My Mailclad scheme uses simple random numbers and data bases to make an unbreakable system that allow for clear open auditing while still allowing voters anonymity.
It's similar to the Autotote system used for betting on horse races and the way some Vegas slot machines print out cash vouchers, also Lotto tickets use a similar random serial number scheme.
Heck even Mc Donald's Monopoly game pieces uses random serial numbers to ensure anti forgery to prevent cheaters.
I have started a source forge project for this and have www.mailclad.com to make an open source voting system based on this.
Just using a simple radio transmitters connected to pinball machine tilt switches, and place them in a grid one every 10 miles or so, you would be able to get a very advanced warning.
You'd want to agrigate the warning system into one or more centralized alert systems so that they can wait for multiple even triggers before sounding an alert.
Just as the 15 second warning system describe in the parent article here, the further from the epicenter the more warning you have but with this your advanced warning comes at 186,000 Mph instead of speed difference of the two wave type which are both travaling around 700Mph.
Most people are forced to use Microsoft, or at least pay for the OS by default when purchasing a system.
It's quite a hastle to eliminate there OS and move to Linux or just get rid of explorer and use firefox.
It's very difficult to totally eradicate Internet Explorer and still have a properly useful windows OS.
While with google you not only have the option not to use there service, but you have to go out of your way to use there service!!
If google starts to play games with there search results too much like many other search engines do, then I will stop using them and look elsewhere for searching.
I think people have been sailing, trading and mixing genetically for a very long time, much longer and more often then we currently know about or believe.
I mean how did those aborigines get there in the first place? There are so many submerged cities and none have really been investigated. Off the coast of India, Bahamas, Asia, in the Mediterranean. So far archeology has been limited to where it's convenient, if only the development of human evolution was also so limited to these locations.
We really have no idea how advanced past civilizations might have been. If New York were to get submerged in 20 feet of water for 20000 years, will the people in that new time, believe the legends of the Island city with the twin towers and flying machines. What would be left for the archeologist? Unusual sand from the glass windows in the buildings, odd shaped coral on old cement blocks. Not much else. No Iron, silicon Chips or light bulbs. Gold would last but certainly get scavenged. And I'm sure people will argue that the cement could have occur naturally.
Look at how things are now and have been for the few hundred years that we really have some documentation about up to this point.
We like to think everything has changed but I don't think it's as different as we think.
Fighting and f***ing, it's not all one or the other, but both.
Remember is "Rape AND Pillage" not OR pillage.
Sex and War are the things that drive human evolution. Human evolution is still taking place every day, on the highway, in Iraq, at the stock market, prison system, music and sports. Through our Ideas, culture, religion or lack of it.
Selection over who get to mate with whom, and who gets remove from that option, by staying celibate, incarceration, through illness or death.
I know were tangeting off topic here,
But Very few brilliant engineers can spell to save there lives.
I am one of them. I have had to put in 10 times the effort to try to get through english and still failed.
Yet I they insisted in putting in in A track classes because my reading comprehention was off the charts, and my vocabulary was considered colledge level while in 4th grade. I just can't spell damb it...
So, if you can't read past the type-o's and miss spelling then it's not just me but also you that are lacking.
Most engineer type's never notice the type-o's they see right through them.
I have always felt that the blending of the two humanoid Races is what created modern humans, but it's my feeling the one race brought the ability to organize/socialized and coordinate large groups while the other Neanderthal man, brought tool building and artistic abilities.
Each one on there own wasn't nearly as capable as the hybrid Modern Humans that came forth.
It would stand the reason, that based on current social behavior, that the mixed race groups that blended in physical appearance with the "so call modern humans" but kept the intelligence of the Neanderthals would survive the best.
One of the things I have come to realize is in modern society the ability to organize is far more valued then raw intelligents. Look at CEO's, company founder etc VS. Scientist and Engineers. The income of the Organizers is orders of magnitude greater...
I have been starting to wonder of many people with Asperger Syndrome, really have more Neanderthal gene's expressed.
Asperger is supposed to be the lack of being able to read of give off body language and causes a lot of social interaction problems. From my experience almost all of the 100's of other programmers and engineers I know all could be classified that way. But what I find interesting is that we all are able to read each other body language just fine, while leads me to believe that it's not that we can't "speak" body language, but we are just using a different body language!
So my theory is that the most hard code super nerdy Engineers are really more Neanderthal then the average population..
My Mailclad scheme that uses unbreakable random numbers ready does this, but THIS was a very reason many critics have shot it down.
Apparently one of the requirments critics have said is that you should not be able to show or prove who you voted for.
The argument goes that an employier or union or organization, might demand to see who you voted for, and pressure people to vote one way or another.
Yes I know, the Mailclad aglorythem hasn't been open to the public. Anyhow at this point I have decided to opensource and publish everything for the MailClad scheme on the site soon.
It had become very apparent, that Voting machine companies are not interesting in low cost, hacker proof schemes. So any hope for adoption is going to be by opening it on sourceforge.
It's on a minor inconvience from having to parse relivant text from the HTML, now they need some OCR.
The font's are clean and sould be very easy to set up some automated OCR.
seattle911.com is just making too big of a deal out of in, instead of following the hackers way to just Decode the JPEGS and just keep on going!!!!
Yes that right, see http://www.computermodules.com/
Real TV stations already use embedded Linux for almost every facet of video production, delay, schedualed playback, add insertion for SDI and HD-SDI.
For about $25K TV you get get an embedded linux system that does MPEG2 compression and
ATSC / 8VSB modulation. see http://www.8vsb.com/
What happened is the Power connect was plugged in Backwards!!!
This seems to happen with cheap power supplys where the tollerance on the connectors is bad and the plastic is softer...
Same deal, computers messed up. I was upset and worried about lost data and not paying too much attention to the connector polarity, because I was use to seeing that these connectors usualy are impossible to plug in reversed.
This one is so over the top it's hard to know where to start.
The agriculture here in the USA is already messed up.
By using petrolium based pesticides, and fertilizers
By depending on petrolium based irrigation and farming equiptment.
BioFuel's don't need to take up food crop resources. There are 1000's of plants that are suitable for BioFuels, many are weeds! They aren't edible, they grow much better then wood and they don't require fertile soil or irrigation.
I just spent several weeks in India researching biodiesels. Specifically Jatropha and Pongamia - http://www.dnull.com/~sokol/images6/ trip photos.
The Indian railway system is planting GM Jatropha along it tracks and plant to operate all of it's railway system on mixtures with Oil from these plants.
Here is an article I found, Google pull up many articles on this...
Biodiesel Train on Track in India SolarAccess.com, 17 Jan 2003 The first successful trial run of a passenger train was conducted on December 31, 2002 when the Delhi-Amritsar Shatabdi Express used 5% biodiesel as fuel. Biodiesel will enable Indian Railways to save on its rising fuel bill while controlling pollution levels. Sulphur and lead emissions were reduced significantly when biodiesel was used, according to the Railways. Ultimately, the percentage of biodiesel would go up to 15% in unison with the accepted global norms. The new green fuel is extracted from the seeds of the Jatropha plant and Indian Oil is now engaged in laboratory tests of biodiesel. The plant can easily be grown on either side of railway tracks as it adopts itself well to arid and semiarid conditions, demanding low fertility and moisture. The other advantages are the fuel's contribution to the national energy pool and the potential of creation of jobs in rural sector.
I use the Kodicom 4400r board http://dvr.videotechnology.com/ this uses 4 Conexant 878 chips (formerly called Brooktree BT878)
The default bt878 driver in FreeBSD works but I had to write a small driver to init the video switcher on the board.
Using very simple code you can capture and process 4 full motion video channels in FreeBSD.
I there is also the BTTV Linux driver for this board.
CCTV Cameras can be had for $35 each and the board is $200. for a total cost of $300 for 3 cameras to do motion capture.
I have used Blinking dual color LEDS on the target very successfully.
Also retroreflective balls and LED lighting also works well. The $35 black and white versions of these camera come with IR leds for so called "Night Vision" and works great with the 3M reflective tape.
See http://www.videotechnology.com/old1104.html Retroreflective Materials for more info on that also.
I had them bill me for $1700 in one month!! It was more them 24 Hour of use for more then 30 days worth of minutes, they refued to even disuss it with me and sent it strait to collections before the bill was even due because I verbablly refused to pay it!!
It's more like there are 20 people locked in a cabin, we can't open the door or leave really. Now 18 of these guys decide to run a gas powered generator to have some light in this cabin. Now 2 of the people are starting to notice it's getting hot and hard to breath with the air filling with fumes. So the 18 are getting angry because we think that keeping the generator running may be a bad idea. Assuring us that it's been running so long, how do you know it's going to keep getting hotter or that we would have a real problem if it did.
Douglas Adams would find this behavior typical for humans.
I really love slashdot. While the Debian guys are privately slandering Ted, and modding my posts down, others keep modding them back up. It's been exciting watching the posts go to 5 then down to 3 then 4 then 3 then 4 then 5 then 4 then 5. I have 5 posts and they have been modded 20+ times.
It's good to know there are others out there that support us or at least my efforts to be honest and not let this get squelched.
Mad Duck one of the Debian developers there posted in his blog. http://blog.madduck.net/debian/2006.05.23-post-deb conf... when suddenly I saw one of Debian's troublemakers, Jonathan/Ted Walther, running at me, chased by three developers and found myself amidst their altercation before I could do anything. People screaming, one reaching over my shoulder to push Ted, it was all too much. I told everyone to calm down, to which Jonathan/Ted reacted, vigorously shaking and foaming, with a "get out of my f**king way, you f**king Nazi" and I knew that stuff had gone wrong. I withdrew, and in an attempt to find out what had happened managed to piss off one of the three involved developers, who'd then later refuse to hear me out for an explanation. All that really left me in a depressed state mainly because I simply hadn't expected Debian developers getting physical at each other, and this time it was Erinn Clark who consoled me and turned the night around for the better.
There are a number of inaccuracies in his blog post.
7 Men, no boys / Nerds / Asshats attacked him. I know because I push then all of them back. It really reminded me of a school yard scuffle in 3rd grade.
Ted Yelled "Get off me you F*cking Nazi" while being attacked. He was being held! Ted was not running but had been grabbed from his seat across the room and carried / thrown by his arms towards the door when I intervened. I think anyone would react in a similar way while being assaulted by a group of German/Europeans. I'm sure it was the first thing that popped into his head.
It's not clear what Mad Ducks role was, but he wasn't there before Ted arrive at the door, and was there when I stopped it. So if he wasn't physical, he was walking with those who were.
Actually the indecent took place before there was any rain.
It really was impressive. One minute the air is still and quiet then in a few seconds a terrific ferocity of rain pouring down immediately at the conclusion of the scuffle. Almost like the GOD himself was lending in his opinion. I'm sure it was just a coincidence, but I have never seen rain come down so hard ever and for only about 10 Minutes and then it ended just as fast as it began. Doors blew open, thunder and lightning cracked, and a torrent of water poured down one of the walls at an incredible rate forming a column of water 6 inches think and 10 feet wide from the 25 foot tall ceiling down towards of the food tables.. Then the lights shorted out in the building, leaving just a few distant street lights as the only thing keeping us from total absolute darkness.
I have been through several large hurricanes and this made them look like mere showers.
Somehow I was able to enjoy my meal in the dark and actually found the chaos comforting.
Anyhow, they still consider Ted as having ruined the dinner and not the rain.... Go figure.
I still find my self asking what the Hell did Ted do that was so offensive as to get attack and then remove from the conference and the whole Debian project....
I mean, I am his Boss, he works for me. I spent $2000 to go down there and back.
He is my employee If I though for one minute he, flew his boss down to Mexico did something wrong and cause him to get thrown out, I'd be super pissed at him. But I was there next to him the entire time. From what I saw it seemed totally unprovoked. I mean a plastic crown and foam bat, that he didn't use on anyone (had he I'
Rupert Sheldrake first describe these, I don't totally agree, but
I have come to find, a city, a company, organizations, families and many other things are at some level forever trapped by the original starting conditions.
Very much like crystal growth.
Unless a city (no region really) started under similar conditions as Silicon Valley did, it would be next to impossible end up in a similar way.
Silicon Valley for me was like Mecca for a Muslim when growing up in New Jersey. I was the holy capital for technology. A place where for the devoted to flock to.
Once there I did live up to it's expectations. I mean I could have a conversation about Unix at a Mc Donalds and many of the people at other tables would not only understand what I was talking about but join in...
SV has a long history dating back to Senator Stanford and the creation of the Rail Roads, the Gold Rush and California or Bust of the dust bowl era. HP and Ampex, Lockheed and Skunkworks, Moffet Field, Xerox Park, Berkeley, BSD, Acid tests and flower children. Eastern and Western Cultural melting pots. San Francisco and the whole GAY out of the closet openness thing. Fairchild, Apple, SUN, SGI, Intel, VPL, Atari and Xanadu.
There is a level of experimentation, freedom and openness to new ideas and concepts and a wacky let try the impossible.
Without these things no area could ever be Silicon Valley.
Where do I begin, there is just so much wrong with what your saying.
http://www.aigarius.com/2006/03/10/interview-with- ted.html Aigars interview with Ted, I think really clarifies his thought process.
Aigars by the way is not a fan of Teds, but is honest and I have a lot of respect for him. He even told Ted to his face that "you're getting under my skin", but have respect for that.
Aigars article really explains the Debian woman situation, and having experienced first hand the clique around Amaya, that would talk behind every ones back and spread rumors and conjecture, and work them selves into a frenzy, as well as act as the PC police. Other than that I thought she was pretty cute.
1) Ted never asked for travel funding, I had already agreed to cover him. He was defending others who were having sponsorship problems, and who still are.
2) Again the context is missing. What he said that if what the organizers was telling him was true then, this must be a "second rate hotel in a third world country" where the cooks are "not worth their salt". , This is because their answers to him were deceptive and conflicting.
3) His documents were on his personal web site and not associated with Debian. And he is far from a racist and Nazi, if he were I'd beat his ass for you.
4) Tyrannically? What are you smoking?
5) Many people have contacted both myself and Ted, privately offering support, but seem to be afraid to come out publicly because of the climate of fear within the debian community. Ted is opposed to some of the things the leadership of debian are doing, and this is real reason for his being attacked and picked on at every turn.
From the Aigars interview about Debian: Finally, a place free of affirmative action and limits on free speech; just a bunch of people doing their best to make something great. You stand or fall on your own merits. Freethinking and refusal to compromise with political correctness was the order of the day. I was in heaven.
It was this change away from these values and ideas that Ted was attempting to reverse. This change is a part of the new (current) debian leadership. I sense a group of SysAdmin type paranoid thinkers, certainly not kernel hackers.
It's where things are misrepresented, out of context, and done secretly behind peoples backs that I just can't tolerate. I have been though too much of this crap in the past.
Debian started as a democratic organization, and still pretends to be one, but clearly this only superficial now.
Joerg assured me after the fight that I would be include in the discussion of what transpired that evening before a decision was cast. But this never took place, 7am Ted was tossed out, and I left with him.
The leadership has no Honor, or Balls, It did things privately and in secret in a most undemocratic, closed, and totalitarian fashion. I had been keeping and open mind about the whole situation and really remaining unbiased until that point. I really lost all respect for these guys, and after hearing from many South and Central Americans how they where also upset with the way debian was being run, I am totally convinced it's all true and at least as bad as I was hearing.
How can Ted get a GR when he has been silenced and cut off from the community?
Ted may not be leadership material, but neither is Anthony. Ted is one of the most loyal hard working employees I have ever had, he has been thorough a lot with me over the years. He has a very deep sense of honor and speaks his mind when he feels something need to be said even when it's unpopular and might get him into trouble.
I have seen the debian private list posts, Ted isn't the only friend I have on the inside there.
I still fail to see a real reason. How can holding a foam rubber bat be so offensive to people that they should try to beat him up or remove him from debian?!
If you read Anthony's letter it never states specifics just "disruptions", "disturbances", "provoke"
As example requesting Kosher Food. Oh my god! If requesting Kosher food is disruptive then... Well draw your own conclusions.
For me personally I don't eat Pork and it was impossible to tell what the meals were made of some really look like pork. Being Pork free in Mexico and at the Debconf when you don't speak the language was a serious problem.
Then later claims such as "Nazi propaganda and Holocaust denial information" this is based on them never having read what he had, or the context that it was in, which was in a very pro-jewish, we must never let it happen again light. I also believe that people need to see these documents! That hiding them will only doom us to repeat the past.
Well which is it Anthony? Is he a NAZI or a JEW!
"Why Didn't King Solomon Kill The Two Prostitutes". Did anyone bother to read this one!!! It's all bible quotes. But for many I'm sure the bible is too offensive!
From that very blog post: You cannot hit one party with the full penalty then let another get off free for the same crime. It is better to err on the side of mercy, so if you do not convict one, you should not convict another. This is violated daily by un-Godly governments who selectively enforce their laws to "make examples" of people. Such selective enforcement is neither fair or just.
How appropriate since they did just what he spoke against the very next day.
from the Debian private list that I am not bound to silence on Anthony Towns
to debian-private Hi,
It's my regret to report that the Debian Account Managers, James Troup and Joerg Jaspert, have decided to expel Ted Walther (aka Jonathan Walther, with IRC nicks SirDibos, SirDinosaur, Dinosaur, and account name krooger@debian.org) from the project.
Ted has been a continuing source of disturbance within the project, and whether deliberately or accidently has repeatedly acted in ways to provoke other members of the project and make their participation in both the project at large and DebConf 6 in particular difficult and uncomfortable.
The triggering event for this expulsion was a disturbance at the DebConf Formal Dinner, which I'll detail as best I can in a separate mail.
This has followed a number of other incidents at DebConf 6. The first of these that has been communicated to me were a number of disruptive communications with the travel sponsorship team in April, where Ted attempted to override the deadline for travel sponsorship in various ways [0].
This was followed in the next few days by complaints regarding the lack of food conforming to his dietary requirements, which he described as the "Karaite Jewish version of kashrut" in contrast to Jewish kosher food. When informed that the vegan/vegetarian menu would conform with his requirements, and that the hotel would not be able to conform with his requirements otherwise, he responded by accusing the organisers of "kosher discrimination", and booking a "second rate hotel in a third world country" where the cooks are "not worth their salt".
In order to ensure that the debconf lists remained useful, his posts were moderated, with only the mails containing a question others might be interested in, or some information others might find useful being allowed through.
Ted's conference registration was accepted, and he obtained room and food sponsorship for the period of his stay.
After arriving at DebConf, Ted brought along a foam rubber bat labelled with "clue", and hit a number of organisers and delegates with i
Again, no one has been willing to state a real reason why he was attacked or kicked out of the project. Even when I tried to personally inquire in a polite and honorable fashion, then wouldn't tell me or just make some mention of emails accusing them of being unfair, which at this point is starting to seem very much true.
Even a wacky conspiracy theorist starts to look credible when some one trys to assasinate him.
Does kicking someone out of the project involve not telling them at all. Or for what reason even after the fact.
They invited him there! He went there at great expense with the sole intention of trying to make peace and mend relationships. It seems as though the intention was to lure him there and beat him senseless in the middle of some forign country!
He didn't do anything while at Debconf to provoke anyone as far as I can see. Please someone tell me a specific case if he did do anything, but wearing a plastic crown and carrying a foam rubber bat, that was just a prop to be the jester of the crowd. Isn't cause or provocation. He didn't hit anyone with the bat, nor did he act agressive or even speak to any of his attackers.
Had this been in the US, I'm sure police and lawyers would be involved.
Ted decided to invite a lady, a friend of the local ISP's owner, named Hilda. a local entrepreneur in a very small town where everyone knows everyone. She runs a dental administration company in the town we were in.
Several people were spreading many rumors about Walther that were totally false, one of which that his date, was a prostitute, and this was because Ted couldn't possible get a woman on his own.
Being that I was there when Ted met her at the local Internet cafe, this vicious rumor is definitely not true.
As someone who actually prevented the Fight. There were no punches actually thrown.
First I want to say that this was my first experience with the Debian community and I knew almost nobody at all. I have known Ted a long time and we shared a room there.
Throughout the conference there was a small group (about 10) that seemed to be out to get Ted Walther any way possible. Probably because he is outspoken and not afraid to say what many others were thinking but afraid to say. Or that he had sent some E-mail's that challenge the Debian management. I don't know or even really care, because it shouldn't matter really.
So last Thursday night, way the hell out in the middle of no where at a resort 1.5 hours south of Mexico City they had "formal dinner" with rumors of a dance afterwards. Ted decided to invite a lady, a friend of the local ISP's owner, named Hilda.
This group, after spreading many rumors about Walther that were totally false, one of which that his date, Hilda (a local entrepreneur in a very small town where everyone knows everyone and runs a dental administration company) was accused of being a prostitute, and this was because Ted couldn't possible get a woman on his own. Being that I was there when Ted met her at the local Internet cafe, this vicious rumor is definitely not true.
After rumors failed, 7 guys tried to rush him and became quite agitated and violent. I am a fairly big guy and happen to be standing in the doorway at the time of the attack against Ted. Several people where behind him and they would have pushed Walther and several innocent bystanders over the 2 foot ledge that lead to the street, probably injuring some of them.
I actually stepped in between and told them, "Do you want to get physical?" not really knowing what the hell was taking place, but that it wasn't good. The group backed off very quickly.
The management assured me they would listen to all sides and make a decision.
That night at 4 am a group was in the hallway talking and I approached them and introduced myself,"hello, we haven't been introduced, my name is.." when I was screamed at by man with oddly colored hair (who I am told is)Holger Levsen, to shut the F**K up. and he motioned a threat to hit me.
But the next morning at 7am the Andreas Schuldei entered our room and demanded Walther leave the premises immediately for his own safety. That his presence would provoke violence, and promptly dumped him out on the street, broke and stranded out in the middle of nowhere.
They then removed him totally from the Debian project, his accounts, E-mail and even blog posts and photo from the groups mugshot collections.
I am incredibly offended by the management decisions to punish the victim and not the perpetrators and the way they went about this in secret!
Transparency Begets Trust - Expertise in niches, transparency in motives and thought process and owning up to mistakes publicly create a trust relationship" - Will Pate
The moral is obvious. You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself. (Especially code from companies that employ people like me.) From a really eye opening paper Reflections on Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson 1984 (mentioned earlier in this thread.
I have a Open Source Voting scheme http://www.mailclad.com/ that allow privace and yet all communications and source code are OPEN and do not require security. The results can not be forged.
It's based on the same schemes the Race Tracks and Vegas Casinos use for there gaming systems.
The X-prize winner Burt Rutan along with several Millionars and Billionares Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, Record breaker Steve Fossett, Virgin Atlantic's Sir Richard Branson are planning space tourism Moon missions that actualy beat NASA's plans to the moon.
Just before Network Solutions was going to take over the DNS system in 1995, many groups wanted to do this. Even my company at the time were talking with a very large group of ISP to break off our own private root servers, we did a small version of this. Several serious groups did this. Yes, Technicaly they worked just fine, but almost all failed in terms of catching on and being usable.
We could create our own.com domains or override some, and block some, which some ISP's even do today. But web links wouldn't work for outsiders.
Also NSI / Internic would cut us off.
One thing done deliberatly by NSI was to stop publishing the Root DNS records, so there would be no way for alternate root servers to support the "real.com.net.org domains" They would also block our IP's so we couldn't even act as a proper DNS server, Caching the roots.
Search google groups for "aryeh friedman dns" Aryeh was my partner in these things from back them.
Quote of new post:
ISPA (Internet Service Providers Association) announced today in order to show our displeasure with the recent semi-offical announcement by Network Solutions Inc. [NSI] (the Registratin Services arm of Internic) that it will start charging for domain registration as of Sept. 18, 1995 4 PM (EST) that ISPA has created a alternate Domain Name Service (DNS) that does not depend on NSI's services.
In order to do this ISPA has announced the creation of the following top level domains, avaible only to ISPA members at no cost and at NSI fees for non-members:.biz (replaces.com).isp (replaces.net).nfp (replaces.org).ind (a top level domain catagory to indicate a domain belonging to an indivual)
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My Mailclad scheme uses simple random numbers and data bases to make an unbreakable system that allow for clear open auditing while still allowing voters anonymity.
It's similar to the Autotote system used for betting on horse races and the way some Vegas slot machines print out cash vouchers, also Lotto tickets use a similar random serial number scheme.
Heck even Mc Donald's Monopoly game pieces uses random serial numbers to ensure anti forgery to prevent cheaters.
I have started a source forge project for this and have www.mailclad.com to make an open source voting system based on this.
john
Just using a simple radio transmitters connected to pinball machine tilt switches, and place them in a grid one every 10 miles or so, you would be able to get a very advanced warning.
You'd want to agrigate the warning system into one or more centralized alert systems so that they can wait for multiple even triggers before sounding an alert.
Just as the 15 second warning system describe in the parent article here, the further from the epicenter the more warning you have but with this your advanced warning comes at 186,000 Mph instead of speed difference of the two wave type which are both travaling around 700Mph.
Most people are forced to use Microsoft, or at least pay for the OS by default when purchasing a system.
It's quite a hastle to eliminate there OS and move to Linux or just get rid of explorer and use firefox.
It's very difficult to totally eradicate Internet Explorer and still have a properly useful windows OS.
While with google you not only have the option not to use there service, but you have to go out of your way to use there service!!
If google starts to play games with there search results too much like many other search engines do, then I will stop using them and look elsewhere for searching.
I think people have been sailing, trading and mixing genetically for a very long time, much longer and more often then we currently know about or believe.
I mean how did those aborigines get there in the first place?
There are so many submerged cities and none have really been investigated.
Off the coast of India, Bahamas, Asia, in the Mediterranean. So far archeology has been limited to where it's convenient, if only the development of human evolution was also so limited to these locations.
We really have no idea how advanced past civilizations might have been.
If New York were to get submerged in 20 feet of water for 20000 years, will the people in that new time, believe the legends of the Island city with the twin towers and flying machines.
What would be left for the archeologist? Unusual sand from the glass windows in the buildings, odd shaped coral on old cement blocks. Not much else. No Iron, silicon Chips or light bulbs. Gold would last but certainly get scavenged. And I'm sure people will argue that the cement could have occur naturally.
Look at how things are now and have been for the few hundred years that we really have some documentation about up to this point.
We like to think everything has changed but I don't think it's as different as we think.
Fighting and f***ing, it's not all one or the other, but both.
Remember is "Rape AND Pillage" not OR pillage.
Sex and War are the things that drive human evolution.
Human evolution is still taking place every day, on the highway, in Iraq, at the stock market, prison system, music and sports. Through our Ideas, culture, religion or lack of it.
Selection over who get to mate with whom, and who gets remove from that option, by staying celibate, incarceration, through illness or death.
I know were tangeting off topic here,
But Very few brilliant engineers can spell to save there lives.
I am one of them. I have had to put in 10 times the effort to try to get through english and still failed.
Yet I they insisted in putting in in A track classes because my reading comprehention was off the charts, and my vocabulary was considered colledge level while in 4th grade. I just can't spell damb it...
So, if you can't read past the type-o's and miss spelling then it's not just me but also you that are lacking.
Most engineer type's never notice the type-o's they see right through them.
But again this goes back to the agument of
I have always felt that the blending of the two humanoid Races is what created modern humans, but it's my feeling the one race brought the ability to organize/socialized and coordinate large groups while the other Neanderthal man, brought tool building and artistic abilities.
Each one on there own wasn't nearly as capable as the hybrid Modern Humans that came forth.
It would stand the reason, that based on current social behavior, that the mixed race groups that blended in physical appearance with the "so call modern humans" but kept the intelligence of the Neanderthals would survive the best.
One of the things I have come to realize is in modern society the ability to organize is far more valued then raw intelligents.
Look at CEO's, company founder etc VS. Scientist and Engineers.
The income of the Organizers is orders of magnitude greater...
I have been starting to wonder of many people with Asperger Syndrome, really have more Neanderthal gene's expressed.
Asperger is supposed to be the lack of being able to read of give off body language and causes a lot of social interaction problems.
From my experience almost all of the 100's of other programmers and engineers I know all could be classified that way.
But what I find interesting is that we all are able to read each other body language just fine, while leads me to believe that it's not that we can't "speak" body language, but we are just using a different body language!
So my theory is that the most hard code super nerdy Engineers are really more Neanderthal then the average population..
Anyhow, it's just a theory...
My Mailclad scheme that uses unbreakable random numbers ready does this, but THIS was a very reason many critics have shot it down.
Apparently one of the requirments critics have said is that you should not be able to show or prove who you voted for.
The argument goes that an employier or union or organization, might demand to see who you voted for, and pressure people to vote one way or another.
Yes I know, the Mailclad aglorythem hasn't been open to the public.
Anyhow at this point I have decided to opensource and publish everything for the MailClad scheme on the site soon.
It had become very apparent, that Voting machine companies are not interesting in low cost, hacker proof schemes.
So any hope for adoption is going to be by opening it on sourceforge.
John
There was little reason for them to discontune the service. Turningo wIncidents.htm Live feed that is now in JPEG form back into text is easy.
http://www2.cityofseattle.net/fire/realTime911/sh
It's on a minor inconvience from having to parse relivant text from the HTML, now they need some OCR.
The font's are clean and sould be very easy to set up some automated OCR.
seattle911.com is just making too big of a deal out of in, instead of following the hackers way to just Decode the JPEGS and just keep on going!!!!
John L. Sokol
Yes that right, see http://www.computermodules.com/
Real TV stations already use embedded Linux for almost every facet of video production, delay, schedualed playback, add insertion for SDI and HD-SDI.
For about $25K TV you get get an embedded linux system that does MPEG2 compression and
ATSC / 8VSB modulation. see http://www.8vsb.com/
What happened is the Power connect was plugged in Backwards!!!
This seems to happen with cheap power supplys where the tollerance on the connectors is bad and the plastic is softer...
Same deal, computers messed up. I was upset and worried about lost data and not paying too much attention to the connector polarity, because I was use to seeing that these connectors usualy are impossible to plug in reversed.
Same exact flames shooting out and burns.
This one is so over the top it's hard to know where to start.
The agriculture here in the USA is already messed up.
By using petrolium based pesticides, and fertilizers
By depending on petrolium based irrigation and farming equiptment.
BioFuel's don't need to take up food crop resources. There are 1000's of plants that are suitable for BioFuels, many are weeds! They aren't edible, they grow much better then wood and they don't require fertile soil or irrigation.
I just spent several weeks in India researching biodiesels. Specifically Jatropha and Pongamia - http://www.dnull.com/~sokol/images6/ trip photos.
The Indian railway system is planting GM Jatropha along it tracks and plant to operate all of it's railway system on mixtures with Oil from these plants.
Here is an article I found, Google pull up many articles on this...
Biodiesel Train on Track in India
SolarAccess.com, 17 Jan 2003
The first successful trial run of a passenger train was conducted on December 31, 2002 when the Delhi-Amritsar Shatabdi Express used 5% biodiesel as fuel. Biodiesel will enable Indian Railways to save on its rising fuel bill while controlling pollution levels. Sulphur and lead emissions were reduced significantly when biodiesel was used, according to the Railways. Ultimately, the percentage of biodiesel would go up to 15% in unison with the accepted global norms. The new green fuel is extracted from the seeds of the Jatropha plant and Indian Oil is now engaged in laboratory tests of biodiesel. The plant can easily be grown on either side of railway tracks as it adopts itself well to arid and semiarid conditions, demanding low fertility and moisture. The other advantages are the fuel's contribution to the national energy pool and the potential of creation of jobs in rural sector.
I use the Kodicom 4400r board http://dvr.videotechnology.com/ this uses 4 Conexant 878 chips (formerly called Brooktree BT878)
The default bt878 driver in FreeBSD works but I had to write a small driver to init the video switcher on the board.
Using very simple code you can capture and process 4 full motion video channels in FreeBSD.
I there is also the BTTV Linux driver for this board.
CCTV Cameras can be had for $35 each and the board is $200. for a total cost of $300 for 3 cameras to do motion capture.
I have used Blinking dual color LEDS on the target very successfully.
Also retroreflective balls and LED lighting also works well. The $35 black and white versions of these camera come with IR leds for so called "Night Vision" and works great with the 3M reflective tape.
See http://www.videotechnology.com/old1104.html Retroreflective Materials for more info on that also.
I had them bill me for $1700 in one month!! It was more them 24 Hour of use for more then 30 days worth of minutes, they refued to even disuss it with me and sent it strait to collections before the bill was even due because I verbablly refused to pay it!!
It's more like there are 20 people locked in a cabin, we can't open the door or leave really. Now 18 of these guys decide to run a gas powered generator to have some light in this cabin. Now 2 of the people are starting to notice it's getting hot and hard to breath with the air filling with fumes. So the 18 are getting angry because we think that keeping the generator running may be a bad idea. Assuring us that it's been running so long, how do you know it's going to keep getting hotter or that we would have a real problem if it did.
Douglas Adams would find this behavior typical for humans.
I really love slashdot. While the Debian guys are privately slandering Ted, and modding my posts down, others keep modding them back up. It's been exciting watching the posts go to 5 then down to 3 then 4 then 3 then 4 then 5 then 4 then 5. I have 5 posts and they have been modded 20+ times.
... when suddenly I saw one of Debian's troublemakers, Jonathan/Ted Walther, running at me, chased by three developers and found myself amidst their altercation before I could do anything. People screaming, one reaching over my shoulder to push Ted, it was all too much. I told everyone to calm down, to which Jonathan/Ted reacted, vigorously shaking and foaming, with a "get out of my f**king way, you f**king Nazi" and I knew that stuff had gone wrong. I withdrew, and in an attempt to find out what had happened managed to piss off one of the three involved developers, who'd then later refuse to hear me out for an explanation. All that really left me in a depressed state mainly because I simply hadn't expected Debian developers getting physical at each other, and this time it was Erinn Clark who consoled me and turned the night around for the better.
It's good to know there are others out there that support us or at least my efforts to be honest and not let this get squelched.
Mad Duck one of the Debian developers there posted in his blog.
http://blog.madduck.net/debian/2006.05.23-post-deb conf
There are a number of inaccuracies in his blog post.
7 Men, no boys / Nerds / Asshats attacked him. I know because I push then all of them back. It really reminded me of a school yard scuffle in 3rd grade.
Ted Yelled "Get off me you F*cking Nazi" while being attacked. He was being held! Ted was not running but had been grabbed from his seat across the room and carried / thrown by his arms towards the door when I intervened. I think anyone would react in a similar way while being assaulted by a group of German/Europeans. I'm sure it was the first thing that popped into his head.
It's not clear what Mad Ducks role was, but he wasn't there before Ted arrive at the door, and was there when I stopped it. So if he wasn't physical, he was walking with those who were.
Actually the indecent took place before there was any rain.
It really was impressive. One minute the air is still and quiet then in a few seconds a terrific ferocity of rain pouring down immediately at the conclusion of the scuffle. Almost like the GOD himself was lending in his opinion. I'm sure it was just a coincidence, but I have never seen rain come down so hard ever and for only about 10 Minutes and then it ended just as fast as it began. Doors blew open, thunder and lightning cracked, and a torrent of water poured down one of the walls at an incredible rate forming a column of water 6 inches think and 10 feet wide from the 25 foot tall ceiling down towards of the food tables.. Then the lights shorted out in the building, leaving just a few distant street lights as the only thing keeping us from total absolute darkness.
I have been through several large hurricanes and this made them look like mere showers.
Somehow I was able to enjoy my meal in the dark and actually found the chaos comforting.
Anyhow, they still consider Ted as having ruined the dinner and not the rain.... Go figure.
I still find my self asking what the Hell did Ted do that was so offensive as to get attack and then remove from the conference and the whole Debian project....
I mean, I am his Boss, he works for me. I spent $2000 to go down there and back.
He is my employee If I though for one minute he, flew his boss down to Mexico did something wrong and cause him to get thrown out, I'd be super pissed at him. But I was there next to him the entire time. From what I saw it seemed totally unprovoked. I mean a plastic crown and foam bat, that he didn't use on anyone (had he I'
Rupert Sheldrake first describe these, I don't totally agree, but
I have come to find, a city, a company, organizations, families and many other things are at some level forever trapped by the original starting conditions.
Very much like crystal growth.
Unless a city (no region really) started under similar conditions as Silicon Valley did, it would be next to impossible end up in a similar way.
Silicon Valley for me was like Mecca for a Muslim when growing up in New Jersey.
I was the holy capital for technology. A place where for the devoted to flock to.
Once there I did live up to it's expectations. I mean I could have a conversation about Unix at a Mc Donalds and many of the people at other tables would not only understand what I was talking about but join in...
SV has a long history dating back to Senator Stanford and the creation of the Rail Roads, the Gold Rush and California or Bust of the dust bowl era. HP and Ampex, Lockheed and Skunkworks, Moffet Field, Xerox Park, Berkeley, BSD, Acid tests and flower children. Eastern and Western Cultural melting pots. San Francisco and the whole GAY out of the closet openness thing. Fairchild, Apple, SUN, SGI, Intel, VPL, Atari and Xanadu.
There is a level of experimentation, freedom and openness to new ideas and concepts and a wacky let try the impossible.
Without these things no area could ever be Silicon Valley.
Where do I begin, there is just so much wrong with what your saying.
- ted.html Aigars interview with Ted, I think really clarifies his thought process.
http://www.aigarius.com/2006/03/10/interview-with
Aigars by the way is not a fan of Teds, but is honest and I have a lot of respect for him. He even told Ted to his face that "you're getting under my skin", but have respect for that.
Aigars article really explains the Debian woman situation, and having experienced first hand the clique around Amaya, that would talk behind every ones back and spread rumors and conjecture, and work them selves into a frenzy, as well as act as the PC police. Other than that I thought she was pretty cute.
1) Ted never asked for travel funding, I had already agreed to cover him. He was defending others who were having sponsorship problems, and who still are.
2) Again the context is missing. What he said that if what the organizers was telling him was true then, this must be a "second rate hotel in a third world country" where the cooks are "not worth their salt". , This is because their answers to him were deceptive and conflicting.
3) His documents were on his personal web site and not associated with Debian. And he is far from a racist and Nazi, if he were I'd beat his ass for you.
4) Tyrannically? What are you smoking?
5) Many people have contacted both myself and Ted, privately offering support, but seem to be afraid to come out publicly because of the climate of fear within the debian community. Ted is opposed to some of the things the leadership of debian are doing, and this is real reason for his being attacked and picked on at every turn.
From the Aigars interview about Debian:
Finally, a place free of affirmative action and limits on free speech; just a bunch of people doing their best to make something great. You stand or fall on your own merits. Freethinking and refusal to compromise with political correctness was the order of the day. I was in heaven.
It was this change away from these values and ideas that Ted was attempting to reverse. This change is a part of the new (current) debian leadership. I sense a group of SysAdmin type paranoid thinkers, certainly not kernel hackers.
It's where things are misrepresented, out of context, and done secretly behind peoples backs that I just can't tolerate. I have been though too much of this crap in the past.
Debian started as a democratic organization, and still pretends to be one, but clearly this only superficial now.
Joerg assured me after the fight that I would be include in the discussion of what transpired that evening before a decision was cast. But this never took place, 7am Ted was tossed out, and I left with him.
The leadership has no Honor, or Balls, It did things privately and in secret in a most undemocratic, closed, and totalitarian fashion. I had been keeping and open mind about the whole situation and really remaining unbiased until that point. I really lost all respect for these guys, and after hearing from many South and Central Americans how they where also upset with the way debian was being run, I am totally convinced it's all true and at least as bad as I was hearing.
How can Ted get a GR when he has been silenced and cut off from the community?
Ted may not be leadership material, but neither is Anthony. Ted is one of the most loyal hard working employees I have ever had, he has been thorough a lot with me over the years. He has a very deep sense of honor and speaks his mind when he feels something need to be said even when it's unpopular and might get him into trouble.
But I can respect it.
I have seen the debian private list posts, Ted isn't the only friend I have on the inside there.
... Well draw your own conclusions.
I still fail to see a real reason. How can holding a foam rubber bat be so offensive to people that they should try to beat him up or remove him from debian?!
If you read Anthony's letter it never states specifics just "disruptions", "disturbances", "provoke"
As example requesting Kosher Food. Oh my god! If requesting Kosher food is disruptive then
For me personally I don't eat Pork and it was impossible to tell what the meals were made of some really look like pork. Being Pork free in Mexico and at the Debconf when you don't speak the language was a serious problem.
Then later claims such as "Nazi propaganda and Holocaust denial information" this is based on them never having read what he had, or the context that it was in, which was in a very pro-jewish, we must never let it happen again light. I also believe that people need to see these documents! That hiding them will only doom us to repeat the past.
Well which is it Anthony? Is he a NAZI or a JEW!
"Why Didn't King Solomon Kill The Two Prostitutes".
Did anyone bother to read this one!!!
It's all bible quotes. But for many I'm sure the bible is too offensive!
From that very blog post:
You cannot hit one party with the full penalty then let another get off free for the same crime. It is better to err on the side of mercy, so if you do not convict one, you should not convict another. This is violated daily by un-Godly governments who selectively enforce their laws to "make examples" of people. Such selective enforcement is neither fair or just.
How appropriate since they did just what he spoke against the very next day.
from the Debian private list that I am not bound to silence on
Anthony Towns
to debian-private
Hi,
It's my regret to report that the Debian Account Managers, James Troup
and Joerg Jaspert, have decided to expel Ted Walther (aka Jonathan
Walther, with IRC nicks SirDibos, SirDinosaur, Dinosaur, and account
name krooger@debian.org) from the project.
Ted has been a continuing source of disturbance within the project, and
whether deliberately or accidently has repeatedly acted in ways to provoke
other members of the project and make their participation in both the
project at large and DebConf 6 in particular difficult and uncomfortable.
The triggering event for this expulsion was a disturbance at the DebConf
Formal Dinner, which I'll detail as best I can in a separate mail.
This has followed a number of other incidents at DebConf 6. The first
of these that has been communicated to me were a number of disruptive
communications with the travel sponsorship team in April, where Ted
attempted to override the deadline for travel sponsorship in various ways
[0].
This was followed in the next few days by complaints regarding the lack
of food conforming to his dietary requirements, which he described as
the "Karaite Jewish version of kashrut" in contrast to Jewish kosher
food. When informed that the vegan/vegetarian menu would conform with
his requirements, and that the hotel would not be able to conform with
his requirements otherwise, he responded by accusing the organisers of
"kosher discrimination", and booking a "second rate hotel in a third
world country" where the cooks are "not worth their salt".
In order to ensure that the debconf lists remained useful, his posts
were moderated, with only the mails containing a question others might
be interested in, or some information others might find useful being
allowed through.
Ted's conference registration was accepted, and he obtained room and
food sponsorship for the period of his stay.
After arriving at DebConf, Ted brought along a foam rubber bat
labelled with "clue", and hit a number of organisers and delegates
with i
Again, no one has been willing to state a real reason why he was attacked or kicked out of the project. Even when I tried to personally inquire in a polite and honorable fashion, then wouldn't tell me or just make some mention of emails accusing them of being unfair, which at this point is starting to seem very much true.
Even a wacky conspiracy theorist starts to look credible when some one trys to assasinate him.
Does kicking someone out of the project involve not telling them at all. Or for what reason even after the fact.
They invited him there! He went there at great expense with the sole intention of trying to make peace and mend relationships. It seems as though the intention was to lure him there and beat him senseless in the middle of some forign country!
He didn't do anything while at Debconf to provoke anyone as far as I can see. Please someone tell me a specific case if he did do anything, but wearing a plastic crown and carrying a foam rubber bat, that was just a prop to be the jester of the crowd. Isn't cause or provocation. He didn't hit anyone with the bat, nor did he act agressive or even speak to any of his attackers.
Had this been in the US, I'm sure police and lawyers would be involved.
Ted decided to invite a lady, a friend of the local ISP's owner, named Hilda. a local entrepreneur in a very small town where everyone knows everyone. She runs a dental administration company in the town we were in.
Several people were spreading many rumors about Walther that were totally false, one of which that his date, was a prostitute, and this was because Ted couldn't possible get a woman on his own.
Being that I was there when Ted met her at the local Internet cafe, this vicious rumor is definitely not true.
As someone who actually prevented the Fight. There were no punches actually thrown.
.." when I was screamed at by man with oddly colored hair (who I am told is)Holger Levsen, to shut the F**K up. and he motioned a threat to hit me.
First I want to say that this was my first experience with the Debian community and I knew almost nobody at all.
I have known Ted a long time and we shared a room there.
Throughout the conference there was a small group (about 10) that seemed to be out to get Ted Walther any way possible. Probably because he is outspoken and not afraid to say what many others were thinking but afraid to say. Or that he had sent some E-mail's that challenge the Debian management. I don't know or even really care, because it shouldn't matter really.
So last Thursday night, way the hell out in the middle of no where at a resort 1.5 hours south of Mexico City they had "formal dinner" with rumors of a dance afterwards. Ted decided to invite a lady, a friend of the local ISP's owner, named Hilda.
This group, after spreading many rumors about Walther that were totally false, one of which that his date, Hilda (a local entrepreneur in a very small town where everyone knows everyone and runs a dental administration company) was accused of being a prostitute, and this was because Ted couldn't possible get a woman on his own. Being that I was there when Ted met her at the local Internet cafe, this vicious rumor is definitely not true.
After rumors failed, 7 guys tried to rush him and became quite agitated and violent. I am a fairly big guy and happen to be standing in the doorway at the time of the attack against Ted.
Several people where behind him and they would have pushed Walther and several innocent bystanders over the 2 foot ledge that lead to the street, probably injuring some of them.
I actually stepped in between and told them, "Do you want to get physical?" not really knowing what the hell was taking place, but that it wasn't good. The group backed off very quickly.
The management assured me they would listen to all sides and make a decision.
That night at 4 am a group was in the hallway talking and I approached them and introduced myself,"hello, we haven't been introduced, my name is
But the next morning at 7am the Andreas Schuldei entered our room and demanded Walther leave the premises immediately for his own safety. That his presence would provoke violence, and promptly dumped him out on the street, broke and stranded out in the middle of nowhere.
They then removed him totally from the Debian project, his accounts, E-mail and even blog posts and photo from the groups mugshot collections.
I am incredibly offended by the management decisions to punish the victim and not the perpetrators and the way they went about this in secret!
Transparency Begets Trust - Expertise in niches, transparency in motives and thought process and owning up to mistakes publicly create a trust relationship" - Will Pate
The moral is obvious. You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself. (Especially code from companies that employ people like me.)
From a really eye opening paper Reflections on Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson 1984
(mentioned earlier in this thread.
I have a Open Source Voting scheme http://www.mailclad.com/ that allow privace and yet all communications and source code are OPEN and do not require security. The results can not be forged.
It's based on the same schemes the Race Tracks and Vegas Casinos use for there gaming systems.
Hurray for Burt Rutan and Paul Allen: Now It's Time to Deep-Six NASA!!!
http://www.lewrockwell.com/grichar/grichar49.html
Just before Network Solutions was going to take over the DNS system in 1995, many groups wanted to do this. Even my company at the time were talking with a very large group of ISP to break off our own private root servers, we did a small version of this.
.com domains or override some, and block some, which some ISP's even do today. But web links wouldn't work for outsiders.
.com .net .org domains" They would also block our IP's so we couldn't even act as a proper DNS server, Caching the roots.
.biz (replaces .com) .isp (replaces .net) .nfp (replaces .org) .ind (a top level domain catagory to indicate a domain belonging to an indivual)
Several serious groups did this. Yes, Technicaly they worked just fine, but almost all failed in terms of catching on and being usable.
We could create our own
Also NSI / Internic would cut us off.
One thing done deliberatly by NSI was to stop publishing the Root DNS records, so there would be no way for alternate root servers to support the "real
Search google groups for "aryeh friedman dns" Aryeh was my partner in these things from back them.
Quote of new post:
ISPA (Internet Service Providers Association) announced today in
order to show our displeasure with the recent semi-offical announcement by
Network Solutions Inc. [NSI] (the Registratin Services arm of Internic) that it
will start charging for domain registration as of Sept. 18, 1995 4 PM (EST)
that ISPA has created a alternate Domain Name Service (DNS) that does not
depend on NSI's services.
In order to do this ISPA has announced the creation of the following
top level domains, avaible only to ISPA members at no cost and at NSI fees for
non-members:
I'm sure it was because I too a pro-patent stance, and not based on how relivant or interesting my post was.
Not cool guys.