Ok Here is a shameless plug for a company I have been tring to get off the ground for 2 years now.
I had developed a silent PC including the drives, no moving parts, no heat pipes, just a big ass heatsink. But it's the same weight and size as a mini tower. We have 2 patents on the technology.
We also developed a carbon fiber material (with help from NASA Ames) that has much higher thermal conductivity then copper for keeping the cpu cool without fans.
I was tring to find a media center PC vendor to get to use this technology since most have some real heat problems. I talked to Maxtor but they didn't want to present our solution to their customer because it involved changing the design. You can't have a passive heat removal solution cool below the ambient air temperature, but they didn't seem to get it.
Also talk to RicaVision but they also never moved.
At this point I am trying to work on a open source type of reference design for thermaly conductive cooling solutions and to see if there are any computer makers/Media Center PC companies that would like to work with the inventions I came up with.
The cooling solution was original designed for blade and cluster computers, and works great on a desktop configuration. The drive is 100% silent even with your ear against it and runs cooler then in a fan based solution. It's also water tight! Incase you wanted to clean your computer off with a garden hose.
I think a more realist view is that future generation will need that energy to support colonies on the moon and for travel around the solar system and other stars. Rather then try to bring it all back to earth.
This was a contract for Sun Microsystems in 1991. The HR people challenged the hours I billed, 24*7 that 168 Hrs. But I was in their PAL1 Building, and had been recorded by surveillance camera working for the180+ hrs straight to finish this rush project, so they had to paid me.
The code worked bug free, first try. It was brutal, drinking lot's a Coke-a-Cola's and jogging every so often helped, when the screen started spinning too much. No showers, and nothing but vending machine food.
It's called EmpCommVideo and my understanding is that it was still in use at Sun two years ago, and may still be.
I used to work like that all the time, not usualy for 7 days, but 3 days or more in a row was my norm. Then I'd crash for 2 or 3 days and go back and do it again. This was my usual mode when I was in my 20's.
Now in my late 30's I feel like I'm going to die after 40 hrs awake.
With almost every version of FreeBSD every released there has never been any major security issues.
I still have a 2.1.0 from 1995 up and running with almost no mods from the default install and have never had a breaking , it's in front of a firewall and had hosted several celebrity web sites with a lot of exposure.
I reciently installed a new win2K system and installed the latest service pack 4.
I also killed all the services. and it never ran a web browser. Just mysql. I didn't have any antivirus software on it.
So after placing it on an unfirewalled connection in a locked room, withing 2 hours there were over dozens of virus, worm and spyware installed on the system till it crashed and couldn't even boot. Coming up with 100's of DLL errors!
If someone out there that is willing to put the time in to implementing a reliable UDP I'd be willing to share my notes and research on how to implement my ECIP error correction over IP as well as my SPAC Protocols. (Selective Packet Acknoledgement) algorythems. They can work together for a really cool solution.
The original code was lost when my former company went bust, it's was mess anyhow.
I remember reading a study where mice exposed to NanoTubes were found to have them in there brains.
Aparently the nanotubes are so small they are extreamly sharp.
I know there was sum suspicion that the asbestosis didn't come from the material itself but from it's mechanical properties, where it forms a fine dust and becomes a extream irritant in the lungs.
Could be that nanotubes are similar.
I had the chance to experiment a bit with some, it's just like soot or carbon black! Think microscopic fiberglass.
Mostly people seem to add it into epoxies, so it's a composite with very impressive properties. But without coating them in some way I'd be very uncomfortable with the thought it touching it.
Having it pass right through my skin and floating around in my bloodstream.
I have a site that I have been trying for some time to organize information on hdtv video recording. It's still not very well organized, but here it is.
More or less along the lines of what I originaly said, the asteroid part + cable would almost stay in place without anchoring on the earth end.
So if the earth end were to be cut loose it would be like a giant needle cutting a groove in the earth around the equator, providing enough drag to possibly cause the orbit of the asteroid to decay.
Hey, I'm no astrophysicist here, but I doubt that thrusters could keep a situation like that stable very long, and certany cutting the cable free of the asteroid would send the asteroid sailing off in one direction and the cable come crashing to earth.
But the cable descibed in the report, made of nano tubes would hardly burn up in reentry. A nano-tube is practicaly a thermal-superconductor.
The cable/asteriod is supposed to be near neutral boyancy. It couldn't pull with too much force because it would be impossible to anchor.
But if it were to break free there would be quite a bit of atmospheric Drag, slowing it down, so if it doesn't break free of the earths gravity, it would at some point crash down. 30,000 + Miles of nanotube cable, with a big rock at the end.
I several occasions I have written code and posted it opensource, binary, BASIC (way back when) or just used it at an ISP or something, then find someone filed a patent based on seeing my Code!.
First Byte inc. Filed a Patent on playing PWM Audio on the PC internal Speaker, I assume after disassembling my binary (written in Assembly) that I had posted on Compuserve(the copy a bug I had in that code into there patent). They then started suing everyone who had also dissembled my code and started using it in there products. Finally I become an expert witness for Activision and had to sign an affidavit stating that I had prior art to help get the First Byte patent overturned! And a few companes liscenced the code official from me. http://www.dnull.com/zebraresearch/ (code is posted)
The same is true for much of the code I have done. Some of the first audio and video(in and out), on Apple II, CoCo , PC , C64, Lisa, Mac. Multimedia over BBS's , Multi-tone audio out of 1bit output (1983)(AKA, polyphonic ringtones), LCD oscilloscope (1986), Streaming audio over IP now called VOIP , portable compressed music player (1987), TCP/IP over Spread Spectrum RF and Laser(1988), Streaming Video over IP Lan in (1989), Streaming video across Sun Microsystem global IP WAN, TCP/IP over Laser (1991), Internet Banking web site(for Wells Fargo 1992) Livecam (1994), Content Distribution Networks , fault tolerant web server, Single threaded web server and web server with compressed log files output(1995), Error Correction over IP, CCTV DVR, Streaming audio over JAVA(1996), Parallel processor Video Compression and HDTV streaming over the Internet (1999). Silent computers and water cooled blades(2000),
There was even a company that threated to sue me after stealing my code outright! They just changed the authorship names. Fortunatly I had left hidden in the code in the server if you gave it the right URL from a browser it reported my name as the author. I never managed to stop them from selling there version of the product though.
Can't talk about the newer stuff since I have started to file patents So I don't get prevented from using my own stuff.
My biggest problem is how do I protect myself. Seems like whenever I try to publish something, someone else borrows it, (or at least the concept) and puts it out farther and faster then I can and takes the credit for it. I know I just plan suck a PR and getting the word out , but still.
I at least want to be able to prove original authorship and invention for the ideas and concepts. And it seems anything less then filing patents one each one has been ineffective.
I think jack and the bean stalk is a better example.
Just a thought here but carbon nano tubes are incredibly good thermal conductors, > 6000WkM. A nanotube composite would be much harder and stronger then steel, and would not be affected by heat, because it would conduct it away.
Now imaging a super strong, heat resistant, really large cable made of this with an asteroid connected to the end of it.
What would happen if it were to break free from it's anchoring on earth?
This cable would be like a giant phonograph needle cutting a groove in the ground across the equator, unstoppable, and finally ending with the asteroid impact.
Just something to consider when playing with such big toys.
A slip up when build this could be really bad.
I also want to point out that some nut case may intentionally try to do something like this, think 9/11 here where a very small force (a box cutter) , released and air craft impact, that released 60,000 gallons of fuel, that released the stored kinetic energy of a skyscraper.
200 years ago there was no possibility for an individual person to release so much stored energy, this hazard came from our technology. Today we can harnesses every increasing levels of potential energy in our machines, building and systems. To an engineer, it all seems well under control, but few plan on someone intentionally throwing a wrench in the works, that could in an instant release all this stored energy in a very undesirable fashion.
What would a mach 10 aircraft do to a space elevator? Or what about a Nuke?
I really love the idea of unlimited cheap and easy access to space, but we really need to anticipate the all the worst case scenarios that come with it.
I have digital data lying around since 1976, that's 24 years, I have my first digital photos and everything. Granted I have lost some data , but this is from having to move around for work and things like physical theft (I had a filing cabinet of floppy's stolen in 1987).
I have understood from day one that tapes and disks are of a limited life span. And make many copy's all over the place.
Every time I upgrade my main work computer I copy the old disk to the new. and keep the old drive in storage. I did't this from 5 meg, to 10 meg, to 20meg to 40 meg, to 80 meg, to 120meg, to 200 meg, to 500 meg, to 800 meg, to 1 gig, to 4 gig, to 9 gig, to 20 gig, to 60 gig, to 100 gig, to 200 gig, and now to 1 TB. For both my main usix and Windows/Dos drives. My windows disk had on C:
a C:\C\C\C\C\C\C\C directory with each succesive complete image of the previous system I had been working on.
I also use redundant tape backups and have spent the time to transfer everything over to CD-R and later DVD-R as well as keep much of it online at all times.
I have found some bit rot where files are corrupted, but have made some crude scripts to do MD5 checksums way back and now this allows me to reconstruct complete sets originals files from several faulty sources.
I have even restored all my VAX source from ½ inch 9 track reel to reel tapes that the oxide has turned into gummy stick gunk.
Maintaining these archives is time consuming and required for though to make checksums and many backups.
My largest problem till recently has been a lack of storage space to keep everything. Media and square footage in the Garage.
But thanks to things like DVD-R and 250Gig Maxtor Drives this hasn't been a problem any longer. And they even have 200Gig Worm Drives.
So maybe I'm a bit of a packrat, but thinks like the Unix Locate command, and having it under cygwin has been priceless.
Now if I only had tools to read my old.img files from Turbo Pascal or my old easywriter and multimate doc's.
I have a generic Taiwanese USB Bluetooth adapter on my PC that I use to transfer photos from my Phone to my PC. It uses the Widcomm drivers.
I bought one of those Motorola HS810 bluetooth Wireless earpieces for uses with the phone.
Just as an experiment I was able to pair the earphone with the PC. I lost the ablity to use the soundcard on the PC but I was able to hear and record decient audio from the earpiece.
Worked great, but with there was an easier way to switch between the two, or have both work at the same time. Maybe more mixer channels.
I was able to use a VOIP app with the earpiece and walk about my house even better then a cordless phone. Total cost $20 for USB->BT and $100 for BT Earpiece.
I wish someone would come out with Bluetooth speakers, expecialy if I would be able to use them from multiple PC's.
As for someone else post about security in here I do believe there is type of security implemented when you Pair Bluetooth devices.
When I went to vote this morning we had the Diebold system. This is Montclair, CA.
They handed me a smart card, and I put card in and made my selections.
When came to the end I went to select the "cast ballot" button it returned a message "Are you sure you want to proceed, you haven't made all the selections you are entitled to."
OK?? So I went back and double checked everything. I definatly had voted on everything there was to vote on. Spent about 10 Minutes in all checking and rechecking.
I had to hit the "Cast Ballot" to finish and return my card.
So when I finished I complain to the manager there, and they said it's seems to happen every so often, we don't know what's the reason.
They really didn't know anything about these system, or what they could do about errors or problems.
So I walked away wondering if some of my votes were just dropped or something.
I mean as a programmer this system really made me feel incredably unconfortable as to it's reliablity, accuracy and security.
Wouldn't I need to make some kind of profit or be asking for or tryin to get something for this to be a scam!
I have a patent in the filling process on DeCash, not that it's all that complicated.
It's not a bussiness yet never said it was, I call it a project. I need to get some bussiness people for that project to become a bussiness. Hell maybe I'll try to opensource that too. Since it was really about doing cash on Cell Phones with Harex/Zoop.
Since I already have several startups in the pipe I can't afford to start this one up yet.
www.nisvara.com 2 Year - Partners with Nasa Ames www.zboxdvd.com www.overcell.com www.video technology.com - more like a blog or sorts. www.orovalle.com - self explanatory. www.exsentrikenterprizes.com
As for the CPU that was with Chuck Moore the Author of FORTH. www.enumera.com & www.colorforth.com And I can assure you he and the claims extrapolated from working silicon are quite legitamate.
Someone please moderate these guys for the trolls they are. It's crap like this that got me to walk away from my public involvment in BSD Unix.
I have DeCash a scheme where I don't use encryption but unguessable one time pads of sorts to secure cash.
I think of it as limited exposure. Right now I get your card and I have you for $5K or what ever your limit is.
Same thing if I get your ATM and Pin I can get you for $20,000 or more at $450 per day or what ever the daily limit is.
I had a taxi take me to an ATM in Tijuana Mexico once. Well the ATM looked real but wasn't. I must have been a phony machine with a person on the other side! It returned some one elses Well Fargo ATM Card that had been stolen a months before. I whould have thought to check the name on the card after the machine returned it to me. I just couldn't get money out put the card back in my wallet and went somewhere else and used a different card at a different bank.
So I went home with this ATM card in my pocket that looked just like mine and for almost a month never used it or gave it a second thought. Mean while I was loosing $300 Per day, they had the PIN from my typing it in at the bogus machine.
No one was near me while I was at the ATM so no one could have seen me type it in.
A month went to use the card and it still didn't work and the ATM ate it. I ran inside and complained to the manager who retrieved the card from the ATM only so see it was someone elses card that I had and would do nothing more! I couldn't even stop them for another day from continuing to widthdraw money!
I lost over $9000 and Wells Fargo refused to refund the money.
I ate it. It hurt! And I will never bank at WF again even though I had worked there in the past.
Anyhow, At least if I use cash and loose my wallet I lose what ever was in there, but nothing more. DeCash would provide the same limited exposure.
The problem is isn't the hackers stealing people identity. There have always been unscrupulous people and there aways will be.
Most peopel that do ID theft I'd hardly qualify as a hacker. There is nothing high tech required, none ever need a computer to do it. A computer can't even really help to commit these illegal acts.
What the problem is, is that a simple 16 digit Credit Card number can be used as cash by anyone who knows those numbers. There is no protection what so ever! None, nada, nill, nothing what so ever! I it's almost like leaving a wallet full of cash on the sidewalk. Can you blame the person who finds it and doesn't turn it in?
Same thing for Identity theft anyone who knows your address, birthdate and SSN# , Mother maden name, birth place can be you! They can empty your checking account, buy a house, or a car and you have to pay the price. These several facts are totaly unacceptable on the part of those who accept this totaly unprotectable data as proof positive evidence of your ID.
Currently you can get a credit card is some one else's name easier then you can get a job in there name. When getting a job they require at least 2 to 3 forms of ID and make copys of it for verification of work elegablity and Fine a company heavily for failing to do so.
The Credit origanization are happy to give you credit without checking it's really you. Then can take a Guilty until proven innocent stance with almost no recourse what so ever! Any you stay punished until proven otherwise. Meaning your cash is seized, credit runied, house lost etc...
As a matter of fact it so easy for them to go after you, even when it wasn't you who they made the loan with, that they have little incentive to fix the problem! Why should they?
The burden should be put on those who are lending or providing money. If they said they had loaned me money, the burden to prove that they gave it to me should be them. If they couldn't produce adaquate proof and whould have to eat that lost money, I'm sure they would fix the ID theft problem overnight.
There is a real need to come up with more secure form of identification. Something that requires more then a 3rd Grade Education to crack.
The reason that I don't point at the goverment is that it against the LAW to use a SSN as a form of ID, although almost all Credit/Banks do use it as such. This needs to be enforced! Maybe if you want a Credit card or a Bank loan, you need to get a specialy issued ID card from some consortium of banks, where they finger print of you, take a photo and meet you in person, it's harder lie to someones face! This ID Card could use a DES/AES or some other harder to break system that required more then a pen and paper of photo copy machine to break.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.nisvara.com/
Ok Here is a shameless plug for a company I have been tring to get off the ground for 2 years now.
I had developed a silent PC including the drives, no moving parts, no heat pipes, just a big ass heatsink. But it's the same weight and size as a mini tower. We have 2 patents on the technology.
We also developed a carbon fiber material (with help from NASA Ames) that has much higher thermal conductivity then copper for keeping the cpu cool without fans.
I was tring to find a media center PC vendor to get to use this technology since most have some real heat problems. I talked to Maxtor but they didn't want to present our solution to their customer because it involved changing the design.
You can't have a passive heat removal solution cool below the ambient air temperature, but they didn't seem to get it.
Also talk to RicaVision but they also never moved.
At this point I am trying to work on a open source type of reference design for thermaly conductive cooling solutions and to see if there are any computer makers/Media Center PC companies that would like to work with the inventions I came up with.
The cooling solution was original designed for blade and cluster computers, and works great on a desktop configuration. The drive is 100% silent even with your ear against it and runs cooler then in a fan based solution. It's also water tight! Incase you wanted to clean your computer off with a garden hose.
Photo HERE
Opps, How did that link get in there?
Anyhow I think this is the right link now.
Ask Chuck Moore About 25X, Forth And So On
Thanks for the encouragement.
This is what I was trying to do with Chuck Moore, back in 2000... No one would believe us. Or want anything to do with it. Now it's the hot new tech!
Reported here.
Ask Chuck Moore About 25X, Forth And So On From April 2001.
Chuck Moore Holds Forth
I think a more realist view is that future generation will need that energy to support colonies on the moon and for travel around the solar system and other stars. Rather then try to bring it all back to earth.
This was a contract for Sun Microsystems in 1991. The HR people challenged the hours I billed, 24*7 that 168 Hrs. But I was in their PAL1 Building, and had been recorded by surveillance camera working for the180+ hrs straight to finish this rush project, so they had to paid me.
The code worked bug free, first try. It was brutal, drinking lot's a Coke-a-Cola's and jogging every so often helped, when the screen started spinning too much. No showers, and nothing but vending machine food.
It's called EmpCommVideo and my understanding is that it was still in use at Sun two years ago, and may still be.
I used to work like that all the time, not usualy for 7 days, but 3 days or more in a row was my norm. Then I'd crash for 2 or 3 days and go back and do it again. This was my usual mode when I was in my 20's.
Now in my late 30's I feel like I'm going to die after 40 hrs awake.
linksys firewall
With almost every version of FreeBSD every released there has never been any major security issues.
I still have a 2.1.0 from 1995 up and running with almost no mods from the default install and have never had a breaking , it's in front of a firewall and had hosted several celebrity web sites with a lot of exposure.
Actualuy I did do the windows updates, several times (with reboots) before exposing it to the net.
I am a Unix guy not really into windows so much. But did dissable as many services as I could.
I was planning to install TrendMicro, which I did the next morning after a spending a whole night reinstalling windows.
Trend works just fine but I didn't really appreciate it as much.
I figured with all the updates etc, it would have be ok for a few hours till I could install some antivirus software.
I reciently installed a new win2K system and installed the latest service pack 4.
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I also killed all the services. and it never ran a web browser. Just mysql. I didn't have any antivirus software on it.
So after placing it on an unfirewalled connection in a locked room, withing 2 hours there were over dozens of virus, worm and spyware installed on the system till it crashed and couldn't even boot. Coming up with 100's of DLL errors!
Again we never open a single web page.
Specificaly some of what was installed was:
alte.exe
beird.exe
c.bat
clonzips.ssc
clsob
cvqaikxt.apk
cult.exe
cygwin1.dll
dgss
dual.exp
emoti.bat
enotxa2.exe
explorx.
ger.exe
gt.x
hosts was altered
knlps.exe
knlps.sys
ksat.bat
medo.dl
nonzipsr.noz
ntcnsl.dll
orrl.exe
Odi
repcale.exe
riqa
scheduler.exe
sysm
svcshost.exe
titlex.exe
w.e
wshield.e
winguard.exe
ymnz.exe
unmt.exe
vnicmon.exe
a qsws directory
zippedsr.piz
If someone out there that is willing to put the time in to implementing a reliable UDP I'd be willing to share my notes and research on how to implement my ECIP error correction over IP as well as my SPAC Protocols. (Selective Packet Acknoledgement) algorythems. They can work together for a really cool solution.
The original code was lost when my former company went bust, it's was mess anyhow.
But the algorythems can be reimplemented.
ECIP
John L. Sokol
PS: Method of passing bi-directional data between two firewalls.
I wonder if anyone that's doing this read my paper on this?
I remember reading a study where mice exposed to NanoTubes were found to have them in there brains.
Aparently the nanotubes are so small they are extreamly sharp.
I know there was sum suspicion that the asbestosis didn't come from the material itself but from it's mechanical properties, where it forms a fine dust and becomes a extream irritant in the lungs.
Could be that nanotubes are similar.
I had the chance to experiment a bit with some, it's just like soot or carbon black! Think microscopic fiberglass.
Mostly people seem to add it into epoxies, so it's a composite with very impressive properties. But without coating them in some way I'd be very uncomfortable with the thought it touching it.
Having it pass right through my skin and floating around in my bloodstream.
But I was under NDA so I couldn't talk about it.
Seems like a good Idea, but only if it's done right.
I have a site that I have been trying for some time to organize information on hdtv video recording. It's still not very well organized, but here it is.
HDTVRecord.com
More or less along the lines of what I originaly said, the asteroid part + cable would almost stay in place without anchoring on the earth end.
So if the earth end were to be cut loose it would be like a giant needle cutting a groove in the earth around the equator, providing enough drag to possibly cause the orbit of the asteroid to decay.
Hey, I'm no astrophysicist here, but I doubt that thrusters could keep a situation like that stable very long, and certany cutting the cable free of the asteroid would send the asteroid sailing off in one direction and the cable come crashing to earth.
But the cable descibed in the report, made of nano tubes would hardly burn up in reentry. A nano-tube is practicaly a thermal-superconductor.
The cable/asteriod is supposed to be near neutral boyancy. It couldn't pull with too much force because it would be impossible to anchor.
But if it were to break free there would be quite a bit of atmospheric Drag, slowing it down, so if it doesn't break free of the earths gravity, it would at some point crash down. 30,000 + Miles of nanotube cable, with a big rock at the end.
I several occasions I have written code and posted it opensource, binary, BASIC (way back when) or just used it at an ISP or something, then find someone filed a patent based on seeing my Code!.
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First Byte inc. Filed a Patent on playing PWM Audio on the PC internal Speaker, I assume after disassembling my binary (written in Assembly) that I had posted on Compuserve(the copy a bug I had in that code into there patent). They then started suing everyone who had also dissembled my code and started using it in there products. Finally I become an expert witness for Activision and had to sign an affidavit stating that I had prior art to help get the First Byte patent overturned! And a few companes liscenced the code official from me. http://www.dnull.com/zebraresearch/ (code is posted)
The same is true for much of the code I have done. Some of the first audio and video(in and out), on Apple II, CoCo , PC , C64, Lisa, Mac.
Multimedia over BBS's , Multi-tone audio out of 1bit output (1983)(AKA, polyphonic ringtones),
LCD oscilloscope (1986),
Streaming audio over IP now called VOIP , portable compressed music player (1987),
TCP/IP over Spread Spectrum RF and Laser(1988),
Streaming Video over IP Lan in (1989),
Streaming video across Sun Microsystem global IP WAN, TCP/IP over Laser (1991),
Internet Banking web site(for Wells Fargo 1992)
Livecam (1994),
Content Distribution Networks , fault tolerant web server, Single threaded web server and web server with compressed log files output(1995)
Error Correction over IP, CCTV DVR, Streaming audio over JAVA(1996),
Parallel processor Video Compression and HDTV streaming over the Internet (1999).
Silent computers and water cooled blades(2000),
There was even a company that threated to sue me after stealing my code outright! They just changed the authorship names. Fortunatly I had left hidden in the code in the server if you gave it the right URL from a browser it reported my name as the author. I never managed to stop them from selling there version of the product though.
Can't talk about the newer stuff since I have started to file patents So I don't get prevented from using my own stuff.
My biggest problem is how do I protect myself.
Seems like whenever I try to publish something, someone else borrows it, (or at least the concept) and puts it out farther and faster then I can and takes the credit for it. I know I just plan suck a PR and getting the word out , but still.
I at least want to be able to prove original authorship and invention for the ideas and concepts. And it seems anything less then filing patents one each one has been ineffective.
I think jack and the bean stalk is a better example.
Just a thought here but carbon nano tubes are incredibly good thermal conductors, > 6000WkM. A nanotube composite would be much harder and stronger then steel, and would not be affected by heat, because it would conduct it away.
Now imaging a super strong, heat resistant, really large cable made of this with an asteroid connected to the end of it.
What would happen if it were to break free from it's anchoring on earth?
This cable would be like a giant phonograph needle cutting a groove in the ground across
the equator, unstoppable, and finally ending with the asteroid impact.
Just something to consider when playing with such big toys.
A slip up when build this could be really bad.
I also want to point out that some nut case may intentionally try to do something like this, think 9/11 here where a very small force (a box cutter) , released and air craft impact, that released 60,000 gallons of fuel, that released the stored kinetic energy of a skyscraper.
200 years ago there was no possibility for an individual person to release so much stored energy, this hazard came from our technology. Today we can harnesses every increasing levels of potential energy in our machines, building and systems. To an engineer, it all seems well under control, but few plan on someone intentionally throwing a wrench in the works, that could in an instant release all this stored energy in a very undesirable fashion.
What would a mach 10 aircraft do to a space elevator? Or what about a Nuke?
I really love the idea of unlimited cheap and easy access to space, but we really need to anticipate the all the worst case scenarios that come with it.
I have digital data lying around since 1976, that's 24 years, I have my first digital photos and everything. Granted I have lost some data , but this is from having to move around for work and things like physical theft (I had a filing cabinet of floppy's stolen in 1987).
.img files from Turbo Pascal or my old easywriter and multimate doc's.
I have understood from day one that tapes and disks are of a limited life span. And make many copy's all over the place.
Every time I upgrade my main work computer I copy the old disk to the new. and keep the old drive in storage. I did't this from 5 meg, to 10 meg, to 20meg to 40 meg, to 80 meg, to 120meg, to 200 meg, to 500 meg, to 800 meg, to 1 gig, to 4 gig, to 9 gig, to 20 gig, to 60 gig, to 100 gig, to 200 gig, and now to 1 TB. For both my main usix and Windows/Dos drives. My windows disk had on C:
a C:\C\C\C\C\C\C\C directory with each succesive complete image of the previous system I had been working on.
I also use redundant tape backups and have spent the time to transfer everything over to CD-R and later DVD-R as well as keep much of it online at all times.
I have found some bit rot where files are corrupted, but have made some crude scripts to do MD5 checksums way back and now this allows me to reconstruct complete sets originals files from several faulty sources.
I have even restored all my VAX source from ½ inch 9 track reel to reel tapes that the oxide has turned into gummy stick gunk.
Maintaining these archives is time consuming and required for though to make checksums and many backups.
My largest problem till recently has been a lack of storage space to keep everything. Media and square footage in the Garage.
But thanks to things like DVD-R and 250Gig Maxtor Drives this hasn't been a problem any longer.
And they even have 200Gig Worm Drives.
So maybe I'm a bit of a packrat, but thinks like the Unix Locate command, and having it under cygwin has been priceless.
Now if I only had tools to read my old
I have a generic Taiwanese USB Bluetooth adapter on my PC that I use to transfer photos from my Phone to my PC.
It uses the Widcomm drivers.
I bought one of those Motorola HS810 bluetooth Wireless earpieces for uses with the phone.
Just as an experiment I was able to pair the earphone with the PC. I lost the ablity to use the soundcard on the PC but I was able to hear and record decient audio from the earpiece.
Worked great, but with there was an easier way to switch between the two, or have both work at the same time. Maybe more mixer channels.
I was able to use a VOIP app with the earpiece and walk about my house even better then a cordless phone. Total cost $20 for USB->BT and $100 for BT Earpiece.
I wish someone would come out with Bluetooth speakers, expecialy if I would be able to use them from multiple PC's.
As for someone else post about security in here I do believe there is type of security implemented when you Pair Bluetooth devices.
When I went to vote this morning we had the Diebold system. This is Montclair, CA.
They handed me a smart card, and I put card in and made my selections.
When came to the end I went to select the "cast ballot" button it returned a message "Are you sure you want to proceed, you haven't made all the selections you are entitled to."
OK?? So I went back and double checked everything. I definatly had voted on everything there was to vote on. Spent about 10 Minutes in all checking and rechecking.
I had to hit the "Cast Ballot" to finish and return my card.
So when I finished I complain to the manager there, and they said it's seems to happen every so often, we don't know what's the reason.
They really didn't know anything about these system, or what they could do about errors or problems.
So I walked away wondering if some of my votes were just dropped or something.
I mean as a programmer this system really made me feel incredably unconfortable as to it's reliablity, accuracy and security.
Sure has, I have paid less taxes then I ever before.
I also have spent most of the these past four years out of work! So I have have had very Income and been broke most of the time...
http://www.dnull.com/~sokol/unix/article1.txt
http://www.videotechnology.com/about.html Just so you can see the above link is wrong.
Wouldn't I need to make some kind of profit or be asking for or tryin to get something for this to be a scam!
o technology.com - more like a blog or sorts.
I have a patent in the filling process on DeCash, not that it's all that complicated.
It's not a bussiness yet never said it was, I call it a project. I need to get some bussiness people for that project to become a bussiness. Hell maybe I'll try to opensource that too. Since it was really about doing cash on Cell Phones with Harex/Zoop.
Since I already have several startups in the pipe I can't afford to start this one up yet.
www.nisvara.com 2 Year - Partners with Nasa Ames
www.zboxdvd.com
www.overcell.com
www.vide
www.orovalle.com - self explanatory.
www.exsentrikenterprizes.com
As for the CPU that was with Chuck Moore the Author of FORTH.
www.enumera.com & www.colorforth.com And I can assure you he and the claims extrapolated from working silicon are quite legitamate.
Someone please moderate these guys for the trolls they are. It's crap like this that got me to walk away from my public involvment in BSD Unix.
John L. Sokol
A pin still isn't good enough.
I have DeCash a scheme where I don't use encryption but unguessable one time pads of sorts to secure cash.
I think of it as limited exposure. Right now I get your card and I have you for $5K or what ever your limit is.
Same thing if I get your ATM and Pin I can get you for $20,000 or more at $450 per day or what ever the daily limit is.
I had a taxi take me to an ATM in Tijuana Mexico once. Well the ATM looked real but wasn't. I must have been a phony machine with a person on the other side! It returned some one elses Well Fargo ATM Card that had been stolen a months before. I whould have thought to check the name on the card after the machine returned it to me. I just couldn't get money out put the card back in my wallet and went somewhere else and used a different card at a different bank.
So I went home with this ATM card in my pocket that looked just like mine and for almost a month never used it or gave it a second thought.
Mean while I was loosing $300 Per day, they had the PIN from my typing it in at the bogus machine.
No one was near me while I was at the ATM so no one could have seen me type it in.
A month went to use the card and it still didn't work and the ATM ate it.
I ran inside and complained to the manager who retrieved the card from the ATM only so see it was someone elses card that I had and would do nothing more! I couldn't even stop them for another day from continuing to widthdraw money!
I lost over $9000 and Wells Fargo refused to refund the money.
I ate it. It hurt! And I will never bank at WF again even though I had worked there in the past.
Anyhow,
At least if I use cash and loose my wallet I lose what ever was in there, but nothing more. DeCash would provide the same limited exposure.
The problem is isn't the hackers stealing people identity. There have always been unscrupulous people and there aways will be.
Most peopel that do ID theft I'd hardly qualify as a hacker. There is nothing high tech required, none ever need a computer to do it. A computer can't even really help to commit these illegal acts.
What the problem is, is that a simple 16 digit Credit Card number can be used as cash by anyone who knows those numbers. There is no protection what so ever! None, nada, nill, nothing what so ever! I it's almost like leaving a wallet full of cash on the sidewalk. Can you blame the person who finds it and doesn't turn it in?
Same thing for Identity theft anyone who knows your address, birthdate and SSN# , Mother maden name, birth place can be you! They can empty your checking account, buy a house, or a car and you have to pay the price. These several facts are totaly unacceptable on the part of those who accept this totaly unprotectable data as proof positive evidence of your ID.
Currently you can get a credit card is some one else's name easier then you can get a job in there name. When getting a job they require at least 2 to 3 forms of ID and make copys of it for verification of work elegablity and Fine a company heavily for failing to do so.
The Credit origanization are happy to give you credit without checking it's really you. Then can take a Guilty until proven innocent stance with almost no recourse what so ever! Any you stay punished until proven otherwise. Meaning your cash is seized, credit runied, house lost etc...
As a matter of fact it so easy for them to go after you, even when it wasn't you who they made the loan with, that they have little incentive to fix the problem! Why should they?
The burden should be put on those who are lending or providing money. If they said they had loaned me money, the burden to prove that they gave it to me should be them. If they couldn't produce adaquate proof and whould have to eat that lost money, I'm sure they would fix the ID theft problem overnight.
There is a real need to come up with more secure form of identification. Something that requires more then a 3rd Grade Education to crack.
The reason that I don't point at the goverment is that it against the LAW to use a SSN as a form of ID, although almost all Credit/Banks do use it as such. This needs to be enforced! Maybe if you want a Credit card or a Bank loan, you need to get a specialy issued ID card from some consortium of banks, where they finger print of you, take a photo and meet you in person, it's harder lie to someones face! This ID Card could use a DES/AES or some other harder to break system that required more then a pen and paper of photo copy machine to break.
At least that's my humble opinion.