The justification for this is really one of the "think of the children" arguments. The argument goes that if you leave an unsecured wireless connection open, any person could download illegal porn using the IP address your ISP has assigned your connection. Therefore by virtue of this argument, anyone who attempts to use somebody elses wireless connection is potentially up to no good. Therefore, it must be made a crime to "dishonestly obtain free internet access".
The same argument also applies to downloading terrorism manuals and visiting fundamentalist websites.
Layer 15: Phil, The Prince of Insufficient Light Layer 14: Mordac, the Director of Information Services Layer 13: Catbert, Human Resources director Layer 12: The Pointed Hair Boss Layer 11: Carol the secretary Layer 10: Dilbert Layer 9: Asok, the intern Layer 8: User
That depends if they choose to create their own companies or just try to compete against everyone else for the same positions. For computer science, there were around 300+ applicants for one position as a software engineer for a large company in the SF Bay Area. For the UK "blue-chip companies", there's something like 29 graduates competing for an entry level position.
In the real world, back several hundred year during the time of the Plague, the first response of villagers who encountered someone who had the plague (an infected messsenger who arrived on the edge of the village), was to gather everyone together in the market place, inform them, then send out more villagers to warn their neighbours. Depending on the mode of transport (walking, horse, cart, coach), this would enable the infection to spread (fleas on animals or clothes).
This guy developed software that erases the tracking thing that limits you and allows you to take more then they gave you.
The "tracking thing" is the settings in the registry. That isn't a very secure method of implementing a one time use system. In a previous slashdot discussion, a good many sysadmins have recommended a way of maintaining system security by storing all the OS and applications on a seperate partition which is refreshed from a server every week. This would of course includes the registry. This coupon system isn't going to work very well in such a network environment.
Yes, I did - I've also worked on networking products (network probes and LAN analyzers). Even had one of those protocol charts above my desk, so I've got a good idea of how "the tubes work".
The Japanese have always had these grand computer initiatives (the last couple were "The TRON project", and Fifth Generation computing (AI, Expert Systems, Automated Learning).
The TRON project was an attempt to have computers be able to have a standard communication protocol:
First, there is the problem of reliability. Has your Internet service provider's server every gone down unexpectedly? Is it shut down regularly for maintenance causing you to lose access to the Internet? Have you ever sent an e-mail message that was never received by the person to whom you sent it? Has a person to whom you sent an e-mail message ever written back saying the header was received but there was no message attached to it? In the case of most people, the answer to these questions is "yes." But in comparison, loss of telephone service is now an extremely rare occurrence that happens mainly due to natural disasters. When it's a result of an error by the telephone company, all hell breaks loose and large-scale rebates have to be paid out to placate angry customers.... Of course, there are very understandable reasons why the Internet has its loyal supporters. Most importantly, the fact that governments don't control the Internet means it can give a voice to people or groups of people certain governments would like to suppress. So in that sense, it is of immense cultural importance. Another important feature of the Internet is that it is still "open technologically," so anyone can become a player without paying royalties or worrying about a lawyer from a large software company walking through the door with a ultimatum to either sign a highly unfavorable contract or have access to the Internet denied. However, in the final analysis, even the hard core fans of the Internet have to admit that when it comes to underlying technologies, the Internet is lacking in many areas.
Fortunately, there are other global network development efforts under way in addition to the Internet. One of these is the TRON Hypernetwork (in technical parlance, the highly functional distributed system [HFDS]), a vast, high-performance, real-time hypernetwork of innumerable open and closed subordinate networks based on the TRON total architecture that is being planned for computerizing human living spaces and human work environments in the 21st century. This hypernetwork is in the process of being built around a central framework of real-time servers and digital exchanges based on the Central and Communication TRON (CTRON) architecture, one of the first tasks of which is to support today's Internet protocols.
Looks like this is another attempt to revamp the TRON project (which also had its own networked CPU).
The internet is built over a series of seven layers - the .
The idea of splitting everything into layers is so that any one system could be changed without having to totally rewrite everything else - if you want to replace your dial-up modem with a wi-fi card, all you have to do is replace the drivers. If your ISP wants to replace their router network with an ATM network that's easily done without affecting you. If someone came along with a better router management protocol, that's easily done.
The original Internet did have redundancy and resistance against breakdown built in. Unfortunately, many network companies found it cheaper simply to route separate logical networks along one connection, rather than have multiple and completely separate connections. Thus, we end up with a hard-wired minimum spanning tree network, that fails as soon as one link goes down.
Let them go ahead with this idea, but by the time they complete their literature survey, they will probably find out there is very little that they need to change.
And there's the catch (no pun intended). If the admin's can buy a USB/lock and key set with a particular serial number, so can the students.
Back in the mid 1980's, one of our sys admins once had a cunning plan to stop viruses and worms creeping into early day PC's (8 MHz clones with CGA cards). Every machine would be installed with a lock which disabled the power to the floppy disk drive (communications were a serial line to a SUN server). Anyone who wanted to download or archive their personal files would have to visit the technicians office, file a work request and the technician would unlock the drive. Once the data was transferred, the technician would lock the drive. However, because the technician was maintaining two labfuls (100+) of PC's, he didn't want to go around walking with a humungous key ring - so a single serial number was chosen for all the locks. It only took one student to find out the serial number and buy his own key, to cause the entire security system to come crashing down.
It not the students that seem to be the problem in this article. It's the fact that admin and academic staff are using removable media like USB memory pens, zip drives and CD-ROM's to store and transport personal information about other people that is the issue. They then carry these items around, forget about them and then lose them. Maybe they walk into a lab to chat to someone, put down their belongings, and then forget to pick them up again. This requires a data loss report to be submitted to the academic council.
I initially thought that this article might be about the security of pdf documents downloaded from online journals. But just about every university has proxy http server so that staff and students can use their home computers for this purpose, not forgetting web E-mail, so that this kind of data security would be pointless.
Most of the teachers that I had, went into teaching because there was no local demand for anyone with "pure subject" skills. Apart from the science/biology teachers, many of whom who had come from research institutes, because Mrs. T. had the idea that she could save the taxpayer money by closing down UK research institutes and buying the technology from abroad instead. So they all found jobs in the education (public sector) instead.
There was a electrical engineer working in our group, who was designing the circuit boards for a projects. After designing the first prototype and sending the specification out to the manufacturer, he got the first prototype board back. Unfortunately, the CPU chip socket had been placed wrongly by 90 degrees. Realizing that all of the pins were connected, but in the wrong position, he spent the entire morning soldering wires from the old socket to a new socket which held the CPU. The system ran perfectly - although the casing did need a hole cut in it to support a "levitating CPU".
They still do that in Cuba - the cigar makers get read newspapers, books and poetry. If they like the item they tap their knives on the table. Although, since Cube is already under embargo, I doubt if there is anything the RIAA can do about that, let alon the illegal satellite/cable TV setups just so the womenfolk can watch Latin-American soap operas.
It's not a matter of digging a trench and burying the cable. You also have to splice together segments of cable at intervals of 4000-6000 feet or less and also include repeater and distribution units.
There used to be digging machines in the USA which would cut a nice narrow trench, deposit the cable and then fill in the trench again. In other countries, that's not allowed because of the hazard of hitting other systems (drainage, water, gas).
As long as they put the device in a sealed box, this would not be a problem. Maybe they could use neon/argon gas as they do with ordinary tubes, thus eliminating the danger of creating oxides.
Seriously, how do we know that the hole was caused by cfc's, I would think if it was and the cfc's somehow defied gravity and got up to the ozone layer there would be multiple holes?
Because at the North and South poles, the atmosphere does not circulate very well with regards to the rest of the planet. You end up with a large Polar vortex of cold air remaining stationary over the area, which allows the CFC to react with other chemicals in the air:
The chemistry of the Antarctic polar vortex has created severe ozone depletion. The nitric acid in polar stratospheric clouds reacts with CFCs to form chlorine, which catalyzes the photochemical destruction of ozone. Chlorine concentrations build up during the winter polar night, and the consequent ozone destruction is greatest when the sunlight returns in spring (September/October). These clouds can only form at temperatures below about -80C, so the warmer Arctic region does not have an ozone hole.
I'm still looking for the edition of Personal Computer World which had a conflict simulator written in BASIC. There were a number of countries arranged around a lake, so that any country only had two neighbours. Each country had a number of attributes (strength of economy, size of military, population, government type, diplomatic attitude). When run, the simulation would always end up with two possible outcomes; a world federation or a world dictatorship).
With the new comment moderating system, sometimes you end up clicking on the wrong option and it is impossible to undo (Funny gets replaced by overrated). Previously, you had to press the moderate button at the bottom before the points were added, now its instantaneous.
External HDD's don't have to be fat - you can get a nice slimline shell that fits around a laptop drive, along with a small circuitboard that adapts the drive to a USB connector (power is through the USB connector). The advantages are that is it portable enough to fit into a pocket, but the disadvantages are that it is far easier to lose. But it allows you to carry up to 120 Gigabytes in your pocket (around 30 DVD's). Maybe even more given the constant increasing size of 3.5" hard disk drives.
C++ has a semicolon at the end of the header file. I'm sure there's a reason for it, but I lost a good two hours trying to get one of my first C++ projects to compile because it was missing.
Did you define a class or structure as the last item in your header file? You always need a semicolon to close the definition of a class.
If so, they you needed that semicolon to close the definition of that class. Otherwise that completely messes up the syntax of the sequence of header files, as the compiler will assume that the next object to be defined (function or class) somehow extends the previous object.
...perhaps the ISP's should complain to Sky/Virgin since many people are now viewing Sky news reports through the website portal rather than through the TV channel.
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The justification for this is really one of the "think of the children" arguments. The argument goes that if you leave an unsecured wireless connection open, any person could download illegal porn using the IP address your ISP has assigned your
connection. Therefore by virtue of this argument, anyone who attempts to use somebody elses wireless connection is potentially
up to no good. Therefore, it must be made a crime to "dishonestly obtain free internet access".
The same argument also applies to downloading terrorism manuals and visiting fundamentalist websites.
So, according to the Dilbert Systems Interconnection model the layers would be:
Layer 15: Phil, The Prince of Insufficient Light
Layer 14: Mordac, the Director of Information Services
Layer 13: Catbert, Human Resources director
Layer 12: The Pointed Hair Boss
Layer 11: Carol the secretary
Layer 10: Dilbert
Layer 9: Asok, the intern
Layer 8: User
That depends if they choose to create their own companies or just try to compete against everyone else for the same positions. For computer science, there were around 300+ applicants for one position as a software engineer for a large company in the SF Bay Area. For the UK "blue-chip companies", there's something like 29 graduates competing for an entry level position.
Another improvement to the efficiency of solar panels is to surround each cell with a little parabolic mirror. Apparently, this helps concentrate the sunlight onto the cell. Then there are methods of stacking two solar cells with different absorption characteristics on top of each other
I would guess that the future goal is to have solar cells be able to absorb every possible frequency of sunlight.
In the real world, back several hundred year during the time of the Plague, the first response of villagers who encountered someone who had the plague (an infected messsenger who arrived on the edge of the village), was to gather everyone together in the market place, inform them, then send out more villagers to warn their neighbours. Depending on the mode of transport (walking, horse, cart, coach), this would enable the infection to spread (fleas on animals or clothes).
This guy developed software that erases the tracking thing that limits you and allows you to take more then they gave you.
The "tracking thing" is the settings in the registry. That isn't a very secure method of implementing a one time use system. In a previous slashdot discussion, a good many sysadmins have recommended a way of maintaining system security by storing all the OS and applications on a seperate partition which is refreshed from a server every week. This would of course includes the registry.
This coupon system isn't going to work very well in such a network environment.
Yes, I did - I've also worked on networking products (network probes and LAN analyzers). Even had one of those protocol charts above my desk, so I've got a good idea of how "the tubes work".
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The Japanese have always had these grand computer initiatives (the last couple were "The TRON project", and Fifth Generation computing (AI, Expert Systems, Automated Learning).
The TRON project was an attempt to have computers be able to have a standard communication protocol:
First, there is the problem of reliability. Has your Internet service provider's server every gone down unexpectedly? Is it shut down regularly for maintenance causing you to lose access to the Internet? Have you ever sent an e-mail message that was never received by the person to whom you sent it? Has a person to whom you sent an e-mail message ever written back saying the header was received but there was no message attached to it? In the case of most people, the answer to these questions is "yes." But in comparison, loss of telephone service is now an extremely rare occurrence that happens mainly due to natural disasters. When it's a result of an error by the telephone company, all hell breaks loose and large-scale rebates have to be paid out to placate angry customers.
Of course, there are very understandable reasons why the Internet has its loyal supporters. Most importantly, the fact that governments don't control the Internet means it can give a voice to people or groups of people certain governments would like to suppress. So in that sense, it is of immense cultural importance. Another important feature of the Internet is that it is still "open technologically," so anyone can become a player without paying royalties or worrying about a lawyer from a large software company walking through the door with a ultimatum to either sign a highly unfavorable contract or have access to the Internet denied. However, in the final analysis, even the hard core fans of the Internet have to admit that when it comes to underlying technologies, the Internet is lacking in many areas.
Fortunately, there are other global network development efforts under way in addition to the Internet. One of these is the TRON Hypernetwork (in technical parlance, the highly functional distributed system [HFDS]), a vast, high-performance, real-time hypernetwork of innumerable open and closed subordinate networks based on the TRON total architecture that is being planned for computerizing human living spaces and human work environments in the 21st century. This hypernetwork is in the process of being built around a central framework of real-time servers and digital exchanges based on the Central and Communication TRON (CTRON) architecture, one of the first tasks of which is to support today's Internet protocols.
Looks like this is another attempt to revamp the TRON project (which also had its own networked CPU).
When I first read the title, I thought it would enable the owner to knock someone lights out from the other side a room.
The internet is built over a series of seven layers - the .
The idea of splitting everything into layers is so that any one system could be changed without having to totally rewrite everything else - if you want to replace your dial-up modem with a wi-fi card, all you have to do is replace the drivers. If your ISP wants to replace their router network with an ATM network that's easily done without affecting you. If someone came along with a better router management protocol, that's easily done.
The original Internet did have redundancy and resistance against breakdown built in. Unfortunately, many network companies found it cheaper simply to route separate logical networks along one connection, rather than have multiple and completely separate connections. Thus, we end up with a hard-wired minimum spanning tree network, that fails as soon as one link goes down.
Let them go ahead with this idea, but by the time they complete their literature survey, they will probably find out there is very little that they need to change.
And there's the catch (no pun intended). If the admin's can buy a USB/lock and key set with a particular serial number, so can the students.
Back in the mid 1980's, one of our sys admins once had a cunning plan to stop viruses and worms creeping into early day PC's (8 MHz clones with CGA cards). Every machine would be installed with a lock which disabled the power to the floppy disk drive (communications were a serial line to a SUN server). Anyone who wanted to download or archive their personal files would have to visit the technicians office, file a work request and the technician would unlock the drive. Once the data was transferred, the technician would lock the drive. However, because the technician was maintaining two labfuls (100+) of PC's, he didn't want to go around walking with a humungous key ring - so a single serial number was chosen for all the locks. It only took one student to find out the serial number and buy his own key, to cause the entire security system to come crashing down.
It not the students that seem to be the problem in this article. It's the fact that admin and academic staff are using removable media like USB memory pens, zip drives and CD-ROM's to store and transport personal information about other people that is the issue. They then carry these items around, forget about them and then lose them. Maybe they walk into a lab to chat to someone, put down their belongings, and then forget to pick them up again. This requires a data loss report to be submitted to the academic council.
I initially thought that this article might be about the security of pdf documents downloaded from online journals. But just about every university has proxy http server so that staff and students can use their home computers for this purpose, not forgetting web E-mail, so that this kind of data security would be pointless.
Most of the teachers that I had, went into teaching because there was no local demand for anyone with "pure subject" skills.
Apart from the science/biology teachers, many of whom who had come from research institutes, because Mrs. T. had the idea
that she could save the taxpayer money by closing down UK research institutes and buying the technology from abroad instead.
So they all found jobs in the education (public sector) instead.
There was a electrical engineer working in our group, who was designing the circuit boards for a projects. After designing the first prototype and sending the specification out to the manufacturer, he got the first prototype board back. Unfortunately, the CPU chip socket had been placed wrongly by 90 degrees. Realizing that all of the pins were connected, but in the wrong position, he spent the entire morning soldering wires from the old socket to a new socket which held the CPU. The system ran perfectly - although the casing did need a hole cut in it to support a "levitating CPU".
They still do that in Cuba - the cigar makers get read newspapers, books and poetry. If they like the item they tap their knives on the table. Although, since Cube is already under embargo, I doubt if there is anything the RIAA can do about that, let alon the illegal satellite/cable TV setups just so the womenfolk can watch Latin-American soap operas.
It's not a matter of digging a trench and burying the cable. You also have to splice together segments of cable at intervals of 4000-6000 feet or less and also include repeater and distribution units.
There used to be digging machines in the USA which would cut a nice narrow trench, deposit the cable and then fill in the trench again. In other countries, that's not allowed because of the hazard of hitting other systems (drainage, water, gas).
If you purchase a CATV capture card in the UK, they will send your purchase details to the TV licensing board.
As long as they put the device in a sealed box, this would not be a problem. Maybe they could use neon/argon gas as they do with ordinary tubes, thus eliminating the danger of creating oxides.
Seriously, how do we know that the hole was caused by cfc's, I would think if it was and the cfc's somehow defied gravity and got up to the ozone layer there would be multiple holes?
Because at the North and South poles, the atmosphere does not circulate very well with regards to the rest of the planet. You end up with a large Polar vortex of cold air remaining stationary over the area, which allows the CFC to react with other chemicals in the air:
The chemistry of the Antarctic polar vortex has created severe ozone depletion. The nitric acid in polar stratospheric clouds reacts with CFCs to form chlorine, which catalyzes the photochemical destruction of ozone. Chlorine concentrations build up during the winter polar night, and the consequent ozone destruction is greatest when the sunlight returns in spring (September/October). These clouds can only form at temperatures below about -80C, so the warmer Arctic region does not have an ozone hole.
Sounds more we have evolved from fungus. Some bacteria can form spores with multiple cell walls, allowing them to survive extreme heat and cold.
Right next to the coppery and the nickely.
I'm still looking for the edition of Personal Computer World which had a conflict simulator written in BASIC. There were a number of countries arranged around a lake, so that any country only had two neighbours. Each country had a number of attributes (strength of economy, size of military, population, government type, diplomatic attitude). When run, the simulation would always end up with two possible outcomes; a world federation or a world dictatorship).
Never got the chance to type the program in.
With the new comment moderating system, sometimes you end up clicking on the wrong option and it is impossible to undo (Funny gets replaced by overrated). Previously, you had to press the moderate button at the bottom before the points were added, now its instantaneous.
External HDD's don't have to be fat - you can get a nice slimline shell that fits around a laptop drive, along with a small circuitboard that adapts the drive to a USB connector (power is through the USB connector). The advantages are that is it portable enough to fit into a pocket, but the disadvantages are that it is far easier to lose. But it allows you to carry up to 120 Gigabytes in your pocket (around 30 DVD's). Maybe even more given the constant increasing size of 3.5" hard disk drives.
C++ has a semicolon at the end of the header file. I'm sure there's a reason for it, but I lost a good two hours trying to get one of my first C++ projects to compile because it was missing.
Did you define a class or structure as the last item in your header file? You always need a semicolon to close the definition of a class.
If so, they you needed that semicolon to close the definition of that class. Otherwise that completely messes up the syntax
of the sequence of header files, as the compiler will assume that the next object to be defined (function or class) somehow extends the previous object.
...perhaps the ISP's should complain to Sky/Virgin since many people are now viewing Sky news reports through the
website portal rather than through the TV channel.