Or equally likely, the mysterious packet slipped under his door at midnight with pictures of his loved ones photographed through that sniper scope sort of changed his priorities.
Why is that same white van parked across the street again...
Which is a great idea for grandma, who doesn't know how to use a computer, but really isn't that much of an advantage to an advanced computer user who never looks at their keyboard anyway. Anybody who users a computer more than 2 hours a day, should probably learn the key shortcuts and make their life easier. People depend way too much on the mouse, which is understandable in a GUI environment, but even then, using the keyboard is much faster.
You contradict yourself in the scope of two sentences.;-)
Should this become cost effective and widely used, it may be the way away from the mouse, and the most significant development in HID technology since the mouse. (Human Interface Device).
I've often thought that working with mouse was akin to poking an engine together with a stick.
The mouse requires that vast amounts of screen realestate on the primary output device be reserved for input functions. This is historically due to the limitations of our primary input device, the keyboard. Wouldn't it seem natural to enhance the input device's capability OR move to on-screen keying and abandon the keyboard alltogether?
Having said that I must observe that looking at a vast array of on-screen Icons trying to figure out which one is your the editor is less than obvious or efficient, and I can quickly see that adding another ever-changing array of icons will lead to a great deal of frustration.
Just as mankind was forced to develop standardized character sets on the road to literacy, if we continue on this proliferation of the use of icons, we will be forced to develop standardized icon sets instead of using company logos for icons.
What part of a fox pelt wrapped abound a blue marble screams web browser to the uninitiated?
> Cell phones can be turned off if the user doesn't wish to be tracked.
You managed to miss the entire focus of my post in your rush to reply.
I was commenting on the fact that I, You, We, may allow violation of privacy of other entities merely by walking in with a cell phone, EVEN IF our personal identity were protected by the cell phone company.
When 400 phones show up in a club with a capacity rating of 350, can cops and fire marshals be far behind?
If the phone companies strip identifying information from data one might be tempted to think there is no problem in making this information available.
However, the privacy concern may not be limited to the ability track a specific phone, which they would probably require court permission to do.
There are lots other uses, and abuses of such technology, such as finding where tonight's big party is located, which local watering hole is over-capacity, how much traffic the local liquour store (or street corner dealer) is getting.
Even if such uses were void of personal data, they provide data about the location, whether that be a private home or a business.
makes me think that it'd be neat to see a wiki that had chat built in.
Why is it when the only tool you have is a hammer you start looking at all problems as if they were nails....?
A Wiki would be a miserable solution for this problem, just like its a miserable solution to just about every other problem.
This problem (to the extent it is a problem) calls out for a common library with a moderated chat room client. Any one of 6 or 8 such programs already exist, skype, Teamspeak, etc. Somebody has to moderate, and somebody has to be librarian/secretary.
Granted, a pirate radio station probaly won't bring down an airline, but what if it does interfere with radio transmissions in the ambulance and 911 when the operator is trying to say got left on Pine and all you here is salsa music? That's a potential hazard.
Well if we are to list every "potential hazard" what about falling towers, tooth decay, and that demon rum?
Seriously, who would these people be talking to on emergency vehicle frequencies? Just how many households have their household FM radio's tuned to the local ambulance company?
They won't be broadcasting there. They want to be heard by someone other than the Police for crying out loud!.
You can already get a hobby AM/FM license for very small wattage for no money to speak of, and be assigned a legitimate and reserved frequency. Hobby stations are fairly common in big cities.
This story is about the last gasp of a bunch of hippies from the 60's who have not heard about the internet, where they can blog to their heart's content.
I will never understand why some people thing 9/11 style attacks will create the exact opposite response in foreign countries than it did here. Killing one million muslims in Medina will radicalize muslim opinion and make them much more violence prone. Just as 9/11 radicalized US opinion.
Such a short view of history. Such an ignorance of arab society.
You seem to forget how Swiftly and Finally two nukes setteled the war in the Pacific. You seem to overlook the fact that in spite of that, the Japaneese are Friends of the US and we are their friends in turn.
This single fact, and the fact of a peacefull Germany after a total beating can not be explained by your theory of nations.
You clearly do not understand either arabs or Mulsims. You think that this is going to blow over in a few years? As long as people with whimpy attitudes like yours prevail you can rest assured there will be more 9/11s, more Madrids, more Londons, more Balis.
Until the muslim world is made to realize that allowing their sons to become radical bombers means the death of the entire family, perhaps the entire village, we will continue to have bombers. Acting weak or meak won't stop this. Buying your wife a burka won't stop it either.
Until the muslim world gets control of their mullahs and prevents them spewing hate into the hearts of 10 year old boys they simply must be dealth with brutally. Any half measures are TOTALLY counter productive.
Until Islam is ready to take its place among the family of religions, I would much rather be feared than loved.
By contrast, pipes, sockets and command-line arguments are communication mechanisms normally used between two separate programs. So when they are used for communication, the modules normally are separate programs. But if the semantics of the communication are intimate enough, exchanging complex internal data structures, that too could be a basis to consider the two parts as combined into a larger program.
So Microsoft Internet Explorer or Outlook must be released under the GPL simply because they follow (*cough*) the intimate semantics and exchange complex internal data structures of various Web Servers and Pop/SMTP servers? I don't see any exclusion for interacting with processes on another machine.
This line of reasoning amounts to engaging in the endless splitting of hairs. The whole concept of linking to static libraries was a stretch (and probably an unsustainable one).
But to now claim that mere communication with a GLP software may bring other software under the GPL is totally absurd.
Please tell me I misunderstood, and you are not serious in this claim!
> If you read the article, the bulbs are already less than $3 each,
If you go to the store, they are over 7 dollars in most cases. The fact of the matter is, these are seldom available for the prices quoted in the article. Nor are they likely to get a great deal cheaper because even GE can see that making a cheap bulb that needs replacement yearly versus a moderatly more expensive bulb that needs replacement once every 10 years is BAD FOR THE BOTTOM LINE.
50 cents every year is better than 3 dollars every 10 years.
Therefore the bulbs are typically priced to produce the same revenue, except when talking to gullible journalists. Typical prices are closer to $5 minimum. (The retailer knows he won't see you for 10 years just as well as GE does).
So the article stands a little wanting in the research department.
Ma and Pa Polyester, trying to keep diapers on the kids butt and the landlord at bay are not going to start dropping $5 on lightbulbs.
> So not only does this person lack any computer skills, they lack communication > skills or any problem solving skills.
> Lastly, anyone who uses their own ignorance as an argument is someone to be avoided. --
Yet they are entrusted and Coast Guard certified to run a ferry. Imagine that./sarcasm.
Look sonny, its time for you to turn off the computer and go out and get a job.
The world does not revolve around wiki, its not even on most people's radar screen.
The world has many people with commiunication skills, people skills, management skills, can drive a big boat, fly a plane, build buildings, unclog drains, wire substations or hit a baseball out of the park.
Oddly enough, the overwhelmingly vast majority of these people have never heard of a wiki, would never trust a wiki (the whole subject of this article), would never edit a wiki.
If you choose to measure the worth of another individual by their wiki knowledge, that's your problem. Its just a damn shame you cut yourself off from 99.9999999999% of the people on planet earth.
Quoting: "Without a paper trail there's no way to question the electronic voting "
While that may be true (and I stress the word MAY) it was not the case in the election in Alaska in this article.
The machines used in Alaska HAD PAPER PRINTERS, which revealed your vote as soon as it was cast, and scrolled it out of view as soon as you removed the especially encoded RFID card handed to you by the election workers. After making your selection you could, (and I did) look at the tape and see that your vote matched the on screen summary. You then pressed the Cast Ballot button on the touch screen, and the paper scrolled out of view. The tape even had a flip down magnifier for the sight empaired voters.
The RFID card was good fore precisely ONE voter, and was surrendered when you completed your vote. It contained instructions to the machine on which races it should present (Alaska has a party specific primary system). The RFID card did not identify me, credentials are checked at a totally different station, which served both paper voters and machine voters.
The paper looked like thermal cash register tape, and the only copy was spooled inside the locked machine. No receipt was given showing your vote (no way to run down to party headquarters and collect your 100 dollars). The machine had no phone lines running to it, simply a power cord. Tampering would have been impossible during the vote, certainly much harder than stuffing an extra paper ballot in the box.
Vote tally extraction was to be done after the fact via dialup. That is the only part that failed to work IN SOME SITES, not all.
In my expierence, the voting was fast, flawless, easy and well run. The only problem I saw is I got no Airline Frequent Flyer Miles for using the electronic kiosk.
The story, as with most regarding Diabold, was 99% hype. I will bet dollars to donuts the failure to report results electronically was a human problem.
Sorry but MITM attacks are pretty obvious when they are being attempted. Popup warnings from every secure site you attempt to access is become meaningfull even for the clueless.
Further, the chances of the MITM attacker being ready and prepared to intercept the particular site you chose to access at that particular time at that particular Starbucks is pretty small.
(Unless of course you were buying from that Starbuck's website for delivery at table 2, in which case how many of your Mochas can the MITM at table 5 drink before you get suspicious)?
I hate to rain on their parade, but the beetle, regardless of its weight, will exert no more than the tire pressure per square inch on the thumb drive.
Assuming 32psi in the tires, and a thumb drive size of (say) 1 inch by 3 inches, the total weight born by the thumb drive would be no more than 96 pounds.
Any first year lawyer can make sausage of your reasoning. I don't think YOU get to define what inaction means. You never do, because as clearly as you word something, there is a lawyer with a different meaning for every word.
The intent was clear enough, if not totally misguided. The phraseology juvenile. And the understanding of the GPL hopelessly inadequate.
"the program and its derivative work will neither be modified or executed to harm any human being nor through inaction permit any human being to be harmed."
That obligates the program (by some unknown mechanisim) to jump to the defense of all people everywhere and anytime. To do else would be an inaction permitting humans to be harmed.
Since no one has managed to encode Superman, or [insert favorite action hero], this essentially says that the software can't be used at all, and I hereby call upon the authors to scrap the entire project and erase all source code.
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Or equally likely, the mysterious packet slipped under his door at
midnight with pictures of his loved ones photographed through
that sniper scope sort of changed his priorities.
Why is that same white van parked across the street again...
Which is a great idea for grandma, who doesn't know how to use a computer, but really isn't that much of an advantage to an advanced computer user who never looks at their keyboard anyway. Anybody who users a computer more than 2 hours a day, should probably learn the key shortcuts and make their life easier. People depend way too much on the mouse, which is understandable in a GUI environment, but even then, using the keyboard is much faster.
;-)
You contradict yourself in the scope of two sentences.
Should this become cost effective and widely used, it may be the way away from the mouse, and the most significant development in HID technology since the mouse. (Human Interface Device).
I've often thought that working with mouse was akin to poking an engine together with a stick.
The mouse requires that vast amounts of screen realestate on the primary output device be reserved for input functions. This is historically due to the limitations of our primary input device, the keyboard.
Wouldn't it seem natural to enhance the input device's capability OR move to on-screen keying and abandon the keyboard alltogether?
Having said that I must observe that looking at a vast array of on-screen Icons trying to figure out which one is your the editor is less than obvious or efficient, and I can quickly see that adding another ever-changing array of icons will lead to a great deal of frustration.
Just as mankind was forced to develop standardized character sets on the road to literacy, if we continue on this proliferation of the use of icons, we will be forced to develop standardized icon sets instead of using company logos for icons.
What part of a fox pelt wrapped abound a blue marble screams web browser to the uninitiated?
> Cell phones can be turned off if the user doesn't wish to be tracked.
You managed to miss the entire focus of my post in your rush to reply.
I was commenting on the fact that I, You, We, may allow violation of privacy of other entities merely by walking in with a cell phone, EVEN IF our personal identity were protected by the cell phone company.
When 400 phones show up in a club with a capacity rating of 350, can cops and fire marshals be far behind?
If the phone companies strip identifying information from data one might be
tempted to think there is no problem in making this information available.
However, the privacy concern may not be limited to the ability track a specific phone, which they would probably require court permission to do.
There are lots other uses, and abuses of such technology, such as finding where tonight's big party is located, which local watering hole is over-capacity, how much traffic the local liquour store (or street corner dealer) is getting.
Even if such uses were void of personal data, they provide data about the location,
whether that be a private home or a business.
You need to read the PUBPAT more carefully. It has expired last month.
This will all be moot when the patent expires on Oct. 27, 2006 (20 years after filing). The patent was already granted more than 17 years ago.
JPEG patent expired last month, so unless you were sued before, you are safe now.
The patent was previously ruled to only cover video anyway.
No, that is not true.
Modern phoned do NOT all have GPS, and those that do you have to
pay extra for.
The phone is too expensive to give to children, but
Disney markets something similar that is affordable.
http://disneymobile.go.com/disneymobile/home.do (DisneyMobile)
Parents who want to give their kids some freedom but still
know where they are snap these up. Sneaky kids ditch them
(send them home with friends).
What the hell is sub vocalized speech
(he muttered)...
Can't we wait till he graduates before we call it news???!!!
Thankfully your packets do not travel on any public network...
Oh, wait a minute...
Why is it when the only tool you have is a hammer you start looking at all problems as if they were nails....?
A Wiki would be a miserable solution for this problem, just like its a miserable solution to just about every other problem.
This problem (to the extent it is a problem) calls out for a common library with a moderated chat room client. Any one of 6 or 8 such programs already exist, skype, Teamspeak, etc. Somebody has to moderate, and somebody has to be librarian/secretary.
Its not that complex.
Well if we are to list every "potential hazard" what about falling towers, tooth decay, and that demon rum?
Seriously, who would these people be talking to on emergency vehicle frequencies? Just how many households have their household FM radio's tuned to the local ambulance company?
They won't be broadcasting there. They want to be heard by someone other than the Police for crying out loud!.
You can already get a hobby AM/FM license for very small wattage for no money to speak of, and be assigned a legitimate and reserved frequency. Hobby stations are fairly common in big cities.
This story is about the last gasp of a bunch of hippies from the 60's who have not heard about the internet, where they can blog to their heart's content.
Oh, wait, no one would read them would they....
The vast majority of SPAM does not arrive via open relays, but via compromised Windows machines.
Er, ah, what's the difference again?
Such a short view of history. Such an ignorance of arab society.
You seem to forget how Swiftly and Finally two nukes setteled the war in the Pacific. You seem to overlook the fact that in spite of that, the Japaneese are Friends of the US and we are their friends in turn.
This single fact, and the fact of a peacefull Germany after a total beating can not be explained by your theory of nations.
You clearly do not understand either arabs or Mulsims. You think that this is going to blow over in a few years? As long as people with whimpy attitudes like yours prevail you can rest assured there will be more 9/11s, more Madrids, more Londons, more Balis.
Until the muslim world is made to realize that allowing their sons to become radical bombers means the death of the entire family, perhaps the entire village, we will continue to have bombers. Acting weak or meak won't stop this. Buying your wife a burka won't stop it either.
Until the muslim world gets control of their mullahs and prevents them spewing hate into the hearts of 10 year old boys they simply must be dealth with brutally. Any half measures are TOTALLY counter productive.
Until Islam is ready to take its place among the family of religions, I would much rather be feared than loved.
So Microsoft Internet Explorer or Outlook must be released under the GPL simply because they follow (*cough*) the intimate semantics and exchange complex internal data structures of various Web Servers and Pop/SMTP servers?
I don't see any exclusion for interacting with processes on another machine.
This line of reasoning amounts to engaging in the endless splitting of hairs. The whole concept of linking to static libraries was a stretch (and probably an unsustainable one).
But to now claim that mere communication with a GLP software may bring other software under the GPL is totally absurd.
Please tell me I misunderstood, and you are not serious in this claim!
Fine, sky pilot, where can I send you my lightbulb bill?
> If you read the article, the bulbs are already less than $3 each,
If you go to the store, they are over 7 dollars in most cases.
The fact of the matter is, these are seldom available for the prices
quoted in the article. Nor are they likely to get a great deal cheaper
because even GE can see that making a cheap bulb that needs replacement
yearly versus a moderatly more expensive bulb that needs replacement
once every 10 years is BAD FOR THE BOTTOM LINE.
50 cents every year is better than 3 dollars every 10 years.
Therefore the bulbs are typically priced to produce the same revenue, except when talking to gullible journalists. Typical prices are closer to $5 minimum. (The retailer knows he won't see you for 10 years just as well as GE does).
So the article stands a little wanting in the research department.
Ma and Pa Polyester, trying to keep diapers on the kids butt and the landlord at bay are not going to start dropping $5 on lightbulbs.
> So not only does this person lack any computer skills, they lack communication
/sarcasm.
> skills or any problem solving skills.
> Lastly, anyone who uses their own ignorance as an argument is someone to be avoided.
--
Yet they are entrusted and Coast Guard certified to run a ferry. Imagine that.
Look sonny, its time for you to turn off the computer and go out and get a job.
The world does not revolve around wiki, its not even on most people's radar screen.
The world has many people with commiunication skills, people skills, management skills, can drive a big boat, fly a plane, build buildings, unclog drains, wire substations or hit a baseball out of the park.
Oddly enough, the overwhelmingly vast majority of these people have never heard of a wiki, would never trust a wiki (the whole subject of this article), would never edit a wiki.
If you choose to measure the worth of another individual by their wiki knowledge, that's your problem. Its just a damn shame you cut yourself off from 99.9999999999% of the people on planet earth.
Quoting: "Without a paper trail there's no way to question the electronic voting "
While that may be true (and I stress the word MAY) it was not the case in the election in Alaska in this article.
The machines used in Alaska HAD PAPER PRINTERS, which revealed your vote as soon as it was cast, and scrolled it out of view as soon as you removed the especially encoded RFID card handed to you by the election workers. After making your selection you could, (and I did) look at the tape and see that your vote matched the on screen summary. You then pressed the Cast Ballot button on the touch screen, and the paper scrolled out of view. The tape even had a flip down magnifier for the sight empaired voters.
The RFID card was good fore precisely ONE voter, and was surrendered when you completed your vote. It contained instructions to the machine on which races it should present (Alaska has a party specific primary system). The RFID card did not identify me, credentials are checked at a totally different station, which served both paper voters and machine voters.
The paper looked like thermal cash register tape, and the only copy was spooled inside the locked machine. No receipt was given showing your vote (no way to run down to party headquarters and collect your 100 dollars). The machine had no phone lines running to it, simply a power cord. Tampering would have been impossible during the vote, certainly much harder than stuffing an extra paper ballot in the box.
Vote tally extraction was to be done after the fact via dialup. That is the only part that failed to work IN SOME SITES, not all.
In my expierence, the voting was fast, flawless, easy and well run. The only problem I saw is I got no Airline Frequent Flyer Miles for using the electronic kiosk.
The story, as with most regarding Diabold, was 99% hype. I will bet dollars to donuts the failure to report results electronically was a human problem.
Sorry but MITM attacks are pretty obvious when they are being attempted.
Popup warnings from every secure site you attempt to access is become
meaningfull even for the clueless.
Further, the chances of the MITM attacker being ready and prepared to
intercept the particular site you chose to access at that particular
time at that particular Starbucks is pretty small.
(Unless of course you were buying from that Starbuck's website for delivery at table 2, in
which case how many of your Mochas can the MITM at table 5 drink before you get suspicious)?
I hate to rain on their parade, but the beetle, regardless of its weight, will exert no more than the tire pressure per square inch on the thumb drive.
Assuming 32psi in the tires, and a thumb drive size of (say) 1 inch by 3 inches, the total weight born by the thumb drive would be no more than 96 pounds.
Far from the 2000 pounds claimed.
Any first year lawyer can make sausage of your reasoning. I don't think YOU get to define what inaction means. You never do, because as clearly as you word something, there is a lawyer with a different meaning for every word.
The intent was clear enough, if not totally misguided. The phraseology juvenile. And the understanding of the GPL hopelessly inadequate.
"the program and its derivative work will neither be modified or executed to harm any human being nor through inaction permit any human being to be harmed."
That obligates the program (by some unknown mechanisim) to jump to the defense of all people everywhere and anytime. To do else would be an inaction permitting humans to be harmed.
Since no one has managed to encode Superman, or [insert favorite action hero], this essentially says that the software can't be used at all, and I hereby call upon the authors to scrap the entire project and erase all source code.
I fed the damn thing a 9000 line COBOL program and it just laughed at me. What's up with that?