Law enforcement frequently publish books on how to cheat, scam, swindle. The idea is to expose techniques to the public. If we have potential weaknesses in mind we are more likely to be cautious in designing and using the systems we use.
I'm not sure what you are thinking if you think a 7 year old OS can beat all the other 20+ year old OSes out there.
Sir, please locate a dictionary (ask mom for one) and look up sarcasm.
I mean you could even say DOS beats win95. You don't sound very experienced if you think Win95 is old.
I too was online long before 95 was a twinkle in Bill's eye. The difference between you and I is not experience, but the ability to read.
The original poster refered to "cpu years running" as the measure of software. This is not the same as the number of years it has been around. VMS has been around a long time too, but hasn't racked up nearly as many cpu cycles as 95. I chose 95 as a rather arbitrarily example because it was so rampantly popular and widely used. It stuck around longer than any other single version of Windows.
Anyway, please find a sense of humor and report back when you do.
A friend of mine who does some work for NASA was describing another wacky concept he heard about to expand wireless coverage. The idea is that enough commercial planes are in the air at any moment, and are spaced evenly enough, to provide coverage for much of the country. Certainly major cities would be well covered. And the nice thing is that busy travel times coincide with peak calling hours.
we generally hate Microsoft, but we also hate censorship on the internet. Here, Microsoft and censorship are on opposite sides. Where does that leave us? Oof, good question.
Not a hard choice. We dislike MS because of evil things they do. It's their actions we are reacting to, not just who they are. In this (rare) case, MS's actions are relatively innocent. To take MS's side in this battle doesn't change our opinion of MS in general. Standing up for justice should be a higher principle than wanting MS to fall.
It's also important to note, however, that Spider Man opened in considerably more theaters than Star Wars. I *believe*, though I'm not sure, the number was somewhere between 1500-2000. That makes a BIG difference in the money that Star Wars pulled in.
Even so, Spider-Man made more $$ per theater than than AotC. Remember, Spider-Man's 3 day opening wasn't just a couple million more than AotC, it was $28 million more. That's pretty amazing.
You also have to consider that AotC was in fewer theaters because Lucas put requirements on how much the theaters have to show his movie. So, those theaters showing AotC will probably be showing it longer than Spider-Man gets shown on average. Lucas has been in filmmaking for some time and knows how to make a buck. His decision to put requirements on the theaters was a business move, an attempt to make more money.
You're right, it isn't perfectly efficient. But, efficiency isn't the most essential aspect of power production. Usability is.
Sadly, the consumer's use of electricity doesn't vary in proportion to the tide. If it did, and the tide always produced exactly the right amount power to keep everyone's lights on then it would be best to pipe the electricty directly from the water to your power outlet. But, that's not the case.
Fuel cells allow them to store the power and distribute it as needed. This ends up being most efficient in the long run because the water-driven power station only needs to produce power equal to the usage averaged over a period of time. It dosen't need to increase production during peak hours and won't be wasteful during off-peak hours. The fuel cells take care of that.
You have no right to dictate what software companies can and can not do with their property.
Nor should they have the right to dictate what I can do with it once I have legally purchased it.
Software that companies write belongs to them so they should be free to do whatever they choose with it
Imagine if auto makers like Ford installed EULAs which you had to agree to before you could start the car for the first time. You had to agree to drive within certain speeds, keep it on paved roads, use only specified colors for repainting, not remove or alter the little Ford emblem on the front, and abstain from using any bumper stickers with political views that Ford didn't approve of.
Ford made the car, they can specify whatever they want, right? But, if Ford or any other car makers did this you can believe that there would be a storm of consumer rights law suits against them. Why should software be any different?
Globalism is a major reason. Invasive American culture -- from movies, music, fast-food -- have highlighted political and religious differences, from Europe to the Middle East and South Asia
While movies and music may be some of the most obvious exports of American culture/values to the rest of the world, I don't think they are the problematic ones. I lived most of my life in Eastern Europe and American culture was always in high demand.
Without a doubt there are certain people/cultures that are upset over the invasion of Pepsi ads, but I don't think many people turn into suicide bombers after seeing a KFC sign. To some people, McDonalds and rock music symbolize everything they dislike about the American cultural imperialism, but they aren't the primary trouble causers.
For instance, an issue that came up recently in Indonesia was the US-dominated pharmaceutical policy of the WTO. Many people in Indonesia enjoy having access to American music and movies, but I think that few appreciate the fact that they many life-saving medications are unavailable or prohibitively expensive due to the policy.
Through the WTO, the IMF and other international organizations, the US has pushed a very restrictive and controlling set of economic policies on much of the world.
Many countries dislike the level of US interference in heated political situations such as the middle east or certain former Soviet republics.
Add to this the frequent US military involvement in conflicts throughout the world and the strong military presence the US maintains at key locations, and you can see how the US is view as aggressive and self-interested.
IIRC Einstein proved that light is particles that moved like energy (in a waveform).
Sort of. It was shown that particles behave like waves and vice versa. Thus, since light is a wave it can also be thought of as a particle. We refer to this particle as a photon.
However, it's not a particle in the same way as an electron or a cookie crumb. It has no mass and, thus, exists only in the form of energy.
This type of attitude is fine for CNN or the New York Times. Either I like them or I don't. Take it or leave it, but don't complain.
But I've always thought of/. differently. This is more than a news source. It's a community. We participate. We contribute. Not all of the content is on the front page. To me, the best reason to read/. is for the comments. In this way, each of us make up part of the/. experience.
Thus, our opinions about the content quality should matter./. offers the chance for us to express ourselves, and if we express dissatisfaction with the eds (however tastelessly) we should not be told to leave. I'm dissapointed that Hemos doesn't share this view of the resource he runs.
Your dozens of pageviews per day only cost more money for Slashdot, and the fact that you don't subscribe doesn't help matters.
If the/. editors don't want people looking at the site without paying, they should make it subscription only. If they aren't willing to make/. subscription only, they shouldn't hold a grudge against a poster who doesn't subscribe.
And isn't there something wrong with an editor discussing, in public, a user's viewing habits and whether or not the user is subscribed? Seems to me there ought to be some privacy issue here.
and also remove the anonymous cowards from my world. In other words, I'd pay to not have to read post by trolls, etc.
Why pay when you can get rid of anon for free?
Go to preferences, set the Anonymous Modifier to -6, and set your threshold to at least 0.
Besides, while trolls are more likely to be anonymous cowards, there is nothing stopping them from registering. Money won't solve the problem of people being stupid.
<Questions> Scoria asks: Has the Slashdot crew considered offering multiple levels of subscription? For example: $5/mo. removes the ads, $10/mo. permits you access to a 'subscribers only' comment tree for every article (it'd be devoid of trolls, given the fact most wouldn't pay for a/. subscription), etc. Furthermore, why doesn't Slashdot simply charge by the amount of bandwidth consumed?
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Those were interesting suggestions, taco really shouldn't have ignored the question. I don't necessarily like the idea of a "subscribers only" comment tree, but taco's reaction does not reflect well on the willingness of the/. administrators to consider our input.
Your T1 CSU/DSU probably isn't going to drive the LED at 1MHz or more but the LED is quite capable of switching at up to 10MHz.
It's not just a matter of LED output keeping up with the data rate. It's also a matter of capture rate. It's irrelevant if an LED can switch at 10MHz because we don't have any optical equipment that can read at a framerate of 10MHz.
The only actual test mentioned in the article employed a high-speed photodiode. With this they achieved a bandwidth of 45KHz for most of their reads. Since there is a trade-off between gain and capture rate, the farther away the reader is the slower the observable bandwidth will be.
Regarding higher speeds the article has this to say:
For higher-speed measurements, the photodiode was connected directly to the input amplifier of the oscilloscope and operated in the quadrant IV (photovoltaic) region. Limited sensitivity in this configuration is what necessitated placing the detector directly in contact with the LED.
Unless someone has direct physical access to your Class III equipment, they can't read anything in the MHz range. So, those Cisco routers are safe after all.
gunmen Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, -- who were also killed during the massacre-- were avid fans of violent video games and the movie ``The Basketball Diaries.''
So, if it were discovered that the killers were fans of chocolate ice-cream should we sue Baskin Robbins?
Columbine was truely tragic, my heart goes out to the victims. However, being hurt does not automatically make one right. Nor does being a victim entitle one to blame and attack anyone remotely related to the crime.
In this case the families of those killed could not see justice done to the killers since they are already dead. The natural human urge is to get back and exact justice in attempt to compensate for suffering. Since the perpetrators of the crime were dead, a substitute had to be found. But, that doesn't make it right or just.
The judge said the two gunmen were the ones responsible for the teacher's death.
Eisner said that the ad suggests to people that 'they can create theft if they buy this computer.'
So, the mere hint of an illegal activity will obviously lead to rampant law breaking?
Blaming Apple is really a stretch. I would guess that people with enough money to purchase a Mac are less likely to pirate all their music than users of more affordable hardware.
It looks like corporations that deal with copyrighted material have a new scapgoat for any failure to bring in revenue. Blame Apple. Blame Napster. Blame college kids.
Eisner's bellyaching is yet another example of a trend where large corporations try to portray themselves as victims.
Micorsoft patented a digital rights operating system ... Somehow, the connection between this and the SSSCA could mean that Microsoft could be the only legal OS in the US.
In fact, the SSSCA has already made provisions for M$ in SECTION 107. ANTITRUST EXEMPTION:
(c) EXEMPTION AUTHORIZED. -- When the Secretary finds that it is required by the public interest, the Secretary shall exempt a person participating in a meeting or discussion described in subsection (a) from the antitrust laws to the extent necessary to allow the person to proceed with the activities approved in the order.
The persons described in subsection (a) are the "representatives of interactive digital device manufacturers".
Isn't it great how our law-makers can forcefully create new markets for M$ (or others) to dominate?
Not that I'm any fan of Jones, but was his mass mailing any worse than the campaign techniques of the other candidates? Bill Jones has not flooded my doorstep with flyers or printed material. Nor has he put his face all over TV ad spots.
Politicians always broadcast their message to millions of uninterested people. And it takes less effort to hit delete than to toss a letter at the trash can, pick up the letter after it misses, and pack it into my already overly full trash can.
Having said that, I am put off by the fact that Bill Jones was careless and not entirely honest about his mailing. Had he used a more legitimate looking mail server and a more selective recipient list he might have avoided a lot of flak.
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Law enforcement frequently publish books on how to cheat, scam, swindle. The idea is to expose techniques to the public. If we have potential weaknesses in mind we are more likely to be cautious in designing and using the systems we use.
Didn't work. RedHat 7.2. NetGear ethernet card.
Sir, please locate a dictionary (ask mom for one) and look up sarcasm.
I too was online long before 95 was a twinkle in Bill's eye. The difference between you and I is not experience, but the ability to read.
The original poster refered to "cpu years running" as the measure of software. This is not the same as the number of years it has been around. VMS has been around a long time too, but hasn't racked up nearly as many cpu cycles as 95. I chose 95 as a rather arbitrarily example because it was so rampantly popular and widely used. It stuck around longer than any other single version of Windows.
Anyway, please find a sense of humor and report back when you do.
A friend of mine who does some work for NASA was describing another wacky concept he heard about to expand wireless coverage. The idea is that enough commercial planes are in the air at any moment, and are spaced evenly enough, to provide coverage for much of the country. Certainly major cities would be well covered. And the nice thing is that busy travel times coincide with peak calling hours.
By that measure, Win 95 beats pretty much all other OS's. And I take it that you still use Netscape 2.0?
Not a hard choice. We dislike MS because of evil things they do. It's their actions we are reacting to, not just who they are. In this (rare) case, MS's actions are relatively innocent. To take MS's side in this battle doesn't change our opinion of MS in general. Standing up for justice should be a higher principle than wanting MS to fall.
Even so, Spider-Man made more $$ per theater than than AotC. Remember, Spider-Man's 3 day opening wasn't just a couple million more than AotC, it was $28 million more. That's pretty amazing.
You also have to consider that AotC was in fewer theaters because Lucas put requirements on how much the theaters have to show his movie. So, those theaters showing AotC will probably be showing it longer than Spider-Man gets shown on average. Lucas has been in filmmaking for some time and knows how to make a buck. His decision to put requirements on the theaters was a business move, an attempt to make more money.
You're right, it isn't perfectly efficient. But, efficiency isn't the most essential aspect of power production. Usability is.
Sadly, the consumer's use of electricity doesn't vary in proportion to the tide. If it did, and the tide always produced exactly the right amount power to keep everyone's lights on then it would be best to pipe the electricty directly from the water to your power outlet. But, that's not the case.
Fuel cells allow them to store the power and distribute it as needed. This ends up being most efficient in the long run because the water-driven power station only needs to produce power equal to the usage averaged over a period of time. It dosen't need to increase production during peak hours and won't be wasteful during off-peak hours. The fuel cells take care of that.
Nor should they have the right to dictate what I can do with it once I have legally purchased it.
Imagine if auto makers like Ford installed EULAs which you had to agree to before you could start the car for the first time. You had to agree to drive within certain speeds, keep it on paved roads, use only specified colors for repainting, not remove or alter the little Ford emblem on the front, and abstain from using any bumper stickers with political views that Ford didn't approve of.
Ford made the car, they can specify whatever they want, right? But, if Ford or any other car makers did this you can believe that there would be a storm of consumer rights law suits against them. Why should software be any different?
While movies and music may be some of the most obvious exports of American culture/values to the rest of the world, I don't think they are the problematic ones. I lived most of my life in Eastern Europe and American culture was always in high demand.
Without a doubt there are certain people/cultures that are upset over the invasion of Pepsi ads, but I don't think many people turn into suicide bombers after seeing a KFC sign. To some people, McDonalds and rock music symbolize everything they dislike about the American cultural imperialism, but they aren't the primary trouble causers.
For instance, an issue that came up recently in Indonesia was the US-dominated pharmaceutical policy of the WTO. Many people in Indonesia enjoy having access to American music and movies, but I think that few appreciate the fact that they many life-saving medications are unavailable or prohibitively expensive due to the policy.
Through the WTO, the IMF and other international organizations, the US has pushed a very restrictive and controlling set of economic policies on much of the world.
Many countries dislike the level of US interference in heated political situations such as the middle east or certain former Soviet republics.
Add to this the frequent US military involvement in conflicts throughout the world and the strong military presence the US maintains at key locations, and you can see how the US is view as aggressive and self-interested.
IIRC Einstein proved that light is particles that moved like energy (in a waveform).
Sort of. It was shown that particles behave like waves and vice versa. Thus, since light is a wave it can also be thought of as a particle. We refer to this particle as a photon.
However, it's not a particle in the same way as an electron or a cookie crumb. It has no mass and, thus, exists only in the form of energy.
If you don't like it here, leave.
This type of attitude is fine for CNN or the New York Times. Either I like them or I don't. Take it or leave it, but don't complain.
But I've always thought of
Thus, our opinions about the content quality should matter.
Your dozens of pageviews per day only cost more money for Slashdot, and the fact that you don't subscribe doesn't help matters.
If the
And isn't there something wrong with an editor discussing, in public, a user's viewing habits and whether or not the user is subscribed? Seems to me there ought to be some privacy issue here.
Why pay when you can get rid of anon for free?
Go to preferences, set the Anonymous Modifier to -6, and set your threshold to at least 0. Besides, while trolls are more likely to be anonymous cowards, there is nothing stopping them from registering. Money won't solve the problem of people being stupid.
Those were interesting suggestions, taco really shouldn't have ignored the question. I don't necessarily like the idea of a "subscribers only" comment tree, but taco's reaction does not reflect well on the willingness of the
It's not just a matter of LED output keeping up with the data rate. It's also a matter of capture rate. It's irrelevant if an LED can switch at 10MHz because we don't have any optical equipment that can read at a framerate of 10MHz.
The only actual test mentioned in the article employed a high-speed photodiode. With this they achieved a bandwidth of 45KHz for most of their reads. Since there is a trade-off between gain and capture rate, the farther away the reader is the slower the observable bandwidth will be.
Regarding higher speeds the article has this to say:
Unless someone has direct physical access to your Class III equipment, they can't read anything in the MHz range. So, those Cisco routers are safe after all.
gunmen Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, -- who were also killed during the massacre-- were avid fans of violent video games and the movie ``The Basketball Diaries.''
So, if it were discovered that the killers were fans of chocolate ice-cream should we sue Baskin Robbins?
Columbine was truely tragic, my heart goes out to the victims. However, being hurt does not automatically make one right. Nor does being a victim entitle one to blame and attack anyone remotely related to the crime.
In this case the families of those killed could not see justice done to the killers since they are already dead. The natural human urge is to get back and exact justice in attempt to compensate for suffering. Since the perpetrators of the crime were dead, a substitute had to be found. But, that doesn't make it right or just.
The judge said the two gunmen were the ones responsible for the teacher's death.
Thank God for a judge with common sense.
Eisner said that the ad suggests to people that 'they can create theft if they buy this computer.'
So, the mere hint of an illegal activity will obviously lead to rampant law breaking?
Blaming Apple is really a stretch. I would guess that people with enough money to purchase a Mac are less likely to pirate all their music than users of more affordable hardware.
It looks like corporations that deal with copyrighted material have a new scapgoat for any failure to bring in revenue. Blame Apple. Blame Napster. Blame college kids.
Eisner's bellyaching is yet another example of a trend where large corporations try to portray themselves as victims.
Pathetic.
Micorsoft patented a digital rights operating system
...
Somehow, the connection between this and the SSSCA could mean that Microsoft could be the only legal OS in the US.
In fact, the SSSCA has already made provisions for M$ in SECTION 107. ANTITRUST EXEMPTION:
The persons described in subsection (a) are the "representatives of interactive digital device manufacturers". Isn't it great how our law-makers can forcefully create new markets for M$ (or others) to dominate?
Not that I'm any fan of Jones, but was his mass mailing any worse than the campaign techniques of the other candidates? Bill Jones has not flooded my doorstep with flyers or printed material. Nor has he put his face all over TV ad spots.
Politicians always broadcast their message to millions of uninterested people. And it takes less effort to hit delete than to toss a letter at the trash can, pick up the letter after it misses, and pack it into my already overly full trash can.
Having said that, I am put off by the fact that Bill Jones was careless and not entirely honest about his mailing. Had he used a more legitimate looking mail server and a more selective recipient list he might have avoided a lot of flak.