I personally think this is a cool way to teach history. I'd like to see more of this on the high-school level as a means of familiarizing students with the great men and women of antiquity on a personal level.
Good idea if schools could afford computers and broad band.
I think not. There are thousands of "memos" like this floating around every major corporation in America.
Microsoft didn't get where they are today by not taking Apple, Sun, Netscape, AOL, and the Open Source movement seriously. All of the above threaten Microsoft's business model and as such they respond.
What's the big deal?
Should we expect that/. will begin to run "Halloween" memos from Coca Cola stating that Snapple is taking market share away? Or memos from GM about Ford's expansion into Europe?
Hmmmm... yup yup. Yahoo groups has lots and lots of music "discussion" groups. Problem is most only want to discuss POP music divas and what Britney or Shakira wore to [insert one of thousands of POP awards shows].
Cash is easily traceable. That little metal strip in US Currency is not an anti-counterfit device, it's a homing beacon. Each bill has its own signature, picked up any time you walk through a metal detector.
If you find yourself living alone in a remote cabin, growing a ratty beard, and devising ways to blow up University officials: seek help immediately.
Deregulation of the telecom industry has brought us the lowest rates ever! Of course, we're paying fees, taxes, tariffs, surcharges, adjustments, and recoupments that didn't even exist before, but look -- deregulation must work because rates are lower.
Amen to that brother! Of course, most of the US is asleep or watching TV, so they'll never notice when the completely lose all rights.
I would think being a slashdot surfer you would know how to setup internet connection sharing or a linux box to do routing for your network and use dialup as the connection.
Please remember that there are some/.'ers who don't know how to setup a Linux server or IP sharing.
Broadband is coming.
Only if there is a private company that can afford to maintain the current infrastructure. Remember most of the broadband lines have been in the ground for nearly 10 years. And most have NOT been utilized.
Qwest laid the wire in the early to mid 90s and they won't be around long enough to benefit from the coming "broadband" revolution. Not to mention some other company will be forced to lay new lines, because of user demand: cell phones, PDAs, game consoles, business networks, home computers, laptops, GPS systems, automobile computers, etc...
What company has the resources to pick up the maintenance of the current lines and pay Qwest enough cash to take on ownership? And then turn around and begin updating the hard wire system? And how much will that cost the average consumer?
your cable company/phone company will wise up to the challenge and offer services.
Cable and phone companies will only do the minimum. No company out there can afford to bring in new technology, because they are still paying off the debt incurred when so many cable and phone companies merged.
Well, at least the NYT didn't make it up: Piratical Function: noun Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin pirata, from Greek peiratEs, from peiran to attempt -- more at FEAR Date: 14th century : one who commits or practices piracy
Maybe we should do something about AIDs, mass starvation, and the infant mortality rate in third world nations before we start handing out chat handles and email accounts.
Out where? The job market in California is at best extinct. For a CCNP with 5 years exp. there were approx 325 resumes for the last contract job I found. For a technical writer with 8 years exp, there were 276 resumes for the last contract job.
In addition, the days of $100+ an hour contracts are history. Companies just won't pay it anymore.
So, please educate me as to where these contracts are!?
DARPA's Total Information Awareness (TIA) project is slowly shrinking from public view. According to a CNET story: "the TIA site shrank still more and some links ceased to work. Biographical information about the TIA project leaders, including retired Adm. John Poindexter, disappeared from the Defense Department's site last month."
CNET goes on to report that, "the disappearing documents come as the TIA has become a lighting rod for criticism and as online activists have been turning the tables on Poindexter by reposting his personal information and home telephone number as widely as possible."
"The most serious asymmetric threat facing the United States is terrorism, a threat characterized by collections of people loosely organized in shadowy networks that are difficult to identify and define. IAO plans to develop technology that will allow understanding of the intent of these networks, their plans, and potentially define opportunities for disrupting or eliminating the threats. To effectively and efficiently carry this out, we must promote sharing, collaborating and reasoning to convert nebulous data to knowledge and actionable options. IAO will accomplish this by pursuing the development of technologies, components, and applications to produce a proto-type system."
What is most interesting about the TIA project is the program strategy "focusing on the development of:
"1) architectures for a large-scale counter-terrorism database, for system elements associated with database population, and for integrating algorithms and mixed-initiative analytical tools; 2) novel methods for populating the database from existing sources, create innovative new sources, and invent new algorithms for mining, combining, and refining information for subsequent inclusion into the database; and, 3) revolutionary new models, algorithms, methods, tools, and techniques for analyzing and correlating information in the database to derive actionable intelligence.
In short, the government wants free access to all of your personal data, including, but not limited to medical, financial, family history, and all public records.
I think we can safely say that George Orwell was right and McCarthyism is alive and well.
Anyone want to guess how many of your developer, coder, dba, Network Admin, Hacker friends will be "black-listed" after refusing to adhere to the coming government guidelines? Hmmm, and I thought the.com bust was bad, wait until you have to prove that you're government friendly in order to get a job.
The justice here was almost the same justice the DoJ dealt Kevin Mitnick; but ElcomSoft was found not-guilty and Sklyarov only spent a short time in custody.
What we need to do as a community is fight the DMCA and DRM Technology, in hopes that this doesn't happen again.
Whoa! Ummm... good idea. Let me see if I can convince my wife to leave for the weekend.:)
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Great article and yes the Screen Saver story is redundant and old. But so is every other "Build Your Own [blah blah blah].
For those Mac Addicts out there that want to try this, but might not be the best at building computers or working with electronics, I highly recommend checking out Kevin on Screen Savers. He's pretty knowledgeable and keeps things simple.
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I personally think this is a cool way to teach history. I'd like to see more of this on the high-school level as a means of familiarizing students with the great men and women of antiquity on a personal level.
Good idea if schools could afford computers and broad band.
I think not. There are thousands of "memos" like this floating around every major corporation in America.
/. will begin to run "Halloween" memos from Coca Cola stating that Snapple is taking market share away? Or memos from GM about Ford's expansion into Europe?
Microsoft didn't get where they are today by not taking Apple, Sun, Netscape, AOL, and the Open Source movement seriously. All of the above threaten Microsoft's business model and as such they respond.
What's the big deal?
Should we expect that
on Google for web radio stations and college radio stations. If you want new music: that's where it's at.
A crap load of new music everyday...
Hmmmm... yup yup. Yahoo groups has lots and lots of music "discussion" groups. Problem is most only want to discuss POP music divas and what Britney or Shakira wore to [insert one of thousands of POP awards shows].
Serial numbers are used to track cash. Hence the term "unmarked" that actors use to describe ransom payments.
Cash is easily traceable. That little metal strip in US Currency is not an anti-counterfit device, it's a homing beacon. Each bill has its own signature, picked up any time you walk through a metal detector.
If you find yourself living alone in a remote cabin, growing a ratty beard, and devising ways to blow up University officials: seek help immediately.
Homing beacon? LOL. Yer killing me!
Deregulation of the telecom industry has brought us the lowest rates ever! Of course, we're paying fees, taxes, tariffs, surcharges, adjustments, and recoupments that didn't even exist before, but look -- deregulation must work because rates are lower.
Amen to that brother! Of course, most of the US is asleep or watching TV, so they'll never notice when the completely lose all rights.
Ummm... because the Democrats want the Office of Homeland Security as much as "W" does. :)
I would think being a slashdot surfer you would know how to setup internet connection sharing or a linux box to do routing for your network and use dialup as the connection.
/.'ers who don't know how to setup a Linux server or IP sharing.
Please remember that there are some
Broadband is coming.
Only if there is a private company that can afford to maintain the current infrastructure. Remember most of the broadband lines have been in the ground for nearly 10 years. And most have NOT been utilized.
Qwest laid the wire in the early to mid 90s and they won't be around long enough to benefit from the coming "broadband" revolution. Not to mention some other company will be forced to lay new lines, because of user demand: cell phones, PDAs, game consoles, business networks, home computers, laptops, GPS systems, automobile computers, etc...
What company has the resources to pick up the maintenance of the current lines and pay Qwest enough cash to take on ownership? And then turn around and begin updating the hard wire system? And how much will that cost the average consumer?
your cable company/phone company will wise up to the challenge and offer services.
Cable and phone companies will only do the minimum. No company out there can afford to bring in new technology, because they are still paying off the debt incurred when so many cable and phone companies merged.
And clear cause for DirectTV to sue the Law Firm. Bad news for them.
Well, at least the NYT didn't make it up:
Piratical
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin pirata, from Greek peiratEs, from peiran to attempt -- more at FEAR
Date: 14th century
: one who commits or practices piracy
Amen to that.
Maybe we should do something about AIDs, mass starvation, and the infant mortality rate in third world nations before we start handing out chat handles and email accounts.
Keep pushing the resolution higher and higher until you can see the breast-enlargement scars. Then shift back one.
Isn't that what the folks at BayWatch did with the swim suits for years?
LOL! It's better than Nemesis!
They are paying top dollar out there (US)
Out where? The job market in California is at best extinct. For a CCNP with 5 years exp. there were approx 325 resumes for the last contract job I found. For a technical writer with 8 years exp, there were 276 resumes for the last contract job.
In addition, the days of $100+ an hour contracts are history. Companies just won't pay it anymore.
So, please educate me as to where these contracts are!?
If you have all the answers, then please educate the masses: why was he arrested?
DARPA's Total Information Awareness (TIA) project is slowly shrinking from public view. According to a CNET story: "the TIA site shrank still more and some links ceased to work. Biographical information about the TIA project leaders, including retired Adm. John Poindexter, disappeared from the Defense Department's site last month."
.com bust was bad, wait until you have to prove that you're government friendly in order to get a job.
CNET goes on to report that, "the disappearing documents come as the TIA has become a lighting rod for criticism and as online activists have been turning the tables on Poindexter by reposting his personal information and home telephone number as widely as possible."
What has not changed is the Information Awareness Office's (IAO) commitment to TIA. The IAO "vision" clearly states:
"The most serious asymmetric threat facing the United States is terrorism, a threat characterized by collections of people loosely organized in shadowy networks that are difficult to identify and define. IAO plans to develop technology that will allow understanding of the intent of these networks, their plans, and potentially define opportunities for disrupting or eliminating the threats. To effectively and efficiently carry this out, we must promote sharing, collaborating and reasoning to convert nebulous data to knowledge and actionable options. IAO will accomplish this by pursuing the development of technologies, components, and applications to produce a proto-type system."
What is most interesting about the TIA project is the program strategy "focusing on the development of:
"1) architectures for a large-scale counter-terrorism database, for system elements associated with database population, and for integrating algorithms and mixed-initiative analytical tools;
2) novel methods for populating the database from existing sources, create innovative new sources, and invent new algorithms for mining, combining, and refining information for subsequent inclusion into the database; and,
3) revolutionary new models, algorithms, methods, tools, and techniques for analyzing and correlating information in the database to derive actionable intelligence.
In short, the government wants free access to all of your personal data, including, but not limited to medical, financial, family history, and all public records.
I think we can safely say that George Orwell was right and McCarthyism is alive and well.
Anyone want to guess how many of your developer, coder, dba, Network Admin, Hacker friends will be "black-listed" after refusing to adhere to the coming government guidelines? Hmmm, and I thought the
Hmmm... I've been here nearly 4 years... don't need any more Karma. Mod me down if you like. :)
Where's the justice here?
The justice here was almost the same justice the DoJ dealt Kevin Mitnick; but ElcomSoft was found not-guilty and Sklyarov only spent a short time in custody.
What we need to do as a community is fight the DMCA and DRM Technology, in hopes that this doesn't happen again.
Good point.
Wouldn't it be painful otherwise?
If you want to know more about this case, ElcomSoft, or Dmitry Sklyarov, EFF.com has a great FAQ. Check it out here.
No... it's spelled S k l y a r o v.
Thanks for playing.
Whoa! Ummm... good idea. Let me see if I can convince my wife to leave for the weekend. :)
Great article and yes the Screen Saver story is redundant and old. But so is every other "Build Your Own [blah blah blah].
For those Mac Addicts out there that want to try this, but might not be the best at building computers or working with electronics, I highly recommend checking out Kevin on Screen Savers. He's pretty knowledgeable and keeps things simple.
Just my 2cents.