security by obscurity doesn't really work for long
Windows XP has been around for 4 years. Since this is Slashdot, I can assume that most believe/know that there are still more undiscovered security risks in Windows. 4 years is a pretty long time.
The article says there is voltage, but nothing on current. How much current is drawn across 2V? Power = current * voltage. You could have 1000 V, but if the current is about a nano-amp, you won't have enough to run a radio.
would an additional 90MHz to the spectrum really make the difference between 0.5KB/s and >100KB/sec?
Ok, making some random guesses here, but
looking at GSM, we have a total of 50 MHz of bandwidth (25 up, 25 down). Each channel is 200khz wide and has a transfer rate of 271 kbit. If the bandwidth is combined together, it totals to 140 MHz of bandwidth. Keeping the same number of channels, we now have an increase of channel size by 280%. That would bring bandwidth to 758 kbit/sec (1.5 total up and down). If we only increase the down pipe, then those channels increase by 460%, making the download speed 1.24 Mbit.
The principle is unarguable and your reply exemplifies this.
"Crap" is subjective and is not quantifiable. Perhaps 90% of everything is crap in your opinion, in which case it is unarguable because you can believe whatever you want.
Your post originally claimed 80% morons. Your reply claims that 10% in the world are geniuses. That means that only 10% of the world is 'normal'. Care to make up any more statistics?
and did you forget that i have to buy an entire worthless operating system just to run this damn visual studio ?
The majority of the world is using that particular worthless operating system. If you program for that platform, you may want it available for testing.
i'd go with java, but not because of the cost, but because java will be the same after 3 years whereas the next versions of C# will probably blow the current version away.
Since you are a teen, I don't suppose you can tell me what is the draw behind hanging out in the parking lot of 7/11 stores late at night? I can never figure out what the point is.
What i'd like to know if exactly why the author thinks web services won't require a central server.
From TFA: "I want to send a piece of music directly to a friend. I don't want to pay someone else to do it for me." and "I need an ISP, I just don't need someone else like Skype to offer me additional services over my connection as I will be able to do it all myself. "
So the IPv6 protocol includes a chat client and direct P2P application in the stack?
Sure you can write apps that go directly point to point, but where is the list of those with the service going to be kept?
Are you saying that the entire genre of Science fiction is mislabeled, or that it is mislabeled under the Star Trek example?
In order to create new technologies, there is usually some form of scientific advance. I look at science fiction looking more at how science and technology is used, not how it is fictionally created. Do people take an idealistic approach to new devices that make life easy and form a utopian way of life (and does that way of life have its own pitfalls?), or do we blow ourselves up and have to salvage the human race?
Would you care to offer an example of "true" science fiction?
I tried Microsoft Streets and Trips with the GPS locator. That was REALLY useful when I got lost, not to mention easy searching for addresses. It placed the location dot on top of the house i was looking for.
Oh, but as many of the Slashdot crowd will be happy to hear, it did crash a few times (but it may have been due to a failing hard drive).
Does anybody make (or buy) maps of small towns anymore?
Yes, paper maps do exist for both large and small cities. In my area, these maps are mostly free because they are supported by advertising local businesses.
As nice as google maps or other software packages are, its a lot lighter to carry a real map than a laptop, or a lot less expensive than buying a portable GPS map unit.
If you're serious about your meeting, focus your mind on one of these concepts before giving it to the principal:
Phone Book
Directory Assistance
Google
Looking at google maps for high schools in sparta, I find Pope John Paul XXIII high school with (973)729-6125 as the phone number (is "XIII" a misprint in the article?). There's also a website with a contacts link.
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Karma: When you post information others are too lazy to google for
You have their movie, but the infringed-upon parties do not have your money. Which is theft.
Which party am I stealing from? Am I stealing from Walmart by not buying my DVD there? Am I stealing from Blockbuster from not renting my movie there? What is the value of my theft? Is it the cost of a DVD purchase or a DVD rental?
Or maybe I am stealing directly from the movie industry?
How about if I buy the movie then post it? The movie industry/retailer already has my money. Am I stealing now?
Greetings and love to you in the name of the most high God, from my beloved country Nigeria. I am sorry and I solicit your permission into your privacy. I am Barrister Richard Okoya, lawyer to the late Ibrahim Abacha eldest son of the late former head of state of Nigeria late General Sani Abacha.
My former client late Ibrahim Abacha died in a plane crash in the year 1994. Upon the death of my former client and unknown to the family that is currently under house arrest and undergoing prosecution in the hands of the present administration as a result of human right violation and looting of the country's treasury by the late head of state General Sani Abacha.
Before the death of my client he had deposited the deed to the world wide Internet in a secret safe deposit box, and I am the only authority to this property which he was to transfer out of the country few days after he died in a plane crash.
In order to sell the deed, I must transfer it along with other valuable property to another country. As a sign of good faith, I will transfer a suitably large amount of money to an account of your choice in order for you to make security arrangements.
With this information I will immediately commence all necessary documentation for a successful shipment of the trunk box and money to your country of choice as all the modalities have already been worked out by me. I will also give you full details of this whole transaction which I have already perfected in due course.
Please note that you are to treat this with utmost confidentiality willing or not willing to assist me in this transaction as nobody knows about this deed and I am still an active lawyer in this country.
Remain blessed in the name of GOD.
Yours faithfully Barrister Richard Okoya
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How about trying to guess "I love Microsoft. It is so secure!"
In other news, vertinox starts another microsoft vs linux flamewar on slashdot.
security by obscurity doesn't really work for long
Windows XP has been around for 4 years. Since this is Slashdot, I can assume that most believe/know that there are still more undiscovered security risks in Windows. 4 years is a pretty long time.
... and it has an MP3 player attached to it, does it make a sound?
The article says there is voltage, but nothing on current. How much current is drawn across 2V? Power = current * voltage. You could have 1000 V, but if the current is about a nano-amp, you won't have enough to run a radio.
would an additional 90MHz to the spectrum really make the difference between 0.5KB/s and >100KB/sec?
Ok, making some random guesses here, but looking at GSM, we have a total of 50 MHz of bandwidth (25 up, 25 down). Each channel is 200khz wide and has a transfer rate of 271 kbit. If the bandwidth is combined together, it totals to 140 MHz of bandwidth. Keeping the same number of channels, we now have an increase of channel size by 280%. That would bring bandwidth to 758 kbit/sec (1.5 total up and down). If we only increase the down pipe, then those channels increase by 460%, making the download speed 1.24 Mbit.
Long Integer? This is Microsoft we're talkng about!
.NET languages, a long data type is 64 bit. Integers are 32 bit.
In the
The principle is unarguable and your reply exemplifies this.
"Crap" is subjective and is not quantifiable. Perhaps 90% of everything is crap in your opinion, in which case it is unarguable because you can believe whatever you want.
Your post originally claimed 80% morons. Your reply claims that 10% in the world are geniuses. That means that only 10% of the world is 'normal'. Care to make up any more statistics?
Yes and 80% of the world are morons
Excellent statistic. I believe i will add that to my test of the '4 out of 5 statistics are made up' theory.
Where do you want to point and click today?
are you trying to say that you can't point or click in a Linux environment?
and did you forget that i have to buy an entire worthless operating system just to run this damn visual studio ?
The majority of the world is using that particular worthless operating system. If you program for that platform, you may want it available for testing.
i'd go with java, but not because of the cost, but because java will be the same after 3 years whereas the next versions of C# will probably blow the current version away.
Are you sure that Java never changes?
PRODUCing a wOrD Using CharacTers Belonging to their name is bY no means PROof that it is relateD to their Usual ConducT.
Besides, plEaSuRaBle also works.
Most of the times I see them hanging around 7/11, there are usually a few with cars. That breaks the bus theory for me locally.
Coffee shop, restaurant with appies, a house (with or without parents)... other local entertainment (rec center, movies, hockey game/sport event)?
Since you are a teen, I don't suppose you can tell me what is the draw behind hanging out in the parking lot of 7/11 stores late at night? I can never figure out what the point is.
What i'd like to know if exactly why the author thinks web services won't require a central server. From TFA: "I want to send a piece of music directly to a friend. I don't want to pay someone else to do it for me." and "I need an ISP, I just don't need someone else like Skype to offer me additional services over my connection as I will be able to do it all myself. "
So the IPv6 protocol includes a chat client and direct P2P application in the stack?
Sure you can write apps that go directly point to point, but where is the list of those with the service going to be kept?
Not til they port emacs, THEN it will be an POS
Emacs has a point of sale plug-in now?
Are you saying that the entire genre of Science fiction is mislabeled, or that it is mislabeled under the Star Trek example?
In order to create new technologies, there is usually some form of scientific advance. I look at science fiction looking more at how science and technology is used, not how it is fictionally created. Do people take an idealistic approach to new devices that make life easy and form a utopian way of life (and does that way of life have its own pitfalls?), or do we blow ourselves up and have to salvage the human race?
Would you care to offer an example of "true" science fiction?
Which part of the word fiction didn't you understand?
Fiction: An imaginative creation or a pretense that does not represent actuality but has been invented.
So yes, i believe that pretend science DOES actually count.
I tried Microsoft Streets and Trips with the GPS locator. That was REALLY useful when I got lost, not to mention easy searching for addresses. It placed the location dot on top of the house i was looking for.
Oh, but as many of the Slashdot crowd will be happy to hear, it did crash a few times (but it may have been due to a failing hard drive).
Does anybody make (or buy) maps of small towns anymore?
Yes, paper maps do exist for both large and small cities. In my area, these maps are mostly free because they are supported by advertising local businesses.
As nice as google maps or other software packages are, its a lot lighter to carry a real map than a laptop, or a lot less expensive than buying a portable GPS map unit.
Guns don't kill people, kids who play video games kill people!
Then i guess i'm not like Einstein... I also eat my breakfast on-time some days.
Speaking of which... time to eat.
Looking at google maps for high schools in sparta, I find Pope John Paul XXIII high school with (973)729-6125 as the phone number (is "XIII" a misprint in the article?). There's also a website with a contacts link.
-------
Karma: When you post information others are too lazy to google for
You have their movie, but the infringed-upon parties do not have your money. Which is theft.
Which party am I stealing from? Am I stealing from Walmart by not buying my DVD there? Am I stealing from Blockbuster from not renting my movie there? What is the value of my theft? Is it the cost of a DVD purchase or a DVD rental?
Or maybe I am stealing directly from the movie industry?
How about if I buy the movie then post it? The movie industry/retailer already has my money. Am I stealing now?
And who uses the Internet the most?
Greetings and love to you in the name of the most high God, from my beloved country Nigeria. I am sorry and I solicit your permission into your privacy. I am Barrister Richard Okoya, lawyer to the late Ibrahim Abacha eldest son of the late former head of state of Nigeria late General Sani Abacha.
My former client late Ibrahim Abacha died in a plane crash in the year 1994. Upon the death of my former client and unknown to the family that is currently under house arrest and undergoing prosecution in the hands of the present administration as a result of human right violation and looting of the country's treasury by the late head of state General Sani Abacha.
Before the death of my client he had deposited the deed to the world wide Internet in a secret safe deposit box, and I am the only authority to this property which he was to transfer out of the country few days after he died in a plane crash.
In order to sell the deed, I must transfer it along with other valuable property to another country. As a sign of good faith, I will transfer a suitably large amount of money to an account of your choice in order for you to make security arrangements.
With this information I will immediately commence all necessary documentation for a successful shipment of the trunk box and money to your country of choice as all the modalities have already been worked out by me. I will also give you full details of this whole transaction which I have already perfected in due course.
Please note that you are to treat this with utmost confidentiality willing or not willing to assist me in this transaction as nobody knows about this deed and I am still an active lawyer in this country.
Remain blessed in the name of GOD.
Yours faithfully Barrister Richard Okoya
I'm lactose intolerant, you insensitive clod!