Let's pretend for a moment that the suffix was correctly capitalised. Was that so hard? But you feel it necessary to write personal insults because of a misused "shift"? Wow. Definitely appropriate reaction.
Yes, that would be a plug, note I said "wires". That 5th pin (if it's present at all) is always connected to ground in reality and never appears as a wire. It's the one whose role is being replaced by a protocol change in USB 3.0 because nobody ever implemented it. The cable itself always has 4 wires.
[RE: disingenuous]... perhaps you don't understand the word?
The author knows a reasonable amount about Intel involvement, including their presence in the USB working group. Despite knowing this, you are of the opinion that the author genuinely avoided learning that Intel were the originators? Disingenuous: Adjective: Not candid or sincere, typically by pretending that one knows less about something than one really does.
Still seems applicable.
I am quite confident you'll reply again and am looking forward to reading it. I promise I'll make an effort to check back too, though I have a tendency to lose interest with those who can't tell the difference between wit and Tourette's Syndrome.
Claims of 5GB/s aren't even backed by the USB working group which says 3.2GB/s will realistically be the upper limit.
All existing cable and plug combinations remain backwards compatible, but the article claims otherwise, there are only some introduced permutations that won't work.
And when did USB 2.0 become 5 wires?
The author attacks Intel about foot-dragging on the USB 3.0 spec rather disingenously since it was Intel that lead the charge on USB 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0. It was their technology originally.
But what can one expect from a technology website that censors the word 'assuming' (comes out as ***uming, I shit you not!).
Thank you. The Sex Party appear to be taking up the slack that the other parties are inexplicably leaving.
Labor and Liberal both have their fingers firmly up their bums. Recently the Greens withdrew their preference vote for Labor as a show of no-confidence - I believe Labor lost every seat that Greens withdrew their preference on. It seems the torch may soon pass to a new top-dog party if Labor and Liberal continue to become more similar (and, ironically, less liberal).
The Sex Party seem to believe that education is the key to most problems (and taboos). I agree. Hopefully a lot of others do too.
It isn't possible to badger people into doing the right thing - the moment a system relies on (human) operator intelligence it fails spectacularly.
There is mountains of proof for this. Recently; cancel or allow?.
The ONLY thing that works is MANDATORY training and testing enforced by law or incentives (or disincentives for poor behaviour).
Consider; when a car hits a motorcycle, who gets injured? And subsequently, who is likely to have invested more in being a good vehicle operator?
Long-time motorcycle riders invariably develop astonishing spatial-awareness skills. Car drivers have reversing cameras.
Here's a really simple solution: the weight of your vehicle should determine your license class.
To operate a near-2-tonne quasi-4WD should require a yearly test - those things are weapons, treat them as such. To operate a backpack 'Smart car' should require basic written comprehension skills (which is actually more than current requirements).
Today's roads are basically mosh pits. If order is not imposed, it's survival of the toughest (or fastest or loudest or most ugly-looking).
I think you mean "Pony Engine" security;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Engine_That_Could
Seriously though, I've read the paper and it's conclusion is fundamentally flawed. The summary is equivalent to;
"All current Virtual Machines are detectable; therefore Virtual Machines will always be detectable".
That statement is quite plainly wrong.
Just as most encryption schemes are broken in theory long before an actual exploit can be constructed, so too a VM can be trivially demonstrated to work in theory - but no VM has been constructed that actually achieves the required level... yet.
The "right to privacy" (heralded by many a culture from as far back as the Magna Carter) is read by many citizenry (in the West) as equivalent to "the right to not be seen" and/or "the right to remain anonymous".
Most legal systems (including the US, England and other "traditionally western" governments) actually recognise it more like a "right to be left alone". It is that description which better embodies the ideals or free speech, free religion & ultimately universal suffrage than any condition of anonymity. Any government should be within its rights to request identification of yourself (how else can an authority verify you are worthy of protection or assistance?) but it would be unjust that they harass you based on what you may say about them to others.
The "right to be anonymous" is a very different thing from the "right to be left alone".
India is a country where only 2% of the population have ANY chance of formal education recognised by the west.
The number of people living in poverty exceeds the population of the US.
Light is _very much_ worth something. Basic electricity is worth so much, the Government has to put massive nets underneath the high tension powerlines to prevent people exploding when their bamboo pole they are using to hook a wire over the line (for the purposes of stealing electricity) turns out to not protect them from the 22,000 volts the line is carrying. No such nets are placed beneath the domestic (aka "safe") lines.
45% of the electricity produced by Indian power companies goes unaccounted for - it just disappears in the grid.
Light is worth nothing to the west - and it's about as hard-to-find as arrogance.
While I agree that the human brain has many virtues of computing to teach us; lateral/creative thought, massively parallel processing etc. I have never counted "reliability" among them - it is an interesting concept.
OTOH, the failure rate at the end of the manufacturing process for CPUs is probably higher than the defect rate in human brains... err, I hope.
Google & Wikipedia both do exactly the same thing; they cross-reference a massive set of otherwise inexplorable data and provide a means by which to intelligently navigate it.
The key (and essentially only effective) difference is that one is a machine and the other is human.
Google: the machines interpretation of the world with all the brute-force power that machines offer but no real intelligence. Ever tried searching for the anti-thesis of a given topic? Google can't help you because it can't make a logical connection between a topic and it's converse.
Wikipedia: the humans generalised (and hopefully averaged) interpretation of the world with all the wonderful lateral cross-links that humans do so well but all the same mistakes (and opinions) that humans are known for.
These two things are tools which both outshine the other in the right context. Use them both.
I'm an Australian. Most people posting comments above are not (a couple are). There are many confused or simply wrong statements being made. This new National ID card is the least intrusive attempt at one yet (there have been 2 previous attempts over the last 10 years).
So here are some answers to questions from above:
From 2010 people will not be able to receive government health and welfare payments without a card.
This statement, although true, is misleading. A MediCare card is required right now to receive gov health benefits. Welfare payments can only be paid to a person who can prove their identity and legal status. ie. birth-certificate required and "proof of age" card.
This "National ID card" is nothing more than a unification of a system that has been in place for 20 years.
Perhaps the Prime Minister, John Howard is unaware that the London Bombers were all British citizens...
John Howard is a shifty little monarch who has a double-sided tongue. Before him, we had the greatest economist that ever lived, but because he was a social retard, people voted him out. Little Johnny is, sadly, now the best we've got.
Too bad you gave up your weapons
I can walk into a gun club right now (ok, when the shops are open) and order all sorts of guns and ammunition. I have to have a pretty good reason to take a gun out of a registered club though (eg. if I'm a farmer, a licensed shooter etc.). Psychopaths can't buy guns. Anybody with criminal (not property-related) felony-level convictions can't buy guns (DUI etc doesn't count). This is a good thing. We don't like small civil wars breaking out, like they do in the U.S. Besides, what good is a gun? It won't save me from having to pay taxes.
I have a Drivers License.
I have a MediCare card.
I have a Credit-Card whose every transaction over $100 gets reported to the Federal Government.
My Government does not ask me to be a certain religion. It does not ask me where my parents are from, or who I choose to call friends. It does not dictate how (or even if) I should school my children. It does not question my sexual orientation, nor judge me on it. Aside from preserving cultural heritage, it is not interested in the colour of my skin.
I am dependant on my Government continuuing to identify me as an Autralian Citizen whenever I may stand in need of help. I am 29 and I grew up with all these things. I have no problem with the National ID Card.
I believe I am more free than most.
I believe I am more free than most, but more importantly; I am happy.
Why is Amazon implied to be unavailable in Australia?
I buy ALL my books from there...
I suspose it's possible that the Amazon site I've been buying stuff from has no idea who I am and some staggeringly amazing twist of quantum improbability has caused freakishly appropriate packages to spontaneously appear in the Australian postage system with miraculously accurate timing for me not to become suspicious... until now.
In a place like Australia, you'd probably get away with a nice strong disclaimer and acceptance of risk by the individual punters
First 2 conditions of entry for the (Australian) Sunny Corner Motorbike Rally entry-form that all competitors sign;
1. I may be injured or killed.
2. There be no or inadequate treatment or transport of me if I am injured....
It continues in that vein and it has legal precedents backing it up.
If you are in Australia you can get people to sign stuff like this and it will hold as long as it was written by an attorney.
Apparently the book got renamed at the last minute because girl.com (the original name) was a porn site.
The solution for Katie Jones as owner (and sole publisher of content) of katie.com seems obvious to me!
It's no surprise to me that Microsoft is becoming more and more aggressive with it's dealings in Australia. They just recently lost their single biggest customer (Telstra). That deal is not finalised and it will be at least a couple of years before it has true impact, but the tide is turning here... against Microsoft.
The legal precedent in question took the nature: "If I buy a car, am I allowed to re-fit the engine?"
The law granted that unless Sony gave a lifetime guarantee they had no further right to any single PS2 once it was legitimately sold to a consumer. The consumer had full rights to do whatever they wanted to that one instance of hardware because it is their property.
Personally, I back the argument in question and say that Microsoft should get a new business model (or make good on their threat and stop selling their shite here).
Slashdot Mirror
...difference between GB and Gb.
Let's pretend for a moment that the suffix was correctly capitalised. Was that so hard? But you feel it necessary to write personal insults because of a misused "shift"? Wow. Definitely appropriate reaction.
[RE: 5 wires]... Mini-USB
Yes, that would be a plug, note I said "wires". That 5th pin (if it's present at all) is always connected to ground in reality and never appears as a wire. It's the one whose role is being replaced by a protocol change in USB 3.0 because nobody ever implemented it. The cable itself always has 4 wires.
[RE: disingenuous]... perhaps you don't understand the word?
The author knows a reasonable amount about Intel involvement, including their presence in the USB working group. Despite knowing this, you are of the opinion that the author genuinely avoided learning that Intel were the originators?
Disingenuous: Adjective: Not candid or sincere, typically by pretending that one knows less about something than one really does.
Still seems applicable.
I am quite confident you'll reply again and am looking forward to reading it. I promise I'll make an effort to check back too, though I have a tendency to lose interest with those who can't tell the difference between wit and Tourette's Syndrome.
Claims of 5GB/s aren't even backed by the USB working group which says 3.2GB/s will realistically be the upper limit.
All existing cable and plug combinations remain backwards compatible, but the article claims otherwise, there are only some introduced permutations that won't work.
And when did USB 2.0 become 5 wires?
The author attacks Intel about foot-dragging on the USB 3.0 spec rather disingenously since it was Intel that lead the charge on USB 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0. It was their technology originally.
But what can one expect from a technology website that censors the word 'assuming' (comes out as ***uming, I shit you not!).
"The team of researchers think "vintage fraud" is widespread..."
Eh, "think"?
But the headline sounds so certain.
"According to the study, wine experts have estimated that up to 5% of fine wines sold today are not all they are cracked up to be..."
Ah. "estimated". Nowhere do they even mention running the tests in anger. Only proving the tests work when calibrated to known values.
The reporter left it till the end to admit, and /. reports it as an absolute truth. Disingenuous at best.
AFAIK blue lasers currently use the "frequency doubling" method. Which means no RGB yet (at least not cheaply).
You misspelled iGouge.
Thank you. The Sex Party appear to be taking up the slack that the other parties are inexplicably leaving.
Labor and Liberal both have their fingers firmly up their bums. Recently the Greens withdrew their preference vote for Labor as a show of no-confidence - I believe Labor lost every seat that Greens withdrew their preference on. It seems the torch may soon pass to a new top-dog party if Labor and Liberal continue to become more similar (and, ironically, less liberal).
The Sex Party seem to believe that education is the key to most problems (and taboos). I agree. Hopefully a lot of others do too.
It isn't possible to badger people into doing the right thing - the moment a system relies on (human) operator intelligence it fails spectacularly.
There is mountains of proof for this. Recently; cancel or allow?.
The ONLY thing that works is MANDATORY training and testing enforced by law or incentives (or disincentives for poor behaviour).
Consider; when a car hits a motorcycle, who gets injured? And subsequently, who is likely to have invested more in being a good vehicle operator?
Long-time motorcycle riders invariably develop astonishing spatial-awareness skills. Car drivers have reversing cameras.
Here's a really simple solution: the weight of your vehicle should determine your license class.
To operate a near-2-tonne quasi-4WD should require a yearly test - those things are weapons, treat them as such. To operate a backpack 'Smart car' should require basic written comprehension skills (which is actually more than current requirements).
Today's roads are basically mosh pits. If order is not imposed, it's survival of the toughest (or fastest or loudest or most ugly-looking).
Needing to power-down the load in order to replace batteries/fuel in a UPS shows a pretty poor understanding of the word 'uninterruptible'.
I think you mean "Pony Engine" security; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Engine_That_Could Seriously though, I've read the paper and it's conclusion is fundamentally flawed. The summary is equivalent to; "All current Virtual Machines are detectable; therefore Virtual Machines will always be detectable". That statement is quite plainly wrong. Just as most encryption schemes are broken in theory long before an actual exploit can be constructed, so too a VM can be trivially demonstrated to work in theory - but no VM has been constructed that actually achieves the required level... yet.
So you're saying that I, as an Australian citizen, qualify for U.S Social Security?
A Government identifying its citizenry isn't immediately "discrimination". Think next time.
The "right to privacy" (heralded by many a culture from as far back as the Magna Carter) is read by many citizenry (in the West) as equivalent to "the right to not be seen" and/or "the right to remain anonymous".
Most legal systems (including the US, England and other "traditionally western" governments) actually recognise it more like a "right to be left alone". It is that description which better embodies the ideals or free speech, free religion & ultimately universal suffrage than any condition of anonymity. Any government should be within its rights to request identification of yourself (how else can an authority verify you are worthy of protection or assistance?) but it would be unjust that they harass you based on what you may say about them to others.
The "right to be anonymous" is a very different thing from the "right to be left alone".
India is a country where only 2% of the population have ANY chance of formal education recognised by the west.
The number of people living in poverty exceeds the population of the US.
Light is _very much_ worth something. Basic electricity is worth so much, the Government has to put massive nets underneath the high tension powerlines to prevent people exploding when their bamboo pole they are using to hook a wire over the line (for the purposes of stealing electricity) turns out to not protect them from the 22,000 volts the line is carrying. No such nets are placed beneath the domestic (aka "safe") lines.
45% of the electricity produced by Indian power companies goes unaccounted for - it just disappears in the grid.
Light is worth nothing to the west - and it's about as hard-to-find as arrogance.
While I agree that the human brain has many virtues of computing to teach us; lateral/creative thought, massively parallel processing etc. I have never counted "reliability" among them - it is an interesting concept.
OTOH, the failure rate at the end of the manufacturing process for CPUs is probably higher than the defect rate in human brains... err, I hope.
So you're saying that Google has access to an unbiased, incorruptible source of truth? Cool, I never knew that!
Oh wait... how do I know you're telling the truth?
Google & Wikipedia both do exactly the same thing; they cross-reference a massive set of otherwise inexplorable data and provide a means by which to intelligently navigate it.
The key (and essentially only effective) difference is that one is a machine and the other is human.
Google: the machines interpretation of the world with all the brute-force power that machines offer but no real intelligence. Ever tried searching for the anti-thesis of a given topic? Google can't help you because it can't make a logical connection between a topic and it's converse.
Wikipedia: the humans generalised (and hopefully averaged) interpretation of the world with all the wonderful lateral cross-links that humans do so well but all the same mistakes (and opinions) that humans are known for.
These two things are tools which both outshine the other in the right context. Use them both.
For those who don't immediately recognise the OCD TLA, you can read about it here; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCD
I'm an Australian. Most people posting comments above are not (a couple are). There are many confused or simply wrong statements being made. This new National ID card is the least intrusive attempt at one yet (there have been 2 previous attempts over the last 10 years).
So here are some answers to questions from above:
From 2010 people will not be able to receive government health and welfare payments without a card.
This statement, although true, is misleading. A MediCare card is required right now to receive gov health benefits. Welfare payments can only be paid to a person who can prove their identity and legal status. ie. birth-certificate required and "proof of age" card. This "National ID card" is nothing more than a unification of a system that has been in place for 20 years.
Perhaps the Prime Minister, John Howard is unaware that the London Bombers were all British citizens...
John Howard is a shifty little monarch who has a double-sided tongue. Before him, we had the greatest economist that ever lived, but because he was a social retard, people voted him out. Little Johnny is, sadly, now the best we've got.
Too bad you gave up your weapons
I can walk into a gun club right now (ok, when the shops are open) and order all sorts of guns and ammunition. I have to have a pretty good reason to take a gun out of a registered club though (eg. if I'm a farmer, a licensed shooter etc.). Psychopaths can't buy guns. Anybody with criminal (not property-related) felony-level convictions can't buy guns (DUI etc doesn't count). This is a good thing. We don't like small civil wars breaking out, like they do in the U.S. Besides, what good is a gun? It won't save me from having to pay taxes.
I have a Drivers License.
I have a MediCare card.
I have a Credit-Card whose every transaction over $100 gets reported to the Federal Government.
My Government does not ask me to be a certain religion. It does not ask me where my parents are from, or who I choose to call friends. It does not dictate how (or even if) I should school my children. It does not question my sexual orientation, nor judge me on it. Aside from preserving cultural heritage, it is not interested in the colour of my skin.
I am dependant on my Government continuuing to identify me as an Autralian Citizen whenever I may stand in need of help. I am 29 and I grew up with all these things. I have no problem with the National ID Card. I believe I am more free than most.
I believe I am more free than most, but more importantly; I am happy.
"degrees" Kelvin...
Kelvins would be the correct term.
So, he reckons that Microsoft can improve their image by becoming "more like Apple".
Oh yeah, that'll really help.
Why is Amazon implied to be unavailable in Australia?
I buy ALL my books from there...
I suspose it's possible that the Amazon site I've been buying stuff from has no idea who I am and some staggeringly amazing twist of quantum improbability has caused freakishly appropriate packages to spontaneously appear in the Australian postage system with miraculously accurate timing for me not to become suspicious... until now.
But I think that's unlikely.
In a place like Australia, you'd probably get away with a nice strong disclaimer and acceptance of risk by the individual punters First 2 conditions of entry for the (Australian) Sunny Corner Motorbike Rally entry-form that all competitors sign; 1. I may be injured or killed. 2. There be no or inadequate treatment or transport of me if I am injured. ...
It continues in that vein and it has legal precedents backing it up.
If you are in Australia you can get people to sign stuff like this and it will hold as long as it was written by an attorney.
Apparently the book got renamed at the last minute because girl.com (the original name) was a porn site. The solution for Katie Jones as owner (and sole publisher of content) of katie.com seems obvious to me!
It's no surprise to me that Microsoft is becoming more and more aggressive with it's dealings in Australia. They just recently lost their single biggest customer (Telstra). That deal is not finalised and it will be at least a couple of years before it has true impact, but the tide is turning here... against Microsoft.
The legal precedent in question took the nature: "If I buy a car, am I allowed to re-fit the engine?" The law granted that unless Sony gave a lifetime guarantee they had no further right to any single PS2 once it was legitimately sold to a consumer. The consumer had full rights to do whatever they wanted to that one instance of hardware because it is their property.
Personally, I back the argument in question and say that Microsoft should get a new business model (or make good on their threat and stop selling their shite here).