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I work in aviation and a co-worker of mine is Tamil. I started to wonder what we was doing with his spare time when I found out about the Tamil Tiger air force. It wasn't the fact that they had planes which got me, it was the fact that they bought a simulator to go with them. These guys make Al Qaeda look like a bunch of amateurs.
I can't help thinking that more than a few of the Sri Lankan people who have gone into tech jobs in the west are working behind the scenes for these people.
you open the player up and start analyzing its guts with a multimeter and logic probes
Even easier. You have full access to the encrypted stream and the decrypted stream. Between the two you have a known algorithm and an unknown key. The difference between the two streams gives you the key.
Does the current Zune have a 'disk mode' so that I can use it to store and transport large files?
Thats the funny thing. There was an article last year about a windows registry hack which enables disk mode for the zune, so you would expect it to work by default in anything which doesn't have this switched off. Linux for instance.
It reminds me of the shell shaped hovercraft in Minority Report.
If this design can be made to scale I can see it working as a close in observation vehicle and troop carrier. If you have to manoever around power lines, bridges and buildings something like this should be a lot better.
I remember reading about a helicopter rescue in the water close to an oil rig. The helo lost IIRC 10cm of blade when it struck the rig and was lucky to survive.
Corporate America is not demanding true interoperability and a level playing field for their vendors. Either there is some serious wrong doing by MSFT like bribing IT managers and giving kick backs to PC vendors. Or these people are really dumb.
Excel is the only thing they know. Manager cred is based on the beauty of your spreadsheet programming. If they saved the chickenfeed which gets spent on windows and MS office then they would have to save the larger amount they spend on junkets and bonuses. And that is never going to happen.
its the idiots who park their cars on pavements, the morons who let their dogs foul the pavements, it's town planners who let trees grow over pavements putting overhanging branches in the way
Sorry to rant, it's a nice idea...
Thats OK. You have just listed the things which piss me off more than practically anything else. I am not blind but the quality of my environment is important to me. Its a shame we have to invoke the needs of disabled people to get attention paid to things like this.
A good example was a court case in my city about 10 years ago. Home owners in a wealthy area had let their hedges grow to the point where you couldnt see (let alone walk on) the foot path any more. Council told home owners to cut their trees. Home owners told the Council to do without the foot path or build a new one. They lost the case on the strength of the needs of blind people, despite the fact that everybody needs the foot path to walk on.
OK the only original idea in TFA is a force feedback glove which simulates touching a surface by pushing back against fingers at the appropriate moment. I can think of lots of uses for that if the device can be put into production.
The rest of it is all about building physical models of spaces, then taking pictures of them and turning the pictures into 3D models using an algorithm which the author is obviously very proud of. Unfortunately most people who design stuff these days build a 3D model in software at the outset, so going the other way is useful, but not the first thing I would think of.
The windows security model today looks more and more like the one in VMS. There are so many ways to divide things up: priviliged images, ACLs, etc. You can do most of that kind of thing in *NIX but its not as common. People mostly use file permissions, users/groups and suid (less and less these days now that mail and such is done over networks).
The security model in VMS and Windows should be better but I wonder if it is less subject to analysis and thus easier to get around.
More OT: I noticed recently that windows is getting something like shadow sets.
He (and many extreme libertarians who congregate around him) see GPL as a Communist plot. We are out to get their precious bodily fluids contaminated or some such.
There are several different philosphies which define BSD and the license is the least important, IMO. I find it strange that BSD people attach so much importance to the license given that it was really an arbitary outcome of a court case in the 1990's, not the result of thinking what kind of license do we want to distrbute our software under?
Arguing about the BSD license should not mean arguing about BSD in its entirety.
Yes, and you could tell from Theo's initial response that it was that wide distribution that really torqued him into a pretzel. Nobody likes having their dirty laundry aired in public
Specifically, the claims describe a system that connects two parties where the receiving party does not need to have a computer or an Internet connection, but the call is routed in part through the Internet or any other 'public computer network'.
In CB radio, and possibly Amateur (Ham) radio you could have a phone patch device which would interface between the radio transciever and the phone system. With two such gadgets you could bridge a gap in the PSTN. Not really legal with amateur radio as you were not supposed to compete with commercial services.
I am sure that emergency services used phone patches on their VHF radios, though. Some documentation on that might be of some use.
TFA talks about it being full duplex. The impression I have is that this system would have used one frequency and a VOX to switch between transmit and recieve. It is possible there were true full duplex systems though.
In many European countries, the rule is you must have rubber soles, in order to create good grip on the pedals
I am prepared to bet that my toes have better grip than any pair of rubber soled shoes.
This is the best laugh I have had since a friend called me to say he had been at my place and knocked on the door but I didn't answer, and by the way, he wanted to call the cops because it is illegal to leave your keys in the ignition when your car is parked in your own drive way.
He is the kind of person who would say that kind of thing but I checked on dumblaws anyway. It really is illegal to do that in Victoria, Australia.
Sun had a shipping container that was painted black, i work for a construction company that has dozens of those shipping containers and they get hot as hell inside during the summer, who ever implements these things in a shipping container (especially black ones) better get a badass air-conditioner to keep those things cool...
The first job I had was building a portable data centre for the Australian air force. When operating in a remote area they needed a way to analyse all the engineering data from their aircraft.
Now for me, that made sense. The shipping container is a bad environment to work in but the military know how to cope with problems like that, and they have a genuine need for mobility.
These days for civilian applications it should almost always be easier to get a fast line to your site and use a fixed data centre somewhere, or a combination of systems.
...to be broadsided by someone surfing the web while heshe is driving
My bike has a design feature which discourages this. You need two hands to drive it, particularly to operate both brakes. So maybe we need a new design rule for cars to enforce two handed operation.
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Quite right, though in comparison with other similar groups, they do seem capable of pulling off some surprisingly complex actions.
I work in aviation and a co-worker of mine is Tamil. I started to wonder what we was doing with his spare time when I found out about the Tamil Tiger air force. It wasn't the fact that they had planes which got me, it was the fact that they bought a simulator to go with them. These guys make Al Qaeda look like a bunch of amateurs.
I can't help thinking that more than a few of the Sri Lankan people who have gone into tech jobs in the west are working behind the scenes for these people.
I was too lazy too look for it.
Even easier. You have full access to the encrypted stream and the decrypted stream. Between the two you have a known algorithm and an unknown key. The difference between the two streams gives you the key.
Not only that but it has an actual release date for 7.04
You should read Stranger in a strange land.
Its a bit like having a watch which is pressure proof to 10 atm, but you can generate that by taking it down 10 metres and waving it around.
Thats the funny thing. There was an article last year about a windows registry hack which enables disk mode for the zune, so you would expect it to work by default in anything which doesn't have this switched off. Linux for instance.
It reminds me of the shell shaped hovercraft in Minority Report.
If this design can be made to scale I can see it working as a close in observation vehicle and troop carrier. If you have to manoever around power lines, bridges and buildings something like this should be a lot better.
I remember reading about a helicopter rescue in the water close to an oil rig. The helo lost IIRC 10cm of blade when it struck the rig and was lucky to survive.
Not as bullet proof though
When the litle flash based ipods came out there was an article on how to attach it to a HDD.
With a rubber band, as I recall. It wasn't a pretty sight.
Excel is the only thing they know. Manager cred is based on the beauty of your spreadsheet programming. If they saved the chickenfeed which gets spent on windows and MS office then they would have to save the larger amount they spend on junkets and bonuses. And that is never going to happen.
Thats OK. You have just listed the things which piss me off more than practically anything else. I am not blind but the quality of my environment is important to me. Its a shame we have to invoke the needs of disabled people to get attention paid to things like this.
A good example was a court case in my city about 10 years ago. Home owners in a wealthy area had let their hedges grow to the point where you couldnt see (let alone walk on) the foot path any more. Council told home owners to cut their trees. Home owners told the Council to do without the foot path or build a new one. They lost the case on the strength of the needs of blind people, despite the fact that everybody needs the foot path to walk on.
OK the only original idea in TFA is a force feedback glove which simulates touching a surface by pushing back against fingers at the appropriate moment. I can think of lots of uses for that if the device can be put into production.
The rest of it is all about building physical models of spaces, then taking pictures of them and turning the pictures into 3D models using an algorithm which the author is obviously very proud of. Unfortunately most people who design stuff these days build a 3D model in software at the outset, so going the other way is useful, but not the first thing I would think of.
Well I would say hg but the point is that DSCM can be a big help and I wish them well with monotone.
You should put the virtual disk under version control.
TFA:
Then:
So is next3.png the real exploit and are they using "jpeg" to mean an image file? Or is there a jpeg file involved here?
The windows security model today looks more and more like the one in VMS. There are so many ways to divide things up: priviliged images, ACLs, etc. You can do most of that kind of thing in *NIX but its not as common. People mostly use file permissions, users/groups and suid (less and less these days now that mail and such is done over networks).
The security model in VMS and Windows should be better but I wonder if it is less subject to analysis and thus easier to get around.
More OT: I noticed recently that windows is getting something like shadow sets.
There are several different philosphies which define BSD and the license is the least important, IMO. I find it strange that BSD people attach so much importance to the license given that it was really an arbitary outcome of a court case in the 1990's, not the result of thinking what kind of license do we want to distrbute our software under?
Arguing about the BSD license should not mean arguing about BSD in its entirety.
But his project is called OpenBSD.
In CB radio, and possibly Amateur (Ham) radio you could have a phone patch device which would interface between the radio transciever and the phone system. With two such gadgets you could bridge a gap in the PSTN. Not really legal with amateur radio as you were not supposed to compete with commercial services.
I am sure that emergency services used phone patches on their VHF radios, though. Some documentation on that might be of some use.
TFA talks about it being full duplex. The impression I have is that this system would have used one frequency and a VOX to switch between transmit and recieve. It is possible there were true full duplex systems though.
I am prepared to bet that my toes have better grip than any pair of rubber soled shoes.
This is the best laugh I have had since a friend called me to say he had been at my place and knocked on the door but I didn't answer, and by the way, he wanted to call the cops because it is illegal to leave your keys in the ignition when your car is parked in your own drive way.
He is the kind of person who would say that kind of thing but I checked on dumblaws anyway. It really is illegal to do that in Victoria, Australia.
The first job I had was building a portable data centre for the Australian air force. When operating in a remote area they needed a way to analyse all the engineering data from their aircraft.
Now for me, that made sense. The shipping container is a bad environment to work in but the military know how to cope with problems like that, and they have a genuine need for mobility.
These days for civilian applications it should almost always be easier to get a fast line to your site and use a fixed data centre somewhere, or a combination of systems.
My bike has a design feature which discourages this. You need two hands to drive it, particularly to operate both brakes. So maybe we need a new design rule for cars to enforce two handed operation.