...you'd be editing your sources list by hand all along, using woody and packages that have yet to make it into the official mirrors, plus exclusive personal releases and that one package that's only available in Tanzania due to export restrictions.
I think the big change is that now you don't have to feel bad about liking kde on your Debian box because your family likes it better.
This goes along with the rules for the information economy. It sounds freaky, but sometimes you can earn more by giving away things. For example, if you are a writer, you can publish your book on the web in its entirety because: 1) It makes you known. Not that Metallica has to worry about that, but imagine if you were an aspiring young band desperately needing publicity, then you could get a presence that would eventually grow if you planned it right. 2) While you are giving things away, it makes people want to buy stuff. It's strange, but that's how people's brains work. OK, so you're relying on the goodwill of your fellow man to buy your stuff, but it actually works. 3) If you are dealing with standards, you make yourself the standard. That's what Microsoft did when it gave away Internet Explorer for free. All of the sudden, you have become the standard. It's one of the rules for the new economy: the more you sell, the more you sell. That's why some seemingly inferior technologies are now the standard. You don't want to buy a beta VCR because you fcan't get any movies for it.
I've always thought that, unless you're in the middle of the ocean or the flatest desert, you should be able to find your location with a good topo map. I don't even think compasses are necessary.
I knew this one guy who turned on his GPS everywhere he went. After about a week, he ran out of battery juice and was totally lost.
That's a valid point, nukes don't have to be that accurate, unless you're trying to blow an underground bunker such as NORAD.
You could use this accuracy not only for conventional weapons, but for chemical and biological. This gives you the capability to conduct deep attacks into the enemy's support and logistics areas. That really limits his ability to wage war, since long-term combat is based on resupply and transportation.
If I remember right, without the p-code, the accuracy is only about 100-200 meters, but with it, you can get to down around 1-2 meters. That's almost too accurate. I remember that there are even some satellites that are only available with the p-code, which is part of selective avbailability, even in peacetime.
The military GPS also has averaging techniques, which takes the average of as many fixes you can take without moving the receiver.
One problem with barrage jamming is that it is very rough on the transmitter. You need some way to cool off the transmitter, or it will overheat. It depends on the distance between the transmitter and the receiver and the jammer, but usually you have to jam with more power than the transmitter.
...is that you jam the receiver, not the transmitter. Basically, you have to produce a signal that is stronger that the one being received by the handheld GPS unit. Of course, this is only going to take out the GPS capability of a relatively small area.
Of course, if you want to take out the whole system, then you have to block out the transmissions to all the satellites, and that is going to be expensive. There are too many of them, and they are moving in their orbits. I think a better idea is to build a death laser and shoot the damned things down from the sky.
The GPS signal coming from the sattelite has a deliberate offset so that they are never 100% accurate. This is because any moron with a steerable missile (rockets can't be steered, missiles can) that can carry a nuclear bomb can wire up a GPS as a precision-guidance system to deliver this missile very accurately.
In time of war, the offset increases dramatically, though supposedly that didn't happen during Desert Storm. I think it has something to do with the GPS capabilities of the enemy.
The military GPS was designed with anti-spoofing (just like IP spoofing) and anti-jamming (I think it dynamically changes frequencies, but not sure) capabilities, but these are not built into the civilian models.
The military GPS can be given a cryptological key that significantly increases the accuracy and enables all the other Electronics Counter-Countermeasures (ECCM--Electonic Countermeasures, or ECM, is what normal people call jamming, ECCM is what you do to combat ECM).
Of course, once you start barrage jamming (blocking out the entire radio spectrum), all bets are off. Nothing can make it through barrage jamming.
Back in the early 80's when Sierra got sued for making a clone of pacman? I thought that game concepts were OK, hence the 5-million+ tetris clones.
From what I know about Hasbro, they are BIG business, and the toy industry is a very fickle industry. It has even a faster burn cycle and market unreliability than IT, which is fairly similar. These guys have a reputation for being heartless opportunists who will take any opportunity to make a profit.
First segment--introduction to new world or life form. Crew displays initial horror at new culture.
Second segment--get review of Star Trek equipment and personnell--Hah, let's go down to Engineering and see Scotty. I wonder if that ol' bastard will ever go out of fashion.
Third segment--"what's that on the screen, Captain, it appears to be a Giant Plot Complication, and it's headed our way."
Fourth segment--$spacecraft gets nearly destroyed y GPC and crew figures out why this GPC is different from all other GPC. I believe, however, that all GPC's are the same, just with a different look on the outside. Maybe they use a GPC skins repository and just change them for each show.
Fifth segment--the 7th person on the landing party gets eaten by the GPC. Hint--he's the new guy introduced in segment 2.
Sixth segment--somebody at the last second pulls a fix-all out of their backpack/posterior and neutralizes the GPC. Hint--he's one of the regular characters that we spent an unusual amount of time checking into in segment 2.
seventh segment--weak crew members say goodbye, and our anti-climax procedes. We say goodbye to new life form/world and get a good Space Stillshot as the $spacecraft pulls away to wander yet again.
Eigth segment--buy our merchandise. Get a model of $spacecraft. Go to a convention. Spend money buying uniforms and makeup special effects to make you look like a new life form.
Hey, if my non-writing ass can come up with the formula, anybody can write their own Trek-derivative story. Go for it. Make lots of money.
I've always like Perens's writings. I feel that he brings a voice of reason to a crazy, rapidly-churning linux community.
As long as he keeps to the same line where security is concerned, this will be one of my favorite sites to check.
Maybe it's because I'm a security nut and my view is slanted toward anybody who preaches security.
I feel that as Linux usage grows, there will be more of a demand for "secondary" considerations. Instead of trying to convince people that Linux is the way to go, there will be a high demand for support for these new users. This comes in the form of specialized tech support and special interest forums. That's just where I see us going in the next year.
You can extend that thought further to include your employer. Most of the time, he is your ISP.
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Hey, design a poster and we'll hang it up all over Eugene, OR. Most of my friends and neighbors got gassed in Seattle, and last year during the meeting of the G-7 (or G-7+ or G-8) in an impromptu riot.
I wonder how long it would take to hitchike to the East Coast.
And we are all very pleased. In fact, if you are just the average Joe out there and show up for a free install, odds are you are getting Mandrake.
I think this is because all of the desktop settings are where you think they should be. Mandrake has a very professional look to it, and the underbelly is looking pretty good too.
Christmas Island was named by Capt. James Cook, who just happenned to spend Christmas there. (He also spent Easter on Easter Island, and named several other islands after dates).
The reason that I know Christmas Island is that it is a mecca for flyfishers. The place is crawling with bonefish. These reflective-scaled fish move into the coral flats to feed on shrimp and crabs. When they hit a fly, they take off for San Francisco. They are a flighty fish and have good eyesight, so you have to know what you are doing with a flyrod in the first place, but bones are supposed to be one of the most addicting flyfishing species around.
Needless to say, if the Christmas Island authorities want to hire some Linux guy to help set up their networking, I would gladly volunteer.
This is the WinXX world after all, and since networking was a later add-on, and security was an add-on to that, the security just isn't too reliable to start out with.
You are right here, only what the CIA does abroad, the FBI does internally.
The NSA is just one of the means to give the US military an advantage in combat along the lines of the old warfare axiom "Get there the firstest with the mostest".
BTW, it is illegal for the NSA to spy on US citizens unless authorized by the US Attorney General. In most cases, a violation of this is a career stopper, so everybody's scared of doing this.
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I thought it was "h-t-t-p colon slash slash slashdot dot dot"?
My company spent $100,000 and all I got was 16 cpu boards, 64Gb RAM, and this lousy t-shirt.
...you'd be editing your sources list by hand all along, using woody and packages that have yet to make it into the official mirrors, plus exclusive personal releases and that one package that's only available in Tanzania due to export restrictions.
I think the big change is that now you don't have to feel bad about liking kde on your Debian box because your family likes it better.
This goes along with the rules for the information economy. It sounds freaky, but sometimes you can earn more by giving away things. For example, if you are a writer, you can publish your book on the web in its entirety because:
1) It makes you known. Not that Metallica has to worry about that, but imagine if you were an aspiring young band desperately needing publicity, then you could get a presence that would eventually grow if you planned it right.
2) While you are giving things away, it makes people want to buy stuff. It's strange, but that's how people's brains work. OK, so you're relying on the goodwill of your fellow man to buy your stuff, but it actually works.
3) If you are dealing with standards, you make yourself the standard. That's what Microsoft did when it gave away Internet Explorer for free. All of the sudden, you have become the standard. It's one of the rules for the new economy: the more you sell, the more you sell. That's why some seemingly inferior technologies are now the standard. You don't want to buy a beta VCR because you fcan't get any movies for it.
I've always thought that, unless you're in the middle of the ocean or the flatest desert, you should be able to find your location with a good topo map. I don't even think compasses are necessary.
I knew this one guy who turned on his GPS everywhere he went. After about a week, he ran out of battery juice and was totally lost.
"Hm. Anyone have a simple explanation of processing gain? I'm not enough of an RF person."
I'm not a big radio guy, but I think it's like putting a filter on to get rid of the noise.
It's a good military phrase, something you can way while you beat on your chest.
If they were geeks, they would say something like "dynamic robustness".
That's a valid point, nukes don't have to be that accurate, unless you're trying to blow an underground bunker such as NORAD.
You could use this accuracy not only for conventional weapons, but for chemical and biological. This gives you the capability to conduct deep attacks into the enemy's support and logistics areas. That really limits his ability to wage war, since long-term combat is based on resupply and transportation.
Just something to think about....
It's not a secret--it's just not advertised alot.
If I remember right, without the p-code, the accuracy is only about 100-200 meters, but with it, you can get to down around 1-2 meters. That's almost too accurate. I remember that there are even some satellites that are only available with the p-code, which is part of selective avbailability, even in peacetime.
The military GPS also has averaging techniques, which takes the average of as many fixes you can take without moving the receiver.
One problem with barrage jamming is that it is very rough on the transmitter. You need some way to cool off the transmitter, or it will overheat. It depends on the distance between the transmitter and the receiver and the jammer, but usually you have to jam with more power than the transmitter.
...is that you jam the receiver, not the transmitter. Basically, you have to produce a signal that is stronger that the one being received by the handheld GPS unit. Of course, this is only going to take out the GPS capability of a relatively small area.
Of course, if you want to take out the whole system, then you have to block out the transmissions to all the satellites, and that is going to be expensive. There are too many of them, and they are moving in their orbits. I think a better idea is to build a death laser and shoot the damned things down from the sky.
The GPS signal coming from the sattelite has a deliberate offset so that they are never 100% accurate. This is because any moron with a steerable missile (rockets can't be steered, missiles can) that can carry a nuclear bomb can wire up a GPS as a precision-guidance system to deliver this missile very accurately.
In time of war, the offset increases dramatically, though supposedly that didn't happen during Desert Storm. I think it has something to do with the GPS capabilities of the enemy.
The military GPS was designed with anti-spoofing (just like IP spoofing) and anti-jamming (I think it dynamically changes frequencies, but not sure) capabilities, but these are not built into the civilian models.
The military GPS can be given a cryptological key that significantly increases the accuracy and enables all the other Electronics Counter-Countermeasures (ECCM--Electonic Countermeasures, or ECM, is what normal people call jamming, ECCM is what you do to combat ECM).
Of course, once you start barrage jamming (blocking out the entire radio spectrum), all bets are off. Nothing can make it through barrage jamming.
Back in the early 80's when Sierra got sued for making a clone of pacman? I thought that game concepts were OK, hence the 5-million+ tetris clones.
From what I know about Hasbro, they are BIG business, and the toy industry is a very fickle industry. It has even a faster burn cycle and market unreliability than IT, which is fairly similar. These guys have a reputation for being heartless opportunists who will take any opportunity to make a profit.
First segment--introduction to new world or life form. Crew displays initial horror at new culture.
Second segment--get review of Star Trek equipment and personnell--Hah, let's go down to Engineering and see Scotty. I wonder if that ol' bastard will ever go out of fashion.
Third segment--"what's that on the screen, Captain, it appears to be a Giant Plot Complication, and it's headed our way."
Fourth segment--$spacecraft gets nearly destroyed y GPC and crew figures out why this GPC is different from all other GPC. I believe, however, that all GPC's are the same, just with a different look on the outside. Maybe they use a GPC skins repository and just change them for each show.
Fifth segment--the 7th person on the landing party gets eaten by the GPC. Hint--he's the new guy introduced in segment 2.
Sixth segment--somebody at the last second pulls a fix-all out of their backpack/posterior and neutralizes the GPC. Hint--he's one of the regular characters that we spent an unusual amount of time checking into in segment 2.
seventh segment--weak crew members say goodbye, and our anti-climax procedes. We say goodbye to new life form/world and get a good Space Stillshot as the $spacecraft pulls away to wander yet again.
Eigth segment--buy our merchandise. Get a model of $spacecraft. Go to a convention. Spend money buying uniforms and makeup special effects to make you look like a new life form.
Hey, if my non-writing ass can come up with the formula, anybody can write their own Trek-derivative story. Go for it. Make lots of money.
...to break up the DVD boycott and test our unity of action.
Think about it, should I stick to the moral high ground and not buy the Star Wars DVD, or should I compromise my standards and buy STARWARS DVD?
Obviously, this is all a plot by the powers that be to crush our resistance and tread over our dead bodies.
I beseach all of you to resist buying...Star Wars...DVD...can't...resist...must...buy....
I've always like Perens's writings. I feel that he brings a voice of reason to a crazy, rapidly-churning linux community.
As long as he keeps to the same line where security is concerned, this will be one of my favorite sites to check.
Maybe it's because I'm a security nut and my view is slanted toward anybody who preaches security.
I feel that as Linux usage grows, there will be more of a demand for "secondary" considerations. Instead of trying to convince people that Linux is the way to go, there will be a high demand for support for these new users. This comes in the form of specialized tech support and special interest forums. That's just where I see us going in the next year.
You can extend that thought further to include your employer. Most of the time, he is your ISP.
Hey, design a poster and we'll hang it up all over Eugene, OR. Most of my friends and neighbors got gassed in Seattle, and last year during the meeting of the G-7 (or G-7+ or G-8) in an impromptu riot.
I wonder how long it would take to hitchike to the East Coast.
And we are all very pleased. In fact, if you are just the average Joe out there and show up for a free install, odds are you are getting Mandrake.
I think this is because all of the desktop settings are where you think they should be. Mandrake has a very professional look to it, and the underbelly is looking pretty good too.
...has a section where you can read the want-ads online. That's the only relationship that I have with them.
Christmas Island was named by Capt. James Cook, who just happenned to spend Christmas there. (He also spent Easter on Easter Island, and named several other islands after dates).
The reason that I know Christmas Island is that it is a mecca for flyfishers. The place is crawling with bonefish. These reflective-scaled fish move into the coral flats to feed on shrimp and crabs. When they hit a fly, they take off for San Francisco. They are a flighty fish and have good eyesight, so you have to know what you are doing with a flyrod in the first place, but bones are supposed to be one of the most addicting flyfishing species around.
Needless to say, if the Christmas Island authorities want to hire some Linux guy to help set up their networking, I would gladly volunteer.
Pretty Sparc20's with 21-inch monitors.
Don't ask.
This is the WinXX world after all, and since networking was a later add-on, and security was an add-on to that, the security just isn't too reliable to start out with.
You are right here, only what the CIA does abroad, the FBI does internally.
The NSA is just one of the means to give the US military an advantage in combat along the lines of the old warfare axiom "Get there the firstest with the mostest".
BTW, it is illegal for the NSA to spy on US citizens unless authorized by the US Attorney General. In most cases, a violation of this is a career stopper, so everybody's scared of doing this.
Well, there you have it, folks.
Thanks to Chris Pimlott.
That way, if you really care, you can just go into preferences and turn on the box, so you can see the latest, greatest kernel version.