Knowing Telkom, this is not a fair competition at all. The Pigeon have an unfair advantage of being faster, and not having the 3GB bandwidth cap that is (were 2 years ago) the norm on Telkom's ADSL accounts. And I know I mentioned the information was 2 years old, but when talking about SA Telcom, that makes the it practically fully up to date
About explaining differences, it's worse when you have to do it twice.
When my parents got their first PC, I taught them the basics, installed OS/2 and a few needed apps, and the system ran beautifully then. And for a few years all was good, they knew the terms well enough to be able to convey the problem over the phone.
Then they took an evening course at a local school, offered for adults needing to get acquainted with computers. After that the computer became the harddisk, and they started to ask for Word, Excel and Internet Explorer, and the system, all of a sudden became windows. They liked the OS/2 better than the Windows 98 they had at the school at the time, but their terminology had been screwed up royally.
When I was called up one evening, with the message that the hard disk was acting weird, I nearly had a heart attack...They lived in the other end of the country, and I did not fancy that long a trip to fix that kind of problem. In the end it turned out that they had just tried to follow some of the course instructions written for Win 98, on an OS/2 system, which of course did not have quite the same layout.
It took me the better part of a year, and some foul language, before I had undone the worst of the damage the school had done in only 2 months (one 2-hour class every week).
I blame poorly trained educators and shoddy education material for the lack of precision in our vocabulary. Especially when it comes to computers and sciences.
It is a bit odd though, that some parents so readily discards the medically sound advice of professionals, while on the other hand cant get enough of various books and advice from quacks and charlatans with no medical background apart from a 2 week seminar in for instance homoeopathy.
A recent example is for instance "Devil in the Milk" by Keith Woodford, which is apparently being swallowed whole by concerned parents. It's science is said to be dodgy at best, and if parents stopped giving their kids milk, they'll run into some serious calcium deficiencies.
I got the MMR as a kid, and din't get sick from it, my brother did though, but oddly enough he got well after a week or so. Does that mean that the vaccine is dangerous?
NO, of course not!
Vaccine is made of deactivated viruses, and the body reacts to those viruses as it is supposed to, some just reacts a bit more...effectively, than others, and immediately fires up the immune responses.
The MMR vaccine is clearly one of those cases where the "Better safe than sorry" approach of some misinformed parents REALLY risk hurting their child, when it later in life get into contact with the viruses they were supposed to be protected against through the MMR.
"I think we can all agree, 256 cores is enough for anybody."... For now.
Saying anything is enough for anybody is dangerous in this business. Though 256 cores in a single unit is a lot for common people, it is not beyond the realm of super- or high performance computing.
The future may see CPU's with a hell of a lot of very small, somewhat specialized cores. The Cell or the current crop of GPU's may be paving the way for that idea, where for instance the ATI 4850 and 4870 have 800 processing units on a single chip, in 5-10 years those units are bound to be immeasurably more complex and plentiful than today. Imagine a CPU made up of over a thousand cores, each on par or better than the Intel Atom...and even then I think I'm shooting below the mark at 10 years.
I'm certain that I'll try to push for an ATI card as a replacement for my GeForce 8800GTs that just died, with well over a year left on the warranty.
I've been a loyal nVidia customer since their GeForce256 card, and nForce chip sets, sadly I'm done with nVidia for the time being. I simply can not risk spending money on hardware that appears to have this high a risk of failing.
S/N is not necessary, it would appear that if it is nVidia based and under 2 years old, it may fail at any time. A few weeks ago I read about this issue here on/., and on that day, my GeForce 8800GTS died. It is somewhat disconcerting to hear all your hard drives making click sounds in a machine that refuses to POST.
That would still require you to HAVE the OTP on you, and get that through US customs...
I can imagine that few customs workers have the knowledge (brains) to tell an OTP from encrypted data, or accept the explanation that he is looking at an OTP, and not encypted data.
A few months ago, a colleague of mine had to go to a customers site in South America. It was decided that it was better to take a longer trip, to go around the U.S. And this despite the fact that it was a short trip, and obviously perfectly legal.
I'll be bookmarking this one, as I can use this information should my 8800GTS fail within it's first two years of life.
I have no idea how the warranty works in other countries, but here in little old Denmark the producer have the burden of proof the first 6 months (normal warranty) and the user the burden to prove that the unit was defective from the beginning the next 18 months after that. This story is pretty much a carte blance for a replacement on nVidia cards. if they fail in any way:-)
The TPM isn't exactly trustworthy imho. I was thinking about a software only solution, despite the performance hit that may have. I wouldn't mind having the cryptography functions sitting in the hardware, a Crypto-co-processor, but the TPM isn't the solution, as it is not under the users control, as it is more like a padlock where you can be almost certain that you won't have all the keys.
Maybe now is the time to start pushing for secure bootable file systems. I'm not talking about wrapping for instance ext3 with encryption, but a file system that have seamless hard encryption build into it from the get-go. Like what SSH is for Telnet. Simply put, the primary boot loader asks for the password, without it nothing is accessible.
Or does this already exist for consumer level implementation?
Select one month, for instance October, and get as many as possible to refrain from buying music, film, games, books, electronics, clothes or any other non-essentials for that one month.
Money seems to be all they care about, lets hit them where it'll probably be felt the most.
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Knowing Telkom, this is not a fair competition at all. The Pigeon have an unfair advantage of being faster, and not having the 3GB bandwidth cap that is (were 2 years ago) the norm on Telkom's ADSL accounts.
And I know I mentioned the information was 2 years old, but when talking about SA Telcom, that makes the it practically fully up to date
The PS3 remote is a Bluetooth device, so afaik no programmable remote can map it.
No need, they expired :(
And in '95 when they got the computer, there were no contest between OS/2 and Win 95 in terms of stability and usability.
About explaining differences, it's worse when you have to do it twice.
When my parents got their first PC, I taught them the basics, installed OS/2 and a few needed apps, and the system ran beautifully then.
And for a few years all was good, they knew the terms well enough to be able to convey the problem over the phone.
Then they took an evening course at a local school, offered for adults needing to get acquainted with computers. After that the computer became the harddisk, and they started to ask for Word, Excel and Internet Explorer, and the system, all of a sudden became windows. They liked the OS/2 better than the Windows 98 they had at the school at the time, but their terminology had been screwed up royally.
When I was called up one evening, with the message that the hard disk was acting weird, I nearly had a heart attack...They lived in the other end of the country, and I did not fancy that long a trip to fix that kind of problem. In the end it turned out that they had just tried to follow some of the course instructions written for Win 98, on an OS/2 system, which of course did not have quite the same layout.
It took me the better part of a year, and some foul language, before I had undone the worst of the damage the school had done in only 2 months (one 2-hour class every week).
I blame poorly trained educators and shoddy education material for the lack of precision in our vocabulary. Especially when it comes to computers and sciences.
If I recall, the major defining difference is that amateur/model rockets can not have a guidance system.
Eve Online's IGB is a joke.
What's worse is, the joke suck!
Yellow fever vaccine is a live virus (though it is attenuated).
Mod parent up (at the time of writing, someone had modded this to 0).
It is valid information.
It is a bit odd though, that some parents so readily discards the medically sound advice of professionals, while on the other hand cant get enough of various books and advice from quacks and charlatans with no medical background apart from a 2 week seminar in for instance homoeopathy.
A recent example is for instance "Devil in the Milk" by Keith Woodford, which is apparently being swallowed whole by concerned parents. It's science is said to be dodgy at best, and if parents stopped giving their kids milk, they'll run into some serious calcium deficiencies.
True, but how about printing stories about kids getting hurt by the illnesses these vaccines could have protected them against?
Polio is apparently on the rise, because of these misinformed people, and that is very bad news indeed.
I got the MMR as a kid, and din't get sick from it, my brother did though, but oddly enough he got well after a week or so. Does that mean that the vaccine is dangerous?
NO, of course not!
Vaccine is made of deactivated viruses, and the body reacts to those viruses as it is supposed to, some just reacts a bit more...effectively, than others, and immediately fires up the immune responses.
The MMR vaccine is clearly one of those cases where the "Better safe than sorry" approach of some misinformed parents REALLY risk hurting their child, when it later in life get into contact with the viruses they were supposed to be protected against through the MMR.
You mean like Hicks and Bosons getting hot and heavy under pressure?
Gaah, did you sign up in the launch date to get that low a member id??
"I think we can all agree, 256 cores is enough for anybody." ... For now.
Saying anything is enough for anybody is dangerous in this business. Though 256 cores in a single unit is a lot for common people, it is not beyond the realm of super- or high performance computing.
The future may see CPU's with a hell of a lot of very small, somewhat specialized cores. The Cell or the current crop of GPU's may be paving the way for that idea, where for instance the ATI 4850 and 4870 have 800 processing units on a single chip, in 5-10 years those units are bound to be immeasurably more complex and plentiful than today. Imagine a CPU made up of over a thousand cores, each on par or better than the Intel Atom...and even then I think I'm shooting below the mark at 10 years.
So you are telling us that you are now swearing to Intel CPU's and AMD/ATI GPU's ? :-)
I'm certain that I'll try to push for an ATI card as a replacement for my GeForce 8800GTs that just died, with well over a year left on the warranty.
I've been a loyal nVidia customer since their GeForce256 card, and nForce chip sets, sadly I'm done with nVidia for the time being. I simply can not risk spending money on hardware that appears to have this high a risk of failing.
S/N is not necessary, it would appear that if it is nVidia based and under 2 years old, it may fail at any time. A few weeks ago I read about this issue here on /., and on that day, my GeForce 8800GTS died. It is somewhat disconcerting to hear all your hard drives making click sounds in a machine that refuses to POST.
That would still require you to HAVE the OTP on you, and get that through US customs...
I can imagine that few customs workers have the knowledge (brains) to tell an OTP from encrypted data, or accept the explanation that he is looking at an OTP, and not encypted data.
A few months ago, a colleague of mine had to go to a customers site in South America. It was decided that it was better to take a longer trip, to go around the U.S.
And this despite the fact that it was a short trip, and obviously perfectly legal.
How about they tried something different for a change, like for instance lowering the price on the discs for a change?
Blu-ray's are over priced, in that people are not willing to pay that high a premium for the added resolution.
They should try and see what would happen if they sold BD's at the same price as DVD's, sacrifice a little bit of profit to save the format.
Besides, what good is a Blu-ray if you don't have a HD screen, which are only really coming down in price now.
I'll be bookmarking this one, as I can use this information should my 8800GTS fail within it's first two years of life.
I have no idea how the warranty works in other countries, but here in little old Denmark the producer have the burden of proof the first 6 months (normal warranty) and the user the burden to prove that the unit was defective from the beginning the next 18 months after that. This story is pretty much a carte blance for a replacement on nVidia cards. if they fail in any way :-)
The TPM isn't exactly trustworthy imho. I was thinking about a software only solution, despite the performance hit that may have.
I wouldn't mind having the cryptography functions sitting in the hardware, a Crypto-co-processor, but the TPM isn't the solution, as it is not under the users control, as it is more like a padlock where you can be almost certain that you won't have all the keys.
"Sorry officer, but I don't have that password, I'll be receiving it upon arrival at the office"
It'll be his words against yours.
Maybe now is the time to start pushing for secure bootable file systems.
I'm not talking about wrapping for instance ext3 with encryption, but a file system that have seamless hard encryption build into it from the get-go. Like what SSH is for Telnet.
Simply put, the primary boot loader asks for the password, without it nothing is accessible.
Or does this already exist for consumer level implementation?
Select one month, for instance October, and get as many as possible to refrain from buying music, film, games, books, electronics, clothes or any other non-essentials for that one month.
Money seems to be all they care about, lets hit them where it'll probably be felt the most.
Why "within normal typing characters"?
Do:
dd if=/dev/urandom of=important_sounding_file_name bs=256 count=???
And encrypt with a random key, just to get the correct headers.