JeffK's little known book "HTML for teh Slobbergoat" seemed to be the basis for layout on the earlier sites like Myspace. Like Google Facebook is white, clean and consistent and not riddled with ads making it easy to take in information - especially important for anyone who has grown out of drawing on their pencil case. If Rupert Murdoch actually had taken the time to look at some Myspace pages he wouldn't have felt compelled to buy it for the ridiculous money he paid for that turkey.
This eavesdropping is not really a concern to governments. They just tap at an exchange and listen to the nice G.711 data no matter where the target of interest is located with their mobile, be it GSM or 3G. I think this trick is more useful for the casual user and could return us to the old days of listening to calls on the old analogue systems (like AMPS) with a scanner and narrowband FM demodulator. I am interested to find out how they got enough info together to hack and reprogram the phone!
Like the Google saga started when one Chinese upper echelon member of the Communist Party found a search on his name revealed unsavoury information and declared war on Google - another member may have found their child using VoIP and decided this discount voice comms thingy wasn't going to threaten his personal 80% stake in China Telecom.
If the do-badders who have it in for the USA and the West have learned anything, it's how to force an empire to it's knees by making them blow all their money. The USA did it by brute force outspending the Soviet Union and now the do-badders will achieve the same to the USA by causing them to blow cash they don't have on totally non-constructive adventures like fighting in the middle east and pissing billions away on useless homeland security ventures.
In my experience most people misidentify pedestrian phenomena and call it a UFO. And being New Zealand I bet most of the sightings occur around Guy Fawkes night.
Horsecrap. I paid for and played UT2004 on Linux only with a GF4 card. I had a great time. I tried the UT3 demo on Windows and alas, it was not as fun as Unreal Tournament or UT2004. So I didn't buy it.
Er... yes. I have worked and maintained a SCADA system at a site that had a large process and control network that under no circumstances ever connected to any other network in any way, shape or form. It just seems intrinsically negligent and stupid to do otherwise.
It wasn't hard to maintain even if it meant sneakernet had to be used to get things done - but then I had one machine on my desk for regular networking and another machine on the plant network and used USB keys to install vendor patches and virus database updates to the SCADA system.
I am appalled at the assertion that US nuclear power plants are somehow connected to the Internet, even in an obfuscated way. Internet connected SCADA networks might be OK if your plant is manufacturing Mars Bars but for anything critical like utilities or other places where a compromised process network could create a public hazard then it's not on.
Why? I don't recall where I heard it but Lucas apparently said he was selling merchandise and toys, not movies. Keep an eye out for the next run of Jar Jar figurines at you local KMart.
I've been interested in UFOs since I was a kid but have become very incredulous as I have become older. Even when investigating UFO reports for a UFO group I was in demonstrated to me that most people are not very good logical thinkers and also have no idea what they are looking at in the sky and will frame what they see against their own limited experiences.
I am currently reading Carl Sagan's Demon Haunted Worlds - long overdue for me and a highly recommended read. Aliens, if indeed they are visiting the bases, have to be the absolute last resort explanation until all other more earthly possibilities are exhausted. I wonder how hard the guys involved in this book have worked at testing and eliminating all the sensible hypothesis they can come up with before arriving at aliens?
OK, point taken. He doesn't seem to use he economics training in that case. I think his minders and advisers need to be recycled. At least Mal', even if he was bluffing, gave the impression he knew what he was on about or at least we well briefed.
Hardly implausible, Tony. You're not a techhead, you're not an economist and you certainly aren't Prime Minister material. I'd vote Liberal if Mal' was leader of the opposition but Tony is the Gimp without a mask on.
BTW, Billion already have a GPON home router ready to go on the new upgraded NBN.
I agree. I don't see why modern mobile phones like the touchscreen type couldn't have a retractable stiff-but-flexible-wire aerial (that's antenna for you Seppos) you could pull out in marginal signal areas. If not that then perhaps an aerial on the top that flips out on a hinge would be good too. I think the old Motorola Star Tacs had such a whip aerial.
If the phone gets a strong signal that isn't attenuated by your hand and head then the battery life will be better as the phone won't have to transmit as much power to overcome said hand and head.
Total received signal power is only part of the story with HSPA. The measurements should also take the QUALITY of the signal into account, ie the Ec/N0 figure.
It's possible to have a strong signal and shitty bit error rate and vice versa.
But you majority hardware n00bs here on/. wouldn't have a facking clue about that. It's all about bars, isn't it?
Corporations? We have to stop pretending corporations are 5000 pound three year olds who needs constant berating and correction to be kept in line. There are intelligent PEOPLE in corporations who are making these decisions and they need their arse handed to them on a plate.
It's already been pioneered, done and patented by Fiona Woods here in Australia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona_Wood.
But we all know the USians only give a crap about their own patents, no-one else's. Just look at the shit-fight CSIRO had to go through to get money out of companies in the USA to honour their WiFi related patents.
I suspect it's got something to do with the idle left foot getting involved as well. I drive manuals (stick shift for you Septics) and have a strong preference for them. Occasionally when I drive an automatic I get a brain fart and I am trying to de-assert (haha I am a programmer) the non-existent clutch I end up hitting the brake and wondering WTF is going on. Same goes when one wears thongs (jandles/flipflops) and driving one gets the brake being pressed at the same time as the accelerator. How many old people with low muscle tone are wearing broad soled shoes nowadays?
Nature abhors a vacuum. It seems that no matter how much compute power you have something will always want to snaffle it up. I have a dual PentiumD at work running WinXP and 3GB of RAM. The proprietary 8051 compiler toolset god awful slow (and pegs one of the CPUs) compiling even just a few thousands of lines of code (10's of seconds with lots of GUI seizures) because I think for some reason the compiler and IDE are running a crapload of inefficient python in the backend. Don't even get me started on how long it takes to upload the frickin' binary to the target on JTAG. My debug cycles take far too long.
My point is the compilation of my code base should be done literally in the blink of an eye but the developers saw fit to use a framework that depends on brute CPU power to do relatively simple stuff. A colleague writes VB.net apps to and sometimes it's like being back in 1989 watching.net draw all the elements of the GUI on the screen when you open it or change tabs. Fsck knows how this has come to pass in 2010 and why it's acceptable.
So really, blame the programmers for making your beast of a PC slow and waiting around. This notion of massive language abstraction and wanting to use scripting languages ('coz it's easier, apparently) and just-in-time this and that is what is slowing computers down. And hard disks.
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Sergei, is that you?
JeffK's little known book "HTML for teh Slobbergoat" seemed to be the basis for layout on the earlier sites like Myspace. Like Google Facebook is white, clean and consistent and not riddled with ads making it easy to take in information - especially important for anyone who has grown out of drawing on their pencil case. If Rupert Murdoch actually had taken the time to look at some Myspace pages he wouldn't have felt compelled to buy it for the ridiculous money he paid for that turkey.
Thank Christ. 2001 was great - 2010 was a dogs breakfast. 2061 and 3001 are hopefully forever left to the readers imagination.
This eavesdropping is not really a concern to governments. They just tap at an exchange and listen to the nice G.711 data no matter where the target of interest is located with their mobile, be it GSM or 3G. I think this trick is more useful for the casual user and could return us to the old days of listening to calls on the old analogue systems (like AMPS) with a scanner and narrowband FM demodulator. I am interested to find out how they got enough info together to hack and reprogram the phone!
They've lumped half the plant species into a group they say are un-American communist sympathisers (and so should be exterminated)!
Like the Google saga started when one Chinese upper echelon member of the Communist Party found a search on his name revealed unsavoury information and declared war on Google - another member may have found their child using VoIP and decided this discount voice comms thingy wasn't going to threaten his personal 80% stake in China Telecom.
If the do-badders who have it in for the USA and the West have learned anything, it's how to force an empire to it's knees by making them blow all their money. The USA did it by brute force outspending the Soviet Union and now the do-badders will achieve the same to the USA by causing them to blow cash they don't have on totally non-constructive adventures like fighting in the middle east and pissing billions away on useless homeland security ventures.
In my experience most people misidentify pedestrian phenomena and call it a UFO. And being New Zealand I bet most of the sightings occur around Guy Fawkes night.
Horsecrap. I paid for and played UT2004 on Linux only with a GF4 card. I had a great time. I tried the UT3 demo on Windows and alas, it was not as fun as Unreal Tournament or UT2004. So I didn't buy it.
Er... yes. I have worked and maintained a SCADA system at a site that had a large process and control network that under no circumstances ever connected to any other network in any way, shape or form. It just seems intrinsically negligent and stupid to do otherwise. It wasn't hard to maintain even if it meant sneakernet had to be used to get things done - but then I had one machine on my desk for regular networking and another machine on the plant network and used USB keys to install vendor patches and virus database updates to the SCADA system. I am appalled at the assertion that US nuclear power plants are somehow connected to the Internet, even in an obfuscated way. Internet connected SCADA networks might be OK if your plant is manufacturing Mars Bars but for anything critical like utilities or other places where a compromised process network could create a public hazard then it's not on.
Why? I don't recall where I heard it but Lucas apparently said he was selling merchandise and toys, not movies. Keep an eye out for the next run of Jar Jar figurines at you local KMart.
I am only responding to the headline's assertion that it's aliens - which has the wrong assumption that UFO are other worldly craft.
I've been interested in UFOs since I was a kid but have become very incredulous as I have become older. Even when investigating UFO reports for a UFO group I was in demonstrated to me that most people are not very good logical thinkers and also have no idea what they are looking at in the sky and will frame what they see against their own limited experiences. I am currently reading Carl Sagan's Demon Haunted Worlds - long overdue for me and a highly recommended read. Aliens, if indeed they are visiting the bases, have to be the absolute last resort explanation until all other more earthly possibilities are exhausted. I wonder how hard the guys involved in this book have worked at testing and eliminating all the sensible hypothesis they can come up with before arriving at aliens?
And his open sores project is un-American Communist!
OK, point taken. He doesn't seem to use he economics training in that case. I think his minders and advisers need to be recycled. At least Mal', even if he was bluffing, gave the impression he knew what he was on about or at least we well briefed.
Hardly implausible, Tony. You're not a techhead, you're not an economist and you certainly aren't Prime Minister material. I'd vote Liberal if Mal' was leader of the opposition but Tony is the Gimp without a mask on. BTW, Billion already have a GPON home router ready to go on the new upgraded NBN.
I agree. I don't see why modern mobile phones like the touchscreen type couldn't have a retractable stiff-but-flexible-wire aerial (that's antenna for you Seppos) you could pull out in marginal signal areas. If not that then perhaps an aerial on the top that flips out on a hinge would be good too. I think the old Motorola Star Tacs had such a whip aerial. If the phone gets a strong signal that isn't attenuated by your hand and head then the battery life will be better as the phone won't have to transmit as much power to overcome said hand and head.
Total received signal power is only part of the story with HSPA. The measurements should also take the QUALITY of the signal into account, ie the Ec/N0 figure. It's possible to have a strong signal and shitty bit error rate and vice versa. But you majority hardware n00bs here on /. wouldn't have a facking clue about that. It's all about bars, isn't it?
Corporations? We have to stop pretending corporations are 5000 pound three year olds who needs constant berating and correction to be kept in line. There are intelligent PEOPLE in corporations who are making these decisions and they need their arse handed to them on a plate.
It's already been pioneered, done and patented by Fiona Woods here in Australia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona_Wood. But we all know the USians only give a crap about their own patents, no-one else's. Just look at the shit-fight CSIRO had to go through to get money out of companies in the USA to honour their WiFi related patents.
You stupid twat!
If you don't like it then I suggest you vote with your plates of meat.
I suspect it's got something to do with the idle left foot getting involved as well. I drive manuals (stick shift for you Septics) and have a strong preference for them. Occasionally when I drive an automatic I get a brain fart and I am trying to de-assert (haha I am a programmer) the non-existent clutch I end up hitting the brake and wondering WTF is going on. Same goes when one wears thongs (jandles/flipflops) and driving one gets the brake being pressed at the same time as the accelerator. How many old people with low muscle tone are wearing broad soled shoes nowadays?
Nature abhors a vacuum. It seems that no matter how much compute power you have something will always want to snaffle it up. I have a dual PentiumD at work running WinXP and 3GB of RAM. The proprietary 8051 compiler toolset god awful slow (and pegs one of the CPUs) compiling even just a few thousands of lines of code (10's of seconds with lots of GUI seizures) because I think for some reason the compiler and IDE are running a crapload of inefficient python in the backend. Don't even get me started on how long it takes to upload the frickin' binary to the target on JTAG. My debug cycles take far too long. My point is the compilation of my code base should be done literally in the blink of an eye but the developers saw fit to use a framework that depends on brute CPU power to do relatively simple stuff. A colleague writes VB.net apps to and sometimes it's like being back in 1989 watching .net draw all the elements of the GUI on the screen when you open it or change tabs. Fsck knows how this has come to pass in 2010 and why it's acceptable.
So really, blame the programmers for making your beast of a PC slow and waiting around. This notion of massive language abstraction and wanting to use scripting languages ('coz it's easier, apparently) and just-in-time this and that is what is slowing computers down. And hard disks.
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