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OK, now all we need is Tom Clancy, Steven Segal and a bad script ... code_rage writes "Wondering why Iridium has not been deorbited yet? Still care?
There are still some parties attempting to purchase the Iridium assets for pennies on the dollar. One party is pursuing the 'aircraft black box in the sky' concept advanced by several people in various forums, including Slashdot. The Iridium case docket sheet is located [here] Items # 761 & 762 are interesting.
These rather large PDF documents are scanned images of briefs filed on behalf of a party who has been interested in buying Iridium since last year, for the purposes of creating a continuously telemetered aircraft "black box" capability, to enhance civil aircraft safety. These briefs read like a John Grisham novel (particularly 762)... "
That's one way of putting it. On the other hand, the docket reads like a catalogue of everything that could (and did) go wrong with a high-tech, high-budget business venture.
Does "Sega" mean anything anyhow? Lucianno Edwards passed on this tidbit about Sega. "As a followup to the post on your website about sega going multiplatform: Sega doesn't plan to develop games for rival consoles, but to license their hardware to rival consoles, in a bleem-like fashion, which will allow DC games to run on anything which has the DC chip in it. Technically Sony could release an add-on for PS2 and Nintendo for Gamecube.
Sega wouldnt be paying license fees yet they'd still be selling games on rival consoles. It makes a lot of sense from a bussiness prospective.
It's all official. No more rumors." One more Sega bit, same pingin' source: Fervent writes "It's going to be on a GD-ROM, and it will run ten classic Genesis games. More details are on this article at Daily Radar."
Anyong Haseyo, chin-gu. An unnamed correspondent writes: "The Guild of System Administrators has released documentation and resources related to the new multilingual domain names."
So if you want to snatch up all the cool Chinese translations of "Coca Cola," you can consult their list of Registry Services, Registries, Commercial Technical "Solutions Providers, Standards Organizations, etc. Besides which, GSA looks like a cool site to check out anyhow.
A fairly convoluted way to get some free books from O'Reilly scjody writes "You may remember Dilinger, who had his computers seized a few weeks ago. According to his webpage, it has been returned."
Perhaps the FBI has decided that waiting for years to return equipment (as they did for Steve Jackson) wasn't good for their public image. Sure sounds like a better outcome than I was expecting -- congratulations, Dilinger.
He wasn't going about his business, he was sticking his nose where it didn't belong.
Oh my god! He pinged a server and did some DNS lookups! What was he thinking? I know I'd never ping a server or look up DNS information. And if I were so bold, I'd realize the FBI has every right to seize my computer paraphernalia.
They determined that he was just incredibly stupid, not a criminal and returned his things.
Alright, the FBI decides to seize some kids computer equipment based on logs that show no criminal behavior on his part, and he's the 'stupid' one? If their were any kind of justice in this country, the agents who decided to seize dilinger's equipment would be serving ten year prison sentences right now. What we need is accountability on the part of federal agents
He owes them an apology for wasting their time.
I will not even respond to that idiotic statement.
#4 (English actors as good guys): Right, because we all know how much of an evil, scheming, all-around bad guy-type that James Bond was.
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OK, I give up. Let's all sing "God Save the Queen". Let's sing it like the Sex Pistols did.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
9. Lucas electrical systems. While we're on the subject, the only reason you tossers in England like warm beer is because Lucas makes all your refrigerators.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
I commented on this issue the first time it was posted. I will do so again. I think what he did was completely legal, yet I can still see how what he did was somewhat suspicious.
The very fact that he got his equipment back in short order shows that not only is he not a suspect, the FBI realizes he has no involement and no evidence that will be of any use to them. This lends to me the belief that they might actually have a clue about what they're doing. The immediate sieze of "evidence" is unfortunately necessary at times because data can be eliminated in the blink of an eye.
I will say again, a violated website is a crime scene. You're perfectly welcome to gawk at a crime scene along with all the other rubberneckers hoping to get a glimpse at whatever the cause of the commotion is. However, if you cross over the yellow tape and start peeking around in things, law enforcement might be forced to make some premature assumptions about your motives. Viewing a cracked website wouldn't bring you any undue suspicion, but when you start digging into the details, well, you never know who might be casually watching you.
You can blame the script kiddies. If it weren't for the numerous cracked websites with such dubious causes displayed... if it weren't for the massive DDOS's against such popular, yet fundamentally useless websites... if it weren't for the constant barrage of random portscans, we wouldn't have to worry about the FBI busting in on someone who was expressing some innocent curiosity.
These attacks will continue until at least a significant number of brainless dorks are caught and given a substantial punishment. Of course, this is easier said than done. The great majority of attacks are not direct, but done through innocent third parties who are the unfortunate owners of unsecured servers. To track these people down, the FBI has to track through the log files of each of the servers in between. I dare say, if the FBI were to casually call me up and ask if I minded if they came over and searched through all my computers I would kindly hang up on them. Obtaining a warrant and seizing the equipment is really their only option in cases such as these. It might suck if you had no direct involvement or were just looking around, but just accept the fact that its gonna happen. Keep your systems secure so you don't get cracked, and keep your nose out of a crime scene unless you are authorized to be there.
And no, I'm not trampling on anyone's rights. I agree that making a script that demonstrates a security hole needs to remain legal, and is the best way to assure that these holes get fixed. However, you have to realize that people WILL abuse these scripts. There will be people that don't and won't patch their software even if they DO know about security holes. What can we do about this? I have no idea. Since having their systems violated doesn't seem to concern some people, how about an increasing number of law enforcement intrusions? Maybe if everytime someone sets up a new box, a week later they get raided by the FBI and get all their eqiupment confiscated, they'll take security more seriously.
Law enforcemnt is very much an "after the fact" operation. They don't concern themselves at all with how to protect yourself beforehand, they only care about catching the criminals afterwards. And any legislation they propose will not be to protect the innocent but to make the act of catching the criminals easier. From their standpoint, I don't doubt that their motives are sincere, even if the end result is that we end up with less rights than we do before.
So please be careful. If you're not among the criminally inclined, attempt to avoid presenting yourself as such.
-Restil
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No, about the same. Max hand-held phone power is about 0.7 watts, for analog at least.
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British English has moved with the times, whereas American English is lagging in the past
What the bloody fuck are your talking about? I'd rather sound like a redneck or valley girl than a snooty, inbred, ignorant, conceited, good-for-nothing english fuck. How does adding the letter u to commonly used words count as "moving with the times." If you want to add letters that don't have any real purpose, go talk to the french, phouckheaedde.
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Win98 sux without these 1337 toolz !!
So you Brits admit that you can't make cars worth a damn? If you force us all to drive Minis, you're going to keep a LOT of auto mechanics happy.
Mind you, it's gonna be fun with that transition we're going to have to face driving on the left side of the road.
9. All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap and it is for your own good. When we show you German cars, you will understand what we mean.
The FBI now runs a popular off-line search engine. Go to their site, type in a keyword such as haxor or kiddieporn, and then they will start raiding houses and searching the disks they find there until they get a hit. When they're done, they return the drives to their owners.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
so where is the news about sony?
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They are not directional antennas. An Iridium antenna is more or less just a huge cell phone antenna. Just because half of the antenna is farther away, doesn't mean that the first half isn't right next to your skull, putting out a lot more power than normal!
WARNING: there is a trojan on your
What are the effects on MY body of someone using a cell phone near me? Sure they have the right to choose to use a (potentially) cancer-causing devices, but at what point does THEIR decision affect MY health?
cpeterso
1. Nobody in the U.S. really cares about how aluminum is pronouced in England.
2. We try to keep the vocabulary minimized and encourage the overuse of various interjections such as "Like" and "You Know" so that alcoholic Europeans can follow our conversations. You know?
When England creates a company half as important as Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, or PlaySkool, we might consider their input (before we arbitrarily discard it).
It's not so much that we can't tell as that we can't bring ourselves to give a rat's ass.
1. We're still bent over that whole 1812 thing.
2. You should be kissing our asses in Times Square (that's in New York) for graciously keeping your actors off of the dole.
Why are you English so concerned with God saving Elton John?
1. The most difficult part of "European" football is staying awake through a game.
2. There is the NFL-Europe, you know (where we send the players not yet good enough to compete in the real NFL).
3. Who the hell came up with the rule requiring the announcer to yell the word "scooooooooore!" for as long as it took for the point to actually be scored (average time - 2 hours or something like that)?
4. The reason that "American" football players wear large amounts of protective gear is that they're, on average, larger than any three Englishmen combined.
5. I'll grant you that Rugby is a cool sport, but it's one best left to the Australians.
1. The only reason that the Russians have never been the bad guys is that we were much badder.
2. Nobody in the U.S. cares about Quebec. As for the French, as long as they keep shipping the wine, we'll ignore the fact that they treat us like crap when we cross the pond to visit. Besides, an economy like France's would make anyone cranky. Plus they gave us the Statue of Liberty.
Yeah, right. Come over hear and make us. Last time I checked the scoreboard it read US 2, UK 0.
1. Who do you think buys most of the really cool German cars, Germans?
2. As a driver of one of the aforementioned really cool German cars, I will concede that most cars made by American car companies really do suck. But that's ok because we're too busy building cars for Honda, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, etc. over here now.
Everyone knows it was a conspiricy between the Military-Industrial Complex, the Bavarian Illuminati, Richard Nixon, and a few hippies in Baltimore. You should check around before you ask these questions, you know.
No problem.
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Star Trek The Coin-Op Game was made by SEGA
SEGA is 0wned by G&W
Paramount makes Star Trek
Paramount is also 0wned by G&W
Wow... It's all too clear now...
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"...look, look, Australians, New Zealanders and Americans are friends under the one umbrella of ANZAS. The ANZAS pact. We've been in the trenches together over the years, we're very very good friends. The best friends we have in the world are the New Zealanders and the Americans. But I always say, HG, that friendship comes at a cost. And that cost is honesty. You've got to be honest to be a true friend. And while individually Americans are very enjoyable people, modest people, quite lovely people, individually they're very fine. It's just en masse... one can be slightly, I think, critical. They are loud, ignorant, self-obsessed, to the point or narcacissm. They are inward looking, baron, uninteresting, and incapable of seeing any of these qualities that puts the world against them wherever they go. They wonder why they are so disliked, they just can't see it, and that is their major stupidity, that the fatal flaw of Americans. Individually they are wonderful people, wonderful. It's just in toto, I mean get any more than 2, and I'm sorry."
And now to watch my karma drop.
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You cannot wash away blood with blood
So.. which came first.
the Systems Administrators Guild, or the Guild of Systems Administrators? (Sage or GSA?)
I'm a card-carrying sage member.... any others?
I was being sarcastic, fool.
cpeterso
6. Australians will and always will be able to drink Americans, English (and anyone else on the planet) under the table. Having an ex-Spetnaz Russian friend, I'd kind of like to see a drinking contest between Aussies and Russians if he's representative. Gawd, my liver hurts. :o)
7. Foster's beer is crap
Foster's isn't my favorite either, but thank you for Sheaf Stout -- it's glorious stuff. I wish I could send you guys some Sam Adams or Allegheny Brewery Penn Pilsner or Penn Dark. Bet you'd like it.
"How many light bulbs does it take to change a person?" --BMcC-->
Well, then. How appropriate, eh?
Hi! This is the Sig, blatantly attached to the end of this comment.
While it did take SJ quite some time to get their equipment back, it wasn't the FBI who held their equipment in legal limbo. That infamy belongs to the United States Secret Service.
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While I'm as suspicious of the FBI as I am the USSS, let's make sure to hand out criticism fairly, okay?
Cable and Wireless
and looking further back at a REAL monopoly the British East India Company
'There is a Light that never goes out.'
Service and games, if I recall correctly.
Umm, the US didn't win the war of 1812, unless winning the war means having your capitol burnt down, suffering 50% more casualties, then negoitiating a truce. The American goal of occupying Upper Canada was not accomplished.
Of course, in the US, the popular image of the war of 1812, if there is one at all, is the battle of New Orleans.
I always thought that we were going to see the pennies-on-the-dollar effect for Iridium. Iridium goes bankrupt, they sell the satelites for some reduced rate to another company who thinks that they'll be able to pull it off, New Iridium tries to make it work, wash, rinse, repeat until pow(New,n) Iridium makes a killing on satelite phones.
Which is really too bad. I mean, they spent all of that money to get those satelites up there.
But then again, they designed those things for analog cell phones, so they are useless for anything but standard cell phone transmissions..
The mistake, of course, is that they didn't develop the right set of hardware and the right set of features that would do more than just a phone you could use in the middle of the Sahara Desert.
Oh yeah, and to flame, the multilingual domain names are odd and probably not too useful. I mean, your average non-Japanese/Chinese person probably couldn't even write the characters for the domain name, so you'd hope that you don't have anything important that someone from any of the other countries that can't parse ideographs would want to get at. And what about putting accent marks on something. e-cafe.com could have an accent mark on it, which will just open up more domain name squatting..
Gentoo Sucks
(meaning of "Sega" below)
Founded in 1951 by American David Rosen, who moved permanently to Japan after WWII, Sega (originally dubbed Rosen Enterprises) started out as an art export company. By the late 1950's Rosen had moved on to importing instant photo booths and coin-op games from the United States.
Rosen Enterprises continued to expand. In 1965 the company purchased a jukebox manufacturing company, which was then merged into Rosen Enterprises. Upon completion of the merger, the company was renamed to Sega, which was a contraction of "Service Games." Sega soon began producing their own coin-op games and competed directly against American imports. In 1970, Sega was bought by Gulf & Western.
#9 reveals the fictional nature of the post, hehe....
Why would anyone want to buy European HandyMan Keepers (ala Porsche, Mercedes, special emphasis on BMW...). These 3 brands suck the financial life out of each new financial power in this country. First it was stock brokers, now its techies. I'm suprised Maserati hasn't made a comeback in this age of senseless disposals of hard earned income...
Any of the much cheaper, still usually straight line quicker American alternatives (Mustang, Camaro, Vette), can easily stand with these Eurocrapcars in reliability, more than likely exceed them. Cornering you say? I can make you wet your pants in ditch cleaning terror on any of these three, with utmost confidence of not actually putting the machine in the ditch, and even in my normal agressive driving modes, I don't get close to this level. So there.
The people I've met that claim they can actually find the cornering limits of a American car, are usually the ones that will just as quickly put a European machine in a ditch or into a coupla trees - no driving ability whatsoever, and no room to comment.
If Eurocrapcar buyers can't admit this, they are welcome to continue chunking their hard earned money out the window of their cheap Eurocrapcars, but they need to at least admit they purchased for prestige, not performance.
The thing is, Iridium antennas are much taller than regular cell phone antennas (they reach over the users head), plus they point upward, so most of the radiation is directed away from your head.
I read the internet for the articles.
Specifically, in " Where's the IT angle? We never were any good at geometry... "posted there 15 November 2000 at 10:42am. (Go there if you want to see the whole thing -- this is just over half!)
On the other hand, it's good to see that other slashdotters read The Register...
"...America's great minds of today, teaching America's great minds of tomorrow. Poor bastards." -- A Beautiful Min
For radio astronomers' sake, let Iridium BURN!! its fairly impossible to listen for signals in the OH molecules 18 cm wavelength, if there are transmitters in orbit (iridium) broadcasting using that same wavelength.
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1. The English can't play rugby either, it's up to us Aussies to show you how it's done
2. it's pronounced Mel-Ben not Mel-Born
3. Australians didn't need a revolution, we just keep humiliating the Poms (British) at sport instead - it has a more ongoing quality
4. SPELL YOUR WORDS WITH "S" NOT BLOODY "Z"!!! It's realise not realize etc.
5. That girly game you call football? Try Aussie Rules, Rugby Union, Rugby Leauge or any other sport where you don't wear your own personal rollbar - for crying out loud - don't you see that that's really girly
6. Australians will and always will be able to drink Americans, English (and anyone else on the planet) under the table.
7. Foster's beer is crap
8. Kangaroos do not bounce down the city streets in metropolitan centres of Australia
consider youself addendummed (or something), but always remember - spell with the S!
My question is, why has there been such a devastating silence on this issue? Considering the risks, it's remarkable that so few people have heard of this.
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There is no
Apologies, please. Explanations, please! Elucidations, please! Goldarnit, a student was just going about his business, and he's robbed of his work. I did not notice any information about detailed receipts for his stuff - I thought that was illegal.
If anything of yours is seized by means of search warrant, request a detailed receipt!
That's great news about the Genesis emu. However, you can get a free-beer SNES emulator for the dreamcast now, from this site. It isn't super fast, but I've been playing Donkey Kong Country on my DC quite a bit lately....
~wog
Q: Are you the Judean People's Front?
A: Fuck off! Judean People's Front... we're the People's Front of Judea!
I know a little bit of chinese, and often find myself composing e-mails in it. Now, the Chinese IME (input method editor or some such) is very, very good, and makes entering chinese text both feasible and not particularly a hassle. However, I cannot imagine having a domain name in chinese. If the radical (part of the character) is different between two characters, and no pronunciation is changed, entering a character is much more difficult. Furthermore, typo squatting would literally become trivial. I just can't imagine a company deciding that this is a good way to reach it's target market, except for the thousand or so first-comers that get the easy-to-recognize three character names. As a general, widespread, and universal idea, it just seems destined to failure.
I've had this sig for three days.
If I were you, I wouldn't go to that doctor again. I'd report him to the National Health Service, because he's obviously incompetent to the point of endangering his patients to the point where they will run away from imaginary dangers while ignoring real ones.
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The Iridium satellite antennas are considerably more directional than cell-tower arrays (the DSPs required to manage the phased arrays are a huge power drain) and I doubt that the power of an Iridium phone is any higher than a run-of-the-mill 144 MHz ham handheld. Hell, I know it; this page specifies 0.64 watts for an Iridium phone, and several other pages found by Google repeat the 0.64[5] watt figure. Ham handhelds are often 5 watts or more, and people use them up against their heads just the same.
In other words, the doctor is this || far from being a quack.
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1776- American revolution US 1, UK 0
1812- see War of; US 2, UK 0
And what about lend-lease?
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