Agreed, the benefits of mapping MACs and SSIDs to help with location finding could be very useful and there are no privacy concerns. This is a packet storm in a teacup.
All we need to do now is swap routers + SSIDs with friends in different parts of the country and see how Google Maps copes with that...WTF, I was in Cardiff and now I'm just outside Edinburgh!
Link this to a speed ticketing system and wait for the citation for doing 400 miles in 5 seconds - I make that 288000MPH!
Unlocking cores that the manufacturer deems to be flawed - um, yeah.
Unless this is a rehash of when Intel were (alleged?) to be selling 486DX processors as 486SX with perfectly good maths co-processor cores disabled, I think I like my data unscrambled!/Lawn etc.
Give an infinte number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters (or computers) and eventually you will have a large pile of mangled metal and plastic all covered in shit.
No, the goggles will only fit on special, Sony-modified heads with proprietary noses, and eyes spaced slightly further apart than any other 'normal' person's eyes.
"A UK GOVERNMENT BOFFIN has warned that it is too easy to jam GPS signals with cheap gear.
An engineer at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington warned that jamming sat-nav equipment with noise signals was on the rise and more sophisticated methods even allow hackers to program what GPS receivers display.
Speaking to the BBC, David Last, a consultant engineer and former president of the Royal Institute of Navigation said that GPS gives us transportation, distribution industry, 'just-in-time' manufacturing, and emergency services operations.
He said that the Achilles heel of GPS is the extremely weak signals that reach the receiver and that the signals can be easily swamped by equipment here on Earth."
I can appreciate the justification given for the experiment, but real working life doesn't run to that timetable, so unless there's a major shift in that respect, a lot of young adults are going to be in for a bit of a shock when they join the real world and seek employment.
Try resetting someone's password to 'obvious' when they call in with a 'forgotten password'. Then see how long you can string them along by saying "I've reset your password - the new one's obvious..."
Caller: "What? Like my surname?" You: "No, it's obvious" Caller "First name?" You "No" Caller "letmein?"
I would have thought the problem on the VIC-20 wasn't shallowness, but (column) width!
I started on a 3016 PET at school and then bought my own C64. Great days coding in BASIC, with machine code calls for serial I/O. Among other things I wrote a nifty VT100/220 emulator that ran in graphics mode with its own character set (designed by me) and also a map editor for Boulder Dash.
Both were probably of 'commercial quality' for the time, but being a fresh-faced youth, rather than hard-nose businessman, I just uploaded them to various BBSs for anyone to download.
LoCs is also a bit US-Centric. A much better measurement would have global awareness.
Spam is a global phenomenon, so I suggest we define a Spam Sub-Unit (SSU) as being a nominal 100 byte message body and have a measurement of throughput with a base unit of ten million SSUs/second.
The unit value (10MSSU/Sec) will be known as a 'Ralsky'.
Um, yeah: IR blazing out of your phone AND an activated camera. Good luck explaining that one as you are being chucked out of the cinema/hauled away for 'filming the show'.
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Agreed, the benefits of mapping MACs and SSIDs to help with location finding could be very useful and there are no privacy concerns. This is a packet storm in a teacup.
All we need to do now is swap routers + SSIDs with friends in different parts of the country and see how Google Maps copes with that...WTF, I was in Cardiff and now I'm just outside Edinburgh!
Link this to a speed ticketing system and wait for the citation for doing 400 miles in 5 seconds - I make that 288000MPH!
No RFID tag?
Tin foil wallet at the ready!
Cox confirms it - usenet is dying
Unlocking cores that the manufacturer deems to be flawed - um, yeah.
Unless this is a rehash of when Intel were (alleged?) to be selling 486DX processors as 486SX with perfectly good maths co-processor cores disabled, I think I like my data unscrambled! /Lawn etc.
Meh - the fix to get the Dali clock working is trivial - rename all pointers to smell like the colour yellow, and change all LONGINTs to SURREALs.
Some swine managed to grab my old /. account 'Anonymous Coward' and now posts over and over again using it - Grrr.
"...user wants..."
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See the problem there!?
Give an infinte number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters (or computers) and eventually you will have a large pile of mangled metal and plastic all covered in shit.
No, the goggles will only fit on special, Sony-modified heads with proprietary noses, and eyes spaced slightly further apart than any other 'normal' person's eyes.
Now we can only imagine a Beowulf cluster of those
Yeah, but us C64 programmers could, like, totally suck in only 39K of RAM - this generation needs at least 512MB just to load up suckage.dll
GPS Spots mountain...
"Turn around when possible"
Their plane was late coming in due to a navigation problem in the cockpit.
"Sat-nav is too easy to attack"
"A UK GOVERNMENT BOFFIN has warned that it is too easy to jam GPS signals with cheap gear.
An engineer at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington warned that jamming sat-nav equipment with noise signals was on the rise and more sophisticated methods even allow hackers to program what GPS receivers display.
Speaking to the BBC, David Last, a consultant engineer and former president of the Royal Institute of Navigation said that GPS gives us transportation, distribution industry, 'just-in-time' manufacturing, and emergency services operations.
He said that the Achilles heel of GPS is the extremely weak signals that reach the receiver and that the signals can be easily swamped by equipment here on Earth."
Full article at: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1593314/sat-nav-easy-attack
I can appreciate the justification given for the experiment, but real working life doesn't run to that timetable, so unless there's a major shift in that respect, a lot of young adults are going to be in for a bit of a shock when they join the real world and seek employment.
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Try resetting someone's password to 'obvious' when they call in with a 'forgotten password'. Then see how long you can string them along by saying "I've reset your password - the new one's obvious..."
Caller: "What? Like my surname?"
You: "No, it's obvious"
Caller "First name?"
You "No"
Caller "letmein?"
Yeah, it's been a bad day!
Coming soon: the i3-387DX, i5-587DX and i7-787DX GPU co-processors, and motherboards with GPU coprocessor sockets next to the CPU.
Happy days.
I would have thought the problem on the VIC-20 wasn't shallowness, but (column) width!
I started on a 3016 PET at school and then bought my own C64. Great days coding in BASIC, with machine code calls for serial I/O. Among other things I wrote a nifty VT100/220 emulator that ran in graphics mode with its own character set (designed by me) and also a map editor for Boulder Dash.
Both were probably of 'commercial quality' for the time, but being a fresh-faced youth, rather than hard-nose businessman, I just uploaded them to various BBSs for anyone to download.
LoCs is also a bit US-Centric. A much better measurement would have global awareness.
Spam is a global phenomenon, so I suggest we define a Spam Sub-Unit (SSU) as being a nominal 100 byte message body and have a measurement of throughput with a base unit of ten million SSUs/second.
The unit value (10MSSU/Sec) will be known as a 'Ralsky'.
Flat battery
Is there an app for that?
Um, yeah: IR blazing out of your phone AND an activated camera. Good luck explaining that one as you are being chucked out of the cinema/hauled away for 'filming the show'.