My girl friend tried to get satellite where she lives. It actually does have a southern 'view', but a neighbor's tree is in the way. It's a big tree, but none the less it's enough to block reception. While it is possible that in the winter when the leaves are off the tree she might be able to get decent reception, in the summer there is no way she could get the signal through the leaves on that tree.
This is an evil answer to the tree problem:
A good answer to this is copper nails. Drive a set into the tree and wait... Maybe not good for the neighbor friendliness if they find out what you have done to their tree...
seems to be a rather futile task. There are better things to do than attempting such a venture. Of course - there are already branches like uCLinux etc. but the kernel itself is rather flexible as it is and the difference on kernel level between server and workstation is rather small.
Not to forget that the maintenance will be more complex.
and just about any wireless traffic is sensitive to intrusion, as it happens the camera was in question, and that there are some security flaws there. There are always security risks with any connected device and wireless devices still requires that anybody has to be in the vicinity of the device to cause it to do undesireable things.
There are as always ways around this, and one lesson is that cameras (wireless or not) should never be on the same network zone as servers with sensitive data. (as with many other devices, say printers) A simple firewall can take care of most things here by both restricting access to and access from the devices.
If you have a religion - you shouldn't be able to claim copyright on any of your religious works. Still it may be possible to claim copyright of a specific print, but not of the content in the print.
In this way the various organizations claiming to be religions has to either be showing their colors or be dismissed as a religion.
seems to be a way to attempt to create a catch-22 in the legal works. At least it's a way to stall the proceedings, even if it's only for a few days allowing Darl McBride & co to have time to duck out. Maybe it's time to place a lock-down on all paper shredders in the vicinity of SCO...
Anyway - the filing seems to be too early since the assets of SCO currently exceeds the debts. So in my opinion the filing should be rejected, possibly with the catch that it can't be re-filed.
So - if it is decided that SCO has been working with Novells money is it possible that the control of SCO is transferred to Novell and the current shareholders are going to be left out in the cold?
1. A system administrator can always access your files, sometimes not intentional, sometimes when hunting for excessive disk usage. If an employee doesn't recognize this - well that's a question of stupidity. It's also a reason to keep sysadmins happy...
2. If a sysadmin encounters truly criminal data it's a legal matter and not a management matter. However even here the sysadmin has to use discretion and be selective. - Does the exposure really validate an invasion by the FBI (or whatever your favourite organization is) or is it maybe better to just delete the files and mumble something about corrupted filesystem...
System administrators belongs to the support section of a company, which may be seen as overhead - the same overhead that the oil in your car engine is...
The true problem here is the outrageous roaming fees for data traffic. You can run data in you home network for under $1/MB, but when roaming there are starting fees for each operator and then it can cost you $20 or more per MB, but it's often priced by started 50kB or so, so if you run a few packets here and a few packets there with different roaming partners it may add up to more than that since the minimum cost is for started 50kB.
And then the operators complains about that nobody wants to use their data services...
And the use of a polygraph is really useless, it may be working for the average man that has a "normal" mind, but persons with a skewed mind may not at all provide the expected response.
And as noted - statistics works against the polygraph. There is a reason why it's not used all over the world.
Some medication may also cause an unexpected outcome - either causing the person to be more relaxed or being more tense.
Let's stick to hard evidence. If there is a lack of evidence it's better to wait - at least if the suspect isn't considered a danger to the public.
And of course - there are many things that can be said about the justice system (not only the US) - and it isn't all good.
If it sounds too good to be true - it probably is.
Of course - there is always the possibility that radioactive isotopes can be filtered out from water, but each isotope has a different chemical signature so it's not easy to find a wonder-material that catches all. And that without contaminating the water with other chemicals that may be poisonous instead.
For radiation shielding Lead and Barium sulfate are two common materials. Depleted uranium isn't that bad when it comes to shielding, but it's harder to get. Then there is also the question of if it's Alpha, Beta or Gamma radiation. Each is shielded in a different way, but the absorption shield may generate secondary radiation when absorbing the primary radiation.
Neutrons are a special case since they have a tendency to penetrate most materials relatively easy and magnetic fields can't be used to deflect them either...
Cosmic radiation is actually a mix of various types of radiation, Helium nuclei, protons, electrons etc., all with high energy so the counter-measures have to cope with a mix of radiation.
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The review is well written, and even though Erlang is a programming language that not everyone is used to program in it's well worth to mention that a large number of telecommunication devices from Ericsson are running software written in Erlang, so most people has probably been using it without knowing it.
And in my opinion; If you are familiar with more common languages like C and Java you should take a deeper look into Erlang unless you prefer to study Prolog or Cobol. Just take a dip or a deep plunge, you never know when you end up in a project where knowing Erlang may prove useful - it is actually developed to be used in real applications and not as a theoretical study object.
And Erlang is designed to handle concurrent programming from the bottom, which is a real problem in large multi-user systems. You can of course use C or Java and solve concurrency problems with semaphores or synchronization, but the solution in Erlang may be much more elegant.
And for all of you that are familiar with the Eclipse development environment; There is a plugin called Erlide.
The law may be applicable anyway - figure that if you commit a murder while abroad - do you expect to stay free when you come home? (unless your government sanctioned it, but that's a different question).
Anyway - There is a Swedish authority named Konkurrensverket (Swedish Competition Authority) that has some influence in matters like this. Maybe you should send them an email with your opinions?
Most of the companies in the list are consultant companies. No real products of their own (at least not much) and with interest in getting a good deal with M$.
And SIS are defending their standpoint in the case.
The trust in the standardization organizations decreases...
can be bought in just about any hobby shop - and it's often a replica of a well-known aircraft. So all R/C enthusiasts are actually operating UAV:s - just with the tweak that the intelligent part remains on the ground...
A smarter device isn't that hard to create today - a GPS, gyro and a small one-chip computer will make things easy. Failure rate may be higher than for the military spec UAV:s but what's missing in precision can be made up by larger numbers.
So all R/C equipment around may also be a security risk.
I'm sure that this is causing dandruff for some security people. Just accept that the worms are out of the can.
And anyway - there are better ways to streak terror in people than with UAV:s. - They are too visible, rather slow and can be spotted before they are about to cause any big trouble.
a combination of having too many beers and a gun available.
Anyway - this raises the question about how the network is actually arranged - too much star topology and not enough redundancy. Of course there are some problems that arises from setting up a redundant network like the possibility of circular packet routing. But if the design is done with care it shouldn't pose a problem.
A friend of mine suffered from the outage - no access to any service at all for a few hours - just when he needed it!
that they have ruled out the local prankster or animal intrusion.
It's not surprising that batteries can go ballistic. That happens now and then.
From what can be seen from the pictures the design wasn't sufficient to contain the batteries and any possible cause for explosion there. Maybe the designer didn't think about that or wanted to do a cheap job.
and major requirement change - so why not call it DirectX 11 instead? Or maybe that's X11?
Anyway - the whole business here seems to be to force hardware upgrades by one hand and software upgrades with the other just to be sure that the flow of money is ensured. How long will it take until video drivers are Vista Only - just to force an upgrade to Vista?
Just consider the temperature variation during a longer timespan, say for Stockholm 1756 to 2006.
This tells us that the temperature during the last years are higher - for Stockholm. Other places may have a different figure. It is important to look not only for a single site but for several sites with different geographical influence.
What really is needed is an analysis of the temperature over a much longer timespan than just a few hundred years - and here the ice cores drilled from Greenland and Antarctica are one key. Another is the growth of really old trees where the thickness of the year rings tells a lot of the climate, but unfortunately not everything. A warm dry summer gives a different result than a warm wet summer.
And even if the climate is shifting - it's the polar regions that are seeing the greatest changes.
If you see a threat that you can't resolve by the usual business means then you have to seed confusion to dilute the threat. One must recognize that Microsoft is threatened by the open source community, and that they see that many OSS solutions of today are close to their solutions in functionality.
One problem that the OSS community suffers from is that there are many licensing forms, and that some are in conflict with what's suitable for some end-users. It is also a challenge to make money from OSS solutions unless you have a good model available. And there are a large number of OSS projects that are sponsored in one way or another.
Anyway - one must recognize that the view of having source code as a valuable asset is about to decay. The source code is just a tool - like a hammer or a screwdriver - that allows users to manage their information. The code in itself is useful to some extent, but the knowledge of how to use it us far more important - and here it's possible to make money even in the future.
Is something that has been in use a long time - so it's not new. Anybody familiar with the classic programming languages Basic, Pascal, C and many more can't help that they feel familiar here.
Of course - since many today tend to do object oriented programming (for good and bad) the procedural programming may seem "fresh" for some.
And there are other programming areas that can be considered too;
that may help to explain where "everybody" is. One must understand that during the several million years that life has been present on Earth only the last 100000 years there have been humans around and only for the last 100 years we have been about to really understand our place in the universe and be able to have the technology to let us look, listen and make ourselves heard.
Whenever an estimation has to be done it is also essential to understand that not all societies are technological - there may be human counterparts on other worlds that have a philosophical society - or that there are those who has a completely different timeframe and therefore are living on a much slower pace than we humans do. All the listening for other civilizations are done in a frequency band that has been used only the last 50 years, all due to the need of more bandwidth. If a society doesn't need that bandwidth they are still only using the lower frequencies. A problem here is that it's hard to do radio mapping here due to the fact that many natural phenomenons are causing disturbances.
I toyed with the Drake equation once and got the answer that the number of civilizations in the milky way was 0.86. (I don't remember the figures I put in, but it's still worth to notice.)
So - even if there is life out there, only a fraction of it is intelligent - and even a smaller fraction of it has a technology that releases detectable signs.
Taking into account that my figures got a value less than 1 as a probability value for civilizations in our galaxy means that we may be alone right now in the galaxy right now asking this question. Of course - even if there were 10 civilizations right now in our galaxy that we may be able to actually recognize means that they are likely to be very far apart. Consider that our galaxy may have a diameter of 200000 lightyears, and if we have 10 civilizations in our galaxy evenly spread out there will be about 20000 lightyears between each of them anyway. (star density and uneven distribution not considered).
Another factor that one should bear in mind is that to achieve a certain level of technology some heavy elements has to be readily available. Energy is also a consideration. A planet completely covered with water may be home to an advanced civilization, but that civilization has not one but two boundaries to cross before being out in space. Our air is their space. Another situation will be on a planet where the geology is much less active than on Earth. In that case there is a much smaller altitude variation - which means that water power isn't the primary choice. Forming of coal and oil may also be limited - so no luck there either. OK - there are always exceptions.
On the other hand - if we don't listen - we can't hear if there is somebody else out there.
Which means that it's just a prototype - not the real deal. VB & Access is only good for prototyping...
Troll mode off:
And anyway - if Diebold is running insecure voting machines - what about their ATM:s? Why not launch an awareness program that checks them too and let people decide if they are willing to take the risk of using their machines?
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A good answer to this is copper nails. Drive a set into the tree and wait... Maybe not good for the neighbor friendliness if they find out what you have done to their tree...
More cores will provide more fun. Maybe a check of TILERA 64- CORE PROCESSOR TILE64 will do?
Not to forget that the maintenance will be more complex.
is complaining about that it's windy instead of starting up the mill and grind some...
There are as always ways around this, and one lesson is that cameras (wireless or not) should never be on the same network zone as servers with sensitive data. (as with many other devices, say printers) A simple firewall can take care of most things here by both restricting access to and access from the devices.
In this way the various organizations claiming to be religions has to either be showing their colors or be dismissed as a religion.
Anyway - the filing seems to be too early since the assets of SCO currently exceeds the debts. So in my opinion the filing should be rejected, possibly with the catch that it can't be re-filed.
So - if it is decided that SCO has been working with Novells money is it possible that the control of SCO is transferred to Novell and the current shareholders are going to be left out in the cold?
1. A system administrator can always access your files, sometimes not intentional, sometimes when hunting for excessive disk usage. If an employee doesn't recognize this - well that's a question of stupidity. It's also a reason to keep sysadmins happy... 2. If a sysadmin encounters truly criminal data it's a legal matter and not a management matter. However even here the sysadmin has to use discretion and be selective. - Does the exposure really validate an invasion by the FBI (or whatever your favourite organization is) or is it maybe better to just delete the files and mumble something about corrupted filesystem... System administrators belongs to the support section of a company, which may be seen as overhead - the same overhead that the oil in your car engine is...
And then the operators complains about that nobody wants to use their data services...
And as noted - statistics works against the polygraph. There is a reason why it's not used all over the world.
Some medication may also cause an unexpected outcome - either causing the person to be more relaxed or being more tense.
Let's stick to hard evidence. If there is a lack of evidence it's better to wait - at least if the suspect isn't considered a danger to the public.
And of course - there are many things that can be said about the justice system (not only the US) - and it isn't all good.
Of course - there is always the possibility that radioactive isotopes can be filtered out from water, but each isotope has a different chemical signature so it's not easy to find a wonder-material that catches all. And that without contaminating the water with other chemicals that may be poisonous instead.
For radiation shielding Lead and Barium sulfate are two common materials. Depleted uranium isn't that bad when it comes to shielding, but it's harder to get. Then there is also the question of if it's Alpha, Beta or Gamma radiation. Each is shielded in a different way, but the absorption shield may generate secondary radiation when absorbing the primary radiation.
Neutrons are a special case since they have a tendency to penetrate most materials relatively easy and magnetic fields can't be used to deflect them either...
Cosmic radiation is actually a mix of various types of radiation, Helium nuclei, protons, electrons etc., all with high energy so the counter-measures have to cope with a mix of radiation.
And in my opinion; If you are familiar with more common languages like C and Java you should take a deeper look into Erlang unless you prefer to study Prolog or Cobol. Just take a dip or a deep plunge, you never know when you end up in a project where knowing Erlang may prove useful - it is actually developed to be used in real applications and not as a theoretical study object.
And Erlang is designed to handle concurrent programming from the bottom, which is a real problem in large multi-user systems. You can of course use C or Java and solve concurrency problems with semaphores or synchronization, but the solution in Erlang may be much more elegant.
And for all of you that are familiar with the Eclipse development environment; There is a plugin called Erlide.
Anyway - There is a Swedish authority named Konkurrensverket (Swedish Competition Authority) that has some influence in matters like this. Maybe you should send them an email with your opinions?
you may check for a "notarius publicus" or similar service too.
And SIS are defending their standpoint in the case.
The trust in the standardization organizations decreases...
A smarter device isn't that hard to create today - a GPS, gyro and a small one-chip computer will make things easy. Failure rate may be higher than for the military spec UAV:s but what's missing in precision can be made up by larger numbers.
So all R/C equipment around may also be a security risk.
I'm sure that this is causing dandruff for some security people. Just accept that the worms are out of the can.
And anyway - there are better ways to streak terror in people than with UAV:s. - They are too visible, rather slow and can be spotted before they are about to cause any big trouble.
Anyway - this raises the question about how the network is actually arranged - too much star topology and not enough redundancy. Of course there are some problems that arises from setting up a redundant network like the possibility of circular packet routing. But if the design is done with care it shouldn't pose a problem.
A friend of mine suffered from the outage - no access to any service at all for a few hours - just when he needed it!
It's not surprising that batteries can go ballistic. That happens now and then.
From what can be seen from the pictures the design wasn't sufficient to contain the batteries and any possible cause for explosion there. Maybe the designer didn't think about that or wanted to do a cheap job.
Anyway - the whole business here seems to be to force hardware upgrades by one hand and software upgrades with the other just to be sure that the flow of money is ensured. How long will it take until video drivers are Vista Only - just to force an upgrade to Vista?
This tells us that the temperature during the last years are higher - for Stockholm. Other places may have a different figure. It is important to look not only for a single site but for several sites with different geographical influence.
What really is needed is an analysis of the temperature over a much longer timespan than just a few hundred years - and here the ice cores drilled from Greenland and Antarctica are one key. Another is the growth of really old trees where the thickness of the year rings tells a lot of the climate, but unfortunately not everything. A warm dry summer gives a different result than a warm wet summer.
And even if the climate is shifting - it's the polar regions that are seeing the greatest changes.
Getting an MP3 isn't really what I want... FLAC or OGG are more interesting for me...
One problem that the OSS community suffers from is that there are many licensing forms, and that some are in conflict with what's suitable for some end-users. It is also a challenge to make money from OSS solutions unless you have a good model available. And there are a large number of OSS projects that are sponsored in one way or another.
Anyway - one must recognize that the view of having source code as a valuable asset is about to decay. The source code is just a tool - like a hammer or a screwdriver - that allows users to manage their information. The code in itself is useful to some extent, but the knowledge of how to use it us far more important - and here it's possible to make money even in the future.
Of course - since many today tend to do object oriented programming (for good and bad) the procedural programming may seem "fresh" for some.
And there are other programming areas that can be considered too;
Whenever an estimation has to be done it is also essential to understand that not all societies are technological - there may be human counterparts on other worlds that have a philosophical society - or that there are those who has a completely different timeframe and therefore are living on a much slower pace than we humans do. All the listening for other civilizations are done in a frequency band that has been used only the last 50 years, all due to the need of more bandwidth. If a society doesn't need that bandwidth they are still only using the lower frequencies. A problem here is that it's hard to do radio mapping here due to the fact that many natural phenomenons are causing disturbances.
I toyed with the Drake equation once and got the answer that the number of civilizations in the milky way was 0.86. (I don't remember the figures I put in, but it's still worth to notice.)
So - even if there is life out there, only a fraction of it is intelligent - and even a smaller fraction of it has a technology that releases detectable signs.
Taking into account that my figures got a value less than 1 as a probability value for civilizations in our galaxy means that we may be alone right now in the galaxy right now asking this question. Of course - even if there were 10 civilizations right now in our galaxy that we may be able to actually recognize means that they are likely to be very far apart. Consider that our galaxy may have a diameter of 200000 lightyears, and if we have 10 civilizations in our galaxy evenly spread out there will be about 20000 lightyears between each of them anyway. (star density and uneven distribution not considered).
Another factor that one should bear in mind is that to achieve a certain level of technology some heavy elements has to be readily available. Energy is also a consideration. A planet completely covered with water may be home to an advanced civilization, but that civilization has not one but two boundaries to cross before being out in space. Our air is their space. Another situation will be on a planet where the geology is much less active than on Earth. In that case there is a much smaller altitude variation - which means that water power isn't the primary choice. Forming of coal and oil may also be limited - so no luck there either. OK - there are always exceptions.
On the other hand - if we don't listen - we can't hear if there is somebody else out there.
Which means that it's just a prototype - not the real deal. VB & Access is only good for prototyping...
Troll mode off:And anyway - if Diebold is running insecure voting machines - what about their ATM:s? Why not launch an awareness program that checks them too and let people decide if they are willing to take the risk of using their machines?