If news posted today (in the "future" for us US-west-coast folks) is old news to you, then you are definitely in the wrong place.
The poster stated that the ARTICLE was "old news," not the Slashdot post.
If the Google service started last month and the story is posted this week, it is old news. If the service is started at 8am and the story is posted one hour later, then it is not old news. It all depends on the time between the launch of the service and the posting.
Time Machine looks very cool, but it appears to rely on an external HD or network storage that's always connected. Based on what I've seen from the demo in the keynote and what's on their web site, it doesn't look like it would work well if you were wanting an off-site backup.
Why not? Why can't your off-site backup be up continuously and permanently connected via the Internet/VPN? Note that I didn't see the keynote and know very very little about Time Machine.
If I have to support a big enough extra drive to host his data, why not just host my own, and screw sending it back and forth? The ONLY beneift of your way is that it is offsite.
And if one of the partners is lost due to fire/flooding/natural disaster/etc., then that "only" benefit becomes pretty damn important. After all, if your main machine and backup storage are co-located in the same building that has been reduced to a smoldering cinder, your backups are pretty worthless, now aren't they?
I'm not sure I see a real connection here. To me, "underground" implies that it is being developed out of sight to avoid detection by those who would rather see it destroyed than thrive.
The word "underground" was only used once in the article, and misused at that. If the author were to say "Linux will be forced out of the desktop and server space and into the embedded market," that would say it all and be more direct and truthful about it.
Note that I'm not commenting on the accuracy of the prediction, just the sensationalist wording used.
As you said, people who get computers for Christmas will be tempted/forced/suggested to upgrade their OS to the latest one, if not immediately, sooner than if they were sold vista on day one.
When I got my iBook shortly after the release of OS X Tiger, it came with a free upgrade CD. Now, granted that the order here is different (hardware first, then release the new OS) I wonder if MS would do the same; heavy discount/free upgrade to Vista if you bought yuor PC after such-and-such a date.
How do you prevent making one large botnet powered by a bunch of third-world children turning hand cranks?
For some reason, I think that given that particular operating environment, anybody contemplating trying to turn these machines into zombies is really wasting their time. They are likely not going to be turned on long enough at any given point in time where they would be useful.
Mind you I'm not a network/botnet/zombie guru and I don't pretned to be, this is a gut feeling. I'd be more concerned about machines that are on an accessib;e network 24/7 that have enough power to actually do some damage.
The new management could take the axe to Microsoft's $6.6bn of wasteful research and development expenditure. The bloated workforce of more than 60,000 could be slashed, to the point where the huge resulting increase in cash flow would at last permit the company to borrow mega-billions.'
Doesn't MS have billions in cash already in the bank? Why borrow when you already have cash on hand to burn?
I must not have caught that in my basic economics class.
I'd like to add one more point, although it's not quite on topic for this thread...
If a precinct records several thousand votes more than there are voters, how does this not trigger an automatic hand recount or at LEAST that precinct? How about other precincts that also use those same machines?
I think that's what gets me the most; there's clear evidence that SOMETHING is wrong (be it intentional or accidental) but there's no effort to figure out what or to correct it. I don't care if the numbers aren't significant enough to change the results, somethign happened; and that "something" could happen in other places where it DOES make a difference.
Evidence of mistakes, but they are blown off like they are meaningless.
You make many good points which I agree with, but your first and last sentences above don't jive. We don't process millions of bank transactions daily by pencil and paper, it's done electronically. So if you're against electronic voting don't bring up the ability to securely process bank millions of transactions as an example since it's really an argument FOR e-voting. Just a thought.
It wasn't meant to be a point in favor of e-voting, it was a statement meant to point out the vast discrepancy between our ability to accurately carry out electronic commerce but we can't accurately carry out electronic voting. It was a stream of consciousness and it was a bit out of order.
Sony said the recalls will cost it between $172 million and $278 million. Apple spokesman Steve Dowling said its recall was not expected to materially affect the company's results. Dell has said the recall would not affect earnings.
Yeah apple website says 3-5 days. Apple confirmation e-mail says 4-6 weeks.
It may have changes since you last saw it, but the website also says 4-6 weeks.
From the FAQ: Q. How long will it take to receive a replacement battery from Apple?
A. It may take up to 4 to 6 weeks for your replacement battery to arrive. Shipping time may vary due to availability of your battery model.
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Makes you wonder why they bother with all the added hassle of machine voting at all, really.
AMEN!
I used to be on the electronic voting bandwagon, but when I saw that it was prone to failure and couldn't be trusted, I jumped off. When machines are reported to carry several thousand votes more than there are registered voters in a precinct, how can ANYBODY say "well, the number isn't enough to change the outcome." How do you know this? What about "errors" that go undiscovered? A little here, a little there, all under the radar so to speak...until you put them all together.
Paper, paper, paper...mark your ballot with a black marker, drop it in a box, and it gets counted by a representative of each party. No electronic storage to deal with, no way to electronically change results, and it's a permanent record.
The only two ways it can fail (that I can think of):
(1) The ballot is a misprint in which case it is simply destroyed (again, witnessed by a representative of each party that it is in fact a defective ballot) and a new, blank one re-issued. The ballot is examined to be defect-free BEFORE being handed to the voter.
(2) The marker runs dry.
The only way there can be fraud is if the votes are tampered with after being deposited; since all ballots are in human-readable form, then the ONLY way to tamper with them is also in human-readable form.
We can process millions upon millions of bank transactions every day but cannot count votes without grotesque errors? Come on people! It's not that hard!
It might have also been bacause I picked up the cheapest phone offered, and I was living in Hawaii at the time, which may have put the technology behind the times a little bit (but I can't imagine much).
In 1997 when I moved back to the US mainland I got a much better phone.
Razr V3 - nice formfactor, volume is way too low, antenna sucks badly, OS kind of crappy, camera a complete joke.
I think the thing with the volume is that it has a pretty small "sweet spot" where you can hear it well. At the same time, it's silly to have a volume control that goes to "7"...who picked that goofy number?
The camera isn't so bad either; of course it's not going to be as good as your regular 4 megapixel digital camera. It's a camera on a phone, not a phone built into a camera.
I think a very important point is being missed here...
Owen Gingerich, an astronomer at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and chair of the IAU committee that created the definition, says that they were aware of its usage amongst geologists, but unaware of its importance to the field. "Since the term is not in the MS Word or the WordPerfect spell checkers, we thought it was not that common," Gingerich wrote in an e-mail to news@nature.com. The geologic definition of the word does appear in common dictionaries, including the Oxford English.
Gingerich is head of the IAU. He's supposed to be pretty damned smart.
He used a word processor SPELL CHECK dictionary as the authority to determine the existence of a scientific/technical term.
A SPELL CHECK dictionary. Used as the authority to determine the exisatence of a scientific term.
The head of the International Astronomic Union. Spell check dictionary. Existence of a scientific term.
Is anybody home??
He may as well have done no research into the background of the term. He would have looked less stupid that way. Sloppy and careless maybe, but not stupid.
And how is it he got to this position and how long will he be allowed to remain? Maybe he was elected so he wouldn't hurt himself running with scissors.
I also suspect that Google will try to sell a complete Office server to corporates, which will let them keep their data secure on their private servers while still letting their employees access these documents from the web.
Oh, I like that...I like that thought a lot. That certainly would be a killer app--you could use nearly any hardware at the workstations running any OS that would support a compatible web browser. No worrying about deploying application upgrades to the workstations, hardware will be usable for much longer, easier to keep data backed up...(smiles contently)
You can have legally-binding documents lining the walls, but anytime you release software out of your immediate, physical control, it's going to leak, either intentionally or unintentionally.
The only sure-fire way to keep anything from leaking is physical separation from the rest of the world.
Anybody want to speculate that this was really a "controlled" leak to drum up interest and anticipation for Leopard, or am I all wet?
In applications such as telnet and remote desktop, a packet is sent every time a user presses a key. By causing calculated "jitters" in keyboard input while such a program is running, a JitterBug could slightly delay data sent over the network. Certain amounts of delay could represent a one or a zero in each packet that is linked to keyboard use, allowing an attacker to send secret information in otherwise innocuous data without modifying software or initiating any new connections.
How much jitter has to be introduced into the packet stream to be detected as inserted delay and not network latency?
Pinging my own wireless router:
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 2.611/2.823/3.343/0.233 ms
--- google.com ping statistics --- 11 packets transmitted, 11 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 10.530/10.839/11.361/0.251 ms
--- yahoo.com ping statistics --- 10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 61.703/65.211/68.176/2.781 ms
Maybe the sample size isn't big enough, but how does one differentiate inserted delays from network latency? If the difference between the keystroke and the packet is the modulated data, how do you get this information to a recipient with to reference to when the keystroke was pressed? Maybe there's some fancy signal processing involved similar to spread spectrum, but that's never been a strong suit.
When last I looked into this it was a unilateral isreali action.
Some may go as far as to say that the action was unilateral by the US using Israel as a puppet state to do the Bush administration's bidding. Some may also say that the US "support" for Israel's actions points toward the US being a puppet state of Israel (they sit in a region of vast oil resources and we don't). The heavy bombing in sountern Beirut amazingly stopped for several hours during Condolezza Rice's diplomatic trip to Beirut. Imagine the odds, the "no bombing" window and her visit coinciding like that...
But this is all offtopic and I'm not anything remotely close to being politically "in the know."
Before closing a patient, doctors would wave a receiver over the body to look for the chips which would indicate that something was left inside.
The timing would be a little better, don't you think?
Well, yes and no...
Yes in that it's easier to retrieve something before sewing up the incision (obviously).
No in that there are likely some implements that are in use while the patient is open, and are not removed until just before (or more likely during) closing the patient. Clamps and the like may be used to hold thigns together from the inside while being sewn from the outside, and then removed with only a stitch or three left. Mind you I'm nothing even resembling a surgeon, but it seems to make sense.
I'd think a more low-tech solution would already exist, such as a member of the surgical team that has ONE job and ONE job only--track the implements/materials used and inventory what goes in and out. It adds expense to the operation sure, but if it keeps things from being left in that require another expensive surgery to remove, then it's worth it.
People wanted to pay for programming with no ads... Remember the original setup in the 80's with cable? There is a market for "good" programming being sold directly to the consumer.
Which is exactly why I am so close to canceling my cable subscription. I almost hate to do it, since it seems to be a good deal ($30/month for digital) but I agree with your sentiment; if I like the content, I'm willing to pay for it directly and not deal with advertising.
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The poster stated that the ARTICLE was "old news," not the Slashdot post.
If the Google service started last month and the story is posted this week, it is old news. If the service is started at 8am and the story is posted one hour later, then it is not old news. It all depends on the time between the launch of the service and the posting.
Ahh, good point. I hadn't considered that, silly me.
Why not? Why can't your off-site backup be up continuously and permanently connected via the Internet/VPN? Note that I didn't see the keynote and know very very little about Time Machine.
And if one of the partners is lost due to fire/flooding/natural disaster/etc., then that "only" benefit becomes pretty damn important. After all, if your main machine and backup storage are co-located in the same building that has been reduced to a smoldering cinder, your backups are pretty worthless, now aren't they?
I'm not sure I see a real connection here. To me, "underground" implies that it is being developed out of sight to avoid detection by those who would rather see it destroyed than thrive.
The word "underground" was only used once in the article, and misused at that. If the author were to say "Linux will be forced out of the desktop and server space and into the embedded market," that would say it all and be more direct and truthful about it.
Note that I'm not commenting on the accuracy of the prediction, just the sensationalist wording used.
When I got my iBook shortly after the release of OS X Tiger, it came with a free upgrade CD. Now, granted that the order here is different (hardware first, then release the new OS) I wonder if MS would do the same; heavy discount/free upgrade to Vista if you bought yuor PC after such-and-such a date.
For some reason, I think that given that particular operating environment, anybody contemplating trying to turn these machines into zombies is really wasting their time. They are likely not going to be turned on long enough at any given point in time where they would be useful.
Mind you I'm not a network/botnet/zombie guru and I don't pretned to be, this is a gut feeling. I'd be more concerned about machines that are on an accessib;e network 24/7 that have enough power to actually do some damage.
Doesn't MS have billions in cash already in the bank? Why borrow when you already have cash on hand to burn?
I must not have caught that in my basic economics class.
Some Apple batteries, yes.
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/24
https://support.apple.com/ibook_powerbook/battery
I'd like to add one more point, although it's not quite on topic for this thread...
If a precinct records several thousand votes more than there are voters, how does this not trigger an automatic hand recount or at LEAST that precinct? How about other precincts that also use those same machines?
I think that's what gets me the most; there's clear evidence that SOMETHING is wrong (be it intentional or accidental) but there's no effort to figure out what or to correct it. I don't care if the numbers aren't significant enough to change the results, somethign happened; and that "something" could happen in other places where it DOES make a difference.
Evidence of mistakes, but they are blown off like they are meaningless.
It wasn't meant to be a point in favor of e-voting, it was a statement meant to point out the vast discrepancy between our ability to accurately carry out electronic commerce but we can't accurately carry out electronic voting. It was a stream of consciousness and it was a bit out of order.
Correct...from http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/08/24/ap2 972235.html:
Sony said the recalls will cost it between $172 million and $278 million. Apple spokesman Steve Dowling said its recall was not expected to materially affect the company's results. Dell has said the recall would not affect earnings.
It may have changes since you last saw it, but the website also says 4-6 weeks.
From the FAQ:
Q. How long will it take to receive a replacement battery from Apple?
A. It may take up to 4 to 6 weeks for your replacement battery to arrive. Shipping time may vary due to availability of your battery model.
AMEN!
I used to be on the electronic voting bandwagon, but when I saw that it was prone to failure and couldn't be trusted, I jumped off. When machines are reported to carry several thousand votes more than there are registered voters in a precinct, how can ANYBODY say "well, the number isn't enough to change the outcome." How do you know this? What about "errors" that go undiscovered? A little here, a little there, all under the radar so to speak...until you put them all together.
Paper, paper, paper...mark your ballot with a black marker, drop it in a box, and it gets counted by a representative of each party. No electronic storage to deal with, no way to electronically change results, and it's a permanent record.
The only two ways it can fail (that I can think of):
(1) The ballot is a misprint in which case it is simply destroyed (again, witnessed by a representative of each party that it is in fact a defective ballot) and a new, blank one re-issued. The ballot is examined to be defect-free BEFORE being handed to the voter.
(2) The marker runs dry.
The only way there can be fraud is if the votes are tampered with after being deposited; since all ballots are in human-readable form, then the ONLY way to tamper with them is also in human-readable form.
We can process millions upon millions of bank transactions every day but cannot count votes without grotesque errors? Come on people! It's not that hard!
It might have also been bacause I picked up the cheapest phone offered, and I was living in Hawaii at the time, which may have put the technology behind the times a little bit (but I can't imagine much).
In 1997 when I moved back to the US mainland I got a much better phone.
I think the thing with the volume is that it has a pretty small "sweet spot" where you can hear it well. At the same time, it's silly to have a volume control that goes to "7"...who picked that goofy number?
The camera isn't so bad either; of course it's not going to be as good as your regular 4 megapixel digital camera. It's a camera on a phone, not a phone built into a camera.
Huh?
My first cellphone in 1996 had 8 hours of STANDBY time, at 30 minutes of talk time.
My current phone has about 3 hours of talk time and about 4 days of standby time.
The phone is also smaller than the battery I had in that old brick...the WHOLE PHONE is smaller than that old battery.
In short, you are sorely mistaken.
Gingerich is head of the IAU. He's supposed to be pretty damned smart.
He used a word processor SPELL CHECK dictionary as the authority to determine the existence of a scientific/technical term.
A SPELL CHECK dictionary. Used as the authority to determine the exisatence of a scientific term.
The head of the International Astronomic Union. Spell check dictionary. Existence of a scientific term.
Is anybody home??
He may as well have done no research into the background of the term. He would have looked less stupid that way. Sloppy and careless maybe, but not stupid.
And how is it he got to this position and how long will he be allowed to remain? Maybe he was elected so he wouldn't hurt himself running with scissors.
If the RIAA represents the labels, wouldn't they be suing themselves?
Or would the RIAA be suing their own clients?
Oh, I like that...I like that thought a lot. That certainly would be a killer app--you could use nearly any hardware at the workstations running any OS that would support a compatible web browser. No worrying about deploying application upgrades to the workstations, hardware will be usable for much longer, easier to keep data backed up...(smiles contently)
You can have legally-binding documents lining the walls, but anytime you release software out of your immediate, physical control, it's going to leak, either intentionally or unintentionally.
The only sure-fire way to keep anything from leaking is physical separation from the rest of the world.
Anybody want to speculate that this was really a "controlled" leak to drum up interest and anticipation for Leopard, or am I all wet?
How much jitter has to be introduced into the packet stream to be detected as inserted delay and not network latency?
Pinging my own wireless router:
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 2.611/2.823/3.343/0.233 ms
--- google.com ping statistics ---
11 packets transmitted, 11 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 10.530/10.839/11.361/0.251 ms
--- yahoo.com ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 61.703/65.211/68.176/2.781 ms
Maybe the sample size isn't big enough, but how does one differentiate inserted delays from network latency? If the difference between the keystroke and the packet is the modulated data, how do you get this information to a recipient with to reference to when the keystroke was pressed? Maybe there's some fancy signal processing involved similar to spread spectrum, but that's never been a strong suit.
(Asked by a network simpleton)
Some may go as far as to say that the action was unilateral by the US using Israel as a puppet state to do the Bush administration's bidding. Some may also say that the US "support" for Israel's actions points toward the US being a puppet state of Israel (they sit in a region of vast oil resources and we don't). The heavy bombing in sountern Beirut amazingly stopped for several hours during Condolezza Rice's diplomatic trip to Beirut. Imagine the odds, the "no bombing" window and her visit coinciding like that...
But this is all offtopic and I'm not anything remotely close to being politically "in the know."
Well, yes and no...
Yes in that it's easier to retrieve something before sewing up the incision (obviously).
No in that there are likely some implements that are in use while the patient is open, and are not removed until just before (or more likely during) closing the patient. Clamps and the like may be used to hold thigns together from the inside while being sewn from the outside, and then removed with only a stitch or three left. Mind you I'm nothing even resembling a surgeon, but it seems to make sense.
I'd think a more low-tech solution would already exist, such as a member of the surgical team that has ONE job and ONE job only--track the implements/materials used and inventory what goes in and out. It adds expense to the operation sure, but if it keeps things from being left in that require another expensive surgery to remove, then it's worth it.
Which is exactly why I am so close to canceling my cable subscription. I almost hate to do it, since it seems to be a good deal ($30/month for digital) but I agree with your sentiment; if I like the content, I'm willing to pay for it directly and not deal with advertising.