Looking at specific searches, searching for the Lincoln Memorial gets you the FDR Memorial, but searching for the Lincoln Monument gets you the Lincoln Memorial. I would imagine that it's simply a matter of the word memorial being attributed to FDR more than Lincoln, for some reason.
I imagine the reason he asks such a question is because this course may be an online course. If that were the case, it's difficult to get all the students into class for one session to install a distro.
The max ground distance for unamplified WiFi is about 200km. The ISS orbits between 340 and 350km, therefore I say we all point our collective WiFi antennae up and try and see the first person to connect up to their network. Of course, you'd only have about 90 minutes of access as I recall; the ISS orbits too fast for much more access time.
"The new service will eventually be rolled out in the rest of the country, replacing the phone calls Comcast has been using to notify customers to security problems, Opperman said."
So wait, instead of a personal phone call (which they apparently had been doing before anyway), now it'll be a popup just like the 50 other ones the user sees because he or she's infected with malware to begin with?
Hey, in the business world you have to adapt to stay ahead. It's preferable to sell out than to go bankrupt . It may blacken the CEO's soul, but if whimsical toys powered by imagination don't sell, why stay the course and become the next GM?
"In order for benefit denial to work, the EMA would presumably require the three major consoles to have some sort of activation verification function to ensure that games were legally purchased.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that what they already do? I remember the original Xbox had a challenge response function signed with 2048bit RSA specifically designed to verify if the game was legitimate (regardless of homebrew implications). I fail to see how this generates anything except another spot for something to go wrong (ever have the cashier forget to give you change? Now have him forget to activate your $60 game).
Honestly, the best thing to combat piracy is to release better quality games. I'm looking at you EA (a.k.a. carbon copy gaming).
I read slashdot to stay informed of current events in the tech world, and I want the articles to which it links to have factual accuracy and to be researched. This accusation sounds a lot like the wrong person twittered the right thing and now the people involved are knocking some sense into us.
Yeah, and unfortunately their case seems a bit flimsy:
MediaSentry violated the Pen Register Act when they recorded the TCP/IP packets
that included the IP address of the sender. It is a misdemeanor under 18 U.S.C. Â 3121(a)
to install or use a pen register or trap and trace device.
If this passed, it would make programs like Ethereal et al. more in a legal grey area than they are now.
"If they want to dig their own grave then let them lie in it."
If we are to consider gambling as an addiction, are you also a proponent of allowing other kinds of addicts to go untreated? I agree, the less the government actually governs the better, but I think to offer some sort of program that's state-funded could help the system perpetuate itself less. Plus the funds can come from the casinos, making the addicts pay for their own treatment, creating no more stress for the government than is needed.
And I find it self-centered that you do not care for the financial security of your fellow man, while that fellow man may clean your streets, make your food, run your hospital. If only it were so easy.
'native code' usually means writing something a few times for different processors, the type of thing Javascript was designed to wrinkle out of the programming process, no?
...with only a fraction of a percent of the national budget NASA is making groundbreaking (not being sarcastic) research; Imagine the leaps and bounds they would make with late 1960's percentages. I personally can't wait to see some of the applications of the research still being done at the fund-starved NASA.
If we were to equate all of the wireless signal into just that, signal, then it becomes very difficult to justify not being able to use any wireless freely, as long as it is not broken into.
If it's in my house, it's mine, and wireless signals penetrate into our homes every day. I believe that if you don't block it from me, and you don't explicitly secure and inform me that you don't want me using it, what's to stop me from using it? Albeit I purchase internet access the right way, but I have freeloaded off of others' unsecured wireless access points before, and it doesn't make sense if you were to bring, say, a bike into someone else's home, and tell them they can't use it, even though it's on their property, and it's free to be used.
If you don't want me using it, don't give it to me.
... why Microsoft has to do these things? It is, after all, their operating system, to do with as they please. If they want to shoot themselves in the foot, I won't stop them, it leaves more room for vendors and end users to rethink their choice of OS. I just don't understand where all this talk of them needing to open up to security vendors and leaving search options open comes from if it is, in fact, their choice. For example, if HP were to make a printer that ran off of a substance that only HP could ever manufacture, wouldn't they be allowed to do as they please, because it's their product?
Isn't this a bit redundant? Don't all high-traffic sites already have their own search, or already have Google's search in them? And a good many sites already use AdSense, so this seems a little odd that Google is searching the deep dark depths of the internet to get their search and ads.
But OTOH, this seems perfect for non-high traffic sites that don't have AdSense, but get enough clicks so that a little revenue wouldn't hurt.
An interesting move, nonetheless.
Don't you remember the article about free energy that was posted some time ago? It's ingenious, free energy, and unlimited thrust! Man this science stuff sure is good!
... The researchers at the Inquirer reveal that Nostradamus actually predicted the flight of both the craft and the continent. We have yet to find out where the continent went.
Slashdot Mirror
Looking at specific searches, searching for the Lincoln Memorial gets you the FDR Memorial, but searching for the Lincoln Monument gets you the Lincoln Memorial.
I would imagine that it's simply a matter of the word memorial being attributed to FDR more than Lincoln, for some reason.
I imagine the reason he asks such a question is because this course may be an online course. If that were the case, it's difficult to get all the students into class for one session to install a distro.
DVD screeners, man. Or, you know, a digital download from Netflix or something similar.
According to Hollywood's accountants.
The max ground distance for unamplified WiFi is about 200km. The ISS orbits between 340 and 350km, therefore I say we all point our collective WiFi antennae up and try and see the first person to connect up to their network. Of course, you'd only have about 90 minutes of access as I recall; the ISS orbits too fast for much more access time.
In Microsoft We Antitrust.
:D
liked the ring of it so much it's my name
"The new service will eventually be rolled out in the rest of the country, replacing the phone calls Comcast has been using to notify customers to security problems, Opperman said."
So wait, instead of a personal phone call (which they apparently had been doing before anyway), now it'll be a popup just like the 50 other ones the user sees because he or she's infected with malware to begin with?
Nice.
Hey, in the business world you have to adapt to stay ahead. It's preferable to sell out than to go bankrupt . It may blacken the CEO's soul, but if whimsical toys powered by imagination don't sell, why stay the course and become the next GM?
NASA should make RC toys to build funds, if anything I bought lasted as long as these rovers, I'd be a happy camper.
No, they're talking about activating the game at the point of sale, probably in addition to all the arcane DRM techniques they use.
"In order for benefit denial to work, the EMA would presumably require the three major consoles to have some sort of activation verification function to ensure that games were legally purchased.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that what they already do? I remember the original Xbox had a challenge response function signed with 2048bit RSA specifically designed to verify if the game was legitimate (regardless of homebrew implications). I fail to see how this generates anything except another spot for something to go wrong (ever have the cashier forget to give you change? Now have him forget to activate your $60 game).
Honestly, the best thing to combat piracy is to release better quality games. I'm looking at you EA (a.k.a. carbon copy gaming).
[A]lmost everybody runs pirated software in Russia.
[citation needed]
I read slashdot to stay informed of current events in the tech world, and I want the articles to which it links to have factual accuracy and to be researched. This accusation sounds a lot like the wrong person twittered the right thing and now the people involved are knocking some sense into us.
This all leaves us in the same place we were in Februaryâ"with a slew of accusations, a handful of denials, and zero evidence.
That's what happens when you believe rumors.
MediaSentry violated the Pen Register Act when they recorded the TCP/IP packets that included the IP address of the sender. It is a misdemeanor under 18 U.S.C. Â 3121(a) to install or use a pen register or trap and trace device.
If this passed, it would make programs like Ethereal et al. more in a legal grey area than they are now.
It's lovely to see that illegally obtained evidence is still illegitimate in the courts. Kinda gives you a warm feeling inside.
"If they want to dig their own grave then let them lie in it."
If we are to consider gambling as an addiction, are you also a proponent of allowing other kinds of addicts to go untreated? I agree, the less the government actually governs the better, but I think to offer some sort of program that's state-funded could help the system perpetuate itself less. Plus the funds can come from the casinos, making the addicts pay for their own treatment, creating no more stress for the government than is needed.
And I find it self-centered that you do not care for the financial security of your fellow man, while that fellow man may clean your streets, make your food, run your hospital. If only it were so easy.
'native code' usually means writing something a few times for different processors, the type of thing Javascript was designed to wrinkle out of the programming process, no?
It seems BadAnalogyGuy has a second account.
I kid, I kid.
...with only a fraction of a percent of the national budget NASA is making groundbreaking (not being sarcastic) research; Imagine the leaps and bounds they would make with late 1960's percentages. I personally can't wait to see some of the applications of the research still being done at the fund-starved NASA.
If we were to equate all of the wireless signal into just that, signal, then it becomes very difficult to justify not being able to use any wireless freely, as long as it is not broken into. If it's in my house, it's mine, and wireless signals penetrate into our homes every day. I believe that if you don't block it from me, and you don't explicitly secure and inform me that you don't want me using it, what's to stop me from using it? Albeit I purchase internet access the right way, but I have freeloaded off of others' unsecured wireless access points before, and it doesn't make sense if you were to bring, say, a bike into someone else's home, and tell them they can't use it, even though it's on their property, and it's free to be used. If you don't want me using it, don't give it to me.
... why Microsoft has to do these things? It is, after all, their operating system, to do with as they please. If they want to shoot themselves in the foot, I won't stop them, it leaves more room for vendors and end users to rethink their choice of OS. I just don't understand where all this talk of them needing to open up to security vendors and leaving search options open comes from if it is, in fact, their choice. For example, if HP were to make a printer that ran off of a substance that only HP could ever manufacture, wouldn't they be allowed to do as they please, because it's their product?
Isn't this a bit redundant? Don't all high-traffic sites already have their own search, or already have Google's search in them? And a good many sites already use AdSense, so this seems a little odd that Google is searching the deep dark depths of the internet to get their search and ads. But OTOH, this seems perfect for non-high traffic sites that don't have AdSense, but get enough clicks so that a little revenue wouldn't hurt. An interesting move, nonetheless.
Don't you remember the article about free energy that was posted some time ago? It's ingenious, free energy, and unlimited thrust! Man this science stuff sure is good!