OS X wouldn't be half the operating system if it didn't have its BSD kernel (though they did quite a bit of hacking on it).
Actually, from all the sources I have read, OSX consists of a Mach kernel, FreeBSD userland utils and NeXT interface. All of which, very seriously tweaked and hacked. However from the way Apple writes about the FreeBSD portion, it seems that they may have rolled some FreeBSD into the Mach kernel. Then again when Apple said their new Mighty Mouse was touch-sensitive, I interpretted that to mean that their new Mighty Mouse was touch-sensitive. How silly of me. ; )
BTW, I like Apple hardware and software, so I'm not trying to bash Apple too baddly.
BSDs are still alive because their code is needed to be alive. If you commit to a BSD, it's practically public domain; take it and do as you see fit.
That is why BSD can't die. It will always be with me and it is in some places that even geeks might not notice.
In my opinion it's the best kind of open source, but of course I see the need for the GPL as well. It's just too bad they can't work together more closely, and are instead moving apart gradually.
Recent changes to OpenBSD's malloc might spotlight some bugs in GPL applications which are likely to lead to fixes being sent from a BSD hacker/port maintainer to GPL projects. Already this malloc change has found a 10 year old bug in X which was apparently very difficult to find otherwise.
My exact point was more to the effect that it was an NT 3.51 box, not really a server in any meaningful, production-oriented sense of the word "server", but actually the way you say it is less verbose and more to the point. In fact, I think I like the way you put it better.
Where I was working at the time, they were using it as an office file/print server. Light duties and as I said, crashed every 2 or 3 weeks. Sitting next to it, Unix boxes (big ones) doing live trading for a stock exchange. I think those Unix machines were "up" for the whole time I worked there (18 months).
Unfortunately, some people tried to put NT 3.51 to meaningful use.
I don't know your point yet. I was working with NT 3.51 around 1994 or so, on x86 and DEC Alpha's. NT was not that stable (seemed to crash every 2 to 3 weeks in production) but it did not need to be hurt further by installing vital code for another arch or code that is considered alpha quality.
Your point is that NT 3.51 was alpha quality in itself? ; )
My best mishap was installing the alpha video driver on an NT 3.51 box thinking that it was just an alpha driver. Of course since this Alpha meant DEC and this was an x86 box, the server barfed pretty hard.
What are you doing installing what you beleive to be an alpha quality driver on a server?
The article is confusing, so I'm still not sure exactly what the point is.
Yes at first I thought the iPod was being used to execute bochs and thus run an x86 OS. But this is about using the iPod as a USB drive to store and run a VMware machine?
Can someone explain to me why I should be thinking something other than "big deal"?
I can run VMware machines from my external USB and Firewire drives. I wouldn't bother trying to do this from my iRiver H340 because the performance would suck and I don't want to stress my MP3 player by using it in a longer term way which it was not designed for.
For me, a "hoon" is a young person (typically male) who drives around in a 10 year old car with an in-car audio system which when fitted costed the driver more than the car itself. He plays this system at maximum volume at 11pm, up and down residential streets. However he is caught between the desire to have people hear his extremely distorted "Doof Doof" music (the bass of which is clearly clipping) and the desire to make sure people can hear his turbo blow-off valve kicking in at 10kph as he slowly moves from 2nd to 3rd. His seat is lowered even more than the car, he has one hand on the steering wheel and his elbow of the same arm is resting half way out the door. His other hand is always ready to quick-shift, even in bumper-to-bumper traffic. His head is moving in time with the "Doof Doof", but kind of side to side and up and down, subtle but noticable. His decade old car is most likely either a 4 cylinder or a rotary and is likely to be painted a wild metallic colour which changes with the lighting conditions. He is an idiot, as is the friend he has in the passenger seat who is aspiring to be as cool as him. Sometimes he also has another 3 idiots in the back seat (usually these are the ones who realise they won't need that space to take home any girls). His voice is still breaking, he is covered in pimples, but by looking at his attire and listening to the music he is listening to, he is a bad gansta. Sometimes they have neon lights underneath their cars. They are the biggest idiots of all. A Friday night will see them taking a cruise around the red-light district, to take in the sights and because that is also the place to be seen. They slow down to a crawl when they get to the speed bumps found here, although this slowing down is grossly exagerated, so that everyone will notice how low (and sick) their street machine is. In their 30's they come back to this red-light district to finally get rid of their virginity.
For me, that is a hoon. It is a big departure from when I was young. Then we had "petrol heads" who drove 7 litre supercharged V8's, with massive blowers and superchargers protruding from the bonnet. These guys also drove around really slowly, with the supercharger whine being very audible. They would stop at the lights and their "lumpy" engines really would actually sound cool, almost like a lumpy top fuel dragster. I could be wrong, but for these guys it actually did seem to be about the cars. With the current crop of hoons, it seems to be about the image.
In Australia, in the city of Sydney at least, it seems that the V8 driving "Petrol head" is no longer anywhere near as common as the "hoon" in the old "fully sick bro" rotary or four. I miss the days of nice old Ford Falcon Phase 3's (mostly look-a-likes), Monaro's, Camaro's and Mustangs. Now it's Hyundai's, old RX3's and WRX's everywhere.
Well, your credibility is shot. Sony computers are the worst. There's nothing good to say about them.
I bought my Sony because of the 1920x1200 LCD and the fast memory. I knew about problems with Sony's, but I researched before I bought. This machine runs FreeBSD 5.4 Release nice and fast and meets my current needs. I quite like the design of this model.
While the box may look sleek and sexy, they use old chipsets so that their performance is just abysmal.
I did not write that I use a Sony because I think Sony are better than Dell. I wrote that to show that I'm not a biased Mac zealot blindly defending his PB.
This notion that a Apple is a BMW is simply assinine.
Apple OSX is nice, works well and is designed for Apple machines. Has quite strict developer guidelines to maintain intuitive interface.
Windows XP looks better than 2000, works well enough most of the time and is designed to take almost every x86 into account. Developers don't always agree and it shows.
The "full experience" includes support, hardware, OS and applications. Apple do this well, whereas in the Wintel World this ranges from acceptable to terrible. There is so much more than just what chip is in your machine.
So you are paying for a complete experience. Which I can get from Dell or something similar.
Yeah, I love the full Dell experience. You send them money, then weeks later you get a laptop which comes complete with:
1. A battery which breaks within 3 weeks. 2. A CDROM drive with a dodgy eject button and requires a "right click -> eject". 3. Keyboard marks rubbed onto the screen. 4. A floppy drive which goes out of alignment after you first use it (two weeks after the warrantee ran out, because you don't use floppies that much). They demand money. 5. A trackpad/nipple which have you chanting, "The power of Christ compels you!..." 6. Flimsy build. 7. Poor performance (compared against other x86). 8. Non English speaking support, once they actually answer the phone. 9. An OS made by someone else, with drivers made by yet some other people again. Install media if you are lucky. Roll-your-own if you are not. 11. Anti virus software which takes the performance down by about one hundred annoyance notches. Only to be bothered for money 3 months later. 12. Lots of half baked software which is designed to get you to "upgrade to the pro version which actually works" with yet more money. 13. One hundred and fifty three billion different services installed and set to run by default, with a systray that goes half way across the screen when maximized. 14. A system which could come with any combination of a number of different parts. SOE hell. 15. A lesson in appreciation of quality over barrel bottom scraping "value". 16. I'm sure other/. readers can take it from here...
I support lots of Dells. The desktops... work. But the laptops are not built well enough to be used as laptops in my opinion.
My *opinion* is, that there never has been a Dell laptop which could compare with an Apple Powerbook for build quality or overall system quality. The overall Apple experience is nice. I could never say that about Dell. BTW, I say all this typing from a Sony VAIO.
The point is that these young hoons don't respect or are not in touch with reality. They think they are awesome drivers who can drive to the limits of their cars and the road conditions, when in fact, they can't. The old driver showed them just how far from optimum their skills were. Actually, they all either spun their cars or hit witches hats. None of them completed without incident, let alone complete and come anywhere near what was possible.
I did not and would not expect them to beat the old instructor, but if they were as good as they were making out, they'd have finished without incident with some decent times. As it happened, they all tried too hard and failed as a result. They all had loud attitudes of being awesome drivers, but none could show that they were even good drivers.
what was it called - it sounds entertaining and no doubt the internet can facilitate my viewing of it..
I can't remember which it was. Just some crappy current affairs program. "Today Tonight", "A Current Affair", or some such crap. It was quite a while ago, so I doubt I could find it. I usually will only watch a segment if I am particularly intrigued by it and see it advertised. I'm not one to religiously sit down each night and enjoy them, because they are mostly garbage.
For the record, they spoke of this MD5 case tonight and claimed that the "code" (MD5) for the image could be "corrupted by viruses or bugs in programs". Ah, yeah, whatever. As true as this may be, it has no practical bearing at all on the realities of the case! I've been involved in a few incidents which made the news, including international news and the news outlets never, ever, got the story correct. What was reported was either the obvious product of someone (journalist) incorrectly interpretting what they were told (instead of reporting verbatim or clarifying with the source before going to air or print), or otherwise sensationalized or apparently intentionally biased. My sample size is not much less than ten incidents, so it's far from conclusive. But how many times have people seen a news item which has obviously been misinterpretted or sensationalized?
incrediable. you say an 'old guy' who trained racing drivers is a better driver than his trainees? what next? teachers knowing more than their pupils? i'm flabbergasted.
The point was that he was driving THEIR cars better than they were and showing that they were nowhere near as good as they thought they were. You can't keep a car driving near its limits if you don't know the car well. Yet this old guy drove their cars much better than they did. They didn't respect this guy at first because he was old and saddly after proving these young idiots wrong, they were still fast talking and making excuses.
Of course I expect the old driving instructor to be much better than them. What was funny was that this old guy who the young hoons would not identify with as being a fast driver, handed them their asses in their own boy racer cars. As far as old racing drivers go, the instructor did not look the part either. Imagine you're an 18yo with some crazy hotted up 600kW Supra and your grandfather, who normally drives the speed limit in his Volvo, shows you how to drive it hard.
These hoons were humiliated. The point of the show was a challenge to the hoons to prove that they were good enough drivers to speed. They all failed.
Until he/she has a tyre blowout, or comes across an unexpected pothole in the road, or has to swerve to avoid a rabbit running across the road... at which point that extra 30mph or 50kmph could make a huge difference to the ensuing damage to the person and other people, not to mention their car. Those are things that can happen to anyone, no matter how good a driver they are.
Yes, that reminds me of something I witnessed about 25 years ago when I was a child. On a freeway a car flew past us at high speed, minutes later we drove past to see it, upside down, with a front type blown open and bloody bodies on the ground around it. I'll never forget that.
The World is full of people who are "better than average" in their own minds. Especially young people who think they are the next F1 champion. A while ago on TV in Australia, a current affairs type program got a bunch of hoons together to do a high performance driver training and testing. They all failed because they ALL went out too hard with something to prove. The funniest thing, was that the old guy training them, drove their own hotted up cars around the course much better and faster than the owners did.
In Norway they have done something even more extreme. They have a camera taking your picture at one place, then several kilometers further down they take a new picture and calculate how fast you have driven between the two cameras, basically, your speed on average must meet the speed limit on average over quite a distance... They are testing this solution right now and it most likely will be legal to set it up.
Those systems tend to utilize Optical Character Recognition on your number plate, so that they know when you entered and left the measured area. What's more, they can't do much against you if your number plate is obscured (as far as identifying you goes). Long ago I thought it would be cool to have an LCD screen covering your number plate, so you could mask it all black or even change characters at the press of a button.
Even this post can have a matching MD5 hash, does the MD5 hash prove that I wrote it?
You are correct, because MD5 is not supposed to prove who wrote something. It is supposed to provide a fingerprint which can't just be chosen or replicated by changing some data. It is supposed to be very difficult to do that (previously thought to be infeasible). However MD5 has been shown to be weaker than it was first beleived and I figured this was the doubt they were raising in court.
Also, to the parent, digitally signing against a hash is not much good if the hash can in fact be chosen or replicated. As you mention, they should move to a stronger digital signing system, with each camera having its own digital signature. Preferably the image itself should be encoded with all textual details (date, time, speed, location, direction, etc) and that should be signed by the camera.
Tampering with an MD5 hashed image in the reported case may be possible, since the image is the pre-image and it accompanies the hash. Although in reality, are the RTA *really* going to go to all the trouble and cost of editing images in such a way as to allow MD5 collisions? I would imagine the computing and manpower costs of this would outweigh the actual fines. Not to mention that it would be imoral and illegal.
I have a pysics teacher (also in WA) that drives as fast as he wants. Then when he goes to court for the speeding tickets he dazzles the judge with science and calculus until the ticket gets dropped.
Well then, if "as fast as he wants" means "much faster than the law allows", then I hope physics brings him some swift justice before he kills some innocent person who is not a complete ass.
Anyone have recent experience with running Windows XP Pro within a VMware Workstation 4 machine with Windows XP Pro as the host OS, but with both copies of XP using the same licence key? The reason I ask, is that I often run XP Pro within VMware with XP Pro as the host OS, but I am now worried that I won't be able to get updates within the virtual machine copy of XP, or worse still, somehow get both copies locked out from getting updates because Microsoft detects my copy being run on two "different" machines.
I'll be damned if I will buy another copy of XP so that I can run it in VMware and I will be really angry if I have to ring Mega$haft to explain the situation to have it fixed and then get charged for the call. As far as I am concerned, even when I am running XP within VMware, for all intents and purposes I am running it on the machine it was licenced for.
The real opportunity for Apple with virtualization is not in the enterprise space but on the desktop.... When you can run XP and OS-X concurrently on the same machine
Apple provided virtual machine software would be a nice option, however I think Apple would be in an even stronger position if their primary focus in this regard would be in API emulation like WINE. This way, Apple users would not have to even run a real Windows OS at all and could have Wintel apps running right next to their Mac OSX apps. If they could do this and retain the ability to cut/copy/paste etc between OSX and Wintel apps, they would have a killer on their hands. If they could also render Wintel apps as best they can as Aqua'fied apps, that would be the bomb (is this possible?).
I would view virtual machines as a cool option, but as one that should take a back seat to API emulation. With Microsoft locking software installations to particular "verified" machines, this would be even more important because people would have to buy new copies of any software which refuses to work in a virtual machine which does not match the one which that copy of the software is licenced for.
It was not nice knowing you Microsoft. Burn in fucking hell.
I can't wait to get home and download it (you Mac users out there please hold off and don't slashdot the page so I can get it).
Ha ha. Okay, let us know once you've arrived home and completed your download, so that we may then do so. Please don't forget about us! I realise that once you have completed your download that you will want to get straight into the web TV thingy, but please take the time to keep us in the loop so that we don't have to wait any longer than we need to. ; )
I can see how what I wrote might seem to have come off as defensive, but really I just wanted to make sure people don't think this is typical of us or even our government.
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OS X wouldn't be half the operating system if it didn't have its BSD kernel (though they did quite a bit of hacking on it).
Actually, from all the sources I have read, OSX consists of a Mach kernel, FreeBSD userland utils and NeXT interface. All of which, very seriously tweaked and hacked. However from the way Apple writes about the FreeBSD portion, it seems that they may have rolled some FreeBSD into the Mach kernel. Then again when Apple said their new Mighty Mouse was touch-sensitive, I interpretted that to mean that their new Mighty Mouse was touch-sensitive. How silly of me. ; )
BTW, I like Apple hardware and software, so I'm not trying to bash Apple too baddly.
BSDs are still alive because their code is needed to be alive. If you commit to a BSD, it's practically public domain; take it and do as you see fit.
That is why BSD can't die. It will always be with me and it is in some places that even geeks might not notice.
In my opinion it's the best kind of open source, but of course I see the need for the GPL as well. It's just too bad they can't work together more closely, and are instead moving apart gradually.
Recent changes to OpenBSD's malloc might spotlight some bugs in GPL applications which are likely to lead to fixes being sent from a BSD hacker/port maintainer to GPL projects. Already this malloc change has found a 10 year old bug in X which was apparently very difficult to find otherwise.
I do.
BSD's do actually get used in some pretty big roles.
My exact point was more to the effect that it was an NT 3.51 box, not really a server in any meaningful, production-oriented sense of the word "server", but actually the way you say it is less verbose and more to the point. In fact, I think I like the way you put it better.
Where I was working at the time, they were using it as an office file/print server. Light duties and as I said, crashed every 2 or 3 weeks. Sitting next to it, Unix boxes (big ones) doing live trading for a stock exchange. I think those Unix machines were "up" for the whole time I worked there (18 months).
Unfortunately, some people tried to put NT 3.51 to meaningful use.
Dude, read the post again. It was an NT 3.51 box.
I don't know your point yet. I was working with NT 3.51 around 1994 or so, on x86 and DEC Alpha's. NT was not that stable (seemed to crash every 2 to 3 weeks in production) but it did not need to be hurt further by installing vital code for another arch or code that is considered alpha quality.
Your point is that NT 3.51 was alpha quality in itself? ; )
I remember Seagates suffering from stiction, but they needed to be placed in an oven to get the heads un-stuck from the platters.
My best mishap was installing the alpha video driver on an NT 3.51 box thinking that it was just an alpha driver. Of course since this Alpha meant DEC and this was an x86 box, the server barfed pretty hard.
What are you doing installing what you beleive to be an alpha quality driver on a server?
Hey! What's new? Does this imply that they also do something other than speculating?
The article is confusing, so I'm still not sure exactly what the point is.
Yes at first I thought the iPod was being used to execute bochs and thus run an x86 OS. But this is about using the iPod as a USB drive to store and run a VMware machine?
Can someone explain to me why I should be thinking something other than "big deal"?
I can run VMware machines from my external USB and Firewire drives. I wouldn't bother trying to do this from my iRiver H340 because the performance would suck and I don't want to stress my MP3 player by using it in a longer term way which it was not designed for.
For me, a "hoon" is a young person (typically male) who drives around in a 10 year old car with an in-car audio system which when fitted costed the driver more than the car itself. He plays this system at maximum volume at 11pm, up and down residential streets. However he is caught between the desire to have people hear his extremely distorted "Doof Doof" music (the bass of which is clearly clipping) and the desire to make sure people can hear his turbo blow-off valve kicking in at 10kph as he slowly moves from 2nd to 3rd. His seat is lowered even more than the car, he has one hand on the steering wheel and his elbow of the same arm is resting half way out the door. His other hand is always ready to quick-shift, even in bumper-to-bumper traffic. His head is moving in time with the "Doof Doof", but kind of side to side and up and down, subtle but noticable. His decade old car is most likely either a 4 cylinder or a rotary and is likely to be painted a wild metallic colour which changes with the lighting conditions. He is an idiot, as is the friend he has in the passenger seat who is aspiring to be as cool as him. Sometimes he also has another 3 idiots in the back seat (usually these are the ones who realise they won't need that space to take home any girls). His voice is still breaking, he is covered in pimples, but by looking at his attire and listening to the music he is listening to, he is a bad gansta. Sometimes they have neon lights underneath their cars. They are the biggest idiots of all. A Friday night will see them taking a cruise around the red-light district, to take in the sights and because that is also the place to be seen. They slow down to a crawl when they get to the speed bumps found here, although this slowing down is grossly exagerated, so that everyone will notice how low (and sick) their street machine is. In their 30's they come back to this red-light district to finally get rid of their virginity.
For me, that is a hoon. It is a big departure from when I was young. Then we had "petrol heads" who drove 7 litre supercharged V8's, with massive blowers and superchargers protruding from the bonnet. These guys also drove around really slowly, with the supercharger whine being very audible. They would stop at the lights and their "lumpy" engines really would actually sound cool, almost like a lumpy top fuel dragster. I could be wrong, but for these guys it actually did seem to be about the cars. With the current crop of hoons, it seems to be about the image.
In Australia, in the city of Sydney at least, it seems that the V8 driving "Petrol head" is no longer anywhere near as common as the "hoon" in the old "fully sick bro" rotary or four. I miss the days of nice old Ford Falcon Phase 3's (mostly look-a-likes), Monaro's, Camaro's and Mustangs. Now it's Hyundai's, old RX3's and WRX's everywhere.
Well, your credibility is shot. Sony computers are the worst. There's nothing good to say about them.
I bought my Sony because of the 1920x1200 LCD and the fast memory. I knew about problems with Sony's, but I researched before I bought. This machine runs FreeBSD 5.4 Release nice and fast and meets my current needs. I quite like the design of this model.
While the box may look sleek and sexy, they use old chipsets so that their performance is just abysmal.
It has an Intel® 915PM Express Chipset.
Sony VGN-A49GP.
I did not write that I use a Sony because I think Sony are better than Dell. I wrote that to show that I'm not a biased Mac zealot blindly defending his PB.
This notion that a Apple is a BMW is simply assinine.
Apple OSX is nice, works well and is designed for Apple machines. Has quite strict developer guidelines to maintain intuitive interface.
Windows XP looks better than 2000, works well enough most of the time and is designed to take almost every x86 into account. Developers don't always agree and it shows.
The "full experience" includes support, hardware, OS and applications. Apple do this well, whereas in the Wintel World this ranges from acceptable to terrible. There is so much more than just what chip is in your machine.
So you are paying for a complete experience. Which I can get from Dell or something similar.
/. readers can take it from here...
Yeah, I love the full Dell experience. You send them money, then weeks later you get a laptop which comes complete with:
1. A battery which breaks within 3 weeks.
2. A CDROM drive with a dodgy eject button and requires a "right click -> eject".
3. Keyboard marks rubbed onto the screen.
4. A floppy drive which goes out of alignment after you first use it (two weeks after the warrantee ran out, because you don't use floppies that much). They demand money.
5. A trackpad/nipple which have you chanting, "The power of Christ compels you!..."
6. Flimsy build.
7. Poor performance (compared against other x86).
8. Non English speaking support, once they actually answer the phone.
9. An OS made by someone else, with drivers made by yet some other people again. Install media if you are lucky. Roll-your-own if you are not.
11. Anti virus software which takes the performance down by about one hundred annoyance notches. Only to be bothered for money 3 months later.
12. Lots of half baked software which is designed to get you to "upgrade to the pro version which actually works" with yet more money.
13. One hundred and fifty three billion different services installed and set to run by default, with a systray that goes half way across the screen when maximized.
14. A system which could come with any combination of a number of different parts. SOE hell.
15. A lesson in appreciation of quality over barrel bottom scraping "value".
16. I'm sure other
I support lots of Dells. The desktops... work. But the laptops are not built well enough to be used as laptops in my opinion.
My *opinion* is, that there never has been a Dell laptop which could compare with an Apple Powerbook for build quality or overall system quality. The overall Apple experience is nice. I could never say that about Dell. BTW, I say all this typing from a Sony VAIO.
You seem not to get the point:
The point is that these young hoons don't respect or are not in touch with reality. They think they are awesome drivers who can drive to the limits of their cars and the road conditions, when in fact, they can't. The old driver showed them just how far from optimum their skills were. Actually, they all either spun their cars or hit witches hats. None of them completed without incident, let alone complete and come anywhere near what was possible.
I did not and would not expect them to beat the old instructor, but if they were as good as they were making out, they'd have finished without incident with some decent times. As it happened, they all tried too hard and failed as a result. They all had loud attitudes of being awesome drivers, but none could show that they were even good drivers.
what was it called - it sounds entertaining and no doubt the internet can facilitate my viewing of it..
I can't remember which it was. Just some crappy current affairs program. "Today Tonight", "A Current Affair", or some such crap. It was quite a while ago, so I doubt I could find it. I usually will only watch a segment if I am particularly intrigued by it and see it advertised. I'm not one to religiously sit down each night and enjoy them, because they are mostly garbage.
For the record, they spoke of this MD5 case tonight and claimed that the "code" (MD5) for the image could be "corrupted by viruses or bugs in programs". Ah, yeah, whatever. As true as this may be, it has no practical bearing at all on the realities of the case! I've been involved in a few incidents which made the news, including international news and the news outlets never, ever, got the story correct. What was reported was either the obvious product of someone (journalist) incorrectly interpretting what they were told (instead of reporting verbatim or clarifying with the source before going to air or print), or otherwise sensationalized or apparently intentionally biased. My sample size is not much less than ten incidents, so it's far from conclusive. But how many times have people seen a news item which has obviously been misinterpretted or sensationalized?
incrediable. you say an 'old guy' who trained racing drivers is a better driver than his trainees? what next? teachers knowing more than their pupils? i'm flabbergasted.
The point was that he was driving THEIR cars better than they were and showing that they were nowhere near as good as they thought they were. You can't keep a car driving near its limits if you don't know the car well. Yet this old guy drove their cars much better than they did. They didn't respect this guy at first because he was old and saddly after proving these young idiots wrong, they were still fast talking and making excuses.
Of course I expect the old driving instructor to be much better than them. What was funny was that this old guy who the young hoons would not identify with as being a fast driver, handed them their asses in their own boy racer cars. As far as old racing drivers go, the instructor did not look the part either. Imagine you're an 18yo with some crazy hotted up 600kW Supra and your grandfather, who normally drives the speed limit in his Volvo, shows you how to drive it hard.
These hoons were humiliated. The point of the show was a challenge to the hoons to prove that they were good enough drivers to speed. They all failed.
Until he/she has a tyre blowout, or comes across an unexpected pothole in the road, or has to swerve to avoid a rabbit running across the road... at which point that extra 30mph or 50kmph could make a huge difference to the ensuing damage to the person and other people, not to mention their car. Those are things that can happen to anyone, no matter how good a driver they are.
Yes, that reminds me of something I witnessed about 25 years ago when I was a child. On a freeway a car flew past us at high speed, minutes later we drove past to see it, upside down, with a front type blown open and bloody bodies on the ground around it. I'll never forget that.
The World is full of people who are "better than average" in their own minds. Especially young people who think they are the next F1 champion. A while ago on TV in Australia, a current affairs type program got a bunch of hoons together to do a high performance driver training and testing. They all failed because they ALL went out too hard with something to prove. The funniest thing, was that the old guy training them, drove their own hotted up cars around the course much better and faster than the owners did.
In Norway they have done something even more extreme. They have a camera taking your picture at one place, then several kilometers further down they take a new picture and calculate how fast you have driven between the two cameras, basically, your speed on average must meet the speed limit on average over quite a distance... They are testing this solution right now and it most likely will be legal to set it up.
Those systems tend to utilize Optical Character Recognition on your number plate, so that they know when you entered and left the measured area. What's more, they can't do much against you if your number plate is obscured (as far as identifying you goes). Long ago I thought it would be cool to have an LCD screen covering your number plate, so you could mask it all black or even change characters at the press of a button.
Even this post can have a matching MD5 hash, does the MD5 hash prove that I wrote it?
You are correct, because MD5 is not supposed to prove who wrote something. It is supposed to provide a fingerprint which can't just be chosen or replicated by changing some data. It is supposed to be very difficult to do that (previously thought to be infeasible). However MD5 has been shown to be weaker than it was first beleived and I figured this was the doubt they were raising in court.
Also, to the parent, digitally signing against a hash is not much good if the hash can in fact be chosen or replicated. As you mention, they should move to a stronger digital signing system, with each camera having its own digital signature. Preferably the image itself should be encoded with all textual details (date, time, speed, location, direction, etc) and that should be signed by the camera.
Tampering with an MD5 hashed image in the reported case may be possible, since the image is the pre-image and it accompanies the hash. Although in reality, are the RTA *really* going to go to all the trouble and cost of editing images in such a way as to allow MD5 collisions? I would imagine the computing and manpower costs of this would outweigh the actual fines. Not to mention that it would be imoral and illegal.
I have a pysics teacher (also in WA) that drives as fast as he wants. Then when he goes to court for the speeding tickets he dazzles the judge with science and calculus until the ticket gets dropped.
Well then, if "as fast as he wants" means "much faster than the law allows", then I hope physics brings him some swift justice before he kills some innocent person who is not a complete ass.
Anyone have recent experience with running Windows XP Pro within a VMware Workstation 4 machine with Windows XP Pro as the host OS, but with both copies of XP using the same licence key? The reason I ask, is that I often run XP Pro within VMware with XP Pro as the host OS, but I am now worried that I won't be able to get updates within the virtual machine copy of XP, or worse still, somehow get both copies locked out from getting updates because Microsoft detects my copy being run on two "different" machines.
I'll be damned if I will buy another copy of XP so that I can run it in VMware and I will be really angry if I have to ring Mega$haft to explain the situation to have it fixed and then get charged for the call. As far as I am concerned, even when I am running XP within VMware, for all intents and purposes I am running it on the machine it was licenced for.
The real opportunity for Apple with virtualization is not in the enterprise space but on the desktop. ... When you can run XP and OS-X concurrently on the same machine
Apple provided virtual machine software would be a nice option, however I think Apple would be in an even stronger position if their primary focus in this regard would be in API emulation like WINE. This way, Apple users would not have to even run a real Windows OS at all and could have Wintel apps running right next to their Mac OSX apps. If they could do this and retain the ability to cut/copy/paste etc between OSX and Wintel apps, they would have a killer on their hands. If they could also render Wintel apps as best they can as Aqua'fied apps, that would be the bomb (is this possible?).
I would view virtual machines as a cool option, but as one that should take a back seat to API emulation. With Microsoft locking software installations to particular "verified" machines, this would be even more important because people would have to buy new copies of any software which refuses to work in a virtual machine which does not match the one which that copy of the software is licenced for.
It was not nice knowing you Microsoft. Burn in fucking hell.
I can't wait to get home and download it (you Mac users out there please hold off and don't slashdot the page so I can get it).
Ha ha. Okay, let us know once you've arrived home and completed your download, so that we may then do so. Please don't forget about us! I realise that once you have completed your download that you will want to get straight into the web TV thingy, but please take the time to keep us in the loop so that we don't have to wait any longer than we need to. ; )
On a tangent, where have you seen AMD64 MBs that support 64GB of RAM ?
I have not seen any Opteron system which would require less than four processors to go to 64GB.
Hey curri,
Okay scratch that. I've just come across this. 64GB with only 2 Opterons.
I can see how what I wrote might seem to have come off as defensive, but really I just wanted to make sure people don't think this is typical of us or even our government.
BTW, I have just noticed that I made a typo. Where I used 65,563 I should have used 65,536.
Thankfully, bc seems to adhere to PEMDAS so I don't have to use parentheses.