Unfortunatly, InfoWar isn't just hacking. According to the RAND publication "Strategic Information Warfare" ISBN: 0833023527
It deals with the various aspects of InfoWar and their implications. Your oversimpilification simply assumes that the worst possible thing would be a DDOS attack. Whereas you compare that to NBC (Nuclear,Bio, Chem) Weapontry.
InfoWarfare is roughly equivilent (in a strategic and policy sense) to terrorism mainly due to the fact that it does not recognize a "theatre" of war, and simply has the ability to target everything and everyone.
Like Intelligence Data, InfoWarfare is best used in conjunction with other avenues of attack. An attack on the communications infrastructure of our country (Disabling large chunks of the 'net and phone systems) with subsequent action to gain control of TV stations would have the same effect, in modern day terms, as the Dolittle raids. There, besides the staggering financial implications, would be little direct economic damage, but people would see that they could be hit that they are not invulnerable. This effect would be disasterous on the morale of this country and potenally adversly effect the poll standings of Bush. I say potentially becuase the Brittish, in the Battle of Brittain had much worse done to them and it only stiffened their resolve. But I digress.
Infowar is everything from hacking, propaganda, some aspects of intelligence gathering, to actually hurting people (If you can hack into a power/water plant and make it not be happy, life becomes very bad.) Also imagine if an Infowar attack disrupted the transportation mechinisms in this country for a week -- stores would start running out of food, mail wouldn't be delivered, people would absolutly panic.
The most dangerous aspect of InfoWar is the fact that it is the most easily done (You can be in a diffrent country and attack us) and most direcly reaching of attacks (Each person is directly confronted by the knowledge that they have been attacked.) While it cannot hold territory or cause enemy soldiers (unless of course one breaks into the C4I net) to break their positions, it becomes a fascinating secondary line of attack to break the morale of the country.
I'd recommend starting with Norman's The design of every day things. Then, if you're still interested, look over human factors resources. There are very large books that have been written on this question.
::sigh:: This AC is probably a flame, but since I'm putting off studying for a midterm anyways....
First of... yes, hydrogen is a storage medium... what do you think gasoline is? That lovely little eqn e=mc^2 applies (with varying efficiency) to everything. The trick is the varying efficiency. If I could have a nuke plant churning out H, I'd prefer it to the massive oli infrastructure we have now. It will centralize pollution in one place (so that we can have lovely scrubbers and whatnot to get rid of it) and (as a long time past LA resident) prevent all the smog. Yes, water vapor forms clouds/fog/condensates whatever, but we need the water. What we don't need are stage 2 smog alerts where they recommend not going outside.
Yes, I admit that H cars are just a technofix, but compared with making society change, they are an amazingly useful one.
Computers Don't Argue, by Gordon Dickson, is a short story I found in the first Nebula award stories, is particularly apropos to this. It is a short, humorous, and satiric look at this particular role of computers in society, and while a bit dated, still is quite effective at illustrating the point found in the article.
I got the S4250-D It has a CD/DVD-RW (And I haven't tested the linux part out (Unfortunatly, I reserve linux for server use [where debian just rules]). Its got a REALTek 8139 "Fast Ethernet." It seems to play nicly with others, so I can't complain. (I don't like talking about Radeons...)
I just got a new sager laptop from powernotebooks.com and have been very impressed. One of the principle things that I was shopping for is a 5 hour battery life -- I got it. This thing runs for well over five hours, and its got integral support for the second monitor (dual/head esque, mirroring, or display on one or the other.) I quite like it.
You can also grab the powernotebook computers without paying the Microsoft Tax. (They sell them clean.)
For anyone who loves computers (not just coding, or any one aspect) and especially all you sysadmins, webmonkeys, and et al... I recommend the Info Tech college at Rochester Institute of Technology. It is a solid program, and improving rapidly. It isn't M.I.S (people with suits who know how to type), it isn't CS, (sitting in a cubicle), SE (designing programs for others to write), CE, (making the circuts to write programs on), or any of the other programs that RIT, and some other schools offer. It is designed for those who love computers.
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This is rogue for the palm, and the controls are actually quite decent.
These augmented street signs would be incredibly cool if they showed up as small popup boxes on your field of vision as you're looking for streets. Better yet, augment with mapquest, and have a line to follow to get to your destination. Adjusting for traffic and the ilk. That would be cool.
Another difficult problem with ice is not only with tires and airplane wings -- it is with the roads one walks on. Having skidded my way to classes more than once (walking on paved pathways) I would be very interested if they could develop this technology as a "film." The relative cost savings for both car windshields, and snow plows would be insane. You probably could also charge people fees to watch "popcorn snow." Imagine the snow/ice bouncing off your driveway, visibly. This would definetly be something I would like to see.
Its (probably, don't quote me on this) not a problem with the iSilo file -- they chew on hyperlinks quite redily. It is more an issue with me -- I like all my stuff to be streight text (less artifacts) this presents certain problems when there are anchors.
It has, but with pirated texts. Look on hotline for any popular sci-fi (or super-popular fantasy) author. You'll be able to find OCRed things. Get a palm, or sutably small device, and your favorite author. Combine, and make idle-time (away from home) wonderful.
Admittedly, paper is a lot more fun to read, but it simply isn't feasable to carry 30 back-light books in your pockets at all time. Thats what my palm does.
It depends directly on your software. Pratchett uses a lot of footnotes, and iSilo handled it really well. (I simply put a "mark" at the end where the footnotes were). Two arrows appeared. One to go to where I set it, the other to return to where I was. It is great.
I had completely agreed with you. Really I had. Then suddenly, I grabbed the potter "pirated" copies off the web, and put them on my m505 (which is how an e-book should be. Very light weight, rechargable... et al.) Read them, liked them, forgot about it. Then I happened across the phrase: "Terry Pratchett doesn't plan to sell in e-book format because all of his titles have been pirated... (the text then faded in my mind, this is what I wanted." Also, for the record, I own at least one copy of every single book (almost) that pratchett has written, and have read them all.
Now, considering that my library of his books takes up more than 3 feet of shelf space, and it is REALLY difficult to get 3 foot large pockets, I decided to grab the "pirated" copies, and put them on my palm. Quite a lot of work later, I now have the pratchett library on my palm. When I'm in class, or in bed -- its easier to read then pulling out a huge hard-cover (as well as a lot less revelating. For some reason, teachers don't like people reading other books in their classes. Go figure.) Anyways, I find it incredibly easy on my eyes, and when it gets dark, as opposed to searching for a light source, I just hit the backlight. I also can read ANY of his books, at ANY time. Period. This is an incredibly big benefit to me.
The kinks aren't worked out yet, and I would love to see a program do e-book translation well. However, the potential is definatly there, and while I still am an avid reader, I'm also using my palm as an e-book.
In regards to the evil, lengthy, books -- if you could easily write footnotes in them (buy a keyboard.) then that would be way cooler than just getting a paper copy (which lies on my shelf and dies anyways.) If one could get an ANNOTATED copy, then life is really cool. You click on a character's name, and suddenly you get a synoposis. It would be great. Certainly there are usibility issues. But I'd rather pay $0.99 for a e-book than $13.99 for a text book, or now, $99.99::glares at textbook publishers in general::
If all my textbooks were published in e-book format, I would read them more.
Anyways, the classics as e-books would work well because you could hyperlink in them, and have links that explain what actually is happening while you're reading. This is definatly a plus.
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This books was specificially targeted at a younger diskworld audience, and so (while what we know and love is still there) everything is a little lower key. This is also why it is shorter. If you have a younger sibling, I would definetly recommend purchasing the book for them. It is worth it.
The "default" sensiva gestures are unfortuantly ungainly and boring, and thusly, I've implemented 5 gestures that I use regularly...
1) Mouse down and to the left, minimize: this SOO beats moving up to the corner of the screen, the trick is to have sensiva set to be VERY forgiving.
2) Mouse up and to the right, maximize.
3) Mouse streight down: close. This is a miracle, their default action is some lenghty thing that I would never ever use, but just doing a very very short down drag (approx 1 cm) is great.
4) Mouse left and then up, move window to other monitor
5) mouse left and down, turn of secondary monitor (with ultramon, a must for anyone who has multiple monitors)
Anyways, hopefully this will give you ideas, and remember to turn off the plugins thing, it just gets confusing and it bothers you overly.
They already have a "gesture recognition" appy available for Win/Mac/Linux. Its <a href="http://www.sensiva.com">Sensiva</a> It's not open source, but its free, and its quite nifty (I find myself using it more than the buttons on the top corner, saves time and energy.
It also has "plugins" so you can customize gestures per application. I hope this helps.
This is apparently vaporware, becuase I have no clue what they're talking about.
I'm currently signed up with the nextel (unlimited! YAY) service in CA, and I recently got the nextelized i1000plus. The only games that I've been able to find on the fsking thing are those at go2(somthing or other).... This is definatly vaporware. (at least for me).
I'm also not sure what they're talking about when they say "high resolution." Thats completely contrary to what I get (whereas it seems my old nokia 6160 had a better res), I get all of 6 lines with 16 characters on them for viewing. All in all, the concept seems pretty neat, but its not there yet. Don't buy an IDEN phone becasue of this press release. (Whomever developed the UI must have been drunk, mutter mutter mutter..... )
I took the commonly available JS CueCat interpreter, made it pretty, and made it strip the gibberish for ISBN Codes.
pax.weltopia.com
Tell me what you think.
I'm an avid IRC user.. I have ben for a long time, and will probably contniue. I hang out on superchat -- a relativly obsucre network that isn't really bothered by advertizers, spammers and the like. This changed when Chatscan dropped in. Every 23 minutes, on the dot, a random nick would enter and exit the channel -- every 23 minutes. This nick came from a dialup account, and is ovbiously designed to get past banns. ChatScan may have a good concept -- but their execution is terrible. Not only do they not show who they are, what they are, who sent them, etc... (maybe relavant info in a whois..) but they don't ask either.
As a result of this bot, the whole dialup-bradley.earthlink.net host was banned, since they couldn't make it any more specific, and I was also in that k-line. I cannot condone ChatScan, they use subversive methods to power their " search engine" and every 23 minutes doesn't even make it current!!!
In my opinion, if a company wants to log channels, they need to ask the administrators of the network -- AND the administrators of the channel for permission. Otherwise, it hurts random users like myself.
One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
Perhaps it could be one HUGE recursive thing.. Each compy searching 3 levels down (for EVERY possible move) then outputing those results, (with score) and bumping those results to other computers?
The traditional pyramid scheme?::chuckle::
e-mail me, since your mail isn't posted. One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
I personally find the concept of downloading apps (per use) quite disturbing, for a couple of reasons:
a) Why couldn't they charge per use - get people ensnared and then: "Oh whoops! We're sorry, costs are high, we're going to have to institute daily fees."
b) Why couldn't they charge TO use - don't get me wrong, owning software is great, but... giving other people money for it?::chuckles:: (only if they're really good)
c) Bandwith/Net Congestion. Take this example: Day before an essay is due and like usual I haven't started. I go to this page, pop open the app (I assume this is the kind of app they're talking about) and the app takes 20 minutes to load, causing me to loose half my hair.
d) Internet conncetion. My modem isn't all that reliable (good ol' earthlink) and it drops my connection. Would you have to save every 20 seconds so that you don't loose work when you drop off the net?
e) "Haxors" Your arch-rival at school needs no more than to sniff your password and edit a few key phrases. When you print - in a rush, you don't notice them, and you're failed.
Anyways, having to d/l software every time you use it is not my idea of fun. I like software on disks - much easier to replace when the computer barfs.
IMNSHO, hosting apps for users is a waste of bandwidth and time (not to mention the piracy hassles) and hosting 'net apps has been done FOR A WHILE. It should be intresting to see what Marc comes up with.
One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
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Unfortunatly, InfoWar isn't just hacking. According to the RAND publication "Strategic Information Warfare" ISBN: 0833023527
It deals with the various aspects of InfoWar and their implications. Your oversimpilification simply assumes that the worst possible thing would be a DDOS attack. Whereas you compare that to NBC (Nuclear,Bio, Chem) Weapontry.
InfoWarfare is roughly equivilent (in a strategic and policy sense) to terrorism mainly due to the fact that it does not recognize a "theatre" of war, and simply has the ability to target everything and everyone.
Like Intelligence Data, InfoWarfare is best used in conjunction with other avenues of attack. An attack on the communications infrastructure of our country (Disabling large chunks of the 'net and phone systems) with subsequent action to gain control of TV stations would have the same effect, in modern day terms, as the Dolittle raids. There, besides the staggering financial implications, would be little direct economic damage, but people would see that they could be hit that they are not invulnerable. This effect would be disasterous on the morale of this country and potenally adversly effect the poll standings of Bush. I say potentially becuase the Brittish, in the Battle of Brittain had much worse done to them and it only stiffened their resolve. But I digress.
Infowar is everything from hacking, propaganda, some aspects of intelligence gathering, to actually hurting people (If you can hack into a power/water plant and make it not be happy, life becomes very bad.) Also imagine if an Infowar attack disrupted the transportation mechinisms in this country for a week -- stores would start running out of food, mail wouldn't be delivered, people would absolutly panic.
The most dangerous aspect of InfoWar is the fact that it is the most easily done (You can be in a diffrent country and attack us) and most direcly reaching of attacks (Each person is directly confronted by the knowledge that they have been attacked.) While it cannot hold territory or cause enemy soldiers (unless of course one breaks into the C4I net) to break their positions, it becomes a fascinating secondary line of attack to break the morale of the country.
I'd recommend starting with Norman's The design of every day things. Then, if you're still interested, look over human factors resources. There are very large books that have been written on this question.
::sigh:: This AC is probably a flame, but since I'm putting off studying for a midterm anyways....
First of... yes, hydrogen is a storage medium... what do you think gasoline is? That lovely little eqn e=mc^2 applies (with varying efficiency) to everything. The trick is the varying efficiency. If I could have a nuke plant churning out H, I'd prefer it to the massive oli infrastructure we have now. It will centralize pollution in one place (so that we can have lovely scrubbers and whatnot to get rid of it) and (as a long time past LA resident) prevent all the smog. Yes, water vapor forms clouds/fog/condensates whatever, but we need the water. What we don't need are stage 2 smog alerts where they recommend not going outside.
Yes, I admit that H cars are just a technofix, but compared with making society change, they are an amazingly useful one.
-Brian
Computers Don't Argue, by Gordon Dickson, is a short story I found in the first Nebula award stories, is particularly apropos to this. It is a short, humorous, and satiric look at this particular role of computers in society, and while a bit dated, still is quite effective at illustrating the point found in the article.
I got the S4250-D It has a CD/DVD-RW (And I haven't tested the linux part out (Unfortunatly, I reserve linux for server use [where debian just rules]). Its got a REALTek 8139 "Fast Ethernet." It seems to play nicly with others, so I can't complain. (I don't like talking about Radeons...)
I just got a new sager laptop from powernotebooks.com and have been very impressed. One of the principle things that I was shopping for is a 5 hour battery life -- I got it. This thing runs for well over five hours, and its got integral support for the second monitor (dual/head esque, mirroring, or display on one or the other.) I quite like it.
You can also grab the powernotebook computers without paying the Microsoft Tax. (They sell them clean.)
-Brian
For anyone who loves computers (not just coding, or any one aspect) and especially all you sysadmins, webmonkeys, and et al... I recommend the Info Tech college at Rochester Institute of Technology. It is a solid program, and improving rapidly. It isn't M.I.S (people with suits who know how to type), it isn't CS, (sitting in a cubicle), SE (designing programs for others to write), CE, (making the circuts to write programs on), or any of the other programs that RIT, and some other schools offer. It is designed for those who love computers.
This is rogue for the palm, and the controls are actually quite decent.
http://roguelike-palm.sourceforge.net/iRogue/
These augmented street signs would be incredibly cool if they showed up as small popup boxes on your field of vision as you're looking for streets. Better yet, augment with mapquest, and have a line to follow to get to your destination. Adjusting for traffic and the ilk. That would be cool.
Another difficult problem with ice is not only with tires and airplane wings -- it is with the roads one walks on. Having skidded my way to classes more than once (walking on paved pathways) I would be very interested if they could develop this technology as a "film." The relative cost savings for both car windshields, and snow plows would be insane. You probably could also charge people fees to watch "popcorn snow." Imagine the snow/ice bouncing off your driveway, visibly. This would definetly be something I would like to see.
Its (probably, don't quote me on this) not a problem with the iSilo file -- they chew on hyperlinks quite redily. It is more an issue with me -- I like all my stuff to be streight text (less artifacts) this presents certain problems when there are anchors.
It has, but with pirated texts. Look on hotline for any popular sci-fi (or super-popular fantasy) author. You'll be able to find OCRed things. Get a palm, or sutably small device, and your favorite author. Combine, and make idle-time (away from home) wonderful.
Admittedly, paper is a lot more fun to read, but it simply isn't feasable to carry 30 back-light books in your pockets at all time. Thats what my palm does.
It depends directly on your software. Pratchett uses a lot of footnotes, and iSilo handled it really well. (I simply put a "mark" at the end where the footnotes were). Two arrows appeared. One to go to where I set it, the other to return to where I was. It is great.
I had completely agreed with you. Really I had. Then suddenly, I grabbed the potter "pirated" copies off the web, and put them on my m505 (which is how an e-book should be. Very light weight, rechargable... et al.) Read them, liked them, forgot about it. Then I happened across the phrase: "Terry Pratchett doesn't plan to sell in e-book format because all of his titles have been pirated... (the text then faded in my mind, this is what I wanted." Also, for the record, I own at least one copy of every single book (almost) that pratchett has written, and have read them all.
::glares at textbook publishers in general::
Now, considering that my library of his books takes up more than 3 feet of shelf space, and it is REALLY difficult to get 3 foot large pockets, I decided to grab the "pirated" copies, and put them on my palm. Quite a lot of work later, I now have the pratchett library on my palm. When I'm in class, or in bed -- its easier to read then pulling out a huge hard-cover (as well as a lot less revelating. For some reason, teachers don't like people reading other books in their classes. Go figure.) Anyways, I find it incredibly easy on my eyes, and when it gets dark, as opposed to searching for a light source, I just hit the backlight. I also can read ANY of his books, at ANY time. Period. This is an incredibly big benefit to me.
The kinks aren't worked out yet, and I would love to see a program do e-book translation well. However, the potential is definatly there, and while I still am an avid reader, I'm also using my palm as an e-book.
In regards to the evil, lengthy, books -- if you could easily write footnotes in them (buy a keyboard.) then that would be way cooler than just getting a paper copy (which lies on my shelf and dies anyways.) If one could get an ANNOTATED copy, then life is really cool. You click on a character's name, and suddenly you get a synoposis. It would be great. Certainly there are usibility issues. But I'd rather pay $0.99 for a e-book than $13.99 for a text book, or now, $99.99
If all my textbooks were published in e-book format, I would read them more.
Anyways, the classics as e-books would work well because you could hyperlink in them, and have links that explain what actually is happening while you're reading. This is definatly a plus.
This books was specificially targeted at a younger diskworld audience, and so (while what we know and love is still there) everything is a little lower key. This is also why it is shorter. If you have a younger sibling, I would definetly recommend purchasing the book for them. It is worth it.
The "default" sensiva gestures are unfortuantly ungainly and boring, and thusly, I've implemented 5 gestures that I use regularly...
1) Mouse down and to the left, minimize: this SOO beats moving up to the corner of the screen, the trick is to have sensiva set to be VERY forgiving.
2) Mouse up and to the right, maximize.
3) Mouse streight down: close. This is a miracle, their default action is some lenghty thing that I would never ever use, but just doing a very very short down drag (approx 1 cm) is great.
4) Mouse left and then up, move window to other monitor
5) mouse left and down, turn of secondary monitor (with ultramon, a must for anyone who has multiple monitors)
Anyways, hopefully this will give you ideas, and remember to turn off the plugins thing, it just gets confusing and it bothers you overly.
They already have a "gesture recognition" appy available for Win/Mac/Linux. Its <a href="http://www.sensiva.com">Sensiva</a> It's not open source, but its free, and its quite nifty (I find myself using it more than the buttons on the top corner, saves time and energy.
It also has "plugins" so you can customize gestures per application. I hope this helps.
This is apparently vaporware, becuase I have no clue what they're talking about. I'm currently signed up with the nextel (unlimited! YAY) service in CA, and I recently got the nextelized i1000plus. The only games that I've been able to find on the fsking thing are those at go2(somthing or other).... This is definatly vaporware. (at least for me). I'm also not sure what they're talking about when they say "high resolution." Thats completely contrary to what I get (whereas it seems my old nokia 6160 had a better res), I get all of 6 lines with 16 characters on them for viewing. All in all, the concept seems pretty neat, but its not there yet. Don't buy an IDEN phone becasue of this press release. (Whomever developed the UI must have been drunk, mutter mutter mutter..... )
I took the commonly available JS CueCat interpreter, made it pretty, and made it strip the gibberish for ISBN Codes. pax.weltopia.com Tell me what you think.
I'm an avid IRC user.. I have ben for a long time, and will probably contniue. I hang out on superchat -- a relativly obsucre network that isn't really bothered by advertizers, spammers and the like. This changed when Chatscan dropped in. Every 23 minutes, on the dot, a random nick would enter and exit the channel -- every 23 minutes. This nick came from a dialup account, and is ovbiously designed to get past banns. ChatScan may have a good concept -- but their execution is terrible. Not only do they not show who they are, what they are, who sent them, etc... (maybe relavant info in a whois..) but they don't ask either.
As a result of this bot, the whole dialup-bradley.earthlink.net host was banned, since they couldn't make it any more specific, and I was also in that k-line. I cannot condone ChatScan, they use subversive methods to power their "
search engine" and every 23 minutes doesn't even make it current!!!
In my opinion, if a company wants to log channels, they need to ask the administrators of the network -- AND the administrators of the channel for permission. Otherwise, it hurts random users like myself.
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
Perhaps it could be one HUGE recursive thing.. Each compy searching 3 levels down (for EVERY possible move) then outputing those results, (with score) and bumping those results to other computers?
::chuckle::
The traditional pyramid scheme?
e-mail me, since your mail isn't posted.
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
This does sound really intresting. A Few practical questions though:
a) How many moves total are possible in a game of chess? (I tried looking this up but couldn't find it, its some astrominical number)
b) how far into the future would these computers have to think?
c) how many moves would each "packet" consist of?
d) how would the moves be rated? (shortet possible moves to checkmate? most defensive?
e) who would code it?
Well, if we could answer these questions, I'd be more than happy to help set something up.....
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
I personally find the concept of downloading apps (per use) quite disturbing, for a couple of reasons:
::chuckles:: (only if they're really good)
a) Why couldn't they charge per use - get people ensnared and then: "Oh whoops! We're sorry, costs are high, we're going to have to institute daily fees."
b) Why couldn't they charge TO use - don't get me wrong, owning software is great, but... giving other people money for it?
c) Bandwith/Net Congestion. Take this example: Day before an essay is due and like usual I haven't started. I go to this page, pop open the app (I assume this is the kind of app they're talking about) and the app takes 20 minutes to load, causing me to loose half my hair.
d) Internet conncetion. My modem isn't all that reliable (good ol' earthlink) and it drops my connection. Would you have to save every 20 seconds so that you don't loose work when you drop off the net?
e) "Haxors" Your arch-rival at school needs no more than to sniff your password and edit a few key phrases. When you print - in a rush, you don't notice them, and you're failed.
Anyways, having to d/l software every time you use it is not my idea of fun. I like software on disks - much easier to replace when the computer barfs.
IMNSHO, hosting apps for users is a waste of bandwidth and time (not to mention the piracy hassles) and hosting 'net apps has been done FOR A WHILE. It should be intresting to see what Marc comes up with.
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will