Why does it look so big!? You kidding?
Uh, probably because Jupiter is 11.2 times larger than Earth, and has a mass 318 times that of Earth...
Any maybe due to the fact that Jupiter is more massive than all the other known planets in our solar system combined?
Yea, hey, don't take all the sites bandwidth and cost them money, use up all of googles instead - so they end up adding even more ads and stuff:) woooo!
I wonder if some kind of exponential backoff system like that used with some password verifiers would be some kind of a solution?
It may not be that good for people who want to send mail to lots of people (mailing lists etc.), but for public servers that need to remain open to relay (for some reason?!) I would say the majority of people connect, send one or two emails, then disconnect. This would mean the user sending one mail, then waiting a couple of seconds, then being able to send the next. However, if the user were sending 200 emails, like a spammer may be doing, the time scales involved between each mail would become exponentially larger, and would greatly reduce the speed at which spammers can send out mail. (i.e. by their 30th mail, they may be waiting hours before being able to send their next one).
Obviously if the spammer has access to lots of IP addresses, they could fool the server into thinking they are lots of different hosts, but nonetheless, I find it an interesting idea which may have, at least a minimal application in reducing spam.
And the congestion charge starting at 7.00am will mean everyone travelling down motorways will break the speed limit to get in to, or out of London before the charging begins.. which means the government gets more speeding ticket money too!:-)
Uhhh, excuse me, but I'm sure I could find a lot worse things wrong with *other* countries than a few cameras and some sensationalist newspapers.
Bush anyone?
This is a first attempt at curing a problem in the most congested city in the world. It won't be long before other worldwide cities will be hitting the same level of gridlock, so I don't think we should be putting down this first attempt at a solution, especially as it involves the technology sector. There are jobs in the evolution of these kinds of systems, which before long will need implementing in many other cites around the world.
"and I think that it is actually in the West's long-term strategic interest to do so"
Yes, it may be in OUR strategic interest to do so... but is forcing our culture upon them in THEIR interest and the interest of the REST of the middle east / world?
Many similar distractive affects of computers can be seen in the workplace.
Take PC's in the home for example. How many home owners of PC's actually use their computers for anything other than wordprocessing? I would imagine way over 50% of PC owners would be better of with a word processor. Where am I going with this you may ask? Well, a word processor is much more restrictive. With a word processor you can't wander off onto the internet or start downloading music instead of doing your work.
I think computers in the school/college and work place environment all need greater restriction. Most of the computers in the schools and colleges I've attended are just standard windows builds. This provides a ridiculous amount of distraction. All these machines need have installed are the applications that are required. Not solitare, not MP3 players etc.etc.
I am now at University, and finally after going through 15 years of the education system, I am seeing computers used in the way they should be. No longer is there a teacher handing out sheets on how to use powerpoint which they don't understand, then wandering off to the front of the class while the rest of the students go online or play games. Finally motivated students who actually want to learn about computers, sit down and actually use the facilities to their potential.
At the end of the day computers are only a tool. Schools need to recognise this, and not force computers into areas of the curriculum in which they are not effective by praising teachers that do so. Computer equipment should be available to those who want to learn about them and see them as an effective tool, not those who are forced to.
I think we have all gone online or played a game when we are supposed to be working. What chance is there of getting school children to concentrate on work without them being distracted?
BT's futurologist?? Now I know why BT are loosing so much money each year. They should stop worrying about the future, and start rolling out more ADSL... or they might not BE around in 50 years time...
I agree, but I would imagine there is nothing stopping ransomeware code segements/functions or even full source files from being released along with the compiled copies, to be commented on in the open source way. Just as long as the entire source tree for the whole application in its release state isn't published until the economic threshold has been crossed. Then the cycle can start again for release 2...
In want of another way, I suppose the code could even be open source from the start, through alpha/beta stages, to allow comments and changes to be made from the community, then the source could be shut off for the final release, until the ransom is paid. This means the coder is still receiving the communities help, but is getting paid for compiling all the code and comments into one final release. He may then share the ransom among those in the community which helped with the project.
Anyone got any other thoughts on slightly different variations of the ransom/paid open source theme?
Yeah, but look at it this way... at least its 3 hours leading to an ending, rather than the first LOTR, which is 3 hours then a disappointing finger point at 'where they are heading'...
Although I guess legally, the developers could be made to stop writing the software, once the software is out on the web, it cannot simply be 'shut down'. Once its out there, its the number of users running the software which keeps it live.
Maybe, as many science fiction books have been before, the movie scripters weren't all that bad at predicting some of the possible outcomes of computer integration into our everyday lifes.
What was deemed 'far fetched' when the film was released is now becoming a possible scenario.
My father is a marine consultant, and I have been to several ships with him, which rely much more heavily than this on computer systems these days.
One specific example-
The charts used to navigate by a ship were running on an NT workstation on the bridge of the vessel. It is no longer a requirement for up to date backup charts to be kept on board. A CD is sent to the ship each week updating the charts to the latest version, but the backup paper charts that are kept are not updated at these regular intervals any longer because of the increased reliance on the NT charting software. The GPS onboard the ship updates the ships current position on the charting software running on the NT workstation so the master can see where they are with respect to the course that has been plotted previously.
This same ship contains a small network, only consisting of 4-5 computers (its only a coastal tanker). One for charting on the bridge, one controlling & monitoring the amount of oil flowing on/off the ship in dock etc.. but..
The ship also has access to email (and consiquently attachments) at sea via Immersat satellite software + (uhh-ohh) Microsoft Outlook. If a member of the ships crew were to open an email attachment apparently from the office, which was in fact a virus, and the network security was not up to scratch, it may have the capacity to shut down not only the ships main course plotting software (sending them to backup paper charts), but to disturb the monitoring of oil/balast on & off the ship in the dock.
There are also proposed inprovements which would in effect link in the course plotting software with the autopilot, thus controlling the ships movements from the PC's course plotting software (unless of course, any evasive action were needed to be taken - the master would switch to manual).
This is only a small example of the problems that could genuinely be caused if a virus infected some of the more modern ships in todays world.
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I agree... simply knocking your computer while its running (while the hard disk read/write heads are not parked), can cause the read head to hit the media causing data loss.
Just reading through that demonstration brings a tear to my eye.. thinking about all the data on that drive.
Fact is, although he's tested them for a week and they are apparently fine, such a procedure has allowed dust into the drive for the duration of its life, and it will significantly reduce both the life of the drive, and increase errors over time as more dust particles are shifted about on the media by the drive head and air flow.
To be honest, even given a clean room, I wouldn't attempt such an exercise unless it was a very old drive, that has no data of importance on it.. I would however say, that this technique may be a good way of explaining & showing people how the HDD's work in operation.
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Why does it look so big!? You kidding? Uh, probably because Jupiter is 11.2 times larger than Earth, and has a mass 318 times that of Earth... Any maybe due to the fact that Jupiter is more massive than all the other known planets in our solar system combined?
Heh, when compared with the second globe, it doesn't appear to match at all - looks more like Africa and Europe from where I'm sitting... :-)
... was created by a cadre of book turning robots for Sinus0idal... Hmmmm. Naaaah.
Yea, hey, don't take all the sites bandwidth and cost them money, use up all of googles instead - so they end up adding even more ads and stuff :) woooo!
:-/
The bandwidth bill has to fall somewhere
Heh.. I know I'm on Slashdot when its called 'Gulf War 1.0' :-)
Does that come after the beta version?
Shame, last time I checked Nokia still insisted on producing their phone synchronisation software for windows.
Anyone know of an open alternative? I guess it would need a depth of knowledge about the phone hardware which would be hard without Nokia support...
Well, if you are sending rovers... surely all you are doing is watching?
He's leet! He has null for a name!
I wonder if some kind of exponential backoff system like that used with some password verifiers would be some kind of a solution?
It may not be that good for people who want to send mail to lots of people (mailing lists etc.), but for public servers that need to remain open to relay (for some reason?!) I would say the majority of people connect, send one or two emails, then disconnect. This would mean the user sending one mail, then waiting a couple of seconds, then being able to send the next. However, if the user were sending 200 emails, like a spammer may be doing, the time scales involved between each mail would become exponentially larger, and would greatly reduce the speed at which spammers can send out mail. (i.e. by their 30th mail, they may be waiting hours before being able to send their next one).
Obviously if the spammer has access to lots of IP addresses, they could fool the server into thinking they are lots of different hosts, but nonetheless, I find it an interesting idea which may have, at least a minimal application in reducing spam.
And the congestion charge starting at 7.00am will mean everyone travelling down motorways will break the speed limit to get in to, or out of London before the charging begins.. which means the government gets more speeding ticket money too! :-)
"Neither of them speak proper english"
And why would people in England not be speaking their English language correctly?
Uhhh, excuse me, but I'm sure I could find a lot worse things wrong with *other* countries than a few cameras and some sensationalist newspapers.
Bush anyone?
This is a first attempt at curing a problem in the most congested city in the world. It won't be long before other worldwide cities will be hitting the same level of gridlock, so I don't think we should be putting down this first attempt at a solution, especially as it involves the technology sector. There are jobs in the evolution of these kinds of systems, which before long will need implementing in many other cites around the world.
Uhhh, money?
"and I think that it is actually in the West's long-term strategic interest to do so"
Yes, it may be in OUR strategic interest to do so... but is forcing our culture upon them in THEIR interest and the interest of the REST of the middle east / world?
Phew... I was beginning to wonder why Farscape couldn't pull a 2 person crowd!! :-) I didn't think it was that unliked!!
I know the feeling all too well...
Plus its incredibly frustrating being disciplined for 'hacking' for using a command prompt...
Many similar distractive affects of computers can be seen in the workplace.
Take PC's in the home for example. How many home owners of PC's actually use their computers for anything other than wordprocessing? I would imagine way over 50% of PC owners would be better of with a word processor. Where am I going with this you may ask? Well, a word processor is much more restrictive. With a word processor you can't wander off onto the internet or start downloading music instead of doing your work.
I think computers in the school/college and work place environment all need greater restriction. Most of the computers in the schools and colleges I've attended are just standard windows builds. This provides a ridiculous amount of distraction. All these machines need have installed are the applications that are required. Not solitare, not MP3 players etc.etc.
I am now at University, and finally after going through 15 years of the education system, I am seeing computers used in the way they should be. No longer is there a teacher handing out sheets on how to use powerpoint which they don't understand, then wandering off to the front of the class while the rest of the students go online or play games. Finally motivated students who actually want to learn about computers, sit down and actually use the facilities to their potential.
At the end of the day computers are only a tool. Schools need to recognise this, and not force computers into areas of the curriculum in which they are not effective by praising teachers that do so. Computer equipment should be available to those who want to learn about them and see them as an effective tool, not those who are forced to.
I think we have all gone online or played a game when we are supposed to be working. What chance is there of getting school children to concentrate on work without them being distracted?
BT's futurologist?? Now I know why BT are loosing so much money each year. They should stop worrying about the future, and start rolling out more ADSL... or they might not BE around in 50 years time...
I agree, but I would imagine there is nothing stopping ransomeware code segements/functions or even full source files from being released along with the compiled copies, to be commented on in the open source way. Just as long as the entire source tree for the whole application in its release state isn't published until the economic threshold has been crossed. Then the cycle can start again for release 2...
In want of another way, I suppose the code could even be open source from the start, through alpha/beta stages, to allow comments and changes to be made from the community, then the source could be shut off for the final release, until the ransom is paid. This means the coder is still receiving the communities help, but is getting paid for compiling all the code and comments into one final release. He may then share the ransom among those in the community which helped with the project.
Anyone got any other thoughts on slightly different variations of the ransom/paid open source theme?
Yeah, but look at it this way... at least its 3 hours leading to an ending, rather than the first LOTR, which is 3 hours then a disappointing finger point at 'where they are heading'...
Not quite...
Although I guess legally, the developers could be made to stop writing the software, once the software is out on the web, it cannot simply be 'shut down'. Once its out there, its the number of users running the software which keeps it live.
As Webmoth says, it is no longer a possibility in many cases for ships to be entirely seperated from anything but trusted machines.
o .h tm
On this website is a typical example of PC maritime software which makes use of emailed chart updates:
http://www.pcmaritime.co.uk/comm/charting/navpr
Maybe, as many science fiction books have been before, the movie scripters weren't all that bad at predicting some of the possible outcomes of computer integration into our everyday lifes.
What was deemed 'far fetched' when the film was released is now becoming a possible scenario.
This isn't any longer the case.
My father is a marine consultant, and I have been to several ships with him, which rely much more heavily than this on computer systems these days.
One specific example-
The charts used to navigate by a ship were running on an NT workstation on the bridge of the vessel. It is no longer a requirement for up to date backup charts to be kept on board. A CD is sent to the ship each week updating the charts to the latest version, but the backup paper charts that are kept are not updated at these regular intervals any longer because of the increased reliance on the NT charting software. The GPS onboard the ship updates the ships current position on the charting software running on the NT workstation so the master can see where they are with respect to the course that has been plotted previously.
This same ship contains a small network, only consisting of 4-5 computers (its only a coastal tanker). One for charting on the bridge, one controlling & monitoring the amount of oil flowing on/off the ship in dock etc.. but..
The ship also has access to email (and consiquently attachments) at sea via Immersat satellite software + (uhh-ohh) Microsoft Outlook. If a member of the ships crew were to open an email attachment apparently from the office, which was in fact a virus, and the network security was not up to scratch, it may have the capacity to shut down not only the ships main course plotting software (sending them to backup paper charts), but to disturb the monitoring of oil/balast on & off the ship in the dock.
There are also proposed inprovements which would in effect link in the course plotting software with the autopilot, thus controlling the ships movements from the PC's course plotting software (unless of course, any evasive action were needed to be taken - the master would switch to manual).
This is only a small example of the problems that could genuinely be caused if a virus infected some of the more modern ships in todays world.
I agree... simply knocking your computer while its running (while the hard disk read/write heads are not parked), can cause the read head to hit the media causing data loss.
Just reading through that demonstration brings a tear to my eye.. thinking about all the data on that drive.
Fact is, although he's tested them for a week and they are apparently fine, such a procedure has allowed dust into the drive for the duration of its life, and it will significantly reduce both the life of the drive, and increase errors over time as more dust particles are shifted about on the media by the drive head and air flow.
To be honest, even given a clean room, I wouldn't attempt such an exercise unless it was a very old drive, that has no data of importance on it.. I would however say, that this technique may be a good way of explaining & showing people how the HDD's work in operation.