As a Gov't agency, the NSA will probably do a security audit for you for free. They have intelligent, competent people working the audits, and while they aren't comprehensive in finding specific holes in specific boxes (they focus more on IT security features than patches and hacks) it'll be a great starting point.
Why must the US keep spending money on bigger guns?
Because 8000 years ago, Og the caveman picked up a big stick and beat the living crap out of Ug the other caveman who didn't know what a 'tool' was. Since then, it's been the universal rule - he with the most guns rules.
Who said you couldn't run wireless? Just because they don't want you to NAT to multpile devices doesn't mean that the devices you _do_ pay for can't be wireless...
You know, you can do wireless without doing NAT. Just because your little AP defaults to NAT'ing from 802.11b to the WAN port doesn't mean that it's the only way to work. I'm quite happy paying an extra $5 to my ISP for 5 IPs (that's just a buck a pop for those of you in Buffalo) and using a wireless AP with it's NAT turned off.
Adding functionality to an OS is much easier than adding security. There's nothing magic about building a web server or browser, and giving them away/bundling them makes it quite easy to gain marketshare. Note that everything you mention in your e-mail has been involved in HUGE security holes...
Well, 20 years ago we were impressed with 240 line interlaced video - in 20 years we'll be dealing with video sources and display devices with orders of magnitude higher quality than what we use now. 1080 line progressive source is around the corner, and that's on the order of 20GB for a film...
All of the Dish or DirectTV only DVRs record the actual data stream beamed down from the bird and do not have quality settings. PQ will be the same amongst them all, which is why features are the most often compared variables. Nothing comes close to the simplicity, maturity, and number of features available in a TiVo but since you're a Dish customer you'll still need their PVR in order to get the best PQ.
In order for a satellite to track one of these, you'd have to find it first. What exactly do you think that sattelites use to 'pick up' ships as you put it? It's not visual surveillance - they would be tasked on a ship _after_ its location has been discovered or narrowed down to a relatively small area.
A visual search of even a thousand square miles (That's approx the possible area after 5 hours at 30 knots) would take a horrendous amount of time, and even then you'd have found one ship and would need the satellite to be fairly dedicated to tracking it.
Radar and sonar are still the only reliable ways to find ocean going vessels, and the technology to severely reduce the effectiveness of sonar has been around for quite a while. Adding radar mitigating tech to a ship is the last step to making it effectively dissapear, espacially with a few dozen of them around to track...
They appear to be not allowing direct linkage to the information on the Yakhont and Medvenka missile systems. You can still get to the info though - from the homepage click on Export Products, then click on Navy. Halfway down are links to the Yakhont and Medvenka.
RF keyboards? Not in a cube farm...
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I can just see it now - 100 keyboards and mice within earshot of each other - that's 200 xmitters and 100 recivers. Can anyone say RF pollution?
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I refuse to buy the third and fourth in hardback
Then why don't you do what I did and buy the third one in paperback?
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There is a _major_ difference - the PS2 won't/can't do any resolutions above the NTSC standard 480i. That looks like crap on anything bigger than a 32" tube TV, and pales in comparison to the HD quality games that you can play on a PC. XBOX games are 480p (non-interlaced) at least, and the developers have the option of making them 16:9 - not by letterboxing, but by having more horizontal resolution. This is the #1 reason I've been waiting for the XBOX, as NTSC stuff just looks poor on my 120" FPTV.
It was an interesting interview, don't get me wrong, but news outlets like The Register have been telling the truth about 3G for over 2 years - for some reason there's been a stubborn refusal to believe it - perhaps because it's not what we want to hear?
Hate to burst your bubble, but VoIP is alive and well. Thousands of corps are saving millions of $$ by running their voice and data traffic side by side. It's not the clunky PC interface software you're probably thinking of though, I'm talking IP hardphones, digital and analog to IP gateways, and PBXs that trunk over IP. Heck, in all likelyhood, on or two of your recent phone calls went over IP and you didn't even know it...
Please, no matter where in the country you are - GIVE BLOOD! Blood banks all across the nation will be getting blood and plasma to NY and DC at this time, and we already have a serious shortage nationwide. If you're over 17 years old, 110 lbs, and have no STDs, call 1-800-give-life and find out where you can donate.
Jeez, you even appear to have read the article, and you're still uninformed. The news agencies were not raided - their hosting provider was. A hosting provider that hosts hundreds of customers, including the arab news agencies mentioned... The warrant was sealed, meaning the press doesn't get told who the target of the search was, so the media tied the FBI angle to the arab news agency and let all the lemmings jump to wild conclusions....
Obligatory reprimand follows :
Next time read the article before you post. The news agencies weren't raided, their web hosting provider was. There's no indication of who the target of the warrant is, but it's highly unlikely that it's a foreign news agency... Sheesh...
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As a Gov't agency, the NSA will probably do a security audit for you for free. They have intelligent, competent people working the audits, and while they aren't comprehensive in finding specific holes in specific boxes (they focus more on IT security features than patches and hacks) it'll be a great starting point.
And yet you're still here... Reading, posting and Karma-whoring in the worst way. Go figure!
Because 8000 years ago, Og the caveman picked up a big stick and beat the living crap out of Ug the other caveman who didn't know what a 'tool' was. Since then, it's been the universal rule - he with the most guns rules.
hmmm....
Who said you couldn't run wireless? Just because they don't want you to NAT to multpile devices doesn't mean that the devices you _do_ pay for can't be wireless...
You know, you can do wireless without doing NAT. Just because your little AP defaults to NAT'ing from 802.11b to the WAN port doesn't mean that it's the only way to work. I'm quite happy paying an extra $5 to my ISP for 5 IPs (that's just a buck a pop for those of you in Buffalo) and using a wireless AP with it's NAT turned off.
Adding functionality to an OS is much easier than adding security. There's nothing magic about building a web server or browser, and giving them away/bundling them makes it quite easy to gain marketshare. Note that everything you mention in your e-mail has been involved in HUGE security holes...
Adult film star Ron Jeremy announced that in the future he would be focusing on dialog and plot development in his future projects...
To be fair here, educational versions of the MS office suites usually run only $25-$50...
Well, 20 years ago we were impressed with 240 line interlaced video - in 20 years we'll be dealing with video sources and display devices with orders of magnitude higher quality than what we use now. 1080 line progressive source is around the corner, and that's on the order of 20GB for a film...
All of the Dish or DirectTV only DVRs record the actual data stream beamed down from the bird and do not have quality settings. PQ will be the same amongst them all, which is why features are the most often compared variables. Nothing comes close to the simplicity, maturity, and number of features available in a TiVo but since you're a Dish customer you'll still need their PVR in order to get the best PQ.
A visual search of even a thousand square miles (That's approx the possible area after 5 hours at 30 knots) would take a horrendous amount of time, and even then you'd have found one ship and would need the satellite to be fairly dedicated to tracking it.
Radar and sonar are still the only reliable ways to find ocean going vessels, and the technology to severely reduce the effectiveness of sonar has been around for quite a while. Adding radar mitigating tech to a ship is the last step to making it effectively dissapear, espacially with a few dozen of them around to track...
They appear to be not allowing direct linkage to the information on the Yakhont and Medvenka missile systems. You can still get to the info though - from the homepage click on Export Products, then click on Navy. Halfway down are links to the Yakhont and Medvenka.
What's with all this 'model' crap? I want my own Millenium Falcon!!! How else am I supposed to make that Kessel Spice run at the end of the month?
All I asked for were some frickin' laser beams!
I can just see it now - 100 keyboards and mice within earshot of each other - that's 200 xmitters and 100 recivers. Can anyone say RF pollution?
Then why don't you do what I did and buy the third one in paperback?
There is a _major_ difference - the PS2 won't/can't do any resolutions above the NTSC standard 480i. That looks like crap on anything bigger than a 32" tube TV, and pales in comparison to the HD quality games that you can play on a PC. XBOX games are 480p (non-interlaced) at least, and the developers have the option of making them 16:9 - not by letterboxing, but by having more horizontal resolution. This is the #1 reason I've been waiting for the XBOX, as NTSC stuff just looks poor on my 120" FPTV.
It was an interesting interview, don't get me wrong, but news outlets like The Register have been telling the truth about 3G for over 2 years - for some reason there's been a stubborn refusal to believe it - perhaps because it's not what we want to hear?
Voice-over-IP
Hate to burst your bubble, but VoIP is alive and well. Thousands of corps are saving millions of $$ by running their voice and data traffic side by side. It's not the clunky PC interface software you're probably thinking of though, I'm talking IP hardphones, digital and analog to IP gateways, and PBXs that trunk over IP. Heck, in all likelyhood, on or two of your recent phone calls went over IP and you didn't even know it...
Please, no matter where in the country you are - GIVE BLOOD! Blood banks all across the nation will be getting blood and plasma to NY and DC at this time, and we already have a serious shortage nationwide. If you're over 17 years old, 110 lbs, and have no STDs, call 1-800-give-life and find out where you can donate.
Jeez, you even appear to have read the article, and you're still uninformed. The news agencies were not raided - their hosting provider was. A hosting provider that hosts hundreds of customers, including the arab news agencies mentioned... The warrant was sealed, meaning the press doesn't get told who the target of the search was, so the media tied the FBI angle to the arab news agency and let all the lemmings jump to wild conclusions....
Obligatory reprimand follows :
Next time read the article before you post. The news agencies weren't raided, their web hosting provider was. There's no indication of who the target of the warrant is, but it's highly unlikely that it's a foreign news agency... Sheesh...
Talk to your Avaya SE, he may have a nice NDA for you to sign, but you may like what you'll hear...
Let's post really obscure articles with absolutely no details, that way we can be sure the /. effect kicks in asap...