Most countries have no problem just shooting you for even the hint of something like this, which since he was warned just prior to committing the act, I would argue is practically treason. It was certainly willful disregard for his obligations.
I don't understand this point of view. He signed a bunch of documents that no doubt explained the dire consequences of leaking information in order to work on the project. Then he flew to China - which is very obviously not a free country to anyone who has spent more than a few days there or even read a few webpages - with that information on a laptop. And he explained the technology to Chinese and Iranian students. If he didn't agree with the concept of confidential information he shouldn't have signed up.
He's lucky he only got 4 years - they could easily have charged him with espionage or treason.
Yeah, because nothing shows you're a free thinker better than giving access to military technology to regimes that will use it to repress free thinking.
Since when did people start thinking like Pierson's Puppeteers?
Since they became pampered, overfed first world types with a vast environmental footprint? Of the course the fact that vast areas of the planet are populated by people dying early and painfully because they don't aren't allowed to have technologies considered 'environmentally damaging' is conveniently not mentioned.
I don't like it - random numbers allow for the slight chance of collisions. Also they are not userfriendly if you use a FAT implementation which ignores the long filenames. This is quite common in media players - e.g. DVDs with a USB interface quite often don't handle long filenames. A USB stick that had been written with this patch would be unusable in such a system.
Here's how I'd do it.
Take a few characters from the long filename which are representable in 7 bit ASCII and fill the first slots of the short filename. Then end with a hex number which is the position of the short filename in the directory.
So Readme.txt would end up with a short filename of READMF6C.TXT or READA567.TXT. Ok, it sucks but for shortish names it is is usable. If I had a folder called Music I could find it. Oddly enough on some systems once you get that far they use the ID3 information so all is ok.
The rationale is that FAT only allows 65535 directory entries and in practice directories will be much smaller. In hex that is four digits (base 36 would be slightly more compact in practice but the worst case is still 4 digits). Now naively that should not require searching the directory. Unfortunately you can't be absolutely sure that this won't generate a collision - someone might create files called READA567.TXT for example so you need to check for duplicates anyway.
Now it has to be said that Windows NT uses a similar scheme for FAT filenames - it uses the patented algorithm for the first few and then switches to a hash later for performance reasons. I don't know if this is patented or not, but I'd make sure my hash algorithm was different and then publish it.
In the long run China is a far more serious long term competitor to the US than Iran. And they have threatened to bomb and or destabilise Taiwan. They prop up North Korea (and many other nasty governments) - in fact the Taepodong 2 missile NK is threatening to fire at Hawaii has Chinese rocket motors.
Actually I'm pretty sure that women seem to dislike excessively skinny men. So I can eat my cheeseburgers and coast in the comfortable 25-29.9 range, live longer and get more chicks.
In Britain, a Defence Advisory Notice or DA-Notice (called a Defence Notice or D-Notice until 1993) is an official request to news editors not to publish or broadcast items on specified subjects for reasons of national security.
D-Notices and DA-notices are merely a request and therefore not legally enforceable and consequently news editors can choose to ignore them without (in theory) official repercussions, although they are generally accepted by the media.
The original D-Notice system was introduced in 1912, run as a voluntary system by a joint committee headed by an Assistant Secretary of the War Office and a representative of the Press Association.
Actually this is a bit like that. I guess his relatives took down the information and contacted Wales and Wales made sure this fact stayed off the page.
Navigon's support told me to go fuck myself (in those words).
Now we didn't, you lying little shit. We told you if you bad mouth us on the internet we will kidnap your dog again. And this time the furball will come back in PIECES.
I bet you had to scroll a long way down your Terminator list of responses past "Yes", "No" and "Fuck You Asshole" to find "You simpleminded dilettante".
OK, even at $0.015 per K, you're talking about $15 per MB, or $15,000 per GB. To do 1 GB in an hour requires 3 mbps. How many mobile data connections out there achieve 3 mbps?
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I'd rather they took it more in the direction of a portable console, but I guess they are too chicken to fight Nintendo.
I read that when the XBox was being planned different teams at Microsoft got to pitch a solution to Bill Gates based on their technology. One of them was the WebTV team who had a Windows CE based platform.
Bill Gates detected the problem. Windows CE had to be made compatible with the upcoming version of DirectX 8.0. He interrupted the presentation and asked who was working on this project. Berkes, who was in charge of developing the latest version of DirectX, said to Gates that he didn't know anything about it. He would need a lot more programming resources to make sure that this conversion would happen and if done it would be a slow process. "It wasn't a credible claim" that Windows CE would be synchronized with DirectX anytime soon, Berkes said. The Xbox team had considered using Windows CE, but they dropped it as soon as they discovered the file size for CE programs was limited to 32 megabytes; they would have had to partition a hard drive into thousands of parts just to make CE run. Hence, the WebTV people didn't have a good software story. They hadn't had the presence of mind or resources on short notice to put together a demo that showed Windows CE working with a new version of DirectX. Gates also hammered the failure of Windows CE in the Sega Dreamcast.
"Tell me who used Windows CE in a Dreamcast game," Gates demanded.
Kummert had to reply that very few game programmers had done so. He and Phillips offered a half-hearted response about why that was so. Gates knew the matter all too well already.
The other was the XBox team with a proposal based on desktop Windows - apparently the original XBox used a hacked version of the Windows 2000 kernel - which ended up winning. Plausbibly the PowerPC based XBox360 still uses the same kernel, i.e. even though PPC support was dropped in the desktop version of Windows 2000 the build option was kept for the internal projects like the XBox360.
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Most countries have no problem just shooting you for even the hint of something like this, which since he was warned just prior to committing the act, I would argue is practically treason. It was certainly willful disregard for his obligations.
China has executed people for discussing publicly available information and "the health of senior leaders" -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wo_Weihan
This is the delightful regime that he leaked UAV plans to.
I don't understand this point of view. He signed a bunch of documents that no doubt explained the dire consequences of leaking information in order to work on the project. Then he flew to China - which is very obviously not a free country to anyone who has spent more than a few days there or even read a few webpages - with that information on a laptop. And he explained the technology to Chinese and Iranian students. If he didn't agree with the concept of confidential information he shouldn't have signed up.
He's lucky he only got 4 years - they could easily have charged him with espionage or treason.
Yeah, because nothing shows you're a free thinker better than giving access to military technology to regimes that will use it to repress free thinking.
Err, I mean from JOUSTJU.S in
http://www.programmerfish.com/Attari7800/JOUST.zip
I'm more concerned what Bush, Reagan, Nancy and Caspar mean here
Since when did people start thinking like Pierson's Puppeteers?
Since they became pampered, overfed first world types with a vast environmental footprint? Of the course the fact that vast areas of the planet are populated by people dying early and painfully because they don't aren't allowed to have technologies considered 'environmentally damaging' is conveniently not mentioned.
I don't like it - random numbers allow for the slight chance of collisions. Also they are not userfriendly if you use a FAT implementation which ignores the long filenames. This is quite common in media players - e.g. DVDs with a USB interface quite often don't handle long filenames. A USB stick that had been written with this patch would be unusable in such a system.
Here's how I'd do it.
Take a few characters from the long filename which are representable in 7 bit ASCII and fill the first slots of the short filename. Then end with a hex number which is the position of the short filename in the directory.
So Readme.txt would end up with a short filename of READMF6C.TXT or READA567.TXT. Ok, it sucks but for shortish names it is is usable. If I had a folder called Music I could find it. Oddly enough on some systems once you get that far they use the ID3 information so all is ok.
The rationale is that FAT only allows 65535 directory entries and in practice directories will be much smaller. In hex that is four digits (base 36 would be slightly more compact in practice but the worst case is still 4 digits). Now naively that should not require searching the directory. Unfortunately you can't be absolutely sure that this won't generate a collision - someone might create files called READA567.TXT for example so you need to check for duplicates anyway.
Now it has to be said that Windows NT uses a similar scheme for FAT filenames - it uses the patented algorithm for the first few and then switches to a hash later for performance reasons. I don't know if this is patented or not, but I'd make sure my hash algorithm was different and then publish it.
Why do people keep fighting the Robocopy, I'll never know.
On July 1st 2009 Robocopy became self aware and understood the concept 'PEBKAC'. It decided our fate in a microsecond.
In the long run China is a far more serious long term competitor to the US than Iran. And they have threatened to bomb and or destabilise Taiwan. They prop up North Korea (and many other nasty governments) - in fact the Taepodong 2 missile NK is threatening to fire at Hawaii has Chinese rocket motors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taepodong-2#Second_and_third_stages
Plus the Chinese government since the 1949 revolution has killed far more Chinese citizens than the Iranian government has killed Iranians.
Actually I'm pretty sure that women seem to dislike excessively skinny men. So I can eat my cheeseburgers and coast in the comfortable 25-29.9 range, live longer and get more chicks.
In your face, Japan.
In the UK there are D Notices
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Notice
In Britain, a Defence Advisory Notice or DA-Notice (called a Defence Notice or D-Notice until 1993) is an official request to news editors not to publish or broadcast items on specified subjects for reasons of national security.
D-Notices and DA-notices are merely a request and therefore not legally enforceable and consequently news editors can choose to ignore them without (in theory) official repercussions, although they are generally accepted by the media.
The original D-Notice system was introduced in 1912, run as a voluntary system by a joint committee headed by an Assistant Secretary of the War Office and a representative of the Press Association.
Actually this is a bit like that. I guess his relatives took down the information and contacted Wales and Wales made sure this fact stayed off the page.
So now I have to carry 2 - 12V -> USB devices with me because of Motorola.
Rebel! Stand up and FIGHT your oppressors! Go and protest outside Motorola's HQ!
Navigon's support told me to go fuck myself (in those words).
Now we didn't, you lying little shit. We told you if you bad mouth us on the internet we will kidnap your dog again. And this time the furball will come back in PIECES.
Yours sincerely,
Navigon Legal Department.
Most electronics can be gnawed down to form a shiv, given a week or so of gnawing. Good to know when the apocalypse hits.
I bet you had to scroll a long way down your Terminator list of responses past "Yes", "No" and "Fuck You Asshole" to find "You simpleminded dilettante".
When life gives you Raptors, make Raptorade.
I can recommend Taiwan. HDI of 0.932. Low taxes, very free place.
All those Scandinavian countries score higher but frankly I've lived in Sweden it gave me the creeps.
OK, even at $0.015 per K, you're talking about $15 per MB, or $15,000 per GB. To do 1 GB in an hour requires 3 mbps. How many mobile data connections out there achieve 3 mbps?
Outside the US, plenty. HSDPA is 7.2mbps.
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Clearly eels should be used to power hovercraft.
Maybe she needed lithium in her body.
I'd rather they took it more in the direction of a portable console, but I guess they are too chicken to fight Nintendo.
I read that when the XBox was being planned different teams at Microsoft got to pitch a solution to Bill Gates based on their technology. One of them was the WebTV team who had a Windows CE based platform.
Bill Gates detected the problem. Windows CE had to be made compatible with the upcoming version of DirectX 8.0. He interrupted the presentation and asked who was working on this project. Berkes, who was in charge of developing the latest version of DirectX, said to Gates that he didn't know anything about it. He would need a lot more programming resources to make sure that this conversion would happen and if done it would be a slow process. "It wasn't a credible claim" that Windows CE would be synchronized with DirectX anytime soon, Berkes said. The Xbox team had considered using Windows CE, but they dropped it as soon as they discovered the file size for CE programs was limited to 32 megabytes; they would have had to partition a hard drive into thousands of parts just to make CE run. Hence, the WebTV people didn't have a good software story. They hadn't had the presence of mind or resources on short notice to put together a demo that showed Windows CE working with a new version of DirectX. Gates also hammered the failure of Windows CE in the Sega Dreamcast.
"Tell me who used Windows CE in a Dreamcast game," Gates demanded.
Kummert had to reply that very few game programmers had done so. He and Phillips offered a half-hearted response about why that was so. Gates knew the matter all too well already.
The other was the XBox team with a proposal based on desktop Windows - apparently the original XBox used a hacked version of the Windows 2000 kernel - which ended up winning. Plausbibly the PowerPC based XBox360 still uses the same kernel, i.e. even though PPC support was dropped in the desktop version of Windows 2000 the build option was kept for the internal projects like the XBox360.
Math busted.
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Ooh great. A nice long post of the philosophy behind the GPL.