If people don't look behind them now, what makes people think they will look when this new equipment is installed in their cars. Hell, I ride a motorcycle and I got hit by a car going to work this morning and I was directly in front of the person who ran into me at an intersection where I had right of way. No, they didn't pull in front of me, they literally drove right into the side of me because as they said 'I didn't see you' which makes me think that these devices are not going to be the magical silver bullet to fix the backup issues certain people seem to think it will be.
I worked at a company where it turned out the office supplies manager was previously a drummer for a band which had had a number of songs in the Australian top 40, basically what the public would classify a band which was relatively successful.
I asked him why he stopped. Simply put, the hours where long and crap, he was away from family and friends for months on end touring over seas and well, he got better money being an office supply manager. The amount of money that manages to get through to the average 'successful' band is pretty pitiful all things considering due to the amount of money the record companies and the *AA organisations take off the top is pretty crazy and is the main cause for the lack of money getting through to the average artist.
With that said, having fans tell him that they downloaded his bands music and thought it was great was very annoying for the obvious reasons.
What you will end up seeing is that the internet in America is going to end up looking and working a lot like the internet in China does but instead of being controlled by the government, it will be controlled by corporations. In this case, *IAA will be initially in charge but if the bill is passed and goes into effect, how long will it be until other corporations start to jump onto the band wagon and start to control/block things they don't like.
Lets also be honest, how many other governments/corporations out there would love to do something similar in their country of choice and how many have already started to bring out watered down control laws, look at Australia with its internet filter as a start.
One company I worked at would _only_ let us use RHEL because it was an Enterprise level OS which meant if there was a problem with it, then we could get support if it was beyond the SysAdmins but mainly because it meant they had accountability.
Most of the other companies I have worked at have used CentOS because it is free.
If you need the support, accountability and the stability with release cycles and patches etc then go RHEL. If cost is a factor and you don't mind not having the backup there if things go really bad with support, go CentOS. Just weigh up the pros and cons and go in batting for the more appropriate solution.
I have to admit that the place where we used RHEL, management changed and the new manager in charge of signing off my PO's was a bit of a Microsoft fanboy and wouldn't approve the renewal of our RHEL support agreement because 'I don't see why I should pay for support for a free Open Source solution' which I got told after he spent a decent amount of money for an Exchange+Blackberry solution. Due to his attitude, we lost a sale to a bank after they did an external security audit on us and needless to say, he only kept his job for a few months after that. It didn't stop him trying to blame me for the servers not being under support, thankfully I kept all the correspondence about the situation:P
Now I am currently stuck with our preferred vendor for Linux being OEL (Oracle Enterprise Linux).
Reminds me of the wild demo comps they used to and still do have at the big demo parties through out Europe, the ones where thousands of people would turn up for a few days. The idea was to code a demo at the event itself during the party. http://www.assembly.org/summer10/compos/realtime/demo contains a good example of recent rules for one of these.
It's crazy enough watching people attempting to finish their entries for the regular demo comps, I can only imagine the energy at a big demo party with a wild comp category.
It was only a matter of time before phones got powerful enough to do this. The technology itself has been around for a long time so nothing really all that new or innovative.
I remember running into an ex-work colleague about 10 years ago in a night club. It was noisy and I was losing my voice. He was telling me about this company he worked for dealing with voice recognition and to demonstrate, he pulled his phone out and rang a number and asked me to tell it I wanted a share price for a company, I said "I want the current share price for company X", within seconds it was telling me the share price. Mind you, my voice sounded like crap and there was very loud music and yelling in the background so at the time, this kind of blew me away. The other example I got to experience was a time table system where I asked the system "I want to know about all ferries that leave by 10AM from point A and arrive by 12PM to point B". It handled that query no problems. I thought it was great that the system was able to take perfectly normal English sentences and process it correctly.
As I mentioned, this was at least 10 years ago. I would be a bit worried if they had not been able to refine the technology somewhat since then.
I used ksplice at the last company I was working at on dozens of machines. It saved us so much downtime and pain with kernel updates. I was pushing it at the current company I work at... good luck now though:( I found the whole Sun being bought out thing dpressing, this actually makes me angry. While we are an Oracle shop in regards to databases, we are phasing out all out Sun gear (SANs, servers etc). We found the support for the Sun equipment once Oracle bought them out turned completely useless and pathetic.
Why does every company Oracle touch appear to go to shit?
Personally I would prefer it is Amazon didn't package a number of their books with their DRM'ed proprietary format. I own a Kindle and think it is great for reading regular novels but not so great for technical resources (page refresh a bit to slow, jumping around not the easiest) and recently I purchased a technical book. I went to import it into Calibre and found I couldn't.
I had to boot a Windows machine, install an old copy of the Kindle Reader, unplug the computer from the network to stop it auto updating and run a special script to convert the book to.mobi before I could read the book which I had purchased in my reader of choice:|
As I mentioned, the e-reader side is fine for novels and almost everyone who has seen it comments on how much it looks like real paper. Would be nice if the refresh was quicker and had a better interface for jumping around in a book but as other comments I have seen commented on, touch screen could suck due to the finger prints everywhere on the screen.
Have you seen the 'Awesome' window manager? If you look at its home page at http://awesome.naquadah.org/ you will notice one of its features is 'No mouse needed: everything can be performed with keyboard;'.
Don't get me wrong, I also liked the fact the Amiga let me move the pointer via the keyboard, hell it saved my ass when I killed my rodent once but to say Linux sucks with running a GUI with only a keyboard when solutions such as Awesome exist is a bit of an over simplification.
I have been seeing a string of complaints in forums dedicated to retro computing where new comers to programming on their retro platform of choice have gone to buy books off Amazon only to find that all they have ended up purchasing are copy and paste jobs from the various wikis out there on the internet. A lot of times, they haven't even bothered doing any editing of the text.
It has caused me to be more cautious before purchasing anything off Amazon, especially those items in the sub $5 area. Having said that, I have come across some decent $0.99 books. While not master pieces have turned out to be worth purchasing and an enjoying read.
It does mention the searches in 'Chinese' and I noticed the parents search was in English. And as you stated, I would also assume the Chinese government is only really interested in stopping wide spread riots in China and not to worried about people outside of their country.
FTFA: "Google searches in Chinese for Zengcheng, a city in the country's Guangdong province, result in the browser's connection to the server being reset, with no search results offered."
While I use Slackware at home, I currently run Ubuntu at work. The decision for this was that I could not afford extended down time of hand compiling software for my work computer and Ubuntu provided aptitude for downloading and installing many of my needed packages.
Since needing my work computer to be working, I decided to see what the new version of Ubuntu offered over the old and after seeing the new interface and reading about it, I decided to not upgrade. In fact, I am looking at going to Debian instead of upgrading. Sure, it doesn't offer all the bells and whistles for desktop users that Ubuntu does but I can rely on it to be stable and to do what I want it to do more than I can of Ubuntu.
I like some of the ideas and directions Ubuntu has gone, unfortunately, I dislike a lot of the ideas and directions they have and are going more. While I may curse the problems it can sometimes cause, it is Linux so I do have the choice to move to another distro if I so feel the need.
And if it wasn't for some help from Chuck Peddle
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Apparently when he turned up to help them out, he ended up doing a lot of analysing of what they were doing and helping them understand how the 6502 worked and what they were doing wrong.
Every few months I purchase computer bits and pieces from Europe (think retro computers and the likes, new and used) which no one in Australia sells or manufactures. If no one in Australia carries what I need to purchase, why should this extra tax apply to these items? It's not like I am going to be able to buy them locally in the first place.
Over the years I have come to accept that a lot of consumer products cost more in Australia than in many other European countries and America but it just feels as though the people with the money want to try and squeeze even more out of the masses.
Neither had I but after seeing this story I got intrigued enough to visit their web site and have to admit, the game plot definitely appeals to the more twisted side of my sense of humor. Without PETA getting upset and doing something about this, I would not be thinking of looking further into the game or even had heard of it.
Are you referring to the Amiga Fantasy pictures, located at http://aminet.net/pix/trace/AMIGA-fantasy1.jpg http://aminet.net/pix/trace/AMIGA-fantasy2.jpg and http://aminet.net/pix/trace/AMIGA-fantasyB.jpg which were uploaded back in 1999 to http://aminet.net ?
I am not to sure why they are using quotes such as:
"The Macintosh demonstrated that it was possible and profitable to create a machine to be used by millions and millions of people"
Especially when you had people like Jack Tramiel since the 70's using sayings such as:
"We need to make computers for the masses, not the classes!"
Commodore and Radio Shack both produced and pushed the home computer into peoples homes back in the 70's by making them affordable. Not to mention I think the Commodore 64 celebrated it's 25th birthday a year ago.
Don't get me wrong, there is a recently purchased iMac in my place and I am the first to admit that Apple in its recent offerings of the last few years have done a fantastic job but real credit where credit is due.
I work for a hosting company where we run three different web servers which a customer will use depending on their need (one on Windows, two on Linux). All the defacements I have seen our customers suffer from have been all because the script, shopping cart, forum etc they have downloaded off the web and dropped onto their site is old and has known vulnerabilities and they are not willing to upgrade to a newer version to fix the problems or you get some users who love uploading files as world writable.
To sum up, I would guess that 99% of defacement attacks are due to ill educated or lazy users:P
Unfortunately you then get the other side of the coin, the number of EMails I have recieved from people trying to send EMails to a friend and having it bounce back with an over quota message and then demanding to know what that means or telling you to fix your computers is phenomenal.
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... this really going to make?
If people don't look behind them now, what makes people think they will look when this new equipment is installed in their cars. Hell, I ride a motorcycle and I got hit by a car going to work this morning and I was directly in front of the person who ran into me at an intersection where I had right of way. No, they didn't pull in front of me, they literally drove right into the side of me because as they said 'I didn't see you' which makes me think that these devices are not going to be the magical silver bullet to fix the backup issues certain people seem to think it will be.
I worked at a company where it turned out the office supplies manager was previously a drummer for a band which had had a number of songs in the Australian top 40, basically what the public would classify a band which was relatively successful.
I asked him why he stopped. Simply put, the hours where long and crap, he was away from family and friends for months on end touring over seas and well, he got better money being an office supply manager. The amount of money that manages to get through to the average 'successful' band is pretty pitiful all things considering due to the amount of money the record companies and the *AA organisations take off the top is pretty crazy and is the main cause for the lack of money getting through to the average artist.
With that said, having fans tell him that they downloaded his bands music and thought it was great was very annoying for the obvious reasons.
What you will end up seeing is that the internet in America is going to end up looking and working a lot like the internet in China does but instead of being controlled by the government, it will be controlled by corporations. In this case, *IAA will be initially in charge but if the bill is passed and goes into effect, how long will it be until other corporations start to jump onto the band wagon and start to control/block things they don't like.
Lets also be honest, how many other governments/corporations out there would love to do something similar in their country of choice and how many have already started to bring out watered down control laws, look at Australia with its internet filter as a start.
One company I worked at would _only_ let us use RHEL because it was an Enterprise level OS which meant if there was a problem with it, then we could get support if it was beyond the SysAdmins but mainly because it meant they had accountability.
Most of the other companies I have worked at have used CentOS because it is free.
If you need the support, accountability and the stability with release cycles and patches etc then go RHEL. If cost is a factor and you don't mind not having the backup there if things go really bad with support, go CentOS. Just weigh up the pros and cons and go in batting for the more appropriate solution.
I have to admit that the place where we used RHEL, management changed and the new manager in charge of signing off my PO's was a bit of a Microsoft fanboy and wouldn't approve the renewal of our RHEL support agreement because 'I don't see why I should pay for support for a free Open Source solution' which I got told after he spent a decent amount of money for an Exchange+Blackberry solution. Due to his attitude, we lost a sale to a bank after they did an external security audit on us and needless to say, he only kept his job for a few months after that. It didn't stop him trying to blame me for the servers not being under support, thankfully I kept all the correspondence about the situation :P
Now I am currently stuck with our preferred vendor for Linux being OEL (Oracle Enterprise Linux).
Reminds me of the wild demo comps they used to and still do have at the big demo parties through out Europe, the ones where thousands of people would turn up for a few days. The idea was to code a demo at the event itself during the party. http://www.assembly.org/summer10/compos/realtime/demo contains a good example of recent rules for one of these.
It's crazy enough watching people attempting to finish their entries for the regular demo comps, I can only imagine the energy at a big demo party with a wild comp category.
It was only a matter of time before phones got powerful enough to do this. The technology itself has been around for a long time so nothing really all that new or innovative.
I remember running into an ex-work colleague about 10 years ago in a night club. It was noisy and I was losing my voice. He was telling me about this company he worked for dealing with voice recognition and to demonstrate, he pulled his phone out and rang a number and asked me to tell it I wanted a share price for a company, I said "I want the current share price for company X", within seconds it was telling me the share price. Mind you, my voice sounded like crap and there was very loud music and yelling in the background so at the time, this kind of blew me away. The other example I got to experience was a time table system where I asked the system "I want to know about all ferries that leave by 10AM from point A and arrive by 12PM to point B". It handled that query no problems. I thought it was great that the system was able to take perfectly normal English sentences and process it correctly.
As I mentioned, this was at least 10 years ago. I would be a bit worried if they had not been able to refine the technology somewhat since then.
So if they are using backscatter technology, does that mean they are spamming everyone?
(sorry, really bad attempt at humour, need more coffee).
No, it has nothing to do with that, haven't you seen The Fifth Element?
I used ksplice at the last company I was working at on dozens of machines. It saved us so much downtime and pain with kernel updates. I was pushing it at the current company I work at... good luck now though :( I found the whole Sun being bought out thing dpressing, this actually makes me angry. While we are an Oracle shop in regards to databases, we are phasing out all out Sun gear (SANs, servers etc). We found the support for the Sun equipment once Oracle bought them out turned completely useless and pathetic.
Why does every company Oracle touch appear to go to shit?
Personally I would prefer it is Amazon didn't package a number of their books with their DRM'ed proprietary format. I own a Kindle and think it is great for reading regular novels but not so great for technical resources (page refresh a bit to slow, jumping around not the easiest) and recently I purchased a technical book. I went to import it into Calibre and found I couldn't.
I had to boot a Windows machine, install an old copy of the Kindle Reader, unplug the computer from the network to stop it auto updating and run a special script to convert the book to .mobi before I could read the book which I had purchased in my reader of choice :|
As I mentioned, the e-reader side is fine for novels and almost everyone who has seen it comments on how much it looks like real paper. Would be nice if the refresh was quicker and had a better interface for jumping around in a book but as other comments I have seen commented on, touch screen could suck due to the finger prints everywhere on the screen.
Have you seen the 'Awesome' window manager? If you look at its home page at http://awesome.naquadah.org/ you will notice one of its features is 'No mouse needed: everything can be performed with keyboard;'.
Don't get me wrong, I also liked the fact the Amiga let me move the pointer via the keyboard, hell it saved my ass when I killed my rodent once but to say Linux sucks with running a GUI with only a keyboard when solutions such as Awesome exist is a bit of an over simplification.
I have been seeing a string of complaints in forums dedicated to retro computing where new comers to programming on their retro platform of choice have gone to buy books off Amazon only to find that all they have ended up purchasing are copy and paste jobs from the various wikis out there on the internet. A lot of times, they haven't even bothered doing any editing of the text.
It has caused me to be more cautious before purchasing anything off Amazon, especially those items in the sub $5 area. Having said that, I have come across some decent $0.99 books. While not master pieces have turned out to be worth purchasing and an enjoying read.
It does mention the searches in 'Chinese' and I noticed the parents search was in English. And as you stated, I would also assume the Chinese government is only really interested in stopping wide spread riots in China and not to worried about people outside of their country.
FTFA:
"Google searches in Chinese for Zengcheng, a city in the country's Guangdong province, result in the browser's connection to the server being reset, with no search results offered."
While I use Slackware at home, I currently run Ubuntu at work. The decision for this was that I could not afford extended down time of hand compiling software for my work computer and Ubuntu provided aptitude for downloading and installing many of my needed packages.
Since needing my work computer to be working, I decided to see what the new version of Ubuntu offered over the old and after seeing the new interface and reading about it, I decided to not upgrade. In fact, I am looking at going to Debian instead of upgrading. Sure, it doesn't offer all the bells and whistles for desktop users that Ubuntu does but I can rely on it to be stable and to do what I want it to do more than I can of Ubuntu.
I like some of the ideas and directions Ubuntu has gone, unfortunately, I dislike a lot of the ideas and directions they have and are going more. While I may curse the problems it can sometimes cause, it is Linux so I do have the choice to move to another distro if I so feel the need.
it may not have been completed.
http://www.commodore.ca/history/people/chuck_peddle/chuck_peddle.htm
Apparently when he turned up to help them out, he ended up doing a lot of analysing of what they were doing and helping them understand how the 6502 worked and what they were doing wrong.
Every few months I purchase computer bits and pieces from Europe (think retro computers and the likes, new and used) which no one in Australia sells or manufactures. If no one in Australia carries what I need to purchase, why should this extra tax apply to these items? It's not like I am going to be able to buy them locally in the first place.
Over the years I have come to accept that a lot of consumer products cost more in Australia than in many other European countries and America but it just feels as though the people with the money want to try and squeeze even more out of the masses.
Neither had I but after seeing this story I got intrigued enough to visit their web site and have to admit, the game plot definitely appeals to the more twisted side of my sense of humor. Without PETA getting upset and doing something about this, I would not be thinking of looking further into the game or even had heard of it.
Are you referring to the Amiga Fantasy pictures, located at http://aminet.net/pix/trace/AMIGA-fantasy1.jpg http://aminet.net/pix/trace/AMIGA-fantasy2.jpg and http://aminet.net/pix/trace/AMIGA-fantasyB.jpg which were uploaded back in 1999 to http://aminet.net ?
I am not to sure why they are using quotes such as:
"The Macintosh demonstrated that it was possible and profitable to create a machine to be used by millions and millions of people"
Especially when you had people like Jack Tramiel since the 70's using sayings such as:
"We need to make computers for the masses, not the classes!"
Commodore and Radio Shack both produced and pushed the home computer into peoples homes back in the 70's by making them affordable. Not to mention I think the Commodore 64 celebrated it's 25th birthday a year ago.
Don't get me wrong, there is a recently purchased iMac in my place and I am the first to admit that Apple in its recent offerings of the last few years have done a fantastic job but real credit where credit is due.
I work for a hosting company where we run three different web servers which a customer will use depending on their need (one on Windows, two on Linux). All the defacements I have seen our customers suffer from have been all because the script, shopping cart, forum etc they have downloaded off the web and dropped onto their site is old and has known vulnerabilities and they are not willing to upgrade to a newer version to fix the problems or you get some users who love uploading files as world writable.
:P
To sum up, I would guess that 99% of defacement attacks are due to ill educated or lazy users
hornet.org is probably a good starting point.
Unfortunately you then get the other side of the coin, the number of EMails I have recieved from people trying to send EMails to a friend and having it bounce back with an over quota message and then demanding to know what that means or telling you to fix your computers is phenomenal.