I really don't think this will cause a great deal of interference in 2.4 GHz. It's for a sensor network that uses low data rates, plus the 802.15.4 standard is meant to create a PAN, so it's reach isn't likely to be that far.
What we did to arrive at that number was to simply measure the amount of change over the two-year period in BitKeeper and contrast that with the two-year period before BitKeeper. It worked out to about 2.5x more change.
I'm no mathematician but I'd say that's a decent way of estimating their productivity increase. But does BitKeeper actually help that much? Anyone who has every used it in a production environment please comment.
Linus is processing around 50 patches a day, 365 days a year.
That's a pretty incredible number. If that's the truth, then I'm very impressed.
It's a pretty fascinating experiment, although it seems like a lot of money to spend just for testing his theory. I think that recent missions to mars were a bit more interesting.
That's a pretty in-depth study, with over 1,000,000 scans, makes the results fairly strong. It's good to see all this combatting of spyware.
It really doesn't surprise me to hear that the average computer has 27.8 instances of spyware on it. Most users have no idea what they're doing; I constantly remove that kind of junk from my family's computers.
Earthlink has been doing a good job of fighting spam and spyware on the internet. I think it's a valiant effort.
But the groundbreaking case is also raising questions about the privacy of Canada's drivers, millions of whom have no idea that their cars may be equipped with devices that record data that might later be used in court against them.
Well I think they all just need to check their manuals and see if there's one in their car. Either way, who cares; you shouldn't be going insanely out of control in the car anyway, and if you cause an accident, take some responisibility for it.
...less than a week before the third anniversary of his smashing into another vehicle at more than three times the speed limit.
How did it take them three years to figure that out? Wasn't the data right there in their hands?
With the addition of VoIP support, these mesh networks can now compete with the telcos on voice as well as data services.
I would have to disagree with that comment. Yes, these networks can now provide voice services, but they cannot effectively compete. In reality, wireless VoIP is still being developed and will most likely not be of acceptable quality for another year or so. Mainly, latency is the biggest issue to be conquered at this time. I think until they are able to reduce latency times significantly in these applications, it won't be widely accepted. It's just too frustrating when theres a couple seconds in between speaking and hearing a response from the other person.
Furthermore, while a mesh network can still carry a high data rate, the high number of hops to a wired connection from some locations along the network could make talking over VoIP rather unbearable. I imagine that on a larger mesh network you could experience latency upwards of 1000 ms.
That left the way open for Microsoft to chase the company all over the world's courts and effectively knock it out of business with huge legal costs.
This sheds some light on the real reason that they changed their name. I doubt there's a single company that could handle being dragged through the world's courts by Microsoft, let alone a small one like them.
This led to the daft situation where Lindows renamed itself Lin---s, complete with new website. Microsoft, unbowed, then incredibly claimed that Lin---s was its trademark as well.
This one just makes me say wow... Microsoft actually thingks they can claim the rights to "Lin---s"? Talk about power hungry.
Also, if they have changed their name and everything, then why does www.linspire.com have "LindowsOS" plastered all over the place? I guess it will take them a while to implement the actual name change.
Well, the technology is called DSRC, which is a form of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification). DSRC uses radio frequencies to collect the data, which could be considered the identification part of the process. Either way, it's a network of sensors which pick up data from transmitters--RFID.
And yes, I read the article--I posted the damn thing.
Can you even begin to think about the privacy implications of something like this? I know that I will never buy a car with RFID tracking capabilities built into it! What happens when the government agencies that don't care so much about your rights--CIA, FBI, NSA, police, whatever--decide that this system can be very useful for them? There's a million things that could go wrong
"WhenU's software, one of the apparent targets of the act, is installed only with user consent, and does not invade the privacy of computer users..."
I'm not familiar with WhenU's software, but I find this hard to believe. Can this statement be defined with the same style of deceit that seems to encompass adware companies? Anyone who knows of their spyware's habbit's please shed some light on this.
The law also curbs pop-up advertising on the Internet and calls for penalties of $10,000 per violation.
That's quite significant for a pop-up, don't you think? I mean I'm 100% against that kind of advertising, but $10000 seems incredibly steep.
"The power of innovation in the open-source community is unparalleled," says Chris Pratt, manager of IBM Canada's Internet server business. "You've got thousands of people working on this thing for no other reason than to produce the best quality product. If you look at what they've been able to produce up until now, imagine how it's going to go forward."
This guy couldn't have put it any better. It's the reason Linux will continue to grow and have deeper market pennetration over the next few years.
It's good to see that more and more people are recognizing the power of Linux, especially when it comes to a server OS. It's very powerful, modular, and best of all... it's free.
Nokia's Patent Department is collecting signatures from CTOs for this letter in support the "working document" of the EU Council "Working Party on Intellectual Property", a group of patent administrators who run the European Patent Office. The letter portrays this document as a "balanced compromise" which "takes the Parliament's concerns into account" and says that this is needed in order to assure that electric household applicances, medical technology etc do not become unpatentable. Thereby the letter drafters deceive both their signatories (CTOs who usually do not read the directive proposals) as well as their readers.
It disturbs me to see Nokia taking taking the role that they have been. Their statements seem to be quite misleading, and it is clear that they will have significant gain from software patents. With all the heat they've been getting lately, you would think that they might try to take it easy on such controversial issues. Either way, I am fully against software patents.
I think that the claim has very little validity. I think the truth is that it "becomes more vulnerable" when the average user is less educated about security issues.
Making Linux more user friendly, in my mind, means improving upon the features that revolve around the GUI. The great thing about Linux is how much you can customize it; you can strip away the GUI and have a powerful production-level server environment. This is different from Microsoft products, as the ease of usability encompases the operating system.
Linux is much more "modular", in that you can build exactly what you want; an installation could take up anywhere from a few megs to a few gigs. The security and vulnerability lies in the end user.
The outside of this 6-foot solar umbrella will rise to 680F (360C), while its special insulating properties will keep its inside surface below 212F (100C) - and the spacecraft operating at room temperature.
How can you keep the spacecraft at room temperature if everything around it is at least 212F? I need to get some of those fans for my computer.
I think the issue is pretty straightforward, and if their service is interfering with emergency bands then it needs to be reallocated. The good question is, what's fair for them afterwards? It doesn't seem like such a move should put them out of business, but some are trying to do so.
Once again, another example of why open source is the way to go. Think about how many websites out there wouldn't be the way they are without open source, and how many businesses rely on it.
I have no firsthand experience with Plone but would be curious to hear more about it.
I believe that being able to build on top of open source software is one of the best parts about it. Customizing an open source project, in my mind, doesn't make it a proprietary or closed source project by any means.
"Open Source is actually more secure than closed source proprietary software because the oversight of technology content is broader and deeper. Instead of just one company monitoring its own contributions -- or potentially hiding security holes and exploits -- a worldwide community of interested parties actually oversees Linux to make it strong and secure. That's why the NSA -- the most security-conscious organization in the world -- chose to standardize on Linux, and even supplies its own version of secure Linux."
Can't put it much better than that. When you have the contribution of the entire open source development community, so much knowledge and experience comes to the table that it's difficult for any one group of programmers to compete.
"On the other hand, the cancellation underscores the difficulties Sun has been facing in the difficult world of chipmaking."
Doesn't that just say it all?
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I really don't think this will cause a great deal of interference in 2.4 GHz. It's for a sensor network that uses low data rates, plus the 802.15.4 standard is meant to create a PAN, so it's reach isn't likely to be that far.
What we did to arrive at that number was to simply measure the amount of change over the two-year period in BitKeeper and contrast that with the two-year period before BitKeeper. It worked out to about 2.5x more change.
I'm no mathematician but I'd say that's a decent way of estimating their productivity increase. But does BitKeeper actually help that much? Anyone who has every used it in a production environment please comment.
Linus is processing around 50 patches a day, 365 days a year.
That's a pretty incredible number. If that's the truth, then I'm very impressed.
If you give me an AP name I can check my logs.
It's a pretty fascinating experiment, although it seems like a lot of money to spend just for testing his theory. I think that recent missions to mars were a bit more interesting.
Stanford has a great overview of the mission. It's in pdf format.
That's a pretty in-depth study, with over 1,000,000 scans, makes the results fairly strong. It's good to see all this combatting of spyware.
It really doesn't surprise me to hear that the average computer has 27.8 instances of spyware on it. Most users have no idea what they're doing; I constantly remove that kind of junk from my family's computers.
Earthlink has been doing a good job of fighting spam and spyware on the internet. I think it's a valiant effort.
But the groundbreaking case is also raising questions about the privacy of Canada's drivers, millions of whom have no idea that their cars may be equipped with devices that record data that might later be used in court against them.
...less than a week before the third anniversary of his smashing into another vehicle at more than three times the speed limit.
Well I think they all just need to check their manuals and see if there's one in their car. Either way, who cares; you shouldn't be going insanely out of control in the car anyway, and if you cause an accident, take some responisibility for it.
How did it take them three years to figure that out? Wasn't the data right there in their hands?
With the addition of VoIP support, these mesh networks can now compete with the telcos on voice as well as data services.
I would have to disagree with that comment. Yes, these networks can now provide voice services, but they cannot effectively compete. In reality, wireless VoIP is still being developed and will most likely not be of acceptable quality for another year or so. Mainly, latency is the biggest issue to be conquered at this time. I think until they are able to reduce latency times significantly in these applications, it won't be widely accepted. It's just too frustrating when theres a couple seconds in between speaking and hearing a response from the other person.
Furthermore, while a mesh network can still carry a high data rate, the high number of hops to a wired connection from some locations along the network could make talking over VoIP rather unbearable. I imagine that on a larger mesh network you could experience latency upwards of 1000 ms.
That left the way open for Microsoft to chase the company all over the world's courts and effectively knock it out of business with huge legal costs.
This sheds some light on the real reason that they changed their name. I doubt there's a single company that could handle being dragged through the world's courts by Microsoft, let alone a small one like them.
This led to the daft situation where Lindows renamed itself Lin---s, complete with new website. Microsoft, unbowed, then incredibly claimed that Lin---s was its trademark as well.
This one just makes me say wow... Microsoft actually thingks they can claim the rights to "Lin---s"? Talk about power hungry.
Also, if they have changed their name and everything, then why does www.linspire.com have "LindowsOS" plastered all over the place? I guess it will take them a while to implement the actual name change.
Well, the technology is called DSRC, which is a form of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification). DSRC uses radio frequencies to collect the data, which could be considered the identification part of the process. Either way, it's a network of sensors which pick up data from transmitters--RFID.
And yes, I read the article--I posted the damn thing.
Can you even begin to think about the privacy implications of something like this? I know that I will never buy a car with RFID tracking capabilities built into it! What happens when the government agencies that don't care so much about your rights--CIA, FBI, NSA, police, whatever--decide that this system can be very useful for them? There's a million things that could go wrong
This is the article that I originally posted to slashdot.
"WhenU's software, one of the apparent targets of the act, is installed only with user consent, and does not invade the privacy of computer users..."
I'm not familiar with WhenU's software, but I find this hard to believe. Can this statement be defined with the same style of deceit that seems to encompass adware companies? Anyone who knows of their spyware's habbit's please shed some light on this.
The law also curbs pop-up advertising on the Internet and calls for penalties of $10,000 per violation.
That's quite significant for a pop-up, don't you think? I mean I'm 100% against that kind of advertising, but $10000 seems incredibly steep.
"The power of innovation in the open-source community is unparalleled," says Chris Pratt, manager of IBM Canada's Internet server business. "You've got thousands of people working on this thing for no other reason than to produce the best quality product. If you look at what they've been able to produce up until now, imagine how it's going to go forward."
This guy couldn't have put it any better. It's the reason Linux will continue to grow and have deeper market pennetration over the next few years.
It's good to see that more and more people are recognizing the power of Linux, especially when it comes to a server OS. It's very powerful, modular, and best of all... it's free.
From this link:
Nokia's Patent Department is collecting signatures from CTOs for this letter in support the "working document" of the EU Council "Working Party on Intellectual Property", a group of patent administrators who run the European Patent Office. The letter portrays this document as a "balanced compromise" which "takes the Parliament's concerns into account" and says that this is needed in order to assure that electric household applicances, medical technology etc do not become unpatentable. Thereby the letter drafters deceive both their signatories (CTOs who usually do not read the directive proposals) as well as their readers.
It disturbs me to see Nokia taking taking the role that they have been. Their statements seem to be quite misleading, and it is clear that they will have significant gain from software patents. With all the heat they've been getting lately, you would think that they might try to take it easy on such controversial issues. Either way, I am fully against software patents.
I think that the claim has very little validity. I think the truth is that it "becomes more vulnerable" when the average user is less educated about security issues.
Making Linux more user friendly, in my mind, means improving upon the features that revolve around the GUI. The great thing about Linux is how much you can customize it; you can strip away the GUI and have a powerful production-level server environment. This is different from Microsoft products, as the ease of usability encompases the operating system.
Linux is much more "modular", in that you can build exactly what you want; an installation could take up anywhere from a few megs to a few gigs. The security and vulnerability lies in the end user.
The experts advised people not to click on strange attachments in e-mail, which can activate the worm...
Of course, until you can teach people to be intelligent, these types of viruses will continue to circulate through the net.
The outside of this 6-foot solar umbrella will rise to 680F (360C), while its special insulating properties will keep its inside surface below 212F (100C) - and the spacecraft operating at room temperature.
How can you keep the spacecraft at room temperature if everything around it is at least 212F? I need to get some of those fans for my computer.
I think the issue is pretty straightforward, and if their service is interfering with emergency bands then it needs to be reallocated. The good question is, what's fair for them afterwards? It doesn't seem like such a move should put them out of business, but some are trying to do so.
The FCC couldn't make up their minds at the last meeting, will things change at the next? I have a feeling this could get pushed around for a while.
Or unless I support slashdot by subscribing, my friend.
I was merely trying to point out that after the previous article was somewhat derrogatory towards open source and linux, this one was a good review.
Once again, another example of why open source is the way to go. Think about how many websites out there wouldn't be the way they are without open source, and how many businesses rely on it.
I have no firsthand experience with Plone but would be curious to hear more about it.
I believe that being able to build on top of open source software is one of the best parts about it. Customizing an open source project, in my mind, doesn't make it a proprietary or closed source project by any means.
It is not too difficult to build your own customized OS based off Linux, even using Red Hat (Although it wouldn't be my choice of distributions to start with).
"Open Source is actually more secure than closed source proprietary software because the oversight of technology content is broader and deeper. Instead of just one company monitoring its own contributions -- or potentially hiding security holes and exploits -- a worldwide community of interested parties actually oversees Linux to make it strong and secure. That's why the NSA -- the most security-conscious organization in the world -- chose to standardize on Linux, and even supplies its own version of secure Linux."
Can't put it much better than that. When you have the contribution of the entire open source development community, so much knowledge and experience comes to the table that it's difficult for any one group of programmers to compete.
There's no way in hell I'd support that company. I can't even count how many times I've taken that crap off of my family's computers.
"On the other hand, the cancellation underscores the difficulties Sun has been facing in the difficult world of chipmaking."
Doesn't that just say it all?
how can you respond to an incident? It just goes to show the need for multiple monitoring systems in mission critical systems.