A small possibility is that Government can control companies which work from USA.And hence control their software. Since OS is an important part of any system, and since almost all OSes are made by US companies, the government at a later stage can bring in a law that mandates that a default install should have a username:USGov passwd:bigSecret.
If it is opensource such a combination might be easily found and disabled by "terrorists".Read along with the Cisco story, seems obvious what the government wants. IT is quite possible that these stories are unrelated and the quote in the story about terrorism was out of context or just a personal view of the govt. employee interviewed. So not enuff info to make judgements.
Atleast some part of the decision may be due to the culture of Sony
Sony (the original one, not their music division) have always been about making a product and then finding a market for it. They pride themselves on being the lone-wolves and hence came up with a lot of products which are completely non-standard (unless the world accepted their standards)the oft used betaMax being a good candidate. Sony's memory products today are a good example, they are tiny but are not interchangeable with others (not all prodcuts, but there are examples like their USB cables etc.).A completely new chip for a game machine seems to fit right in, compared to MicroSoft moving to Celerons. But then again they used to be able to come up with a product so good that they opened up whole new markets.
This post is partially based on a reading of "Made in Japan" by Akio morita, and I understand that decisions of Billions are not always decided by the "culture" of a company.
I wonder If you could configure Linux to put the kernelimage in a Small Flash Disk (only read) , put the swap on a SSD device (I mean RAM based not flash based) , and then have a RAID 5 for your hard disk, Should be one fast machine. Also with some ACPI compliance maybe turn hybernate on to the SSD device?
Even better if some big company starts selling those, with volume prices, probably I could buy machines which boot in less than 10 seconds....
From the article :
The most common password was "password" (12 per cent) and the most popular category was their own name (16 per cent) followed by their football team (11 per cent) and date of birth (8 per cent).
47 percent here. Close enough.
He was trying to make a reactor, but did not quite get there. He collected Radium from watch dials, whateveranium from smoke detectors etc. His warehouse, the boot of his dads car finally got so radioactive that he turned himselves in. I believe he also made a geiger counter approximation.
The story was on Readers Digest or some such magazine.
Please read the article.
It clearly mentions that it is for enterprise use, the ida is that a large company can setup a wifi network and use give this fone to all its employees, the authentication is built in.For all other personal uses it also has a regular cellfone for which you use your local provider (and for which you pay). This will not allow you to use it in your local-hotspot.
I find spammed CDs fun. I actually get something for free, which if nothing else I can use as a coaster (or pop in my microwave). I like snail-mail spam next. You could do a dilbert and install a paper burning home heater. Spam email is the worst kind. It costs the sender nothing (or next to nothing) and I have have to delete them (which is work).
How would they draw TARDIS from Dr.WHO series? It was supposed to be shaped like a london police box on the outside (kind of like a phone booth) but was supposed to contain virtually unlimited space on the inside.
The article seems to suggest it could be out by 2004-05. Thats just about a year and a half to wait.
The speed seems good enuff to replace cables evarywhere you use them. Cables are essentially used when we have short ranges and large data, exactly what this offers.Imagine wireless monitors, external storage and all sorts of reconfigurable computers (imagine a beouwulf cluster which can be reconfigured by just moving machines around and joining a group).
If you are going html/Javascript, maybe might as well draw a few tables at near full screen and check for the edge distortions. Excel somehow seems not good enough.
Not really, anti-MS-crap. This is relevant to you if you are a regular/. reader, because potentially someone could do these.
1)Write a bit of "malicious code"
2)Post it on a webpage
3)Make it as his homepage on/. or add it to his.sig and say "click here for naked chicks"
4)Wait
5)Profit???
Slashdot is widely read (how mnay millions was that) and is largely visited using IE (70% ?). Even if a small percentage is unpatched that is a lot.
One more of those bugs which can crash your computer because you viewed a webpage.The irony is that the update link tries to do an update through a webpage.ie you connect to MS website and it checks your computer through IE and does an update.(it does give me a warning though)
When will microsoft(and others) understand that browsers are http clients and not meant to be used as means of running arbitrary code on a client machine, however secure it might be . The least you can do is to tell the client that code is being run on their machine.
...technology for its own sake is a useless technology.
Please do not generalize. Yes we did have a story on Concorde today, but the idea is not true in general. Remember walkman? It came out when sony decided to put headphones on their utlra-small players.They were really not thinking of the joggers then.They had a limited market target, but it made real big.Similarly CDs were supposed to store music, but then after about 2 years made it into the computer market.
Technology for its own sake is sometimes technology waiting for uses to be found.
That as it looks is not bad.Suppose you have linux code, you modify it and sell it to a customer.Suppose m$ buys one of your $100 devices, they can demand the code, and then redistribute it,even demand money for it.
This license should (in effect since the devices themselves are so cheap) break down to GPL if they added a condition saying all users can have code access.Now microsoft can restrict code access preferentially.
Hmmm... I wouldnt mind contributing but what do I get for it? Looks lkike I still will have to buy the books to get any info.
I rather like the Bruce Eckel model, he publishes the book online, anybody can contribute online(though your contributions might not make it to the paper version), and you only have to pay if you want a paper copy of the book. Almost like GPL.The end result does look good.
Or maybe the Wikipedia model More like BSD license.
Bypass the parts of the os that invoke the license checks
Yeah I'll take the OS encrypt it and give it to you along with an open source program which will decrypt it given a key (but I wont give you the key). Lemme see how you bypass the license check mechanism and install it.
Sun to move to linux, start their distro
No, sun is against linux, no distros any more ? Linux is for weenies
Sun going to intel/AMD on blades
Maybe
Sun to support Itanium
No , not really, atleast not now
Sun to use java as OS
No, not yet.Not stable enuff
Will someebody tell me after sun has made up their minds?
When OLEDs come out they will put a acrylic membrane over the OLED screen and sell it .
From the article it looks like the membrane is external to the screen, basically put a plastic sheet over the LCD and made it vibrate. It, as it looks to me, doesnt have anything to do with the screen technology.They did it to LCD (and not CRT) because laptops have a space constraint.
Actually the "negation of the self" sort of thing is hinduism. The idea is that if you desire something you open up yourself to pain, So don't desire anything, and you shall never be hurt, Simple. eh? Only for the enlightened people though
For normal folks, there is even a definition of sin as whatever causes unhappiness (to others, i assume) and a good deed gives happines.
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A small possibility is that Government can control companies which work from USA.And hence control their software. Since OS is an important part of any system, and since almost all OSes are made by US companies, the government at a later stage can bring in a law that mandates that a default install should have a username:USGov passwd:bigSecret.
If it is opensource such a combination might be easily found and disabled by "terrorists".Read along with the Cisco story, seems obvious what the government wants.
IT is quite possible that these stories are unrelated and the quote in the story about terrorism was out of context or just a personal view of the govt. employee interviewed. So not enuff info to make judgements.
Atleast some part of the decision may be due to the culture of Sony .A completely new chip for a game machine seems to fit right in, compared to MicroSoft moving to Celerons.
Sony (the original one, not their music division) have always been about making a product and then finding a market for it. They pride themselves on being the lone-wolves and hence came up with a lot of products which are completely non-standard (unless the world accepted their standards)the oft used betaMax being a good candidate. Sony's memory products today are a good example, they are tiny but are not interchangeable with others (not all prodcuts, but there are examples like their USB cables etc.)
But then again they used to be able to come up with a product so good that they opened up whole new markets.
This post is partially based on a reading of "Made in Japan" by Akio morita, and I understand that decisions of Billions are not always decided by the "culture" of a company.
I wonder If you could configure Linux to put the kernelimage in a Small Flash Disk (only read) , put the swap on a SSD device (I mean RAM based not flash based) , and then have a RAID 5 for your hard disk, Should be one fast machine. Also with some ACPI compliance maybe turn hybernate on to the SSD device?
Even better if some big company starts selling those, with volume prices, probably I could buy machines which boot in less than 10 seconds....
Will they ban X-Ray machines now?
From the article : The most common password was "password" (12 per cent) and the most popular category was their own name (16 per cent) followed by their football team (11 per cent) and date of birth (8 per cent). 47 percent here. Close enough.
He was trying to make a reactor, but did not quite get there. He collected Radium from watch dials, whateveranium from smoke detectors etc. His warehouse, the boot of his dads car finally got so radioactive that he turned himselves in. I believe he also made a geiger counter approximation.
The story was on Readers Digest or some such magazine.
Please read the article. .For all other personal uses it also has a regular cellfone for which you use your local provider (and for which you pay). This will not allow you to use it in your local-hotspot.
It clearly mentions that it is for enterprise use, the ida is that a large company can setup a wifi network and use give this fone to all its employees, the authentication is built in
The post that started it all.
And a previous story on slashdot.
I find spammed CDs fun. I actually get something for free, which if nothing else I can use as a coaster (or pop in my microwave). I like snail-mail spam next. You could do a dilbert and install a paper burning home heater. Spam email is the worst kind. It costs the sender nothing (or next to nothing) and I have have to delete them (which is work).
How would they draw TARDIS from Dr.WHO series? It was supposed to be shaped like a london police box on the outside (kind of like a phone booth) but was supposed to contain virtually unlimited space on the inside.
The article seems to suggest it could be out by 2004-05. Thats just about a year and a half to wait.
The speed seems good enuff to replace cables evarywhere you use them. Cables are essentially used when we have short ranges and large data, exactly what this offers.Imagine wireless monitors, external storage and all sorts of reconfigurable computers (imagine a beouwulf cluster which can be reconfigured by just moving machines around and joining a group).
Mandatory babelfish translation
Or a zdnet article
If you are going html/Javascript, maybe might as well draw a few tables at near full screen and check for the edge distortions. Excel somehow seems not good enough.
Not really, anti-MS-crap. This is relevant to you if you are a regular /. reader, because potentially someone could do these. /. or add it to his .sig and say "click here for naked chicks"
1)Write a bit of "malicious code"
2)Post it on a webpage
3)Make it as his homepage on
4)Wait
5)Profit???
Slashdot is widely read (how mnay millions was that) and is largely visited using IE (70% ?). Even if a small percentage is unpatched that is a lot.
One more of those bugs which can crash your computer because you viewed a webpage.The irony is that the update link tries to do an update through a webpage.ie you connect to MS website and it checks your computer through IE and does an update.(it does give me a warning though)
When will microsoft(and others) understand that browsers are http clients and not meant to be used as means of running arbitrary code on a client machine, however secure it might be . The least you can do is to tell the client that code is being run on their machine.
...technology for its own sake is a useless technology.
Please do not generalize. Yes we did have a story on Concorde today, but the idea is not true in general. Remember walkman? It came out when sony decided to put headphones on their utlra-small players.They were really not thinking of the joggers then.They had a limited market target, but it made real big.Similarly CDs were supposed to store music, but then after about 2 years made it into the computer market.
Technology for its own sake is sometimes technology waiting for uses to be found.
That as it looks is not bad.Suppose you have linux code, you modify it and sell it to a customer.Suppose m$ buys one of your $100 devices, they can demand the code, and then redistribute it,even demand money for it.
This license should (in effect since the devices themselves are so cheap) break down to GPL if they added a condition saying all users can have code access.Now microsoft can restrict code access preferentially.
No chance that the russian ones are flying either.
They were grounded in 73.NASA used to use them as flight test labs in late 90s, dunno about now.
The link seems to indicate that the Tu144 was the original , debuting slightly before the Concorde itself.
Hmmm...
I wouldnt mind contributing but what do I get for it? Looks lkike I still will have to buy the books to get any info.
I rather like the Bruce Eckel model, he publishes the book online, anybody can contribute online(though your contributions might not make it to the paper version), and you only have to pay if you want a paper copy of the book. Almost like GPL.The end result does look good.
Or maybe the Wikipedia model More like BSD license.
Bypass the parts of the os that invoke the license checks
Yeah I'll take the OS encrypt it and give it to you along with an open source program which will decrypt it given a key (but I wont give you the key). Lemme see how you bypass the license check mechanism and install it.
Sun to move to linux, start their distro
No, sun is against linux, no distros any more ? Linux is for weenies
Sun going to intel/AMD on blades
Maybe
Sun to support Itanium
No , not really, atleast not now
Sun to use java as OS
No, not yet.Not stable enuff
Will someebody tell me after sun has made up their minds?
Archie Mendoza, Tal Selley and Damien Li
Archimedes, toricelli, davinchi?
Okay 2 out of 3 was'nt bad
If I claim that I got fooled by the April 1st joke, will I be modded up +5, informative ?
When OLEDs come out they will put a acrylic membrane over the OLED screen and sell it .
From the article it looks like the membrane is external to the screen, basically put a plastic sheet over the LCD and made it vibrate. It, as it looks to me, doesnt have anything to do with the screen technology.They did it to LCD (and not CRT) because laptops have a space constraint.
Actually the "negation of the self" sort of thing is hinduism. The idea is that if you desire something you open up yourself to pain, So don't desire anything, and you shall never be hurt, Simple. eh? Only for the enlightened people though
For normal folks, there is even a definition of sin as whatever causes unhappiness (to others, i assume) and a good deed gives happines.