Unlicensed just means that you don't need a license to operate equipment on those frequencies. It applies to WiFi, Bluetooth, and cordless phone frequencies, for example, as opposed to FM and television broadcasting.
Two words: Trusted Computing. When the government mandates that broadcast flag restrictions must be followed, the only way to enforce it will be to validate all drivers before they're loaded. It'll be almost exactly the situation we have with the Xbox. It's simply the only way to sell hardware that complies with the law.
And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.
I don't see why not - just add a trivial front-end that parses the output of the file command. IIRC less already does this; typing "less foo.gz" decompresses the file on the fly.
One of WEP's biggest design flaws has been that all data is encrypted with the same key. Sure, there needs to be some shared secret for authentication, but the actual data transfer should use a negotiated key known only to the user and the AP. WEP is all right for authentication, but when it comes to security it's useless against other authenticated users.
It wouldn't be a bad idea to use something like this for non-broadcase Ethernet either, now that I think of it.
Well, it's not something specific to EM radiation. Anything that spreads out in 3D space - sound waves, whatever - gets spread out over a larger and larger area, and therefore is "diluted" proportionally to the inverse square of the distance travelled. The more tightly you focus the beam, the smaller the coefficient becomes, and the more slowly you lose signal strength. That is, unless it's focused into an absolutely perfect parallel beam, which is impossible to achieve in practice.
And in other news, "sudo rm -rf/" has been found to cause crashes and data loss on virtually all UNIX systems. Obviously this is a critical bug which must be fixed immediately.
Well, it could be proven to be theoretically undecidable like the halting problem, couldn't it? Then I guess it would be true or false, but nobody would ever know so it's all semantics.
I've always thought that wireless connectivity would be the killer app for handheld game consoles. Platforms like the GBA have always had a lot of restrictions - like needing specially-designed link cables, headphones, etc. Now that Nintendo is coming under pressure from products like the N-Gage, it seems that they're finally going to unleash their secret weapon.
I'm just hoping that the DS will have all the appropriate goodies to go with this capability, like wireless multiplayer games, Jabber, maybe even a web browser and media player.
The whole point of a tracker is that it's updated constantly with which chunks each person has available. A cache, by definition, doesn't interact with the original site so you couldn't send your own information. Nobody would know to download chunks from you, and therefore their software would be less likely to send you chunks.
You could conceivably design a distributed tracker, but this isn't it. Anyway, there would doubtless be synchronization issues that would greatly decrease the network's overall performance.
Cut the sarcasm. It really is innovative. It makes chunks of the document independent of what file they're in, and paved the way for an efficient implementation of our beloved "multiple undo" feature. And bear in mind that this was over 20 years ago, when the desktop software industry was just getting started and there was little prior experience to draw on.
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Let me guess - you stole it from Google?
I think somebody's been going on an insane modding spree.
http://www.electricstate.com/articles/defuglify-sl ashdot. Drag the link to your Bookmarks toolbar. That's all there is to it.
I think you missed something - you say that like it's a good thing.
As idiotic, trollish and NSFW as that was, I have to admit it was pretty devious.
Unlicensed just means that you don't need a license to operate equipment on those frequencies. It applies to WiFi, Bluetooth, and cordless phone frequencies, for example, as opposed to FM and television broadcasting.
Two words: Trusted Computing. When the government mandates that broadcast flag restrictions must be followed, the only way to enforce it will be to validate all drivers before they're loaded. It'll be almost exactly the situation we have with the Xbox. It's simply the only way to sell hardware that complies with the law.
And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.
from The Book of Mozilla, 7:15
The first would be removing IE so the person has to manually install it from the CD or download it after install.
If it's not on the CD, how are they supposed to download it? Either way, how does this make it any easier for them to get Firefox?
Second, force all of Microsoft's web development tools to be 100% standards compliant.
And what happens when their software is found to be unintentionally buggy? It can happen to anybody. You can't force people to be perfect.
Not meaning to condone MS's actions AT ALL, just pointing out the holes in your argument.
I don't see why not - just add a trivial front-end that parses the output of the file command. IIRC less already does this; typing "less foo.gz" decompresses the file on the fly.
Well, there goes all mail from aol.com. Such a tragedy.
Oh wait...
Dude... I think you killed it.
One of WEP's biggest design flaws has been that all data is encrypted with the same key. Sure, there needs to be some shared secret for authentication, but the actual data transfer should use a negotiated key known only to the user and the AP. WEP is all right for authentication, but when it comes to security it's useless against other authenticated users.
It wouldn't be a bad idea to use something like this for non-broadcase Ethernet either, now that I think of it.
Well, it's not something specific to EM radiation. Anything that spreads out in 3D space - sound waves, whatever - gets spread out over a larger and larger area, and therefore is "diluted" proportionally to the inverse square of the distance travelled. The more tightly you focus the beam, the smaller the coefficient becomes, and the more slowly you lose signal strength. That is, unless it's focused into an absolutely perfect parallel beam, which is impossible to achieve in practice.
And in other news, "sudo rm -rf /" has been found to cause crashes and data loss on virtually all UNIX systems. Obviously this is a critical bug which must be fixed immediately.
Normally, yes, but not always. For example, take Duke Nukem Forever...
*rimshot*
You know, it would be a lot more helpful if you pointed out what I said that was incorrect, instead of just insulting me.
Well, it could be proven to be theoretically undecidable like the halting problem, couldn't it? Then I guess it would be true or false, but nobody would ever know so it's all semantics.
Nah... scratch that last one. It'll never happen in my lifetime anyway.
I've always thought that wireless connectivity would be the killer app for handheld game consoles. Platforms like the GBA have always had a lot of restrictions - like needing specially-designed link cables, headphones, etc. Now that Nintendo is coming under pressure from products like the N-Gage, it seems that they're finally going to unleash their secret weapon.
I'm just hoping that the DS will have all the appropriate goodies to go with this capability, like wireless multiplayer games, Jabber, maybe even a web browser and media player.
The whole point of a tracker is that it's updated constantly with which chunks each person has available. A cache, by definition, doesn't interact with the original site so you couldn't send your own information. Nobody would know to download chunks from you, and therefore their software would be less likely to send you chunks.
You could conceivably design a distributed tracker, but this isn't it. Anyway, there would doubtless be synchronization issues that would greatly decrease the network's overall performance.
Cut the sarcasm. It really is innovative. It makes chunks of the document independent of what file they're in, and paved the way for an efficient implementation of our beloved "multiple undo" feature. And bear in mind that this was over 20 years ago, when the desktop software industry was just getting started and there was little prior experience to draw on.
I pay for broadband too, but it's a flat rate. Any given piece of spam doesn't add a penny to my bill.
Do the penguins go on strike if you try to overclock them?
Just figure out how to grow muscles/skin/nerves the same way, and maybe we can finally regrow amputated limbs!