Will it be Microsoft or the world governments that try to squash this? It really looks like something that I'd love to use. It's the same with most security technologies, I'd love to be able to use them... but they just aren't there yet.
I invented the airgap and I could not get the time of day from Rockwell, Lockheed, or anyone without Common Criteria EAL4 certification. FYI, that costs about a million dollars US. Whee!
Truck stops, my man. They all have lots of phones and most of them have modem ports. They're 24 hour establishments, and as a bonus they usually have showers for rent. Also, many of them out west have net access terminals, but they're spendy.
Even if they can't get all the science out of it, I really hope that the root cause of the failure can be determined. I'd hate to see NASA get any more beat up over this.
I would bet on 00:00 GMT (or UCT for the more pedantic). However, I wouldn't be suprised if we see some systems crap out at local midnight. Already there was a hiccup in the UK with bank cards being denied because of date math being off. Certainly not ATC or process control logic but just as bad for those afflicted.
Good to see eToys did the right thing. Now, should we all run over there and buy some toys to thank them? After all if you're going to boycott someone for doing something, you should reward them for not doing it.
Being an inventor myself I know your pain. Too bad about the brake rotors mate. Is there any way you could get the rich and powerful Larry Augustin to kick in? Maybe take a full-time research job with VA Linux.
Ticker symbols are owned by the stock exchange and can be revoked or changed at will. There have been many cases of ticker symbols of penny stocks being re-assigned by nasdaq or nyse when a bigger stock (IE trades on the big boards) needs it.
Really, I'm hardly an AMD supporter but this is like saying "ford will release a car in 2001 that may perform as well as last year's chevy". My next CPU is a 1ghz athlon... I'm done with Intel. For now.
I hate software patents as much as the next person, but isn't RMS kinda on a rampage here? It's like anyone who makes money incurs the wrath of RMS these days.
This isn't to mention the squashing of software innovation that comes from RMS' activity. If I have an idea for some small software program that might make enough money to support me and a few other programs, if it's any good RMS will swoop in an destroy my company. Thanks, RMS.
I've tried to sell wicker.com to pier 1 for years and they never bite. Why not? It's a good choice for them.
Seriously folks, I've been hearing these ads for some mobile phone service on the radio for the past few days and I can't remember the URL from the parking lot to my office. Is it simplywireless.com? simplewireless.com? I don't know, maybe if it was pudgefacker.com I'd laugh and remember it.
BTW don't reply with the domain name, it's simplymobile.com, I think.
In the past both the US and the USSR crashed probes or stages of spacecraft into the moon in order to obtain geological data about it. What we did IIRC was use laser interferometry to establish the distance to the moon to within a few wavelengths, then we crashed parts of the lunar landers into it and saw what kind of disturbance we got. Again IIRC it rang like a bell, indicating an essentially homogenous sphere of rock instead of a seismically active body with a molten core.
All this whining is just player hating. Every time some little company makes it big, all the people with PHD's come out and start bagging on them. Instead of trying to tear everyone down, why don't you try to build yourself up?
Now if this had the ability to either overlay what you see (by back projecting the image directly onto your eyeball) or if it had a small webcam that was constantly setting the background to be what you would have seen anyways, man, I'd have one attached permanently.
I don't care if it runs 98 or linux... as long as I can have one or two. -- Without fear or favor --
Just because a technology was developed by the Chinese does not mean it's bad. Have you ever considered that what was developed was a press release, or maybe a few well planted leaks? Both sides of the Cold War did this for years, and still do it. Using the media to plant seeds of doubt? Think Viet-Nam, Korea, Tokyo Rose in WW2. None of this is new.
Now if the Chi-Coms have invented and put into practice this technology, it only means we need to find a way to circumvent it. Say, by bombing TV and radio stations first.
Really folks, we have bigger problems to worry about. You know, the Chinese has the first compass. They kept it in a room and never used it until Marco Polo showed up with his. They pulled it out and said, so what?
Don't forget it was a Russian scientist who invented Stealth. He published a paper that inspired our development of the prototype. --
This is really a puff piece, nothing to get excited over. The stuff that was exciting for me was tracking down the people who worked at Mark Williams on Coherent... anyone remember Coherent? It was a Unix for 286 clone, done in assembler. Woof, it was fast!
Another thing: What is this online service I keep reading about, American Online? Geez Louise man, that's twice in a week that error has made it to my notice.
And one more thing: How about a registry of stuff like this? You know, like Ex-MSFT for other projects. --
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It's really sad to see pioneers think they've got all the answers. Should we have stopped OS development because MULTICS was so good, or did UNIX turn out to have any redeeming qualities?
Just because you come up with one idea that rocks doesn't mean you shouldn't be ignored when you start babbling. I think it's high time to start ignoring these fools at CERN.
Besides, are you willing to give up your privacy for child porn and terrorists? That child porn exists is not a reason to license every camera purchase. That terrorists might use a pager to kill you is not a reason to ban pagers.
The difference between slaves and free men is the possession of firearms. Essentially all guns were banned in.au a few years back, and all of the erosions of civil rights have started since then. Do you think the government would carry out stunts like this if the possibility of armed revolt existed?
I guess maybe we/.ers are without guile, but if I was the NSA and I was happily churning through my work, the best possible scenario would be for someone to leak to CNN that I was way behind, emboldening my critics and adversarys to do what they will, thus playing into my hands.
Really, did you think the NSA would say anything true to CNN? You know that a lot of ex-government types work for the press in America, right? That getting an article like this onto CNN is probably a matter of Bob calling Alice and complaining about work, and Alice says maybe this is a good story, and Bob protests a little but never says no, and then you're all running around patting each other on the back for being so great while Bob and his minions at Ft Meade cackle with glee.
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Will it be Microsoft or the world governments that try to squash this? It really looks like something that I'd love to use. It's the same with most security technologies, I'd love to be able to use them... but they just aren't there yet.
I invented the airgap and I could not get the time of day from Rockwell, Lockheed, or anyone without Common Criteria EAL4 certification. FYI, that costs about a million dollars US. Whee!
Truck stops, my man. They all have lots of phones and most of them have modem ports. They're 24 hour establishments, and as a bonus they usually have showers for rent. Also, many of them out west have net access terminals, but they're spendy.
Even if they can't get all the science out of it, I really hope that the root cause of the failure can be determined. I'd hate to see NASA get any more beat up over this.
You're correct, of course. I'll say it 10 times really fast now.
I would bet on 00:00 GMT (or UCT for the more pedantic). However, I wouldn't be suprised if we see some systems crap out at local midnight. Already there was a hiccup in the UK with bank cards being denied because of date math being off. Certainly not ATC or process control logic but just as bad for those afflicted.
Good to see eToys did the right thing. Now, should we all run over there and buy some toys to thank them? After all if you're going to boycott someone for doing something, you should reward them for not doing it.
Microsoft says this is the most secure OS *MICROSOFT* has ever released. Well, DUH.
Being an inventor myself I know your pain. Too bad about the brake rotors mate. Is there any way you could get the rich and powerful Larry Augustin to kick in? Maybe take a full-time research job with VA Linux.
Ticker symbols are owned by the stock exchange and can be revoked or changed at will. There have been many cases of ticker symbols of penny stocks being re-assigned by nasdaq or nyse when a bigger stock (IE trades on the big boards) needs it.
Really, guys, THE TICKER SYMBOL IS NOT THE ISSUE.
Really, I'm hardly an AMD supporter but this is like saying "ford will release a car in 2001 that may perform as well as last year's chevy". My next CPU is a 1ghz athlon... I'm done with Intel. For now.
I hate software patents as much as the next person, but isn't RMS kinda on a rampage here? It's like anyone who makes money incurs the wrath of RMS these days.
This isn't to mention the squashing of software innovation that comes from RMS' activity. If I have an idea for some small software program that might make enough money to support me and a few other programs, if it's any good RMS will swoop in an destroy my company. Thanks, RMS.
I've tried to sell wicker.com to pier 1 for years and they never bite. Why not? It's a good choice for them.
Seriously folks, I've been hearing these ads for some mobile phone service on the radio for the past few days and I can't remember the URL from the parking lot to my office. Is it simplywireless.com? simplewireless.com? I don't know, maybe if it was pudgefacker.com I'd laugh and remember it.
BTW don't reply with the domain name, it's simplymobile.com, I think.
In the past both the US and the USSR crashed probes or stages of spacecraft into the moon in order to obtain geological data about it. What we did IIRC was use laser interferometry to establish the distance to the moon to within a few wavelengths, then we crashed parts of the lunar landers into it and saw what kind of disturbance we got. Again IIRC it rang like a bell, indicating an essentially homogenous sphere of rock instead of a seismically active body with a molten core.
All this whining is just player hating. Every time some little company makes it big, all the people with PHD's come out and start bagging on them. Instead of trying to tear everyone down, why don't you try to build yourself up?
-- Without fear or favor --
Now if this had the ability to either overlay what you see (by back projecting the image directly onto your eyeball) or if it had a small webcam that was constantly setting the background to be what you would have seen anyways, man, I'd have one attached permanently.
I don't care if it runs 98 or linux... as long as I can have one or two.
-- Without fear or favor --
Small point folks: 750 mega-hertz is .732 giga-hertz. Please, don't make math errors like this, it looks dumb.
BTW: The light that burns twice as bright actually only burns one-eigth as long. Please stop saying it's half, that's wrong.
I also have a lot to say about other homilies but I'll let it rest.
I wish your email address worked, please read this for more information on ChiCom-Clinton axis than you every wanted to know.
Has someone let loose a bunch of clue-zappers recently? This behaviour is what I expect from Microsoft and AOL, not id software.
I guess everyone needs to stumble once before they fly. id has been flying so high for so long it makes you think of Icarus.
I wonder if UT does this? If not, looks like it might be time to get behind Unreal Tournament and ditch Quake ]|[
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Just because a technology was developed by the Chinese does not mean it's bad. Have you ever considered that what was developed was a press release, or maybe a few well planted leaks? Both sides of the Cold War did this for years, and still do it. Using the media to plant seeds of doubt? Think Viet-Nam, Korea, Tokyo Rose in WW2. None of this is new.
Now if the Chi-Coms have invented and put into practice this technology, it only means we need to find a way to circumvent it. Say, by bombing TV and radio stations first.
Really folks, we have bigger problems to worry about. You know, the Chinese has the first compass. They kept it in a room and never used it until Marco Polo showed up with his. They pulled it out and said, so what?
Don't forget it was a Russian scientist who invented Stealth. He published a paper that inspired our development of the prototype.
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This is really a puff piece, nothing to get excited over. The stuff that was exciting for me was tracking down the people who worked at Mark Williams on Coherent... anyone remember Coherent? It was a Unix for 286 clone, done in assembler. Woof, it was fast!
Another thing: What is this online service I keep reading about, American Online? Geez Louise man, that's twice in a week that error has made it to my notice.
And one more thing: How about a registry of stuff like this? You know, like Ex-MSFT for other projects.
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It's really sad to see pioneers think they've got all the answers. Should we have stopped OS development because MULTICS was so good, or did UNIX turn out to have any redeeming qualities?
Just because you come up with one idea that rocks doesn't mean you shouldn't be ignored when you start babbling. I think it's high time to start ignoring these fools at CERN.
Besides, are you willing to give up your privacy for child porn and terrorists? That child porn exists is not a reason to license every camera purchase. That terrorists might use a pager to kill you is not a reason to ban pagers.
I sometimes contract, sometimes do FTE. I chose my employer poorly; they went out of business. I'm mostly a contractor for life though.
Over the last 10 years I doubt I've had a contract last over 6 months. And that's fine with me.
The difference between slaves and free men is the possession of firearms. Essentially all guns were banned in .au a few years back, and all of the erosions of civil rights have started since then. Do you think the government would carry out stunts like this if the possibility of armed revolt existed?
I guess maybe we /.ers are without guile, but if I was the NSA and I was happily churning through my work, the best possible scenario would be for someone to leak to CNN that I was way behind, emboldening my critics and adversarys to do what they will, thus playing into my hands.
Really, did you think the NSA would say anything true to CNN? You know that a lot of ex-government types work for the press in America, right? That getting an article like this onto CNN is probably a matter of Bob calling Alice and complaining about work, and Alice says maybe this is a good story, and Bob protests a little but never says no, and then you're all running around patting each other on the back for being so great while Bob and his minions at Ft Meade cackle with glee.