This obviously isn't a real product... YET. It's a scary thought, but I'm personally confident that the technology required to implement something like this is still at least 10 years away. But then again who knows?
Major problems
Power: How does the "gps chip" get power?
Signal reception: You can block GPS signals with your hand. They're essentially line of sight.
Signal transmission: Where is it going to transmit to?
Chip size: It's as big as a grain of rice. It'll hurt like hell and leave a serious wound when it hits.
Chip fragility: The damn thing will self destruct when fired from a gun.
Okay so for all of the above and more, we can conclude that this product is not for real. So what are the motivations of the people responsible for the web site? Who knows. FUD is probably one of their goals. Establishing prior art, maybe? Scaring you, probably.
I'm currently testing TWiki for deployment in my company as an intranet content management system. I evaluated every major Wiki software before I settled on TWiki. The things that sold me where
It's written in Perl, one of the few.
It DOESN'T require MySQL (I'm a PSQL fan myself.)
It has very good revision control support.
Most of the Wiki's I evaluated were written in PHP, which isn't my language of choice, mostly because I'm not familiar with it. Plus I love perl. I also have no experience with MySQL and it's not set up on my server so I didn't wan't to have to deal with that as a requirement for some silly wiki software. Finally it AMAZED me how many wiki applications lack ANY form of revision control. I mean, the wiki concept of openness is great and all, but when some kiddie pastes ascii goatse.cx over all my pages, I want to be able to roll back those revisions!!! TWiki uses good ole' RCS and has good tools for checking out old revisions, diffing different revision, and rolling back to an older revision.
KDE - Why? They only deal with QT, not X. Trolltech might be a good choice.
Gnome - Why? They only deal with GTK, not X. Maybe you mean the GTK devs.
Why not? KDE and Gnome are the only two reasons why X might SOMEDAY be relevant to an average computer user. You do make good points about Trolltech and the GTK devs, though.
Apple - Why? Apple uses Quartz, they could care less about X and might even have an incentive to see it fail.
Again, why not? You don't think Apple might have some interest in having thousands of high-quality X Windows applications running on their OS? Sure they'd probably prefer if they all ran on Quartz but they sure as shoot aren't going to port them all. Compatibility is a huge, probably the biggest selling point for people looking to switch from 'nix to OS-X.
Ethereal is a valuable network diagnostic tool. It has saved my ass a couple of times, and it has been helpful many times. I was the only person in my Networks class in college that was able to do my assignments from my room, everybody else had to go to the lab to use the commercial sniffer.
On the other hand, 13 vulnerabilities isn't too terrible and hopefully they'll get them patched up straight away. I'm sure that your average commercial packet sniffer probably is probably just as bad or worse, and those bugs aren't getting fixed.
It sounds like this airship technology is rapidly approaching existance. Have AMSAT or the ARRL or any ham radio groups approached the government or whoever about getting ham radio payloads included on-board? If not, well maybe we need to create a new organization to promote Amateur Radio aboard high-altitude blimps.
Thats exactly what I was thinking. It unlocks in a fraction of a second so you could try codes very quickly. If it inserted an artificial 1 second delay, it would make brute forceing it much more difficult. Fools could take a cue from login.
A) Threaten them. Demand to speak to managers. If they won't give you the numbers, or if you can't even talk to a real person, do your own digging to try and find some real nubmers. Check the yellow pages for instance, or maybe their WHOIS record.
B) See if your credit card company can offer any recourse. Most of them have a zero fraud liability I think. If you paid cash or check, SOL.
C) File a complaint with the better business bureau. This may sound lame, but it can actually be quite effective. I have friends who were getting screwed by some company and have come out far ahead after complaining to the BBB.
Paper trail!
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Whatever you decided to do, you won't have a leg to stand on without a solid paper trail. So get creative with ways to get your boss to put stuff in writing. It's your only chance of having any kind of case.
Actually I would conjecture that it is highly derivative of VMS, rather than UNIX. Considering that the NT kernel architecture was designed by a bunch of ex-DEC guys... I wonder who currently owns the rights to VMS and if they have ever looked into that? They might be able to pull a MAJOR SCO on MS. Too bad DEC is gone:(
I read rotten.com, I think I'm about as fscking tainted as they come. It's absurd to think that there would be ground for a lawsuit against an open source project you worked on because you had at one point glossed over the NT kernel source or something. That's like homeopathics who believe that remedies should contain miniscule quantities of active ingredients. In fact, the "strongest" formulations usually contain not a single molecule of the substances in question. Zero parts per billion -- pure water.
I've seen the Windows CE source. Maybe I should never program again because MS could sue me! I think not.
PS No offence to homeopathics, I don't care what crazy shite you belive in.
I bet they used vacuum tubes. They're relatively big and inefficient, compared to transistors, but they're highly resistant to radiaton and extreme temperatures. The fillaments burn out eventually, but it only had to last a certain time. In fact I bet they'd still work if they just got new batteries.
Surround repair kits are cheap and work very well. If the drivers are generic junk, then it might not be worth the effort, unless you're really poor. If the drivers are good, like Bose or something, then it's definately worth it.
Excuse me, I ONLY wear hiking boots in the summer, and hunting boots in the winter. They are all of the things you mention, plus they are extremely comfortable. Comfort is extremely important when you are hiking for weeks in the wilderness with a 100lb backpack. Hiking boots are essentially ruggedized high-top sneakers, and hunting boots just a bit moreso.
Slashdot Mirror
Install cygwin and generate sha1sum's of all files. Compare old sums to new sums later. Doesn't help with the registry though.
I wish I'd seen THIS page on their site before I submitted my first post, now I'm starting to think that HUMOR is their goal
t s_en002_instructions.htm
http://www.backfire.dk/EMPIRENORTH/newsite/produc
Notice how everybody in the instructions is white except for the one "suspicious" guy. These guys must have had a brain storm after watching Brazil.
Major problems
Okay so for all of the above and more, we can conclude that this product is not for real. So what are the motivations of the people responsible for the web site? Who knows. FUD is probably one of their goals. Establishing prior art, maybe? Scaring you, probably.
Most of the Wiki's I evaluated were written in PHP, which isn't my language of choice, mostly because I'm not familiar with it. Plus I love perl. I also have no experience with MySQL and it's not set up on my server so I didn't wan't to have to deal with that as a requirement for some silly wiki software. Finally it AMAZED me how many wiki applications lack ANY form of revision control. I mean, the wiki concept of openness is great and all, but when some kiddie pastes ascii goatse.cx over all my pages, I want to be able to roll back those revisions!!! TWiki uses good ole' RCS and has good tools for checking out old revisions, diffing different revision, and rolling back to an older revision.
Why not? KDE and Gnome are the only two reasons why X might SOMEDAY be relevant to an average computer user. You do make good points about Trolltech and the GTK devs, though.
Again, why not? You don't think Apple might have some interest in having thousands of high-quality X Windows applications running on their OS? Sure they'd probably prefer if they all ran on Quartz but they sure as shoot aren't going to port them all. Compatibility is a huge, probably the biggest selling point for people looking to switch from 'nix to OS-X.
An extremely poignant april fools joke at that.
Ethereal is a valuable network diagnostic tool. It has saved my ass a couple of times, and it has been helpful many times. I was the only person in my Networks class in college that was able to do my assignments from my room, everybody else had to go to the lab to use the commercial sniffer.
On the other hand, 13 vulnerabilities isn't too terrible and hopefully they'll get them patched up straight away. I'm sure that your average commercial packet sniffer probably is probably just as bad or worse, and those bugs aren't getting fixed.
It sounds like this airship technology is rapidly approaching existance. Have AMSAT or the ARRL or any ham radio groups approached the government or whoever about getting ham radio payloads included on-board? If not, well maybe we need to create a new organization to promote Amateur Radio aboard high-altitude blimps.
Thats exactly what I was thinking. It unlocks in a fraction of a second so you could try codes very quickly. If it inserted an artificial 1 second delay, it would make brute forceing it much more difficult. Fools could take a cue from login.
uh, maybe use external modems? what the hell do they need modems for on a college campus anyway?
A) Threaten them. Demand to speak to managers. If they won't give you the numbers, or if you can't even talk to a real person, do your own digging to try and find some real nubmers. Check the yellow pages for instance, or maybe their WHOIS record.
B) See if your credit card company can offer any recourse. Most of them have a zero fraud liability I think. If you paid cash or check, SOL.
C) File a complaint with the better business bureau. This may sound lame, but it can actually be quite effective. I have friends who were getting screwed by some company and have come out far ahead after complaining to the BBB.
dit dah dah is already the letter 'W'
Whatever you decided to do, you won't have a leg to stand on without a solid paper trail. So get creative with ways to get your boss to put stuff in writing. It's your only chance of having any kind of case.
Actually I would conjecture that it is highly derivative of VMS, rather than UNIX. Considering that the NT kernel architecture was designed by a bunch of ex-DEC guys... I wonder who currently owns the rights to VMS and if they have ever looked into that? They might be able to pull a MAJOR SCO on MS. Too bad DEC is gone :(
I read rotten.com, I think I'm about as fscking tainted as they come. It's absurd to think that there would be ground for a lawsuit against an open source project you worked on because you had at one point glossed over the NT kernel source or something. That's like homeopathics who believe that remedies should contain miniscule quantities of active ingredients. In fact, the "strongest" formulations usually contain not a single molecule of the substances in question. Zero parts per billion -- pure water.
I've seen the Windows CE source. Maybe I should never program again because MS could sue me! I think not.
PS No offence to homeopathics, I don't care what crazy shite you belive in.
Real geeks are lulled to sleep by the gentle sound of mouse and key clicks!
I bet they used vacuum tubes. They're relatively big and inefficient, compared to transistors, but they're highly resistant to radiaton and extreme temperatures. The fillaments burn out eventually, but it only had to last a certain time. In fact I bet they'd still work if they just got new batteries.
Can I get a f'rubber coated realdoll please? Animatronic would be even better!
Or you could just check your mirrors and then look over your shoulder before changing lanes like they teach you to do in freakin driver's ed!
I love Gentoo's system. It's everything an RC system should be and more. Everything else is antiquated junk IMO.
Oh yeah and next time, buy drivers with rubber surrounds.
Surround repair kits are cheap and work very well. If the drivers are generic junk, then it might not be worth the effort, unless you're really poor. If the drivers are good, like Bose or something, then it's definately worth it.
Excuse me, I ONLY wear hiking boots in the summer, and hunting boots in the winter. They are all of the things you mention, plus they are extremely comfortable. Comfort is extremely important when you are hiking for weeks in the wilderness with a 100lb backpack. Hiking boots are essentially ruggedized high-top sneakers, and hunting boots just a bit moreso.
I think that's their point, the model is wrong.
I agree, it sounds like you may not be getting the "quality" of sleep you really need. I would suggest taking a Melatonin suppliment before bedtime.