I guess I should know better than to let my helpful side show on slashdot.
Helpful? On/.? Wow, someone go find the Herd of Trolls to beat it out of him:)
Trust _you_ or trust the unhackability of your/. user account? Trusting trust is icky.
Could have at least PGP signed yer post before it goes out of fashion:)
Nice thought... but erm well, what's the Java interpreter going to be written in? Sure as hell it ain't java... Programming languages get down to a single common denominator - machinecode.
Perhaps we need to get someone to implement DWIM() (of userfriendlyness)...
The drive for survival and expansion is self limiting. As we expand, deplete resources and kill off other species, we reduce our capability for survival. Sooner or later, mankind's time will be up, probably leaving behind a burned out and tarmacced over rock. Inhospitable, perhaps, but the cycle will begin again, with new species developing from the ashes of the previous.
Problem with using optic wireless stuff is that you have _real_ ambient problems. In your average office you have rather a lot of flourescent emitters (which will introduce pulsed noise at 50/60Hz). Similarly daylight etc can have a major effect on your SNR. Line of sight can also be a problem (think clouds/rain etc) which tends to make RF a better prospect.
It's possible, and has been done (somewhere else in this post is a link to a laser point to point communications system) and who knows, it might even catch on one day;).
The reason they're slow is error correction.
Lots of ambient IR to interfere with a really fast data transfer.
I'm prepared to bet even modulated at 56k or so there's still a fair chunk of error correction going on.
It's really irritating, since to watch a film backwards (don't knock it, a reverse explosion quite entertaining) you have to put a twist in the film if you want sound:)
But if you take a look at virtually any projector, somewhere near the 'bottom' of the film reel, you'll see a little LED pointed at the film. It's not for effect:))
And the trick I got pointed at was to add 'some' chinagraph pencil over each splice. Time consuming, but bearing in mind that only an idiot doesn't check the film when making it up onto reels (or someone who doesn't mind having the film snap halfway through) it's not too bad.
Actually, at our student cinema, what we did was re-splice each one, for that very reason. But that was more enthusiasm than anything else.
Walking on ice certainly is possible.
But walking on ice (or equivalent) when there are riot police trying to push you back?
Or perhaps trying to climb a wall which has been coated with slime.
The one that annoyed me about SC is the 'cool' weapons (like the templar energy storm, or the ghost lockdown) that just required too much micromanagement to be effective.
Yes, I could fire off a lockdown, but it was too much of a case of clicky clicky clicky clicky. Which annoys me in an RTS. IMHO it should have been possible to have a sort of 'first tank you see, fire a lockdown, and then get stuck in' type game order. But maybe that's a bit complicated.... (then again, I guess giving complex orders could be an advanced feature).
Only reason text based was popular was because there wasn't enough horse power for graphics.
Nope. MUDs are alive and kicking today. And FWIW you will still find a significant number of players on a mud.
Tax is inherently unfair. That said, no one's really come up with a better system yet.
The problem which always winds me up, is the whole income based tax bracket thing. In.uk if you earn more than a certain threshold value, you start paying tax. After a further threshold (IIRC about 30k GBP per year) you start paying tax at 40%.
To my mind, that's completely unfair. If the tax were at a steady (for example) 20% of your income, then it would be a fair system. People earning 50k a year would pay 10 times as much tax as people earning 5k per year. As it is, the 'high earners' get penalised much more for being really good at what they do (I dare say there are some who don't deserve really high salaries, but frankly, to be paid lots you've got to have _something_ that's in demand).
So the top half, prop up the bottom half. Oh and add complexity to the whole tax system.
Oh well, mod me a flame-bait. You know you want to.
I have also had few problems with paypal.
My primary gripe is the fact that because I'm an international customer, I must pay by credit card.
Not a problem, except that 'standard' paypal customers must upgrade their account to be able to recieve the payment (and pay commission).
Then again, my primary usage of it is to transfer funds to someone I know, (server hosting charges) so I'm not too worried.
It's not legislation though, merely a recommendation. So if you want to publicly release news of a hole, then you can still do so. I see it as an attempt at standardising the vulnerability disclosure process.
It's not quite the same situation.
The vulnerability with firestone was an event not really open to explotiation.
The problem with releasing a vulnerability, is that you can pretty much guarantee that soon after a black hat is going to be working on exploit code.
I can see the argument either way, give the software company time to fix the problem, and then disclose to force their hand.
The problem is, if a hacker discovers the weakness, then they _are_ going to use it. They're already breaking the law (or intend to) so additional legal constraints are just going to get ignored.
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An apostrophe is used to indicate missing letters such as in "does not" -"doesn't"
or to indicate ownership as in "The computer belonging to eric" - "Eric's computer".
Have a nice day
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Which is really odd, cos when I saw 'OpenVMS' I assumed Open source OS.
Oh well, so much for downloading that and installing it on a PC for obscurity value.:)
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SAGE runs a sysadmin certification program.
It's still in early days, but the idea was to set up a non-vendor dependant certification program.
I guess I should know better than to let my helpful side show on slashdot. /.? Wow, someone go find the Herd of Trolls to beat it out of him :)
Helpful? On
Trust _you_ or trust the unhackability of your /. user account? Trusting trust is icky.
:)
Could have at least PGP signed yer post before it goes out of fashion
Nice thought... but erm well, what's the Java interpreter going to be written in? Sure as hell it ain't java... Programming languages get down to a single common denominator - machinecode.
Perhaps we need to get someone to implement DWIM() (of userfriendlyness)...
ISS? Isn't that a space station?
The drive for survival and expansion is self limiting. As we expand, deplete resources and kill off other species, we reduce our capability for survival. Sooner or later, mankind's time will be up, probably leaving behind a burned out and tarmacced over rock. Inhospitable, perhaps, but the cycle will begin again, with new species developing from the ashes of the previous.
Problem with using optic wireless stuff is that you have _real_ ambient problems. In your average office you have rather a lot of flourescent emitters (which will introduce pulsed noise at 50/60Hz). Similarly daylight etc can have a major effect on your SNR. ;).
Line of sight can also be a problem (think clouds/rain etc) which tends to make RF a better prospect.
It's possible, and has been done (somewhere else in this post is a link to a laser point to point communications system) and who knows, it might even catch on one day
The more you steal, the less you admit?
Naa, they just downloaded it on Morpheus rather than copying the CD, because then it doesn't count.
How can you tell given that it's a name and thus a proper noun? :))
(I'm not going to mention your apostrophe shortage
Laser == Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
Lazer == ?
The reason they're slow is error correction.
Lots of ambient IR to interfere with a really fast data transfer.
I'm prepared to bet even modulated at 56k or so there's still a fair chunk of error correction going on.
IIRC many fibre technologies are 'laser diode' driven....
Similar sort of thing to CD players.
It's really irritating, since to watch a film backwards (don't knock it, a reverse explosion quite entertaining) you have to put a twist in the film if you want sound :)
:))
But if you take a look at virtually any projector, somewhere near the 'bottom' of the film reel, you'll see a little LED pointed at the film. It's not for effect
And the trick I got pointed at was to add 'some' chinagraph pencil over each splice. Time consuming, but bearing in mind that only an idiot doesn't check the film when making it up onto reels (or someone who doesn't mind having the film snap halfway through) it's not too bad.
Actually, at our student cinema, what we did was re-splice each one, for that very reason. But that was more enthusiasm than anything else.
Don't become another failed .COM article on another website. PLEASE?!? .org :)
Can't. It's a
Walking on ice certainly is possible.
:)
But walking on ice (or equivalent) when there are riot police trying to push you back?
Or perhaps trying to climb a wall which has been coated with slime.
Good career move by Flubber
Here
Don't quite recall what the final tally was, but there were certainly well over 400 moderations on this article. (which is just silly).
The one that annoyed me about SC is the 'cool' weapons (like the templar energy storm, or the ghost lockdown) that just required too much micromanagement to be effective.
Yes, I could fire off a lockdown, but it was too much of a case of clicky clicky clicky clicky. Which annoys me in an RTS. IMHO it should have been possible to have a sort of 'first tank you see, fire a lockdown, and then get stuck in' type game order. But maybe that's a bit complicated.... (then again, I guess giving complex orders could be an advanced feature).
Only reason text based was popular was because there wasn't enough horse power for graphics.
Nope. MUDs are alive and kicking today. And FWIW you will still find a significant number of players on a mud.
Tax is inherently unfair. That said, no one's really come up with a better system yet. .uk if you earn more than a certain threshold value, you start paying tax. After a further threshold (IIRC about 30k GBP per year) you start paying tax at 40%.
The problem which always winds me up, is the whole income based tax bracket thing. In
To my mind, that's completely unfair. If the tax were at a steady (for example) 20% of your income, then it would be a fair system. People earning 50k a year would pay 10 times as much tax as people earning 5k per year. As it is, the 'high earners' get penalised much more for being really good at what they do (I dare say there are some who don't deserve really high salaries, but frankly, to be paid lots you've got to have _something_ that's in demand).
So the top half, prop up the bottom half. Oh and add complexity to the whole tax system.
Oh well, mod me a flame-bait. You know you want to.
I have also had few problems with paypal. My primary gripe is the fact that because I'm an international customer, I must pay by credit card. Not a problem, except that 'standard' paypal customers must upgrade their account to be able to recieve the payment (and pay commission). Then again, my primary usage of it is to transfer funds to someone I know, (server hosting charges) so I'm not too worried.
It's not legislation though, merely a recommendation. So if you want to publicly release news of a hole, then you can still do so. I see it as an attempt at standardising the vulnerability disclosure process.
It's not quite the same situation.
The vulnerability with firestone was an event not really open to explotiation.
The problem with releasing a vulnerability, is that you can pretty much guarantee that soon after a black hat is going to be working on exploit code.
I can see the argument either way, give the software company time to fix the problem, and then disclose to force their hand.
The problem is, if a hacker discovers the weakness, then they _are_ going to use it. They're already breaking the law (or intend to) so additional legal constraints are just going to get ignored.
s/wan't/want/
An apostrophe is used to indicate missing letters such as in "does not" -"doesn't"
or to indicate ownership as in "The computer belonging to eric" - "Eric's computer".
Have a nice day
Which is really odd, cos when I saw 'OpenVMS' I assumed Open source OS. :)
Oh well, so much for downloading that and installing it on a PC for obscurity value.
's long as they make DoS attacks in general a capital offence, then that's fine :)