Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
The novice was growing impatient on the road to enlightenment. "Master, as a follower of the Tao, I am taking regular backups of all my files. I am archiving them securely offsite, and testing them using Veracity. Surely, master, I am enlightened now?"
The backup master said only: "You will not achieve enlightenment until you control the integrity of your data, for a copy is useless if the original is corrupt. What use is a mirror if we cannot see? What use is an echo if we cannot hear?" But the novice did not understand.
Later the novice returned. "Master," he said, "a cracker on the Internet penetrated my network six months ago and has been corrupting random files ever since. These hundreds of corrupted files have been flowing through my backup system. Now I do not know which files are clean and which are not. I do not know which backups hold the latest clean copy of each file. What should I do?"
But the master was silent.
On the other side of the world, the cracker laughed.
I must say that the alphabet soup is rather frustrating. As far as I'm concerned Java is just an extra pain in the ass when it comes to installing Mozilla plugins. Mozilla points you to Sun's Java website when it detects that you don't have the plugin installed but once you get there there isn't a simple linked word "plugin" anywhere. I gave up after 30m of searching and just do without Java. Whenever I need it to do any internet banking I just use my mum's XP box...A prospect I find rather depressing.
...what I read slashdot for. Here's an interesting project that will hopefully cause ideas to spring up in my head but most importantly will encourage me to actually get off my ass and do something like this.
I once thought about building a plotter with a mate of mine, maybe I'll bring the idea back up again...
You should probably also remember that BT files can be many smaller ones bundled together. For example 1 torrent could have 1 season of Futurama (~13 files) or an entire CD of MP3's so if you wanted realistic numbers you would need to decompose the data to work out how many files were actually inside the torrent.
Which is really good for bored hackers like me with too much time. Now, I've gotta install that dish to log into that "default" wifi network with a D-Link MAC I detected last night...
It might also be the fact that it's not a name you hear all the time...if at all (this is the first I've heard of them. Like a lot of M$ hate exists because there are millions of people using products that advertise that they are made by M$ and couple that with a mostly undereducated userbase and you're bound to run into problems.
So yeah, I think it's because when people see a computer crash they also see Microsoft (even if it's a dodgy realtek driver that actually crashed), result: Microsoft cops shit.
If you get a dodgy phone with an ARM chip you're going to see Nokia/Erricson/etc result: Nokia/Erricson/ect cops shit.
Likewise Olympus/Kodak/Canon etc will be blamed for poor cameras, again ARM gets away even if it's there problem.
Trigger an alarm hey? Like give the patient a sharp electric shock whenever they dare to venture to the mysterious and long forgotten "outside".
Why are they doing this in a nursing home anyway? I would have thought that something like the prison system would be a better place to implement such technology...maybe even in high schools (which are basically just prisons where people are punished for being born anyway).
Would that mean goodby to the protest banner? Just get 20 people walking in a line with a letter each. It would make for intenesting displays at football games too actually...
Just host a million man LAN party at each pole and force everyone to use unshielded computer monitors, the magnetic field from all the electron beam deflector coils just might do it.
Maybe it's far off but how long ago was it that computers were just starting to be used and required vast amounts of storage space and money? It's only by ~40-50 years man, if the same rapid development in technology comes about with this it could happen in your lifetime.
That is of course assuming rapid technological advancement...But even so it could still happen in future generations. Remember: you don't inherit the Earth from your parents but borrow it from your children.
Slashdot Mirror
Heh, reminds me of that quote from Fight Club:
Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
The novice was growing impatient on the road to enlightenment. "Master, as a follower of the Tao, I am taking regular backups of all my files. I am archiving them securely offsite, and testing them using Veracity. Surely, master, I am enlightened now?"
The backup master said only: "You will not achieve enlightenment until you control the integrity of your data, for a copy is useless if the original is corrupt. What use is a mirror if we cannot see? What use is an echo if we cannot hear?" But the novice did not understand.
Later the novice returned. "Master," he said, "a cracker on the Internet penetrated my network six months ago and has been corrupting random files ever since. These hundreds of corrupted files have been flowing through my backup system. Now I do not know which files are clean and which are not. I do not know which backups hold the latest clean copy of each file. What should I do?"
But the master was silent.
On the other side of the world, the cracker laughed.
From The Tao Of Backup: 7, Integrity
http://www.taobackup.com/integrity.html
I must say that the alphabet soup is rather frustrating. As far as I'm concerned Java is just an extra pain in the ass when it comes to installing Mozilla plugins. Mozilla points you to Sun's Java website when it detects that you don't have the plugin installed but once you get there there isn't a simple linked word "plugin" anywhere. I gave up after 30m of searching and just do without Java. Whenever I need it to do any internet banking I just use my mum's XP box...A prospect I find rather depressing.
A house can not survive if it is divided within itself, only good can come of this.
...what I read slashdot for. Here's an interesting project that will hopefully cause ideas to spring up in my head but most importantly will encourage me to actually get off my ass and do something like this.
I once thought about building a plotter with a mate of mine, maybe I'll bring the idea back up again...
They obviously haven't been doing enough research.
No, but they must provide very detailed instructions on how they do it so you can perform it yourself and improve on it.
Yes, every 10k's you'll have to get everyone out of the car and restart the journey.
You should probably also remember that BT files can be many smaller ones bundled together. For example 1 torrent could have 1 season of Futurama (~13 files) or an entire CD of MP3's so if you wanted realistic numbers you would need to decompose the data to work out how many files were actually inside the torrent.
How did you forget grep man!
Which is really good for bored hackers like me with too much time. Now, I've gotta install that dish to log into that "default" wifi network with a D-Link MAC I detected last night...
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Doesn't this exist already because of the libdvdcss/libdvdread librarys and mplayer/ogle/xine?
Yes, in fact that's what the 2.6 kernel does. I've had realtek wlan drivers panic and have the rest of the system still perfectly usable.
Core?
It might also be the fact that it's not a name you hear all the time...if at all (this is the first I've heard of them. Like a lot of M$ hate exists because there are millions of people using products that advertise that they are made by M$ and couple that with a mostly undereducated userbase and you're bound to run into problems.
So yeah, I think it's because when people see a computer crash they also see Microsoft (even if it's a dodgy realtek driver that actually crashed), result: Microsoft cops shit.
If you get a dodgy phone with an ARM chip you're going to see Nokia/Erricson/etc result: Nokia/Erricson/ect cops shit.
Likewise Olympus/Kodak/Canon etc will be blamed for poor cameras, again ARM gets away even if it's there problem.
Trigger an alarm hey? Like give the patient a sharp electric shock whenever they dare to venture to the mysterious and long forgotten "outside".
Why are they doing this in a nursing home anyway? I would have thought that something like the prison system would be a better place to implement such technology...maybe even in high schools (which are basically just prisons where people are punished for being born anyway).
From the website:
2 to 3 times the range (one Flatenna)
So can I get 10 of them and extend the range to 20-30 times?
Or even better: to the level of one's arousal and heart rate.
Lol, yeah it's only running on a 128kb capped upload :p.
Would that mean goodby to the protest banner? Just get 20 people walking in a line with a letter each. It would make for intenesting displays at football games too actually...
..."Kick me" into the 21st century!
I can't believe that a magazine would want that type of add published, more that likly it will hurt there reputation.
Just host a million man LAN party at each pole and force everyone to use unshielded computer monitors, the magnetic field from all the electron beam deflector coils just might do it.
Maybe it's far off but how long ago was it that computers were just starting to be used and required vast amounts of storage space and money? It's only by ~40-50 years man, if the same rapid development in technology comes about with this it could happen in your lifetime.
That is of course assuming rapid technological advancement...But even so it could still happen in future generations. Remember: you don't inherit the Earth from your parents but borrow it from your children.