I can see this being useful for governments (and probably criminals) but is the average man in the street really paranoid enough to want one? GSM is already encrypted - albeit weakly - but well enough to stop some telecoms script kiddy hearing what you're saying , and if you want to stop the government listening in to your conversations then you're out of luck anyway , since they'll just bug you some other way.
It doesn't go into details about how the anti tampering works. Is this a seperate sub system that is independent of the OS and it removed/disabled then disables the whole PC? Or is it integrated with windows in which case surely just installing a new OS (assuming you can boot off a CD/floppy) would bypass it? Anyone have any technical info?
Well video thay've got you on. You can't get a good picture by filming a TV screen.
>Putting a mic in front of the speakers, though, will sound very bad.
Depends on the speakers and microphones. You could with a bit of surgery patch into the wires going to the speakers inside the TV though I realise not many people would want to butcher their TV like that.
>Dja know you'll have to have HDMI for HDTVs, and that will have copy management?
One of the reasons I'm not moving to HDTV, alongside the absurd prices and appalling motion blur.
They can propose and pontificate as long as they like but they don't have a prayer. Even if somehoe they disable the audio output jacks, you can still intercept the signal going to the speakers and if (somehow) they mandate digital speaker cables then theres still stick a microphone in front of the speakers. Until direct digital plug-in to the human brain is invented they might as well give up and go home.
Most americans would have trouble finding europe on a map. Don't expect them to do anything complex like trying to distinguish between 2 seperate european countries.
You seriously think a web page its the pinnacle of large data access? I work in a bank where we process terabytes of data a day, and no we don't use 100 services everytime we need to access a load of data. We use a few f*ck off big RDMBSs and some Big Iron.
Don't make out that serving up a web page is a big deal , compared to real hard code data processing its mickey mouse.
It might be available , but so what? You could have downloaded that sorry excuse of an OS since the early 90s. The implication was its available and *useful*. I very much doubt the latter is true other than perhaps for discussion in a academic enviroment.
"Back in the real world the majority of computers do not run Linux and the majority of people do not want Linux."
Most people don't *want* any particular OS, they just want something that will run TheirAppsOfChoice. Linux is useful since it will run a lot of standard apps that normal people can use as well as being a back end server system. Whether or not a lot of people actually use it is another matter. The fact is it CAN be used as such. Can Hurd be used as a general purpose desktop system yet? Err , I think not. Therefore , for most people its useless. QED.
"In reality though, most electronic onboard aircraft (at least Military and large commercial) are contained within faraday cages and no RF/EM energy leaks in or out of the system."
I'm not sure which reality you live in , but in the one I'm in people use cellphones in aircraft and they seem to work ok plus if you're going to build a faraday cage it helps if you use something a bit more magnetic than aluminium or composite which all aircraft are built out of.
>You are attempting to change your claim from "it is not available"
Well actually I wasn't the granparent poster so I'm not claiming anything other than Hurd is nothing more than some academics wet dream of what an OS should be like rather than what business and the consumer actually want. (ie something that simply runs applications fast and reliably and can be networked).
>but I can comment that Linux is not fit for purpose for 99% of the computing world either.
Yeah , whatever. Meanwhile , back in the real world...
Really? Is it a usable OS with applications or is it still the useless piece of academic-interest-only piece of pre-alpha code its been for the last 15 years?
"Sony Trinitron television that is is over 10 years old but still runs as good as new"
Yup , we've got one of those too except it dates from 1985! Still works like a dream. The only thing thats ever gone wrong is the mechanical on/off switch which needed replacing. However , as with other companies Sony these days manufactures in cheap-n-cheerful china and quality has gone through the floor. I bought a sony DVD player last year. 9 months later it went wrong. Friends of mine have had similar issues with new sony kit too.
Sorry , I'm not up on the latest marketing BS so I'm wondering if you could explain what the phrase means? Enabling them to do what , listen to mp3s and copy tracks to and fro? Err , isn't that what other mp3 players do too or have I missed something?
Err, no thanks. There's enough bloatware as it is without saddling the poor textbox with a bloody spell checker just so every 2 bit program has to waste more CPU cycles and loading time while the loader checks whether it needs to load yet another dynamic lib. If you're so stupid you can't spell properly most of the time perhaps you shouldn't be using a computer in the first place anyway. And for those situations where a spell checker is really critical build it into the app.
I'm so sick of being in meetings with people sit their like overgrown children playing with their Blackberries when they're supposed to be paying attention. My opinion is that these "tools" far from aiding business actually cause far more time to be wasted than anything else yet devised (including the cellphone!) as insecure middle management constantly check for emails from the boss they're currently brown nosing. It they couldn't use them I genuinely believe the business enviroment would be a lot healthier.
MS will never switch to Unix style permissions and filesystem setup because that would be a tacit admission that they've got it wrong for the last 13 years. If MS had just bitten the bullet and made the original NT unix-like (or even VMS-like) they'd have spared themselves years of grief, bugs, exploits and hassle. But no , they knew better.... yeah right.
Cars have to withstand G's from either direction because you could hit something in front or something could hit you fast from behind. And in a normal car accident it can go well above 8Gs though admittedly this is only for a fraction of a section so how well the interior would withstand long term G is another matter.
An object in a stable orbit cannot be "shot down". Its not an aircraft. You can destroy it but all that will happen is that the pieces will spread out from the point of explosion/impact and eventually become space junk that could cause problems from friendly satellites. Hopefully the laser would only disable a satellite and not cause its fuel tanks to detonate , since if they do then the US will simply be causing problems for itself , its allies and all space farers in the future.
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Flash might make your life easier but its a pain for us users. Slow to low and startup , usually with some irritating intro the spotty faced adolescent who programmed it thought look "Kool", not to mention the fact that flash on certain platforms has bugs that stop it working properly and worst of all , NO HISTORY! If I've spent 10 mins navigating something I DO NOT want to end up back at the start just because I pressed the back button!
Flash is fine for games, for grown up stuff its garbage.
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I can see this being useful for governments (and probably
criminals) but is the average man in the street really paranoid
enough to want one? GSM is already encrypted - albeit weakly - but
well enough to stop some telecoms script kiddy hearing what you're
saying , and if you want to stop the government listening in to
your conversations then you're out of luck anyway , since they'll
just bug you some other way.
So whats the point?
I like to program in Xlib to do various little utilities and games.
Does anyone know if the core Xlib API has changed going to R7?
It doesn't go into details about how the anti tampering works.
Is this a seperate sub system that is independent of the OS
and it removed/disabled then disables the whole PC? Or is it
integrated with windows in which case surely just installing
a new OS (assuming you can boot off a CD/floppy) would bypass it?
Anyone have any technical info?
Well video thay've got you on. You can't get a good picture by
filming a TV screen.
>Putting a mic in front of the speakers, though, will sound very bad.
Depends on the speakers and microphones. You could with a bit of
surgery patch into the wires going to the speakers inside the TV
though I realise not many people would want to butcher their TV
like that.
>Dja know you'll have to have HDMI for HDTVs, and that will have copy management?
One of the reasons I'm not moving to HDTV, alongside the absurd
prices and appalling motion blur.
They can propose and pontificate as long as they like but they
don't have a prayer. Even if somehoe they disable the audio
output jacks, you can still intercept the signal going to
the speakers and if (somehow) they mandate digital speaker cables
then theres still stick a microphone in front of the speakers.
Until direct digital plug-in to the human brain is invented they
might as well give up and go home.
Most americans would have trouble finding europe on a map. Don't
expect them to do anything complex like trying to distinguish
between 2 seperate european countries.
"Leonardo , I *really* need to go to the toilet! Now!"
Whats the matter sonny , jealous cos the only women you get close to
are your school teachers and your mum?
You seriously think a web page its the pinnacle of large data access?
I work in a bank where we process terabytes of data a day, and no we
don't use 100 services everytime we need to access a load of data. We
use a few f*ck off big RDMBSs and some Big Iron.
Don't make out that serving up a web page is a big deal , compared to
real hard code data processing its mickey mouse.
I guess you've never had to program in PL/SQL!
"only valued once they are no longer available."
You've never heard of COBOL then I take it?
"truthful statement that the Hurd is available"
It might be available , but so what? You could have downloaded that
sorry excuse of an OS since the early 90s. The implication was its available
and *useful*. I very much doubt the latter is true other than perhaps for
discussion in a academic enviroment.
"Back in the real world the majority of computers do not run Linux and the majority of people do not want Linux."
Most people don't *want* any particular OS, they just want something that
will run TheirAppsOfChoice. Linux is useful since it will run a lot of standard
apps that normal people can use as well as being a back end server system.
Whether or not a lot of people actually use it is another matter. The fact
is it CAN be used as such. Can Hurd be used as a general purpose desktop
system yet? Err , I think not. Therefore , for most people its useless. QED.
"In reality though, most electronic onboard aircraft (at least Military and large commercial) are contained within faraday cages and no RF/EM energy leaks in or out of the system."
I'm not sure which reality you live in , but in the one I'm in people
use cellphones in aircraft and they seem to work ok plus if you're going to
build a faraday cage it helps if you use something a bit more magnetic than
aluminium or composite which all aircraft are built out of.
>You are attempting to change your claim from "it is not available"
Well actually I wasn't the granparent poster so I'm not claiming anything
other than Hurd is nothing more than some academics wet dream of what an OS
should be like rather than what business and the consumer actually want.
(ie something that simply runs applications fast and reliably and can be
networked).
>but I can comment that Linux is not fit for purpose for 99% of the computing world either.
Yeah , whatever. Meanwhile , back in the real world...
"Hurd isn't available (hint: it is)"
Really? Is it a usable OS with applications or is it still the useless
piece of academic-interest-only piece of pre-alpha code its been for
the last 15 years?
"Sony Trinitron television that is is over 10 years old but still runs as good as new"
Yup , we've got one of those too except it dates from 1985! Still works like a
dream. The only thing thats ever gone wrong is the mechanical on/off switch
which needed replacing. However , as with other companies Sony these days
manufactures in cheap-n-cheerful china and quality has gone through the floor.
I bought a sony DVD player last year. 9 months later it went wrong. Friends
of mine have had similar issues with new sony kit too.
Sorry , I'm not up on the latest marketing BS so I'm wondering
if you could explain what the phrase means? Enabling them to
do what , listen to mp3s and copy tracks to and fro? Err , isn't
that what other mp3 players do too or have I missed something?
>carriage returns are automatically converted to ugly
s by slashcode,
So what?
Err, no thanks. There's enough bloatware as it is without saddling
the poor textbox with a bloody spell checker just so every 2 bit
program has to waste more CPU cycles and loading time while the
loader checks whether it needs to load yet another dynamic lib.
If you're so stupid you can't spell properly most of the time perhaps
you shouldn't be using a computer in the first place anyway. And
for those situations where a spell checker is really critical build
it into the app.
I'm so sick of being in meetings with people sit their like overgrown
children playing with their Blackberries when they're supposed to be
paying attention. My opinion is that these "tools" far from aiding business
actually cause far more time to be wasted than anything else yet devised
(including the cellphone!) as insecure middle management constantly check
for emails from the boss they're currently brown nosing. It they couldn't
use them I genuinely believe the business enviroment would be a lot
healthier.
MS will never switch to Unix style permissions and filesystem setup because
that would be a tacit admission that they've got it wrong for the last
13 years. If MS had just bitten the bullet and made the original NT unix-like
(or even VMS-like) they'd have spared themselves years of grief, bugs, exploits
and hassle. But no , they knew better.... yeah right.
"but not full-speed reverse crashes"
Cars have to withstand G's from either direction because you could hit
something in front or something could hit you fast from behind. And in
a normal car accident it can go well above 8Gs though admittedly this
is only for a fraction of a section so how well the interior would withstand
long term G is another matter.
"only " knock it out of a stable orbit. Yeah ok , you go work out the physics
of that then get back to me.
An object in a stable orbit cannot be "shot down". Its not an aircraft.
You can destroy it but all that will happen is that the pieces will
spread out from the point of explosion/impact and eventually become
space junk that could cause problems from friendly satellites.
Hopefully the laser would only disable a satellite and not cause its
fuel tanks to detonate , since if they do then the US will simply
be causing problems for itself , its allies and all space farers in
the future.
Flash might make your life easier but its a pain for us users. Slow to low and
startup , usually with some irritating intro the spotty faced adolescent who
programmed it thought look "Kool", not to mention the fact that flash on certain
platforms has bugs that stop it working properly and worst of all , NO HISTORY!
If I've spent 10 mins navigating something I DO NOT want to end up back at the
start just because I pressed the back button!
Flash is fine for games, for grown up stuff its garbage.