May be it's just me, but what we learn from the article about Tesco that we did not know after we've read two years ago about WalMart use of the databases in CRM (BTW it is also Teradata DB).
releasing specs does *NOT* give a competitor an advantage Let's see, if a vendor A has a big market share and a vendor B would like to have part of it, would not it be interesting to create a better/cheaper product, which would work with the same driver so it can be easily considered as an alternative? Customers would love it. I understand something like that has happened not so long ago to Cisco as a vendor A and Huawei from China as a vendor B.
I do not know if it is easy to create a RAID controller to work with an existing driver... but you see where I am trying to get?
This is a nice feature. Must be really simple from the user standpoint. From a technology point, there must be only a couple more features to add: 1. 3G/GPRS module 2. SIM card slot (SIM could be used for DRM too)
I see issues with configuring the 3G service as there is no textual input on the iPod. But that could be done on the iTunes on PC. Or there could be a central directory for all available operators and download sites.
He does a pretty good job of answering a lot of hard questions.
I do not see how it can be a good job, if the reporter even had to literally guide Mr. Gates - "this does not answer our question" And beyound that, just not the smartest interview MS people have ever given.
Theoretically once somebody did something bad with a cellular, IP adress etc., the authorities could look up what he/she did before and may find useful information. Practically it is perfectly doable.
If the information not being gathered in the first place, there is nothing you can analyze afterwards.
You are still left with a shitload of storage problems. The math question is who pays? Meaningful Retreival and reporting is a problem Telcos do it all for billing already.
You don't see the post office recording who gets what from whom, and storing it for years - do you?
Traffic data is not traffic. As it is defined in the proposal, they talk about who called whom. And not what they talked about. The same for data connections.
Oh, Slashdot, and slashdotters... never read what is in the linked documents and you're just fine here:-)
Now seriously, look what is in the proposal: Because of changes in technologies, business models and service offerings... law enforcement authorities are concerned that some data may not always be stored by all electronic communications operators to the same extent as they were in recent years. These traffic data would hence not be available for these public authorities when needed.
As a professional at CRM Data Warehouse I can only confirm that this data is being lawfully collected already and was collected since the long time. Where were EDRI looking at, all this time?;-)
The thing is Telcos do not have processing power and storage to store all the data they may not need at all, so they do not store anymore. That's what the proposal is about.
My one is Ph.D in CS, but that was more than 10 years ago and since then she was doing CFO job. Same thing with Java or anything server-centric - no chance as there is too many concepts not known 10 years ago. But she is very literate with VB as it known for Excel macros and such.
Another thing was a small database for the VHS tapes she is collecting. She managed in no time to design a database for Palm (on an existing platform) and put all tapes inthere like (name, number). Unfortunately I have forgotten what the db vendor was (was a small thing anyway).
Try to find a subject field where your mother has interest and then choose the language or technology that could bring her forward there.
I have done once almost the work you have to do. I put all the paper into sheetfeed scanner (friend of mine in "another" department had one), got jpegs with 300dpi resolution and burned them all on a CD. Then I run them all through OCR on my PC and finally through (a translation software Promt ) Later on I would eyeball the translation and correct it manually, but you do not need this step at all as you do not need any translation.
The whole setup worked just fine for me. Well, if I had no friend with a scanner solution I would probably just buy myself one and use a document management software. My favorite one is Fine-reader Macintosh version is also available.
PDF is good if you want to package the images as books, but I believe jpegs can be processed on almost any system. We actually used these HP digital senders, but not that much.
since 5 years now. And I'll probably keep it for a couple of years longer. Actually the monochrome and low res is an advantage, because the pixels are much sharper and bigger. It makes the reading experience much more of a pleasure for me.
I know I am just a geeky physisist by education:-), can anybody tell me what in the world was the reason to use two 9V and two 1,5V cells and connect them in a funny way, when one could just take eight AAA cells. 8x1,5V=12V bingo!
That will be even cheaper. And would last longer. And will fit into cardbox as well. And...
AFAIK The bad thing is (at least as known in KDE) there is no Ctrl-Alt-(cyrillic letter) combination to get back to Latin set. So as far as the Grandma does not have mouse controlled keyboard layout switcher, she would have to learn some Russian.
BTW in Soviet Russia keyboard tells you what to type!
This is not really a security bug anyway (but maybe a taking-credit-for-others-work problem) in that it is the exact opposite of the bug which the article refers to -- you are making other sites look like they are your own. That is not me, it is my ISP who came up with that trick.
Then, what I am saying is, the JavaScript from Microsoft page, does not give you the right information in this case. So one can combine the bug described in the article with the technique, my ISP is using, to create full illusion of being in a correct site for an inexperienced user.
Just check my site at http://kobylkin.com and follow any link. You will see your address bar staying the same, does not matter what site you have landed on.
The JavaScript check from M$ page does not work either.
Number of people who own the shares is limited, the more publicity SCO gets, the more people know about it. Likely the percentage of the people which are inclined to buy such shares is not getting down fast enough to keep the absolute number of such people from raising. That means, the demand is raising and so does the share price.
It goes so untill there comes new information that affect the named percentage drastically.
So in a short term (in regard to information inflow), publicity pushes the price high.
Now would that be technological or economical description of the situation?
There are many people who work in investment banks and have natural sciences background. Only there are others as well, and that could be very educated to take their reaction in account.
Slashdot Mirror
And everybody will be buying their groceries much cheaper.
I do not see how Microsoft can be connected to this article, provided Tesco does not abuse its' market dominance (if it has any)
May be it's just me, but what we learn from the article about Tesco that we did not know after we've read two years ago about WalMart use of the databases in CRM (BTW it is also Teradata DB).
German page with pictures of the Cell-Board
releasing specs does *NOT* give a competitor an advantage /cheaper product, which would work with the same driver so it can be easily considered as an alternative? Customers would love it.
Let's see, if a vendor A has a big market share and a vendor B would like to have part of it, would not it be interesting to create a better
I understand something like that has happened not so long ago to Cisco as a vendor A and Huawei from China as a vendor B.
I do not know if it is easy to create a RAID controller to work with an existing driver... but you see where I am trying to get?
just check this one here
BMW 7
This is a nice feature. Must be really simple from the user standpoint. From a technology point, there must be only a couple more features to add:
1. 3G/GPRS module
2. SIM card slot (SIM could be used for DRM too)
I see issues with configuring the 3G service as there is no textual input on the iPod. But that could be done on the iTunes on PC. Or there could be a central directory for all available operators and download sites.
He does a pretty good job of answering a lot of hard questions.
I do not see how it can be a good job, if the reporter even had to literally guide Mr. Gates - "this does not answer our question"
And beyound that, just not the smartest interview MS people have ever given.
Theoretically once somebody did something bad with a cellular, IP adress etc., the authorities could look up what he/she did before and may find useful information. Practically it is perfectly doable.
If the information not being gathered in the first place, there is nothing you can analyze afterwards.
The costs are not that dramatic but substantial.
You are still left with a shitload of storage problems.
The math question is who pays?
Meaningful Retreival and reporting is a problem
Telcos do it all for billing already.
You don't see the post office recording who gets what from whom, and storing it for years - do you?
Because you pay in poststamps.
Since everyone was under surveillance, it was almost as if there was no surveillance at all.
:-)
Oh, come on. Now we have SQL.
Traffic data is not traffic. As it is defined in the proposal, they talk about who called whom. And not what they talked about. The same for data connections.
Oh, Slashdot, and slashdotters... never read what is in the linked documents and you're just fine here :-)
... law enforcement authorities are concerned that some data may not always be stored by all electronic communications operators to the same extent as they were in
;-)
Now seriously, look what is in the proposal:
Because of changes in technologies, business models and service offerings
recent years. These traffic data would hence not be available for these public authorities
when needed.
As a professional at CRM Data Warehouse I can only confirm that this data is being lawfully collected already and was collected since the long time. Where were EDRI looking at, all this time?
The thing is Telcos do not have processing power and storage to store all the data they may not need at all, so they do not store anymore. That's what the proposal is about.
This is my own opinion and not of my employer.
oh-wee!
I hate moving my right hand back and forth from mouse back to the keyboard.
Originally I wanted to write smth different but looking for documets to support my post I have found
a page describing a hack to make any keyboard under Linux to be one handed. I'll go and try that at home.
My one is Ph.D in CS, but that was more than 10 years ago and since then she was doing CFO job.
Same thing with Java or anything server-centric - no chance as there is too many concepts not known 10 years ago.
But she is very literate with VB as it known for Excel macros and such.
Another thing was a small database for the VHS tapes she is collecting. She managed in no time to design a database for Palm (on an existing platform) and put all tapes inthere like (name, number). Unfortunately I have forgotten what the db vendor was (was a small thing anyway).
Try to find a subject field where your mother has interest and then choose the language or technology that could bring her forward there.
I have done once almost the work you have to do. I put all the paper into sheetfeed scanner (friend of mine in "another" department had one), got jpegs with 300dpi resolution and burned them all on a CD. Then I run them all through OCR on my PC and finally through (a translation software Promt ) Later on I would eyeball the translation and correct it manually, but you do not need this step at all as you do not need any translation.
The whole setup worked just fine for me. Well, if I had no friend with a scanner solution I would probably just buy myself one and use a document management software. My favorite one is Fine-reader Macintosh version is also available.
PDF is good if you want to package the images as books, but I believe jpegs can be processed on almost any system. We actually used these HP digital senders, but not that much.
since 5 years now. And I'll probably keep it for a couple of years longer.
Actually the monochrome and low res is an advantage, because the pixels are much sharper and bigger. It makes the reading experience much more of a pleasure for me.
Read about it at. A few persons were actually injured.
Read and here a report from consumer organization in case you tend to take press releases from corporations with a grain of salt.
You would not try producing drugs yourself, will you? The high capacity cells are the same sophysticated chemistry these days.
I know I am just a geeky physisist by education :-), can anybody tell me what in the world was the reason to use two 9V and two 1,5V cells and connect them in a funny way, when one could just take eight AAA cells. 8x1,5V=12V bingo!
...
That will be even cheaper. And would last longer. And will fit into cardbox as well. And
AFAIK The bad thing is (at least as known in KDE) there is no Ctrl-Alt-(cyrillic letter) combination to get back to Latin set. So as far as the Grandma does not have mouse controlled keyboard layout switcher, she would have to learn some Russian.
BTW in Soviet Russia keyboard tells you what to type!
This is not really a security bug anyway (but maybe a taking-credit-for-others-work problem) in that it is the exact opposite of the bug which the article refers to -- you are making other sites look like they are your own.
That is not me, it is my ISP who came up with that trick.
Then, what I am saying is, the JavaScript from Microsoft page, does not give you the right information in this case. So one can combine the bug described in the article with the technique, my ISP is using, to create full illusion of being in a correct site for an inexperienced user.
Thanks for you info about the frame.
For me Mozilla still shows the same URL when I click away my page.
Mozilla 1.4
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Although I agree that what it is not the trick that was described above, the JavaScript test still shows the wrong URL, in IE as well as in Mozilla.
Just check my site at http://kobylkin.com and follow any link. You will see your address bar staying the same, does not matter what site you have landed on.
The JavaScript check from M$ page does not work either.
Number of people who own the shares is limited, the more publicity SCO gets, the more people know about it. Likely the percentage of the people which are inclined to buy such shares is not getting down fast enough to keep the absolute number of such people from raising. That means, the demand is raising and so does the share price.
It goes so untill there comes new information that affect the named percentage drastically.
So in a short term (in regard to information inflow), publicity pushes the price high.
Now would that be technological or economical description of the situation?
There are many people who work in investment banks and have natural sciences background. Only there are others as well, and that could be very educated to take their reaction in account.
use of Linux. This becomes a completely different story then.