I suspect this was all covering fire. By creating a big fuss over paypal-only, they can make must-include-paypal-as-an-option seem a reasonable compromise. A bit like an ambit claim, if you will. A cunning move on their part, but they're still bastards.
I think the eeepc has wear leveling built into the hardware (like SD cards and usb drives, and most consumer flash devices). So it should be able to happily run ext3 or any filesystem you want.
As for KDE, well you could just apt-get install it...
Actually, it's fat people that can compromise security. You could quite easily hide something such as a knife in a fold of fat (OK, obese people). That won't get picked up by the scanner.
With due respect, this article isn't about a totalitarian state that watches it's citizens; it's about the fact that US companies are the one's who are making it possible.
Of course, if Apple actually wanted to spy on people they would have written a backdoor that allows them (and only them) to disable the LED in software.
From what I've seen (particularly of CWEB), literate programming doesn't change the programming language itself, it just adds a TeX style markup to the comments so that detailed (and nicely typeset) documentation can be generated from the source code. Take a look at some of Knuth's CWEB code, such as his implementation of Adventure:
It appears to be ordinary C once the CWEB documentation is stripped out. Actually, it's the other way around: rather than adding documentation to the code, the idea of literate programming is that you add code to the documentation. So your code is dispersed in chunks throughout the documentation of the project. A tool (pre-processor if you will) then collects the chunks of code and weaves them into a 'normal' source file/tree.
Just about anything is quite easily crackable by way of human (rather than computer). All the cracker needs is access to one compromised (zombie) PC. When the user of said PC browses to a website that requires a captcha (or any website, really), the malware installed on the PC substitutes the legit captcha for the one the cracker wants to crack, thus getting a clueless user to perform the test. At some point this approach will become easier/cheaper than designing software to solve the problem.
Microsoft has enough cash reserves to operate for at least a year without selling a single product. If they focused everything on developing Windows 7, then they might, just, have something in a year. Of course, they've been working on it for a while already. That said, they don't have a particularly good track record on delivering these kinds of things (OS's) in the timeframes they say...
Even if the card is not directly tied to your personal details, it is still quite useful to the powers that be. It contains all of your travel information, even if it's not linked with your name. All that's required is to make use of any of the numerous CCTV cameras all around London (particularly in the tube) to get a photo as you swipe the card of interest, then ID that photo (which, assuming you are a person of interest in the first place, would be quite easy). Sure, it's more work (for _them_) than having your name right there, but having an anonymous card (not linked at any point to a credit card) is far from the privacy heaven you dream of.
Any terrorist who isn't a complete idiot will be using ye olde magnetic strip cards paid for with cash. So these changes will serve to catch catch complete idiots, while letting the masterminds get through.
Actually, even smarter terrorists would use an anonymous card that's been topped up with stolen credit card data (one or more cards) which would send the spys looking in the wrong places, and possibly highlight the dangers of relying too much on data.
The EPG data from the digital signal is usually only for the next show or two AFAIK. If you want to set a recording then you probably need an internet based EPG system (shepherd works great for me)
Had perfectly working WPA enterprise support via Network Manager in Feisty. Then it broke in Gutsy. Still works via wpasupplicant, but that gets messy (I need to run a script and reboot to switch between WPA at work and open access at home).
As has been often discussed, Linux's reporting of memory usage is inaccurate. Firefox uses threads; in Linux each thread is treated as a process, and appears as such to programs like top, appearing to use it's own memory allocation plus the shared memory common to all firefox threads. So it _looks_ (approximately) like the memory being used all up is (thread's mem + shared mem) * Number of threads, where in fact it is thread's mem * number of threads + shared mem.
our realistic options for power generation as things stand in the next 5 years are : - coal, nuclear.
anything else is an expensive joke.
Energy is underpriced. Yes, coal is cheap (lets keep to the topic for the second) at the moment, but that cost doesn't include future effects. Accounting for those future effects costs money, either as consequences, or preventing them before they happen (such as CO2 geosequestration as proposed). Geosequestration is very energy intensive. It costs a lot of money. Something like 50% more than wind or solar. And it's not proven. That's my idea of an expensive joke.
Gases do exist underground naturally. A friend of mine is a research scientist for this technology. He assures me it is technically feasible, and safe too (provided you find the right spot underground to do it (I'm not convinced personally). The major problem with it is cost. Basically, it ends up being cheaper to run solar panels.
Of course, the reason Australia has been investing so heavily in this tech is that Australia has a crap-load of coal, which is propping up it's economy. If international demand for coal drops because people get serious about climate change, Australia's economy goes down the crapper (unless, of course, it goes ahead and tries something different).
Austriala and New Zealand maybe a as liberal as the US but I think they are closer to most EU nations according the Wikipedia they are.
Australia has quite repressive libel laws. If you get sued for libel, there is the presumption of guilt (i.e. the defendant has to prove they did not commit libel). On top of that, a court case a couple of years ago allowed an Australian to sue (under Australian jurisdiction) a publication for libel due to what they had published on their US website. The judge had ruled that the web is 'published' where it is read, not where it is hosted. Hardly liberal or progressive. That's even before getting started on the recent anti-terrorist bullcrap and impending DMCA-like system about to be introduced. Free speech is not sacred in Australia - there is some argument for freedom of political expression inherent in the fact we are a democracy, but is not enshrined in the constitution or bill of rights or some such thing. Strike that one off the list.
Let's get rational for a second here; the ISP is trying to inform you you're reaching your limit, so you don't overshoot it and start having to pay extra. Lets put arguments about limits aside (after all, you've agreed to a contract involving limits). It's in their interests _not_ to inform you, as you'd have to start paying them extra. But they're trying to find a more pervasive way of letting you know. How else can they do it? Via email? They'd just send it to the email address they provide you with. Who really uses isp-provided email these days? it's all webmail, so they need some window to get through to you, and maybe http is that window.
I wonder what would happen if I left a CD in the drive, set up a folder of fifos which are the output of a rip-and-encode program that starts when the fifo is read, then share this folder in kazaa. This should squarely put the blame of copyright infringement on whoever is downloading...
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AFAIK android will (eventually) run on it
I suspect this was all covering fire. By creating a big fuss over paypal-only, they can make must-include-paypal-as-an-option seem a reasonable compromise. A bit like an ambit claim, if you will. A cunning move on their part, but they're still bastards.
I think the eeepc has wear leveling built into the hardware (like SD cards and usb drives, and most consumer flash devices). So it should be able to happily run ext3 or any filesystem you want.
As for KDE, well you could just apt-get install it...
umm.. i mean ff3
seems to work fine in ie3
Actually, it's fat people that can compromise security. You could quite easily hide something such as a knife in a fold of fat (OK, obese people). That won't get picked up by the scanner.
With due respect, this article isn't about a totalitarian state that watches it's citizens; it's about the fact that US companies are the one's who are making it possible.
Of course, if Apple actually wanted to spy on people they would have written a backdoor that allows them (and only them) to disable the LED in software.
does it run linux?
I mean really, you'd think a little bit of css wouldn't create _that_ much bandwidth...
From what I've seen (particularly of CWEB), literate programming doesn't change the programming language itself, it just adds a TeX style markup to the comments so that detailed (and nicely typeset) documentation can be generated from the source code. Take a look at some of Knuth's CWEB code, such as his implementation of Adventure:http://sunburn.stanford.edu/~knuth/programs/advent.w.gz
It appears to be ordinary C once the CWEB documentation is stripped out. Actually, it's the other way around: rather than adding documentation to the code, the idea of literate programming is that you add code to the documentation. So your code is dispersed in chunks throughout the documentation of the project. A tool (pre-processor if you will) then collects the chunks of code and weaves them into a 'normal' source file/tree.
Just about anything is quite easily crackable by way of human (rather than computer). All the cracker needs is access to one compromised (zombie) PC. When the user of said PC browses to a website that requires a captcha (or any website, really), the malware installed on the PC substitutes the legit captcha for the one the cracker wants to crack, thus getting a clueless user to perform the test. At some point this approach will become easier/cheaper than designing software to solve the problem.
...imagined a beowulf cluster of these?
"Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and
have everyone else mirror it." -Linus Torvalds
Microsoft has enough cash reserves to operate for at least a year without selling a single product. If they focused everything on developing Windows 7, then they might, just, have something in a year. Of course, they've been working on it for a while already. That said, they don't have a particularly good track record on delivering these kinds of things (OS's) in the timeframes they say...
Even if the card is not directly tied to your personal details, it is still quite useful to the powers that be. It contains all of your travel information, even if it's not linked with your name. All that's required is to make use of any of the numerous CCTV cameras all around London (particularly in the tube) to get a photo as you swipe the card of interest, then ID that photo (which, assuming you are a person of interest in the first place, would be quite easy). Sure, it's more work (for _them_) than having your name right there, but having an anonymous card (not linked at any point to a credit card) is far from the privacy heaven you dream of.
Any terrorist who isn't a complete idiot will be using ye olde magnetic strip cards paid for with cash. So these changes will serve to catch catch complete idiots, while letting the masterminds get through.
Actually, even smarter terrorists would use an anonymous card that's been topped up with stolen credit card data (one or more cards) which would send the spys looking in the wrong places, and possibly highlight the dangers of relying too much on data.
The EPG data from the digital signal is usually only for the next show or two AFAIK. If you want to set a recording then you probably need an internet based EPG system (shepherd works great for me)
Had perfectly working WPA enterprise support via Network Manager in Feisty. Then it broke in Gutsy. Still works via wpasupplicant, but that gets messy (I need to run a script and reboot to switch between WPA at work and open access at home).
As has been often discussed, Linux's reporting of memory usage is inaccurate. Firefox uses threads; in Linux each thread is treated as a process, and appears as such to programs like top, appearing to use it's own memory allocation plus the shared memory common to all firefox threads. So it _looks_ (approximately) like the memory being used all up is (thread's mem + shared mem) * Number of threads, where in fact it is thread's mem * number of threads + shared mem.
Energy is underpriced. Yes, coal is cheap (lets keep to the topic for the second) at the moment, but that cost doesn't include future effects. Accounting for those future effects costs money, either as consequences, or preventing them before they happen (such as CO2 geosequestration as proposed). Geosequestration is very energy intensive. It costs a lot of money. Something like 50% more than wind or solar. And it's not proven. That's my idea of an expensive joke.
Gases do exist underground naturally. A friend of mine is a research scientist for this technology. He assures me it is technically feasible, and safe too (provided you find the right spot underground to do it (I'm not convinced personally). The major problem with it is cost. Basically, it ends up being cheaper to run solar panels.
Of course, the reason Australia has been investing so heavily in this tech is that Australia has a crap-load of coal, which is propping up it's economy. If international demand for coal drops because people get serious about climate change, Australia's economy goes down the crapper (unless, of course, it goes ahead and tries something different).
Australia has quite repressive libel laws. If you get sued for libel, there is the presumption of guilt (i.e. the defendant has to prove they did not commit libel). On top of that, a court case a couple of years ago allowed an Australian to sue (under Australian jurisdiction) a publication for libel due to what they had published on their US website. The judge had ruled that the web is 'published' where it is read, not where it is hosted. Hardly liberal or progressive. That's even before getting started on the recent anti-terrorist bullcrap and impending DMCA-like system about to be introduced. Free speech is not sacred in Australia - there is some argument for freedom of political expression inherent in the fact we are a democracy, but is not enshrined in the constitution or bill of rights or some such thing. Strike that one off the list.
Free as in beer? No, free as in an NSA wiretap!
Let's get rational for a second here; the ISP is trying to inform you you're reaching your limit, so you don't overshoot it and start having to pay extra. Lets put arguments about limits aside (after all, you've agreed to a contract involving limits). It's in their interests _not_ to inform you, as you'd have to start paying them extra. But they're trying to find a more pervasive way of letting you know. How else can they do it? Via email? They'd just send it to the email address they provide you with. Who really uses isp-provided email these days? it's all webmail, so they need some window to get through to you, and maybe http is that window.
I wonder what would happen if I left a CD in the drive, set up a folder of fifos which are the output of a rip-and-encode program that starts when the fifo is read, then share this folder in kazaa. This should squarely put the blame of copyright infringement on whoever is downloading...