This story is completely impossible. The Dell Laptops, or ANY laptop is not going to have 120vAC power going into the unit itself. The Power Inverter that you plug into the wall and then into the laptop converts the 120vAC down to anywhere from 15vDC to 30vDC. Electronic Devices cannot run on AC voltages and especially precision electronics such as Computers would be extremely damaged from the application of such AC voltages ANYWHERE in the system. This is definatly a hoax and someone just trying to get a new laptop from Dell for nothing.
You are just wrong or plain dumb. I would forgive both to anybody else, but as you call yourself an "Electronics Guy", you really should know yourself how LCD backlite is powered: with a high voltage inverter.
So, now when server issue has been explained exhaustingly, we can talk about my gentoo programer's desktop, gentoo electronics lab and drill machinery controller, gentoo adsl/wifi router and gentoo tv/multimedia nano-itx box.
From my point of view, Siker is just a moron and I mean it seriously.
When I read Microsoft and Immortality in the same context I am thinking immediately about Undead and Zombies. Fortunately mummies and pyramids are prior art, so sink in the patent hell, Microsoft, for eternity.
Even if the group is as small as two individuals, there still need to be laws.
Me and you. Give me half of your possession, because I declared myself a tax collector. It's been a law between us before you were born. Or I will jail you and torment you, because I am judge and enforcer before you. And do not ever tell me a society without consensus is a crime, or I'll kill you. You,...anonymous coward!
Read some code of others, just pick your area of interest at SourceForge. You have absolutely better conditions for self learning how to code than we had 30 years ago.
Surely if Diebold can make a secure ATM there is no reason why it cannot make secure and reliable e-voting apparatus in which the public has confidence.
It mostly depends on how "secure" is defined, but generally there is no such thingy as secure ATM, be it Diebold or not. Voting will not be 100% reliable unless we all become telepaths.
Is the new recipe for success to do one thing unbelievably well and several other things indifferently? Does this remind you of strategies from any other companies?"
What a cool name for a director of cyber-security experts. I'd pay ten bucks for an autograph on a genuine Homeland paper. No, not an identity theft, just a collector's item!
Remember the good old days when you could only catch a virus off a floppy? I'd like to see those Russian crackers infect millions of PCs that way!
All that was necessary for Russian crackers to achieve that was to release a cracked&infected latest version of Leisure Suit Larry or Space Quest to several BBS's. The rest of the millions got infected via downloaded floppys in a week or so. Game publishers did that regularly, usually at start of public anti-piracy fud campaign, just at the point when sells of a specific title turned down.
Haskell monads are good example of a crazy philosophic concept in a purely functional programming language. A must have, because pure functions do not match the reality. The same reason why procedural languages evolved to object ones, because we humanly percieve natural processes as objects.
We need a machine consciousness. That would be a truly breaking point in philosophy.
According to the licence, your not allowed to give details to others. I wonder how many have clicked the the "I don't agree" button.
Bill, please consider my original Slashdot post to be a "Feedback" according to the license terms, specifically (b) of 1. I hope you could commercionalize on my Feedback without obligations to me, as the license asks from me, specifically in (a) of 4.
Reading all of 31 pages of the document makes me understand that it is just an attempt to hijack tiff an bend it with MS patented pixel codec to become incompatible with existing tiff technology. Salted with Adobe XMP metadata, ICC metadata and EXIF metadata. All of that registered as a Microsoft trademark. Did I missed something?
If it's a highly experienced C++ team, they will be disgusted with Java. Expect team morale going low. But if they are quite inexperienced, Java will make their life easier, morale up.
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The Pirated Software Problem in the 3rd World
No, it is not a problem there at all. Pirated software is problem only in 1st World.
This story is completely impossible. The Dell Laptops, or ANY laptop is not going to have 120vAC power going into the unit itself. The Power Inverter that you plug into the wall and then into the laptop converts the 120vAC down to anywhere from 15vDC to 30vDC. Electronic Devices cannot run on AC voltages and especially precision electronics such as Computers would be extremely damaged from the application of such AC voltages ANYWHERE in the system. This is definatly a hoax and someone just trying to get a new laptop from Dell for nothing.
You are just wrong or plain dumb. I would forgive both to anybody else, but as you call yourself an "Electronics Guy", you really should know yourself how LCD backlite is powered: with a high voltage inverter.
...is currently uptime 242 days. Updating daily.
So, now when server issue has been explained exhaustingly, we can talk about my gentoo programer's desktop, gentoo electronics lab and drill machinery controller, gentoo adsl/wifi router and gentoo tv/multimedia nano-itx box.
From my point of view, Siker is just a moron and I mean it seriously.
When I read Microsoft and Immortality in the same context I am thinking immediately about Undead and Zombies. Fortunately mummies and pyramids are prior art, so sink in the patent hell, Microsoft, for eternity.
Even if the group is as small as two individuals, there still need to be laws.
...anonymous coward!
Me and you. Give me half of your possession, because I declared myself a tax collector. It's been a law between us before you were born. Or I will jail you and torment you, because I am judge and enforcer before you. And do not ever tell me a society without consensus is a crime, or I'll kill you. You,
A suitable magnetron device is to be found in your microwave oven. Excess pressure calls for resistance, that's way of the history goes.
Read some code of others, just pick your area of interest at SourceForge. You have absolutely better conditions for self learning how to code than we had 30 years ago.
This reaffirms advice that states that when the robot uprising finally comes, you should always aim your rocket launcher at the head (or brain nexus).
Until they start to put a spare brain in every leg.
Pick the Linux bazaar one until Microsoft cathedral shop offers 666%.
Surely if Diebold can make a secure ATM there is no reason why it cannot make secure and reliable e-voting apparatus in which the public has confidence.
It mostly depends on how "secure" is defined, but generally there is no such thingy as secure ATM, be it Diebold or not. Voting will not be 100% reliable unless we all become telepaths.
Giving a new meaning to trash-bin, eh?
on propaganda
Is the new recipe for success to do one thing unbelievably well and several other things indifferently? Does this remind you of strategies from any other companies?"
Pentagon.
With good datamining, so called secret questions are totally insecure.
I am post-human, you insensitive clod!
Suddenly I lost sense of humour.
Seems you still didn't invented an installation agent.
But I predict a lots of cheap and quality cameras apear soon on mexican markets.
What a cool name for a director of cyber-security experts. I'd pay ten bucks for an autograph on a genuine Homeland paper. No, not an identity theft, just a collector's item!
Remember the good old days when you could only catch a virus off a floppy? I'd like to see those Russian crackers infect millions of PCs that way!
All that was necessary for Russian crackers to achieve that was to release a cracked&infected latest version of Leisure Suit Larry or Space Quest to several BBS's. The rest of the millions got infected via downloaded floppys in a week or so. Game publishers did that regularly, usually at start of public anti-piracy fud campaign, just at the point when sells of a specific title turned down.
Haskell monads are good example of a crazy philosophic concept in a purely functional programming language. A must have, because pure functions do not match the reality. The same reason why procedural languages evolved to object ones, because we humanly percieve natural processes as objects.
We need a machine consciousness. That would be a truly breaking point in philosophy.
According to the licence, your not allowed to give details to others.
I wonder how many have clicked the the "I don't agree" button.
Bill, please consider my original Slashdot post to be a "Feedback" according to the license terms, specifically (b) of 1. I hope you could commercionalize on my Feedback without obligations to me, as the license asks from me, specifically in (a) of 4.
well considering MS were heavily involved in the creation of TIFF this is not really suprising. So they hijacked something they helped create.
r mat
This is a lie by Anonymous Coward. TIFF was developped by Aldus Corporation. There is no mention of Microsoft on Wikipedia/TIFF.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_Image_File_Fo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldus
Reading all of 31 pages of the document makes me understand that it is just an attempt to hijack tiff an bend it with MS patented pixel codec to become incompatible with existing tiff technology. Salted with Adobe XMP metadata, ICC metadata and EXIF metadata. All of that registered as a Microsoft trademark. Did I missed something?
If it's a highly experienced C++ team, they will be disgusted with Java. Expect team morale going low. But if they are quite inexperienced, Java will make their life easier, morale up.