Its the fault of the ISP,s who of late have been bitching about the BBC iplayer and how they should have a cut of the TV liscense fee.
Well tooo me this response by the govement was not only a firm bitchslap back but also a very forward thinking and indeed logical relook at reality.
Bottom line its the customer who bends over once the bickering has been done.
It clearly a case of a preference of devolution, I mean you have to understand were you are to understand were you are going. But there again with a totaly green outlook upon life and safe enviromental approach, one would live in cave, hunt organic naturaly growing animals only and......Caveman.
Personaly if somebody wants to believe differently from me, then thats fine - I can accept that. Its when they force there beliefs upon me; Thats when I get pissed off. So in that respect, let them be. As long as they are aware of the options and were given the choice then, I have no qualms at all in what they believe. Good luck to them and respect and all that. On a positive aspect - more jobs in Science for those that want them:).
As long as people are given all the facts and allowed to choose, without preassure - then, I see no problem at all.
Almost makes this as newsworthy as OMG 22% of Welsh people write with there left-hand, so what - I dont, next.
SImple - If I read anything about a meteor shower that is has the slightest chance of being visable to the naked eye. Then I know for a fact it will be one of the most misrable clodiest days for ages, even after few good solid weeks without a cloud in the sky.
We had meteor forcast, its cloudy that even the clouds are obscured by clouds.
I there conclude that all these reports of meteor showrs are causing global warming - FIN:).
have a room in your house with broadband and internet and games. Have it as a private members club. Employee's get free access. Then if you make a loss in Business, you save personaly:O).
Seen few very sound idea's mentioned in the thread:
Run after 5pm with few mates - means keep your day job and lower risk and more fun.
Run a laundry business in conjunction - people have a lot of dead time at laundry places.
Thats a key point - combine with another business that will compliment in some way. Another point - look at were people have dead time.
I would personaly go with the 5pm model to start with, combine perhaps with working with another business that did say, IT training for individuals and you leverage the resources during the day and night. You can then combine and expand the two together at a later stage.
I would also look at having a coffee bar, or perhaps have place next to a coffee shop and run a promotion that gave discount if you came in with there coffee and membership holders of your place got discount at the coffee shop. But doing your own alright coffee at low mark up would be the way.
As location goes, I'd look at locating near a major transport hub. But a gaming cyber cafe would do well in a major business area charging premo prices and would only need to cover the lunchtime crowd.
Another idea for you and this is something that would perhaps be something to look into when wimax comes into play. A portable cyber cafe run out of a nice converted old school London Double decker bus. Can move to your location then. So many options then as you can play follow the crowd, be there a pop concert or football match, school closing time, after work rush and lunchtimes. Would be fun.
Also given the drive towards non smokers, IF your a smoker you could ponder the smoker only cyber cafe and get all those desperate smokers who cant smoke in public, but in concenting location/have membership cards (easier for login details to do that); Well.
So, as a standard model of just dedicated internet and games it would appear unless you find a magic location, your at best going to break even with a little beer money. Combining the business in a complementary way, be it laundry or coffee or some other cunning buit of lateral thinking then, you have a good chance to make a comfortable living.
This is why you should cover your mouth when sneezing or coughing. In a world of tomorrow you could end up logging into every computer in the office with one mis-placed sneeze.
Also taking the piss, will become a common hacker passtime:D
Are hairdressers secret DNA theifs of tomorrow!
They can clone dolly the sheep - so key dupiong is possible:D.
Bottom line will end up using and going thru so much red tape, might as well just use your brain. though that said hypnosis is clearly doable upon that CPU and given the brain has some of the best biometric controls going. I'd say nothing is perfect. Easier to trust nobody and plan around security issues so that there moot.
Prospect though of in this hot weather logging in, locking your terminal and comming back from lunch having caught a bit of sun for the computer to refuse you access as you look different:>.
BTW EVERY computer already has the ultimate security control built into them, have done since the very first computers. Its called the off switch. So rather than leave your computer idling on the net working out when the globe will overheat, whilst adding to the problem - just turn it off. There secure computer. Cooler planet.
On a final note - when they can make a catflap that will only let your cat in thru biometric data. Then and only then would I consider it consumer usable. Until then I'll use a password and avoid some mugger having to pull my eye out, drain my blood and chop my finger of as he knows its a biometric laptop:|.
An anysysis of the battery would at basic show amount of battery power left and from full charge and natural decay a level could be worked out. Though alot of betteries now count the number of times charged and probably the date and time as well.
I'm sure they could even work out the last time the battery even saw a charge or use. Heck sure capacitors on the laptop mobo that would hold a slight charge for a while.
I also didn;t see any mention of measuring the magnetic feild strength upon the drive head of disc itself as another way to determine when last used.
If somebody wanted this data they would of removed the hard drive and copyied it using some bit copying software of choice and then popped it back without even powering up the laptop.
The solution isn't better more secure laptops, its a working thin-client with no data stored localy period. WIMAX/WIFI - all doable and TBH employee's with that kind of data shouldn;t be woorking in un-athorised zones the data isn;t allowed and a thin client gives you that. Also wont need any hard drive and woudl probably get something very small compact and light that has great battery life.
But glad they got it back, I'm going with the some theif saw heart on this one and leave the rest to the consipiracy thearists. That said I would hope that monitoring of potential use of such data would still be maintained.
Whilst the observation is indeed accurate I would wonder if there was any coralation to the autistic groups and that this my be a form of asbergurism.
Now if you had somebody who was intelligent and had asbergurgers (mild autism) would it not be possible for them to adapt to there `alledged handicap` to the extent wer upon they general fitted in. Given they would adapt early on in youth thru obeservational mimicery then such traits would be explianable.
ANyhow
The observation to educational systems and the extension into work is whilst corrct also being addressed baturaly. We now give students loans and expect them to pay for everything to the extent that when they finish there course there so in dept they forget how to have fun very quikly or end up on the streets.
One observation not considered is that given how we have gone from evolving to the extent were upon our worries have moved on from hunting/gathering food and as a genral shift from essentials to were do we go for holiday and what stock options can I get if I.... That and increased leasuire time and financial ability to furfill more childhood dreams we natural find ourselfs staying in the learning inqusitive stages longer than the more practical stages of the brain/life.
This is how some could observe natural evolution and the stretching of the devolopment stages. We still measure in age were upon a 20 year old a 100 years ago was nothing like a 20 year old today who's lifespam would be more akin to twice as long so from a social basis's it would be very concievable that whilst they are more intelligent there sence of responsibility would be less due to the enviroment and extended lifespan they now enoy. So to equate them on a scale of responsibility to a 10 year old when comparitvly there IQ would be comparable to a 30 year old and you see another good fit to the observation.
Another thought, if we were all mature - somebody would have less fun in there work writting such papers:).
WHilst alot of corporations use Windows thru and thru on IBM/Lenvo laptops they do like the option of linux. Now given they now have this option being removed from them in a assured way that they can get linux and support the hardware fully to a usable extent then they will probably end up buying something else so they have the linux option back. WHilst they will carry on running windows, there will be a few who willl run linux and as a corporate buying policey - flexabiulity, longevaty and support are important factors. So even though they wont as a whole run linux they will not take kindly to this.
Upshot alot of corportations will now stongly review there laptop vendor buying policy, some may even have support for linux written into them and this is were the fun will begin.
3) Increase racisim by reducing open commuinication
4) End up spending way more on IT security as there are soo many people, let alone SMSing kiddies who can, could and would end up relaying every bit of information and price about viagra etc of ALOT of EU/goverment computers.
5) Be the laughing stock of the World and I for one would insist on being outsourced to India to avoid such a silly tax that is another step in fucking over the IT inductry like IR35.
On the other hand I will have to insist that they pay for my work clothes or refund ALL tax - and refund and alow me to offset my train travel. I will then get very anal and nit picky and show the goverment what red tape and polical fall-out can realy look like.
Now how about a constructive form of making money - internet driving licsence's -- would ilimenat idjiots who cant use computers. Help those that cant to realise they cant and get them help and would be nice Internet ID card. That said if you know what your doing - what ID card;o).
Windows is a networking tool and can and is used to expliot and hack other networks and computers. Actualy every OS is. Ban computers:|.
I realy do have to wonder what the UK goverment is doing, who is thinking up these laws and what the hell have they been drinking.
Biggest security risk ever is a stupid person and it would seem the goverment are suseptable:(. Social enginering clearly at play here for such a law to go thru.
You could just print it out in bold at one character per page, even print it out in binary. Then hand over your key in a human readable and computer readable format as it would be. Might be worth a box of A4 and generating a key:D.
If the UK goverment wants keys then offer free SSL certs to UK companies, would get more that way than thru legislation that seems draconian in approach. Criminals remarkably enough would hide there keys and so will many innocents eiher thru ignorance or laziness. If the police want the root password to my systems I'm more than happy for them to have, once they can prove they know what there doing. Otherwise it would be like handing the keys to a porche over to somebody who has never driven a real car in there life and end up crashing it. It would be neglegent for me to endanger somebody who cant drive a car into such a situation and even illegal. As such for me to proactivly not hand over any encryption keys I have and lets face it many programs generate internal keys which yoru not even aware of; is that wrong or is that ignorance.
I believe the line here is for example the police for whatever reason suspect data/information useful to an ongoing investigation is stored upon your computer in an encrypted file and you dilberatly withold that information. Then this law should fully apply. But to proactivly enforce such a law is utterly futile, though i'm sure the people who enforce the law see it that way also.
Not even going to look into the implications of any european laws of which the UK is apart of.
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space oil - LOL. SAying that also forgot that the film experts have finished with the 9/11 pentagon film:|.
Hmmm maybe NASA during last budget request to the President slipped in:
TRACE ELEMENTS OF OIL FOUND ON THE FARSIDE OF THE MOON.
Too which the president may of thought, hmmmm yessss of course that explains the black bits, once again proving its not made of cheese. HAHA I'll get one over those French. Thereupon we have the second comming too the moon upon us.
Good chance for everybody to test out the HD TV sets dont your think, wonder if NASA has shares in a few manuufactures of HDTV's. I know I will nearer the time;o).
You have to ask if they will use Intel or AMD chips to power this lander. But as we all know (geek wise) they use chips which have truely tried and tested with no hidded gotcha FPU bugs or the like. they also like chips with large tracks unlike the ever decreasing die size due to beyond a certain size the chips tracks become suseptable to the more exotic matter buzzing around space and large chip tracks can take a full on hit and still leave enough wifth for the electricity top flow. They also prefer ultra redundancy and iirc the shuttle currently has 4 onboard computers with a 5th back at ground control all running the same software at the same time and checking each others results (I'm sure somebody could give a more exacting account).
So given all that do people expect to see an AMD chip in space, I would imagine that running the same x86 code on an INTEl,AMD,and selection of the many other X86 based CPU's would be a reliable way to compare and iliminate CPU errors on many levels.
As for going to the moon, well beyond seeing a Ghostbusters size marshmellow man walking on the surface, they will never convince the sceptics they ever went there.
Some argue that if we could go there then we should be on the mars by now.
But think of this, the moon project was born out of the cold war and was driven politicaly.
Today moon projects although still driven politicaly are more driven scientificaly. This means that safty and assurances of a perfect mission become more of a factor as well as costs. That alone puts how daring the first moon mission actualy was.
Some compare the first moon landing to the flight of the wright brothers. Now would you fly in one of those planes today, hell no.
It is only now that we can saftly and reliably technology wise afford to look at the moon. Also remember that it is also what we do there that has also been advanced technologywise. Even doing simple deep drill core samples would of been totaly unviable in the early days due to space suit design alone, heck maybe still unviable today but at least we will be able to build a semi automated rig that dosn't weigh more than the craft taking it there.
I await the conspiracy theories; That only now that AMD has a proven track record in doing x86 chips, are we able to go back to the moon:D.
So virus scanner's now check for pron and generate a potential virus alert if none is found. Dont think so but would be interesting thought.
TRANSLATION into article terms: Many office users are infected already as every PC we checked had no pron whatsoever, which is clearly a sign of the virus at work.
Overall it add's to the saying you get what you pay for. That and virus's are actualy avoidable with the right approach to computers., but show me a boring persion with an STD and I'll have to rethink things:D
-- There are YES men(1) and there are NO men(0). But computers still manage to count the ones unsure(?) using binary; And we want to have AI! --
The internet is >20 years old oh yeah. But the web as we know it means web page's/websites as I know it and 20 years is a tadge of a pinocio situation there.
Coz it is hollywood/movie land and they do like re-writting history some.
A non Linux OS that can run Linux software has been approved for use on Aircraft computer systems.
The Linux applications would also need to be certified but a base OS that can handle realtime input (IE dont lag up mouse movement and your MP3's should glitch ever type of OS realtime) and has library compatibility to Linux enabling it to run applications written for Linux has been approved by the powers that be.
The British were not told that the Argentinians had Excocepts, and they did ask.
The Ships defence system was mroe than capable of taking out an excocept at the time given enough notice but wasn;t aware the french had any. As such the radar system which picked up the missile went thru its list of signatrure to identify it, identified it as an excocept and then went we british have excocepts and the intel programmed into the friendly/hostile list shows they dont so it must be friendly.
This meant that it wasn;t until the mortal phrase of "its comming right for us" from the on-deck spotters that the human element had a chance to react. Had the radar flagged it as hostile then they would of had alot more notice to counter the missile and with the weapons onboard and response times by the time the missile got flagged (by human intervention) the chances of taking it out were pretty slim due to the defences onboard and the way excocepts work once with a couple of miles of the target (I believe there are weapons that now just act like a ranged depth charge to send up a small wave/wall that the missile hits messing it up due to the hight above the waves they fly).
Anyhow, as for remote control codes there indeed is that aspect to those missiles but it was a classic GARBAGE IN GARBAGE OUT that occured here and alas the garbage was the piss-poor intel or lack of provided by the French. Why the French were slow/neglagent to help an alley, well may have been protecting sales or probaly aspect of having ground staff in the country at thetime and telling friendly they had some missiles may have induced a ground strike upon the launch locations and as such endangered french citerzens. Who knows fully but the issue here was that the radar system although did pick it up it didn't automaticvly flag it as hostile/unknown as it believed any excocept in the air had to be British and fact it was heading towards there direction got muted until it was visualy spotted by the on=board spotters by which time it was too late to do much too it.
Well Its totaly understandable but is like me asking the manufacturer of the DVD player I'm about to buy for the source code.
From an American military point of view I'd already have least 2 versions of the code. One we sell and one we use ourselves with the best refinements. So releaseing source which can after all be reverse engineered albiet painfuly shouldn;t be a major issue.
Politicaly and posture wise they whill hum and arrrghhh opver it as long as possible but will eventualy capitulate with some comprimise or benifit. Best would be release source but also with a group of minders/engineers or alaw access at a isolated location so all work and inspecting is carried out there and only compiled code is ever taken from that location.
Bottom line the ability to inspect/modify and change the code is what is required and not having a copy you can decorate the office walls. As such it is totaly viable for the Americans to enable this whilst maintaining control with regards to access and still allow the British the level of reasurance they need.
Personaly I'd want to know the hardware specs in more detail as backdoors can be hidden in other ways if required. IE if the planes sensors were suseptable to XX radio frequency as XX part on the plane acted as the perfect antenna for that frequency and generated a harmonic that blinded XX sensor which had a cascade effect making all sensors cut out.
Bottom line Military hardware/software is like guniness, you have A grade for home and B grade for export.
So will I be able to use this as a precidence to obtain the source code to my DVD player or threaten the shop stuff with a lost sale unless they turn over the remote control. Or are we about to get DRM for planes.
Of interest statisticaly its other countries put in more software backdoors than America ever has. America prefer the more opfront control of having or not having and not the you can have it but were not telling you about this hidded feature. Yip Americans are more upfront and honest with regards to software security than other countries due to the fact they prefer the sinmple yes/no approach to control over the yes/no/have a knobled version. Not asaying there perfect but it puts the software/govement/military/spook angle into perspective overall.
Though if the situation was reversed the only issue would be what format would the Americans like the source code in and how many of our top staff would you like to poach along with it.
Given the way computers work and that fact that ANY biometric data or any form be it a PIN number or retna scan data has to be processed and as such needs to be converted into a digital form for comparision/verification.
The best software design in the world wont negate the memory managment or indeed hardware memory design in so far that this data is stored in memory that can potential hold that data intact even if encrypted for longer than is needed. Whilst the original stored on a remote network will always be there for comparision the terminal end only needs to be there for the duration of the transaction and no longer.
Now if the hardware had voilatile memory which would lose its value after say even 5 seconds after the data is written (or suitable value) and the scanned/input biometric data was only stored there then nomater how bad the code the data wouldn;t be perpetualy vulnerable.
Whilst this approach is not perfect it is a viable and doable approach to what is a common problem in many application or user interaction in a society we live in.
Maybe if the CPU had a small area of such memory say sandwiched between a couple of processor layers then even future memory XRAY reading technologies or the like will have problems extracting the data.
Security is a balnce at the end of the day between YES and NO, alas it is designed and used by humans who in reality believe in YES, NO and MAYBE its out there.
ESS/Sharks have multi pathed access to discs (least if configured correctly) and general resiliantly cabled to for all effect AIX box;s inside the unit (2 generaly). As such there already multi-noded internaly and just present a single node with regards to storage. You are right with regards to cacheing but (prolly have CACHEFS on the shark/ESS's aix box's running:) that can be accomodated and indeed negated with regards to thruput of access if the base FS more than keeps up with the app, or localised caching.
Its all a means to an end, just nice to see the end take more shape in the distance;).
If anything this will help shark/ESS/Storage array sales as you get nice support contracts on those and managers like not relying upon internal resources for potential shitfan situations were possible.
Besides they can also moti hone to various nodes and ironicaly not seen a ESS/shark not attached to at least two external application box's, nor do I expect to. But they are out there.
But FS managment short/long and now term on kit may just get better and I'm sure even the M$ junkies are drowling over the prospects of not having to archive there PST files due to any form of FS restrictions:D.
Will this mean that you can share storage more easily, maybe. It certainly seems to reduce sharks/ESS into an expensive interface for attaching discs (but there again there just a load of discs with a AIX box or 2 and SSA adapters to conenct the discs anyhow).
Given the managment/maintenance levels of discs wil be more intergrated and distrubutable with this I cant help but think that OS/features and the trend in (and rightly so) resiliance,easy and sharing resources approach towards what Plan 9 was setout to be.
The more we move on the more we seem to get towards the lego-type appraoch to IT were you can just buy another box of bricks and add on and keep your older bricks instead of throwing the whole lot out and/or hacksawing the end of a brick of and gluing it onto the side of....
Storage wise this is a nice step forwards and having worked on AIX and its many filesystems and managment tools and the ease of getting the job done with the option to get clever if you wish (you chose and not forced) this looks funky albeit its RAID for SAN's in a way.
What I realy want is a FS that will propergate automaticaly and resiliantly in a way that accomodates network diversaty already and I still come down to me wanting, what is all intent a filesystem sat on a database sat on a p2p network, alas atm performance would suck, least today but you know how long code takes to get right and how fast hardware moves - remember alot of code in windows XP has origins to when it was written on a humble 386 cpu if not lower.
What this does show is how netowrk/storage interfaces have moved forward and I/O requests dont hammer CPU's as much as they used to, getting there:).
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Its the fault of the ISP,s who of late have been bitching about the BBC iplayer and how they should have a cut of the TV liscense fee. Well tooo me this response by the govement was not only a firm bitchslap back but also a very forward thinking and indeed logical relook at reality. Bottom line its the customer who bends over once the bickering has been done.
I saw this article coming, but there again I live in the UK so it has become second nature :).
I will voice my opinion in the tried and tested way of consumer protesting. I will just not buy Intel for my OpenBSD box's.
I will buy hardware that has an open support commitment and prove those vendors right in there move.
It clearly a case of a preference of devolution, I mean you have to understand were you are to understand were you are going. But there again with a totaly green outlook upon life and safe enviromental approach, one would live in cave, hunt organic naturaly growing animals only and......Caveman.
:).
Personaly if somebody wants to believe differently from me, then thats fine - I can accept that. Its when they force there beliefs upon me; Thats when I get pissed off. So in that respect, let them be. As long as they are aware of the options and were given the choice then, I have no qualms at all in what they believe. Good luck to them and respect and all that. On a positive aspect - more jobs in Science for those that want them
As long as people are given all the facts and allowed to choose, without preassure - then, I see no problem at all.
Almost makes this as newsworthy as OMG 22% of Welsh people write with there left-hand, so what - I dont, next.
SImple - If I read anything about a meteor shower that is has the slightest chance of being visable to the naked eye. Then I know for a fact it will be one of the most misrable clodiest days for ages, even after few good solid weeks without a cloud in the sky.
:).
We had meteor forcast, its cloudy that even the clouds are obscured by clouds.
I there conclude that all these reports of meteor showrs are causing global warming - FIN
have a room in your house with broadband and internet and games. Have it as a private members club. Employee's get free access. Then if you make a loss in Business, you save personaly :O).
Seen few very sound idea's mentioned in the thread:
Run after 5pm with few mates - means keep your day job and lower risk and more fun.
Run a laundry business in conjunction - people have a lot of dead time at laundry places.
Thats a key point - combine with another business that will compliment in some way. Another point - look at were people have dead time.
I would personaly go with the 5pm model to start with, combine perhaps with working with another business that did say, IT training for individuals and you leverage the resources during the day and night. You can then combine and expand the two together at a later stage.
I would also look at having a coffee bar, or perhaps have place next to a coffee shop and run a promotion that gave discount if you came in with there coffee and membership holders of your place got discount at the coffee shop. But doing your own alright coffee at low mark up would be the way.
As location goes, I'd look at locating near a major transport hub. But a gaming cyber cafe would do well in a major business area charging premo prices and would only need to cover the lunchtime crowd.
Another idea for you and this is something that would perhaps be something to look into when wimax comes into play. A portable cyber cafe run out of a nice converted old school London Double decker bus. Can move to your location then. So many options then as you can play follow the crowd, be there a pop concert or football match, school closing time, after work rush and lunchtimes. Would be fun.
Also given the drive towards non smokers, IF your a smoker you could ponder the smoker only cyber cafe and get all those desperate smokers who cant smoke in public, but in concenting location/have membership cards (easier for login details to do that); Well.
So, as a standard model of just dedicated internet and games it would appear unless you find a magic location, your at best going to break even with a little beer money. Combining the business in a complementary way, be it laundry or coffee or some other cunning buit of lateral thinking then, you have a good chance to make a comfortable living.
All the best.
This is why you should cover your mouth when sneezing or coughing. In a world of tomorrow you could end up logging into every computer in the office with one mis-placed sneeze.
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Also taking the piss, will become a common hacker passtime
Are hairdressers secret DNA theifs of tomorrow!
They can clone dolly the sheep - so key dupiong is possible
Bottom line will end up using and going thru so much red tape, might as well just use your brain. though that said hypnosis is clearly doable upon that CPU and given the brain has some of the best biometric controls going. I'd say nothing is perfect. Easier to trust nobody and plan around security issues so that there moot.
Prospect though of in this hot weather logging in, locking your terminal and comming back from lunch having caught a bit of sun for the computer to refuse you access as you look different
BTW EVERY computer already has the ultimate security control built into them, have done since the very first computers. Its called the off switch.
So rather than leave your computer idling on the net working out when the globe will overheat, whilst adding to the problem - just turn it off. There secure computer. Cooler planet.
On a final note - when they can make a catflap that will only let your cat in thru biometric data. Then and only then would I consider it consumer usable. Until then I'll use a password and avoid some mugger having to pull my eye out, drain my blood and chop my finger of as he knows its a biometric laptop
An anysysis of the battery would at basic show amount of battery power left and from full charge and natural decay a level could be worked out. Though alot of betteries now count the number of times charged and probably the date and time as well.
I'm sure they could even work out the last time the battery even saw a charge or use. Heck sure capacitors on the laptop mobo that would hold a slight charge for a while.
I also didn;t see any mention of measuring the magnetic feild strength upon the drive head of disc itself as another way to determine when last used.
If somebody wanted this data they would of removed the hard drive and copyied it using some bit copying software of choice and then popped it back without even powering up the laptop.
The solution isn't better more secure laptops, its a working thin-client with no data stored localy period. WIMAX/WIFI - all doable and TBH employee's with that kind of data shouldn;t be woorking in un-athorised zones the data isn;t allowed and a thin client gives you that. Also wont need any hard drive and woudl probably get something very small compact and light that has great battery life.
But glad they got it back, I'm going with the some theif saw heart on this one and leave the rest to the consipiracy thearists. That said I would hope that monitoring of potential use of such data would still be maintained.
Whilst the observation is indeed accurate I would wonder if there was any coralation to the autistic groups and that this my be a form of asbergurism.
:).
Now if you had somebody who was intelligent and had asbergurgers (mild autism) would it not be possible for them to adapt to there `alledged handicap` to the extent wer upon they general fitted in. Given they would adapt early on in youth thru obeservational mimicery then such traits would be explianable.
ANyhow
The observation to educational systems and the extension into work is whilst corrct also being addressed baturaly. We now give students loans and expect them to pay for everything to the extent that when they finish there course there so in dept they forget how to have fun very quikly or end up on the streets.
One observation not considered is that given how we have gone from evolving to the extent were upon our worries have moved on from hunting/gathering food and as a genral shift from essentials to were do we go for holiday and what stock options can I get if I.... That and increased leasuire time and financial ability to furfill more childhood dreams we natural find ourselfs staying in the learning inqusitive stages longer than the more practical stages of the brain/life.
This is how some could observe natural evolution and the stretching of the devolopment stages. We still measure in age were upon a 20 year old a 100 years ago was nothing like a 20 year old today who's lifespam would be more akin to twice as long so from a social basis's it would be very concievable that whilst they are more intelligent there sence of responsibility would be less due to the enviroment and extended lifespan they now enoy. So to equate them on a scale of responsibility to a 10 year old when comparitvly there IQ would be comparable to a 30 year old and you see another good fit to the observation.
Another thought, if we were all mature - somebody would have less fun in there work writting such papers
WHilst alot of corporations use Windows thru and thru on IBM/Lenvo laptops they do like the option of linux. Now given they now have this option being removed from them in a assured way that they can get linux and support the hardware fully to a usable extent then they will probably end up buying something else so they have the linux option back. WHilst they will carry on running windows, there will be a few who willl run linux and as a corporate buying policey - flexabiulity, longevaty and support are important factors. So even though they wont as a whole run linux they will not take kindly to this.
Upshot alot of corportations will now stongly review there laptop vendor buying policy, some may even have support for linux written into them and this is were the fun will begin.
If the EU were to do this they would:
;o).
1) Piss of everybody for little gain
2) Stifel competition for EU countries
3) Increase racisim by reducing open commuinication
4) End up spending way more on IT security as there are soo many people, let alone SMSing kiddies who can, could and would end up relaying every bit of information and price about viagra etc of ALOT of EU/goverment computers.
5) Be the laughing stock of the World and I for one would insist on being outsourced to India to avoid such a silly tax that is another step in fucking over the IT inductry like IR35.
On the other hand I will have to insist that they pay for my work clothes or refund ALL tax - and refund and alow me to offset my train travel. I will then get very anal and nit picky and show the goverment what red tape and polical fall-out can realy look like.
Now how about a constructive form of making money - internet driving licsence's -- would ilimenat idjiots who cant use computers. Help those that cant to realise they cant and get them help and would be nice Internet ID card. That said if you know what your doing - what ID card
So in summary
Oi EU No.
Windows is a networking tool and can and is used to expliot and hack other networks and computers. Actualy every OS is. Ban computers :|.
I realy do have to wonder what the UK goverment is doing, who is thinking up these laws and what the hell have they been drinking.
Biggest security risk ever is a stupid person and it would seem the goverment are suseptable :(. Social enginering clearly at play here for such a law to go thru.
You could just print it out in bold at one character per page, even print it out in binary. Then hand over your key in a human readable and computer readable format as it would be. Might be worth a box of A4 and generating a key :D.
If the UK goverment wants keys then offer free SSL certs to UK companies, would get more that way than thru legislation that seems draconian in approach. Criminals remarkably enough would hide there keys and so will many innocents eiher thru ignorance or laziness. If the police want the root password to my systems I'm more than happy for them to have, once they can prove they know what there doing. Otherwise it would be like handing the keys to a porche over to somebody who has never driven a real car in there life and end up crashing it. It would be neglegent for me to endanger somebody who cant drive a car into such a situation and even illegal. As such for me to proactivly not hand over any encryption keys I have and lets face it many programs generate internal keys which yoru not even aware of; is that wrong or is that ignorance.
I believe the line here is for example the police for whatever reason suspect data/information useful to an ongoing investigation is stored upon your computer in an encrypted file and you dilberatly withold that information. Then this law should fully apply. But to proactivly enforce such a law is utterly futile, though i'm sure the people who enforce the law see it that way also.
Not even going to look into the implications of any european laws of which the UK is apart of.
space oil - LOL. SAying that also forgot that the film experts have finished with the 9/11 pentagon film :|.
;o).
Hmmm maybe NASA during last budget request to the President slipped in:
TRACE ELEMENTS OF OIL FOUND ON THE FARSIDE OF THE MOON.
Too which the president may of thought, hmmmm yessss of course that explains the black bits, once again proving its not made of cheese. HAHA I'll get one over those French. Thereupon we have the second comming too the moon upon us.
Good chance for everybody to test out the HD TV sets dont your think, wonder if NASA has shares in a few manuufactures of HDTV's. I know I will nearer the time
You have to ask if they will use Intel or AMD chips to power this lander. But as we all know (geek wise) they use chips which have truely tried and tested with no hidded gotcha FPU bugs or the like. they also like chips with large tracks unlike the ever decreasing die size due to beyond a certain size the chips tracks become suseptable to the more exotic matter buzzing around space and large chip tracks can take a full on hit and still leave enough wifth for the electricity top flow. They also prefer ultra redundancy and iirc the shuttle currently has 4 onboard computers with a 5th back at ground control all running the same software at the same time and checking each others results (I'm sure somebody could give a more exacting account).
:D.
So given all that do people expect to see an AMD chip in space, I would imagine that running the same x86 code on an INTEl,AMD,and selection of the many other X86 based CPU's would be a reliable way to compare and iliminate CPU errors on many levels.
As for going to the moon, well beyond seeing a Ghostbusters size marshmellow man walking on the surface, they will never convince the sceptics they ever went there.
Some argue that if we could go there then we should be on the mars by now.
But think of this, the moon project was born out of the cold war and was driven politicaly.
Today moon projects although still driven politicaly are more driven scientificaly. This means that safty and assurances of a perfect mission become more of a factor as well as costs. That alone puts how daring the first moon mission actualy was.
Some compare the first moon landing to the flight of the wright brothers. Now would you fly in one of those planes today, hell no.
It is only now that we can saftly and reliably technology wise afford to look at the moon. Also remember that it is also what we do there that has also been advanced technologywise. Even doing simple deep drill core samples would of been totaly unviable in the early days due to space suit design alone, heck maybe still unviable today but at least we will be able to build a semi automated rig that dosn't weigh more than the craft taking it there.
I await the conspiracy theories; That only now that AMD has a proven track record in doing x86 chips, are we able to go back to the moon
So virus scanner's now check for pron and generate a potential virus alert if none is found. Dont think so but would be interesting thought.
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TRANSLATION into article terms: Many office users are infected already as every PC we checked had no pron whatsoever, which is clearly a sign of the virus at work.
Overall it add's to the saying you get what you pay for. That and virus's are actualy avoidable with the right approach to computers., but show me a boring persion with an STD and I'll have to rethink things
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There are YES men(1) and there are NO men(0). But computers still manage to count the ones unsure(?) using binary; And we want to have AI!
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The internet is >20 years old oh yeah. But the web as we know it means web page's/websites as I know it and 20 years is a tadge of a pinocio situation there.
Coz it is hollywood/movie land and they do like re-writting history some.
Whilst desktops can make it more appealing and in a few cases easier to do things.
:D.
You still cant beat a shell prompt, nomater the OS for so many tasks.
rm -f a*.wibble or del a*.wib if you like - painful on a desktop given the ease of a command line.
So the 60's hippies with the teletype consoles and lavalamps productivity wise and eye candy wise were way ahead of us
A non Linux OS that can run Linux software has been approved for use on Aircraft computer systems.
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The Linux applications would also need to be certified but a base OS that can handle realtime input (IE dont lag up mouse movement and your MP3's should glitch ever type of OS realtime) and has library compatibility to Linux enabling it to run applications written for Linux has been approved by the powers that be.
Now there is a use of an OS were I'd welcome DRM.
TTFN
Well Actualy the issue there was:
The British were not told that the Argentinians had Excocepts, and they did ask.
The Ships defence system was mroe than capable of taking out an excocept at the time given enough notice but wasn;t aware the french had any. As such the radar system which picked up the missile went thru its list of signatrure to identify it, identified it as an excocept and then went we british have excocepts and the intel programmed into the friendly/hostile list shows they dont so it must be friendly.
This meant that it wasn;t until the mortal phrase of "its comming right for us" from the on-deck spotters that the human element had a chance to react. Had the radar flagged it as hostile then they would of had alot more notice to counter the missile and with the weapons onboard and response times by the time the missile got flagged (by human intervention) the chances of taking it out were pretty slim due to the defences onboard and the way excocepts work once with a couple of miles of the target (I believe there are weapons that now just act like a ranged depth charge to send up a small wave/wall that the missile hits messing it up due to the hight above the waves they fly).
Anyhow, as for remote control codes there indeed is that aspect to those missiles but it was a classic GARBAGE IN GARBAGE OUT that occured here and alas the garbage was the piss-poor intel or lack of provided by the French. Why the French were slow/neglagent to help an alley, well may have been protecting sales or probaly aspect of having ground staff in the country at thetime and telling friendly they had some missiles may have induced a ground strike upon the launch locations and as such endangered french citerzens. Who knows fully but the issue here was that the radar system although did pick it up it didn't automaticvly flag it as hostile/unknown as it believed any excocept in the air had to be British and fact it was heading towards there direction got muted until it was visualy spotted by the on=board spotters by which time it was too late to do much too it.
Well Its totaly understandable but is like me asking the manufacturer of the DVD player I'm about to buy for the source code.
From an American military point of view I'd already have least 2 versions of the code. One we sell and one we use ourselves with the best refinements. So releaseing source which can after all be reverse engineered albiet painfuly shouldn;t be a major issue.
Politicaly and posture wise they whill hum and arrrghhh opver it as long as possible but will eventualy capitulate with some comprimise or benifit. Best would be release source but also with a group of minders/engineers or alaw access at a isolated location so all work and inspecting is carried out there and only compiled code is ever taken from that location.
Bottom line the ability to inspect/modify and change the code is what is required and not having a copy you can decorate the office walls. As such it is totaly viable for the Americans to enable this whilst maintaining control with regards to access and still allow the British the level of reasurance they need.
Personaly I'd want to know the hardware specs in more detail as backdoors can be hidden in other ways if required. IE if the planes sensors were suseptable to XX radio frequency as XX part on the plane acted as the perfect antenna for that frequency and generated a harmonic that blinded XX sensor which had a cascade effect making all sensors cut out.
Bottom line Military hardware/software is like guniness, you have A grade for home and B grade for export.
So will I be able to use this as a precidence to obtain the source code to my DVD player or threaten the shop stuff with a lost sale unless they turn over the remote control. Or are we about to get DRM for planes.
Of interest statisticaly its other countries put in more software backdoors than America ever has. America prefer the more opfront control of having or not having and not the you can have it but were not telling you about this hidded feature. Yip Americans are more upfront and honest with regards to software security than other countries due to the fact they prefer the sinmple yes/no approach to control over the yes/no/have a knobled version. Not asaying there perfect but it puts the software/govement/military/spook angle into perspective overall.
Though if the situation was reversed the only issue would be what format would the Americans like the source code in and how many of our top staff would you like to poach along with it.
Given the way computers work and that fact that ANY biometric data or any form be it a PIN number or retna scan data has to be processed and as such needs to be converted into a digital form for comparision/verification.
The best software design in the world wont negate the memory managment or indeed hardware memory design in so far that this data is stored in memory that can potential hold that data intact even if encrypted for longer than is needed. Whilst the original stored on a remote network will always be there for comparision the terminal end only needs to be there for the duration of the transaction and no longer.
Now if the hardware had voilatile memory which would lose its value after say even 5 seconds after the data is written (or suitable value) and the scanned/input biometric data was only stored there then nomater how bad the code the data wouldn;t be perpetualy vulnerable.
Whilst this approach is not perfect it is a viable and doable approach to what is a common problem in many application or user interaction in a society we live in.
Maybe if the CPU had a small area of such memory say sandwiched between a couple of processor layers then even future memory XRAY reading technologies or the like will have problems extracting the data.
Security is a balnce at the end of the day between YES and NO, alas
it is designed and used by humans who in reality believe in YES, NO and MAYBE its out there.
ESS/Sharks have multi pathed access to discs (least if configured correctly) and general resiliantly cabled to for all effect AIX box;s inside the unit (2 generaly). As such there already multi-noded internaly and just present a single node with regards to storage. You are right with regards to cacheing but (prolly have CACHEFS on the shark/ESS's aix box's running :) that can be accomodated and indeed negated with regards to thruput of access if the base FS more than keeps up with the app, or localised caching.
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:D.
Its all a means to an end, just nice to see the end take more shape in the distance
If anything this will help shark/ESS/Storage array sales as you get nice support contracts on those and managers like not relying upon internal resources for potential shitfan situations were possible.
Besides they can also moti hone to various nodes and ironicaly not seen a ESS/shark not attached to at least two external application box's, nor do I expect to. But they are out there.
But FS managment short/long and now term on kit may just get better and I'm sure even the M$ junkies are drowling over the prospects of not having to archive there PST files due to any form of FS restrictions
Will this mean that you can share storage more easily, maybe. It certainly seems to reduce sharks/ESS into an expensive interface for attaching discs (but there again there just a load of discs with a AIX box or 2 and SSA adapters to conenct the discs anyhow).
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Given the managment/maintenance levels of discs wil be more intergrated and distrubutable with this I cant help but think that OS/features and the trend in (and rightly so) resiliance,easy and sharing resources approach towards what Plan 9 was setout to be.
The more we move on the more we seem to get towards the lego-type appraoch to IT were you can just buy another box of bricks and add on and keep your older bricks instead of throwing the whole lot out and/or hacksawing the end of a brick of and gluing it onto the side of....
Storage wise this is a nice step forwards and having worked on AIX and its many filesystems and managment tools and the ease of getting the job done with the option to get clever if you wish (you chose and not forced) this looks funky albeit its RAID for SAN's in a way.
What I realy want is a FS that will propergate automaticaly and resiliantly in a way that accomodates network diversaty already and I still come down to me wanting, what is all intent a filesystem sat on a database sat on a p2p network, alas atm performance would suck, least today but you know how long code takes to get right and how fast hardware moves - remember alot of code in windows XP has origins to when it was written on a humble 386 cpu if not lower.
What this does show is how netowrk/storage interfaces have moved forward and I/O requests dont hammer CPU's as much as they used to, getting there
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