"Ethics" posted a provocative offer on muzzfuzz.com, one of the crime-facilitating online marketplaces being monitored by the Secret Service as part of Operation Firewall.
Makes you wonder how many other crackers have gotten access to similar information, but weren't stupid enough to post that fact online, but went to a competitor (or the local Godfather, or the Chinese embassy) instead.
I think the news here is that they've actually done the calculations. They knew it would change two weeks ago, but not what the final number would be. Slate's "Explainer" had an article on scientists' expectations of this right after the quake.
It continues to be developed and maintained by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and its partners.
I wonder how long that will last. Security, terrorists, blah blah blah.
Couldn't the Army take further develpment "private" without violating the GPL? (For those portions that are under the GPL.) My interpretation is that internal distribution wouldn't necessitate source distribution under the GPL, but then IANAL.
And a hack will be made, a firmware update released and in the end we
will be back to what we are doing today.
Weird thing is, they seem to acknowledge that:
From TFA: "In large part, the issue with the new players will solve itself," said Chris Buma, an A/V program manager with Philips Consumer Electronics, at a press conference held by the DVD+RW Alliance here. "It is a restriction, but a restriction that can be overcome."
What about generic names for product functions that come after the product name? like Xerox.
Nah. They don't even want their names to be generic. (Use xerox or kleenex casually in a publication and you'll get a polite letter from their lawyers. If it happens too much, they lose the trademark.)
My beef is with companies who take seek to position themselves as the ur-version of a product through sleight of nomenclature. It's lazy, disingenuous, and sows confusion (the last being part of the intent, of course.)
It's not even limited to hardware. There was a style of music popular twenty years ago called "Industrial Disco" (Industrial music you can dance to.) Some band came along and named themselves "Industrial Disco." Pathetic.
Nowhere in your article do I see the word "Linux" but you throw it into your synopsis. Was that for the benefit slashdot to make you cool?
Lighten up, Francis. This is slashdot. If she was reviewing a friggin' toaster oven it would be incumbent upon her to tell us whether it runs linux. Or if it clusters. Or if they've got faster ones in Korea.
It sounds like you want an Alphasmart keyboard. It's a PDA stuck on a laptop-size keyboard, essentially. Much like the Mac eMate, if you remember those. Check out the text-display on the Neo--it can be quite large.
There was an earlier version that was more keyboard and less PDA (essentially a buffered keyboard with a tiny display.) You might be able to find a used one of those on eBay. I think they were $100 brand new, so it would fall within your budget (if these don't--they're cagey about the price.)
If hydrogen takes off, you'll see the "oil companies" quickly become the "hydrogen companies". After all, they're the ones with fuel distribution expertise. Where are you going to fill up your hydrogen-powered car? At the gas station (and finally, Brits and Americans will agree on what their cars' fuel is called!)
Odd bit in TFA: "internal combustion engines can be rather easily modified to run on hydrogen instead of hydrocarbons." Is that so? I understand why jets can be converted easily, but my Honda can too?
Have computers gotten better at analyzing grammar? I remember this being a bit of a sticking point, but that was ten years ago. If so, this sounds like an excellent idea.
True, but the solution may be the same: take it down a little at time. Remember, the problem isn't that millions of tons (or whatever) of rock are going to end up in the sea. It's that they're going to end up there at the same time. If you distribute that same amount over several 'trips' into the ocean, it amounts to a lot of little waves.
Even if you can't eliminate the threat, might it not be possible to reduce it? Think of the danger to your house posed by a 12 foot tree versus a 24 foot tree.
At least in the Atlantic, we have an early warning system for Tsunamis
Untrue. The Pacific has the only dedicated system (although Tsunamis may be inferred from other equipment like tidal gauges.)
I assume this has been contemplated, but couldn't we cause the threatening hunk of rock to slide in a safer direction? Like cutting down a tottering tree?
I believe they are trying to say that the viruses that they are
talking about in the article are indeed "Windows Viruses"
Indeed they are. I was looking for an 'except linux/OSX/etc' paragraph and missed the 'we're talking about Windows' one. It's the/. story that perpetuates the 'computer virus' language, not the article. Go figure.
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"Ethics" posted a provocative offer on muzzfuzz.com, one of the crime-facilitating online marketplaces being monitored by the Secret Service as part of Operation Firewall.
Makes you wonder how many other crackers have gotten access to similar information, but weren't stupid enough to post that fact online, but went to a competitor (or the local Godfather, or the Chinese embassy) instead.
Seriously, are their email clients that display images in the subject line?!
Piece of cake, mate ;-)
i heard this two weeks ago...
I think the news here is that they've actually done the calculations. They knew it would change two weeks ago, but not what the final number would be. Slate's "Explainer" had an article on scientists' expectations of this right after the quake.
Welcome to Iceburg, Drygalski. Population 0.
Doh! I finally get a story on slashdot, and I have a typo. Well, I feel a little better that someone at NOAA did the same thing here.
And who the heck modded you offtopic? They didn't R the FA, obviously.
Haha, well according to the rota [bbc.co.uk], his name is actually Declan and he is working right now...
And right now he's password-protecting the rota. Good work Declan!
It shows everyone the almighty web power they are with over 40 webservers and 12 firewalls
Well, it's rather a lot, but "almighty?" What ever happened to British undertatement?
Is it possible to have article summaries that at least clue intelligent people
Especially when you have code words like "Atlantic" and "Eclipse"--I thought this was a science story at first.
It continues to be developed and maintained by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and its partners.
I wonder how long that will last. Security, terrorists, blah blah blah.
Couldn't the Army take further develpment "private" without violating the GPL? (For those portions that are under the GPL.) My interpretation is that internal distribution wouldn't necessitate source distribution under the GPL, but then IANAL.
They're not really handing out any awards! They're just making it up!
Here's the article text, Bittorent style: ...von Lohmann, a lawyer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, because Linux...
C'mon, start serving you leeches! That's all I got!
And a hack will be made, a firmware update released and in the end we will be back to what we are doing today.
Weird thing is, they seem to acknowledge that:
From TFA: "In large part, the issue with the new players will solve itself," said Chris Buma, an A/V program manager with Philips Consumer Electronics, at a press conference held by the DVD+RW Alliance here. "It is a restriction, but a restriction that can be overcome."
What about generic names for product functions that come after the product name? like Xerox.
Nah. They don't even want their names to be generic. (Use xerox or kleenex casually in a publication and you'll get a polite letter from their lawyers. If it happens too much, they lose the trademark.)
My beef is with companies who take seek to position themselves as the ur-version of a product through sleight of nomenclature. It's lazy, disingenuous, and sows confusion (the last being part of the intent, of course.)
It's not even limited to hardware. There was a style of music popular twenty years ago called "Industrial Disco" (Industrial music you can dance to.) Some band came along and named themselves "Industrial Disco." Pathetic.
OK, everybody. Time for a new rule: You cannot name your product after the generic name for your product's function!
Got that? No HP Media Hub, no IBM Personal Computer, no MS DOS!
Nowhere in your article do I see the word "Linux" but you throw it into your synopsis. Was that for the benefit slashdot to make you cool?
Lighten up, Francis. This is slashdot. If she was reviewing a friggin' toaster oven it would be incumbent upon her to tell us whether it runs linux. Or if it clusters. Or if they've got faster ones in Korea.
It sounds like you want an Alphasmart keyboard. It's a PDA stuck on a laptop-size keyboard, essentially. Much like the Mac eMate, if you remember those. Check out the text-display on the Neo--it can be quite large.
There was an earlier version that was more keyboard and less PDA (essentially a buffered keyboard with a tiny display.) You might be able to find a used one of those on eBay. I think they were $100 brand new, so it would fall within your budget (if these don't--they're cagey about the price.)
If hydrogen takes off, you'll see the "oil companies" quickly become the "hydrogen companies". After all, they're the ones with fuel distribution expertise. Where are you going to fill up your hydrogen-powered car? At the gas station (and finally, Brits and Americans will agree on what their cars' fuel is called!)
Odd bit in TFA: "internal combustion engines can be rather easily modified to run on hydrogen instead of hydrocarbons." Is that so? I understand why jets can be converted easily, but my Honda can too?
Funny as that quote is, it turns out that JFK's pronounciation was actually correct, and he was saying "person from Berlin",
Not true. "Ich bin Berliner" is "I am a person from Berlin." JFK said "Ich bin ein Berliner" which is "I am a jelly doughnut."
Having said that, it's a common mistake for native english speakers to make, and I'm sure nobody was confused about his meaning!
Are there games that are more dependant on actually being able to communicate?
What's arabic for "You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike?"
Have computers gotten better at analyzing grammar? I remember this being a bit of a sticking point, but that was ten years ago. If so, this sounds like an excellent idea.
Sometimes I think it would be easier to grab the whole damned thing, strip out what isn't in topic...
So do that. Why is forking a bad thing? I thought that was the whole point of open-source.
It is helpful to think of the apostrophe in "it's" as a remnant of the dot over the "i" in "is".
This would apply equally to Apple et al.
Say what you will about Macs, I for one would hate to be involved in government printing down there once this kicks in.
It's a significant land mass, it's not a tree.
True, but the solution may be the same: take it down a little at time. Remember, the problem isn't that millions of tons (or whatever) of rock are going to end up in the sea. It's that they're going to end up there at the same time. If you distribute that same amount over several 'trips' into the ocean, it amounts to a lot of little waves.
Even if you can't eliminate the threat, might it not be possible to reduce it? Think of the danger to your house posed by a 12 foot tree versus a 24 foot tree.
At least in the Atlantic, we have an early warning system for Tsunamis
Untrue. The Pacific has the only dedicated system (although Tsunamis may be inferred from other equipment like tidal gauges.)
I assume this has been contemplated, but couldn't we cause the threatening hunk of rock to slide in a safer direction? Like cutting down a tottering tree?
I believe they are trying to say that the viruses that they are talking about in the article are indeed "Windows Viruses"
Indeed they are. I was looking for an 'except linux/OSX/etc' paragraph and missed the 'we're talking about Windows' one. It's the /. story that perpetuates the 'computer virus' language, not the article. Go figure.