Well we bought this balloon and we figured how neat it would be to launch it up! Shame we lost the instructions for putting the helium in but no problem cause we bought an air-bed at Wal-Mart and used those instructions instead mkay? Then we stayed up all night writing kewl software and and GPS tracking plan but then just before launch we noticed the batts were kerflooey so hey we threw away the computer and fixed up an old PCB from a transistor radio which looked quite a lot like it could have been just the right thing. Balloon came down somewhere and we couldn't find it right away but eventuaqlly we stumbled on it and look at these neat pix!
I still don't get it! You obviously already noticed the misspelling in your sig but I still don't see the point. As far as I know "humous" is one of the several alternate spellings meaning a snack made primarily from of mashed chickpeas. I do frequently make my own with garlic and lemon juice - tasty, but what has it got to do with anything on slashdot??
Windows has the advantage that there is lots of it. My wife doesn't really like computers but has learnt to use Windows so she can do stuff she wants, e-mail her friends and so on. When she visits her sister she can leverage those same skills to use her sister's computer, since that also runs Windows.
The same situation would be unlikely in a Linux world - if my wife had Ubuntu with Gnome and her sister had SuSE with KDE I just don't think things would work out.
Don't forget that ultrasound is highly directional. By aiming more than one beam you have very fine control to generate interference effects where they meet. So if it's known (I thought it was) how to make people feel and smell things by poking specific areas of their brain then perhaps Sony plan to do it with ultrasound.
I was a serious NetWare technician and I don't believe it was so great. YES it would stay up forever PROVIDED you never touched it. So would NT4 probably but of course people are doing stuff all the time on NT, upgrades for apps getting installed, and so on. Because NetWare was mostly just file and print it got left alone.
Speaking of which, if you were developing apps for NetWare you really had to be on the ball. Novell used to provide a bugfix new version of CLIB.NLM literally every few days (so it seemed anyway) and 1 out of 3 times the new one would break our app and the devs had to code around it.
Having said all that Novell are a great company IMO, they're still around after the worst that MS can throw at them and they promote free software - what's not to like?
I ran it on several machines I knew (hoped anyway) to be clean but it still turned up some hits. Guess what the Microsoft NT4 and Windows 2000 Resource Kits are choc full of spyware! So is my Bluetooth driver, and so on.
OK I knew not to accept its recommendations to delete those files but falsies like these mean I dare not allow non-technical users to run it.
Suppose though that regular internet communications had evolved differently and were inherently unsniffable as a matter of course. In that case nobody would credibly suggest that the network must be sniffably re-architected just because a very small minority of its existing traffic was genuinely undesirable in some way.
On that planet the problem would be resolved some other way, such as grabbing the traffic before or after it was in the tunnel, and that is how any Freenet issue needs to be fixed.
the last time I checked, there wasn't a cattle prod installed in each theater seat that zapped you if your head deviated to the left/right or your eyes closed during the commercials/previews.
Umm, I was thinking, did you want to come in on a kinda "patenting" thing with me...?
The 4.05 firmware in my Nokia 7600 camera phone forces a very load and noticeable simulated shutter sound when I take a still photo. The previous firmware gave you the option to turn it off. Sound comes out of the innards of the phone so no putting finger over the sound hole either.
However the same camera will happily record motion video with no indication at all:)
The problem is not that the SP2 firewall is unnecessary but more that it's not obvious to a naive user that their problem is being caused by a blocked port thus the cure is to adjust the firewall.
Spot on, if you want to climb up a long standards-based learning curve for a crackly so-so voice connection then please do sign up with a SIP provider, and good luck.
But if you just want a decent quality free call with your "how do I hit the Any key?" grandma then Skype is the way to go.
Trusted/Treacherous Computing is for one reason only. (Like they really care deep-down if your copy of Word or your Britney tune is legit!) But they DO want to control your ability to communicate in ways they can't sniff and your ability to publish something they don't like.
Residents of US and Canada could make free dialpad calls within those countries. Of course the dialpad website was also accessible from the rest of the world and this REALLY rocked - I was getting free London to US calls at a time when POTS was charging 60c/min.
I gave up trying to get WEP working with the 3Com card in my laptop, the Dabsvalue PCI card in another box, and my Adaptec AP. Yet my (rich) friends who bought their whole wireless setup in one trip to a single vendor say configuring WEP is no problem. Once you start mixing brands it's very hit or miss to configure WEP.
Most recent phones can do IMAP/POP/HTTP some even IM protocols and SSH. Not too hard a stretch to imagine how the phone could soon become your primary communications device.
Is it secure? You have no control over the hardware in any meaningful sense. Would you trust a PC with the case welded shut and an OS you could only guess at? Because that's what a "smartphone" really is.
Governments are in fact extremely keen to do precisely this, or at least partner with commercial CAs to recognise their certificates for official business such as authentication when filing tax returns and so on. Unfortunately in the UK it has not gone so well up until now; last time I looked the official client certs were expensive and had their private key escrowed.
A useful side-effect of all citizens having government client certs for authentication would be that one of the major obstacles to routine use of encrypted e-mail would be removed. Which would be great, however if that actually happened I sure would prefer the government not to have a copy of my private key...
I'm a home user with cable and I have an SSL certificate on a server. As it happens I did pay a small amount but IPSCA do also hand out completely free certs.
Freedom of speech also hinges on the responsibility of the speaker. If you can say it you should own it.
Maybe true where you live but it ain't necessarily so everywhere else. There are many places in the world where saying, for example, "I disagree with the government" will ensure that a string of unpleasant things happens to you very soon afterwards. Freenet gives a voice to those people.
In the article it's unbelievable the attitude Charles the Boss has for his employees. Your people don't perform how you want them to then OK you make sure they re-learn to do it the right way. But noooo not Charles, by the sound of it he wants to yell and vent and generally rip everybody a new asshole.
I'm often surprised that a company that's been around on the internet this long and with this high a profile gets so misspelt.
I never met Mark Shuttleworth but was always sure he was a spot-on bloke. (Can you imagine e-mailing the CEO of Verisign and actually getting a personal reply? That's how it used to be back in the 90's when Thawte was a close number 2 to Verisign worldwide and Mark was running it.)
But to get back to my point, I was curious myself and a few years ago asked Mark why chose the word "Thawte." He told me he left university and was looking for a job, wondered what he had to offer. Conclusion he came up with was that all he had was his "thought"... voila the name for his new company.
Wish I could have done something like that instead of just being a wage slob:(
Naturally you don't understand, this is for the very same reason that you probably have never written and released a virus.
Most people in what passes for "normal" society can not see any point whatsoever in creating a virus. It is not that they are too civic-minded or too "responsible" it is merely that there is no motivation to do it.
To me the desire to create a virus proves in itself that the creator has a different viewpoint on life than do most people. I don't presume to understand what that viewpoint might be, however simple logic indicates the likelihood that in their case the sole and only point of creating a virus is to able to brag about it. "Hey see all that stuff on the TV news, that's me that is, I did that!" Otherwise why bother (OK unless spammers are paying you to write smtp trojans or whatever.)
So yes they are certainly smart enough to release their virus silently from a cafe or someone else's hacked cable account. But they don't, because that would defeat the whole object.
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Well we bought this balloon and we figured how neat it would be to launch it up! Shame we lost the instructions for putting the helium in but no problem cause we bought an air-bed at Wal-Mart and used those instructions instead mkay? Then we stayed up all night writing kewl software and and GPS tracking plan but then just before launch we noticed the batts were kerflooey so hey we threw away the computer and fixed up an old PCB from a transistor radio which looked quite a lot like it could have been just the right thing. Balloon came down somewhere and we couldn't find it right away but eventuaqlly we stumbled on it and look at these neat pix!
I still don't get it! You obviously already noticed the misspelling in your sig but I still don't see the point. As far as I know "humous" is one of the several alternate spellings meaning a snack made primarily from of mashed chickpeas. I do frequently make my own with garlic and lemon juice - tasty, but what has it got to do with anything on slashdot??
Windows has the advantage that there is lots of it. My wife doesn't really like computers but has learnt to use Windows so she can do stuff she wants, e-mail her friends and so on. When she visits her sister she can leverage those same skills to use her sister's computer, since that also runs Windows.
The same situation would be unlikely in a Linux world - if my wife had Ubuntu with Gnome and her sister had SuSE with KDE I just don't think things would work out.
Don't forget that ultrasound is highly directional. By aiming more than one beam you have very fine control to generate interference effects where they meet. So if it's known (I thought it was) how to make people feel and smell things by poking specific areas of their brain then perhaps Sony plan to do it with ultrasound.
I was a serious NetWare technician and I don't believe it was so great. YES it would stay up forever PROVIDED you never touched it. So would NT4 probably but of course people are doing stuff all the time on NT, upgrades for apps getting installed, and so on. Because NetWare was mostly just file and print it got left alone.
Speaking of which, if you were developing apps for NetWare you really had to be on the ball. Novell used to provide a bugfix new version of CLIB.NLM literally every few days (so it seemed anyway) and 1 out of 3 times the new one would break our app and the devs had to code around it.
Having said all that Novell are a great company IMO, they're still around after the worst that MS can throw at them and they promote free software - what's not to like?
I ran it on several machines I knew (hoped anyway) to be clean but it still turned up some hits. Guess what the Microsoft NT4 and Windows 2000 Resource Kits are choc full of spyware! So is my Bluetooth driver, and so on.
OK I knew not to accept its recommendations to delete those files but falsies like these mean I dare not allow non-technical users to run it.
Suppose though that regular internet communications had evolved differently and were inherently unsniffable as a matter of course. In that case nobody would credibly suggest that the network must be sniffably re-architected just because a very small minority of its existing traffic was genuinely undesirable in some way.
On that planet the problem would be resolved some other way, such as grabbing the traffic before or after it was in the tunnel, and that is how any Freenet issue needs to be fixed.
Rememeber to check the "clear signing" option, regular opaque-signing can produce just the effect you describe in some recipients' mail clients.
the last time I checked, there wasn't a cattle prod installed in each theater seat that zapped you if your head deviated to the left/right or your eyes closed during the commercials/previews.
Umm, I was thinking, did you want to come in on a kinda "patenting" thing with me...?
The 4.05 firmware in my Nokia 7600 camera phone forces a very load and noticeable simulated shutter sound when I take a still photo. The previous firmware gave you the option to turn it off. Sound comes out of the innards of the phone so no putting finger over the sound hole either.
:)
However the same camera will happily record motion video with no indication at all
The problem is not that the SP2 firewall is unnecessary but more that it's not obvious to a naive user that their problem is being caused by a blocked port thus the cure is to adjust the firewall.
It's a quote from Margaret Thatcher, in the context of "[we will] starve these terrorists of the oxygen of publicity."
Spot on, if you want to climb up a long standards-based learning curve for a crackly so-so voice connection then please do sign up with a SIP provider, and good luck.
But if you just want a decent quality free call with your "how do I hit the Any key?" grandma then Skype is the way to go.
Trusted/Treacherous Computing is for one reason only. (Like they really care deep-down if your copy of Word or your Britney tune is legit!) But they DO want to control your ability to communicate in ways they can't sniff and your ability to publish something they don't like.
Residents of US and Canada could make free dialpad calls within those countries. Of course the dialpad website was also accessible from the rest of the world and this REALLY rocked - I was getting free London to US calls at a time when POTS was charging 60c/min.
I gave up trying to get WEP working with the 3Com card in my laptop, the Dabsvalue PCI card in another box, and my Adaptec AP. Yet my (rich) friends who bought their whole wireless setup in one trip to a single vendor say configuring WEP is no problem. Once you start mixing brands it's very hit or miss to configure WEP.
Most recent phones can do IMAP/POP/HTTP some even IM protocols and SSH. Not too hard a stretch to imagine how the phone could soon become your primary communications device.
Is it secure? You have no control over the hardware in any meaningful sense. Would you trust a PC with the case welded shut and an OS you could only guess at? Because that's what a "smartphone" really is.
A useful side-effect of all citizens having government client certs for authentication would be that one of the major obstacles to routine use of encrypted e-mail would be removed. Which would be great, however if that actually happened I sure would prefer the government not to have a copy of my private key...
I'm a home user with cable and I have an SSL certificate on a server. As it happens I did pay a small amount but IPSCA do also hand out completely free certs.
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[Static electricity] Women wear full-leg nylon stockings or pantyhose under loose cotton dresses
Well in the interests of safety do you think you could erm, explain a little more, about, you know, these gasoline hazards?
Freedom of speech also hinges on the responsibility of the speaker. If you can say it you should own it.
Maybe true where you live but it ain't necessarily so everywhere else. There are many places in the world where saying, for example, "I disagree with the government" will ensure that a string of unpleasant things happens to you very soon afterwards. Freenet gives a voice to those people.
In the article it's unbelievable the attitude Charles the Boss has for his employees. Your people don't perform how you want them to then OK you make sure they re-learn to do it the right way. But noooo not Charles, by the sound of it he wants to yell and vent and generally rip everybody a new asshole.
I'm often surprised that a company that's been around on the internet this long and with this high a profile gets so misspelt.
:(
I never met Mark Shuttleworth but was always sure he was a spot-on bloke. (Can you imagine e-mailing the CEO of Verisign and actually getting a personal reply? That's how it used to be back in the 90's when Thawte was a close number 2 to Verisign worldwide and Mark was running it.)
But to get back to my point, I was curious myself and a few years ago asked Mark why chose the word "Thawte." He told me he left university and was looking for a job, wondered what he had to offer. Conclusion he came up with was that all he had was his "thought"... voila the name for his new company.
Wish I could have done something like that instead of just being a wage slob
Naturally you don't understand, this is for the very same reason that you probably have never written and released a virus.
Most people in what passes for "normal" society can not see any point whatsoever in creating a virus. It is not that they are too civic-minded or too "responsible" it is merely that there is no motivation to do it.
To me the desire to create a virus proves in itself that the creator has a different viewpoint on life than do most people. I don't presume to understand what that viewpoint might be, however simple logic indicates the likelihood that in their case the sole and only point of creating a virus is to able to brag about it. "Hey see all that stuff on the TV news, that's me that is, I did that!" Otherwise why bother (OK unless spammers are paying you to write smtp trojans or whatever.)
So yes they are certainly smart enough to release their virus silently from a cafe or someone else's hacked cable account. But they don't, because that would defeat the whole object.