...the government is tracking you already (where I live, toll tag transponders can be seen on telephone poles miles from the toll roads). If you have OnStar (even if it's "disabled"), GM can still locate your vehicle. I suspect it's even possible to monitor a vehicle's CANBUS for unique signatures that would identify a specific vehicle. Hell, your cell phone will give you up.
For some reason, I'm not too worried about the RFID tags on my tire valve stems.
I've been playing around with an F/OSS binaural beat generator called Gnuaural. Interestingly, some of the "schedules" (frequency vs time) for meditative purposes include periodic bursts of higher-frequency beats (about once every 8-10 minutes) to keep from falling into a sound sleep. I noticed in the article that these "spindles" occur on the order of seconds rather than minutes. It would be interesting to modify a Gnuaural schedule to make the high-frequency bursts occur more often in order to achieve a "deeper" sleep for light sleepers.
...to avoid the same syndrome. Google fanboys, emacs vs vi zealots, python vs perl vs ruby egomaniacs...pick your poison: All engage in the game of "bury the messenger" when a post doesn't agree with their collective core values.
...underpinnings that would drive a male to show his genitalia? Seriously...WTF is going through these people's minds? Do they think they're funny? Are they true predators? Are they incredibly proud of their package? I'm just trying to understand here...
I could have sworn that Google bowed to China's censorship demands once before, and then retracted the censorship policy after wide-spread outcry. Or am I just misremembering things?
No, you're not misremembering. It's just that the Google fanboys have a very selective memory.
Need proof? Here's something I posted 09July:
But wait -- as early as January of this year Google was still censoring its search results. And the only reason why Google decided that censorship was not in its best interests is due to the Google hacks that were uncovered early this year. Do you really believe Google said "fuck you" out of the goodness of their collective hearts? Reality proves otherwise: What goes on in China affects Google's bottom line, and since censorship was no longer profitable for them, they decided to become "good citizens."
Guess what? The Google fanboys modded it down to -1. <deity> forbid the real truth about Google comes out...
Oh, and here's what's really interesting: Those of us outside China really don't know what's going on with google.cn, because it's redirected to google.com.hk. I'd like to see independent confirmation here that google.cn is not redirected to the HK site from within China's Great Firewall.
...the government can't get qualified applicants. Go to usajobs.gov and search for "computer security specialist." You'll find that many of the job requirements require an existing TS clearance, previous military/DoD experience, a PhD and/or three years of graduate work, and/or less than 24 hours notice for travel, etc. It would appear to me, based upon the results of this unscientific survey, that the job requirements themselves effectively rule out many who would otherwise be qualified.
...describes how something can go horribly wrong in a cave dive (in this case, Bushman's Hole, one of the deepest freshwater caves in the world) even with the best planning efforts of experts in the field. It's a long, but incredibly sad, read. If you want to read something really haunting, Dave Shaw's website is still online. The video is out there too (aired on ABC in 2005). I leave the video links as an exercise to the reader. It's not something I really want to dig up again.
Based upon the low comment count (48 as of this post), I would have to say that the majority of/. readers don't find Google business news exactly "news for nerds."
Because Google has pretty much said "fuck you" (in far more polite terms) to a major world superpower when most world governments are afraid to do so.
But wait -- as early as January of this year Google was still censoring its search results. And the only reason why Google decided that censorship was not in its best interests is due to the Google hacks that were uncovered early this year. Do you really believe Google said "fuck you" out of the goodness of their collective hearts? Reality proves otherwise: What goes on in China affects Google's bottom line, and since censorship was no longer profitable for them, they decided to become "good citizens."
...in what significant way? Really, I don't understand this: Why is it that everytime Google farts, it gets posted here? There are so many more/.-worthy stories out there. But, day after day, we get stuck with Google's mundane business laundry. For the love of , let's get back to true news for nerds...
...with an article title of "Google Struggles To Give Away $10 Million"? This would imply that Google is just itching to give away the money, but simply can't find anybody willing to bite on their offer.
Maybe a better title might be "Google Reconsiders Offer To Give Away $10 Million".
If his ideas are that good you should be taking them eagerly and maybe even prioritizing some of them to work on yourself despite not giving him commit privs!
FWIW, that's exactly what I did: I took some of his more timely ideas/patches and incorporated them into the codebase as a show of good faith. Hey, we're glad to use all the help we can get!
But please do NOT show up one day with 50 new tickets explaining how a piece of software SHOULD have been designed, with proposals for a complete redesign. This happened recently on an F/OSS project I help with...while the guy's ideas were good, it was his manner of presentation that was off-putting. There is no way in hell I will give this guy commit privs with the gangbuster attitude he has. In fact, I politely suggested to him that a fork off our project might be better to suit his goals.
If you present yourself as a threat to the project's developers, you will never get commit privs, and most likely your suggestion will just end up in the "blue-sky" milestone. Constructive criticism has its place, but it's all in how you present it.
...so the Chinese government can make their Great Firewall better!
Seriously, does this person believe that/. readers are so gullible that they will lay out their best-kept secrets here? Or how do we know that you aren't a Chinese operative trying to mine the collective wisdom of/.?
In fact, if you need to ask, you probably don't need the "unadulterated, unfiltered" Internet as much as you think you do. Go, enjoy your trip. The Internet will be there when you return.
To paraphrase, it reduces signal by up to 27 dbm, which is almost 50% of normal signal range. (50 to 113 dbm).
IANAEE, but correct me if I'm wrong: db = 20log(V2/V1). That would mean every -6db in signal results in a 1/2 reduction of signal strength. By my calcs, a -27 db drop in signal strength is equivalent to a 1/22 reduction, or about a 95% reduction. That seems fairly significant to me.
Somehow I knew a story about tattoos on Slashdot would trot out a bunch of people who know absolutely nothing on the topic.
Who's to say that some of the naysayers have done their research and actually know what they are talking about? I don't believe a therapist that specializes in suicide needs to have necessarily experienced suicide. So you are into tattoos...your expert opinion isn't necessarily better than one who doesn't have tattoos but have done the research. The experience of getting a tattoo doesn't make one an expert in tattoos.
...I had a couple of friends stop by for a taste test. I blindfolded them, laid out a pear, an apple, an orange, a kiwi, a mango, and a banana, and asked each of them which tasted closest to a pear.
Wouldn't you know it...the pear came out #1! Closely followed by the apple. For some reason, the lowly orange ended up last. I'm thinking about writing a blog article about this. Might even make Slashdot...
guerrilla.net was active some years ago, then after a sellout to l0pht, it went dark. It really is time to resurrect the idea of an "underground Internet," consisting of radio links and mesh networks. If you don't believe it's possible that the gov't will ever invoke the "kill switch," think again: Right after 9/11, the gov't did something that was considered both improbable and impossible: It effectively banned all air traffic across the nation. And it did so without asking the public for its input. Does anyone think the gov't will ask the public for its input when (and if) it decides to kill the Internet to ensure "national security"?
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...the government is tracking you already (where I live, toll tag transponders can be seen on telephone poles miles from the toll roads). If you have OnStar (even if it's "disabled"), GM can still locate your vehicle. I suspect it's even possible to monitor a vehicle's CANBUS for unique signatures that would identify a specific vehicle. Hell, your cell phone will give you up.
For some reason, I'm not too worried about the RFID tags on my tire valve stems.
I've been playing around with an F/OSS binaural beat generator called Gnuaural. Interestingly, some of the "schedules" (frequency vs time) for meditative purposes include periodic bursts of higher-frequency beats (about once every 8-10 minutes) to keep from falling into a sound sleep. I noticed in the article that these "spindles" occur on the order of seconds rather than minutes. It would be interesting to modify a Gnuaural schedule to make the high-frequency bursts occur more often in order to achieve a "deeper" sleep for light sleepers.
...to avoid the same syndrome. Google fanboys, emacs vs vi zealots, python vs perl vs ruby egomaniacs...pick your poison: All engage in the game of "bury the messenger" when a post doesn't agree with their collective core values.
I don't think so. The time I'd spend on this project is worth a bit more than $50...
...underpinnings that would drive a male to show his genitalia? Seriously...WTF is going through these people's minds? Do they think they're funny? Are they true predators? Are they incredibly proud of their package? I'm just trying to understand here...
I could have sworn that Google bowed to China's censorship demands once before, and then retracted the censorship policy after wide-spread outcry. Or am I just misremembering things?
No, you're not misremembering. It's just that the Google fanboys have a very selective memory.
Need proof? Here's something I posted 09July:
But wait -- as early as January of this year Google was still censoring its search results. And the only reason why Google decided that censorship was not in its best interests is due to the Google hacks that were uncovered early this year. Do you really believe Google said "fuck you" out of the goodness of their collective hearts? Reality proves otherwise: What goes on in China affects Google's bottom line, and since censorship was no longer profitable for them, they decided to become "good citizens."
Guess what? The Google fanboys modded it down to -1. <deity> forbid the real truth about Google comes out...
Oh, and here's what's really interesting: Those of us outside China really don't know what's going on with google.cn, because it's redirected to google.com.hk. I'd like to see independent confirmation here that google.cn is not redirected to the HK site from within China's Great Firewall.
...an effective attack vector against mutt.
...the government can't get qualified applicants. Go to usajobs.gov and search for "computer security specialist." You'll find that many of the job requirements require an existing TS clearance, previous military/DoD experience, a PhD and/or three years of graduate work, and/or less than 24 hours notice for travel, etc. It would appear to me, based upon the results of this unscientific survey, that the job requirements themselves effectively rule out many who would otherwise be qualified.
...my thoughts about BP.
...describes how something can go horribly wrong in a cave dive (in this case, Bushman's Hole, one of the deepest freshwater caves in the world) even with the best planning efforts of experts in the field. It's a long, but incredibly sad, read. If you want to read something really haunting, Dave Shaw's website is still online. The video is out there too (aired on ABC in 2005). I leave the video links as an exercise to the reader. It's not something I really want to dig up again.
Based upon the low comment count (48 as of this post), I would have to say that the majority of /. readers don't find Google business news exactly "news for nerds."
Because Google has pretty much said "fuck you" (in far more polite terms) to a major world superpower when most world governments are afraid to do so.
But wait -- as early as January of this year Google was still censoring its search results. And the only reason why Google decided that censorship was not in its best interests is due to the Google hacks that were uncovered early this year. Do you really believe Google said "fuck you" out of the goodness of their collective hearts? Reality proves otherwise: What goes on in China affects Google's bottom line, and since censorship was no longer profitable for them, they decided to become "good citizens."
...in what significant way? Really, I don't understand this: Why is it that everytime Google farts, it gets posted here? There are so many more /.-worthy stories out there. But, day after day, we get stuck with Google's mundane business laundry. For the love of , let's get back to true news for nerds...
...with an article title of "Google Struggles To Give Away $10 Million"? This would imply that Google is just itching to give away the money, but simply can't find anybody willing to bite on their offer.
Maybe a better title might be "Google Reconsiders Offer To Give Away $10 Million".
The pro-Google bias here is just astounding.
If his ideas are that good you should be taking them eagerly and maybe even prioritizing some of them to work on yourself despite not giving him commit privs!
FWIW, that's exactly what I did: I took some of his more timely ideas/patches and incorporated them into the codebase as a show of good faith. Hey, we're glad to use all the help we can get!
Otherwise, back it up and cancel your bank account and start paying for everything by cash. (*)
After reading this FAQ item on Donald Knuth's webpage, I'm beginning to wonder if it's not whether my bank account will be owned, but when...
But please do NOT show up one day with 50 new tickets explaining how a piece of software SHOULD have been designed, with proposals for a complete redesign. This happened recently on an F/OSS project I help with...while the guy's ideas were good, it was his manner of presentation that was off-putting. There is no way in hell I will give this guy commit privs with the gangbuster attitude he has. In fact, I politely suggested to him that a fork off our project might be better to suit his goals.
If you present yourself as a threat to the project's developers, you will never get commit privs, and most likely your suggestion will just end up in the "blue-sky" milestone. Constructive criticism has its place, but it's all in how you present it.
I'm surprised the question made it to the front page.
Consider the /. editor that posted it, then re-evaluate your initial sense of surprise.
At the least, do your research:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_People's_Republic_of_China#Enforcement
Sounds like the parent is on to something here...
...so the Chinese government can make their Great Firewall better!
Seriously, does this person believe that /. readers are so gullible that they will lay out their best-kept secrets here? Or how do we know that you aren't a Chinese operative trying to mine the collective wisdom of /.?
In fact, if you need to ask, you probably don't need the "unadulterated, unfiltered" Internet as much as you think you do. Go, enjoy your trip. The Internet will be there when you return.
To paraphrase, it reduces signal by up to 27 dbm, which is almost 50% of normal signal range. (50 to 113 dbm).
IANAEE, but correct me if I'm wrong: db = 20log(V2/V1). That would mean every -6db in signal results in a 1/2 reduction of signal strength. By my calcs, a -27 db drop in signal strength is equivalent to a 1/22 reduction, or about a 95% reduction. That seems fairly significant to me.
Somehow I knew a story about tattoos on Slashdot would trot out a bunch of people who know absolutely nothing on the topic.
Who's to say that some of the naysayers have done their research and actually know what they are talking about? I don't believe a therapist that specializes in suicide needs to have necessarily experienced suicide. So you are into tattoos...your expert opinion isn't necessarily better than one who doesn't have tattoos but have done the research. The experience of getting a tattoo doesn't make one an expert in tattoos.
...I had a couple of friends stop by for a taste test. I blindfolded them, laid out a pear, an apple, an orange, a kiwi, a mango, and a banana, and asked each of them which tasted closest to a pear.
Wouldn't you know it...the pear came out #1! Closely followed by the apple. For some reason, the lowly orange ended up last. I'm thinking about writing a blog article about this. Might even make Slashdot...
guerrilla.net was active some years ago, then after a sellout to l0pht, it went dark. It really is time to resurrect the idea of an "underground Internet," consisting of radio links and mesh networks. If you don't believe it's possible that the gov't will ever invoke the "kill switch," think again: Right after 9/11, the gov't did something that was considered both improbable and impossible: It effectively banned all air traffic across the nation. And it did so without asking the public for its input. Does anyone think the gov't will ask the public for its input when (and if) it decides to kill the Internet to ensure "national security"?
...guerrilla.net (R.I.P.)