Its 2013 and most networking hardware works out of the box whether it is on board, PCI, USB or some other bus. Is there a specific and current Belkin card that won't work out there today? I did a quick google and the there were some posts on a few forums about belkin USB adapters but they were dated as recent as 2004 and 2009, 4+ years ago.
If you believe this please seek medical help for your mental condition. I am serious. I knew one person who went from dapper young stud to paranoid nut bag after a stint in jail (lesson in life, don't hit a white man in the rural south if the color of your skin is significantly darker than his, even if he provokes you). Everywhere he looked he saw conspiracy, chemtrails, mind control, new world order, etc. He lost it, even smashed a brand new laptop he spent 1200 on after only two weeks when he thought the government hacked it to spy on him. He moved out west and became a preacher and last I heard he was back home with his mother.
The way I see it (along with many others) Drone: Autonomous aircraft. This means there is no human pilot directly flying the craft. It is able to take off, fly and land on its own without human intervention. Of course it is not smart enough to know where to fly so at some point a human must give it instructions such as flight paths, waypoints, etc. Though there may be some drones that do allow a human to take flight control from the computer and also remotely control certain on-board systems such as surveillance and weapons systems.
A craft that requires a human pilot to directly manipulate the craft to fly (eg, needs to use a stick, yolk or other joystick) is simply a remotely controlled craft like an RC (radio controlled) aircraft which is decades old tech. Both a drone and remotely piloted aircraft are remote controlled. The major difference being one can fly itself using a set of instructions and the other can't. No grey areas as its pretty black and white. There may be subcategories of each but you either have a plane that flies itself (drone) or you don't.
"Imagine living in a country where only 3.5 percent of the population use the Internet. When you ask a neighbor about Facebook, they give you a confused look. Posting a status update on Twitter is a foreign concept, and most citizens still rely on printed newspapers and radio reports."... And life is good.
Seriously, if bringing the internet to Afghanistan requires telling people about how hard life must be without twitter or facebook then you fail. The internet is more about breaking borders and giving people access to information they otherwise could not get locally. Not endless self serving and attention whoring status updates.
Oh man, what a great movie plot. If they ever make it into a movie, I hope they cast Harrison Ford, he did a great job playing Han Solo in Star Wars A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back.
DEC Alpha was wiping the floor with Intel clock for clock. The early Alphas were slower but later on they were kickin ass and takin names. Great CPU arch and many Alpha engineers went on to AMD after DEC was acquired by Compaq who eventually sold the Alpha IP to Intel (so there was one less threat to Intel). Those engineers who left helped put AMD on the map with the Athlon chips which for a while were also wiping the floor with Intel.
Interestingly enough, The AMD athlon used the EV6 bus which was the same bus used by the Alpha CPU to connect to the glue logic. Near the end of Alphas life, there were a few ATX boards made which used AMD chipsets so there was a possibility of cheap Alpha systems but it was too late. Compaq sold the assets to Intel so Intel could kill the arch.
So if I had a hierarchical structure of video files, I'd have to drag the codec file into every single subdirectory!? What a stupid design. Even I can think of several methods superior to that, with no downsides (e.g. drag the codec file onto the application icon, or copy it to the same directory as the application, to enable support globally).
I should have been more specific and said a single specific directory for codecs. I forget the correct path but as an example it would have been something like/usr/local/codecs. As long as the proper codec was in there, the app could play it. So no, it does work the way you thought it did.
There was a neat OpenGL demo (soft rendering) which rendered a video file on different geometric shapes. The cube demo was impressive for its day, you could drag a different video file onto each of the six sides and pan it around in real time while the video played without skipping any frames, on old pentium 2/3 hardware. I even think you were able to drag a webcam or live video feed onto the cube as well. Each video file could be in any format as long as you had the proper codec in the directory. I even remember it not needing any method to register the codec. The OS searched the directory for a codec that matched the format and played it. If the codec was missing you got an error message or the file was ignored (depends on the applications error handling). Very neat little OS and API. Media processing was given top priority by the scheduler for both I/O and CPU. You had to severely load the system down before a video would stutter.
My brother was roommates with one such guy who ironically treated his girlfriend like shit. Online he was a watchdog for womens rights, bashed marriage as a patriarchal institute and patrolled a number of forums starting flame wars. In real life he was a woman's study major who was a selfish piece of shit. My brother had to restrain himself from knocking the guys teeth out before he moved after a series of wrongdoings by mr righteous.
Might be related to the fact that AMC split the fifth season into two sets of episodes that were aired at different times. For example, when the new episodes began airing last month, it was halfway through the final season making the one season feel like two. Perhaps someone at Apple made the mistake of thinking they were two separate seasons.
I was going to say BeOS as well. One interesting thing was their codec API. All you needed to do was drop a codec binary in a directory and any program could now open that file. So if you wanted to play mp4 files through your favorite video player, you simply dropped an mp4 codec in there and any video player could now open those files. The idea was to move all media processing into the OS API so building applications was more modular.
Another interesting thing was that audio CD's were mounted as a directory full of wav files with CDDB data that you could simply encode or play directly or drag and drop into another folder.
It also used a microkernel (Though JBQ once told me directly that it was marketing BS and wasn't much of a microkernel) and ran most of the OS in user space including drivers. You never had to worry about trying to run new beta drivers, just copy them over and restart the corresponding server. If the driver crashed you were informed via a message box with a humorous Damn button instead of an Ok button. Though, it was also a drawback as the networking server in user space was notoriously slow. So slow that 100mbit cards couldn't push more than 10Mbps. Though its strong point was multithreading and parallel processing built into the API. It scaled nicely with multiple CPU's (I ran mine on an Abit P6 with dual 333MHz celerons OC'd to 450MHz) and there were reports posted of it running on quad and octal Xeon systems playing two dozen videos and all the demo apps without the machine breaking a sweat. You also had the pretty sweet Pulse application which was a CPU monitor which also allowed you to switch CPU's on and off. Before R3 you could actually turn off all of the CPU's and crash the system:-).
Some of this might sound trivial by todays standards but they were doing this in 1998. Before Microsoft got its shit together with 2000 (NT 5) and before MacOS X. In fact, Be was founded by ex Apple employees and BeOS was supposed to be an alternative to MacOS on the old PowerPC Macs. It was very efficient and made old Pentium 133MHz systems with 32MB RAM feel fast. But its closed source nature coupled with user space networking made it slow to adopt new technology. It was a nice OS with a pretty cool community. Too bad its pretty much dead.
Sounds like you are talking about Ken Thompson's speech/paper "Reflections on Trusting Trust". If you read the Wikipedia article on Backdoor (computing) there was a virus, W32/Induc-A, which used the tactic to infect the Delphi compiler and produce tainted binaries. The GNU site which distributes the GCC suite only offers source so the source could be checked for such exploits. A tainted binary distribution could be planted into a distro repository or malicious ISO images could be distributed. Bittorrent is used for ISO distribution and could be used to seed malicious pieces to unsuspecting users. A clever attack would be to figure out which pieces contain the target binary and switch those pieces for the infected one using a collision attack to disguise it. Then connect to the torrent as seed with a fat pipe and log all ip's that downloaded that piece and wait. Might be difficult if the binary spans multiple pieces but could be done.
When I received my first Android phone some years back I used the screen lock which uses the 3x3 pattern of circles or dots and a swipe pattern. It didn't take long for me to realize that when you swipe the screen you leave behind a big smudged trail of finger grease across the screen. If you hold the phone sideways in the light or use a bright flashlight, the smudged grease trail completely gives your swipe password away including the beginning and end. The start of the trail is a big blotch while the tail end is faded as you lift your finger. Now this trail can be wiped off purposefully by the user or accidentally by means of placing it in a pocket/purse where the users body movement jostles the phone around polishing the screen clean. But if you leave your phone out or store it in such a way that the screen does not get cleaned by clothing or purse then you're in trouble.
I have unlocked a few of my friends phones using my little LED flashlight I carry as a party trick and they were stunned. Most of them had very simple patterns requiring little effort. Even my swipe password is weak but using all nine dots in an obscure manner is difficult or clumsy.
I would imagine the Windows 8 picture touch password suffers the same problem as you can look at the screen and see where it was touched and guess the pattern.
What is funny about your statement is how you threw dope-smoking in there. You used it in a very negative way as to say that smoking pot somehow criminalizes him and your comment gets modded insightful. Meanwhile when a pro-pot legalization article hits/. everyone is talking about how great pot is, how it should be legalized and how they smoke it all the time and get modded insightful.
Am I missing something here?
But I do agree with your statement. That case was blown WAAAAAAY out of proportion. If the skin color of the two dumbasses were the same or reversed nothing would have hit the news outside of the local Florida papers and late night news. Now we have to forever be reminded of this idiotic story which is in no way related to the civil rights struggle or racism.
Just because they aren't a bank does not exempt them from anti money laundering laws. They are either proactively protecting themselves or are required to do so.
Paypal froze Notch's account after Mincraft went gold and began selling. Supposedly in just one day he managed to get over one hundred thousand dollars in sales which prompted paypal to freeze his account.
This is thanks to the US patriot act, bank secrecy act and possibly some other nanny state laws. Large transactions are red flagged and reported. The owner of the account must provide an explanation of what they are doing with the money. This is one of those risk mitigation plans we were talking about the other day which helps the US government find the "bad guys". Eventually paypal will unfreeze the account once they learn the money won't be used for terrorism, drugs, racketeering or other boogeyman bullshit. I feel safer already.
I would love to know where you got the numbers $3-$7 for a pack. In manhattan its about $14.50 a pack for the name brand stuff and slightly less for the off brand stuff. In the other boroughs its about $12 a pack. Out on long island in Nassau and Suffolk county its roughly $10.
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Yea man those mother fuckers are hardcore. You don't want to get caught in the wrong part of internet town after dark. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crips#Etymology
Wouldn't work, the snakes would welcome them as one of their own. And besides, sharks would give them a ride home to shore as a professional courtesy.
Its 2013 and most networking hardware works out of the box whether it is on board, PCI, USB or some other bus. Is there a specific and current Belkin card that won't work out there today? I did a quick google and the there were some posts on a few forums about belkin USB adapters but they were dated as recent as 2004 and 2009, 4+ years ago.
If you believe this please seek medical help for your mental condition. I am serious. I knew one person who went from dapper young stud to paranoid nut bag after a stint in jail (lesson in life, don't hit a white man in the rural south if the color of your skin is significantly darker than his, even if he provokes you). Everywhere he looked he saw conspiracy, chemtrails, mind control, new world order, etc. He lost it, even smashed a brand new laptop he spent 1200 on after only two weeks when he thought the government hacked it to spy on him. He moved out west and became a preacher and last I heard he was back home with his mother.
The way I see it (along with many others)
Drone: Autonomous aircraft. This means there is no human pilot directly flying the craft. It is able to take off, fly and land on its own without human intervention. Of course it is not smart enough to know where to fly so at some point a human must give it instructions such as flight paths, waypoints, etc. Though there may be some drones that do allow a human to take flight control from the computer and also remotely control certain on-board systems such as surveillance and weapons systems.
A craft that requires a human pilot to directly manipulate the craft to fly (eg, needs to use a stick, yolk or other joystick) is simply a remotely controlled craft like an RC (radio controlled) aircraft which is decades old tech. Both a drone and remotely piloted aircraft are remote controlled. The major difference being one can fly itself using a set of instructions and the other can't. No grey areas as its pretty black and white. There may be subcategories of each but you either have a plane that flies itself (drone) or you don't.
Yep, you are smelling the same bullshit I am and its over 10 years old: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing.
"Imagine living in a country where only 3.5 percent of the population use the Internet. When you ask a neighbor about Facebook, they give you a confused look. Posting a status update on Twitter is a foreign concept, and most citizens still rely on printed newspapers and radio reports." ... And life is good.
Seriously, if bringing the internet to Afghanistan requires telling people about how hard life must be without twitter or facebook then you fail. The internet is more about breaking borders and giving people access to information they otherwise could not get locally. Not endless self serving and attention whoring status updates.
Oh man, what a great movie plot. If they ever make it into a movie, I hope they cast Harrison Ford, he did a great job playing Han Solo in Star Wars A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back.
DEC Alpha was wiping the floor with Intel clock for clock. The early Alphas were slower but later on they were kickin ass and takin names. Great CPU arch and many Alpha engineers went on to AMD after DEC was acquired by Compaq who eventually sold the Alpha IP to Intel (so there was one less threat to Intel). Those engineers who left helped put AMD on the map with the Athlon chips which for a while were also wiping the floor with Intel.
Interestingly enough, The AMD athlon used the EV6 bus which was the same bus used by the Alpha CPU to connect to the glue logic. Near the end of Alphas life, there were a few ATX boards made which used AMD chipsets so there was a possibility of cheap Alpha systems but it was too late. Compaq sold the assets to Intel so Intel could kill the arch.
Wait, you're saying the earth runs Windows?
There was one manufacturer who was selling BeOS preinstalled, Hitachi. But I believe it was only in Japan.
So if I had a hierarchical structure of video files, I'd have to drag the codec file into every single subdirectory!? What a stupid design. Even I can think of several methods superior to that, with no downsides (e.g. drag the codec file onto the application icon, or copy it to the same directory as the application, to enable support globally).
I should have been more specific and said a single specific directory for codecs. I forget the correct path but as an example it would have been something like /usr/local/codecs. As long as the proper codec was in there, the app could play it. So no, it does work the way you thought it did.
There was a neat OpenGL demo (soft rendering) which rendered a video file on different geometric shapes. The cube demo was impressive for its day, you could drag a different video file onto each of the six sides and pan it around in real time while the video played without skipping any frames, on old pentium 2/3 hardware. I even think you were able to drag a webcam or live video feed onto the cube as well. Each video file could be in any format as long as you had the proper codec in the directory. I even remember it not needing any method to register the codec. The OS searched the directory for a codec that matched the format and played it. If the codec was missing you got an error message or the file was ignored (depends on the applications error handling). Very neat little OS and API. Media processing was given top priority by the scheduler for both I/O and CPU. You had to severely load the system down before a video would stutter.
My brother was roommates with one such guy who ironically treated his girlfriend like shit. Online he was a watchdog for womens rights, bashed marriage as a patriarchal institute and patrolled a number of forums starting flame wars. In real life he was a woman's study major who was a selfish piece of shit. My brother had to restrain himself from knocking the guys teeth out before he moved after a series of wrongdoings by mr righteous.
Might be related to the fact that AMC split the fifth season into two sets of episodes that were aired at different times. For example, when the new episodes began airing last month, it was halfway through the final season making the one season feel like two. Perhaps someone at Apple made the mistake of thinking they were two separate seasons.
I was going to say BeOS as well. One interesting thing was their codec API. All you needed to do was drop a codec binary in a directory and any program could now open that file. So if you wanted to play mp4 files through your favorite video player, you simply dropped an mp4 codec in there and any video player could now open those files. The idea was to move all media processing into the OS API so building applications was more modular.
Another interesting thing was that audio CD's were mounted as a directory full of wav files with CDDB data that you could simply encode or play directly or drag and drop into another folder.
It also used a microkernel (Though JBQ once told me directly that it was marketing BS and wasn't much of a microkernel) and ran most of the OS in user space including drivers. You never had to worry about trying to run new beta drivers, just copy them over and restart the corresponding server. If the driver crashed you were informed via a message box with a humorous Damn button instead of an Ok button. Though, it was also a drawback as the networking server in user space was notoriously slow. So slow that 100mbit cards couldn't push more than 10Mbps. Though its strong point was multithreading and parallel processing built into the API. It scaled nicely with multiple CPU's (I ran mine on an Abit P6 with dual 333MHz celerons OC'd to 450MHz) and there were reports posted of it running on quad and octal Xeon systems playing two dozen videos and all the demo apps without the machine breaking a sweat. You also had the pretty sweet Pulse application which was a CPU monitor which also allowed you to switch CPU's on and off. Before R3 you could actually turn off all of the CPU's and crash the system :-).
Some of this might sound trivial by todays standards but they were doing this in 1998. Before Microsoft got its shit together with 2000 (NT 5) and before MacOS X. In fact, Be was founded by ex Apple employees and BeOS was supposed to be an alternative to MacOS on the old PowerPC Macs. It was very efficient and made old Pentium 133MHz systems with 32MB RAM feel fast. But its closed source nature coupled with user space networking made it slow to adopt new technology. It was a nice OS with a pretty cool community. Too bad its pretty much dead.
Sounds like you are talking about Ken Thompson's speech/paper "Reflections on Trusting Trust". If you read the Wikipedia article on Backdoor (computing) there was a virus, W32/Induc-A, which used the tactic to infect the Delphi compiler and produce tainted binaries. The GNU site which distributes the GCC suite only offers source so the source could be checked for such exploits. A tainted binary distribution could be planted into a distro repository or malicious ISO images could be distributed. Bittorrent is used for ISO distribution and could be used to seed malicious pieces to unsuspecting users. A clever attack would be to figure out which pieces contain the target binary and switch those pieces for the infected one using a collision attack to disguise it. Then connect to the torrent as seed with a fat pipe and log all ip's that downloaded that piece and wait. Might be difficult if the binary spans multiple pieces but could be done.
Really? Did I have just have to do THIS for you? Or are you that lazy? I don't mean to be a dick about this but come one.
When I received my first Android phone some years back I used the screen lock which uses the 3x3 pattern of circles or dots and a swipe pattern. It didn't take long for me to realize that when you swipe the screen you leave behind a big smudged trail of finger grease across the screen. If you hold the phone sideways in the light or use a bright flashlight, the smudged grease trail completely gives your swipe password away including the beginning and end. The start of the trail is a big blotch while the tail end is faded as you lift your finger. Now this trail can be wiped off purposefully by the user or accidentally by means of placing it in a pocket/purse where the users body movement jostles the phone around polishing the screen clean. But if you leave your phone out or store it in such a way that the screen does not get cleaned by clothing or purse then you're in trouble.
I have unlocked a few of my friends phones using my little LED flashlight I carry as a party trick and they were stunned. Most of them had very simple patterns requiring little effort. Even my swipe password is weak but using all nine dots in an obscure manner is difficult or clumsy.
I would imagine the Windows 8 picture touch password suffers the same problem as you can look at the screen and see where it was touched and guess the pattern.
What is funny about your statement is how you threw dope-smoking in there. You used it in a very negative way as to say that smoking pot somehow criminalizes him and your comment gets modded insightful. Meanwhile when a pro-pot legalization article hits /. everyone is talking about how great pot is, how it should be legalized and how they smoke it all the time and get modded insightful.
Am I missing something here?
But I do agree with your statement. That case was blown WAAAAAAY out of proportion. If the skin color of the two dumbasses were the same or reversed nothing would have hit the news outside of the local Florida papers and late night news. Now we have to forever be reminded of this idiotic story which is in no way related to the civil rights struggle or racism.
Just because they aren't a bank does not exempt them from anti money laundering laws. They are either proactively protecting themselves or are required to do so.
Paypal froze Notch's account after Mincraft went gold and began selling. Supposedly in just one day he managed to get over one hundred thousand dollars in sales which prompted paypal to freeze his account.
This is thanks to the US patriot act, bank secrecy act and possibly some other nanny state laws. Large transactions are red flagged and reported. The owner of the account must provide an explanation of what they are doing with the money. This is one of those risk mitigation plans we were talking about the other day which helps the US government find the "bad guys". Eventually paypal will unfreeze the account once they learn the money won't be used for terrorism, drugs, racketeering or other boogeyman bullshit. I feel safer already.
It is only correct in modern English because it has been abused and incorrectly used for so long that the improper use has become accepted.
Why didn't they break out the PCIe port on the imx6? I understand that cost is an issue but how much extra could a mini PCI port cost to add?
Its the official brand of toilet paper for the government.
I would love to know where you got the numbers $3-$7 for a pack. In manhattan its about $14.50 a pack for the name brand stuff and slightly less for the off brand stuff. In the other boroughs its about $12 a pack. Out on long island in Nassau and Suffolk county its roughly $10.