Actually the way I understood it was 1200bps was 2 channels of 600baud, while 2400bps was 4 channels of 600baud. The total baud is still 2400 even though it is 4 channels of 600 baud.
And actually, no, you don't understand it. There are no channels involved and baud and bps are still not synonymous. Baud is a measure of signalling speed. v.22 and v.22bis modems signal 600 times per second. That's 600 baud. Simplifying a bit, with a v.22 modem the signal has 4 possible states, each of which represents two bits, called a dibit. 00, 01, 10 and 11. 2 bits per baud or 1200 bps. Total baud? Still 600.
I call nitpicking. Just retrosubstitute "total baud" for all past occurrences of "baud" so you can go away.
Do you call dibsies and shotgun too?;-) Substituting total baud for baud in your original message would make it larger but no less incorrect.
Actually - there were 1200 baud modems. V22bis (2400 bps, 1200 baud - i.e. 2 bits per baud) was mainstream for at least 3 or 4 years. Indeed, I ran my FidoNet node with one.
No, V.22bis is 600 baud with Quadrature Amplitude Modulation, 4 bits per baud, to get 2400 bps.
Yeah, I should have qualified that. There were none in the apparent context of the documentary, the BBS scene in the US. At least none in use to which a single participant could point when the topic was hashed and rehashed in the echos of FidoNet, CircuitNet, WildNet, et al...
It'd be fun to watch for the nostalgia value. Hordes of 80's greasy, long haired geeks with huge glasses (myself included:)) freaking out about how much faster 1200 baud is over the old 110/300.
That's a tired and inaccurate stereotype. And there were no 1200 baud modems, just 300 baud modems that many users incorrectly identified as such because they thought bit rate and baud rate synonymous. But I've been interrupted while posting this so there are likely twenty posts pointing that out already, eh?;-)
The only thing I really miss about the BBS days is hobbyist network messaging. FidoNet netmail and echomail had a far better signal to noise ratio -and probably still do- than anything I've yet seen on the 'net.
In unrelated news, a recent survey of scientists reveals that most believe that the sun is still pretty darned hot. "You wouldn't want that puppy in your pants" said one source who wished not to be identified. Moon worshipers worldwide were quick to point out that the sun survey was commissioned by sun worshipers. One source, who wished not to be identified, said "Sure the sun makes a pretty good sun, but it would make a lousy moon, but those sun fanboys fail to point that out." Both sides of this hot debate agreed that you needn't fresh or original content to get a bunch of page hits, you can simply rehash something on slashdot.
audio/video input: the RJ-45 jack on the back. 1. acquire video media in divx format via bittorrent 2. ftp it to your xbox HD or stream it over the network from a samba share onto your tv screen 3. profit?
Uh huh. And when your audio and video signals are live and on location, you do what? Whatever your proposed solution, it's versus 'plug it in' for the Sony box. Plus there's no quick mod to duplicate the functionality. After your initial mod you'd have to install, configure and test a number of applications, then create, or install and configure and customize something to tie them all together. Your modified Xbox solution is taking what you saved upfront and spending it on labor to support operation...
An earlier article on Slashdot mentioned that Hyper-Threading, as currently implemented on Intel Pentium Extreme Edition, Pentium 4, Mobile Pentium 4, and Xeon processors, suffers from a serious security flaw. Since the security flaw is in the processor then isn't this also a Windows issue? If not, why not? If so, what do the folks at Microsoft think of the issue? Are they reacting to it more like Colin or Linus? How Microsoft's treatment of this issue could provide some meaningful perspective here.
In recent years, he has become a professional internet Troll. He knows that he can get a lot of page views by saying things to inflame passionate groups (Mac users, OpenSource advocated, etc.) and he does so at every opportunity.
I doubt passion has anything to do with his choosing his targets. I think it's simply that, like a schoolyard bully, he picks targets he can attack with impunity. Have you seen him pick a fight he might conceivably lose, or take a stand that involved risk? I'm not sure he's a troll as much as just the Dr Phil of the PC/Windows world. He says just what his audience wants to hear, taking shots at all the right bad guys along the way, but in a way that makes it seem like he's dishing out precious advice. He helps his audience feel good about doing what they were going to do anyway. But hey, it's a sweet gig if you can get it.;-)
My advice for you is the same as with any other Troll: Do Not Feed.
LOL, this is a health issue. We don't want kids getting drunk and turning into alcoholics. Most banks and currency exchanges sell credit cards. All a kid needs to do is buy a credit card, they will sell them to anyone
I don't think so. Most, if not all states do not allow minors to enter into a contract without the additional signatures of their parents or legal guardians, and consider minors to be anyone under 18. What company will hand you a credit card without a legally binding contract?
Seriously...where's the evidence here? This guy just throws out this outlandishly wild conjecture, and has absolutely dick to back it up.
There isn't any evidence. And apparently blogs have been promoted to gospel. In other news, Rush Limbaugh might marry Michael Jackson, Usama Bin Laden might apply for US citizenship and Bill Gates might give all his money to charity and become a Buddhist monk. Yeah. Sure. I'd go with your LSD theory.
How about an analogy that doesn't involve a gun to the face?
You sneak into your neighbor's fenced and gated backyard and, through a window only visible from the backyard, watch her undress without her knowledge or consent.
Well yeah, that's what we've always called them. But hey... let's all meet at davidesh's house when he's not home, break in, rifle through his personal belongings, copy pages from his journal, etc., then leave secure in the knowledge that he won't press charges because he believes such things are victimless crimes. Or let's not, because we know he'll change his tune the moment he's the target of his 'victimless crime.'
I suspect fuzzing a running program probably leads to finding more security holes than looking at source code.
Let's assume you are correct in that more security holes are found by fuzzing a running program than by looking at source code. That is conceding that some security holes are found by looking at source code. The source code for Firefox is freely available. The source code for IE is not. It follows that of the total number of vulnerabilities found, the percentage found by people looking at source code is higher for Firefox than for IE. So all things are not equal and it does not logically follow that the percentage of Firefox vulnerabilities discovered should equal its usage share. Or in other words, you agree. You could have just said so.;-)
Well, you have to consider also that, Internet Explorer having somewhere in the range of 90% market share as opposed to under 7% market share for Mozilla, about 13 times as many vulnerabilities would logically be found...
Logically found? That's assuming all other things are equal, such as level of difficulty for discovering vulnerabilities in each. Clearly this is not the case. You can't go to the Internet Explorer home page and download its source code.
"LATELY" not FOREVER. The rise of Firefoxs popularity has seen the increase of exploits and vulns. Read, dont translate.
You'd do well to take your own advice. The author wrote of taking the spotlight off all the Firefox exploits lately, implying there have been more for Firefox than Internet Explorer. For what period has that been true?
...in an attempt to take the spotlight off all of the Firefox exploits lately.
ALL of the Firefox exploits lately? In the last two years there have been 17 reported Firefox vulnerabilities and 81 reported Internet Explorer vulnerabilities. The browser with the most recent, critical vulnerability is Internet Explorer. Do tell, where does the spotlight belong?
Actually, there are still a few isolated groups of humans living in the world today - the two that immediately come to mind are the bushmen and pygmies of Africa.
Explore Survival International and the like to discover that no, the Bushmen and the Pygmies are not isolated.
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Actually the way I understood it was 1200bps was 2 channels of 600baud, while 2400bps was 4 channels of 600baud. The total baud is still 2400 even though it is 4 channels of 600 baud.
And actually, no, you don't understand it. There are no channels involved and baud and bps are still not synonymous. Baud is a measure of signalling speed. v.22 and v.22bis modems signal 600 times per second. That's 600 baud. Simplifying a bit, with a v.22 modem the signal has 4 possible states, each of which represents two bits, called a dibit. 00, 01, 10 and 11. 2 bits per baud or 1200 bps. Total baud? Still 600.
I call nitpicking. Just retrosubstitute "total baud" for all past occurrences of "baud" so you can go away.
Do you call dibsies and shotgun too? ;-) Substituting total baud for baud in your original message would make it larger but no less incorrect.
Baud and bps aren't synonymous.
v.22: 600 baud signalling rate, Differential Phase Shift Keying modulation technique, 2 bits per baud, 1200 bps.
v.22bis: 600 baud, Quadrature Amplitude Modulation, 4 bits per baud, 2400 bps.
You might do well to read carefully and take a few deep breaths before you post.
Actually - there were 1200 baud modems. V22bis (2400 bps, 1200 baud - i.e. 2 bits per baud) was mainstream for at least 3 or 4 years. Indeed, I ran my FidoNet node with one.
No, V.22bis is 600 baud with Quadrature Amplitude Modulation, 4 bits per baud, to get 2400 bps.
Yeah, I should have qualified that. There were none in the apparent context of the documentary, the BBS scene in the US. At least none in use to which a single participant could point when the topic was hashed and rehashed in the echos of FidoNet, CircuitNet, WildNet, et al...
You've just got to start a reply before logging in to see it.
It'd be fun to watch for the nostalgia value. Hordes of 80's greasy, long haired geeks with huge glasses (myself included :)) freaking out about how much faster 1200 baud is over the old 110/300.
That's a tired and inaccurate stereotype. And there were no 1200 baud modems, just 300 baud modems that many users incorrectly identified as such because they thought bit rate and baud rate synonymous. But I've been interrupted while posting this so there are likely twenty posts pointing that out already, eh? ;-)
The only thing I really miss about the BBS days is hobbyist network messaging. FidoNet netmail and echomail had a far better signal to noise ratio -and probably still do- than anything I've yet seen on the 'net.
In unrelated news, a recent survey of scientists reveals that most believe that the sun is still pretty darned hot. "You wouldn't want that puppy in your pants" said one source who wished not to be identified. Moon worshipers worldwide were quick to point out that the sun survey was commissioned by sun worshipers. One source, who wished not to be identified, said "Sure the sun makes a pretty good sun, but it would make a lousy moon, but those sun fanboys fail to point that out." Both sides of this hot debate agreed that you needn't fresh or original content to get a bunch of page hits, you can simply rehash something on slashdot.
What's changed since this same report was discussed last month?
Unfortunately, nothing here as the editors are still letting rewrites and reposts through as news.
audio/video input: the RJ-45 jack on the back. 1. acquire video media in divx format via bittorrent 2. ftp it to your xbox HD or stream it over the network from a samba share onto your tv screen 3. profit?
Uh huh. And when your audio and video signals are live and on location, you do what? Whatever your proposed solution, it's versus 'plug it in' for the Sony box. Plus there's no quick mod to duplicate the functionality. After your initial mod you'd have to install, configure and test a number of applications, then create, or install and configure and customize something to tie them all together. Your modified Xbox solution is taking what you saved upfront and spending it on labor to support operation...
An earlier article on Slashdot mentioned that Hyper-Threading, as currently implemented on Intel Pentium Extreme Edition, Pentium 4, Mobile Pentium 4, and Xeon processors, suffers from a serious security flaw. Since the security flaw is in the processor then isn't this also a Windows issue? If not, why not? If so, what do the folks at Microsoft think of the issue? Are they reacting to it more like Colin or Linus? How Microsoft's treatment of this issue could provide some meaningful perspective here.
Got the Xbox out. Looking at it. Flipping through the manual. Where are the audio and video inputs? You were saying...???
In recent years, he has become a professional internet Troll. He knows that he can get a lot of page views by saying things to inflame passionate groups (Mac users, OpenSource advocated, etc.) and he does so at every opportunity.
I doubt passion has anything to do with his choosing his targets. I think it's simply that, like a schoolyard bully, he picks targets he can attack with impunity. Have you seen him pick a fight he might conceivably lose, or take a stand that involved risk? I'm not sure he's a troll as much as just the Dr Phil of the PC/Windows world. He says just what his audience wants to hear, taking shots at all the right bad guys along the way, but in a way that makes it seem like he's dishing out precious advice. He helps his audience feel good about doing what they were going to do anyway. But hey, it's a sweet gig if you can get it. ;-)
My advice for you is the same as with any other Troll: Do Not Feed.
Absolutely. Amen.
LOL, this is a health issue. We don't want kids getting drunk and turning into alcoholics. Most banks and currency exchanges sell credit cards. All a kid needs to do is buy a credit card, they will sell them to anyone
I don't think so. Most, if not all states do not allow minors to enter into a contract without the additional signatures of their parents or legal guardians, and consider minors to be anyone under 18. What company will hand you a credit card without a legally binding contract?
Ah ha! Thanks. I thought I recognized that guy's name, and his wild fligts of fancy.
Seriously...where's the evidence here? This guy just throws out this outlandishly wild conjecture, and has absolutely dick to back it up.
There isn't any evidence. And apparently blogs have been promoted to gospel. In other news, Rush Limbaugh might marry Michael Jackson, Usama Bin Laden might apply for US citizenship and Bill Gates might give all his money to charity and become a Buddhist monk. Yeah. Sure. I'd go with your LSD theory.
The Richter scale starts at zero and has no defined upper limit, although there's a practical limit. 3.5-8 is the What Gets Reported scale. ;-)
Oops. I meant kenshin30's house. Sorry about that. Too many hours, not enough coffee....
If you copy some SSNs, you are depriving no one of anything.
So put up or shut up, in support of your argument; post your real name and your SSN.
Stealing an SSN is depriving someone of peace of mind. What's the value of that?
How about an analogy that doesn't involve a gun to the face?
You sneak into your neighbor's fenced and gated backyard and, through a window only visible from the backyard, watch her undress without her knowledge or consent.
lol that was great... you mean CRIMINALS
Well yeah, that's what we've always called them. But hey... let's all meet at davidesh's house when he's not home, break in, rifle through his personal belongings, copy pages from his journal, etc., then leave secure in the knowledge that he won't press charges because he believes such things are victimless crimes. Or let's not, because we know he'll change his tune the moment he's the target of his 'victimless crime.'
I suspect fuzzing a running program probably leads to finding more security holes than looking at source code.
Let's assume you are correct in that more security holes are found by fuzzing a running program than by looking at source code. That is conceding that some security holes are found by looking at source code. The source code for Firefox is freely available. The source code for IE is not. It follows that of the total number of vulnerabilities found, the percentage found by people looking at source code is higher for Firefox than for IE. So all things are not equal and it does not logically follow that the percentage of Firefox vulnerabilities discovered should equal its usage share. Or in other words, you agree. You could have just said so. ;-)
Well, you have to consider also that, Internet Explorer having somewhere in the range of 90% market share as opposed to under 7% market share for Mozilla, about 13 times as many vulnerabilities would logically be found...
Logically found? That's assuming all other things are equal, such as level of difficulty for discovering vulnerabilities in each. Clearly this is not the case. You can't go to the Internet Explorer home page and download its source code.
"LATELY" not FOREVER. The rise of Firefoxs popularity has seen the increase of exploits and vulns. Read, dont translate.
You'd do well to take your own advice. The author wrote of taking the spotlight off all the Firefox exploits lately, implying there have been more for Firefox than Internet Explorer. For what period has that been true?
ALL of the Firefox exploits lately? In the last two years there have been 17 reported Firefox vulnerabilities and 81 reported Internet Explorer vulnerabilities. The browser with the most recent, critical vulnerability is Internet Explorer. Do tell, where does the spotlight belong?
Actually, there are still a few isolated groups of humans living in the world today - the two that immediately come to mind are the bushmen and pygmies of Africa.
Explore Survival International and the like to discover that no, the Bushmen and the Pygmies are not isolated.