In Maine, where I grew up, yes there were different channels or bands for local police & fire, state police, wardens, etc. But the radios were often virtually identical. Not easy to deal with.
So, without reading TFA, how would 'cognitive radio' fix this? By tuning into the common frequencies, or changing channels? This is not possible today?
"In public safety, cognitive radios also could be used to provide interoperability between various signals and automatically adjust radio performance."
Interoperability is available today. Just choose compatible systems. Oh wait, will 'cognitive radio' solve the compatibility problem? Sure, if they cognite in compatible ways...
Automatically adjusting radio performance sounds great. Let's see, AGC, AFC, spread-spectrum, oh, we already do a lot of that. I wonder what will be new or better...
Sorry, call me cynical, but this sounds like software-defined radio. We need a enw name for this? It's not even well-adopted yet, and it already needs to be redefined. This sort of thing usually indicates market failure.
Kinda too bad. It was a good idea. Still is. Someone will do it right.
I'd buy an efficient Diesel in preference to a gas guzzler, and not to do the biodiesel thing, which is a niche since we aren't likely to wolf down enough french fries and fried catfish to make the market for used oil big enough to supply the convertors. And growing food for fuel is still stupid, even if it is diesel. Growing food for fuel is stupid. Eating is non-negotiable. There are plenty of ways to fuel transportation without taking precious farmland and growing stuff to burn.
Diesel is good enough to win at Le Mans. Oughta be a way to make it work on the 101 through Scottsdale, since it works on the Autobahn.
Of course, Mercedes-Benz thinks hybrids should be diesel-electric. Where have we heard that before? Oh yeah, locomotives. A business sensitive to costs, performance, and reliability.
Until we can go all-electric, we'll need a better battery. Right now, the favorite battery is a gasoline tank. Soon, it might be a diesel tank.
Sad. Maybe instead of trying to make an electric CRX, I oughta make a diesel...?
The real question is, does HP need Microsoft more than Microsoft needs HP?
The answer is not entirely obvious to me.
Easy to say that Microsoft could make HP very uncomfortable with abusive pricing, support terms, and general sabotage.
HP could, however, deprive Microsoft of easy revenue.
Or this could be the first step towards a serious anti-trust case, with Microsoft being charged with monopolistic practices, punishing hardware vendors for even tolerating competitive operating systems. Which they are pretty much avoiding right now, since Linux is such a small fraction of the OEM pre-installed market.
But let a HP-Linux get 10% of the home market, and maybe Microsoft decides it needs to spank HP and teach it a lesson? And HP has almost as many lawyers as Microsoft. I;m counting the DOJ. Though they aren't very motivated most of the time, if the DOJ gets fired up, they will win.
Interesting. Match this up with Ubuntu's new emphasis on being useable, and this could be pretty cool.
In Arizona, it doesn't take but two red light tickets to get your license suspended. You can avoid this by taking traffic school which is a minimum of 8 hours. If you're not careful, you can find your license suspended, pay >$300, and still have points that leave you subject to a non-appealable suspension on another infraction. Not a 'no possible penalties' situation to me...
As an aside, AZ just enacted traffic laws making it illegal to traverse the 'gore area', that triangle where an exit ramp separates from the highway, for instance, and marked by solid lines. The fine is about $840. Yes, $840. Apparently we are bad people and are killing each other by passing and merging abruptly in these areas. The red light laws were stiffened because our previous Governor found in a study that we were dying due to running red lights at a rate higher than all the rest of the country, by a wide margin. So we're being fined into submission. Sounds like a good idea, eh?
It's not hard to make educated guesses at Seawolf capabilities from the available public data. More interesting to try and figure out what Ohio class really could do. It's probably as hard as figuring out what Nimitz-class can actually do in a hurry.
Of course, the Navy classified submersibles and such are a lot more interesting, and a lot less understood by us civilians. Wonder how far they go down...
NetWare was doing it before Microsoft knew what it was. 'It' being file sharing.
My NetWare servers were going 100+ days uptime when I had to reboot the NT servers weekly.
NetWare was offering usable directory services when Active Directory was still moist and unbaked. Of course StreetTalk predated them all, and was awesome, as in it worked. How quickly we forget...
GroupWise still, IMHO is still a preeminent mail and groupware system. iFolder was cool, ZenWorks kicks butt.
NetWare got it done. Not flawless, but damned good. Windows Server '03 finally delivered on the promise first given with NT. NetWare worked before NT was in production.
I took a gig recovering documentation and re-establishing procedures for a great admin who died as well. He really did great docs, but no one had ever used them, and they couldn't figure out the 'copy file piopoiop.dfj to the \asic\wer\2344\sdf.msdfn folder' sort of directions.
And the crew there immediately set to removing, replacing, and destroying all of his systems. He was a Novell hardliner (so was I), and when he was gone, his boss succumbed and the Windows bigots prevailed. Much taxpayer money was spent replacing perfectly functional systems. Mind you their clients were still running Novell, so there was some disconnect when they would get a request for support and start saying 'you have to upgrade (ha!) to Windows'. Their clients, for reasons best left undisclosed, could not upgrade. Both physically impossible and logistically impractical. Start with being 60-1600 meters below the ocean surface, and it only gets more difficult from there.
I'm a little surprised that SF hasn't worked this out. There are plenty of outfits eager to do what is necessary, for a fee of course.
And yes, finding a device is not impossible. Finding the connection to the network is the obvious first step. After that, well, kill it.
Unless it's hiding. That would be unfortunate.
ps- This guy, by many accounts, was brilliant. And a little off the wall. Goes together.
The stock closed today at 9.976, from a close on Friday the 5th of 12.50. It closed on 9/27 at 9.88, from a recent high on 15.10 during 9/18. Trading volume was about 20% higher than any time in the past 3 weeks. UAL is volatile in the 9.50-13 range right now. This was a manufactured bump, but what was the news on 8/27?
The institutions, automated traders, and arbitrageurs certainly had a rollercoaster ride, but 'real people' investors never really got on board.
And can the high and mighty support for the 'little guy'. I'm a little guy. I get pounded by my fund managers regular, while they take care of their big clients. I've got the class-action settlement to prove it. The little guy is ALWAYS at the mercy of the market. The only hope is to not chase after every rainbow. So if guys like me didn't jump on this news, we did ok... Of course, do I pity the fools that head the report, didn't check it out, and dumped at 3? Not really.
It's the space between 'shoulda known better' and 'fooled like the rest'. I'm disappointed that this false news story caused such panic, but those who trade on hair-triggers deserve the punishment. If you think I'm callous towards the 'little guy' who gets caught up in this, again, I'm one of those little guys. So accuse me of hating myself. Nice try.
If you're trading based on news, minutes or seconds of advantage, and arbitrage, then you'll occasionally get nailed by something unforseen. Like a two-or three year old news story that 'looks' new all of a sudden.
So is someone watching over this, ready to pull the plug if something doesn't smell right? Nope. When the timing is so short, you're at the mercy of the system.
Besides, most of these programs are pure arbitrage. Which is sort of the 'greater fool' theory in play. You make money at someone else's expense. Like they didn't know about something, and you sell out a minute before they find out.
In this case, justice, if there is any, is won by those who saw the activity, realized the mistake, bought low and sold back high. Too bad, big institutional investor. You lost this round.
Oh yeah - writing down the results and THEN letting them go to the USB key would be best.
A printer would be just too good. I'm not sure I like the receipt idea, but I wouldn't oppose it. Imagine being able to look up your vote on the post-election website, and see that it was counted. And how it was counted. Intriguing.
Of course, my concept doesn't permit you to load new software. So it has to be right. Don't use your DVD player as a model. Use the microwave. Or any old calculator. Those have been pretty much bug-free for decades now, with the exception of course. So we test.
This is precisely where the FOSS movement can deliver the most benefit. Define the hardware and software, expose it to testing and challenges, monitor performance. Better in every way than trying to work with COTS and hardware that has too much code already embedded in it. Imagine using off-the-shelf tablets for machines, or anything manufactured in China.
Woops. Serious problem. It's the 'not knowing' part that makes that so impossibly unacceptable.
Custom code - I meant probably assembler, if not embedded-system code.
No OS, well, actually the OS is integral. So no Windows underpinnings. No antivirus, of course, unless someone wrote a virus for it. And of course, loaded in PROM means attacking it with a virus means recompiling it and reloading the PROMS. Nontrivial.
You dismiss custom code as 'full of ripe to be discovered bugs'. You really need to get out more. The embedded systems model I have in mind is more like what runs your microwave, your digitally-enhanced stove, your car's transmission, countless other devices. Not buggy by nature, from experience. When was the last time your microwave hung and needed a cold boot? I'm sure it's happened, but it's a lot rarer than the big-screen displays in Vegas showing BSODs instead of the announcements.
And how, pray tell, would you compromise the code in your microwave? Contemplate that...
A voting machine needs to be virtually impenetrable. Make the attackers bring desoldering equipment. Publish the code. And the MD5. People like you and me could read the MD5 off the bottom of the screen and compare it with the number written down from the elections website. We could know the code was not overly hacked up.
And of course the code is in PROM, so inserting a USB key to extract the results, AFTER commanding the on-display report and *writing down* the results first, doesn't give you method to infect the PROM. You wouldn't have the circuitry necessary to write the PROM.
You're still thinking inside the big OS box. No OS. Purpose-built. I think Brazil uses something like that, but more complex and uses an OS I would rather dispense with. But their system is also more rigorously examined. Worth a look.
"The whole electronic voting thing is hugely flawed. They're building the machines on an extremely hackable (windows) base, rather than a custom firmware. The design does not take into account real security concerns."
Bingo!
At the least, any secure voting system would include custom software in the poll machines, management servers, tabulators, etc. Let the output be carted off to windows machines to make nice pretty spreadsheets, fine. But all else would have to be custom. And probably best done in fimware, at least in PROMS.
Yes, this would make maintenance and udpates difficult. So it would have to be written 'right' the first time. Wow. Concept. Special-purpose software written correctly. This is something many manufacturing industries have done in the past. Maybe time to hire up some assembler programmers to come out of retirement and git 'er done?
I bet some would do it pro bono. This is important, and more important than money.
In some old MMOs (Avatar, for instance) quests were integral.
I like running Ninjas (ok, so I like beaters, so sue me), who get insanely difficult quests, and more of them. The best quests were for impossible items that only studs had and weren't going to give up. Waiting for someone to take pity on you, or perhaps find one and offer it to you before offering it to the studs was a terrible way to waste the Summer of '88. I waited for Wyvern Skin for 6 weeks. And then I paid an outrageous price (gladly) to someone who was genuinely willing to sell it to the highest bidder, execept that when school is out there aren't so many big boys online to grace you with 3B gold.
But I'm not bitter.
Quests make a MMO 'realer-er'. Just running through the maze killing things and hoarding stuff does in fact get old. My brother, deep into WoW, disagrees, but he is tiring of just building things so others can save time. Only the real money keeps him in it.
There is no real money in Avatar. Not to this day. You do it for love. Quests are the pain.
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Cops have different radios than firefighters?
In Maine, where I grew up, yes there were different channels or bands for local police & fire, state police, wardens, etc. But the radios were often virtually identical. Not easy to deal with.
So, without reading TFA, how would 'cognitive radio' fix this? By tuning into the common frequencies, or changing channels? This is not possible today?
Sounds like a profit mechanism to me.
"by not extending IPv6 support into very many of its apps"
You're doing it wrong.
Your apps should be relying on the OS to handle the nastiness of networking. It's the OS, stupid Microsoft.
Sheesh. No wonder IPv6 is apparently the missing link to Duke Nukem 'whatever.
"In public safety, cognitive radios also could be used to provide interoperability between various signals and automatically adjust radio performance."
Interoperability is available today. Just choose compatible systems. Oh wait, will 'cognitive radio' solve the compatibility problem? Sure, if they cognite in compatible ways...
Automatically adjusting radio performance sounds great. Let's see, AGC, AFC, spread-spectrum, oh, we already do a lot of that. I wonder what will be new or better...
Sorry, call me cynical, but this sounds like software-defined radio. We need a enw name for this? It's not even well-adopted yet, and it already needs to be redefined. This sort of thing usually indicates market failure.
Kinda too bad. It was a good idea. Still is. Someone will do it right.
I'd buy an efficient Diesel in preference to a gas guzzler, and not to do the biodiesel thing, which is a niche since we aren't likely to wolf down enough french fries and fried catfish to make the market for used oil big enough to supply the convertors. And growing food for fuel is still stupid, even if it is diesel. Growing food for fuel is stupid. Eating is non-negotiable. There are plenty of ways to fuel transportation without taking precious farmland and growing stuff to burn.
Diesel is good enough to win at Le Mans. Oughta be a way to make it work on the 101 through Scottsdale, since it works on the Autobahn.
Of course, Mercedes-Benz thinks hybrids should be diesel-electric. Where have we heard that before? Oh yeah, locomotives. A business sensitive to costs, performance, and reliability.
Until we can go all-electric, we'll need a better battery. Right now, the favorite battery is a gasoline tank. Soon, it might be a diesel tank.
Sad. Maybe instead of trying to make an electric CRX, I oughta make a diesel...?
"There's something behind the scenes"
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
I can't tell you why Ford is so stupid. Like my 3rd grade-teaching niece says, "I don't speak retard".
Much as I love Mom, I hope she never ever finds my websites. I don't need the education.
The real question is, does HP need Microsoft more than Microsoft needs HP?
The answer is not entirely obvious to me.
Easy to say that Microsoft could make HP very uncomfortable with abusive pricing, support terms, and general sabotage.
HP could, however, deprive Microsoft of easy revenue.
Or this could be the first step towards a serious anti-trust case, with Microsoft being charged with monopolistic practices, punishing hardware vendors for even tolerating competitive operating systems. Which they are pretty much avoiding right now, since Linux is such a small fraction of the OEM pre-installed market.
But let a HP-Linux get 10% of the home market, and maybe Microsoft decides it needs to spank HP and teach it a lesson? And HP has almost as many lawyers as Microsoft. I;m counting the DOJ. Though they aren't very motivated most of the time, if the DOJ gets fired up, they will win.
Interesting. Match this up with Ubuntu's new emphasis on being useable, and this could be pretty cool.
"60GHz and under-6GHz for ranges similar to that of today's WLANs in the 5GHz band, 802.11a and 11n."
There, fixed that for ya.
Wondering why the LHC is connected to the Internet 'at all'...
Why was the Web even developed? Why was HTTP even thought of? Why was a graphical browser of any interest?
CERN. Ask Mr. Berners-Lee. And then contemplate the irony of wondering this at all.
Sadly, it looks like CERN needs to work on the security more, but hey, that's in the spirit of the World-Wide Wild Web, eh?
In AZ, video tickets are tickets. Photo summons they are called, and they count. Even for red lights.
You got it easy.
In Arizona, it doesn't take but two red light tickets to get your license suspended. You can avoid this by taking traffic school which is a minimum of 8 hours. If you're not careful, you can find your license suspended, pay >$300, and still have points that leave you subject to a non-appealable suspension on another infraction. Not a 'no possible penalties' situation to me...
As an aside, AZ just enacted traffic laws making it illegal to traverse the 'gore area', that triangle where an exit ramp separates from the highway, for instance, and marked by solid lines. The fine is about $840. Yes, $840. Apparently we are bad people and are killing each other by passing and merging abruptly in these areas. The red light laws were stiffened because our previous Governor found in a study that we were dying due to running red lights at a rate higher than all the rest of the country, by a wide margin. So we're being fined into submission. Sounds like a good idea, eh?
It's not hard to make educated guesses at Seawolf capabilities from the available public data. More interesting to try and figure out what Ohio class really could do. It's probably as hard as figuring out what Nimitz-class can actually do in a hurry.
Of course, the Navy classified submersibles and such are a lot more interesting, and a lot less understood by us civilians. Wonder how far they go down...
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NetWare was doing it before Microsoft knew what it was. 'It' being file sharing.
My NetWare servers were going 100+ days uptime when I had to reboot the NT servers weekly.
NetWare was offering usable directory services when Active Directory was still moist and unbaked. Of course StreetTalk predated them all, and was awesome, as in it worked. How quickly we forget...
GroupWise still, IMHO is still a preeminent mail and groupware system. iFolder was cool, ZenWorks kicks butt.
NetWare got it done. Not flawless, but damned good. Windows Server '03 finally delivered on the promise first given with NT. NetWare worked before NT was in production.
Woops, I might be a little too parochial. Sue me.
Ugh. I wrote meters, I meant feet.
No, I don't work for NASA. Guess I could, though.
Yer right. Not a Seawolf.
Technically, when they went below 500m, they left the server upstairs. My bad.
I took a gig recovering documentation and re-establishing procedures for a great admin who died as well. He really did great docs, but no one had ever used them, and they couldn't figure out the 'copy file piopoiop.dfj to the \asic\wer\2344\sdf.msdfn folder' sort of directions.
And the crew there immediately set to removing, replacing, and destroying all of his systems. He was a Novell hardliner (so was I), and when he was gone, his boss succumbed and the Windows bigots prevailed. Much taxpayer money was spent replacing perfectly functional systems. Mind you their clients were still running Novell, so there was some disconnect when they would get a request for support and start saying 'you have to upgrade (ha!) to Windows'. Their clients, for reasons best left undisclosed, could not upgrade. Both physically impossible and logistically impractical. Start with being 60-1600 meters below the ocean surface, and it only gets more difficult from there.
I'm a little surprised that SF hasn't worked this out. There are plenty of outfits eager to do what is necessary, for a fee of course.
And yes, finding a device is not impossible. Finding the connection to the network is the obvious first step. After that, well, kill it.
Unless it's hiding. That would be unfortunate.
ps- This guy, by many accounts, was brilliant. And a little off the wall. Goes together.
You're so full of crap.
The stock closed today at 9.976, from a close on Friday the 5th of 12.50. It closed on 9/27 at 9.88, from a recent high on 15.10 during 9/18. Trading volume was about 20% higher than any time in the past 3 weeks. UAL is volatile in the 9.50-13 range right now. This was a manufactured bump, but what was the news on 8/27?
The institutions, automated traders, and arbitrageurs certainly had a rollercoaster ride, but 'real people' investors never really got on board.
And can the high and mighty support for the 'little guy'. I'm a little guy. I get pounded by my fund managers regular, while they take care of their big clients. I've got the class-action settlement to prove it. The little guy is ALWAYS at the mercy of the market. The only hope is to not chase after every rainbow. So if guys like me didn't jump on this news, we did ok... Of course, do I pity the fools that head the report, didn't check it out, and dumped at 3? Not really.
It's the space between 'shoulda known better' and 'fooled like the rest'. I'm disappointed that this false news story caused such panic, but those who trade on hair-triggers deserve the punishment. If you think I'm callous towards the 'little guy' who gets caught up in this, again, I'm one of those little guys. So accuse me of hating myself. Nice try.
...die by the sword.
If you're trading based on news, minutes or seconds of advantage, and arbitrage, then you'll occasionally get nailed by something unforseen. Like a two-or three year old news story that 'looks' new all of a sudden.
So is someone watching over this, ready to pull the plug if something doesn't smell right? Nope. When the timing is so short, you're at the mercy of the system.
Besides, most of these programs are pure arbitrage. Which is sort of the 'greater fool' theory in play. You make money at someone else's expense. Like they didn't know about something, and you sell out a minute before they find out.
In this case, justice, if there is any, is won by those who saw the activity, realized the mistake, bought low and sold back high. Too bad, big institutional investor. You lost this round.
I can't shed a tear.
Oh yeah - writing down the results and THEN letting them go to the USB key would be best.
A printer would be just too good. I'm not sure I like the receipt idea, but I wouldn't oppose it. Imagine being able to look up your vote on the post-election website, and see that it was counted. And how it was counted. Intriguing.
Of course, my concept doesn't permit you to load new software. So it has to be right. Don't use your DVD player as a model. Use the microwave. Or any old calculator. Those have been pretty much bug-free for decades now, with the exception of course. So we test.
This is precisely where the FOSS movement can deliver the most benefit. Define the hardware and software, expose it to testing and challenges, monitor performance. Better in every way than trying to work with COTS and hardware that has too much code already embedded in it. Imagine using off-the-shelf tablets for machines, or anything manufactured in China.
Woops. Serious problem. It's the 'not knowing' part that makes that so impossibly unacceptable.
Just can't.
"The real question is are we talking 24 hours of word processing, or 24 hours of actually using your computer."
So word processing is not 'actually using your computer', as opposed to, say playing WoW, or slandering people you don't know on blogs...
Or responding to marginal content on /.
Wait. Nevermind.
Custom code - I meant probably assembler, if not embedded-system code.
No OS, well, actually the OS is integral. So no Windows underpinnings. No antivirus, of course, unless someone wrote a virus for it. And of course, loaded in PROM means attacking it with a virus means recompiling it and reloading the PROMS. Nontrivial.
You dismiss custom code as 'full of ripe to be discovered bugs'. You really need to get out more. The embedded systems model I have in mind is more like what runs your microwave, your digitally-enhanced stove, your car's transmission, countless other devices. Not buggy by nature, from experience. When was the last time your microwave hung and needed a cold boot? I'm sure it's happened, but it's a lot rarer than the big-screen displays in Vegas showing BSODs instead of the announcements.
And how, pray tell, would you compromise the code in your microwave? Contemplate that...
A voting machine needs to be virtually impenetrable. Make the attackers bring desoldering equipment. Publish the code. And the MD5. People like you and me could read the MD5 off the bottom of the screen and compare it with the number written down from the elections website. We could know the code was not overly hacked up.
And of course the code is in PROM, so inserting a USB key to extract the results, AFTER commanding the on-display report and *writing down* the results first, doesn't give you method to infect the PROM. You wouldn't have the circuitry necessary to write the PROM.
You're still thinking inside the big OS box. No OS. Purpose-built. I think Brazil uses something like that, but more complex and uses an OS I would rather dispense with. But their system is also more rigorously examined. Worth a look.
"The whole electronic voting thing is hugely flawed. They're building the machines on an extremely hackable (windows) base, rather than a custom firmware. The design does not take into account real security concerns."
Bingo!
At the least, any secure voting system would include custom software in the poll machines, management servers, tabulators, etc. Let the output be carted off to windows machines to make nice pretty spreadsheets, fine. But all else would have to be custom. And probably best done in fimware, at least in PROMS.
Yes, this would make maintenance and udpates difficult. So it would have to be written 'right' the first time. Wow. Concept. Special-purpose software written correctly. This is something many manufacturing industries have done in the past. Maybe time to hire up some assembler programmers to come out of retirement and git 'er done?
I bet some would do it pro bono. This is important, and more important than money.
Won't happen though. We're in love with COTS.
In some old MMOs (Avatar, for instance) quests were integral.
I like running Ninjas (ok, so I like beaters, so sue me), who get insanely difficult quests, and more of them. The best quests were for impossible items that only studs had and weren't going to give up. Waiting for someone to take pity on you, or perhaps find one and offer it to you before offering it to the studs was a terrible way to waste the Summer of '88. I waited for Wyvern Skin for 6 weeks. And then I paid an outrageous price (gladly) to someone who was genuinely willing to sell it to the highest bidder, execept that when school is out there aren't so many big boys online to grace you with 3B gold.
But I'm not bitter.
Quests make a MMO 'realer-er'. Just running through the maze killing things and hoarding stuff does in fact get old. My brother, deep into WoW, disagrees, but he is tiring of just building things so others can save time. Only the real money keeps him in it.
There is no real money in Avatar. Not to this day. You do it for love. Quests are the pain.
Most any of the old Honda CRX models, especially before '99, deliver excellent mileage, near equal to a Prius on the highway. Seems a shame the ricers gut them thinking they will ever drive like FnF. Especially when the driver tops 250lb...
Drums, yeah. A trumpet upside the head.
No, not unless you're steling out of the pot.
Woops, I guess they are like CoS. nevermind.