This sounds more like someone's just doing their part to muck with the signal-to-noise-ratio after hearing about this NSA/AT&T crap. Yeah, there are more secure communication vectors than VoIP as well anything traversing the internet, but it most certainly causes the G-Man to stop to look.
It probably is a love letter between two crypto geeks, but it does have a higher purpose!
To see someone do their part to screw with (at the very least) unethical, immoral, and more-than-probably illegal wiretap, makes me feel warm and fuzzy.
when the time spent debugging the problem surpasses the time you would spend just doing it over. The hard part is determining when to give up on fixing it and moving forward with a new plan. Would any of you like to trace a network fault on some of the "Most dangerous server rooms in the world" (see The Register)?
Actually FM-200 and Inergen are the current replacements for Halon. Non Ozone-depleting and won't kill you if you're trapped in a NOC. Just lowers the avaliable O2 in the air. You'll get out of breath easily, but as long as you stay calm you won't have to worry.
I think ol' Tom's test was completely objective and offering no bias toward Intel or AMD. Has anyone thought about the motherboard thermal sensor? That sensor has all the capabilities of shutting down a system in the case of thermal runaway. Tom's test didn't use the mobo sensor, it just tested the CPU's in a bare knuckled fist fight on heat management. In AMD's test, the system SHUT OFF, which is a trait of a mobo sensor. In Tom's test, there was no thermal watchdog being used and he just tested the capabilities of the procs only. If he had used the mobo sensors, the AMD would have shut off and the PIII probablly would have too and the PIV would have just slowed down.
A while back I had to pretty much do the same thing, and I ran across Cisco (Yes BIIIG Cisco Net hardware co.). They'll send a free eval, client and server, and some pretty documentation. Didn't send any pricing info with the packet though (If that gives you any indication to what it costs). Regardless, it worked marvelously, good signal quality, full ability to stream at a defined rate, nice scheduling, on-demand, and live broadcast. I was impressed.
What's preventing the DoD from turning around, twiddiling a few bits, and cranking out a few radios, and have a nice, nifty, neat, new "not quite military quality" comms channel? Makes sense to me.
--Reality is for people who can't handle drugs.
Spoken a few years from now............"What do you mean my son is in copyright violation!" "Well sir your son has genes that we've patented." "HELLLLLOOOOOOOO! It's not like I'm sitting at home splicing genes together with tweezers and duct tape! My wife and I had a child!!!" "Oh, so you do admit to patent infringment then!".......and so on and so forth.
I do beleive it is time to call in.....ROGER WILCO to begin production of Space Quest VII!!!! He will fight a huge mutant fungus...no..wait, already did that in V. ummmmm...CUT! Get the screenplay people in here now!!! I want to have a word with them.
Did it occur to anyone that: "That's no moon, it's a space station..." It's the frickin Deathstar. So lemme guess, Lord Vader, played by B. Gates, gets to play with it, and not me... NOT FAIR!
Not only is it your telephone number, they want your name and address too. I know, I used to work there. If we didn't get over 75% N&A (I think that's the right number, it's been a while.) we could get terminated. Now granted the good side to it is the fact that if you needed to return something, or have warranty work done, it's all in the computer listed under your name, and if you're not in the system as having bought x-item, and you don't have a hardcopy receipt you're SOL. But definitely, if you're in the system, and you're in the top 3% of purchasers, you'll get junkmail.
Geez, what happens if you throw a rod or blow a piston? It'd take your entire leg off. Also, if any of you have ever used the gas powered engines on model cars and airplanes and the such, you know those little suckers get really really hot. That diagram looks like that motor is barely an inch or two away from the leg, can we say OUCH!. One more thing and then I'll get off of my soapbox. How do you crank it up? I don't see a pullcord, or similar device anywhere.
Wyilie E Coyote Super Genius. Working now for ACME's Research and Development Team, is currently developing a rocket to chase a Mr. Road Runner into Earth's Sub-Orbital trajectory. Although the rocket is using a highly volatile combustion system, Mr. Coyote is optimistic in his beleif that he will indeed catch Mr. RoadRunner. A quote from Mr. Coyote on his spacecraft: "Yes, It is perfectly safe, it wouldn't be if I weren't a Super Genius. I also intend to use some Dynamite to assist in immediate takeoff by giving the craft a little extra momentum upon lift-off." Thank you, and goodnight, Les Nessman reporting.
The co. I currently work for has gotten in the midst of a similar bulls*it "patent infringment", along with quite a few large PCMCIA peripheral manufacturers. Some wonderful nimrod managed to create a patent loosely describing a PCMCIA that accepts data from one end of the card, and modulates/modifies/whatever between the ends, and spits out a new signal. In a nutshell, every modem, LAN Adapter, serial card, etc., technically applies to this patent. Just think how broad this patent really is. 3Com, Xircom, Lucent, a very large number of PCMCIA mfr's make such things. Basically they (and I beleive us as well) in our most profund lawyerspeak, told them to blow us. Which is what I beleive will happen here as well.
As far as noise/music/muzak goes, MIDI isn't the greatest thing in the world. I've got the Nokia 9000il Communicator telephone, and it has a cute little nifty composer proggie built in (feels like MIDI but not sure). It's not too difficult if you know how to write sheet music, but otherwise it's a worthless effort. I never have really enjoyed the MIDI standard, or for that matter the old *.mod (whatever standard they were) files right around the Adlib/SB DOS 5.0 days. Granted music without the words and other bull is worth it on stuff like the the Mission Impossible Soundtrack, but I really don't beleive that it has too much of a place in today's music industry. Count me out. My skewed $.01 + $.01
A company I worked for a few years ago instituted a background checking program and a "psychological mindgame test". The psychological mindgame test would throw trick questions at you such as "If every employee in the store you worked at were stealing, would you turn them in?", well not quite as obvious as it would seem the answer is "No." due to the fact that "EVERYONE" (the way it was referenced it inlcudes yourself) were stealing, then no you would not turn yourself and everyone in. Crap quesitons like that got people declined for positions. What makes matters worse, there was a time for about 2 weeks, when the system malfunctioned and failed EVERYONE who took the test no matter if you got every question right or wrong, and the applicants were denied any possibility of retaking the test, even after the screwup was detected. What about those people? Do they get any recourse?
I agree, the Enigma machine was and still is one of the marvels of cryptographical society. In my opinion I would start here with it and then proceed to more complex theories such as Public Key exchange; RSA Diffe/Hellman (sp?) (CAST, TripleDES, IDEA). Heck even traversing into TEMPEST and COMSEC might be fun (electronic radio frequency security documents.) Neat little bit of info, in secure gov't installations there is a specification to not have the same separation distance between secure telephone/data lines and unsecure external lines (eg. electrical unsecure telephone) within the same buliding...might come in handy.
It's about time that someone fights back with some big guns against the RIAA, but things must be done with extreme diplomacy and caution otherwise we'll end up worse off than we already are. I'm all for the RIAA losing a little jurisdiction on it's anachronistic empire. It's becoming a bloated elephant attempting to throw it's fading power around. This seems to be getting very close to a John D Rockefeller situation, having too much control over everything associated with it. I am very against the public statements made by Hilary Rosen concerning mp3.com and once again it's a bloated elephant throwing it's weight around. However, I doubt that mp3.com will become the next M$, mp3's are too widespread for one company to gain exclusive control over the format.
I'll agree that M$ has pretty decent security habits but the main issue in my perspective is this: How many times have they intentionally struggled to keep one quiet long enough for the fix to be put within a Service Pack? Anyone remember one of the first Hotmail holes? M$ did their best to keep it quiet. It's my opinion that they deserve a kudos for intent but fifteen lashes from a flogging stick for end user turnaround time.
I've got the Nokia 9Kil using the Geoworks 3.0 O/S and it isn't too much to be bragging about. I personally believe that they need to "cut their losses" and get to work on something better anyways.
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This sounds more like someone's just doing their part to muck with the signal-to-noise-ratio after hearing about this NSA/AT&T crap. Yeah, there are more secure communication vectors than VoIP as well anything traversing the internet, but it most certainly causes the G-Man to stop to look.
It probably is a love letter between two crypto geeks, but it does have a higher purpose!
To see someone do their part to screw with (at the very least) unethical, immoral, and more-than-probably illegal wiretap, makes me feel warm and fuzzy.
when the time spent debugging the problem surpasses the time you would spend just doing it over. The hard part is determining when to give up on fixing it and moving forward with a new plan. Would any of you like to trace a network fault on some of the "Most dangerous server rooms in the world" (see The Register)?
Actually FM-200 and Inergen are the current replacements for Halon. Non Ozone-depleting and won't kill you if you're trapped in a NOC. Just lowers the avaliable O2 in the air. You'll get out of breath easily, but as long as you stay calm you won't have to worry.
Are for when my cell phone battery is dead, or I need to send a fax. (Although I can technically do that with my cell phone, I don't).
Simple way to make people go away.
"AT C0S0=1" Sent to your modem and have a nice day. Just make sure next time you dial out to set "C1" though or it won't work.
"AT"=Attention, "C0" Disable Transmitter (prevent would be war dialers), "S0=1"=Auto answer 1 ring.
Lost about 1/3 of pipe here....
http://www.icpamerica.com/ace_916v.php
The V model ought to do well if the system is going to be a lightweight.
I think ol' Tom's test was completely objective and offering no bias toward Intel or AMD. Has anyone thought about the motherboard thermal sensor? That sensor has all the capabilities of shutting down a system in the case of thermal runaway. Tom's test didn't use the mobo sensor, it just tested the CPU's in a bare knuckled fist fight on heat management. In AMD's test, the system SHUT OFF, which is a trait of a mobo sensor. In Tom's test, there was no thermal watchdog being used and he just tested the capabilities of the procs only. If he had used the mobo sensors, the AMD would have shut off and the PIII probablly would have too and the PIV would have just slowed down.
A while back I had to pretty much do the same thing, and I ran across Cisco (Yes BIIIG Cisco Net hardware co.). They'll send a free eval, client and server, and some pretty documentation. Didn't send any pricing info with the packet though (If that gives you any indication to what it costs). Regardless, it worked marvelously, good signal quality, full ability to stream at a defined rate, nice scheduling, on-demand, and live broadcast. I was impressed.
What's preventing the DoD from turning around, twiddiling a few bits, and cranking out a few radios, and have a nice, nifty, neat, new "not quite military quality" comms channel? Makes sense to me. --Reality is for people who can't handle drugs.
Spoken a few years from now............"What do you mean my son is in copyright violation!" "Well sir your son has genes that we've patented." "HELLLLLOOOOOOOO! It's not like I'm sitting at home splicing genes together with tweezers and duct tape! My wife and I had a child!!!" "Oh, so you do admit to patent infringment then!" .......and so on and so forth.
I do beleive it is time to call in.....ROGER WILCO to begin production of Space Quest VII!!!! He will fight a huge mutant fungus...no..wait, already did that in V. ummmmm...CUT! Get the screenplay people in here now!!! I want to have a word with them.
Did it occur to anyone that: "That's no moon, it's a space station..." It's the frickin Deathstar. So lemme guess, Lord Vader, played by B. Gates, gets to play with it, and not me... NOT FAIR!
Not only is it your telephone number, they want your name and address too. I know, I used to work there. If we didn't get over 75% N&A (I think that's the right number, it's been a while.) we could get terminated. Now granted the good side to it is the fact that if you needed to return something, or have warranty work done, it's all in the computer listed under your name, and if you're not in the system as having bought x-item, and you don't have a hardcopy receipt you're SOL. But definitely, if you're in the system, and you're in the top 3% of purchasers, you'll get junkmail.
Geez, what happens if you throw a rod or blow a piston? It'd take your entire leg off. Also, if any of you have ever used the gas powered engines on model cars and airplanes and the such, you know those little suckers get really really hot. That diagram looks like that motor is barely an inch or two away from the leg, can we say OUCH!. One more thing and then I'll get off of my soapbox. How do you crank it up? I don't see a pullcord, or similar device anywhere.
Wyilie E Coyote Super Genius. Working now for ACME's Research and Development Team, is currently developing a rocket to chase a Mr. Road Runner into Earth's Sub-Orbital trajectory. Although the rocket is using a highly volatile combustion system, Mr. Coyote is optimistic in his beleif that he will indeed catch Mr. RoadRunner. A quote from Mr. Coyote on his spacecraft: "Yes, It is perfectly safe, it wouldn't be if I weren't a Super Genius. I also intend to use some Dynamite to assist in immediate takeoff by giving the craft a little extra momentum upon lift-off." Thank you, and goodnight, Les Nessman reporting.
The co. I currently work for has gotten in the midst of a similar bulls*it "patent infringment", along with quite a few large PCMCIA peripheral manufacturers. Some wonderful nimrod managed to create a patent loosely describing a PCMCIA that accepts data from one end of the card, and modulates/modifies/whatever between the ends, and spits out a new signal. In a nutshell, every modem, LAN Adapter, serial card, etc., technically applies to this patent. Just think how broad this patent really is. 3Com, Xircom, Lucent, a very large number of PCMCIA mfr's make such things. Basically they (and I beleive us as well) in our most profund lawyerspeak, told them to blow us. Which is what I beleive will happen here as well.
As far as noise/music/muzak goes, MIDI isn't the greatest thing in the world. I've got the Nokia 9000il Communicator telephone, and it has a cute little nifty composer proggie built in (feels like MIDI but not sure). It's not too difficult if you know how to write sheet music, but otherwise it's a worthless effort. I never have really enjoyed the MIDI standard, or for that matter the old *.mod (whatever standard they were) files right around the Adlib/SB DOS 5.0 days. Granted music without the words and other bull is worth it on stuff like the the Mission Impossible Soundtrack, but I really don't beleive that it has too much of a place in today's music industry. Count me out. My skewed $.01 + $.01
A company I worked for a few years ago instituted a background checking program and a "psychological mindgame test". The psychological mindgame test would throw trick questions at you such as "If every employee in the store you worked at were stealing, would you turn them in?", well not quite as obvious as it would seem the answer is "No." due to the fact that "EVERYONE" (the way it was referenced it inlcudes yourself) were stealing, then no you would not turn yourself and everyone in. Crap quesitons like that got people declined for positions. What makes matters worse, there was a time for about 2 weeks, when the system malfunctioned and failed EVERYONE who took the test no matter if you got every question right or wrong, and the applicants were denied any possibility of retaking the test, even after the screwup was detected. What about those people? Do they get any recourse?
I agree, the Enigma machine was and still is one of the marvels of cryptographical society. In my opinion I would start here with it and then proceed to more complex theories such as Public Key exchange; RSA Diffe/Hellman (sp?) (CAST, TripleDES, IDEA). Heck even traversing into TEMPEST and COMSEC might be fun (electronic radio frequency security documents.) Neat little bit of info, in secure gov't installations there is a specification to not have the same separation distance between secure telephone/data lines and unsecure external lines (eg. electrical unsecure telephone) within the same buliding...might come in handy.
It's about time that someone fights back with some big guns against the RIAA, but things must be done with extreme diplomacy and caution otherwise we'll end up worse off than we already are. I'm all for the RIAA losing a little jurisdiction on it's anachronistic empire. It's becoming a bloated elephant attempting to throw it's fading power around. This seems to be getting very close to a John D Rockefeller situation, having too much control over everything associated with it. I am very against the public statements made by Hilary Rosen concerning mp3.com and once again it's a bloated elephant throwing it's weight around. However, I doubt that mp3.com will become the next M$, mp3's are too widespread for one company to gain exclusive control over the format.
I'll agree that M$ has pretty decent security habits but the main issue in my perspective is this: How many times have they intentionally struggled to keep one quiet long enough for the fix to be put within a Service Pack? Anyone remember one of the first Hotmail holes? M$ did their best to keep it quiet. It's my opinion that they deserve a kudos for intent but fifteen lashes from a flogging stick for end user turnaround time.
I've got the Nokia 9Kil using the Geoworks 3.0 O/S and it isn't too much to be bragging about. I personally believe that they need to "cut their losses" and get to work on something better anyways.