Something else to think about... 160G would give you about 30 _days_ worth of music, if you listened to it non-stop 24/7. If you listened to it for 4 hours a day, it would be over 6 months before it would repeat itself, except you'd probably just skip over a lot of the tracks...
I know of stacks of people who don't watch much TV because they can just download the episodes from the internet. And they do download the episodes from the internet. All of them. But they still don't watch them.
It's like they have to have all the latest albums and episodes...
This sort of behaviour seems to fit the diagnostic criteria of at least one mental disorder... depending on how you apply the term 'theft' to the concept of 'downloading stuff from the internet without permission from the owner'.
I've implemented a similar but much simpler thing on a linux router using ipt_recent. It stops ftp/ssh scans very quickly. I have about 32 addresses in a/24 that aren't used and if hit will trigger this blocking behaviour. Ditto for a bunch of ports (1434, 445, etc).
The fact that they don't ship with a randomly selected admin password is completely insane.
Less work for them. They don't have to muck around with cases where the wrong password got programmed into the wrong box.
The only solution I can think of is a web page redirector or something that forces you to set a password before you use the thing. I know some ISP's do that.
At least one manufacturer makes an adapter that will split a (eg) 2048x768 signal into 2 x 1024x768 separate signals to drive two monitors. That's the solution that some of our clients are using to get 3 displays. You need a bit of smarts on the O/S itself to treat the one screen as two, but once you do that it works well.
I agree with you about two screens being a minimum though. The attraction for me isn't so much the screen size, it's having two distinct workspaces. A 30" single screen probably wouldn't be as nice for the stuff I do as two 15" screens is.
I'm borrowing my neighbor's wireless network right now A VPN? How cute! too. Seems to be working just And stop trying to SSH! fine. Hmmm... I smell cookies...
Your analogy works just fine if you're Jay Leno, but what if you're not??? Also, there are probably several persons on this Earth named Jay Leno. How do we know which one you are referring to?
I was helping out someone over the phone at a client's remote office. He'd just come back from overseas and could connect to the wireless network and access the internet but couldn't connect to any of the internal systems. After checking all the obvious things I established a remote control session to his laptop and started looking around. The IP address of the wireless interface was nothing like what it should have been. I then connected to the Access point he was using and found that it was set up nothing like it should have been and DHCP was enabled. Aha! I thought. The Access point has been reset to factory defaults. I threw a new config at it and rebooted it, but things still weren't working right.
Eventually, I figured out that while he was away, someone in a neighboring office must have set up an access point with the same SSID (NETGEAR - so the chances of it happening were pretty high!) and his laptop decided to connect to that instead. And i'd just reconfigured it with a fairly high level of security. Oops.
Oh well... maybe next time their neighbor will put security on their access point!
I was once asked to prepare some data for the opposing side in a court case. My instructions were fairly simple:
1. Take the.MDB database 2. Load the data into a spreadsheet 3. Export it as a CSV 4. Open it in notepad and remove all the commas and end of line characters 5. Print it
The printed copy of the data was what would be given to the other parties lawyers.
And make sure those tests are done on a poorly maintained car.
Yes, that is probably the most important of all. I'd want to see the car driven to destruction several times (eg all the bits that fail replaced with the cheapest aftermarket parts and fitted by the cheapest possible mechanic, just enough to get the car going again)
I'd also want to see the car shot at with one of these microwave vehicle stopper's several thousand times and see the car fail in a safe-as-possible way every single time.
I'd want to see the car computer itself say 'Nope. I am _not_ driving another inch until problem X is resolved and said solution signed off by a mechanic, with their fully verifiable digital signature so that if it can be proven that they didn't do their job properly they can be prosecuted'.
I'd also want to see the manufacturer fully accountable for any accidents caused by faults in such a system, unless it can be proven that someone deliberately circumvented their safety measures. Of course that almost certainly means that services will be expensive, and have to be carried out by a licensed service center, and you'll void the warranty (and thus forfeit your license to drive the car on the road) if you even think about popping the hood...
This article partly agrees with you. The Toyota Prius apparantly has Drive By Wire braking, but not steering. I imagine the handbrake is probably still purely mechanical, for what that's worth.
A hydraulic braking system has a few failure modes which will leave you with no brakes, no matter how hard you stand on the pedal. If you can create a Drive By Wire system that matches that level of reliability then I think you have solved the problem.
For even a purely mechanical steering system, there is a chance that a failure can leave you with an uncontrollable vehicle. If you could match that reliability with a Steer By Wire system then, again, I think you've solved the problem. I'd want to see a few years of test data before I believed such reliability data though!
If they could design automotive brakes somewhat like heavy truck brakes, where the failure mode is 'brakes on' (the brakes don't come off until the engine has pressurised the pneumatic braking system), then the safety is increased somewhat.
Again, I still don't want to be the first to drive one, or share the road with one:)
That was my first thought... which is worse, disabling the airbag or forcing it to deploy?
With all the talk of 'drive by wire', burning out the controller could be a bad thing. I wonder if the failure mode in such a beast would be 'all brakes on hard'. Thats the best failure mode I can think of...
Develop a, perhaps an imaginative programmer out there will "De-plagiarize" To all platforms application and port it. Paste the text or graph into the box and out pops a perfect paraphrase. Yes, hmmm.
And you might think that it's as easy to take a picture of an atom with an STM as it is to take a shot with your digital camera.
has a dumberer sentence ever been uttered in a/. submission?
I don't think so. The last picture I took with my digital camera had billions of atoms captured. If an STM can only capture a few at a time then it has a lot of catching up to do!
If it's software you are working on in your own time, make sure it includes GPL code. That at least would make any legal action they might like to take so difficult that they probably won't bother.
I used to hibernate my laptop all the time, until I added some more memory and now it doesn't hibernate anymore. So these days I just put it into standby, which only takes a second or so to resume from. As a result, I only reboot on or around the second Wednesday of each month (Microsoft patch day). I'm actually quite impressed with XP's ability to stay up that long!
1. Create a domain name. 2. Create a domain name the same as in step #1 but with a 'the' in front of it. 3. Post on slashdot that the owner of #1 is suing the owner of #2 4.... 5. Profit
Slashdot Mirror
John Q. Programmer
(internet handle: Linus Torvalds)
123 Main Street
Anytown, USA
Please feel free to google my internet handle if you want to get an idea of the sort of things i've been up to...
That cuts both ways though. How many times have you played "just one more" level of a game or read "just one more" chapter in a book?
Something else to think about... 160G would give you about 30 _days_ worth of music, if you listened to it non-stop 24/7. If you listened to it for 4 hours a day, it would be over 6 months before it would repeat itself, except you'd probably just skip over a lot of the tracks...
I know of stacks of people who don't watch much TV because they can just download the episodes from the internet. And they do download the episodes from the internet. All of them. But they still don't watch them.
It's like they have to have all the latest albums and episodes...
This sort of behaviour seems to fit the diagnostic criteria of at least one mental disorder... depending on how you apply the term 'theft' to the concept of 'downloading stuff from the internet without permission from the owner'.
A member of TPB was quoted as saying "If they want those atoms then they can have them, when they pry them from our cold dead fingers".
I've implemented a similar but much simpler thing on a linux router using ipt_recent. It stops ftp/ssh scans very quickly. I have about 32 addresses in a /24 that aren't used and if hit will trigger this blocking behaviour. Ditto for a bunch of ports (1434, 445, etc).
What are you using to implement this?
And that was my point. Even though you only have 1/2 the real estate, I still find it a more useful configuration.
Less work for them. They don't have to muck around with cases where the wrong password got programmed into the wrong box.
The only solution I can think of is a web page redirector or something that forces you to set a password before you use the thing. I know some ISP's do that.
I love my USBRS232 adapter. It adds on an extra meter of cable length to any serial cable I have to work with, and gives me an activity light too.
If you are programming PLC's, don't you already need a handful of adapters anyway? What's one more?
At least one manufacturer makes an adapter that will split a (eg) 2048x768 signal into 2 x 1024x768 separate signals to drive two monitors. That's the solution that some of our clients are using to get 3 displays. You need a bit of smarts on the O/S itself to treat the one screen as two, but once you do that it works well.
I agree with you about two screens being a minimum though. The attraction for me isn't so much the screen size, it's having two distinct workspaces. A 30" single screen probably wouldn't be as nice for the stuff I do as two 15" screens is.
I'm borrowing my neighbor's wireless network right now A VPN? How cute! too. Seems to be working just And stop trying to SSH! fine. Hmmm... I smell cookies...
NO!!!
Your analogy works just fine if you're Jay Leno, but what if you're not??? Also, there are probably several persons on this Earth named Jay Leno. How do we know which one you are referring to?
I was helping out someone over the phone at a client's remote office. He'd just come back from overseas and could connect to the wireless network and access the internet but couldn't connect to any of the internal systems. After checking all the obvious things I established a remote control session to his laptop and started looking around. The IP address of the wireless interface was nothing like what it should have been. I then connected to the Access point he was using and found that it was set up nothing like it should have been and DHCP was enabled. Aha! I thought. The Access point has been reset to factory defaults. I threw a new config at it and rebooted it, but things still weren't working right.
Eventually, I figured out that while he was away, someone in a neighboring office must have set up an access point with the same SSID (NETGEAR - so the chances of it happening were pretty high!) and his laptop decided to connect to that instead. And i'd just reconfigured it with a fairly high level of security. Oops.
Oh well... maybe next time their neighbor will put security on their access point!
I was once asked to prepare some data for the opposing side in a court case. My instructions were fairly simple:
.MDB database
1. Take the
2. Load the data into a spreadsheet
3. Export it as a CSV
4. Open it in notepad and remove all the commas and end of line characters
5. Print it
The printed copy of the data was what would be given to the other parties lawyers.
I assume that the concept of "the Earth rising from the Moon" is an artifact of the Satellite orbiting the Moon...
Yes, that is probably the most important of all. I'd want to see the car driven to destruction several times (eg all the bits that fail replaced with the cheapest aftermarket parts and fitted by the cheapest possible mechanic, just enough to get the car going again)
I'd also want to see the car shot at with one of these microwave vehicle stopper's several thousand times and see the car fail in a safe-as-possible way every single time.
I'd want to see the car computer itself say 'Nope. I am _not_ driving another inch until problem X is resolved and said solution signed off by a mechanic, with their fully verifiable digital signature so that if it can be proven that they didn't do their job properly they can be prosecuted'.
I'd also want to see the manufacturer fully accountable for any accidents caused by faults in such a system, unless it can be proven that someone deliberately circumvented their safety measures. Of course that almost certainly means that services will be expensive, and have to be carried out by a licensed service center, and you'll void the warranty (and thus forfeit your license to drive the car on the road) if you even think about popping the hood...
This article partly agrees with you. The Toyota Prius apparantly has Drive By Wire braking, but not steering. I imagine the handbrake is probably still purely mechanical, for what that's worth.
:)
A hydraulic braking system has a few failure modes which will leave you with no brakes, no matter how hard you stand on the pedal. If you can create a Drive By Wire system that matches that level of reliability then I think you have solved the problem.
For even a purely mechanical steering system, there is a chance that a failure can leave you with an uncontrollable vehicle. If you could match that reliability with a Steer By Wire system then, again, I think you've solved the problem. I'd want to see a few years of test data before I believed such reliability data though!
If they could design automotive brakes somewhat like heavy truck brakes, where the failure mode is 'brakes on' (the brakes don't come off until the engine has pressurised the pneumatic braking system), then the safety is increased somewhat.
Again, I still don't want to be the first to drive one, or share the road with one
That was my first thought... which is worse, disabling the airbag or forcing it to deploy?
With all the talk of 'drive by wire', burning out the controller could be a bad thing. I wonder if the failure mode in such a beast would be 'all brakes on hard'. Thats the best failure mode I can think of...
Does it get any more perfect than that?
I don't think so. The last picture I took with my digital camera had billions of atoms captured. If an STM can only capture a few at a time then it has a lot of catching up to do!
If it's software you are working on in your own time, make sure it includes GPL code. That at least would make any legal action they might like to take so difficult that they probably won't bother.
I used to hibernate my laptop all the time, until I added some more memory and now it doesn't hibernate anymore. So these days I just put it into standby, which only takes a second or so to resume from. As a result, I only reboot on or around the second Wednesday of each month (Microsoft patch day). I'm actually quite impressed with XP's ability to stay up that long!
Subsidized tin cans and pieces of string for all!
That was my first thought too...
...
1. Create a domain name.
2. Create a domain name the same as in step #1 but with a 'the' in front of it.
3. Post on slashdot that the owner of #1 is suing the owner of #2
4.
5. Profit
The 720KB disks I used to buy were advertised with a "1MB unformatted capacity". Trouble is, they never worked when they weren't formatted...
On the other hand, the Fonzie is a very cool sounding unit.