No. They just assume that you are stupid enough to take a ticking package that smells like diesel and fertilizer from some stranger in the airport drive-up. Given how we govern ourselves that may be a correct assumption.
Palm, the hardware folks (not the PalmSource OS company) do have something that Apple needs. Relationships with the cell companies. Making a phone is not that big of a deal for a large consumer electronics company. Managing the relationship with Verizon, T-Mobile or ATT is something that take lots of time to get right. Don't expect to see an Apple branded Treo. Paml Inc makes nothing, it is all outcourced. Marketing hannels and relationships can have a higher resale value that physical plant. Expect to see an Apple branded iPod/phone. If you want to read tee leaves, look at that Jobbs has or had on his belt.
Tron (hacker)
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Tron (8 June 1972 - October 1998) was the nickname of Boris Floricic, a German hacker and phreaker who used that pseudonym out of respect for the character in the 1982 Disney film of the same name. He became famous due to the unclear circumstances of his death. Tron was interested in defeating computer security mechanisms and broke, amongst other things, the security of the German phonecard by producing working clones. He was later sentenced to 15 months in jail for the theft of a public phone (for reverse engineering purposes), but the sentence was suspended on probation.
Tron is also known for his diploma thesis, in which he created the Cryptophon, which was one of the first implementations of a telephone with built-in voice encryption. At the end of 2005 and the beginning of 2006 Tron was again the subject of media attention when his parents and Andy Müller-Maguhn (a spokesperson for the German Chaos Computer Club but acting on his own behalf in this case) brought legal action against the Wikimedia Foundation and its German chapter Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. This action found its most current peak in a court interdiction against using the German domain wikipedia.de as a redirect to the German wikipedia version. The redirect has been out of service since January 18, 2006.
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* 1 Life
* 2 Interests
* 3 Cryptophon
* 4 Mysterious death
* 5 Current controversy
* 6 Sources
* 7 Further reading
* 8 External links
Life
Tron grew up in a suburb in the south of Berlin. His interests in school focused on technical subjects. He left school after 10 years and completed a three-year Vocational education (Berufsausbildung) offered by the Technical University of Berlin and became a specialist in communication electronics with a major on information technology (Kommunikationselektroniker, Fachrichtung Informationstechnik). After this he gained the Abitur (diploma from a German secondary school qualifying for university admission) and began studies in Computer science at the Technical University of Applied Sciences of Berlin.
During his studies Tron attended an internship with a company developing electronic security systems. In the winter term 1997/1998 Tron successfully finished his studies and published his diploma thesis. Within his thesis he developed the Cryptophon, an ISDN telephone with built-in voice encryption. As parts of the work, which were to be provided by another student, were missing, he could not finish his work on the Cryptophon. His work, however, was rated as exceptional by the university professor responsible. After graduation Tron applied for a job at at least one company, but did not find work. In his spare time he continued, amongst other duties, the work on the Cryptophon.
Interests
Tron was highly interested in electronics and security systems of all kinds. He engaged in, amongst other things, attacks against the German phonecard and Pay TV systems. As part of his research he exchanged ideas and proposals with other hackers and scientists. On the mailinglist "tv-crypt", operated by a closed group of Pay TV hackers, Tron reported about himself in 1995, that his interests are microprocessors, programming languages, electronics of all kinds, digital radio data transmission and especially breaking the security of systems perceived as secure. He alleged to have created working clones of a chipcard used for british Pay TV and would continue his work to defeat the security of the Nagravision/Syster scrambling system which was then used e.g. by the German Pay TV provider "PREMIERE".
Later american scientists outlined a theoretical attack against SIM cards used for GS
But just because some local yokel slides in a dumb amendment does not mean we should all jump off a cliff. Yes, we all know how great big business is. Tried calling Microsoft, Dell or T-Mobile support lately with even a simple question? I called the IRS a few days ago with a very complex and detailed question. I got a very detailed and thoughtful response within 24 hours that would have taken weeks from a tax attorney and cost me thousands. If US business could provide the level of service of the IRS our economy would rock. Every time I move it is the businesses that can't seem to get even a change of address right, but I've never had even the local utility district get it wrong. Sure, the current republican clowns in DC are control freaks, sack them and get back to a team that want to provide good services.
The fix for must SPAM is simple. Change the Uniform Commercial Code to allow an automatic refund from your credit card account upto in one year after any sales based on SPAM. No appeal or reason needed. If this were the case, no credit card company would touch SPAMers. The real problem are the banks as they seem happy to make money off of SPAM.
Nukes oddly enough use a great deal of oil. Digging ore, transporting ore around the planet, refining ore, constructing the building, etc requires huge amounts of oil. On either a cost, energy or carbon balance sheet it does not look nearly as green or black (cost effective) as you might think.
Just look at the sea change that Nintendo is bringing. End of the polygon wars. A small, low cost console that has a Revolutionary controller. Look at DS and NintenDogs.
"Most Old" is more like it. His approach is new, but the VR community has had this working for a LONG time. As described in the book "VR Construction Kit" (probably out of print, I'm too lazy to check) positional gloves with finger sensors (e.g. The PowerGlove) were originally invented by a fellow who wanted an air guitar that would work. After a bit of finagling with the electronics, he came up with gloves containing Piezo-electric strips that could detect finger position. Thus the first "air guitar that works" was born.;-)
True, I saw this at Evergreen in the early '80s done with a data glove. THe data glove had fiber optic sensors and was a big deal with the VR types back then. It cost a bucket load of money too.
For energy issues such as peak oil, fuel cells, and hybreds check out http://thewatt.com/. They have a nice (PHPnuke) site. The folks behind it are a bunch of Canadian engineering Grad students
It would be very interesting to look at the true cost savings that *might* be able to be found from this. If you look at your average small portable consumer widget that has a connector or two, the cost of the connectors can often exceed the code of the chips.
I am an engineering manager where we develop new products to be sold. Because of that I have very different needs from an IT department. If someone trys to sell you on anycerts, make sure those that cert teaches you what you want to do. If you want to admin NT boxes go for it. If you want to design consumer electronics, get an BSEE degree. For much of the same reason, if you want to work in IT don't bother with a real CS or EE degree. So to put a fine point on it: the point of IT certs is to advance in IT.
I always tell HR to screen out resumes that have certs. We are out on the raw edge and anybody that spends their time learning "Best Practices," is not prepared to invent new things. My first interview question is to put some aseembly code on th ewhite board and have them translate it into C code. From there we move into big "O" notation and then we start the verilog and RF propigation. In short, If you are not an EE you are not going to see the end of the interview. If I hire "just" a software engineer I do need and expect a CS degree, because our software engineers really do need to know whatis taught in CS.
The other thing I like to see in a resume is experance, both job and life. The job experance is obvious, but life experance is even more important. Life experance help you choose which problems to solve. My ideal candidate would be someone who spent 4 years in the Peace corp then went back and got a dual BSEE and African Lit degree. depth, bredth and experance.
Call up a couple VPs of{Engineering|Manufacturing|IT} at local tech small to mid size companies and tell them our story. You'll have to get a tax number etc. for them to deal with you, but its no big deal. Somebody may go, "hey we need 500 cables made." Take what ever is offered that you think you can do well. You can even get help from SCORE on some of the biz issues. Start small and assume that you'll make mistakes. Expect your experance to be your real profit.
Boy that sends me back. I can still remember the octal you needed to enter on the front panel of our Nova to boot it. I miss the days of floppies big enough to use for place mats and paper tape.
While the marketoids will try to mine the tags, I do not think that privacy is the biggest problem with RFID. Why is wallmart pushing for the tags so hard? To eliminate labor. Labor is one of their biggest costs. With the tags in place they can eliminate the checkout people, you push your cart through the scanner and up pops your bill on the ATM pad. This also allows them to keep track of what sells and when. With some scanners between each department they can find misplaced items that customers put back on the wrong rack. This would also all but eliminate employee thieft. Only jobs left will be the greeter at the enterace and security at the exit. They have already outsourced janitorial services to fight unionization and I'm sure they'l do the same with a restocking crew and rent-a-cop.
In some ways this is the ultamate offshoring of a service job. The labor of checkout clerk is moved to the chip factory where the tage is made and the shoe factory where the tag is inserted.
Actually, the question -- or the worry -- is more around how to prevent somebody from forking Java and kill the "Write Once, Run Everywhere" idiom.
Actually, the question is how to kill the "Write Once, Run Everywhere" idiom. Java is a nice object oriented C language, but all of the VM, non-native UI, swing and other bagage is the problem with java. Dump the bagage and just compile java. Or I guess you could just move to Objective C and be done with it.
The fastest way to shut down a port is an air strike. This only tends to work in the sort term as the government can rebuild. It may take weeks or so of steaming, but mining is a much better long term way to shut a port down. If you just want to take control of a port I'd send in a SEAL team to take out key defences then follow up with the Marines.
Of course, the only way to be sure is to try and cut pay to the longshoremen. Nothing will shut down a port tighter than a longshoremen's strike.
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Oh, You mean DRWatson.exe
No. They just assume that you are stupid enough to take a ticking package that smells like diesel and fertilizer from some stranger in the airport drive-up. Given how we govern ourselves that may be a correct assumption.
Palm, the hardware folks (not the PalmSource OS company) do have something that Apple needs. Relationships with the cell companies. Making a phone is not that big of a deal for a large consumer electronics company. Managing the relationship with Verizon, T-Mobile or ATT is something that take lots of time to get right. Don't expect to see an Apple branded Treo. Paml Inc makes nothing, it is all outcourced. Marketing hannels and relationships can have a higher resale value that physical plant. Expect to see an Apple branded iPod/phone. If you want to read tee leaves, look at that Jobbs has or had on his belt.
Tron (hacker) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jump to: navigation, search This article documents a current event. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses. As a result of recent vandalism, editing of this page by new or anonymous users is temporarily disabled. Other users may still edit this article. Changes can be discussed on the talk page, or you can request unprotection. Tron (8 June 1972 - October 1998) was the nickname of Boris Floricic, a German hacker and phreaker who used that pseudonym out of respect for the character in the 1982 Disney film of the same name. He became famous due to the unclear circumstances of his death. Tron was interested in defeating computer security mechanisms and broke, amongst other things, the security of the German phonecard by producing working clones. He was later sentenced to 15 months in jail for the theft of a public phone (for reverse engineering purposes), but the sentence was suspended on probation. Tron is also known for his diploma thesis, in which he created the Cryptophon, which was one of the first implementations of a telephone with built-in voice encryption. At the end of 2005 and the beginning of 2006 Tron was again the subject of media attention when his parents and Andy Müller-Maguhn (a spokesperson for the German Chaos Computer Club but acting on his own behalf in this case) brought legal action against the Wikimedia Foundation and its German chapter Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. This action found its most current peak in a court interdiction against using the German domain wikipedia.de as a redirect to the German wikipedia version. The redirect has been out of service since January 18, 2006. Contents [hide] * 1 Life * 2 Interests * 3 Cryptophon * 4 Mysterious death * 5 Current controversy * 6 Sources * 7 Further reading * 8 External links Life Tron grew up in a suburb in the south of Berlin. His interests in school focused on technical subjects. He left school after 10 years and completed a three-year Vocational education (Berufsausbildung) offered by the Technical University of Berlin and became a specialist in communication electronics with a major on information technology (Kommunikationselektroniker, Fachrichtung Informationstechnik). After this he gained the Abitur (diploma from a German secondary school qualifying for university admission) and began studies in Computer science at the Technical University of Applied Sciences of Berlin. During his studies Tron attended an internship with a company developing electronic security systems. In the winter term 1997/1998 Tron successfully finished his studies and published his diploma thesis. Within his thesis he developed the Cryptophon, an ISDN telephone with built-in voice encryption. As parts of the work, which were to be provided by another student, were missing, he could not finish his work on the Cryptophon. His work, however, was rated as exceptional by the university professor responsible. After graduation Tron applied for a job at at least one company, but did not find work. In his spare time he continued, amongst other duties, the work on the Cryptophon. Interests Tron was highly interested in electronics and security systems of all kinds. He engaged in, amongst other things, attacks against the German phonecard and Pay TV systems. As part of his research he exchanged ideas and proposals with other hackers and scientists. On the mailinglist "tv-crypt", operated by a closed group of Pay TV hackers, Tron reported about himself in 1995, that his interests are microprocessors, programming languages, electronics of all kinds, digital radio data transmission and especially breaking the security of systems perceived as secure. He alleged to have created working clones of a chipcard used for british Pay TV and would continue his work to defeat the security of the Nagravision/Syster scrambling system which was then used e.g. by the German Pay TV provider "PREMIERE". Later american scientists outlined a theoretical attack against SIM cards used for GS
But just because some local yokel slides in a dumb amendment does not mean we should all jump off a cliff. Yes, we all know how great big business is. Tried calling Microsoft, Dell or T-Mobile support lately with even a simple question? I called the IRS a few days ago with a very complex and detailed question. I got a very detailed and thoughtful response within 24 hours that would have taken weeks from a tax attorney and cost me thousands. If US business could provide the level of service of the IRS our economy would rock. Every time I move it is the businesses that can't seem to get even a change of address right, but I've never had even the local utility district get it wrong. Sure, the current republican clowns in DC are control freaks, sack them and get back to a team that want to provide good services.
The fix for must SPAM is simple. Change the Uniform Commercial Code to allow an automatic refund from your credit card account upto in one year after any sales based on SPAM. No appeal or reason needed. If this were the case, no credit card company would touch SPAMers. The real problem are the banks as they seem happy to make money off of SPAM.
Nukes oddly enough use a great deal of oil. Digging ore, transporting ore around the planet, refining ore, constructing the building, etc requires huge amounts of oil. On either a cost, energy or carbon balance sheet it does not look nearly as green or black (cost effective) as you might think.
Just look at the sea change that Nintendo is bringing. End of the polygon wars. A small, low cost console that has a Revolutionary controller. Look at DS and NintenDogs.
True, I saw this at Evergreen in the early '80s done with a data glove. THe data glove had fiber optic sensors and was a big deal with the VR types back then. It cost a bucket load of money too.
For energy issues such as peak oil, fuel cells, and hybreds check out http://thewatt.com/. They have a nice (PHPnuke) site. The folks behind it are a bunch of Canadian engineering Grad students
It would be very interesting to look at the true cost savings that *might* be able to be found from this. If you look at your average small portable consumer widget that has a connector or two, the cost of the connectors can often exceed the code of the chips.
I always tell HR to screen out resumes that have certs. We are out on the raw edge and anybody that spends their time learning "Best Practices," is not prepared to invent new things. My first interview question is to put some aseembly code on th ewhite board and have them translate it into C code. From there we move into big "O" notation and then we start the verilog and RF propigation. In short, If you are not an EE you are not going to see the end of the interview. If I hire "just" a software engineer I do need and expect a CS degree, because our software engineers really do need to know whatis taught in CS.
The other thing I like to see in a resume is experance, both job and life. The job experance is obvious, but life experance is even more important. Life experance help you choose which problems to solve. My ideal candidate would be someone who spent 4 years in the Peace corp then went back and got a dual BSEE and African Lit degree. depth, bredth and experance.
Nintendo has major family ownership
FreeDOS is another altrnative depending on your requirements.
"The Stratospheric Platform System (SPS) dirigible" Typical Dod language. It is a Platform AND it is a System. Not it is a Platform System!
Does Haskal or oCamal have supported production grade ports to Palm OS or other small/embedded platforms?
More detail about Mr. D. Maul can be found here
IIRC, the GSM version of the Palm Treo 600 is quad band (850/900/18001900). They also make a CDMA version of the Treo for Sprint.
Call up a couple VPs of{Engineering|Manufacturing|IT} at local tech small to mid size companies and tell them our story. You'll have to get a tax number etc. for them to deal with you, but its no big deal. Somebody may go, "hey we need 500 cables made." Take what ever is offered that you think you can do well. You can even get help from SCORE on some of the biz issues. Start small and assume that you'll make mistakes. Expect your experance to be your real profit.
Boy that sends me back. I can still remember the octal you needed to enter on the front panel of our Nova to boot it. I miss the days of floppies big enough to use for place mats and paper tape.
For the record: SHE hinted
The German Retailer Metro just anounced that it is dropping RFID tags
In some ways this is the ultamate offshoring of a service job. The labor of checkout clerk is moved to the chip factory where the tage is made and the shoe factory where the tag is inserted.
Actually, the question is how to kill the "Write Once, Run Everywhere" idiom. Java is a nice object oriented C language, but all of the VM, non-native UI, swing and other bagage is the problem with java. Dump the bagage and just compile java. Or I guess you could just move to Objective C and be done with it.
Of course, the only way to be sure is to try and cut pay to the longshoremen. Nothing will shut down a port tighter than a longshoremen's strike.
Oh, wait. This is slashdot.ORG not slashdot.MIL.
Never mind....