how dare they put _modems_ in the computers! I can't believe they'd do such a heinous thing. Obviously the _only_ real use for a 'hidden' modem is to rig an election. Why, next thing you know those hackers are oing to put modems in their own computers! Who knows what havoc could be caused in that way!!!
Okay, the Afghanistan scenario would be a likely use, but for mobile local useage, as in your other two examples, satellite is pretty much out of the question. Due to the inherent difficulty in maintaining satelite reception in an urban environment (ask anyone how long it took to aim their DirectTV dish, now imagine that mobile), it's not likely that this is even being pursued. First you need a phased array antenna (big and costly), next you need LOS (hard to maintain with skyscrapers, overpasses, parking structures, and overpasses) and last, the power requirements for _transmitting_ to a satellite are too great for most mobile environments.
On the other hand, CDPD and ricochet are perfectly adequate solutions, and they're already here. Other land-based systems, such as CDMA and G3 wireless IP will ultimately prove to be the solution of choice for mobile use.
Sorry, but AOL has 14 mega-proxy servers that all web trafffic is directed to, and users are randomly switched from one to another, sometimes in the middle of a session. Ask anyone who's dealt with global ITM for a while, this is quite a headache...
Is probably a really stupid, useless enhancement to most./ers... The improved anti-aliasing of fonts in Whistler make my laptop screen absolutely beautiful. The AA goes much further than any previous OS, window manager, or app that I've ever seen, and with laptop specific enhancement turned on, it is sooooo much easier on my eyes I can hardly look at Moz in X-Win anymore.
If this happened in the US, we'd all be freaking out about the gov't controlling our 'net access. This makes carnivore look like a frickin privacy lover's dream!
I for one would not run my data over a government controlled network. What happens when they decide that they don't like me using SSH, zero knowledge, or MP3s? They don't have to pass a new law, they just change their TOS. When they want to 'sniff' me? Just drop in a box (or flip a switch), there's no need for a warrant as it's their network. Shudder....
You'll have broadband available from 'the market' long before 'the people' of Canada all have it. The gov't doesn't maintain our phone lines, our cable TV, or even our power grid (regulation is not mainenance). We rely on market forces to influence profit-driven enterprises to provide these things for us, faster, better, and cheaper than the gov't could ever do it. Why should the internet be any different?
So basically, what you're saying is that thse of us who actually pay for the software are buying it for the rest of the people who pirate. I can see the reasoning in that, however wouldn't M$ be better off lowering the cost of their products to reduce barriers to entry rather than 'allowing' illegal activity?
In order to purchase software in the volume that they apparently have, the City would have entered into a real contract with M$, signatures and all. Failure to provide audit info would be a breach of that contract.
I find it hard to feel pity for the City... I've been in the same boat, and we were always prepared for such an audit. It took perhaps a day or two of my time to organize the numbers, it didn't 'shut down' the City, or even interrupt anyone's work but mine. Since it was part of my job, it wasn't really an interruption.
You are making the rather backwater assumption that anything I do to generate personal wealth is detrimental to society. Hate to break it to you, but it just ain't so...
Taken directly from the proceedings. Hmm, big nasty corporation wants you to bend over. You keep your mouth shut, don't tell the arbiter why you should be allowed to remain vertical, and don't tell the arbiter how making you bend over is 'a bad thing'. Next thing you know, you're bending over. Shouldn't be much of a surprise to anyone.
One of the maxims that most cops follow is that criminals return to the scene of the crime. Often vandals will return to view their handy-work, and ensure that it hasn't been 'painted over'. Evidently, something that this gentleman did twigged this reaction in the FBI.
On the other hand, the Voodoo 1 also had 4MB of VRAM. I'm having trouble understanding how a "next generation" console can get by with so little. Even 8MB is puny compared to modern PC graphics cards
1 word - resolution. You're not going to be running at 1600x1200 on your TV any time soon, are you?
I mean, we're talking about a company who has forced crap down the collectiv3e throats of it's lemmings^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H since day 1. This is no more remarkable than forced pop-up ads, proprietary protocols, transparent browsing proxies, ar any of the other 'evils' foisted on the unwashed masses...
One of the most important things that DARE does is give kids some tools to resist the peer pressure to use drugs. It's not going to stop an abuser, nor will it scare anyone straight, but there are kids on the edge who can be helped by DARE and programs like it.
Is it the FBI having this box, or is it in how they use it? Quite frankly I could survive without knowing the technical details behind the box, I want to be sure that it's being used properly...
IANAAE (I Am Not An Aeronautical Engineer), but I remember reading that most airliners are already strong enough to do loops and dogfight and stuff. The story i remember hearing is that when the 747 was being first tested, the test pilot took it through a barrel-roll after the prototype had passed all the normal tests. Now that's something i'd love to see!
Actually, it was the 707, during the first public display of the craft. Technically, this is not a big deal at all - when properly performed a barrel roll induces a constant 1g load, which all aircraft are cpable of handling.
The rack mounted boxen you mention should cost much closer to 2k per, leaving you plenty of dough to pick up a pair of CyberIQ HyperFlow3 load balancers to more than even the odds. You could quite easily serve 2-4 million hits a day off a setup like that, and with the high availability offered by the hyperflow, you could get really darned close to 5 9s in uptime.
Having been involved (on the 'good' side) in a few cases involving electronic communication, I must say that this box goes too far, and is entirely unnecessary in enforcing the laws of this country.
Given my background, my initial reaction to the box was 'Cool, that'd make it so much easier to catch "Mr. X"' (Mr. X was/is a sick sick sick child molester that I was helping 'da man track down evidence against). But the more I think about it, the less I like this.
There are already plenty of ways to acquire evidence of electronic communications that fall unquestionably inside the bounds of the Constitution. I totally understand what the FBI is thinking here, but sometimes you get so involved in something that you can't see the forest for the trees. It's tough to spend your life catching heinous criminals and _not_ get an 'end justifies the means' attitude when it comes to these things. That's a dangerous path to tread though, which is why I thank God for the checks and balances that exist inour government.
Keep fighting the fight, and have faith - this box _will_ go away if we do our part.
They could reasonably be given credit for 'starting' the 'movement' of profiting from Open Source. I'm not saying they're the first, but they made everyone outside the Linux world wake up and see dollar signs. In my mind - that's quite an accopmlishment.
How dare you compare voluntary employment to the atrocities our forefathers committed against real slaves? To do so trivializes our past crimes to an almost criminal degree. My ancestors didn't fight a war to end voluntary employment. Ceasar Chavez didn't fight for the rights of workers who were making good money. The employees of the triangle shirt factory didn't perish because the latte machine broke down. You need to get a grip on reality buddy...
Quite frankly, reading your post made me sick..
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how dare they put _modems_ in the computers! I can't believe they'd do such a heinous thing. Obviously the _only_ real use for a 'hidden' modem is to rig an election. Why, next thing you know those hackers are oing to put modems in their own computers! Who knows what havoc could be caused in that way!!!
Okay, the Afghanistan scenario would be a likely use, but for mobile local useage, as in your other two examples, satellite is pretty much out of the question. Due to the inherent difficulty in maintaining satelite reception in an urban environment (ask anyone how long it took to aim their DirectTV dish, now imagine that mobile), it's not likely that this is even being pursued. First you need a phased array antenna (big and costly), next you need LOS (hard to maintain with skyscrapers, overpasses, parking structures, and overpasses) and last, the power requirements for _transmitting_ to a satellite are too great for most mobile environments.
On the other hand, CDPD and ricochet are perfectly adequate solutions, and they're already here. Other land-based systems, such as CDMA and G3 wireless IP will ultimately prove to be the solution of choice for mobile use.
Sorry, but AOL has 14 mega-proxy servers that all web trafffic is directed to, and users are randomly switched from one to another, sometimes in the middle of a session. Ask anyone who's dealt with global ITM for a while, this is quite a headache...
Is probably a really stupid, useless enhancement to most ./ers... The improved anti-aliasing of fonts in Whistler make my laptop screen absolutely beautiful. The AA goes much further than any previous OS, window manager, or app that I've ever seen, and with laptop specific enhancement turned on, it is sooooo much easier on my eyes I can hardly look at Moz in X-Win anymore.
If this happened in the US, we'd all be freaking out about the gov't controlling our 'net access. This makes carnivore look like a frickin privacy lover's dream!
I for one would not run my data over a government controlled network. What happens when they decide that they don't like me using SSH, zero knowledge, or MP3s? They don't have to pass a new law, they just change their TOS. When they want to 'sniff' me? Just drop in a box (or flip a switch), there's no need for a warrant as it's their network. Shudder....
You'll have broadband available from 'the market' long before 'the people' of Canada all have it. The gov't doesn't maintain our phone lines, our cable TV, or even our power grid (regulation is not mainenance). We rely on market forces to influence profit-driven enterprises to provide these things for us, faster, better, and cheaper than the gov't could ever do it. Why should the internet be any different?
So basically, what you're saying is that thse of us who actually pay for the software are buying it for the rest of the people who pirate. I can see the reasoning in that, however wouldn't M$ be better off lowering the cost of their products to reduce barriers to entry rather than 'allowing' illegal activity?
In order to purchase software in the volume that they apparently have, the City would have entered into a real contract with M$, signatures and all. Failure to provide audit info would be a breach of that contract.
I find it hard to feel pity for the City... I've been in the same boat, and we were always prepared for such an audit. It took perhaps a day or two of my time to organize the numbers, it didn't 'shut down' the City, or even interrupt anyone's work but mine. Since it was part of my job, it wasn't really an interruption.
And this -
Umm... Please dear god, as long as I love - never let me see a bunch of chess fans 'dancing' for any reason...
You are making the rather backwater assumption that anything I do to generate personal wealth is detrimental to society. Hate to break it to you, but it just ain't so...
Taken directly from the proceedings.
Hmm, big nasty corporation wants you to bend over. You keep your mouth shut, don't tell the arbiter why you should be allowed to remain vertical, and don't tell the arbiter how making you bend over is 'a bad thing'. Next thing you know, you're bending over. Shouldn't be much of a surprise to anyone.
One of the maxims that most cops follow is that criminals return to the scene of the crime. Often vandals will return to view their handy-work, and ensure that it hasn't been 'painted over'. Evidently, something that this gentleman did twigged this reaction in the FBI.
If he doesn't wind up being charged with anything, then his computer will _not_ be evidence, and he will likely get it back soon.
1 word - resolution. You're not going to be running at 1600x1200 on your TV any time soon, are you?
AOL has finally made a good business case for frequently disconnecting users - the more they re-connect, the more home page ad impressions they sell!
I mean, we're talking about a company who has forced crap down the collectiv3e throats of it's lemmings^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H since day 1. This is no more remarkable than forced pop-up ads, proprietary protocols, transparent browsing proxies, ar any of the other 'evils' foisted on the unwashed masses...
One of the most important things that DARE does is give kids some tools to resist the peer pressure to use drugs. It's not going to stop an abuser, nor will it scare anyone straight, but there are kids on the edge who can be helped by DARE and programs like it.
Is it the FBI having this box, or is it in how they use it? Quite frankly I could survive without knowing the technical details behind the box, I want to be sure that it's being used properly...
Wrong! We'd all be bitching about why it should be free (speech) while deep down knowing that we actually want it to be free (beer)...
Actually, it was the 707, during the first public display of the craft. Technically, this is not a big deal at all - when properly performed a barrel roll induces a constant 1g load, which all aircraft are cpable of handling.
The rack mounted boxen you mention should cost much closer to 2k per, leaving you plenty of dough to pick up a pair of CyberIQ HyperFlow3 load balancers to more than even the odds. You could quite easily serve 2-4 million hits a day off a setup like that, and with the high availability offered by the hyperflow, you could get really darned close to 5 9s in uptime.
Given my background, my initial reaction to the box was 'Cool, that'd make it so much easier to catch "Mr. X"' (Mr. X was/is a sick sick sick child molester that I was helping 'da man track down evidence against). But the more I think about it, the less I like this.
There are already plenty of ways to acquire evidence of electronic communications that fall unquestionably inside the bounds of the Constitution. I totally understand what the FBI is thinking here, but sometimes you get so involved in something that you can't see the forest for the trees. It's tough to spend your life catching heinous criminals and _not_ get an 'end justifies the means' attitude when it comes to these things. That's a dangerous path to tread though, which is why I thank God for the checks and balances that exist inour government.
Keep fighting the fight, and have faith - this box _will_ go away if we do our part.
They could reasonably be given credit for 'starting' the 'movement' of profiting from Open Source. I'm not saying they're the first, but they made everyone outside the Linux world wake up and see dollar signs. In my mind - that's quite an accopmlishment.
Why am I buying Linux?
Because your 'net pipe is too slow to suck down an ISO loike the rest of us?
How dare you compare voluntary employment to the atrocities our forefathers committed against real slaves? To do so trivializes our past crimes to an almost criminal degree. My ancestors didn't fight a war to end voluntary employment. Ceasar Chavez didn't fight for the rights of workers who were making good money. The employees of the triangle shirt factory didn't perish because the latte machine broke down. You need to get a grip on reality buddy...
Quite frankly, reading your post made me sick..