Effective counter terrorism is about intelligence gathering. The old fashioned way, as was done before computers and the net.
The real trouble for India started when then Prime Minister IK Gujral decided to shut down RAW's operations within Pakistan as a goodwill gesture, in 1998, resulting in complete failure to detect the military build up before the Kargil conflict of 1999.
Blanket spying on the entire country's Blackberry traffic won't amount to anything; terrorists will find other ways to communicate.(What's more, they used satellite phones, not Blackberries, during the Bombay attacks). The games of espionage, counter intelligence, infiltration etc are just as valid now as they were during the Cold War.
The Indian monitor lizard is also known for wedging itself tightly into crevices and holding onto rocks. It was famously used by the Marathas to scale the walls of a fortress during the battle of Sinhagad by tying a rope to its tail and releasing it to climb the wall.
And for every Craig Smallwood, there are millions of other people who play for reasonable amounts of time and don't let MMOs take over & ruin their lives.
irc://us.undernet.org/#bookz
'Nuff said.
I can search and download any book I want in an instant. Perhaps not the very latest bestsellers, but everything else. And for classics/creative commons stuff, there's always Project Gutenberg, Manybooks and of course, Baen.
To me - these sites (and aforementioned IRC channel) are like an enormous virtual library. I'm a scifi/fantasy fan, and these books seldom are single stories- they tend to run into dozens or more books.
While enjoyable to read - I don't think I could ever go back to reading the whole thing from the beginning. Hence I've read Discworld, Stephen King's Dark Tower series, Star Wars' New Jedi Order, to name a few.
If I actually went and bought these books, I'd run out of space to keep 'em. But I can quite conveniently carry them on my hard drive, or read them on my phone with Mobipocket Reader, or on my dedicated ebook reader (Infibeam Pi, a rebadged ). No DRM, no remote control shenanigans by the manufacturer, no bullshit.
As far as I'm concerned, if downloading ebooks off an IRC channel or a torrent is piracy, then so is borrowing physical books from the local library. In neither case do the publishers get paid.
Show me an ebookstore that charges a reasonable price (cheaper than the physical version for starters and adjusted to local market rates depending on country rather than just directly converted from USD), and has no DRM. Baen offer their books like this, it's a pity Amazon won't.
The derivative is only so far as class libraries are concerned. IBM uses its own J9 virtual machine.
Furthermore, Harmony code continues to steadily replace Oracle's class library code, so the aim is to end up with a runtime (NOT necessarily branded as Java) that can support additional languages as well.
I work on IBM JDK 7, and as of now several core packages - java.lang, java.io, java.net - are being partially replaced by Harmony code.
IBM and Apple have not "made their own implementations"; they have licensed Sun/Oracle's implementations and created derivatives.
And just to add on, IBM supports the Apache Harmony project - which aims to provide a non encumbered open source JDK implementation. At some point IBM would also like to move away from Sun's proprietary implementation (currently they have to pay licensing fees to modify it to run on IBM platforms).
There is effectively only one Java implementation, the one controlled by Sun/Oracle. Sun killed most of the others early on with legal threats, and the few remaining ones seem to fail to meet the conditions of Sun's public patent grant.
Anybody who writes Java software is pretty much stuck with running it on Sun/Oracle's proprietary implementation or its nominally GPL derivative. You're joined at the hip with Oracle, in the bending over kind of sense.
It must be mentioned here: System Shock 1. Years ahead of its time, had features like looking up/down that the doom engine lacked, and gameplay was far more tense and challenging.
Pity it got eclipsed by Doom - as its 1999 sequel would be by Halflife.
I feel sorry for people who missed playing Doom when it was released. It's easy to look back and call it primitive now - but I can never forget the first time I saw it while in high school. My first reaction was "HOLY SHIT WHAT GRAPHICS!!!11"
This was also the first time I'd seen a 'multimedia' PC - so the combination of music, gunfire, monster effects had me slack jawed with awe. I also got my first look at Wolfenstein 3D on another PC nearby (this was at an inter school computer event sponsored by a vendor, these were demo versions of the games). I was quite put off by Wolfenstein, having already seen the superior graphics/gameplay of Doom. I imagine if I had first seen Wolf3D, I might've reacted similarly.
Since then, I've played almost every major FPS until Halflife 2. Each time I would marvel at how much the graphics had improved(gameplay hasn't kept up much since then). I'm glad that I got to play FPSes right from the very beginning, when each one briefly was the most talked about game in town.
Whereas if the first FPS you ever saw was within the last 5 years, it will be hard to appreciate just how great and novel Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Quake and Halflife were when they were initially released.
They actually did, except they named themselves 'The drunks of Menkaure'.
On a slightly unrelated note, this graffiti from Pompeii wouldn't look out of place in a modern city.
Oh, and Apple's selling three different iPhone models, so it's not exactly a "single handset".
Aren't they just the same device with different internal memory capacity? It's not like there's 'iPhone with slide out qwerty' as opposed to the existing one.
The bottom line is you don't need to hack your Symbian phone (or any other smartphone for that matter) to do the following(and some of these capabilities have been there since 2002):
Use with any operator
Tethering
Bluetooth file transfer.
Customize the UI with themes, or outright shell replacements.
Multitask (yes i know iPhone 4 finally added this)
Install apps from anywhere, without being restricted to an app store with arbitrary rules and regulations.
Also- correct me if I'm wrong - jailbreaking was also done to enable multitasking on older iPhones, and to allow tethering and other features that Apple had restricted.
My point was that no part of a Symbian phone is restricted; and self signed certificates are the only reason to tamper with its internals.
There's a 'symbian signed' program that was started for individual developers to sign their code with a developer certificate without having to pay license fees.
Apps with a dev. certificate display a warning that they might not work correctly when you install them.
On Symbian, the keystore file is stored in a protected folder on the phone's internal memory. This can be updated with the necessary self signed CAs. It does not involve reflashing the firmware or anything as drastic, and while subsequent firmware updates will revert your modification, there's no danger of bricking your phone because of this.
Why do I need to hack the firmware of a device that I bought, to make it do what other company products can do without meddling?
This hole should serve as a wakeup call to those who talk about jailbreaking as a counter argument to the innate restricted nature of the iPhone.
There's only one reason to hack a Symbian phone - to add one's own root CA to the keystore for installing self signed apps (which are usually pirated). The phones are not restricted in any other way, and even with hacked phones nothing can install itself or modify anything without user intervention.
Can you elaborate?
Ever since they introduced privacy settings in IE6, the first step I take on a new Windows installation is to set privacy to 'advanced', i.e. disable 3rd party cookies and only allow
first party/session cookies. And these settings have always stayed put. I can't find any other privacy settings in IE8, so what are you talking about?
Yeah, damn those British! Er, I mean, damn those Danes! I mean Swedes. I mean Spanish. No, I mean Japanese. Er, the Thai. No, the Tongans. Um...
I don't know about the Tongans, but all the examples you gave are of constitutional monarchies. The common people vote their representatives to houses of parliament,it's not like these rulers are autocrats as in the case of the Saudis.
This is because the -X options are non standard and subject to change. Different vendors may choose to implement different switches.
I work on the IBM JDK, and it does not support -XX:MaxPermSize parameter, since that is specific to Sun/Oracle's HotSpot VM, and
IBM Java uses its own J9 VM, which has different configuration parameters.
Acquisition of Motorola's mobile network infrastructure business gives Nokia an entry to the U.S. market, where it has long struggled.
What's the connection between one network infrastructure company (Nokia Siemens Networks) buying out Motorola's network infrastructure unit and Nokia (the handset manufacturer)'s woes in the US market? NSN is a different company altogether, and this deal gives it some leverage in the network equipment space, deals with US mobile operators and Motorola's related IP.
The Nokia name is the only similarity here and it's not going to affect the poor US market/mindshare for Nokia handsets.
Can you clarify what you mean by handset integration? I have the Ovi Store app installed on my N82, and can quite easily browse and search apps/games for it. I can also choose whether I want to browse only free apps or paid ones as well.
When you sign up for a free Ovi account and then login to the store (from the website), it asks you to specify your phone model- and then once logged in it will only show you apps that are compatible. This goes both for the Ovi store website and when you run the Ovi store app from your phone.
I've been working for IBM since 2007. When I first joined, I figured I'd have to use IE again for the intranet as had been the case with my earlier workplaces.
It was then that I received a newsletter from the IT helpdesk informing us that Firefox 2.x something was now available on the internal software catalog, and that we should use it.
Since then, I've never had to go back to IE for anything within the IBM intranet- everything just works fine with Firefox.
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Effective counter terrorism is about intelligence gathering. The old fashioned way, as was done before computers and the net. The real trouble for India started when then Prime Minister IK Gujral decided to shut down RAW's operations within Pakistan as a goodwill gesture, in 1998, resulting in complete failure to detect the military build up before the Kargil conflict of 1999.
Blanket spying on the entire country's Blackberry traffic won't amount to anything; terrorists will find other ways to communicate.(What's more, they used satellite phones, not Blackberries, during the Bombay attacks).
The games of espionage, counter intelligence, infiltration etc are just as valid now as they were during the Cold War.
The Indian monitor lizard is also known for wedging itself tightly into crevices and holding onto rocks. It was famously used by the Marathas to scale the walls of a fortress during the battle of Sinhagad by tying a rope to its tail and releasing it to climb the wall.
And for every Craig Smallwood, there are millions of other people who play for reasonable amounts of time and don't let MMOs take over & ruin their lives.
irc://us.undernet.org/#bookz
'Nuff said.
I can search and download any book I want in an instant. Perhaps not the very latest bestsellers, but everything else. And for classics/creative commons stuff, there's always Project Gutenberg, Manybooks and of course, Baen.
To me - these sites (and aforementioned IRC channel) are like an enormous virtual library. I'm a scifi/fantasy fan, and these books seldom are single stories- they tend to run into dozens or more books.
While enjoyable to read - I don't think I could ever go back to reading the whole thing from the beginning. Hence I've read Discworld, Stephen King's Dark Tower series, Star Wars' New Jedi Order, to name a few.
If I actually went and bought these books, I'd run out of space to keep 'em. But I can quite conveniently carry them on my hard drive, or read them on my phone with Mobipocket Reader, or on my dedicated ebook reader (Infibeam Pi, a rebadged ). No DRM, no remote control shenanigans by the manufacturer, no bullshit.
As far as I'm concerned, if downloading ebooks off an IRC channel or a torrent is piracy, then so is borrowing physical books from the local library. In neither case do the publishers get paid. Show me an ebookstore that charges a reasonable price (cheaper than the physical version for starters and adjusted to local market rates depending on country rather than just directly converted from USD), and has no DRM. Baen offer their books like this, it's a pity Amazon won't.
Why don't they just merge the 2 products and call it Fleshlight?
The derivative is only so far as class libraries are concerned. IBM uses its own J9 virtual machine. Furthermore, Harmony code continues to steadily replace Oracle's class library code, so the aim is to end up with a runtime (NOT necessarily branded as Java) that can support additional languages as well. I work on IBM JDK 7, and as of now several core packages - java.lang, java.io, java.net - are being partially replaced by Harmony code.
IBM and Apple have not "made their own implementations"; they have licensed Sun/Oracle's implementations and created derivatives.
And just to add on, IBM supports the Apache Harmony project - which aims to provide a non encumbered open source JDK implementation. At some point IBM would also like to move away from Sun's proprietary implementation (currently they have to pay licensing fees to modify it to run on IBM platforms).
There is effectively only one Java implementation, the one controlled by Sun/Oracle. Sun killed most of the others early on with legal threats, and the few remaining ones seem to fail to meet the conditions of Sun's public patent grant. Anybody who writes Java software is pretty much stuck with running it on Sun/Oracle's proprietary implementation or its nominally GPL derivative. You're joined at the hip with Oracle, in the bending over kind of sense.
Um, no, not necessarily.
My boss' ringtone on my phone is E1M1 :D
It must be mentioned here: System Shock 1. Years ahead of its time, had features like looking up/down that the doom engine lacked, and gameplay was far more tense and challenging. Pity it got eclipsed by Doom - as its 1999 sequel would be by Halflife.
I feel sorry for people who missed playing Doom when it was released. It's easy to look back and call it primitive now - but I can never forget the first time I saw it while in high school. My first reaction was "HOLY SHIT WHAT GRAPHICS!!!11" This was also the first time I'd seen a 'multimedia' PC - so the combination of music, gunfire, monster effects had me slack jawed with awe. I also got my first look at Wolfenstein 3D on another PC nearby (this was at an inter school computer event sponsored by a vendor, these were demo versions of the games). I was quite put off by Wolfenstein, having already seen the superior graphics/gameplay of Doom. I imagine if I had first seen Wolf3D, I might've reacted similarly. Since then, I've played almost every major FPS until Halflife 2. Each time I would marvel at how much the graphics had improved(gameplay hasn't kept up much since then). I'm glad that I got to play FPSes right from the very beginning, when each one briefly was the most talked about game in town. Whereas if the first FPS you ever saw was within the last 5 years, it will be hard to appreciate just how great and novel Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Quake and Halflife were when they were initially released.
They actually did, except they named themselves 'The drunks of Menkaure'. On a slightly unrelated note, this graffiti from Pompeii wouldn't look out of place in a modern city.
Oh, and Apple's selling three different iPhone models, so it's not exactly a "single handset".
Aren't they just the same device with different internal memory capacity? It's not like there's 'iPhone with slide out qwerty' as opposed to the existing one.
Also- correct me if I'm wrong - jailbreaking was also done to enable multitasking on older iPhones, and to allow tethering and other features that Apple had restricted. My point was that no part of a Symbian phone is restricted; and self signed certificates are the only reason to tamper with its internals.
There's a 'symbian signed' program that was started for individual developers to sign their code with a developer certificate without having to pay license fees. Apps with a dev. certificate display a warning that they might not work correctly when you install them. On Symbian, the keystore file is stored in a protected folder on the phone's internal memory. This can be updated with the necessary self signed CAs. It does not involve reflashing the firmware or anything as drastic, and while subsequent firmware updates will revert your modification, there's no danger of bricking your phone because of this.
Why do I need to hack the firmware of a device that I bought, to make it do what other company products can do without meddling? This hole should serve as a wakeup call to those who talk about jailbreaking as a counter argument to the innate restricted nature of the iPhone. There's only one reason to hack a Symbian phone - to add one's own root CA to the keystore for installing self signed apps (which are usually pirated). The phones are not restricted in any other way, and even with hacked phones nothing can install itself or modify anything without user intervention.
Can you elaborate? Ever since they introduced privacy settings in IE6, the first step I take on a new Windows installation is to set privacy to 'advanced', i.e. disable 3rd party cookies and only allow first party/session cookies. And these settings have always stayed put. I can't find any other privacy settings in IE8, so what are you talking about?
Yeah, damn those British! Er, I mean, damn those Danes! I mean Swedes. I mean Spanish. No, I mean Japanese. Er, the Thai. No, the Tongans. Um...
I don't know about the Tongans, but all the examples you gave are of constitutional monarchies. The common people vote their representatives to houses of parliament,it's not like these rulers are autocrats as in the case of the Saudis.
This is because the -X options are non standard and subject to change. Different vendors may choose to implement different switches. I work on the IBM JDK, and it does not support -XX:MaxPermSize parameter, since that is specific to Sun/Oracle's HotSpot VM, and IBM Java uses its own J9 VM, which has different configuration parameters.
Acquisition of Motorola's mobile network infrastructure business gives Nokia an entry to the U.S. market, where it has long struggled.
What's the connection between one network infrastructure company (Nokia Siemens Networks) buying out Motorola's network infrastructure unit and Nokia (the handset manufacturer)'s woes in the US market? NSN is a different company altogether, and this deal gives it some leverage in the network equipment space, deals with US mobile operators and Motorola's related IP. The Nokia name is the only similarity here and it's not going to affect the poor US market/mindshare for Nokia handsets.
If this tank probe thing crashes back to earth, it could reek havoc.
Yup. That would be quite a stinking mess.
Not to be a spelling Nazi, but it's 'Gandhi', not 'Ghandi' (and it doesn't rhyme with candy)
Can you clarify what you mean by handset integration? I have the Ovi Store app installed on my N82, and can quite easily browse and search apps/games for it. I can also choose whether I want to browse only free apps or paid ones as well. When you sign up for a free Ovi account and then login to the store (from the website), it asks you to specify your phone model- and then once logged in it will only show you apps that are compatible. This goes both for the Ovi store website and when you run the Ovi store app from your phone.
I've been working for IBM since 2007. When I first joined, I figured I'd have to use IE again for the intranet as had been the case with my earlier workplaces. It was then that I received a newsletter from the IT helpdesk informing us that Firefox 2.x something was now available on the internal software catalog, and that we should use it. Since then, I've never had to go back to IE for anything within the IBM intranet- everything just works fine with Firefox.