Seriously. IT DOES NOT MENTION RFID ANYWHERE IN THE ARTICLE. Just so y'all realize. Why is slashdot so anti-RFID, anyways? Are you guys anti-barcode? It's just a longer range barcode. And the chipmaker can set the length. It's just a way to get small amounts of information in to a computer. Relax.
And, I'm inclined to listen to visa a little bit when they say their card is secure. I mean, they are not exactly a company that can win by skimping on security. If the system is hacked, they pay, not you.
To be honest, I really like Slate. Read it every day. They are really quite independent, like when they bashed IE. This might be quite a non-news item, ultimately (I hope)
yeah, I know the history of Taiwan. However, step back and look at the reality. Two governments. Two countries. I know there are all sorts of descriptions for Taiwan like "renegade province" but, for all practical purposes they are two separate countries.
Agreed. They were hired as programmers and map readers, not geopoliticial experts. Taiwan is a separate country, Kashmir is disputed. The people who should be responsibile are the sales guys. They have the knowledge of the local areas, and they are supposed to be responsible for making sure the products meet the customer's needs. If they don't, send it back to the programmers. The programmers are in a far corner of the US. Let the experts do the auditing.
Radical? Nope... SGI makes a product like this but it is prohibitively expensive. However, the zSeries (mainframes) at IBM do this exactly. In addition, you can remove a block of processors if they fail.
I don't think it's as bad as the poster implies. Let's look at the facts:
1: Sun develops Java. We all owe them for that. Let's face it. Love it or hate it, Sun has created a widely used language. They control what goes into the language.
2: Eclipse, as a development platform, is gaining ground all the time. Great. I'm all for diversity.
But, Sun's position is understandable. The presence of programming tools, in this corporate climate, can make or break a language. It seems like sun, more or less, is looking to have a more formal place in Eclipse's management. Conspiracy theories, of course, are abound.... except,
JAVA IS SUN'S LANGUAGE. Imagine, if Sun had more a voice in eclipse development, think of what is possible!!! What a concept? The language developers and the IDE developers working togeter?
Sorry for my smart-assed comments. What my point is, this has just as much potential to be a good thing for Eclipse. Sun is certainly capable of providing constructive agreement, and the Eclipse foundation doesn't actually need to listen to Sun. I just think that there's a lot of potential for cooperation.
I too have a Nikon N-65, and it's been wonderful. The automatic systems are marvelously powerful, but give me more than enough flexibility to do what I want. Together with a moderate zoom lens, a bag, and a filter, I think it was $250.
I've been nothing but satisfied with my camera. And, it just feels good. It's a sturdy, well-built camera that looks sexy. I mean, really, it says Nikon on it, has a well-designed, tech-looking body, and everything else. Definetly makes you look better:p
personally, i hope they can look at Desktop Linux
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I guess my one hope for this year is that end-user linux improves. I personally have two boxen operating right now, one linux, one windows. The windows one does exactly what I want, desktop related. It happens to be aggravating to deal with server-wise, which is what my linux box does. For example. I click and, three seconds (at most) later, mozilla comes up and I browse stuff. Yay.
For linux, I wait about 10 seconds at a minimum. I understand there is a 800mhz difference between the two processors, but this is just absurd. No, mozilla does not pre-load on either.
My sincere hope is that scheduling advances in the 2.6 kernel series will provide a much more usable interface. Java runs sooo much better on windows than it does on linux, and this is something that matters to me. I shouldn't have to renice -2 java so eclipse can have a decent reaction time.
other than that, the only way to go is up. let's hear it for all those developers who are trying to do the things I mentioned, and about a bajillion other things. Hats off to ya'.
One of the legends of the early radio intelligence (and other classified military radio work) was that each coder (morse that is) had a very specific tapping style that was discernible by a trained professional. Such uniqueness was noticable even if the coder switched hands.
While this uniqueness didn't provide a surefire form of authentication, professionals who feared having a broadcast recognized would sometimes retire a coder after sending a particularly sensitive message.
Seems kinda like mouse analasys. You can't prove it's them, but it's another suggestion. Can't see how it'll be useful. The mouse is easy enough to hook into in the software side--it's by no means a secure device.
Let's face it. I'm a student. I'm lazy, and I don't read everything listing stuff I should do. So, to deal with that, AcIS (Academic Information Systems) at Columbia University doles out some hard but good justice.
If your computer is detected with a worm, clogging up the network, the router is configured to remove your machine from the network. A CD-R with the latest patches finds it's way to the student's mailbox, along with a (gasp) phone message saying what's up. When the student can show somewhat that they're clean to the hall's student tech, they're let back on. It's probably not cheap to do, but it's effective and the easiest way to motivate people.
Honestly, you'd be amazed what two little things can do:
ifconfig eth0 down
you'd be amazed at what getting rid of a global distraction can do:)
Ritalin. It's amazing. People give ritalin shit for being overprescribed, but it's remarkable. Just do what everyone in the ivies do (and Exeter): snort it. You'll be more focused than ever before.
Okay, snorting ritalin isn't for everyone, but it helps. I also reccomend exercise as a way to focus your mind. It's effects are hard to explain, but ever since I started biking i've found a tuned body helps the mind. (Sounds like new age shit but, hey, it works.)
Also try downtempo music, much like what you can find on SomaFM
1) nope
2) nope. Drives have stepping motors, which keep a constant speed or deal with it if they can't.
3) somewhat, but not really. If you were really crazy you could reformat all the drives when you get to zero-g to assure absolute alignment but this is not necessary with newer, more expensive drives.
4) no. Gravity is a constant force therefore has no damping effects.
hehe didnt' meant to shoot you down but that's what came to mind.
Wow, dual p4s? Honestly, unless you feel you want to game on that or something, don't even bother. From what you're talking about, it seems you could get away with one or two P1-100's serving (web, mail, and other network connections)--you can get those for free--and get maybe a pIII at most for file serving. Export useful directories using NFS, and let the P1's serve them. Unless you anticipate monster load, don't even worry.
What you're talking about could easily survive the slashdot effect with PHP or Perl generated pages, provided there was enough bandwidth. Unless you anticipate that kind of load (doubt it) you don't need anything more than an old pIII with enough ram (512 min) and a reasonably fast disk drive (ext3 boot partition and rieserfs for the rest).
Absolutely. This is the same guy who did buddyzoo a coupla weeks ago, and I too went to the same high school with him. The degradation algorithms are a central part of the neural network that is the braim. Oh, wait, was I supposed to say that? Heh...
And yea, they really did write it in 3 months. It's not from CalTech and Harvard, they wrote it in high school.
I've found that, I hope, most manufacturers have a fairly stringent quality control process. (Not to say there arent a few bad ones out there.) I mean, a monitor is big and all, but as long as you get a new one with a warranty it shouldn't be a problem.
As long as you stick with a major manufacturer, you are probably safe. Of course, you still have to see the monitor in action, that is the most important part. However, I don't think you need to insist upon walking away with the display model. If the store one looks good, there is little chance the one in your box will look any worse.
If this really is a major investment, ask for a Satisfaction-Guaranteed sticker. That way, if it isn't perfect, you can still get your money back. I don't think this is an issue tho.
We had a Panasonic Laser Parner (model number forgotten) with our first Pentium, a long time ago. (it still had a card slot for font expansion) The thing doesn't exactly make me wish for the 'good ol' days'. The drum developed a defect that left vertical absences of toner on the whole sheet, plus the paper cartridge stuch out of the printer and was held on by 2 flimsy plastic tabs. Broke 3 times in a week, then we gave up and just held it in place.
So, there was nothing special about 6 years ago. Printer manufacturers haven't gotten lazy. They just recognized their target market: people want cheap printers, not high-quality expensive printers. They are especially not concerned with speed, for the most part. As long as it looks good when printing out your 3 page English paper, people won't complain. The Dell Guy doesn't need PostScript support, like he doesn't need 15 ppm color. He also doesn't need so spend more than $75. It's just another concequence of computing for the masses.
I was glad to see Digital Defense owning up to their mistake. It's a testament to the strength of a sense of courtesy in the security community. People f*ck up, but they feel bad afterwards.
Spinrite is garbage. I don't wanna sound like a troll, but everything Steve Gibson says has been thoroughly debunked. Don't mind the domain name. The operators of grcsucks.com run a classy operation, believe it or not:
We encourage you to research each topic for yourself: check out all the links, especially the ones that seem contrary to your views; question the motivation of the writer and publisher; and form your own opinion about the information that is being presented. We suggest that you treat all other news/information outlets in the same way - the media have strong biases which directly affect the way in which news and information is presented to you - and very often that leads to disinformation.
I would not reccomend SpinRite, as it costs money and does nothing new.
"I could try asking permission, but do you want to wait 6 hours for a cool breaking story while we wait for permission to link someone?"
This does _not_ qualify as a breaking story, sorry. I just can't see slashdot's position on this one.
Taken from the site: Due to the people at slashdot.org linking to this site without asking the owners or the hosters, asciipr0n.com is offline until further notice. Maybe you guys should start mirroring the sites you link to...
You guys, asciipr0n.com is a small site. I'm aware you can link to whoever you want, but don't you think you should show some courtesy and warn a person before you eat up their bandwidth bill in a a matter of minutes?
It's just a nice thing to do.
Am I the only one who noticed there's a new topic on slashdot: storage...
I'm not sure why this warrants it's own topic, but, hell, I guess it's okay. Things like this don't reall fall under 'science'
What a well-written article. If only all the articles on slashdot could be like that: Clear, concise, full of details, and it had links to other sub-articles for public consumption if the reader was interested. Plus, they provided loads of evidence. (also they have lots of "it worked for me" stories, probably to ease the jitters of reluctant cios.)
I'd have to say, you know the article wasn't full of BS when they said, flat out, that MCSE's don't know anything useful. Yes!! That alone showed how they were cutting it straight. Then they went to rag on VB people too, and I was gleeful.
Also made me glad to see the consulting companies are letting windows-only people go. Makes me feel like I'll be able to get a job soon enough, heh.
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Seriously. IT DOES NOT MENTION RFID ANYWHERE IN THE ARTICLE. Just so y'all realize. Why is slashdot so anti-RFID, anyways? Are you guys anti-barcode? It's just a longer range barcode. And the chipmaker can set the length. It's just a way to get small amounts of information in to a computer. Relax.
And, I'm inclined to listen to visa a little bit when they say their card is secure. I mean, they are not exactly a company that can win by skimping on security. If the system is hacked, they pay, not you.
To be honest, I really like Slate. Read it every day. They are really quite independent, like when they bashed IE. This might be quite a non-news item, ultimately (I hope)
yeah, I know the history of Taiwan. However, step back and look at the reality. Two governments. Two countries. I know there are all sorts of descriptions for Taiwan like "renegade province" but, for all practical purposes they are two separate countries.
Agreed. They were hired as programmers and map readers, not geopoliticial experts. Taiwan is a separate country, Kashmir is disputed. The people who should be responsibile are the sales guys. They have the knowledge of the local areas, and they are supposed to be responsible for making sure the products meet the customer's needs. If they don't, send it back to the programmers. The programmers are in a far corner of the US. Let the experts do the auditing.
Is Sitecom. The product they provide is: http://www.sitecom.com/products_info.php?product_i d=237&grp_id=6
Radical? Nope... SGI makes a product like this but it is prohibitively expensive. However, the zSeries (mainframes) at IBM do this exactly. In addition, you can remove a block of processors if they fail.
--Casey.
I don't think it's as bad as the poster implies. Let's look at the facts:
1: Sun develops Java. We all owe them for that. Let's face it. Love it or hate it, Sun has created a widely used language. They control what goes into the language.
2: Eclipse, as a development platform, is gaining ground all the time. Great. I'm all for diversity.
But, Sun's position is understandable. The presence of programming tools, in this corporate climate, can make or break a language. It seems like sun, more or less, is looking to have a more formal place in Eclipse's management. Conspiracy theories, of course, are abound.... except,
JAVA IS SUN'S LANGUAGE. Imagine, if Sun had more a voice in eclipse development, think of what is possible!!! What a concept? The language developers and the IDE developers working togeter?
Sorry for my smart-assed comments. What my point is, this has just as much potential to be a good thing for Eclipse. Sun is certainly capable of providing constructive agreement, and the Eclipse foundation doesn't actually need to listen to Sun. I just think that there's a lot of potential for cooperation.
I too have a Nikon N-65, and it's been wonderful. The automatic systems are marvelously powerful, but give me more than enough flexibility to do what I want. Together with a moderate zoom lens, a bag, and a filter, I think it was $250.
:p
I've been nothing but satisfied with my camera. And, it just feels good. It's a sturdy, well-built camera that looks sexy. I mean, really, it says Nikon on it, has a well-designed, tech-looking body, and everything else. Definetly makes you look better
I guess my one hope for this year is that end-user linux improves. I personally have two boxen operating right now, one linux, one windows. The windows one does exactly what I want, desktop related. It happens to be aggravating to deal with server-wise, which is what my linux box does. For example. I click and, three seconds (at most) later, mozilla comes up and I browse stuff. Yay.
For linux, I wait about 10 seconds at a minimum. I understand there is a 800mhz difference between the two processors, but this is just absurd. No, mozilla does not pre-load on either.
My sincere hope is that scheduling advances in the 2.6 kernel series will provide a much more usable interface. Java runs sooo much better on windows than it does on linux, and this is something that matters to me. I shouldn't have to renice -2 java so eclipse can have a decent reaction time.
other than that, the only way to go is up. let's hear it for all those developers who are trying to do the things I mentioned, and about a bajillion other things. Hats off to ya'.
One of the legends of the early radio intelligence (and other classified military radio work) was that each coder (morse that is) had a very specific tapping style that was discernible by a trained professional. Such uniqueness was noticable even if the coder switched hands.
While this uniqueness didn't provide a surefire form of authentication, professionals who feared having a broadcast recognized would sometimes retire a coder after sending a particularly sensitive message.
Seems kinda like mouse analasys. You can't prove it's them, but it's another suggestion. Can't see how it'll be useful. The mouse is easy enough to hook into in the software side--it's by no means a secure device.
Let's face it. I'm a student. I'm lazy, and I don't read everything listing stuff I should do. So, to deal with that, AcIS (Academic Information Systems) at Columbia University doles out some hard but good justice.
If your computer is detected with a worm, clogging up the network, the router is configured to remove your machine from the network. A CD-R with the latest patches finds it's way to the student's mailbox, along with a (gasp) phone message saying what's up. When the student can show somewhat that they're clean to the hall's student tech, they're let back on. It's probably not cheap to do, but it's effective and the easiest way to motivate people.
you'd be amazed at what getting rid of a global distraction can do :)
Okay, snorting ritalin isn't for everyone, but it helps. I also reccomend exercise as a way to focus your mind. It's effects are hard to explain, but ever since I started biking i've found a tuned body helps the mind. (Sounds like new age shit but, hey, it works.)
Also try downtempo music, much like what you can find on SomaFM
1) nope
2) nope. Drives have stepping motors, which keep a constant speed or deal with it if they can't.
3) somewhat, but not really. If you were really crazy you could reformat all the drives when you get to zero-g to assure absolute alignment but this is not necessary with newer, more expensive drives.
4) no. Gravity is a constant force therefore has no damping effects.
hehe didnt' meant to shoot you down but that's what came to mind.
Wow, dual p4s? Honestly, unless you feel you want to game on that or something, don't even bother. From what you're talking about, it seems you could get away with one or two P1-100's serving (web, mail, and other network connections)--you can get those for free--and get maybe a pIII at most for file serving. Export useful directories using NFS, and let the P1's serve them. Unless you anticipate monster load, don't even worry.
What you're talking about could easily survive the slashdot effect with PHP or Perl generated pages, provided there was enough bandwidth. Unless you anticipate that kind of load (doubt it) you don't need anything more than an old pIII with enough ram (512 min) and a reasonably fast disk drive (ext3 boot partition and rieserfs for the rest).
Absolutely. This is the same guy who did buddyzoo a coupla weeks ago, and I too went to the same high school with him. The degradation algorithms are a central part of the neural network that is the braim. Oh, wait, was I supposed to say that? Heh... And yea, they really did write it in 3 months. It's not from CalTech and Harvard, they wrote it in high school.
Technically it's not realtime, seeing as it takes about 6 (?) minutes for light to travel from the sun to the earth. Hah!
:p
I've found that, I hope, most manufacturers have a fairly stringent quality control process. (Not to say there arent a few bad ones out there.) I mean, a monitor is big and all, but as long as you get a new one with a warranty it shouldn't be a problem.
As long as you stick with a major manufacturer, you are probably safe. Of course, you still have to see the monitor in action, that is the most important part. However, I don't think you need to insist upon walking away with the display model. If the store one looks good, there is little chance the one in your box will look any worse.
If this really is a major investment, ask for a Satisfaction-Guaranteed sticker. That way, if it isn't perfect, you can still get your money back. I don't think this is an issue tho.
We had a Panasonic Laser Parner (model number forgotten) with our first Pentium, a long time ago. (it still had a card slot for font expansion) The thing doesn't exactly make me wish for the 'good ol' days'. The drum developed a defect that left vertical absences of toner on the whole sheet, plus the paper cartridge stuch out of the printer and was held on by 2 flimsy plastic tabs. Broke 3 times in a week, then we gave up and just held it in place.
So, there was nothing special about 6 years ago. Printer manufacturers haven't gotten lazy. They just recognized their target market: people want cheap printers, not high-quality expensive printers. They are especially not concerned with speed, for the most part. As long as it looks good when printing out your 3 page English paper, people won't complain. The Dell Guy doesn't need PostScript support, like he doesn't need 15 ppm color. He also doesn't need so spend more than $75. It's just another concequence of computing for the masses.
I was glad to see Digital Defense owning up to their mistake. It's a testament to the strength of a sense of courtesy in the security community. People f*ck up, but they feel bad afterwards.
See ma, even blackhats have emotions!
Spinrite is garbage. I don't wanna sound like a troll, but everything Steve Gibson says has been thoroughly debunked. Don't mind the domain name. The operators of grcsucks.com run a classy operation, believe it or not:
We encourage you to research each topic for yourself: check out all the links, especially the ones that seem contrary to your views; question the motivation of the writer and publisher; and form your own opinion about the information that is being presented. We suggest that you treat all other news/information outlets in the same way - the media have strong biases which directly affect the way in which news and information is presented to you - and very often that leads to disinformation.
I would not reccomend SpinRite, as it costs money and does nothing new.
"I could try asking permission, but do you want to wait 6 hours for a cool breaking story while we wait for permission to link someone?" This does _not_ qualify as a breaking story, sorry. I just can't see slashdot's position on this one.
Taken from the site:
Due to the people at slashdot.org linking to this site without asking the owners or the hosters, asciipr0n.com is offline until further notice. Maybe you guys should start mirroring the sites you link to...
You guys, asciipr0n.com is a small site. I'm aware you can link to whoever you want, but don't you think you should show some courtesy and warn a person before you eat up their bandwidth bill in a a matter of minutes?
It's just a nice thing to do.
Am I the only one who noticed there's a new topic on slashdot: storage...
I'm not sure why this warrants it's own topic, but, hell, I guess it's okay. Things like this don't reall fall under 'science'
Is BSD Dying? Trolls! Make with the trolling. Jeez...
What a well-written article. If only all the articles on slashdot could be like that: Clear, concise, full of details, and it had links to other sub-articles for public consumption if the reader was interested. Plus, they provided loads of evidence. (also they have lots of "it worked for me" stories, probably to ease the jitters of reluctant cios.)
I'd have to say, you know the article wasn't full of BS when they said, flat out, that MCSE's don't know anything useful. Yes!! That alone showed how they were cutting it straight. Then they went to rag on VB people too, and I was gleeful. Also made me glad to see the consulting companies are letting windows-only people go. Makes me feel like I'll be able to get a job soon enough, heh.