I thought the same thing. Mixing up the ocean's thermal layers will help to slow the conveyor currents that warm the higher latitudes and cool the lower latitudes. Lose the currents and areas near the equator bake while countries like England and others that depend on the currents to moderate their climate freeze.
Besides, pumping massive amounts of water will be a huge energy pig causing even more warming.
Hurricanes are like pressure relief valves. All of that excess energy gets sucked out of the ocean during a hurricane and helps to cool them. Mixing up the oceans allows higher average temperatures and it is hard to say what will happen to deep marine life as the heating gets propagated to the lower depths.
I like the idea by Steve Chu - painting roofs white. It's easy, distributed, and can be done on a huge scale. Plus, the roof paints help to seal as well and will protect the roof materials that are now exposed to the sun.
But they do take the opportunity to use their own DNS servers if you are an average user and leave DHCP set up (pretty much the default).
They don't control them per se, but they will happily provide you the address of their servers if you need help setting up, and set up their DHCP servers to automatically point you there.
I agree completely on not going with Comcast. I go with Qwest for my DSL.
But you do know about the special rooms on the AT&T trunk lines that monitor all the traffic for the NSA, right?
Not that me using Qwest stops my traffic from being monitored too, but at least I am not directly supporting AT&T (or Verizon) and their habit of handing over whatever information is asked without requiring a search warrant to back it up.
Qwest refused to hand over data without a search warrant.
I keep hoping someone would take their new commercial with the woman walking through the virtual world kind of chanting and substitute a really raunchy parody chant... g . o . a . t . s . e... r . o . f . l - ing...
When you find a way to do a job cheaper or faster, or that brings in more revenue, do you tell your employer it's OK to lower your salary a corresponding amount?
I agree it is evil, but until they do (if they ever do) redirect port 53, people can (and should IMO) use OpenDNS.
I really like OpenDNS. There is more to it than just a clean DNS server - though if you check their FAQ, they will also serve links with dead-end web address error messages. You can outright block various kinds of websites (useful if you have kids in the house), and they are actively protecting against DNS cache poisoning, blocking malware sites, etc.
Comcast can do their own ad serving through their own DNS servers and that probably won't raise too many eyebrows except from people like those that frequent/. Most people don't even know what DNS is or why it could be important to them. But if Comcast starts redirecting ports, it will grab a much wider audience because lots of tech people will go postal over the insult and that would be bad press for Comcast.
I doubt they will ever redirect 53. And if they do, reaction will be probably be swift.
That's the whole point. For a technology that can help the whole planet, mandatory but also fair licensing is the way to go - in my opinion. I certainly believe that Toyota should be entitled to a profit from their innovation. I also believe that their innovation should be protected. But this kind of technology is in an area that is pretty much essential that the whole world adopt. How do you balance the ability for Toyota to tie up other companies and prevent competition with something that needs to be adopted across the board?
Volvo licenses their safety patents for free. They consider it for the greater good as well as good marketing. And there are a lot of Volvos on the road. I'm not saying that Toyota should just give away their hybrid patents, but there is precedence of a viable company doing that and making quite a bit of money along the way.
The upshot is that if you believe that global climate change is real, humans have a very small window now to avert disaster - if that windows hasn't closed completely already. I think civilization as we know it and a billion or more human lives, as well as untold numbers of animals kind of take priority over patent rights.
Let Toyota make a profit from the patents but don't allow them to limit competition or to choke off what could be a huge part of preventing disaster. These need to be mandated licensing with arbitrated fees.
I think I agree. Patents should not be allowed to be used to hinder like Toyota is doing. There needs to be a way for patents to be arbitrated and while still protecting the inventor's rights and investments, not allow them to use patents to prevent others from competing.
Toyota isn't just locking up hybrid patents, they are also locking up fuel cell and control system patents.
I have a Honda Civic Hybrid that just had its hybrid battery die at the 64,000 mile mark. It's well within warranty and Honda replaced it for free - not a cent cost to me. But if this battery died at 64,000 miles, hopefully I will get another 64,000 out of the replacement. When I bought the car, I asked how much the battery would cost to replace and was told it would be about $1500. When I picked up my car from the dealer after the battery replacement, I asked how much this would have cost had it not been under warranty. The answer was over $5,000.
Instead of the 150,000 miles they said the pack should last, if I keep the car, I might have to spend $5000 at the 130,000 mile mark because the pack will be well out of warranty then.
Until this happened, I had been thinking about getting the 2010 Prius. Since this happened, I have been looking at the VW TDI since it gets great mileage but doesn't have the hybrid battery issues. With this bit of news, I am particularly happy that a turbo diesel comes from pre-WWII technology. I'm sure there are patents involved with the TDI, but it doesn't seem like there are near the patent obstructionist issues that there seem to be with Toyota.
Not entirely. A telescope and photomultiplier or phototube aimed at someone's office window will get you everything on their screen if they are using an older CRT monitor - regardless of if it is visible from the window or not. If they have their monitor visible through a window then just a telescope will do it for you.
I agree with eldavojohn and everyone else who has the various examples/anecdotes/satirical comments. Showing passwords to anyone nearby or with binoculars, telescopes, or cameras is not very bright.
What is the value of the data you are trying to protect? Is it worth the few seconds required to re-type a password?
There are a number of discussions of how Airbus grabbed the flight data recorders and didn't return them for two weeks. The "official" conclusion put the pilot and crew at fault and did claim slow spool-up.
But if you actually remember this when it happened, the initial news was from the crew who claimed they gave power to complete the fly-by and the engines stayed at idle and wouldn't respond until they cycled the throttles to get the computers to "let go" so they could add power. The engines didn't respond until the airplane was hitting the trees which doomed the aircraft.
Airbus was emphatic that there were absolutely no problems with the aircraft controls. The pilot was emphatic that when he throttled up, there was no response. It wasn't lag. The engines were locked at low power because the airplane thought it was landing. Only when the pilot cycled the throttles did he get a response.
The problem is that humans program the computers and design the systems that provide the sensory input to the computers and the actuating output.
When you then put those human-designed systems in complete control, you risk the hidden design flaws and software logic errors coming out to play at some of the most inopportune times - basically bounds testing but with real human lives in the balance.
At an inaugural showing at the Mulhouse-Habsheim airport during an air show, an Airbus A320 did a low pass with gear and flaps down and the computer refused to let the pilots power up and climb out at the end of the pass.
The plane flew along and right into trees at the end of the runway - killing three of the dignitaries along for the ride.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxP8LwSArYA
Your solution isn't ugly at all. I think it is necessary. People's compromised computers cost other people money and do harm in helping to spread malware, are used as repositories for stolen information, etc.
Holding users responsible probably opens a legal can of worms, but I think that is coming too. Once users are held responsible, ISPs will be held responsible - not only for the damage their users do, but also by users for letting malicious traffic to the user's computer. Software manufacturers will probably also end up fighting class action suits over security weaknesses.
But when some crime group blackmails a web site with a DoS attack, it's all the compromised computers that do the heavy lifting. There should be some responsibility there. Acting as repositories for stolen files and such should also carry responsibility.
There is a responsibility in owning a computer and putting it on the net. Everyone has sidestepped that issue for far too long. If someone's computer does me harm, then why shouldn't they be held responsible?
I think with all of the attention that cyber crime is now getting, holding people responsible to at least some extent will be inevitable. And I know there are lots of ways to hide which computers are contributing to DDoS attacks, but if a computer is discovered with lots of stolen data on it, attributing responsibility gets a lot easier.
The model jets that now run actual gas turbine engines have cracked 200 mph for sure and possibly even higher.
And this whole naysaying thing on UAVs by others is kind of funny. People should check out futurehobbies.com for complete video kits. Also there are lots of helicopter-like UAVs that are really nifty for camera platforms. I forget the name of it but there is one that uses eight brushless electric motors arranged as counter-rotating pairs on four booms all controlled by Atmel microcontrollers. The videos from the thing are amazing and the person who made the videos is using remote viewing so they can sit in a field but see what the helicopter sees.
Lots of videos on YouTube and Google.
Also, as I noted below, on the Nuts & Volts back cover is an ad that features a UAV that a guy built using a particular microcontroller. I'm sure there is documentation online.
Lastly, you can get all sorts of wing leveler circuits or just build your own. GPS modules are extremely tiny and have really easy outputs to connect into a microcontroller (see sparkfun.com).
Actually the technology for people to do this is now extremely easy to cobble together.
The back cover of the most recent Nuts & Volts magazine has an ad for a microcontroller that highlights various projects done with their microcontroller. One of them is a UAV.
I don't know... I'm thinking four of these, some tasty libations, a feather, some lube, some kind of electrical device (both vibrating and with conductive pads), and one could have a pretty good time!;-)
Microsoft Windows is by far the first choice of hackers, malware authors, organized crime, and government espionage operations.
Windows is definitely their preferred OS and I doubt that will change with Windows 7 especially with the various issues that have already cropped up in RC1.
A zombie attack would probably be a DoS attack. Maybe a brute force password attack. Could be they got someone's login from a keylogger or some such and had their foot in the door to then escalate privs.
I'm not expert in this but I would bet getting into a system to then destroy it is more of a targeted attack with the direct involvement of the hacker.
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If the SE features were enabled or oddly, if some audio package was installed (I forget the name). It was due to an optimization done by the compiler.
I thought the same thing. Mixing up the ocean's thermal layers will help to slow the conveyor currents that warm the higher latitudes and cool the lower latitudes. Lose the currents and areas near the equator bake while countries like England and others that depend on the currents to moderate their climate freeze.
Besides, pumping massive amounts of water will be a huge energy pig causing even more warming.
Hurricanes are like pressure relief valves. All of that excess energy gets sucked out of the ocean during a hurricane and helps to cool them. Mixing up the oceans allows higher average temperatures and it is hard to say what will happen to deep marine life as the heating gets propagated to the lower depths.
I like the idea by Steve Chu - painting roofs white. It's easy, distributed, and can be done on a huge scale. Plus, the roof paints help to seal as well and will protect the roof materials that are now exposed to the sun.
But they do take the opportunity to use their own DNS servers if you are an average user and leave DHCP set up (pretty much the default).
They don't control them per se, but they will happily provide you the address of their servers if you need help setting up, and set up their DHCP servers to automatically point you there.
I agree completely on not going with Comcast. I go with Qwest for my DSL.
But you do know about the special rooms on the AT&T trunk lines that monitor all the traffic for the NSA, right?
Not that me using Qwest stops my traffic from being monitored too, but at least I am not directly supporting AT&T (or Verizon) and their habit of handing over whatever information is asked without requiring a search warrant to back it up.
Qwest refused to hand over data without a search warrant.
I keep hoping someone would take their new commercial with the woman walking through the virtual world kind of chanting and substitute a really raunchy parody chant... g . o . a . t . s . e ... r . o . f . l - ing...
When you find a way to do a job cheaper or faster, or that brings in more revenue, do you tell your employer it's OK to lower your salary a corresponding amount?
I'm betting you don't.
I agree it is evil, but until they do (if they ever do) redirect port 53, people can (and should IMO) use OpenDNS.
/. Most people don't even know what DNS is or why it could be important to them. But if Comcast starts redirecting ports, it will grab a much wider audience because lots of tech people will go postal over the insult and that would be bad press for Comcast.
I really like OpenDNS. There is more to it than just a clean DNS server - though if you check their FAQ, they will also serve links with dead-end web address error messages. You can outright block various kinds of websites (useful if you have kids in the house), and they are actively protecting against DNS cache poisoning, blocking malware sites, etc.
Comcast can do their own ad serving through their own DNS servers and that probably won't raise too many eyebrows except from people like those that frequent
I doubt they will ever redirect 53. And if they do, reaction will be probably be swift.
That's the whole point. For a technology that can help the whole planet, mandatory but also fair licensing is the way to go - in my opinion. I certainly believe that Toyota should be entitled to a profit from their innovation. I also believe that their innovation should be protected. But this kind of technology is in an area that is pretty much essential that the whole world adopt. How do you balance the ability for Toyota to tie up other companies and prevent competition with something that needs to be adopted across the board?
Volvo licenses their safety patents for free. They consider it for the greater good as well as good marketing. And there are a lot of Volvos on the road. I'm not saying that Toyota should just give away their hybrid patents, but there is precedence of a viable company doing that and making quite a bit of money along the way.
The upshot is that if you believe that global climate change is real, humans have a very small window now to avert disaster - if that windows hasn't closed completely already. I think civilization as we know it and a billion or more human lives, as well as untold numbers of animals kind of take priority over patent rights.
Let Toyota make a profit from the patents but don't allow them to limit competition or to choke off what could be a huge part of preventing disaster. These need to be mandated licensing with arbitrated fees.
I think I agree. Patents should not be allowed to be used to hinder like Toyota is doing. There needs to be a way for patents to be arbitrated and while still protecting the inventor's rights and investments, not allow them to use patents to prevent others from competing.
Toyota isn't just locking up hybrid patents, they are also locking up fuel cell and control system patents.
I have a Honda Civic Hybrid that just had its hybrid battery die at the 64,000 mile mark. It's well within warranty and Honda replaced it for free - not a cent cost to me. But if this battery died at 64,000 miles, hopefully I will get another 64,000 out of the replacement. When I bought the car, I asked how much the battery would cost to replace and was told it would be about $1500. When I picked up my car from the dealer after the battery replacement, I asked how much this would have cost had it not been under warranty. The answer was over $5,000.
Instead of the 150,000 miles they said the pack should last, if I keep the car, I might have to spend $5000 at the 130,000 mile mark because the pack will be well out of warranty then.
Until this happened, I had been thinking about getting the 2010 Prius. Since this happened, I have been looking at the VW TDI since it gets great mileage but doesn't have the hybrid battery issues. With this bit of news, I am particularly happy that a turbo diesel comes from pre-WWII technology. I'm sure there are patents involved with the TDI, but it doesn't seem like there are near the patent obstructionist issues that there seem to be with Toyota.
My body tends to dump "excess calories" after a hard night of tequila.
Not entirely. A telescope and photomultiplier or phototube aimed at someone's office window will get you everything on their screen if they are using an older CRT monitor - regardless of if it is visible from the window or not. If they have their monitor visible through a window then just a telescope will do it for you.
I agree with eldavojohn and everyone else who has the various examples/anecdotes/satirical comments. Showing passwords to anyone nearby or with binoculars, telescopes, or cameras is not very bright.
What is the value of the data you are trying to protect? Is it worth the few seconds required to re-type a password?
Initiative needed. All sorts of information shows up on a simple Google search.
http://www.airdisaster.com/investigations/af296/af296.shtml
There are a number of discussions of how Airbus grabbed the flight data recorders and didn't return them for two weeks. The "official" conclusion put the pilot and crew at fault and did claim slow spool-up.
But if you actually remember this when it happened, the initial news was from the crew who claimed they gave power to complete the fly-by and the engines stayed at idle and wouldn't respond until they cycled the throttles to get the computers to "let go" so they could add power. The engines didn't respond until the airplane was hitting the trees which doomed the aircraft.
Airbus was emphatic that there were absolutely no problems with the aircraft controls. The pilot was emphatic that when he throttled up, there was no response. It wasn't lag. The engines were locked at low power because the airplane thought it was landing. Only when the pilot cycled the throttles did he get a response.
It's actually pretty tough on most planes to move the flaps with mechanical pedals -- especially since the pedals control the rudder. ;-)
I think that "whoosh" was powerful enough to fly an Airbus A300!
The problem is that humans program the computers and design the systems that provide the sensory input to the computers and the actuating output.
When you then put those human-designed systems in complete control, you risk the hidden design flaws and software logic errors coming out to play at some of the most inopportune times - basically bounds testing but with real human lives in the balance.
At an inaugural showing at the Mulhouse-Habsheim airport during an air show, an Airbus A320 did a low pass with gear and flaps down and the computer refused to let the pilots power up and climb out at the end of the pass. The plane flew along and right into trees at the end of the runway - killing three of the dignitaries along for the ride. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxP8LwSArYA
Your solution isn't ugly at all. I think it is necessary. People's compromised computers cost other people money and do harm in helping to spread malware, are used as repositories for stolen information, etc.
Holding users responsible probably opens a legal can of worms, but I think that is coming too. Once users are held responsible, ISPs will be held responsible - not only for the damage their users do, but also by users for letting malicious traffic to the user's computer. Software manufacturers will probably also end up fighting class action suits over security weaknesses.
But when some crime group blackmails a web site with a DoS attack, it's all the compromised computers that do the heavy lifting. There should be some responsibility there. Acting as repositories for stolen files and such should also carry responsibility.
There is a responsibility in owning a computer and putting it on the net. Everyone has sidestepped that issue for far too long. If someone's computer does me harm, then why shouldn't they be held responsible?
I think with all of the attention that cyber crime is now getting, holding people responsible to at least some extent will be inevitable. And I know there are lots of ways to hide which computers are contributing to DDoS attacks, but if a computer is discovered with lots of stolen data on it, attributing responsibility gets a lot easier.
The model jets that now run actual gas turbine engines have cracked 200 mph for sure and possibly even higher.
And this whole naysaying thing on UAVs by others is kind of funny. People should check out futurehobbies.com for complete video kits. Also there are lots of helicopter-like UAVs that are really nifty for camera platforms. I forget the name of it but there is one that uses eight brushless electric motors arranged as counter-rotating pairs on four booms all controlled by Atmel microcontrollers. The videos from the thing are amazing and the person who made the videos is using remote viewing so they can sit in a field but see what the helicopter sees.
Lots of videos on YouTube and Google.
Also, as I noted below, on the Nuts & Volts back cover is an ad that features a UAV that a guy built using a particular microcontroller. I'm sure there is documentation online.
Lastly, you can get all sorts of wing leveler circuits or just build your own. GPS modules are extremely tiny and have really easy outputs to connect into a microcontroller (see sparkfun.com).
Actually the technology for people to do this is now extremely easy to cobble together.
The back cover of the most recent Nuts & Volts magazine has an ad for a microcontroller that highlights various projects done with their microcontroller. One of them is a UAV.
I don't know... I'm thinking four of these, some tasty libations, a feather, some lube, some kind of electrical device (both vibrating and with conductive pads), and one could have a pretty good time! ;-)
Absolutely true!
Microsoft Windows is by far the first choice of hackers, malware authors, organized crime, and government espionage operations.
Windows is definitely their preferred OS and I doubt that will change with Windows 7 especially with the various issues that have already cropped up in RC1.
All these posts and no mention of "Bob"...
;-)
Yep, it really was that forgettable.
Good point! I forgot about using a zombie as a proxy. So did that guy that broke into Sarah Palin's e-mail account. ;-)
A zombie attack would probably be a DoS attack. Maybe a brute force password attack. Could be they got someone's login from a keylogger or some such and had their foot in the door to then escalate privs.
I'm not expert in this but I would bet getting into a system to then destroy it is more of a targeted attack with the direct involvement of the hacker.
Hopefully someone recently crawled the site just to have their own local copy. And hopefully AVSIM didn't have much of a robots.txt file.
Didn't AVSIM offer CDs of their website? A lot of smaller sites do and obviously their stuff would be handy on CDs.
I'm still hopeful someone will step forward that made their own backup. I know I wanted to crawl it but just had never done it. Sigh.