Energy saving lights are great in hot countries where any heat generated by appliances is doubly wasted because there is an air conditioner running to remove it, but in cold countries, where instead of an air conditioner in every room we have a radiator, they are not so good. Firstly, any energy saving needs to be expressed in terms of the difference in cost (money or carbon) between electric and gas (or if the home has electric heating, then energy savings are _completely_ irrelevant) But secondly, the perceived warmth in a room to a human is an extremely subjective thing. The "warm" light from an incandescent bulb, including the infrared part, might make the human inside the room less likely to turn the radiator on!
Here in the EU, where they have banned incandescent bulbs, it just feels like a product of the usual shovels of pigswill between corporate lobbies and politicians. On the one hand, heavy metals are banned to the extent where an electronics lab can't use proper solder, and a chemistry lab can't buy cadmium, while on the other hand, we are only allowed to buy light bulbs containing mercury!!
One thing that might put you off wanting this feature in all buzzsaws:
If you read StopSaw's "how it works" section on their site, it'll tell you that the brake is a single-use cartridge that costs $69 a pop, and that you also need to replace the blade (presumably also a StopSaw proprietary part) That'd be all well and good, if the saw only ever stopped when you actually put your finger in it - $200 for a new blade and brake is obviously a small price to pay for saving your finger. But the site also goes on to explain that the brake is activated electrically, by the conductivity of the human body as opposed to wood. In order for the saw to stop if you are not touching some other part of the chassis, this will need to be a high-frequency noise detector (like when you touch an audio amplifier input), which are very susceptible to.. noise.
It must be VERY profitable for StopSaw if they get $200 or so every time there is a bit of RF noise in a workshop!
You don't have to remove the passphrase to log in non-interactively. You just have to be using a ssh-agent such as keychain. And many people (including me) do..
This is not about terrorism. This is about political power and controlling a populace. Terrorism is merely the spectre our governments wave over our heads to make us swallow their propaganda.
Really, the idea is to give up our rights, freedoms, and equalities, and instead trust in the government. Surveillance will save us all from crime and terror. Give up your rights. If you don't want to, you must be a criminal or a terrorist.
This search engine spam seems to me like an exercise in propaganda. The home office wants to see if it can force undesirable pages out of the public eye by means of google spam, and it has invented a legitimate way of doing it. It won't work, of course, as the article points out. Our governments are as incompetent as they are evil.:)
So by this logic, including DRM could be equated to professional negligence or fraud - shipping a product as good when you know it to be defective (by design I might add)
I'd love to see that tested in the courts:D (well actually I wouldn't.. I know which way it'd go;_;)
I would really like to cluebat whoever it is thats responsible for SecuRom (or a clone thereof) being on nearly all PC game CDs in existence. It's such a stupid thing to do, yet nearly everyone does it. @_@
So basically ubisoft had broken their game with the CD protection DRM, something that nearly all games companies include, but I haven't the faintest idea why this is still a sane thing to do..
So now they have to use an "illegal" (or so they keep telling us) third-party crack to break their own DRM. Or more likely, someone else's DRM that they purchased for a large sum of money, only to introduce bugs into their game and annoy their customers.
Yeah, that's the problem with off-the-shelf routers..
It is possible though just to use an old PC as the router, and a lot more flexible. Although if you don't fancy setting up an iptables router manually with Linux, then you might try running DD-WRT on the PC itself. A friend of mine has a tutorial for that over here.
As long as the default distribution is free, then there is no point in offering a bare drive. Only fdisk lies between the two, and any user installing their own OS will have no problem removing the old partition table. So, IMO they should just offer Ubuntu and leave it at that. Anyone who has a more specific preference can install whatever they want when they get the machine. Like I do when I find a windows box in my possession, but without the microsoft tax.:)
No, he's buying the company that's suing them. So if they do win, he stands to make a huge amount of money. Just like a great big bet at the bookies really..
If you are worried about the honesty of vendors, this is exactly why you should be using free cryptography software in the first place, because you know that is going to be strong, and trustworthy, because otherwise someone would have changed it by now.:) It is also much easier to verify strength by reading the source rather than by reading the binary or by cryptanalysis.
Surely any real predator would, in light of this, access their IM services via an anonymous VPN service, thus rendering the whole thing pointless. The only thing that this would get used for, as many stated earlier, is wasting police time. Nice idea, though..
It seems likely to me that any analog copy-protection system could be worked around by a sufficiently sophisticated digital or analog filtering system. Then the question is whether the media industry can make the relevant filtering software or hardware illegal. If it's as simple as a band-reject filter, then it doesn't seem likely.
No I think the point with plugging the analogue hole is, rather than an analogue content protection system, removing the analogue signal altogether, at least up until the light is emitted from the screen.. Obviously this can't be done with audio, but with digital LCDs it would be nigh on impossible to grab the image from the TFT matrix itself, and illegal of course under the DMCA.
Analogue TV is being switched off soon, and analogue methods for transferring video betwween devices are being phased out and replaced by digital ones such as DVI and HDMI, which support DRM all the way to the TFT matrix.
Maybe you are going to illegally reverse engineer the circuitry in your new LCD TV to try to grab the unencrypted digital image somewhere, but that is likely to be inside some IC.
If anyone makes a (legal) HD-DVD or blu-ray player with analogue outputs (at least that can't be disabled by some flag on the medium), I'll eat my hat.
Really this article describes a complete non-issue. IPTV will be very easy to implement even on current high-end consumer connections using IPV6 and multicast, since we only need one HDTV stream per channel, rather than one HDTV stream per channel per user, which really *would* cripple the internet. To ensure that low-bandwidth, high-reliability applications like telnet, http, paramedic's communication of a patient's condition to a hospital, get through, QoS already does this very well. But you sacrifice bandwidth and perhaps latency for the reliability.
However if somebody wants low-latency, high-bandwidth, high-reliability AND no-jitter in times of high use then perhaps the telcos could charge for that. The issue is, who regulates where the telcos must stop charging. Unchecked they will start charging for everything and we are all the way to a full two-tier internet.
The easiest way to control this is to prevent them from assigning any priority at all except for the already-existing QoS which sacrifices one for another. The only disadvantage is noone can have all of it, even if they pay for it. I could live without that tbh.
I think perhaps the telcos are sidestepping the advent of multicast in order to make an excuse to charge more..
I expect it is just a hack which fixes the security hole, while causing the implementation to no longer comply with the standard for the protocol. Though one would hope this doesn't cause problems in itself..:/
Just look at the amount of patent trolls out there, filing/buying the broadest possible patents imagiable, and then pouncing on some unsuspecting inventor, who, with real innovation, but no patent lawyer, has overlooked this broad patent. The inventor is sued into the ground, and the patent troll gets all the takings. Fair? I think not.
With open source however, no one company/person is entitled to control all use of the invention, but that doesn't mean they can't make money from it. Ok the inventor won't get filthy rich, but he won't be left hungry either.
I thought Dell was locked into some deal with Intel that prevented them from selling AMD chips? Surely this must be the case, even the biggest Intel zealots at Dell could not say no to at least trialing some AMD systems on the market..
If they do have such a deal, it is really hurting them quite severely.
The reason for scrapping clock speeds in favour of these 'strange' naming conventions is not confusion, it is to help people realise that clock speed does NOT indicate how fast a processor is. If people thought that a 3GHz celeron is as fast as a 3GHz P4 with HT, or indeed a 3GHz Athlon64, then they would be very confused indeed. Many people did think this though, before the new naming conventions applied, so I think it is a good thing.
I think they should have a class for new guys, so at least they can compete for best in class. The big guys should have their prize too, hnowever. They churn out a lot more so than the small-time guys do, so it makes sense to have more prizes for them.
Actually the zepler servers remained up and are currently running healthily, according to one of the ECS Staff. The cause of the site being unavailable is a firewall which was apparently located in Mountbatten. This just needs replacing with a new firewall box, and the site should be up later today. Zepler building itself should be open tomorrow.
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Energy saving lights are great in hot countries where any heat generated by appliances is doubly wasted because there is an air conditioner running to remove it, but in cold countries, where instead of an air conditioner in every room we have a radiator, they are not so good.
Firstly, any energy saving needs to be expressed in terms of the difference in cost (money or carbon) between electric and gas (or if the home has electric heating, then energy savings are _completely_ irrelevant)
But secondly, the perceived warmth in a room to a human is an extremely subjective thing. The "warm" light from an incandescent bulb, including the infrared part, might make the human inside the room less likely to turn the radiator on!
Here in the EU, where they have banned incandescent bulbs, it just feels like a product of the usual shovels of pigswill between corporate lobbies and politicians.
On the one hand, heavy metals are banned to the extent where an electronics lab can't use proper solder, and a chemistry lab can't buy cadmium, while on the other hand, we are only allowed to buy light bulbs containing mercury!!
One thing that might put you off wanting this feature in all buzzsaws:
If you read StopSaw's "how it works" section on their site, it'll tell you that the brake is a single-use cartridge that costs $69 a pop, and that you also need to replace the blade (presumably also a StopSaw proprietary part)
That'd be all well and good, if the saw only ever stopped when you actually put your finger in it - $200 for a new blade and brake is obviously a small price to pay for saving your finger.
But the site also goes on to explain that the brake is activated electrically, by the conductivity of the human body as opposed to wood.
In order for the saw to stop if you are not touching some other part of the chassis, this will need to be a high-frequency noise detector (like when you touch an audio amplifier input), which are very susceptible to.. noise.
It must be VERY profitable for StopSaw if they get $200 or so every time there is a bit of RF noise in a workshop!
You don't have to remove the passphrase to log in non-interactively. You just have to be using a ssh-agent such as keychain.
And many people (including me) do..
This is not about terrorism. This is about political power and controlling a populace.
Terrorism is merely the spectre our governments wave over our heads to make us swallow their propaganda.
Really, the idea is to give up our rights, freedoms, and equalities, and instead trust in the government.
Surveillance will save us all from crime and terror. Give up your rights. If you don't want to, you must be a criminal or a terrorist.
This search engine spam seems to me like an exercise in propaganda. The home office wants to see if it can force undesirable pages out of the public eye by means of google spam, and it has invented a legitimate way of doing it. :)
It won't work, of course, as the article points out. Our governments are as incompetent as they are evil.
So by this logic, including DRM could be equated to professional negligence or fraud - shipping a product as good when you know it to be defective (by design I might add)
I'd love to see that tested in the courts :D ;_;)
(well actually I wouldn't.. I know which way it'd go
What? Required by whom?
I would really like to cluebat whoever it is thats responsible for SecuRom (or a clone thereof) being on nearly all PC game CDs in existence. It's such a stupid thing to do, yet nearly everyone does it. @_@
So basically ubisoft had broken their game with the CD protection DRM, something that nearly all games companies include, but I haven't the faintest idea why this is still a sane thing to do..
So now they have to use an "illegal" (or so they keep telling us) third-party crack to break their own DRM.
Or more likely, someone else's DRM that they purchased for a large sum of money, only to introduce bugs into their game and annoy their customers.
Sounds like great value for money to me! :)
Careful, they'll be suing slashdot for knackering their server next! ;)
Yeah, that's the problem with off-the-shelf routers..
It is possible though just to use an old PC as the router, and a lot more flexible. Although if you don't fancy setting up an iptables router manually with Linux, then you might try running DD-WRT on the PC itself. A friend of mine has a tutorial for that over here.
As long as the default distribution is free, then there is no point in offering a bare drive. Only fdisk lies between the two, and any user installing their own OS will have no problem removing the old partition table. :)
So, IMO they should just offer Ubuntu and leave it at that. Anyone who has a more specific preference can install whatever they want when they get the machine. Like I do when I find a windows box in my possession, but without the microsoft tax.
No, he's buying the company that's suing them. So if they do win, he stands to make a huge amount of money.
Just like a great big bet at the bookies really..
If you are worried about the honesty of vendors, this is exactly why you should be using free cryptography software in the first place, because you know that is going to be strong, and trustworthy, because otherwise someone would have changed it by now. :)
It is also much easier to verify strength by reading the source rather than by reading the binary or by cryptanalysis.
Surely any real predator would, in light of this, access their IM services via an anonymous VPN service, thus rendering the whole thing pointless. The only thing that this would get used for, as many stated earlier, is wasting police time.
Nice idea, though..
It seems likely to me that any analog copy-protection system could be worked around by a sufficiently sophisticated digital or analog filtering system. Then the question is whether the media industry can make the relevant filtering software or hardware illegal. If it's as simple as a band-reject filter, then it doesn't seem likely.
No I think the point with plugging the analogue hole is, rather than an analogue content protection system, removing the analogue signal altogether, at least up until the light is emitted from the screen.. Obviously this can't be done with audio, but with digital LCDs it would be nigh on impossible to grab the image from the TFT matrix itself, and illegal of course under the DMCA.
Analogue TV is being switched off soon, and analogue methods for transferring video betwween devices are being phased out and replaced by digital ones such as DVI and HDMI, which support DRM all the way to the TFT matrix.
Maybe you are going to illegally reverse engineer the circuitry in your new LCD TV to try to grab the unencrypted digital image somewhere, but that is likely to be inside some IC.
If anyone makes a (legal) HD-DVD or blu-ray player with analogue outputs (at least that can't be disabled by some flag on the medium), I'll eat my hat.
Really this article describes a complete non-issue.
IPTV will be very easy to implement even on current high-end consumer connections using IPV6 and multicast, since we only need one HDTV stream per channel, rather than one HDTV stream per channel per user, which really *would* cripple the internet.
To ensure that low-bandwidth, high-reliability applications like telnet, http, paramedic's communication of a patient's condition to a hospital, get through, QoS already does this very well.
But you sacrifice bandwidth and perhaps latency for the reliability.
However if somebody wants low-latency, high-bandwidth, high-reliability AND no-jitter in times of high use then perhaps the telcos could charge for that.
The issue is, who regulates where the telcos must stop charging. Unchecked they will start charging for everything and we are all the way to a full two-tier internet.
The easiest way to control this is to prevent them from assigning any priority at all except for the already-existing QoS which sacrifices one for another. The only disadvantage is noone can have all of it, even if they pay for it.
I could live without that tbh.
I think perhaps the telcos are sidestepping the advent of multicast in order to make an excuse to charge more..
In order to install them you must use a patch here, or they won't work.
~ Jim
I expect it is just a hack which fixes the security hole, while causing the implementation to no longer comply with the standard for the protocol. :/
Though one would hope this doesn't cause problems in itself..
Just look at the amount of patent trolls out there, filing/buying the broadest possible patents imagiable, and then pouncing on some unsuspecting inventor, who, with real innovation, but no patent lawyer, has overlooked this broad patent.
The inventor is sued into the ground, and the patent troll gets all the takings. Fair? I think not.
With open source however, no one company/person is entitled to control all use of the invention, but that doesn't mean they can't make money from it.
Ok the inventor won't get filthy rich, but he won't be left hungry either.
Performance per watt? Intel?
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Not likely...
The pentium D is putting out as much as 233 watts.. (http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=145&type=ex
Compared to 89 watts on the athlon X2. (http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/200508011/athlon
Maybe they should label them according to number of bogomips or mflops instead?
I thought Dell was locked into some deal with Intel that prevented them from selling AMD chips?
Surely this must be the case, even the biggest Intel zealots at Dell could not say no to at least trialing some AMD systems on the market..
If they do have such a deal, it is really hurting them quite severely.
The reason for scrapping clock speeds in favour of these 'strange' naming conventions is not confusion, it is to help people realise that clock speed does NOT indicate how fast a processor is.
If people thought that a 3GHz celeron is as fast as a 3GHz P4 with HT, or indeed a 3GHz Athlon64, then they would be very confused indeed.
Many people did think this though, before the new naming conventions applied, so I think it is a good thing.
No! You should use ==. :@
Death to scheme, death and much destruction.
I think they should have a class for new guys, so at least they can compete for best in class.
The big guys should have their prize too, hnowever. They churn out a lot more so than the small-time guys do, so it makes sense to have more prizes for them.
Actually the zepler servers remained up and are currently running healthily, according to one of the ECS Staff.
The cause of the site being unavailable is a firewall which was apparently located in Mountbatten.
This just needs replacing with a new firewall box, and the site should be up later today. Zepler building itself should be open tomorrow.
Agh, and no HTML alternative either. :@
Surely they must have considered that search engines also do not support flash?
*flames website designer*