AFAIK there is no way to get IMAP to work without both end user configuration and entering storing passwords.
You can just run the imapd executable and talk to it using stdin/stdout. Most implementations will detect this and skip the user/password and enter the PREAUTH state immediately. This way you can access any mailbox that is accessible via the filesystem (NFS, SMB, etc).
Electric Fuel is a company which makes extremely long-lived disposable zinc-air battries. Currently it's only for cellphones (lasts for weeks) but they have plans for laptop batteries, too. Would you buy a battery that will last for two transatlantic flights plus a few days of normal work at you destination for something like $20-$40? Compare that to the price of the tickets.
It's disposable, but supposed to be pretty benign environmentally.
(This is from memory so the details may not be entirely correct. Originally from the book "From the Earth To The Moon" by Buz Aldrin)
The first near approach in space was done by simply launching two rockets from the same site at an interval which is a multiple of the orbit period. This made the americans think that the russians were way ahead of them in developing space rendezvous capability.
The first mission with three crew members on board was done with a ship designed for two and a very skinny third crew member (an engineer, not a cosmonaut). Comonauts would usually leave the craft and lan with their personal parachutes - remember that the russians do not land at sea. On this improvised setup their couldn't do this. Without water to cushion the landing they had to hope that the final landing retrorockets would fire just before touchdown or they would be crushed.
Leonov's spacewalk nearly ended in disaster when his suit started to bulge from its internal pressure and seriously limited his ability to move.
On the russian spacewalks, a foldable "tent" was used to block the hatch so the interior of the ship will remain pressurized - the vacuum tube electronics could not withstand exposure to vacuum and would probably crack from thermal shock.
On an aborted countdown a general insisted that the rocket be serviced while it is fully loaded with propellant so it might still make the launch window. It exploded on the pad killing many technicians.
Unlike the alleged pre-Gagarins these extreme risks taken under pressure from politicians are well documented.
Two engineers from Bell Aerospace systems submitted a plan to NASA in 1962 for a one-way manned moon mission in order to beat the russians. The astronaut would have no means of immediate return and would be sustained on the moon by a series of supply rockets until the technology for a return mission is developed.
This wasn't a joke. These engineers were serious.
The 1962 book "The Pilgrim Project" by Hank Searle and the 1968 movie "Countdown" were based on this plan.
It seems to me that such a plan would not only have been a way to beat the russians but also a very effective budget ratchet - you can't cut the budget with a man stranded on the moon...
One type is, as you mention, those that listen from afar to their hometown radio. The other, which is possibly much bigger, is people listening to it at work within the coverage range of the station and would rather use their employer's expensive hardware and network infrastructure instead of buying a cheap FM radio.
What makes them think that I would trade one centralized and corrupt organization managing the root zone for another centralized and corrupt organization? Even if one of those alternative roots somehow magically gets very widespread support and all ISPs add it to their root zone files it will undoubtedly become at least as bad than the current situation.
An observation by Douglas Adams:
"The major problem - one of the major problems, for there are several - one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well known fact, that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem."
Apoptosis is a biological term for "cellular death". A few years ago Byte magazine published this article about a product called Apoptosis that unleashes "cellular death" on cellular phones. It supposedly disconnects cellular phone calls within a short distance. There were certainly times when people talking loudly in public places on their cellphone made me wish I had one of those.
I suspect this product was a hoad, but back in the days of analog cellphones it was actually very easy to build a device that does this: the frequency spacing between the transmit and receive frequency was exactly 40MHz. You could build a cheap device that receives the strongest signal around, mixes it with a 40MHz oscillator and transmits the result back. Multipying two sines results in the sum and difference of their frequencies - one of them will jam the receiver side of the phone very efficiently.
Wine has been going on for a long time and it still has a lot of little annoying problems with many applications because Win32 is such a big, inconsistent and poorly documented API.
Support for games may actually be easier because games tend to use a relatively small subset of the system API and mostly rely on their own coding skills rather than OS services. They like to directly control every pixel of the (full screen) display rather than rely on system widgets and standard dialogs. "Just give me access to the hardware and I'll do the rest". The DirectX API was designed to appeal to game designers by making a Windows box appear to be a DOS machine with nearly direct control of everything "What's this scheduler thing? too unpredictable. It will have to go. Message handlers? whaddya mean? gimme a polling API, that's how I did it on DOS."
Soapwater films do not always settle on the best solution, they often get stuck at a local minimum. The more complex the problem, the more likely they are to find such a local minimum.
Check out SkyStation. Their proposed system uses a statospheric platform held aloft by helium. Electric motors powered by photovoltaic cells (and betteries for the night) are used for stationkeeping. Sort of like a satellite in very low geostationary orbit.
The skin cancer story is often used by well-meaning environmentalists to scare people. In fact, the increase in ultraviolet radiation from moving a hundred miles closer to the equator is much greater than the maximum increase anticipated by the worst-case ozone depletion scenarios. Differences in lifestyle also have orders of magitude greater effect on the total UV dose you receive.
I don't like it when people spread inaccurate information. Not even for a good cause. For example, the fighting drug abuse would be served better by reliable information about drugs than by irresponsible lines and inaccurate scare stories.
Disposable credit cards are not really credit cards, they are monetary transaction tokens which happen to fit inside a field designed for a credit card number. This lets you build a completely new electronic payment system that is still compatible with online merchants desgined for the credit card system.
These tokens can use any existing billing system as a backend. It can be billed to a real credit card like the systems described in the article. It can also be debited directly from your bank account. It can even be billed through a prepayed card you can buy at the store just like a phone card. I would really like to see a system with a Paypal account as its backend (anyone at paypal listening?)
Microsoft has released a set of high quality TrueType web fonts: Times, Courier, Arial, Comic, Impact under a license that allows free use and redistribution.
The big players in the interactive television game are all building their own walled gardens. What kind of effort would it take for interactive television to evolve into a more web-like open garden model? Which new media players could fight the traditional broadcasters for a place on the screen in the living room?
Sure, this article is clearly just promotion for Sanctum's products. Yes, it's the familiar voice of clueless marketroids.
But what makes you immediately assume that the product is worthless and that techs just like you who have developed it must be dumb? Why do you label them as "so-called security"? Have you even bothered to open their web site?
I am not affiliated with sanctum, but they actually have a very nice product. From their documentation it looks like AppShield is a proxy that takes the stateless http protocol and puts a stateful inspection layer on top of it, checking for manipulation of forms, cookies, field sizes, etc.
It's easy to blame sloppy web programmers but the fact remains that the demand far exceeds the supply of qualified programmers. And even good web programmers are sometimes required to use buggy packages developed by others. In the real world of deadlines and underqualified personnel there is definitely room for a product like this. You are more than welcome to develop an open source equivalent.
The success of a bus technology depends on much more than the ability to move bits from point A to point B at a certain bitrate, either wirelessly or not.
It depends on the pricing, simplicity, application support model, ease of use, drivers, targeted applications, competition versus cooperations and other company interests, clever marketing and gathering industry momentum. Anyone here on slashdot can probably recite a list of cases where an inferior technology caught on while the better technology didn't make it.
Bluetooth is also coming from an industry with a VASTLY different corporate culture than the industry 1394 is coming from. Never underestimate the effects of corporate culture. Just think of what's happening between the Linux vs. the BSD camps - and they are much closer to each other than the cellular industry centered mostly in northern europe and the consumer electronics centered mostly in Japan.
Yes, the title of this post is intentionally inflammatory. Sure there is an environment on Mars, but as far as we know there's no biosphere and we will know for sure long before these methods become feasible. And even if there are some microbes lurking in underground hot springs - why exactly should I care? I care about people and the continued existence of the human race. Ok, so I'm a homo sapiens chauvinist. Don't expect me to apologize for that.
Unless people suddenly stop reproducing and/or decide it's OK to kill billions of people we will run out of resources here on Earth. The first option doesn't seem likely and the other... well, it's all too likely but I don't WANT it to happen.
The only other course for sustaining this exponential growth is to use the resources of outer space and do it quickly and without too much sentiments. We need do be very careful before doing anything to Mars, but not because we need to preserve it in it's current state - just because we won't have a second chance. It's the best candidate for settlement and we don't want to screw up.
Theoretically, it should be possible to slightly increase the width of all data paths and add some error correction information.
The tricky part is that not only storage and data paths would need ECC - all processing circuitry would need to support error correction with redundant circuits. Even the most basic building blocks would need to be redesigned and replaced with versions that incorporate ECC sanity checking into their internal design to take into account the fact that any intermediate stage may flip a bit. I imagine designing an error correcting adder or multiplier would be a nightmare but it's possible.
The resulting architecture would probably need to be a very simple processor, VLIW perhaps.
And I bet it would emulate a Pentium using Transmeta-style translation:-)
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Ballute=baloon+parachute
A regular parachute will not deploy because there is not enough air, but the ballute will inflate and create just enough drag in the thin atmosphere to stabilize the spacediver.
I wonder if Cheryl Stearns is also considering using a ballute for her record setting dive.
The Bunker is an ex-RAF Radar Tracking Station, designed to withstand a direct nuclear strike. It has been decomissioned and bought by a private company to serve as a "Britain's ultimate safe house" for hosting and colocation of servers. I wonder if the Exodus data centers have airtight blast doors?
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You can just run the imapd executable and talk to it using stdin/stdout. Most implementations will detect this and skip the user/password and enter the PREAUTH state immediately. This way you can access any mailbox that is accessible via the filesystem (NFS, SMB, etc).
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Electric Fuel is a company which makes extremely long-lived disposable zinc-air battries. Currently it's only for cellphones (lasts for weeks) but they have plans for laptop batteries, too. Would you buy a battery that will last for two transatlantic flights plus a few days of normal work at you destination for something like $20-$40? Compare that to the price of the tickets.
It's disposable, but supposed to be pretty benign environmentally.
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Is there any chance that stackless and microthreads might be integrated into the main python distribution?
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(This is from memory so the details may not be entirely correct. Originally from the book "From the Earth To The Moon" by Buz Aldrin)
The first near approach in space was done by simply launching two rockets from the same site at an interval which is a multiple of the orbit period. This made the americans think that the russians were way ahead of them in developing space rendezvous capability.
The first mission with three crew members on board was done with a ship designed for two and a very skinny third crew member (an engineer, not a cosmonaut). Comonauts would usually leave the craft and lan with their personal parachutes - remember that the russians do not land at sea. On this improvised setup their couldn't do this. Without water to cushion the landing they had to hope that the final landing retrorockets would fire just before touchdown or they would be crushed.
Leonov's spacewalk nearly ended in disaster when his suit started to bulge from its internal pressure and seriously limited his ability to move.
On the russian spacewalks, a foldable "tent" was used to block the hatch so the interior of the ship will remain pressurized - the vacuum tube electronics could not withstand exposure to vacuum and would probably crack from thermal shock.
On an aborted countdown a general insisted that the rocket be serviced while it is fully loaded with propellant so it might still make the launch window. It exploded on the pad killing many technicians.
Unlike the alleged pre-Gagarins these extreme risks taken under pressure from politicians are well documented.
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Two engineers from Bell Aerospace systems submitted a plan to NASA in 1962 for a one-way manned moon mission in order to beat the russians. The astronaut would have no means of immediate return and would be sustained on the moon by a series of supply rockets until the technology for a return mission is developed.
This wasn't a joke. These engineers were serious.
The 1962 book "The Pilgrim Project" by Hank Searle and the 1968 movie "Countdown" were based on this plan.
It seems to me that such a plan would not only have been a way to beat the russians but also a very effective budget ratchet - you can't cut the budget with a man stranded on the moon...
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One type is, as you mention, those that listen from afar to their hometown radio. The other, which is possibly much bigger, is people listening to it at work within the coverage range of the station and would rather use their employer's expensive hardware and network infrastructure instead of buying a cheap FM radio.
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An observation by Douglas Adams:
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(oops, hoad->hoax)
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Apoptosis is a biological term for "cellular death". A few years ago Byte magazine published this article about a product called Apoptosis that unleashes "cellular death" on cellular phones. It supposedly disconnects cellular phone calls within a short distance. There were certainly times when people talking loudly in public places on their cellphone made me wish I had one of those.
I suspect this product was a hoad, but back in the days of analog cellphones it was actually very easy to build a device that does this: the frequency spacing between the transmit and receive frequency was exactly 40MHz. You could build a cheap device that receives the strongest signal around, mixes it with a 40MHz oscillator and transmits the result back. Multipying two sines results in the sum and difference of their frequencies - one of them will jam the receiver side of the phone very efficiently.
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Wine has been going on for a long time and it still has a lot of little annoying problems with many applications because Win32 is such a big, inconsistent and poorly documented API.
Support for games may actually be easier because games tend to use a relatively small subset of the system API and mostly rely on their own coding skills rather than OS services. They like to directly control every pixel of the (full screen) display rather than rely on system widgets and standard dialogs. "Just give me access to the hardware and I'll do the rest". The DirectX API was designed to appeal to game designers by making a Windows box appear to be a DOS machine with nearly direct control of everything "What's this scheduler thing? too unpredictable. It will have to go. Message handlers? whaddya mean? gimme a polling API, that's how I did it on DOS."
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Soapwater films do not always settle on the best solution, they often get stuck at a local minimum. The more complex the problem, the more likely they are to find such a local minimum.
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Mod parent up please. It's a problem when a post with incorrect information gets "4 informative. It's worse when the reply correcting it is ignored.
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Check out SkyStation. Their proposed system uses a statospheric platform held aloft by helium. Electric motors powered by photovoltaic cells (and betteries for the night) are used for stationkeeping. Sort of like a satellite in very low geostationary orbit.
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The skin cancer story is often used by well-meaning environmentalists to scare people. In fact, the increase in ultraviolet radiation from moving a hundred miles closer to the equator is much greater than the maximum increase anticipated by the worst-case ozone depletion scenarios. Differences in lifestyle also have orders of magitude greater effect on the total UV dose you receive.
I don't like it when people spread inaccurate information. Not even for a good cause. For example, the fighting drug abuse would be served better by reliable information about drugs than by irresponsible lines and inaccurate scare stories.
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Disposable credit cards are not really credit cards, they are monetary transaction tokens which happen to fit inside a field designed for a credit card number. This lets you build a completely new electronic payment system that is still compatible with online merchants desgined for the credit card system.
These tokens can use any existing billing system as a backend. It can be billed to a real credit card like the systems described in the article. It can also be debited directly from your bank account. It can even be billed through a prepayed card you can buy at the store just like a phone card. I would really like to see a system with a Paypal account as its backend (anyone at paypal listening?)
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Microsoft has released a set of high quality TrueType web fonts: Times, Courier, Arial, Comic, Impact under a license that allows free use and redistribution.
.exe but it's a self-extracting zipfile. You can open it with unzip.
Get it Here.
The extension is
Someone has also packaged it as an RPM
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The big players in the interactive television game are all building their own walled gardens. What kind of effort would it take for interactive television to evolve into a more web-like open garden model? Which new media players could fight the traditional broadcasters for a place on the screen in the living room?
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Sure, this article is clearly just promotion for Sanctum's products. Yes, it's the familiar voice of clueless marketroids.
But what makes you immediately assume that the product is worthless and that techs just like you who have developed it must be dumb? Why do you label them as "so-called security"? Have you even bothered to open their web site?
I am not affiliated with sanctum, but they actually have a very nice product. From their documentation it looks like AppShield is a proxy that takes the stateless http protocol and puts a stateful inspection layer on top of it, checking for manipulation of forms, cookies, field sizes, etc.
It's easy to blame sloppy web programmers but the fact remains that the demand far exceeds the supply of qualified programmers. And even good web programmers are sometimes required to use buggy packages developed by others. In the real world of deadlines and underqualified personnel there is definitely room for a product like this. You are more than welcome to develop an open source equivalent.
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The success of a bus technology depends on much more than the ability to move bits from point A to point B at a certain bitrate, either wirelessly or not.
It depends on the pricing, simplicity, application support model, ease of use, drivers, targeted applications, competition versus cooperations and other company interests, clever marketing and gathering industry momentum. Anyone here on slashdot can probably recite a list of cases where an inferior technology caught on while the better technology didn't make it.
Bluetooth is also coming from an industry with a VASTLY different corporate culture than the industry 1394 is coming from. Never underestimate the effects of corporate culture. Just think of what's happening between the Linux vs. the BSD camps - and they are much closer to each other than the cellular industry centered mostly in northern europe and the consumer electronics centered mostly in Japan.
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Yes, the title of this post is intentionally inflammatory. Sure there is an environment on Mars, but as far as we know there's no biosphere and we will know for sure long before these methods become feasible. And even if there are some microbes lurking in underground hot springs - why exactly should I care? I care about people and the continued existence of the human race. Ok, so I'm a homo sapiens chauvinist. Don't expect me to apologize for that.
Unless people suddenly stop reproducing and/or decide it's OK to kill billions of people we will run out of resources here on Earth. The first option doesn't seem likely and the other... well, it's all too likely but I don't WANT it to happen.
The only other course for sustaining this exponential growth is to use the resources of outer space and do it quickly and without too much sentiments. We need do be very careful before doing anything to Mars, but not because we need to preserve it in it's current state - just because we won't have a second chance. It's the best candidate for settlement and we don't want to screw up.
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Theoretically, it should be possible to slightly increase the width of all data paths and add some error correction information.
:-)
The tricky part is that not only storage and data paths would need ECC - all processing circuitry would need to support error correction with redundant circuits. Even the most basic building blocks would need to be redesigned and replaced with versions that incorporate ECC sanity checking into their internal design to take into account the fact that any intermediate stage may flip a bit. I imagine designing an error correcting adder or multiplier would be a nightmare but it's possible.
The resulting architecture would probably need to be a very simple processor, VLIW perhaps.
And I bet it would emulate a Pentium using Transmeta-style translation
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The Jargon file entry for the word "Boxen".
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Ballute=baloon+parachute
A regular parachute will not deploy because there is not enough air, but the ballute will inflate and create just enough drag in the thin atmosphere to stabilize the spacediver.
I wonder if Cheryl Stearns is also considering using a ballute for her record setting dive.
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The Bunker is an ex-RAF Radar Tracking Station, designed to withstand a direct nuclear strike. It has been decomissioned and bought by a private company to serve as a "Britain's ultimate safe house" for hosting and colocation of servers. I wonder if the Exodus data centers have airtight blast doors?
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