Wrong. GPS vertical error is around 20m/95%. However, vertical accuracy is affected pretty profoundly by latitude, if you get greater than around 65 degrees latitude accuracy quickly degrades.
I disagree,.NET and C# have actually been fairly successful. Same with the Xbox. And by the way IIRC those technologies were developed in house (I think they poached the project leader of.NET from Borland though).
Actually, the latest AIM clients are able to store your password in the form of an MD5 hash. However, theres a catch here. Your "password" is not needed to log onto the AOL Oscar service, rather only your MD5 hash which you send to the server during a challenge/response handshake. The system is actually fairly secure against man in the middle attacks, and secure only to a point from a local attack. With the hash you could directly log on with your own client, or possibly brute force the hash and get the original password back so you could log in easily with the AIM or other client.
Except.. the PS3 is like no other console seen before. So your argument doesn't stand.
Maybe we could emulate the Cell arch on x86, but the fact of the matter is that its not reasonable to even hope that any time in the foreseeable future we'll be able to run a PS3 game in an emulated environment at playable speed. The architectures are so dissimilar that even innovative emulator techniques like dynamic recompilation wouldn't be able to achieve reasonable performance. Look at the Intel and AMD roadmaps as the grandparent noted; we aren't going to have even comparable native performance in the coming years, much less the level of performance that would be required to emulate the platform at full speed.
You're thinking of one of those axis of evil countries where people can vote and they hold government accountable, like England or something.
Interesting that you subtlety assault George Bush's "axis of evil" rhetoric with more rhetoric. You know perfectly well that the comment was never meant to be applied to democratic countries like England. Your apathy with America shows through your vacuous sarcasm; apathy that clearly tints your judgment.
The fact of the matter is that the people are as easily swayed by money (marketing, my friend) as Congress is. Do you think everyone is as enlightened on this issue as the Slashdot community is? Isn't it interesting how the opinion of the people has swayed away from file sharing, with many looking down on it as an innately wrong act? For evidence of this, consider your day to day interactions as well as statistics such as Apple's music store usage surpassing that of popular file sharing networks. Dollars going to marketing and "education" campaigns can be just as productive in "axis of evil countries" as dollars going to lining the Senator's pockets. Perhaps you are the naive one.
Too bad an FBI investigation/ prosecution costs over $200,000 on average. That's 1000x the $200 ransom. Bottom line; it would have to be a widespred thing for the FBI to give a shit.
If this virus got on Linux or Mac OS X, it would _only_ affect the current user.
You can protect individual user directories in Windows XP if you set up permissions correctly, just the same as how you can protect individual user directories on Linux if you set up permissions correctly.
However, if I had an MS Win XP system at home setup as the factory default with every user an admin my wife's mistake would have lost all of my file!
I would argue that there are quite a few new Linux users who foolishly make liberal use of the root account to make certain tasks easier. While maybe a competent Linux user would not make such mistakes, theres no reason to expect that a competent user would make the same kinds of mistakes on a Windows machine.
While I wholeheartedly agree that Windows has had some serious issues in the past and present, it's not helpful when Linux extremists like you warp the truth to fit your agenda. It's people like you that are corrupting the Linux movement inside out. You should be ashamed.
The way I see it, if ISP are proactively working to classify and treat VOIP packets differently than other packets, VOIP software makers should move to mitigate these efforts. There are clear cut ways in which companies like Vonage could engineer their software which would make VOIP services virtually indistinguishable from other packets. Why can't VOIP companies play the ISP's own game?
Uh the problem is that the United States isn't Communist... and that by doing such a thing we would be trampling one of the basic tenets of capitalism: private property.
"Of the approximately one thousand developers that Sterling knows, he could only recall one directly developing under the C++ code. Whether this indicates an unwillingness on the part of developers to utilise code that is unsafe is notclear."
Uh, so Sterling only knows 1 regular C++ developer out of 1000? I find that extremely hard to believe, although it is in line with the sensationalist tone of the article...
I have to disagree. The comments are on the topic of the article posted on Slashdot, and while that topic includes a "new phone network", it also includes fairly humorous grammatical errors in the article. This is similar to how sometimes you will see people comment on how an article's language is laced with sensationalism or some other criticism of the article itself. However, those comments don't get modded off topic, so neither should this one be.
Why would anyone do that? "Let's write it all in one language. Now let's throw that all away and re-write it in another language just to say it's written in C++".
Because they don't want to complete a full blown design phase. If I want to write a quick app that is reasonably complex, then I have two options:
1. Jump right into the programming with VB
2. Spend a long time designing every facet of the program before hand
I've found that by creating a prototype in VB I can better plan out the final app than if I were just to plan out a design, and run into unforseen problems before I do the real implementation.
In the end, I actually save time this way.
I'm not sure, I googled this Dmitry guy and he actually has released some solid music software and is apparently fairly well known. He was rumored to be picked up to port WinAmp to the Mac platform in 2001 http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/0101/winamp.s html.
After reading TFA and following a few links, I came to this page: http://www.betanews.com/article/Death_Knell_Sounds _for_Nullsoft_Winamp/1100111204 and encountered the stinging accusation that Frankel may have not been the original inventor of Winamp in a comment. I wonder if this has any truth to it? Here is the comment verbatim:
"When you read this, please understand, that this is by any means no complain, but expression of my emotions trying to bring some truth to the internet community about events that took place which have been hidden from public. Although, this may read as some sort of conspiracy, this is a true story, how history really happened.
Let me begin stating that my life for the past 5 years was hell.
Truth is, Justin didn't invent WinAmp. Actually Justin Frankel is a liar, but he paid me (Dmitry Boldyrev) off to not say anything. The reason why I had to take the gag and not bring the case, which I intended to do at the time, was because I was poisoned (but who did it? hmmmmmm good question, I am still trying to figure that one out) and couldn't deal with court proceedings. For the past five years I was in hawaii trying to deal with the poison, breathing it out of my body. Try day long meditations, Mr Frankel, maybe it will bring you a better understanding of the world surrounding you. Or I guess you're not interested in the truth, the money has blinded you completely. Sure, having few millions in the trust account you probably have a different view on the world.
I would like to share what I have done with the money that I received from the miniscule settlement that I received.
1) Started a vegan restaurant in Hawaii, which was rated #1 by PeTA this year
2) Helped many musicians
What do you have to show for your millions, Mr Frankel? Yes, we've heard about your love for cars. Is this best you can do? Lets not mention your guitar playing skills, because I dont know how many people are laughing behind your back.
Before I begin, I'd like to introduce the reader to the fact that I am very sad for this country, and result of its so called elections. It just shows to me that democracy isn't happening here. The result of my history of events that took place in my life, I am starting to question, the very reason why AOL bought WinAmp. My realization led me to believe that AOL needed WinAmp to establish control over media on the internet, music media and radio media in particular. I've met a guy (right hand man of Steve Case @ AOL) Dave Cole?, nice guy actually. Interesting, at his lecture he kept referring to people as software, maybe he needs a break from his work and learn to understand people on more personal level.
As I was so closely involved, nobody even asked me about Nullsoft sale to AOL. I guess they never considered me anything more than a stupid russian who we can f*** over as much as possible. But personally, I always considered myself a 50% cofounder of Nullsoft (any thoughts on this, Mr Frankel?). So is this the American tactic that we keep hearing about, invite people from other countries, rip off their ideas, enslave them, use their ideas and talant to make money, and then take it off shores to further enslave everyone around? Long live WTO?
So, now to the story: what TRUELY happened with the whole WinAmp thing.
I met Justin Frankel at CADE lab at University of Utah in mid 1997 where we both attended engineering school. He was at the time interested in computer graphics, working on Plush 3d gfx engine. Goruraud shading, nothing too fancy. I guess it was quite fast. I was an old-skool music demo coder person. In 1989 I discovered Scream Tracker for PC, which inspired me to write music software, and ever since I've been amazed by computer music, which led me to creation of first gui mp3 player-MacAmp. Beforehand, I wrote many other music-players (for PC and Mac), like MacMik
Honestly, it's a bit ridiculous to talk about IMSmarter as creating any serious alteration to IM privacy. You're using an unencrypted channel to a centralized messaging clearing house that, in AOL's case, is located in Virginia. Ahem.
I don't buy this whole "Whats stopping AOL from logging all of your conversations and sacrificing them to the holy gods of advertising or homeland security?" on several levels.
Taking a look at AOL's privacy policy, there is no mention of logs in the "Collection of Your AIM Information" section even though they explicitly mention all the types of data they collect in that section. Not being one to trust AOL, now allow me to examine the practicality of actually logging every single AIM conversation.
There are more than 260,000,000 registered AIM names, so through the utilization of the highly scientific method of WAG (wild ass guess) I'll estimate 20,000,000 people are connected/ active at any given time. I just finished logging about 30 minutes of AIM activity in Trillian, averaging around 2.12 kbits/s. Therefore:
About 42,400,000 bits of loggable information passes through AOL's servers every second.
2544000000 (303.27 mbytes) every minute.
152640000000 (17.77 gbytes) every hour.
3663360000000 (426.47 gbytes) every day.
25643520000000 (2.92 tbytes) every week.
113564160000000 (12.9 tbytes) every month.
1338042240000000 (0.15 PETAbytes) every year.
Assuming they would use some type of ATA or SCSI based NAS (tape drives would be too slow), price per gigabyte could easily be around $8-10. So, that would mean AOL would need nearly $400,000 worth of hardware to support a 3-month logging cycle (and that's just initial cost, not counting maintenance, floor space cost, cooling, power, etc). I highly doubt peeking into the petty conversations of their users is worth that much money to them.
Besides, even if AOL does log all AIM convos, it doesn't change the fact that the basic premise behind IMSmarter - storing all your logs on a remote server, is an invasion of privacy waiting to happen. Why should we trust IMSmarter?
Its really terrible what some people will do for money.. they have curiously abstained from even raising the issue until now, after the IPO, when they will get the most press and probably win the largest sum (if they win at all).
Yeah, this "speed limit" only applies to magnetic storage devices. By the time we have the ability to get anywhere near that speed we will have solid state harddrives anyways...
Please, go and program a better OS, in Java. I don't mean to flame, but honestly, do you suggest that we should start writing OSes in interperted languages like Java? That is quite simply ridiclous.
How can you interface an interperted language with hardware, and how do you avoid using an unsafe language to program the very VM that the interperted language would be running on top of?
So, are you trying to say that clicking on a Windows installation package is on the same level of difficulty as compiling and installing a Linux app, as well as finding all the dependencies? If you are, then I'll just have to write you off as another mindless Linux drone.
Its too bad that you are so blinded by the positives of open source software that you cannot see the weaknesses of it.
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Wrong. GPS vertical error is around 20m/95%. However, vertical accuracy is affected pretty profoundly by latitude, if you get greater than around 65 degrees latitude accuracy quickly degrades.
I disagree, .NET and C# have actually been fairly successful. Same with the Xbox. And by the way IIRC those technologies were developed in house (I think they poached the project leader of .NET from Borland though).
Actually, the latest AIM clients are able to store your password in the form of an MD5 hash. However, theres a catch here. Your "password" is not needed to log onto the AOL Oscar service, rather only your MD5 hash which you send to the server during a challenge/response handshake. The system is actually fairly secure against man in the middle attacks, and secure only to a point from a local attack. With the hash you could directly log on with your own client, or possibly brute force the hash and get the original password back so you could log in easily with the AIM or other client.
Except.. the PS3 is like no other console seen before. So your argument doesn't stand.
Maybe we could emulate the Cell arch on x86, but the fact of the matter is that its not reasonable to even hope that any time in the foreseeable future we'll be able to run a PS3 game in an emulated environment at playable speed. The architectures are so dissimilar that even innovative emulator techniques like dynamic recompilation wouldn't be able to achieve reasonable performance. Look at the Intel and AMD roadmaps as the grandparent noted; we aren't going to have even comparable native performance in the coming years, much less the level of performance that would be required to emulate the platform at full speed.
Haha, only sometimes though. Every hardware failure that I've had with laptops hasn't involved gravity.
One can only assume that soon someone be reforming carjackers by letting them play the GTA.
Obviously, this should've been "soon someone done be reforming". Pft.. these posters need to learn English.
You're thinking of one of those axis of evil countries where people can vote and they hold government accountable, like England or something.
Interesting that you subtlety assault George Bush's "axis of evil" rhetoric with more rhetoric. You know perfectly well that the comment was never meant to be applied to democratic countries like England. Your apathy with America shows through your vacuous sarcasm; apathy that clearly tints your judgment.
The fact of the matter is that the people are as easily swayed by money (marketing, my friend) as Congress is. Do you think everyone is as enlightened on this issue as the Slashdot community is? Isn't it interesting how the opinion of the people has swayed away from file sharing, with many looking down on it as an innately wrong act? For evidence of this, consider your day to day interactions as well as statistics such as Apple's music store usage surpassing that of popular file sharing networks. Dollars going to marketing and "education" campaigns can be just as productive in "axis of evil countries" as dollars going to lining the Senator's pockets. Perhaps you are the naive one.
Too bad an FBI investigation/ prosecution costs over $200,000 on average. That's 1000x the $200 ransom. Bottom line; it would have to be a widespred thing for the FBI to give a shit.
If this virus got on Linux or Mac OS X, it would _only_ affect the current user.
You can protect individual user directories in Windows XP if you set up permissions correctly, just the same as how you can protect individual user directories on Linux if you set up permissions correctly.
However, if I had an MS Win XP system at home setup as the factory default with every user an admin my wife's mistake would have lost all of my file!
I would argue that there are quite a few new Linux users who foolishly make liberal use of the root account to make certain tasks easier. While maybe a competent Linux user would not make such mistakes, theres no reason to expect that a competent user would make the same kinds of mistakes on a Windows machine.
While I wholeheartedly agree that Windows has had some serious issues in the past and present, it's not helpful when Linux extremists like you warp the truth to fit your agenda. It's people like you that are corrupting the Linux movement inside out. You should be ashamed.
The way I see it, if ISP are proactively working to classify and treat VOIP packets differently than other packets, VOIP software makers should move to mitigate these efforts. There are clear cut ways in which companies like Vonage could engineer their software which would make VOIP services virtually indistinguishable from other packets. Why can't VOIP companies play the ISP's own game?
Uh the problem is that the United States isn't Communist... and that by doing such a thing we would be trampling one of the basic tenets of capitalism: private property.
horsies?
From the article:
"Of the approximately one thousand developers that Sterling knows, he could only recall one directly developing under the C++ code. Whether this indicates an unwillingness on the part of developers to utilise code that is unsafe is notclear."
Uh, so Sterling only knows 1 regular C++ developer out of 1000? I find that extremely hard to believe, although it is in line with the sensationalist tone of the article...
I have to disagree. The comments are on the topic of the article posted on Slashdot, and while that topic includes a "new phone network", it also includes fairly humorous grammatical errors in the article. This is similar to how sometimes you will see people comment on how an article's language is laced with sensationalism or some other criticism of the article itself. However, those comments don't get modded off topic, so neither should this one be.
How was this offtopic? From the article:
..."
"... had the germ of the idea
Considering the comment refers directly to the article I wouldn't call it offtopic...
Germ of an idea? Slashdot editors win again!
This isn't news at all, I mean, you guys just reported this a few days ago in the MacWorld post:
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http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/11
Why would anyone do that? "Let's write it all in one language. Now let's throw that all away and re-write it in another language just to say it's written in C++". Because they don't want to complete a full blown design phase. If I want to write a quick app that is reasonably complex, then I have two options: 1. Jump right into the programming with VB 2. Spend a long time designing every facet of the program before hand I've found that by creating a prototype in VB I can better plan out the final app than if I were just to plan out a design, and run into unforseen problems before I do the real implementation. In the end, I actually save time this way.
I'm not sure, I googled this Dmitry guy and he actually has released some solid music software and is apparently fairly well known. He was rumored to be picked up to port WinAmp to the Mac platform in 2001 http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/0101/winamp.s html.
*Shrug* I don't know..
After reading TFA and following a few links, I came to this page: http://www.betanews.com/article/Death_Knell_Sounds _for_Nullsoft_Winamp/1100111204 and encountered the stinging accusation that Frankel may have not been the original inventor of Winamp in a comment. I wonder if this has any truth to it? Here is the comment verbatim:
"When you read this, please understand, that this is by any means no complain, but expression of my emotions trying to bring some truth to the internet community about events that took place which have been hidden from public. Although, this may read as some sort of conspiracy, this is a true story, how history really happened.
Let me begin stating that my life for the past 5 years was hell.
Truth is, Justin didn't invent WinAmp. Actually Justin Frankel is a liar, but he paid me (Dmitry Boldyrev) off to not say anything. The reason why I had to take the gag and not bring the case, which I intended to do at the time, was because I was poisoned (but who did it? hmmmmmm good question, I am still trying to figure that one out) and couldn't deal with court proceedings. For the past five years I was in hawaii trying to deal with the poison, breathing it out of my body. Try day long meditations, Mr Frankel, maybe it will bring you a better understanding of the world surrounding you. Or I guess you're not interested in the truth, the money has blinded you completely. Sure, having few millions in the trust account you probably have a different view on the world.
I would like to share what I have done with the money that I received from the miniscule settlement that I received.
1) Started a vegan restaurant in Hawaii, which was rated #1 by PeTA this year
2) Helped many musicians
What do you have to show for your millions, Mr Frankel? Yes, we've heard about your love for cars. Is this best you can do? Lets not mention your guitar playing skills, because I dont know how many people are laughing behind your back.
Before I begin, I'd like to introduce the reader to the fact that I am very sad for this country, and result of its so called elections. It just shows to me that democracy isn't happening here. The result of my history of events that took place in my life, I am starting to question, the very reason why AOL bought WinAmp. My realization led me to believe that AOL needed WinAmp to establish control over media on the internet, music media and radio media in particular. I've met a guy (right hand man of Steve Case @ AOL) Dave Cole?, nice guy actually. Interesting, at his lecture he kept referring to people as software, maybe he needs a break from his work and learn to understand people on more personal level.
As I was so closely involved, nobody even asked me about Nullsoft sale to AOL. I guess they never considered me anything more than a stupid russian who we can f*** over as much as possible. But personally, I always considered myself a 50% cofounder of Nullsoft (any thoughts on this, Mr Frankel?). So is this the American tactic that we keep hearing about, invite people from other countries, rip off their ideas, enslave them, use their ideas and talant to make money, and then take it off shores to further enslave everyone around? Long live WTO?
So, now to the story: what TRUELY happened with the whole WinAmp thing.
I met Justin Frankel at CADE lab at University of Utah in mid 1997 where we both attended engineering school. He was at the time interested in computer graphics, working on Plush 3d gfx engine. Goruraud shading, nothing too fancy. I guess it was quite fast. I was an old-skool music demo coder person. In 1989 I discovered Scream Tracker for PC, which inspired me to write music software, and ever since I've been amazed by computer music, which led me to creation of first gui mp3 player-MacAmp. Beforehand, I wrote many other music-players (for PC and Mac), like MacMik
Honestly, it's a bit ridiculous to talk about IMSmarter as creating any serious alteration to IM privacy. You're using an unencrypted channel to a centralized messaging clearing house that, in AOL's case, is located in Virginia. Ahem.
I don't buy this whole "Whats stopping AOL from logging all of your conversations and sacrificing them to the holy gods of advertising or homeland security?" on several levels.
Taking a look at AOL's privacy policy, there is no mention of logs in the "Collection of Your AIM Information" section even though they explicitly mention all the types of data they collect in that section. Not being one to trust AOL, now allow me to examine the practicality of actually logging every single AIM conversation.
There are more than 260,000,000 registered AIM names, so through the utilization of the highly scientific method of WAG (wild ass guess) I'll estimate 20,000,000 people are connected/ active at any given time. I just finished logging about 30 minutes of AIM activity in Trillian, averaging around 2.12 kbits/s. Therefore:
About 42,400,000 bits of loggable information passes through AOL's servers every second.
2544000000 (303.27 mbytes) every minute.
152640000000 (17.77 gbytes) every hour.
3663360000000 (426.47 gbytes) every day.
25643520000000 (2.92 tbytes) every week.
113564160000000 (12.9 tbytes) every month.
1338042240000000 (0.15 PETAbytes) every year.
Assuming they would use some type of ATA or SCSI based NAS (tape drives would be too slow), price per gigabyte could easily be around $8-10. So, that would mean AOL would need nearly $400,000 worth of hardware to support a 3-month logging cycle (and that's just initial cost, not counting maintenance, floor space cost, cooling, power, etc). I highly doubt peeking into the petty conversations of their users is worth that much money to them.
Besides, even if AOL does log all AIM convos, it doesn't change the fact that the basic premise behind IMSmarter - storing all your logs on a remote server, is an invasion of privacy waiting to happen. Why should we trust IMSmarter?
Its really terrible what some people will do for money.. they have curiously abstained from even raising the issue until now, after the IPO, when they will get the most press and probably win the largest sum (if they win at all).
Yeah, this "speed limit" only applies to magnetic storage devices. By the time we have the ability to get anywhere near that speed we will have solid state harddrives anyways...
Please, go and program a better OS, in Java. I don't mean to flame, but honestly, do you suggest that we should start writing OSes in interperted languages like Java? That is quite simply ridiclous.
How can you interface an interperted language with hardware, and how do you avoid using an unsafe language to program the very VM that the interperted language would be running on top of?
So, are you trying to say that clicking on a Windows installation package is on the same level of difficulty as compiling and installing a Linux app, as well as finding all the dependencies? If you are, then I'll just have to write you off as another mindless Linux drone.
Its too bad that you are so blinded by the positives of open source software that you cannot see the weaknesses of it.