In 1983, Knight Ridder and AT&T joined to launch videotext service Viewtron. Anybody with a dedicated terminal, phone line, and $12 a month could access news from the Miami Herald and the New York Times, online shopping, banking and food delivery, via a 300-baud modem.
This happened in the mid 1980s so it had nothing to do with the web. It sounds like a brave early attempt to anticipate the web. Good on them. Sorry it failed but they were clearly before their time. I wouldn't call it a botch.
Slash, the code that runs Slashdot, is open source and freely available - http://www.slashcode.com/ - there are lots of sites that bear more than a passing resemblance to Slashdot simply because the codebase is the same.
Yeah but I think sourceforge own the look and feel. I believe there was once a slashdot in spain but I can't find it now. The slashdot page on wikipedia has a link to a japanese slashdot.
I think somebody has ripped off the L&F for their own site in China. Wouldn't be the first time.
I am not sure but a chinese guy in my team (I live in Australia) was browsing something which was obviously slashdot: same colors, layout, software etc but in chinese. I said to him hey thats slashdot and he said whats slashdot?.
My personal view:
Snow Crash - Fun, when Matrix wasn't a movie (or at least had no sequel) and computers weren't so mainstream, that you could identify yourself with hacker-rebel / cyberpunk attitude.
There is a page in snow crash where Stephenson describes the feds in detail. Anonymous guys in suits with secret service style ear pieces. I reckon the agents in the matrix are derived from the feds.
Compare the experience of YT's Mother being interrogated by the feds with Neo being interrogated by agent smith.
Alas, I have not yet read the Cryptonomicon, a book so universally praised. I keep a huge queue of books I want to read and the Cryptonomicon is still in it (it will be in my very next Amazon order, sometime during September).
Cryptonomicon is starting to date because it is set partly in the present. Don't wait too long before reading it.
Thats interesting because a guy I work with has an iPhone and showed me an application where you hum a tune into the phone. It matches the tune against a database then takes you to iTunes so you can buy a copy. Maybe your DCMA scenario is not too far off what could happen.
They just need to genetically modify the produce to grow its own RFID tags!
Yes I had that thought to. If you ingest the tags they will wind up back in the food chain eventually. Before long they will be in the soil and the fertiliser, ready to be reused.
My girlfriend unwittingly leaned across one of these scales to reach a bag of apples, whereupon the screen started showing pictures of different kinds of melons. Fairly accurate, I'd say.
Its a bit like how spell checkers give computers a sense of humor. Optical processing and an obsession with fruit have given this checkout an obsession with round things.
I saw one at woolworths here in Melbourne which crashed to a windows desktop. The staff got a bit upset when I started to play with it. It would have been interesting if there were any test or debugging tools floating around. Perhaps I could have "fixed" it for them.
I work on a large air traffic control system. Logging is a huge issue. Log files are collected centrally by a separate application.
One important issue IMO is making the contents of your various log files meaningful to people who are not familiar with them.
If your system has objects of type A B and C which can be handled by different components of your system then your should make the logging system in those components print information about those objects in exactly the same way.
While you are at it, make the log format easily parsable by software. You don't want to be looking for a needle in a gigabyte size haystack of trace information without help from a tool which understands what it is looking for.
You can store the value on the card. You just have to combine it with salt and encrypt it against a big enough private key. Shouldn't be hard in this day and age.
I don't really see why they are so worried about this attack. Most people would be deterred from using it because falsifying tickets is against the law. They couldn't possibly lose much money and the hole has to be fixed in the long run anyway.
My laptop is a pretty poor stereo system but that is one of the things I use it for. Yes, the moko is not a great phone if all you want is a phone (I have a motorola C139). But as a multipurpose computing device it may turn out to be quite good.
I just checked openmoko.com and I can't find the option to buy directly from the web site. Previously you were able to get a list of dealers and also choose to order a phone on line. Has this gone? Or am I seeing things?
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Precisely. So there's little to no chance of finding anything on the *surface* of Titan, which is the only place we have a remote capability to look.
On the surface we might find dead microbes or more likely their chemical signature.
it is very hard to see how biological material from the Earth or Mars, blasted out by meteor impacts, could reach Titan intact.
Maybe life went the other way, ie, it evolved on or near Titan and infected Earth.
So thats what happened to life on Venus!
Actually I thought you were going to point to Farmer in the Sky.
If there is life there may be fossil oxygen.
Newspapers are paper and gasoline-based dinosaurs.
Google still needs them to write the news. Bloggers won't do it for free.
In 1983, Knight Ridder and AT&T joined to launch videotext service Viewtron. Anybody with a dedicated terminal, phone line, and $12 a month could access news from the Miami Herald and the New York Times, online shopping, banking and food delivery, via a 300-baud modem.
This happened in the mid 1980s so it had nothing to do with the web. It sounds like a brave early attempt to anticipate the web. Good on them. Sorry it failed but they were clearly before their time. I wouldn't call it a botch.
Slash, the code that runs Slashdot, is open source and freely available - http://www.slashcode.com/ - there are lots of sites that bear more than a passing resemblance to Slashdot simply because the codebase is the same.
Yeah but I think sourceforge own the look and feel. I believe there was once a slashdot in spain but I can't find it now. The slashdot page on wikipedia has a link to a japanese slashdot.
I think somebody has ripped off the L&F for their own site in China. Wouldn't be the first time.
Can you even access slashdot from within China?
I am not sure but a chinese guy in my team (I live in Australia) was browsing something which was obviously slashdot: same colors, layout, software etc but in chinese. I said to him hey thats slashdot and he said whats slashdot?.
My personal view: Snow Crash - Fun, when Matrix wasn't a movie (or at least had no sequel) and computers weren't so mainstream, that you could identify yourself with hacker-rebel / cyberpunk attitude.
There is a page in snow crash where Stephenson describes the feds in detail. Anonymous guys in suits with secret service style ear pieces. I reckon the agents in the matrix are derived from the feds.
Compare the experience of YT's Mother being interrogated by the feds with Neo being interrogated by agent smith.
Alas, I have not yet read the Cryptonomicon, a book so universally praised. I keep a huge queue of books I want to read and the Cryptonomicon is still in it (it will be in my very next Amazon order, sometime during September).
Cryptonomicon is starting to date because it is set partly in the present. Don't wait too long before reading it.
Thats interesting because a guy I work with has an iPhone and showed me an application where you hum a tune into the phone. It matches the tune against a database then takes you to iTunes so you can buy a copy. Maybe your DCMA scenario is not too far off what could happen.
Have a WinXP install to boot up into and set it as the default boot option.
Finally a use for ReactOS.
They just need to genetically modify the produce to grow its own RFID tags!
Yes I had that thought to. If you ingest the tags they will wind up back in the food chain eventually. Before long they will be in the soil and the fertiliser, ready to be reused.
My girlfriend unwittingly leaned across one of these scales to reach a bag of apples, whereupon the screen started showing pictures of different kinds of melons. Fairly accurate, I'd say.
Its a bit like how spell checkers give computers a sense of humor. Optical processing and an obsession with fruit have given this checkout an obsession with round things.
Maybe I could open a shop where every product has approximately the same cost per unit mass, then just charge customers by the kilo.
They should just inject the nectarines with RFID tags when they are packed. As a bonus the customer gets tagged multiple times as well.
I saw one at woolworths here in Melbourne which crashed to a windows desktop. The staff got a bit upset when I started to play with it. It would have been interesting if there were any test or debugging tools floating around. Perhaps I could have "fixed" it for them.
There's also the semi-popular negaverse. In fact, there's two.
Don't forget the Planiverse.
Enjoy all the fun of ADS-B =) As an IT professional and a private pilot, I hope if you're working on a project related to that, it works flawlessly.
Cripes if it is working flawlessly we had better stop changing stuff ;)
I work on a large air traffic control system. Logging is a huge issue. Log files are collected centrally by a separate application. One important issue IMO is making the contents of your various log files meaningful to people who are not familiar with them.
If your system has objects of type A B and C which can be handled by different components of your system then your should make the logging system in those components print information about those objects in exactly the same way.
While you are at it, make the log format easily parsable by software. You don't want to be looking for a needle in a gigabyte size haystack of trace information without help from a tool which understands what it is looking for.
Thanks for the info. I hope they are making a profit on the units they are selling.
You can store the value on the card. You just have to combine it with salt and encrypt it against a big enough private key. Shouldn't be hard in this day and age.
I don't really see why they are so worried about this attack. Most people would be deterred from using it because falsifying tickets is against the law. They couldn't possibly lose much money and the hole has to be fixed in the long run anyway.
My laptop is a pretty poor stereo system but that is one of the things I use it for. Yes, the moko is not a great phone if all you want is a phone (I have a motorola C139). But as a multipurpose computing device it may turn out to be quite good.
Yeah I am in Australia. We don't have any distributors and I would prefer to buy directly from the source. The only distributor in Asia is in India.
I just checked openmoko.com and I can't find the option to buy directly from the web site. Previously you were able to get a list of dealers and also choose to order a phone on line. Has this gone? Or am I seeing things?