The average Mac user does dink around with his/her box once and a while, but the environment is not suited for real tweaking (yet - OS X looks sweet [except for it being COMMERCIAL:{ ]). The *NIX world is built around tweaking -- using perl and shell scripts for EVERYTHING, for example. The glut of STANDARD (and usually free) tools has made "programming" (even with shell scripts and piping stuff through grep) a fact of day to day life. Mac users live in a static desktop world where Apple has placed simplicity / ease of use over power in many cases (not that Macs aren't good machines - I like 'em). The point I'm trying to make is -- Mac users are fairly apathetic about their desktop experience. It has changed very little (in comparision to desktops on Windows and UNIX machines) since its conception -- honestly its a pretty good design for novices. Mac users don't expect to change the way things work. (Now I'm referring to the Evangelista-types without trying to avoid using a cult metaphor so this doesn't get modded down as flamebait) They assume that Apple has their best interests in mind.
HavenCo is donating free colocation space to Non-Governmental Organizations of our choosing. In general, the types of organizations that we will want to provide hosting for are those that
promote free speech
promote human rights
give a voice to minority and oppressed groups that otherwise may not be heard
Sweet! I'm not sure all the servers will be below the water line though. all it would take is a stealthy ROV snuggling up to one of the pilings during the night.
Now that I think about it, the conrete most likely has some rebar in it which should shield them some.
Astronaut Michael Foale, who was part of the 1997 mission, told the BBC he was not informed of the problems at the time, but found the revelations intriguing.
Indeed. Intriguing? I'd be worried about going up again.
Please. The CIA would fund {Islamic Terrorists, Irish Terrorists, Russian Mafia Goons} to do it for them in exchange for {guns, drugs, money}.
Seriously. I think the most successful attack against a place like this would be EMF type stuff. Are their boxes in Faraday cages (as seen in Enemy of the State).
That also makes me wonder if they plan to shield against Tempest / Van Eck attacks. Although it would seem that anyone listening "Van Eck"-style would be obvious to the isolated Sealanders. Let's not forget that probably don't have equipment for detecting underwater stuff like subs and ROV's. And Tempest would be easy in the North Sea because the Sealanders are the only RF source around. (wow that wandered!)
Wouldn't it be nice if HavenCo/Sealand would set up a mirror for DeCSS, ASF2MPEG (did you know that MS has a patent on the ASF format?) and other "illegal"/banned (peh) pieces of free software like this (and perhaps some standard crypto stuff OpenSSH, GnuPG, etc.).
Perhaps they could set up some sort of anonymous remailer (using strong crypto, no large attachments/spam, cobranded with HavenCo to make them some.com $).
I'll forget about technical / bandwith / biz concerns for HavenCo..... wouldn't it be nice...
Did anyone else notice the "Open Space" link at the bottom of the page? Apparently its a discussion system modeled on Slashdot.
Open Space [beta] Open Space, a community of like minded people committed to open and informative discussion, making news, sharing knowledge and fostering a growing space community. Before you start you should know that we moderate Open Space. Messages are given a score for their value and users can filter messages by the threshold scores. For instance a -1 score is either off topic or a flame. A +5 is highly useful message. This model was adopted from Slashdot although the code is uniquely ours. You can read messages without being a member, but to post messages to the community you must sign up, it's free.
Although I do appreaciate announcements of LARGE updates to POPULAR software packages (E: Linux 2.4.0, FreeBSD 4.0, XFree86 4.0.0), I feel that posting a story everytime a tiny release of some popular package is lame. Perhaps we could have a new "software" section akin to the BSD section for discussing mildly momentous updates like this.
a Beowolf cluster of these? Seriously though. This is using the Power III-3. Isn't the INSANELY fast Power IV just around the corner? When will that sucker arrive?
As I was getting ready for my job as an ASP/VB (blech!) programmer, I had the TV on. "Today" was on and they were panning through the crowd of goobers with "We LOVE Alabama" signs. All of a sudden, a "Linux Rules" sign pops up! And there, in the crowd is a giant tux suit! Then the moron anchors started talking about the "Pokemon" in the crowd. Did anyone else notice this??? What is the deal?
I hope they don't use the original networking code from DOOM. I saw a game where the LAN went down because too many people were firing chain guns.:)
Hopefully this won't be a stupid Q3A type thing. Single player mode is also quite a bit of fun, plus it gives those of us with slow connections something to do between lan parties.
My exteremely intelligent professors (one has 3 phds, the other has only one but he worked at Lawrence Livermore back in the 80's) are working on some pie-in-the-sky project like this that was some system to get rid of greenhouse gasses. The way they had it set up was to actually burn fossil fuels to power it. I think they actually got the equations to get rid of more CO2 than it burned. They were still working on getting a real device last time I checked. They were pretty secretive about it even though we (my awesomely intelligent 6-person chem class) were pretty tight with them. Yes... Another unsubstantiated claim from me..:) The important point: If global warming really exists (subject of some debate) on Earth, can we use it to eat greenhouse gasses?
My professor (who has two phd's after his name) says (from about a minute glance) that: The entire beam of light is not traveling faster than c. What is happening is that some of the peaks in the frequency are moving faster than c. This is from reading a paragraph long synopsis, so here's your grain of salt. Also, I probably mangled what he said.
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cool.. I'll change my finder icon to the dogcow. and.... make apple+delete eject disks
hypercard is kinda cool though...
what can you REALLY do though?
right but its window dressing basically.
untamperable hardware.
I'd like to see THAT.
The average Mac user does dink around with his/her box once and a while, but the environment is not suited for real tweaking (yet - OS X looks sweet [except for it being COMMERCIAL :{ ]). The *NIX world is built around tweaking -- using perl and shell scripts for EVERYTHING, for example. The glut of STANDARD (and usually free) tools has made "programming" (even with shell scripts and piping stuff through grep) a fact of day to day life. Mac users live in a static desktop world where Apple has placed simplicity / ease of use over power in many cases (not that Macs aren't good machines - I like 'em). The point I'm trying to make is -- Mac users are fairly apathetic about their desktop experience. It has changed very little (in comparision to desktops on Windows and UNIX machines) since its conception -- honestly its a pretty good design for novices. Mac users don't expect to change the way things work. (Now I'm referring to the Evangelista-types without trying to avoid using a cult metaphor so this doesn't get modded down as flamebait) They assume that Apple has their best interests in mind.
There. See If I made ANY sense.
I don't think Sealand could withstand the MSDN surgical strike team of crack MSCEs.
Their old page has cool pictures and fun facts.
Sealand has a homepage!
Sweet! I'm not sure all the servers will be below the water line though. all it would take is a stealthy ROV snuggling up to one of the pilings during the night.
Now that I think about it, the conrete most likely has some rebar in it which should shield them some.
The CNET version was the AP story. Wired has Reuters coverage of this.
Please. The CIA would fund {Islamic Terrorists, Irish Terrorists, Russian Mafia Goons} to do it for them in exchange for {guns, drugs, money}.
Seriously. I think the most successful attack against a place like this would be EMF type stuff. Are their boxes in Faraday cages (as seen in Enemy of the State).
That also makes me wonder if they plan to shield against Tempest / Van Eck attacks. Although it would seem that anyone listening "Van Eck"-style would be obvious to the isolated Sealanders. Let's not forget that probably don't have equipment for detecting underwater stuff like subs and ROV's. And Tempest would be easy in the North Sea because the Sealanders are the only RF source around. (wow that wandered!)
Indeed!
Wouldn't it be nice if HavenCo/Sealand would set up a mirror for DeCSS, ASF2MPEG (did you know that MS has a patent on the ASF format?) and other "illegal"/banned (peh) pieces of free software like this (and perhaps some standard crypto stuff OpenSSH, GnuPG, etc.).
.com $).
Perhaps they could set up some sort of anonymous remailer (using strong crypto, no large attachments/spam, cobranded with HavenCo to make them some
I'll forget about technical / bandwith / biz concerns for HavenCo..... wouldn't it be nice...
Although I do appreaciate announcements of LARGE updates to POPULAR software packages (E: Linux 2.4.0, FreeBSD 4.0, XFree86 4.0.0), I feel that posting a story everytime a tiny release of some popular package is lame. Perhaps we could have a new "software" section akin to the BSD section for discussing mildly momentous updates like this.
Since they said that the Flourinert stuff ran about $1000NZ, I found that it would be about $469.018US ($1NZ = $469.018US ).
Does it run on SGI Indy's? You can pick those up for about 2 grand.
a Beowolf cluster of these?
Seriously though. This is using the Power III-3. Isn't the INSANELY fast Power IV just around the corner? When will that sucker arrive?
As I was getting ready for my job as an ASP/VB (blech!) programmer, I had the TV on. "Today" was on and they were panning through the crowd of goobers with "We LOVE Alabama" signs. All of a sudden, a "Linux Rules" sign pops up! And there, in the crowd is a giant tux suit! Then the moron anchors started talking about the "Pokemon" in the crowd. Did anyone else notice this??? What is the deal?
I hope they don't use the original networking code from DOOM. I saw a game where the LAN went down because too many people were firing chain guns. :)
Hopefully this won't be a stupid Q3A type thing. Single player mode is also quite a bit of fun, plus it gives those of us with slow connections something to do between lan parties.
My exteremely intelligent professors (one has 3 phds, the other has only one but he worked at Lawrence Livermore back in the 80's) are working on some pie-in-the-sky project like this that was some system to get rid of greenhouse gasses. The way they had it set up was to actually burn fossil fuels to power it. I think they actually got the equations to get rid of more CO2 than it burned. They were still working on getting a real device last time I checked. They were pretty secretive about it even though we (my awesomely intelligent 6-person chem class) were pretty tight with them. :)
Yes... Another unsubstantiated claim from me..
The important point: If global warming really exists (subject of some debate) on Earth, can we use it to eat greenhouse gasses?
My professor (who has two phd's after his name) says (from about a minute glance) that:
The entire beam of light is not traveling faster than c. What is happening is that some of the peaks in the frequency are moving faster than c.
This is from reading a paragraph long synopsis, so here's your grain of salt. Also, I probably mangled what he said.