Could it be because they haven't got their own cell phone industry? Sour grapes and all that...
But it's probably not only the phone manufacturers which will get sued... and the British have got phone companies of their own (Vodafone et al) whose bancruptcy would't be at all in the interest of the state... especially after all those *really expensive* UTMS licenses in Europe.
It's probably a conspiration led by the operators of the old analogue cell phone networks...:-)
I don't know about you, but I held a memorial minute when my PC's RAM first exceeded the RAM of 1000 C64s. The "my PC is faster than 1000 C64s (only counting the clock speed)" moment hasn't come yet, because my currend machine has been fast enough for all my needs for nearly two years now - and will probably still continue to do so for at least another 18 months...
Since all the traffic from the Internet to your machine (or vice versa) has to go through Sprint's routers, they can easily monitor the traffic there. If there is a steady flow of data on certain ports and they themselves can't access your machine on these ports, they should be quick to figure things out, if the router admin in question is not a complete moron. It is quite trivial from then to directly access your box with a faked IP which recently had a connection to your server.
If you only grant access to certain IPs on the same subnet, it wouldn't be so easy to find out, although in that case they aren't probably that interested in your traffic. A sniffer in their wireless base station should do the trick, though.
Isn't this more of a server concern? I mean, even if my system was "compromised" (the official-sounding wording in the FAQ) why would I truly care? There is nothing on my system that denotes anything that would need to be truly secure (just some personal writing), and if things were deleted I keep regular backups. Privacy is not a concern (I keep no credit card or checkbook numbers on my box).
Most crackers probably aren't interested at all in your private stuff, except perhaps your ISP data (login, password) so they can use your account to get on the net. The thing crackers are interested in is your box itself as a base for further attacks. A cracker with root access can easily manipulate your log files, so when an attack is traced back to your box, you have no proof that it wasn't you who broke in that government machine and downloaded top secret information...
All-in-all, would I even need security if there wasn't the internet? If the machine was just sitting in my room and the only thing that could "attack it" is a 12-year old brother with a misladen hockey stick? Probably not. Sometimes I think this whole bent-up security "focus" of computer hackers comes from their own inherent distrust and annoyance psychologically with the rest of the world.
If you have no net connection and no private data on the machine, security would't be much of an issue. But with an internet connection security simply has to be considered. If you live in a peaceful neighborhood with none or just a few break-ins a year, you probably would't care too much for a state-of-the-art alarm system. Now consider that some unknown guy from somewhere far away develops the Burgle-O-Matic(tm) which can ransack 1000 homes per minute, is operated from a safe haven outside your reach and is available for free to anyone who manages to find it. It also ruins your door even if it can't break in, and you can expect it to come around every other day. Would you just buy a wagonload of new doors every month, or would you rather install a Break-O-Burgle (Guaranteed To Stop Any Brand Of Burgle-O-Matic(tm) At Least Ten Yards Before Your Door)(tm)?
Actually, 2kW is just the power consumtion of one or two cooking plates. So we can expect that the properly networked kitchen is only a short time away, although it probably won't be the fridge which has the most computing power...
Finally, a chip you can *really* fry eggs on! :-)
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Let's take a look at the projected power consumption of the 21464/EV8:
250W / 1.2V = 208.3 A
I wonder how they're going to push that kind of current through the processor core and how they want to cool that baby - considering that the die size has only increased by a factor of 1.5 since the 21064, but the power consumption has increased by a factor of 8.3, so the cooling will have to be 5.6 times as efficient as for the 21064.
Will the 21464 have to be submerged in liquid nitrogen to avoid a deth by spontaneous evaporation?
In Germany macrovision is illegal because it stops you from using your right to copy video tapes which you paid a tax for.
Nevertheless, many tapes in the video libraries (regardless whether for rent or for sale) are still copy protected (probably not to disrupt the business of the poor macrovision decoder manufacturers;-).
I haven't yet tried to get a refund from one of the media companies for disregarding my "copyright"...
...another translation (for "Fest" with a capital F) would be "party", "celebration" or "festival"? Although this seems to better fit the recent troll convention (especially mr. ventricle guy...:)
A friend of mine once showed me a program that played "El Condor Pasa" on his Amiga's floppy drive. Actually, it sounded much better than those dot matrix songs:-) As some other comments already have mentioned floppy music programs for the C64 and the IBM PC, does perhaps someone have a link for downloading them?
Yes. The law is quite new, but newly sold automobiles must be taken back by the manufacturer for recycling. IIRC, the same goes for computers, too (albeit only for new machines, not the ones of 1984...)
Unfortunately, over here in Europe, software packages are about the same size as in the US - and are filled with the same amount of air.
But that (at least in some countries) is the retailer's problem: e.g. in Germany there is a law, that retailers must take back all useless packaging if the customer doesn't want to take it home. The only exception is the direct packaging of food and cosmetics (you can give back the cardboard box, but not the bottle inside).
Still not very likely since if fifty people would be able to light such a light bulb nobody would receive anything since all power goes to the bulbs.
I think that's the main reason why it is illeagl to light your house this way (at least in some european countries). Since a power drain like this somehow distorts the electromagnetic field, there really is less power available for the TV antennas.
It was an incandescent bulb. The teacher also showed the experiment with a fluorecent bulb (a "neon tube", I don't know the correct english description for that).
It was something the line of "theft of electrical power". Yes, the power in question is freely distributed, but not with the intention of lighting your rooms:-) IIRC a device like a rigged-up bulb consumes much more of the electromagnetic field's power than a TV set, and by this somehow distorts the field. This distortion can be measured, so the broadcast station operators can locate where their power vanishes. I don't know whether there are laws agains this kind of theft in all countries, though.
The light bulb I was talking about was an ordinary 220 Volts / 20 Watts bulb. I admit that you would have to live very close to the station to have your trains running by themselves, but if it broadcasts in the kW power range, I think there should be enough power arriving at your house just through the air. Of coure, it still could be an urban legend...:-)
You are right about radio and tv equipment being disturbed, but trains moving on there own is bullshit.
He is probably talking about model railroads. I consider this to be quite likely - during my first physics courses at college, the professor showed us as an experiment how you could bring a light bulb to glow by simply connecting two wires of a specific length to it and holding it in the proximity of a radio transmitter antenna with sufficient power. In fact, he told us that for some time, this was a cheap albeit illegal way for people to light up their garden sheds near a TV transmitter station in the first years of broadcasting. If the power cables to the model tracks and the tracks semselves have the right length (a multiple of the wavelenght broadcasted), it should be entirely possible that the trains could start running on their own.
It may not be entirely ontopic, but a friend of mine once built a tank with an automatic gun alignment system. You could point the gun somewhere, and it would point in that direction no matter how you moved the tank. He used about two or three Lego technic kits for the gears... quite amazing:-)
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Could it be because they haven't got their own cell phone industry? Sour grapes and all that...
But it's probably not only the phone manufacturers which will get sued... and the British have got phone companies of their own (Vodafone et al) whose bancruptcy would't be at all in the interest of the state... especially after all those *really expensive* UTMS licenses in Europe.
It's probably a conspiration led by the operators of the old analogue cell phone networks...:-)
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But that's a problem which should eliminate itself Real Soon Now for quite obvious reason...:-)
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I don't know about you, but I held a memorial minute when my PC's RAM first exceeded the RAM of 1000 C64s. The "my PC is faster than 1000 C64s (only counting the clock speed)" moment hasn't come yet, because my currend machine has been fast enough for all my needs for nearly two years now - and will probably still continue to do so for at least another 18 months...
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Do you really think so?
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Although the guy from "Dark Star" obviously forgot to activate his safety ballute...:-)
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No, it isn't. It's a patch which upgrades the prerelease to the full 2.4.0 kernel. This was already mentioned in several other posts.
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Since all the traffic from the Internet to your machine (or vice versa) has to go through Sprint's routers, they can easily monitor the traffic there. If there is a steady flow of data on certain ports and they themselves can't access your machine on these ports, they should be quick to figure things out, if the router admin in question is not a complete moron. It is quite trivial from then to directly access your box with a faked IP which recently had a connection to your server.
If you only grant access to certain IPs on the same subnet, it wouldn't be so easy to find out, although in that case they aren't probably that interested in your traffic. A sniffer in their wireless base station should do the trick, though.
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Isn't this more of a server concern? I mean, even if my system was "compromised" (the official-sounding wording in the FAQ) why would I truly care? There is nothing on my system that denotes anything that would need to be truly secure (just some personal writing), and if things were deleted I keep regular backups. Privacy is not a concern (I keep no credit card or checkbook numbers on my box).
Most crackers probably aren't interested at all in your private stuff, except perhaps your ISP data (login, password) so they can use your account to get on the net. The thing crackers are interested in is your box itself as a base for further attacks. A cracker with root access can easily manipulate your log files, so when an attack is traced back to your box, you have no proof that it wasn't you who broke in that government machine and downloaded top secret information...
All-in-all, would I even need security if there wasn't the internet? If the machine was just sitting in my room and the only thing that could "attack it" is a 12-year old brother with a misladen hockey stick? Probably not. Sometimes I think this whole bent-up security "focus" of computer hackers comes from their own inherent distrust and annoyance psychologically with the rest of the world.
If you have no net connection and no private data on the machine, security would't be much of an issue. But with an internet connection security simply has to be considered. If you live in a peaceful neighborhood with none or just a few break-ins a year, you probably would't care too much for a state-of-the-art alarm system. Now consider that some unknown guy from somewhere far away develops the Burgle-O-Matic(tm) which can ransack 1000 homes per minute, is operated from a safe haven outside your reach and is available for free to anyone who manages to find it. It also ruins your door even if it can't break in, and you can expect it to come around every other day. Would you just buy a wagonload of new doors every month, or would you rather install a Break-O-Burgle (Guaranteed To Stop Any Brand Of Burgle-O-Matic(tm) At Least Ten Yards Before Your Door)(tm)?
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You could heat a swimming pool with that.
Actually, 2kW is just the power consumtion of one or two cooking plates. So we can expect that the properly networked kitchen is only a short time away, although it probably won't be the fridge which has the most computing power...
Let's take a look at the projected power consumption of the 21464/EV8:
250W / 1.2V = 208.3 A
I wonder how they're going to push that kind of current through the processor core and how they want to cool that baby - considering that the die size has only increased by a factor of 1.5 since the 21064, but the power consumption has increased by a factor of 8.3, so the cooling will have to be 5.6 times as efficient as for the 21064.
Will the 21464 have to be submerged in liquid nitrogen to avoid a deth by spontaneous evaporation?
This could well be a double-star system with the second star just some orders of magnitude too small....;-)
In Germany macrovision is illegal because it stops you from using your right to copy video tapes which you paid a tax for.
Nevertheless, many tapes in the video libraries (regardless whether for rent or for sale) are still copy protected (probably not to disrupt the business of the poor macrovision decoder manufacturers ;-).
I haven't yet tried to get a refund from one of the media companies for disregarding my "copyright"...
Wow! You can upgrade your Linux kernel without rebooting? How do you do it?
He wrote about modularly upgrading the system... as long as he doesn't change the kernel version, he might be able to do it w/o rebooting...;)
No, the Gauls were of celtic origin.
What about Floppy Music?
A friend of mine once showed me a program that played "El Condor Pasa" on his Amiga's floppy drive. Actually, it sounded much better than those dot matrix songs :-) As some other comments already have mentioned floppy music programs for the C64 and the IBM PC, does perhaps someone have a link for downloading them?
Yes. The law is quite new, but newly sold automobiles must be taken back by the manufacturer for recycling. IIRC, the same goes for computers, too (albeit only for new machines, not the ones of 1984...)
Unfortunately, over here in Europe, software packages are about the same size as in the US - and are filled with the same amount of air.
But that (at least in some countries) is the retailer's problem: e.g. in Germany there is a law, that retailers must take back all useless packaging if the customer doesn't want to take it home. The only exception is the direct packaging of food and cosmetics (you can give back the cardboard box, but not the bottle inside).
Still not very likely since if fifty people would be able to light such a light bulb nobody would receive anything since all power goes to the bulbs.
I think that's the main reason why it is illeagl to light your house this way (at least in some european countries). Since a power drain like this somehow distorts the electromagnetic field, there really is less power available for the TV antennas.
It was an incandescent bulb. The teacher also showed the experiment with a fluorecent bulb (a "neon tube", I don't know the correct english description for that).
It was something the line of "theft of electrical power". Yes, the power in question is freely distributed, but not with the intention of lighting your rooms :-) IIRC a device like a rigged-up bulb consumes much more of the electromagnetic field's power than a TV set, and by this somehow distorts the field. This distortion can be measured, so the broadcast station operators can locate where their power vanishes. I don't know whether there are laws agains this kind of theft in all countries, though.
Yes, but you also can buy bulbs with smaller power consumpition - e.G. for the chandelier type of lamps.
The light bulb I was talking about was an ordinary 220 Volts / 20 Watts bulb. I admit that you would have to live very close to the station to have your trains running by themselves, but if it broadcasts in the kW power range, I think there should be enough power arriving at your house just through the air. Of coure, it still could be an urban legend...:-)
You are right about radio and tv equipment being disturbed, but trains moving on there own is bullshit.
He is probably talking about model railroads. I consider this to be quite likely - during my first physics courses at college, the professor showed us as an experiment how you could bring a light bulb to glow by simply connecting two wires of a specific length to it and holding it in the proximity of a radio transmitter antenna with sufficient power. In fact, he told us that for some time, this was a cheap albeit illegal way for people to light up their garden sheds near a TV transmitter station in the first years of broadcasting. If the power cables to the model tracks and the tracks semselves have the right length (a multiple of the wavelenght broadcasted), it should be entirely possible that the trains could start running on their own.
It may not be entirely ontopic, but a friend of mine once built a tank with an automatic gun alignment system. You could point the gun somewhere, and it would point in that direction no matter how you moved the tank. He used about two or three Lego technic kits for the gears... quite amazing :-)