This is generally a bad idea for several reasons. First, the 12v electrical system on most cars ranges from a bit over 12v to around 14.5v, which your computer may not like. Second, the cars electrical system is very noisy, lots of power spikes and whatnot, also probably not good for your electronics. Third, the system will also need 5v, -12v and -5v supplies, so you'll have to supply appropriate voltage regulators that can handle the load. Be sure you use low dropout regulators for the +12v side, a typical regulators require several volts of headroom to provide stable current at their rated voltage.
If the power supply isn't right, you can easily kill the electronics, or end up with flakey, hard to diagnose problems that will leave you wasting time chasing weird bugs.
It can work of course, lots of people have done it, but for most people its worth the time and effort to just snag a cheap inverter and let the PC power supply do its job, plus you have the convienance of having an inverter around.
Since a UPS is basicly just an inverter and a battery, you can salvage a UPS to work for you too. Just be sure it can handle a 100% duty cycle. Might be useful to rig up the power fail circuit on it to auto-shutdown the computer when you turn the car off too.
I ran a RH server with tomcat for our JSP developer. He set up some pretty sweet stuff using JDataStore, and then had me put on cocoon and he wouldn't stop talking about how cool it was.
But I still have no idea what it does (other than the obvious implications of its name).
Can someone provide a simple description of what cocoon does?
imagine if you had to call AOL tech support because your service is down. Wait you cant. They host your telephone too. Email them. oops. cant do that. Oh well, I guess I'll go watch some TV while they work out the bugs themselves. OH NO! I cant do that either!
Well, shit, you might just have to go outside and do something.
You're right, after seeing the IRC logs some people have provided, I'm not going to bother with it.
fli4l looks like it might work, and its floppy based, which is nice, since the win98+winroute setup I'm using now wont' be disturbed.
What sucks is that the windows setup flawlessly detects and operates my Sportster 128 ISDN card without any intervention, but none of the linux-based stuff can even tell its in the machine.
They won't put any disclamer on it. Why would they bother? Normal consumers don't look for that CD logo anyway. If its an aluminized plastic disk that fits in their CD player, they'll stick it in there and see if it works.
I remember, it was on a page about an encryption product (the name of which I forget) that allows you to encrypt stuff without showing evidence that it is encrypted.
The idea is that you should be able to have a system that encrypts your data, from which you can produce a set of documents, but which can also be hiding other documents which cannot be detectected.
nope, by the same logic that applies to things like safes. If you have a safe that they think contains something they can use in a case against you, you can be compelled to produce the key and/or combination, the 5th amendment does not protect you. I forget the reasoning, but if you are curious, someone wrote a pretty good document about it that is available on the web somewhere.
That there isn't a provision for the federal government to tell states what to do ought to be a clue about how the country founders intended things to work.
Perhaps this varies by US state, but no one has ever asked for my license to destroy it, even when changing addresses or obtaining a national ID card. I have had at one time a valid state ID card, two drivers licenses with different addresses (in different counties, same license number) and a third valid license in a different state.
While the law does say that an ID is supposed to be destroyed, they do not take your old license from you. When you go to get a new one, they give you a piece of paper representing the new license to show with your old one, until your new one comes in the mail, then you are trusted to destroy the old one.
Now, legally, only the most recent of my ID's was valid, as that was what was reflected by the state records, but without doing a records check, nobody would know that.
I dunno how it works across national boundarys. Since the US uses the 'full faith and credit' thing between states (every state must honor every other states documentation, such as drivers licenses, marrage licenses, vehicle titles, etc), you only need one in the US, and it is supposed to reflect your current place of residence (NB)
NB: Requiring a place of residense is pretty stupid if you ask me, why should I be required to have one particular, or any place of residence? What if I live with various friends, or just wander around the country, hitchhiking between cities?
I wanted to use SmoothWall as my firewall, but I have a USR Sportster 128 ISDN card, and I can't figure out how to get it to work with smoothwall (or redhat, the documentation is sparse and tends to be in german).
Anyone know if Smoothwall will work with this card without alot of configuration effort?
Bill, a guest-class user who wants higher-level access for nerfarious purposes, creates a file in/tmp
If bill has access to the shell on a smoothwall system, he can do whatever he wants. No one disputes that shadow passwords are useful on multiuser systems, but this isn't one.
I'd feel distinctly nervous about having a space based system loaded with a several very big nukes right above our heads;
Doesn't have to be in earth orbit, for fast deliver it might be best to have it in moon orbit, or leading or trailing the earth in solar orbit.
Anyway, if we had a decent sky survey system, we wouldn't have them just haning around, they'd be off deflecting the rocks we know will hit the Earth in a few hundred years.
A 747 can lift a hell of a lot more than 600 people in a pinch. I think the record in Africa somewhere was 1400 or something rediculious like that.
And large cruise ships could easily take several thousand.
The problem is that people will get greedy and want to take bags and bags of stuff with them. If everybody just walked away with whatever they could fit in a small backpack, it could probably be done, but probably too many people would freak out and clog things up.
That'll be "The Hobbit" special edition, where Gollum wagers the Ring in the Riddle game
Um, I haven't seen the animated move in ages, but in the book, Gollum in no way wagers the ring, he offers "If precious asks, and it dosen't answer, we eats it, my precious. If it asks us, and we doesn't answer, then we does what it wants, eh? We shows it the way out, yes?"
The ring has already been found (or allowed itself to have been found) by Bilbo. If you want take it a bit further, the ring may have played a part in causing Gollum to loose the riddle contest, since it was aiming to get back to Mordor.
If I was a genetics major I probably could give examples of this here.
I read once that sicle cell anemia is caused when two copies of the 'defective' gene are inherited, however, when only one is present, some resistance to malaria is apparent.
No one innovates when everyone just compies[sic] everyone elses work
Bull hocky. Artists, including engineers, do not create solely for commercial success. Many programmers program because code is (when done properly) beautiful, just as carven marble or sculpted clay.
Large corporations won't stop needing software, and arguably, the quality of the software on the market may improve, since the money grubbers won't be around.
This is precisly the point I've made myself in the past. It is conciveable NOW that sometime in the not-to-distant future scarcity of material objects will be eliminated, as has already been done for information resources. As the technology of replication advances, more and more items will fall into the realm of information resources. First it was text, then music, now video, and soon, paintings, sculpture and complex mechanical devices (much of this can be done already, but not at prices that make it available to the average person).
You ask, does a copy of an original piece of artwork decrease the value of the original, which begs the question what exactly is the value? The value depends of course only on the person evaluating the value. Many people currently value unique items more than they would perfect, mass-produced replicas of the item. This, I believe, is because they have been raised in a society that equates physical scarcity with value. Still, a copy of a work of Leonardo is still often valued more than an original of a poor peice of art; naturally the actual astetic impact of the piece plays an important role in its valuation.
In the future, as scarcity of items is decreased, I think individuals will begin to move away from valuing things because others do or do not have or want them, to valuing them because they themselves do or do not like or need them. Essentially, because people will have access to basicly any material object, they will end up much less materialistic.
Our current system of laws reflects physical scarcity, and the value system that has historicaly been based on that physical scarcity. We are now beginning to see the conflict between the new economy and the old laws. The technology driving the new economy will not be easy to stop, it is too compelling for industry to be able to easily and quickly produce goods. Seeing this as a strong possibility in the future, we should be playing the founding fathers and drafting the laws that will sensibly govern an economy and society in which physical scarcity has been eliminated.
Copyright was the beginning, and we are already seeing the evolution of the attitudes of the people who are the future generations. If duplication technology were to suddenly leap forward and catch us unaware, the shock to the economy could be extermely damaging. In the interest of economic and social stability, these issues should be solved, with an eye to the future, now.
Pardon my swearing and abusive tone below, I'm not really ranting, I'm just trying to achieve an effect, no offense intended.
You can either pay for the music and listen to it. Or you can not listen to the music.
Or I can practice a form of civil disobediance and actively violate any law which I feel is ethically unsound. For all you know, I have an ethical REQUIREMENT to 'pirate' music.
Since recorded music is a luxury item and not a subsistence item, you do not have any inherent moral right to steal it because it is being denied to you.
Get a clue. You have no inherent rights, period. Moral or otherwise. Any 'right' that you have is granted to you by the collective will (more or less) of the society you live in.
Thus ends today's lesson on morality.
Morality really doesn't have shit to do with it. If my ethical system says I should take whatever the fuck I can get away with, then listening to music I didn't pay for is moral. Maybe not by YOUR standards, but I don't give a rats ass about your standards.
This is about the rule of law, and the rights granted to consumers and corporations (and to some extent the content creators, but they are mostly just getting screwed by the rights the corporations have purchased for themselves).
The music industry has secured for itself, through various and sundry means, many rights which do not reflect the will of the consumers, but with their huge resources, they are simply able to beat down most anyone who objects. There are very few people with the time and money to make any kind of serious objection to the current state of the law, particularly since a huge chunk of the consumer base is young and without many resources. Flouting the law and establishing and supporting an effective trading network is about the only way the consumers can have an appriciable impact without dedicating their lives and resources to the effort.
Don't forget one of the more obvious attacks, building a fuel-ladden craft that is to be raised on the elevator and which just happens to detonate while being raised. Depending on how tough the climbers are cable are, and how well protected the cable is from other attacks, it might be a practical attack channel.
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This is generally a bad idea for several reasons. First, the 12v electrical system on most cars ranges from a bit over 12v to around 14.5v, which your computer may not like. Second, the cars electrical system is very noisy, lots of power spikes and whatnot, also probably not good for your electronics. Third, the system will also need 5v, -12v and -5v supplies, so you'll have to supply appropriate voltage regulators that can handle the load. Be sure you use low dropout regulators for the +12v side, a typical regulators require several volts of headroom to provide stable current at their rated voltage.
If the power supply isn't right, you can easily kill the electronics, or end up with flakey, hard to diagnose problems that will leave you wasting time chasing weird bugs.
It can work of course, lots of people have done it, but for most people its worth the time and effort to just snag a cheap inverter and let the PC power supply do its job, plus you have the convienance of having an inverter around.
Since a UPS is basicly just an inverter and a battery, you can salvage a UPS to work for you too. Just be sure it can handle a 100% duty cycle. Might be useful to rig up the power fail circuit on it to auto-shutdown the computer when you turn the car off too.
I ran a RH server with tomcat for our JSP developer. He set up some pretty sweet stuff using JDataStore, and then had me put on cocoon and he wouldn't stop talking about how cool it was.
But I still have no idea what it does (other than the obvious implications of its name).
Can someone provide a simple description of what cocoon does?
imagine if you had to call AOL tech support because your service is down. Wait you cant. They host your telephone too. Email them. oops. cant do that. Oh well, I guess I'll go watch some TV while they work out the bugs themselves. OH NO! I cant do that either!
Well, shit, you might just have to go outside and do something.
You're right, after seeing the IRC logs some people have provided, I'm not going to bother with it.
fli4l looks like it might work, and its floppy based, which is nice, since the win98+winroute setup I'm using now wont' be disturbed.
What sucks is that the windows setup flawlessly detects and operates my Sportster 128 ISDN card without any intervention, but none of the linux-based stuff can even tell its in the machine.
yup, thats the one. cool product, makes me wish I had a good reason to use it.
They won't put any disclamer on it. Why would they bother? Normal consumers don't look for that CD logo anyway. If its an aluminized plastic disk that fits in their CD player, they'll stick it in there and see if it works.
I remember, it was on a page about an encryption product (the name of which I forget) that allows you to encrypt stuff without showing evidence that it is encrypted.
The idea is that you should be able to have a system that encrypts your data, from which you can produce a set of documents, but which can also be hiding other documents which cannot be detectected.
nope, by the same logic that applies to things like safes. If you have a safe that they think contains something they can use in a case against you, you can be compelled to produce the key and/or combination, the 5th amendment does not protect you. I forget the reasoning, but if you are curious, someone wrote a pretty good document about it that is available on the web somewhere.
That there isn't a provision for the federal government to tell states what to do ought to be a clue about how the country founders intended things to work.
I know where to get 100lbs of silly putty to pitch into it
sure seems like blackmail to me. Ought to be illegal, either the fed provides interstate money to everybody or nobody, no pick and choose.
Perhaps this varies by US state, but no one has ever asked for my license to destroy it, even when changing addresses or obtaining a national ID card. I have had at one time a valid state ID card, two drivers licenses with different addresses (in different counties, same license number) and a third valid license in a different state.
While the law does say that an ID is supposed to be destroyed, they do not take your old license from you. When you go to get a new one, they give you a piece of paper representing the new license to show with your old one, until your new one comes in the mail, then you are trusted to destroy the old one.
Now, legally, only the most recent of my ID's was valid, as that was what was reflected by the state records, but without doing a records check, nobody would know that.
I dunno how it works across national boundarys. Since the US uses the 'full faith and credit' thing between states (every state must honor every other states documentation, such as drivers licenses, marrage licenses, vehicle titles, etc), you only need one in the US, and it is supposed to reflect your current place of residence (NB)
NB: Requiring a place of residense is pretty stupid if you ask me, why should I be required to have one particular, or any place of residence? What if I live with various friends, or just wander around the country, hitchhiking between cities?
I wanted to use SmoothWall as my firewall, but I have a USR Sportster 128 ISDN card, and I can't figure out how to get it to work with smoothwall (or redhat, the documentation is sparse and tends to be in german).
Anyone know if Smoothwall will work with this card without alot of configuration effort?
Bill, a guest-class user who wants higher-level access for nerfarious purposes, creates a file in /tmp
If bill has access to the shell on a smoothwall system, he can do whatever he wants. No one disputes that shadow passwords are useful on multiuser systems, but this isn't one.
I believe that is the first time I've encountered bleed-over of fictional swear words into real life, albet online.
I'd feel distinctly nervous about having a space based system loaded with a several very big nukes right above our heads;
Doesn't have to be in earth orbit, for fast deliver it might be best to have it in moon orbit, or leading or trailing the earth in solar orbit.
Anyway, if we had a decent sky survey system, we wouldn't have them just haning around, they'd be off deflecting the rocks we know will hit the Earth in a few hundred years.
A 747 can lift a hell of a lot more than 600 people in a pinch. I think the record in Africa somewhere was 1400 or something rediculious like that.
And large cruise ships could easily take several thousand.
The problem is that people will get greedy and want to take bags and bags of stuff with them. If everybody just walked away with whatever they could fit in a small backpack, it could probably be done, but probably too many people would freak out and clog things up.
Dumb, panicky, dangerous animals.
That'll be "The Hobbit" special edition, where Gollum wagers the Ring in the Riddle game
Um, I haven't seen the animated move in ages, but in the book, Gollum in no way wagers the ring, he offers "If precious asks, and it dosen't answer, we eats it, my precious. If it asks us, and we doesn't answer, then we does what it wants, eh? We shows it the way out, yes?"
The ring has already been found (or allowed itself to have been found) by Bilbo. If you want take it a bit further, the ring may have played a part in causing Gollum to loose the riddle contest, since it was aiming to get back to Mordor.
If I was a genetics major I probably could give examples of this here.
I read once that sicle cell anemia is caused when two copies of the 'defective' gene are inherited, however, when only one is present, some resistance to malaria is apparent.
Just wait until the gym lights go out.
No one innovates when everyone just compies[sic] everyone elses work
Bull hocky. Artists, including engineers, do not create solely for commercial success. Many programmers program because code is (when done properly) beautiful, just as carven marble or sculpted clay.
Large corporations won't stop needing software, and arguably, the quality of the software on the market may improve, since the money grubbers won't be around.
This is precisly the point I've made myself in the past. It is conciveable NOW that sometime in the not-to-distant future scarcity of material objects will be eliminated, as has already been done for information resources. As the technology of replication advances, more and more items will fall into the realm of information resources. First it was text, then music, now video, and soon, paintings, sculpture and complex mechanical devices (much of this can be done already, but not at prices that make it available to the average person).
You ask, does a copy of an original piece of artwork decrease the value of the original, which begs the question what exactly is the value? The value depends of course only on the person evaluating the value. Many people currently value unique items more than they would perfect, mass-produced replicas of the item. This, I believe, is because they have been raised in a society that equates physical scarcity with value. Still, a copy of a work of Leonardo is still often valued more than an original of a poor peice of art; naturally the actual astetic impact of the piece plays an important role in its valuation.
In the future, as scarcity of items is decreased, I think individuals will begin to move away from valuing things because others do or do not have or want them, to valuing them because they themselves do or do not like or need them. Essentially, because people will have access to basicly any material object, they will end up much less materialistic.
Our current system of laws reflects physical scarcity, and the value system that has historicaly been based on that physical scarcity. We are now beginning to see the conflict between the new economy and the old laws. The technology driving the new economy will not be easy to stop, it is too compelling for industry to be able to easily and quickly produce goods. Seeing this as a strong possibility in the future, we should be playing the founding fathers and drafting the laws that will sensibly govern an economy and society in which physical scarcity has been eliminated.
Copyright was the beginning, and we are already seeing the evolution of the attitudes of the people who are the future generations. If duplication technology were to suddenly leap forward and catch us unaware, the shock to the economy could be extermely damaging. In the interest of economic and social stability, these issues should be solved, with an eye to the future, now.
Damn it, I still don't know what happens after layer 04!
Pardon my swearing and abusive tone below, I'm not really ranting, I'm just trying to achieve an effect, no offense intended.
You can either pay for the music and listen to it. Or you can not listen to the music.
Or I can practice a form of civil disobediance and actively violate any law which I feel is ethically unsound. For all you know, I have an ethical REQUIREMENT to 'pirate' music.
Since recorded music is a luxury item and not a subsistence item, you do not have any inherent moral right to steal it because it is being denied to you.
Get a clue. You have no inherent rights, period. Moral or otherwise. Any 'right' that you have is granted to you by the collective will (more or less) of the society you live in.
Thus ends today's lesson on morality.
Morality really doesn't have shit to do with it. If my ethical system says I should take whatever the fuck I can get away with, then listening to music I didn't pay for is moral. Maybe not by YOUR standards, but I don't give a rats ass about your standards.
This is about the rule of law, and the rights granted to consumers and corporations (and to some extent the content creators, but they are mostly just getting screwed by the rights the corporations have purchased for themselves).
The music industry has secured for itself, through various and sundry means, many rights which do not reflect the will of the consumers, but with their huge resources, they are simply able to beat down most anyone who objects. There are very few people with the time and money to make any kind of serious objection to the current state of the law, particularly since a huge chunk of the consumer base is young and without many resources. Flouting the law and establishing and supporting an effective trading network is about the only way the consumers can have an appriciable impact without dedicating their lives and resources to the effort.
Don't forget one of the more obvious attacks, building a fuel-ladden craft that is to be raised on the elevator and which just happens to detonate while being raised. Depending on how tough the climbers are cable are, and how well protected the cable is from other attacks, it might be a practical attack channel.