One of the few sensible goals would be teaching students about security. Teach about importance of A/V, firewall, not becoming a phishing victim, etc. Subject the students to real tests of their security savvy. Teach hacking, too, and reward students that find and report security holes on the school network. Teach students about how the monitoring works and encourage them to find ways around the monitoring, backed by rewards. Openly share these finds with other students after closing the holes. Deviously, you can get your students to do security evaluations of your network for very little compensation.
I hardly find it surprising the senior officer wanted a second opinion to "news" derived from the official spin put out by Chinese government officials.
Choice quotes from this article written at the close of 1995:
http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/me tcalfe/bm120495.htm
Dazzling product literature and advertising require at least ISDN speeds. But the major corporations upon which we are relying to upgrade Internet access past 28.8Kbps are the local telco monopolies, which like our postal service and public schools have become little more than jobs programs. The local telcos will escape demonopolization in 1995 and, while they pursue long distance voice business in 1996, their motivation to lower costs on high-speed Internet access will wither, fatally constipating the Web.
You've read that the Internet was designed to survive thermonuclear war, but it's repeatedly been brought to its knees, its circuits choked, for example, by the reaction to one measly jury verdict in Los Angles. The Internet is intermittently overloaded, and the TCP/IP architecture doesn't deal well with overloads. Furthermore, the Internet's naive flat-rate business model is incapable of financing the new capacity it would need to serve continued growth, if there were any, but there won't be, so no problem.
One of two bad things will happen with video over the Internet during 1996.
Either the Internet's attached computers, operating systems, and applications software will fail to deliver video, or they will succeed. If they succeed, the packet-punctuated pre-Asynchronous Transfer Mode Internet will fail to carry it. In either case, without video the Internet will lack the energy needed to sustain its current expansion.
The Internet traffic carrying arguments about pornography on the Internet will during 1996 swamp the actual pornography, so even the most sophisticated Web search engines will too often fail to find any. What quicker road to collapse?
More gems to be found via http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=imminent+demi se+of+the+internet+predicted...
I work on the IT staff for the european division of a large federal agency. We have about 40K users in our enterprise. Recently we hosted a big decision maker from Washington who told us about the upcoming move to Vista, mandated for all PCs on the network, because "the security in Vista is significantly better. Significantly better."
Fully two-thirds of all PCs in our enterprise do not meet minimum hardware requirements to run Vista. We normally refresh 25-33% of our PCs annually, but we're now looking at a mandate requiring us to spend money we don't have upgrading hardware to run an OS that will easily double the workload of the Helpdesk and the touch-maintenance folks in an era of severe manpower and budget cuts.
Lest you think "well manpower cuts means less calls to the Helpdesk so that point is moot", IT was hardest hit. That is, we have a lower IT personnel / non-IT personnel ratio now.
Not sure yet whether the deadline is going to give, or Washington will come up with the money to pay for it. How this staff handles it, however, will soon be Not My Problem anymore.
Next month I'm being relocated to Washington.
Prosecutors are considering criminal charges agains casino houses who won big on games involving people who have faulty perceptions of their chances of winning...
I worked with a classmate to develop a paper disk system more on the order of what has been discussed in this board than what the article describes - dots, not shapes, and theoretical maximum capacity on the order of hundreds of megabytes, not gigabytes. It was essentially a larger version of Datamatrix.
Practically speaking, we were shooting for tens of megabytes: 600 dpi, 8-bit color resolution, 1-inch margins on 8.5x11 -> 600 * 600 dots / sq in * 1 byte / dot * 75 sq in printable area / sheet of paper = about 26 MB, not including error correction.
My classmate put in the error correction which added some 25-33% to the data. We stayed with black and white and never had time to go any farther, but we did get it to work - maybe a few hundred kilobytes worth of some random file.
The unanticipated problem we ran into was skew - progressively increased rotation of the scan lines, a warped scan. To overcome it, we stumbled on the same solution the creators of Datamatrix used - a row and a column of alternating black and white dots used to establish independently-angled scan lines.
We never did do much with testing how rigorous it was; once we got the basic idea working we wrote up the paper and moved on. I believe we intended to keep working on it, mostly to spite the EE professor who arrogantly opposed the idea of paper storing anything near what CDs can store. But the intentions went nowhere as we both entered the military and got assigned to different continents.
I believe instead of sniping what is very likely a hoax, we should focus on the practical uses of paper as a digital storage device. We wondered whether companies might create posters at the front of the store - customers snap the photo with a PDA and use conversion software to extract a store catalog, special coupons, hyperlinks to advertisements. Billboards along the highway packed with audio clips. Letters to relatives with home videos included.
Some of these uses may seem more practical than others, but I'd like to hear more creativity along what can be done with tens of megabytes than proof after proof of why paper can't pack 256GB.
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One of the few sensible goals would be teaching students about security. Teach about importance of A/V, firewall, not becoming a phishing victim, etc. Subject the students to real tests of their security savvy. Teach hacking, too, and reward students that find and report security holes on the school network. Teach students about how the monitoring works and encourage them to find ways around the monitoring, backed by rewards. Openly share these finds with other students after closing the holes. Deviously, you can get your students to do security evaluations of your network for very little compensation.
I hardly find it surprising the senior officer wanted a second opinion to "news" derived from the official spin put out by Chinese government officials.
Because one-legged, blind, ambisexual, *vegan* wombat herders etc. etc. hold themselves to a higher standard.
Choice quotes from this article written at the close of 1995:
http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/mI work on the IT staff for the european division of a large federal agency. We have about 40K users in our enterprise. Recently we hosted a big decision maker from Washington who told us about the upcoming move to Vista, mandated for all PCs on the network, because "the security in Vista is significantly better. Significantly better." Fully two-thirds of all PCs in our enterprise do not meet minimum hardware requirements to run Vista. We normally refresh 25-33% of our PCs annually, but we're now looking at a mandate requiring us to spend money we don't have upgrading hardware to run an OS that will easily double the workload of the Helpdesk and the touch-maintenance folks in an era of severe manpower and budget cuts. Lest you think "well manpower cuts means less calls to the Helpdesk so that point is moot", IT was hardest hit. That is, we have a lower IT personnel / non-IT personnel ratio now. Not sure yet whether the deadline is going to give, or Washington will come up with the money to pay for it. How this staff handles it, however, will soon be Not My Problem anymore. Next month I'm being relocated to Washington.
Prosecutors are considering criminal charges agains casino houses who won big on games involving people who have faulty perceptions of their chances of winning ...
As traffic circles become more common throughout the U.S., perhaps demand for robot chauffers will increase.
I worked with a classmate to develop a paper disk system more on the order of what has been discussed in this board than what the article describes - dots, not shapes, and theoretical maximum capacity on the order of hundreds of megabytes, not gigabytes. It was essentially a larger version of Datamatrix.
Practically speaking, we were shooting for tens of megabytes: 600 dpi, 8-bit color resolution, 1-inch margins on 8.5x11 -> 600 * 600 dots / sq in * 1 byte / dot * 75 sq in printable area / sheet of paper = about 26 MB, not including error correction.
My classmate put in the error correction which added some 25-33% to the data. We stayed with black and white and never had time to go any farther, but we did get it to work - maybe a few hundred kilobytes worth of some random file.
The unanticipated problem we ran into was skew - progressively increased rotation of the scan lines, a warped scan. To overcome it, we stumbled on the same solution the creators of Datamatrix used - a row and a column of alternating black and white dots used to establish independently-angled scan lines.
We never did do much with testing how rigorous it was; once we got the basic idea working we wrote up the paper and moved on. I believe we intended to keep working on it, mostly to spite the EE professor who arrogantly opposed the idea of paper storing anything near what CDs can store. But the intentions went nowhere as we both entered the military and got assigned to different continents.
I believe instead of sniping what is very likely a hoax, we should focus on the practical uses of paper as a digital storage device. We wondered whether companies might create posters at the front of the store - customers snap the photo with a PDA and use conversion software to extract a store catalog, special coupons, hyperlinks to advertisements. Billboards along the highway packed with audio clips. Letters to relatives with home videos included.
Some of these uses may seem more practical than others, but I'd like to hear more creativity along what can be done with tens of megabytes than proof after proof of why paper can't pack 256GB.