So is this beastie one of the main bore machines, or is it from the service tunnel? Or are they the same size anyway so it doesn't matter? Just curious...
Have to wonder why they'd be starting with a mouse interface when webcams are so cheap these days... I don't suppose it will be long before either your cpu case or your monitor will have one built-in.
If the part can be hand-carried, simply hold it up to the camera, get several shots from different angles, then search for edges to outline. Check with the user that the outlines are mostly correct, and go search.
If the part is too fricken heavy or awkward to handle, phone cameras and watch cameras are available. Is there a PDA+camera yet, with bluetooh/wireless for connection back to a desktop??
The upside of this is you can't fly the mexican border smack into the side of a big building;)
How about this for a scenario: California is has a certain dependancy on migrant workers for fruit-picking, etc. Suppose some terrorist group built a number of truck bombs in Mexico, either from locally acquired chemicals or from smuggled-in explosives. A number of young men then drive those bombs to the various border crossings and detonate them near-simultaneously, destroying the checkpoints and killing a large number of migrant workers as well as border guards. Just how badly would California's economy be screwed-over?? Even if the National Guard reinforced the remaining Border Guard it's likely that the migrant workers would stay home.
Or how about an airplane being hijacked in, say, Vancouver, being dropped into Seattle. or (please, God!) into Redmond?? Or suppose someone like the "American Taliban" had sailed a yacht full of explosives into San Francisco harbor??
My point is that it's all very well pissing off your own population with draconian security measures, but that still doesn't secure you from a fanatic who expects to die in the attack and doesn't care as long as he takes a few of the godless heathens with him to guarantee his 64 virgins in the afterlife.
Immigrants under 18 too - my kids green cards have their right index fingerprint and they were 8 & 10 at the time. I don't remember if they were printed for the CIA background checks, but if so, they'd have been even younger.
McBride: We think we have protection under both the GPL and copyright law.
And we're completing ignoring the fact that we've stated elsewhere that we believe the GPL violates the United States Constitution and the U.S. copyright and patent laws (part of reason #5 in SCO's Five Reasons to Choose Unix over Linux)
Or does one first have to prove financial damage as a result of these statements?
A bit off-topic, but I think a person could sue for defamation of character, even if there was no obvious financial damage. That harks back to the days when a man's word was his bond - if you said you would do something, then by golly you damn well did it, because not doing it was unthinkable.
That was probably before some twit managed to get some "people rights" assigned to corporate entities.
No, the original statement was technically correct - Boies gets a pile of dollars and 400,000 shares. Win or lose, the pile of dollars stays the same and the number of shares stays the same. If SCO wins, however, the value of those 400,000 shares should rocket up, but he still only gets 400,000. If SCO loses, on the other hand, those 400,000 shares will in effect constitute a lifetime supply of toilet paper...
I think this may indicate that Boies isn't really convinced he can win. If he was, he'd have held out for a percentage of the settlement.
It wouldn't necessarily need to be in the BIOS that wakes your system up when you turn the power on. What about that little chip that controls your onboard ethernet, for example? It could sneak a tracking packet out in the form of, say, a DNS lookup. You wouldn't block outgoing DNS, now would you?
Your point about the bios being different from motherboard to motherboard is true enough, but if the hardware was subverted at a lower level, as in my ethernet chip example, it wouldn't matter if the chip was in a Mac or a PC. An ethernet chip must be some kind of microcontroller - the device driver hands it packets to send and lets the chip worry about voltages on the wire. So the program in the chip will be independant of the host CPU.
Anyway, we're probably both overreacting to an April Fool joke, though it could still happen for real...
Probably using gravity waves from the captive black hole that will eventually be used to destroy the computer when the Powers That Be finally decide they have enough evidence...
who has ever heard of something that worked on ALL computers, regardless of configuration, type or OS?
One word: BIOS
If it were non-flashable firmware, you'd be hard-pressed to remove it. More to the point, it could be built into a dedicated microcontroller monitoring the system, or maybe into the north/south bridge chips.
Before you scoff, just think how the hell you'd know if "they" did do that, until the day your motherboard mysteriously overheats...
I think there may be something even better than that lurking in the bushes waiting to bite SCO's ass.
Remember back in the beginning when SCO was inviting everybody to sign an NDA to look at the alleged infringing code, and all the OSS/kernel programmers wouldn't touch it for fear of appearing tainted?? You know, after seeing the source, SCO could later claim that they used SCO "inventions" and "methods"?? Remember that??
Well, SCO was recently asking for a pile of Dynix/AIX source from IBM... I don't remember (and I'm too tired to check) if IBM forked it over yet, but if they have/when they do, won't that make it really, really tricky for SCO to innovate anything?? Assuming they escape from this farce as a solvent company, that is...
It's not just the quality of the music that's letting the RIAA down. The fact that they've deliberately reduced the volume of CDs issued in the last couple of years plays a part too.
No, I don't remember where that little tidbit originally came from, but it was a bit of research that basically showed that the drop in available CDs was suspiciously close the RIAA starting to bitch and moan about the drop in sales, and it came very soon after P2P started to become fashionable.
Instead, a wildcard entry in DNS routes traffic to the next higher level domain, where there is, presumably, a web server.
Wait a minute - isn't that what Verisign's been doing with their top-level DNS wildcard that redirects to their search engine? Can Ideaflood actually put a legal muzzle on Verisign to make them stop?? Or will they simply sell/license the patent to Verisign for $$$$??
OK, this is a bit off-topic, but still... That random character thing:
asfhjku hdsjhkf hdfhbio
reminded me about the password generator that Honeywell's Multics system had back in the 80's. For each letter it generated it would check against some built-in rules to make sure that it didn't do silly things like put too many consonants together, and such.
I was wondering, has anyone done anything like that for spam-detection?
That's mostly a British expression, but of course it would have spread over most of the inhabitable planet (and Canada) back in the days of the British Empire, so I can see your problem...:)
So, if you wrote a piece of software that put millions of dollars in your bank account, and some guy in another country illegally copied it and gave it away for free, that would be perfectly OK with you??
What they did was to coerce PC manufacturers into bundling Windows with each PC sold. The threat used to guarantee compliance was the potential cancellation of the 95% (or whatever) discount for Windows.
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So is this beastie one of the main bore machines, or is it from the service tunnel? Or are they the same size anyway so it doesn't matter? Just curious...
If the part can be hand-carried, simply hold it up to the camera, get several shots from different angles, then search for edges to outline. Check with the user that the outlines are mostly correct, and go search.
If the part is too fricken heavy or awkward to handle, phone cameras and watch cameras are available. Is there a PDA+camera yet, with bluetooh/wireless for connection back to a desktop??
Oooh! Oooh! I could patent that!!
I gotta get more sleep...
How about this for a scenario: California is has a certain dependancy on migrant workers for fruit-picking, etc. Suppose some terrorist group built a number of truck bombs in Mexico, either from locally acquired chemicals or from smuggled-in explosives. A number of young men then drive those bombs to the various border crossings and detonate them near-simultaneously, destroying the checkpoints and killing a large number of migrant workers as well as border guards. Just how badly would California's economy be screwed-over?? Even if the National Guard reinforced the remaining Border Guard it's likely that the migrant workers would stay home.
Or how about an airplane being hijacked in, say, Vancouver, being dropped into Seattle. or (please, God!) into Redmond?? Or suppose someone like the "American Taliban" had sailed a yacht full of explosives into San Francisco harbor??
My point is that it's all very well pissing off your own population with draconian security measures, but that still doesn't secure you from a fanatic who expects to die in the attack and doesn't care as long as he takes a few of the godless heathens with him to guarantee his 64 virgins in the afterlife.
Doesn't the constitution also prohibit imprisonment without due process?? That's been happening to both citizens and non-citizens
Immigrants under 18 too - my kids green cards have their right index fingerprint and they were 8 & 10 at the time. I don't remember if they were printed for the CIA background checks, but if so, they'd have been even younger.
How about we all chip in and finance this kid to improve on his bedroom nuclear fusion reactor, then truck it 100 miles down the road to Darl's place?
And we're completing ignoring the fact that we've stated elsewhere that we believe the GPL violates the United States Constitution and the U.S. copyright and patent laws (part of reason #5 in SCO's Five Reasons to Choose Unix over Linux)
A bit off-topic, but I think a person could sue for defamation of character, even if there was no obvious financial damage. That harks back to the days when a man's word was his bond - if you said you would do something, then by golly you damn well did it, because not doing it was unthinkable.
That was probably before some twit managed to get some "people rights" assigned to corporate entities.
I think this may indicate that Boies isn't really convinced he can win. If he was, he'd have held out for a percentage of the settlement.
Your point about the bios being different from motherboard to motherboard is true enough, but if the hardware was subverted at a lower level, as in my ethernet chip example, it wouldn't matter if the chip was in a Mac or a PC. An ethernet chip must be some kind of microcontroller - the device driver hands it packets to send and lets the chip worry about voltages on the wire. So the program in the chip will be independant of the host CPU.
Anyway, we're probably both overreacting to an April Fool joke, though it could still happen for real...
Probably using gravity waves from the captive black hole that will eventually be used to destroy the computer when the Powers That Be finally decide they have enough evidence...
One word: BIOS
If it were non-flashable firmware, you'd be hard-pressed to remove it. More to the point, it could be built into a dedicated microcontroller monitoring the system, or maybe into the north/south bridge chips.
Before you scoff, just think how the hell you'd know if "they" did do that, until the day your motherboard mysteriously overheats...
Damn! I already replied to someone else, or I would mod that "Funny"!
What, is he dead again?? That bugger just doesn't know when to quit...
Remember back in the beginning when SCO was inviting everybody to sign an NDA to look at the alleged infringing code, and all the OSS/kernel programmers wouldn't touch it for fear of appearing tainted?? You know, after seeing the source, SCO could later claim that they used SCO "inventions" and "methods"?? Remember that??
Well, SCO was recently asking for a pile of Dynix/AIX source from IBM... I don't remember (and I'm too tired to check) if IBM forked it over yet, but if they have/when they do, won't that make it really, really tricky for SCO to innovate anything?? Assuming they escape from this farce as a solvent company, that is...
But only for certain values of interesting...
No, I don't remember where that little tidbit originally came from, but it was a bit of research that basically showed that the drop in available CDs was suspiciously close the RIAA starting to bitch and moan about the drop in sales, and it came very soon after P2P started to become fashionable.
Wait a minute - isn't that what Verisign's been doing with their top-level DNS wildcard that redirects to their search engine? Can Ideaflood actually put a legal muzzle on Verisign to make them stop?? Or will they simply sell/license the patent to Verisign for $$$$??
reminded me about the password generator that Honeywell's Multics system had back in the 80's. For each letter it generated it would check against some built-in rules to make sure that it didn't do silly things like put too many consonants together, and such.
I was wondering, has anyone done anything like that for spam-detection?
That's mostly a British expression, but of course it would have spread over most of the inhabitable planet (and Canada) back in the days of the British Empire, so I can see your problem... :)
A hundred years from now I'd just like to be alive...
So use one of those $11 Dakota digital cameras and you don't lose all that much...
No, didn't think so...
What they did was to coerce PC manufacturers into bundling Windows with each PC sold. The threat used to guarantee compliance was the potential cancellation of the 95% (or whatever) discount for Windows.