Just did searches on all of the terms the author mentions and got a few different numbers:
1. "iptables attack visualization" -- 19 results (~35) (close) 2. "single packet authentication" -- 93 (1,300) -- off by more than 1 magnitude 3. "linux firewalls attack detection" - 9290 3a. "Linux Firewalls Attack Detection" - 9240 (~9000) (close) 4. cipherdyne -- 85,200 (~70,000) ~off a bit 4a.Cipherdyne -- 84,500 (~70,000) 5. gpgdir (same) 6. fwsnort (same) ------- Note...caps vs. no caps made no difference on 1, 2 and 5. But for terms 3 & 4, caps made a slight difference... anyone know why? I thought caps were supposed to be ignored?
Most were close, but cipherdyne had about a 15% difference, but the worst was "single packet authentication" -- That one was off by more than 10x! Wonder what's up with that.
If it is water, then why would they need to keep adding water to continue powering it? Why not simply recycle the water?
(Apart from the answer that they are too stupid to recycle the water after they've just solved breaking it apart and getting a net 'energy' gain....
(note...there is a slight bit of tongue-in-cheek in my comments on this, as I it doesn't seem it would be easy to perform the below reaction, but their 'converter/catalyst' box is of unknown composition or origin. It could even be alien or future technology for all we know.
As for possible output if it isn't water? Helium. (2P+2N+2E)
The amount of energy you'd get by combining a Proton+electron -> Neutron is far greater than the chemical energy you'd need to break apart the Hydrogen from Water.
There was little clarity in the video that the end-product was water -- in fact, the video implies that water isn't the end product.
If water was the "end" product as most slashdotters seem to think, then *logically*, the car could run forever and wouldn't require adding *more* water -- *Duh*! -- that would violate laws of physics and stuff!
Since cold fusion is another theory that's "right out", how about "luke-warm fusion"?
The music in the background isn't so ridiculous...though maybe it would be 'random' noise generated by the sending phone that is based on a key-negotiation sent at call start & maybe changed periodically throughout the call. But it may not be possible to remove the "scarcity" of information in the data-stream (all the small words have been compressed, so few bits are used) from the real-time nature of VoIP -- and the fact that people might not be saying much, using "little words", or whatever. It seems some sort of 'background' noise would need to be generated to keep the resulting datastream compressed at a *constant* rate. But if the compression is variable based on input -- of course the low-bit rate of the conversation's data-streams would be an indicator of the complexity of the information that's being encoded.
Maybe you should support your principles over personal biases? To do otherwise is shooting yourself in the foot.
I'm astounded by the number of people who will go out of their way to create "ill-will" for someone (or some entity) even if at personal cost to themselves. Vendettas are a waste of resources to aid in carrying out obsessive 'stalking' of a target. Yet (IMO), especially under Bush-II's leadership, I've seen this become seen as not only acceptable, but admirable practice... it's counter productive.
I think most people don't realize what X does or how it's useful...why do we need it when we have KDE or GNOME?
People don't log into consoles so much, so they never have to start X-managers locally or remotely -- its all handled by desktop software or worse -- its desktop software that doesn't work over X and doesn't support remoting...but people see remoting with windows and similar with VNC, so why do we need X again?...
As a light weight network or local display protocol, it's just 'fades' into the background.
Help us Barakiwan Obami...you're our only hope....
That and somehow the theme of Flash Gordon by Queen... (of course after election -- 'we are the champions'...) First 3 months in office -- 'Ballroom Blitz' as he replaces all of Bush's illegal and unethical appointees....
Not to worry...they plan to land in winter at the north pole when it is the coolest -- hoping to find frozen icebergs to land on and hoping global warming hasn't taken them out yet...
Guess we'll know soon the full extent of Global Warming...
Hey..."think of the children?" -- Most common violators of cyberbullying are other children at school, they'll be in the adolescent ward down the hall to the left.
Now that's more of the degeneracy I've come to expect of typical first page slashdot posting, and AC at that -- and of course, Score:5...totally hilarious...
Isn't one of the biggest reasons for Vista non-acceptance, the load of *bull* *excrement* that MS put into Vista to degrade the user's equipment or abort recording of 'legal-to-record' shows, that set the ignorable 'broadcast flag'? As far as I remember, the broadcast flag never passed any final approval stages, but MS went ahead and voluntarily put in code to detect it and disable Windows Media based systems (as happened recently, when NBC tested market penetration of the flag, "accidentally"). On top of that example of DRM-joy, studios publishing Hi-Def format DVD's (ala Blu-Ray), are mostly biding their time before activating the 'Hi-Def' flag, that will require new, encrypted-only, monitors to play the "protected media" -- and will either abort any image (or optionally sound) or degrade the picture, if the user doesn't have a movie-studio approved display or sound reproduction hardware.
Some industry pundits claim customers are waiting for Windows 7 -- but the elephant is already in the room -- not only has it been said that Windows 7 won't be that much different than Vista (I guess they getting rid of some of the fancier desktop features to lower the requirements of their high-end OS), but it seems it is a 'given' that they aren't going to go back to non-DRM compatible drivers from XP.
As near as I can tell -- the major slow-down in Vista was due the required driver and i/o path rewrites to disable or degrade video and/or sound on the fly. So any Windows 7/Vista++ product would still have the same cpu playback requirements -- and still have the general, OS-wide I/O path slowdown(**1). It certainly won't make it easier to accepted on the lower-end machines that linux has dominated in (and XP, has, at least, temporarily been 'green-lighted' for continued availability).
But it's not just the low-end that benefits from XP. It's across the board in terms of CPU usage. 10-15% extra 'slowness' on the CPU path translates to higher overall energy consumption (unless you are using a very low-power, 'Atom-like' CPU) -- making Vista less green than XP(**2).
The crappy user-interface problems with UAL are only part of the Vista experience.
Something that hasn't been given much press, is MS having 6 different platform solutions -- 5 OS versions and an optional 'Desktop Optimization Pack'. Developers of platform-wide solutions need to test up to 6 different delivery platforms for some programs to ensure proper end-user experience. They'll potentially need to 'degrade' their platform-wide solution, 'gracefully' depending upon what OS features are available to them. This would seem to be a nightmare waiting to happen...
I don't know that marginally informed or intelligent customer will want to move down to to the degraded Vista experience -- which appears to be scheduled for inclusion in Windows 7.
Doesn't this indicate the XP issue may be "an issue" for "a while"?
Notes: **1-Vista fixes a wireless-networking protocol bug that caused unnecessary slowdowns on XP. So far, they've only put the fix in Vista. The result is wireless file-transfers can be faster on Vista than XP, despite the global inefficiencies and slowdowns in the I/O layer.
**2-MS touts Vista as being 'green' because they now allow desktop-power-saving settings to be controlled by network Administrators in companies -- allowing those Admins to 'save power' on their network regardless of users' individual machine settings. This may result some overall saving in a corporate environment -- but doesn't address the additional power consumed by the I/O layer inefficiencies across the board.
It's pretty bad being a teacher. Had a partner teaching first then second grade -- not all of the kids, but enough to create a problem had the rebellious chip-on-the-shoulder attitude that came around 7-8th grade when I grew up. One issue is there is no way to discipline the children that they care about. Since corporal punishment was stricken, I don't think teachers have found an effective replacement. But "time-outs"...they don't care, their minds are off most the time anyway -- and sending them out of class, or suspension/expulsion -- many of them don't care -- they don't want to be in school anyway. Many of the kids had behavior issues that might have put them in a remedial class (apparently, like Bush was). That's a major problem that's come up in the past several years since Bush's "No Child Left Behind" act. Instead of holding kids back or allowing kids to progress at different rates, all must wait for the slowest child (little Georgie). The regular testing of the kids is more or seems more to evaluate the teachers than the children. Now, it's no longer a child's responsibility to behave or learn -- it's the teachers responsibility to "emote" knowledge into them...kids are simply being trained to be passive receivers and the learning is predictably suffering.
That's been a bad trend over the past...several or dozen or more years -- too much focus on remedying the lowest rung at the expense of dragging down the whole -- but that's part of the "false dichotomy" -- that there has to be a trade off.
It's the same "root cause" as teacher's not being able to afford to live in the communities they teach in. Not enough resources into education -- too many resources invested in high-end of life and the adult stages (including, recently, this war that is causing oil prices to go up (war->deficit spending->'printing' money (how close is US debt to 3 T$ (Tera-$)?)->dollar deflates in value as massive 'unbacked-money' is created, commodities (incl oil) go up) -> US goes bankrupt)). But look at how much the rich spend on luxury goods --- increase in cruise ships, vacation spots -- extremely expensive hobbies/sports...so much wealth concentrated in top 1% people -- but it's the 'masses' that are taught in schools -- and that's where the dollar share has been shrinking the most.
There was an opinion piece in the WSJ that tried to show how increasing the top tax rate didn't increase the government's tax-income as a percentage of GDP -- what it unintentionally showed, actually was GDP going up as the top tax rate rose, and GDP going down as it fell -- so the % going to government appeared level. GDP going up or down reflects almost directly goes into a rise or fall of the "standard-of-living" of the nation. That meant that as the top tax rate fell, the average standard of living for the nation as a whole fell -- and vice versa. GDP has fallen to lowest levels in my lifetime under the top tax rate falling from over 70% to the 20-25% it is now. All that was Reagan-& the Bushes rolling back taxes on the rich while using government deficit to inflate the economy. While Clinton didn't raise taxes -- he did manage to get the deficit from around 2-billion to almost breaking even by the time he left office -- now it's up higher than ever.
Bush needs to be out of office so yesterday. I think my postings are too long and people don't get this far... *sigh*...just supposed to shut-up while the nation is tanking to hell...
Actually, hasn't the anti-matter "falling up" been considered before? I.e. if it fell "up" -- that would mean it's repelled by matter? I.e. could explain universe expansion? But I thought that'd been ruled out as a possibility....If it were true, would anti-matter attract other particles of anti-matter?
Isn't matter and antimatter (as we define them), simply a different mix of quarks? And don't each of the quarks have theoretical weights -- none of them are negative -- isn't it just the charge that's different on antimatter (though a guess an anti-neutron would still sum to zero on charge?)...b
Was this before or after they were bought up by Best Buy?
I am stuck with 3Mbps on Speakeasy, but have had nothing but excellent service from them for 7 years or so, but have had concerns about when the service will start approaching 'Best Buy' service (or disservice) reputation...
I'm surprised you had problems with them, as they've always been very committed to allowing their customers to use all of their bandwidth -- and even support you sub-letting your connection with your neighbors -- for a cut in the amount you charged, they'd give them their own account and handle billing, splitting it 50:50 with you at whatever price you set -- OR you can setup your hotspot and give it away.. That certainly isn't the normal case for ISP's of the masses (especially Comcrap). Some ISP's even go so far as to only allow you 1 computer/account....which is pretty heinous in my book....like charging for electricity per room. But for most of the time I've been a customer, IP sharing (DHCP) wasn't even an option). Very unlike AT&T(was SBC, was PacBell) and Comcrap (who bought the old AT&T's cable service as the old AT&T was melting down).
Sorry you had a bad run w/speakeasy...sounds very odd.
But definitely agree -- DSL is not shared service -- except with yourself (it's only halfduplex at a time), and I've never had any bandwidth problems (other than standard sub-par US-DSL broadband performance).
DSL isn't 'contended" any more or less than T1. T1 simply gives you full duplex. But my ISP sells DSL and T1 -- and both are guaranteed, non-contended speed from customer to the ISP's routers. After that, no guarantees. DSL doesn't cost $300/month and can be had for the same prices as cable. What costs is dedicated, fixed IP addresses. Cable, is shared per segment -- which used to be entire large neighborhoods. -- It was common for cable speeds to deteriorate during prime time down to than a high-speed modem when cable internet was first rolled out. The main speedup on cable has been them adding more segments (subdividing previous segments). The phone company, has similar issues in that it needs to have CO equipment near the customers home. DSL offers guaranteed speeds up to 15Mb/s if you live close enough -- and that's not a 'burst rate' or 'turbo' rate like comcraptic's service.
But just like cable had to add more network segments to increase speed (and decreased shared contention), DSL needs to add more 'CO' equipment so more customers are within the DSL technology limits.
The trade off if exclusive line & shorter distance, or shared lines (with some unknown amount of people sharing) on each segment -- so cable - no guarantees, but DSL providers can commonly give 'guaranteed' speeds to their offices. But obviously, in cases like Canada Bell, they oversell their capacity giving them the same or worse bandwidth problems as Comcrap.
Where did you get that DSL was a shared service? Sounds like cable-FUD.
Some ignorant idealist, Stellan, wrote "Otherwise, if you don't like the service your ISP gives you, with a protocol you chose, you are free to renegotiate your contract, or switch to another provider."
--- What world do you live in? Certainly not the US, and, from what it sounds like, not in Canada? The US communications market for cell and internet is very non-competitive. There is very little choice in many areas. Only a few markets have any real competition, but the rest of the US is stuck with whatever they got. Ask ComCast -- they will tell you: in most markets, they are the top speed provider. They are also the only provider with service that has the "ability" to go faster than 3Mb. DSL is limited due to poor phone company infrastructure. Fiber isn't likely to be showing up here in my lifetime.
In cities that have tried to provide network access -- what happens? The corporations sue against the government for providing common infrastructure services at levels and in areas where they either "won't" or will with all the bad service people are complaining about. It's exactly like when detroit automakers were powerful enough to buy up public transportation projects across the country and dispose of them. Now, cable and communication companies use pre-emptive strikes against 'mass-communications' projects for cities. Projects like have been done in other countries would be strictly banned here -- so that corporations could "compete" (=ream the masses")...I was reading recently that Paris -- about 5 years ago, had 10Mb to nearly every home & business and cheap rates. Now in many areas they are getting to 100Mb, at a fraction of the cost people in the US pay for 6Mb or 8Mb. I think the US was ranked about 30th (and falling) in broadband access.
So don't pretend people can "just choose another provider" -- when most can't even choose one "broadband" provider at speeds in other modern, competitive companies. The US Corporate mind set, is to extract every penny out of every customer at every level -- to charge the most possible for any given level of service, and the lowest amount of service/dollar. They don't strive to be the best -- or benefit society (while enriching themselves) -- no -- it's tear down society to extract extra pennies whenever possible. Our government is corrupt and the "free market" was sold to the highest bidder. It doesn't exist -- because the market system itself was for-sale... When the free-market has been bought by corporations, it's no longer a free-market.
Can someone tell me how one discerns what songs on a telephone or ipod are counterfeit?
More so -- how would border guard be able to discern this by "looking" at the iPod?
Don't some of these devices store 60GB? or enough to hold 10's or 100's of thousands of songs?
They are gonna somehow 'search' through these while people stand in line at customs?
Um...something doesn't add up. I don't see how this is even close to being technically feasible...?
Could someone explain this? Sounds like Reagan's Star Wars missile shield program back in the 80's.....and we all know how well far that got...
What makes anyone think this 'initiative' or treaty could get off the ground -- or is this another bullshit US law to selectively apply to whoever they wanna make trouble for?
"I'm sorry, I'd like to see the receipts for those songs in your iPod..."....
You want to convince anyone one here that 90% of the people in the US *aren't* willing to work?
Check my sig -- where do *you* fall in the US percentile's of wealth? How many record stocks do you think the average household owns? You think they don't work? They should pay $200,000 or more for the great "making available" nonsense?
I've worked decades writing intellectual property -- one of the products I worked on was developed mostly on my own time...but my sin -- I was a newbie out of college. I was trying to get ownership of the project that had been left fallow. I revitalized the product - running development on it as an internal 'Test' version -- interviewing coworkers (other software developers) and asked them what features they'd want to see.. came up with a coherent and flexible implementation that ran 10x the speed of the original. I *only* gave it to my coworkers in my department in my building in Santa Clara. Next I heard, I was on the carpet because customers were demanding it as a product and marketing managers were asking the management who was sitting on the product why it wasn't on the roadmap and why I wasn't even listed as working on the product). It was no secret that I'd done the work -- as I'd done all the interviewing and gathering of feedback -- fixing old bugs -- making sure I didn't create (or at least didn't release to my 'customers' (coworkers) bugs (this was back in the day before products were expected to have bugs in them at release and bugs were fixed at the company's expense). But not only was I not given the project -- but they didn't want me making more internal releases, because they were making them out to customers (this was back before the internet).
Same company -- next debacle, some more of the marketing types approached my management and wanted to know if I could adapt my DnD game to be run with their voice recognition hardware. I was willing -- it was a 'test' project -- and fun. But upon completion, they and their management liked it enough to want to use it to demo the product to customers. Minor snag -- they'd have to arrange some compensation to me for use of the game (another project on my own time -- but this one was clearly mine -- I'd even listed it under 'prior inventions' when I came to work at this company. Now I was naive -- a 500 or 1000$ bonus would have been ecstatic for me -- and peanuts to them -- marketing had no issue with the idea -- they were used to the concept of paying for work to be done -- or paying commissions. But because I was an "engineering grunt", excuse me, a 'software engineer who exercised creativity and considerable control over the way I did my work' -- which has been the reason why software engineers are lumped in the same "exempt" category as performance artists and managers instead of being hourly and eligible for overtime. This meant that engineering management refused to consider any extra payment over my base salary for my 'creative work'. But on top of it -- they tried to give the rights away - telling me that their employment contract gave them rights to anything I created while I was employed with them. At that point, I was more than a little pissed. I pointed to my employment contract that my 'invention' -- the 'game' was listed as a prior work to my employment at Intel. So they cancelled the project and told the marketing types it was a no-go.
Now we're not even talking recurring royalties or per-copy fees...at MOST we were talking a 1 time bonus in the 500-1000 range. That's how "valued" I was taught intellectual property was.
I left the company soon after a very *average* review that my manager quite clearly was uncomfortable giving -- in pre-review writing time periods he was saying how I had been doing excellent work -- exceeds on all counts -- but the upper engineering management that didn't like customers and marketing demanding my products -- multiple times -- they didn't even want to give me my own project to work on (my main job
It's not the point that was missed -- it's that it isn't clear they actually measured creativity or 'anything' -- the testing methodology was flawed, like "skin conductance -- that increases with sweating -- wouldn't exercise increase sweating?" Several things measured don't add up to the conclusions drawn -- which is very often true with 'scientific studies', but appears even more so in this 'study'. Whatever.
Yeah -- if you think about it -- if humans can "pre-plan" a design, why can't a program be written to catch pre-planning errors or errors in implementation? Computers are already superior for managing complex resource constrained schedules allowing factories to run much more efficiently than planning and resource scheduling done by humans. Why should programs, ultimately, be any different? Oh, that's right, bugs are a requirement for job security...
Guess there are reasons to make sure static code analyzers don't work.
Last time I commented on this and said this was another reason for not getting Vista, I got marked down as 'overrated'. Weird.
People were complaining about MS putting DRM 'backdoor' rights for Hollywood execs at their whim -- not required by law, and I think I made some comment about...oh yeah..the Navy's take-over-any-computer initiative...and how MS probably built in all the Digital Rights Management that the government needs to manage your Digital rights to your computer.
People seem to think DRM is limited to Hollywood or music industry content...it's about anything you think you are free to do on your computer -- deletion of downloaded documents, programs, perhaps finding your computer can't access certain web sites...
Why would anyone think MS wouldn't do what AT&T, Verizon and others have done when they've already put in digital-backdoors for hollycreeps and the riaa? Why do people think vista is slower than XP? or that all the drivers broke? The drivers had to all be rewritten to support MS's DRM OS-wide enforcement mechanisms.
And customers will probably just continue sucking up whatever slop MS feeds em.
Just cause I'm paranoid doesn't mean MS and other corps haven't already sold or given away your rights. It's happened before, it will happen again and it will likely get worse before it gets better.
It seems like political parties on both ends are in bed with the major corporations. I'm just hoping that one candidates purported "inexperience" is politico-speak meaning he hasn't been fully bought and paid for. Of course the last president that was 'too popular' with the people (and not selling us off) got assassinated....
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Just did searches on all of the terms the author mentions and got a few different numbers:
... anyone know why? I thought caps were supposed to be ignored?
1. "iptables attack visualization" -- 19 results (~35) (close)
2. "single packet authentication" -- 93 (1,300) -- off by more than 1 magnitude
3. "linux firewalls attack detection" - 9290
3a. "Linux Firewalls Attack Detection" - 9240 (~9000) (close)
4. cipherdyne -- 85,200 (~70,000) ~off a bit
4a.Cipherdyne -- 84,500 (~70,000)
5. gpgdir (same)
6. fwsnort (same)
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Note...caps vs. no caps made no difference on 1, 2 and 5. But for terms 3 & 4, caps made a slight difference
Most were close, but cipherdyne had about a 15% difference, but the worst was "single packet authentication" -- That one was off by more than 10x! Wonder what's up with that.
Interesting curiosities...
Come on...the japanese have has a history of mastery in miniaturization....
You are missing the logical conflict, however.
If it is water, then why would they need to keep adding water to
continue powering it? Why not simply recycle the water?
(Apart from the answer that they are too stupid to recycle the water after they've just solved breaking it apart and getting a net 'energy' gain....
(note...there is a slight bit of tongue-in-cheek in my comments on this, as I
it doesn't seem it would be easy to perform the below reaction, but their 'converter/catalyst' box is of unknown composition or origin. It could even be
alien or future technology for all we know.
As for possible output if it isn't water? Helium. (2P+2N+2E)
Add H2 (2P+2E) + H2 (2P+2E) -> 2P+2e + [ (2(P+E))=>2N+ energy) ]
The amount of energy you'd get by combining a Proton+electron -> Neutron is far
greater than the chemical energy you'd need to break apart the Hydrogen from
Water.
Seems obvious....:-)
There was little clarity in the video that the end-product was water -- in fact, the video implies that water isn't the end product.
If water was the "end" product as most slashdotters seem to think, then *logically*, the car could run forever and wouldn't require adding *more* water -- *Duh*! -- that would violate laws of physics and stuff!
Since cold fusion is another theory that's "right out", how about "luke-warm fusion"?
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The music in the background isn't so ridiculous...though maybe it would be 'random' noise generated by the sending phone that is based on a key-negotiation sent at call start & maybe changed periodically throughout the call. But it may not be possible to remove the "scarcity" of information in the data-stream (all the small words have been compressed, so few bits are used) from the real-time nature of VoIP -- and the fact that people might not be saying much, using "little words", or whatever. It seems some sort of 'background' noise would need to be generated to keep the resulting datastream compressed at a *constant* rate. But if the compression is variable based on input -- of course the low-bit rate of the conversation's data-streams would be an indicator of the complexity of the information that's being encoded.
Maybe you should support your principles over personal biases? To do otherwise is shooting yourself in the foot.
I'm astounded by the number of people who will go out of their way to create "ill-will" for someone (or some entity) even if at personal cost to themselves. Vendettas are a waste of resources to aid in carrying out obsessive 'stalking' of a target. Yet (IMO), especially under Bush-II's leadership, I've seen this become seen as not only acceptable, but admirable practice... it's counter productive.
I think most people don't realize what X does or how it's useful...why do we need it
when we have KDE or GNOME?
People don't log into consoles so much, so they never have to start X-managers locally or remotely -- its all handled by desktop software or worse -- its desktop software that doesn't work over X and doesn't support remoting...but people see remoting with windows and similar with VNC, so why do we need X again?...
As a light weight network or local display protocol, it's just 'fades' into the background.
Help us Barakiwan Obami ...you're our only hope....
That and somehow the theme of Flash Gordon by Queen...
(of course after election -- 'we are the champions'...)
First 3 months in office -- 'Ballroom Blitz' as he replaces all of Bush's illegal and unethical appointees....
Not to worry...they plan to land in winter at the north pole when it is the coolest -- hoping to find frozen icebergs to land on and hoping global warming hasn't taken them out yet...
Guess we'll know soon the full extent of Global Warming...
Naw....they can build the new cars out of that paper that's stronger than steel...the new cars will just 'bounce'...
Hey..."think of the children?" -- Most common violators of cyberbullying are other children at school, they'll be in the adolescent ward down the hall to the left.
Now that's more of the degeneracy I've come to expect of typical first page slashdot posting, and AC at that -- and of course, Score:5...totally hilarious...
Speaking of 'copyright' issues...*cough*.
Isn't one of the biggest reasons for Vista non-acceptance, the load of *bull* *excrement* that MS put into Vista to degrade the user's equipment or abort recording of 'legal-to-record' shows, that set the ignorable 'broadcast flag'?
As far as I remember, the broadcast flag never passed any final approval stages, but MS went ahead and voluntarily put in code to detect it and disable Windows Media based systems (as happened recently, when NBC tested market penetration of the flag, "accidentally"). On top of that example of DRM-joy, studios publishing Hi-Def format DVD's (ala Blu-Ray), are mostly biding their time before activating the 'Hi-Def' flag, that will require new, encrypted-only, monitors to play the "protected media" -- and will either abort any image (or optionally sound) or degrade the picture, if the user doesn't have a movie-studio approved display or sound reproduction hardware.
Some industry pundits claim customers are waiting for Windows 7 -- but the elephant is already in the room -- not only has it been said that Windows 7 won't be that much different than Vista (I guess they getting rid of some of the fancier desktop features to lower the requirements of their high-end OS), but it seems it is a 'given' that they aren't going to go back to non-DRM compatible drivers from XP.
As near as I can tell -- the major slow-down in Vista was due the required driver and i/o path rewrites to disable or degrade video and/or sound on the fly. So any Windows 7/Vista++ product would still have the same cpu playback requirements -- and still have the general, OS-wide I/O path slowdown(**1). It certainly won't make it easier to accepted on the lower-end machines that linux has dominated in (and XP, has, at least, temporarily been 'green-lighted' for continued availability).
But it's not just the low-end that benefits from XP. It's across the board in terms of CPU usage. 10-15% extra
'slowness' on the CPU path translates to higher overall energy consumption (unless you are using a very low-power, 'Atom-like' CPU) -- making Vista less green than XP(**2).
The crappy user-interface problems with UAL are only part of the Vista experience.
Something that hasn't been given much press, is MS having 6 different platform solutions -- 5 OS versions and an optional 'Desktop Optimization Pack'. Developers of platform-wide solutions need to test up to 6 different delivery platforms for some programs to ensure proper end-user experience. They'll potentially need to 'degrade' their platform-wide solution, 'gracefully' depending upon what OS features are available to them. This would seem to be a nightmare waiting to happen...
I don't know that marginally informed or intelligent customer will want to move down to to the degraded Vista experience -- which appears to be scheduled for inclusion in Windows 7.
Doesn't this indicate the XP issue may be "an issue" for "a while"?
Notes:
**1-Vista fixes a wireless-networking protocol bug that caused unnecessary slowdowns on XP. So far, they've only put the fix in Vista. The result is wireless file-transfers can be faster on Vista than XP, despite the global inefficiencies and slowdowns in the I/O layer.
**2-MS touts Vista as being 'green' because they now allow desktop-power-saving settings to be controlled by network Administrators in companies -- allowing those Admins to 'save power' on their network regardless of users' individual machine settings. This may result some overall saving in a corporate environment -- but doesn't address the additional power consumed by the I/O layer inefficiencies across the board.
It's pretty bad being a teacher. Had a partner teaching first then second grade -- not all of the kids, but enough to create a problem had the rebellious chip-on-the-shoulder attitude that came around 7-8th grade when I grew up. One issue is there is no way to discipline the children that they care about. Since corporal punishment was stricken, I don't think teachers have found an effective replacement. But "time-outs"...they don't care, their minds are off most the time anyway -- and sending them out of class, or suspension/expulsion -- many of them don't care -- they don't want to be in school anyway. Many of the kids had behavior issues that might have put them in a remedial class (apparently, like Bush was). That's a major problem that's come up in the past several years since Bush's "No Child Left Behind" act. Instead of holding kids back or allowing kids to progress at different rates, all must wait for the slowest child (little Georgie). The regular testing of the kids is more or seems more to evaluate the teachers than the children. Now, it's no longer a child's responsibility to behave or learn -- it's the teachers responsibility to "emote" knowledge into them...kids are simply being trained to be passive receivers and the learning is predictably suffering.
...several or dozen or more years -- too much focus on remedying the lowest rung at the expense of dragging down the whole -- but that's part of the "false dichotomy" -- that there has to be a trade off.
That's been a bad trend over the past
It's the same "root cause" as teacher's not being able to afford to live in the communities they teach in. Not enough resources into education -- too many resources invested in high-end of life and the adult stages (including, recently, this war that is causing oil prices to go up (war->deficit spending->'printing' money (how close is US debt to 3 T$ (Tera-$)?)->dollar deflates in value as massive 'unbacked-money' is created, commodities (incl oil) go up) -> US goes bankrupt)). But look at how much the rich spend on luxury goods --- increase in cruise ships, vacation spots -- extremely expensive hobbies/sports...so much wealth concentrated in top 1% people -- but it's the 'masses' that are taught in schools -- and that's where the dollar share has been shrinking the most.
There was an opinion piece in the WSJ that tried to show how increasing the top tax rate didn't increase the government's tax-income as a percentage of GDP -- what it unintentionally showed, actually was GDP going up as
the top tax rate rose, and GDP going down as it fell -- so the % going to government appeared level. GDP going
up or down reflects almost directly goes into a rise or fall of the "standard-of-living" of the nation. That meant that as the top tax rate fell, the average standard of living for the nation as a whole fell -- and vice versa.
GDP has fallen to lowest levels in my lifetime under the top tax rate falling from over 70% to the 20-25% it is now. All that was Reagan-& the Bushes rolling back taxes on the rich while using government deficit to inflate the economy. While Clinton didn't raise taxes -- he did manage to get the deficit from around 2-billion to almost breaking even by the time he left office -- now it's up higher than ever.
Bush needs to be out of office so yesterday. I think my postings are too long and people don't get this far...
*sigh*...just supposed to shut-up while the nation is tanking to hell...
HAH!....you actually got marked insightful! People fell for it --
like *watching* a game "in person" is somehow equivalent to actually playing the game (living life)...:-)
(Someone actually speaking real physics...wow...)
Actually, hasn't the anti-matter "falling up" been considered before? I.e. if it fell "up" -- that would
mean it's repelled by matter? I.e. could explain universe expansion? But I thought that'd been ruled out as a possibility....If it were true, would anti-matter attract other particles of anti-matter?
Isn't matter and antimatter (as we define them), simply a different mix of quarks? And don't each of
the quarks have theoretical weights -- none of them are negative -- isn't it just the charge that's different
on antimatter (though a guess an anti-neutron would still sum to zero on charge?)...b
Was this before or after they were bought up by Best Buy?
.. That certainly isn't the normal case for ISP's of the masses (especially Comcrap). Some ISP's even go so far as to only allow you 1 computer/account....which is pretty heinous in my book....like charging for electricity per room. But for most of the time I've been a customer, IP sharing (DHCP)
I am stuck with 3Mbps on Speakeasy, but have had nothing but excellent service from them for 7 years or so, but have had concerns about when the service will start approaching 'Best Buy' service (or disservice) reputation...
I'm surprised you had problems with them, as they've always been very committed to allowing their customers to use
all of their bandwidth -- and even support you sub-letting your connection with your neighbors -- for a cut in
the amount you charged, they'd give them their own account and handle billing, splitting it 50:50 with you at whatever
price you set -- OR you can setup your hotspot and give it away
wasn't even an option). Very unlike AT&T(was SBC, was PacBell) and Comcrap (who bought the old AT&T's cable service as the old AT&T was melting down).
Sorry you had a bad run w/speakeasy...sounds very odd.
But definitely agree -- DSL is not shared service -- except with yourself (it's only halfduplex at a time), and I've
never had any bandwidth problems (other than standard sub-par US-DSL broadband performance).
DSL isn't 'contended" any more or less than T1. T1 simply gives you full duplex. But my ISP sells DSL and T1 -- and both are guaranteed, non-contended speed from customer to the ISP's routers. After that, no guarantees. DSL doesn't
cost $300/month and can be had for the same prices as cable. What costs is dedicated, fixed IP addresses.
Cable, is shared per segment -- which used to be entire large neighborhoods. -- It was common for cable speeds to
deteriorate during prime time down to than a high-speed modem when cable internet was first rolled out. The main
speedup on cable has been them adding more segments (subdividing previous segments). The phone company, has similar
issues in that it needs to have CO equipment near the customers home. DSL offers guaranteed speeds up to 15Mb/s if you live close enough -- and that's not a 'burst rate' or 'turbo' rate like comcraptic's service.
But just like cable had to add more network segments to increase speed (and decreased shared contention), DSL needs to add more 'CO' equipment so more customers are within the DSL technology limits.
The trade off if exclusive line & shorter distance, or shared lines (with some unknown amount of people sharing) on each segment -- so cable - no guarantees, but DSL providers can commonly give 'guaranteed' speeds to their offices. But obviously, in cases like Canada Bell, they oversell their capacity giving them the same or worse bandwidth problems
as Comcrap.
Where did you get that DSL was a shared service? Sounds like cable-FUD.
Some ignorant idealist, Stellan, wrote "Otherwise, if you don't like the service your ISP gives you, with a protocol you chose, you are free to renegotiate your contract, or switch to another provider."
--- What world do you live in? Certainly not the US, and, from what it sounds like,
not in Canada? The US communications market for cell and internet is very non-competitive. There is very little choice in many areas. Only a few markets have any real competition, but the rest of the US is stuck with whatever they got. Ask ComCast -- they will tell you: in most markets, they are the top speed provider. They are also the only provider with service that has the "ability" to go faster than 3Mb. DSL is limited due to poor phone company infrastructure. Fiber isn't likely to be showing up here in my lifetime.
In cities that have tried to provide network access -- what happens? The corporations sue against the government for providing common infrastructure services at levels and in areas where they either "won't" or will with all the bad service people are complaining about. It's exactly like when detroit automakers were powerful enough to buy up public transportation projects across the country and dispose of them. Now, cable and communication companies use pre-emptive strikes against 'mass-communications' projects for cities. Projects like have been done in other countries would be strictly banned here -- so that corporations could "compete" (=ream the masses")...I was reading recently that Paris -- about 5 years ago, had 10Mb to nearly every home & business and cheap rates. Now in many areas they are getting to 100Mb, at a fraction of the cost people in the US pay for 6Mb or 8Mb. I think the US was ranked about 30th (and falling) in broadband access.
So don't pretend people can "just choose another provider" -- when most can't even choose one "broadband" provider at speeds in other modern, competitive companies. The US Corporate mind set, is to extract every penny out of every customer at every level -- to charge the most possible for any given level of service, and the lowest amount of service/dollar. They don't strive to be the best -- or benefit society (while enriching themselves) -- no -- it's tear down society to extract extra pennies whenever possible. Our government is corrupt and the "free market" was sold to the highest bidder. It doesn't exist -- because the market system itself was for-sale... When the free-market has been bought by corporations, it's no longer a free-market.
Can someone tell me how one discerns what songs on a telephone or ipod are counterfeit?
More so -- how would border guard be able to discern this by "looking" at the iPod?
Don't some of these devices store 60GB? or enough to hold 10's or 100's of thousands of songs?
They are gonna somehow 'search' through these while people stand in line at customs?
Um...something doesn't add up. I don't see how this is even close to being technically
feasible...?
Could someone explain this? Sounds like Reagan's Star Wars missile shield program back in the 80's.....and we all know how well far that got...
What makes anyone think this 'initiative' or treaty could get off the ground -- or is this another
bullshit US law to selectively apply to whoever they wanna make trouble for?
"I'm sorry, I'd like to see the receipts for those songs in your iPod..."....
Uh....
Are stupid or just an idiot?
You want to convince anyone one here that 90% of the people in the US *aren't* willing to work?
Check my sig -- where do *you* fall in the US percentile's of wealth? How many record stocks do you think the average household owns? You think they don't work? They should pay $200,000 or more for the great "making available" nonsense?
I've worked decades writing intellectual property -- one of the products I worked on was developed mostly on my own time...but my sin -- I was a newbie out of college. I was trying to get ownership of the project that had been left fallow. I revitalized the product - running development on it as an internal 'Test' version -- interviewing coworkers (other software developers) and asked them what features they'd want to see.. came up with a coherent and flexible implementation that ran 10x the speed of the original. I *only* gave it to my coworkers in my department in my building in Santa Clara. Next I heard, I was on the carpet because customers were demanding it as a product and marketing managers were asking the management who was sitting on the product why it wasn't on the roadmap and why I wasn't even listed as working on the product). It was no secret that I'd done the work -- as I'd done all the interviewing and gathering of feedback -- fixing old bugs -- making sure I didn't create (or at least didn't release to my 'customers' (coworkers) bugs (this was back in the day before products were expected to have bugs in them at release and bugs were fixed at the company's expense). But not only was I not given the project -- but they didn't want me making more internal releases, because they were making them out to customers (this was back before the internet).
Same company -- next debacle, some more of the marketing types approached my management and wanted to know if I could adapt my DnD game to be run with their voice recognition hardware. I was willing -- it was a 'test' project -- and fun. But upon completion, they and their management liked it enough to want to use it to demo the product to customers. Minor snag -- they'd have to arrange some compensation to me for use of the game (another project on my own time -- but this one was clearly mine -- I'd even listed it under 'prior inventions' when I came to work at this company. Now I was naive -- a 500 or 1000$ bonus would have been ecstatic for me -- and peanuts to them -- marketing had no issue with the idea -- they were used to the concept of paying for work to be done -- or paying commissions. But because I was an "engineering grunt", excuse me, a 'software engineer who exercised creativity and considerable control over the way I did my work' -- which has been the reason why software engineers are lumped in the same "exempt" category as performance artists and managers instead of being hourly and eligible for overtime. This meant that engineering management refused to consider any extra payment over my base salary for my 'creative work'. But on top of it -- they tried to give the rights away - telling me that their employment contract gave them rights to anything I created while I was employed with them. At that point, I was more than a little pissed. I pointed to my employment contract that my 'invention' -- the 'game' was listed as a prior work to my employment at Intel. So they cancelled the project and told the marketing types it was a no-go.
Now we're not even talking recurring royalties or per-copy fees...at MOST we were talking a 1 time
bonus in the 500-1000 range. That's how "valued" I was taught intellectual property was.
I left the company soon after a very *average* review that my manager quite clearly was uncomfortable giving -- in pre-review writing time periods he was saying how I had been doing excellent work -- exceeds on all counts -- but the upper engineering management that didn't like customers and marketing demanding my products -- multiple times -- they didn't even want to give me my own project to work on (my main job
If this was going to happen anywhere, it'd be the ultra-mommy, "we know what's better for you" UK...
It's not the point that was missed -- it's that it isn't clear they actually measured creativity or 'anything' -- the testing methodology was flawed, like "skin conductance -- that increases with sweating -- wouldn't exercise increase sweating?" Several things measured don't add up to the conclusions drawn -- which is very often true with 'scientific studies', but appears even more so in this 'study'. Whatever.
Yeah -- if you think about it -- if humans can "pre-plan" a design, why can't a program be written to catch pre-planning errors or errors in implementation? Computers are already superior for managing complex resource constrained schedules allowing factories to run much more efficiently than planning and resource scheduling done by humans. Why should programs, ultimately, be any different? Oh, that's right, bugs are a requirement for job security...
Guess there are reasons to make sure static code analyzers don't work.
Last time I commented on this and said this was another reason for not getting Vista, I got marked down as 'overrated'. Weird.
...oh yeah..the Navy's take-over-any-computer initiative...and how MS probably built in all the Digital Rights Management that the government needs to manage your Digital rights to your computer.
People were complaining about MS putting DRM 'backdoor' rights for Hollywood execs at their whim -- not required by law, and I think I made some comment about
People seem to think DRM is limited to Hollywood or music industry content...it's about anything you think you are free to do on your computer -- deletion of downloaded documents, programs, perhaps finding your computer can't access certain web sites...
Why would anyone think MS wouldn't do what AT&T, Verizon and others have done when they've already put in digital-backdoors for hollycreeps and the riaa? Why do people think vista is slower than XP? or that all the drivers broke? The drivers had to all be rewritten to support MS's DRM OS-wide enforcement mechanisms.
And customers will probably just continue sucking up whatever slop MS feeds em.
Just cause I'm paranoid doesn't mean MS and other corps haven't already sold or given away your rights. It's happened before, it will happen again and it will likely get worse before it gets better.
It seems like political parties on both ends are in bed with the major corporations. I'm just hoping that one candidates purported "inexperience" is politico-speak meaning he hasn't been fully bought and paid for.
Of course the last president that was 'too popular' with the people (and not selling us off) got assassinated....