I was looking at a Freerunner for my next phone this summer, but I can't seem to get the real state of that project anywhere, not even on openmoko.org. Is there a source somewhere for complete infos?
I'd like to use it primarily as a phone (incredible, right?), then make an app for it that uses the GPS and accelerometers on my spare time.
You should look at the EDIINT AS2 protocol, AKA RFC 4130. This is a widely-used e-commerce protocol built over HTTP/S.
AS2 provides cryptographic signatures for authentification of the file at reception, non-repudiation and message delivery confirmation (if no confirmation is returned, the transfer is considered a failure), and is geared towards files. There is even an open-source implementation avaliable.
More complex than FTP/SFTP but entirely worth it if your data is mission-critical and/or confidential. Plus, passes through most networks because it is based on HTTP.
With an accoustic coupler, you can't dream of going much over 2400 bps regardless of line quality.
At 2400bps you can read the text "live" in the download stream(!) And I remember well that sending 1 megabyte by Zmodem took about 1 hour.... not practical when you are sitting in a payphone booth, except for small amounts of data.
Wooden shoes are called "sabot" in French only (as far as I know) and the root of the word "sabotage" can be translated by "sabot job".
The reason that sabotage is used in many languages is that famous (early??) anti-industrial manifestations took place in France and involved stopping the machines with shoes as you said.
The problem is that you are not targeting the right degree for the job.
Somebody with an M Sc is great with theory in a particular field (in my case, it was AI) and somewhat proficient with general CS/IS theory. Practical programming skills is an optional plus (which I had). For people with an M Sc, you can check if they made a practical application of their paper to ferret out those which know how to program.
If you get somebody that has a technical-type degree in programming, they will be able to answer right out of the box because programming is their whole curriculum. Simple, efficient. Then you will have to provide the explanations/directions for the non-basic theory because they are mostly coders.
Not to disparage one or the other; you have to choose the right profile for the job.
You're tossing around big numbers as the "real cost" when they don't make sense. If the telcos can maintain the copper for a landline, rent it for 25$ a month and turn a profit, there is NO CHANCE IN HELL that killing the landline business will make the copper suddenly cost 100$ a month.
Vonage is selling a service that requires another service sold by someone else to work, you're right on that. I counter that there is no business problem with that: I can name you two businesses that work splendidly that way: console game companies, and car part makers. Both require that somebody else do well selling something (a compatible console, a car) and nobody thinks that because they "don't own the value-drivers" they are dead.
Anyway, "Wall Street value" and "real life value" of a company never line up except in extraordinary coincidences. "Wall street value" is completely driven by speculation about the progress of *the share price* and not on the progress of *the company*.
Give ANYONE direct witdrawing access to any of your bank accounts, or they will one day use it as their personal piggy bank.
Even if you only deposit what you owe them in the accound, you will face overdraft fees.
Anyway, that is an ugly hack in the age of internet bill paying. All my bills are paid (a) on a credit card if it cannot be avoided OR (b) registered in my bank portal so I can send a payment at my leisure. The two options give me full control of who gets how much, and when.
And in the event of a dispute about the amount owed, I can still pay the rent because I only have one call to make to initiate a chargeback. I know people who got their main account emptied by Bell after an "error". If Bell cannot be trusted, who can?
The problem is that if you refuse, you earn an automatic conviction. At least you can fight the machine's result, but the law is clear cut if you do not submit to the test.
A better way to prove your innocence is to insist on a blood sample taken quickly after your arrest. BAC is done in labs and should be repeatable. Some jurisdictions only use the blood samples in court and take the breathalizer as a pre-test do decide to draw blood.
As an amateur diver, I do NOT recommend gluing your O-ring. These things lose their suppleness and crack, rendering them ineffective.
Make sure the groove is very smooth to prevent nicking the ring, insert the o-ring in it and lube the ring once in a while (once a year should be more than enough) with silicone grease.
As for Epoxy: it should do the job in a pinch, but I would recommend looking at some silicone gelly like Olympus uses for it's Tough cameras. More flexibility = less cracking = less possibility of water seeping to the board. Most USB keys get flexed often in pockets, etc.
Hey, I know it's overkill for a 10$ trinket, but if you gotta do it, you gotta do it in style.
Pfah! They only need $1B to do that! It's not as if anybody would compete to buy such a dead horse. And they will probably get as a bonus the plans for the hush-hush 100MPG carburetor everybody says does not exist.
See: Profit! and: I for one welcome our blue-screening 100MPG car overlords.
This sounds like 4th grade chilren playing music together: no one is on the same beat, and nobody follows the rythm. Technically, everybody follows the melody, but what a mess!
We did a pilot project at my workplace (800-1000 users, pilot of ~30) and everything went smoothly because we gave a course to all. Message: factor some training for all users in the transition costs.
To answer the specific question: OO.o can save in.doc/.xls format, only macros are of concern (I did not test that). As for communicating with others without OO.o, making PDFs is the way to guarantee page layout, and it's free! People loved that feature, spared the hassle of procuring Acrobat licences.
Let me tell you: 10% is more of a normal number than 28%. I graduated in 2001, and most women (about 2/3) chose CS not because they liked the subject but because it was the easy, high-paying career.
Face it: CS and engineering are not subjects women like. Women in hard science tend to flock in the chemistry (including chem. eng.) and biology/microbiology departments. Just like men don't flock to medical science departments (except MD because the salary is extreme). It is NOT the symptom of a problem anywhere.
It's probably going to generate extremely toxic dihydrogen monoxyde and diamonds. Greedy corporate bastards will get all the bling and we chumps will drink a known poison.
Let me tell you, this is just the tip of the iceberg.
I had a friend get one of his post-dated cheques cashed months before the date (with extra-salty fees attached of course). The depositor did not even falsify the date!
A TV network program (JE on the TVA network in Canada) even tried making cheques with signatures bearing no resemblance to the one attached to the account (like ROGER in block letters for a woman's account) an the banks passed them and TOLD THE CAMERA that signatures are not checked before approving a transaction!
Banks don't care because cheque fraud creates excuses for them to extract fees ("research" fees, overdraft fees, transaction fees) from their clients. ==> Profit!
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Exactly, you would be doomed to do it wrong if you tried.
I was looking at a Freerunner for my next phone this summer, but I can't seem to get the real state of that project anywhere, not even on openmoko.org.
Is there a source somewhere for complete infos?
I'd like to use it primarily as a phone (incredible, right?), then make an app for it that uses the GPS and accelerometers on my spare time.
You should look at the EDIINT AS2 protocol, AKA RFC 4130. This is a widely-used e-commerce protocol built over HTTP/S.
AS2 provides cryptographic signatures for authentification of the file at reception, non-repudiation and message delivery confirmation (if no confirmation is returned, the transfer is considered a failure), and is geared towards files. There is even an open-source implementation avaliable.
More complex than FTP/SFTP but entirely worth it if your data is mission-critical and/or confidential. Plus, passes through most networks because it is based on HTTP.
With an accoustic coupler, you can't dream of going much over 2400 bps regardless of line quality.
At 2400bps you can read the text "live" in the download stream(!) And I remember well that sending 1 megabyte by Zmodem took about 1 hour.... not practical when you are sitting in a payphone booth, except for small amounts of data.
Wooden shoes are called "sabot" in French only (as far as I know) and the root of the word "sabotage" can be translated by "sabot job".
The reason that sabotage is used in many languages is that famous (early??) anti-industrial manifestations took place in France and involved stopping the machines with shoes as you said.
Compute and Byte were, at the time I read them, utter crap. Adverts with a thin wrapping of comparos and "toy of the month" articles.
Granted, this was the end of the '80s and BASIC was way out of style...
The problem is that you are not targeting the right degree for the job.
Somebody with an M Sc is great with theory in a particular field (in my case, it was AI) and somewhat proficient with general CS/IS theory. Practical programming skills is an optional plus (which I had). For people with an M Sc, you can check if they made a practical application of their paper to ferret out those which know how to program.
If you get somebody that has a technical-type degree in programming, they will be able to answer right out of the box because programming is their whole curriculum. Simple, efficient. Then you will have to provide the explanations/directions for the non-basic theory because they are mostly coders.
Not to disparage one or the other; you have to choose the right profile for the job.
Vonage is selling a service that requires another service sold by someone else to work, you're right on that. I counter that there is no business problem with that: I can name you two businesses that work splendidly that way: console game companies, and car part makers. Both require that somebody else do well selling something (a compatible console, a car) and nobody thinks that because they "don't own the value-drivers" they are dead.
Anyway, "Wall Street value" and "real life value" of a company never line up except in extraordinary coincidences. "Wall street value" is completely driven by speculation about the progress of *the share price* and not on the progress of *the company*.
Now, tell me how I can get my hands on the private keys for these certificates WITHOUT the NSA getting them in transit?
Try the approach Cory Doctorow demonstrated in Little Brother X: do a keygen-countersigning party.
Pros:
Cons:
That's the deal before any surgeon touches my eyes: if I can't get night vision, thermographic imagery, zoom and a HUD, nothing gets done.
To hell with laser surgery, I want cyber-eyes.
Give ANYONE direct witdrawing access to any of your bank accounts, or they will one day use it as their personal piggy bank.
Even if you only deposit what you owe them in the accound, you will face overdraft fees.
Anyway, that is an ugly hack in the age of internet bill paying. All my bills are paid (a) on a credit card if it cannot be avoided OR (b) registered in my bank portal so I can send a payment at my leisure. The two options give me full control of who gets how much, and when.
And in the event of a dispute about the amount owed, I can still pay the rent because I only have one call to make to initiate a chargeback. I know people who got their main account emptied by Bell after an "error". If Bell cannot be trusted, who can?
You got that right!
I see the US does it different than in Canada: DUI is a criminal offence here, as is refusing to take the test.
See? IANA(US)L, and it shows :-)
The problem is that if you refuse, you earn an automatic conviction. At least you can fight the machine's result, but the law is clear cut if you do not submit to the test.
A better way to prove your innocence is to insist on a blood sample taken quickly after your arrest. BAC is done in labs and should be repeatable. Some jurisdictions only use the blood samples in court and take the breathalizer as a pre-test do decide to draw blood.
As an amateur diver, I do NOT recommend gluing your O-ring. These things lose their suppleness and crack, rendering them ineffective.
Make sure the groove is very smooth to prevent nicking the ring, insert the o-ring in it and lube the ring once in a while (once a year should be more than enough) with silicone grease.
As for Epoxy: it should do the job in a pinch, but I would recommend looking at some silicone gelly like Olympus uses for it's Tough cameras. More flexibility = less cracking = less possibility of water seeping to the board. Most USB keys get flexed often in pockets, etc.
Hey, I know it's overkill for a 10$ trinket, but if you gotta do it, you gotta do it in style.
Pfah! They only need $1B to do that! It's not as if anybody would compete to buy such a dead horse. And they will probably get as a bonus the plans for the hush-hush 100MPG carburetor everybody says does not exist.
See: Profit! and: I for one welcome our blue-screening 100MPG car overlords.
Free speech?
Freedom of the press?
See, Internet access is a tool to exert these rights.
Anyway, your list of basic rights is truncated, check your database logs to find who did it.
This sounds like 4th grade chilren playing music together: no one is on the same beat, and nobody follows the rythm. Technically, everybody follows the melody, but what a mess!
Cool use of the scanner and the disk drive, tho!
Something with Christopher Lambert in it, maybe?
We did a pilot project at my workplace (800-1000 users, pilot of ~30) and everything went smoothly because we gave a course to all. Message: factor some training for all users in the transition costs.
To answer the specific question: OO.o can save in .doc/.xls format, only macros are of concern (I did not test that). As for communicating with others without OO.o, making PDFs is the way to guarantee page layout, and it's free! People loved that feature, spared the hassle of procuring Acrobat licences.
Let me tell you: 10% is more of a normal number than 28%. I graduated in 2001, and most women (about 2/3) chose CS not because they liked the subject but because it was the easy, high-paying career.
Face it: CS and engineering are not subjects women like. Women in hard science tend to flock in the chemistry (including chem. eng.) and biology/microbiology departments. Just like men don't flock to medical science departments (except MD because the salary is extreme). It is NOT the symptom of a problem anywhere.
It's probably going to generate extremely toxic dihydrogen monoxyde and diamonds. Greedy corporate bastards will get all the bling and we chumps will drink a known poison.
BAN DHMO!
I wouldn't bet on (a) too much.
Question: which country has the greatest land mass in the world?
Answer: Russia.
Let me tell you, this is just the tip of the iceberg.
I had a friend get one of his post-dated cheques cashed months before the date (with extra-salty fees attached of course). The depositor did not even falsify the date!
A TV network program (JE on the TVA network in Canada) even tried making cheques with signatures bearing no resemblance to the one attached to the account (like ROGER in block letters for a woman's account) an the banks passed them and TOLD THE CAMERA that signatures are not checked before approving a transaction!
Banks don't care because cheque fraud creates excuses for them to extract fees ("research" fees, overdraft fees, transaction fees) from their clients. ==> Profit!
I'd mod you RTFA, but instead I'll hold your hand.
From the website, the user docs for Sophie 1.0.3