As parent comments, there's the law and there's justice. They are very different, although most people would probably rather have a just society than a lawful one.
In the early 90s I used a 1200 baud direct dial up modem to remote into a Unix box using text mode editing, debugging, etc. Worked pretty well, responsiveness typically Now I have broadband, with Pentiums on each end but I use X or VNC through internet. The extra fluffery has soaked up the performance gains and then some. Refreshing times are often > 1 sec. My PC's power supply is 400W.
So we've made progress, but how much of it really counts?
and mines in South Africa go much deeper than that.
Most rockfalls leave the main shaft ok. You could run a cable down the shaft and have "access points" at vaious depths etc. The VLF only has to cover the last bit to the actual miner.
They work by induction loops (ie are magnetic). They are not radio. Induction loop comms predates Marconi. The big challenge with VLF is to make a big enough antenna.
For encryption to be secure, you'll need to have end-to-end encryption. That is achievable for an organisation that is running its own VoIP system, but not really so for anything that is based on a commercial offering like Skype.
If Skype bows to FCC pressure (which they will) then they will not provide encryption in their service which means that the people using Skype won't be able to encrypt their calls.
Most people don't really care about encryption or wire tapping, but for those that do you can be sure some offshore service will pop up to fill the void.
I don't know many languages, but quite a few languages contain soundbites that could easily be ____ out. Just picking our favourite four letter expletive: In Afrikaans there are vak (subject) or vakansie (vacation); in Maori there are various words with whaka... and whakapapa sounds like a bit of incest.
With the number of false triggers one can expect, the default operating mode for such censoring is just going to be "off".
grep -ir fuck * on the Linux kernel sources and you'll soon find that Linux is "objectionable material". Now all we need is some bible-belter congressman to push this technology and we're going to have a few issues.
I lived in South Africa when nobody was openly selling anything military etc to them. This did not stop the flow of equipment, it just came via alternate routes and fed a bunch of middlemen. The military etc could easily get stuff illegally, but genuine commercial folk could not. If you went through the sales records of various test gear manufactueres etc, you'd find some very wierd countries (eg. Swaziland) buying large quantities of equipment.
Most people use open source in its product form rather than its source form, far fewer want to, or need to, exploit open-sourceness. I have used open source in at least the following ways:
Used gcc and friends as a development environment for turnkey embedded products. Mostly this means just using gcc as a product, but on occasion I've gone into the gcc/binutils code to understand how to get around a compiler limitation/bug.
Used open source as a reference. For example, when I've had problems initialising a device/chipset, I might refer to Linux to see how it is handled there.
IMHO, the most important advantage of open source is that you can investigate and fix problems when you want to. If you're using, for example, WinCE as an OS and you find a problem then you need to wait until MS fixes the probelm and releases it. MS's timescales and priorities are not the same as yours. With open source you become the master of your own destiny.
I've seen people stuck for weeks knowing that the problem is in a chunk of less than 30 lines of code, but not knowing exaclty where.
Some code (eg. device driver code) is often extremely difficult to trace and debug and the cause and effect can often be difficult to tie togther. In once case I saw a problem where a device initialisation sequence of less than 20 lines was wrong, but very subtly so. The problem persisted for manny weeks. This was cured by a code snippet.
How will the giant fall? If it falls on top of you then you have a serious problem. If it falls in the way, then you have a less serious, but still big problem.
History is littered with many examples of sudden changes in power structure causing a lot of pain all around (Roman Empire, break up of USSR,...). Far better would be shift so that MS no longer abuses its power and instead becomes a contributory member of the industry.
Given that the average student probably had a fake driver's license to get drunk a couple of years back, it would quite suprising if there are not a few fake MMR certs out there.
making peaace instead, or designing machines to get shot up.
It's a sad day that you "die for your country" for real and they can't even provide a real trumpet player. What next? One of those "your face goes here" cut-out funerals? Perhaps soldiers should send cardboard cut-outs of themselves when they get called up.
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As parent comments, there's the law and there's justice. They are very different, although most people would probably rather have a just society than a lawful one.
In the opposite corner we have the asynchronous processing folks who tell us that removing clocking will improve power consumption.
These are at odds with eachother and someone has gotta be wrong. I smell a VC scam.
IBM sells to China.... Only 70 years ago they were selling to Nazis to track people for "processing". http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/
So far TFA stuff is still just buzz.
So we've made progress, but how much of it really counts?
Most rockfalls leave the main shaft ok. You could run a cable down the shaft and have "access points" at vaious depths etc. The VLF only has to cover the last bit to the actual miner.
They work by induction loops (ie are magnetic). They are not radio. Induction loop comms predates Marconi. The big challenge with VLF is to make a big enough antenna.
Hippies will dance around it naked at the full moon....
Everybody out of the lava right now!
If Skype bows to FCC pressure (which they will) then they will not provide encryption in their service which means that the people using Skype won't be able to encrypt their calls.
Most people don't really care about encryption or wire tapping, but for those that do you can be sure some offshore service will pop up to fill the void.
With the number of false triggers one can expect, the default operating mode for such censoring is just going to be "off".
grep -ir fuck * on the Linux kernel sources and you'll soon find that Linux is "objectionable material". Now all we need is some bible-belter congressman to push this technology and we're going to have a few issues.
What kind of fucked-up parent lets their 9 year old play XBox Live in the first place?
I lived in South Africa when nobody was openly selling anything military etc to them. This did not stop the flow of equipment, it just came via alternate routes and fed a bunch of middlemen. The military etc could easily get stuff illegally, but genuine commercial folk could not. If you went through the sales records of various test gear manufactueres etc, you'd find some very wierd countries (eg. Swaziland) buying large quantities of equipment.
Used gcc and friends as a development environment for turnkey embedded products. Mostly this means just using gcc as a product, but on occasion I've gone into the gcc/binutils code to understand how to get around a compiler limitation/bug.
Used open source as a reference. For example, when I've had problems initialising a device/chipset, I might refer to Linux to see how it is handled there.
IMHO, the most important advantage of open source is that you can investigate and fix problems when you want to. If you're using, for example, WinCE as an OS and you find a problem then you need to wait until MS fixes the probelm and releases it. MS's timescales and priorities are not the same as yours. With open source you become the master of your own destiny.
Some code (eg. device driver code) is often extremely difficult to trace and debug and the cause and effect can often be difficult to tie togther. In once case I saw a problem where a device initialisation sequence of less than 20 lines was wrong, but very subtly so. The problem persisted for manny weeks. This was cured by a code snippet.
On /., reading first is **cheating**!
History is littered with many examples of sudden changes in power structure causing a lot of pain all around (Roman Empire, break up of USSR,...). Far better would be shift so that MS no longer abuses its power and instead becomes a contributory member of the industry.
if you said a + b * c but you really wanted (a + b) * c the compiler won't bleat.
JVM gets bloaty once you start adding all the GUI stuff, though J2ME (used in a lot of phones etc) is a lot smaller.
Dodgey stats get made worse by really bad /. summaries.
Given that the average student probably had a fake driver's license to get drunk a couple of years back, it would quite suprising if there are not a few fake MMR certs out there.
Huh?
It's a sad day that you "die for your country" for real and they can't even provide a real trumpet player. What next? One of those "your face goes here" cut-out funerals? Perhaps soldiers should send cardboard cut-outs of themselves when they get called up.
I might be able to spell "scientific".