I'm sorry but TFA says 'viewpoint' quite clearly. Apparently his points have been 'debunked numerous times' and his facts are 'stale half facts', but where are the links supporting these claims?
There's a lot of Dell bashing in this thread. I guess most here build their own machines, I used to but now I use a laptop. Since I only buy machines for personal use, I don't have much experience of which suppliers are reliable etc.
Does the Dell aversion extend to laptops? If so, which manufacturers to/.ers recommend?
Bottom line, I am seriously not worried one bit about grabbing live outlet lines. It hurts a little, so I don't do it for fun, but I'm really not worried about dying or anything.
Grabbing live outlet lines is dangerous and whether you have 110v or 230v actually makes little difference.
What matters is the current that goes through you, normally your body has a huge resistance and so not much current passes through you. However this varies hugely, moist hands will have orders of magnitude less resistance than dry ones and you'll easily get fatal currents from as low as 60 volts in such a situation.
I have a friend in Cambridge working for these guys. He says they have a great API that him and the other engineers play with in their spare time. From the sound of it, it should be fairly easy to add extra features and such:)
In most UK universities, 70% or higher is an A. That doesn't mean it's easier to get an A though, the exams would simply be more difficult. There are processes for normalising grade distributions etc to make sure the exams are the 'right' difficulty.
I've used the Multisim/Electronics Workbench package under WINE before with no problems. I've seen it used in labs for teaching students, it should do the job just fine.
I know this is/. but I took the time to find the actual paper, they cover the typical attacks on the security mechanism quite thoroughly. Apparently its very difficult to scan a mask, especially at the small scales the industry deals in today - they suggest it would be cheaper to simply design the chip yourself.
(Off-topic: the anti-spam mechanism atm gives an interesting result for my email address..."'poo' in gap" oO)
Communication and other methods? I'm amazed such naive idealism was modded up. There are always going to be competing interests, and the voice of violence is the loudest of all.
You consented to being recorded when you took the job, Id imagine it was mentioned in the contract...if you were to start recording conversations with customers and taking them home, then immediately your employer has a huge data protection issue. This is in fact a different case entirely, as the conversation is not public, its between the customer and the company - you have no right to take recordings of it home with you.
Your average slashdotter would be the first to cry foul at surveillance by authorities, and yet raise the idea of performing your own surveillance and they start licking their lips and rubbing their palms together...
A policeman might be part of the big govermental boogeyman, but they're also an individual, with an individual's rights. Nobody would like it if a person came into their workplace and recorded them all day. Privacy is a right, and not being american I don't know if its in your constitution or not, but it doesn't matter, its a right nonetheless and one every person should be entitled to.
I wonder how long it'd be before we start seeing insurance companies offering discounts to people who've had such vaccines (especially the Nicotine one). Already in the UK there's lots of talk of refusing NHS treatment to smokers/overweight people, its easy to imagine the NHS refusing treatment to anybody who hasn't taken these vaccines...
Whilst of course it would be best practice to check for a mains line before drilling, it's most likely the electrical wire was somewhere it shouldn't have been. Here in the UK such wires should be in line with light switches etc and never go diagonally etc. Id imagine/hope similar rules apply in here...
which achieves the protection objective. Even by the directive's definition, I think the same ruling could be reached. If everybody and his milkman can easily bypass the control mechanism (using widely available software), then clearly it doesn't achieve the protection objective, thus it is not an "effective technological measure".
Yes! Im sick of asking everyone if they played Frontier Elite 2 and getting nothing but blank faces.
It amazed as a young gamer and amazes me more now as a programmer; written in assembler and giving the player a procedurally generated universe to explore, all on one floppy disk.
For those who missed it on the Amiga, a shareware PC version is available here:
http://www.eliteclub.co.uk/download/
Just because you don't like cheating doesnt mean the creators of cheat software can be slapped with lawsuits based on 'copyright infringement'. If I buy a book, read it, then scribble a part out and rewrite it, can I be sued for copyright infringement?
This isn't good vs. evil or a question of "is cheating ok?", this is just another company abusing copyright law to get their way.
What confuses me is that even though TFA says this was piloted in middlesborough, I know for a fact that this has been in use where I live (Bradford) for at least a year! Outside my local college and doctor's surgery I've heard CCTV cameras chastising misbehaviour - all completely ineffectual by the way; it just encouraged the vandals more.
The BBC is a national service, like the NHS... Its programming is used every day in schools, its website is great for children's revision and they have a remit to work toward the public good e.g. innovating with TVoIP. The fact that the tax only applies when a signal-recieving TV is owned is something of a 'gift', Id fully support the BBC being run purely on public taxes simply because the benefits of it are immensurate. The 'free market' ideology where you pay for the TV subscriptions you want has led to the base, dumbed-down programming seen in the US and on most UK channels; the BBC is sadly following suit, but it is far superior in quality - it can afford to be by not chasing profit margins and demographics.
Let's entertain the notion that BTG get their way (this wouldn't surprise me anymore), the companies paying royalties would only pass these fees onto their users. Making this another reason for users not to patch, there should be part of patent law for patents that effect national security like this...then again if you're going to change patent law I can think of a few other things I'd change too...
A developer rushing out code to win money isn't likely to test it thoroughly, and networking drivers are something that need to be reliable. Whilst it's a great way to get development started, this offer doesn't stipulate that the driver be Open Source, which IMO is vital for such an offer to be worthwhile. When the bugs almost gauranteed by rushed development become apparent, the winner isn't obliged to fix them...
We don't need more rushed proprietary drivers, I'd like to see some more Open Source programming contests...
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I think the point of the article is that 'worse is better' applies to robots too =)
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Boing Boing, for their part, have just removed the offending image. Looks like your post answered its own question.
I'm sorry but TFA says 'viewpoint' quite clearly. Apparently his points have been 'debunked numerous times' and his facts are 'stale half facts', but where are the links supporting these claims?
There's a lot of Dell bashing in this thread. I guess most here build their own machines, I used to but now I use a laptop. Since I only buy machines for personal use, I don't have much experience of which suppliers are reliable etc.
/.ers recommend?
Does the Dell aversion extend to laptops? If so, which manufacturers to
Bottom line, I am seriously not worried one bit about grabbing live outlet lines. It hurts a little, so I don't do it for fun, but I'm really not worried about dying or anything.
Grabbing live outlet lines is dangerous and whether you have 110v or 230v actually makes little difference.
What matters is the current that goes through you, normally your body has a huge resistance and so not much current passes through you. However this varies hugely, moist hands will have orders of magnitude less resistance than dry ones and you'll easily get fatal currents from as low as 60 volts in such a situation.
Basically...stop touching those live wires!
I have a friend in Cambridge working for these guys. He says they have a great API that him and the other engineers play with in their spare time. From the sound of it, it should be fairly easy to add extra features and such :)
In most UK universities, 70% or higher is an A. That doesn't mean it's easier to get an A though, the exams would simply be more difficult. There are processes for normalising grade distributions etc to make sure the exams are the 'right' difficulty.
I've used the Multisim/Electronics Workbench package under WINE before with no problems. I've seen it used in labs for teaching students, it should do the job just fine.
I know this is /. but I took the time to find the actual paper, they cover the typical attacks on the security mechanism quite thoroughly. Apparently its very difficult to scan a mask, especially at the small scales the industry deals in today - they suggest it would be cheaper to simply design the chip yourself.
(Off-topic: the anti-spam mechanism atm gives an interesting result for my email address..."'poo' in gap" oO)
Communication and other methods? I'm amazed such naive idealism was modded up. There are always going to be competing interests, and the voice of violence is the loudest of all.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/190587
It's confirmed on some Ubuntu versions, and it works on my Ubuntu Gutsy (7.10) kernel (2.6.22-14).
You consented to being recorded when you took the job, Id imagine it was mentioned in the contract...if you were to start recording conversations with customers and taking them home, then immediately your employer has a huge data protection issue. This is in fact a different case entirely, as the conversation is not public, its between the customer and the company - you have no right to take recordings of it home with you.
Your average slashdotter would be the first to cry foul at surveillance by authorities, and yet raise the idea of performing your own surveillance and they start licking their lips and rubbing their palms together...
A policeman might be part of the big govermental boogeyman, but they're also an individual, with an individual's rights. Nobody would like it if a person came into their workplace and recorded them all day. Privacy is a right, and not being american I don't know if its in your constitution or not, but it doesn't matter, its a right nonetheless and one every person should be entitled to.
I wonder how long it'd be before we start seeing insurance companies offering discounts to people who've had such vaccines (especially the Nicotine one). Already in the UK there's lots of talk of refusing NHS treatment to smokers/overweight people, its easy to imagine the NHS refusing treatment to anybody who hasn't taken these vaccines...
Whilst of course it would be best practice to check for a mains line before drilling, it's most likely the electrical wire was somewhere it shouldn't have been. Here in the UK such wires should be in line with light switches etc and never go diagonally etc. Id imagine/hope similar rules apply in here...
Yes! Im sick of asking everyone if they played Frontier Elite 2 and getting nothing but blank faces. It amazed as a young gamer and amazes me more now as a programmer; written in assembler and giving the player a procedurally generated universe to explore, all on one floppy disk. For those who missed it on the Amiga, a shareware PC version is available here: http://www.eliteclub.co.uk/download/
Just because you don't like cheating doesnt mean the creators of cheat software can be slapped with lawsuits based on 'copyright infringement'. If I buy a book, read it, then scribble a part out and rewrite it, can I be sued for copyright infringement?
This isn't good vs. evil or a question of "is cheating ok?", this is just another company abusing copyright law to get their way.
What confuses me is that even though TFA says this was piloted in middlesborough, I know for a fact that this has been in use where I live (Bradford) for at least a year!
Outside my local college and doctor's surgery I've heard CCTV cameras chastising misbehaviour - all completely ineffectual by the way; it just encouraged the vandals more.
The BBC is a national service, like the NHS...
Its programming is used every day in schools, its website is great for children's revision and they have a remit to work toward the public good e.g. innovating with TVoIP. The fact that the tax only applies when a signal-recieving TV is owned is something of a 'gift', Id fully support the BBC being run purely on public taxes simply because the benefits of it are immensurate.
The 'free market' ideology where you pay for the TV subscriptions you want has led to the base, dumbed-down programming seen in the US and on most UK channels; the BBC is sadly following suit, but it is far superior in quality - it can afford to be by not chasing profit margins and demographics.
Let's entertain the notion that BTG get their way (this wouldn't surprise me anymore), the companies paying royalties would only pass these fees onto their users. Making this another reason for users not to patch, there should be part of patent law for patents that effect national security like this...then again if you're going to change patent law I can think of a few other things I'd change too...
A developer rushing out code to win money isn't likely to test it thoroughly, and networking drivers are something that need to be reliable. Whilst it's a great way to get development started, this offer doesn't stipulate that the driver be Open Source, which IMO is vital for such an offer to be worthwhile. When the bugs almost gauranteed by rushed development become apparent, the winner isn't obliged to fix them... We don't need more rushed proprietary drivers, I'd like to see some more Open Source programming contests...
I think the point of the article is that 'worse is better' applies to robots too =)