"The European Commission also could order Microsoft to include rival media players with Windows to make those products as easy for users to access as Microsoft's own music and video player."
I might hate microsoft as much as the next guy, but ordering a company to bundle software from their competitiors is just ridicioulous! What happened to the concept of a free market?
Their website doesn't even feature a single photo, prototype, or past products. I'm surprised this article was even approved. It certainly looks like yet another one of those companies which try to persuade people to buy shares, counting on a 'revolutionary' product which the company is unlikely to ever succeed in producing.
If the argument is that they don't have your location down to a 10-meter square block, you might wanna guess again; by watching the way that your phone moves through the spheres of influence each tower generates it becomes mathematically trivial to triangulate your position with a precision that GPS would find envious.
That statment is vastly exaggerated. In fact triangulating the position based on signal strength gives vastly inaccurate results. Simply passing behind a wall would make you appear 20-100m further from the cell station, making triangulation hopeless at accuracy.
The most accurate method availible is called time advance. Basically the towers keep a very accurate record of your latency, and transmit their signal slightly in advance when you are far away to make sure it reaches you at the time your cellphone expects it. IIRC this value is measured in 1/10ths of a bit, and yeilds an accuracy of 500m. No methods of tracking cellphones are as good as the = 10m GPS provides.
Some guy: "Sooner or later this case will be decided upon by a court, and what will happen if at the end of all this it turns out you are wrong? there will be a lot of angry customers. Will you refund their money?" Darl: "Well, errrr, we wo... umm, the way I see it is that, errr, well, "
and:
Some person: "Can you comment on the outstanding lawsuit against you" Darl: "There are currently no lawsuits against SCO..." Some Person: "One sec.... Australian company.... called CyberNight/Night... I have the information here." Darl: "uhhh, ermm, ahhh, ermm.... If It happened within the last 12 hours, I wouldn't be aware of it.... next question!"
... what are the chances that there were more complex life-forms? fish like creatures? Is there any evidence that if anything existed it would have been limited to simple single-celular organisms?
Following in SCO's footsteps, I have decided to sell licences for your use of the internet. That's correct - you're favourite intraweb browser contains code which is my intellectual property.
For example, look a line 321 in main.c: for(i=0; i<count; i++) Or line 5: unsigned int i;... was directly copied from numerous projects I have developed.
Thankfully you can use the internet legally! That's right - simply PayPal your payment to payments AT zone-mr DOT ath DOT cx now!
Personally I don't want Google reading/analysing my e-mail. Even if is just some algorithm.
Why not? Ashamed of what the computer software will think. With every email system, the administrators could easilly be able to read your emails without you even knowing. Having an algorithm analyise the text is hardly an invasion of privacy.
This seems like an obscure idea for security... while it may work, it seems messy. Why not just connect to one port and send a secret string of characters.... oh, wait, it's called a "password".
Also this knocking approach is potentially easy to sniff. A single port to which clients connect and authenticate via a secure method like challenge/response authentication seems to make a lot more sense.
In a perfect world... spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penisses, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship.
For all I know Mr. AC could have posted his 'friends' phone number, got modded up as informative, and exploited the slashdot crowd to arrange a personal vendetta against some random bloke.
"(1) Checkbox to disable "kiosk mode" from EVER happening!"
Don't you have to start internet explorer with the -k command line to run it in kiosk mode? What is the point in having a checkbox to disable something you only use when you want to?
1) Think of a good *idea* 2) Implement it in your spare time 3) Try and market it, working for yourself 4) PROFIT!? 5) Only if it works, leave your current job.
There are millions of people who want to work in an IT field. Working for your average employer is unlikely to earn you more than a mediocre salary.
Your only chance of taking off is having a good idea, WORKING FOR YOURSELF, and being able to comit a lot of time into experementing. Keep your current job, work for yourself in the afternoons, and only consider switching if you can sense success.
Hence the advice to keep a notepad by the bed to write things down if you want to recall your dreams. I don't see why this wouldn't extend to dreams that may help solve problems.
I tried this once. Sure enough, I managed to solve a highly complicated coding challenge in my dreams. I got my notepad, and jotted down the solution.
Woke up the next morning, looked at my notepad, only to see strange characters and pseudo-random scribbles. Now I need to find a way to decrypt what I wrote;)
Disney DVD with ff-disabled ads eating up, oh, the first 1/2 hour of the damned things (which is 1/2 the reason that, if i do buy a Disney movie, it's on cassette).
Hmmm, not sure about where you live, but here in the UK the majority of decent DVD players are sold region free and with PUOPS disabled.
"The windows are fitted with a microfiber LCD screen, which can make them opaque or display light from a television projector. The computer monitor is fully integrated into the window, allowing it to receive and display information without projection. It can even handle touch-screen commands."
So it seems it uses a combination of both technologies.
Slashdot Mirror
"The European Commission also could order Microsoft to include rival media players with Windows to make those products as easy for users to access as Microsoft's own music and video player."
I might hate microsoft as much as the next guy, but ordering a company to bundle software from their competitiors is just ridicioulous! What happened to the concept of a free market?
I predict the owner will be getting a LOT of excercise right now.
Their website doesn't even feature a single photo, prototype, or past products. I'm surprised this article was even approved. It certainly looks like yet another one of those companies which try to persuade people to buy shares, counting on a 'revolutionary' product which the company is unlikely to ever succeed in producing.
They already tried to take the information down... ... they submitted the site to SlashDot ;)
Ever heard of magnet:// and ed2k:// links? Even bittorrent does something similar but you need to host the .torrent.
If the argument is that they don't have your location down to a 10-meter square block, you might wanna guess again; by watching the way that your phone moves through the spheres of influence each tower generates it becomes mathematically trivial to triangulate your position with a precision that GPS would find envious.
That statment is vastly exaggerated. In fact triangulating the position based on signal strength gives vastly inaccurate results. Simply passing behind a wall would make you appear 20-100m further from the cell station, making triangulation hopeless at accuracy.
The most accurate method availible is called time advance. Basically the towers keep a very accurate record of your latency, and transmit their signal slightly in advance when you are far away to make sure it reaches you at the time your cellphone expects it. IIRC this value is measured in 1/10ths of a bit, and yeilds an accuracy of 500m. No methods of tracking cellphones are as good as the = 10m GPS provides.
My favourite parts:
.... If It happened within the last 12 hours, I wouldn't be aware of it.... next question!"
Some guy: "Sooner or later this case will be decided upon by a court, and what will happen if at the end of all this it turns out you are wrong? there will be a lot of angry customers. Will you refund their money?"
Darl: "Well, errrr, we wo... umm, the way I see it is that, errr, well, "
and:
Some person: "Can you comment on the outstanding lawsuit against you"
Darl: "There are currently no lawsuits against SCO..."
Some Person: "One sec.... Australian company.... called CyberNight/Night... I have the information here."
Darl: "uhhh, ermm, ahhh, ermm
... what are the chances that there were more complex life-forms? fish like creatures? Is there any evidence that if anything existed it would have been limited to simple single-celular organisms?
They've found the Beagle :=)
Following in SCO's footsteps, I have decided to sell licences for your use of the internet. That's correct - you're favourite intraweb browser contains code which is my intellectual property.
... was directly copied from numerous projects I have developed.
For example, look a line 321 in main.c:
for(i=0; i<count; i++)
Or line 5:
unsigned int i;
Thankfully you can use the internet legally! That's right - simply PayPal your payment to payments AT zone-mr DOT ath DOT cx now!
Personally I don't want Google reading/analysing my e-mail. Even if is just some algorithm.
Why not? Ashamed of what the computer software will think. With every email system, the administrators could easilly be able to read your emails without you even knowing. Having an algorithm analyise the text is hardly an invasion of privacy.
If they can avoid yahoo's extremely bloated interface and stick with google's simplicity for their webmail, the idea might be a winner.
Of course they will need to invest a lot of effort into spam filtering for the service to be of any value.
http://randomfoo.net/junk/lag.jpg
This seems like an obscure idea for security... while it may work, it seems messy. Why not just connect to one port and send a secret string of characters.... oh, wait, it's called a "password".
Also this knocking approach is potentially easy to sniff. A single port to which clients connect and authenticate via a secure method like challenge/response authentication seems to make a lot more sense.
In a perfect world... spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penisses, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship.
:D
/me goes and kicks self.
Thanks.
Can someone please verify this?
For all I know Mr. AC could have posted his 'friends' phone number, got modded up as informative, and exploited the slashdot crowd to arrange a personal vendetta against some random bloke.
"(1) Checkbox to disable "kiosk mode" from EVER happening!"
Don't you have to start internet explorer with the -k command line to run it in kiosk mode? What is the point in having a checkbox to disable something you only use when you want to?
1) Think of a good *idea*
2) Implement it in your spare time
3) Try and market it, working for yourself
4) PROFIT!?
5) Only if it works, leave your current job.
There are millions of people who want to work in an IT field. Working for your average employer is unlikely to earn you more than a mediocre salary.
Your only chance of taking off is having a good idea, WORKING FOR YOURSELF, and being able to comit a lot of time into experementing. Keep your current job, work for yourself in the afternoons, and only consider switching if you can sense success.
Because the bandwidth in WiMax will be shared between many users in a 50km radius.
You can't create a javascript that will automatically sign up, because hardly any browsers allow cross site scripting.
What would be the point in this?
Hence the advice to keep a notepad by the bed to write things down if you want to recall your dreams. I don't see why this wouldn't extend to dreams that may help solve problems.
;)
I tried this once. Sure enough, I managed to solve a highly complicated coding challenge in my dreams. I got my notepad, and jotted down the solution.
Woke up the next morning, looked at my notepad, only to see strange characters and pseudo-random scribbles. Now I need to find a way to decrypt what I wrote
Disney DVD with ff-disabled ads eating up, oh, the first 1/2 hour of the damned things (which is 1/2 the reason that, if i do buy a Disney movie, it's on cassette).
Hmmm, not sure about where you live, but here in the UK the majority of decent DVD players are sold region free and with PUOPS disabled.
If you RTFA you will find:
"The windows are fitted with a microfiber LCD screen, which can make them opaque or display light from a television projector. The computer monitor is fully integrated into the window, allowing it to receive and display information without projection. It can even handle touch-screen commands."
So it seems it uses a combination of both technologies.