This is a typical case where pure laissez-faire capitalism can go against the best interests of the consumer. It reminds me of the personal computer industry of the early 1980s, dominated by proprietary, overpriced, non-interoperable components. IBM moved in with its PC and blew the field wide open, paving the way for today's mix-and-match technology.
Today, we need the same thing for cellphones. Given manufacturers' unwillingness to standardise on a connection interface, and given the lack of a massive IBM-like industry giant willing to push an open standard, there is a case for legislative intervention to come up with a freely published and accessible interface.
The cellphone industry would soar ahead if there was an ISO standard for connection of peripherals, power sources and accessories.
... with President Obama's executive orders banning torture by US forces and requiring the closure of Guantánamo Bay, there's a dire need for alternative interrogation tools.
2 hours of those absolutely inhuman renditions of 'Roxanne' and 'Sgt Peppers', together with the MS infomercial, would be enough to break even the staunchest jihadist.
"Please, PLEASE NOOOO!! I'll give you current GPS coordinates for Osama bin Laden! Just turn it off PLEASE!!!"
I'm an Australian myself, and it saddens me to say that you might have a point there. Australia's legendary convict streak has always been counterbalanced by a lurking streak of repressive authoritarianism of a kind which, if permitted to fully express itself, would make the UK's big brother state look tame.
Why don't the IDers slip in a different spin:
~/god# make
~/god#./big-bang
** universe created
** planet Earth instantiated
** animal life evolving
** humans emerging...
...a job, giving them full expression for their nefarious skills, at a well known software company in a north-western US state, where they can join a massive team of (unconsciously) underhanded coders.
That raises the question; if Linus murders, will you stop using the kernel and everything associated with it?
Guess I'd have to - the hurd won't be ready until, at the very least, NVidia and other video card manufacturers come up with Emacs-lisp drivers for their hardware.
...would be to have a treadmill or cross-trainer in every cubicle. The harder the worker exercises, the higher the priority his/her processes are given.
"Hey, Joe, you're covered in sweat!"
"Yeah, I know, those KDE apps take ages to compile!"
Every so often on the auction sites, you'll find good quality late-ish model DV cameras pop up which have a damaged tape transport (or otherwise need servicing exceeding the sale value), but where the CCDs work fine, and they can pipe a perfectly good DV feed out the IEEE1394 port. For example, I scored a Panasonic NV-GS35 for $35.
This, plus an older CPU box stacked with 1 or 2 multi-port firewire PCI cards (also very cheap now), and a bit of scripting, and you've got your solution for probably less than $150 total.
The only limitation is the maximum length of IEEE1394 cables. If you need several cameras placed more than a few metres apart, you'll need extra CPUs to capture the DV feeds and stick them out onto ethernet. But even so, it's way better than paying four figures per camera.
The slimline CPU boxen are getting so cheap, often companies are tossing 2GHz slimlines out into their dumpsters.
This is one of those times when copyright has a profound moral benefit.
Any site owners who don't want ads injected into their pages can place a copyright notice in small print at the bottom of each page, saying something like:
Copyright is hereby granted to Internet Service Providers to deliver the content of this page verbatim as served by the HTTP server hosting this website. Any alteration to the content of this page is a breach of copyright which will incur legal action.
It would take just a few site owners to add these notices and get injunctions served against any ISPs indulging in page-tampering, for ISPs to give up on the whole deal.
Tk has been so in need of a makeover for many years. The widgets in their default state have looked like crusty relics on our grandparents' computers, and even make Windows 3.1 look contemporary. Well done guys. I can't wait to check it out.
"Your prosecution for viewing illegal Falun Gong literature was brought to you by 100% free open source software."
I bet that would give a warm fuzzy feeling deep inside.
What's next? A deal between the Apache Foundation and the US Government, whereby Apache webservers automatically send to the US Government the HTTP fields of any request which serves up a page containing strings such as 'Iraq', 'nuclear', 'jihad' etc?
Boy: Daddy, why are we driving on gravel road? Dad: I don't know, Watusabi. It was tar sealed road yesterday.
(500 metres later)
Boy: What's that sign say, Daddy? Dad (slowing down and reading sign): "This melody road contains copyrighted music. Under the DMCA, and Japan's copyright treaty obligations, this road has been dug up to remove the infringing notes"
So when to we get a picture of the american flag that's implanted on the surface somewhere.
Be another few hours yet - Weta Digital have just received the raw footage, and a spec and a letter of credit from the NSA - they've done the wireframes, fills and colour correction, now they're working on the gentle waving movements, and tweaking the lights to make the edges realistic. Next, the discarded bottom half of the Lunar Excursion Module... </conspiracy-theory>
I don't really see anything coming out of this. It sounds more like a pissing contest to me than anything else, and I'd be more concerned about their other capabilities (e.g. nuclear warheads, lasers that can shoot down satellites ala Cardinal of the Kremlin, Chinese economy) than how well they can hack into some bigwigs computer.
The problem: if the Chinese military can get enough control over Pentagon computers, then it doesn't really matter what their own hardware capabilities are, they'll be able to deploy some US military hardware for their own objectives.
The Windows cracking community often creates thin shims that convincingly emulate the Windows runtime environment and change its behaviour. For example, a relatively little-known framework called 'VXmon'. This is the basis of a lot of the 'loader' style cracks, that mess with API calls and responses, to fool a shareware program into thinking the trial period lasts forever, or disabling nag screens and other trialware behaviour.
It shouldn't be too hard to put together a 'loader' for this monitoring program to make it turn a blind eye to certain classes of network access. That is, if such a loader hasn't already been written. But if not, that'd be a good assignment for the various 1337 cR4ck1ng Cr3\/\/z out there.
Of course, the shim would need to heavily disguise its own existence. If the guy got caught using it, he'd better order a healthy supply of KY Gel ready for a holiday in Club Fed.
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This is a typical case where pure laissez-faire capitalism can go against the best interests of the consumer. It reminds me of the personal computer industry of the early 1980s, dominated by proprietary, overpriced, non-interoperable components. IBM moved in with its PC and blew the field wide open, paving the way for today's mix-and-match technology.
Today, we need the same thing for cellphones. Given manufacturers' unwillingness to standardise on a connection interface, and given the lack of a massive IBM-like industry giant willing to push an open standard, there is a case for legislative intervention to come up with a freely published and accessible interface.
The cellphone industry would soar ahead if there was an ISO standard for connection of peripherals, power sources and accessories.
... with President Obama's executive orders banning torture by US forces and requiring the closure of Guantánamo Bay, there's a dire need for alternative interrogation tools.
2 hours of those absolutely inhuman renditions of 'Roxanne' and 'Sgt Peppers', together with the MS infomercial, would be enough to break even the staunchest jihadist.
"Please, PLEASE NOOOO!! I'll give you current GPS coordinates for Osama bin Laden! Just turn it off PLEASE!!!"
In the IT industry as I've known it, 'part time work' is anything less than 80 hours/week.
A bt f cre8v splng cn sv bth ink & papr. Thez 2 sntncs hv svd 31% f bth.
...in the private corrections firm which will be accommodating him?
With her mathematical/scientific aptitude and overall intellectual capability, there's one very simple and satisfying career choice!
I'm an Australian myself, and it saddens me to say that you might have a point there. Australia's legendary convict streak has always been counterbalanced by a lurking streak of repressive authoritarianism of a kind which, if permitted to fully express itself, would make the UK's big brother state look tame.
If MTV left the names of the file-sharing programs intact in the song, they could theoretically be a target for a contributory liability suit.
Why don't the IDers slip in a different spin:
./big-bang ...
~/god# make
~/god#
** universe created
** planet Earth instantiated
** animal life evolving
** humans emerging
...a job, giving them full expression for their nefarious skills, at a well known software company in a north-western US state, where they can join a massive team of (unconsciously) underhanded coders.
...would be to have a treadmill or cross-trainer in every cubicle. The harder the worker exercises, the higher the priority his/her processes are given.
"Hey, Joe, you're covered in sweat!"
"Yeah, I know, those KDE apps take ages to compile!"
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/25/1254217
This stuff with Microsoft won't alter my development platform choices:
"Sir, what platforms do you want your program to run on? There are three popular choices available: (1) Gnome, (2) KDE, (3) curses"
Hi,
Every so often on the auction sites, you'll find good quality late-ish model DV cameras pop up which have a damaged tape transport (or otherwise need servicing exceeding the sale value), but where the CCDs work fine, and they can pipe a perfectly good DV feed out the IEEE1394 port. For example, I scored a Panasonic NV-GS35 for $35.
This, plus an older CPU box stacked with 1 or 2 multi-port firewire PCI cards (also very cheap now), and a bit of scripting, and you've got your solution for probably less than $150 total.
The only limitation is the maximum length of IEEE1394 cables. If you need several cameras placed more than a few metres apart, you'll need extra CPUs to capture the DV feeds and stick them out onto ethernet. But even so, it's way better than paying four figures per camera.
The slimline CPU boxen are getting so cheap, often companies are tossing 2GHz slimlines out into their dumpsters.
Any site owners who don't want ads injected into their pages can place a copyright notice in small print at the bottom of each page, saying something like:
It would take just a few site owners to add these notices and get injunctions served against any ISPs indulging in page-tampering, for ISPs to give up on the whole deal.
In the Linux world, there are 'undocumented APIs' everywhere. Unless of course, one considers a .h file to be documentation.
Tk has been so in need of a makeover for many years. The widgets in their default state have looked like crusty relics on our grandparents' computers, and even make Windows 3.1 look contemporary. Well done guys. I can't wait to check it out.
"Your prosecution for viewing illegal Falun Gong literature was brought to you by 100% free open source software."
I bet that would give a warm fuzzy feeling deep inside.
What's next? A deal between the Apache Foundation and the US Government, whereby Apache webservers automatically send to the US Government the HTTP fields of any request which serves up a page containing strings such as 'Iraq', 'nuclear', 'jihad' etc?
Boy: Daddy, why are we driving on gravel road?
Dad: I don't know, Watusabi. It was tar sealed road yesterday.
(500 metres later)
Boy: What's that sign say, Daddy?
Dad (slowing down and reading sign): "This melody road contains copyrighted music. Under the DMCA, and Japan's copyright treaty obligations, this road has been dug up to remove the infringing notes"
</conspiracy-theory>
F**k Atheism
- Making an advanced US capability seem flaky or ineffective
- Making a flaky or undeveloped US capability seem advanced and devastating
- Sending the Chinese into fruitless directions in R&D, costing them billions
- Trick the Cninese into types of action that could yield up some useful intel for the US
The opportunities are endless.The problem: if the Chinese military can get enough control over Pentagon computers, then it doesn't really matter what their own hardware capabilities are, they'll be able to deploy some US military hardware for their own objectives.
The Windows cracking community often creates thin shims that convincingly emulate the Windows runtime environment and change its behaviour. For example, a relatively little-known framework called 'VXmon'. This is the basis of a lot of the 'loader' style cracks, that mess with API calls and responses, to fool a shareware program into thinking the trial period lasts forever, or disabling nag screens and other trialware behaviour.
It shouldn't be too hard to put together a 'loader' for this monitoring program to make it turn a blind eye to certain classes of network access. That is, if such a loader hasn't already been written. But if not, that'd be a good assignment for the various 1337 cR4ck1ng Cr3\/\/z out there.
Of course, the shim would need to heavily disguise its own existence. If the guy got caught using it, he'd better order a healthy supply of KY Gel ready for a holiday in Club Fed.