Actually there is anther pratical application, it keeps tabs on computing power as it relates to factorization, this does have some significant security implications.
deangelo
Most of these posts are not going to help the submitter much at all, mostly because nobody here seems to know a damn thing about GIS. First things first, what sort of mapping are you trying to do, what information do you want to gather? Hydrology? Land use? Topology? Classification? Next most of the consumer grade stuff is crap if you want any kind of accuracy, if you want really good data, you'll need to get a base station set up and look into dgps, that means you need a better sort of GPS unit such as something from Trimble. Next, GPS compasses, be they electronic, interpolated, or what not are crap. BRING a GOOD compass. You'll probably also want a separate barometric altimeter, and a clinometer, if you don't know how to use and calibrate this equipment, then I must agree with the earlier post that amateur cartography might not be for you. As for software, again really depends on what you are trying to do? orthorectify photos? network analysis? etc... In short, good luck.
BTW, I have SOME qualifications, a GIS minor, and my Msc thesis(in progress) is about robotic terrain mapping.
That will be easy for them to get around, they simply won't refer to the weapons as WMD's. If you don't think the distinction will hold water with the international community then do a little looking into what happened in Rwanda. As they say, and this time we knew.
I'm not questioning his influence, I'm questioning the presumption that he is the world's foremost authority. Also where was the second highest grosing film in the world made? New Zealand. Not to mention that the top grosing film of all time sucked, so yay Go US! The orignal post wasn't meant to be a flame bait but man you guys are sensitive. BTW, the statment
"and in that sense we are the World's movie makers"
is even better than the one that I was orignally talking about. It's amazing, some one tries to make an observation and provoke some meaningful discourse and the only responce is some AC calling me a dumbass.
"The world's authority on reviewing movies, Roger Ebert"
It always amazes me that people believe these sort of blanket western centric statements. I'm sure loads of people from China and India (to name a few) hang off of Eberts words.
That dosen't change the fact that it happens, most internet cafe's are not set up by any sort of expert. We are not talking about a fully authorized use of the system in the first place. A little extra leg work might be needed (bios back doors, social engineering...). Just because a computer can be set up to be relatively secure dosn't mean that it was set up that way.
How about this, my university used to have a modem pool, I'm sure some places still have them, if you got an old acusticly coupled modem and called into a modem pool from a payphone (the modem pool was accesable, with a little messing around, from the 1800 number but that's probably too much to ask for normally) Then gain access ( I know, sounds simple, but it is just a matter of time ) Then go nuts.
Some payphones even have RJ-11's right on them.
Or how about those coin op internet booths, they can be found in hotels, airports...
Anyway the point is that we are just trying to brain storm no need to get nasty.
I'm supprised nobody suggested knoppix at an intenet cafe. Combine that with ssh and some free websites, never use the same place twice(website or cafe). Someone also suggested wardriving... come on, we can come up with some ideas that mitigate the risks can't we? Actually combine the leflet campaign as well, each new leaflet publication refers to a new free website, that is never accessed after initial publication... As for a hardware keyloger, they would log scan codes right? so us a non-standard layout, but that would be vulnerable to statstical attacks if there was any substantial amount of text, any suggestions here?
codohundo
I like gentoo package management (use variable rocks), if anything they stay too up to date, I accept that there has to be some drawbacks. I am willing to invest a little time once every 8 months or so (I farg up my system a lot, regardless of what os I'm using)
I don't consider my machine to be a beast, 1.4 tbird with.5gig ram (pc133) it only took me two days to get up and running. That includes Xorg with accelerated drivers, Gnome and all the trimmings from stage 1, everything from source except the closed video drivers. Most of the time I wasn't even home. I'd just ssh home from time to time to make sure it was still bussy. I think your post is a bit more trollish than the orignal. More to the point, I think this whole busness of the gentoo install procedure being difficult is a misnomer. The gentoo handbook is an extremly thurough walkthrough, I'm no *nix expert and I managed to configure my kernal. Granted I can read at almost a grade 2 level so I have that over the common masses.
I think most of you have fixated on the oil and have missed what they are talking about, the bit about 20 billion barrels of oil a day is a red herring, nobody said ANY oil would be saved by this, they are just using oil as a unit of energy measurment. That being said, saving an equivelant of 60000 barrels of oil worth of energy a year is a good start and if it throws a little work towards us developers so be it. All the comments about "go after the SUV's insted" are not only overly obvious but are ultamitly off topic. Not only that but even if we where actually talking about oil why not go after both? Personally I prefer GMT anyway.
codohundo
I'm wondering what their defintion of downloading will be, in some senses EVERYTHING coming through your internet connection is downlaoded, should probably RTFA but then where would the ignorant sensationalism come from?
deAngelo
I do something simmilar but not so dangerous, I have a set of 4 passwords that I rotate monthly, I label them primary high secruity, secondary high security, primary low security and secondary low security. The high security passwords are only used in trusted locations. Then in my pda, the list is just location, username, and which password I am using, but the acutal passwords are still memorized, 14 random characters only take about a day to memorize and I have a rather bad memory. Then if my pda and one password is compromised my exposure is limited.
deangelo
I find most of these comments about writing "slower" clean code, to be suspicious at best, in my experience (10 years of c++, Bsc CPSC, MSC CPSC in progress, contracting, coop... you get the idea) cleaner well written code dosn't perform significantly worse than highly hand tuned code. Humans just arn't good at deciding when certain optimizations should be employed, like unrolling loops, inlining, placing certain vars in registers...
The comments about premature optimizaion, and profiling are bang on.
The only time I resort to hand optimizations now is in embedded microcontroller applications where there are significant hard limits, like memory, and stack and code space. Some of the microcontrollers I use only have 256 bytes of ram, 4 levels of stack, a couple of k of program memory, and run at about 1mhz, so optimizations are justified but other than that don't waist everybodies time.
Another great one is Zac McCrakin Simmilar to maniac mansion, I still rip that one out and play it from time to time.
deAngelo
Re:Jumping in on the discussion early.
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Definatly one of the best books I have EVER read. As for the main character, ya I remember thinking ok, the series has to be about this guy... oops, never mind. I actually had to readjust my way of thinking at the end of the first book.
Travis
Michael, you guys are so two-faced, it's unbelievable. You people will go on and on about you guys aren't stealing music and other IP, but go apeshit when the evil, nasty corporations are stealing domain names (another form of IP).
WHO DECIDED domain names where IP??? DAMN I hate this system.
deAngelo
Most of the computers at my house run hotter with the cases on. 2-8 Deg C. if I recall correctly. I've even done some air flow tweeks, fans in the front pulling air in extra fans at the back pushing air out, round cables etc.. still colder with the case off.
deAngelo
Slashdot Mirror
Disgusting, I used to use and recommend Skype, gonna have to move on now, any suggestions?
deAngelo
Actually there is anther pratical application, it keeps tabs on computing power as it relates to factorization, this does have some significant security implications.
deangelo
I think it was 8675309
Most of these posts are not going to help the submitter much at all, mostly because nobody here seems to know a damn thing about GIS. First things first, what sort of mapping are you trying to do, what information do you want to gather? Hydrology? Land use? Topology? Classification? Next most of the consumer grade stuff is crap if you want any kind of accuracy, if you want really good data, you'll need to get a base station set up and look into dgps, that means you need a better sort of GPS unit such as something from Trimble. Next, GPS compasses, be they electronic, interpolated, or what not are crap. BRING a GOOD compass. You'll probably also want a separate barometric altimeter, and a clinometer, if you don't know how to use and calibrate this equipment, then I must agree with the earlier post that amateur cartography might not be for you. As for software, again really depends on what you are trying to do? orthorectify photos? network analysis? etc...
In short, good luck.
BTW, I have SOME qualifications, a GIS minor, and my Msc thesis(in progress) is about robotic terrain mapping.
Not to mention that 11 pounds is INCORRECT! pounds is not a measure of mass.
That's awesome, the ignorance of this place never ceases to amaze me. But this is what I get for trying to be thought provoking on /.
deangelo
That will be easy for them to get around, they simply won't refer to the weapons as WMD's. If you don't think the distinction will hold water with the international community then do a little looking into what happened in Rwanda. As they say, and this time we knew.
deangelo
The problem is, that the weapons are not going to be pointed towards incoming aliens, it's goning to be pointed inward.
deangelo
I'm not questioning his influence, I'm questioning the presumption that he is the world's foremost authority. Also where was the second highest grosing film in the world made? New Zealand. Not to mention that the top grosing film of all time sucked, so yay Go US! The orignal post wasn't meant to be a flame bait but man you guys are sensitive. BTW, the statment
"and in that sense we are the World's movie makers"
is even better than the one that I was orignally talking about. It's amazing, some one tries to make an observation and provoke some meaningful discourse and the only responce is some AC calling me a dumbass.
codohundo
"The world's authority on reviewing movies, Roger Ebert"
It always amazes me that people believe these sort of blanket western centric statements. I'm sure loads of people from China and India (to name a few) hang off of Eberts words.
deangelo (not from China or India)
That dosen't change the fact that it happens, most internet cafe's are not set up by any sort of expert. We are not talking about a fully authorized use of the system in the first place. A little extra leg work might be needed (bios back doors, social engineering...). Just because a computer can be set up to be relatively secure dosn't mean that it was set up that way.
...
How about this, my university used to have a modem pool, I'm sure some places still have them, if you got an old acusticly coupled modem and called into a modem pool from a payphone (the modem pool was accesable, with a little messing around, from the 1800 number but that's probably too much to ask for normally) Then gain access ( I know, sounds simple, but it is just a matter of time ) Then go nuts.
Some payphones even have RJ-11's right on them.
Or how about those coin op internet booths, they can be found in hotels, airports
Anyway the point is that we are just trying to brain storm no need to get nasty.
codohundo
I'm supprised nobody suggested knoppix at an intenet cafe. Combine that with ssh and some free websites, never use the same place twice(website or cafe). Someone also suggested wardriving... come on, we can come up with some ideas that mitigate the risks can't we? Actually combine the leflet campaign as well, each new leaflet publication refers to a new free website, that is never accessed after initial publication... As for a hardware keyloger, they would log scan codes right? so us a non-standard layout, but that would be vulnerable to statstical attacks if there was any substantial amount of text, any suggestions here?
codohundo
Funny I was thinking Hitlers Youth.
I like gentoo package management (use variable rocks), if anything they stay too up to date, I accept that there has to be some drawbacks. I am willing to invest a little time once every 8 months or so (I farg up my system a lot, regardless of what os I'm using)
codohundo
I don't consider my machine to be a beast, 1.4 tbird with .5gig ram (pc133) it only took me two days to get up and running. That includes Xorg with accelerated drivers, Gnome and all the trimmings from stage 1, everything from source except the closed video drivers. Most of the time I wasn't even home. I'd just ssh home from time to time to make sure it was still bussy. I think your post is a bit more trollish than the orignal. More to the point, I think this whole busness of the gentoo install procedure being difficult is a misnomer. The gentoo handbook is an extremly thurough walkthrough, I'm no *nix expert and I managed to configure my kernal. Granted I can read at almost a grade 2 level so I have that over the common masses.
codohundo
I think most of you have fixated on the oil and have missed what they are talking about, the bit about 20 billion barrels of oil a day is a red herring, nobody said ANY oil would be saved by this, they are just using oil as a unit of energy measurment. That being said, saving an equivelant of 60000 barrels of oil worth of energy a year is a good start and if it throws a little work towards us developers so be it. All the comments about "go after the SUV's insted" are not only overly obvious but are ultamitly off topic. Not only that but even if we where actually talking about oil why not go after both? Personally I prefer GMT anyway.
codohundo
The summary seems to make light of the fact that a CRAP load of cash is still going to be needed?
codohundo
I'm wondering what their defintion of downloading will be, in some senses EVERYTHING coming through your internet connection is downlaoded, should probably RTFA but then where would the ignorant sensationalism come from?
deAngelo
I do something simmilar but not so dangerous, I have a set of 4 passwords that I rotate monthly, I label them primary high secruity, secondary high security, primary low security and secondary low security. The high security passwords are only used in trusted locations. Then in my pda, the list is just location, username, and which password I am using, but the acutal passwords are still memorized, 14 random characters only take about a day to memorize and I have a rather bad memory. Then if my pda and one password is compromised my exposure is limited.
deangelo
I find most of these comments about writing "slower" clean code, to be suspicious at best, in my experience (10 years of c++, Bsc CPSC, MSC CPSC in progress, contracting, coop ... you get the idea) cleaner well written code dosn't perform significantly worse than highly hand tuned code. Humans just arn't good at deciding when certain optimizations should be employed, like unrolling loops, inlining, placing certain vars in registers ...
The comments about premature optimizaion, and profiling are bang on.
The only time I resort to hand optimizations now is in embedded microcontroller applications where there are significant hard limits, like memory, and stack and code space. Some of the microcontrollers I use only have 256 bytes of ram, 4 levels of stack, a couple of k of program memory, and run at about 1mhz, so optimizations are justified but other than that don't waist everybodies time.
deAngelo
I also second this one. Lost several months of my life to Civ 1.
deAngelo
Another great one is Zac McCrakin Simmilar to maniac mansion, I still rip that one out and play it from time to time.
deAngelo
Definatly one of the best books I have EVER read. As for the main character, ya I remember thinking ok, the series has to be about this guy... oops, never mind. I actually had to readjust my way of thinking at the end of the first book.
Travis
WHO DECIDED domain names where IP??? DAMN I hate this system. deAngelo
Most of the computers at my house run hotter with the cases on. 2-8 Deg C. if I recall correctly. I've even done some air flow tweeks, fans in the front pulling air in extra fans at the back pushing air out, round cables etc.. still colder with the case off.
deAngelo