The article talks about assasinations too. That seems like a major flaw to me. It might be difficult for a small group to start a war, but a lone gun could assasinate a public figure. As long as the shooter was loosely coupled to the investment front it might be difficult to prove a relationship.
I can see this as a honeypot to catch people who are going to commit these crimes anyway, but there is too much potential to incentivize a group to commit crimes. Dangerous on the whole.
In a hypothetical file trading network, one user posts copyrighted material. A second user downloads the copyrighted material. Which user has violated the copyright?
Just wait till everyone else signs up for Do Not Call; tens of thousands of telemarketers in their death throes will be calling the remaining 30% of phone numbers. Your phone will be off the hook!
As I understand it one of the arguments against allowing microbroadcast licenses was that all of the small, not-for-profit channels would drive the local, for-profit stations out of business. These stations after all have (or had) staff and facilities to pay for, and a limited broadcast market to recoup those costs. Along comes clearchannel, with remote broadcasting and consolidation. Clearchannel can afford to run on a smaller slice of each market, since their cost per market is reduced. They have eliminated staff and facilities, centralizing broadcast centers and management.
I believe that the consolidation of radio stations has removed the competition argument against microbroadcast licensing. With their increased financial base they no longer need market protection from community radio.
Between 1994 and 1996 I worked for US-Digital in Flint, MI. We built a dynamic site with static navigation called HomeWeb. It was a commercial real estate site, one of our early customers was ReMax. The site first launched in early-to-mid 1995. We considered using scripts to build static pages, but at the suggestion of Mike Maiten (then of Net+Effects in CA) we used a C++ app to dynamically generate pages off a database. I can't find any public cached snapshots of the site but I bet I can find the source code, and there were marketing brochures printed that I bet Brian June or other USD folks could dig up.
Here is a sun managers posting relating to the 9GB drive we added to the secondary web server to handle the volume of home images we were accumulating:
http://www.sunmanagers.org/archives/1995/1476.ht ml
I've often wondered, with this research and an earlier article about scientists creating mice with larger, crenellated brains. If we created a race of intelligent, articulate mice, could we ethically keep them as pets? Wouldn't they be entitled to rights, like self determination?
How could it be acceptable to kill them for research, or hold them against their wills?
I was interested in doing something similar with a 3d first-person type game with "doorways" that take you to other servers. Reminds me of snowcrash, with server owners having their own "real estate" in a connected "multiverse". It would be a nice metaphor for online shopping, chatting with friends, etc.
I lived in London for most of 2001 (Detroit born and raised). People overseas couldn't understand how most Americans could go their entire lives and never have a passport, or never leave the country (except Canada or Mexico). For them, going from the UK to France would be the equivalant of us driving from Detroit to Chicago. And you need a passport at every border.
The fact that we're a 12 hour plane ride from most other countries creates a world mindset entirely different from and unimaginable to most Europeans. They think we're arrogant because we don't know what happened in France today, or in Syria yesteray. Imagine living in Michigan and not knowing what happened in Ohio. It's a perspective bridge.
I shipped my home-built dual processor box from Detroit to England via USPS last year, 2nd day air. I insured it for $2k and packed it in tight-fitting foam in a nice box, just like a new machine ships. It arrived smashed, with the steel drive brackets shorn and the case deformed, the mainboard sprung in the warped case. USPS is a government beaurocracy. They wouldn't pay since their "internal procedures" require a receipt showing value, and I'd bought the parts from friends, at shows, etc. Also I (wrongly) believed my skill in aggregating the components and installing the OS's would have some value. In the end I got back $600.
Lesson learned, stick with pure commercial ventures like FedEX.
I'm assuming we're talking about some kind of debit based system here, so why stop at a penney a page? Why not 1/10 of a cent?
A (dated) draft RFC on MPTP (micro payment transfer protocol) is already out there.
I see initially as a client-side controlled browser plugin, with a console for the user to pre-set who and how much it's authorized to pay without user confirmation. You adopt a new protocol like "MPTP://" and use public key messages in the headers to arrange credit xfer from a source account to a target account.
How much do companies get now for banner ads? Not a penney a page surely. I would imagine a fractional penney a page would be an improvement for most news sites.
Globalization is, to me, the process whereby third world countries are modernized (using crushing WTO/World Bank debt) until they are suitable for use as cheap labour.
History has shown, however, that eventually the labourors will demand better conditions, either through gradual reform or revolution. So while the short term goal is exploitation, the changes put in place to facilitate that exploitation will lead to improved living conditions.
ditch all of the fans and cut the wires to the power supply fan. Get an industrial vacuum or an old "central vacuuming" blower unit and install it in the basement (or attic, or garage, etc). Run a 4" hose up from the basement and onto the fan outlet on your power supply. You'll still hear the howl from the air but it's nothing compared to the fan noise. Now, for that drive noise...
sounds similar to a UK company, splashplastic. they're leveraging the established "debit phone card" structure here. you get a card, go to (almost) any news agent and put cash on it, then spend the money online. nice anonymous way to turn hard currency into digital cash anonymously.
problem is getting enough merchants to make it compelling, the cool thing about online shopping is price comparisons and niche markets. proprietary payment schemes don't work well there.
I've never tried it, but might running in a chroot'ed shell allow you to install it where you like, at least for a test run?
Also you may be able to truss the pkgadd tool and log all of the system calls. Give it a shot with something you trust and see if it works out first.
Don't forget to send a nastygram to the package author for not allowing configurability.
Without seeing any of the specifics, and no runtime figures, does anyone else find it odd that the "co-processor" in the HAL-15 is a pIII 750?
Until I see benchmarks this thing is still smoke and mirrors.
At the same time it's not possible to listen to all of the many voices, here or elsewhere. Moderation is one tool that helps you locate the voices that your peers find interesting (or informative, or alarming). It has less potential for abuse than, say, handing control to an editor at a privately held, for-profit news center. It is direct democracy for information.
Read Mr. Schneier's writings on One Time Pads, which this essentially is. They are provably secure, since the entropy is (at least) 1:1.
Like having a password the same length as the message you're encrypting, and only using it once. There's no way to know what the message is without the password.
Yes, OTP is provably secure. But in his example, who owns the "noise stream" you're encrypting against? How do you know THEY don't own it, and that THEY didn't use some repeatable formula for generating the noise stream, and that THEY can't recreate it? There is a huge trust issue with the stream generator.
Also, this is useless for stored messages. It enables secure stream communication, not the storage of secure data, and is therefore of limited practical use.
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What about "SELECT MYSEQUENCE.NEXTVAL FROM DUAL" ?
The article talks about assasinations too. That seems like a major flaw to me. It might be difficult for a small group to start a war, but a lone gun could assasinate a public figure. As long as the shooter was loosely coupled to the investment front it might be difficult to prove a relationship.
I can see this as a honeypot to catch people who are going to commit these crimes anyway, but there is too much potential to incentivize a group to commit crimes. Dangerous on the whole.
Existing infrastructure, profit margins, lack of competition...
In a hypothetical file trading network, one user posts copyrighted material. A second user downloads the copyrighted material. Which user has violated the copyright?
Just wait till everyone else signs up for Do Not Call; tens of thousands of telemarketers in their death throes will be calling the remaining 30% of phone numbers. Your phone will be off the hook!
There will come a day when you'll be doing all your hacking on a ten-year-old, "pre-ban" PC without DRM. Old hardware is going to be a valuable asset.
As I understand it one of the arguments against allowing microbroadcast licenses was that all of the small, not-for-profit channels would drive the local, for-profit stations out of business. These stations after all have (or had) staff and facilities to pay for, and a limited broadcast market to recoup those costs. Along comes clearchannel, with remote broadcasting and consolidation. Clearchannel can afford to run on a smaller slice of each market, since their cost per market is reduced. They have eliminated staff and facilities, centralizing broadcast centers and management.
I believe that the consolidation of radio stations has removed the competition argument against microbroadcast licensing. With their increased financial base they no longer need market protection from community radio.
Between 1994 and 1996 I worked for US-Digital in Flint, MI. We built a dynamic site with static navigation called HomeWeb. It was a commercial real estate site, one of our early customers was ReMax. The site first launched in early-to-mid 1995. We considered using scripts to build static pages, but at the suggestion of Mike Maiten (then of Net+Effects in CA) we used a C++ app to dynamically generate pages off a database. I can't find any public cached snapshots of the site but I bet I can find the source code, and there were marketing brochures printed that I bet Brian June or other USD folks could dig up.
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Here is a sun managers posting relating to the 9GB drive we added to the secondary web server to handle the volume of home images we were accumulating:
http://www.sunmanagers.org/archives/1995/1476.h
Probably other supporting docs elsewhere.
I've often wondered, with this research and an earlier article about scientists creating mice with larger, crenellated brains. If we created a race of intelligent, articulate mice, could we ethically keep them as pets? Wouldn't they be entitled to rights, like self determination?
How could it be acceptable to kill them for research, or hold them against their wills?
I was interested in doing something similar with a 3d first-person type game with "doorways" that take you to other servers. Reminds me of snowcrash, with server owners having their own "real estate" in a connected "multiverse". It would be a nice metaphor for online shopping, chatting with friends, etc.
The link to "meldstar" is a redirect to goatse.cx.
You are a very bad man.
"They think we're arrogant" is shorthand for "In my opinion, the people who think Americans are arrogant think so because..."
Try reading it without the chip on your shoulder.
Here, Europe only exists in the news.
I lived in London for most of 2001 (Detroit born and raised). People overseas couldn't understand how most Americans could go their entire lives and never have a passport, or never leave the country (except Canada or Mexico). For them, going from the UK to France would be the equivalant of us driving from Detroit to Chicago. And you need a passport at every border.
The fact that we're a 12 hour plane ride from most other countries creates a world mindset entirely different from and unimaginable to most Europeans. They think we're arrogant because we don't know what happened in France today, or in Syria yesteray. Imagine living in Michigan and not knowing what happened in Ohio. It's a perspective bridge.
I shipped my home-built dual processor box from Detroit to England via USPS last year, 2nd day air. I insured it for $2k and packed it in tight-fitting foam in a nice box, just like a new machine ships. It arrived smashed, with the steel drive brackets shorn and the case deformed, the mainboard sprung in the warped case. USPS is a government beaurocracy. They wouldn't pay since their "internal procedures" require a receipt showing value, and I'd bought the parts from friends, at shows, etc. Also I (wrongly) believed my skill in aggregating the components and installing the OS's would have some value. In the end I got back $600.
Lesson learned, stick with pure commercial ventures like FedEX.
I'm assuming we're talking about some kind of debit based system here, so why stop at a penney a page? Why not 1/10 of a cent?
A (dated) draft RFC on MPTP (micro payment transfer protocol) is already out there.
I see initially as a client-side controlled browser plugin, with a console for the user to pre-set who and how much it's authorized to pay without user confirmation. You adopt a new protocol like "MPTP://" and use public key messages in the headers to arrange credit xfer from a source account to a target account.
How much do companies get now for banner ads? Not a penney a page surely. I would imagine a fractional penney a page would be an improvement for most news sites.
Globalization is, to me, the process whereby third world countries are modernized (using crushing WTO/World Bank debt) until they are suitable for use as cheap labour.
History has shown, however, that eventually the labourors will demand better conditions, either through gradual reform or revolution. So while the short term goal is exploitation, the changes put in place to facilitate that exploitation will lead to improved living conditions.
Think about magnetic shielding though, I've seen desk fans that make the image on the monitor wobble. That CAN'T be good for your system.
ditch all of the fans and cut the wires to the power supply fan. Get an industrial vacuum or an old "central vacuuming" blower unit and install it in the basement (or attic, or garage, etc). Run a 4" hose up from the basement and onto the fan outlet on your power supply. You'll still hear the howl from the air but it's nothing compared to the fan noise.
Now, for that drive noise...
sounds similar to a UK company, splashplastic. they're leveraging the established "debit phone card" structure here. you get a card, go to (almost) any news agent and put cash on it, then spend the money online. nice anonymous way to turn hard currency into digital cash anonymously.
problem is getting enough merchants to make it compelling, the cool thing about online shopping is price comparisons and niche markets. proprietary payment schemes don't work well there.
I've never tried it, but might running in a chroot'ed shell allow you to install it where you like, at least for a test run? Also you may be able to truss the pkgadd tool and log all of the system calls. Give it a shot with something you trust and see if it works out first. Don't forget to send a nastygram to the package author for not allowing configurability.
Tell me again how this is different from the printing press.
Without seeing any of the specifics, and no runtime figures, does anyone else find it odd that the "co-processor" in the HAL-15 is a pIII 750? Until I see benchmarks this thing is still smoke and mirrors.
At the same time it's not possible to listen to all of the many voices, here or elsewhere. Moderation is one tool that helps you locate the voices that your peers find interesting (or informative, or alarming). It has less potential for abuse than, say, handing control to an editor at a privately held, for-profit news center. It is direct democracy for information.
Like having a password the same length as the message you're encrypting, and only using it once. There's no way to know what the message is without the password.
Also, this is useless for stored messages. It enables secure stream communication, not the storage of secure data, and is therefore of limited practical use.