Couldn't there be an automated mechanism in place to have the browser check the signature of the site
You have just described VeriSign, Thawte, and the rest. Except instead of checking each and every cert it only checks that the cert is signed by a trusted authority (ie VeriSign). To do this properly the browser should also fetch a list of revoked certificates. (but it dosen't, and it really diminishes the trust of the whole system.) Checking the cert signature is acutally less bandwidth intensive then checking a cert each and everytime you visit a SSL site.
I need to be more specific. There is the old media levy, Bill C-32, from 1997. There is no new media levy. As other posters have pointed out any changes to the levy will be done by the Copyright Board.
It is worth pointing out to the international readers that Canadian Legislation tends to be either massive overhauls of existing laws in the form of complete rewrites or small very specific changes. The latter is more common.
It is not combined with the blank recording media levy. The submitter was smokeing crack. Read Bill C-11. C-11 deals with internet rebroadcasting only. There is no Bill C-32 as referenced. We are only up to bill C-23 (there are many more private member bills starting at 200). In fact there is no pending legislation for a blank recording media levy.
This is often overlooked. Back when radio didn't suck as much there were a handfull of DJs that I would listen to regularly. On the flip side there were one or two DJs that prompted me to trun off the radio and go do something else. The good DJs introduced me to new music that I wanted to hear. Sadly I think all of those DJs have been replaced with robots that play the same songs everyday but in a slightly different order.
The big server with smaller terminals can be easier to admin, but it comes with its own set of problems. For 10-20 near identical machines I have found that cloned installs and nfs home dirs work best. Typically I will keep one machine as the master image. When needed the other machines will be cloned from the master. This brings the maintanace down to two computers: the master image, and the nfs server.
One advantage to rebuilding an observatory on the edge of a city is public education. One poster was remembering school trips to the observatory. It is harder to arrange for nightime trips when the observatory is 2-3 hours away. Having an observatory easily accessible to the public makes it easier to secure funding, and encourages people to persue astronomy as a career. However due to light polution issues it would be pointless to put fancy new scopes up there. Rather, one or two smaller scopes would be beneficial.
Neat. A smart-assed answer to my smart assed answer. Can you feel the love?
you forgot about that ext2 (at least) reserves 5% of disk space for root
Not at all! I assumed stateing the obvious wasn't necessary. I also left out the warning about the nasty things that can happen on a running system if all the disk space it used up.
You points regarding ResiserFS are just yet-another-example why securely deleting files is more complicated then writeing zeros to free space. Many other posters have already beaten this to death.
My bad. I was going from memory. I should have really looked that up. Another poster wrote that there is a limitation of 100w on spread spectrum signals. At any rate you can already push 802.11b pretty far with decent antennas and the existing low power levels. The limitation seems to be the curvature of the Earth.
As an aside I am no antenna expert, but I cringe every time I read a story about some point to point link useing WiFi. They are willing to buy nifty cards and access points, but when it comes to antennas they often use high loss cheap coax instead of $1US/ft for nice lower loss LMR400. And some of the hacked together antennas are so hideous it is a wonder they work. There are some good and really good DIY 2.4GHz directionals out there, but the awfull pringles can is not one of them.
This is correct. It may even be sufficient to set the node name to ones call sign. That is why this ARRL group is important. They will decide on an appropriate standard for station identification. The FCC probably dosen't care what the standard is any more as HAM bands are largely self regulated. The FCC only becomes involved if there is a complaint, at which time the FCC will work with the local HAMs.
Part 15 devices such as WiFi are actually limited to miliwatts depending on the antenna used. Most commercial devices only output 30-100mW. An opporator with a Basic Amature license, which is easily obtained, is probably limited to about 100watts. An Advanced license would be required for higher power. Although 100watts is still enough to cook a bird.
I agree. I believe that there is also a time based factor making it harder to win durring the day then in the evening. Games played in the mid afternoon seem to be the hardest to win.
While it is true that the hand lever controls the front break, the control comes from the agility of the hand compared to the foot and leg.
There are a number of motorcycles (Honda and BMW in particular) now with linked breaking. Typically one or two calipers of 4 or 6 in the front will be activated by the "rear" break pedal. Similarly 1 of 3 or 4 calipers on the rear will be activated by the front break lever.
In a motorcycle 70% to 100% of the breaking force will come from the front wheel (70% and the start of breaking to 90% or more when the bike is almost stopped). Despite this fact many riders still believe that it is dangerous to use the front break at any time. To debunk this myth my rideing instructor had to show what happens when you try to stop with only the rear wheel. It takes must longer to stop and it is very easy to lock up the rear wheel.
While I love OpenBSD and use it daily, it is lacking in the desktop department. Mozilla can be made to run, but it is not in ports. I also found it a little unstable. The Gnome and KDE ports under FreeBSD are more mature. OpenBSD has a smaller development group whose priority is secure well written code, not desktops.
That said I encourage every one to install OpenBSD twice to get a feel for it. OpenBSD is one of the easiest and fastest installs once you have done it 1-2 times. (Most people screw up their first install of OpenBSD.) If I need a generic unix machine (server or workstation) on the test bench I will always grab my OpenBSD CD.
I can't say that I've every really cared for the S3 products. Drivers and tech support have always been poor.
Your history is too short. S3 used to make some truely excellent low cost high quality 2d video cards. There were good drivers for both Windows and XFree86. Unfortunately S3 came late to the 3D game. (Everyone other then 3Dfx came late to the 3D game.) To furthure criple S3 the company was bought out and handed around several times by companies more interested in the old S3 technology then createing new and better chipsets. I do agree that just about everything from the Virge on has suffured from poor performance and drivers.
There are no "use it or lose it" type laws for US patents[1]. However a judge has ruled against Rambus for participateing in the design of the PCxxx SDRAM specs and then later asking for royalty payments. The issue in this case is that Rambus had agreed to participate in "good faith." Sneaking in some patents was not in good faith. The ruleing was based largely on the "good faith" clause, not on the validity of the Rambus patents. As part of the settlement the judge ruled that Rambus could not enforce its patents specifically against makers of PCxxxx SDRAM and DDRSDRAM. Rambus has not lost its patents. Rather, companies have been giving a royalty free right to use those patents specifically when making ram that follows the PCxxxx spec.
This is the "submarine patent" issue. Unknown patents that exist and have not been enforced, but are still valid.
[1]Patents laws in other countries may be different.
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It is cheaper to put an RFID tag in the tire. A serial number would have to be unique (obviously) and not wear off. This is harder to manufacture.
Couldn't there be an automated mechanism in place to have the browser check the signature of the site
You have just described VeriSign, Thawte, and the rest. Except instead of checking each and every cert it only checks that the cert is signed by a trusted authority (ie VeriSign). To do this properly the browser should also fetch a list of revoked certificates. (but it dosen't, and it really diminishes the trust of the whole system.) Checking the cert signature is acutally less bandwidth intensive then checking a cert each and everytime you visit a SSL site.
I need to be more specific. There is the old media levy, Bill C-32, from 1997. There is no new media levy. As other posters have pointed out any changes to the levy will be done by the Copyright Board.
It is worth pointing out to the international readers that Canadian Legislation tends to be either massive overhauls of existing laws in the form of complete rewrites or small very specific changes. The latter is more common.
It is not combined with the blank recording media levy. The submitter was smokeing crack. Read Bill C-11. C-11 deals with internet rebroadcasting only. There is no Bill C-32 as referenced. We are only up to bill C-23 (there are many more private member bills starting at 200). In fact there is no pending legislation for a blank recording media levy.
DJ's are what's important.
This is often overlooked. Back when radio didn't suck as much there were a handfull of DJs that I would listen to regularly. On the flip side there were one or two DJs that prompted me to trun off the radio and go do something else. The good DJs introduced me to new music that I wanted to hear. Sadly I think all of those DJs have been replaced with robots that play the same songs everyday but in a slightly different order.
RTFA: he used dd and cloned the disks.
The big server with smaller terminals can be easier to admin, but it comes with its own set of problems. For 10-20 near identical machines I have found that cloned installs and nfs home dirs work best. Typically I will keep one machine as the master image. When needed the other machines will be cloned from the master. This brings the maintanace down to two computers: the master image, and the nfs server.
It's been a while since I installed Quake3
The Linux Quake3 CD had an installer, but also instructions for installing the game yourself.
One advantage to rebuilding an observatory on the edge of a city is public education. One poster was remembering school trips to the observatory. It is harder to arrange for nightime trips when the observatory is 2-3 hours away. Having an observatory easily accessible to the public makes it easier to secure funding, and encourages people to persue astronomy as a career. However due to light polution issues it would be pointless to put fancy new scopes up there. Rather, one or two smaller scopes would be beneficial.
Wow! You sure are clever!
Neat. A smart-assed answer to my smart assed answer. Can you feel the love?
you forgot about that ext2 (at least) reserves 5% of disk space for root
Not at all! I assumed stateing the obvious wasn't necessary. I also left out the warning about the nasty things that can happen on a running system if all the disk space it used up.
You points regarding ResiserFS are just yet-another-example why securely deleting files is more complicated then writeing zeros to free space. Many other posters have already beaten this to death.
dd if=/dev/zero of=foo
Look at me! I'm a genius. I can read a man page.
According to Section 97.313
My bad. I was going from memory. I should have really looked that up. Another poster wrote that there is a limitation of 100w on spread spectrum signals. At any rate you can already push 802.11b pretty far with decent antennas and the existing low power levels. The limitation seems to be the curvature of the Earth.
As an aside I am no antenna expert, but I cringe every time I read a story about some point to point link useing WiFi. They are willing to buy nifty cards and access points, but when it comes to antennas they often use high loss cheap coax instead of $1US/ft for nice lower loss LMR400. And some of the hacked together antennas are so hideous it is a wonder they work. There are some good and really good DIY 2.4GHz directionals out there, but the awfull pringles can is not one of them.
As long as the method used is a 'standard'.
This is correct. It may even be sufficient to set the node name to ones call sign. That is why this ARRL group is important. They will decide on an appropriate standard for station identification. The FCC probably dosen't care what the standard is any more as HAM bands are largely self regulated. The FCC only becomes involved if there is a complaint, at which time the FCC will work with the local HAMs.
Part 15 devices such as WiFi are actually limited to miliwatts depending on the antenna used. Most commercial devices only output 30-100mW. An opporator with a Basic Amature license, which is easily obtained, is probably limited to about 100watts. An Advanced license would be required for higher power. Although 100watts is still enough to cook a bird.
I agree. I believe that there is also a time based factor making it harder to win durring the day then in the evening. Games played in the mid afternoon seem to be the hardest to win.
At least that has been my experience.
I found Mozilla a little unstable. I have not had any problems with useing or compiling Mozilla under Linux.
I have never found the core OpenBSD system to be unstable. I don't recall any problems with any of the official OpenBSD ports either.
Don't you mean "According to Gobbles"?
You cuaght me. I was (unsucessfully) trolling. I figured that Bugtraq probably had better name recognition then Gobbles.
A curse on you! Now I am looking for an answer and I can't find one. :-)
According to Bugtraq everyone useing P2P apps is already 0wned by the RIAA. The MPAA should ask the RIAA to just shut things down at the source.
While it is true that the hand lever controls the front break, the control comes from the agility of the hand compared to the foot and leg.
There are a number of motorcycles (Honda and BMW in particular) now with linked breaking. Typically one or two calipers of 4 or 6 in the front will be activated by the "rear" break pedal. Similarly 1 of 3 or 4 calipers on the rear will be activated by the front break lever.
In a motorcycle 70% to 100% of the breaking force will come from the front wheel (70% and the start of breaking to 90% or more when the bike is almost stopped). Despite this fact many riders still believe that it is dangerous to use the front break at any time. To debunk this myth my rideing instructor had to show what happens when you try to stop with only the rear wheel. It takes must longer to stop and it is very easy to lock up the rear wheel.
Yes. But your link layer protocol has to take that latency into consideration.
Acceleration on the steering wheel is fine, braking is not.
Many a motorcyclist will disagree. The breaking control possible with a hand far exceeds the control possible with ones foot.
no automatic tranny on bikes since the "Hondamatic"
Ridley makes automatic motorcycles. I really don't know much about them beyond that. (Automatic cruisers?? Double blah.)
While I love OpenBSD and use it daily, it is lacking in the desktop department. Mozilla can be made to run, but it is not in ports. I also found it a little unstable. The Gnome and KDE ports under FreeBSD are more mature. OpenBSD has a smaller development group whose priority is secure well written code, not desktops.
That said I encourage every one to install OpenBSD twice to get a feel for it. OpenBSD is one of the easiest and fastest installs once you have done it 1-2 times. (Most people screw up their first install of OpenBSD.) If I need a generic unix machine (server or workstation) on the test bench I will always grab my OpenBSD CD.
I can't say that I've every really cared for the S3 products. Drivers and tech support have always been poor.
Your history is too short. S3 used to make some truely excellent low cost high quality 2d video cards. There were good drivers for both Windows and XFree86. Unfortunately S3 came late to the 3D game. (Everyone other then 3Dfx came late to the 3D game.) To furthure criple S3 the company was bought out and handed around several times by companies more interested in the old S3 technology then createing new and better chipsets. I do agree that just about everything from the Virge on has suffured from poor performance and drivers.
There are no "use it or lose it" type laws for US patents[1]. However a judge has ruled against Rambus for participateing in the design of the PCxxx SDRAM specs and then later asking for royalty payments. The issue in this case is that Rambus had agreed to participate in "good faith." Sneaking in some patents was not in good faith. The ruleing was based largely on the "good faith" clause, not on the validity of the Rambus patents. As part of the settlement the judge ruled that Rambus could not enforce its patents specifically against makers of PCxxxx SDRAM and DDRSDRAM. Rambus has not lost its patents. Rather, companies have been giving a royalty free right to use those patents specifically when making ram that follows the PCxxxx spec.
This is the "submarine patent" issue. Unknown patents that exist and have not been enforced, but are still valid.
[1]Patents laws in other countries may be different.