"The coolest thing I remember was a chain of modems connecting from Chicago to Minneapolis to avoid long distance charges by having people with two lines at the border where there was overlap. They tried to do Chicago to LA as well, but I think they failed to connect in the middle"
That is hilarious and awesome all at the same time! Hella dependency though, "Sorry the whole thing went down, Dad needed to make a call and picked up the wrong phone!"
Yeah the phone stuff was way before my time. Though I read all about it from text files available on BBS.
I would say he would likely be changed with embezzlement.
Its just like police getting a drug warrant to bust down your door and finding a whole bunch of illegal guns. Maybe they don't even find any drugs, but they still got you on guns...
Doesn't make it wrong or illegal. However Police MUST have enough evidence to make it probable for the drugs. If he made a good argument in court that the warrant was illegal (i.e. not enough evidence to make it probable), then likely the gun changes would have to be thrown out on the technicality that the evidence gathered about the gun charge was not legal.
That said IANAL, so don't have illegal drugs or guns, etc...
I was, but only because that was my first year university.
In 1994 I had a coop position at another university and had access to the internet (if you could call it that) and an email address that was really only good internally as I didn't have anybody else to send an email too! I wrote a user guide for some free software that a university was using. Pegasus Mail was free apparently, but the user guides to use it were not.. (ha ha, nice business model) so they hired a high school student to write a guide. The internet so far as I was concerned were news groups and forums where people argued a lot (gee so much has changed!)
Prior to that it was all BBS's from 91-94. My parents were actually forced to buy a separate phone line for the computer because we used it pretty much constantly, and there was a lot of screaming when my sister and I were trying to get our turns in playing the "door" game Trade Wars 2002, and having mom or dad pick up the phone to make a call and disconnecting us all the time. I almost miss the modem connection sound, a bit nostalgic. Thought about attaching a sound file to when I boot up a browser now, but never bothered.
Back then you used to try and connect to anything, because there wasn't much out there. I recall connecting to some municipal modem that was 300 Baud... I also recall Sysops running banks of modems out of their houses to allow for multiple users, or scheduled updates to a network of BBS, to give the illusion of an internet. People forget that is where phone preaking came from, broke BBS users trying to connect to systems over the phone lines long distance all the time and staying on for hours. Fortunately for me, by the time I came around, Bell was doing 20$ unlimited long distance in Canada, and I recall abusing that pretty bad... Ah good times... I even recall going to a bar underage to meet with a whole bunch of users of BBS where they decided they would all like to meet each other, they of course were all older.
It was when I coined my handle. Darth after the hacker sign for the Ma Bell deathstar logo, and Vain after the character of the same name in the Stephen R Donaldson series of books about Thomas Covenant, who was a special ur-vile that was invulnerable to attack unless specifically targeted (or something like that).
I was busy playing Doom 2 and Warcraft: Orcs VS Humans over a 2400 baud modem in a college dorm. Good times. 1996 was when shit got real though (Warcraft 2, Duke Nukem 3D, Quake, etc...), not surprisingly my worst year academically.
Not certain, but I think I was running a 486DX 100Mhz at the time, likely 4MB of ram... Though it may have been a P120, or maybe I got that the next year...
"Have you tried rebooting your computer?" "Reboot your computer and call me back." "It didn't work? Is it plugged in?" "Is there a cable running from your computer to the wall?" "Try plugging your computer in." "...
As for the likelihood of a "loose cable between GPS and computer" causing delays leading to the result of FTL travel, I am gonna go out on a limb and say, probably not. I think it is far more likely that someone else just screwed up, and is trying to make up some plausible excuse to move on without ending his career.
Well that depends using "a new fighter squadron" as a metric of measurement...
Lets see to convert, apparently there are 16 fighters in a US fighter squadron. "New", would have to refer to the new F35 fighter jets being built, the cheapest of which is estimated to cost about 122$ million dollars.
I remember plenty of GIS software using them. They have been in use for literally decades. If you want to really get cute, don't use an interface easily copied like USB (though it would be by far the easiest to implement and cost less). I have had stuff with a SCSI interface, where you had to have a SCSI PCI card installed if your MB didn't have one. Danger in going to archaic is that if you start using serial or parallel ports, you won't find them on many MB anymore. One modern equivalent will be the Firewire port. Again less computers have these so beware. Your best bet is USB, as while it is easily subverted, it is a lot more work to do than a simple crack for most people and will get rid of most casual hackers. Just know, is someone REALLY wants to crack your security, they will. You can make it authenticate with online servers as well of course, but then you are limited the usability to users which is a no-no. Depends on what your software does. I know we worked on a project where one software was rejected out of hand because it required USB hardware dongles, and this was to be on mobile laptops where the USB ports were to be used by other things, etc...
Anyway just be careful you don't reduce your possible clients to nil by security.
Agree, anyone that has done any larger programs will know that not everything is instantaneous.
I recall doing a rather large GIS application in VB6 using 3rd party extensions (yuck I know). It also had to load a bunch of data, both tabular and spatial. Sure you can mess with it to optimize when you load, how much you load, etc... but you don't always have control over everything...
Anyway it had a pretty brutal initial load time, so we put a splash screen on it, the usual title, version, programmers, etc... so at least the instructors had something to look at rather than a blank screen while it was chugging along.
So while they are needed in some instances, they could be better. Some are interactive to the video game, like the fake commercials of fallout 3, or providing instructions or hints to read (so long as it isn't the same 5 over and over again), which add some usefulness to the user.
However some splash screens at the beginning of games, are simply vanity or commercial in nature, much like a movie. Which is fine if you can skip them, annoying if you cannot.
His wanting to control information is simply for the purposes of forwarding his right wing agenda and for the control of power. Don't want your policies on Tar Sands and oil to look stupid? Don't let your own scientist talk to anyone without a handler. Don't want the gun registry? Control what the public hears from cops. Don't want the census? CBC? Etc... He wants to be seen as tough on crime, because old people are basically afraid of gangs, and have grandchildren. They get a great deal of support from the older crowd, whereas both the Liberals and NDP have much higher demographics of young people. Young people care about the internet, old people think the internet is a box with a flashing light on the top, and in most cases don't use it, or at least not to the degree that the younger generation does. Harper's ideology can be thought of as right wing, but it is mostly made up of items that either just don't make sense, but are part of the mythos or ideology that they think is what makes up a conservative, as well as strategic items that they think will win them votes from the centre/right keeping them in the majority VS the divided centre/left. Anyway he isn't an evil or stupid man, simply misguided in my view.
I liken a lot of the conservative right wing ideology to that of the republicans down in the states. Not that they are made up of the same ideals (though some are similar) but that in many cases it is a totally fictional romanticization that some people are drawn to believe in for whatever reason. Some like or identify with the group or think that it best represents them. The whole Anne Rynd rugged industrialist fighting conformity VS individualism rising above the rest through hard work where everyone has equal opportunity, but because of their own abilities were able to get rich (Which is basically contrary to everything the republicans stand for or that exists in the US). Conservatives have some of the same notions, and most of the people that I know personally, that actually voted for them, did not understand the difference of what they think they stand for VS what they actually stand for. Many just like being associated with them because it makes them look rich I think. See here I am part of the wealthy class, I voted Conservative. NDP are usually the poorest dregs of course. Several I liked to point out were not rich, actually employed by unions, and had view points that didn't actually adhere to Conservative ideology... They are in fact basically voting against themselves... In many cases the older people vote the same way every year. Never mind that the Conservatives are not the Progressive Conservatives of the recent past, they just hear the sound, and that is what they vote. They likely have very little idea of what is going on (sad to say I know, but this isn't just limited to the older generation), and identify perhaps a little more with the Conservatives on Morality and God etc... (Whereas a younger generation might be a bit more tolerant and a little less faith)
Anyway I guess what I am trying to say is that the control of information by the Harper government is more an means to an end, as they are just trying to present themselves in a vary specific way to the voting public.
It just looks like they are avoiding the confrontation altogether. It is likely just easier for them to tack on 27$ to every students tuition than it is to deal with it. If people don't like it they will just say they were forced to do it by Access Copyright. If students feel like protesting, go protest Access Copyright or talk to your local political shill.
I always sort of thought this. Not so much that AMD may have not failed in any particular way, but perhaps Intel has just done such a good job making great processors it is hard to compete. Hard to tell with only 2 players really also. Intel has had some scrutiny about business practices, but regardless, if you have 80% of the market, you will have some advantage your competition will not have. As underdogs, AMD would have had to have many years of Athlon64/AthlonXP like success just to get into a fair game really. As it was, they only had a couple of limited wins, which Intel consistently was able to come back with something better. So there it is, you can either really look at it as AMD failing, or Intelling just winning...
If they "bet" on desktops they made a pretty low ball bet, as Intel makes, and has made a far superior product for desktops ever since the Core 2 Duo over 6 years ago.
If anything AMD tried to do too many things, and was good at none of them.
About the only growth I have hear of has been AMD in the business server market, everything else has been fail.
He is trying to show that a government employee used government resources for non-government purposes contrary to IT policy, likely in an effort to get them fired.
The next step is to rather than human control them, built in the logic to for self control. It would have to be coordinated between different machine types and job types, a sort of swarm communication. Then scale them up a bit, allow for remote repair of components seen to commonly ware out. Load them on a rocket, shoot to moon, and get building that moon base already!:)
Slashdot Mirror
Ya, I loved how they somehow blamed a 23 year old intern for it... right.
I guess they are scrambling to look incompetent rather than criminal.
Heh...
Putting the Cons into Conservatives.... :)
"The coolest thing I remember was a chain of modems connecting from Chicago to Minneapolis to avoid long distance charges by having people with two lines at the border where there was overlap. They tried to do Chicago to LA as well, but I think they failed to connect in the middle"
That is hilarious and awesome all at the same time! Hella dependency though, "Sorry the whole thing went down, Dad needed to make a call and picked up the wrong phone!"
Yeah the phone stuff was way before my time. Though I read all about it from text files available on BBS.
I would say he would likely be changed with embezzlement.
Its just like police getting a drug warrant to bust down your door and finding a whole bunch of illegal guns. Maybe they don't even find any drugs, but they still got you on guns...
Doesn't make it wrong or illegal. However Police MUST have enough evidence to make it probable for the drugs. If he made a good argument in court that the warrant was illegal (i.e. not enough evidence to make it probable), then likely the gun changes would have to be thrown out on the technicality that the evidence gathered about the gun charge was not legal.
That said IANAL, so don't have illegal drugs or guns, etc...
Just have to have "enough" evidence for it to be probable so that a judge *may* grant a warrant.
I was, but only because that was my first year university.
In 1994 I had a coop position at another university and had access to the internet (if you could call it that) and an email address that was really only good internally as I didn't have anybody else to send an email too! I wrote a user guide for some free software that a university was using. Pegasus Mail was free apparently, but the user guides to use it were not.. (ha ha, nice business model) so they hired a high school student to write a guide. The internet so far as I was concerned were news groups and forums where people argued a lot (gee so much has changed!)
Prior to that it was all BBS's from 91-94. My parents were actually forced to buy a separate phone line for the computer because we used it pretty much constantly, and there was a lot of screaming when my sister and I were trying to get our turns in playing the "door" game Trade Wars 2002, and having mom or dad pick up the phone to make a call and disconnecting us all the time. I almost miss the modem connection sound, a bit nostalgic. Thought about attaching a sound file to when I boot up a browser now, but never bothered.
Back then you used to try and connect to anything, because there wasn't much out there. I recall connecting to some municipal modem that was 300 Baud... I also recall Sysops running banks of modems out of their houses to allow for multiple users, or scheduled updates to a network of BBS, to give the illusion of an internet. People forget that is where phone preaking came from, broke BBS users trying to connect to systems over the phone lines long distance all the time and staying on for hours. Fortunately for me, by the time I came around, Bell was doing 20$ unlimited long distance in Canada, and I recall abusing that pretty bad... Ah good times... I even recall going to a bar underage to meet with a whole bunch of users of BBS where they decided they would all like to meet each other, they of course were all older.
It was when I coined my handle. Darth after the hacker sign for the Ma Bell deathstar logo, and Vain after the character of the same name in the Stephen R Donaldson series of books about Thomas Covenant, who was a special ur-vile that was invulnerable to attack unless specifically targeted (or something like that).
Anyway goodtimes.
I was busy playing Doom 2 and Warcraft: Orcs VS Humans over a 2400 baud modem in a college dorm. Good times. 1996 was when shit got real though (Warcraft 2, Duke Nukem 3D, Quake, etc...), not surprisingly my worst year academically.
Not certain, but I think I was running a 486DX 100Mhz at the time, likely 4MB of ram... Though it may have been a P120, or maybe I got that the next year...
Angry Irish Guy shouting into a phone:
"Have you tried rebooting your computer?"
"Reboot your computer and call me back."
"It didn't work? Is it plugged in?"
"Is there a cable running from your computer to the wall?"
"Try plugging your computer in."
"...
As for the likelihood of a "loose cable between GPS and computer" causing delays leading to the result of FTL travel, I am gonna go out on a limb and say, probably not. I think it is far more likely that someone else just screwed up, and is trying to make up some plausible excuse to move on without ending his career.
Put it in a cigarette, and call it a day.
Well that depends using "a new fighter squadron" as a metric of measurement...
Lets see to convert, apparently there are 16 fighters in a US fighter squadron. "New", would have to refer to the new F35 fighter jets being built, the cheapest of which is estimated to cost about 122$ million dollars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning_II
So some rough calculations mean those poor scientists only need 1952 Million dollars, or in general terms about 2 Billion! :)
I'm holding out for instantaneous teleportation!
So long as our world doesn't have an atmosphere of highly combustible gases... oh wait.
Pretty sure the rest of Europe is looking at Athens in disbelief about now, and the banks sure don't believe in it either!
Yeah! Cavemen had bigger things to worry about, like getting eaten by a huge dinosaur!
Oh wait Newt... never mind...
What the hell does a handheld gaming console need GPS for?
These things are being made by one of the most EVIL technology companies out there: SONY
You do the math. Have fun having your movements tracked...
Basically a Hardware Dongle.
I remember plenty of GIS software using them. They have been in use for literally decades. If you want to really get cute, don't use an interface easily copied like USB (though it would be by far the easiest to implement and cost less). I have had stuff with a SCSI interface, where you had to have a SCSI PCI card installed if your MB didn't have one. Danger in going to archaic is that if you start using serial or parallel ports, you won't find them on many MB anymore. One modern equivalent will be the Firewire port. Again less computers have these so beware. Your best bet is USB, as while it is easily subverted, it is a lot more work to do than a simple crack for most people and will get rid of most casual hackers. Just know, is someone REALLY wants to crack your security, they will. You can make it authenticate with online servers as well of course, but then you are limited the usability to users which is a no-no. Depends on what your software does. I know we worked on a project where one software was rejected out of hand because it required USB hardware dongles, and this was to be on mobile laptops where the USB ports were to be used by other things, etc...
Anyway just be careful you don't reduce your possible clients to nil by security.
Agree, anyone that has done any larger programs will know that not everything is instantaneous.
I recall doing a rather large GIS application in VB6 using 3rd party extensions (yuck I know). It also had to load a bunch of data, both tabular and spatial. Sure you can mess with it to optimize when you load, how much you load, etc... but you don't always have control over everything...
Anyway it had a pretty brutal initial load time, so we put a splash screen on it, the usual title, version, programmers, etc... so at least the instructors had something to look at rather than a blank screen while it was chugging along.
So while they are needed in some instances, they could be better. Some are interactive to the video game, like the fake commercials of fallout 3, or providing instructions or hints to read (so long as it isn't the same 5 over and over again), which add some usefulness to the user.
However some splash screens at the beginning of games, are simply vanity or commercial in nature, much like a movie. Which is fine if you can skip them, annoying if you cannot.
Disagree.
His wanting to control information is simply for the purposes of forwarding his right wing agenda and for the control of power. Don't want your policies on Tar Sands and oil to look stupid? Don't let your own scientist talk to anyone without a handler. Don't want the gun registry? Control what the public hears from cops. Don't want the census? CBC? Etc... He wants to be seen as tough on crime, because old people are basically afraid of gangs, and have grandchildren. They get a great deal of support from the older crowd, whereas both the Liberals and NDP have much higher demographics of young people. Young people care about the internet, old people think the internet is a box with a flashing light on the top, and in most cases don't use it, or at least not to the degree that the younger generation does. Harper's ideology can be thought of as right wing, but it is mostly made up of items that either just don't make sense, but are part of the mythos or ideology that they think is what makes up a conservative, as well as strategic items that they think will win them votes from the centre/right keeping them in the majority VS the divided centre/left. Anyway he isn't an evil or stupid man, simply misguided in my view.
I liken a lot of the conservative right wing ideology to that of the republicans down in the states. Not that they are made up of the same ideals (though some are similar) but that in many cases it is a totally fictional romanticization that some people are drawn to believe in for whatever reason. Some like or identify with the group or think that it best represents them. The whole Anne Rynd rugged industrialist fighting conformity VS individualism rising above the rest through hard work where everyone has equal opportunity, but because of their own abilities were able to get rich (Which is basically contrary to everything the republicans stand for or that exists in the US). Conservatives have some of the same notions, and most of the people that I know personally, that actually voted for them, did not understand the difference of what they think they stand for VS what they actually stand for. Many just like being associated with them because it makes them look rich I think. See here I am part of the wealthy class, I voted Conservative. NDP are usually the poorest dregs of course. Several I liked to point out were not rich, actually employed by unions, and had view points that didn't actually adhere to Conservative ideology... They are in fact basically voting against themselves... In many cases the older people vote the same way every year. Never mind that the Conservatives are not the Progressive Conservatives of the recent past, they just hear the sound, and that is what they vote. They likely have very little idea of what is going on (sad to say I know, but this isn't just limited to the older generation), and identify perhaps a little more with the Conservatives on Morality and God etc... (Whereas a younger generation might be a bit more tolerant and a little less faith)
Anyway I guess what I am trying to say is that the control of information by the Harper government is more an means to an end, as they are just trying to present themselves in a vary specific way to the voting public.
It just looks like they are avoiding the confrontation altogether. It is likely just easier for them to tack on 27$ to every students tuition than it is to deal with it. If people don't like it they will just say they were forced to do it by Access Copyright. If students feel like protesting, go protest Access Copyright or talk to your local political shill.
I always sort of thought this. Not so much that AMD may have not failed in any particular way, but perhaps Intel has just done such a good job making great processors it is hard to compete. Hard to tell with only 2 players really also. Intel has had some scrutiny about business practices, but regardless, if you have 80% of the market, you will have some advantage your competition will not have. As underdogs, AMD would have had to have many years of Athlon64/AthlonXP like success just to get into a fair game really. As it was, they only had a couple of limited wins, which Intel consistently was able to come back with something better. So there it is, you can either really look at it as AMD failing, or Intelling just winning...
Errr... Disagree.
If they "bet" on desktops they made a pretty low ball bet, as Intel makes, and has made a far superior product for desktops ever since the Core 2 Duo over 6 years ago.
If anything AMD tried to do too many things, and was good at none of them.
About the only growth I have hear of has been AMD in the business server market, everything else has been fail.
He is trying to show that a government employee used government resources for non-government purposes contrary to IT policy, likely in an effort to get them fired.
of being tasty.
nuking from orbit IS the only way to be sure...
The next step is to rather than human control them, built in the logic to for self control. It would have to be coordinated between different machine types and job types, a sort of swarm communication. Then scale them up a bit, allow for remote repair of components seen to commonly ware out. Load them on a rocket, shoot to moon, and get building that moon base already! :)
If industry had its way all used book sales would also be banned.
They might not go so far as to say "burn them", but "recycle" is a much nicer sounding word, but amounts to about the same thing.