It has always made sense to me to do it this way. Here on earth there are plenty of people willing to blow themselves up just to kill a few people... I'm sure there would a queue a mile long if you asked for people willing to make the heroic trip. I'd expect the chinese would be the first people do to something this sensible.
I don't know whether a man would survive more than a probe, but a human is more adaptive and self healing than a high tech moon rover - and cheaper too!
No doubt you'd get someone pretty depressed taking the trip, would be like having Marvin the paranoid android up there... oh I could take some rock samples, but what about this pain all down my left side... oh so depressing..
You can extend the range of 802.11 using multiple hops and mesh networking.
LocustWorld have a system which can be downloaded and booted on a CD or via a harddisk. They also sell solid state mesh boxes ready to go. Check out what other community projects have managed to do with the kit.
Which turns a laptop or PC system into a Linux based mesh routing access point and thin client. They also sell hardware boxes. Get the bootable ISO here - build 22 is recommended.
Something people keep seem to forget about the London congestion charge. If your car is an LPG (gas) vehicle with a converted engine. There is no charge to pay. This conversion doesn't cost a huge amount and offers savings in fuel which is very expensive in the UK.
I live just outside the charging zone, but I don't even own a car. If I did, I'd have it converted just for the joy of total exemption!
Well I'm sure the DoD remember their dead microsoft NT sub. The radar which doesn't work etc. The missing nukes because of SQL server? Microsofts admission and then retraction.. it is all documented out there..
What it is going to be able to learn any function? Speak any language? Process vision? understand context? Fractal encode in real time? Be able to understand the feelings of others and predict the future?
The notion that a computer can be built using linear algorithms to rival the human brain just shows how little they know about the human brain.
If you visit textprefs.com they are building a database of people who wish to opt out of any unsolicited text message communication.
Text spam is illegal in the UK and many places in Europe. Generally the only mass spam received is for premium rate scams where you are encouraged to call a premium rate phone number. Usually these have either the number hidden or shown to be from the premium rate phone number they want you to call.
It is possible to spoof the source phone number of the mobile phone or insert alphanumeric characters.
Many aggregators offer this service (usually used for legimate purposes) - A salesman for an overseas text message aggregator once specifically told me when I asked about altering the sender address that it would work with the number spoofed to +44906xxx - a typical premium rate number prefix.
Needless to say, we didn't buy any services from them!!
Messing with police cameras is considered an act of terrorism. Also they're normally well out of reach. Mess with the police and they wont react well...
Now that you have ice, you can use this for water, you can grow food, you can split it into hyrdogen and oxygen etc.
You have everything you need to sustain life. I think terraforming is a way off, but I don't see any reason why you couldn't put a colony on mars if there is lots of water there.
It's about time we made some plans to populate another planet, dual redundancy and all...
This is of course great news, whenever people talk about free networks and do something about it...
Two antenna, however, does not make a huge wireless network IMHO.
The Highgate test network communitywireless.org is bigger than this! If you're interested in that an the mobile hardware they're using, check out locustworld.com
Locust - The SMS text message community and e-mail service, which was saved last year, (partly due to the Slashdot Article), already has anti-spam facilities, see their SPAMKILLER command.
This utilises a number of internet spam databases, as well as the distributed checksum clearing house.
It also has a number of custom rule based filters, to filter out spam inside emails (eg: sponsors messages on free email and legal disclaimers etc)
How long before the gene screener is applied to human DNA? After all, you'd want to detect all those threats from people with "criminal" genes too...
If something like this were to ever be deployed, how long before people start mailing polymorphic-self-mutatating-stealth-viruses, applying computer virus technology to bio weapons??
I think the idea that a desktop detector can stop this kinda of terror attack is naive. Why not just vaccinate everyone who could be in a position of risk?? Surely a lot cheaper....
I can see it now... Damn, I got infected with Anthrax 9b, duh, you forgot to apply those bio-security patches in time....
Normal users have the ability to open TCP sockets, fork processes etc.
All the code has to do is download itself, background itself as an non-stoppable process and then use the network to scan like crazy for whatever vulnerability you like!
Even if you're not scanning for vulnerabilities, your code could be repeatedly mailing bugs@microsoft.com or whatever. A Denial of service attack with a userlevel account is also possible...
I managed to pick up a new one at a rock bottom price from a friend who sells them for a living. He told me it was the best one they did. Yes, its true, you don't get sweaty, but then I don't ever remember that being a problem in the first place.
My biggest problem is that around the front on chair there is a hard plastic piece which holds the mesh. This constantly dug in and made it unconfortable to code at. I tried everything, all the adjustments and eventually sold the thing and went back to a more standard chair!
One interesting thing the guy told me is that when people report the chairs broken, they check something called the "Shag Pin" on the base of the chair, if that has gone, someone has almost certaintly had sex on it!!!
Well, I think you can understand the NSA's actions in releasing this.
It comes down to money.
If the Linux crew take this on board and in the future, versions of Linux contain this MAC security stuff, then the NSA doesn't have to buy any new software!
This is a common reasoning for releasing stuff opensource. Build it to a working prototype level and then let other people test, debug and improve it.
It is nice to see a big bad ugly intelligence agency giving back to the source.
Perhaps someone should thank them for their communist spirit?
Slashdot Mirror
It has always made sense to me to do it this way. Here on earth there are plenty of people willing to blow themselves up just to kill a few people... I'm sure there would a queue a mile long if you asked for people willing to make the heroic trip. I'd expect the chinese would be the first people do to something this sensible.
I don't know whether a man would survive more than a probe, but a human is more adaptive and self healing than a high tech moon rover - and cheaper too!
No doubt you'd get someone pretty depressed taking the trip, would be like having Marvin the paranoid android up there... oh I could take some rock samples, but what about this pain all down my left side... oh so depressing..
The LocustWorld meshbox was doing this back in march. BBC did a story about it.
LocustWorld have a system which can be downloaded and booted on a CD or via a harddisk. They also sell solid state mesh boxes ready to go. Check out what other community projects have managed to do with the kit.
Which turns a laptop or PC system into a Linux based mesh routing access point and thin client. They also sell hardware boxes. Get the bootable ISO here - build 22 is recommended.
Something people keep seem to forget about the London congestion charge. If your car is an LPG (gas) vehicle with a converted engine. There is no charge to pay. This conversion doesn't cost a huge amount and offers savings in fuel which is very expensive in the UK.
I live just outside the charging zone, but I don't even own a car. If I did, I'd have it converted just for the joy of total exemption!
Yes, do it!
I did and I don't even live in the USA.
You get a really cool t-shirt and the EFF are the only people really out there fighting for what is right... They deserve your support.
Don't but that CD! Join the EFF instead!
Well I'm sure the DoD remember their dead microsoft NT sub. The radar which doesn't work etc. The missing nukes because of SQL server? Microsofts admission and then retraction.. it is all documented out there..
A quick search of slashdot digs up this:
navy unhappy with microsoft
Even the average man in the street thinks of windows as less secure. I can't believe something like this would really fool people...
Comparable to the human brain? HA!
What it is going to be able to learn any function? Speak any language? Process vision? understand context? Fractal encode in real time? Be able to understand the feelings of others and predict the future?
The notion that a computer can be built using linear algorithms to rival the human brain just shows how little they know about the human brain.
The server capacity has been increased and it is handling the slashdotting pretty well now.
Mesh05b-test
Yes, the server has been slashdotted. But should be back up with some tuned parameters in the next few minutes.
Text spam is illegal in the UK and many places in Europe. Generally the only mass spam received is for premium rate scams where you are encouraged to call a premium rate phone number. Usually these have either the number hidden or shown to be from the premium rate phone number they want you to call.
It is possible to spoof the source phone number of the mobile phone or insert alphanumeric characters.
Many aggregators offer this service (usually used for legimate purposes) - A salesman for an overseas text message aggregator once specifically told me when I asked about altering the sender address that it would work with the number spoofed to +44906xxx - a typical premium rate number prefix.
Needless to say, we didn't buy any services from them!!
Messing with police cameras is considered an act of terrorism. Also they're normally well out of reach. Mess with the police and they wont react well...
Now that you have ice, you can use this for water, you can grow food, you can split it into hyrdogen and oxygen etc.
You have everything you need to sustain life. I think terraforming is a way off, but I don't see any reason why you couldn't put a colony on mars if there is lots of water there.
It's about time we made some plans to populate another planet, dual redundancy and all...
Go to the BBC website and look at their jam cams, these are police cctv cameras.
see here!
Two antenna, however, does not make a huge wireless network IMHO.
The Highgate test network communitywireless.org is bigger than this! If you're interested in that an the mobile hardware they're using, check out locustworld.com
Oh, and you can also opt-out of some UK SMS spam here
Locust - The SMS text message community and e-mail service, which was saved last year, (partly due to the Slashdot Article), already has anti-spam facilities, see their SPAMKILLER command.
This utilises a number of internet spam databases, as well as the distributed checksum clearing house.
It also has a number of custom rule based filters, to filter out spam inside emails (eg: sponsors messages on free email and legal disclaimers etc)
SaveLocust.org
Devices in the wild detecting DNA?
How long before the gene screener is applied to human DNA? After all, you'd want to detect all those threats from people with "criminal" genes too...
If something like this were to ever be deployed, how long before people start mailing polymorphic-self-mutatating-stealth-viruses, applying computer virus technology to bio weapons??
I think the idea that a desktop detector can stop this kinda of terror attack is naive. Why not just vaccinate everyone who could be in a position of risk?? Surely a lot cheaper....
I can see it now... Damn, I got infected with Anthrax 9b, duh, you forgot to apply those bio-security patches in time....
Well, unless this is some unix I've not seen...
Normal users have the ability to open TCP sockets, fork processes etc.
All the code has to do is download itself, background itself as an non-stoppable process and then use the network to scan like crazy for whatever vulnerability you like!
Even if you're not scanning for vulnerabilities, your code could be repeatedly mailing bugs@microsoft.com or whatever. A Denial of service attack with a userlevel account is also possible...
There is a lot of talk about technology and religion...
Shouldn't we all be mailing the washington post to request a retraction if we feel this strongly about the issues?
I mailed them and I clicked on the link so they'd know I knew they were publishing inaccurate information...
I managed to pick up a new one at a rock bottom price from a friend who sells them for a living. He told me it was the best one they did. Yes, its true, you don't get sweaty, but then I don't ever remember that being a problem in the first place. My biggest problem is that around the front on chair there is a hard plastic piece which holds the mesh. This constantly dug in and made it unconfortable to code at. I tried everything, all the adjustments and eventually sold the thing and went back to a more standard chair! One interesting thing the guy told me is that when people report the chairs broken, they check something called the "Shag Pin" on the base of the chair, if that has gone, someone has almost certaintly had sex on it!!!
Well, I think you can understand the NSA's actions in releasing this.
It comes down to money.
If the Linux crew take this on board and in the future, versions of Linux contain this MAC security stuff, then the NSA doesn't have to buy any new software!
This is a common reasoning for releasing stuff opensource. Build it to a working prototype level and then let other people test, debug and improve it.
It is nice to see a big bad ugly intelligence agency giving back to the source.
Perhaps someone should thank them for their communist spirit?
Since when was Iraq well connected to the internet? I think trade restrictions might limit their connectivity.
But why waste time with a lump of concrete like Sealand, it's not yet been proven to be untouchable.
Why not Russia or China, as far as I know the RIAA lawyers wouldn't be able to do much there and Russia seems pretty well connected these days.
Personally I'd rather see a cryptographic true peer to peer network, that way they'll have to sue each and every user.