It's my understanding that the dilema for Linux is that device manufactures are reluctant to have their hardware designs exposed in Linux code, therefore they usually don't give out their specs to Linux developers.
The hardware designs are exposed in the binary drivers anyway. With modern tools there is not much difference between having the executable and the source except that you can't just reverse engineer the binary, slap a GPL on it, and submit it to Linus.
You can only use the north star in the northern hemisphere, so even thata is out of the question for a decent chunk of the world
Its not that bad. The longest arm of Crux points at the south celestial pole. Extend a line four times the long length of the cross and you have south.
If you follow the work of Michael Cremo you will learn that modern human skeletons
have been found in strata deposited millions of years old and all over the world.
Yeah in fact just down the road from here is a place where there are thousands of bodies buried in strata at least 10000 years old: about two metres down.
...have been around for 100's of thousands of years and they are not stupid. Who is to say that 60000 years ago somebody from Indonesia could not possibly have seen most of the world in a lifetime, if they had so desired? There wouldn't have been any evidence of small scale migration which modern archeologists could find, yet the written history is based only on mass movements of population.
TFA ends with I think there's enough evidence now to say that there were pre-Clovis people in the Americas."
Who is to say that it hadn't been happening for several times the 25000 year time scale they are talking about?
Certainly.. they run it just like it's supposed to be, as a VMWare image sandboxed inside their *nix/BSD workstation. Again, anyone that's using a web browser running under the same account permissions as any sensitive data on that machine is _not_ a security "expert".
Yes, I agree with you. But where I work if you are in any senior position you would be running windows on your desktop. Our "IT manager" has no IT experience at all, beyond knowing who has what contracts. Thats the guy in charge of security.
Ultimately, the only real way to protect content is going to have remote-controlled content-monitoring LCD shutters surgically implanted in everyone's eyes as soon as they are old enough to enjoy TV
No thats very weak DRM. You would still be able to recall the movie from your memory without paying for additional licenses.
Picture in TFA shows a trailer which you would presumably tow through the streets of Baghdad zapping potential IED's but the opposition in that country have shown that they have the ability to adapt to changed conditions. So the bombs they plant will be in places you can't tow a huge trailer, or outside a place where blowing up the IED will only make you get the blame for killing civilians.
For me the ultimate goal is to have your standard house bricks be actually built as robots which can form themselves into whatever type of structure you might want this year/month/day/minute. Imagine a future where intelligent building materials roam the Earth making themselves into homes for homeless people and performing expresionistic civil engineering works.
Ten years ago my then girlfriend, a Malaysian born, Irish educated Doctor with Australian permanent residency decided to go and visit some friends in Europe. We decided to spend a week in the US on our way back and went to the US consulate here in Melbourne, Australia to get visas.
Mine went through OK but hers was a disaster. We only persisted with the appllication so that the rejection would not look like a black mark for the future. They seemed to think that she was going to stay illegally in the US and work there, but the fact that she has a perfectly good career in this country didn't seem to count. It didn't help that she didn't own a house here (she rented then) and didn't own a car (we had crashed it a week before and intended to put the insurance money on a new CRV when we got back) and didn't have full time employment (many doctors work as contractors, effectively self employed).
We had an interview through ballistic resistant glass with a personality challenged official which was really an interrogation.
Once I have been able to see the smithonian air and space museum I will probably just decide not to go to the US again. Its to much trouble.
Of course I think the likelihood of getting the right sorts of people together with the right amount of self-awareness and ego to be able to admit when they don't have the best idea, is probably nothing short of a minor miracle for a company.
It helps to be flat out busy because then you get less duplication and people tend to stick to what they have to work on. We are pretty lucky in that respect where I work. I find that if you have four people in a meeting, each with a different job to do, then you can come to a conclusion pretty quickly, and it will be a good one.
There is one project running where the person who is meant to represent customer requirements thinks it is his job to be a UI designer (which it isn't) and that project is currently 200% over budget as we speak.
Canada wasn't independent until the 1980s when Trudeau repatriated the constitution from the UK.
I have often wondered about this. When Liz finally carks it, Chuck will be the next King of England because of an algorithm coded in UK law. Thats the one which says something like oldest to youngest male child, then oldest to youngest female, or whatever.
But here in Australia do we have a parallel law? Or do we inherit british law. I know that we inherited basic laws about theft, etc. But that was like taking patches from the UK until we started writing our own.
So if the UK law of succession changed at some point since 1901 and we forgot to C&P the changes over could we accidently wind up with a different King or Queen when the law is applied?
And if we can't get the republic up, could we at least change the law of succession so that an Australian gets the nod? How about making the current captain of the national cricket team King for the next 10 years?
And why the script kiddie isn't in jail? Spying and breaking the privacy of many thousands of people (the blurb suggests it was way more than 3000) isn't something to shake a stick at.
Once the ex-judge's computer had been hacked by "some guy" the state of that system should be considered to be tainted. Who's to say that Brad Willman wasn't using that system as a proxy?
Well even that just means the minimum price of the credential resale is set by the issuer.
Well not really. If the ecash coin has $1000 in it and I want to sell my identify for $100 then the price to the buyer is $1100 and he gets $1000 back straight away.
Back in the days of analogue mobile phones one of the DEC field service engineers who used to come to our site rigged up a bag phone out of a car phone and a 12v gel cell. It worked pretty well but I wouldn't expect it to be dropable.
There might be a market for tough cases for COTS phones. Heavily padded. Extra charge for kevlar.
Indeed, there are better solutions out there - levies tied to network providers make more sense (and are already replicated by cable television levies for retransmission of content) - and there is a need to cover both peer-to-peer and the non-commercial use of content in user-generated content.
So now what? A tax on internet access? Charging per port?
One thing we should worry about is a prediction of an impact in a large population centre. For example a 1 in 100 probability of an impact in India in 10 years. The result of such a prediction would be much worse than the actual impact.
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The hardware designs are exposed in the binary drivers anyway. With modern tools there is not much difference between having the executable and the source except that you can't just reverse engineer the binary, slap a GPL on it, and submit it to Linus.
Its not that bad. The longest arm of Crux points at the south celestial pole. Extend a line four times the long length of the cross and you have south.
Yeah in fact just down the road from here is a place where there are thousands of bodies buried in strata at least 10000 years old: about two metres down.
...have been around for 100's of thousands of years and they are not stupid. Who is to say that 60000 years ago somebody from Indonesia could not possibly have seen most of the world in a lifetime, if they had so desired? There wouldn't have been any evidence of small scale migration which modern archeologists could find, yet the written history is based only on mass movements of population.
TFA ends with I think there's enough evidence now to say that there were pre-Clovis people in the Americas."
Who is to say that it hadn't been happening for several times the 25000 year time scale they are talking about?
Yes, I agree with you. But where I work if you are in any senior position you would be running windows on your desktop. Our "IT manager" has no IT experience at all, beyond knowing who has what contracts. Thats the guy in charge of security.
Since most of the money (and challenges) for security is on Windows, I supose they could hardly be using anything else.
No thats very weak DRM. You would still be able to recall the movie from your memory without paying for additional licenses.
The real fun starts when the cheap mirror becomes an ideal way to use the laser against a third party.
Never shoot at a mirror - Louis Wu
Picture in TFA shows a trailer which you would presumably tow through the streets of Baghdad zapping potential IED's but the opposition in that country have shown that they have the ability to adapt to changed conditions. So the bombs they plant will be in places you can't tow a huge trailer, or outside a place where blowing up the IED will only make you get the blame for killing civilians.
Too much overhead, not enough payload.
You might want to read up on Self-Reconfiguring Modular Robotics
For me the ultimate goal is to have your standard house bricks be actually built as robots which can form themselves into whatever type of structure you might want this year/month/day/minute. Imagine a future where intelligent building materials roam the Earth making themselves into homes for homeless people and performing expresionistic civil engineering works.
Ten years ago my then girlfriend, a Malaysian born, Irish educated Doctor with Australian permanent residency decided to go and visit some friends in Europe. We decided to spend a week in the US on our way back and went to the US consulate here in Melbourne, Australia to get visas.
Mine went through OK but hers was a disaster. We only persisted with the appllication so that the rejection would not look like a black mark for the future. They seemed to think that she was going to stay illegally in the US and work there, but the fact that she has a perfectly good career in this country didn't seem to count. It didn't help that she didn't own a house here (she rented then) and didn't own a car (we had crashed it a week before and intended to put the insurance money on a new CRV when we got back) and didn't have full time employment (many doctors work as contractors, effectively self employed).
We had an interview through ballistic resistant glass with a personality challenged official which was really an interrogation.
Once I have been able to see the smithonian air and space museum I will probably just decide not to go to the US again. Its to much trouble.
It helps to be flat out busy because then you get less duplication and people tend to stick to what they have to work on. We are pretty lucky in that respect where I work. I find that if you have four people in a meeting, each with a different job to do, then you can come to a conclusion pretty quickly, and it will be a good one.
There is one project running where the person who is meant to represent customer requirements thinks it is his job to be a UI designer (which it isn't) and that project is currently 200% over budget as we speak.
Dispair: none of us is as dumb as all of us
I think IQ follows ohms law:
IQtotal = 1 / (1/IQ1 + 1/IQ2Yeah I know the story. I stopped investigating bitkeeper in my work environment because of the way BitMover was behaving towards their "customers"
I have often wondered about this. When Liz finally carks it, Chuck will be the next King of England because of an algorithm coded in UK law. Thats the one which says something like oldest to youngest male child, then oldest to youngest female, or whatever.
But here in Australia do we have a parallel law? Or do we inherit british law. I know that we inherited basic laws about theft, etc. But that was like taking patches from the UK until we started writing our own.
So if the UK law of succession changed at some point since 1901 and we forgot to C&P the changes over could we accidently wind up with a different King or Queen when the law is applied?
And if we can't get the republic up, could we at least change the law of succession so that an Australian gets the nod? How about making the current captain of the national cricket team King for the next 10 years?
You mean Linus?
MC:
So what about e^(i * pi) - 1 = 0
We don't know what that means either.
Just tell them the Earth is about to be eaten by a giant space goat.
Once the ex-judge's computer had been hacked by "some guy" the state of that system should be considered to be tainted. Who's to say that Brad Willman wasn't using that system as a proxy?
Don't laugh. The traffic signals in my city use PDP/11 emulators.
Well not really. If the ecash coin has $1000 in it and I want to sell my identify for $100 then the price to the buyer is $1100 and he gets $1000 back straight away.
Back in the days of analogue mobile phones one of the DEC field service engineers who used to come to our site rigged up a bag phone out of a car phone and a 12v gel cell. It worked pretty well but I wouldn't expect it to be dropable.
There might be a market for tough cases for COTS phones. Heavily padded. Extra charge for kevlar.
Something about welcoming our bald masters.
TFA:
So now what? A tax on internet access? Charging per port?
One thing we should worry about is a prediction of an impact in a large population centre. For example a 1 in 100 probability of an impact in India in 10 years. The result of such a prediction would be much worse than the actual impact.