Thats because a little tag on the products alerts the sensors...how is this different from RFID?
Those little tags are either removed or deactivated before you leave, which is how you can go past the sensors without them going off. I've taken one of them apart before; they're little strips of metal that can hold a magnetic charge. That's a bit different then the many bits of data that can be included in an RFID chip.
That brings up an interesting point. Will Microsoft continue to support running Virtual PC on an Intel Mac?
IIRC, MS took a good bit of time updating Virtual PC to run on the G5 (I believe due to a lack of virtual little-endian support). If most developers will take "weeks" to modify their software that uses lower-level stuff, how long would MS take to make Virtual PC into a universal binary?
I could see MS focusing more on "Windows for Macintosh" [don't you just love the name?] while completely dropping support for Virtual PC. Those with current G5s will still be able to use it, but like Windows 98 it will be completely unsupported [is 98 still supported? I don't know]. Dropping the current form of VPC would probably be easier than making sure it supports all of the lower-level features (DRM?) that will be available on the Mac Intel processor.
Anyway, with so little known about the Intel hardware that will be used it's kindof hard to know what MS will do. It'll certainly be interesting when it happens, though.
This is worth repeating. Notwithstanding the fact that some OSS might not be able to withstand the transition perfectly (thanks to byte ordering issues and the like), I would not relish the job of teaching my 60-or-is-it-70-something grandfather and grandmother how to recompile software. Even doing it for them could be troublesome, as I want their machine to stay as secure as possible, so I'd have to be sitting in front of it for the hours(?) that it could take to do a compile.
I would not be surprised if the first Intel Mac ships with a one-button mouse.
Hmmm. Many many thin clients, all trying to do stuff (the same stuff) at the same times. Any bandwidth problems that could come up? I would guess that unless utilization is carefully watched, with overflow capacity readily available, it could be a problem. It would also require that the "thin server" (or maybe it's "thick server") be not too far away?
They may not have a direct line out connection, but a line-out connection can be provided through the Dock interface. The docks distributed with the 3rd-generation iPods (when they first came out) included line out connections.
Supposedly one could determine which three lines from a dock connection provide the line out signal & run them into a headphone jack.
A worthwhile retail product. Although I'd prefer one that has the shuffle buttons on the outer case of the headphones. Of course, that means that someone next to you could sneak up behind you and change tracks!
(would be nice if the new jack was line-level; better for stereo connections)
I wonder how hard it would be to do a/. interview with each candidate, similar to the interview with R. Glaser. I kindof doubt that it would happen, but you never know!
After taxes that will be approx. $380,661. His agent, who mysteriously appeared overnight and has not had a chance to speak directly with Mr. Jennings, reports that the impromptu star will be regaining the $1 indirectly through endorsements for life insurance and denture adhesives.
After the endorsements have been completed he will be closeted in the mountains practicing by playing the Jeopardy computer and board games (which he still had to buy himself) until the Tournament of Champions is held. He will also be preparing a few choice remarks for Sean Connery in Mr. Jennings upcoming appearance on SNLs "Celebrity Jeopardy".
Services provided by the likes of DynDNS are not affected by this. The changes mentioned in this article affect top-level servers, which maintain lists of registered domains and their name servers. Providing an actual IP address is provided in the next level down. For example, here is the complete path that you would go through to get an IP address for www.slashdot.org:
1: a.root-servers.net (refers request to tld2.ultradns.net) 2: tld2.ultradns.net (refers request to ns1.osdn.com) 3: ns1.osdn.com (returns 66.35.250.150)
Adding and deleting domains causes changes at #1 and #2. Changing the name servers assigned to a domain also happens at #1 and #2. Changes to an IP address (like the IP address for www.slashdot.org), which is what DynDNS and the like covers, would take place at #3.
One last note: If you have a domain already in place, and you want to change its nameservers over to DynDNS (possibly to take advantage of their dynamic update service), then #1 and #2 would get involved (since you're changing a nameserver). Under the system being phased out, that would have given you a day-long delay.
Would this make it easier to slip false transfers through whatever nets may exist to catch them (as in this news byte)? I guess false transfers such as this would be noticed by the public at large sooner, so that's not too bad.
I remember hearing about this, but I don't remember exactly: Is this available to all registrars, or is there something that needed to be done on their end to get their updates in quickly?
Do you still have all of your old Game Boy carts? Well, you can throw them away, because even though the Game Boy Advance SP (or whatever its called now) supports old GB carts, you can still by SP-enhanced (SP-munged?) versions of old games at about $20 a pop!
I'm in The Ohio State University, and happy to say that OSU hasn't begun anything like this yet. Heck, OSU doesn't even have third-party price-reducing Cable/DSL agreements in place!
Internet2 is only really useful if you're living/working on-campus. Otherwise you're off-campus and one of two things is taking place:
You're using high-speed Cable/DSL/whatever Internet access. Your high-speed provider most likely doesn't have a direct link to your university network*. You may also be using low-speed access, with the same conditions.
You're using low-speed access provided by the university, dialing up directly into the uni' network. You'd have Internet2 access, but the bottleneck will now be your low-speed connection.
There are the two additional possibilities:
You're living on-campus. You'll have full Internet2 access, which means many connections to web sites (especially those on the other side of the country) will be running through Internet2 for at least part of the way.
You're using a temporary (wireless or wired) connection to the university network. You'll have the full benefits from (1), but only temporarily.
Anyway, Internet2 is good, but only while you're living on campus. It's nonexistent for the majority of students who commute or otherwise live off-campus.
*: As an example, I live less than a mile from The Ohio State University. Sending a packet from my computer to OSU goes through Chicago through the networks of Road Runner, AOL, and Quest before it comes back to OSU.
there was an immediate outcry from US people about "Invasion of privacy" and "Thank God the authorities here can't spy on me when I'm outside!"
Of course, many in the US are not aware that there are a large number of cameras watching where they go. However, most of the cameras are direct-to-tape or otherwise go directly to recordings. There doesn't seem to be a system that takes all of these camera networks, linking them into a single system. At least, not yet...
If I remember correctly, PGP (IIRC up to 2.6.x) used MD5 as the hash in PGP signatures. Some (possibly current) versions use/used RIPE-MD/160. Current versions of PGP/GPG use SHA1. I could imagine someone taking a signed message, replacing its text with readable/understandable text that has the same hash, and releasing it as a supposedly-valid message.
The OpenPGP standard (RFC 2440), which PGP and GPG support (at least partially), list MD5, SHA-1, RIPE-MD/160, and MD2 as possible hash algorithms, with support required for SHA-1 (and suggested for MD5). HAVAL, TIGER-192, and an undefined double-width SHA algorithm have spaces reserved on the list, but that is all that's said. If (Once) MD5 and SHA-1 are broken, now long will it it be until PGP and GPG are updated to support new algorithms, and (in the case of PGP) would the update be free?
It's also worth noting that X.509 certificates and SSL use MD5 and SHA-1 (I think SSL may just use MD5). How secure would SSL and X.509 be if SHA-1 and MD5 are broken? SSL transactions don't leave much time to intercept and forge a packet, but X.509 used in e-mail and other messages could certainly sit around long enough to be messed with.
Oh, well. It was bound to happen; let's see how well/quickly a solution/workaround is found (and let's see if the vulnerability is as bad as many have made it out to be)!
As already said, AM is a method for modulating a signal. When you think AM frequencies, that's in the 530 KHz to 1.6 MHZ (1600 KHz) range. Cellular phones operate in a number of different blocks, ranging from 800 MHz and above (including the GHz range).
The exact frequencies depend on the type of phone and which frequency slots have been assigned to your carrier in the area where you are using the phone.
But damn its making someone a shit load of cash and i wanna be that someone..
At least you aren't the one who has to pay for all of the facilities. IIRC, all of the facilities & stuff will cost Greece (or at least Athens) around $10 billion. I bet you the advertisers aren't going to pay for it!
I have no idea. However, I remember hearing a while ago (I think it was a newspaper article) that the few companies providing airplane banners aren't that big, so all OSU would need to do is announce "don't get too close" and they'd do so just to avoid the expense of a case (not even that, just prepping for a case would be hard enough).
Plus, I think there was a federal restriction of this sort for a while after September 11, and it might not have been lifted.
I was mainly thinking of streaming technologies like QuickTime, Real, Windows Media, etc.. I don't think they buffer any more than 60 seconds. I admit I'm not considering other technologies (I don't remember any right now). Even if they're streaming from a file, the same problem can crop up.
I agree. It's a far cry since the Olympics of Roman times, and since the time that they had many ideals that they would stick to. Although, I was moved by the opening ceremonies. At least, I was until the commercials began to appear...
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Thats because a little tag on the products alerts the sensors...how is this different from RFID?
Those little tags are either removed or deactivated before you leave, which is how you can go past the sensors without them going off. I've taken one of them apart before; they're little strips of metal that can hold a magnetic charge. That's a bit different then the many bits of data that can be included in an RFID chip.
That brings up an interesting point. Will Microsoft continue to support running Virtual PC on an Intel Mac? IIRC, MS took a good bit of time updating Virtual PC to run on the G5 (I believe due to a lack of virtual little-endian support). If most developers will take "weeks" to modify their software that uses lower-level stuff, how long would MS take to make Virtual PC into a universal binary? I could see MS focusing more on "Windows for Macintosh" [don't you just love the name?] while completely dropping support for Virtual PC. Those with current G5s will still be able to use it, but like Windows 98 it will be completely unsupported [is 98 still supported? I don't know]. Dropping the current form of VPC would probably be easier than making sure it supports all of the lower-level features (DRM?) that will be available on the Mac Intel processor. Anyway, with so little known about the Intel hardware that will be used it's kindof hard to know what MS will do. It'll certainly be interesting when it happens, though.
This is worth repeating. Notwithstanding the fact that some OSS might not be able to withstand the transition perfectly (thanks to byte ordering issues and the like), I would not relish the job of teaching my 60-or-is-it-70-something grandfather and grandmother how to recompile software. Even doing it for them could be troublesome, as I want their machine to stay as secure as possible, so I'd have to be sitting in front of it for the hours(?) that it could take to do a compile.
I would not be surprised if the first Intel Mac ships with a one-button mouse.
Does this mean that every Mac with an Intel processor will have to have one of those annoying "Intel Inside" stickers on them?
Also, every time we see a Mac commercial, will the 5-second Intel clip have to be played?
Hmmm. Many many thin clients, all trying to do stuff (the same stuff) at the same times. Any bandwidth problems that could come up? I would guess that unless utilization is carefully watched, with overflow capacity readily available, it could be a problem. It would also require that the "thin server" (or maybe it's "thick server") be not too far away?
They may not have a direct line out connection, but a line-out connection can be provided through the Dock interface. The docks distributed with the 3rd-generation iPods (when they first came out) included line out connections.
Supposedly one could determine which three lines from a dock connection provide the line out signal & run them into a headphone jack.
A worthwhile retail product. Although I'd prefer one that has the shuffle buttons on the outer case of the headphones. Of course, that means that someone next to you could sneak up behind you and change tracks! (would be nice if the new jack was line-level; better for stereo connections)
So now that we have a better toaster, where's my better mousetrap?
I want more.
I wonder how hard it would be to do a /. interview with each candidate, similar to the interview with R. Glaser. I kindof doubt that it would happen, but you never know!
After taxes that will be approx. $380,661. His agent, who mysteriously appeared overnight and has not had a chance to speak directly with Mr. Jennings, reports that the impromptu star will be regaining the $1 indirectly through endorsements for life insurance and denture adhesives.
After the endorsements have been completed he will be closeted in the mountains practicing by playing the Jeopardy computer and board games (which he still had to buy himself) until the Tournament of Champions is held. He will also be preparing a few choice remarks for Sean Connery in Mr. Jennings upcoming appearance on SNLs "Celebrity Jeopardy".
Services provided by the likes of DynDNS are not affected by this. The changes mentioned in this article affect top-level servers, which maintain lists of registered domains and their name servers. Providing an actual IP address is provided in the next level down. For example, here is the complete path that you would go through to get an IP address for www.slashdot.org:
1: a.root-servers.net (refers request to tld2.ultradns.net)
2: tld2.ultradns.net (refers request to ns1.osdn.com)
3: ns1.osdn.com (returns 66.35.250.150)
Adding and deleting domains causes changes at #1 and #2. Changing the name servers assigned to a domain also happens at #1 and #2. Changes to an IP address (like the IP address for www.slashdot.org), which is what DynDNS and the like covers, would take place at #3.
One last note: If you have a domain already in place, and you want to change its nameservers over to DynDNS (possibly to take advantage of their dynamic update service), then #1 and #2 would get involved (since you're changing a nameserver). Under the system being phased out, that would have given you a day-long delay.
Would this make it easier to slip false transfers through whatever nets may exist to catch them (as in this news byte)? I guess false transfers such as this would be noticed by the public at large sooner, so that's not too bad.
I remember hearing about this, but I don't remember exactly: Is this available to all registrars, or is there something that needed to be done on their end to get their updates in quickly?
Death of the floopy? There go my old Apple II games!
Who knows? Maybe some of them would still work (that is, if floppies were still alive).
Do you still have all of your old Game Boy carts? Well, you can throw them away, because even though the Game Boy Advance SP (or whatever its called now) supports old GB carts, you can still by SP-enhanced (SP-munged?) versions of old games at about $20 a pop!
I'm surprised Atari doesn't do that...
I'm in The Ohio State University, and happy to say that OSU hasn't begun anything like this yet. Heck, OSU doesn't even have third-party price-reducing Cable/DSL agreements in place!
Internet2 is only really useful if you're living/working on-campus. Otherwise you're off-campus and one of two things is taking place:
There are the two additional possibilities:
Anyway, Internet2 is good, but only while you're living on campus. It's nonexistent for the majority of students who commute or otherwise live off-campus.
*: As an example, I live less than a mile from The Ohio State University. Sending a packet from my computer to OSU goes through Chicago through the networks of Road Runner, AOL, and Quest before it comes back to OSU.
there was an immediate outcry from US people about "Invasion of privacy" and "Thank God the authorities here can't spy on me when I'm outside!"
Of course, many in the US are not aware that there are a large number of cameras watching where they go. However, most of the cameras are direct-to-tape or otherwise go directly to recordings. There doesn't seem to be a system that takes all of these camera networks, linking them into a single system. At least, not yet...
If I remember correctly, PGP (IIRC up to 2.6.x) used MD5 as the hash in PGP signatures. Some (possibly current) versions use/used RIPE-MD/160. Current versions of PGP/GPG use SHA1. I could imagine someone taking a signed message, replacing its text with readable/understandable text that has the same hash, and releasing it as a supposedly-valid message.
The OpenPGP standard (RFC 2440), which PGP and GPG support (at least partially), list MD5, SHA-1, RIPE-MD/160, and MD2 as possible hash algorithms, with support required for SHA-1 (and suggested for MD5). HAVAL, TIGER-192, and an undefined double-width SHA algorithm have spaces reserved on the list, but that is all that's said. If (Once) MD5 and SHA-1 are broken, now long will it it be until PGP and GPG are updated to support new algorithms, and (in the case of PGP) would the update be free?
It's also worth noting that X.509 certificates and SSL use MD5 and SHA-1 (I think SSL may just use MD5). How secure would SSL and X.509 be if SHA-1 and MD5 are broken? SSL transactions don't leave much time to intercept and forge a packet, but X.509 used in e-mail and other messages could certainly sit around long enough to be messed with.
Oh, well. It was bound to happen; let's see how well/quickly a solution/workaround is found (and let's see if the vulnerability is as bad as many have made it out to be)!
As already said, AM is a method for modulating a signal. When you think AM frequencies, that's in the 530 KHz to 1.6 MHZ (1600 KHz) range. Cellular phones operate in a number of different blocks, ranging from 800 MHz and above (including the GHz range).
The exact frequencies depend on the type of phone and which frequency slots have been assigned to your carrier in the area where you are using the phone.
The 100 Terabyte iPod! Now available for the 300%-profit-margin price of $99999!
But damn its making someone a shit load of cash and i wanna be that someone..
At least you aren't the one who has to pay for all of the facilities. IIRC, all of the facilities & stuff will cost Greece (or at least Athens) around $10 billion. I bet you the advertisers aren't going to pay for it!
I have no idea. However, I remember hearing a while ago (I think it was a newspaper article) that the few companies providing airplane banners aren't that big, so all OSU would need to do is announce "don't get too close" and they'd do so just to avoid the expense of a case (not even that, just prepping for a case would be hard enough). Plus, I think there was a federal restriction of this sort for a while after September 11, and it might not have been lifted.
I was mainly thinking of streaming technologies like QuickTime, Real, Windows Media, etc.. I don't think they buffer any more than 60 seconds. I admit I'm not considering other technologies (I don't remember any right now). Even if they're streaming from a file, the same problem can crop up.
I agree. It's a far cry since the Olympics of Roman times, and since the time that they had many ideals that they would stick to. Although, I was moved by the opening ceremonies. At least, I was until the commercials began to appear...