It's good to see Aladdin Systems are demonstrating their lossy text compression technology by saying that the ZIP format is "getting broke" rather than "getting broken"
Forgive me for sounding dumb, but how does a 'do it yourself' barcode scanning work ? Is that just for finding out what the price is on something, or are you saying that place actually lets you scan your own groceries and just pay the money at the end ?
I live in New Zealand. You can buy guns for hunting and so forth, becuase we do have a lot of bush and people do like to go into said bush and kill things in there.
The New Zealand police do not carry guns under normal circumstances, because 99% of the time, they don't need to. The other 1% of the time, they call in the Armed Offenders Squad, which is a group of firearms trained officers distributed throughout the country (who also get to wear black and look cool)
Whenever they are called out to deal with something, it makes national news. If they actually use their guns, it makes front page news.
That should give you Americans some idea of how often criminals are armed here, and what people think of it when they are.
-1 redundant ? jeeze you moderators are mean today. There was only one other post asking that when I posted which I didn't see until later as it was buried in a thread.
I didn't see anyone answering the question either.
Does anyone know for sure if radio scanners/walkmans/gps receives are actually prohibited for use during flight ?
I know that in reality it comes down to the fact that the dumb flight attendant doesn't know the difference between a scanner and a cellphone and tells you to turn it off anwyay, but since those devices are by definition and design receive-only devices, and are incapable of transmitting a signal, why should they be considered dangerous in any way ?
A powered-on cellphone creates a basic connection to all the cell sites it can see. It does this so that it and the cellsite can evaluate which one has the best signal (and isn't full) and to allow seamless hand-offs between cell sites.
If you turn your cellphone on at 30,000ft, chances are your phone can see a heck of a lot of cell sites. Note that I didn't say 'make a call'.. I said 'turn your phone one'. This is an important distinction. It will attempt to establish a connection with as many cellsites as the phone's firmware can handle concurrently. I've no idea what this is these days but my old old old siemens s3 had a debug mode and it would track about 5-10 sites at any one time.
Let's say that there are 50 cellphones that are powered on, and that each cellphone can track 15 cellsites. Because of the height, those phones are very likely to find 15 sites despite downward pointed aerials on the ground.
And the upshot of that is that with all the channels used up on the ground under the plane, people trying to make calls will find that there are no longer any channels free over a large physical area on the ground.
Secondly, if you turn your phone on in a plane and it is physically very far from a cellsite, then the frist thing the phone does is increases its power output in an attempt to reach further.
This is something I've worried about before because we have a server room with very very bad cellphone coverage at work. Given that there is a chance that the RF signal will cause an electric current through induction inside one of the servers, it's logical that the stronger the RF signal, the more likely that chance is.
Ironally, it seems to me that the best way to reduce the chance of EM interference in a server room is to ensure that there is GOOD coverage in there, so that the phone only needs to transmit at the lowest power setting.
Now think about the navigation system in the plane - if all the cellphones are finding weak signals, and they all turn their power output up to maximum, what does that do to the change of a phone interfering with the navigation system.
And in other news, the RIAA today raided ISPs across the country, forcing them to hand over personal details of customers using broadband connections.
A spokesman for the RIAA told reporters that the only reason for anyone to need more than 56k dialup modem connections was for piracy.
The RIAA had previously attempted to shut down peer-to-peer filesharing by trying to identify the individuals sharing large amounts of files, but attempts were blocked by large ISPs such as Verizon, who claimed they were protecting the privacy of their customers by refusing to identify those who were using p2p software.
This new approach allowed the monolithic company to sue 'in bulk'.
"Obviously there will be some broadband users who get sued that have never shared any files in their life, but just because they didn't know they could doesn't mean we're not going to get money out of them!", said RIAA representative I P Nightly.
Have you got some automatic flamebait generator script there or do you actually go to the trouble of changing the nouns every time you post that message ?
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When that same hard drive can be dropped while spinning without any data loss
and of course when it can be run for more than 5 minutes on the clie's battery...
Does anyone know how google GOT the copy of that page in the first place ? Is there a registered google user that the bot presents via saved cookies every time it goes to that site ?
The exploit we're talking about here is the legally 'clean' way of running linux on an xbox, because it doesn't require you to open the box or modify the ROM code
If you want to automatically load linux (or anything other than microsoft's kernel) on startup, then you must modify that bootup code somehow, which breaks the license agreement you have with microsoft, and obviosly any warranty on the xbox.
The hack is essentially just an exploit of a buffer overflow in the game load code of the game 'Agent Under Fire' (AUF).
Once the buffer overflow was found, it was a relatively simple matter of creating a doctored save game that caused the xbox to boot off the hard drive when you try and 'load' that saved game file.
So to boot into linux, you have to buy AUF, obtain the doctored save game and get it onto the machine (I'm not sure how you go about that part.. perhaps the xbox has some removable media), then boot into AUF, go through the menu system, load your doctored save game, and behold, your xbox will boot into linux.
not just a 6509.. you can get -PWR versions of the 3500 series switches, as well as standalone powered patch panels that you install into the risers.
Its probably worth noting that the powered patch panels supply power on different wires from the powered switches
Call me dumb / ignorant / stupid / trusting, or whatever else you want, but honestly, what is the problem here ?
As far as I can see, RFID tags are just a method by which you can get the tags to respond with preset information when they are queried over a relatively short distance.
So for example, you could scan me, and find out I'm wearing what shoes I have on, what colour jacket etc, but would it really give you any more information that you could get by just looking at the stuff I'm wearing yourself ?
I could scan my room and find all the cards I have installed in my motherboard (and what sort of motherboard I have), but again, that information is already there if I just open the case and take a look.
While trying to come up with a negative or dishonest use for the technology, I could only really think of something like being able to scan the contents of a warehouse or personal home from outside - ie, giving thieves a way to know what was in there before they decided whether it was worth breaking in or not.
I'm open to being corrected here, but it seems that people are objecting to the use of these things just because they want to object to their use.
IYRTA (if you read the article), or several of the already posted comments here, you would see that they're doing this by making smaller pits on the CD, and not employing any actual data compression methods at all.
This creates a CD that nobody else can read.
At least with zISO, you can easily set up another linux box to read the CD if your own gets toasted.
It would be quite a bit harder to read this type of CD's if your drive died and you didn't have a few spare ones lying around.
I only mention this because the whole topic here is about how things get fixed more quickly in open source projects, and I know of several glaring examples of where this is not the case at all.
As for mozilla, one of my pet peeves is this one -
A 'bug' originally submitted in October 2001 asking for the Home button to be restored to its rightful place on the tool bar, like every other browser on the planet (okay that's a generalisation). My point is that despite everyone agreeing it should be there, and with some people even writing and submitting the code to do it themselves, the assigned programmer refuses to accept the patch or even agree that some people might want it there.
Comment #78 (not mine) sums it up nicely:
"I am appalled. 38 votes, 77 comments. Wontfix because I don't want to."
I apologise if this sounds like flamebait, but it does irritate me somewhat.
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It's good to see Aladdin Systems are demonstrating their lossy text compression technology by saying that the ZIP format is "getting broke" rather than "getting broken"
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Forgive me for sounding dumb, but how does a 'do it yourself' barcode scanning work ? Is that just for finding out what the price is on something, or are you saying that place actually lets you scan your own groceries and just pay the money at the end ?
The what ?
sounds like technobabble to me
I live in New Zealand. You can buy guns for hunting and so forth, becuase we do have a lot of bush and people do like to go into said bush and kill things in there.
The New Zealand police do not carry guns under normal circumstances, because 99% of the time, they don't need to. The other 1% of the time, they call in the Armed Offenders Squad, which is a group of firearms trained officers distributed throughout the country (who also get to wear black and look cool)
Whenever they are called out to deal with something, it makes national news. If they actually use their guns, it makes front page news.
That should give you Americans some idea of how often criminals are armed here, and what people think of it when they are.
-1 redundant ? jeeze you moderators are mean today. There was only one other post asking that when I posted which I didn't see until later as it was buried in a thread.
I didn't see anyone answering the question either.
Does anyone know for sure if radio scanners/walkmans/gps receives are actually prohibited for use during flight ?
I know that in reality it comes down to the fact that the dumb flight attendant doesn't know the difference between a scanner and a cellphone and tells you to turn it off anwyay, but since those devices are by definition and design receive-only devices, and are incapable of transmitting a signal, why should they be considered dangerous in any way ?
A powered-on cellphone creates a basic connection to all the cell sites it can see. It does this so that it and the cellsite can evaluate which one has the best signal (and isn't full) and to allow seamless hand-offs between cell sites.
If you turn your cellphone on at 30,000ft, chances are your phone can see a heck of a lot of cell sites. Note that I didn't say 'make a call'.. I said 'turn your phone one'. This is an important distinction. It will attempt to establish a connection with as many cellsites as the phone's firmware can handle concurrently. I've no idea what this is these days but my old old old siemens s3 had a debug mode and it would track about 5-10 sites at any one time.
Let's say that there are 50 cellphones that are powered on, and that each cellphone can track 15 cellsites. Because of the height, those phones are very likely to find 15 sites despite downward pointed aerials on the ground.
And the upshot of that is that with all the channels used up on the ground under the plane, people trying to make calls will find that there are no longer any channels free over a large physical area on the ground.
Secondly, if you turn your phone on in a plane and it is physically very far from a cellsite, then the frist thing the phone does is increases its power output in an attempt to reach further.
This is something I've worried about before because we have a server room with very very bad cellphone coverage at work. Given that there is a chance that the RF signal will cause an electric current through induction inside one of the servers, it's logical that the stronger the RF signal, the more likely that chance is.
Ironally, it seems to me that the best way to reduce the chance of EM interference in a server room is to ensure that there is GOOD coverage in there, so that the phone only needs to transmit at the lowest power setting.
Now think about the navigation system in the plane - if all the cellphones are finding weak signals, and they all turn their power output up to maximum, what does that do to the change of a phone interfering with the navigation system.
And in other news, the RIAA today raided ISPs across the country, forcing them to hand over personal details of customers using broadband connections.
A spokesman for the RIAA told reporters that the only reason for anyone to need more than 56k dialup modem connections was for piracy.
The RIAA had previously attempted to shut down peer-to-peer filesharing by trying to identify the individuals sharing large amounts of files, but attempts were blocked by large ISPs such as Verizon, who claimed they were protecting the privacy of their customers by refusing to identify those who were using p2p software.
This new approach allowed the monolithic company to sue 'in bulk'.
"Obviously there will be some broadband users who get sued that have never shared any files in their life, but just because they didn't know they could doesn't mean we're not going to get money out of them!", said RIAA representative I P Nightly.
Hahahahahahahahaha :)
Have you got some automatic flamebait generator script there or do you actually go to the trouble of changing the nouns every time you post that message ?
and of course when it can be run for more than 5 minutes on the clie's battery...
If that's the best, most well thought out description your boss can come up with, I suggest you find another job!
Does anyone know how google GOT the copy of that page in the first place ? Is there a registered google user that the bot presents via saved cookies every time it goes to that site ?
The exploit we're talking about here is the legally 'clean' way of running linux on an xbox, because it doesn't require you to open the box or modify the ROM code
If you want to automatically load linux (or anything other than microsoft's kernel) on startup, then you must modify that bootup code somehow, which breaks the license agreement you have with microsoft, and obviosly any warranty on the xbox.
It's a sad sad day when someone gets modded up for explaining how hexadecimal works on slashdot.org
Come on.. are we geeks or mice here ?
The hack is essentially just an exploit of a buffer overflow in the game load code of the game 'Agent Under Fire' (AUF).
Once the buffer overflow was found, it was a relatively simple matter of creating a doctored save game that caused the xbox to boot off the hard drive when you try and 'load' that saved game file.
So to boot into linux, you have to buy AUF, obtain the doctored save game and get it onto the machine (I'm not sure how you go about that part.. perhaps the xbox has some removable media), then boot into AUF, go through the menu system, load your doctored save game, and behold, your xbox will boot into linux.
not just a 6509.. you can get -PWR versions of the 3500 series switches, as well as standalone powered patch panels that you install into the risers. Its probably worth noting that the powered patch panels supply power on different wires from the powered switches
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Call me dumb / ignorant / stupid / trusting, or whatever else you want, but honestly, what is the problem here ?
As far as I can see, RFID tags are just a method by which you can get the tags to respond with preset information when they are queried over a relatively short distance.
So for example, you could scan me, and find out I'm wearing what shoes I have on, what colour jacket etc, but would it really give you any more information that you could get by just looking at the stuff I'm wearing yourself ?
I could scan my room and find all the cards I have installed in my motherboard (and what sort of motherboard I have), but again, that information is already there if I just open the case and take a look.
While trying to come up with a negative or dishonest use for the technology, I could only really think of something like being able to scan the contents of a warehouse or personal home from outside - ie, giving thieves a way to know what was in there before they decided whether it was worth breaking in or not.
I'm open to being corrected here, but it seems that people are objecting to the use of these things just because they want to object to their use.
IYRTA (if you read the article), or several of the already posted comments here, you would see that they're doing this by making smaller pits on the CD, and not employing any actual data compression methods at all.
This creates a CD that nobody else can read.
At least with zISO, you can easily set up another linux box to read the CD if your own gets toasted.
It would be quite a bit harder to read this type of CD's if your drive died and you didn't have a few spare ones lying around.
Not quite... there are many other uses for a knife, but not many other uses for a satellite signal decoder (doorstop maybe?)
Doesn't Microsoft's EULA spefically prohibit the resale of Microsoft liences ?
It's not the flying per se that's difficult, it's the knowing-what-to-do-immediately-when-something-goes -wrong, that a trained pilot has in his head.
It's not hard to drive a formula one racing car either, or to fly to the moon, but both require a far bit of preparation and training.
I thought it was there to secure his joystick for those times when he's really yanking it hard to one side.
Joystick (n). Computing peripheral used by consenting adults.
No need to file a bug report as several have already been submitted
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http://www.openoffice.org/project/www/issues/sh
http://www.openoffice.org/projec
http://www.openoffice.org/proje
2 of those haven't been touched for some time.
I only mention this because the whole topic here is about how things get fixed more quickly in open source projects, and I know of several glaring examples of where this is not the case at all.
As for mozilla, one of my pet peeves is this one -
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=893
A 'bug' originally submitted in October 2001 asking for the Home button to be restored to its rightful place on the tool bar, like every other browser on the planet (okay that's a generalisation). My point is that despite everyone agreeing it should be there, and with some people even writing and submitting the code to do it themselves, the assigned programmer refuses to accept the patch or even agree that some people might want it there.
Comment #78 (not mine) sums it up nicely:
"I am appalled.
38 votes, 77 comments.
Wontfix because I don't want to."
I apologise if this sounds like flamebait, but it does irritate me somewhat.