How is Debian on my handheld less secure than Debian on my desktop?
That's an easy one, when was the last time your heard of a workstation being accidentally left in a taxi? Or left at a pub? Or being stolen from someone's handbag? Your handheld is much more likely to go 'missing' than your workstation. All other things being equal, a device that easier to steal or more likely to be misplaced is less secure than one that is harder to steal.
By how much it is less secure is a different matter of course. If you use whole disk encryption on both and your passphrases are 'unguessable' then the difference is probably going to be negligible.
Also, this is not the case with a console game, where I need, again, to perform my own hardware hacks. A mod chip costs significantly today, and when the GPU, CPU, RAM and DRM chip will be integrated on a single dye, a mod chip will be impossible, and one would need to hack his own silicon.
I sometimes wonder if turning a bit of a blind eye to the console mod chip market is in the interests of the console makers. If they are selling their consoles at an outright loss (which they allegedly do initially) then obviously they are losing money if people are copying games rather than purchasing them, but eventually the manufacturing costs come down enough that this isn't true.
How many less people would have bought a ps/ps2 if there wasn't a mod chip available for it? We have a ps2 which isn't modded, and most of the games we have bought have been really cheap and/or included extra hardware (sing star, buzz, etc). But, we bought that after the ps3 had been out for a while so it wasn't really expensive.
I guess the question I have is, if Vendor A released a console with completely solid state unhackable DRM, and simultaneously Vendor B released a console with no DRM whatsoever, and both consoles were otherwise pretty much equal in terms of features, who would 'win'? More people might buy B because they can illegally copy the games, but the game developers might develop more for A for precisely the same reason... but if there would no good games for B then nobody would buy it, but if nobody was buying A then the developers might not bother with developing games for it... it would be an interesting race to watch:)
One of the arguments against wind farms on land has been that they take out the odd bird now and then. Would bird activity be lower out to sea at the altitude that these things sit at?
I fully agree with you that there is no such thing as this 'allergy' they were claiming, but one of our clients has an employee with a hearing aid, and she can tell the instant she enters the room that the access point is on, with 100% accuracy. I forget how she described it, but it did something strange to her hearing aid.
Anyone else heard of anything similar? I haven't so I suspect this isn't a widespread problem and is just a defect in her hearing aid, or less likely, in the access point. Could it be possible that the access point put out some lower frequency harmonics at enough power that could interfere with a hearing aid?
I did something similar for a library that offered free internet access. Users were running p2p software and it was slowing down other users. I implemented something pretty simple with tc on a Linux router - a per ip address token bucket filter with 10MB of traffic in the 'bucket' and a 1mbit/sec limit. Anyone doing browsing or even small downloads would rocket along at full speed (20mbit/sec or something like that), anyone doing sustained downloads would find that they'd get clamped pretty quick, but would still have a reasonable rate.
Seems to work well. I think they get less users who just come along and suck up the bandwidth these days.
The only problem I can think of is that in low gravity conditions, hot air won't rise as fast, and in zero gravity conditions, it won't rise at all. You can get around all of that, but it's something different that has to be considered.
Yesterdays Dilbert touched on such an issue... anyone else hate the fact that the comic doesn't load unless you are watching the screen? I load everything in the background while i'm doing other things, but Dilbert doesn't want to play nice:(
Or, if the consultant is somewhere nice, hand delivered in person. "Sorry boss, I don't trust anyone else to deliver this keyring sized memory stick to Hawaii."
It's been done before, in fact it happened to some friends of a friend of mine, they didn't like each other very much and were made to write a story together, alternating paragraph by paragraph... it went something like this:
At first, Laurie couldn't decide which kind of tea she wanted. The camomile, which used to be her favorite for lazy evenings at home, now reminded her too much of Carl, who once said, in happier times, that he liked camomile. But she felt she must now, at all costs, keep her mind off Carl. His possessiveness was suffocating, and if she thought about him too much her asthma started acting up again. So camomile was out of the question.
Meanwhile, Advance Sergeant Carl Harris, leader of the attack squadron now in orbit over Skylon 4, had more important things to think about than the neuroses of an air-headed bimbo named Laurie with whom he had spent one sweaty night over a year ago. "A.S. Harris to Geostation 17," he said into his transgalactic communicator. "Polar orbit established. No sign of resistance so far..." But before he could sign off a bluish particle beam flashed out of nowhere and blasted a hole through his ship's cargo bay. The jolt from the direct hit sent him flying out of his seat and across the cockpit.
He bumped his head and died almost immediately, but not before he felt one last pang of regret for psychically brutalizing the one woman who had ever had feelings for him. Soon afterwards, Earth stopped its pointless hostilities towards the peaceful farmers of Skylon 4. "Congress Passes Law Permanently Abolishing War and Space Travel," Laurie read in her newspaper one morning. The news simultaneously excited her and bored her. She stared out the window, dreaming of her youth -- when the days had passed unhurriedly and carefree, with no newspapers to read, no television to distract her from her sense of innocent wonder at all the beautiful things around her. "Why must one lose one's innocence to become a woman?" she pondered wistfully.
Little did she know, but she has less than 10 seconds to live. Thousands of miles above the city, the Anu'udrian mothership launched the first of its lithium fusion missiles. The dim-witted wimpy peaceniks who pushed the Unilateral Aerospace Disarmament Treaty through Congress had left Earth a defenseless target for the hostile alien empires who were determined to destroy the human race. Within two hours after the passage of the treaty the Anu'udrian ships were on course for Earth, carrying enough firepower to pulverize the entire planet. With no one to stop them they swiftly initiated their diabolical plan. The lithium fusion missile entered the atmosphere unimpeded. The President, in his top-secret mobile submarine headquarters on the ocean floor off the coast of Guam, felt the inconceivably massive explosion which vaporized Laurie and 85 million other Americans. The President slammed his fist on the conference table. "We can't allow this! I'm going to veto that treaty! Let's blow 'em out of the sky!"
This is absurd. I refuse to continue this mockery of literature. My writing partner is a violent, chauvinistic, semi-literate adolescent.
Yeah? Well, you're a self-centered tedious neurotic whose attempts at writing are the literary equivalent of Valium.
Are you trying to make your point by choosing as an example one of the very small number of parts that is the same between Mac's and Dell's? And also one of the parts that is not likely to fail (as compared to moving parts) within the useful operating life of the product? Nice try, but this is Slashdot and we don't fall for crap like that here:p
Pinned down by sniper fire? You need the 'Cannon Fodder Bot' or 'Decoy Bot' model.
Robot: Sir, I can't help but notice that this sniper fire is making you miserable. Is there anything I can do to cheer you up? I can hum a few soothing songs for you?
Me: You know what would really cheer me up? Put this shirt on and walk out into the middle of that street, turn around, pull down your pants, and point your bum in the direction of that window up there.
With a sophisticated enough code analyser, all things are possible. I don't know of any, but i'm sure they exist. I've been doing driver development under windows recently (PV drivers for Xen), and yes, every time I come across a bug that looks like a race (mostly because it works under UP but not SMP), I end up trying to think up with situations where the race could come about. My drivers are pretty straight forward so it doesn't normally take long, but for something really complicated it would be a nightmare.
In fact there is speculation that some particles we've noticed around the place are actually micro black holes and not elementary particles. There has been further speculation that all elementary particles are just micro black holes anyway.
There has also been speculation that the universe is just tiny curled up pieces of string too... but nobody listens to that nonsense.
is there some vast international mars landing conspiracy that i'm unaware of?
Yes. The details are hidden away on wikipedia where you'll never find them! Some details:
Mars 2 (1971): Landed but lost contact within minutes Mars 3 (1971): Same Viking 1 (1974): Landed and remained operational for 6 years Viking 2 (1974): Landed and remained operational for 3 years Phobos 1 (1988): Lost on the way to Mars Phobos 2 (1988): Got into orbit, took some photos, then failed
The more recent ones you probably know about. To be fair, the Phobos 1 and 2 missions were planning to land on Phobos, not Mars, so maybe they don't count.
I can kind of see the point you were trying to make, but.NET doesn't just refer to the bytecode interpreter - it also refers to the runtime libraries etc, which is I think the point that the GP was trying to make.
The fact that python can run under.NET confuses the issue a bit too... but I think most of us can get our heads around it:)
There are (still?) cell phones with DECT (household grade cordless phone technology) built in. I always thought this would be a much better alternative to a cell phone with wifi built in to accomplish VoIP. DECT is pretty lightweight, so do VoIP to the DECT base station, then DECT to the phone. When you are in range of the DECT base station (eg at your house) you'd make calls via that instead of the more expensive cell network.
Not sure why this never took off... could have something to do with the less money that the cell providers would make.
I read articles that make them sound like "rats of the sea" but they do eat them in China so maybe they are good eating (trying to be hopeful).
I don't know much about the Hudson river or Chesapeake Bay, but if their anything like other waterways in built up areas, eating any animal that manages to survive in them would not be a good idea, unless you have some sort of heavy metal deficiency.
I've held a driving license for around 13 years now, and over the last 5 years have been averaging between 600-900 km per week, mostly 2 hour trips twice a day. I find that it's very easy to let your mind wander once you've been behind the wheel for a while. I noticed that my mind wandered a lot less when I had some music going or something like HHGTTG or Little Britain. There would be far less instances of me suddenly realising that I had no memory of the last 20 minutes, or making a right turn and after completing the turn not being certain that I checked for oncoming traffic first (i'm in Australia, so a right hand turn involves crossing the lane for oncoming traffic). I'm pretty sure I did check first, but not remembering if I had or not is a bit unnerving...
I live in a rural area, so I find driving in the city a bit of a pain, and quite stressful. Once I start to get a lot of cars sharing the road with me as I get into the city, I find the radio really irritating and have to turn it off, and my mind doesn't wander at all.
My best theory for this is that having some music or something going occupied the part of my mind that would otherwise lead me to a lack of concentration on the task at hand, but once the task at hand got more complicated, I needed that part of my brain too so I'd have to turn the music off.
In the last few years I have gotten a car kit for my mobile phone, and am quite aware of how distracting that is, so I try and keep conversations short (eg I'll call you when I reach my destination) or just pull over. Maybe that's just me though, some people claim that it doesn't distract them at all.
I wonder how much variation there is to the effect of distraction on people...
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That's an easy one, when was the last time your heard of a workstation being accidentally left in a taxi? Or left at a pub? Or being stolen from someone's handbag? Your handheld is much more likely to go 'missing' than your workstation. All other things being equal, a device that easier to steal or more likely to be misplaced is less secure than one that is harder to steal.
By how much it is less secure is a different matter of course. If you use whole disk encryption on both and your passphrases are 'unguessable' then the difference is probably going to be negligible.
I sometimes wonder if turning a bit of a blind eye to the console mod chip market is in the interests of the console makers. If they are selling their consoles at an outright loss (which they allegedly do initially) then obviously they are losing money if people are copying games rather than purchasing them, but eventually the manufacturing costs come down enough that this isn't true.
How many less people would have bought a ps/ps2 if there wasn't a mod chip available for it? We have a ps2 which isn't modded, and most of the games we have bought have been really cheap and/or included extra hardware (sing star, buzz, etc). But, we bought that after the ps3 had been out for a while so it wasn't really expensive.
I guess the question I have is, if Vendor A released a console with completely solid state unhackable DRM, and simultaneously Vendor B released a console with no DRM whatsoever, and both consoles were otherwise pretty much equal in terms of features, who would 'win'? More people might buy B because they can illegally copy the games, but the game developers might develop more for A for precisely the same reason... but if there would no good games for B then nobody would buy it, but if nobody was buying A then the developers might not bother with developing games for it... it would be an interesting race to watch
One of the arguments against wind farms on land has been that they take out the odd bird now and then. Would bird activity be lower out to sea at the altitude that these things sit at?
I fully agree with you that there is no such thing as this 'allergy' they were claiming, but one of our clients has an employee with a hearing aid, and she can tell the instant she enters the room that the access point is on, with 100% accuracy. I forget how she described it, but it did something strange to her hearing aid.
Anyone else heard of anything similar? I haven't so I suspect this isn't a widespread problem and is just a defect in her hearing aid, or less likely, in the access point. Could it be possible that the access point put out some lower frequency harmonics at enough power that could interfere with a hearing aid?
I did something similar for a library that offered free internet access. Users were running p2p software and it was slowing down other users. I implemented something pretty simple with tc on a Linux router - a per ip address token bucket filter with 10MB of traffic in the 'bucket' and a 1mbit/sec limit. Anyone doing browsing or even small downloads would rocket along at full speed (20mbit/sec or something like that), anyone doing sustained downloads would find that they'd get clamped pretty quick, but would still have a reasonable rate.
Seems to work well. I think they get less users who just come along and suck up the bandwidth these days.
Well... you could build a casino, with blackjack, and hookers. You know the rest.
The only problem I can think of is that in low gravity conditions, hot air won't rise as fast, and in zero gravity conditions, it won't rise at all. You can get around all of that, but it's something different that has to be considered.
Wow! Thanks for that, it was almost getting too tedious to bother reading Dilbert anymore.
Yesterdays Dilbert touched on such an issue... anyone else hate the fact that the comic doesn't load unless you are watching the screen? I load everything in the background while i'm doing other things, but Dilbert doesn't want to play nice :(
Or, if the consultant is somewhere nice, hand delivered in person. "Sorry boss, I don't trust anyone else to deliver this keyring sized memory stick to Hawaii."
It's been done before, in fact it happened to some friends of a friend of mine, they didn't like each other very much and were made to write a story together, alternating paragraph by paragraph... it went something like this:
At first, Laurie couldn't decide which kind of tea she wanted. The camomile, which used to be her favorite for lazy evenings at home, now reminded her too much of Carl, who once said, in happier times, that he liked camomile. But she felt she must now, at all costs, keep her mind off Carl. His possessiveness was suffocating, and if she thought about him too much her asthma started acting up again. So camomile was out of the question.
Meanwhile, Advance Sergeant Carl Harris, leader of the attack squadron now in orbit over Skylon 4, had more important things to think about than the neuroses of an air-headed bimbo named Laurie with whom he had spent one sweaty night over a year ago. "A.S. Harris to Geostation 17," he said into his transgalactic communicator. "Polar orbit established. No sign of resistance so far..." But before he could sign off a bluish particle beam flashed out of nowhere and blasted a hole through his ship's cargo bay. The jolt from the direct hit sent him flying out of his seat and across the cockpit.
He bumped his head and died almost immediately, but not before he felt one last pang of regret for psychically brutalizing the one woman who had ever had feelings for him. Soon afterwards, Earth stopped its pointless hostilities towards the peaceful farmers of Skylon 4. "Congress Passes Law Permanently Abolishing War and Space Travel," Laurie read in her newspaper one morning. The news simultaneously excited her and bored her. She stared out the window, dreaming of her youth -- when the days had passed unhurriedly and carefree, with no newspapers to read, no television to distract her from her sense of innocent wonder at all the beautiful things around her. "Why must one lose one's innocence to become a woman?" she pondered wistfully.
Little did she know, but she has less than 10 seconds to live. Thousands of miles above the city, the Anu'udrian mothership launched the first of its lithium fusion missiles. The dim-witted wimpy peaceniks who pushed the Unilateral Aerospace Disarmament Treaty through Congress had left Earth a defenseless target for the hostile alien empires who were determined to destroy the human race. Within two hours after the passage of the treaty the Anu'udrian ships were on course for Earth, carrying enough firepower to pulverize the entire planet. With no one to stop them they swiftly initiated their diabolical plan. The lithium fusion missile entered the atmosphere unimpeded. The President, in his top-secret mobile submarine headquarters on the ocean floor off the coast of Guam, felt the inconceivably massive explosion which vaporized Laurie and 85 million other Americans. The President slammed his fist on the conference table. "We can't allow this! I'm going to veto that treaty! Let's blow 'em out of the sky!"
This is absurd. I refuse to continue this mockery of literature. My writing partner is a violent, chauvinistic, semi-literate adolescent.
Yeah? Well, you're a self-centered tedious neurotic whose attempts at writing are the literary equivalent of Valium.
You total $*&.
Stupid %&#$!.
Are you trying to make your point by choosing as an example one of the very small number of parts that is the same between Mac's and Dell's? And also one of the parts that is not likely to fail (as compared to moving parts) within the useful operating life of the product? Nice try, but this is Slashdot and we don't fall for crap like that here :p
Not bad, references to qdb, the simpsons, and futurama.
Pinned down by sniper fire? You need the 'Cannon Fodder Bot' or 'Decoy Bot' model.
Robot: Sir, I can't help but notice that this sniper fire is making you miserable. Is there anything I can do to cheer you up? I can hum a few soothing songs for you?
Me: You know what would really cheer me up? Put this shirt on and walk out into the middle of that street, turn around, pull down your pants, and point your bum in the direction of that window up there.
With a sophisticated enough code analyser, all things are possible. I don't know of any, but i'm sure they exist. I've been doing driver development under windows recently (PV drivers for Xen), and yes, every time I come across a bug that looks like a race (mostly because it works under UP but not SMP), I end up trying to think up with situations where the race could come about. My drivers are pretty straight forward so it doesn't normally take long, but for something really complicated it would be a nightmare.
In fact there is speculation that some particles we've noticed around the place are actually micro black holes and not elementary particles. There has been further speculation that all elementary particles are just micro black holes anyway.
There has also been speculation that the universe is just tiny curled up pieces of string too... but nobody listens to that nonsense.
If you try that, nature will respond by evolving an ant that eats gasoline, and then we'll really be in trouble!
Yes. The details are hidden away on wikipedia where you'll never find them! Some details:
Mars 2 (1971): Landed but lost contact within minutes
Mars 3 (1971): Same
Viking 1 (1974): Landed and remained operational for 6 years
Viking 2 (1974): Landed and remained operational for 3 years
Phobos 1 (1988): Lost on the way to Mars
Phobos 2 (1988): Got into orbit, took some photos, then failed
The more recent ones you probably know about. To be fair, the Phobos 1 and 2 missions were planning to land on Phobos, not Mars, so maybe they don't count.
I can kind of see the point you were trying to make, but .NET doesn't just refer to the bytecode interpreter - it also refers to the runtime libraries etc, which is I think the point that the GP was trying to make.
.NET confuses the issue a bit too... but I think most of us can get our heads around it :)
The fact that python can run under
There are (still?) cell phones with DECT (household grade cordless phone technology) built in. I always thought this would be a much better alternative to a cell phone with wifi built in to accomplish VoIP. DECT is pretty lightweight, so do VoIP to the DECT base station, then DECT to the phone. When you are in range of the DECT base station (eg at your house) you'd make calls via that instead of the more expensive cell network.
Not sure why this never took off... could have something to do with the less money that the cell providers would make.
I don't know much about the Hudson river or Chesapeake Bay, but if their anything like other waterways in built up areas, eating any animal that manages to survive in them would not be a good idea, unless you have some sort of heavy metal deficiency.
<chant>Two journalists enter. One journalist leaves.</chant>
Actually I'd like to see that as a form of conflict resolution for almost all arguments on slashdot.
Someone must have uttered the phrase "A sarcasm detector? Now there's a really useful invention!".
I've held a driving license for around 13 years now, and over the last 5 years have been averaging between 600-900 km per week, mostly 2 hour trips twice a day. I find that it's very easy to let your mind wander once you've been behind the wheel for a while. I noticed that my mind wandered a lot less when I had some music going or something like HHGTTG or Little Britain. There would be far less instances of me suddenly realising that I had no memory of the last 20 minutes, or making a right turn and after completing the turn not being certain that I checked for oncoming traffic first (i'm in Australia, so a right hand turn involves crossing the lane for oncoming traffic). I'm pretty sure I did check first, but not remembering if I had or not is a bit unnerving...
I live in a rural area, so I find driving in the city a bit of a pain, and quite stressful. Once I start to get a lot of cars sharing the road with me as I get into the city, I find the radio really irritating and have to turn it off, and my mind doesn't wander at all.
My best theory for this is that having some music or something going occupied the part of my mind that would otherwise lead me to a lack of concentration on the task at hand, but once the task at hand got more complicated, I needed that part of my brain too so I'd have to turn the music off.
In the last few years I have gotten a car kit for my mobile phone, and am quite aware of how distracting that is, so I try and keep conversations short (eg I'll call you when I reach my destination) or just pull over. Maybe that's just me though, some people claim that it doesn't distract them at all.
I wonder how much variation there is to the effect of distraction on people...
The article pretty clearly spells out that there has to exist a quadro card that has the same chipset as your current geforce card.