Are they going to ban romance novels? Rape and violence are common themes in these books. The fact that many women have rape fantasies, and like to read about it in fiction, does not mean that they want to be raped in the real world.
You're assuming a perfect world. In the real world, balanced circuits are not perfectly balanced and components drift and fail. Part of real-world engineering is to think about the consequences of foreseeable events.
WTF is he talking about? The only way to sniff data from an unshielded cable is if you are right next to it. It is not going to help you when the cable is on a ship in the middle of the ocean. Further, the moment data is transmitted off the ship via radar, all bets are off. Unless you encrypt it *anyone* can listen to it.
Wrong. Think about crosstalk. All it takes is crosstalk from a cable carrying unencrypted data to a cable connected to a radio transmitter to ruin your security. That's why the NSA is normally such a stickler for proper shielding, filtering and isolation of secure communications systems.
TEMPEST was around long before 1985. The NSA has been concerned about compromising emanations since its inception. It was an issue with electro-mechanical teletypes, coding machines and electric typewriters. One method used to spy on foreign embassies was to monitor their power lines for noise induced by the operation of equipment handling sensitive information.
The traditional problem with doing this is that when you put TCP/IP on the NIC, you still need a protocol for the operating system to communicate with the NIC, and the CPU on the NIC is much slower than the main CPU. I used to have a box full of smart NICs that people had discarded because they were more trouble than they were worth, even though they had paid premium prices for the onboard protocol processing features.
A properly designed network would let the NOC automatically collect information on quality, errors, and outages, so that problems could be diagnosed and fixed without having to wait for a customer complaint.
From what I've read, they plan to kill analog cable when digital cable boxes become cheap enough that they can afford to buy millions of them and give them to all of their analog cable customers. This will let them recover a huge amount of bandwidth for other uses. One problem will be that they will have to completely restructure their tiers and pricing since digital cable will no longer be a premium service and they can't afford to drive off their analog customers with large price increases.
Just because a law is on the books, doesn't mean that it will stand up to review in court. Any prosecutor with two brain cells would realize that a conviction based on that law would get reversed by the appeals court. See the Smith Act.
An old theft detection technique is dusting the item with powdered Gentian violet. When it gets wet, it produces a violet stain that is very difficult to remove.
Japan was floating proposals for a conditional surrender, with terms that were unacceptable to the Allies. It took two nukes and a failed military coup against the Emperor to end the war. There were plenty of Japanese who were willing to fight to the end.
The old Ottoman empire was carved up into arbitrary countries, but Isreal the only one created for people who hadn't lived there for hundreds of years...
You forgot the approximately 850,000 Jews who lived in Arab/Muslim countries, as second-class citizens, who were expelled or forced to flee their homes after the establishment of Israel. They were living in the Middle East before Islam even existed.
Read up on the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Mohammad Amin al-Husayni, a worthless piece of shit who extensively collaborated with the Nazis, helped recruit Muslims to serve in the Waffen S.S., and never missed an opportunity to help kill more Jews.
You forgot the little matter of a rocket attack on Northern Israel, timed to correspond with the murder and kidnapping of Israeli soldiers on border patrol inside Israel.
Hundreds, or thousands, of Hezbollah prisoners in Israel? Try thirteen. That's a one followed by a three.
In most places, it's a legal use of deadly force to shoot an arsonist who is attempting to set an occupied building on fire. The same would apply to someone emplacing a bomb.
As an "old fart", I'd say that safe driving is based on three things, education, maturity and experience. The problem with many young drivers is that they lack maturity and experience. Even if they have the maturity, they don't have the experience. It takes time to become a good driver. It's a learning process. You learn from your mistakes. Hopefully, without getting involved in any serious accidents. Sadly, many older drivers also lack the maturity to be good drivers and don't learn from their mistakes. Education is important. The principles of defensive driving that I was taught in High School have been very useful on the road.
Safety should be rule one. You are not Richard Petty and the road is not a race track. Assume that all other drivers are blind and stupid. Leave your ego at home. Know the limitations of your vehicle, especially in poor driving conditions. Be predictable, don't surprise other drivers. Take your time and be aware of your surroundings.
If they want to get people to listen to them, they should design a simple and reproducible experiment that demonstrates the principle that is the basis for their free energy device.
I thought that was common knowledge that they wanted to allow sharing of resources in a failure-tolerant way -- after all they didn't want to become reliant on a communication and collaboration technology that could be easily disrupted in wartime. That's just common sense.
You need a better textbook. The idea that the Arpanet was designed to be a survivable network is a particularly persistent myth.
It was from the RAND study that the false rumor started claiming that the ARPANET was somehow related to building a network resistant to nuclear war. This was never true of the ARPANET, only the unrelated RAND study on secure voice considered nuclear war. However, the later work on Internetting did emphasize robustness and survivability, including the capability to withstand losses of large portions of the underlying networks.
A Brief History of the Internet, version 3.32
Barry M. Leiner, Vinton G. Cerf, David D. Clark,
Robert E. Kahn, Leonard Kleinrock, Daniel C. Lynch,
Jon Postel, Larry G. Roberts, Stephen Wolff http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml
See also:
Charles Herzfeld on ARPAnet and Computers:
ARPAnet - A Network for Sharing Computer Resources
Why was the ARPAnet started? Most of the early "history" on the subject is wrong. As Director of ARPA at the time, I can tell you our intent. The ARPAnet was not started to create a Command and Control System that would survive a nuclear attack, as many now claim. To build such a system was clearly a major military need, but it was not ARPA's mission to do this; in fact, we would have been severely criticized had we tried. Rather, the ARPAnet came out of our frustration that there were only a limited number of large, powerful research computers in the country, and that many research investigators who should have access to them were geographically separated from them.
Although the goal was different, this is in the spirit of the creation of the Internet. DARPAnet was designed to scatter information to maintain communications.
Cite? From what I've read about the original Arpanet, it was designed to allow the sharing of computer resources and data among DoD researchers. It wasn't designed to be a failure-tolerant network, although DARPA funded quite a bit of research in that area.
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Are they going to ban romance novels? Rape and violence are common themes in these books. The fact that many women have rape fantasies, and like to read about it in fiction, does not mean that they want to be raped in the real world.
You're assuming a perfect world. In the real world, balanced circuits are not perfectly balanced and components drift and fail. Part of real-world engineering is to think about the consequences of foreseeable events.
Wrong. Think about crosstalk. All it takes is crosstalk from a cable carrying unencrypted data to a cable connected to a radio transmitter to ruin your security. That's why the NSA is normally such a stickler for proper shielding, filtering and isolation of secure communications systems.
TEMPEST was around long before 1985. The NSA has been concerned about compromising emanations since its inception. It was an issue with electro-mechanical teletypes, coding machines and electric typewriters. One method used to spy on foreign embassies was to monitor their power lines for noise induced by the operation of equipment handling sensitive information.
The traditional problem with doing this is that when you put TCP/IP on the NIC, you still need a protocol for the operating system to communicate with the NIC, and the CPU on the NIC is much slower than the main CPU. I used to have a box full of smart NICs that people had discarded because they were more trouble than they were worth, even though they had paid premium prices for the onboard protocol processing features.
A properly designed network would let the NOC automatically collect information on quality, errors, and outages, so that problems could be diagnosed and fixed without having to wait for a customer complaint.
From what I've read, they plan to kill analog cable when digital cable boxes become cheap enough that they can afford to buy millions of them and give them to all of their analog cable customers. This will let them recover a huge amount of bandwidth for other uses. One problem will be that they will have to completely restructure their tiers and pricing since digital cable will no longer be a premium service and they can't afford to drive off their analog customers with large price increases.
Like just after Pearl Harbor, right...
Just because a law is on the books, doesn't mean that it will stand up to review in court. Any prosecutor with two brain cells would realize that a conviction based on that law would get reversed by the appeals court. See the Smith Act.
An old theft detection technique is dusting the item with powdered Gentian violet. When it gets wet, it produces a violet stain that is very difficult to remove.
Japan was floating proposals for a conditional surrender, with terms that were unacceptable to the Allies. It took two nukes and a failed military coup against the Emperor to end the war. There were plenty of Japanese who were willing to fight to the end.
You forgot the approximately 850,000 Jews who lived in Arab/Muslim countries, as second-class citizens, who were expelled or forced to flee their homes after the establishment of Israel. They were living in the Middle East before Islam even existed.
It's called the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which Iran signed.
Read up on the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Mohammad Amin al-Husayni, a worthless piece of shit who extensively collaborated with the Nazis, helped recruit Muslims to serve in the Waffen S.S., and never missed an opportunity to help kill more Jews.
Hundreds, or thousands, of Hezbollah prisoners in Israel? Try thirteen. That's a one followed by a three.
See the W33 for an example of a light and compact nuclear weapon that uses HEU and gun assembly.
thwak...
In most places, it's a legal use of deadly force to shoot an arsonist who is attempting to set an occupied building on fire. The same would apply to someone emplacing a bomb.
I have my doubts about the survival ability of other livestock.
Safety should be rule one. You are not Richard Petty and the road is not a race track. Assume that all other drivers are blind and stupid. Leave your ego at home. Know the limitations of your vehicle, especially in poor driving conditions. Be predictable, don't surprise other drivers. Take your time and be aware of your surroundings.
If they want to get people to listen to them, they should design a simple and reproducible experiment that demonstrates the principle that is the basis for their free energy device.
It only has enough memory to record the data immediately preceding some significant event, like air-bag deployment.
Here's a nickel, buy yourself a new sheet of tin foil.
You need a better textbook. The idea that the Arpanet was designed to be a survivable network is a particularly persistent myth.
See also:
Cite? From what I've read about the original Arpanet, it was designed to allow the sharing of computer resources and data among DoD researchers. It wasn't designed to be a failure-tolerant network, although DARPA funded quite a bit of research in that area.