From the article...
"With SA discontinued, GPS users should see an improvement in position accuracy from approximately 100 meters to 10-20 meters. Any GPS user requiring better than 10 meter accuracy should continue to use Differential GPS (DGPS) corrections to remove the longer term errors in the system such as orbit and satellite clock errors, atmospherics, multipath and receiver noise.
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What this effectively says is that you can now get accuracy of up to 10-20 meters. Military grade equipment can effectively locate a target of 1 square meter(12 digit grid?) and has been able to do so for quite some time. They are NOT and WILL NOT be releasing this ability to the public for general availability any time soon. Such technology has the potential to compromise the security of ground troops to air assaults. The military will never allow this to happen.
As long as there is encryption strong enough to protect access to those satellites we should be okay. Having worked with military grade GPS units in the past, I know just how accurate they are. This latest advancement makes them even more so. I would not presume it is for nuclear weapons protection, but rather the protection of ground troops. Ground troops are very susceptible to air assaults if their exact position can be pinpointed. This is the governments interest in keeping such technology out of the wrong hands.
They are. The codes for a certain number of satellites are encrypted so that noone can get access to enough of the satellites to pinpoint say, a ten or twelve digit grid coordinate. Only military and other security groups have access to this type of accuracy.
Whoever moderated this down is way uptight. Far be it from anyone on Slashdot to praise someone for what they might have said if they themselves do not have any moderator points at that moment! Think before you moderate, really.
What if this technology were combined with some of the efforts being made by the folks at Transmeta? Couldn't it be possible to implement the origin and Geneva code(since it is so small) at the code morphing level of a Transmeta chip? In essence, couldn't this provide a sort of native java machine? This seems like it could offer an ideal situation for the Origin code to run at a best level of performance. Someone let me know if I'm way off base here, but this would seem to be a unique opportunity for both Transmeta and 180Software.
Actually, the article, if you read down a bit further, says "...Last year Linux became the number two computer operating system behind Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) competing NT and Windows 2000 operating systems, according to International Data Corp...." It was right there. I am not sure what anyone is saying about the article not naming who number one was, but you probably didn't follow the link.
Does anyone remember reading about this a while back?
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Would be the addition of GPS capabilities. That would seem to be about the one thing extra that I could think of that would be useful in an all-in-one device like this. GPS isn't catching all too fast, but I think it is more because the devices are cumbersome/overpriced. I would buy one of these in a second if they could add GPS support to the unit.
This is entirely offtopic, but for anyone interested, check out www.loser.com. I submitted this as a story, but it looks like it might be a while before it gets read. This is worth checking out now.
The GeForce2 GTS is very much worth it, especially for anyone who would like to toy around with some 3D games on Linux. A bit tricky getting the drivers going, but worth the trouble. For the first time, I actually find myself content with overall video performance of X. Video quality has truly come a long way for Linux.
Yes, I very much agree with what you say here. I was getting at the idea that individual users have a hard time abstracting the idea of how encryption works and why they need to keep their keys secret. Furthermore, getting them to simply encrypt certain items of importance worth securing is far too difficult at present to be considered seamless. Probably one of the last things I need is to have someone calling me with a problem like "I have six months of research on my computer. I tried to pull my private key off of my floppy disk to retrieve my data, but it says the disk isn't formatted..." There are just too many pitfalls currently. I think a solution to a lot of the problems I have mentioned need to start at the level of applications being worked with, supporting a higher level of integration of the concept of encrypting files, thus making the process as simple as loading and saving, with perhaps the addition of a passphrase to unlock the private key from your flash memory stick... Something along those lines could work. But yes, there are other problems with PKI as well...
Before you opt for that upgrade, just think about this: Do you really want someone "hacking" into your skull while you are sleeping? Or worse yet, hack into your skull while you are awake and make you shoot someone they don't like. Well, possession of the weapon is pretty much proof you did it. How about the notion of "watched" during everything you do? How would you ever know any different? Maybe the systems are put in at birth and you won't even know they are there. Wow, what a great idea! Let me get out my engraver now and etch 666 on my forehead!
When the time comes for you to go out and get your upgrades or "augmentations", you had better be damn certain the technology isn't going to be improved 18 months from then, as you will become obsolete. Boy, evolution can't hold a candle to that one! As an earlier poster noted, a better question than "Can we do this?" is "Should we do this?". If everyone alive decided twenty years from now that we all just had to have our palm pilots linked to our brains, I would certainly be the last one to get my modifications. Don't get me wrong, I love technology. Just don't try to make it a part of me. And besides, wouldn't an organic upgrade make more sense than a silicon one? Just something more to think about...
How does something that is so incomprehensible that most people look at me with a confused look on their face when I even say "PKI" be outdated? It is as the name implies, infrastructure for security purposes. I wish it were a bit less cumbersome, but there just doesn't seem to be an easy way to roll out this type of security. Please, if someone has a better idea, let's hear it!
How in the hell is this flamebait? Since when is calling things the way one sees them flamebait? Some moderator needs to have their head examined. Plenty of good info in this post, albeit opinionated. What amazes me is that it would seem that someone took the time to read this entire message before deciding it was flamebait. The author of this message is an active member of the Slashdot community. I have read many of his posts. Wake up moderators!
I suppose you think we should ALL be paying $7 for a liter of gasoline. After all, the rest of the world is... Great, when do you want to implement one form of currency for the entire world?
Sorry folks, it seems that companies would much rather hire someone that they can treat poorly because they are practically a slave than to train an American employee to perform the same task.(Who knows, that American employee just might leave if we treat them badly.) I think making it easier for H1B's to switch jobs is a step in the right direction, but still, why not just train an American to fill the role of an American job? I know plenty of skilled technical people who would love to get some additional training on their resumes. The payoff for the employer is a more skilled employee. This is very simple. It just really seems that many employers prefer having their own brand of slaves and our government lets them get away with it.
Are you trying to say that if one does not use remote X capabilities, it is just an indication that one is too dumb to figure it out? To harness the true power of Linux? Hmmm, okay...
It is perhaps true that one cannot perceive difference in images beyond 72FPS, however can anyone think of a video card that never allows scene rendering to drop below 72FPS? Most frame rates are listed as maximum frame rates, and the better ones are listed as average frame rates. In other words, without incredibly high frame rates there is the potential for improvement at the low end in an extremely complex scene. Which brings my next point to light... The more complex the scene, the more video power is required to render it. When every computer out there is able to push 200 FPS on current generation games, you can bet that the top of the line games will require it just to run. True, they will be much more advanced than current games, and I think that is a good thing.
I wish more people would realize this. It seems as if the latest interest in P2P networking has been generated by folks like Intel, who seem to want to find a way to make a "new" market out of it. Although it isn't new, I believe the realization of a much more distributed internet(IE everyone is a server and a client)is more likely possible now than ever before, as bandwidth to the average household and business continue to grow, in some cases exponentially.
It is this very idea, that PC sales are reaching some type of saturation point, that is causing companies like Dell to be punished on Wall Street for the first time in quite a few years. All because they didn't quite make that 100% or 200% growth estimate... I don't know that this is it for the growth of PC sales, but it certainly has to slow down eventually.
I can't claim to have been using Slackware long enough to have done an install with floppies. And I personally feel that the data life of information stored on floppies is something along the lines of "Okay, milk, flour, eggs, butter, cheese, and crackers. And don't forget the coupons." so I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them... I do however love using Slackware. Started out with Redhat, moved on to Suse 'cause I knew there had to be something else out there. Then discovered FreeBSD(like this much, but it doesn't like my GeForce.) And then finally, about six months ago, discovered Slackware. Shares many of the same things I like about FreeBSD(as opposed to Suse, all menus are in English!) and quite simply, package tools kick the hell out of rpm. I can thank Slashdot readers for pointing this distro out to me too. For as long as I have a choice, it'll be Slackware. (Forget this one Linux distro crap!)
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From the article... "With SA discontinued, GPS users should see an improvement in position accuracy from approximately 100 meters to 10-20 meters. Any GPS user requiring better than 10 meter accuracy should continue to use Differential GPS (DGPS) corrections to remove the longer term errors in the system such as orbit and satellite clock errors, atmospherics, multipath and receiver noise. " What this effectively says is that you can now get accuracy of up to 10-20 meters. Military grade equipment can effectively locate a target of 1 square meter(12 digit grid?) and has been able to do so for quite some time. They are NOT and WILL NOT be releasing this ability to the public for general availability any time soon. Such technology has the potential to compromise the security of ground troops to air assaults. The military will never allow this to happen.
As long as there is encryption strong enough to protect access to those satellites we should be okay. Having worked with military grade GPS units in the past, I know just how accurate they are. This latest advancement makes them even more so. I would not presume it is for nuclear weapons protection, but rather the protection of ground troops. Ground troops are very susceptible to air assaults if their exact position can be pinpointed. This is the governments interest in keeping such technology out of the wrong hands.
They are. The codes for a certain number of satellites are encrypted so that noone can get access to enough of the satellites to pinpoint say, a ten or twelve digit grid coordinate. Only military and other security groups have access to this type of accuracy.
Whoever moderated this down is way uptight. Far be it from anyone on Slashdot to praise someone for what they might have said if they themselves do not have any moderator points at that moment! Think before you moderate, really.
What if this technology were combined with some of the efforts being made by the folks at Transmeta? Couldn't it be possible to implement the origin and Geneva code(since it is so small) at the code morphing level of a Transmeta chip? In essence, couldn't this provide a sort of native java machine? This seems like it could offer an ideal situation for the Origin code to run at a best level of performance. Someone let me know if I'm way off base here, but this would seem to be a unique opportunity for both Transmeta and 180Software.
Actually, the article, if you read down a bit further, says "...Last year Linux became the number two computer operating system behind Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) competing NT and Windows 2000 operating systems, according to International Data Corp. ..." It was right there. I am not sure what anyone is saying about the article not naming who number one was, but you probably didn't follow the link.
Does anyone remember reading about this a while back?
Would be the addition of GPS capabilities. That would seem to be about the one thing extra that I could think of that would be useful in an all-in-one device like this. GPS isn't catching all too fast, but I think it is more because the devices are cumbersome/overpriced. I would buy one of these in a second if they could add GPS support to the unit.
This is entirely offtopic, but for anyone interested, check out www.loser.com. I submitted this as a story, but it looks like it might be a while before it gets read. This is worth checking out now.
The GeForce2 GTS is very much worth it, especially for anyone who would like to toy around with some 3D games on Linux. A bit tricky getting the drivers going, but worth the trouble. For the first time, I actually find myself content with overall video performance of X. Video quality has truly come a long way for Linux.
Yes, I very much agree with what you say here. I was getting at the idea that individual users have a hard time abstracting the idea of how encryption works and why they need to keep their keys secret. Furthermore, getting them to simply encrypt certain items of importance worth securing is far too difficult at present to be considered seamless. Probably one of the last things I need is to have someone calling me with a problem like "I have six months of research on my computer. I tried to pull my private key off of my floppy disk to retrieve my data, but it says the disk isn't formatted..." There are just too many pitfalls currently. I think a solution to a lot of the problems I have mentioned need to start at the level of applications being worked with, supporting a higher level of integration of the concept of encrypting files, thus making the process as simple as loading and saving, with perhaps the addition of a passphrase to unlock the private key from your flash memory stick... Something along those lines could work. But yes, there are other problems with PKI as well...
Before you opt for that upgrade, just think about this: Do you really want someone "hacking" into your skull while you are sleeping? Or worse yet, hack into your skull while you are awake and make you shoot someone they don't like. Well, possession of the weapon is pretty much proof you did it. How about the notion of "watched" during everything you do? How would you ever know any different? Maybe the systems are put in at birth and you won't even know they are there. Wow, what a great idea! Let me get out my engraver now and etch 666 on my forehead! When the time comes for you to go out and get your upgrades or "augmentations", you had better be damn certain the technology isn't going to be improved 18 months from then, as you will become obsolete. Boy, evolution can't hold a candle to that one! As an earlier poster noted, a better question than "Can we do this?" is "Should we do this?". If everyone alive decided twenty years from now that we all just had to have our palm pilots linked to our brains, I would certainly be the last one to get my modifications. Don't get me wrong, I love technology. Just don't try to make it a part of me. And besides, wouldn't an organic upgrade make more sense than a silicon one? Just something more to think about...
The problem with PKI is deployment. Not cipher strength.
How does something that is so incomprehensible that most people look at me with a confused look on their face when I even say "PKI" be outdated? It is as the name implies, infrastructure for security purposes. I wish it were a bit less cumbersome, but there just doesn't seem to be an easy way to roll out this type of security. Please, if someone has a better idea, let's hear it!
How in the hell is this flamebait? Since when is calling things the way one sees them flamebait? Some moderator needs to have their head examined. Plenty of good info in this post, albeit opinionated. What amazes me is that it would seem that someone took the time to read this entire message before deciding it was flamebait. The author of this message is an active member of the Slashdot community. I have read many of his posts. Wake up moderators!
I suppose you think we should ALL be paying $7 for a liter of gasoline. After all, the rest of the world is... Great, when do you want to implement one form of currency for the entire world?
Sorry folks, it seems that companies would much rather hire someone that they can treat poorly because they are practically a slave than to train an American employee to perform the same task.(Who knows, that American employee just might leave if we treat them badly.) I think making it easier for H1B's to switch jobs is a step in the right direction, but still, why not just train an American to fill the role of an American job? I know plenty of skilled technical people who would love to get some additional training on their resumes. The payoff for the employer is a more skilled employee. This is very simple. It just really seems that many employers prefer having their own brand of slaves and our government lets them get away with it.
Are you trying to say that if one does not use remote X capabilities, it is just an indication that one is too dumb to figure it out? To harness the true power of Linux? Hmmm, okay...
It is perhaps true that one cannot perceive difference in images beyond 72FPS, however can anyone think of a video card that never allows scene rendering to drop below 72FPS? Most frame rates are listed as maximum frame rates, and the better ones are listed as average frame rates. In other words, without incredibly high frame rates there is the potential for improvement at the low end in an extremely complex scene. Which brings my next point to light... The more complex the scene, the more video power is required to render it. When every computer out there is able to push 200 FPS on current generation games, you can bet that the top of the line games will require it just to run. True, they will be much more advanced than current games, and I think that is a good thing.
I wish more people would realize this. It seems as if the latest interest in P2P networking has been generated by folks like Intel, who seem to want to find a way to make a "new" market out of it. Although it isn't new, I believe the realization of a much more distributed internet(IE everyone is a server and a client)is more likely possible now than ever before, as bandwidth to the average household and business continue to grow, in some cases exponentially.
Intent is the hardest thing of all to prove. Why do you think so many convicted murderers end up back out of prison after a few years?
It is this very idea, that PC sales are reaching some type of saturation point, that is causing companies like Dell to be punished on Wall Street for the first time in quite a few years. All because they didn't quite make that 100% or 200% growth estimate... I don't know that this is it for the growth of PC sales, but it certainly has to slow down eventually.
Same problem here. Attempting to do a bit of market research on this company. They do not appear to be public yet...
Could someone please clue me in on what these are?
I can't claim to have been using Slackware long enough to have done an install with floppies. And I personally feel that the data life of information stored on floppies is something along the lines of "Okay, milk, flour, eggs, butter, cheese, and crackers. And don't forget the coupons." so I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them... I do however love using Slackware. Started out with Redhat, moved on to Suse 'cause I knew there had to be something else out there. Then discovered FreeBSD(like this much, but it doesn't like my GeForce.) And then finally, about six months ago, discovered Slackware. Shares many of the same things I like about FreeBSD(as opposed to Suse, all menus are in English!) and quite simply, package tools kick the hell out of rpm. I can thank Slashdot readers for pointing this distro out to me too. For as long as I have a choice, it'll be Slackware. (Forget this one Linux distro crap!)