Those boxes are because of an encoding issue. Try setting your character set to iso-8859-1 or windows-1252. This appears to be a problem because Word was used to generate the html.
In the classic sense, an emulator is a program that runs the op-codes of another processor. Consider a 6502 Apple//e emulator. It requires three things: a ROM image, a simulation of the I/O peripherals, and way to simulate the 6502 processor on another system.
WINE has x86 opcodes run natively on the real processor. It doesn't simulate peripherals. It has replaced the Win32 API with equivalent functionality (so no need for the core Windows DLLs (comparable to ROMs)). So, it is not an emulator.
Through the magic of https (which prevents this kind of man-in-the-middle attack), the page can be viewed. They would have to block all https connections to the secure wikimedia server to block the page.
While I do agree that mass-disposal is wasteful, the mouse has changed significantly in the last 20 years:
1. computer interface: RS-232, PS/2, USB 2. number of buttons 3. scroll wheel 4. mechanism: ball mouse with moving parts that wear out, optical mouse with special grid mousepad, modern optical mouse 5. wireless mice: IR, RF, Bluetooth
So its not like there hasn't been reasons to upgrade.
Case 2:It's capable of the lower levels of human functionality. Say, somewhere between Forest Gump and a chimpanzee. Well, in this case, we have an intelligent being, who is a ward of the state, and who is unlike any other being on earth. It has no family, and potentially no human rights. It's entirely subject to the whims of its creators, or to the vagaries of laws that don't cover it. And who is it going to play with as a child? What is it going to do when it's older? How much experimentation is legally and morally allowable? What if it's below the legal threshold of mental function for consent, but is undeniably intelligent?
I think we already have an animal that meets that criteria, Koko the Gorilla. Check out some of the video of her communications. There have been several documentaries. It is impressive, and she is clearly a thinking self-aware being (dare I say a person?).
If you have two transceivers at opposite sides of the base of a mountain, no radio frequency is ever going to allow them to communicate directly (well, VLF will, but that's impractically slow, so let's ignore it for simplicity sake).
I think you forgot to consider NVIS (near-vertical-incidence skywave) propagation.
From Wikipedia:
NVIS is most useful in mountainous areas where line-of-sight propagation at VHF or UHF frequencies is ineffective or when the communication distance is beyond ground wave (more than 50 miles) and less than sky-wave (300 to 1500 miles).
You only need to use an identifier for a short period of time. The solution would be to randomize the mac address when you start the car. But that won't happen.
Looking at the Car-to-car site, it says it is based on 802.11 networking with something like wireless mesh routing. This means that they will have Wifi-like MAC addresses, which means cars will be uniquely identifiable and thus, trackable.:(
This could be very good for the safety of motorcyclists if widely deployed. Many motorcycle accidents involve cars pulling out in front of motorcycles and the car driver saying that they didn't see the motorcycle.
My only concern is for privacy. The broadcast message should not include the VIN or any other unique identifier that could be used for tracking.
More at the Honda Site. It seems to use a Car-to-Car protocol that is in development.
All this kit though looks like it would add significant cost to a motorcycle.:(
I got one of these calls. It was to my cell phone, from a caller ID of 414-302-xxxx. It was a robocall asking about renewing my "vehicle warranty", and that I should press 1 to talk to a rep. So I pressed 1 and asked the rep what vehicle warranty this was about (as I don't have any vehicle under warranty). She said that she couldn't tell me for security reasons (!!) and that it was usually a '95-'97 model year. I told her I had no such vehicle, and she said she would "remove me from their list." End of call.
The whole thing was very hokey. I think they are looking for people with older cars because they usually have less money to fight back against them with. Preying on the weak, these people are really scum.
Slashdot interviews are supposed to have commenters asking the questions, relayed by slashdot editors. Here we have an editor asking questions vaguely inspired by our questions. What is with the format change?
And was it just me, or were these all softball questions compared to the level of questions we had all submitted??
I sounds like a TTY for the hearing impaired. Basically its a modem. When a carrier is detected it opens and there is a keyboard and LCD readout for the text from the other end.
We've all seen the fallout from EA's decision to put heavy-handed DRM into Spore. What is your position on DRM and its place in gaming? Do you think it is fair that a single-player game require an internet connection in order to phone-home for anti-piracy reasons?
This is only for whiteboarding (not document sharing), but Inkscape can share a workspace over XMPP (Jabber) protocol. The feature is sometimes called Inkboard.
If symbols are stripped, they can compare the object code. Compile the code with a bunch of different compiler versions to see which version they used. Its pretty straightforward.
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Try New York City. Its not clean by any stretch. A good amount of it is due to homeless people.
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gogo!
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Those boxes are because of an encoding issue. Try setting your character set to iso-8859-1 or windows-1252. This appears to be a problem because Word was used to generate the html.
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In the classic sense, an emulator is a program that runs the op-codes of another processor. Consider a 6502 Apple //e emulator. It requires three things: a ROM image, a simulation of the I/O peripherals, and way to simulate the 6502 processor on another system.
WINE has x86 opcodes run natively on the real processor. It doesn't simulate peripherals. It has replaced the Win32 API with equivalent functionality (so no need for the core Windows DLLs (comparable to ROMs)). So, it is not an emulator.
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In NYS, the pensions are guaranteed in the state constitution. They can't be touched.
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Through the magic of https (which prevents this kind of man-in-the-middle attack), the page can be viewed. They would have to block all https connections to the secure wikimedia server to block the page.
Regular: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Killer
Secure: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Virgin_Killer
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A link to the actual photos: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_German_Federal_Archive
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While I do agree that mass-disposal is wasteful, the mouse has changed significantly in the last 20 years:
1. computer interface: RS-232, PS/2, USB
2. number of buttons
3. scroll wheel
4. mechanism: ball mouse with moving parts that wear out, optical mouse with special grid mousepad, modern optical mouse
5. wireless mice: IR, RF, Bluetooth
So its not like there hasn't been reasons to upgrade.
-molo
Case 2:It's capable of the lower levels of human functionality. Say, somewhere between Forest Gump and a chimpanzee. Well, in this case, we have an intelligent being, who is a ward of the state, and who is unlike any other being on earth. It has no family, and potentially no human rights. It's entirely subject to the whims of its creators, or to the vagaries of laws that don't cover it. And who is it going to play with as a child? What is it going to do when it's older? How much experimentation is legally and morally allowable? What if it's below the legal threshold of mental function for consent, but is undeniably intelligent?
I think we already have an animal that meets that criteria, Koko the Gorilla. Check out some of the video of her communications. There have been several documentaries. It is impressive, and she is clearly a thinking self-aware being (dare I say a person?).
-molo
Does that mean that I'll get smarter if I lose body mass? :)
-molo
If you have two transceivers at opposite sides of the base of a mountain, no radio frequency is ever going to allow them to communicate directly (well, VLF will, but that's impractically slow, so let's ignore it for simplicity sake).
I think you forgot to consider NVIS (near-vertical-incidence skywave) propagation.
From Wikipedia:
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Not with the data already digitized in bulk and available to anyone with a radio receiver.
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You only need to use an identifier for a short period of time. The solution would be to randomize the mac address when you start the car. But that won't happen.
-molo
Looking at the Car-to-car site, it says it is based on 802.11 networking with something like wireless mesh routing. This means that they will have Wifi-like MAC addresses, which means cars will be uniquely identifiable and thus, trackable. :(
-molo
This could be very good for the safety of motorcyclists if widely deployed. Many motorcycle accidents involve cars pulling out in front of motorcycles and the car driver saying that they didn't see the motorcycle.
My only concern is for privacy. The broadcast message should not include the VIN or any other unique identifier that could be used for tracking.
More at the Honda Site. It seems to use a Car-to-Car protocol that is in development.
All this kit though looks like it would add significant cost to a motorcycle. :(
-molo
Can I ask how you tracked them down? I'm not too familiar with CallerID spoofing, and I'd like to know about ways to detect and defeat it.
Thanks
-molo
I got one of these calls. It was to my cell phone, from a caller ID of 414-302-xxxx. It was a robocall asking about renewing my "vehicle warranty", and that I should press 1 to talk to a rep. So I pressed 1 and asked the rep what vehicle warranty this was about (as I don't have any vehicle under warranty). She said that she couldn't tell me for security reasons (!!) and that it was usually a '95-'97 model year. I told her I had no such vehicle, and she said she would "remove me from their list." End of call.
The whole thing was very hokey. I think they are looking for people with older cars because they usually have less money to fight back against them with. Preying on the weak, these people are really scum.
-molo
Slashdot interviews are supposed to have commenters asking the questions, relayed by slashdot editors. Here we have an editor asking questions vaguely inspired by our questions. What is with the format change?
And was it just me, or were these all softball questions compared to the level of questions we had all submitted??
-molo
I sounds like a TTY for the hearing impaired. Basically its a modem. When a carrier is detected it opens and there is a keyboard and LCD readout for the text from the other end.
-molo
To all:
What is your position on cross-platform computer gaming? Is there a viable market for MacOS and Linux gaming in your view?
Thanks
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To all:
We've all seen the fallout from EA's decision to put heavy-handed DRM into Spore. What is your position on DRM and its place in gaming? Do you think it is fair that a single-player game require an internet connection in order to phone-home for anti-piracy reasons?
Thanks.
-molo
"george w. bush" iraq -- 2001: 21,400 results
"george w. bush" iraq -- 2008: 15,400,000 results
interesting find: "Will George W. Bush launch a new US war of aggression against Iraq?" -- January, 2001
wikipedia -- 2001: 681
wikipedia -- 2008: 287,000,000
guantanamo bay -- 2001: 33,500
guantanamo bay -- 2008: 7,200,000
waterboarding -- 2001: 43
waterboarding -- 2008: 1,940,000
al qaeda -- 2001: 1670
al qaeda -- 2008: 20,400,000
This is only for whiteboarding (not document sharing), but Inkscape can share a workspace over XMPP (Jabber) protocol. The feature is sometimes called Inkboard.
More info here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/WhiteBoard and here: http://inkboard.sourceforge.net/
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You forget, the first thing thieves do when they steal a car is to change the plates!
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If symbols are stripped, they can compare the object code. Compile the code with a bunch of different compiler versions to see which version they used. Its pretty straightforward.
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