The two firms, Somalia Internet Company and al-Barakaat, both appear on a US list of organisations accused of funnelling money to the al-Qaeda network.
Pres. Bush has declared war on terrorism, in particular the al-Qaeda network. The al-Quaeda network is very active in Somaila.
So what's the problem?
I'm not about censorship... but if those companies are using their PROFITS to funnel money into the hands of terrorists then I see no problem in shutting them down!
I'm not a chemical engineer (IANACE) - but I wonder if a by product of one of these batteries would be methane gas, which is quite flamable (and smelly).
And if one of these leaked, would it smell like someone was flatulent after a nite of drinking cheap american beer and eating lots of taco bell?
There are other projects that need these CPU cycles... projects like SETI are a waste.
If aliens are flying around in saucers from galaxies LIGHT YEARS away - then they will laugh at our "primitive" technologies. If they want to contact us - they WILL. And they probably already know about us already.
And if they don't, but have superior technologies - it's like sending them a message "Hi - we have inferior technology - come colonize our planet".
I'd rather give all my cpu cycles to Distributed.net's RC5-64 project.
From their website:
What can it do? The short version:
Play streaming audio/video, MP3, and CDs and DVDs
Store up to 10,000 songs or 20 hours of digital video
Browse the Internet through your television
Record CDs to your ZapStation local hard drive
Create Playlists of your favorite songs
Organize and manage your digital multimedia assets
Download and stream audio and video content from ZapZone
Access and listen to Internet Radio stations
Access news and information from USA TODAY in a madefor TV format.
Enjoy all this from the comfort of your living room with a user- friendly remote control
But I have TV out on my PC's video card, and it's 2 feet away from my TV. So I can do all these things already. (and more - I can burn CD's onto CD-R's!!! Hah!)
OK - so I can't access their "zap zone" - So that's why I have gnutella.
I guess this is a nifty piece of hardware for the great unwashed who have too much money.
I'm a big fan of the Tick, and I really loved last nite's show.
Do you make up all the characters and villians?
Last nite I was laughing my ass off about Bat Manuel - he was soo funny. Did you make him?
How much input does Chris McCulloch have? I went to college w/ Chris, and I've always been a big fan of his work (from his original comic book "Cement Shoes" to his present work w/ The Monkeysuit http://www.monkeysuit.com), and I know Chris is a involved w/ the new Tick show.
Do all the writers equally contribute, or are all these characters yours?
Next think you know William Jennigs Bryan IV will come out of the woodwork charging that Evolution is a crime against God, America, and violates the Digitial Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA).
Oh where is Clarence Darrow when you need him?
I wonder if they're allowed to play Monkey Island in Kansas???
If you were an employer, would you hire one of these guys???
Drug and crime convictions...
First they have to pass an interview. Then they have to pass the urine test. *hah*
And how many employees would feel safe knowing that there are gang members working along side of them. I don't think that bringing violence INTO the workplace is such a good idea... considering that we're trying to get it OUT of the workplace.
I don't think the Crips and Blood will do well adhereing to the "corporate casual" dress code.
I can hear it already....
employer: "Sorry Julio, you can't wear your gang colors to work."
Julio: "Fuck you maing, step off befoah I buss a cap in yo ass! Foo!"
SIDE NOTE: If I was a web developer I'd be enraged about this article - as it's saying that illiterate criminals can do your job!
My brother is a Verizon installation manager downtown, and he told me one thing that isn't being publicised about the WTC tragedy.
When the towers collapsed, hat large antenna that was ontop of one of the towers pierced the Verizon bldg. on 140 West St. and travelled through the wall, down through several floors, through the basement into the cable vault, which is 2 stories deep there. It proceeded to annihilate a few racks of cable in the vault before coming to a hault lodged into the floor of the cable vault. As a former Outside plant tech for verizon (lineman) who used to pull cables into vaults - I can vouch that this one event alone caused considerable ammounts of damage. Go look at http://newscenter.verizon.com/wtc/ to take a look at the damage done to the 140 West St. Central office.
There was over 30 feet of rubble covering the outside service holes to feed cables into the vault too... the switches were also pretty much destroyed from the debris, the antenna, and water damage from broken pipes and the sprinkler system. The vault flooded from broken pipes, sprinklers, and the water used by the NYFD.
With all things considered, Verizon got circuits rerouted and are restoring them in a rather timely fashion. There is redundancy in the WTC area via SONET rings and other things, which helped get limited service back up as quick as it did... but Slashdotters must realize that MILLIONS of circuits were annihilated during that attack, including CO's in the basements of the WTC too.
Those old telco buildings built during the Bell System years are tough!!! They're built strong!
They weren't made to have 110 stories dropped on them tho... no buildings are. A tragedy like this is hard to be prepared for... .
If you have any knowledge of what the.gov and.mil is running on it's servers/firewalls/etc - please keep it to yourself in the name of national security.
Please think before you type!!!!
By saying so-and-so.mil is running Solaris or NT, and they're using Cisco xxxx firewalls - you're giving terrorist hacking groups (and malicious script kidz) small clues to help them attack our government and millitary!!!
It's not as easy as plugging in a toaster and making toast.... this is very long - but PLEASE READ ON!
I worked as a lineman for Verizon before the merger for 5 years while putting myself through college. I don't think you understand the ammount of work that is required before phone service can actually be RESTORED!!! First, they have to get access to the cable vault - this includes pumping the THOUSANDS of GALLONS of water that's down there due to broken water pipes and firehoses that have been spraying water on the Ground Zero area 24/7 since the 11th of last month. After the water is pumped in, they have to dry out the existing cables or replace them. I would imagine that most of the ducts leaving the Central Office (now referred to as CO) are crushed, too... so new ducts must be built or in the meantime (which they are doing) they're laying new cable on the ground or digging small temp trenches. Electricity must be restored to the CO - first by generators then by Con Ed. Then the air compressors that keep air in the cables must be tested, and put back online and/or replaced. These compressors pump air through underground cables to keep pressure in the cables so water stays out of splices once a cable is in a manhole and is submerged.
Cable that has been temp run or has been pulled to manholes. Now these manholes have to be pumped 24/7 via gas and hydrolic pumps to keep the water level down so the splicers can get down into the holes and start splicing in new cables and performing maintenance on the existing cables and air circuits that were mentioned above. Remember - gas lines could be severed - so manholes have to be tested for gas leaks and can't be entered until gas leaks are fixed. Then splicers can get to work. OH - and btw - have you ever humped a 1200 pair copper cable??? I have - and it's no fun... yeah the underground cable trucks pull the cable - but it takes HUMANS to feed the cable off the reel into the ducts -and you have to make sure that the cable feeds into the duct CLEAN so the sheath of the cable doesn't get damaged - as that will leak air (see air circuits above).
Fiber Optic Cable (now referred to as FOC)doesn't require air circuits or compressors - but it is costly and time consuming to splice fiber cable - and it requires a STERILE environment and it must be done carefully (read NOT RUSHED) to make sure the FOC gets optimal signal passed through the splice.
(remember - over 300k voice and 3.5million data circuits went out on the 11th!!!)
Now - after all the cables are laid and spliced - they have to be connected on the central office frame and programmed onto the switch... all this is also relies on electricity - powered by generators and then street power when restored.
Running cable and restoring circuits are NOT as easy as plugging a toaster in and making toast!!!
Slashdot should post an apology for posting such an insensitive and ill-informed story. Shame on you guys, man!
"Compaq urges customers to discontinue use of the recalled AC adapter and to order a replacement immediately."
Serves Compaq and their user base for attempting to adapt to the ways of an Anonymous Coward!
It makes me sick to think of thousands of people changing their ways to speak of Hot Grits, Sporks, Natalie Portman, Penis Birds, First Posts,imagining themselves possessing Beowulf Clusters of any type of hardware and just general flame baiting everything in sight.
Hopefully they'll recall these things and never replace them!
Get a wireless PDA and learn the script . It's not hard.
I'm amused at how people want everything all wrapped up into one...
What about an all-in-one:
Phone/PDA/mp3_player/digital_camera/webcam/gaming_ system/garage_door_opener/wristwatch/shoe_shiner/d og_whistle/ass_whiper/microwave_oven?
Well what's with all these P6 90mhz machines that IBM is repackaging??? Sounds like alot of baloney to me, unless I can build a Furbeowulf cluster with them.
I hate to say it... but imagine a.... nah... I don't wanna go there.
Closing an anon remailer or anon web proxy is not going to stop terrorism. Neither is putting backdoors into encryption schemes, or making National ID cards that people will be required to carry. They are great deterrents tho.
Before the internet there was terrorism... and unfortunately terrorism will continue.
A step in the right direction would be tighter immigration laws. Better security on flights, and letting the millitary do their job (no more bullshit police actions).
But closing down a remailer or web proxy won't stop anything. It's paranoia. Why can't the terrorists set up their OWN anon remailers or proxies. Hell they could revert to using RFC1149 technology with a Honeycomb Cereal invisible ink pen....
This man has never done anything funny until now.
I think I'll copyright "First Post" or change my name to William Spork or something equally stupid and try to copyright it. Granted he was Yahoo Serious before Yahoo! - the portal came into existence... but there's no grounds for infringement here.
Yahoo! - the portal = entertainment
Yahoo - the comedian = not entertaining.
If the US Government (and all their UN allies)think that by passing laws requiring backdoors in encryption programs will help thwart terrorism they're very naive.
I would imagine that countries like Pakistan, Turkey, Iraq, and other anti-USA countries have math genius' that can devise strong encryption schemes. If anything - the government should pour millions and billions of dollars into microprocessor research.
Another thing I'd like to see is the US Government put a 10 year plan of isolation into effect, which in turn would force big business to hire workers in the US, create goods here in the US, and keep US dollars on US soil.
And to think I have been very liberal in my politics...
Give blood, give money and give prayer.
I would feel MUCH safer if the US Government put armed US Soldiers on trains, busses, and airplanes.
God bless the victims and their families. This has to be the worst week ever.
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So - What's the scoop?
I guess all of us @home users will find out in 15 minutes.
Anyone want to take a guess how long the outage will last?
I'm curious to what your take is on copy protections and the history of their circumventions.
In my view it seems that no matter what copy protection technology comes out, someone makes something to circumvent and defeat it.
Do you think there will there ever be an "unbreakable" protection scheme?
And how easy/hard is it to "alter" an image or a sound clip to defeat it's watermark?
Thanks.
The two firms, Somalia Internet Company and al-Barakaat, both appear on a US list of organisations accused of funnelling money to the al-Qaeda network.
Pres. Bush has declared war on terrorism, in particular the al-Qaeda network. The al-Quaeda network is very active in Somaila.
So what's the problem?
I'm not about censorship... but if those companies are using their PROFITS to funnel money into the hands of terrorists then I see no problem in shutting them down!
Hell, didn't they know about the HYPERSPACE key?
It saved my little space ship so many times in the arcade.
What kind of filesystems do these things use?
I'm curious.
I'm not a chemical engineer (IANACE) - but I wonder if a by product of one of these batteries would be methane gas, which is quite flamable (and smelly).
And if one of these leaked, would it smell like someone was flatulent after a nite of drinking cheap american beer and eating lots of taco bell?
There are other projects that need these CPU cycles... projects like SETI are a waste.
If aliens are flying around in saucers from galaxies LIGHT YEARS away - then they will laugh at our "primitive" technologies. If they want to contact us - they WILL. And they probably already know about us already.
And if they don't, but have superior technologies - it's like sending them a message "Hi - we have inferior technology - come colonize our planet".
I'd rather give all my cpu cycles to Distributed.net's RC5-64 project.
God, just take a dual PII-400 w/ 128mb of RAM running NT4/IIS/Exchange - and tie a rope to it. Tie it to sourceforge.
With an anchor like that - they'll never drift!
What can it do? The short version:
Play streaming audio/video, MP3, and CDs and DVDs
Store up to 10,000 songs or 20 hours of digital video
Browse the Internet through your television
Record CDs to your ZapStation local hard drive
Create Playlists of your favorite songs
Organize and manage your digital multimedia assets
Download and stream audio and video content from ZapZone
Access and listen to Internet Radio stations
Access news and information from USA TODAY in a madefor TV format.
Enjoy all this from the comfort of your living room with a user- friendly remote control
But I have TV out on my PC's video card, and it's 2 feet away from my TV. So I can do all these things already. (and more - I can burn CD's onto CD-R's!!! Hah!)
OK - so I can't access their "zap zone" - So that's why I have gnutella.
I guess this is a nifty piece of hardware for the great unwashed who have too much money.
I'm a big fan of the Tick, and I really loved last nite's show.
Do you make up all the characters and villians?
Last nite I was laughing my ass off about Bat Manuel - he was soo funny. Did you make him?
How much input does Chris McCulloch have? I went to college w/ Chris, and I've always been a big fan of his work (from his original comic book "Cement Shoes" to his present work w/ The Monkeysuit http://www.monkeysuit.com), and I know Chris is a involved w/ the new Tick show.
Do all the writers equally contribute, or are all these characters yours?
A fan in NJ.
Next think you know William Jennigs Bryan IV will come out of the woodwork charging that Evolution is a crime against God, America, and violates the Digitial Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA).
Oh where is Clarence Darrow when you need him?
I wonder if they're allowed to play Monkey Island in Kansas???
Probably alot of Sysadmins today were hackers in their youth. There's a difference - hackers usually aren't involved in VIOLENT CRIMES.
If you were an employer, would you hire one of these guys???
Drug and crime convictions...
First they have to pass an interview. Then they have to pass the urine test. *hah*
And how many employees would feel safe knowing that there are gang members working along side of them. I don't think that bringing violence INTO the workplace is such a good idea... considering that we're trying to get it OUT of the workplace.
I don't think the Crips and Blood will do well adhereing to the "corporate casual" dress code.
I can hear it already....
employer: "Sorry Julio, you can't wear your gang colors to work."
Julio: "Fuck you maing, step off befoah I buss a cap in yo ass! Foo!"
SIDE NOTE: If I was a web developer I'd be enraged about this article - as it's saying that illiterate criminals can do your job!
My brother is a Verizon installation manager downtown, and he told me one thing that isn't being publicised about the WTC tragedy.
When the towers collapsed, hat large antenna that was ontop of one of the towers pierced the Verizon bldg. on 140 West St. and travelled through the wall, down through several floors, through the basement into the cable vault, which is 2 stories deep there. It proceeded to annihilate a few racks of cable in the vault before coming to a hault lodged into the floor of the cable vault. As a former Outside plant tech for verizon (lineman) who used to pull cables into vaults - I can vouch that this one event alone caused considerable ammounts of damage. Go look at http://newscenter.verizon.com/wtc/ to take a look at the damage done to the 140 West St. Central office.
There was over 30 feet of rubble covering the outside service holes to feed cables into the vault too... the switches were also pretty much destroyed from the debris, the antenna, and water damage from broken pipes and the sprinkler system. The vault flooded from broken pipes, sprinklers, and the water used by the NYFD.
With all things considered, Verizon got circuits rerouted and are restoring them in a rather timely fashion. There is redundancy in the WTC area via SONET rings and other things, which helped get limited service back up as quick as it did... but Slashdotters must realize that MILLIONS of circuits were annihilated during that attack, including CO's in the basements of the WTC too.
Those old telco buildings built during the Bell System years are tough!!! They're built strong!
They weren't made to have 110 stories dropped on them tho... no buildings are. A tragedy like this is hard to be prepared for... .
Maybe it's time the .gov passes legislation to eliminate junk mail... that way it'll be easier for postal inspectors to look for suspicious stuff.
I can't believe how stupid some of you are!
.gov and .mil is running on it's servers/firewalls/etc - please keep it to yourself in the name of national security.
If you have any knowledge of what the
Please think before you type!!!!
By saying so-and-so.mil is running Solaris or NT, and they're using Cisco xxxx firewalls - you're giving terrorist hacking groups (and malicious script kidz) small clues to help them attack our government and millitary!!!
PLEASE think!!!
It's not as easy as plugging in a toaster and making toast.... this is very long - but PLEASE READ ON!
I worked as a lineman for Verizon before the merger for 5 years while putting myself through college. I don't think you understand the ammount of work that is required before phone service can actually be RESTORED!!! First, they have to get access to the cable vault - this includes pumping the THOUSANDS of GALLONS of water that's down there due to broken water pipes and firehoses that have been spraying water on the Ground Zero area 24/7 since the 11th of last month. After the water is pumped in, they have to dry out the existing cables or replace them. I would imagine that most of the ducts leaving the Central Office (now referred to as CO) are crushed, too... so new ducts must be built or in the meantime (which they are doing) they're laying new cable on the ground or digging small temp trenches. Electricity must be restored to the CO - first by generators then by Con Ed. Then the air compressors that keep air in the cables must be tested, and put back online and/or replaced. These compressors pump air through underground cables to keep pressure in the cables so water stays out of splices once a cable is in a manhole and is submerged.
Cable that has been temp run or has been pulled to manholes. Now these manholes have to be pumped 24/7 via gas and hydrolic pumps to keep the water level down so the splicers can get down into the holes and start splicing in new cables and performing maintenance on the existing cables and air circuits that were mentioned above. Remember - gas lines could be severed - so manholes have to be tested for gas leaks and can't be entered until gas leaks are fixed. Then splicers can get to work. OH - and btw - have you ever humped a 1200 pair copper cable??? I have - and it's no fun... yeah the underground cable trucks pull the cable - but it takes HUMANS to feed the cable off the reel into the ducts -and you have to make sure that the cable feeds into the duct CLEAN so the sheath of the cable doesn't get damaged - as that will leak air (see air circuits above).
Fiber Optic Cable (now referred to as FOC)doesn't require air circuits or compressors - but it is costly and time consuming to splice fiber cable - and it requires a STERILE environment and it must be done carefully (read NOT RUSHED) to make sure the FOC gets optimal signal passed through the splice.
(remember - over 300k voice and 3.5million data circuits went out on the 11th!!!)
Now - after all the cables are laid and spliced - they have to be connected on the central office frame and programmed onto the switch... all this is also relies on electricity - powered by generators and then street power when restored.
Running cable and restoring circuits are NOT as easy as plugging a toaster in and making toast!!!
Slashdot should post an apology for posting such an insensitive and ill-informed story. Shame on you guys, man!
Serves Compaq and their user base for attempting to adapt to the ways of an Anonymous Coward!
It makes me sick to think of thousands of people changing their ways to speak of Hot Grits, Sporks, Natalie Portman, Penis Birds, First Posts,imagining themselves possessing Beowulf Clusters of any type of hardware and just general flame baiting everything in sight.
Hopefully they'll recall these things and never replace them!
- and please don't make them scratch and sniff either!
*duh!*
_ system/garage_door_opener/wristwatch/shoe_shiner/d og_whistle/ass_whiper/microwave_oven?
Get a wireless PDA and learn the script . It's not hard.
I'm amused at how people want everything all wrapped up into one...
What about an all-in-one:
Phone/PDA/mp3_player/digital_camera/webcam/gaming
(groan)
I hate to say it... but imagine a.... nah... I don't wanna go there.
Closing an anon remailer or anon web proxy is not going to stop terrorism. Neither is putting backdoors into encryption schemes, or making National ID cards that people will be required to carry. They are great deterrents tho.
Before the internet there was terrorism... and unfortunately terrorism will continue.
A step in the right direction would be tighter immigration laws. Better security on flights, and letting the millitary do their job (no more bullshit police actions).
But closing down a remailer or web proxy won't stop anything. It's paranoia. Why can't the terrorists set up their OWN anon remailers or proxies. Hell they could revert to using RFC1149 technology with a Honeycomb Cereal invisible ink pen....
Paranoia does not solve problems...
Oh... he can't be Serioius
...but he is. *lol*
This man has never done anything funny until now.
I think I'll copyright "First Post" or change my name to William Spork or something equally stupid and try to copyright it. Granted he was Yahoo Serious before Yahoo! - the portal came into existence... but there's no grounds for infringement here.
Yahoo! - the portal = entertainment
Yahoo - the comedian = not entertaining.
If the US Government (and all their UN allies)think that by passing laws requiring backdoors in encryption programs will help thwart terrorism they're very naive.
I would imagine that countries like Pakistan, Turkey, Iraq, and other anti-USA countries have math genius' that can devise strong encryption schemes. If anything - the government should pour millions and billions of dollars into microprocessor research.
Another thing I'd like to see is the US Government put a 10 year plan of isolation into effect, which in turn would force big business to hire workers in the US, create goods here in the US, and keep US dollars on US soil.
And to think I have been very liberal in my politics...
Give blood, give money and give prayer.
I would feel MUCH safer if the US Government put armed US Soldiers on trains, busses, and airplanes.
God bless the victims and their families. This has to be the worst week ever.
Try contacting the Danish Unix User Group that lends out this Tux costume