It is indeed very useful, if you can eyeball either sat imagery or a topo map (both of which are available from Google of course) you can easily identify exactly where you're at. The problem with doing this (normally) is two fold. First, you have to have access to the map (Google of course had solved this already). Second, you have to know what map to view, or in this case, what portion of the Earth to look at and establish you location. In this case, Google is simply pulling the right map for you...you can do the rest. Of course this isn't really comparable to a GPS, but it is quite useful in a pinch if you're someplace completely foreign to you. I'll use it.
Does anyone else see the resemblance between the GNU icon used as a label on this story and a piece of poo? I know this is waaaaaay off topic (mod me down if you must) but it looks like a big whistling cartoon turd. Some long lost relative of Mr. Hankey's? Anyway, that is all.
I don't know the answer to your question, but it raises an interesting point. Sony's claim could easily be, 'You find out we were doing something wrong by doing something wrong.' Two wrongs not making a right and whatnot. Same concept as in law enforcement (sorry, I don't know legal terms). They've still broken copyright which discovery process wont excuse, but it will be interesting to see if Sony tries to hide behind such a claim. As an aside, it's hilarious to watch huge companies that like to swing copyright like a club, bludgeoning those who dare not take it seriously enough turn right around and ignore it when it suits them.
So does O.C. spray (speaking from experience). Torture? Sure, both COULD be say if someone were to strap me down and use either in an attempt to obtain information or to procure a false confession from me, etc. If, on the other hand I am tasered or sprayed because I am threatening someone and as such the action is an alternative to being my shot, then please...tase away. "Ouch, that hurts" alone does not constitute torture.
I use a Nokia N800 tablet and love everything about it...except for the lack of a physical keyboard. Give me a physical tactil keyboard over on screen any day. I'll be buying the N810 if for no other reason than the slide out thumboard.
I buy Windows AND this new stuff (developed at a publically funded U.), and THEN I'll have a safe PC that I can utterly neglect and still feel responsible? Great...fantastic.
I have a cell phone with service from my provider (ATT). My service consist of the cheapest voice plan I can obtain plus unlimited data and essentially acts only as a Bluetooth data modem. I carry a Nokia N800 for all of my voice, data, chat, messaging, etc. needs (VoIP, for voice) because there is no cell phone that is 'open' enough to fill my needs. Heck, I can even VTC from my 'phone'. The quantity and quality of the apps/OS mods developed are simply amazing. I truly have a Linux machine at my disposal. I wish the jackass at Symbian luck, as that's about all he's got to rely on. At this point, I don't much care about Google's phone OS because I have what I need in the N800. Well, perhaps I'll buy an N810 so I have a hardware thumb board.;)
That's like asking why I "tolerate" the speed limit, or why I tolerate my bank demanding I pay my mortgage after signing the contract to do so (okay, so those are kind of crappy examples). Their product is licensed such that CentOS can and (I must say I am very grateful for) does make use of the source code. What's the problem? It's not as though RedHat has any say in the matter. The article even points out; "After all, the vast majority of the packages in RHEL were not created by Red Hat, and they are all governed by the GPL, which is absolutely clear about the obligation to redistribute code." Well duh! Someone could just as easily claim that MySQL is losing money because distro XYZ includes it when the end user could be paying MySQL for installation and configuration support. And so on. The article is basically drivel IMO by someone who comprehends what the GPL is, but doesn't "get it" or the real value it represents.
This kind of crap drives me batty. Qualifier: I'm not a hippie. I don't like the Prius. I vote conservative (do NOT confuse this for Republican). Anyway, if you want to make a difference, park your damn car and ride your bike. Don't own a bike? Take a months worth of gas money and buy a really REALLY nice one. Live too far to commute? You probably don't (you'll get used to the distance), but if you really do, move closer to work. Winter too harsh? Buy studded tires (as in studded car tires for snow and ice) for you bike and wear winter riding clothes. We in the US are a bunch of whiny, bitchy cry-babies. We want to fix things by making others do something about the problem of our own causing (make the engines pollute less, not me). I'm all for efficient engines and such, but alternatives already exist. Each one of us has the ability to make changes TODAY that will have an enormous impact. Not only that, but I AND the hippies will be happy. I'll have the pleasure of not seeing bazillions of dollars go to oppressive middle-eastern countries that would just assume we all die and some communist jackass in South America, and hippies will stop crying about inconvenient truths and whatnot and go back to eating $8 double-dip cones at Ben and Jerry's. Keep your car, but use it only when you really need to, not when you're too lazy not to.
While Ubuntu on the desktop is the bee's knees, server leaves me unimpressed. While I'm not expecting a "big-iron" capable monster with every service imaginable, what I would expect is the "Ubuntu touch"; The most useful, advanced and friendly services at the "administrator's" fingertips, easily managed, configured, etc. LAMP is a nice start, but how about a full sweet of ready to go "stuff". XMPP, SIP, VPN, Doc Mgt, etc. If Ubuntu could do for servers what they've done for desktops, well, that would be really good.;) In the interim, I'll stick with CentOS (no, I'm not comparing CentOS to Ubuntu).
I'm guessing that they in no way account for servers purchased without an OS that (the vast majority of which) end up as Linux boxes. I have purchased hundreds of Dell servers, all with no OS and all but a couple have been built out with CentOS. I'm just speculating, but I'd guess the numbers are vastly greater if only there was an accurate means of tracking what OS winds up on bare server shipments.
This is one of the reasons the 'fork' exists. It's not worth getting worked up over. Sun has a particular license and that's their decision. Fine. If the community at large wants something different, they'll do it differently and it will become the defacto standard. Done.
I hate (make that loathe) Skype and as such, don't use it. I've used the built in (after some updates) SIP capabilities of the N800 with 3 VoIP carriers (AxVoice, ThinkBright and Telasip). No complaints.
What do you mean "shame about VoIP"? It works great (as does the sound) with any VoIP carrier without using front-end software. The SIP setup is as easy as BT or 802.11. And my BT headset works like a champ.
I have to hand it to Nokia. I have had little experience with their products (don't and never have owned a Nokia cell phone), until recently. I'm using a bunch of Nokia N800 Internet Tablets for a project and they're great (cue Tony the Tiger)! Seriously, if you have a Bluetooth phone and don't have an N800, you're missing it. I'm seriously considering dumping voice service and going to a data only package, using the N800 with SIP for my voice needs. I'm looking forward to what Nokia has in the works for the next gen (WiMax maybe), but in the interim I will enjoy the onslaught of great FOSS projects running on the Maemo platform usable on the N800. Nokia has really produced a great open hardware platform in the N800 and I applaud them for their 'walking the walk'.
I was just having a conversation with a buddy of mine about this subject this afternoon. Rather than desktop/laptop prices though, our talk centered around servers. I was pricing Dell blade servers today. Do you know you can get a blade chassis with 10 blades 'loaded to the gills' for around $60K? Now granted, that may not be small potatoes, but for the horsepower involved (each blade has dual 3GHz Quad cores with 16GB RAM and dual 146GB drives) it's peanuts. My use revolves around one use and one use only...Xen on CentOS. That $60k is a lot of jack to the average/.er, but compared to what I would have had to (and did) settle for a couple of years ago, it's practically free. Man, what a great time to be in this industry. The more commoditized (yeah, I realize that probably isn't even a slang term) hardware becomes, the better for me/us/anyone using FOSS solutions. Love it! Love it! Love it!!!
This is indicative of our legal/law enforcement mindset (or what it's becoming) in our society. I am a staunch (and by staunch I mean I loath the current Rep party and must consider myself an independant) conservative. Anyway, some of you might have read a while back that a group of Hash runners (as in the Hash House Harriers running club) were arrested for marking their urban trail with flour. Why? Someone saw the 'white powder' on the ground and of course assumed that it was a terrorist bio-weapon attack of some sort. The HAZMAT guys were sent. The flour was discovered to be just that. The problem is, once the authorities got their teeth in this, they wouldn't let go. Rather than chuckle and go their merry way, they charged the 'offenders' with Breach of the Peace in the First Degree...a Class D felony. This whole story is known as the Hamburger Hash Affair. To contrast this, I have spent the last year and a half living in a very out of the way part of the middle east. Americans (of which I am one) are not liked here of course. One day while on a hash run, myself and the other Hare were laying track (using flour) and the local police observed us in action. They IMMEDIATELY stopped us and began rather intense questioning. Once we explained what we were doing and showed them it was okay by tasting the flour, they let us go and even wished us luck. Somehow it seems like a little role reversal here. We seem (as a society) to have adopted the "bust'em for somethin'" mentality. I don't advocate letting people get away with crimes, but this is getting ridiculous.
Don't know about DHS, but DoD requires this annually. Don't finish it, bad things happen. It's not the greatest training, but it's 'okay' and repeating it annually drives it home. The problem is that many of the breaches are not in fact the fault of (or involving) end-users. Rather, they can be traced back to poor perimeter security, lack of patching, etc...all responsibility of admin types.
I'll take a stab at this (based on my experiences) and say that answer is probably that Axis makes a great (aside from the security flaws) camera. They're reliable, tough, etc. They really are quite nice and overall you'd be pressed to find as good a camera in USB flavor.
I had a similar need some time ago but didn't like the solutions out there. I ended up setting up an OpenVPN server (listening on 443 to ease outbound firewall penetration). When the user needed help, they connected to my VPN server, I connected to it (if I was not in the office) and then did as I pleased (RDP, SSH, what have you). In this manner, I had a guarantee of security (which I was able to control) and ease of use on the customer's part (all they had to do was fire up an OpenVPN connection). There was obviously a bit more to this (setup on client side, etc.) than described here, but no biggie.
I concur which is also why I have to throw the BS flag on this. There's no concievable way they "didn't know". Even in the case of human oversight, there are numerous automated systems that will catch it. The current scenario is simply not possible.
That classified networks are not Internet connected. That's not to say that some dumbass didn't store classified materials on teh NIPR (unlcass, Internet connected DoD network) but the real paydirt that China's looking for isn't going to be found on a publically connected system. Let me know when they splice some fiber, crack some HAIPE crypto and get some good stuff. Not gonna happen.
'Uh, how many people can hold their breath for just under 5 minutes? Wait, I'll answer for you: Not even many SEALS I know can hold out that long without moving.' Ooooo...your sharp, biting whit and grasp of the obvious is striking. Though in the future you might consider SCUBA gear. And as for NAVSOC/NECC (SEALs et al), they would love to use this sort of thing with a Dräger. Know a lot of SEALs do you? Jackass.
...isn't this a bit like calling a remote control car a robot? They are not autonomous or anything, they're basically the same 'bots' that EOD uses but with a SAW instead of a 12GA attached. If I push a button, it does X; move a lever, Y, etc. This portrayal seems a bit FUDdy.
Just my two cents.
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It is indeed very useful, if you can eyeball either sat imagery or a topo map (both of which are available from Google of course) you can easily identify exactly where you're at. The problem with doing this (normally) is two fold. First, you have to have access to the map (Google of course had solved this already). Second, you have to know what map to view, or in this case, what portion of the Earth to look at and establish you location. In this case, Google is simply pulling the right map for you...you can do the rest. Of course this isn't really comparable to a GPS, but it is quite useful in a pinch if you're someplace completely foreign to you. I'll use it.
How did this submission get green lit?!?! This is completely irresponsible. Cripes Taco, go back to posting dupes or something.
Does anyone else see the resemblance between the GNU icon used as a label on this story and a piece of poo? I know this is waaaaaay off topic (mod me down if you must) but it looks like a big whistling cartoon turd. Some long lost relative of Mr. Hankey's? Anyway, that is all.
I don't know the answer to your question, but it raises an interesting point. Sony's claim could easily be, 'You find out we were doing something wrong by doing something wrong.' Two wrongs not making a right and whatnot. Same concept as in law enforcement (sorry, I don't know legal terms). They've still broken copyright which discovery process wont excuse, but it will be interesting to see if Sony tries to hide behind such a claim. As an aside, it's hilarious to watch huge companies that like to swing copyright like a club, bludgeoning those who dare not take it seriously enough turn right around and ignore it when it suits them.
So does O.C. spray (speaking from experience). Torture? Sure, both COULD be say if someone were to strap me down and use either in an attempt to obtain information or to procure a false confession from me, etc. If, on the other hand I am tasered or sprayed because I am threatening someone and as such the action is an alternative to being my shot, then please...tase away. "Ouch, that hurts" alone does not constitute torture.
I use a Nokia N800 tablet and love everything about it...except for the lack of a physical keyboard. Give me a physical tactil keyboard over on screen any day. I'll be buying the N810 if for no other reason than the slide out thumboard.
I buy Windows AND this new stuff (developed at a publically funded U.), and THEN I'll have a safe PC that I can utterly neglect and still feel responsible? Great...fantastic.
I have a cell phone with service from my provider (ATT). My service consist of the cheapest voice plan I can obtain plus unlimited data and essentially acts only as a Bluetooth data modem. I carry a Nokia N800 for all of my voice, data, chat, messaging, etc. needs (VoIP, for voice) because there is no cell phone that is 'open' enough to fill my needs. Heck, I can even VTC from my 'phone'. The quantity and quality of the apps/OS mods developed are simply amazing. I truly have a Linux machine at my disposal. I wish the jackass at Symbian luck, as that's about all he's got to rely on. At this point, I don't much care about Google's phone OS because I have what I need in the N800. Well, perhaps I'll buy an N810 so I have a hardware thumb board. ;)
That's like asking why I "tolerate" the speed limit, or why I tolerate my bank demanding I pay my mortgage after signing the contract to do so (okay, so those are kind of crappy examples). Their product is licensed such that CentOS can and (I must say I am very grateful for) does make use of the source code. What's the problem? It's not as though RedHat has any say in the matter. The article even points out; "After all, the vast majority of the packages in RHEL were not created by Red Hat, and they are all governed by the GPL, which is absolutely clear about the obligation to redistribute code." Well duh! Someone could just as easily claim that MySQL is losing money because distro XYZ includes it when the end user could be paying MySQL for installation and configuration support. And so on. The article is basically drivel IMO by someone who comprehends what the GPL is, but doesn't "get it" or the real value it represents.
This kind of crap drives me batty. Qualifier: I'm not a hippie. I don't like the Prius. I vote conservative (do NOT confuse this for Republican). Anyway, if you want to make a difference, park your damn car and ride your bike. Don't own a bike? Take a months worth of gas money and buy a really REALLY nice one. Live too far to commute? You probably don't (you'll get used to the distance), but if you really do, move closer to work. Winter too harsh? Buy studded tires (as in studded car tires for snow and ice) for you bike and wear winter riding clothes. We in the US are a bunch of whiny, bitchy cry-babies. We want to fix things by making others do something about the problem of our own causing (make the engines pollute less, not me). I'm all for efficient engines and such, but alternatives already exist. Each one of us has the ability to make changes TODAY that will have an enormous impact. Not only that, but I AND the hippies will be happy. I'll have the pleasure of not seeing bazillions of dollars go to oppressive middle-eastern countries that would just assume we all die and some communist jackass in South America, and hippies will stop crying about inconvenient truths and whatnot and go back to eating $8 double-dip cones at Ben and Jerry's. Keep your car, but use it only when you really need to, not when you're too lazy not to.
While Ubuntu on the desktop is the bee's knees, server leaves me unimpressed. While I'm not expecting a "big-iron" capable monster with every service imaginable, what I would expect is the "Ubuntu touch"; The most useful, advanced and friendly services at the "administrator's" fingertips, easily managed, configured, etc. LAMP is a nice start, but how about a full sweet of ready to go "stuff". XMPP, SIP, VPN, Doc Mgt, etc. If Ubuntu could do for servers what they've done for desktops, well, that would be really good. ;) In the interim, I'll stick with CentOS (no, I'm not comparing CentOS to Ubuntu).
I'm guessing that they in no way account for servers purchased without an OS that (the vast majority of which) end up as Linux boxes. I have purchased hundreds of Dell servers, all with no OS and all but a couple have been built out with CentOS. I'm just speculating, but I'd guess the numbers are vastly greater if only there was an accurate means of tracking what OS winds up on bare server shipments.
This is one of the reasons the 'fork' exists. It's not worth getting worked up over. Sun has a particular license and that's their decision. Fine. If the community at large wants something different, they'll do it differently and it will become the defacto standard. Done.
I hate (make that loathe) Skype and as such, don't use it. I've used the built in (after some updates) SIP capabilities of the N800 with 3 VoIP carriers (AxVoice, ThinkBright and Telasip). No complaints.
What do you mean "shame about VoIP"? It works great (as does the sound) with any VoIP carrier without using front-end software. The SIP setup is as easy as BT or 802.11. And my BT headset works like a champ.
I have to hand it to Nokia. I have had little experience with their products (don't and never have owned a Nokia cell phone), until recently. I'm using a bunch of Nokia N800 Internet Tablets for a project and they're great (cue Tony the Tiger)! Seriously, if you have a Bluetooth phone and don't have an N800, you're missing it. I'm seriously considering dumping voice service and going to a data only package, using the N800 with SIP for my voice needs. I'm looking forward to what Nokia has in the works for the next gen (WiMax maybe), but in the interim I will enjoy the onslaught of great FOSS projects running on the Maemo platform usable on the N800. Nokia has really produced a great open hardware platform in the N800 and I applaud them for their 'walking the walk'.
I was just having a conversation with a buddy of mine about this subject this afternoon. Rather than desktop/laptop prices though, our talk centered around servers. I was pricing Dell blade servers today. Do you know you can get a blade chassis with 10 blades 'loaded to the gills' for around $60K? Now granted, that may not be small potatoes, but for the horsepower involved (each blade has dual 3GHz Quad cores with 16GB RAM and dual 146GB drives) it's peanuts. My use revolves around one use and one use only...Xen on CentOS. That $60k is a lot of jack to the average /.er, but compared to what I would have had to (and did) settle for a couple of years ago, it's practically free. Man, what a great time to be in this industry. The more commoditized (yeah, I realize that probably isn't even a slang term) hardware becomes, the better for me/us/anyone using FOSS solutions. Love it! Love it! Love it!!!
This is indicative of our legal/law enforcement mindset (or what it's becoming) in our society. I am a staunch (and by staunch I mean I loath the current Rep party and must consider myself an independant) conservative. Anyway, some of you might have read a while back that a group of Hash runners (as in the Hash House Harriers running club) were arrested for marking their urban trail with flour. Why? Someone saw the 'white powder' on the ground and of course assumed that it was a terrorist bio-weapon attack of some sort. The HAZMAT guys were sent. The flour was discovered to be just that. The problem is, once the authorities got their teeth in this, they wouldn't let go. Rather than chuckle and go their merry way, they charged the 'offenders' with Breach of the Peace in the First Degree...a Class D felony. This whole story is known as the Hamburger Hash Affair. To contrast this, I have spent the last year and a half living in a very out of the way part of the middle east. Americans (of which I am one) are not liked here of course. One day while on a hash run, myself and the other Hare were laying track (using flour) and the local police observed us in action. They IMMEDIATELY stopped us and began rather intense questioning. Once we explained what we were doing and showed them it was okay by tasting the flour, they let us go and even wished us luck. Somehow it seems like a little role reversal here. We seem (as a society) to have adopted the "bust'em for somethin'" mentality. I don't advocate letting people get away with crimes, but this is getting ridiculous.
Don't know about DHS, but DoD requires this annually. Don't finish it, bad things happen. It's not the greatest training, but it's 'okay' and repeating it annually drives it home. The problem is that many of the breaches are not in fact the fault of (or involving) end-users. Rather, they can be traced back to poor perimeter security, lack of patching, etc...all responsibility of admin types.
I'll take a stab at this (based on my experiences) and say that answer is probably that Axis makes a great (aside from the security flaws) camera. They're reliable, tough, etc. They really are quite nice and overall you'd be pressed to find as good a camera in USB flavor.
I had a similar need some time ago but didn't like the solutions out there. I ended up setting up an OpenVPN server (listening on 443 to ease outbound firewall penetration). When the user needed help, they connected to my VPN server, I connected to it (if I was not in the office) and then did as I pleased (RDP, SSH, what have you). In this manner, I had a guarantee of security (which I was able to control) and ease of use on the customer's part (all they had to do was fire up an OpenVPN connection). There was obviously a bit more to this (setup on client side, etc.) than described here, but no biggie.
I concur which is also why I have to throw the BS flag on this. There's no concievable way they "didn't know". Even in the case of human oversight, there are numerous automated systems that will catch it. The current scenario is simply not possible.
That classified networks are not Internet connected. That's not to say that some dumbass didn't store classified materials on teh NIPR (unlcass, Internet connected DoD network) but the real paydirt that China's looking for isn't going to be found on a publically connected system. Let me know when they splice some fiber, crack some HAIPE crypto and get some good stuff. Not gonna happen.
'Uh, how many people can hold their breath for just under 5 minutes? Wait, I'll answer for you: Not even many SEALS I know can hold out that long without moving.' Ooooo...your sharp, biting whit and grasp of the obvious is striking. Though in the future you might consider SCUBA gear. And as for NAVSOC/NECC (SEALs et al), they would love to use this sort of thing with a Dräger. Know a lot of SEALs do you? Jackass.
...isn't this a bit like calling a remote control car a robot? They are not autonomous or anything, they're basically the same 'bots' that EOD uses but with a SAW instead of a 12GA attached. If I push a button, it does X; move a lever, Y, etc. This portrayal seems a bit FUDdy. Just my two cents.