If you want to completely abdicate responsability for it all than that's the way to go.
Then you can concentrate full time on keeping your internet connection working because you'll be screwed without it
You still have the same responsibility, whether the server is inhouse or hosted by Amazon. If misconfigured, and backups are not working properly, it's much easier to loose everything if hosted by Amazon, so don't think that nothing can go wrong. But if configured properly, it can work very nice. We use it at our office. We have four servers for database and webservers, plus ECB volumes for data. We backup everything every hour, each instance, keep daily backups for a month, keep montly backups for half a year, all backups on a server on a different continent. Because it's incremental it doesn't use much space. We download those backups to a local Centos server via rsync. So yes, we have a local server, but it's a $400 desktop running Linux with a terabyte disk.
What I mean is, there's almost no expensive components in this phone. Heck, it doesn't even have a screen. All it needs is the simplest or the cheapest microprocessors that is capable of making a call. Yet, it still costs £60 to £80.
I suspect it's so expensive because it's probably produced in small quantities. On the other hand, older people might just want a simple phone and are prepared to pay a little extra. For most people it's not that much extra, and in the long run this might be a really cheap deal because the buyer probably won't need the newest model in a year or so.
My parents have a Sagem VS-1, which is much simpler than the standard phone nowadays, but still much more complex than this phone. I think there's a huge market for simple phones, even ones without a screen.
They are the one and only company that can pull this thing straight. They have the money, they have proven their commitment to OSS, so I sincerely hope they step in and fix this. It's too important to let Oracle mess everything up.
You dont actually migrate users out of Windows to Linux and out of Exchange to gmail. You make a lot of presentations and charts etc with lots of bogus numbers, with just enough credibility to convince your local Microsoft sales guys think you are serious. Once they give you some discounts, you mention that as a big savings achieved by you in your annual report and try to wangle boni [1] and/or raises. Then rinse, lather and repeat for the next year or in the next job.
[1] Glossary:
Boni: plural of Bonus.
Hi! I'm Boni of Malta. I'm single, and I want to exchange bones and stuff. Please be my friend. I'm on facebook! Woof!!!
If my goal is to use your GMail account for spam then yes, I will change the password. If my goal is to monitor your emails I most certainly will not change the password, and will just log in every day to read your correspondence.
That's an excellent point. Unfortunately, even a regular change-of-password routine means that the malicious party gets a month, or three months, or six months, or what-have-you length of time following your account.
This is why I am annoyed that so few systems implement the simple precaution of displaying the last date, time, and location from which I (putatively) logged in. At negligible cost, that information would allow me to detect a compromised account at next login, rather than remaining unknowingly insecure until my next password change.
Gmail displays this information in the footer of the page. However, you must be aware of this, and you have to know what it means, what your IP-address is, etc. I know this info exists, but I almost never look at it to be honest.
abide, accede, acknowledge, acquiesce, agree, appease, be submissive, bend, bow, buckle, capitulate, cave, cede, concede, defer, eat crow, fold, give away, give ground, give in, give way, go with the flow, grin and bear it, humor, indulge, knuckle, knuckle under, kowtow, lay down arms, obey, put up with, quit, relent, relinquish, resign oneself, say uncle, stoop, succumb, surrender, throw in the towel, toe the line, tolerate, truckle, withstand, yield
In other languages the button is labeled "send", which seems much more appropriate.
Even Corel with all their troubles manages to build their apps properly for OS X.
Do they even build for the Mac at the moment? I thought it was Windows only, and the "Mac" version is running in bootcamp/windows or parallels/vmware windows virtual machine. So Adobe is still doing a better job afaik.
Ebooks will not be able to beat out paper books until prices come down. People are cheap and don't want to spend more for an eBook than the mass market paperback version. Drop eBook prices and watch them take off.
Ebooks could beat paper books if a killer app or device takes them (users or books) to another level. I find my Sony PRS300 very useful because the zoom function makes reading a lot easier. But it's terribly slow, doesn't have wifi, misses annotations, has really bad software to connect my laptop (and even though Calibre is a lot better, it doesn't compare to e.g. iTunes). The iPad offers a lot of this, except for e-ink, and it's too big, heavy and expensive for me.
I wonder when the first Android ereader with e-ink will show up.
TFA talks about doing this with exactly one pre-existing microphone
Which makes me doubt the idea. Are all microphones in smartphones created equal? Will the ones installed in most devices be good enough for the job? Microphones "degrade" (they deform slowly) with use -- can you recalibrate the software, and how often will you need to do so? After filtering out all of the noise, and then attempting to infer the touch location, will you have any CPU power left to actually perform the task that the touch was intended to do (and what about on devices with less computing power)?
Maybe the tapping makes a different sound based on where you tap. So the right side of the screen would sound different than the left. And of course the device would need a teaching system, like with voice recognition. You cannot expect that a plastic Samsung sounds the same as a aluminium Nokia.
I just looked at the article briefly, and it states "A second high-priority flaw, a sandbox parameter deserialization error, was discovered by two members of Adobe's Reader Sandbox Team." What the--Adobe has a security team? That's crazy talk!
A better solution is not to store the information in either place. Store it on the passport in encrypted form and store the encryption key in the central database (or vice versa). You then need to both do a database query and scan the passport to have access to the data. If someone gets a copy of the database, it's no use to them without the passports. If someone steals a passport, they can't access the information on it.
Yeah and what if you loose the passport? Is all your information lost then? That wouldn't be acceptable. So your solution sounds nice, but will never be implemented.
You can record stories told by the person who will die in the near future, and you may as well record stories told by relatives about that person. That makes the picture more complete. While relatives (kids, sisters and brothers, friends etc) are still alive, memories will fade for them as well.
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So, Linux can now keep my beer cold, but can it bring me a cold beer?
This is the fridge that makes the blitz! Think of all the girls!!! They will bring it to you!!! It's just about the girls man!!!
If you want to completely abdicate responsability for it all than that's the way to go.
Then you can concentrate full time on keeping your internet connection working because you'll be screwed without it
You still have the same responsibility, whether the server is inhouse or hosted by Amazon. If misconfigured, and backups are not working properly, it's much easier to loose everything if hosted by Amazon, so don't think that nothing can go wrong. But if configured properly, it can work very nice. We use it at our office. We have four servers for database and webservers, plus ECB volumes for data. We backup everything every hour, each instance, keep daily backups for a month, keep montly backups for half a year, all backups on a server on a different continent. Because it's incremental it doesn't use much space. We download those backups to a local Centos server via rsync. So yes, we have a local server, but it's a $400 desktop running Linux with a terabyte disk.
What I mean is, there's almost no expensive components in this phone. Heck, it doesn't even have a screen. All it needs is the simplest or the cheapest microprocessors that is capable of making a call. Yet, it still costs £60 to £80.
I suspect it's so expensive because it's probably produced in small quantities. On the other hand, older people might just want a simple phone and are prepared to pay a little extra. For most people it's not that much extra, and in the long run this might be a really cheap deal because the buyer probably won't need the newest model in a year or so.
My parents have a Sagem VS-1, which is much simpler than the standard phone nowadays, but still much more complex than this phone. I think there's a huge market for simple phones, even ones without a screen.
They are the one and only company that can pull this thing straight. They have the money, they have proven their commitment to OSS, so I sincerely hope they step in and fix this. It's too important to let Oracle mess everything up.
You dont actually migrate users out of Windows to Linux and out of Exchange to gmail. You make a lot of presentations and charts etc with lots of bogus numbers, with just enough credibility to convince your local Microsoft sales guys think you are serious. Once they give you some discounts, you mention that as a big savings achieved by you in your annual report and try to wangle boni [1] and/or raises. Then rinse, lather and repeat for the next year or in the next job.
[1] Glossary:
Boni: plural of Bonus.
Hi! I'm Boni of Malta. I'm single, and I want to exchange bones and stuff. Please be my friend. I'm on facebook! Woof!!!
If my goal is to use your GMail account for spam then yes, I will change the password. If my goal is to monitor your emails I most certainly will not change the password, and will just log in every day to read your correspondence.
That's an excellent point. Unfortunately, even a regular change-of-password routine means that the malicious party gets a month, or three months, or six months, or what-have-you length of time following your account.
This is why I am annoyed that so few systems implement the simple precaution of displaying the last date, time, and location from which I (putatively) logged in. At negligible cost, that information would allow me to detect a compromised account at next login, rather than remaining unknowingly insecure until my next password change.
Gmail displays this information in the footer of the page. However, you must be aware of this, and you have to know what it means, what your IP-address is, etc. I know this info exists, but I almost never look at it to be honest.
Now where do I install it?
Up your airs of course!
The script for the cease-and-desist letter is part of the submit button
The "submit" button, what's in a word?
Definition: comply, endure
Synonyms:
abide, accede, acknowledge, acquiesce, agree, appease, be submissive, bend, bow, buckle, capitulate, cave, cede, concede, defer, eat crow, fold, give away, give ground, give in, give way, go with the flow, grin and bear it, humor, indulge, knuckle, knuckle under, kowtow, lay down arms, obey, put up with, quit, relent, relinquish, resign oneself, say uncle, stoop, succumb, surrender, throw in the towel, toe the line, tolerate, truckle, withstand, yield
In other languages the button is labeled "send", which seems much more appropriate.
The Desktop Linux is dead! Long live the Desktop Linux! (You may shout out and dance around.)
Even Corel with all their troubles manages to build their apps properly for OS X.
Do they even build for the Mac at the moment? I thought it was Windows only, and the "Mac" version is running in bootcamp/windows or parallels/vmware windows virtual machine. So Adobe is still doing a better job afaik.
Ugly font rendering and kinda jerky on my G2. Also uses a fuckload of ram and storage. I'm not impresses.
I've just installed it on my HTC Wildfire, but cannot start it. It crashes after several seconds, without error message.
Which came first, the Foundation or the Beard?
BEER!
Ebooks will not be able to beat out paper books until prices come down. People are cheap and don't want to spend more for an eBook than the mass market paperback version. Drop eBook prices and watch them take off.
Ebooks could beat paper books if a killer app or device takes them (users or books) to another level. I find my Sony PRS300 very useful because the zoom function makes reading a lot easier. But it's terribly slow, doesn't have wifi, misses annotations, has really bad software to connect my laptop (and even though Calibre is a lot better, it doesn't compare to e.g. iTunes). The iPad offers a lot of this, except for e-ink, and it's too big, heavy and expensive for me.
I wonder when the first Android ereader with e-ink will show up.
What about the re-orientation of the close,min, max buttons? WTF do they think this is, Gnome?
Seriously, It's been close, min, max left to right since the beginning. Why the hell the change now?
When you press the green +button, iTunes minimizes to the mini player, with that same vertical orientation.
It can't be the Streisand effect! It's well known the Streisand effect only occurs to people and companies we dislike!
But this is about software that people we dislike dislike. So it's in effect the Streisand Effect 2.0.
TFA talks about doing this with exactly one pre-existing microphone
Which makes me doubt the idea. Are all microphones in smartphones created equal? Will the ones installed in most devices be good enough for the job? Microphones "degrade" (they deform slowly) with use -- can you recalibrate the software, and how often will you need to do so? After filtering out all of the noise, and then attempting to infer the touch location, will you have any CPU power left to actually perform the task that the touch was intended to do (and what about on devices with less computing power)?
Maybe the tapping makes a different sound based on where you tap. So the right side of the screen would sound different than the left. And of course the device would need a teaching system, like with voice recognition. You cannot expect that a plastic Samsung sounds the same as a aluminium Nokia.
The Duke Nukem cycle continues. Just wait until "2011" slips into "2013" and so forth...
Duke nukes you on 2012-12-21. It's the big bang everybody's waiting for!
I just looked at the article briefly, and it states "A second high-priority flaw, a sandbox parameter deserialization error, was discovered by two members of Adobe's Reader Sandbox Team." What the--Adobe has a security team? That's crazy talk!
Not so crazy when you see the sandbox team members!
But what kind of idiot keeps his wallet in back pocket?
I think he is "a Lady", and he has mistaken his handbag for a backpocket.
A better solution is not to store the information in either place. Store it on the passport in encrypted form and store the encryption key in the central database (or vice versa). You then need to both do a database query and scan the passport to have access to the data. If someone gets a copy of the database, it's no use to them without the passports. If someone steals a passport, they can't access the information on it.
Yeah and what if you loose the passport? Is all your information lost then? That wouldn't be acceptable. So your solution sounds nice, but will never be implemented.
You can record stories told by the person who will die in the near future, and you may as well record stories told by relatives about that person. That makes the picture more complete. While relatives (kids, sisters and brothers, friends etc) are still alive, memories will fade for them as well.
...but I sometimes forget where I put it.
Just use facebook, and nothing will ever get lost, even your login.
BrainFuck.Net FTW.
You're welcome.
When will Visual BrainFuck be released?
Frankly, this whole discussion is moot. -404F isn't any more or less informative to most people than -242C. They're both "really really fucking cold".
The only useful unit for temperatures that low is K.
It seems the only thing missing here is u. FCK!
With all the power of the internets, the article can't give us more than a thumbnail of this robot.
You want some real robot pron, go to engadget:
http://www.engadget.com/photos/nasa-and-gms-robonaut2/2677799/#2677802
When I open that page, it disappears in a second, so here's the direct url to the picture:
Robonaut 2