I'm a little skeptical of the technology. It seems like they are just repositioning solar panels in a novel way so that they are integrated into the existing decor.
However, the best common solar panels today are only 20% efficient and the common ones you see on houses are only 10% efficient. For the researcher to generally state 'way more than 50%' rings alarm bells in my head.
Does anyone know why these would be so much better than existing tech?
At UCB the campus wide network (not just the resnet) is on alert for infected machines. If one is found, it is denied access until a sysadmin comes out and cleans it. They've sent several warning messages prior to doing this. The news release is
here
This would be more true if new computer purchases didn't continue to grow. I don't have a stat to offer, but I'd figure more money is made on computer purchases than on upgrades.
Also, simply because the OS is secure and stable does not mean that new technologies will not be developed. Perhaps the entire model of the desktop will change and Microsoft will have a new OS to support it. IMO, Microsoft has too much cash and too many employees to simply fall down and be unable to get back up.
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this has already been done before. The hardware was sophiticated enough to emulate a direct cable link between the calculators, and no driver was required.
I've been listening to the stream for 5 minutes or so now. I can't help thinking that this is what a band of R2D2's would sound like, with C3P0 in random memory access as lead vocalist.
It's so very electronic and unnatural sounding, like nothing of this world.
Yes, and if you aren't extrememly careful, gets some nice snail-mail spam sent your way.
Usually the opt-out box is set in 4 point type in a small corner of those things.
People often complain that these rankings are subjective. Yes, they are subjective, but so is an interviewer offering a job. I'd have to think that having clout in your own area (i.e. enrolled in a program that is rated highly by it's peer programs) would lead to clout in the job market too.
That said, I hope no one uses the list to find where they are going to apply to college. Further disclaimer: I attend Berkeley. I find it outstanding and I love it. Can't beat the crazy hippies as well as the proximity to silicon valley. (Where else can you get a top quality enginnering degree, as well as intern at Apple, among other companies, in the summer, without moving)
Lastly, Berkeley is now tied with the Farm! Moving on up. w00t!
I don't much that you could do. You could sue for wrongful termination if you want your job back, but not much else.
My first thought is- of course the hacker isn't going to use his normal IP. If someone is going to go out hacking, they aren't stupid enough to just use the normal config. Second, you may be able to prove you never visited or connected those websites if the machine you normally use keeps a log (a normal webhistory is probably not suffiecient in this case).
Regarding what to tell your next employer- I'd recommend one of the following- A) Either be totally honest about it. Let them know they had no proof when they terminated you, and you didn't do it. If the interviewer is a good judge of character, it won't be a problem. B) Don't give any information and don't let the new company contact the old company. It will appear shady, but at least they can't be totally sure what happened. In my experience with similar situations, using A is going to make it harder to get a job, as some will automatically turn you down, but the best people will be able to tell by the way you explain yourself that you are innocent. I'd prefer to work with those sorts of people anyway.
If the company bring charges against you, immediately subpoena your HDD and the logs they used against you. In those lie your best defense. Again, IANAL, but the evidence the company has is not even good enough be called circumstancial. It's like charging someone with murder because he/she looks like the purported suspect. A good lawyer will be able to show a judge/jury this fairly easily.
A final thought occured to me- try to obtain more information about how your company stores log data. If they log DHCP information, the server should be able to tell what MAC address was assigned which IP at what times. Sure, someone could clone your MAC, but they'd have to know what your MAC was first, so i suspect a hacker would simply make up a MAC instead of cloning one.
According to one of the the articles, he broke the encryption on the passwords used to login to the FTP server. I call that cracking, which would be labeled hacking in the general lexicon.
Hasn't anyone ripped the driver update to.ISO or.BIN so that it can be shared across the net? I'd be more than a little peeved if Sony cracks down on this (restricting access to a driver update? That's worse than Microsoft)
Or maybe Sony is cracking down, forcing you to spend your $20 to get the update?
Next time I can plug my PS2 controller into my steering column, I'll tell you if the driving performance compares.
Not only that, but there is so much to buying a car that you can't get from a game, no matter how sophiscated. Some cars feel a lot faster than others. What about the interior design, the comfort of the car, etc.
I might consider test driving a car I liked in a video game, but then again, do i get to drive it at the redline and crash it into other cars on purpose if I want to (we can only hope). Even so, I'm wary of just how real the handling is. Sure, I can design a bridge with a computer, but it's nothing compared to actually building it (okay, weak analogy, but you get the point)
The XP system required micromanagement and slowed the game. It reminded me a little of the old FF problem- you have to go around and fight a long time to level up, so you can beat the boss.
There is no reason they can't reward explorers- just hide bio-mods. I think they are doing a change much like/. did with karma- XP is a level now, not a number. You'll get bio mods at the end of each level, and they could add new ones like knuckle implants that make melee combat better.
IMHO, this just makes the interface and game run smoother.
I rarely run games on my computer, as I tend to use it more for school and utility than for pleasure.
On my now defunct desktop, I bought an SB Live! card and it came with a copy of Deus Ex. The game was great enough that I actually went out and bought a 3d accelerator to make it playable (a Voodoo3, a week before 3dfx went belly up). To make a long story short, it was the best game I've ever played and the only game to ever to hold me from beginning to end.(I usually get bored half way through, stop, and come back in a year. I still haven't beaten starcraft)
In the original, after the first level the graphics cease to matter. They are passable, and the story is so immersive that the graphics don't need a lot of eyecandy to hold your attention. I felt the story was better than that of HL, as the story changed based on your choices. The levels forked and different people reacted differently based on how you acted. Your abilities changed fundamentally, making your approach to the game change as you progressed. (No need to kamikaze into level 2 bots with a RPG if you can turn invisible and walk around them) If the second can be as immersive as well as improve the visual quality, I may forget what reality is, and try to activate my IR vision when I go out at night.
I don't give a damn about Doom 3 or HL2. Yet, I'm quite eager to play The Invisible Hand.
Nothing compares to activating your own level 2 security bots and watching them wreak havoc on the FEMA bots that used to be guarding Area 51.
Sure, consume more gas per person, adding more CO and nitrous oxides to the enviorment.
What would you like? Allow everyone unrestricted access? Or would you prefer some sort of automatic discrimination at the gate?
Yet, it's only the disgrunted people who hold up the line. It pissed me off when someone goes through security in a fit because they have to take off his/her shoes. Normally I can get through the checkpoint at SFO in 5 minutes.
Well, the most paranoid part of me dreams up something like this:
You have a bomb on board, as well as a weapon. Now you have a very large vehicle as well as several hostages. Now, while you may not be able to bring down a large building, you could cause major damage if you rammed something, and a bus would be hard to stop with a roadblock, as it's so massive.
What makes them think you would have added a bomb during that stop is beyond me. Seem more sensable to warm of the search, as them most people will just leave everyone onboard.
Someone do this please! I want to see the RIAA stumble over the very laws it's using to sue the country.
Of course, if they can argue you are tacitly permitting filesharing by letting stuff be downloaded, they may be able to claim you are tacitly permiting access to the P2P service.
The fundementalist right has banned the use of sex as a prefix for counting.
On top of that, how many people in the US know that sextillion is a valid number?
Sampling is technically illegal without permission.
Yes, the laws have gone crazy. However, a lower circuit judge cannot declare a supoena invalid simply because the DMCA is unconstitutional. He/She is bound to what the law says, and right now the DMCA is legal. Someone needs to bring that case up seperately.
Yes, the RIAA is nuts, but they are procecuting criminals legally, much to my dismay.
You're going to get ripped for flamebait. Such is the mod system here.
I think many more take issue at the tactics of the RIAA. Mass incrimination of society? If the RIAA provided a legal alternative to Kazaa that offered better quality of music or other benefits, the casual file sharers would leave, and all that would be left are those who share 10000 songs (which would be those who also run FTP servers, etc).
I bet that several innocent people will eventually be charged. I've downloaded albums before I possessed a CDROM that could encode at more than 1x (it was simply faster to download). I would assume that at least a few people are doing that today.
Most probably agree that the RIAA's motive is sound. The method is the evil.
No, if you get bogged down in legal sematics, it's probably going to be ruled that just because they were shared didn't give consent for any person to download them.
The RIAA could also monitor changes in the list of shared files the user has, and assume any new files must have been recently downloaded.
I wasn't trying to suggest the morality or rightousness of the RIAA, nor did I ever even mention what i suggest punishments for the theft should be. I merely rubuked the parent for implying there is nothing damaging about pirating music.
I suggest you get off your high-horse anti-RIAA zealotism and post something meaningful.
From what I know, the RIAA is planning to sue sharers, not downloaders (although often they are one and the same). The idea is, kill the supply, and the demand decreases. (Yeah, because it worked so well with illegal drugs.)
Point is, how many people are likely to run persistant shares over a hotspot? I'd think that those who use hotspots have nothing to fear from the RIAA, yet..
There was a previous discussion about an ISP who was encouraging customers to setup an access point and share the connection with others for a reduced rate./. readers came to the consensus that I can be held accountable for content my neighbors download with my connection. Does this mean that the RIAA can sue coffee shops who setup their own independant hotspots? (Of course, it doesn't apply to the server businesses who have paired with T-Mobile)
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I'm a little skeptical of the technology. It seems like they are just repositioning solar panels in a novel way so that they are integrated into the existing decor. However, the best common solar panels today are only 20% efficient and the common ones you see on houses are only 10% efficient. For the researcher to generally state 'way more than 50%' rings alarm bells in my head.
Does anyone know why these would be so much better than existing tech?
At UCB the campus wide network (not just the resnet) is on alert for infected machines. If one is found, it is denied access until a sysadmin comes out and cleans it. They've sent several warning messages prior to doing this. The news release is here
This would be more true if new computer purchases didn't continue to grow. I don't have a stat to offer, but I'd figure more money is made on computer purchases than on upgrades.
Also, simply because the OS is secure and stable does not mean that new technologies will not be developed. Perhaps the entire model of the desktop will change and Microsoft will have a new OS to support it. IMO, Microsoft has too much cash and too many employees to simply fall down and be unable to get back up.
this has already been done before. The hardware was sophiticated enough to emulate a direct cable link between the calculators, and no driver was required.
I've been listening to the stream for 5 minutes or so now. I can't help thinking that this is what a band of R2D2's would sound like, with C3P0 in random memory access as lead vocalist.
It's so very electronic and unnatural sounding, like nothing of this world.
Yes, and if you aren't extrememly careful, gets some nice snail-mail spam sent your way. Usually the opt-out box is set in 4 point type in a small corner of those things.
People often complain that these rankings are subjective. Yes, they are subjective, but so is an interviewer offering a job. I'd have to think that having clout in your own area (i.e. enrolled in a program that is rated highly by it's peer programs) would lead to clout in the job market too.
That said, I hope no one uses the list to find where they are going to apply to college. Further disclaimer: I attend Berkeley. I find it outstanding and I love it. Can't beat the crazy hippies as well as the proximity to silicon valley. (Where else can you get a top quality enginnering degree, as well as intern at Apple, among other companies, in the summer, without moving)
Lastly, Berkeley is now tied with the Farm! Moving on up. w00t!
Am I the only one who expected the person to have played something like FF3 where one of the parts of the game is to save a kid in a burning building?
Comeon, he just happened to be awake due to video games. I wouldn't say that the video game addiction itself saved the lives.
Plus, it would have been a lot cooler had he ran in and held up the building Sabin style while some other girl ran around and saved everyone.
I don't much that you could do. You could sue for wrongful termination if you want your job back, but not much else.
My first thought is- of course the hacker isn't going to use his normal IP. If someone is going to go out hacking, they aren't stupid enough to just use the normal config. Second, you may be able to prove you never visited or connected those websites if the machine you normally use keeps a log (a normal webhistory is probably not suffiecient in this case).
Regarding what to tell your next employer- I'd recommend one of the following- A) Either be totally honest about it. Let them know they had no proof when they terminated you, and you didn't do it. If the interviewer is a good judge of character, it won't be a problem. B) Don't give any information and don't let the new company contact the old company. It will appear shady, but at least they can't be totally sure what happened. In my experience with similar situations, using A is going to make it harder to get a job, as some will automatically turn you down, but the best people will be able to tell by the way you explain yourself that you are innocent. I'd prefer to work with those sorts of people anyway.
If the company bring charges against you, immediately subpoena your HDD and the logs they used against you. In those lie your best defense. Again, IANAL, but the evidence the company has is not even good enough be called circumstancial. It's like charging someone with murder because he/she looks like the purported suspect. A good lawyer will be able to show a judge/jury this fairly easily.
A final thought occured to me- try to obtain more information about how your company stores log data. If they log DHCP information, the server should be able to tell what MAC address was assigned which IP at what times. Sure, someone could clone your MAC, but they'd have to know what your MAC was first, so i suspect a hacker would simply make up a MAC instead of cloning one.
According to one of the the articles, he broke the encryption on the passwords used to login to the FTP server. I call that cracking, which would be labeled hacking in the general lexicon.
Hasn't anyone ripped the driver update to .ISO or .BIN so that it can be shared across the net? I'd be more than a little peeved if Sony cracks down on this (restricting access to a driver update? That's worse than Microsoft)
Or maybe Sony is cracking down, forcing you to spend your $20 to get the update?
Next time I can plug my PS2 controller into my steering column, I'll tell you if the driving performance compares.
Not only that, but there is so much to buying a car that you can't get from a game, no matter how sophiscated. Some cars feel a lot faster than others. What about the interior design, the comfort of the car, etc.
I might consider test driving a car I liked in a video game, but then again, do i get to drive it at the redline and crash it into other cars on purpose if I want to (we can only hope). Even so, I'm wary of just how real the handling is. Sure, I can design a bridge with a computer, but it's nothing compared to actually building it (okay, weak analogy, but you get the point)
The XP system required micromanagement and slowed the game. It reminded me a little of the old FF problem- you have to go around and fight a long time to level up, so you can beat the boss.
/. did with karma- XP is a level now, not a number. You'll get bio mods at the end of each level, and they could add new ones like knuckle implants that make melee combat better.
There is no reason they can't reward explorers- just hide bio-mods. I think they are doing a change much like
IMHO, this just makes the interface and game run smoother.
I rarely run games on my computer, as I tend to use it more for school and utility than for pleasure.
On my now defunct desktop, I bought an SB Live! card and it came with a copy of Deus Ex. The game was great enough that I actually went out and bought a 3d accelerator to make it playable (a Voodoo3, a week before 3dfx went belly up). To make a long story short, it was the best game I've ever played and the only game to ever to hold me from beginning to end.(I usually get bored half way through, stop, and come back in a year. I still haven't beaten starcraft)
In the original, after the first level the graphics cease to matter. They are passable, and the story is so immersive that the graphics don't need a lot of eyecandy to hold your attention. I felt the story was better than that of HL, as the story changed based on your choices. The levels forked and different people reacted differently based on how you acted. Your abilities changed fundamentally, making your approach to the game change as you progressed. (No need to kamikaze into level 2 bots with a RPG if you can turn invisible and walk around them) If the second can be as immersive as well as improve the visual quality, I may forget what reality is, and try to activate my IR vision when I go out at night.
I don't give a damn about Doom 3 or HL2. Yet, I'm quite eager to play The Invisible Hand.
Nothing compares to activating your own level 2 security bots and watching them wreak havoc on the FEMA bots that used to be guarding Area 51.
Sure, consume more gas per person, adding more CO and nitrous oxides to the enviorment.
What would you like? Allow everyone unrestricted access? Or would you prefer some sort of automatic discrimination at the gate?
Yet, it's only the disgrunted people who hold up the line. It pissed me off when someone goes through security in a fit because they have to take off his/her shoes. Normally I can get through the checkpoint at SFO in 5 minutes.
Well, the most paranoid part of me dreams up something like this:
You have a bomb on board, as well as a weapon. Now you have a very large vehicle as well as several hostages. Now, while you may not be able to bring down a large building, you could cause major damage if you rammed something, and a bus would be hard to stop with a roadblock, as it's so massive.
What makes them think you would have added a bomb during that stop is beyond me. Seem more sensable to warm of the search, as them most people will just leave everyone onboard.
Someone do this please! I want to see the RIAA stumble over the very laws it's using to sue the country.
Of course, if they can argue you are tacitly permitting filesharing by letting stuff be downloaded, they may be able to claim you are tacitly permiting access to the P2P service.
damn, that was about the most sexist bullcrap I've ever come across.
The fundementalist right has banned the use of sex as a prefix for counting. On top of that, how many people in the US know that sextillion is a valid number?
Sampling is technically illegal without permission. Yes, the laws have gone crazy. However, a lower circuit judge cannot declare a supoena invalid simply because the DMCA is unconstitutional. He/She is bound to what the law says, and right now the DMCA is legal. Someone needs to bring that case up seperately.
Yes, the RIAA is nuts, but they are procecuting criminals legally, much to my dismay.
You're going to get ripped for flamebait. Such is the mod system here. I think many more take issue at the tactics of the RIAA. Mass incrimination of society? If the RIAA provided a legal alternative to Kazaa that offered better quality of music or other benefits, the casual file sharers would leave, and all that would be left are those who share 10000 songs (which would be those who also run FTP servers, etc). I bet that several innocent people will eventually be charged. I've downloaded albums before I possessed a CDROM that could encode at more than 1x (it was simply faster to download). I would assume that at least a few people are doing that today. Most probably agree that the RIAA's motive is sound. The method is the evil.
No, if you get bogged down in legal sematics, it's probably going to be ruled that just because they were shared didn't give consent for any person to download them. The RIAA could also monitor changes in the list of shared files the user has, and assume any new files must have been recently downloaded.
I wasn't trying to suggest the morality or rightousness of the RIAA, nor did I ever even mention what i suggest punishments for the theft should be. I merely rubuked the parent for implying there is nothing damaging about pirating music.
I suggest you get off your high-horse anti-RIAA zealotism and post something meaningful.
That is absurd. When you have free and unlicensed access to media, you are less likely to buy it, and thus the owner loses money.
You are, in effect, granted permission to the content when you purchase it. Unauthorized use is against the law.
I'm going to steal your next paycheck. You have the same amount of money in the bank, so it's not stealing.
From what I know, the RIAA is planning to sue sharers, not downloaders (although often they are one and the same). The idea is, kill the supply, and the demand decreases. (Yeah, because it worked so well with illegal drugs.)
/. readers came to the consensus that I can be held accountable for content my neighbors download with my connection. Does this mean that the RIAA can sue coffee shops who setup their own independant hotspots? (Of course, it doesn't apply to the server businesses who have paired with T-Mobile)
Point is, how many people are likely to run persistant shares over a hotspot? I'd think that those who use hotspots have nothing to fear from the RIAA, yet..
There was a previous discussion about an ISP who was encouraging customers to setup an access point and share the connection with others for a reduced rate.