When I got interested by railroads, and got about reading about their histories and hanging around with railroaders, I realized that the railroads had solved more than 100 years ago the very same networking problems faced by computers during the last 30 years.
When you have to operate a business (running trains) over a vast territory, you have to have reliable, foolproof and positive communication to synchronize the operations of all those trains.
Proper communications were essential to avoid those dreaded "cornfield meets" (head-on collisions).
Railroad signalling also has been a cutting-edge environment too; signal interlocking plants (where complex railroad junctions are controlled) have been from the start crude mechanical computers, where conflicting train routes are avoided by mechanical (then electric and now computerized - but with extremely wierd and exotic kinds of technologies) computers, all to boost safety.
Actually, 100 years ago, railroads were the high-tech industry, and it is striking to see the parallels between the railroads 100 years ago, and the computer/internet scene today...
But a Hugo for SciFi Achievement? I have a hard time calling Potter stories Sci-Fi.
Indeed; what irks me is when bookstores mix together fantasy with science-fiction. Why do they do that? They certainly don't mix detective novels with romance stories!!!!
The surgon general...
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ACM believes that the application of any law to limit the freedom to publish research on computer technology will impose a cost not only on ACM's members, but also on the academic community, the process of scientific discourse, and society in general.
WARNING: The RIAA's surgeon general has determined that process of scientific disclosure can be detrimental to the health of your bottom line, and your chances of re-election.
Send an authentic looking "lawyer's letter" claiming that on Sunday August 12th, you found pirate movies on their site [monsterhut.com] only to find them gone on Monday 13th, but back next Saturday and gone again on Monday.
Won't work.
The DMCA does not have force of law where they are, and the ISP personnel will be glad to tell them to shove up their lawyer's letter.
When you think about it, people are behind these corperations and they are screwing themseleves as well as us. I just don't understand why these people keep passing tougher and tougher laws.
In reality, what you don't get is that those people are thoroughly whoring themselves in order to get a quick almighty buck, and are generally too stupid to see the long-term consequences.
Just use micro-aligned crystals within the metal. Since the crystals are exactly aligned, they have superior strength.
The Japanese have been using this method for centuries to make their swords.
Each swords has 32,768 layers of microthin metal, confering to their blades superior strength.
Why 32,768 layers exactly? Well, that's what you get when you flatten a piece of steel, fold it in two, and stretch it back while hammering it 15 times...
(there is a real
shortage of geostationary orbits by now, for example).
Er... There is only **ONE** (1) geostationary orbit... It's only a real shortage of good spots on that orbit that there is... (Satellites have to be spaced 1 or 2 degrees apart so not to interfere with each other.
Tell you what - you get in a plane, and I'll get in a plane. We'll ground all other planes and birds for, say, ten years. You take off from somewhere on the planet, and I'll take off from somewhere else on the planet. We'll fly around randomly and see how long it takes to collide.
At the start of the (last) century, in Ohio, there was 1 (one) automobile. Two weeks after there was a second one, the first automobile collision was recorded.
"The need for (railroad) signalling arises the very second that the railroad gets it's second locomotive"... - Cuthbert Hamilton Ellis
Reminds me... 25 years ago we moved, and our new telephone number (274-1957) attracted something like 2-3 wrong numbers a day, something I had never seen before or after.
I wonder if the pattern 274-1957 is sufficiently similar to other phone numbers to catch a lot of misdials...
However, a number the represented how closely related an incoming email and a known spam message would be a useful metric.
Not really. You could break each SPAM in 3 to 5 parts, and have a checksum on each part. Unless the "counter" spans two parts, only one of the checksums would be different.
And, if so, with cheap storage, why not store the whole SPAM; in case of a high number of checksum matches, a final precide double-check could be made.
The NSA must have been advising the consultants who wrote the report: the screen shot censorship blotches are a part of the screenshot bitmaps instead of being applied over the bitmaps via the PDF, like that spy informant report leaked on cryptome some months ago...
I've said before that file sharing programs need to move to https as soon as possible
But wouldn't each machine in the peer-to-peer network then need it's own Server Certificate, so the client can do the crypto-handshake?
Or am I just confused?!
Had an overdose of Confusius??:):)
You can use any TCP/IP port for whatever you want. The fact that such port is used for HTTP and such port for FTP and such port is used for HTTPS is mere convention.
Nothing prevents you from running APACHE on port 25, for example...
But, yes, that would be a clever way to hide "illicit" transfer, doing it in plain sight... After all, since (most) HTTPS traffic is encrypted, how could Valenti's Nazis could pick-out file "illicit" transfers???
Telecom executives say that without a major redesign of the Internet, such eagerly
anticipated applications as video-on-demand, Internet telephony and Webcasts of live
entertainment events will never be economical.
Hey, Business Bimboes!!! Time to roll-out IP-v6!!!
Apparently Apple's MacOS 10.1 (due in September) has an option to turn off filename extensions.
Er... Since 1984 (when the Mac was introduced), the Finder/MacOs already hides the extensions (Macintrash files actually have two 4 character extensions - one for the file type and one for the creator application).
And those extensions are quite invisible, unless you use a special file utility to see/change them.
"We've received two key patents and have several more pending that we believe will eventually enable computers to be millions of times more
efficient than they are today."
Oh no! This means that Windows will be millions of times more bloated!!!!
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When you have to operate a business (running trains) over a vast territory, you have to have reliable, foolproof and positive communication to synchronize the operations of all those trains.
Proper communications were essential to avoid those dreaded "cornfield meets" (head-on collisions).
Railroad signalling also has been a cutting-edge environment too; signal interlocking plants (where complex railroad junctions are controlled) have been from the start crude mechanical computers, where conflicting train routes are avoided by mechanical (then electric and now computerized - but with extremely wierd and exotic kinds of technologies) computers, all to boost safety.
Actually, 100 years ago, railroads were the high-tech industry, and it is striking to see the parallels between the railroads 100 years ago, and the computer/internet scene today...
Indeed; what irks me is when bookstores mix together fantasy with science-fiction. Why do they do that? They certainly don't mix detective novels with romance stories!!!!
WARNING:
The RIAA's surgeon general has determined that process of scientific disclosure can be detrimental to the health of your bottom line, and your chances of re-election.
But, unlike with M$ products, you can plug them, since you have the SOURCE.
Who cares if you take .8 seconds to LILO? You don't have to boot a Linux machine 32,767 times a day anyway!!!!
In reality, what you don't get is that those people are thoroughly whoring themselves in order to get a quick almighty buck, and are generally too stupid to see the long-term consequences.
- turn off the fluorescent light above?
- remove the tubes from the fluorescent light above?
- replace the "cool white" tubes with "warm white" tubes in the fluorescent light?
- add a few strategically-placed incandescent spotlights here and there to counter the annoying colour of fluorescent lights?
Just asking...The Japanese have been using this method for centuries to make their swords.
Each swords has 32,768 layers of microthin metal, confering to their blades superior strength.
Why 32,768 layers exactly? Well, that's what you get when you flatten a piece of steel, fold it in two, and stretch it back while hammering it 15 times...
"The need for (railroad) signalling arises the very second that the railroad gets it's second locomotive"... - Cuthbert Hamilton Ellis
Too bad Douglas Adams is gone, he would have incorporated THHGTTG into the towel...
I wonder if the pattern 274-1957 is sufficiently similar to other phone numbers to catch a lot of misdials...
So, it's the company owning the infected computer that's responsible for sending it's secrets out.
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Here is my method: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=01/07/30/14442 47&cid=108
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And, if so, with cheap storage, why not store the whole SPAM; in case of a high number of checksum matches, a final precide double-check could be made.
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* Abraham Lincoln was a republican...
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The NSA must have been advising the consultants who wrote the report: the screen shot censorship blotches are a part of the screenshot bitmaps instead of being applied over the bitmaps via the PDF, like that spy informant report leaked on cryptome some months ago...
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You can use any TCP/IP port for whatever you want. The fact that such port is used for HTTP and such port for FTP and such port is used for HTTPS is mere convention. Nothing prevents you from running APACHE on port 25, for example...
But, yes, that would be a clever way to hide "illicit" transfer, doing it in plain sight... After all, since (most) HTTPS traffic is encrypted, how could Valenti's Nazis could pick-out file "illicit" transfers???
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And those extensions are quite invisible, unless you use a special file utility to see/change them.
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So, it does not apply to the FREE stuff everybody is so fond of downloading...
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