Actually you don't need a CoreDuo to be VIIV complaint, a Pentium D or EE would also fit within spec:
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> I cannot ever imagine that Apple would ever, ever, ever ship a product in a state like that.
You're clearly not an early PowerMac 9500 user then. Let's just say Apple isn't immune to shipping turnkey turkeys...
Back in 2002 I went through the x-ray screening point at a major US airport, and was asked to "remove the laptop from your bag, sir". I had to explain that there wasn't a laptop in the bag. Then the screener repeated his request, more aggressively. I politely explained it no matter how aggressive he became it still wasn't going to make a non-existent laptop appear.
He then informed me it was a felony to lie to a member of security. I said, fine, if you're so sure there's a laptop in there, you're welcome to it. You can screen every item in my bag, and if there's a laptop in there, it's yours.
Needless to say he didn't find a laptop, because, as I'd always maintained - there wasn't one...
Similar process in Greece back in 2001 - remove the knife from the bag sir. Uhhh? Knife? Remove the knife sir. If you can find one in there, it's yours - have fun.
Either this problem has been around for a long time, or the aiport screening staff hallucinate suspicious objects quite frequently... Anyone know how long their shifts are?;)
"NDS supports detection of the following services and protocols for the purposes of billing, quality of service (QoS), planning, reporting, provisioning as well as blocking:
* VoIP (SIP, H.323, MGCP)
* Skype
* Streaming media (RTP, RTCP, RTSP)
* Peer-to-peer (Gnutella, BitTorrent, KaZaa, eDonkey, etc.)
* Web browsing
* e-Mail (SMTP, POP3, IMAP)
* Messaging (IM, MMS)
* Push to talk"
In other words the system can be used to block content/services. If you don't want VoIP users eating your bandwidth, you install one of these magic boxes and hey presto no more VoIP traffic... Or you can charge VoIP users differently.
Which means the important question is: Who controls the boxes? If they're entirely AT&T controlled, then they might be benign. If they're owned and operated by the NSA, then clearly all your data are belong to US...
With the younger ones any working computer will be useful - IMO the more variety they're exposed to, the better. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to explore a system, see the similarities and understand the differences, and most importantly how to find information for themselves!
Show them how to use technology for themselves - the form itself isn't really relevant now. My first computer was a ZX81/SinclairTimex1000, it's a far cry from the 3.6GHz PC I'm using now - no doubt whatever your kids end up using at work it won't be exactly identical to todays models either;)
Teach them how to explore the features and functions of a machine. Don't just teach them how to use Open Office - teach them general concepts behind it rather than the specifics of it.
Teach them to be flexible. Show them different OSes, and how to use them. Give them the tools to discover life for themselves - they'll learn a lot more for it!
Let them learn to ask questions, and how to find the answers - be it by experiment, asking an adult or using the internet. Show them how to determine good answers from bad.
Above all show them how to think for themselves! Once they know that...
The problem is that no-one actually has time to look through the security footage, so it's all pointless anyway unless you have a massive team watching the output of them. If there are 4 million cameras here (and I think that might actually be conservative estimate judging by the numbers I see here in the UK every day), then logically there should be a massive number of people employed to watch them - but there aren't.
Case in point - where I used to work a very nice multiprocessor desktop machine was "liberated" by someone over the Christmas break a few years back. We had loads of security cameras, including hidden ones, but the machine still went missing. I asked security to check the tapes and find out who stole it. Their reply - "no". Apparently it takes too long to look through the footage, so it's not cost effective. Two weeks of recordings, twenty cameras, no chance. Of course I actually think one of them stole it anyway, so that might be the real reason;)
Security cameras provide the illusion of security to some - but if no-one watches the output, they may as well not be there.
Unfortunately the only people with enough manpower to watch cameras are exactly the people I'd rather not have watching me... Like that police chief.
No/fewer moving parts doesn't always mean reliable. Ever had a transformer fail? Well those maglev coils aren't entirely dissimilar beasts. Ever had a PSU fail? Pretty certain those coils will need some rather nice power supply circuitry.
All you're doing is looking at a different type of failure - electrical vs mechanical.
Apparently tape can unbalance high speed CD players. So, why not just use the age old marker pen technique?
Luckily I don't have any of the XCD discs to test it on anyway:)
Why get a PDA which does some of the functions of a real computer, when you can have a real computer? Things like: http://www.dynamism.com/u50/ and: http://www.oqo.com/
Small, fast (compared to a PDA), and plenty of storage. Better screens too.
Plus many of the PDAs are hampered with some shocking design decisions. I've had three PDAs, and all of them lost all data when both batteries go flat (Psion 3C, HP Jornada 620LX and Sony Clié PEG50). Forget to charge for two weeks, and you have - no data. Plain stupid. Flash isn't ruinously expensive, so there's no excuse IMO.
Actually all they need to do is claim that the tags are a requirement "for recycling", and you'll not only be committing a crime, you'll also be shunned by your peers for crimes against the environment...
It's not dead, it's just pining for the Fjords...
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... Yes, Sigmatel bought the IP, but if you look at the articles it appears they also bought the entire Rio design team - which the Sigmatel press release implies will remain untouched. Surely that's a very interesting decision if they were only after the IP;)
IMO the reason the iPod is now the market leader has very little to do with technical superiority (it's good but far from perfect IMO), and a great deal to do with very clever marketing - and large horde of Apple zealots...
TheInquirer tends to call things by names which are intended to be slightly humourous - sometimes they hit the mark, sometimes they don't.
In other words it's not a mistake/typo, it's just an attempt at humour. They also refer to Mozilla as Mozzarella, Microsoft as the Vole, and the maker of reassuringly overpriced hardware comes from Cappuccino, rather than Cupertino.
That's an easy one, voluntarily I'd be on a deserted island somewhere... Or anywhere else without completely automatic cars.
Having just experienced a car suffer some type of general spreading electronic failure I really don't fancy being trapped in one if it was "driving".
First the indicators/blinkers stopped working, then the speedo died, then everything else started to fail... I pulled over and turned it off. Result: One comatose car sitting there beeping at me forlornly. If that sucker had been driving things might have been exciting;)
After disconnecting the battery it would at least start again, but the dashboard was lit up like a Christmas tree. No ABS, no stability control, diffs locked and a very nice orange ECU warning light. When contacted the dealer said "on no account should you drive it".
It was then attended to by an engineer (of one of those reassuring German manufacturers), he reflashed the main computer and reset the others. Then said he had no idea why that happened, but he thought it would probably be OK.
I think K.I.S.S is the motto we should be encouraging here. Cars driving themselves *shudder*
I'm sure the criminals are rubbing their hands together with glee - it makes car ID theft so much easier having everything remotely readable. Watch the car go past, and you've got a full set of data - car make, model, colour, VIN and licence plates. Yes, I can see how that's going to make everything much more secure...
The only thing this will make easier is crime!
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Actually you don't need a CoreDuo to be VIIV complaint, a Pentium D or EE would also fit within spec: Viiv requirements
> I cannot ever imagine that Apple would ever, ever, ever ship a product in a state like that. You're clearly not an early PowerMac 9500 user then. Let's just say Apple isn't immune to shipping turnkey turkeys...
Back in 2002 I went through the x-ray screening point at a major US airport, and was asked to "remove the laptop from your bag, sir". I had to explain that there wasn't a laptop in the bag. Then the screener repeated his request, more aggressively. I politely explained it no matter how aggressive he became it still wasn't going to make a non-existent laptop appear.
;)
He then informed me it was a felony to lie to a member of security. I said, fine, if you're so sure there's a laptop in there, you're welcome to it. You can screen every item in my bag, and if there's a laptop in there, it's yours.
Needless to say he didn't find a laptop, because, as I'd always maintained - there wasn't one...
Similar process in Greece back in 2001 - remove the knife from the bag sir. Uhhh? Knife? Remove the knife sir. If you can find one in there, it's yours - have fun.
Either this problem has been around for a long time, or the aiport screening staff hallucinate suspicious objects quite frequently... Anyone know how long their shifts are?
The Narus website describes NarusInsight(TM) Discover Suite as follows:
"NDS supports detection of the following services and protocols for the purposes of billing, quality of service (QoS), planning, reporting, provisioning as well as blocking:
* VoIP (SIP, H.323, MGCP)
* Skype
* Streaming media (RTP, RTCP, RTSP)
* Peer-to-peer (Gnutella, BitTorrent, KaZaa, eDonkey, etc.)
* Web browsing
* e-Mail (SMTP, POP3, IMAP)
* Messaging (IM, MMS)
* Push to talk"
In other words the system can be used to block content/services. If you don't want VoIP users eating your bandwidth, you install one of these magic boxes and hey presto no more VoIP traffic... Or you can charge VoIP users differently.
Which means the important question is: Who controls the boxes? If they're entirely AT&T controlled, then they might be benign. If they're owned and operated by the NSA, then clearly all your data are belong to US...
Link: http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2006_04.php#00453 8
...the government is busily trying to add a censor framework
With the younger ones any working computer will be useful - IMO the more variety they're exposed to, the better. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to explore a system, see the similarities and understand the differences, and most importantly how to find information for themselves!
Surely the solution is to provide an "iPod dock compatible" port on the player?
Show them how to use technology for themselves - the form itself isn't really relevant now. My first computer was a ZX81/SinclairTimex1000, it's a far cry from the 3.6GHz PC I'm using now - no doubt whatever your kids end up using at work it won't be exactly identical to todays models either ;)
Teach them how to explore the features and functions of a machine. Don't just teach them how to use Open Office - teach them general concepts behind it rather than the specifics of it.
Teach them to be flexible. Show them different OSes, and how to use them. Give them the tools to discover life for themselves - they'll learn a lot more for it!
Let them learn to ask questions, and how to find the answers - be it by experiment, asking an adult or using the internet. Show them how to determine good answers from bad.
Above all show them how to think for themselves! Once they know that...
The problem is that no-one actually has time to look through the security footage, so it's all pointless anyway unless you have a massive team watching the output of them. If there are 4 million cameras here (and I think that might actually be conservative estimate judging by the numbers I see here in the UK every day), then logically there should be a massive number of people employed to watch them - but there aren't.
;)
Case in point - where I used to work a very nice multiprocessor desktop machine was "liberated" by someone over the Christmas break a few years back. We had loads of security cameras, including hidden ones, but the machine still went missing. I asked security to check the tapes and find out who stole it. Their reply - "no". Apparently it takes too long to look through the footage, so it's not cost effective. Two weeks of recordings, twenty cameras, no chance. Of course I actually think one of them stole it anyway, so that might be the real reason
Security cameras provide the illusion of security to some - but if no-one watches the output, they may as well not be there.
Unfortunately the only people with enough manpower to watch cameras are exactly the people I'd rather not have watching me... Like that police chief.
No/fewer moving parts doesn't always mean reliable. Ever had a transformer fail? Well those maglev coils aren't entirely dissimilar beasts. Ever had a PSU fail? Pretty certain those coils will need some rather nice power supply circuitry.
All you're doing is looking at a different type of failure - electrical vs mechanical.
Apparently tape can unbalance high speed CD players. So, why not just use the age old marker pen technique? Luckily I don't have any of the XCD discs to test it on anyway :)
Here's a bit more on the proposed system http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/15/vehicle_mo vement_database/ it seems they'll track everything, and then keep all the data for two years.
Since higher combustion temperatures are mentioned, won't this adversely effect engine lifespan?
Why get a PDA which does some of the functions of a real computer, when you can have a real computer? Things like:
http://www.dynamism.com/u50/
and:
http://www.oqo.com/
Small, fast (compared to a PDA), and plenty of storage. Better screens too.
Plus many of the PDAs are hampered with some shocking design decisions. I've had three PDAs, and all of them lost all data when both batteries go flat (Psion 3C, HP Jornada 620LX and Sony Clié PEG50). Forget to charge for two weeks, and you have - no data. Plain stupid. Flash isn't ruinously expensive, so there's no excuse IMO.
...according to Netcraft they're running Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer under Linux. Of course they're also probably bluffing ;)
Actually all they need to do is claim that the tags are a requirement "for recycling", and you'll not only be committing a crime, you'll also be shunned by your peers for crimes against the environment...
... Yes, Sigmatel bought the IP, but if you look at the articles it appears they also bought the entire Rio design team - which the Sigmatel press release implies will remain untouched. Surely that's a very interesting decision if they were only after the IP ;)
IMO the reason the iPod is now the market leader has very little to do with technical superiority (it's good but far from perfect IMO), and a great deal to do with very clever marketing - and large horde of Apple zealots...
If you need self-destructing HDs why bother with the C4? Just specify an IBM/HGST Deathstar, I've found data just slides off those...
;)
They're the ultimate in secure data erasers, you don't even have to do anything - one minute 100Gb of data, the next absolutely nothing!
Of course keeping an audit trail on one might be tricky
...pass me a mirror, it's the darned USAF again!
Nothing to do with overkill and everything to do with cheap lousy Taiwanese electrolyte...
TheInquirer tends to call things by names which are intended to be slightly humourous - sometimes they hit the mark, sometimes they don't. In other words it's not a mistake/typo, it's just an attempt at humour. They also refer to Mozilla as Mozzarella, Microsoft as the Vole, and the maker of reassuringly overpriced hardware comes from Cappuccino, rather than Cupertino.
That's an easy one, voluntarily I'd be on a deserted island somewhere... Or anywhere else without completely automatic cars.
;)
Having just experienced a car suffer some type of general spreading electronic failure I really don't fancy being trapped in one if it was "driving".
First the indicators/blinkers stopped working, then the speedo died, then everything else started to fail... I pulled over and turned it off. Result: One comatose car sitting there beeping at me forlornly. If that sucker had been driving things might have been exciting
After disconnecting the battery it would at least start again, but the dashboard was lit up like a Christmas tree. No ABS, no stability control, diffs locked and a very nice orange ECU warning light. When contacted the dealer said "on no account should you drive it".
It was then attended to by an engineer (of one of those reassuring German manufacturers), he reflashed the main computer and reset the others. Then said he had no idea why that happened, but he thought it would probably be OK.
I think K.I.S.S is the motto we should be encouraging here. Cars driving themselves *shudder*
...you don't have video of the deceased? No problemo, with our new stop-frame-o-stiff(TM) service you can have videos made up to 24hrs** after death.
;)
** N.B. this can be extended to 96hrs if you don't mind them acting like William Shatner
I'm sure the criminals are rubbing their hands together with glee - it makes car ID theft so much easier having everything remotely readable. Watch the car go past, and you've got a full set of data - car make, model, colour, VIN and licence plates. Yes, I can see how that's going to make everything much more secure... The only thing this will make easier is crime!