Generator if someone owns one already (very handy)
If you don't have a generator (and even if you do), power inverters can be real useful... These things can take 12Volt powr and provide 110 for things ranging from laptops to power tools. This means that they can run off of your car's battery and generator.
Xantrex (formerly statpower) is who I know, but there are now many other similar suppliers of these things... They start at about $40, and can be found at places like Radio Shack. They're invaluable when you're mobile/remote/stranded or just plain out of mains power (to steal the british saying).
They range from a tiny 75watt unit that can plug into your accessory outlet, and should handle most chargers and laptops to units over a kilowatt that will probably need to be wired direct to your electrical system (presuming that it's even robust enough to drive the monster at full load).
Once you've got that, I'd also suggest a couple of jell cells, for running things that want mains power when you're in places like a hotel room with no power (you can charge them off of the vehicle power during the day). I wire mine with a 12-volt accessory plug (make sure to put a fuse on it). You can often get them out of small dead UPSs.
You can use them when you're mobile, and after you've placed your larger generators where they're most needed. I first came up with the idea in my tree-hugging days when I needed to charge a video camera battery at a logging protest and the only power I had access to was an RCMP vehicle.
If you haven't already thought of it: communications equipment, including hand-radios. I wouldn't presume that cell phone service id reinstated wherever you're going.
Essentially their criticism makes a reasonable source of inquiry, but it's very hypocritical.
My executive Summary:
If Microsoft believes that, by refusing to implement the OpenDoc Protocol, they can Bring the Commonwealth to it's knees, this would simply be an indication of disdain for their customers and the degree to which they wield, and hope to continue to wield, control and fear over their customers, including the commonwealth, and it's citizens.
Microsoft's format is not a standard, open or otherwise. It has not, (to my knowledge) been submitted to any standards body, and it is only implemented by one company (themselves) in a limited beta. That they would try to pass off their limited beta a 'standard' and expect people to accept that statement unexamined indicates little more than the thrall which they endeavor to hold their customers, and the public in.
The cost of document incompatibility and upgrades would remain (and probably worsen) under the Microsoft-proposal, in the long term.
Massachusetts could probably provide Free Software to the entire commonwealth for about the cost of procuring Microsoft Office-12 updates for a single (large) department.
I can see a lot of special forces soldiers suddenly biting their tongue in battle. Preventing that injury is probably going to be the subject of yet another patent.
The vulnerability is still there so they just exploit it again to get root, and this time recompile the kernel appropriately. You were hinting at this in your comment but I really think it is worth making clear;
True, but it takes more time and energy for them to accomplish. It also requires multiple boots to go through the process, which makes detection easier (( Unix admins are far less forgiving of spurious reboots than Windows admins).
The other thing is that no security is 100%. The point of a security system is to make it so hard to penetrate that an attacker gives up and goes in search of another (easier) target before (s)he succeeds -- or, in the alternative, takes so long that (s)he is detected and stopped.
Among other things, rebuilding the kernel would require, among other things, determining which modules were compiled in..... That could be some serious work, especially if the kernel is compiled with some slightly unusual options.
You can use a live CD like Knoppix to boot and examine your system for greeblies.. This applies to both Windows (( clamav )) and Unix (( chkrootkit )) issues. Note that doing an exaustive search of a large filesystem can take hours. If you're more 0worried about uptime than security, then take an image of your disks and do the checks on a different box. (exterma; 5" USB drives are really good for this).
It makes it harder, but if the attacker achieves root (well, you're toast, anyways), they can then modify the boot scripts so that their script loads before everything is locked down. This is why you lock down the Kernal from loading modules at all -- it means that they then have to replace the entire kernel. If you're lucky, they'll modify the boot scripts, not knowing that it does them no good.
Essentially security by obscurity, but every little bit helps at this point.
A lawyer is mostly for when you don't quite trust the othar party (( read: most business transactions )). If, however you want this to go in without hiring a lawyer (IANAL), I'd suggest to simply, but clearly, put this in writing.
The company keeps control of any and all data that it provides and derivatives of such data. The company and it's successors also receive (a permanent license) to use and further develop any software you develop as a part of your work there (I presume that they also get a copy of the software and permissin to further develop/maintain it internally).
You retain the ownership rights to the software and methods you develop. (I presume that you have some sort of a non-compete agreement in the contract).
If it's a gentleman's agreement, this should be about as much as you need, and stave off most litigation. If one or the other of you intends to hire the likes of Boies-Shiller (the so&so,s running the abortive SCO litigation), then I'd suggest you hire a real lawyer now.
It is somewhat ambiguous reading the Constitution whether it trumps a treaty or whether a treaty trumps the Constitution, but I believe it is the latter.
That would be so stupid. It would make constitutional rights not worth the paper that they're written on. All you'd have to do is draw up a treaty with some tin-pot dictator that requires the US to ignore a given constitutional restriction and your rights to, say, a fair trial go out the window.
The section of the constitution that gives the right to make Copyright and patent laws reads:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited
Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings
and Discoveries;
Broadcasters are not the authors of a public domain work that they broadcast. If this section doesn't apply, then the First Amendment reigns supreme. -- and if the author of a work doesn't mind it's retransmission, then there is no way that this section allows someone else to prevent the retransmission of his work, as that infringes the artist's right of free speech, and their exclusive right to their work.
Technically, no precedent. The judge just allowed the plaintifs to dismiss their lawsuit -- with prejudice. It is, however a nasty slap across the back of the hand of the RIAA, and a signal to other parents that they may have good cause to resist RIAA lawsuits.
It won't stop the RIAA, but it will crimp their style.\
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Similarly, most of these older experienced mainframe programmers are probably not 'master' engineers.
True, but if they like what they're doing, chances are that, with 40 years of experience, they'll have picked up some really nice tricks that the youngsters will yet to have thought of. Yes, you've got to look for the masters, but they're more likely to be in the oldsters then the youngsters.
Simply put, we don't have a material which could take the stress of holding itself up -- muchless a payload. .
For example: a 10,000 mile 1/4" rope (less than half the way to geostationary orbit) with half the density of water would weigh about 561,811 pounds. What material do you know that could make a 1/4" rope capable of holding half a million pounds? Even at 1/10 the density of water, that's still 100K pounts -- and that doesn't include a safety margin, or the fact that one flaw in the whole length including a bad splice) could cause the rope to break.
Now we're working on this problem -- carbon nanotubes have at least some hope -- but it's still a long way to go.
Then there's the problem of powering the crawler -- batteries to get it to orbit would weigh thousands of times what the payload would. Microwave beaming could work -- but you'll need to be able to target a moving crawler without threatening to burn the thousands of miles of ribbon it's crawling up.
There are a lot of problems associated with raising a space needle that could get some money thrown at them, but the theoretical problem of whether it is possible to make a material that could survive being used as one may never be answered in the positive.
Although there are probably a good number of technical reasons for this test, it's probably about as much (or even more) a PR event as a technical test.
Among other things, they still have to come up with a microwave power delivery system before this thing is really gonna fly -- not to mention the ribbon material (hopefully within a decade or two).
My new (incomming) roommate mentioned that he doesn't even have a stereo, proper. He does all of his media work on his computer.
<flame on>
What this czar is saying is that we have no right to listen to our music. We do so at the whim of the people that we (collectively) pay millions of dollars to for (what we thought was) music. Instead, we end up with a piece of mylar and plastic that we technically can't even hang in our window because that might classify as "a public performance".
<flame off>
Well, it only saves you one more part if you've already got a server to netboot from. Not everyone has one.
Any unixen linux box can serve as a netboot server -- I'm presuming from the article that he has at least on on his network. It doesn't even have to be all that fast of a box. It just needs about 100MB-2GB spare (depending on the distro you're serving).
If you're always going to be attaching to a network, you should be able to pxeboot off of the net. Linux works reasonably well for that. It just saves you one more part. At that point, all you need is a keyboard mouse and monitor.
Mostly I've used netboot to run classrooms where the won't let me instll Linux or Unix for the students. I've also started using it at home to boot old boxes with limited drives, or where I'm too lazy to do a full install.
Pitor breaks into the new satellite, and starts 'having fun with it'.
Aren't you afraid you'll get caught?
Nyet! I'm controllink it thru zombie box in Russia and used a Russian Girl's name as the password. They'l never be figurink out where I coming from.
So what now?
I have changink the passwords and encryption. Now all I have to do is show off my new powers of..... oops.
What "oops?"
[offscreen] Hey, how come the backbone's suddenly so congested? I can't even ping anything in Europe.
Now, I realize (read: hope) that they have all sorts of encryption and security protocols with serious backup control capabilities, but then again, you never know.... I mean, we are talking military intelligence here.
Britain vs Ireland was a civil war, not a war between democracies, -- and part of the reason for it was that some Irish Catholics seem to think (rightly or not) that they don't have a proper say in how 'their country' is run -- and if things swing too far in the other direction such that the Northern Irish protestants feel that they've been effectively disenfranchized, then you can expect things to flare in the other direction.
One of the few examples of democracies going at each other's throats is Pakistan vs India, but the exception almost proves the rule because it's generally been limited to heavy squirmishes (although I think that a couple of the squirmishes were called wars, they seem tp have ended up being relatively limited in scope)
The US invasion of Iraq is an interesting one... It could be seen as a war of conflict initiated by a democracy. This pushes the line pretty far.... There is, howeer, something of an out. There are a number of people who question whether Bush won the election(s) fair and square. Some of the polling anomalies in Florida raise the question of whether that state, specifically was 'cooked' -- and, if that election was cooked, then it could raise even more questions about the 2000 election than most people currently squabble over.
This is where the conspiracy comes in: If Bush won either the 2000 or the 2004 election by other than a fair vote, then the US is no longer technically (or even actually) a democracy in anything other than name. This would then make the war in Iraq between two non-democracies.
QED.
and yes, I realize that the above couple of paragraphs are topheavy with conjecture. It shouldn't take that much to convincingly copple the argument over.
I would note that neither 1 nor 2 use as examples such things as eyes, ears or lungs. There's a reason why -- none of those is usually used to directly frustrate the opponent -- despite the fact that, without them, it would be very difficult to attack.
I would also note that 1, 2, and 3 would all fit squarely within my own definiton.
canteens, first-aid kits, and radios are used to direct fighters or sustain them either prior to or after a battle, but they are rarely used directly against an enemy (although media, including commercial radio, can be used for psychological warfare, that is an entirely different context). Same thing with eyes, ears and lungs.
Similarly claws, stingers, missiles and swords are used directly against the enemy. Same thing with logic in the third example, although (and because) the context is apparently shifted to a non-physical realm.
You don't have to stretch my definition to fit your dictionary citation. Nor do you have to stretch the dictionary citation to encapsulate mine. On the other hand, you'd have to stretch them to fit yours.
The only way that I would agree to defining a first aid kit as a weapon is when it is being used as an emergency cudgel.
Generally I (and, I think most other people, including your average dictionary editor) consider a weapon to be something used directly on or against an opponent to disuade, disrupt, disable, destroy, defeat or kill. Things like like canteens don't normally fit that definition.
That having been said, I would still define this satellite as a weapon because it is intended to be used directly against an opponont to disrupt and/or disable.
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Knoppix now has a DVD version (3GB download).
If you don't have a generator (and even if you do), power inverters can be real useful... These things can take 12Volt powr and provide 110 for things ranging from laptops to power tools. This means that they can run off of your car's battery and generator. Xantrex (formerly statpower) is who I know, but there are now many other similar suppliers of these things... They start at about $40, and can be found at places like Radio Shack. They're invaluable when you're mobile/remote/stranded or just plain out of mains power (to steal the british saying).
They range from a tiny 75watt unit that can plug into your accessory outlet, and should handle most chargers and laptops to units over a kilowatt that will probably need to be wired direct to your electrical system (presuming that it's even robust enough to drive the monster at full load).
Once you've got that, I'd also suggest a couple of jell cells, for running things that want mains power when you're in places like a hotel room with no power (you can charge them off of the vehicle power during the day). I wire mine with a 12-volt accessory plug (make sure to put a fuse on it). You can often get them out of small dead UPSs.
You can use them when you're mobile, and after you've placed your larger generators where they're most needed. I first came up with the idea in my tree-hugging days when I needed to charge a video camera battery at a logging protest and the only power I had access to was an RCMP vehicle.
If you haven't already thought of it: communications equipment, including hand-radios. I wouldn't presume that cell phone service id reinstated wherever you're going.
That's duckspeak for "citizens are not entitled to run the applications and services of their choice."
Essentially their criticism makes a reasonable source of inquiry, but it's very hypocritical.
I can see a lot of special forces soldiers suddenly biting their tongue in battle. Preventing that injury is probably going to be the subject of yet another patent.
True, but it takes more time and energy for them to accomplish. It also requires multiple boots to go through the process, which makes detection easier (( Unix admins are far less forgiving of spurious reboots than Windows admins).
The other thing is that no security is 100%. The point of a security system is to make it so hard to penetrate that an attacker gives up and goes in search of another (easier) target before (s)he succeeds -- or, in the alternative, takes so long that (s)he is detected and stopped.
Among other things, rebuilding the kernel would require, among other things, determining which modules were compiled in..... That could be some serious work, especially if the kernel is compiled with some slightly unusual options.
You can use a live CD like Knoppix to boot and examine your system for greeblies.. This applies to both Windows (( clamav )) and Unix (( chkrootkit )) issues. Note that doing an exaustive search of a large filesystem can take hours. If you're more 0worried about uptime than security, then take an image of your disks and do the checks on a different box. (exterma; 5" USB drives are really good for this).
Essentially security by obscurity, but every little bit helps at this point.
The company keeps control of any and all data that it provides and derivatives of such data. The company and it's successors also receive (a permanent license) to use and further develop any software you develop as a part of your work there (I presume that they also get a copy of the software and permissin to further develop/maintain it internally).
You retain the ownership rights to the software and methods you develop. (I presume that you have some sort of a non-compete agreement in the contract).
If it's a gentleman's agreement, this should be about as much as you need, and stave off most litigation. If one or the other of you intends to hire the likes of Boies-Shiller (the so&so,s running the abortive SCO litigation), then I'd suggest you hire a real lawyer now.
That would be so stupid . It would make constitutional rights not worth the paper that they're written on. All you'd have to do is draw up a treaty with some tin-pot dictator that requires the US to ignore a given constitutional restriction and your rights to, say, a fair trial go out the window.
Broadcasters are not the authors of a public domain work that they broadcast. If this section doesn't apply, then the First Amendment reigns supreme.
-- and if the author of a work doesn't mind it's retransmission, then there is no way that this section allows someone else to prevent the retransmission of his work, as that infringes the artist's right of free speech, and their exclusive right to their work.
(IANAL)
Well, if they are hiring, it's obviously going to be because they're growing, and not because they have heavy turnover.
It won't stop the RIAA, but it will crimp their style.\
True, but if they like what they're doing, chances are that, with 40 years of experience, they'll have picked up some really nice tricks that the youngsters will yet to have thought of. Yes, you've got to look for the masters, but they're more likely to be in the oldsters then the youngsters.
For example: a 10,000 mile 1/4" rope (less than half the way to geostationary orbit) with half the density of water would weigh about 561,811 pounds. What material do you know that could make a 1/4" rope capable of holding half a million pounds? Even at 1/10 the density of water, that's still 100K pounts -- and that doesn't include a safety margin, or the fact that one flaw in the whole length including a bad splice) could cause the rope to break.
Now we're working on this problem -- carbon nanotubes have at least some hope -- but it's still a long way to go.
Then there's the problem of powering the crawler -- batteries to get it to orbit would weigh thousands of times what the payload would. Microwave beaming could work -- but you'll need to be able to target a moving crawler without threatening to burn the thousands of miles of ribbon it's crawling up.
There are a lot of problems associated with raising a space needle that could get some money thrown at them, but the theoretical problem of whether it is possible to make a material that could survive being used as one may never be answered in the positive.
It's not that the assistant couldn't make something, but chances are it's not going to be as good as the one made by the master jeweler.
(... and, yes, there are exceptions).
Although there are probably a good number of technical reasons for this test, it's probably about as much (or even more) a PR event as a technical test.
Among other things, they still have to come up with a microwave power delivery system before this thing is really gonna fly -- not to mention the ribbon material (hopefully within a decade or two).
<flame on>
What this czar is saying is that we have no right to listen to our music. We do so at the whim of the people that we (collectively) pay millions of dollars to for (what we thought was) music. Instead, we end up with a piece of mylar and plastic that we technically can't even hang in our window because that might classify as "a public performance".
<flame off>
Any unixen linux box can serve as a netboot server -- I'm presuming from the article that he has at least on on his network. It doesn't even have to be all that fast of a box. It just needs about 100MB-2GB spare (depending on the distro you're serving).
Mostly I've used netboot to run classrooms where the won't let me instll Linux or Unix for the students. I've also started using it at home to boot old boxes with limited drives, or where I'm too lazy to do a full install.
- Aren't you afraid you'll get caught?
- Nyet! I'm controllink it thru zombie box in Russia and used a Russian Girl's name as the password. They'l never be figurink out where I coming from.
- So what now?
-
I have changink the passwords and encryption. Now all I have to do is show off my new powers of
..... oops.
- What "oops?"
- [offscreen] Hey, how come the backbone's suddenly so congested? I can't even ping anything in Europe.
Now, I realize (read: hope) that they have all sorts of encryption and security protocols with serious backup control capabilities, but then again, you never know.... I mean, we are talking military intelligence here.One of the few examples of democracies going at each other's throats is Pakistan vs India, but the exception almost proves the rule because it's generally been limited to heavy squirmishes (although I think that a couple of the squirmishes were called wars, they seem tp have ended up being relatively limited in scope)
The US invasion of Iraq is an interesting one... It could be seen as a war of conflict initiated by a democracy. This pushes the line pretty far.... There is, howeer, something of an out. There are a number of people who question whether Bush won the election(s) fair and square. Some of the polling anomalies in Florida raise the question of whether that state, specifically was 'cooked' -- and, if that election was cooked, then it could raise even more questions about the 2000 election than most people currently squabble over.
This is where the conspiracy comes in: If Bush won either the 2000 or the 2004 election by other than a fair vote, then the US is no longer technically (or even actually) a democracy in anything other than name. This would then make the war in Iraq between two non-democracies.
QED.
and yes, I realize that the above couple of paragraphs are topheavy with conjecture. It shouldn't take that much to convincingly copple the argument over.
I would also note that 1, 2, and 3 would all fit squarely within my own definiton.
canteens, first-aid kits, and radios are used to direct fighters or sustain them either prior to or after a battle, but they are rarely used directly against an enemy (although media, including commercial radio, can be used for psychological warfare, that is an entirely different context). Same thing with eyes, ears and lungs.
Similarly claws, stingers, missiles and swords are used directly against the enemy. Same thing with logic in the third example, although (and because) the context is apparently shifted to a non-physical realm.
You don't have to stretch my definition to fit your dictionary citation. Nor do you have to stretch the dictionary citation to encapsulate mine. On the other hand, you'd have to stretch them to fit yours.
Generally I (and, I think most other people, including your average dictionary editor) consider a weapon to be something used directly on or against an opponent to disuade, disrupt, disable, destroy, defeat or kill. Things like like canteens don't normally fit that definition.
That having been said, I would still define this satellite as a weapon because it is intended to be used directly against an opponont to disrupt and/or disable.