosphere at least might get a little bumpy thus that would account for the word breaks. Also, you should make it a little longer, three lines is a drop of just a few thousand feet!
They have certainly been trying to push people to move, but many can't or won't. As a condition of buying it they can't kill it for a certain number of years, but they can reduce its attraction.
You are right, when Morpheus was excluded, all Fast-trek users lost out because of the reduction of d/l material and sources.
For portable units, the main issue is power management. However, it is possible to program a PDA to wake up at a particular time, run an application, then got back to sleep. The camera is also a problem for power management as it should wake up when the PDA wakes up, (this wouldn't work with my Olympus).
I don't run Linux on my PDA yet, but I have an IPAQ, which is very programmable and supports USB. It could do the job withm dare, I say it, WinCE (the standard system and the development kit) and just sending stuff down wire. You *must* send it to sleep after each photo though if you don't have external power, otherwise it will die after about 2.5 to 3 hours (less if you download the image from the camera).
If I don't change something, the VAT stays the same for every transaction level. If I change something then a different VAT rate may apply to my 'output'. This really isn't a big deal.
VAT is actually quite a good idea which is why many countries around the world are implementing it. The extra administration isn't too bad if you are keeping proper accounts. You just recover VAT on your purchase ledger and pay VAT on your sales ledger and then pay or claim the difference.
The issue though is working with other countries, this isn't as well thought out and *does* lead to extra administration.
I expect are some management who would love to port the application to somthing else but it would be painful to move away from the uptime that we enjoy, the clustered file system, the distributed lock manager, journalling and so on (especially that uptime). Production downtime is bad news and it is a very sensitive subject. We paid Digital now Compaq sh*t loads of money for support and got it. I very much hope that HP can do the same.
I don't know what happened to the main Alpha architect (Dick Sites), but many of the rest of the chip designers went over to AMD and are probably one of the reasons that they have been doing relatively well of late.
Many of the software technologies have been sold off such as RdB (non portable but oh so fast) and PolyCenter, but VMS remains.
Incidently, you forgot one major technology that was backed by Digital and that was X-windows. In those days, Digital had some of the key people working with them like Jim Gettys. Digital were also responsible for the VT100, one of the first high quality VDUs produced at a reasonable price.
Don't feel guilty about it. Digital engineers quite liked the open systems and contributed (whether officially or not) to Linux and various BSD derivatives. They had GNU C running on Alpha a long time before they got a Digital compiler (DEC C) running there.
Nice thought, but my little IPAQ pocket-PC has a much better spec than a VAX 11/750 with 4MB of memory. However the IPAQ has a GUI while the 750 supported about 4 users through character mode terminals.
From what I remember, Tru64 was the first 64-bit clean OS. It was based on Ultrix which in turn was based on BSD.
Sure I have to update my skills, but I think my wife (a teacher) works harder and for a lot less.
Is this a reference to Goatse.cx? (you really don't want me to link it do you)....
Why look for Pluto? Everyone knows he is safe at Disney protected with his friends Micky and Donald by the copyright extension act.
Forget about green texts, I didn't see it at work for a long time except when someone runs xscreensaver, so if death happens in the final part, we want a blue screen with white text and a stackdump!!!!!!!