Just last week I set up a user account on my Linux box for my roommate. I partitioned his 80GB external hard drive so that he'd have a 1GB ex3 and a 79GB FAT32 partition.
The ext3 partition is mounted under/home/rensik, and the FAT32 partition under/home/rensik/Desktop.
For the past year and a half, my home directory has resided on my external 250GB drive, which might get connected to any of three machines.
No it doesn't...ATI's firmware is useless to NVidia, because their hardware is completely incompatible; NVidia can't make heads or tails of ATI's firmware. Thus, no secrets are lost, and no expense incurred.
I don't think you can use that as a logical response, because the concept of the effects of art and technology as they benefit the group is not instinctive.
Twice now, I've had to get ahold of a person with one of those services. For whatever reason, it drops calls from cel networks, rather than let me speak my name.
Having only a cel phone, and not having control over its CallerID blocking (it's not technically my phone), those services are a pain.
To "hide" the fingerprint, we would need to have a modulation capability at least one (and probably more) order of magnitude faster than what is being used to generate the pulse.
You could hide it a different way...say, by using variable active components to distort the signal. However, the components' effects must be very small, and their use very precise; You want to emulate different flaw characteristics, not be recognizable for that emulation.
From practical terms, why would your card be engineered to have greater modulation capability than the technology requires for communication? That wouldn't be very efficient.
No, it wouldn't. But it might be more secure, which makes me think this technique would be useful in military settings. Heck...the military has been using software-modulated voice radio. The balance of over-engineering vs security there is rather obvious.
These pulses would themselves be subject to exactly the same type of fingerprinting due to the same random fabrication errors.
Still, they'd require equipment of higher precision to identify them.
Bad idea. Gecko isn't perfect...Security holes are found and fixed every week.
If you replace Microsoft's HTML rendering code with Gecko, you won't have done any better than change the set of bugs. At worst, you've created a target for crackers whose codebase is shared across many operating systems, and not just those sold by Microsoft.
So junk intended for Windows will, at best, cause crashes and misbehavior in Firefox, Galeon, etc. on Linux. At the worst, it could start showing up on your filesystem anywhere your users have write access.
Imagine malware that creates ~/.bin/sudo and adds the folder to your ~/.bashrc and ~/.xsession... Next thing you know, that corporate web server you maintain is hosting a phishing site.
Crackers don't do this (much) now, because Gecko doesn't have a very large audience...Poorly administered Windows computers with peoples' financial information stored in "c:\Windows\Temporary Internet Files" make for big, fat targets. But phishing tempts those who can figure it out.
I'm not going to buy HD-DVD or Blu-Ray movies until I can watch them under Linux. If I'm going to splurge on electronics, it's going to be for my computer, not some specific-purpose device.
Try getting a decent calculator, like a TI89/92 or an HP 48G+ (I have the latter). They do symbolic math just fine, and can thus give you exact answers.
A captcha-hater need only load the ROM from one of these calculators into an emulator, copy the ROM and emulator to each of the computers, and train the worker in how to enter the calculations.
So "G" is a measurement? I always thought 1G, 2G and 3G were labels applied to generations. And all you have to do to have "4G" is produce a product sufficiently different from previous generations.
Sigh...I remember when I was five or six. I'd go to Radio shack and get my grandfather to buy half the items on the shelf, including four or five breadboards.
Then I'd go home, and plug things together until I had odd little circuits. Most of them didn't work, but some of them did. And some of them surprised me. I remember taking a tuning knob out of a CB and stuffed it into a breadboard. I didn't really expect the circuit to work; I just wanted to see a tuning knob sticking out of a breadboard. I was shocked when the speaker made rhythmic clicking sounds.
Yes, my favorite movie at the time was Short Circuit. But I chose my CB handle at the time (and then my BBS handle, and then my Slashdot handle) based on my interest in electronics.
My first exposure to electronics was a Radioshack children's kit, the Robot20. Then I upgraded to their 200 kit, and then the 300.
Transferring large files is not the primary use of high-bandwidth connections. Instead, streaming data and clusters get big bang out of it. 10Gb isn't targeted at consumers or gamers, it's targeted at businesses with lots of fresh data to push around.
Here's a short list of companies for whom 10Gb Ethernet likely comes in handy:
Google
Pixar
IBM
Amazon.com
And then there are systems on the lower end of the Top 500 supercomputers list.
If I own a carpark, should I be allowed to turn away people based on what car they drive? If I own a hotel, should I be allowed to turn away people based on their religion?
Sure, if the car's weight can cause damage to your park. (For instance, motorcycle kickstands can leave dents in tar parking lots on hot summer days.) Also, some vehicles are so wide as to make it difficult to use parking spaces adjacent to them, which means they're using more than their alloted one space. And then, of course, there's height clearance issues.
As for hotels and religion, why not? If the swingers' club and the church group spend their time heckling each other, you might be faced with demands for refunds. If the two groups break out into a brawl, you'd have failed in your responsibilities to your customers' health.
As for how this applies to NYT videos and Linux, perhaps they're worried about content-copying servers and unauthorized news aggregating websites. Last I checked, it was cheaper (and thus more profitable) to script those things with a few simple Linux tools than to buy Windows software that does it for you.
Herpes doesn't just affect the part of the body that condoms are designed for. Nearby surfaces can get infected and transmit the disease as well. And that's not even mentioning fellatio.
Gah...I hate being specific about sex on Slashdot...makes me think someone's going to mod me down.
What's really needed is sex-ed refresher courses throughout highschool and college. Beyond that fifteen-minute video in middle school (Which students could be excused from if it bothered them) and a forty minutes of instruction in four years of high school, nobody in the educational system has bothered to teach me anything about STDs and safe and unsafe sex practices.
Well, you learn a little in the First Aid class, but I had to pay for that...
The media is for entertainment, not education. (Seriously, even political talking heads are merely entertainers with a political focus.) And STDs need to be about education, not entertainment.
Hm. I wonder if I could get one of the student organizations at my college to offer gifts to anyone who presents proof that they've recently had an STD test battery.
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I know a guy who had to telnet into the SMTP port to send his mail once.
The guy who received the message was quite amused to watch mutt correct its own typing mistakes.
Just last week I set up a user account on my Linux box for my roommate. I partitioned his 80GB external hard drive so that he'd have a 1GB ex3 and a 79GB FAT32 partition.
/home/rensik, and the FAT32 partition under /home/rensik/Desktop.
The ext3 partition is mounted under
For the past year and a half, my home directory has resided on my external 250GB drive, which might get connected to any of three machines.
I'm familiar with those...my grandfather's dealing with post-polio, and I'm the only family member who comes around with regularity.
I know what he's going through.
No, he's asking for permission to redistribute binary firmware under the BSD license.
No it doesn't...ATI's firmware is useless to NVidia, because their hardware is completely incompatible; NVidia can't make heads or tails of ATI's firmware. Thus, no secrets are lost, and no expense incurred.
Your analogy doesn't work...A Java interpreter is equivalent to the FPGA, not the program loaded on it.
I don't think you can use that as a logical response, because the concept of the effects of art and technology as they benefit the group is not instinctive.
The last time I did that, I got chewed out royally by the phone's owner. :-/
Twice now, I've had to get ahold of a person with one of those services. For whatever reason, it drops calls from cel networks, rather than let me speak my name.
Having only a cel phone, and not having control over its CallerID blocking (it's not technically my phone), those services are a pain.
To "hide" the fingerprint, we would need to have a modulation capability at least one (and probably more) order of magnitude faster than what is being used to generate the pulse.
You could hide it a different way...say, by using variable active components to distort the signal. However, the components' effects must be very small, and their use very precise; You want to emulate different flaw characteristics, not be recognizable for that emulation.
From practical terms, why would your card be engineered to have greater modulation capability than the technology requires for communication? That wouldn't be very efficient.
No, it wouldn't. But it might be more secure, which makes me think this technique would be useful in military settings. Heck...the military has been using software-modulated voice radio. The balance of over-engineering vs security there is rather obvious.
These pulses would themselves be subject to exactly the same type of fingerprinting due to the same random fabrication errors.
Still, they'd require equipment of higher precision to identify them.
Bad idea. Gecko isn't perfect...Security holes are found and fixed every week.
... Next thing you know, that corporate web server you maintain is hosting a phishing site.
If you replace Microsoft's HTML rendering code with Gecko, you won't have done any better than change the set of bugs. At worst, you've created a target for crackers whose codebase is shared across many operating systems, and not just those sold by Microsoft.
So junk intended for Windows will, at best, cause crashes and misbehavior in Firefox, Galeon, etc. on Linux. At the worst, it could start showing up on your filesystem anywhere your users have write access.
Imagine malware that creates ~/.bin/sudo and adds the folder to your ~/.bashrc and ~/.xsession
Crackers don't do this (much) now, because Gecko doesn't have a very large audience...Poorly administered Windows computers with peoples' financial information stored in "c:\Windows\Temporary Internet Files" make for big, fat targets. But phishing tempts those who can figure it out.
Take four sewing needles, heat them up, and embed them in the corners of a plastic d4.
Bingo! Caltrop.
I'm not going to buy HD-DVD or Blu-Ray movies until I can watch them under Linux. If I'm going to splurge on electronics, it's going to be for my computer, not some specific-purpose device.
Yes, I know that means I'll be waiting a while.
Also, using draft-N offers a minor measure of additional security, if he goes with one of the less interoperable product lines.
Try getting a decent calculator, like a TI89/92 or an HP 48G+ (I have the latter). They do symbolic math just fine, and can thus give you exact answers.
A captcha-hater need only load the ROM from one of these calculators into an emulator, copy the ROM and emulator to each of the computers, and train the worker in how to enter the calculations.
So "G" is a measurement? I always thought 1G, 2G and 3G were labels applied to generations. And all you have to do to have "4G" is produce a product sufficiently different from previous generations.
Sigh...I remember when I was five or six. I'd go to Radio shack and get my grandfather to buy half the items on the shelf, including four or five breadboards.
Then I'd go home, and plug things together until I had odd little circuits. Most of them didn't work, but some of them did. And some of them surprised me. I remember taking a tuning knob out of a CB and stuffed it into a breadboard. I didn't really expect the circuit to work; I just wanted to see a tuning knob sticking out of a breadboard. I was shocked when the speaker made rhythmic clicking sounds.
Yes, my favorite movie at the time was Short Circuit. But I chose my CB handle at the time (and then my BBS handle, and then my Slashdot handle) based on my interest in electronics.
My first exposure to electronics was a Radioshack children's kit, the Robot20. Then I upgraded to their 200 kit, and then the 300.
Ah...memories.
Here's a short list of companies for whom 10Gb Ethernet likely comes in handy:
And then there are systems on the lower end of the Top 500 supercomputers list.
If I own a carpark, should I be allowed to turn away people based on what car they drive? If I own a hotel, should I be allowed to turn away people based on their religion?
Sure, if the car's weight can cause damage to your park. (For instance, motorcycle kickstands can leave dents in tar parking lots on hot summer days.) Also, some vehicles are so wide as to make it difficult to use parking spaces adjacent to them, which means they're using more than their alloted one space. And then, of course, there's height clearance issues.
As for hotels and religion, why not? If the swingers' club and the church group spend their time heckling each other, you might be faced with demands for refunds. If the two groups break out into a brawl, you'd have failed in your responsibilities to your customers' health.
As for how this applies to NYT videos and Linux, perhaps they're worried about content-copying servers and unauthorized news aggregating websites. Last I checked, it was cheaper (and thus more profitable) to script those things with a few simple Linux tools than to buy Windows software that does it for you.
Look at some of the other screenshots. The guy ran the 'date' command...those screenshots were made in 2001.
A look at the distro home page has the numerals 2003...maybe that's when it was last updated?
Or that it was?
...is it in the Scrabble dictionary?
Herpes doesn't just affect the part of the body that condoms are designed for. Nearby surfaces can get infected and transmit the disease as well. And that's not even mentioning fellatio.
Gah...I hate being specific about sex on Slashdot...makes me think someone's going to mod me down.
So I'm addicted to computers. What's your point?
What's really needed is sex-ed refresher courses throughout highschool and college. Beyond that fifteen-minute video in middle school (Which students could be excused from if it bothered them) and a forty minutes of instruction in four years of high school, nobody in the educational system has bothered to teach me anything about STDs and safe and unsafe sex practices.
Well, you learn a little in the First Aid class, but I had to pay for that...
The media is for entertainment, not education. (Seriously, even political talking heads are merely entertainers with a political focus.) And STDs need to be about education, not entertainment.
Hm. I wonder if I could get one of the student organizations at my college to offer gifts to anyone who presents proof that they've recently had an STD test battery.