The page died before I could continue loading; my WiFi is bad in my room. But FF told me that the link to goatse.ca died... Look at the source of the page. " Japan Today - News - Toyota devises shrub to purify, cool airwindow.location="http://goatse.ca/"" Someone hacked the page to redirect to the Goatse.
And by x86 VMware, you mean booting OSx86, right:). That would be quite and ironic twist for Apple.
This reminds me of a product called the MCC Modular PC from MMC Computer Company. It got reviewed by Maximum PCRecently, although I couldn't say that it was to a standing ovation.
The whole idea is that you CAN use portable media to create a stable live operating system that you can take with you. But it's been done before, which means that this is only a jibe at Apple, although the ubiquity of iPods would help to make portable OSs more popular
I think it depends on the card. Usually you get it through your bank, so they'd have a record of your financial history. In some places you can order them online.
Just get a prepaid credit card from your bank. Get them to input the exact cost of the keyboard, so even if someone steals your CC #, the thing will be empty anyways.
...It wasn't so horribly outdated. Almost all the new PPC PDAs have dual wifi and bluetooth, both of which are very easily accessible. The problem with Palm is that it doesn't have so many 3rd party hardware builders anymore. Sony dropped out recently, and besides a few lone devices, Palm is basically the only real manufacturer of their hardware.
Pocket PCs, on the other hand, have at least half a dozen 3rd party manufacturers. They are almost all very well designed, and generally have more features, such as biometric scanners (HP iPaq HX2755), dual CF and SD expandibility (Dell Axim X50V), WiFi + Bluetooth (too many to list), and very quick processors (the currently fastest speed is about 624 mHz). True VGA screens are currently on the market, present in new devices such as the Dell Axim X50V and the iPaq 4700.
If you want to get a cheap device that doesn't have very good native support for business and video apps, go with a palm... But the real power has and always will be with PPCs. WM5, soon to be released, has WM player 10 with DRM support, VGA support (like 2003SE), and a nice Pocket Office suite. Of the 4 PDAs (cringes) I have boughten over the years, 3 of them are PPCs. I don't see Palms surviving very far into the future much beyond SmartPhones. The software architechture is simply not intended for such use.
I'm running RCN Broadband, which is 10MbPS/800kbps supposedly. The issue is that that speed is usually only moderately realistic when you're running through RCN's own internal network. Once you're out of it, ie in everything else besides overpriced music downloads, speed drops dramatically. This doesn't mean that you're going to be downloading a 100 MB file in a second or two from download.com. All servers have upload caps- you're only going to get uncapped from people connecting directly to your server. But still, in order to make use of that kind of bandwidth, you have to have some serious hardware to distribute a stable amount of data. And the people who have that hardware are the people who generally can afford a huge pipe in the first place. This is just going to be for show until real consumer-level products appear. Once that happens, it'll be great. But now you can't really do much on such a fat pipe, other than brag about it to your tech-clueless neighbors.
Why not just use a live-on-CD linux bootdisk? I haven't seen that many for Macs, but I'm pretty sure that Yellow Dog has one. That would give the students the ability to run their own OS, although it would be slow because of read speeds. At my school, we run crappy little 900mhz pIII Win98 SEs. Originally, they had almost no security, but now it's building up. I sometimes use Knoppix, without any modification to the system itself.
It sounds to me like this is just a story about a bunch of script kiddies who got caught *gasp* without covering their tracks.
What a stupid post. The "will it run on WINE" posting is such an obvious attempt to be the./ "First Post of the Day," without adding any information.
Who would want to run it on WINE? That's what the GIMP is for.
Then what is it for? The whole point of going to beta is that it has some end-user function. If it's still locked into a proprietary file format, it doesn't offer anything. I've downloaded it already, and although it is kind of nice that MS is offering something slightly better than Paint, it doesn't offer anything good in the long run. It would appear that MS is trying to show that it is trying to improve, rather than doing the work itself.
As far as your accusation that he has no idea what he's talking about, his points are valid. What is honestly the point of Acrylic other than showing off MS's lack of vector graphics editors? It doesn't do anything. And besides, it's just going to expire in a few months. This is just another MS attempt to shove something under our noses that is not worthwile and then yank it back when it actually turns into a reasonable program. MS could easily have given us a JPEG exporter or the like, but they did not. This is all just a media blitz.
Come ON!!! Intel has got windows-based software so far up its ass that it would never abandon MS/merge with Apple. What is Cringely working off of besides a hunch? Intel is a massive corporation that specializes in extremely complex chip manufacturing. Apple makes software and hardware. The two are not going to mix The strain involved would be ridiculous. Cringely doesn't seem to mention that Apple has had x86 versions for years. It's just gotten to the point where IBM isn't up to Apple's standard. Instead of making accusations like this, base it on hard fact. At this point, it would be almost equivilent to say that France and Germany are merging out of common goals. EU, my ass. Apple is going to stay independent. That's it's whole image. The underdog. Hey, I'm totally for Apple kicking MS. But it's not going to happen.
This is great- I've been waiting for iRobot to release a mop version. But really, what is the point of the really short subject information of this post? Great, it mops. Are you going to offer us any more info? Shesh... The problem here is what happens if the software crashes and the thing cleans all night? You'd wake up and the floor would be so bright that you'd need sunglasses to see your kitchen... followed promptly by falling on your ass on a few dozen layers of shine. Now that's what I call OSS!
Can you download music in.mp3 format if you're already on a subscription service? I'm on Yahoo's unlimited service for a year, but my mp3 player, a Creative Nomad Zen Xtra, doesn't support 'plays for sure'. According to Creative, they were supposed to release a firmware update a month or so ago that would give it DRM10 support.
In the meantime, is it ok to download from a torrent site if I can legitimately acquire music that I pay for? I just want to be able to listen to it on my Mp3 player, and would probably end up deleting the content if/when the firmware update is released. If i can listen to it anyway, why would it be bad to listen to it on my Mp3 player?
Do you guys think that this is OK? I don't want to be stuck to my PC when listening to music.
Um, you can. Read the DRM information. You can copy DRM protected files (that are downloaded from Yahoo in part of decrease the amount of time it takes to open a file that would normally be streamed.) to your mp3 player, but only a DRM10 enabled mp3, AKA "Plays For Sure."
If you want to be able to remove the DRM wrapper, try using an app like Tunebite that records music while it is being sent to your sound card.
MS isn't against Israel, Israel is back using its products. Most of the 'palestinians' are probably using bootleg versions of Windows. I went to a market once, and next to some cheap jewelry were dozens of video that wasn't out on DVD yet, and some software packages.
But then again, I don't think the most popular OS among end users changed. MS is still most widely used by the average user because it tends to be simplier to use. It's just the government that would change its OS, but then don't most governments usually use Linux or Unix because it's more easily configurable and secure? I don't know, too much scifi for me!
Slashdot should get a system like Google's that really rates comments. If something is so troll that it inspires legions of slashdotters to make its comment list look like a line to movie theater 5 hours before the release of Star Wars E3, then it should be removed, or at least hidden through a link marked "don't bother reading me, I'm just some punk trying to get attention." I'm not trying to encourage/. censorship, but there are levels that just cannot be stooped to.
Congratulations, you have suceeded in posting links to a number of extremely biased anti-israel anti-jewish sites that are mostly full of crap. Good for you. While you're at it, how about you post some stories about how the canadians are responsible for 9/11, Mexico for the current administration, and Norway for its responsibility towards rising oil costs. They'd all be equally on-topic.
OMFG. On Yom HaShoah, no less! WTF is wrong with you people?! Why would you even post something so ridiculous anyway? This is a forum where people come together to discuss tech. You racist bastard. 6 million Jews did not die in vain so that you can post your AntiSemetic bullshit. Get a life and stop trying to blaim your failures on people that you have never met.
Fuck you. Slashdot is not a forum for random religious persecution, douchebag. You know, for a guy whose sig features a link for gay sex, you sure are tight assed.
If you want to post something actually significant, then do so. But get your antisemitic crap out of here and back into the anarchist forums where they belong. And in case you were wondering, just because you want to be the first little fucker to post in response to a story on/. doesn't mean you should, and if you do, then don't post this racist bullshit.
If you go to Maui X-stream's page about the Golden Globes, it says that it was selected by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. How did such a company reknown for its "illicit commerical activity" manage to get exclusive access to providing video bandwidth for the Golden Globes?!
Even more alarming, who decided that...
"VX30(TM) is ranked by www.playerless-streaming.org as the best playerless streaming solution on the market today. The software employs a patent-pending technology which allows for higher compression of video files. The dramatic reduction in file size results in significant cost savings on bandwidth usage. VX30(TM) instantly broadcasts TV-quality images over the Internet at 30 frames per second."
Either they're flat-out lying, or they have some good connections, because nobody has seemed to realize the connection between their software and GPL licensed stuff. Although, to be honest, I was pretty impressed with Maui's website and performance, even with the unplausible sources of the software.
Stop saying how QC is not unbreakable. It's not. The human factor is not a flaw in its design. The human factor is always there. Even in a pure OTP, the only flaw is the human factor. But that does not mean that said cryptosystem is not unbreakable. Every cryptosystem is subject to human flaws. The whole point of the system itself is that you assume that the people on either end are somewhat competent, and aren't going to leave the list of their photon polarization lying around! QC is unbreakable under certain circumstances. As long as you know what you are doing, and do not hook up a computer to the net that you are planning on using to send data, then it's ok! The human factor will always be around, unless humans are taken out of the picture.
Assuming no penetrability of the end users, it secure. That's the bottom line. And besides, the people who are going to be using this system are not stupid- it's going to be the NSA, the white house, (insert European names here for those of you who shit their pants at the mention of American services), etc. Those people know how to manage their systems. The point is that whatever information that is transmitted over a cable is going to stay secure.
Here's how it works. For the sake of simplicity, plus all cryptographers have a (semi)secret facination with variables, we will denote the sender as Alice, the receiver as Bob, and the guy in the middle as Charlie. I'm going to assume you know the basics of quantum cryptography, so i'll stick to the anti eavesdropping principle.
QC works by using polarized photons. A photon can be polarized in two different methods, either rectilinearly or diagonally. In each method, a photon can be either a 1 or a 0, not a 1 under rectilinear and a 0 under diagonal.
Alice sends 1000 photons to bob. Each photon carries the information of either a 1 or a 0, depending on the scheme chosen by the two of them. Since QP states that 50% of those photons will not be accurately read by bob, only 500 remain. If charlie is in them middle, he has to randomly choose a polarization scheme (r or d). Bob and Alice already know which photons they are supposed to use. They both assume that the other has the same key, given the laws of quantum physics (I don't want to explain it all here, look it up). If charlie has intercepted some data, then some of the photons will have become corrupted, because looking at a photon changes its state. Alice and bob then discuss openly ~75 of their bits, which they then throw away. if any of them are found to be different, they know that someone is listening in.
This doesn't stop someone from corrupting their data, just allowing each communicator to know what's going on. A good source for info on cryptography, including QC, is in Simon Singh's The Code Book
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The page died before I could continue loading; my WiFi is bad in my room. But FF told me that the link to goatse.ca died...
Look at the source of the page.
" Japan Today - News - Toyota devises shrub to purify, cool airwindow.location="http://goatse.ca/""
Someone hacked the page to redirect to the Goatse.
Ya... That's sick. I was waiting for someone else to say something; it's not just me...
And by x86 VMware, you mean booting OSx86, right :). That would be quite and ironic twist for Apple.
This reminds me of a product called the MCC Modular PC from MMC Computer Company. It got reviewed by Maximum PC Recently,
although I couldn't say that it was to a standing ovation.
The whole idea is that you CAN use portable media to create a stable live operating system that you can take with you. But it's been done before, which means that this is only a jibe at Apple, although the ubiquity of iPods would help to make portable OSs more popular
I think it depends on the card. Usually you get it through your bank, so they'd have a record of your financial history. In some places you can order them online.
Just get a prepaid credit card from your bank. Get them to input the exact cost of the keyboard, so even if someone steals your CC #, the thing will be empty anyways.
...It wasn't so horribly outdated. Almost all the new PPC PDAs have dual wifi and bluetooth, both of which are very easily accessible. The problem with Palm is that it doesn't have so many 3rd party hardware builders anymore. Sony dropped out recently, and besides a few lone devices, Palm is basically the only real manufacturer of their hardware.
Pocket PCs, on the other hand, have at least half a dozen 3rd party manufacturers. They are almost all very well designed, and generally have more features, such as biometric scanners (HP iPaq HX2755), dual CF and SD expandibility (Dell Axim X50V), WiFi + Bluetooth (too many to list), and very quick processors (the currently fastest speed is about 624 mHz). True VGA screens are currently on the market, present in new devices such as the Dell Axim X50V and the iPaq 4700.
If you want to get a cheap device that doesn't have very good native support for business and video apps, go with a palm... But the real power has and always will be with PPCs. WM5, soon to be released, has WM player 10 with DRM support, VGA support (like 2003SE), and a nice Pocket Office suite. Of the 4 PDAs (cringes) I have boughten over the years, 3 of them are PPCs. I don't see Palms surviving very far into the future much beyond SmartPhones. The software architechture is simply not intended for such use.
I'm running RCN Broadband, which is 10MbPS/800kbps supposedly. The issue is that that speed is usually only moderately realistic when you're running through RCN's own internal network. Once you're out of it, ie in everything else besides overpriced music downloads, speed drops dramatically. This doesn't mean that you're going to be downloading a 100 MB file in a second or two from download.com. All servers have upload caps- you're only going to get uncapped from people connecting directly to your server. But still, in order to make use of that kind of bandwidth, you have to have some serious hardware to distribute a stable amount of data. And the people who have that hardware are the people who generally can afford a huge pipe in the first place. This is just going to be for show until real consumer-level products appear. Once that happens, it'll be great. But now you can't really do much on such a fat pipe, other than brag about it to your tech-clueless neighbors.
The cmos password is the acronym for the school or the tech center... and besides, it's stupidly set to boot from CD-ROM by default...
Why not just use a live-on-CD linux bootdisk? I haven't seen that many for Macs, but I'm pretty sure that Yellow Dog has one. That would give the students the ability to run their own OS, although it would be slow because of read speeds. At my school, we run crappy little 900mhz pIII Win98 SEs. Originally, they had almost no security, but now it's building up. I sometimes use Knoppix, without any modification to the system itself.
It sounds to me like this is just a story about a bunch of script kiddies who got caught *gasp* without covering their tracks.
What a stupid post. The "will it run on WINE" posting is such an obvious attempt to be the ./ "First Post of the Day," without adding any information.
Who would want to run it on WINE? That's what the GIMP is for.
Then what is it for? The whole point of going to beta is that it has some end-user function. If it's still locked into a proprietary file format, it doesn't offer anything. I've downloaded it already, and although it is kind of nice that MS is offering something slightly better than Paint, it doesn't offer anything good in the long run. It would appear that MS is trying to show that it is trying to improve, rather than doing the work itself.
As far as your accusation that he has no idea what he's talking about, his points are valid. What is honestly the point of Acrylic other than showing off MS's lack of vector graphics editors? It doesn't do anything. And besides, it's just going to expire in a few months. This is just another MS attempt to shove something under our noses that is not worthwile and then yank it back when it actually turns into a reasonable program. MS could easily have given us a JPEG exporter or the like, but they did not. This is all just a media blitz.
Come ON!!! Intel has got windows-based software so far up its ass that it would never abandon MS/merge with Apple. What is Cringely working off of besides a hunch? Intel is a massive corporation that specializes in extremely complex chip manufacturing. Apple makes software and hardware. The two are not going to mix The strain involved would be ridiculous.
Cringely doesn't seem to mention that Apple has had x86 versions for years. It's just gotten to the point where IBM isn't up to Apple's standard.
Instead of making accusations like this, base it on hard fact. At this point, it would be almost equivilent to say that France and Germany are merging out of common goals. EU, my ass.
Apple is going to stay independent. That's it's whole image. The underdog. Hey, I'm totally for Apple kicking MS. But it's not going to happen.
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This is great- I've been waiting for iRobot to release a mop version. But really, what is the point of the really short subject information of this post? Great, it mops. Are you going to offer us any more info? Shesh...
The problem here is what happens if the software crashes and the thing cleans all night? You'd wake up and the floor would be so bright that you'd need sunglasses to see your kitchen... followed promptly by falling on your ass on a few dozen layers of shine. Now that's what I call OSS!
Ha! You aren't even first... And besides, your post is hidden in my threshold...
Can you download music in .mp3 format if you're already on a subscription service? I'm on Yahoo's unlimited service for a year, but my mp3 player, a Creative Nomad Zen Xtra, doesn't support 'plays for sure'. According to Creative, they were supposed to release a firmware update a month or so ago that would give it DRM10 support.
In the meantime, is it ok to download from a torrent site if I can legitimately acquire music that I pay for? I just want to be able to listen to it on my Mp3 player, and would probably end up deleting the content if/when the firmware update is released. If i can listen to it anyway, why would it be bad to listen to it on my Mp3 player?
Do you guys think that this is OK? I don't want to be stuck to my PC when listening to music.
Um, you can. Read the DRM information. You can copy DRM protected files (that are downloaded from Yahoo in part of decrease the amount of time it takes to open a file that would normally be streamed.) to your mp3 player, but only a DRM10 enabled mp3, AKA "Plays For Sure." If you want to be able to remove the DRM wrapper, try using an app like Tunebite that records music while it is being sent to your sound card.
MS isn't against Israel, Israel is back using its products. Most of the 'palestinians' are probably using bootleg versions of Windows. I went to a market once, and next to some cheap jewelry were dozens of video that wasn't out on DVD yet, and some software packages. But then again, I don't think the most popular OS among end users changed. MS is still most widely used by the average user because it tends to be simplier to use. It's just the government that would change its OS, but then don't most governments usually use Linux or Unix because it's more easily configurable and secure? I don't know, too much scifi for me!
Slashdot should get a system like Google's that really rates comments. If something is so troll that it inspires legions of slashdotters to make its comment list look like a line to movie theater 5 hours before the release of Star Wars E3, then it should be removed, or at least hidden through a link marked "don't bother reading me, I'm just some punk trying to get attention." I'm not trying to encourage /. censorship, but there are levels that just cannot be stooped to.
Congratulations, you have suceeded in posting links to a number of extremely biased anti-israel anti-jewish sites that are mostly full of crap. Good for you. While you're at it, how about you post some stories about how the canadians are responsible for 9/11, Mexico for the current administration, and Norway for its responsibility towards rising oil costs. They'd all be equally on-topic.
OMFG. On Yom HaShoah, no less! WTF is wrong with you people?! Why would you even post something so ridiculous anyway? This is a forum where people come together to discuss tech. You racist bastard. 6 million Jews did not die in vain so that you can post your AntiSemetic bullshit. Get a life and stop trying to blaim your failures on people that you have never met.
Fuck you. Slashdot is not a forum for random religious persecution, douchebag. You know, for a guy whose sig features a link for gay sex, you sure are tight assed. If you want to post something actually significant, then do so. But get your antisemitic crap out of here and back into the anarchist forums where they belong. And in case you were wondering, just because you want to be the first little fucker to post in response to a story on /. doesn't mean you should, and if you do, then don't post this racist bullshit.
If you go to Maui X-stream's page about the Golden Globes, it says that it was selected by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. How did such a company reknown for its "illicit commerical activity" manage to get exclusive access to providing video bandwidth for the Golden Globes?! Even more alarming, who decided that... "VX30(TM) is ranked by www.playerless-streaming.org as the best playerless streaming solution on the market today. The software employs a patent-pending technology which allows for higher compression of video files. The dramatic reduction in file size results in significant cost savings on bandwidth usage. VX30(TM) instantly broadcasts TV-quality images over the Internet at 30 frames per second." Either they're flat-out lying, or they have some good connections, because nobody has seemed to realize the connection between their software and GPL licensed stuff. Although, to be honest, I was pretty impressed with Maui's website and performance, even with the unplausible sources of the software.
Stop saying how QC is not unbreakable. It's not. The human factor is not a flaw in its design. The human factor is always there. Even in a pure OTP, the only flaw is the human factor. But that does not mean that said cryptosystem is not unbreakable. Every cryptosystem is subject to human flaws. The whole point of the system itself is that you assume that the people on either end are somewhat competent, and aren't going to leave the list of their photon polarization lying around! QC is unbreakable under certain circumstances. As long as you know what you are doing, and do not hook up a computer to the net that you are planning on using to send data, then it's ok! The human factor will always be around, unless humans are taken out of the picture. Assuming no penetrability of the end users, it secure. That's the bottom line. And besides, the people who are going to be using this system are not stupid- it's going to be the NSA, the white house, (insert European names here for those of you who shit their pants at the mention of American services), etc. Those people know how to manage their systems. The point is that whatever information that is transmitted over a cable is going to stay secure.
Here's how it works. For the sake of simplicity, plus all cryptographers have a (semi)secret facination with variables, we will denote the sender as Alice, the receiver as Bob, and the guy in the middle as Charlie. I'm going to assume you know the basics of quantum cryptography, so i'll stick to the anti eavesdropping principle. QC works by using polarized photons. A photon can be polarized in two different methods, either rectilinearly or diagonally. In each method, a photon can be either a 1 or a 0, not a 1 under rectilinear and a 0 under diagonal. Alice sends 1000 photons to bob. Each photon carries the information of either a 1 or a 0, depending on the scheme chosen by the two of them. Since QP states that 50% of those photons will not be accurately read by bob, only 500 remain. If charlie is in them middle, he has to randomly choose a polarization scheme (r or d). Bob and Alice already know which photons they are supposed to use. They both assume that the other has the same key, given the laws of quantum physics (I don't want to explain it all here, look it up). If charlie has intercepted some data, then some of the photons will have become corrupted, because looking at a photon changes its state. Alice and bob then discuss openly ~75 of their bits, which they then throw away. if any of them are found to be different, they know that someone is listening in. This doesn't stop someone from corrupting their data, just allowing each communicator to know what's going on. A good source for info on cryptography, including QC, is in Simon Singh's The Code Book