I'm going to be screening all of them together in my just redone movie room with a 8' wide screen from DLP projector. I will have to re-arrange the furnature some in order to get 12 or so people in the room at the same time.
Between that and fresh stove popped corn, it should be a hit with the gang. I have already done the first two in a row before ROTK came out in theaters and I expect that this one will go the full 11-12 hrs easy.
Consitering that Time Warner just launched it's VoIP service in the past month. I have to wonder if they are pulling the strings in order to wipe out it's only signifigant competition in this area. TW's prices are ( of course ) much higher and provide fewer services than Vongae does.
I realize that the overall size of the binaries and the improvement in cache hits, less IO, and better prelinking will improve the system a whole lot more than shaving %5 off the cpu time of an application.
In New York federal investigators used a search warrant to physically alter Scarfo's computer to install a hardware keyboard logger so that they could retrieve his pgp passwords This search warrant was a sneek and peek. They then went back in a month and took the computer on another search warrant.
At no time did they have a wiretap warrant, they claimed that they didn't need one. This case seems like they are contradicting themselves in several ways. By prosecuting this grey hat, they may be giving Scarfo grounds for an appeal of his conviction based on the fact that the evidence was tainted.
The reason this is important is that the requirements are more stringent for a wiretap warrant then for a search warrant, if they had had proper evidence they would have use it to get a wiretap, but they didn't.
In New York federal investigators used a search warrant ( sneek and peek ) to install a keylogger on a mob boss's computer to steal his pgp keys. They DID NOT HAVE A WIRETAP WARRANT. You can now see the contradiction inherent in this prosecution. Go after this guy and possibly let a mob boss off on appeal because the information they used to convict him is now tainted.
Of course if they had gotten a wiretap warrant in the first place this would not have been a problem, but they did not have the evidence to get wiretap only a search warrant they have differnt levels of proof of illegal doings
Re:Anyone with two feet and perhaps access to a ca
on
The Trouble with RFID
·
· Score: 4, Interesting
What you fail to address is that takes a vehicle and one or two dedicated people per person being tracked. This is the way it should be.
With RFID we are now faced with situation where a simple globally unique tag is assigned to each RFID tag and can be tracked with simple electronics. A store can track your every movement with a dozen carefully placed receivers by tracking the RFID tag embedded in the soles of your shoes.
Malls could track walking patterns the same way, and by consolidating and minimg the data, they can probably match up anonymous tracking data with an individual by looking for things like credit card transactions.
This is not stuff of Sci-Fi or intregue novels, stores want this kind of information and they WILL be using it. Unfortunatly with my buisness hat on I know that RFID will never go away, it just has WAY WAY too many advangtages for stores ( inventory, shrink reduction, fraud protection,... ) gone will be the days that people could walk into a large store, take something off the selves and return it to the sevice counter ( it was a gift and I don't have a recipt ).
Have you toug about the possible rammifications of a computer crash, or worse yet say it starts looping on dead air. Would you want to be responsable for the possible loss of life that cound be incured?
Why compllicate the system when a simple "Could you repeat that address" would probably suffice.
It sounds crappy but this could lead, finally, to the understanding that anything plaintext can be tapped/subpoena'ed/copied and that the only true way to protect your identity and your communications is with encryption.
Police snooping will only further legitimize encryption in your day to day communications (for the average citizen).
1) JIT optimizations don't always kick in until a function has been run several times. Since the bechmarks only run once, they are crippled on java.
2) Java's IO function work on UTF-8 or other system dependant character set. So in essence java is doing twice the ammount of work during the IO benchmark.
I'm sure other people will comment as well, but overall these numbers are not that suprising for code that was just copy and pasted from c code. Why do people expect that ANY language will perform well using another languages code.
What media formats are supported? The following formats are supported:
AVI BMP ICO JPEG (must be larger than 108 by 171 pixels) M3U MP3 (bit rate must be greater than 80 kbps) MPEG (must not be greater than 3 MB/sec) PCT PLS PSD TIFF WMA (bit rate must be greater than 48 kbps)
I wanted to be able to recoed and stream video from my desktop PC to the TV, but it's can't handle mpeg-2 at reasonable bitrates. I was also curious how it would handle variable bitrate mp3 and mpeg-4 files that are in slightly non-standard file formats.
If you want reliability you cannot just rely on ONE server anymore. Just get the cheapest boxes that meen the requirement and get *2* of them. Use DRDB and heartbeat to make the failover seamless. With these two cheap boxes you get 24x7 reliability at a 7-11 price. Raid, cooling,... will all help in the one box senario delay system failure, but that box *WILL* fail. Two boxes can help not only with outages, but upgrades as well since the primary can be taken offline for upgrades without any upseting of the system.
The latest issue has reduntancy and scalability articles that go from 2 boxen to as many as you want.
It's the only eBook reader I use. Slightly confusing itterface to get used to, but very clean and simple. Reads many unencrypted text formats including ( pdb, prc, txt, rtf, html ) and can read into.zip archives and display covers/inline images.
Runs on windows and the pocketPC platform and is FREEWARE.
SUNY albany uses wildcarding, but only on our private network for registration.
example... when they come to school they get a temporary IP address. The DNS the get ONLY resolves to one address and then gets re-directed to a real website from there so that they can register. After that the get a real IP and a real DNS server.
That way, any homepage or any site will resolve to the registration page.
It's a simple, unobtrusive interface that allows me to type for hours on end in almost any location using a fold up keyboard. No internet distractions, or complex formating to deal with ( woudn't look right on a desktop anyways ). I can then come back to my PC and do the editing required before printing or emailing the document to others.
I've seen many people start to do the same thing too, the only ones that have a real problem are the poetry writiers because of the very narrow screens.
I have also grown quite fond of eBooks on PDA as well. Using auto-scroll to keep my eyes moving I can get quite a bit more read, and there is no problem reading at night.
The stock fan can be loud, but with a 10-20$ replacement and a rubberband for dampening the can run quite quiet 95% of the time. I built one of the P4/intel MB ones for my mother and she needed it quite. It more than surpassed her expectations of a quiet computer.
XP has a firewall built in, why not just enable that to start?
Most people never do more than surfing and word processing, these people would be helped by enabling the firewall to start. Seems it would be accepted easier by the IT community at large and give XP a minimum of security right from the start. I also think that windows update *Notification* should be enabled as well so that people can never say that they were not warned.
More like I loan a book to you and you end up copying pages out of it.
Is that my fault? No
Re:That's because Linux admins are self-taught
on
Linux Is Cheaper
·
· Score: 4, Interesting
Also rember that linux admins don't have to learn those Lies that they teach MSCE's. I have opened those book in the past only to find factual errors in how they represent windows. I KNOW they were wrong because I had to work around the problem under linux.
It's no wonder they cant' cut it. They have to learn about these lies once they have been hired. They have to unlearn what they have learned.
Windows 98 first edition was the last version of Windows that was able to "remote boot" off of a server without a local harddrive and even that was amazingly difficult to setup. The only way you will get "Windows" is through terminal server.
Good news is that linux does support a vast array of windows applications and "Work alike" alternatives.
We got hit on 9/11 because we went for very slow and very stupid. Bureaucratic stonewalling (no information sharing between FBI, CIA, and NSA) was part of it, as were politically-motivated fuckups like diverting FBI resources away from the Islamokazi whackjob terrorist threat to investigate the domestic militia whackjob terrorist threat. As for stupidity, it doesn't get much dumber than giving visa confirmations to the 9/11 hijackers six months after all hell broke loose - only the INS could pull something like that. And only in the INS could Ashcroft himself not fire those responsible.
Um... the origins for the NSA, CIA, and FBI were explicitly placed there to prevent the type of "Sharing" that directly infrings on protected rights of the american public. To have one agency that is allowed to share without limits is more scary than what we have now. They can assasinate americal citizens, spy on americal citizens, use non-approved interrogation methods to extract evidence for criminal proceedings in the US, they can lie and make up secret evidence to be used at US trials, and I can go on.
The need for data sharing was an important factor in the 9/11 disaster, but a saner way to fix the problem is place federal judges within arm reach of the departments to approve specific data sharing needs.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm going to be screening all of them together in my just redone movie room with a 8' wide screen from DLP projector. I will have to re-arrange the furnature some in order to get 12 or so people in the room at the same time.
Between that and fresh stove popped corn, it should be a hit with the gang. I have already done the first two in a row before ROTK came out in theaters and I expect that this one will go the full 11-12 hrs easy.
Consitering that Time Warner just launched it's VoIP service in the past month. I have to wonder if they are pulling the strings in order to wipe out it's only signifigant competition in this area. TW's prices are ( of course ) much higher and provide fewer services than Vongae does.
Better for whom is the question you need to ask... oh.. you meant the general population?
That's why I compile my gentoo with -Os
I realize that the overall size of the binaries and the improvement in cache hits, less IO, and better prelinking will improve the system a whole lot more than shaving %5 off the cpu time of an application.
Yes,
For those that don't know...
In New York federal investigators used a search warrant to physically alter Scarfo's computer to install a hardware keyboard logger so that they could retrieve his pgp passwords This search warrant was a sneek and peek. They then went back in a month and took the computer on another search warrant.
At no time did they have a wiretap warrant, they claimed that they didn't need one. This case seems like they are contradicting themselves in several ways. By prosecuting this grey hat, they may be giving Scarfo grounds for an appeal of his conviction based on the fact that the evidence was tainted.
The reason this is important is that the requirements are more stringent for a wiretap warrant then for a search warrant, if they had had proper evidence they would have use it to get a wiretap, but they didn't.
Obviously you missed the parent posting's point.
In New York federal investigators used a search warrant ( sneek and peek ) to install a keylogger on a mob boss's computer to steal his pgp keys. They DID NOT HAVE A WIRETAP WARRANT. You can now see the contradiction inherent in this prosecution. Go after this guy and possibly let a mob boss off on appeal because the information they used to convict him is now tainted.
Of course if they had gotten a wiretap warrant in the first place this would not have been a problem, but they did not have the evidence to get wiretap only a search warrant they have differnt levels of proof of illegal doings
What you fail to address is that takes a vehicle and one or two dedicated people per person being tracked. This is the way it should be.
... ) gone will be the days that people could walk into a large store, take something off the selves and return it to the sevice counter ( it was a gift and I don't have a recipt ).
With RFID we are now faced with situation where a simple globally unique tag is assigned to each RFID tag and can be tracked with simple electronics. A store can track your every movement with a dozen carefully placed receivers by tracking the RFID tag embedded in the soles of your shoes.
Malls could track walking patterns the same way, and by consolidating and minimg the data, they can probably match up anonymous tracking data with an individual by looking for things like credit card transactions.
This is not stuff of Sci-Fi or intregue novels, stores want this kind of information and they WILL be using it. Unfortunatly with my buisness hat on I know that RFID will never go away, it just has WAY WAY too many advangtages for stores ( inventory, shrink reduction, fraud protection,
Have you toug about the possible rammifications of a computer crash, or worse yet say it starts looping on dead air. Would you want to be responsable for the possible loss of life that cound be incured?
Why compllicate the system when a simple "Could you repeat that address" would probably suffice.
It sounds crappy but this could lead, finally, to the understanding that anything plaintext can be tapped/subpoena'ed/copied and that the only true way to protect your identity and your communications is with encryption.
Police snooping will only further legitimize encryption in your day to day communications (for the average citizen).
1) JIT optimizations don't always kick in until a function has been run several times. Since the bechmarks only run once, they are crippled on java.
2) Java's IO function work on UTF-8 or other system dependant character set. So in essence java is doing twice the ammount of work during the IO benchmark.
I'm sure other people will comment as well, but overall these numbers are not that suprising for code that was just copy and pasted from c code. Why do people expect that ANY language will perform well using another languages code.
There is a whole site dedicated to video equipment, part of which covers the viewsonic style of devices.
http://www.avsforum.com/
If it was they misplaced the 0.
10GB network.............. $378,000
350 IT staffers............ $14/hr
40 Visual f/x staffers... $9,800,000.28
I have looked at and rejected this unit before because of the hidden restrictions.
t m# Technical%20Questions
http://www.onmediadvd.com/onmediadvd/FAQwhite.h
What media formats are supported?
The following formats are supported:
AVI
BMP
ICO
JPEG (must be larger than 108 by 171 pixels)
M3U
MP3 (bit rate must be greater than 80 kbps)
MPEG (must not be greater than 3 MB/sec)
PCT
PLS
PSD
TIFF
WMA (bit rate must be greater than 48 kbps)
I wanted to be able to recoed and stream video from my desktop PC to the TV, but it's can't handle mpeg-2 at reasonable bitrates. I was also curious how it would handle variable bitrate mp3 and mpeg-4 files that are in slightly non-standard file formats.
If you want reliability you cannot just rely on ONE server anymore. Just get the cheapest boxes that meen the requirement and get *2* of them. Use DRDB and heartbeat to make the failover seamless. With these two cheap boxes you get 24x7 reliability at a 7-11 price. Raid, cooling, ... will all help in the one box senario delay system failure, but that box *WILL* fail. Two boxes can help not only with outages, but upgrades as well since the primary can be taken offline for upgrades without any upseting of the system.
The latest issue has reduntancy and scalability articles that go from 2 boxen to as many as you want.
http://www.linuxmagazine.com/
It's the only eBook reader I use. Slightly confusing itterface to get used to, but very clean and simple. Reads many unencrypted text formats including ( pdb, prc, txt, rtf, html ) and can read into .zip archives and display covers/inline images.
Runs on windows and the pocketPC platform and is FREEWARE.
uBook download
SUNY albany uses wildcarding, but only on our private network for registration.
... when they come to school they get a temporary IP address. The DNS the get ONLY resolves to one address and then gets re-directed to a real website from there so that they can register. After that the get a real IP and a real DNS server.
example
That way, any homepage or any site will resolve to the registration page.
So wildcarding *can* be useful.
It's a simple, unobtrusive interface that allows me to type for hours on end in almost any location using a fold up keyboard. No internet distractions, or complex formating to deal with ( woudn't look right on a desktop anyways ). I can then come back to my PC and do the editing required before printing or emailing the document to others.
I've seen many people start to do the same thing too, the only ones that have a real problem are the poetry writiers because of the very narrow screens.
I have also grown quite fond of eBooks on PDA as well. Using auto-scroll to keep my eyes moving I can get quite a bit more read, and there is no problem reading at night.
The stock fan can be loud, but with a 10-20$ replacement and a rubberband for dampening the can run quite quiet 95% of the time. I built one of the P4/intel MB ones for my mother and she needed it quite. It more than surpassed her expectations of a quiet computer.
Basicly there are only a few cases where you can legitimatly recieve calls.
So just watch the fine print on anyhting that you put your phone # on or you could end up making the DNC list useless.
XP has a firewall built in, why not just enable that to start?
Most people never do more than surfing and word processing, these people would be helped by enabling the firewall to start. Seems it would be accepted easier by the IT community at large and give XP a minimum of security right from the start. I also think that windows update *Notification* should be enabled as well so that people can never say that they were not warned.
More like I loan a book to you and you end up copying pages out of it.
Is that my fault? No
Also rember that linux admins don't have to learn those Lies that they teach MSCE's. I have opened those book in the past only to find factual errors in how they represent windows. I KNOW they were wrong because I had to work around the problem under linux.
It's no wonder they cant' cut it. They have to learn about these lies once they have been hired. They have to unlearn what they have learned.
http://www.linuxartist.org/article.php?sid=126
Summary Ley you can under wine with success... and they are porting it!
Windows 98 first edition was the last version of Windows that was able to "remote boot" off of a server without a local harddrive and even that was amazingly difficult to setup. The only way you will get "Windows" is through terminal server.
Good news is that linux does support a vast array of windows applications and "Work alike" alternatives.
Um... the origins for the NSA, CIA, and FBI were explicitly placed there to prevent the type of "Sharing" that directly infrings on protected rights of the american public. To have one agency that is allowed to share without limits is more scary than what we have now. They can assasinate americal citizens, spy on americal citizens, use non-approved interrogation methods to extract evidence for criminal proceedings in the US, they can lie and make up secret evidence to be used at US trials, and I can go on.
The need for data sharing was an important factor in the 9/11 disaster, but a saner way to fix the problem is place federal judges within arm reach of the departments to approve specific data sharing needs.