"Lexar's premium JumpDrive Lightning thumb drive has the fastest data-transfer rates at 18MB/sec write and 24MB/sec read."
I had my heart set on a 2GB Jumpdrive Lightning, since it was one of the fastest USB thumb drives around and it looked really strong. I was going to order one, but could not find a place with stock, so I continued researching by looking at forums and user reviews. I was pretty quickly put off the Jumpdrive Lightning, since many people were complaining that not only the plastic inside the steel cap breaks, but also the plastic between the steel casing and PCB also breaks. Causing some people to find that when they pull their Lightning out of their computers, the steel case just slides off and the PCB and thus drive remains connected to the computer.
So much for the tough looking drive! So I decided to check out the forums for the SanDisk Titanium...
And some are strong on the outside, too. SanDisk touts a drive built to withstand 2,000 lbs. of pressure. Computerworld tested that claim by repeatedly driving a Volkswagen Beetle over the ruggedized thumb drive. While the drive's body came away with a few scratches, there were no dents, and not a single lost file."
Do a search for "SanDisk Titanium static". A LOT of people from different forums and review sites, have really bad things to say about the SanDisk Titaniums. Way, way, WAY too many people for there not to be a problem. Like the Lexar Lightning, but much worse. So a broken SanDisk thumb drive, killed by a single touch, can have its broken electronics protected from a pressure of up to 2,000lbs! Wow!
I ended up getting a rubber 4GB Corsair Flash Voyager. Which has a 10 year warrantee and although there are some people with failure complaints in the Corsair forums, it seems like a low number and as Corsair points out, they sell very many units and have few complaints. In forums where people are speaking badly of the Lexar Lightning and SanDisk Titanium, there is lots of praise for the Corsair Flash Voyager. When someone does complain about the Voyager, Corsair promptly requests the person fill out a form to have the drive replaced. The customers seem happy. I bought my 4GB Flash Voyager for cheaper than the 2GB Lexar or SanDisk models.
I have also seen some review where they drive over a Flash Voyager and it survives (just). They also boil it, and even bake it with their pizza! It survives the boiling, but fails after they rinse it under water after the pizza baking. But it then comes good once they remove the rubber and dry it. Personally, I don't plan on driving over it, boiling it, baking it or using it as the sole storage of anything important. Thumb drives should be used for moving data or backup and not relied upon.
Mind you, the Mk 1 has a few problems to iron out - I need to find a way of enabling it to keep running when the engine stops, at the moment it stops when the engine does and I think this might be the braking effect of the drive belt. Anyone got any ideas
Yes, getting it to keep running when the engine stops is very easy. All you need to do is short the output of your generator at the precise moment that you stop your car engine. This will induce an instant current of infinite amps at 0 volts. Because this is such an incredibly high amount of power, this will cause your generator to become self reciprocating and thus sustain that power, until such time as you attempt to use or measure it (with traditional methods), in which case you will have broken the short circuit and thus stopped the generator. I currently have a solution to harnessing this "infinite power (tm)", which I will later present to the World once the Myordons from planet Myor finally arrive in 2010.
"We" are not mentally ready for this technology until we receive the mind upgrades which President Myor has told me we need. They already gave myself and some other "mental elites" the upgrade.
All future correspondence in regard to the "infinite free power of 2010", Myor and the Myordons, should be directed to "The Enlightened One", Tom Cruise, 90210, c/o Hollywood. Please send what money you can! The Myordons need the legal tender of Earth to make the long expensive trip.
And besides, why the emphasis on shielding the camera? You'd think that for a RNG interference is good as it adds more randomness.
Not if the interferance consists of some or many repetitive signals. They may colour the output with something other than white. That is why RNG's are sometimes put through compression functions, to minimize that. I'd rather also shield, since specific compression functions tend to be good at compressing specific types of data but not some others. Leaving some coloured randomness in the output.
Introduction of Apple Lisa: 1983 Introduction of Apple Macintosh: 1984 Introduction of Commodore Amiga: 1985 Source of (some of) the UI ideas in Lisa and Macintosh: Xerox PARC, not Commodore.
Hey! You're letting facts get in the way of a good Amiga rant!
There is also this from Wikipedia...
NeXT was founded in 1985 by Steve Jobs after his resignation from Apple Computer. In addition to its hardware, NeXT developed the NeXTSTEP operating system, later sold for other processors as OPENSTEP, competing against Windows 95. In 1993, NeXT withdrew from its hardware business and on February 7, 1997 was bought out by Apple; NeXT's software was used as the foundation for Mac OS X.
Since Apple had the Mac, which pre-dates the Amiga and now lots of ideas in OS X come from NeXT, how can any Amiga fan can cry foul at Apple?
It must work though. I mean, who would make something and charge so much for it if it didn't actually work?
Years ago, I bought one of those audio magazines which are released once a year or so which tabulates the specs of all the audio products currently on the market, complete with prices.
I was astounded to see that there was a small CD player, perhaps as large as an alarm-clock-radio. The short quote from a previous review had raves for it, but stated that the build quality was also like a cheapo alarm-clock-radio. This CD player (a Meridian) was $50,000 US, yet it had worse specifications, in every respect, than a $100 US Marrantz CD player (which got a ho-hum review). The Marrantz had better THD, SNR, Dyn Range and very flat response and fine build quality, yet got a crappy review compared with the $50,000 piece of trash.
I could only conclude that the reviewer falls into the category of, "If it is expensive, it is good. If it is cheap, it is bad".
I wanted the Yamaha CDX-1060. Because it had pretty much the best specs of all of the players, yet was only a few hundred bucks. Unfortunately, I missed out and they stopped making it before I could buy one. I might be able to get one second hand, since the CDX-1060 is still traded as a legend. But for me, the convenience of my iRiver H340 mp3 player is just too good to go back to CD players.
1/ Reduce the load on the system CPU by off loading some networking tasks? What will that buy you? 0.1%? 1%?
2/ Tag all of the packets from that machine as being higher priority for QoS routers which may bump up their priority? You can do that at your own router/gateway. Buy a gaming router or do-it-yourself with BSD/pf, Linux, etc.
3/ Reduce the latency of the interface itself? Oh yeah, that will provide huge gains!...
Pinging my OpenBSD firewall, I get an average of 0.165mS. Pinging the gateway at my ISP (1536/256 ADSL), I get an average of 11.3mS. Even if this card performed a miracle on the order of water-into-wine and reduced the latency to my firewall down to 0mS (absolute), the latency to my next hop is still 11.1mS. A whopping 1.8% improvement if Jesus is the man behind this card. Any QoS packet tagging that this card might be doing, would be pointless, because my firewall is dealing with my gaming QoS and other gamers can do the same or use a router which does it for them.
And they want how much for this card? Is Jesus going to personally come out and install it for me? And while he's here bless me with super lightning fast reflexes, while we break bread?
Hajj, who has freelanced for Reuters since 1993 and has been suspended pending an internal inquiry, "denied deliberately attempting to manipulate the image, saying he was trying to remove dust marks and that he made mistakes due to the bad lighting conditions he was working under," according to the Reuters statement.
The other day I was walking down the street and tripped over a pile of wood, which caused me to accidentally build a house. Whoops.
As to if that firmware is programmable, my guess is that it either so small that it would be too difficult to work with the space, or is burned into the chip a certain way.
I don't doubt that the firmware is programmable. What I meant was, that I believe that the processor inside the wireless card itself will need to be able to be programmable by a hacker from the wireless side, and that the wireless card itself must act as a small computer attached to the host computer. That wireless card would also need to be able to access the host systems RAM by itself and thus I mentioned that it would need it's own DMA engine or the like.
The card itself would need to be able to access host system RAM and even then the card itself would need to be capable of doing it in an arbitrary fashion from the control of the hacker using it as a proxy.
I don't doubt that it is possible, as long as the wireless card can be addressed in that fashion and can access host RAM arbitrarily under the control of a hacker from the wireless side. DMA engines in devices with their own processor and firmware can be dangerous. I wouldn't say this was impossible, because I don't know enough of the internals of wireless cards.
Isn't this similar to why the US.gov has banned the use of Lenovo?
BTW, it would be nice if you could convince your friend to inform the World, anonymously if need be, of the danger, with details. If it is true, then all the OS security mechanisms in the World are not going to be any good against a device you plug in which has a functionality to read system RAM from the remote end and of which you have practically no control over.
PS, consider this. The US has sold security devices with back doors and military equipment (jet fighters) which can be disabled selectively and remotely (I saw a documentary about the Royal Australian Air Force, in which a pilot stated that the US could disable jet fighters they had sold to other nations, from their AWACS). Many believe that when World War III breaks out, a lot of fighting will be on the tech side, including through the Internet. Lots of electronic products and devices are coming out of China. What is stopping them from embedding DoS and eavesdropping technologies which could be enabled (or disabled, as it may be) in a time of war?
That really cheap computer might end up costing you much more than you first thought. This might seem like paranoia, but if a nation is able to covertly embed enemy crippling technology on a large scale, why wouldn't they?
Don't be so smug yet, it still might be and exploit for your machine. I was talking to a wireless security guy a month ago about something like this, and he was telling me that every wireless card has an inbeaded driver for testing purposes before leaving the factory to insure it is working. Essentually this driver is still present after being shipped to whom ever is going to use it, and thus is still around when it makes its way into a computer. I was told that it is possible to invoke this drive since its tied to the hardware, no matter what OS.
Drivers are executed by the system CPU and sit between the kernel and device (and may be part of the kernel itself). For what you are saying to be possible, this driver embedded into the wireless device, will need to be able to access the CPU in the wireless device in a programable fashion and the wireless device will need to be able to arbitrarily access system memory to be dangerous. So do wireless cards have programmable DMA engines like some modern 3D video cards?
Hmmmmn, while I agree that openBSDs security is superior to linux's in almost every way, I've never really understood the POV of someone who feels superior for using an O/S (Theo has the right to be smug tho')
I think a little smugness could be allowed, when a lot of people just put up with the wrong way of doing things, or put up with being trodden on by vendors, when the vendors should be at OUR mercy when it comes to their success. A few people (the smug) demand things be done right, securely and openly and then a few people (blind Linux fanboys, not to be confused with reasonable Linux users) put Theo down for standing up for what he beleives is right.
Now that blobs are showing how bad they can be, I think Theo and the people who support his stance, can be forgiven for being a little smug, especially when some people were putting him and his ideals on this matter down.
It does not mean however, that aerial gunners just go roaming from village to village shooting random people. I assure you our gunners are very disciplined and follow strict ROE.
This is laughable. Do you think that every soldier obeys the ROE? I have seen a US soldier fire full auto at almost point blank range, into an unarmed old man who is half lying down in a mosque. In a slow frail manner, he extends his empty hand to the soldier standing over him and then gets a chest full. BTW, the US Army has acknowledged that incident, took the soldier out of action and are "investigating". It happens. Please don't be a tard with rose coloured glasses. We teach soldiers to kill people and to varying degrees dehumanize them for the role and then we're shocked that ROE are broken when these soldiers are high on adrenaline, fear and sometimes the drugs they use to escape the hell of war?
Have you seen the video they are talking about? I saw it a long while ago and I don't see where ROE or identification of these people even come into it. They keep saying over and over to stay away from the building which is considered to be a mosque, yet gun down people who are in the beginning just casually walking around, oblivious to the threat above. There is no way that any of the gunners can identify that the people they are killing are combatants, let alone armed combatants. The people on the ground AT NO TIME fire at the AC-130 or even appear to be holding or moving weapons at all.
But don't hit the mosque!!!!
Please, ROE is to cover the militarys own ass. Remember, as a police friend once told me, "dead men tell no lies".
I do feel for the people who have no clue about the issues. They buy a WAP which boldly claims high security, yet does not have any great warnings and then plug it in and use the Quick Getting Started Guide to connect. The poor people are oblivious to the dangers. I've never installed a WAP which gave realistic warnings, if any beyond a "use WEP or WPA" section.
I think the makers should be forced into putting warning labels on the boxes, so that people will be aware that there are dangers which need to be addressed. Maybe also a standardised rating based on security standards provided would be good too.
I have a sensitive Demarc Tech 200mW 802.11b card and at one stage had a bit of a play with a 19dB flat panel antenna mounted on a tripod. I looked around my neighbourhood to see what the state of open WAP's was and found about 40 WAP's, of which about 60% were wide open and many of which also had default passwords set on them. I felt compelled to make an image with a message stating how insecure their setups were and then place the file as their desktop wallpaper, so they would know. In the end I felt it was too risky. I guess I am overly paranoid.
I tried to tell a friend of mine years ago that the problem with a lot of voice recognition software (which I had found), was the more you teach it, the worse it gets, because it has a larger database to get confused with which just keep growing and thus keeps getting worse. He didn't beleive it. Strangely, the evidence which also showed this did not seem to convince him either.
In the mid 90's I was at an Apple Newton product demo in Sydney, Australia.
The Apple guy wrote something to the effect of: "Hello, my name is George." and the Newton converted that to the text: "Hello, any name is failure."
My stomach muscles were killing me.
The Newton came good though and I loved my MP 120.
Can MS fix something like this or will they need to buy out the Dragon Dictate people? Naturally, Microsoft will hardwire this sofware to some very dangerous tools, because they are innovative and strive to provide their customers with options. Saying in notepad "The foremen see", will of course wipe your whole harddrive and "kitty lawn fun" will get you raped in prison.
His analogy was closer to the reality of open WAP's than yours. But really the bike analogy does not cleanly mesh with the complexities of open WAP's, so why bother with it.
Your signal trespasses onto his property, open, inviting and allowing him to access your bandwidth, as provided by you. You could have taken steps to prevent that, but you didn't.
She finally got pulled over, and she was totally pissed about the $271 ticket, and when she came complaining to me, I asked her how much time she had saved over the last several weeks, and it worked out to about $20/hour. I told her she should appreciate the great deal she got for as long as she did.
I know people who travel a decent distance each day to work by train. They purchase weekly or monthly tickets to travel between their work station and the very next station, which is really cheap compared to how much they should be spending. The stations where they work in the city are always staffed, because there is a high number of people moving through them at all hours and it is thus economically viable to do so. On the other hand the station closest to where they live is not staffed at the times that they get home, because they live far away. Ocassionally they get caught and fined. The fines plus small fares are much cheaper over the year than the fares they would have payed.
Personally, I would fix this by making the fines double each time for each subsequent offence within a 365 day period. Actually if I had the power, I would apply this to all fines (and OT with ricers who commit typical ricer offences, I'd have their vehicle confiscated and sold at government auction, with the proceeds going to the state).
To throw one more thing into the mix, it's like what the mathematician said in Jurassic Park; I'll paraphrase: just because you can doesn't mean you should.
Tell that to the people who do.
Trying to defiantly take a stand against people who don't give a crap about you or your morals, by practically handing them what they want but which you don't want them to take (unless it's an emergency), is pretty pointless. They don't care. Actions speak much louder than the silence they're hearing from you.
Why would I object to that? No . . . why would *you* object to that?
Because one day a paedophile will use your connection and besides inadvertently helping one of those sick bastards, you'll end up taking the wrap?
There is no hope in hell that I will give any random person access through the connection which I am responsible for.
BTW, in the past 15 years or so, I know of at least TWO paedophiles living within 100m of my home. Ever owned a radio scanner? Get one and then you might never want to leave the house again once you know of all the bad shit that is happening all around us. It seems to me that there are way too many arseholes in this World, to be just trusting unknown and unseen people to use your net access.
There are lots of scenarios too. With the MPAA/RIAA cracking down on people downloading, some people might look for open WAP's to download what they want at other peoples expenses. Same deal with hackers who may wish for some added anonymity to do their dirty work with you as the fall guy. Spammers, phishers, etc?
You take a risk for no benefit to yourself. Why would you do that?
I love my Newton 2100. I so wish Apple would release a new version. I'd buy it in a second.
Me too. I had an MP 120 and feel that the bad wrap the Newton got for the handwriting recognition was unfounded. After a short while of training it became very accurate. Far more accurate than my Palm Tungsten E and certainly more natural to use, since I could write across the screen naturally, even in cursive, instead of writing characters on top of each other in special locations.
If apple released a PDA in the form factor of say the Palm Tungsten TX, but with the handwriting recognition of the Newton, I'd be all over it. If they added voice recognition to it as an alternative input, that would be awesome too.
I still don't understand how you guys/gals can sit here & tell me that they act differently in a motor, yet they're the same. It just doesn't make sense.
Maybe this will make sense for you then:
High octane petrol in normal engine, bad. High octane petrol in high compression engine, good.
Low octane petrol in normal engine, good. Low octane petrol in high compression engine, bad.
It is not about quality, it is about suitability.
Potentially the same quality, but each has different pros and cons. Low octane can explode under the higher pressure of a high compression engine, before the spark can ignite it at the correct time (like the way diesel explodes without a spark plug). So low octane fuel is bad for high compression engines.
By the same token, people who think high octane fuel equates to high "quality" fuel and use it in a normal compression engine, are actually getting no benefit from what the high octane fuel provides (lack of knocking, when knocking was not occuring in the first place). Yet they are getting an added build up of carbon, which may actually eventually lead to knocking (knocking can occur from exploded fuel or from fuel ignited from hot carbon build-up). So they prematurely got a problem and all for no benefit. So with this so called "higher quality fuel" they got a problem with their engine.
High octane fuel for high compression engines. Lower octane fuel for non high compression engines.
Different fuels for different engines. Just like petrol versus diesel. High octane is not about higher quality of the product itself, it is about suitablity to high compression engines.
I must have missed the lecture, perhaps it's time for you to move on if you've discussed it enough times before ?
Perhaps it is time for you to start listening to other people.
High octane gasoline has been refined more - it is just a better product.
Is there somthing wrong with that ? I don't know about everyone else, but I like better products.
You did not read the pdf.
High octane gasoline has been refined more - it is just a better product.
Is a heading under myths.
Additional refining steps are used to increase the octane; however, these additional steps do not necessarily make the gasoline a "better" product for all engines.
Is the response to the myth. Showing that high octane gasoline is NOT "a better product", but rather it might be a more appropriate product for some specific engines.
Would you put petrol in your deisel engine if someone told you that petrol was a better product?
Do you really think anyone actually approaches that 10,000 erase cycle limit before a newer, shinier gadget comes out and they upgrade?
I would prefer to shoot RAW. If I can get 100 photos on a card, then I can do that 100 times with the 10,000 erase cycle CF. If I buy a big, fast CF, I would be happy to spend the extra to know that it will outlast the camera, especially since the large CF cards are still pretty expensive.
But for most people, probably not. Good point.
I also go for the higher erase cycle CF because I use them in firewalls.
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Ask for other benchmarks and I will run them.
Yeah, what's the full-stroke time on that bad boy? And how does it compare with random-seek?
"Lexar's premium JumpDrive Lightning thumb drive has the fastest data-transfer rates at 18MB/sec write and 24MB/sec read."
I had my heart set on a 2GB Jumpdrive Lightning, since it was one of the fastest USB thumb drives around and it looked really strong. I was going to order one, but could not find a place with stock, so I continued researching by looking at forums and user reviews. I was pretty quickly put off the Jumpdrive Lightning, since many people were complaining that not only the plastic inside the steel cap breaks, but also the plastic between the steel casing and PCB also breaks. Causing some people to find that when they pull their Lightning out of their computers, the steel case just slides off and the PCB and thus drive remains connected to the computer.
So much for the tough looking drive! So I decided to check out the forums for the SanDisk Titanium...
And some are strong on the outside, too. SanDisk touts a drive built to withstand 2,000 lbs. of pressure. Computerworld tested that claim by repeatedly driving a Volkswagen Beetle over the ruggedized thumb drive. While the drive's body came away with a few scratches, there were no dents, and not a single lost file."
Do a search for "SanDisk Titanium static". A LOT of people from different forums and review sites, have really bad things to say about the SanDisk Titaniums. Way, way, WAY too many people for there not to be a problem. Like the Lexar Lightning, but much worse. So a broken SanDisk thumb drive, killed by a single touch, can have its broken electronics protected from a pressure of up to 2,000lbs! Wow!
I ended up getting a rubber 4GB Corsair Flash Voyager. Which has a 10 year warrantee and although there are some people with failure complaints in the Corsair forums, it seems like a low number and as Corsair points out, they sell very many units and have few complaints. In forums where people are speaking badly of the Lexar Lightning and SanDisk Titanium, there is lots of praise for the Corsair Flash Voyager. When someone does complain about the Voyager, Corsair promptly requests the person fill out a form to have the drive replaced. The customers seem happy. I bought my 4GB Flash Voyager for cheaper than the 2GB Lexar or SanDisk models.
I have also seen some review where they drive over a Flash Voyager and it survives (just). They also boil it, and even bake it with their pizza! It survives the boiling, but fails after they rinse it under water after the pizza baking. But it then comes good once they remove the rubber and dry it. Personally, I don't plan on driving over it, boiling it, baking it or using it as the sole storage of anything important. Thumb drives should be used for moving data or backup and not relied upon.
It's an old joke. Not even a joke. More sort of a thing that some computer programmers say sometimes and nod wisely to make their point.
But the latency! Won't somebody please think of the latency?
Mind you, the Mk 1 has a few problems to iron out - I need to find a way of enabling it to keep running when the engine stops, at the moment it stops when the engine does and I think this might be the braking effect of the drive belt. Anyone got any ideas
Yes, getting it to keep running when the engine stops is very easy. All you need to do is short the output of your generator at the precise moment that you stop your car engine. This will induce an instant current of infinite amps at 0 volts. Because this is such an incredibly high amount of power, this will cause your generator to become self reciprocating and thus sustain that power, until such time as you attempt to use or measure it (with traditional methods), in which case you will have broken the short circuit and thus stopped the generator. I currently have a solution to harnessing this "infinite power (tm)", which I will later present to the World once the Myordons from planet Myor finally arrive in 2010.
"We" are not mentally ready for this technology until we receive the mind upgrades which President Myor has told me we need. They already gave myself and some other "mental elites" the upgrade.
All future correspondence in regard to the "infinite free power of 2010", Myor and the Myordons, should be directed to "The Enlightened One", Tom Cruise, 90210, c/o Hollywood. Please send what money you can! The Myordons need the legal tender of Earth to make the long expensive trip.
And besides, why the emphasis on shielding the camera? You'd think that for a RNG interference is good as it adds more randomness.
Not if the interferance consists of some or many repetitive signals. They may colour the output with something other than white. That is why RNG's are sometimes put through compression functions, to minimize that. I'd rather also shield, since specific compression functions tend to be good at compressing specific types of data but not some others. Leaving some coloured randomness in the output.
As far as I can see they still are stealing from the Amiga
What did they steal from the Amiga?
1973: Xerox Alto. Bitmapped display, 3-button mouse, 16-bit CPU.
1981: Xerox Star screenshot.
1984: Apple Macintosh.
1985: Amiga 1000.
1988: NeXT and OPENSTEP.
1990: Amiga pushing the boundaries of the GUI in 1990! Watch out Apple, NeXT and Microsoft!
Most of this from Nathan Lineback's Graphical User Interface Timeline.
Introduction of Apple Lisa: 1983
Introduction of Apple Macintosh: 1984
Introduction of Commodore Amiga: 1985
Source of (some of) the UI ideas in Lisa and Macintosh: Xerox PARC, not Commodore.
Hey! You're letting facts get in the way of a good Amiga rant!
There is also this from Wikipedia...
NeXT was founded in 1985 by Steve Jobs after his resignation from Apple Computer. In addition to its hardware, NeXT developed the NeXTSTEP operating system, later sold for other processors as OPENSTEP, competing against Windows 95. In 1993, NeXT withdrew from its hardware business and on February 7, 1997 was bought out by Apple; NeXT's software was used as the foundation for Mac OS X.
Since Apple had the Mac, which pre-dates the Amiga and now lots of ideas in OS X come from NeXT, how can any Amiga fan can cry foul at Apple?
It must work though. I mean, who would make something and charge so much for it if it didn't actually work?
Years ago, I bought one of those audio magazines which are released once a year or so which tabulates the specs of all the audio products currently on the market, complete with prices.
I was astounded to see that there was a small CD player, perhaps as large as an alarm-clock-radio. The short quote from a previous review had raves for it, but stated that the build quality was also like a cheapo alarm-clock-radio. This CD player (a Meridian) was $50,000 US, yet it had worse specifications, in every respect, than a $100 US Marrantz CD player (which got a ho-hum review). The Marrantz had better THD, SNR, Dyn Range and very flat response and fine build quality, yet got a crappy review compared with the $50,000 piece of trash.
I could only conclude that the reviewer falls into the category of, "If it is expensive, it is good. If it is cheap, it is bad".
I wanted the Yamaha CDX-1060. Because it had pretty much the best specs of all of the players, yet was only a few hundred bucks. Unfortunately, I missed out and they stopped making it before I could buy one. I might be able to get one second hand, since the CDX-1060 is still traded as a legend. But for me, the convenience of my iRiver H340 mp3 player is just too good to go back to CD players.
How could this reduce latency appreciably?
1/ Reduce the load on the system CPU by off loading some networking tasks? What will that buy you? 0.1%? 1%?
2/ Tag all of the packets from that machine as being higher priority for QoS routers which may bump up their priority? You can do that at your own router/gateway. Buy a gaming router or do-it-yourself with BSD/pf, Linux, etc.
3/ Reduce the latency of the interface itself? Oh yeah, that will provide huge gains!...
Pinging my OpenBSD firewall, I get an average of 0.165mS. Pinging the gateway at my ISP (1536/256 ADSL), I get an average of 11.3mS. Even if this card performed a miracle on the order of water-into-wine and reduced the latency to my firewall down to 0mS (absolute), the latency to my next hop is still 11.1mS. A whopping 1.8% improvement if Jesus is the man behind this card. Any QoS packet tagging that this card might be doing, would be pointless, because my firewall is dealing with my gaming QoS and other gamers can do the same or use a router which does it for them.
And they want how much for this card? Is Jesus going to personally come out and install it for me? And while he's here bless me with super lightning fast reflexes, while we break bread?
Hajj, who has freelanced for Reuters since 1993 and has been suspended pending an internal inquiry, "denied deliberately attempting to manipulate the image, saying he was trying to remove dust marks and that he made mistakes due to the bad lighting conditions he was working under," according to the Reuters statement.
The other day I was walking down the street and tripped over a pile of wood, which caused me to accidentally build a house. Whoops.
As to if that firmware is programmable, my guess is that it either so small that it would be too difficult to work with the space, or is burned into the chip a certain way.
.gov has banned the use of Lenovo?
I don't doubt that the firmware is programmable. What I meant was, that I believe that the processor inside the wireless card itself will need to be able to be programmable by a hacker from the wireless side, and that the wireless card itself must act as a small computer attached to the host computer. That wireless card would also need to be able to access the host systems RAM by itself and thus I mentioned that it would need it's own DMA engine or the like.
The card itself would need to be able to access host system RAM and even then the card itself would need to be capable of doing it in an arbitrary fashion from the control of the hacker using it as a proxy.
I don't doubt that it is possible, as long as the wireless card can be addressed in that fashion and can access host RAM arbitrarily under the control of a hacker from the wireless side. DMA engines in devices with their own processor and firmware can be dangerous. I wouldn't say this was impossible, because I don't know enough of the internals of wireless cards.
Isn't this similar to why the US
BTW, it would be nice if you could convince your friend to inform the World, anonymously if need be, of the danger, with details. If it is true, then all the OS security mechanisms in the World are not going to be any good against a device you plug in which has a functionality to read system RAM from the remote end and of which you have practically no control over.
PS, consider this. The US has sold security devices with back doors and military equipment (jet fighters) which can be disabled selectively and remotely (I saw a documentary about the Royal Australian Air Force, in which a pilot stated that the US could disable jet fighters they had sold to other nations, from their AWACS). Many believe that when World War III breaks out, a lot of fighting will be on the tech side, including through the Internet. Lots of electronic products and devices are coming out of China. What is stopping them from embedding DoS and eavesdropping technologies which could be enabled (or disabled, as it may be) in a time of war?
That really cheap computer might end up costing you much more than you first thought. This might seem like paranoia, but if a nation is able to covertly embed enemy crippling technology on a large scale, why wouldn't they?
Don't be so smug yet, it still might be and exploit for your machine. I was talking to a wireless security guy a month ago about something like this, and he was telling me that every wireless card has an inbeaded driver for testing purposes before leaving the factory to insure it is working. Essentually this driver is still present after being shipped to whom ever is going to use it, and thus is still around when it makes its way into a computer. I was told that it is possible to invoke this drive since its tied to the hardware, no matter what OS.
Drivers are executed by the system CPU and sit between the kernel and device (and may be part of the kernel itself). For what you are saying to be possible, this driver embedded into the wireless device, will need to be able to access the CPU in the wireless device in a programable fashion and the wireless device will need to be able to arbitrarily access system memory to be dangerous. So do wireless cards have programmable DMA engines like some modern 3D video cards?
Hmmmmn, while I agree that openBSDs security is superior to linux's in almost every way, I've never really understood the POV of someone who feels superior for using an O/S (Theo has the right to be smug tho')
I think a little smugness could be allowed, when a lot of people just put up with the wrong way of doing things, or put up with being trodden on by vendors, when the vendors should be at OUR mercy when it comes to their success. A few people (the smug) demand things be done right, securely and openly and then a few people (blind Linux fanboys, not to be confused with reasonable Linux users) put Theo down for standing up for what he beleives is right.
Now that blobs are showing how bad they can be, I think Theo and the people who support his stance, can be forgiven for being a little smug, especially when some people were putting him and his ideals on this matter down.
It does not mean however, that aerial gunners just go roaming from village to village shooting random people. I assure you our gunners are very disciplined and follow strict ROE.
This is laughable. Do you think that every soldier obeys the ROE? I have seen a US soldier fire full auto at almost point blank range, into an unarmed old man who is half lying down in a mosque. In a slow frail manner, he extends his empty hand to the soldier standing over him and then gets a chest full. BTW, the US Army has acknowledged that incident, took the soldier out of action and are "investigating". It happens. Please don't be a tard with rose coloured glasses. We teach soldiers to kill people and to varying degrees dehumanize them for the role and then we're shocked that ROE are broken when these soldiers are high on adrenaline, fear and sometimes the drugs they use to escape the hell of war?
Have you seen the video they are talking about? I saw it a long while ago and I don't see where ROE or identification of these people even come into it. They keep saying over and over to stay away from the building which is considered to be a mosque, yet gun down people who are in the beginning just casually walking around, oblivious to the threat above. There is no way that any of the gunners can identify that the people they are killing are combatants, let alone armed combatants. The people on the ground AT NO TIME fire at the AC-130 or even appear to be holding or moving weapons at all.
But don't hit the mosque!!!!
Please, ROE is to cover the militarys own ass. Remember, as a police friend once told me, "dead men tell no lies".
I agree with you also.
I do feel for the people who have no clue about the issues. They buy a WAP which boldly claims high security, yet does not have any great warnings and then plug it in and use the Quick Getting Started Guide to connect. The poor people are oblivious to the dangers. I've never installed a WAP which gave realistic warnings, if any beyond a "use WEP or WPA" section.
I think the makers should be forced into putting warning labels on the boxes, so that people will be aware that there are dangers which need to be addressed. Maybe also a standardised rating based on security standards provided would be good too.
I have a sensitive Demarc Tech 200mW 802.11b card and at one stage had a bit of a play with a 19dB flat panel antenna mounted on a tripod. I looked around my neighbourhood to see what the state of open WAP's was and found about 40 WAP's, of which about 60% were wide open and many of which also had default passwords set on them. I felt compelled to make an image with a message stating how insecure their setups were and then place the file as their desktop wallpaper, so they would know. In the end I felt it was too risky. I guess I am overly paranoid.
Over time the accuracy of the recognition fell.
I tried to tell a friend of mine years ago that the problem with a lot of voice recognition software (which I had found), was the more you teach it, the worse it gets, because it has a larger database to get confused with which just keep growing and thus keeps getting worse. He didn't beleive it. Strangely, the evidence which also showed this did not seem to convince him either.
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It's just a one-time thing.
In the mid 90's I was at an Apple Newton product demo in Sydney, Australia.
The Apple guy wrote something to the effect of: "Hello, my name is George."
and the Newton converted that to the text: "Hello, any name is failure."
My stomach muscles were killing me.
The Newton came good though and I loved my MP 120.
Can MS fix something like this or will they need to buy out the Dragon Dictate people? Naturally, Microsoft will hardwire this sofware to some very dangerous tools, because they are innovative and strive to provide their customers with options. Saying in notepad "The foremen see", will of course wipe your whole harddrive and "kitty lawn fun" will get you raped in prison.
Considering how little the average internet user even pays attention to SSL, one could very easily imitate a bank, ebay, paypal, etc...
And since you can be at the mercy of the open WAP users own DNS server, instead of being tricked by a bogus:
http://127.0.0.1/www.ebay.com/
or:
http://www.ebay.com.bogusserver.com.ru/
You'll see:
http://www.ebay.com/
and possibly be even less likely to notice it as being bogus.
Well that's the last time I do all my plaintext internet banking through some strangers open WAP!
I don't agree with your analogy.
His analogy was closer to the reality of open WAP's than yours. But really the bike analogy does not cleanly mesh with the complexities of open WAP's, so why bother with it.
Your signal trespasses onto his property, open, inviting and allowing him to access your bandwidth, as provided by you. You could have taken steps to prevent that, but you didn't.
She finally got pulled over, and she was totally pissed about the $271 ticket, and when she came complaining to me, I asked her how much time she had saved over the last several weeks, and it worked out to about $20/hour. I told her she should appreciate the great deal she got for as long as she did.
I know people who travel a decent distance each day to work by train. They purchase weekly or monthly tickets to travel between their work station and the very next station, which is really cheap compared to how much they should be spending. The stations where they work in the city are always staffed, because there is a high number of people moving through them at all hours and it is thus economically viable to do so. On the other hand the station closest to where they live is not staffed at the times that they get home, because they live far away. Ocassionally they get caught and fined. The fines plus small fares are much cheaper over the year than the fares they would have payed.
Personally, I would fix this by making the fines double each time for each subsequent offence within a 365 day period. Actually if I had the power, I would apply this to all fines (and OT with ricers who commit typical ricer offences, I'd have their vehicle confiscated and sold at government auction, with the proceeds going to the state).
To throw one more thing into the mix, it's like what the mathematician said in Jurassic Park; I'll paraphrase: just because you can doesn't mean you should.
Tell that to the people who do.
Trying to defiantly take a stand against people who don't give a crap about you or your morals, by practically handing them what they want but which you don't want them to take (unless it's an emergency), is pretty pointless. They don't care. Actions speak much louder than the silence they're hearing from you.
Why would I object to that? No . . . why would *you* object to that?
Because one day a paedophile will use your connection and besides inadvertently helping one of those sick bastards, you'll end up taking the wrap?
There is no hope in hell that I will give any random person access through the connection which I am responsible for.
BTW, in the past 15 years or so, I know of at least TWO paedophiles living within 100m of my home. Ever owned a radio scanner? Get one and then you might never want to leave the house again once you know of all the bad shit that is happening all around us. It seems to me that there are way too many arseholes in this World, to be just trusting unknown and unseen people to use your net access.
There are lots of scenarios too. With the MPAA/RIAA cracking down on people downloading, some people might look for open WAP's to download what they want at other peoples expenses. Same deal with hackers who may wish for some added anonymity to do their dirty work with you as the fall guy. Spammers, phishers, etc?
You take a risk for no benefit to yourself. Why would you do that?
I love my Newton 2100. I so wish Apple would release a new version. I'd buy it in a second.
Me too. I had an MP 120 and feel that the bad wrap the Newton got for the handwriting recognition was unfounded. After a short while of training it became very accurate. Far more accurate than my Palm Tungsten E and certainly more natural to use, since I could write across the screen naturally, even in cursive, instead of writing characters on top of each other in special locations.
If apple released a PDA in the form factor of say the Palm Tungsten TX, but with the handwriting recognition of the Newton, I'd be all over it. If they added voice recognition to it as an alternative input, that would be awesome too.
Ok, let's assume you were to use a card with a 10,000 erase cycle cap.
If you took those 100 RAW picture images and then erased them every day, it would take you roughly 27 and a half years to run out of erase cycles.
Yes, you're right, my math was very broken. For some silly reason I was forgetting that the erase cycles are per cell/block and not per card.
Thanks for pointing that out. I'm losing it! ; )
I still don't understand how you guys/gals can sit here & tell me that they act differently in a motor, yet they're the same. It just doesn't make sense.
Maybe this will make sense for you then:
High octane petrol in normal engine, bad.
High octane petrol in high compression engine, good.
Low octane petrol in normal engine, good.
Low octane petrol in high compression engine, bad.
It is not about quality, it is about suitability.
Potentially the same quality, but each has different pros and cons. Low octane can explode under the higher pressure of a high compression engine, before the spark can ignite it at the correct time (like the way diesel explodes without a spark plug). So low octane fuel is bad for high compression engines.
By the same token, people who think high octane fuel equates to high "quality" fuel and use it in a normal compression engine, are actually getting no benefit from what the high octane fuel provides (lack of knocking, when knocking was not occuring in the first place). Yet they are getting an added build up of carbon, which may actually eventually lead to knocking (knocking can occur from exploded fuel or from fuel ignited from hot carbon build-up). So they prematurely got a problem and all for no benefit. So with this so called "higher quality fuel" they got a problem with their engine.
High octane fuel for high compression engines.
Lower octane fuel for non high compression engines.
Different fuels for different engines. Just like petrol versus diesel. High octane is not about higher quality of the product itself, it is about suitablity to high compression engines.
I must have missed the lecture, perhaps it's time for you to move on if you've discussed it enough times before ?
Perhaps it is time for you to start listening to other people.
High octane gasoline has been refined more - it is just a better product.
Is there somthing wrong with that ?
I don't know about everyone else, but I like better products.
You did not read the pdf.
High octane gasoline has been refined more - it is just a better product.
Is a heading under myths.
Additional refining steps are used to increase the octane; however, these additional steps do not necessarily make the gasoline a "better" product for all engines.
Is the response to the myth. Showing that high octane gasoline is NOT "a better product", but rather it might be a more appropriate product for some specific engines.
Would you put petrol in your deisel engine if someone told you that petrol was a better product?
Do you really think anyone actually approaches that 10,000 erase cycle limit before a newer, shinier gadget comes out and they upgrade?
I would prefer to shoot RAW. If I can get 100 photos on a card, then I can do that 100 times with the 10,000 erase cycle CF. If I buy a big, fast CF, I would be happy to spend the extra to know that it will outlast the camera, especially since the large CF cards are still pretty expensive.
But for most people, probably not. Good point.
I also go for the higher erase cycle CF because I use them in firewalls.