/. flamebait have already trashed the wikipedia page linked in the news post. It now contains an attempt to spoil the latest Harry Potter book for those that care.
Maybe we should try locking any wikipedia pages before actually releasing the news post into the/. wild?
Look, when my 14 yo and his crew at middle school do wiki hacks for fun, I think it's time to admit that it's not/. that's at fault, but wiki for believing in the MSFT hype about security thru obscurity.
it doesn't work, there is no security thru obscurity.
doesn't mean you can't start a war of destruction against an innocent party.
This is the dark side of the US legal system that people from more civilised parts of the world don't understand how you can live with. Here in Europe, the greediness and brutality of uncurbed capitalism has been quite efficiently circumscribed for the main part of last century, while you happily let the robber barons screw you (and the rest of the world) in the name of Liberty. Why is that?
Wish I knew. I own both US and Euro stocks (somewhere around $300K) and I get ripped off far more often by CEOs and Execs with my US stocks. The lack of morality is appalling.
Maybe that's why SCO felt it could do something so immoral and unethical - it's regarded as Normal Business here - sad, really sad.
Err, you mean Bernie Ebbers. But the real question is: will he actually spend 25 years in jail? That's doubtful. It wouldn't be surprising if he was actually out within 2 or 3 years, and back at the helm of some corporation within half a decade from now. CEOs are never held truly accountable for their actions. It won't happen with Ebbers, and it won't happen with McBridge. That is just a flaw with the system.
He's right. In Soviet Amerika we have these things called Presidential Pardons.
Thanks to the precision and accuracy of modern electronic hardware, this calculation can be accurate to within 20 meters or less.
However, while GPS is accurate to less than a meter with error-correcting commercial or military signals [the military pulled out part of the bands, those big holes you see on the spectrum map], the commercial software/hardware allowed for export outside of NATO does NOT have this accuracy.
It's usually only accurate to about 150-200 meters.
and I used to program some scripts for Nextel that used that on Macs.
However, I am NOT certain that the version we used, which had commercial GIS plug-ins for error correction, can be exported outside of NATO.
Remember, they just applied penalties to MSFT for breaking the restrictions, and they can afford tons of lobbyists and lawyers to keep them from going to jail - a small-time developer is more likely to end up being shipped off to Gitmo no questions asked...
Can someone please explain to me what the point of this game is? I read about 2/3rds of the linked review and still have no idea; what the objective of the game is or what game play is like.
Well, imagine a first-person shooter without shooting. Ok, now cross that with an RPG with no underlying point. Now mix that with a Dance Dance Dance soundtrack, and pass that thru a mix machine.
Now imagine it's in a foreign language and your babblefish is sick and translating everything incorrectly.
on security, why is it that the Space Shuttle was disabled due to a Windows failure?
Now if they'd just used Linux or some other Open Source product like BSD, we'd have the Space Shuttle back up there fixing the Hubble, but now they have to deploy the Military Space Shuttle and install those frickin lasers...
Just imagine all the incorrect arrests
on
3D Face Cameras
·
· Score: 1
as a result of this new technology.
Don't pretend it won't happen - remember the SuperBowl fiasco...
Face it, if you want face recognition - USE A HUMAN - we're designed for that.
Who said anything about free internet or illegal? Boingo Wireless [boingo.com] is a paid subscription service.
Which is why the website only has links for paid wireless net locations.
Of course, if you live in the civilized world, like here in the U Dist in Seattle, you get free WiFi everywhere, including nearby UW, by the end of this year.
At my house in Fremont, Center of the Universe, conveniently surrounded by Seattle, my WiFi laptop can find two free and one paid wireless network.
And, contrary to my prior posts, you actually have to be a paid Fremont Arts Council member to use the WiFi provided at the Fremont Powerhouse on Fremont Ave N - we even changed the DHCP settings since someone had sniffed the change...
So long as they charge people more than $10 to recycle their old TVs, my bet is a lot of mercury will end up in the watertable when many people dump them illegally to save a buck.
I don't know about your part of the world, but the limits in my county are that the tower must be short enough that if it fell it would land inside your property lines. I have 2 acres, the narrow part of which is about 350 ft. so I can have (in theory) a 125 ft. tower (although IIRC the FAA gets to intervene above a certain height -- you know -- the red "don't fly into me lights").
Since my dad lives on a 42 acre working tree farm, that would be some really big turbines....
Slashdot Mirror
Season 1 was so dark and depressing that I could only make it through the first 3 episodes.
Dude, the world is pretty darned dark and depressing - haven't you been watching the news since 2000?
Starbuck is hot!
...
Actually, Boomer is hotter
you just need to twin the cables after the detection phase.
god, do they think we're morons who can't build our own computers from parts or something?
yet another example of security that won't work in the real world.
/. flamebait have already trashed the wikipedia page linked in the news post. It now contains an attempt to spoil the latest Harry Potter book for those that care.
/. wild?
/. that's at fault, but wiki for believing in the MSFT hype about security thru obscurity.
Maybe we should try locking any wikipedia pages before actually releasing the news post into the
Look, when my 14 yo and his crew at middle school do wiki hacks for fun, I think it's time to admit that it's not
it doesn't work, there is no security thru obscurity.
now that's gonna be an interesting kid Boomer's having.
oh, yeah, I'm watching. I may not have DVR, but I've got a digital cable reminder and it doesn't matter what any other channel programs.
Someplace to escape from the Dark Lord and his Empire!
any day now I expect to see him age dramatically before he makes his monkey grin, after he uses his Sith lightning in GITMO.
doesn't mean you can't start a war of destruction against an innocent party.
This is the dark side of the US legal system that people from more civilised parts of the world don't understand how you can live with. Here in Europe, the greediness and brutality of uncurbed capitalism has been quite efficiently circumscribed for the main part of last century, while you happily let the robber barons screw you (and the rest of the world) in the name of Liberty. Why is that?
Wish I knew. I own both US and Euro stocks (somewhere around $300K) and I get ripped off far more often by CEOs and Execs with my US stocks. The lack of morality is appalling.
Maybe that's why SCO felt it could do something so immoral and unethical - it's regarded as Normal Business here - sad, really sad.
Err, you mean Bernie Ebbers. But the real question is: will he actually spend 25 years in jail? That's doubtful. It wouldn't be surprising if he was actually out within 2 or 3 years, and back at the helm of some corporation within half a decade from now. CEOs are never held truly accountable for their actions. It won't happen with Ebbers, and it won't happen with McBridge. That is just a flaw with the system.
He's right. In Soviet Amerika we have these things called Presidential Pardons.
doesn't mean you can't start a war of destruction against an innocent party.
Especially if you have lots of lawyers and elitists who care nothing for truth and honor.
Thanks to the precision and accuracy of modern electronic hardware, this calculation can be accurate to within 20 meters or less.
However, while GPS is accurate to less than a meter with error-correcting commercial or military signals [the military pulled out part of the bands, those big holes you see on the spectrum map], the commercial software/hardware allowed for export outside of NATO does NOT have this accuracy.
It's usually only accurate to about 150-200 meters.
the other thing is the error correction routines for GPS coordinates are usually NOT exportable outside of NATO, even the commercial satellite feeds.
and I used to program some scripts for Nextel that used that on Macs.
...
However, I am NOT certain that the version we used, which had commercial GIS plug-ins for error correction, can be exported outside of NATO.
Remember, they just applied penalties to MSFT for breaking the restrictions, and they can afford tons of lobbyists and lawyers to keep them from going to jail - a small-time developer is more likely to end up being shipped off to Gitmo no questions asked
by quite a few years.
Just because you never surfed CERN in the good old days, doesn't mean it didn't exist.
We use LYNX and we LIKED it.
Can someone please explain to me what the point of this game is? I read about 2/3rds of the linked review and still have no idea; what the objective of the game is or what game play is like.
Well, imagine a first-person shooter without shooting. Ok, now cross that with an RPG with no underlying point. Now mix that with a Dance Dance Dance soundtrack, and pass that thru a mix machine.
Now imagine it's in a foreign language and your babblefish is sick and translating everything incorrectly.
It's like that.
Only more so.
I think that's the point of the whole game, based on a Geek Tech review of it I saw on PBS.
Basically, it's like taking Lemon Fun Candy
So, if you're not in that mindset, you probably have no idea as to why one would play it.
there are no false positives - just people voluntarily being interrogated in Gitmo, where the Geneva Conventions are ignored.
on security, why is it that the Space Shuttle was disabled due to a Windows failure?
...
Now if they'd just used Linux or some other Open Source product like BSD, we'd have the Space Shuttle back up there fixing the Hubble, but now they have to deploy the Military Space Shuttle and install those frickin lasers
as a result of this new technology.
...
Don't pretend it won't happen - remember the SuperBowl fiasco
Face it, if you want face recognition - USE A HUMAN - we're designed for that.
we meant tech patents in the USA.
even tho MP3 is a German firm tech, owned by the German govt, they have a US tech patent, which will probably expire in 2100.
Dear overlord,
No.
I was born here.
My whole family has served defending here.
Go back to Russia.
Sincerely,
Noone's slave
Citizen
[in reply to]
Dear Sir,
If you don't like it, leave.
Sincerely,
The Man
Director, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
just think of how cheap the next Intel chips will be!
...
oh, wait, no, that means the prices will be going up
um, darn. how was this good again?
Does anyone know? (Encoding and decoding...)
Depends. In the US, probably never, given how the Empire keeps extending the definition of "for a limited time" that the Constitution calls for.
But in the rest of the world, most likely it's somewhere between 10 years (Brazil), 30 years (most of the world), and Never (United Soviet Amerika).
Who said anything about free internet or illegal? Boingo Wireless [boingo.com] is a paid subscription service.
...
Which is why the website only has links for paid wireless net locations.
Of course, if you live in the civilized world, like here in the U Dist in Seattle, you get free WiFi everywhere, including nearby UW, by the end of this year.
At my house in Fremont, Center of the Universe, conveniently surrounded by Seattle, my WiFi laptop can find two free and one paid wireless network.
And, contrary to my prior posts, you actually have to be a paid Fremont Arts Council member to use the WiFi provided at the Fremont Powerhouse on Fremont Ave N - we even changed the DHCP settings since someone had sniffed the change
So long as they charge people more than $10 to recycle their old TVs, my bet is a lot of mercury will end up in the watertable when many people dump them illegally to save a buck.
I don't know about your part of the world, but the limits in my county are that the tower must be short enough that if it fell it would land inside your property lines. I have 2 acres, the narrow part of which is about 350 ft. so I can have (in theory) a 125 ft. tower (although IIRC the FAA gets to intervene above a certain height -- you know -- the red "don't fly into me lights").
....
Since my dad lives on a 42 acre working tree farm, that would be some really big turbines