Imagine a vertical board with channels in it, these channels go to wooden gates (think mini teeter-totter), a ball might close a gate and rest there until another ball hits that gate and opens it (or possibly sends the ball in a different direction/etc.). Kids can experiment with setting the gates (positioning them A/B) and then hitting a button to engage the engine which drops balls through 9screw drive/bucket belt, whatever). An Example of an adding machine:
"All citizens, a murderer is on the loose. At exactly 4:23pm everyone needs to go outside and look for this man (picture shown on the TV), if you see him call 911 immediately." - paraphrased from Farenheit 451 f memory serves
This type of thing, if it works would be an incredibly powerful tool in an emergency (you need to find a specific car, a truck with a shipping container, etc.). I'm glad to see DARPA embracing the future they themselves helped create 40 years ago!
I ran into similar problems, except at 10 megabits most consumer level routers/firewalls tip over well before 10 megabits (several thousand outgoing NAT connections and they die, several hundred and they usually start crawling, plus none had real VPN capabilities). Honestly, your choices are basically: re-purpose an old PC with OpenBSD or Linux (I like OpenBSD because you can set it and forget it), or spend some serious cash on a properly firewall/router/NAT box (an old PC is $1-200 and will give you infinitely more capabilities in any event). If you wanna go small/no moving parts that's easy on the power consumption that's easy, just get a soekris box or a routerboard/routerstation pro device.
Da*nit, I want to get on a Zeppelin in say Toronto and spend 2-3 days cruising leisurely (which a nice train style sleeper-cabin, restaurant and bar, free wi-fi of course) to Europe, ideally with service running on an a day that is modified in length in order to reduce jet lag once I get there. If travel were civilized spending more time doing it would be ok. Case in point: Life lessons from an ad man.
This is why I love the Canadian method: paper with circles, make an "X" in the circle you want, fold the paper and put it in the ballot box. Good luck hacking that on a large scale (what with scrutineers from multiple parties watching the election and the count and each other, plus the people there as independent scrutineers watching everyone else), and monitoring it (little cardboard voting booth on a table, voila, privacy. The only argument I could imagine is finger prints on the ballots, but you can wear gloves if you want.
Yeah, because there are a lot of microchip pirates with several billion dollars lying around to create a modern chip fab and copy cpu's willy-nilly, putting Intel out of business inside of a few weeks probably (heck, with the speed of modern chip pirates probably a few days!).
I suspect because we (well generally the tax payers) paid the teachers to do this work, thus it should come under the public domain or government copyright, it is in effect a work for hire.
The fundamental flaw of all these studies is that they are NBOT measuring vulnerabilities, they are measuring PUBLIC vulnerabilities. Two very different things.
You can always drop a civil suit. Personally I don't think a judge should be ruling on this until a suit is brought, otherwise can I just get a judge to unmask the identity of anyone online who says something mean about me so I can figure out if it's worth suing them or not? If the suit has merit then a Judge should have no problem with it.
A spread sheet kept securely (encrypted file, not excel/etc. encryption but something like PGP or TrueCrypt). There are specific programs for this but I find a spread sheet works better.
It's not just storage, it's about caching in ram. If my Linux box caches say one gig of data that happens to be shared amongst multiple (nearly) identical VM's I will see a huge performance increase vs. trying to cache 20 gigs of data (one for each of the 20 VM's). If it's the exact same data why would I want multiple copies floating around unless I explicitly ask for it (i.e. RAID, time machine, backups, etc.).
I don't care if you have a provably correct system (in the sense of a formal mathematical proof AND a code audit AND a hardware audit) because I cannot verify that that is the system I am indeed interacting with! On the other hand with paper and pencil I can easily verify that my vote was recorded correctly (did I make an X in the circle I wanted?.. yup.) and I can also EASILY verify that the vote is counted correctly (anyone is legally allowed to watch the count including people not affiliated with political parties, referred to as Electoral observation).
WWI: the tank broke the stalemate in the fields, although without it the allies would have eventually ground the Germans down (at a much higher cost though). Plus all the boring logistics stuff like convoys, canned food, etc.
WWII: the atomic bomb, the 4 engine bomber (delivery system of other weapons such as fire bombs used to level many of Germany and Japan's major cities), radar, radar jamming, navigation aids for bombing like Oboe, statistical analysis of what worked and what didn't work in the war of the Atlantic (aka the best way to kill U-boats) oh and a code breaking effort by the allies that broke Enigma (German rotor machine) and Purple (Japanese rotor machine) allowing the Allies to read enemy message traffic in near real time in some cases. The guys like Patton definitely get a lot of credit in the media/text books but it's geeks like Turing that really kicked ass.
Post WWII conflicts: many of the stalemated conflicts could be more properly termed police actions (especially in some cases as war was not declared) and in many cases you'll see a combination off stagnation/misunderstanding of the enemies real intentions/motivations has lead to serious messes.
How is warning given? One of my links at home is through shaw.ca, and the killer is that customer support can't email you at anything but a shaw.ca email address (I asked about an outage and was told an email was sent about the planned maintenance, I asked what address they had for me on file, they said none so I tried to give them kurt@seifried.org and they said sorry, we can't enter that into the system, it has to be a shaw.ca address). I suspect warning will consist of a printed notice being placed in a filing cabinet with a sign saying "beware the leopard" on the front of it. The reality is that most large ISP's in North America are going to screw customers as much as possible and reduce infrastructure development due to short sighted accounting practices (rather than take a long term approach that would benefit customers and their bottom line ultimately). Case in point: my shaw cablemodem service is only twice as fast when I first signed up about 10 years ago, and that's with bandwidth caps in place.
The problem isn't that the science is right or wrong, it's that it is irrelevant (he put it best saying you could stick them on an 18th century wind powered war ship and have Geordi fixing the rigging or something). The show is not even remotely internally consistent; if you have replicators that only require raw materials and energy, and energy is abundantly available from fission, fusion, warp drives and whatnot then why are there any poor people or such a disparity with technology within the Federation itself? To say nothing of the lack of protective gear (hint: wouldn't the security guys maybe wear uniforms that are resistant to weapons fire? Their union must suck or something.). They are pretty much socially identical to current standards, and yet in the last 20 years I have seen the world change almost unrecognizably due to technology. Basically it boils down to really, really bad script writing, which as entertainment is sort of a critical thing.
If someone like Red Hat or Oracle posts a PR release stating they are going bankrupt (or buying all the chewing gum in the world) I think linking direct to the release on their site is appropriate. In this case it's a matter of: do we link to a "PR" type web page (actually a tech page but whatever) and get it right from the source (which is more likely to be factually correct) or do we link to a "news" site (I use the term loosely since they can't even read and reprint MS releases it seems) which is more likely to be incorrect? Assuming the "news" site has no insight or useful additional info I'd rather see a direct link to MS since the link to the "news" site is not much better than linking straight to a PR document.
Fortunately just the once. You can thank Windows insane file locking (easy to establish a lock, hard to make sure everyone let go, so the easiest way to overwrite a file is put it in the queue for overwriting at reboot time when you can be sure no-one is messing with it). Linux is so much saner in this aspect.
For October we are releasing 13 bulletins (eight critical and five important), addressing 34 vulnerabilities, affecting Windows, Internet Explorer, Office, Silverlight, Forefront, Developer Tools, and SQL Server. Most of these updates require a restart so please factor that into your deployment planning.
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Considering these kids will mostly grow up with laptops and cell phones this strikes me as a definite museum appropriate exhibit =).
Imagine a vertical board with channels in it, these channels go to wooden gates (think mini teeter-totter), a ball might close a gate and rest there until another ball hits that gate and opens it (or possibly sends the ball in a different direction/etc.). Kids can experiment with setting the gates (positioning them A/B) and then hitting a button to engage the engine which drops balls through 9screw drive/bucket belt, whatever). An Example of an adding machine:
Binary marble adding machine - http://woodgears.ca/marbleadd/
Unfortunately I can't find an example online but I think you get the gist of it
"All citizens, a murderer is on the loose. At exactly 4:23pm everyone needs to go outside and look for this man (picture shown on the TV), if you see him call 911 immediately." - paraphrased from Farenheit 451 f memory serves
This type of thing, if it works would be an incredibly powerful tool in an emergency (you need to find a specific car, a truck with a shipping container, etc.). I'm glad to see DARPA embracing the future they themselves helped create 40 years ago!
I ran into similar problems, except at 10 megabits most consumer level routers/firewalls tip over well before 10 megabits (several thousand outgoing NAT connections and they die, several hundred and they usually start crawling, plus none had real VPN capabilities). Honestly, your choices are basically: re-purpose an old PC with OpenBSD or Linux (I like OpenBSD because you can set it and forget it), or spend some serious cash on a properly firewall/router/NAT box (an old PC is $1-200 and will give you infinitely more capabilities in any event). If you wanna go small/no moving parts that's easy on the power consumption that's easy, just get a soekris box or a routerboard/routerstation pro device.
Better view. And I'm not overly concerned about cargo capacity.
Da*nit, I want to get on a Zeppelin in say Toronto and spend 2-3 days cruising leisurely (which a nice train style sleeper-cabin, restaurant and bar, free wi-fi of course) to Europe, ideally with service running on an a day that is modified in length in order to reduce jet lag once I get there. If travel were civilized spending more time doing it would be ok. Case in point: Life lessons from an ad man.
This is why I love the Canadian method: paper with circles, make an "X" in the circle you want, fold the paper and put it in the ballot box. Good luck hacking that on a large scale (what with scrutineers from multiple parties watching the election and the count and each other, plus the people there as independent scrutineers watching everyone else), and monitoring it (little cardboard voting booth on a table, voila, privacy. The only argument I could imagine is finger prints on the ballots, but you can wear gloves if you want.
Yeah, because there are a lot of microchip pirates with several billion dollars lying around to create a modern chip fab and copy cpu's willy-nilly, putting Intel out of business inside of a few weeks probably (heck, with the speed of modern chip pirates probably a few days!).
I suspect because we (well generally the tax payers) paid the teachers to do this work, thus it should come under the public domain or government copyright, it is in effect a work for hire.
The fundamental flaw of all these studies is that they are NBOT measuring vulnerabilities, they are measuring PUBLIC vulnerabilities. Two very different things.
You can always drop a civil suit. Personally I don't think a judge should be ruling on this until a suit is brought, otherwise can I just get a judge to unmask the identity of anyone online who says something mean about me so I can figure out if it's worth suing them or not? If the suit has merit then a Judge should have no problem with it.
A spread sheet kept securely (encrypted file, not excel/etc. encryption but something like PGP or TrueCrypt). There are specific programs for this but I find a spread sheet works better.
3 links, not a single one to the actual dashboard.
http://www.google.com/dashboard
It's not just storage, it's about caching in ram. If my Linux box caches say one gig of data that happens to be shared amongst multiple (nearly) identical VM's I will see a huge performance increase vs. trying to cache 20 gigs of data (one for each of the 20 VM's). If it's the exact same data why would I want multiple copies floating around unless I explicitly ask for it (i.e. RAID, time machine, backups, etc.).
How do I verify that what I am auditing is actually what is used on election day? Oh yeah, I can't really. Oops.
I don't care if you have a provably correct system (in the sense of a formal mathematical proof AND a code audit AND a hardware audit) because I cannot verify that that is the system I am indeed interacting with! On the other hand with paper and pencil I can easily verify that my vote was recorded correctly (did I make an X in the circle I wanted? .. yup.) and I can also EASILY verify that the vote is counted correctly (anyone is legally allowed to watch the count including people not affiliated with political parties, referred to as Electoral observation).
WWI: the tank broke the stalemate in the fields, although without it the allies would have eventually ground the Germans down (at a much higher cost though). Plus all the boring logistics stuff like convoys, canned food, etc.
WWII: the atomic bomb, the 4 engine bomber (delivery system of other weapons such as fire bombs used to level many of Germany and Japan's major cities), radar, radar jamming, navigation aids for bombing like Oboe, statistical analysis of what worked and what didn't work in the war of the Atlantic (aka the best way to kill U-boats) oh and a code breaking effort by the allies that broke Enigma (German rotor machine) and Purple (Japanese rotor machine) allowing the Allies to read enemy message traffic in near real time in some cases. The guys like Patton definitely get a lot of credit in the media/text books but it's geeks like Turing that really kicked ass.
Post WWII conflicts: many of the stalemated conflicts could be more properly termed police actions (especially in some cases as war was not declared) and in many cases you'll see a combination off stagnation/misunderstanding of the enemies real intentions/motivations has lead to serious messes.
If this was intentional; bravo. If not, HAA-HAA.
Yeah I couldn't remember the whole shtick, to bad one can't edit posts like reddit.
How is warning given? One of my links at home is through shaw.ca, and the killer is that customer support can't email you at anything but a shaw.ca email address (I asked about an outage and was told an email was sent about the planned maintenance, I asked what address they had for me on file, they said none so I tried to give them kurt@seifried.org and they said sorry, we can't enter that into the system, it has to be a shaw.ca address). I suspect warning will consist of a printed notice being placed in a filing cabinet with a sign saying "beware the leopard" on the front of it. The reality is that most large ISP's in North America are going to screw customers as much as possible and reduce infrastructure development due to short sighted accounting practices (rather than take a long term approach that would benefit customers and their bottom line ultimately). Case in point: my shaw cablemodem service is only twice as fast when I first signed up about 10 years ago, and that's with bandwidth caps in place.
The problem isn't that the science is right or wrong, it's that it is irrelevant (he put it best saying you could stick them on an 18th century wind powered war ship and have Geordi fixing the rigging or something). The show is not even remotely internally consistent; if you have replicators that only require raw materials and energy, and energy is abundantly available from fission, fusion, warp drives and whatnot then why are there any poor people or such a disparity with technology within the Federation itself? To say nothing of the lack of protective gear (hint: wouldn't the security guys maybe wear uniforms that are resistant to weapons fire? Their union must suck or something.). They are pretty much socially identical to current standards, and yet in the last 20 years I have seen the world change almost unrecognizably due to technology. Basically it boils down to really, really bad script writing, which as entertainment is sort of a critical thing.
If someone like Red Hat or Oracle posts a PR release stating they are going bankrupt (or buying all the chewing gum in the world) I think linking direct to the release on their site is appropriate. In this case it's a matter of: do we link to a "PR" type web page (actually a tech page but whatever) and get it right from the source (which is more likely to be factually correct) or do we link to a "news" site (I use the term loosely since they can't even read and reprint MS releases it seems) which is more likely to be incorrect? Assuming the "news" site has no insight or useful additional info I'd rather see a direct link to MS since the link to the "news" site is not much better than linking straight to a PR document.
Fortunately just the once. You can thank Windows insane file locking (easy to establish a lock, hard to make sure everyone let go, so the easiest way to overwrite a file is put it in the queue for overwriting at reboot time when you can be sure no-one is messing with it). Linux is so much saner in this aspect.
http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2009/10/08/october-2009-bulletin-release.aspx
For October we are releasing 13 bulletins (eight critical and five important), addressing 34 vulnerabilities, affecting Windows, Internet Explorer, Office, Silverlight, Forefront, Developer Tools, and SQL Server. Most of these updates require a restart so please factor that into your deployment planning.
https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/apache_org_downtime_initial_report