try searching confidently 2003:-) Although some are still saying confidentle uintill 2002 it pulls up a few that are still "confidentle" . My god now shuttle bus service (one of the confidently documents).
The problem is that the cheaper rfid tags exploded when you microve them. "Warm toasy and a hole in the back" ; the goverment will be able to identify those who like there privacy by the fact that they patch there newly bought clothes:-)
Now firstly INAL ; but from my understanding there distributing a complete binary (the rom upgrade) in binary form of a compiliation of GPL and LGP etc. works . The problem is that they havent released all of the code contained within this one honkey binary program/file ; I want the drivers! (Note : If I'm wron please let me know).
yes indeed it does:-) Most sound chipsets (onboard) tend to be nice little via chipsets which are fairly basic and in my experience have readdly avalaible linux drivers. Although they might not be autodedicated by whatever it is you use to autodetect hardware ; if you take a look on the mbo manufacutres sight they tell you what chipset they used and then go compile support into your kernel.
It was built on a minix system . Thats like saying since I wrote by programm and compiled it on linux then it is borrowing code for linux. It was based on minix in the sense that it was designed to replicate a number of the same functionality (and from my understanding replace minix and teach Linus how to code 386 assembly) .
Would you want some one to be able to control your care by radio waves remotetly ? It creates to mutch of a possibility for "terrorists" to <B>crack</B> into the onboard computer and fly you to were they want you to go. The other id with an onboard gps and sectioned of areas , it would once again be controlled by a computer and to be quite frank at this point in time I would see it causing more crashes than saving lives because the pilots could not overide it. While some people may argue that alot of what pilots do now is auto pilot that is true , the most important reason to have a pilot there is so that they can override the computer when it fucks up because we all know that will happen.
*shakes fist at* Dude are you actually suggesting self censorship on slashdot? If a company is dum enough to run unpatched servers (goes to run apt-get update apt-get upgrade *sigh*) then there going to get screwed sooner than letter . From the protoganists point of view if they hacked by a bunch of 1337 hax0rs on the 6th then they will learn there lesson (unless there rather dense) before some one breaks in and tries to steel all of their customer information . Sight defacement is in a sense a blessing , your customer information is released (hopefully) and its pretty easy to convince management to spend a bit more on security (or switch to linux!!) . Remember the 1337 hax0rs will be going for speed on the 6th so they might not bother with the whole steeling customer nfo.
I a sense I would have to say I agree . While I can understand forcing companies which charge for the services to provide those services to all (assuming it doesnt cost an arm and a leg). Resonable accomidations should not cost more than the product sells for (in this case free). Now a case could be made that microsoft is makeing money of hotmail because of advertising and therefor if the accesiability costs less than they make from advertising go ahead and force them to make it accesiable.
In Canada our goverment is addressing this for all goverment sites . Its a pain in the ass as a contractor but everything you do for the goverment of canada "has to" (I dont think they check) validate against the w3c standards , have descriptave alt tages and quite a few other things.
never threaten students & or professors doing research , it just creates bad blood and pisses the public off . We already expect companies to go after eachother , leave the academics out of it.
perhaps you should read one of the stories eh? If you read them you would knwo that an "industry sponsored bill" (cough Micro$oft) passed and a consumer sponsered bill lost its vote.
some of us arent so rich (read : university student) . If I can save $100 thats a big deal to me . As for days of work , once that 100us becomes cad (hey I'm canadain no laughing) that works out to about three days of work give or take for me.
IANAL , etc..It is very very important for FSF to seperate (espicialy right now) the Gnu tools from the linux kernel.Sco is claiming that linux as a whole violates its IP (even if it does which is bloody unlikely) it is a stratigically sound move to say that the Gnu tools are seperate so they cant sue the FSF for violating their IP . Of course knowing SCO they would try anywyas:-)
ever heard of re-flashing? not exactly the best solution (oops I did it 10,000 times and it doesnt work:-( ) . But seriously how many times are you going to a) run linux b) play xbox live?
It may not work for you but for most people you can colocate on a nice 100mb pipe and or get dedicated server on a 100mb pipe for less then the cost of a t1 . Personally I would check out theplanet and canaca . But ask around and make sure you get a good uptime gaurentee . If you want you can try and get a commitment out of the people your colocating with.
Wireless is cool yes , but imagine if everyone had to share 54mbps through out the world (or for that a few 100mbps) . It will still be better to have copper or fiber connections in addition to wireless . The problem is there is a very limited wireless specturm that we can use and we will only be able to crank a finite amount of bandwith out of it . Now I dont know about you but the other problem is that we will still need people to maintain routes , make sure that stuff works and fix it when it breaks. I dont think that everyone (except of course slashdot people) want to be responsible for maintining there own network routing even using advanced protocols (espicially for 911 type services which we currently really on telco's to provide).
The other problem with wireless is from an infrastructure point of view if our phones or internet connections stop working that hurts our economy , its way to dam easy for anyone to disrupt wireless signals (even with DSS or FHSS its still easy) to really on them for everything which we currently really on telcos for .
I'm currently a first year computing info systems student with them and I am very pleased with the qaulity . For math courses though I would not recomend them (its kind of hard to explain math over the phone and by faxes) . However there computer classes if you have problems they get back to you within two days (usually a day). They have online discussion (in MOO ; they really dont use MOO to its full potentail but once they get DALE back online that should be sweet) . The cool thing is with athabasca , you feel you know the course, you can challenge the credit and just write one or two challenge exams. Another cool thing about athabasca unversity is it is a canadian accredit university. For me that matters because I hope to transfer my credits to another university eventually .
Its not like they havent already pissed everyone off enough. Now here is the problem: Unless linus actually put the code in himself AOR he is awhere of the fact that he is violating patents and continues to distribute he is not liable (INAL).
Now if they sue linus I put forward that slashdot take up a fund to pay his legal costs and ensure that SCOs exuctives & rats(lawyers) have a slight detour on the way to courtroom.
How can have alternative GPS systems affect world peice? Honestly giving people the ability to chose , for location systems is more likely to help stabilize the world because if the US decides that they dont want "terrorist" (read other countries / public) to be able to use there GPS systems almost everyone is screwed and it would put in risk quite a few lives and possible provoke retalition. (For instance the victoria faries from vancover I beleive used DGPS for most of the navigation) . If that system gets cut off its back to the "I think this is the correct way" . Whereas with multiple systems US decides to pull the plug , big deal just switch over.
Another situation (for those who beleive everyone is a terrorist) , us GPS infrastructure is taken down by terrorists at least we have a fall back right?
This is one thing I never understand about goverments , they lock them selves into a contract and keep on renewing it without looking for cheaper alternatives . In ottawa city counsil finally woke up and founded ottawa telecom to use there power company ROW on the poles to do there own direct fiber (for cheaper inet access for schools , libraries and city goverment with medium prices for other business). Now I see NY is takeing the first step , looking for a competitor to verizon (the incumbant I'm guessing) ; as a sort of after thought why dont they see how well they could serve there own needs as well (not sugesting that they just go it alone but if its cheaper why not?).
I sincerly whish best of luck to NY with there future projects.
I keep on reading all these posts saying that medical gear is more expensive because it has to be FDA approved . Well in Canada (the frozen land to the north of america) you have to be health canada aproved . This approval costs $200 up , if you dont claim your product conforms to any standards its pretty much ruber stamping (yet we still have the same huge markup) . Makes on think about the posible business ideas (until one thinks of the lawsuits).
not that we didnt already know this , but it nice to have the company confirm that there was cheeting going on. Nvidia , at least from my POV , was consider by me to be one of the best graphics card companies , now they have lost that priviledge after trying to ly to us .
Boycot Nvidia (unless they make something really cool).
P.S. Article has some really interesting stuff about why it is easier to detect cheeting in synthetic benchmarks , so if like most slashdot people you didnt read the article you might want to.
This is nothing particularly new where I come from . In ottawa a computer camp (Virtual Ventures) , which was run by carleton university students had a quasi course in virus writting for the attendees . While this new course is obviously much more indepth and would probably be of great interest to a computer science student . There are quite a few legitimate reasons to do this , firstly for antivirus people if we can have more "white hats" discovering new Microsoft "features" that allow "remote adminstration" or "security lockout override" we can hopefully develope better ways to protect against these problems. One of the few remaing growth industries in computers is in computer security currently.
One of the slightly less obvious benefits is these computer science students will know what its like to try and find "features" and will hopefully recognize more accidently "features" and take them out before they are exploited.
Joke (If you dont have a sense of humour do not read below this line):
As for everyone who is worried about canada being labelled a place for training cyber teriosist , dont worry most terrorist are educated in the united states and will continue to be we just want a small portion of those who cannot afford the high tution to us instituions [JK] .
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try searching confidently 2003 :-)
Although some are still saying confidentle uintill 2002 it pulls up a few that are still "confidentle" . My god now shuttle bus service (one of the confidently documents).
The problem is that the cheaper rfid tags exploded when you microve them. :-)
"Warm toasy and a hole in the back" ; the goverment will be able to identify those who like there privacy by the fact that they patch there newly bought clothes
Now firstly INAL ; but from my understanding there distributing a complete binary (the rom upgrade) in binary form of a compiliation of GPL and LGP etc. works . The problem is that they havent released all of the code contained within this one honkey binary program/file ; I want the drivers!
(Note : If I'm wron please let me know).
yes indeed it does :-)
Most sound chipsets (onboard) tend to be nice little via chipsets which are fairly basic and in my experience have readdly avalaible linux drivers.
Although they might not be autodedicated by whatever it is you use to autodetect hardware ; if you take a look on the mbo manufacutres sight they tell you what chipset they used and then go compile support into your kernel.
It was built on a minix system . Thats like saying since I wrote by programm and compiled it on linux then it is borrowing code for linux. It was based on minix in the sense that it was designed to replicate a number of the same functionality (and from my understanding replace minix and teach Linus how to code 386 assembly) .
Would you want some one to be able to control your care by radio waves remotetly ?
It creates to mutch of a possibility for "terrorists" to <B>crack</B> into the onboard computer and fly you to were they want you to go.
The other id with an onboard gps and sectioned of areas , it would once again be controlled by a computer and to be quite frank at this point in time I would see it causing more crashes than saving lives because the pilots could not overide it. While some people may argue that alot of what pilots do now is auto pilot that is true , the most important reason to have a pilot there is so that they can override the computer when it fucks up because we all know that will happen.
*shakes fist at* Dude are you actually suggesting self censorship on slashdot?
If a company is dum enough to run unpatched servers (goes to run apt-get update apt-get upgrade *sigh*) then there going to get screwed sooner than letter . From the protoganists point of view if they hacked by a bunch of 1337 hax0rs on the 6th then they will learn there lesson (unless there rather dense) before some one breaks in and tries to steel all of their customer information . Sight defacement is in a sense a blessing , your customer information is released (hopefully) and its pretty easy to convince management to spend a bit more on security (or switch to linux!!) . Remember the 1337 hax0rs will be going for speed on the 6th so they might not bother with the whole steeling customer nfo.
I a sense I would have to say I agree . While I can understand forcing companies which charge for the services to provide those services to all (assuming it doesnt cost an arm and a leg). Resonable accomidations should not cost more than the product sells for (in this case free). Now a case could be made that microsoft is makeing money of hotmail because of advertising and therefor if the accesiability costs less than they make from advertising go ahead and force them to make it accesiable.
In Canada our goverment is addressing this for all goverment sites . Its a pain in the ass as a contractor but everything you do for the goverment of canada "has to" (I dont think they check) validate against the w3c standards , have descriptave alt tages and quite a few other things.
never threaten students & or professors doing research , it just creates bad blood and pisses the public off . We already expect companies to go after eachother , leave the academics out of it.
perhaps you should read one of the stories eh?
If you read them you would knwo that an "industry sponsored bill" (cough Micro$oft) passed and a consumer sponsered bill lost its vote.
some of us arent so rich (read : university student) . If I can save $100 thats a big deal to me . As for days of work , once that 100us becomes cad (hey I'm canadain no laughing) that works out to about three days of work give or take for me.
IANAL , etc. .It is very very important for FSF to seperate (espicialy right now) the Gnu tools from the linux kernel .Sco is claiming that linux as a whole violates its IP (even if it does which is bloody unlikely) it is a stratigically sound move to say that the Gnu tools are seperate so they cant sue the FSF for violating their IP . Of course knowing SCO they would try anywyas :-)
ever heard of re-flashing? :-( ) . But seriously how many times are you going to a) run linux b) play xbox live?
not exactly the best solution (oops I did it 10,000 times and it doesnt work
The artical explicetly states that it does not require a specific game .
I dont see how they can offer twenty four hour support for $19.95 (price of OS if purchased with support option sepearate from computer) .
It may not work for you but for most people you can colocate on a nice 100mb pipe and or get dedicated server on a 100mb pipe for less then the cost of a t1 . Personally I would check out theplanet and canaca . But ask around and make sure you get a good uptime gaurentee . If you want you can try and get a commitment out of the people your colocating with.
Wireless is cool yes , but imagine if everyone had to share 54mbps through out the world (or for that a few 100mbps) . It will still be better to have copper or fiber connections in addition to wireless . The problem is there is a very limited wireless specturm that we can use and we will only be able to crank a finite amount of bandwith out of it . Now I dont know about you but the other problem is that we will still need people to maintain routes , make sure that stuff works and fix it when it breaks. I dont think that everyone (except of course slashdot people) want to be responsible for maintining there own network routing even using advanced protocols (espicially for 911 type services which we currently really on telco's to provide) .
The other problem with wireless is from an infrastructure point of view if our phones or internet connections stop working that hurts our economy , its way to dam easy for anyone to disrupt wireless signals (even with DSS or FHSS its still easy) to really on them for everything which we currently really on telcos for .
I'm currently a first year computing info systems student with them and I am very pleased with the qaulity . For math courses though I would not recomend them (its kind of hard to explain math over the phone and by faxes) . However there computer classes if you have problems they get back to you within two days (usually a day). They have online discussion (in MOO ; they really dont use MOO to its full potentail but once they get DALE back online that should be sweet) . The cool thing is with athabasca , you feel you know the course, you can challenge the credit and just write one or two challenge exams. Another cool thing about athabasca unversity is it is a canadian accredit university. For me that matters because I hope to transfer my credits to another university eventually .
Its not like they havent already pissed everyone off enough. Now here is the problem: .
Unless linus actually put the code in himself AOR he is awhere of the fact that he is violating patents and continues to distribute he is not liable (INAL)
Now if they sue linus I put forward that slashdot take up a fund to pay his legal costs and ensure that SCOs exuctives & rats(lawyers) have a slight detour on the way to courtroom.
How can have alternative GPS systems affect world peice?
Honestly giving people the ability to chose , for location systems is more likely to help stabilize the world because if the US decides that they dont want "terrorist" (read other countries / public) to be able to use there GPS systems almost everyone is screwed and it would put in risk quite a few lives and possible provoke retalition. (For instance the victoria faries from vancover I beleive used DGPS for most of the navigation) . If that system gets cut off its back to the "I think this is the correct way" . Whereas with multiple systems US decides to pull the plug , big deal just switch over.
Another situation (for those who beleive everyone is a terrorist) , us GPS infrastructure is taken down by terrorists at least we have a fall back right?
This is one thing I never understand about goverments , they lock them selves into a contract and keep on renewing it without looking for cheaper alternatives . In ottawa city counsil finally woke up and founded ottawa telecom to use there power company ROW on the poles to do there own direct fiber (for cheaper inet access for schools , libraries and city goverment with medium prices for other business) . .
Now I see NY is takeing the first step , looking for a competitor to verizon (the incumbant I'm guessing) ; as a sort of after thought why dont they see how well they could serve there own needs as well (not sugesting that they just go it alone but if its cheaper why not?)
I sincerly whish best of luck to NY with there future projects.
Note : in this post NY = NYC
I keep on reading all these posts saying that medical gear is more expensive because it has to be FDA approved . Well in Canada (the frozen land to the north of america) you have to be health canada aproved . This approval costs $200 up , if you dont claim your product conforms to any standards its pretty much ruber stamping (yet we still have the same huge markup) . Makes on think about the posible business ideas (until one thinks of the lawsuits).
not that we didnt already know this , but it nice to have the company confirm that there was cheeting going on. Nvidia , at least from my POV , was consider by me to be one of the best graphics card companies , now they have lost that priviledge after trying to ly to us . Boycot Nvidia (unless they make something really cool). P.S. Article has some really interesting stuff about why it is easier to detect cheeting in synthetic benchmarks , so if like most slashdot people you didnt read the article you might want to.
This is nothing particularly new where I come from . In ottawa a computer camp (Virtual Ventures) , which was run by carleton university students had a quasi course in virus writting for the attendees . While this new course is obviously much more indepth and would probably be of great interest to a computer science student . There are quite a few legitimate reasons to do this , firstly for antivirus people if we can have more "white hats" discovering new Microsoft "features" that allow "remote adminstration" or "security lockout override" we can hopefully develope better ways to protect against these problems. One of the few remaing growth industries in computers is in computer security currently .
One of the slightly less obvious benefits is these computer science students will know what its like to try and find "features" and will hopefully recognize more accidently "features" and take them out before they are exploited.
Joke (If you dont have a sense of humour do not read below this line):
As for everyone who is worried about canada being labelled a place for training cyber teriosist , dont worry most terrorist are educated in the united states and will continue to be we just want a small portion of those who cannot afford the high tution to us instituions [JK] .