You know, I don't fully understand the attack. If this is like a windows exploit then we're all in for it. If on the other hand it's like a linux issue: If you're local, have this obscure package installed, stand on your head and swallow a glass of water you can become root, then I'm not nearly as worried. Still needs to be fixed, but much less worried. -nB
I'm just glad the report said don't go on a witch hunt. It was no individuals fault, everyone was lax. Why does a copy repair man need to plug into your network? Sure, a crossover cable to the copier, but that's it. -nB
Might this not be a good thing in disguise? They charge a piracy tax, so we pirate. They sue, we move to dismiss: "We've already paid for the licence to do this your honour"
On a smaller scale I do something similar. I and my brother both have a repository of our DVD collection on PC transcoded to MP4. We also have a VPN bridge between our LANs. Our XBMC players can see movies on either LAN and play them as if local, though there is no actual copy at any TV. It's really cool, though somewhat limited. Sometimes we can see hiccups when watching a video remotely, Vs on the local LAN segment, but for the most part there is no issue. We could up the buffering level to deal with QOS levels, but then you'd have to wait 5 minutes for the movie to start. -nB
No, but it would need one ass of a heatsink. Assuming they doubled current efficiency (~15%) pumping -200C means the hot side is going to be damn hot. If room temp was at 0C (to make things easy) -200c means the hot side is at +200C +70% or: 340C
and efficiencies rapidly roll off below -50C, also these devices usually can only pump a delta of about 30-60C -nB
Not to degrade this into a flamewar, but my initial commentary was about HS, and how I can fully understand how people choose to drop out, not about how I thought it was a superior route to go. Also, while I used myself as a demonstration point, I understand that I am not the norm. Finally, that last bit feels ad hominum (it's not, I know, but hey it feels like you're calling me stupid along with everyone else you generalize as a HS dropout).
I would love nothing more than to go back to school and get my degree, if for nothing more than a personal achievement. I've taken most math classes I'd need for a BSEE and BSCE (which incidentally is the pair of degrees I want), and have likely taken all the other topical coursework, all on my own (Loving MIT's open coursework:-). My issue with college was a simple matter of funding, and still is. At the moment I am gainfully employed and paying for my spouse to complete her masters (and PHD if desired). After she is in the workforce and settled into a job, I'll be going back to school, but until then I am not leaching off society, I am paying the way for my family and self. -nB
I'll skip the debate, but I'm fairly certain that at least a couple people are using their 20% on an OSS OS project. Frankly I think Google should support Ubuntu or some other ultra friendly distro for their desktop OS should they ever do it. -nB
Aced nearly every damn test I ever took ('cept science and arts, never missed a single question on chemistry tests).
Anyway, the poor grades and such were related to te complete lack of motivation to succeed. I literally had no reason to do well. As long as you were there you got a D, and as we all know from learing our alphabet "D is for diploma" -nB
Just for the record, I did not drop out. Most of my class did, and my 1.9 GPA was "good enough". I pride myself on two traits: I can teach myself almost and subject from self-research and the purchase of a few choice text books. I am lazy. That second one got me a promotion. I wrote a suite of perl scripts to automate a series of tasks that used to be manual (take a register map from the spec and but it into the debug tape; take a bond pad list and port it to a pin assignment on the tester; take a VS6 makefile and do all the compiling for all operation modes (4), extract the requisite bits for the help file (from source based commenting) and upload the whole mess both to a disti server and update a webpage) These three tasks accounted for almost 15 man-days. I reduced that to a grand total of 4 hours. That whole "WTF? why do it that way when this way is less error prone and easier?" attitude has made my bos (and two more bosses up) very happy, not to mention gotten me name recognition in several other departments.
If you don't want me to work for you, that is fine. I only failed to rapidly advance to a level where the pay was what I wanted once... Selling cars. -nB
I'm married to my high school sweetie, we have two kids. That above is my complete summation of everything good from my HS experience. 12 years since graduation and I've flirted with college, work for a major semiconductor company in R&D and am overall happy. The wife is a stay at home mom, polishing her masters degree in the next year and a half, with a plethora of other degrees in her wake (4 AS/AA, 2 BS).
Why drop out of high school? Because you can teach yourself better. The classes are taught to the lowest common denominator. That means that the bright kids who are not quite bright (or lucky) enough for AP classes get shafted. It's mind numbing and detrimental. My grades sucked because I was bored to tears with my classes. Had our school system taught to grade levels commensurate with Japan or Germany I would have had good grades because I would have been engaged. I don't care if half the class fails every grade, we need to step up our expectations of everyone. Race? BS!, Family status? BS! Income? BS! I understand there are a handful of exceptions to each of the above, but tough, life is not fair, the sooner that lesson is taught the better. I'm willing to bet that in only one generation the USA would be back on top in the education field if "tough love" were implemented in grading.
-nB on a side note, I knew no-one at my 10 year reunion. WTF? People knew me, but I was so dis-engaged from school I was like "Who are you? Oh! wonderful (still don't have a clue) Uh Huh:-) (got nothing, oh well) Ok Bye now, see you later."
To get products back, you have to get them through the atmosphere, and at a very high speed. Wouldn't protective systems have a negative economic impact on the profits?
A parachute and properly perpendicular angle should work nicely for lots of stuff. Besides people will pay the added cost burden if the material can't be fabricated on earth and has great enough value;) -nB
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Thing is, depending on whether or not the machine prints a human readable output only then it could be made to lie on the paper record as well.
-nB
You know, I don't fully understand the attack.
If this is like a windows exploit then we're all in for it.
If on the other hand it's like a linux issue: If you're local, have this obscure package installed, stand on your head and swallow a glass of water you can become root, then I'm not nearly as worried. Still needs to be fixed, but much less worried.
-nB
mod parent as most insightful comment of all time.
I'm just glad the report said don't go on a witch hunt. It was no individuals fault, everyone was lax.
Why does a copy repair man need to plug into your network? Sure, a crossover cable to the copier, but that's it.
-nB
MM is 2000, at least in roman notation :-)
-nB
Another nod to knoppix here, followed by the Auditor variant (most excellent to turn the work issued notebook into a, well, auditor :-)
-nB
Might this not be a good thing in disguise?
They charge a piracy tax, so we pirate.
They sue, we move to dismiss: "We've already paid for the licence to do this your honour"
-nB
"I'm liking vhs/dvd's much more now than ever. (until I can build a silent mythtv box anyway)"
modified Xbox with XBMC does nicely for a front-end. Not too noisy, either.
-nB
On a smaller scale I do something similar.
I and my brother both have a repository of our DVD collection on PC transcoded to MP4.
We also have a VPN bridge between our LANs. Our XBMC players can see movies on either LAN and play them as if local, though there is no actual copy at any TV. It's really cool, though somewhat limited. Sometimes we can see hiccups when watching a video remotely, Vs on the local LAN segment, but for the most part there is no issue. We could up the buffering level to deal with QOS levels, but then you'd have to wait 5 minutes for the movie to start.
-nB
No, but it would need one ass of a heatsink.
Assuming they doubled current efficiency (~15%)
pumping -200C means the hot side is going to be damn hot.
If room temp was at 0C (to make things easy)
-200c means the hot side is at +200C +70% or: 340C
and efficiencies rapidly roll off below -50C, also these devices usually can only pump a delta of about 30-60C
-nB
One of which does not include going to jail, so it's already one up on speed.
-nB
Not to degrade this into a flamewar, but my initial commentary was about HS, and how I can fully understand how people choose to drop out, not about how I thought it was a superior route to go. Also, while I used myself as a demonstration point, I understand that I am not the norm. Finally, that last bit feels ad hominum (it's not, I know, but hey it feels like you're calling me stupid along with everyone else you generalize as a HS dropout).
:-). My issue with college was a simple matter of funding, and still is. At the moment I am gainfully employed and paying for my spouse to complete her masters (and PHD if desired). After she is in the workforce and settled into a job, I'll be going back to school, but until then I am not leaching off society, I am paying the way for my family and self.
I would love nothing more than to go back to school and get my degree, if for nothing more than a personal achievement. I've taken most math classes I'd need for a BSEE and BSCE (which incidentally is the pair of degrees I want), and have likely taken all the other topical coursework, all on my own (Loving MIT's open coursework
-nB
I'll skip the debate, but I'm fairly certain that at least a couple people are using their 20% on an OSS OS project. Frankly I think Google should support Ubuntu or some other ultra friendly distro for their desktop OS should they ever do it.
-nB
Aced nearly every damn test I ever took ('cept science and arts, never missed a single question on chemistry tests).
Anyway, the poor grades and such were related to te complete lack of motivation to succeed. I literally had no reason to do well. As long as you were there you got a D, and as we all know from learing our alphabet "D is for diploma"
-nB
Just for the record, I did not drop out. Most of my class did, and my 1.9 GPA was "good enough".
I pride myself on two traits: I can teach myself almost and subject from self-research and the purchase of a few choice text books. I am lazy. That second one got me a promotion. I wrote a suite of perl scripts to automate a series of tasks that used to be manual (take a register map from the spec and but it into the debug tape; take a bond pad list and port it to a pin assignment on the tester; take a VS6 makefile and do all the compiling for all operation modes (4), extract the requisite bits for the help file (from source based commenting) and upload the whole mess both to a disti server and update a webpage) These three tasks accounted for almost 15 man-days. I reduced that to a grand total of 4 hours. That whole "WTF? why do it that way when this way is less error prone and easier?" attitude has made my bos (and two more bosses up) very happy, not to mention gotten me name recognition in several other departments.
If you don't want me to work for you, that is fine. I only failed to rapidly advance to a level where the pay was what I wanted once... Selling cars.
-nB
I'm married to my high school sweetie, we have two kids.
:-) (got nothing, oh well) Ok Bye now, see you later."
That above is my complete summation of everything good from my HS experience.
12 years since graduation and I've flirted with college, work for a major semiconductor company in R&D and am overall happy.
The wife is a stay at home mom, polishing her masters degree in the next year and a half, with a plethora of other degrees in her wake (4 AS/AA, 2 BS).
Why drop out of high school? Because you can teach yourself better. The classes are taught to the lowest common denominator. That means that the bright kids who are not quite bright (or lucky) enough for AP classes get shafted. It's mind numbing and detrimental. My grades sucked because I was bored to tears with my classes. Had our school system taught to grade levels commensurate with Japan or Germany I would have had good grades because I would have been engaged. I don't care if half the class fails every grade, we need to step up our expectations of everyone. Race? BS!, Family status? BS! Income? BS!
I understand there are a handful of exceptions to each of the above, but tough, life is not fair, the sooner that lesson is taught the better.
I'm willing to bet that in only one generation the USA would be back on top in the education field if "tough love" were implemented in grading.
-nB
on a side note, I knew no-one at my 10 year reunion. WTF? People knew me, but I was so dis-engaged from school I was like "Who are you? Oh! wonderful (still don't have a clue) Uh Huh
so, UK/US is SOS/DD?
Canada is looking better every day...
Family is the only reason I'm staying.
-nB
only seems that way because it has...
What are the rules to immigration over there?
-nB
I'll assume you were not using DC then.
-nB
I just got a vision of KayPros and trebuchets.
You have made my Monday.
-nB
ditto
-nB
The term clusterfuck comes to mind...
-nB
touché
So it automatically quits working? I understand now.
/. should not have a 2 min timer for thread to thread posts. Should only be between posts in the same story.
-nB
on a completely unrelated note,