Could someone provide a link to an article saying that the US specifically wanted the ability to jam Galileo's signal? Not trolling here, just haven't seen one yet.
The closest thing I could find was this: http://www.useu.be/Galileo/June1902NATOBellGalileo GPS.html If the Galileo signal directly overlays the GPS M-code signal, he warned, "jamming one would also jam the other, resulting in a negative impact on NATO's military effectiveness in the area of operations, potentially risking fratricide on friendly forces and civil populations."
So I don't think that NATO/US is asking for the ability to jam the signal, just stating that the frequencys are close enough that interference/jamming on Galileo could negatively affect GPS.
Sorry if this post isn't fully coherent. I have a pretty bad headache right now.
"At a cost of over $4 Billion, is this system really going to offer any major advantages over GPS, or is it merely a politicised 'anything you can do we can do better' by the European Space Agency?"
If I remember correctly, Galileo is to have accuracy within centimeters. With current US-GPS the accuracy is much worse. Within a few yards, I believe.
No, but if you somehow manage to change all the doors/locks at WalMart to be able to be opened with a certain method (that only you know about) and you use that method to break into WalMart after hours and steal that $1 candybar, WalMart may add in the costs of replacing all those doors, hiring an investigator to make sure you didn't replace the windows, etc.
"only about 10% of Xbox owners ever redeem their free live subscription."
That can be a skewed fact. I have purchased about 3 or 4 Live enabled video games. Each comes with a free 2 month live trial. I, however, have already purchased the 12 month subscription so I don't need to use these trial accounts.
This is the same thing that is keeping me on my Firefox. Yes, I realize that at each version it is becoming buggier and buggier, but until I can get my Web Developer toolbar on Opera, as well as an in-browser FTP and an easy to use Adblock-esque program, I will stick with my slightly-longer-too-load Firefox.
Although, if Opera did have the capability to have these extensions, and I used the Opera-equivelant extensions, it may be just as slow as Firefox.
Not totally sure why he was modded Flamebait, he has a valid point.
Yes, you can say by shipping it with Windows they already are shipping it with security risks. But computer manufacturers will ship their computers with what the majority of the users want. The majority of users want Windows, so they get what they want.
The majority of users do not care what browser they use (see: IE's 84% market share.) In this case, Dell is trying to promote a new browser. They are not including this browser because a majority of their customers have demanded it (although I'm sure there are a certain percentage that have), but because they believe it will make their customers computers safer and more secure.
With that being said, the parents comment is valid because version 1.0.7 was a purely security and stability release to fix problems in 1.0.6. Such security and stability changes include:
Fix for a potential buffer overflow vulnerability when loading a hostname with all soft-hyphens
Fix to prevent URLs passed from external programs from being parsed by the shell (Linux only)
Fix to prevent a crash when loading a Proxy Auto-Config (PAC) script that uses an "eval" statement
Using all the mentioned data, Dell is shipping security risks by packaging their computers with 1.0.6. Although I applaud them for trying to spread the Firefox love, they probably should have done their homework first.
This isn't really self-awareness, just some good vision techniques. It recognizes key features of it's "face" compared to the normal face. Reminds me of the kind of things they use in face-recognition for security.
IANAL, but I think if you "stood outside the company grounds with a picket sign saying "Juniper Kills Children" then nothing could be done about it," you could be sued for libel, seeing as you present it as a fact. If you had something like "I think Juniper Kills Children" then you would be OK, because you are presenting it as an opinion.
err... what are you talking about?
GPS reports back your location, in latitude/longitude/altitude. Accelerometers read back your rate of acceleration. Sure you could find location with an accelerometer, but it would be relative... not absolute like GPS.
Errr, gonna have to try harder. Maybe some mods on/. will blindly accept the "quotes" you send at them, but some of us like to research things before we believe them.
"Yet as popular as the quote is, it's not real. These words are not anything Julius Caesar ever wrote or said. No biographies of Caesar or histories of Rome contain these lines, and scholars who have made it their business to know everything about the man draw a blank on this quote. Likewise, Shakespeare did not stuff this soliloquy into the mouth of the title character in his play Julius Caesar, nor did any of the Bard's other characters utter it. No record of this quote has been found prior to its appearance on the Internet in late 2001."
The enviro-logs are better because instead of wasting more wood (using the Duraflames) you are using stuff that would most likely get burned/discarded anyways.
I could imagine fitting all this into one box makes for a tight fit. What happens when that 1 opteron breaks... right in the middle of the box. You would have to take out half the equipment to get to it.
I've seen so many "50+X% of people think they are above average" quotes that it is beginning to become sickening.
You can have 50%+ people above average. Take the example of four numbers: 0, 4, 4 and 4. Now, the average of these numbers is 3. Three of these numbers are greater than three. So 75% of the numbers in that set are above average.
With that being said, "A jack of all trades is master of none." Sure you may be able to concentrate on 4 things at the same time, but, individually, will you get as much out of each topic?
Pfft, you're complaining about 180? Try 2,391. If Gmail didn't delete spam older than thirty days, I would have around 50,000. That's what I get for grabbing an actual word I guess =/
(Image of my Gmail homepage)
http://img474.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spam2kv.j pg
So basically, theres (dozens||hundreds||thousands) of people... all on the same wireless network. Am I the only one that thinks this will make all the scumbag hackers jobs easier?
Why doesn't he sell his Ferrari, donate the money to Katrina and just go to the dealership to live his dream.
Why doesn't he sell his malibu beachhouse, donate the money to Katrina and just live as a bum on the beach.
It's his money and it's not your position to criticize what he does with the money he spent long hours of hard work earning.
So now, all you need is one hacker and he can bring total chaos to the casino. I'm not old enough to go into casinos, but don't the number of slot machines go into the thousands? I can see it now... thousands of machines, all with blinky red lights and things that make noise when you win (or so the movies have led me to believe), all awarding jackpots at once.
Also, aren't payout odds specified by law? So the casino switches to legal odds when the inspectors come, then when they're gone... with a couple key taps you now have machines that don't pay out anywhere near the legal odds.
Roll... squeeze... sounds like you gotta molest your mouse to get a context menu. I can see it now, greasy haired 50 year old men at the apple store talking to the mouse. "Hey... I got some candy in my car. Want some?"
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Could someone provide a link to an article saying that the US specifically wanted the ability to jam Galileo's signal? Not trolling here, just haven't seen one yet.
o GPS.html
The closest thing I could find was this: http://www.useu.be/Galileo/June1902NATOBellGalile
If the Galileo signal directly overlays the GPS M-code signal, he warned, "jamming one would also jam the other, resulting in a negative impact on NATO's military effectiveness in the area of operations, potentially risking fratricide on friendly forces and civil populations."
So I don't think that NATO/US is asking for the ability to jam the signal, just stating that the frequencys are close enough that interference/jamming on Galileo could negatively affect GPS.
Sorry if this post isn't fully coherent. I have a pretty bad headache right now.
"At a cost of over $4 Billion, is this system really going to offer any major advantages over GPS, or is it merely a politicised 'anything you can do we can do better' by the European Space Agency?"
If I remember correctly, Galileo is to have accuracy within centimeters. With current US-GPS the accuracy is much worse. Within a few yards, I believe.
No, but if you somehow manage to change all the doors/locks at WalMart to be able to be opened with a certain method (that only you know about) and you use that method to break into WalMart after hours and steal that $1 candybar, WalMart may add in the costs of replacing all those doors, hiring an investigator to make sure you didn't replace the windows, etc.
"You're still violating plenty of patents"
You aren't violating any patents, the provider is.
When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.
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P: bimbyflam
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P: you
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From http://bugmenot.com/view.php?url=nytimes.com
"only about 10% of Xbox owners ever redeem their free live subscription." That can be a skewed fact. I have purchased about 3 or 4 Live enabled video games. Each comes with a free 2 month live trial. I, however, have already purchased the 12 month subscription so I don't need to use these trial accounts.
Mod parent up.
This is the same thing that is keeping me on my Firefox. Yes, I realize that at each version it is becoming buggier and buggier, but until I can get my Web Developer toolbar on Opera, as well as an in-browser FTP and an easy to use Adblock-esque program, I will stick with my slightly-longer-too-load Firefox.
Although, if Opera did have the capability to have these extensions, and I used the Opera-equivelant extensions, it may be just as slow as Firefox.
Yes, you can say by shipping it with Windows they already are shipping it with security risks. But computer manufacturers will ship their computers with what the majority of the users want. The majority of users want Windows, so they get what they want.
The majority of users do not care what browser they use (see: IE's 84% market share.) In this case, Dell is trying to promote a new browser. They are not including this browser because a majority of their customers have demanded it (although I'm sure there are a certain percentage that have), but because they believe it will make their customers computers safer and more secure.
With that being said, the parents comment is valid because version 1.0.7 was a purely security and stability release to fix problems in 1.0.6. Such security and stability changes include:
Using all the mentioned data, Dell is shipping security risks by packaging their computers with 1.0.6. Although I applaud them for trying to spread the Firefox love, they probably should have done their homework first.
-Mike
Sources:
Firefox 1.0.7 Release Notes
Firefox doubles market share as IE slips
This isn't really self-awareness, just some good vision techniques. It recognizes key features of it's "face" compared to the normal face. Reminds me of the kind of things they use in face-recognition for security.
IANAL, but I think if you "stood outside the company grounds with a picket sign saying "Juniper Kills Children" then nothing could be done about it," you could be sued for libel, seeing as you present it as a fact. If you had something like "I think Juniper Kills Children" then you would be OK, because you are presenting it as an opinion.
err... what are you talking about? GPS reports back your location, in latitude/longitude/altitude. Accelerometers read back your rate of acceleration. Sure you could find location with an accelerometer, but it would be relative... not absolute like GPS.
Errr, gonna have to try harder. Maybe some mods on /. will blindly accept the "quotes" you send at them, but some of us like to research things before we believe them.
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/caesar.htm
"Yet as popular as the quote is, it's not real. These words are not anything Julius Caesar ever wrote or said. No biographies of Caesar or histories of Rome contain these lines, and scholars who have made it their business to know everything about the man draw a blank on this quote. Likewise, Shakespeare did not stuff this soliloquy into the mouth of the title character in his play Julius Caesar, nor did any of the Bard's other characters utter it. No record of this quote has been found prior to its appearance on the Internet in late 2001."
http://www.ostg.com/terms.htm
etc.
The enviro-logs are better because instead of wasting more wood (using the Duraflames) you are using stuff that would most likely get burned/discarded anyways.
I could imagine fitting all this into one box makes for a tight fit. What happens when that 1 opteron breaks... right in the middle of the box. You would have to take out half the equipment to get to it.
I've seen so many "50+X% of people think they are above average" quotes that it is beginning to become sickening.
You can have 50%+ people above average. Take the example of four numbers: 0, 4, 4 and 4. Now, the average of these numbers is 3. Three of these numbers are greater than three. So 75% of the numbers in that set are above average.
With that being said, "A jack of all trades is master of none." Sure you may be able to concentrate on 4 things at the same time, but, individually, will you get as much out of each topic?
Pfft, you're complaining about 180? Try 2,391. If Gmail didn't delete spam older than thirty days, I would have around 50,000. That's what I get for grabbing an actual word I guess =/ (Image of my Gmail homepage) http://img474.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spam2kv.j pg
How come we don't get a front page story everytime Microsoft fixes a bug? Ok, you can mod me flamebait now.
fp? So, are they going to run into the same problems that Google did/does?
Nah, probably a Starbucks.
So basically, theres (dozens||hundreds||thousands) of people... all on the same wireless network. Am I the only one that thinks this will make all the scumbag hackers jobs easier?
Why doesn't he sell his Ferrari, donate the money to Katrina and just go to the dealership to live his dream. Why doesn't he sell his malibu beachhouse, donate the money to Katrina and just live as a bum on the beach. It's his money and it's not your position to criticize what he does with the money he spent long hours of hard work earning.
So now, all you need is one hacker and he can bring total chaos to the casino. I'm not old enough to go into casinos, but don't the number of slot machines go into the thousands? I can see it now... thousands of machines, all with blinky red lights and things that make noise when you win (or so the movies have led me to believe), all awarding jackpots at once. Also, aren't payout odds specified by law? So the casino switches to legal odds when the inspectors come, then when they're gone... with a couple key taps you now have machines that don't pay out anywhere near the legal odds.
Roll... squeeze... sounds like you gotta molest your mouse to get a context menu. I can see it now, greasy haired 50 year old men at the apple store talking to the mouse. "Hey... I got some candy in my car. Want some?"