They mention it at the beginning, then they give lots of details about the experimental setup, then they talk about the speed of light that they measured. (They actually measured the speed of light in the cable, not c itself.)
That's what I said. And then they went on to *estimate* (not calculate, there's a difference) c through the average properties of cat5.
Of course I read the paper. Please point out where they mentioned finding c from the pings. The only place they even mention c is at the very beginning.
Wrong. It's measuring the speed of 'light' in the electromagnetic waveform sense. Not all measurements of the speed of light must be done in vacuo.
It's measuring the speed of EM radiation through copper. The paper clearly states that the end value will give the speed of light in vacuum, which is incorrect.
Interesting to note that there is no mention of the 'we didn't violate Russian law' argument.
Interesting in what way? They didn't break Russian law, but they did break US law when they sold it here. Whether you agree with the DMCA or not, it is (currently) a law, which Elcomsoft broke.
The "didn't violate Russian law" thing works fine for Dmitri; his company broke the law by selling the product here, not him.
Decent, fairly stable platform which pukes on most of my games. I triple-boot (soon to be quadruple with Solaris 8), running high-end graphics applications on 2000, games on 98, and anything important on Linux.
I *might* "upgrade" to XP once it's been out a year and most of the major security problems have been worked out.
Why are so many people bitching about this? Yes, you certainly are free to use any program you like. Similarly, he's free to add whatever text he likes in the headers and body. If you don't like it, killfile him and don't visit his page or his IRC channel.
This is really no different from the countless web sites with such poorly-written code that users are forced to use IE for the page to display at all. Stop giving yourselves ulcers over something so insignificant in the daily course of life.
Hmmm...2 "Offtopic" mods. Looks like the crack-smoking brigade is back in town.
Moderators: read the article and look at the pictures before you start throwing ill-informed "Offtopic" mods around (yes, *this* comment will be modded into a bottomless pit, but the parent was actually on-topic).
People have been bitching about VX2 on AG's forums for at least 4 months now. If you still think AG didn't know about it, I have some wonderful waterfront property in Florida you should buy.
Our company (which shall remain nameless) used onflow technologies in our product for about 2 years. They paid us for the first few months of operation,
So how did they stall you for the other 21 months?
Those bill-avoidance tactics might come in handy next time I'm short on cash.
I get 1-2 calls a week, half of those from the principals
Where did you post your resume? I've been trying to get a job for months with no luck (and I have 10 years of experience in unix/NT/network admin, technical training, telecom, harware support, etc.). Maybe area plays a heavy factor in this, too.
Federal government regs say you ("you" being anything under the Department of Education's oversight, anyway) have to keep records for seven years. After that, you're free to turn them into confetti (the records, not the DoEd).
They get away with all of this for one big reason; the stuff is good quality.
Thanks for the laugh. I stopped buying Sony products a long time ago due to the poor workmanship of the walkmans I bought (the high-end ones). I received my Playstation as a gift not too long after they were introduced, and I have to turn it upside down to get cut scenes to play (if I'm lucky) at all, thanks to Sony's cheap plastic laser sled.
I rank Sony right up there with quality companies like GE and Sanyo.
People, you all are not realizing this one important fact: That the PS2 architechture is Sony's closed architechture, and that other companies( mod chip companies) DO NOT have any legal right to make modifications to Sony's PS2 architechture without legal consent fron Sony. How hard is this for you people to understand??
Let's keep this short and simple for you, trolly: modchip companies aren't making modifications to jack shit. The people who make the actual modification to the system are the end users.
Since you're trolling, I'll go ahead and assume your other "points" are just as invalid. Cheers.
"If I make an illegal copy of someone else's media and use it myself, then and only then I should be punished."
Too many big companies are getting away with punishing people before any crime is committed. What amazes me is that people keep buying from those companies in the first place. If I ever get a PS2 (more than likely, because the only game on XBox I care about is SH2, while PS2 has that and others I'd like to play) it will be from a used game store so as not to put any more money into Sony's coffers. And trust me, it *will* get chipped.
Slashdot is occasionally criticized for getting a story wrong, even though we diligently correct ourselves when necessary.
Good one, Michael. The irony, of course, is the still incorrect and misleading heading on the "Yahoo charges for searches" story not far below this one.
But anyway, I'm surprised not one bit by reporters not having a basic enough understanding of science to debunk this guy. It's pretty sad, really.
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That's what I said. And then they went on to *estimate* (not calculate, there's a difference) c through the average properties of cat5.
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It's measuring the speed of EM radiation through copper. The paper clearly states that the end value will give the speed of light in vacuum, which is incorrect.
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Interesting in what way? They didn't break Russian law, but they did break US law when they sold it here. Whether you agree with the DMCA or not, it is (currently) a law, which Elcomsoft broke.
The "didn't violate Russian law" thing works fine for Dmitri; his company broke the law by selling the product here, not him.
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Decent, fairly stable platform which pukes on most of my games. I triple-boot (soon to be quadruple with Solaris 8), running high-end graphics applications on 2000, games on 98, and anything important on Linux.
I *might* "upgrade" to XP once it's been out a year and most of the major security problems have been worked out.
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A tuxedo?
You could be Bond *and* the linux mascot at the same time.
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This is really no different from the countless web sites with such poorly-written code that users are forced to use IE for the page to display at all. Stop giving yourselves ulcers over something so insignificant in the daily course of life.
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My mistake--it wasn't Michael, but the contributor who thought he was being clever.
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Moderators: read the article and look at the pictures before you start throwing ill-informed "Offtopic" mods around (yes, *this* comment will be modded into a bottomless pit, but the parent was actually on-topic).
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So how did they stall you for the other 21 months?
Those bill-avoidance tactics might come in handy next time I'm short on cash.
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Where did you post your resume? I've been trying to get a job for months with no luck (and I have 10 years of experience in unix/NT/network admin, technical training, telecom, harware support, etc.). Maybe area plays a heavy factor in this, too.
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Oh, wait....
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Thanks for the laugh. I stopped buying Sony products a long time ago due to the poor workmanship of the walkmans I bought (the high-end ones). I received my Playstation as a gift not too long after they were introduced, and I have to turn it upside down to get cut scenes to play (if I'm lucky) at all, thanks to Sony's cheap plastic laser sled.
I rank Sony right up there with quality companies like GE and Sanyo.
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Let's keep this short and simple for you, trolly: modchip companies aren't making modifications to jack shit. The people who make the actual modification to the system are the end users.
Since you're trolling, I'll go ahead and assume your other "points" are just as invalid. Cheers.
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"If I make an illegal copy of someone else's media and use it myself, then and only then I should be punished."
Too many big companies are getting away with punishing people before any crime is committed. What amazes me is that people keep buying from those companies in the first place. If I ever get a PS2 (more than likely, because the only game on XBox I care about is SH2, while PS2 has that and others I'd like to play) it will be from a used game store so as not to put any more money into Sony's coffers. And trust me, it *will* get chipped.
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Good one, Michael. The irony, of course, is the still incorrect and misleading heading on the "Yahoo charges for searches" story not far below this one.
But anyway, I'm surprised not one bit by reporters not having a basic enough understanding of science to debunk this guy. It's pretty sad, really.
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Please mod the parent up.
Next story on Slashdot: "Slashdot editors fail to do basic fucking research into their own stories again: News at 11"
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