. Borrow the device, suck the data out, replace the device. The victim doesn't know a theft has happened - until the blackmail demand rolls in). Or get a court order to force you to hand it over, whichever is easier in the situation.
Both of these scenarios assume that the portable unit carries all the data. If this became really wide-spread, your Factoid would hold 5-15 minutes worth of stuff before dumping it. Hardly worth stealing.
Don't know about your machines, but the IBMs we have at work have the option to turn off the logo on boot, or (even more fun!) replace it with a user-defined graphic. It's a nifty neat feature in the flash update program.
Yeah, I'm a ham, and I've seen some of his messages on rec.radio.amateur newsgroups. Mostly, I've seen yammering about how they work, in the usual Usenet debating style. I didn't know that he had given hams a free license for use. That's nice. Doesn't invalidate my point, though.
Better take another look at patent law. If the guy has a patent on antennas, then he can restrict the manufacture of the antennas under all circumstances, including cooking one up at home. Doesn't necessarily mean he'll come after you if you do just one for yourself, but he's legally allowed to. No such thing as 'fair use' of a patent.
I received a presentation from Novell a year ago, discussing this very concept. It's been slightly modified. The original was: Sun for the platform and Java, Oracle for the software technology to store all the data, Netscape for the the end-user interface, and Novell for the directory services and access control.
Could they at least provide an simple option NOT to draw pretty pictures, making it v1.01 in the next day?
Why, when it's already in version 1.0?
From the web site: If you want your PC to analyze data as efficiently as possible, you can have your screen blanked (no graphics) after a given period. To do this, go to the Display Properties control panel, the Screen Saver tab, select SETI@home, click Settings, and check the "Go to blank screen" box.
Now I don't think these instructions have been on the website since day one, but the option has been there all along. There were a lot of messages floating around discussing it. Didn't you look in the client and say 'Gee, I wonder what this does?' If not, what's more the shame, that the Seti@home programmers aren't up to your high standards, or that you're not capable of doing a little independent investigation of software you're installing on your machine?
Nevermind that stupid URL at their site, why on Earth they needed SSL in it? seti.berkeley.edu could do fine.
I'm sorry to hear how Berekley sets up their network doesn't meet with your approval. I'm sure they can use a network consultant of your caliber. I presume you're going to jet right over there and set them up correctly.
Joining distributed.net made me feel like I was joining a team, joining Seti@home makes me feel like a tool.
You must have joined a different distributed.net than the one I dropped out of. Or did you miss the day-after-day blasts on the mailing list about how uncommunicative Nugget and the other founders were? Granted, that was a year or more ago, and things might have changed. But, these two progjects are more alike than you might think.
They're completely un-responsive, having not updated their news since the project began.
You have not been paying close attention. They've been changing the status items (the bulleted list) on their web page about every other day. I also sent them a note about the non-standard port on a proxy issue, and while I didn't get a personal response, the problem made it into the 'known bugs' list 24 hours later.
If you analyze the page a little, you'll see that the entire operation is being run by 4 guys, reportedly on a part-time basis. Give them a little slack.
Not all RF is used for communications. Radar utilizes very concentrated, very high-power beams that could be detected at much larger distances than communications RF.
And considering that the star Alpha Centuri is 4 light years away, we have a pretty good idea about your grasp of science.
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When the discussion is on general metaphysical issues, it's probably appropriate elsewhere, but I don't care. I'd probably even take part. The problem is that you (or whoever) is trying to sell a very narrow religious viewpoint (demonology as a specific subset of christianity), and with the usual collection of very thin evidence. If there's one thing I personally believe Slashdot is not, it's a forum for preaching. (Of course, Rob has the final say here.)
Just because a network has made a programming decision based on something besides money, people get upset.
And you have evidence (other than the statement of a PR droid) that the decision was made on any basis other than money?
Try to remember what the actual product of the television industry is. Hint: it's not TV shows.
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Seems to me you're using a convenient redefinition of the word cosmology. Last I saw, it didn't have anything to do with religiously-defined beings.
And while religion is tied up with morals, the reverse is not necessarily true. Atheists are perfectly capable of making moral decisions. No simplification is implied. In fact, it's often the opposite: if you don't use a religious basis for morality, then the analysis becomes more complex, since the morality must stand alone. You don't have the convenient fall back position of "God said so."
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If it's censorship for WB to delay the timing of an episode, what do you call an attempt to make fundamental discussions of reality off-topic?
An attempt to direct the conversation into an appropriate forum. You'll notice that I have exactly no power to force the discussion - it was only a request. The fact that you regard a request that you don't like as censorship says a lot more about you than about me.
Absolutely yes, it will compete with RC5. Both programs are designed to work on spare cycles, but SETI is so much of a machine hog that it will wait until the screen-saver (on a Win machine) kicks in, then it takes over. If RC5 is running at a lower priority, it won't get any cycles at all.
Basically, you need to pick one or the other an run with it.
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Have you seen an Iridium phone? It's the size of a large cell phone, with an antenna as thick as a broomstick and about a foot long. Pretty easy to hide. There are also flat antennas that are basically the size and shape of a pie plate, which can easily be positioned in windows or in the attic under the roof.
This is another case where technology will outstrip enforcement capability, and this time we will say it's a Good Thing.
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Has it occurred to you, Jon, that there ARE demons from Hell in American high schools? It would sure explain a lot.
Not without a lot more discussion of whether or not there's a god, which is inappropriate for this board. Take it to alt.religion.christian or the like.
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And when the low-earth-orbit IP repeater satellites come on line, China's network filtering will go right out the window.
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Of course, you can boot and run NT and an application on a 640K machine too, right?
Low RAM is ideal for a controller environment. Any idea how much WinCE or the new real-time NT takes?
...phil
Actually, what he's proven is that you can't allow division by zero.
...phil
Subpoenaed for what? The last 30 minutes worth of stuff it picked up before I dumped it?
...phil
. Borrow the device, suck the data out, replace the device. The victim doesn't know a theft has happened - until the blackmail demand rolls in). Or get a court order to force you to hand it over, whichever is easier in the situation.
Both of these scenarios assume that the portable unit carries all the data. If this became really wide-spread, your Factoid would hold 5-15 minutes worth of stuff before dumping it. Hardly worth stealing.
...phil
Don't know about your machines, but the IBMs we have at work have the option to turn off the logo on boot, or (even more fun!) replace it with a user-defined graphic. It's a nifty neat feature in the flash update program.
...phil
Yeah, I'm a ham, and I've seen some of his messages on rec.radio.amateur newsgroups. Mostly, I've seen yammering about how they work, in the usual Usenet debating style. I didn't know that he had given hams a free license for use. That's nice. Doesn't invalidate my point, though.
...phil
Yes, but it's still illegal to bring it into the U.S.
...phil
Better take another look at patent law. If the guy has a patent on antennas, then he can restrict the manufacture of the antennas under all circumstances, including cooking one up at home. Doesn't necessarily mean he'll come after you if you do just one for yourself, but he's legally allowed to. No such thing as 'fair use' of a patent.
...phil
I received a presentation from Novell a year ago, discussing this very concept. It's been slightly modified. The original was: Sun for the platform and Java, Oracle for the software technology to store all the data, Netscape for the the end-user interface, and Novell for the directory services and access control.
...phil
Duh. That's not a virus. Where's the spreading code? At best, that's a trojan.
...phil
Could they at least provide an simple option NOT to draw pretty pictures, making it v1.01 in the next day?
Why, when it's already in version 1.0?
From the web site:
If you want your PC to analyze data as efficiently as possible, you can have your screen blanked (no graphics) after a given period. To do this, go to the Display Properties control panel, the Screen Saver tab, select SETI@home, click Settings, and check the "Go to blank screen" box.
Now I don't think these instructions have been on the website since day one, but the option has been there all along. There were a lot of messages floating around discussing it. Didn't you look in the client and say 'Gee, I wonder what this does?' If not, what's more the shame, that the Seti@home programmers aren't up to your high standards, or that you're not capable of doing a little independent investigation of software you're installing on your machine?
Nevermind that stupid URL at their site, why on Earth they needed SSL in it? seti.berkeley.edu could do fine.
I'm sorry to hear how Berekley sets up their network doesn't meet with your approval. I'm sure they can use a network consultant of your caliber. I presume you're going to jet right over there and set them up correctly.
...phil
Joining distributed.net made me feel like I was joining a team, joining Seti@home makes me feel like a tool.
You must have joined a different distributed.net than the one I dropped out of. Or did you miss the day-after-day blasts on the mailing list about how uncommunicative Nugget and the other founders were? Granted, that was a year or more ago, and things might have changed. But, these two progjects are more alike than you might think.
...phil
They're completely un-responsive, having not updated their news since the project began.
You have not been paying close attention. They've been changing the status items (the bulleted list) on their web page about every other day. I also sent them a note about the non-standard port on a proxy issue, and while I didn't get a personal response, the problem made it into the 'known bugs' list 24 hours later.
If you analyze the page a little, you'll see that the entire operation is being run by 4 guys, reportedly on a part-time basis. Give them a little slack.
...phil
Not all RF is used for communications. Radar utilizes very concentrated, very high-power beams that could be detected at much larger distances than communications RF.
And considering that the star Alpha Centuri is 4 light years away, we have a pretty good idea about your grasp of science.
...phil
When the discussion is on general metaphysical issues, it's probably appropriate elsewhere, but I don't care. I'd probably even take part. The problem is that you (or whoever) is trying to sell a very narrow religious viewpoint (demonology as a specific subset of christianity), and with the usual collection of very thin evidence. If there's one thing I personally believe Slashdot is not, it's a forum for preaching. (Of course, Rob has the final say here.)
...phil
Just because a network has made a programming decision based on something besides money, people get upset.
And you have evidence (other than the statement of a PR droid) that the decision was made on any basis other than money?
Try to remember what the actual product of the television industry is. Hint: it's not TV shows.
...phil
Seems to me you're using a convenient redefinition of the word cosmology. Last I saw, it didn't have anything to do with religiously-defined beings.
And while religion is tied up with morals, the reverse is not necessarily true. Atheists are perfectly capable of making moral decisions. No simplification is implied. In fact, it's often the opposite: if you don't use a religious basis for morality, then the analysis becomes more complex, since the morality must stand alone. You don't have the convenient fall back position of "God said so."
...phil
And exactly how do you propose doing that?
Troll.
...phil
If it's censorship for WB to delay the timing of an episode, what do you call an attempt to make fundamental discussions of reality off-topic?
An attempt to direct the conversation into an appropriate forum. You'll notice that I have exactly no power to force the discussion - it was only a request. The fact that you regard a request that you don't like as censorship says a lot more about you than about me.
...phil
I know for a fact that "ET" uses technology so far removed from ours that it makes this the equivalent of searching smoke signals
(I realize this is like pushing a rope, but...) You wouldn't mind providing some evidence to back up this claim, would you?
...phil
Absolutely yes, it will compete with RC5. Both programs are designed to work on spare cycles, but SETI is so much of a machine hog that it will wait until the screen-saver (on a Win machine) kicks in, then it takes over. If RC5 is running at a lower priority, it won't get any cycles at all.
Basically, you need to pick one or the other an run with it.
...phil
Have you seen an Iridium phone? It's the size of a large cell phone, with an antenna as thick as a broomstick and about a foot long. Pretty easy to hide. There are also flat antennas that are basically the size and shape of a pie plate, which can easily be positioned in windows or in the attic under the roof.
This is another case where technology will outstrip enforcement capability, and this time we will say it's a Good Thing.
...phil
Has it occurred to you, Jon, that there ARE demons from Hell in American high schools? It would sure explain a lot.
Not without a lot more discussion of whether or not there's a god, which is inappropriate for this board. Take it to alt.religion.christian or the like.
...phil
And when the low-earth-orbit IP repeater satellites come on line, China's network filtering will go right out the window.
...phil
Porn's a lot bigger consumer of bandwidth. I suggest you go after the big targets first.
...phil