1. A terrorist taking detailed pictures can be spotted more easily. In fact, most Indian government sites (even the international airports in India, in fact) prohibit photography. Same for remote planes etc. IIRC, radio controlled planes required some kind of permit when I was growing up in India. Maybe this has changed now.
2. There is already genuine fucking security in india. More so than you could imagine sitting here in the States. IMHO, the Indian police are some of the smartest when it comes to non-cyber/computer crime. Computer crime is a whole different story:-)
The issue is really that of resources. You don't want to keep a standing army of the top-notch commandos just because the terrorists can analyze the vulnerabilities using the satellite imagery.
As it is, some parts of New Delhi look like a war zone, and I'd hate to see army posts at each intersection asking me where I was going just because they are probable security vulnerabilities. Pretty much the same way I hate it when someone looks at my email logs or the pattern of shell commands or prevents me from accessing certain commands on the system because they may be vulnerabilities. I can't believe I'm saying this, but under certain (very) limited circumstances it's also about enabling civil liberties (freedom of movement and not being watched all the time) by hiding certain soft-spots that I wouldn't see walking on the street.
If you got excited as I did about the cursor to saved position feature, you're in for disappointment.
This is not the emacs-style C-SPC and C-U C-SPC moving in the cursor mark ring. It is just a way to set the cursor to the last insertion point in the writer.
Don't waste bandwidth downloading if that's what your'e after.
Two keyboards I have come across that are acceptable given the rest of the scene:
1. TVS Gold. An Indian made KB which is tough to buy here, but very cheap given the exchange rate if you can get them/someone to ship it from there. Good, clicky, individual spring loaded keys with enough travel. Space bar is kind of stiff, but I'm sure you'll find a way to fix that.
2. Happy Hacking keyboard. A tiny, unix-oriented kb (control key at the right place). Keys are not as clicky as I like, but have good feel and travel.
HTH.
Needs to be the other way round. Publishing should be free, but access to it should have a micropayment.
Search, with a google type summary should be free, but clicking should cost an exceedingly minimal fee ($0.001 comes to mind)
That way, people who have something interesting to say wouldn't feel exploited, and people who click would feel they are actually getting something for their money
Or, it should be the/. way, with karma based rating of comments, but with a kickback to the original author for the number of clicks (s)he generates. Karma to be decided by the readers..
No it's not. Think data security, ease of access, reliability of storage, not having to replicate the code for fetching and putting the data back to the database.
And we haven't even started to talk about very large databases, distributed data, clients not willing to give you flat files of all the records but only the summaries due to obvious privacy concerns, server-side integration of the analysis programs and the stored data for on-line smart analysis, which, by the way, IMHO is overwhelmingly statistical in nature..
Want me to go on, or are we already feeling numb in the skull?:-)
I agree. I've been concerned to such analysis in the past. The only interesting use I can see of such analysis is detecting any loops that the users might routinely be getting 'caught' in while clicking through the site. But that can easily be avoided if enough attention is paid to designing the site in the first place; making it easier to grasp and making the page tree only a few levels deep.
Apart from that, it's just a toy to amuse the management types who like to keep spitting out graphs and numbers that don't mean much. Amazon.com like analysis, on the other hand, might add to something useful. So yeah, a very smart acquisition.
Because with Ubuntu, I can see all the Chinese characters in my daily spam feed perfectly. Also, they base the distro on Debian Sid, and release every six months.
Don't know about 'more laptops' but yes, as long as you compile your own kernel and put all USB, wireless card, agpgart, and related stuff in kernel modules. Unload these modules before suspend and reload them after. Of course, that also means that your USB stuff needs to be unplugged before you suspend. Works like a charm on Debian Sid and Ubuntu "Whory". No swsusp2 necessary for me.
--Thinkpad R40 on Ubuntu Hoary (or Debian Sid depending on the day of the week), with 2.6.10.
The other way round. Longer non-stop flight means they have to burn fuel to lug the extra fuel. Besides, 20hrs of flight would be a pain in the ass. Hell, with the service in economy class these days, even a 3 hr flight gets to be a royal pain.
And for the rest, its more of a convenience thing. The way it works is, you look in CLR (Cormen, Lieserson, Rivest). If you find useful leads from there, you go follow them, or go to google or citeseer or something.
After a while, you get a little more curious (or a bit stuck with counting things down to the last epsilon), so you go look at Knuth. Finally, if nothing else works, you sit down and prove it.
Personally, Knuth, Graham & Patashnik, and Hopcroft & Ullman have bailed me out more often than AoCP
People. The company is not dead (yet). They still have a lot to offer in terms of technology. Hopefully, in one way or another, the Long-Run and code-morphing ideas will trickle into more popular chips, including the One I won't mention here.
In the mean time, I hope I don't lose the remaining 50% of my money in TMTA:-)
Well. Somehow I feel the Slashdot audience is savvy enough to find their favorite aid agency and donate by themselves. If Amazon or Google were to match the donations, on the other hand, I'd fully support (hell, even pay for a 'meta ad') putting a link to them on Slashdot. If there are companies that match donations by their employees it would be good to know so that we can find friends working there; maybe an 'ask Slashdot' for that?
Right to Health is a Fundamental Right under the Indian Constitution.
er. I don't think so. It does come under "Directive Principles of State Policy", but then so does uniform civil code..
Article 21 (protection of life and personal liberty),a fundamental right, might be applicable here, in case things come to that. But that's kind of tricky to invoke.
Well. They don't care right now, but being an optimistic as I am, I think they will in the (relatively near) future. So its all the more important to 'future proof' the system.
First, obviously, its overpriced for the stuff you get. Second, people who'd go for something like this (Walmart and cheap laptop) for their computing needs would certainly be under the influence of the wintel FUD (clock speed, intel inside, windows XP...), and therefore would be reluctant to buy this.
For everyone else there is a used yet good laptop off eBay, or a little more money for a better product. And if they care about linux enough, many distros are now friendly enough to yield a standard laptop very functional in no time.
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2. There is already genuine fucking security in india. More so than you could imagine sitting here in the States. IMHO, the Indian police are some of the smartest when it comes to non-cyber/computer crime. Computer crime is a whole different story
The issue is really that of resources. You don't want to keep a standing army of the top-notch commandos just because the terrorists can analyze the vulnerabilities using the satellite imagery.
As it is, some parts of New Delhi look like a war zone, and I'd hate to see army posts at each intersection asking me where I was going just because they are probable security vulnerabilities. Pretty much the same way I hate it when someone looks at my email logs or the pattern of shell commands or prevents me from accessing certain commands on the system because they may be vulnerabilities.
I can't believe I'm saying this, but under certain (very) limited circumstances it's also about enabling civil liberties (freedom of movement and not being watched all the time) by hiding certain soft-spots that I wouldn't see walking on the street.
If you got excited as I did about the cursor to saved position feature, you're in for disappointment.
This is not the emacs-style C-SPC and C-U C-SPC moving in the cursor mark ring. It is just a way to set the cursor to the last insertion point in the writer.
Don't waste bandwidth downloading if that's what your'e after.
Here I have one for you:
Development as Freedom by A. Sen (received the Nobel in Economics a few years ago)
at amazon
Two keyboards I have come across that are acceptable given the rest of the scene:
1. TVS Gold. An Indian made KB which is tough to buy here, but very cheap given the exchange rate if you can get them/someone to ship it from there. Good, clicky, individual spring loaded keys with enough travel. Space bar is kind of stiff, but I'm sure you'll find a way to fix that.
2. Happy Hacking keyboard. A tiny, unix-oriented kb (control key at the right place). Keys are not as clicky as I like, but have good feel and travel.
HTH.
and then complain they are not doing their job correctly.
umm. Wing walking, I don't know. But I sure don't want wing singing
Search, with a google type summary should be free, but clicking should cost an exceedingly minimal fee ($0.001 comes to mind)
That way, people who have something interesting to say wouldn't feel exploited, and people who click would feel they are actually getting something for their money
Or, it should be the /. way, with karma based rating of comments, but with a kickback to the original author for the number of clicks (s)he generates. Karma to be decided by the readers..
And we haven't even started to talk about very large databases, distributed data, clients not willing to give you flat files of all the records but only the summaries due to obvious privacy concerns, server-side integration of the analysis programs and the stored data for on-line smart analysis, which, by the way, IMHO is overwhelmingly statistical in nature..
Want me to go on, or are we already feeling numb in the skull? :-)
I agree. I've been concerned to such analysis in the past. The only interesting use I can see of such analysis is detecting any loops that the users might routinely be getting 'caught' in while clicking through the site. But that can easily be avoided if enough attention is paid to designing the site in the first place; making it easier to grasp and making the page tree only a few levels deep.
Apart from that, it's just a toy to amuse the management types who like to keep spitting out graphs and numbers that don't mean much. Amazon.com like analysis, on the other hand, might add to something useful. So yeah, a very smart acquisition.
Try it with a USB keyboard :-)
Because with Ubuntu, I can see all the Chinese characters in my daily spam feed perfectly. Also, they base the distro on Debian Sid, and release every six months.
Don't know about 'more laptops' but yes, as long as you compile your own kernel and put all USB, wireless card, agpgart, and related stuff in kernel modules. Unload these modules before suspend and reload them after. Of course, that also means that your USB stuff needs to be unplugged before you suspend. Works like a charm on Debian Sid and Ubuntu "Whory". No swsusp2 necessary for me.
--Thinkpad R40 on Ubuntu Hoary (or Debian Sid depending on the day of the week), with 2.6.10.
Oh, you can be sure. It just takes forever to be. :-)
Eh. I'm going to eFax them ;)
The other way round. Longer non-stop flight means they have to burn fuel to lug the extra fuel. Besides, 20hrs of flight would be a pain in the ass. Hell, with the service in economy class these days, even a 3 hr flight gets to be a royal pain.
Well, because it's news for everyone (including nerds) and stuff that definitely matters..
After a while, you get a little more curious (or a bit stuck with counting things down to the last epsilon), so you go look at Knuth. Finally, if nothing else works, you sit down and prove it.
Personally, Knuth, Graham & Patashnik, and Hopcroft & Ullman have bailed me out more often than AoCP
Humm. Now I know why the word lumber camp came to mind every time I used to pass bye the woods behind my apartment..
Mod parent down. He said first post!!
In the mean time, I hope I don't lose the remaining 50% of my money in TMTA :-)
You're assuming that the Soviets could have been defeated by the Germans at that time. Where did you learn your history, boy? :-)
Well. Somehow I feel the Slashdot audience is savvy enough to find their favorite aid agency and donate by themselves. If Amazon or Google were to match the donations, on the other hand, I'd fully support (hell, even pay for a 'meta ad') putting a link to them on Slashdot.
If there are companies that match donations by their employees it would be good to know so that we can find friends working there; maybe an 'ask Slashdot' for that?
er. I don't think so. It does come under "Directive Principles of State Policy", but then so does uniform civil code..
Article 21 (protection of life and personal liberty) ,a fundamental right, might be applicable here, in case things come to that. But that's kind of tricky to invoke.
Well. They don't care right now, but being an optimistic as I am, I think they will in the (relatively near) future. So its all the more important to 'future proof' the system.
First, obviously, its overpriced for the stuff you get. Second, people who'd go for something like this (Walmart and cheap laptop) for their computing needs would certainly be under the influence of the wintel FUD (clock speed, intel inside, windows XP...), and therefore would be reluctant to buy this.
For everyone else there is a used yet good laptop off eBay, or a little more money for a better product. And if they care about linux enough, many distros are now friendly enough to yield a standard laptop very functional in no time.