Many people have noted that Asimov introduced the concept of psychohistory, but in the books, an individual ("The Mule") was able to cause a significant upset to the plan. To generalise, what applies to groups does not apply to individuals and that individual is sufficiently powerful, then unpredictable events occur. We see this now with despotic dictators (Saddam and so on).
Please remember that Mr. Needham is now running Microsoft's Research Lab in Cambridge. If the Win family of operating systems were not so easy to misconfigure and thus infect, or so prevailant, there would be no big DoS problem.
Well most passes round here (Europe) are not above 2000m (6000 ft, but I guess someone may find it useful in the Andes or something).
10,000 ft below sea-level - whats this? Jules Verne's highway to the centre of the earth. The lowest place is less than a couple of hundred metres (600 ft) below sea-level.
I remember this one too from Tales of the White Hart. The thing is that in the case of the original story, the energy didn't dissipate and became some kind of horrendous standing wave. In the case of the idea discussed here, the energy dissipates away from the listener. That is, the listener receives noise and anti-noise but specifically delivered at one place, outside that place, you may get both types of noise added together rather than canceling out. As the anti-noise is typically low volume, this doesn't matter so much.
Kazaa has such a reputation, that I am very surprised that nobody deinstalls the extras and runds the ad-aware program from Lavasoft.
BDE (Brilliant Digital's Engine) is listed separately on the list of programs installed and may be deinstalled. It leaves some very suspicious crap around in the %WINDIR%\SYSTEM32 directory, so after deinstalling and rebooting it is a good idea to remove this as well before continuing (and before you connect to the network).
Regrettably the Gnucleus network still doesn't provide the accessibility to material that Fast-track does. I run both clients and can see the difference, particularly with regards to queuing.
In most countries that require the "letter of invitation" it does imply a certain amount of responsibility. In some countries, you have to get the letter officially registered which *does* require signing a document to say that you are responsible for any costs, and that you have money to afford this.
You did the right thing by ignoring this letter. WHen I was involved with hosting an event, we could tell the authorities that there was an event and the person was registered for it - but that was all.
I suppose you leave your credit card unsigned as well?
Please remember that in this world, even if you have no need of the privacy functions, it is generally better to have a way of signing electronic documents.
With sendmail, I have a chance to verify that there are, to put it politely, some configuration issues with the older versions. Can I say that about a closed source equivalent?
I must trust the developer with closed source and this isn't always wise.
Open Source software has the possibility of the user being able to check out the potential problems be a source code inspection. If a problem is found, it can be very rapidly corrected.
If I tell you, trust me, my program is closed source then shoulnd't I have done my "due diligence" before I release it and charge money for it?
If we use your analogy of information being free of product liability, why are we saying an incorrect or missing warning notice elsewhere is actionable?
I have my packet sizes maxed out for ADSL and this seems to help. Also, I not that uploads don't take a lot away because they can share physical packets with the d/l ACKs.
Unless this is very-very new (even newer than Gnucleus-Morphues), Morpheus never allowed another download to start until the first in the chain had completed. Under Fast-Track, the issue was the MD5 checksum which was only calculated on a completed file, never on fragments.
After their move to Gnucleus, I had never seen them do anything that Gnucleus couldn't. However, as the modified source code is included, it should be easy to check.
Under UK law a director is an officer of the company. This is serious because it is the board that jointly carries the can for the correct running of a company as defined by its charter and company law. you are right that the director does not need to look at anything, but it is the director that is held ultimately accountable.
Now ICANN is a non-profit US based corporation, but I'm certain the principles are the same. If an undue amount of money is going in particular directions, Auerbach is right to ask why. My only question is where are the rest of the "about to be out of a job, at-large representatives"?
IBM is specifically forced to work with third-party maintenance companies. This happened a long time ago as a result of another big anti-trust case. If you don't get your support from them, what can they say?
What happens if a non-IBM person activates the other processors. Now that hard and software support can be completely unbundled and even passed away from IBM - can they stop a customer from upgrading their system?
It depends upon where you are sailing. When you come into the cabin to the navigation bay, you don't exactly get a chance to get changed first. In rough weather that means that any water on your oilskins can and does trip on the chart table. No worries, it is protected, but is your PC?
If anything, Italy has the world's oldest bank (about 600 years old) and more or less founded banking and corporate finance. It is also the home of double entry book keeping and the corporation as a legal entity.
Swiss banks won out by promising an absolutely stable environment at home. The biggest issue was the unofficial linkage between the CHF and the DEM. Now the latter is part of the Euro, the swiss are somewhat concerned. If they could join the Euro without joining the EU, they probably would.
I hate to say it but one combo that works for me is to create a mobile channel from my Wince IPAQ to IE on an NT machine and get the latter to get offline content which is transferred automatically to my IPAQ during synchronisation.
Unlike AVANTGO the content isn't preprocessed and isn't compressed either, but it works quite nicely for some simple stuff like film listings. As long as the slash preprocessors keep going, I should be able to keep surfing off-line.
I disagree but I was explicitly excepting the content and layout, just the fonts and their presentation. This is even with the TT font extension and newer versions of XFREE86.
Regretably, you are right. The text on a Win desktop definitely is more readable (no matter what the content is) and that is something that particularly non-computer people notice.
That is a heat pipe, rather than a proper water circulation system. The working fluid is vapourised at one end, condenses at the other then is wicked back. As there is no pump, it is very reliable but of limited transfer capacity.
Dead Tree remains the king, but your reasons are good, especially with HP4 which I have as a hardback - it is a bit inconvenient to hold. I have a dead tree version of LOTR, but I have a not particularly legal version as a.lit file which I can read on my IPAQ. Much easier to carry round and read than the dead tree version.
Travelling, it is easy to get through a lot of books. A long haul flight is enough to finish HP4. A few evenings in a hotel and the necessary books for a journey becomes the dominant item by weight. With EBooks, they seem to take less than half a meg as a.lit version so you can get a lot on an IPAQ.
If given a choice between EBook and dead-tree, then sorry guys, until I get electronic paper - I stick with dead-tree. If I have to pay for both, then again, unless the EBook was really cheap, again I would stick to dead-tree.
In recent times we have seen espionage at the highest level conducted by US citizens of impeccable credentials and clearance.
Suppose we then use strong crypto for something important, say that remote control system that is being suggested as a measure against hijackers.
Whoops, sorry but the masterkey has been sold already to some strange bearded guy in a turban. All of the escrow systems proposed had failures.
Much of the timing information given in WWII by SOE to the French resistance to coordinate their attacks was given as ordinary 'personal' messages on the BBC.
With steganography and the use of ordinary messages with special meanings, tools like PGP become irrelevant for the terrorist to communicate. It then becomes a commercial risk instead.
I think they should get into the business of crashing space stations into the Pacific, and bringing tourists on boats to watch the fireworks.
This comment is uncalled for. MIR survived for a long time and one reason was that Russia built the thing to be maintainable. Sure they had their fill of problems but MIR outlasted any other manned space vehicle.
Other people have already made the point about Russia needing national prestige again. This would certainly help and it sure beats developing and selling military hardware.
I have been visiting Russia (mostly St. Pete) over a four year period and have many close links there incl. a Russian wife. Yes, she has paid her doctor with coffee, but that was because her doctor is paid poorely from the state (but regularly) and does not accept payment from her patients (ethics is a disease there). Instead she supplements her meagre income with gifts from those that can contribute (it is optional).
There are automatic doors at some of the supermarkets but not all. Stuff like this doesn't like delta-Ts of 50 degrees C acrosss the mechanism. If a spring and muscle power works, why bother with reducing the reliability! That is the Russian approach.
The thing with the hot water in St. Pete is due to the district heating system used there and every year, a part of the city is turned off in summer for maintenance. Most modernised appartemnts have an independent supply because of this.
I would agree about corruption being a major problem, but more and more people are becoming dissatisfied with the greedy cops and bureaucrats.The major corporate interests own the law (we are talking about Russia here not a certain Russian programmer on an extended stay in the US), but smaller companies are generally ok.
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Could he send one to me please, I'm a little hard up at the moment and I can't predict any coming this bway soon given the current IT situation!!!
The article was therefore incorrectly moderated.
Please remember that Mr. Needham is now running Microsoft's Research Lab in Cambridge. If the Win family of operating systems were not so easy to misconfigure and thus infect, or so prevailant, there would be no big DoS problem.
10,000 ft below sea-level - whats this? Jules Verne's highway to the centre of the earth. The lowest place is less than a couple of hundred metres (600 ft) below sea-level.
I remember this one too from Tales of the White Hart. The thing is that in the case of the original story, the energy didn't dissipate and became some kind of horrendous standing wave. In the case of the idea discussed here, the energy dissipates away from the listener. That is, the listener receives noise and anti-noise but specifically delivered at one place, outside that place, you may get both types of noise added together rather than canceling out. As the anti-noise is typically low volume, this doesn't matter so much.
BDE (Brilliant Digital's Engine) is listed separately on the list of programs installed and may be deinstalled. It leaves some very suspicious crap around in the %WINDIR%\SYSTEM32 directory, so after deinstalling and rebooting it is a good idea to remove this as well before continuing (and before you connect to the network).
Regrettably the Gnucleus network still doesn't provide the accessibility to material that Fast-track does. I run both clients and can see the difference, particularly with regards to queuing.
You did the right thing by ignoring this letter. WHen I was involved with hosting an event, we could tell the authorities that there was an event and the person was registered for it - but that was all.
Please remember that in this world, even if you have no need of the privacy functions, it is generally better to have a way of signing electronic documents.
With sendmail, I have a chance to verify that there are, to put it politely, some configuration issues with the older versions. Can I say that about a closed source equivalent?
I must trust the developer with closed source and this isn't always wise.
This is an old one.
Open Source software has the possibility of the user being able to check out the potential problems be a source code inspection. If a problem is found, it can be very rapidly corrected.
If I tell you, trust me, my program is closed source then shoulnd't I have done my "due diligence" before I release it and charge money for it?
If we use your analogy of information being free of product liability, why are we saying an incorrect or missing warning notice elsewhere is actionable?
I have my packet sizes maxed out for ADSL and this seems to help. Also, I not that uploads don't take a lot away because they can share physical packets with the d/l ACKs.
Unless this is very-very new (even newer than Gnucleus-Morphues), Morpheus never allowed another download to start until the first in the chain had completed. Under Fast-Track, the issue was the MD5 checksum which was only calculated on a completed file, never on fragments.
After their move to Gnucleus, I had never seen them do anything that Gnucleus couldn't. However, as the modified source code is included, it should be easy to check.
Under UK law a director is an officer of the company. This is serious because it is the board that jointly carries the can for the correct running of a company as defined by its charter and company law. you are right that the director does not need to look at anything, but it is the director that is held ultimately accountable.
Now ICANN is a non-profit US based corporation, but I'm certain the principles are the same. If an undue amount of money is going in particular directions, Auerbach is right to ask why. My only question is where are the rest of the "about to be out of a job, at-large representatives"?
IBM is specifically forced to work with third-party maintenance companies. This happened a long time ago as a result of another big anti-trust case. If you don't get your support from them, what can they say?
What happens if a non-IBM person activates the other processors. Now that hard and software support can be completely unbundled and even passed away from IBM - can they stop a customer from upgrading their system?
It depends upon where you are sailing. When you come into the cabin to the navigation bay, you don't exactly get a chance to get changed first. In rough weather that means that any water on your oilskins can and does trip on the chart table. No worries, it is protected, but is your PC?
Swiss banks won out by promising an absolutely stable environment at home. The biggest issue was the unofficial linkage between the CHF and the DEM. Now the latter is part of the Euro, the swiss are somewhat concerned. If they could join the Euro without joining the EU, they probably would.
Unlike AVANTGO the content isn't preprocessed and isn't compressed either, but it works quite nicely for some simple stuff like film listings. As long as the slash preprocessors keep going, I should be able to keep surfing off-line.
I disagree but I was explicitly excepting the content and layout, just the fonts and their presentation. This is even with the TT font extension and newer versions of XFREE86.
Regretably, you are right. The text on a Win desktop definitely is more readable (no matter what the content is) and that is something that particularly non-computer people notice.
That is a heat pipe, rather than a proper water circulation system. The working fluid is vapourised at one end, condenses at the other then is wicked back. As there is no pump, it is very reliable but of limited transfer capacity.
Travelling, it is easy to get through a lot of books. A long haul flight is enough to finish HP4. A few evenings in a hotel and the necessary books for a journey becomes the dominant item by weight. With EBooks, they seem to take less than half a meg as a .lit version so you can get a lot on an IPAQ.
If given a choice between EBook and dead-tree, then sorry guys, until I get electronic paper - I stick with dead-tree. If I have to pay for both, then again, unless the EBook was really cheap, again I would stick to dead-tree.
Suppose we then use strong crypto for something important, say that remote control system that is being suggested as a measure against hijackers.
Whoops, sorry but the masterkey has been sold already to some strange bearded guy in a turban. All of the escrow systems proposed had failures.
Much of the timing information given in WWII by SOE to the French resistance to coordinate their attacks was given as ordinary 'personal' messages on the BBC.
With steganography and the use of ordinary messages with special meanings, tools like PGP become irrelevant for the terrorist to communicate. It then becomes a commercial risk instead.
Other people have already made the point about Russia needing national prestige again. This would certainly help and it sure beats developing and selling military hardware.
There are automatic doors at some of the supermarkets but not all. Stuff like this doesn't like delta-Ts of 50 degrees C acrosss the mechanism. If a spring and muscle power works, why bother with reducing the reliability! That is the Russian approach.
The thing with the hot water in St. Pete is due to the district heating system used there and every year, a part of the city is turned off in summer for maintenance. Most modernised appartemnts have an independent supply because of this.
I would agree about corruption being a major problem, but more and more people are becoming dissatisfied with the greedy cops and bureaucrats.The major corporate interests own the law (we are talking about Russia here not a certain Russian programmer on an extended stay in the US), but smaller companies are generally ok.