Well, Ottawa may be a good sized city, but it's still half the size of Greater Vancouver. A quick google pulled up this link for those who care.
But much more important than the size of the city, is the composition of the city. In many ways, Ottawa is a government town - your average bureaucrat isn't going to cause too many problems at a bar. In comparison, Vancouver is a larger city with a LOT of issues to deal with. I'll bet our gangs are more numerous, our drug problems more prominent, and the proportion of people in dire straights is much higher. I'm not saying everyone in Ottawa works for the Feds, and I definitely don't claim that all Vancouverites are gangsters (I'm not!), but looking at the averages, these are VERY different cities.
I've got no problems with our bars and clubs using a bit of technology to proactively avoid problems. Most of the quality patrons at the places that implement this will probably feel safer this way; thus, this may even INCREASE business at these establishments. It's really not all that different than the casinos in Las Vegas using cameras to look out for known card counters (well, the end goals are a little different I suppose).
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Exactly. It also happens to be an older version of Flash that comes with Windows. People on locked down PC's have a hard time with websites that insist on using the latest Flash version (7) - for some reason their support requests to get Flash player upgraded go to the bottom of the queue... =)
One of our local wireless co's bought a few billboards around town with "WAP" being the primary ad copy. I recognized it, being the good geek that I was. But I think I was the only one at school and at work who did!
"What's a WAP? Whatever it is, it sounds like c..."
I actually DID read the article. All it does is park the head safely - it says nothing about shutting down the system. Presumably a short time after the acceleration has stopped the hard drive will return to its regular operating mode. I.e. for your average day to day task, you probably won't notice a thing! Your movie might pause for a second, or your filesystem access take a little longer, but by and large it should be unnoticeable.
It's a great idea. Now, if only IBM would come up with a way to raise a shield over the LCD moments before it gets hit by a flying bottle... =)
to Windows long before this chip arrives (if it ever does). It's happening already. I use both Windows and Linux... but tend to use Windows more now. The best open source stuff is usually available on both Windows and Linux: GIMP, Oo, Mozilla, Apache, MySQL... for a lot of day to day work, the desktop OS is largely irrelevant. Now if only I could figure out how to get my TV tuner working in Linux...
I suspect SGI just wants to be left alone. They aren't in the best financial state at the time, so rather than waste time and effort on fighting SCO, they'll take the simpler, easier path. If times were different for SGI, who knows, maybe they'd be making a bigger stink about this too.
IBM on the other hand, has plenty of resources to fight SCO, and pummel them into the ground... but that's been covered on/. before. =)
Oh, they do care about the results. I've submitted a couple "Dissatisfied with your search results?" reports and the sites in question almost always disappear in a little while. The problem is in volume. There are literally thousands of spam sites set up every month - once someone has written the scripts to create an uber-spam site it takes no time for them to create a few new ones every week! They just need a new domain, and they can reuse the database and scripts from their first spam site.
So, if Google blacklists one domain, two more will show up! Overall, Google does a good job, as they always have - although the more obscure searches are probably lower in quality than they used to be (lower on the spam cleanup list). Give Google some more time and they'll create some algorithms to automatically weed out a lot of the problem sites.
Yep. Who doesn't hate having to explain to someone that you're not a spammer or that you are NOT sending viruses (some email worms forge email addresses)...
I like this idea a lot. It's simple and it doesn't "break" anything. Kudos.
Yeah, my thoughts exactly. I guess it's all part of the new digital age where everyone's always filming everything. The photo of the fireball+4 minutes is pretty cool too.
While all the geeks of the world are watching the movie (with their cell phones and pagers politely turned off, of course), Warner and the Wachowski brothers will launch a multifaceted attack on the Internet and all things connected to it!
Don't fall for it! Don't let them root the net and build the real Matrix!
Well, if they wanted to remove Verisign's control of.com (without cooperation) with minimal impact to the DNS system in the meantime they could take a snapshot of whatever is listed at Verisign and provide free DNS hosting for those domains for a limited transition period.
You still have the problem of the Verisign controlled root servers. Also, any changes people make to their DNS configuration won't migrate automatically. But all in all, it wouldn't be impossible - not that I expect this to ever happen!
This would allow for a semi-clean transition AND people will have an excuse to leave Verisign once and for all - their customer "service" has always been a pain, and I suspect a lot of people leave their domains there because it's easier than trying to move it.
For simplicity, an image is probably best. Heck, with PHP (and probably other web languages) you could probably hack up some code to automatically create the image for you (more useful if you have a large number of addresses to display).
For folks who won't be able to handle the images, you could put some human decipherable text in the "ALT" or Title text of the image- e.g. jim@_REMOVE_ALL_OF_THIS_23421232_me.com.
IANAL, but, if I recall correctly from my intro to Law course, I think the general concept in common law is that since you've been able to walk "freely" for so long, the owners temporarily lose the ability to forcibly remove you, sue you for trespassing, or worse without warning. But after a reasonable warning is given, the owners would regain the full rights to which they are entitled.
There was some fancy latin phrase that I can't remember...
It's a nice little marketing play by AMD. Nothing more, nothing less. If you buy an AMD64 for work and won't (or aren't allowed!) to install games on it, then this gives you a chance to try it out. No big deal either way.
Quite a lot more than a couple hundred thousand actually. Tivo is getting within arms reach of 1 million. ReplayTV a lot less. But the fastest growing groups of PVR's are the freebies (or highly subsidized) ones from the sattelite services. All totalled, probably well under 5 million units in the US. Which is what? Less than 5% of the market?
Like someone else said, these are more likely the people that advertisers are trying to reach. Also, the number of users isn't going to go down! So over the long run... it's something for advertisers to worry about. I bet we see 7 and 15 second ads become the norm. No one will bother to skip those.
True, 56K will be around for a long time. But, the high-end, hardware only (not-winmodem) market has shriveled up long ago.
Sure, software modems can slow a Pentium to a crawl, but it's irrelevant now. Any PC made in the last 3 years will handle a soft modem well enough so that most people won't care - and definitely won't pay for anything "better." Heck, the same thing is happening with onboard audio. I'll take a $20 Win-modem over a $70 USR for infrequent, personal use any day; and I would probably do the same for day-to-day use.
Yes, Linux users care because they have few alternatives. So do folks running servers. But as a whole, the market for "proper" modems has shrunken considerably. When volumes drop, competition moves on, and prices will drift upwards as the market becomes more of a niche.
As others have mentioned, book printing is a pretty minimal part of the cost of the textbook. Even shipping, handling, breaking bulk, staff at the bookstore, and everything else are pretty minimal. Just think about how much a generic, big dictionary costs compared to a textbook. Books are expensive because they can be! Each book a professor or faculty chooses for a course becomes a mini-monopoly. Thus, it is logical that companies try to maximize their revenues, when they own these little markets. This means, books priced as high as is considered affordable, and very short edition life and shrink wrapped books are used to kill off the resale market.
The publishing houses and authors work very hard to win over professors and faculties - free books for the profs are only part of the marketing that goes on. Some other "selling" features are the bundled resources like sample tests, and spiffy "website resources". There might be other less moral incentives, but I don't know for sure either way.
A good situation for students? No. Are high textbook prices the fault of professors? Probably not. Are they the fault of publishers or authors? Maybe. Is it simply a broken market for consumers? Yeah, probably.
It's great to come up with super complex systems for security. You could layer a VPN on top of one time passwords on top of application level security on top of who knows what else. However, at some point, you've done enough, and the risk of intrusion is higher from other sources.
How secure is your LAN? How secure are your laptops? How about your suppliers/contractors/customers systems? How much do you trust employees?
... just a reminder to not lose perspective of the broader issues of IT security.
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The Borg MegaCube
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Yeah, besides, pressed DVD's are cheap. Probably less than $1 each?
That, and the fact that a Borg Cube wouldn't quite be right if it wasn't a cube...
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Well, I think it was a bit of a political statement too... when's the last time you called the Atlantic coast the "right coast"?
Well, Ottawa may be a good sized city, but it's still half the size of Greater Vancouver. A quick google pulled up this link for those who care.
But much more important than the size of the city, is the composition of the city. In many ways, Ottawa is a government town - your average bureaucrat isn't going to cause too many problems at a bar. In comparison, Vancouver is a larger city with a LOT of issues to deal with. I'll bet our gangs are more numerous, our drug problems more prominent, and the proportion of people in dire straights is much higher. I'm not saying everyone in Ottawa works for the Feds, and I definitely don't claim that all Vancouverites are gangsters (I'm not!), but looking at the averages, these are VERY different cities.
I've got no problems with our bars and clubs using a bit of technology to proactively avoid problems. Most of the quality patrons at the places that implement this will probably feel safer this way; thus, this may even INCREASE business at these establishments. It's really not all that different than the casinos in Las Vegas using cameras to look out for known card counters (well, the end goals are a little different I suppose).
Exactly. It also happens to be an older version of Flash that comes with Windows. People on locked down PC's have a hard time with websites that insist on using the latest Flash version (7) - for some reason their support requests to get Flash player upgraded go to the bottom of the queue... =)
One of our local wireless co's bought a few billboards around town with "WAP" being the primary ad copy. I recognized it, being the good geek that I was. But I think I was the only one at school and at work who did!
"What's a WAP? Whatever it is, it sounds like c..."
I actually DID read the article. All it does is park the head safely - it says nothing about shutting down the system. Presumably a short time after the acceleration has stopped the hard drive will return to its regular operating mode. I.e. for your average day to day task, you probably won't notice a thing! Your movie might pause for a second, or your filesystem access take a little longer, but by and large it should be unnoticeable.
It's a great idea. Now, if only IBM would come up with a way to raise a shield over the LCD moments before it gets hit by a flying bottle... =)
to Windows long before this chip arrives (if it ever does). It's happening already. I use both Windows and Linux... but tend to use Windows more now. The best open source stuff is usually available on both Windows and Linux: GIMP, Oo, Mozilla, Apache, MySQL... for a lot of day to day work, the desktop OS is largely irrelevant. Now if only I could figure out how to get my TV tuner working in Linux...
I suspect SGI just wants to be left alone. They aren't in the best financial state at the time, so rather than waste time and effort on fighting SCO, they'll take the simpler, easier path. If times were different for SGI, who knows, maybe they'd be making a bigger stink about this too.
/. before. =)
IBM on the other hand, has plenty of resources to fight SCO, and pummel them into the ground... but that's been covered on
Oh, they do care about the results. I've submitted a couple "Dissatisfied with your search results?" reports and the sites in question almost always disappear in a little while. The problem is in volume. There are literally thousands of spam sites set up every month - once someone has written the scripts to create an uber-spam site it takes no time for them to create a few new ones every week! They just need a new domain, and they can reuse the database and scripts from their first spam site.
So, if Google blacklists one domain, two more will show up! Overall, Google does a good job, as they always have - although the more obscure searches are probably lower in quality than they used to be (lower on the spam cleanup list). Give Google some more time and they'll create some algorithms to automatically weed out a lot of the problem sites.
Did anyone expect NASA to remain without manned transport until a new machine was designed, tested, and built?
That would take years... and they certainly don't want to rely on Russia (or anyone) for that long.
Yep. Who doesn't hate having to explain to someone that you're not a spammer or that you are NOT sending viruses (some email worms forge email addresses)...
I like this idea a lot. It's simple and it doesn't "break" anything. Kudos.
I'll bet he'll love new and improved, less crumbly cookies. Maybe he'll actually get some in his mouth now.
Ok, it's a really lame comment, but I've never had a chance to make a Sesame Street reference on Slashdot before!
Yeah, my thoughts exactly. I guess it's all part of the new digital age where everyone's always filming everything. The photo of the fireball+4 minutes is pretty cool too.
"The asteroid, designated 2003 SQ222, came from inside the Earth's orbit and so was only spotted after it had whizzed by."
Anyone care to explain to a non-astronomer (non-astro physicist?) like me, why being "inside Earth's orbit" makes an asteroid harder to detect?
While all the geeks of the world are watching the movie (with their cell phones and pagers politely turned off, of course), Warner and the Wachowski brothers will launch a multifaceted attack on the Internet and all things connected to it!
Don't fall for it! Don't let them root the net and build the real Matrix!
Well, if they wanted to remove Verisign's control of .com (without cooperation) with minimal impact to the DNS system in the meantime they could take a snapshot of whatever is listed at Verisign and provide free DNS hosting for those domains for a limited transition period.
You still have the problem of the Verisign controlled root servers. Also, any changes people make to their DNS configuration won't migrate automatically. But all in all, it wouldn't be impossible - not that I expect this to ever happen!
This would allow for a semi-clean transition AND people will have an excuse to leave Verisign once and for all - their customer "service" has always been a pain, and I suspect a lot of people leave their domains there because it's easier than trying to move it.
For simplicity, an image is probably best. Heck, with PHP (and probably other web languages) you could probably hack up some code to automatically create the image for you (more useful if you have a large number of addresses to display).
For folks who won't be able to handle the images, you could put some human decipherable text in the "ALT" or Title text of the image- e.g. jim@_REMOVE_ALL_OF_THIS_23421232_me.com.
IANAL, but, if I recall correctly from my intro to Law course, I think the general concept in common law is that since you've been able to walk "freely" for so long, the owners temporarily lose the ability to forcibly remove you, sue you for trespassing, or worse without warning. But after a reasonable warning is given, the owners would regain the full rights to which they are entitled.
There was some fancy latin phrase that I can't remember...
I was just going to suggest this too. I started using it a couple weeks ago, with no problems.
It's a nice little marketing play by AMD. Nothing more, nothing less. If you buy an AMD64 for work and won't (or aren't allowed!) to install games on it, then this gives you a chance to try it out. No big deal either way.
Quite a lot more than a couple hundred thousand actually. Tivo is getting within arms reach of 1 million. ReplayTV a lot less. But the fastest growing groups of PVR's are the freebies (or highly subsidized) ones from the sattelite services. All totalled, probably well under 5 million units in the US. Which is what? Less than 5% of the market?
Like someone else said, these are more likely the people that advertisers are trying to reach. Also, the number of users isn't going to go down! So over the long run... it's something for advertisers to worry about. I bet we see 7 and 15 second ads become the norm. No one will bother to skip those.
True, 56K will be around for a long time. But, the high-end, hardware only (not-winmodem) market has shriveled up long ago.
Sure, software modems can slow a Pentium to a crawl, but it's irrelevant now. Any PC made in the last 3 years will handle a soft modem well enough so that most people won't care - and definitely won't pay for anything "better." Heck, the same thing is happening with onboard audio. I'll take a $20 Win-modem over a $70 USR for infrequent, personal use any day; and I would probably do the same for day-to-day use.
Yes, Linux users care because they have few alternatives. So do folks running servers. But as a whole, the market for "proper" modems has shrunken considerably. When volumes drop, competition moves on, and prices will drift upwards as the market becomes more of a niche.
As others have mentioned, book printing is a pretty minimal part of the cost of the textbook. Even shipping, handling, breaking bulk, staff at the bookstore, and everything else are pretty minimal. Just think about how much a generic, big dictionary costs compared to a textbook. Books are expensive because they can be! Each book a professor or faculty chooses for a course becomes a mini-monopoly. Thus, it is logical that companies try to maximize their revenues, when they own these little markets. This means, books priced as high as is considered affordable, and very short edition life and shrink wrapped books are used to kill off the resale market.
The publishing houses and authors work very hard to win over professors and faculties - free books for the profs are only part of the marketing that goes on. Some other "selling" features are the bundled resources like sample tests, and spiffy "website resources". There might be other less moral incentives, but I don't know for sure either way.
A good situation for students? No. Are high textbook prices the fault of professors? Probably not. Are they the fault of publishers or authors? Maybe. Is it simply a broken market for consumers? Yeah, probably.
Is there an X-Prize 2 planned? Will all the teams that don't win still finish and launch their projects for the sake of accomplishment?
It's great to come up with super complex systems for security. You could layer a VPN on top of one time passwords on top of application level security on top of who knows what else. However, at some point, you've done enough, and the risk of intrusion is higher from other sources.
... just a reminder to not lose perspective of the broader issues of IT security.
How secure is your LAN? How secure are your laptops? How about your suppliers/contractors/customers systems? How much do you trust employees?
Yeah, besides, pressed DVD's are cheap. Probably less than $1 each?
That, and the fact that a Borg Cube wouldn't quite be right if it wasn't a cube...