This is true, of course, but there is pretty much no prayer to developing new sources of gasoline. New sources of hydrogen can be created, and as a side effect we at least don't end up putting the pollution in the cities where there are people around to breathe the air.
You know... the thing that's really annoying is that the article, after noting the bogosity of the "new physics" claims, pretty much implies that "it can't work, but it does."
There is no new physics here, but perhaps new technology. All propulsion technology is really rehashes of the same old laws of physics, but that doesn't mean we have even begun to scrape the surface of what can be done with it. Ion-wind "lifters" (working in atmosphere) could very well become useful, especially in conjunction with ion rockets (which work in space.)
Unlike all the *other* problems with biometrics, like false positives/false negatives/gelatin sheet spoofing, showing the camera a photograph, etc., this one seems like it should be easy to solve: don't store the biometric data, instead, treat it like a password and store a cryptographic hash of it instead.
Despite the obvious flaws of the FBI, including the Hooverite legacy, let's keep in mind why the police (including the FBI) exist -- to enforce laws, instead of having a bunch of vigilantes enforce the laws in the particular manner they want. Quite frankly the FBI is much more appropriate in this way than all the various "let's deputize copyright holders and let them go out and enforce", including stuff like Palladium and the recent Hollings proposal. Far too many proposals lately have been effectively about creating a corporate police force.
To be honest, I wish that Linus had a reason to be afraid. His reaction to this whole thing started off as complete apathy and is still hovering around it. Linus has treated the whole incident as though it has nothing to do with him...
It's called "don't feed the troll." SCO is doing this for hype (and presumably to give the execs some time to dump their stock) so there is no reason to give them more heed than necessary.
That might be the case for the Tu-144, but the Soviet lunar project was hardly a copy of the Apollo. They were, after all, trying to get there before the U.S. (although they didn't succeed.) It had some very different attributes, and was derived from the Soyuz program.
Buran certainly was, ahem, heavily inspired by the U.S. space shuttle, but was different in some ways -- for one thing it was intended to be able to operate without any crew.
Always treat your wireless network as a completely insecure network; the same way you treat the public Internet. This has the additional advantage that when visitors come to your company, they can use your wireless network to access their own home base. This can be amazingly useful.
Then use VPN to give your own staff access to the network, with the same security level you require for access from the public Internet.
WEP is not useful for anything than discouraging the casual bandwidth leech, if that matters to you at all.
Of course they don't. However, their stock has hexupled (that is, x6 in value), from the hype. Expect the execs to dump their stock before the judge throws the case out of court.
It's also pretty clear it's working for them. The more press they can generate out of this, the higher their stock goes. It has almost doubled since they started.
My take on this is that they're going to pump this whole issue as much as possible before anything becomes public, and at that point the executives will probably dump most of their stock. That's another good reason to go after IBM first; it's not hard to convince IBM to agree with the court to "guarantee that proprietary information is kept secret."
Maybe they're angling to get bought out by Microsoft. It's clear they're angling to get bought out by somebody, because they sure don't have anything worth selling, and IBM doesn't seem to be biting.
There are four parameters that contribute to the cost of standard semiconductors: the number of processing steps, die area (density), yield (the percentage of dies produced which is actually good), and packaging. The article implies that the density is extremely good, and packaging is presuambly standard stuff, so probably the main question is what kind of yield they can get.
Only if it was part of the space shuttle when it exploded. I'm sure parts which were replaced from the Shuttle while it was still operational probably exist.
"Essentially infinite" here applies if you're talking on the cosmic scale, but if you're stuck on a convex surface (like Earth) then you're limited by the horizon, unfortunately.
And then Microsoft will get YAAS (Yet Another Anti-trust Suit) slapped on them. It's the same predatory tactics that were *supposed* to be solved by the original US DoJ suit.
They'll get out of it the same way they did this one... buy a President sympathetic to their causes.
A monopoly corporation is a government. Unfortunately, it's also one of the most ruthless forms thereof.
Presumably you mean the opposite: you need to read out the output in base 13 (obase=13). You can do the arithmetic in any base >= 10.
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So does ramfs. The difference between tmpfs and ramfs is that tmpfs is swappable, whereas ramfs is pinned in RAM. tmpfs is definititely the preferred choice for/tmp.
64 characters is only a limitation of Microsoft Joliet. RockRidge, used by Unix systems, supports up to 255 characters, and plain iso 9660 only supports 31 (and that includes the useless;1 version number.)
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This is true, of course, but there is pretty much no prayer to developing new sources of gasoline. New sources of hydrogen can be created, and as a side effect we at least don't end up putting the pollution in the cities where there are people around to breathe the air.
There is no new physics here, but perhaps new technology. All propulsion technology is really rehashes of the same old laws of physics, but that doesn't mean we have even begun to scrape the surface of what can be done with it. Ion-wind "lifters" (working in atmosphere) could very well become useful, especially in conjunction with ion rockets (which work in space.)
95/1130 * 1 = 0.084... close enough within rounding error.
You assume I have illegal MP3s on my hard disk. I don't; nor do I use "file-sharing" networks.
However, it'd be interested to know how much Microsoft is paying astroturfers these days.
Furthermore, someone who donates stolen money to charity is still a thief.
Unlike all the *other* problems with biometrics, like false positives/false negatives/gelatin sheet spoofing, showing the camera a photograph, etc., this one seems like it should be easy to solve: don't store the biometric data, instead, treat it like a password and store a cryptographic hash of it instead.
Despite the obvious flaws of the FBI, including the Hooverite legacy, let's keep in mind why the police (including the FBI) exist -- to enforce laws, instead of having a bunch of vigilantes enforce the laws in the particular manner they want. Quite frankly the FBI is much more appropriate in this way than all the various "let's deputize copyright holders and let them go out and enforce", including stuff like Palladium and the recent Hollings proposal. Far too many proposals lately have been effectively about creating a corporate police force.
It's called "don't feed the troll." SCO is doing this for hype (and presumably to give the execs some time to dump their stock) so there is no reason to give them more heed than necessary.
It's not just that "the IEEE wanted to make key distribution easy"; it's an invalid application of a stream cipher.
That might be the case for the Tu-144, but the Soviet lunar project was hardly a copy of the Apollo. They were, after all, trying to get there before the U.S. (although they didn't succeed.) It had some very different attributes, and was derived from the Soyuz program.
Buran certainly was, ahem, heavily inspired by the U.S. space shuttle, but was different in some ways -- for one thing it was intended to be able to operate without any crew.
Always treat your wireless network as a completely insecure network; the same way you treat the public Internet. This has the additional advantage that when visitors come to your company, they can use your wireless network to access their own home base. This can be amazingly useful.
Then use VPN to give your own staff access to the network, with the same security level you require for access from the public Internet.
WEP is not useful for anything than discouraging the casual bandwidth leech, if that matters to you at all.
Of course they don't. However, their stock has hexupled (that is, x6 in value), from the hype. Expect the execs to dump their stock before the judge throws the case out of court.
It's also pretty clear it's working for them. The more press they can generate out of this, the higher their stock goes. It has almost doubled since they started.
My take on this is that they're going to pump this whole issue as much as possible before anything becomes public, and at that point the executives will probably dump most of their stock. That's another good reason to go after IBM first; it's not hard to convince IBM to agree with the court to "guarantee that proprietary information is kept secret."
Maybe they're angling to get bought out by Microsoft. It's clear they're angling to get bought out by somebody, because they sure don't have anything worth selling, and IBM doesn't seem to be biting.
There are four parameters that contribute to the cost of standard semiconductors: the number of processing steps, die area (density), yield (the percentage of dies produced which is actually good), and packaging. The article implies that the density is extremely good, and packaging is presuambly standard stuff, so probably the main question is what kind of yield they can get.
Only if it was part of the space shuttle when it exploded. I'm sure parts which were replaced from the Shuttle while it was still operational probably exist.
"Essentially infinite" here applies if you're talking on the cosmic scale, but if you're stuck on a convex surface (like Earth) then you're limited by the horizon, unfortunately.
They'll get out of it the same way they did this one... buy a President sympathetic to their causes.
A monopoly corporation is a government. Unfortunately, it's also one of the most ruthless forms thereof.
Presumably you mean the opposite: you need to read out the output in base 13 (obase=13). You can do the arithmetic in any base >= 10.
So does ramfs. The difference between tmpfs and ramfs is that tmpfs is swappable, whereas ramfs is pinned in RAM. tmpfs is definititely the preferred choice for /tmp.
Given the fact that First Contact introduced the first Earth warp ship, bar none, wouldn't you say that's pretty well established already?
64 characters is only a limitation of Microsoft Joliet. RockRidge, used by Unix systems, supports up to 255 characters, and plain iso 9660 only supports 31 (and that includes the useless ;1 version number.)
More likely it is due to the number of lawful intercepts that they have to spill out the cost of the unlawful ones between.
(If you think that doesn't happen, look at the past.)
Ever heard of "innocent until proven guilty?" Ever heard of the Bill of Rights?
Just check out the link in the original article :)