The _real_ economy also tends to increase by a few percent each year, so the money supply needs to be increased a few percent each year to compensate for this No, you have to increase it with more in order to have (mild) inflation.
That way there is a pressure to invest the money, knowing you lose some (small) value of them if you do nothing.
You make a good point, but this is mostly true only in english. In other languages you get much less from the wikipedia.
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Well, according to wikipedia there is at least one planet of the size of Jupiter. I think it is pretty safe to assume, there are at least some ice-covered satellites, but it is not a very good place to search for terrestrial planets because of the low level of heavy metals in the Epsilon Eridani atmosphere. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsilon_Eridani
I wonder why they claim it works on 10 phones only?
They should be able to find the location of every phone connected to the network, only knowing the coordinates of the base station currently in connection with the phone.
A little off topic
I live in Germany and here one of the gsm operators (o2 Germany) sends the location of the base station as a cbs message. I developed a small aplication for Nokia Symbian phones to read and decode the message and to show the coordinates to the user.
If you live or travel to Germany you can download the application here (english page) or a little better looking german page here.
I entertained myself, I can add features like kids tracking but decided it is not worth, because simply the kids don't get a Symbian phone for the birthday:) Probably the next feature I'll implement is to show you the distance to some travel points like cities etc.
There is some use of web server on the mobile device. You can communicate that way between J2ME and C++ application residing on the phone. The C++ app is the server, and the Millet opens a connection to localhost. You may ask why to do that? First to have communication between applications, because there is actually no standard how J2ME applications could communicate with other applications on the phone. Second, some APIs are exposed only for C++ and not for J2ME. Having a simple web server you can get java programs to use the api as well.
I don't know are they any real applications that use such communication, but the proof-of-concept program is known for years.
That's even much much more true for J2ME than for standard Java.
The used JVMs have more bugs than any normal piece of software. I agree, it is much harder to write embedded JVM, you have many different operating systems and hardware, but still some bugs should be found and fixed easy with automated test suite.
I recently found a bug on my Nokia 6600. If you set your time zone to a negative one against Greenwich (for example GMT-2), your application will not start if it is using Calendar functions. Set the time zone back (GMT+1) and it works OK. And worse, it seems the bug can be dated many years back on different Nokia phones and I'm almost sure it is not fixed on the current ones.
And my lovely one is on Nokia 7650. It sends the HTTP header like
GET / HTTP1,1
instead of GET / HTTP1.1
if your phone language is one that uses comma for number separation (like German). Switch to English and it works (OK, they were still other bugs to care about). Of course almost every server responds with Bad Request on such one. Tell the user, he need to use English menu, or to go to the service center for firmware upgrade to use your application...
Just curios, but isnt't this a feature that can easily abused to hijack the browser? You just visit some shady site, and you are one click away from using some unknown site, that will be opened on every search from you. If you mimic the interface of google or of msn, even better, the user may not notice at all!
I read only the article, not the slashdot summary:)
It seems they are not so radical in the interview. The leader speaks quite reasonable and have good points in the interview.
If you have to travel to Germany you may consider having a english-german dictionary on your mobile phone. You may try http://www.sf.net/projects/mobidict (disclaimer: I am the author of the software)
Not really. We have this mechanism with active FTP. On this page http://slacksite.com/other/ftp.html there is pretty good description how it works. This is not high risk, because the port need to be opened for a short time. And after the connection is created, there is no need to listen more on this port, just keep the connection. You will accept connection only from the host in the url, and will not accept connections from other hosts.
I have written one such application.
Basically, you give URL and choose the devices you want to test.
It will make http request with the device user-agent and analyze the content, according to the features supported from the device. Shameless plug here
I don't see how the validation will be enforced.
Many content providers offer (slightly) different version of the content for different devices. (example big screen phones will have the content on one page, for smaller screens the content will be divided in more pages).
The question is, what you will do when only the markup for some, but not all devices is broken?
You can check for some default content, but what is that, when you try to differentiate the pages, according to the user-agent of the phone?
Still, I think some enforcement will be not bad. During the testing of the site (January/February 2005), I could see Yahoo Germany having broken link on it's mobile home page for weeks!
This is really very good idea. Bit it just illustrates the typical tradeoff between speed and memory. Quick, but use twice the memory, or slow and don't use additional memory.
Is this algorithm in use in the JVM garbage collector or in other languages with garbage collection?
Because a (proto)planet should have bigger mass, on order to accumulate hydrogen from the protoplanetary nebula. I believe the critical mass lies somewhere 10 earth masses. Even when small amount of hydrogen is accumulated in the atmosphere, it will evaporate back to the space for 10-20 000 years.
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You make a good point, but this is mostly true only in english.
In other languages you get much less from the wikipedia.
Well, according to wikipedia there is at least one planet of the size of Jupiter. I think it is pretty safe to assume, there are at least some ice-covered satellites, but it is not a very good place to search for terrestrial planets because of the low level of heavy metals in the Epsilon Eridani atmosphere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsilon_Eridani
I wonder why they claim it works on 10 phones only?
:) Probably the next feature I'll implement is to show you the distance to some travel points like cities etc.
They should be able to find the location of every phone connected to the network, only knowing the coordinates of the base station currently in connection with the phone.
A little off topic
I live in Germany and here one of the gsm operators (o2 Germany) sends the location of the base station as a cbs message. I developed a small aplication for Nokia Symbian phones to read and decode the message and to show the coordinates to the user. If you live or travel to Germany you can download the application here (english page) or a little better looking german page here.
I entertained myself, I can add features like kids tracking but decided it is not worth, because simply the kids don't get a Symbian phone for the birthday
No, that's how the real hackers do that http://youtube.com/watch?v=Vxi6NeMGiwU
There is some use of web server on the mobile device.
You can communicate that way between J2ME and C++ application residing on the phone. The C++ app is the server, and the Millet opens a connection to localhost.
You may ask why to do that?
First to have communication between applications, because there is actually no standard how J2ME applications could communicate with other applications on the phone.
Second, some APIs are exposed only for C++ and not for J2ME. Having a simple web server you can get java programs to use the api as well.
I don't know are they any real applications that use such communication, but the proof-of-concept program is known for years.
You may want to read this article: http://www.newlc.com/The-Most-Important-Aspects-of .html
It is a very good summary of the known viruses and prevention mechanisms for Symbian phones.
Can you point to at least one phone with such vulnerability and working expoit?
Because I think there is no one.
That's even much much more true for J2ME than for standard Java. The used JVMs have more bugs than any normal piece of software. I agree, it is much harder to write embedded JVM, you have many different operating systems and hardware, but still some bugs should be found and fixed easy with automated test suite.
I recently found a bug on my Nokia 6600. If you set your time zone to a negative one against Greenwich (for example GMT-2), your application will not start if it is using Calendar functions. Set the time zone back (GMT+1) and it works OK. And worse, it seems the bug can be dated many years back on different Nokia phones and I'm almost sure it is not fixed on the current ones.
And my lovely one is on Nokia 7650. It sends the HTTP header like
GET / HTTP1,1
instead of GET / HTTP1.1
if your phone language is one that uses comma for number separation (like German). Switch to English and it works (OK, they were still other bugs to care about). Of course almost every server responds with Bad Request on such one. Tell the user, he need to use English menu, or to go to the service center for firmware upgrade to use your application...
Well if this http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=184558&cid =15241605 is true, then it will be exploited soon after the release to hijack the browser
Just curios, but isnt't this a feature that can easily abused to hijack the browser?
You just visit some shady site, and you are one click away from using some unknown site, that will be opened on every search from you.
If you mimic the interface of google or of msn, even better, the user may not notice at all!
I read only the article, not the slashdot summary :)
It seems they are not so radical in the interview. The leader speaks quite reasonable and have good points in the interview.
Read the interview.
They want only to limit the patents to maximal 5 years.
If you have to travel to Germany you may consider having a english-german dictionary on your mobile phone. You may try http://www.sf.net/projects/mobidict (disclaimer: I am the author of the software)
If you want some more ideas: http://www.getjar.com/
That can be a great anti-Vista publicity.
"With Vista you don't have to worry about shit like the Sony rootkit, because he is already in!"
Yes, it is.
Only this (invalid) part will not be enforced.
Not really.
We have this mechanism with active FTP.
On this page http://slacksite.com/other/ftp.html
there is pretty good description how it works.
This is not high risk, because the port need to be opened for a short time.
And after the connection is created, there is no need to listen more on this port, just keep the connection.
You will accept connection only from the host in the url, and will not accept connections from other hosts.
I have written one such application.
Basically, you give URL and choose the devices you want to test.
It will make http request with the device user-agent and analyze the content, according to the features supported from the device.
Shameless plug here
I don't see how the validation will be enforced. Many content providers offer (slightly) different version of the content for different devices. (example big screen phones will have the content on one page, for smaller screens the content will be divided in more pages). The question is, what you will do when only the markup for some, but not all devices is broken?
You can check for some default content, but what is that, when you try to differentiate the pages, according to the user-agent of the phone?
Still, I think some enforcement will be not bad. During the testing of the site (January/February 2005), I could see Yahoo Germany having broken link on it's mobile home page for weeks!
This is really very good idea.
Bit it just illustrates the typical tradeoff between speed and memory.
Quick, but use twice the memory, or slow and don't use additional memory.
Is this algorithm in use in the JVM garbage collector or in other languages with garbage collection?
Well, I'm from Bulgaria, and from 10 years we have tornadoes here sometimes.
They were no records in the history ever for tornadoes in Bulgaria before!
So it's hard to convince me, that everything is as before.
I'm not even sure how such a hardware anti-virus would work
:)
First hardware support for VB scripts
Then hardware support for preventing executon of VB scripts
I bet on God.
I think Apache is on first place because they are the only one with java projects.
But why is gnome so behind KDE?
Does someone have an explanation?
Because a (proto)planet should have bigger mass, on order to accumulate hydrogen from the protoplanetary nebula. I believe the critical mass lies somewhere 10 earth masses. Even when small amount of hydrogen is accumulated in the atmosphere, it will evaporate back to the space for 10-20 000 years.
Although I'm not sure why a stronger gravitational field would necessarily be a huge constraint on the development of life.
No, it is not, but they will have hard time when they try to put something in the orbit around the planet.