I believe the equipment to read the media will probably not be around... How many of you have old 5.25" MS-DOS floppies? 8" CPM floppies? Cobol programs on punched cards? Paper tape? CRAM? QIC-20? All very valid media in their day and now long obsoleted.
Don't forget 8" floppies were de rigueure just 20 years ago, so in 35 years time what hope do we have that a CD-ROM or even Blu-ray drive will be able to be used?
Too easy. There are 99.4 Furlongs in a kilometer and 336 hours in a fortnight. So 20KM/h is equal to 667,968 Furlongs a fortnight
Because there are 40 rods in a furlong you could also say this is equal to 53,437,440 rods per month.
More relevent for the/. crowd is that the speed of light is 299,792,458 meters per second so we could express 20KM/h as 0.000000000000085313386 C. If we take 100 megabits per second over this distance we can finally, empirically, and for the very first time, get the width of a bit.
1.85 Zeptometers.
Because we know the constant rods to the hogshead is 40 (thanks Abe) we can work out that it would take 4.93 Litres of petrol to carry 100mbits of data. Based on the current price of petrol in Australia this would cost exactly AUD$6.00
Now if we use Einstein as a basis we get the weight of a bit as being
1.81 Nanograms!
So there we have it, this valuable Japanese research has proven the mass, speed, size and cost of a bit.
Meh, The thing with PIN mailers is they closely follow the actual card in the mail. In fact this happened to me.
A theif stole the card from my mailbox then a few days later stole the PIN as well. They then withdrew the full limit from a few ATM's.
As I was expecting a card that never arrived I rang the company asking when it would arrive, they said the card had been used, I signed a Stat Dec and the debt was wiped.
The point is... The PIN mailer is in your mailbox along with your card... Why not just open the mailer and use the card in an ATM right away!
But the address for service is:
Jeremy Malcolm
Suite 11
116 Mounts Bay Road
PERTH
6000,WA
AUSTRALIA
and the mail address for Linux Australia is:
Linux Australia Inc
GPO Box 4788
Sydney NSW 2001
Australia
Which is the address for Linus given in the application. So the question comes back to has Linus allowed Linux Australia Inc. to register the trademark on his behalf, or is this group speaking for the rest of the community and registering the name for their ultimate benefit?
The law in Australia allows for a "Famous" trademark. (The quotes are important). This is basically where a product is so well known it automatically gains protection. However, it does not extend to situations when the name is a common word.
And when you research the Gentoo site it mentions the Installation tool/live CD is in the experimental fork on the mirrors. Checking there shows the 2005.0 version not the 2005.1 version the article suggests.
After reading the patent I see that back in 1995 they come up with the idea of off-loading rendering to another computer leaving the primary web-server free to do it's work.
Well, excuse my going against popular opinion, but that seems to be a novel and unique approach for the time. All prior art they mentioned the technique of using CGI on the same machine for rendering not offloading the work to another processor.
If they were clever enough to come up with an idea, that 10 years later seems obvious or impacts on multiprocessors - then bad luck! They came up with the idea and they have the right to get benefits from it's use by others.
This isn't new, it's a known exploit. WGA only cares about XP and 2K3. If GenuineCheck.exe is run on a 2000, ME, 98 and 95 system it will generate an authorization code and allow you to pass onto the download.
When I spoke to MS about it last week they said it was "By Design".
Using the same technique if you download GenuineCheck.exe with a pirate copy of XP and set it's compatibility to Windows 2000 or Windows 98 you will also get a valid code and can then use it to proceed to download.
I think that, more important than ways to defeat WGA, is that the user experience for Firefox people is harder and more dangerous than those using IE. For example if you use IE and elect to use the ActiveX control you just have to press one button. If you use Firefox you are forced to use GenuineCheck.exe every time you want a download. This requires a download, a run of the program, a copy paste a button click and then you are free to download. Firefox people should bombard MS to write an XPI or better yet scrap this stupid scheme.
IANAQM (I am not a quantum mechanic) but lets say you know a set of information about something and someone else knows a different set of information about the same thing and together these sets of information add up to more information than is actually needed to describe that something then it stands to reason there is also a third set of information that is negative, that is, it describes what you shouldn't know about something in order to be able to describe it properly!
The phone digit analogy used in Oppenheim's homepage is pretty good. If Bob knows 15 digits of Alices 10 digit phone number then Alice needs to tell Bob that 5 digits with a certain configuration are not needed - and in doing so makes future communications about telephone numbers easier!
I personally think it leaves google/ig for dead. I especially like the fact there is no branding
The purpose of development from your side should be to drive business to MS's search engine and it's advertising model. If you have branding and passport or (horror) cookies that tie browser searches to gmail accounts, you loose the clean simple looks and privacy that MS has never been able to achieve before (I hate MSN and Passport with a passion for these reasons)
Personally I couldn't care less if Start.com had a cookie for me because it doesn't translate into an email account - therefore it really is anonymous. But if the developers are ever forced to add passport or an gooogle-like email cookie I will drop this page like a hot scone.
I especially like that you can delete items from your search history. I am really hoping that the developers are coding their page so at the same time it deletes that search from their databases. In my opinion my search history should be under my control and this is the first portal I have seen that fills this requirement.
This is the way it has been in Australia for ever. We are required to provide our keys if directed by warrant - wo don't have the luxury of the right of non-self-incrimination.
One answer is to use Steganography software to give plausable deniability. With a program like DriveCrypt you can have an encrypted file or bootable partition with two keys - One, that you can hand over to the police unlocks some harmless (but seemingly sensitive) files like pr0n the other which you don't disclose unlocks your real data.
While the Police can see an encrypted file it can be unlocked with the first key and they cannot prove the second key exists.
During the Sydney Olympics daylight savings time was brought forward quite a few months. Microsoft came out with a special time-zone patch, Novell was easy to change and I just created a special time-zone string for Linux.
The changes were minor and didn't impact on anything serious (my watch didn't auto-change, so I did it manually)
I wish they had have left the change in place, the extra months of daylight were great.
This is a cool project and Kudos to Linksys for using Linux as a basis for their NAS and Routers.
But TFA says "built-in 10/100 (not yet supported in litte-endian mode)". If I read this correctly the device works, but the network port doesn't. Hopefully someone can correct me and confirm that the ethernet port does work.
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I believe the equipment to read the media will probably not be around... How many of you have old 5.25" MS-DOS floppies? 8" CPM floppies? Cobol programs on punched cards? Paper tape? CRAM? QIC-20? All very valid media in their day and now long obsoleted.
Don't forget 8" floppies were de rigueure just 20 years ago, so in 35 years time what hope do we have that a CD-ROM or even Blu-ray drive will be able to be used?
Just use Dead Cat Deisel. Each dead cat makes 2.5 Litres of fuel! That should power your player for ages.
"It's not kosher to point your telescope at somebody else's object, unless you ask."
;) BwaaaHaaaaHaaaa
Yes, it's wrong, just wrong to sneakily look at somebody else's object
Damn it, I've got the mod points but I decided to post something before I read this -1 flamebait drivel. Now I regret wasting my chance!
Even in popular American mythology the planets are named things like P3X-403 ;)
I have scientifically proved in a post way below this that the cost is AUD$6.00 ;)
PS: Just in case you were wondering how on earth I made the jump from litres to mass there are 34 Megajoules in 4.93 Litres of petrol.
Too easy. There are 99.4 Furlongs in a kilometer and 336 hours in a fortnight. So 20KM/h is equal to 667,968 Furlongs a fortnight
/. crowd is that the speed of light is 299,792,458 meters per second so we could express 20KM/h as 0.000000000000085313386 C. If we take 100 megabits per second over this distance we can finally, empirically, and for the very first time, get the width of a bit.
Because there are 40 rods in a furlong you could also say this is equal to 53,437,440 rods per month.
More relevent for the
1.85 Zeptometers.
Because we know the constant rods to the hogshead is 40 (thanks Abe) we can work out that it would take 4.93 Litres of petrol to carry 100mbits of data. Based on the current price of petrol in Australia this would cost exactly AUD$6.00
Now if we use Einstein as a basis we get the weight of a bit as being
1.81 Nanograms!
So there we have it, this valuable Japanese research has proven the mass, speed, size and cost of a bit.
Meh, The thing with PIN mailers is they closely follow the actual card in the mail. In fact this happened to me.
A theif stole the card from my mailbox then a few days later stole the PIN as well. They then withdrew the full limit from a few ATM's.
As I was expecting a card that never arrived I rang the company asking when it would arrive, they said the card had been used, I signed a Stat Dec and the debt was wiped.
The point is... The PIN mailer is in your mailbox along with your card... Why not just open the mailer and use the card in an ATM right away!
Well, you need a 1kW PSU if you have a beowolf cluster of 1MHz PIC's ;)
But the address for service is:
Jeremy Malcolm
Suite 11
116 Mounts Bay Road
PERTH
6000,WA
AUSTRALIA
and the mail address for Linux Australia is:
Linux Australia Inc
GPO Box 4788
Sydney NSW 2001
Australia
Which is the address for Linus given in the application. So the question comes back to has Linus allowed Linux Australia Inc. to register the trademark on his behalf, or is this group speaking for the rest of the community and registering the name for their ultimate benefit?
The law in Australia allows for a "Famous" trademark. (The quotes are important). This is basically where a product is so well known it automatically gains protection. However, it does not extend to situations when the name is a common word.
Trademark Name: Linux
Australian Trademark # 985197
Held By: Linus Torvalds
Address for service: Jeremy Malcolm
Status: Pending, Under examination
If you like you can search the Australian trademarks database for all trademarks with Linux in them at: Australian IP for free.
(And, no Linus didn't register Linux in Australia)
And when you research the Gentoo site it mentions the Installation tool/live CD is in the experimental fork on the mirrors. Checking there shows the 2005.0 version not the 2005.1 version the article suggests.
After reading the patent I see that back in 1995 they come up with the idea of off-loading rendering to another computer leaving the primary web-server free to do it's work.
Well, excuse my going against popular opinion, but that seems to be a novel and unique approach for the time. All prior art they mentioned the technique of using CGI on the same machine for rendering not offloading the work to another processor.
If they were clever enough to come up with an idea, that 10 years later seems obvious or impacts on multiprocessors - then bad luck! They came up with the idea and they have the right to get benefits from it's use by others.
Stop winging!
This isn't new, it's a known exploit. WGA only cares about XP and 2K3. If GenuineCheck.exe is run on a 2000, ME, 98 and 95 system it will generate an authorization code and allow you to pass onto the download.
When I spoke to MS about it last week they said it was "By Design".
Using the same technique if you download GenuineCheck.exe with a pirate copy of XP and set it's compatibility to Windows 2000 or Windows 98 you will also get a valid code and can then use it to proceed to download.
I think that, more important than ways to defeat WGA, is that the user experience for Firefox people is harder and more dangerous than those using IE. For example if you use IE and elect to use the ActiveX control you just have to press one button. If you use Firefox you are forced to use GenuineCheck.exe every time you want a download. This requires a download, a run of the program, a copy paste a button click and then you are free to download. Firefox people should bombard MS to write an XPI or better yet scrap this stupid scheme.
Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it.
Then it stands that it was negative information. QED.
IANAQM (I am not a quantum mechanic) but lets say you know a set of information about something and someone else knows a different set of information about the same thing and together these sets of information add up to more information than is actually needed to describe that something then it stands to reason there is also a third set of information that is negative, that is, it describes what you shouldn't know about something in order to be able to describe it properly!
The phone digit analogy used in Oppenheim's homepage is pretty good. If Bob knows 15 digits of Alices 10 digit phone number then Alice needs to tell Bob that 5 digits with a certain configuration are not needed - and in doing so makes future communications about telephone numbers easier!
Well done.
I personally think it leaves google/ig for dead. I especially like the fact there is no branding
The purpose of development from your side should be to drive business to MS's search engine and it's advertising model. If you have branding and passport or (horror) cookies that tie browser searches to gmail accounts, you loose the clean simple looks and privacy that MS has never been able to achieve before (I hate MSN and Passport with a passion for these reasons)
Personally I couldn't care less if Start.com had a cookie for me because it doesn't translate into an email account - therefore it really is anonymous. But if the developers are ever forced to add passport or an gooogle-like email cookie I will drop this page like a hot scone.
I especially like that you can delete items from your search history. I am really hoping that the developers are coding their page so at the same time it deletes that search from their databases. In my opinion my search history should be under my control and this is the first portal I have seen that fills this requirement.
The Daleks were already given this ability in the latest series of Doctor Who, but they did it with *much* more style that this video shows :)
This is the way it has been in Australia for ever. We are required to provide our keys if directed by warrant - wo don't have the luxury of the right of non-self-incrimination.
One answer is to use Steganography software to give plausable deniability. With a program like DriveCrypt you can have an encrypted file or bootable partition with two keys - One, that you can hand over to the police unlocks some harmless (but seemingly sensitive) files like pr0n the other which you don't disclose unlocks your real data.
While the Police can see an encrypted file it can be unlocked with the first key and they cannot prove the second key exists.
During the Sydney Olympics daylight savings time was brought forward quite a few months. Microsoft came out with a special time-zone patch, Novell was easy to change and I just created a special time-zone string for Linux.
The changes were minor and didn't impact on anything serious (my watch didn't auto-change, so I did it manually)
I wish they had have left the change in place, the extra months of daylight were great.
This is a cool project and Kudos to Linksys for using Linux as a basis for their NAS and Routers.
But TFA says "built-in 10/100 (not yet supported in litte-endian mode)". If I read this correctly the device works, but the network port doesn't. Hopefully someone can correct me and confirm that the ethernet port does work.
This would be a perfect low-cost always-on media centre server for Slim Devices Squeezebox Server
Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!
for distribution in North America and the UK.,
I am left wondering how they are going to police people from other countries downloading these shows illegally?