But the Rudd government is still young, and we are yet to discover the riddles and traps of their policies. I mean, Howard's government was a breath of fresh air when it came into power, but you can see how that turned into a putrid stench in retrospect.
Actually, I never found Howard anything like fresh air. He pretty much started his regime with the stink of corruption, nepotism and the National Textiles bailout.
But yeah, Rudd's lot are just starting, but it's almost funny seeing them go through their election promises like they were a checklist. They've even started on this one. Courageous or crazy?
Governments are not selfless enough to want to actually "help" someone. They mostly just send aid and "help" to entrap the downtrodden and desperate.
While it's sad that Ivan believes OLPC has lost sight of it's goals, you might want to keep an eye on what's happening with OLPC Australia.
The Rudd government is looking at providing sponsored laptops for children. OLPC has set up an Australian office as a consequence. Jeff Waugh has been appointed board director, and seems to understand the issues well.
"The easy answer to that question is that at the moment Windows doesn't exist on the machine," says Waugh. "It is completely irrelevant to the value of what the whole project is all about. OLPC Australia has been set up without that ever being on the agenda. The core principal that's repeated often about the project is that it's an education project not a laptop project. Part of delivering on that idea is the open source platform. The community built around the not only the technology but also the content and the use of the device. There is a community angle that permeates everything on what the device, how it works for kids and that sort of stuff.
"I have no idea as to why Windows is regarded as relevant to this and some of the stuff in the press about running Sugar on Windows and things like that - well Windows is just an operating system that doesn't deliver on the vision of OLPC."
I have no doubt that Microsoft will attempt to subvert this project, as it does everything else, but so far, the Rudd government has delivered on most of their promises.
Slashdot has become a pro-Microsoft site over the past few years.
Microsoft's evangelism team has been advising employees and partners to participate more in tech discussion sites.
They're particularly encouraged to post positive comments about MS products. That's why you see a million "[MS product] works fine for me" posts whenever Microsoft breaks something.
Neither is a toy, but you run into Sketchup's limitations far faster than you do Blender's.
It's the same with most of the intuitive tools. Bryce, for example, is one of the easiest and most intuitive 3D tools available, and allows you to create some stunning renders and animations. If there's something you want to do that's outside the scope of it's toolset though, forget it.
By contrast, if you can imagine it, Blender can model and render it.
The chip on the left is memory. That's where your data hides. The chip on the right is the memory controller. If that chip fails, but the memory chip is intact, your data may be recoverable.
Surface mount chips are hard, but not impossible to swap out.
Microsoft Chick: "Let's fuck!"
Slashdot Nerd: "Actually, I wanted to make sweet meaningful love, but all right."
Microsoft Chick: (Greases up giant dildo) "Bend over and make like Goatse."
Slashdot Nerd: "But but but, that's not what I meant!"
Microsoft Chick: "You said you wanted to fuck. This is how I fuck. I'm going to fuck you geeks, I have done it before, and I will do it again. Now SPREAD!"
Slashdot Nerd walks bow-legged away from the Microsoft Chick, clearly disgusted at the stench of greed and hypocrisy.
Please do everyone a favor and learn the difference between the military, an instrument of national power, and the GOVERNMENT that wields it.
Actually, no. I'd rather not.
I'd prefer to believe that people are responsible for the choices they make in life.
I'd prefer to believe that someone who chooses to enlist in the military when the "instrument of power" is being blatantly abused is an enabler of the abusive behaviour. After all the publicity, and all the abuses at Guantanamo, the renditions, Abu Ghraib, Haditha, the admission of faked evidence, etc, etc, nobody can say they are unaware of the evils that are being committed.
Anybody who makes the choice to sign up at least tacitly approves of their government's actions. To my mind that makes them culpable.
The first thing they should probably look into is shared wireless broadband multiplexing.
There was a big effort to do something similar in Western Australia with wafreenet. They've put together a massive wireless resource collection at E3. It'd be worth having a good browse around there.
i cant find any mention of that and i got the impression they were using a Linux & BSD based system?
But the kernel-level rootkit was much more dangerous. This stealthy operating-system hijacker can open unseen "back doors" into even highly protected networks. When they detected the rootkit's "calls home" the cadets launched Sysinternal's security software to find the hijacker, then they manually scoured the workstation to find the unwelcome executable file. Since the article says the West Point team was running Linux/BSD, and specifically mentions that the cadets were running a "Fedora Core 8 Web server", I'm guessing the Windows system was being run by one of the other teams.
Frankly, I was underwhelmed by the whole story. It was pretty clear the journo doesn't have a clue what was going on. Wired should be able to do better than that.
It's not even clear from the article whether the Army ever found out how the rootkit was delivered.
TFA says they used Sysinternals RootkitRevealer to find it, which means it was a Windows exploit. The NSA guys probably just waved the rootkit in the general direction of kernel32...
What makes you think Flash will be more successful than Java?
I said it was threatening, not that it would be successful.
Those of us who were around then will remember that Microsoft mounted a sustained attack on Java, and deliberately crippled it's multi-platform capabilities. I'm sure they will try the same with Flash.
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You can run 65,535 or 100,000 instances of it, whichever comes first.
BANG------------>Whoosh!
So have the workarounds.
You forgot the twiddle.~
Most do know, but are shit scared because they make money from Microsoft.
Suchart Jaovisidha didn't think it was a joke...
Actually, I never found Howard anything like fresh air. He pretty much started his regime with the stink of corruption, nepotism and the National Textiles bailout.
But yeah, Rudd's lot are just starting, but it's almost funny seeing them go through their election promises like they were a checklist. They've even started on this one. Courageous or crazy?
While it's sad that Ivan believes OLPC has lost sight of it's goals, you might want to keep an eye on what's happening with OLPC Australia.
The Rudd government is looking at providing sponsored laptops for children. OLPC has set up an Australian office as a consequence. Jeff Waugh has been appointed board director, and seems to understand the issues well.
"The easy answer to that question is that at the moment Windows doesn't exist on the machine," says Waugh. "It is completely irrelevant to the value of what the whole project is all about. OLPC Australia has been set up without that ever being on the agenda. The core principal that's repeated often about the project is that it's an education project not a laptop project. Part of delivering on that idea is the open source platform. The community built around the not only the technology but also the content and the use of the device. There is a community angle that permeates everything on what the device, how it works for kids and that sort of stuff."I have no idea as to why Windows is regarded as relevant to this and some of the stuff in the press about running Sugar on Windows and things like that - well Windows is just an operating system that doesn't deliver on the vision of OLPC."
I have no doubt that Microsoft will attempt to subvert this project, as it does everything else, but so far, the Rudd government has delivered on most of their promises.Isn't .NET good enough?
Microsoft's evangelism team has been advising employees and partners to participate more in tech discussion sites.
They're particularly encouraged to post positive comments about MS products. That's why you see a million "[MS product] works fine for me" posts whenever Microsoft breaks something.
Neither is a toy, but you run into Sketchup's limitations far faster than you do Blender's.
It's the same with most of the intuitive tools. Bryce, for example, is one of the easiest and most intuitive 3D tools available, and allows you to create some stunning renders and animations. If there's something you want to do that's outside the scope of it's toolset though, forget it.
By contrast, if you can imagine it, Blender can model and render it.
It's under the File/Save menu, the same as a billion other applications.
If you struggled with that, I'm not surprised you had trouble with using the rest of Blender.
Have a look at this photograph.
The chip on the left is memory. That's where your data hides. The chip on the right is the memory controller. If that chip fails, but the memory chip is intact, your data may be recoverable.
Surface mount chips are hard, but not impossible to swap out.
Microsoft Chick: "Let's fuck!"
Slashdot Nerd: "Actually, I wanted to make sweet meaningful love, but all right."
Microsoft Chick: (Greases up giant dildo) "Bend over and make like Goatse."
Slashdot Nerd: "But but but, that's not what I meant!"
Microsoft Chick: "You said you wanted to fuck. This is how I fuck. I'm going to fuck you geeks, I have done it before, and I will do it again. Now SPREAD!"
Slashdot Nerd walks bow-legged away from the Microsoft Chick, clearly disgusted at the stench of greed and hypocrisy.
Actually, no. I'd rather not.
I'd prefer to believe that people are responsible for the choices they make in life.
I'd prefer to believe that someone who chooses to enlist in the military when the "instrument of power" is being blatantly abused is an enabler of the abusive behaviour. After all the publicity, and all the abuses at Guantanamo, the renditions, Abu Ghraib, Haditha, the admission of faked evidence, etc, etc, nobody can say they are unaware of the evils that are being committed.
Anybody who makes the choice to sign up at least tacitly approves of their government's actions. To my mind that makes them culpable.
Exactly.
The war in Iraq is mostly a land war. They shouldn't need so many sea...
Sorry, sorry.
There was a big effort to do something similar in Western Australia with wafreenet. They've put together a massive wireless resource collection at E3. It'd be worth having a good browse around there.
And one byte is "only" 8 bits.
Frankly, I was underwhelmed by the whole story. It was pretty clear the journo doesn't have a clue what was going on. Wired should be able to do better than that.
TFA says they used Sysinternals RootkitRevealer to find it, which means it was a Windows exploit. The NSA guys probably just waved the rootkit in the general direction of kernel32...
All he's waiting for now is DNF.
It IS open.
On May 1, 2008, as part of its Open Screen Project, Adobe dropped all restrictions on the SWF and FLV formats.
I said it was threatening, not that it would be successful.
Those of us who were around then will remember that Microsoft mounted a sustained attack on Java, and deliberately crippled it's multi-platform capabilities. I'm sure they will try the same with Flash.
You've never used Linux, have you?