There is a company here in the DC area called Anthrotronix that does a lot of great work in this area. There was an article in The Post about them today. Check it out. The potentials for the future of handicapped access to technology are great.
"Hi, I am writing a paper on the socio-ethical implications of getting a widely diverse and distributed group of knowledgable people to write a college prep paper for me..."
Ask yourself how easy this would be. All you would need to do: --Write an intro, --scan the following threads (less comments such as this), --throw in a conclusion.
The net would happily write the rest for you, even refute its own postulations.
Why go through all that hard work of doing it yourself...
<on topic> The Diamond Age is a great text concerning life on the cusp between manually developed (Feed) and self propogating (Seed) nano-tech, but I'm not sure how thouroughly it examines life in such an era. Moreso life in Stephenson's phyle/tribe vision. </on topic>
For the past couple of years I have been going with: --Geeks apply knowledge/ make money with it. --Nerds are just learning.
That is not to say that Geeks are smarter than Nerds, though. I have gone with this as a way to differentiate the work-force vs. school-based techies among my friends. A Nerd can become a Geek by getting a job, or some other real-world application. A Geek would have to leave work and return to Academia to become a Nerd.
Attacker wants to limit traffic coming out of target through a certain point. Attacker formats packets to spoof source as target on port X, then fires off a salvo. This router, which by now is a bulkier piece of machinery, determines that the target is abusing its transfer priveledges and is probably up to something bad.
Either traffic is halted, slowed as packets are analyzed, or these routers are amazingly epensive.
Skimming traffic isn't that hard to do, and is already available. The issue with that is along the lines of purpose of engineering. Routers are designed to do one thing (series of things) and to do them fast and well with little overhead. As you add more and more "functionality", the device becomes more and more of a server that routes, and resource costs become more intensive.
The trip to stopping/paring this down is not to make better defenses, rather to make it more difficult to get away with. Any bank can be robbed, but with good logging and attentive surveilance, less will get away with it. Then of course laws and punishment come into play...yada yada yada...
Cable companys, although widely affiliated, are much smaller in their market size than the baby bells are, let alone their predecessor. Here's something to chew on though... AT&T (ATT or whatever they call themselves) is fast becoming one of the largest cable providers in America. If at first you don't succeed...
Although the games themselves are not free, there is a very active "scene" out there making modifications to existing games, sometimes ending up with entirely new look and feel. With possible exception, most of these are free, and often times, breath new life into games that have become dull with use. My only experience is with quake mods, I'd have to say http://www.planetquake.com is a great place to look.
I saw a copy of this at the Border's here. Gave it a quick thumbing through, but decided against it for some reason.... wish I could remember, I think it was price.
Speaking of price, I requested a subscription to LJ a little more than a month ago, and have yet to receive it, anyone know about expected lag times here?
Not that I am big into the whole M$ conspiracy and all of that big brother stuff, but an earlier post suggesting this is an attempt to track crackers (or something to that effect) reminded me of the Simpsons episode where the police sent out notes to people they wanted to catch saying they had won a boat and to pick it up at the police station. Maybe it isn't all that germaine to the subject, but it maid me chuckle...
I find this web site to be rather contradictory. He, I think it was a he, starts out by informing the reader that the following pages would be laden with the most hideously bland and poorly photographed food, as to make you thank your lucky stars you were born in the era of preprocessed foods!
He then goes on to bash entire cook books based on his totally unsubstantiated opinion that soda makes all foods revolting. Now I cannot validate the edibility of a 7-up and cheese in a pancake combination, I would be more than happy to vouch for 7-up/Sprite/Canada Dry/beer used to baste various meats.
In his other "cookbook reviews" the author comments on different photos and recipies in a way that harkens me back to elementary school, "Eww, looks like your eating intestines!! ha ha ha"
In fact, the only thing this author extolls is the worldwide recognition his site has achieved. Pretty bland if you ask me.
Exactly.. In fact the entire series "Silicon Follies" was a welcome intrusion on work tonight.
The coding installment was so on target, I wasn't quite sure if it was fiction or documentary material. A more palatable, less sensationalized John Katz article if you will.
As to coding in vampire, is it just me, or does it just seem easier to code through the night?
I think a lot of people expected this to be an article listing the 50 most connected cities in the US.
If you looked at the criteria, or *gasp* read much of the article, you saw it was based on real basic statistics such as surfing from home and/or work, domains per business, etc., NOT how fast do you surf, how big a pipe can your ISP lay to your front door for $XX, mobile network connections, PC's per capita,.... I would like to see a survey on some of those criteria, personally.
I don't imagine a "secumax" version of a ripper would be the plan, as a ripped song from a CD is still pirated (based on license for use). If I had a "secumax" based player, what would stop me from listening to your mp3's? Sure, there are ways they could make your mp3's only work on your yepp.... as to protection schemae, check the jargon file.
The decline in tech related degrees doen't necessarily point to a future staffing problem.
Why -- besides the obvious reasons of personal desire to learn -- work your way through college in a difficult course of study, when you are just as likely to succeed in this industry with a BA in "basket weaving". Go to college and follow one of the less quantifiable courses of study. Enjoy abstract thinking and creativity. In your free time, hack around with C or *nix on University resources, get a part-time tech job somewhere. When you graduate with a Music Degree, you will find yourself close to the same level as your IFSM/MIS peers, maybe with better grades to show for it (and get into a grad school).
Who comes up with these things? I am used to the way that HP-UX does things, now I have to wander aimlessly through a Solaris system to find simple log files (slight exagerration:). People can put things where they like 'em, but some of the standardization in the *NIX world could be better.
I hear a lot of discussion as to which distrobution is best for each level of experience, but a lot of it is contradictory. Why is Slackware a good starting point? What makes Debian so good for experienced users?
You know what I found funny? Whenever good a/v equipment is discussed, the Sony brand is rarely mentioned (good or bad). I got the Sony 5-disc carousel DVD player, and their DTS/DD 5.1 reciever (can't remember the #), and think they're great! With the "industry leader" monachre usually assosciated with Sony, I find this surprising.
ALSO- you can do home theater cheap and/or small, but keep in mind why you're doing it: ie. widescreen(don't go too small), surround sound (too quiet/poor quality ruins spatial orientation). In my book, however, bigger is better!
God those new trinitrons (XBR, ~$2000 I think?), but for the money, I had to with a 61" ProScan. Not the best, but if size matters, I like to watch TV from the other side of the house...
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There is a company here in the DC area called Anthrotronix that does a lot of great work in this area. There was an article in The Post about them today. Check it out. The potentials for the future of handicapped access to technology are great.
"Hi, I am writing a paper on the socio-ethical implications of getting a widely diverse and distributed group of knowledgable people to write a college prep paper for me..."
Ask yourself how easy this would be. All you would need to do:
--Write an intro,
--scan the following threads (less comments such as this),
--throw in a conclusion.
The net would happily write the rest for you, even refute its own postulations.
Why go through all that hard work of doing it yourself...
<on topic> The Diamond Age is a great text concerning life on the cusp between manually developed (Feed) and self propogating (Seed) nano-tech, but I'm not sure how thouroughly it examines life in such an era. Moreso life in Stephenson's phyle/tribe vision. </on topic>
For the past couple of years I have been going with:
--Geeks apply knowledge/ make money with it.
--Nerds are just learning.
That is not to say that Geeks are smarter than Nerds, though. I have gone with this as a way to differentiate the work-force vs. school-based techies among my friends. A Nerd can become a Geek by getting a job, or some other real-world application. A Geek would have to leave work and return to Academia to become a Nerd.
That's my angle on it.
Attacker wants to limit traffic coming out of target through a certain point. Attacker formats packets to spoof source as target on port X, then fires off a salvo. This router, which by now is a bulkier piece of machinery, determines that the target is abusing its transfer priveledges and is probably up to something bad.
Either traffic is halted, slowed as packets are analyzed, or these routers are amazingly epensive.
Skimming traffic isn't that hard to do, and is already available. The issue with that is along the lines of purpose of engineering. Routers are designed to do one thing (series of things) and to do them fast and well with little overhead. As you add more and more "functionality", the device becomes more and more of a server that routes, and resource costs become more intensive.
The trip to stopping/paring this down is not to make better defenses, rather to make it more difficult to get away with. Any bank can be robbed, but with good logging and attentive surveilance, less will get away with it. Then of course laws and punishment come into play...yada yada yada...
...suenetsolnow
Cable companys, although widely affiliated, are much smaller in their market size than the baby bells are, let alone their predecessor. Here's something to chew on though... AT&T (ATT or whatever they call themselves) is fast becoming one of the largest cable providers in America.
If at first you don't succeed...
Although the games themselves are not free, there is a very active "scene" out there making modifications to existing games, sometimes ending up with entirely new look and feel. With possible exception, most of these are free, and often times, breath new life into games that have become dull with use.
My only experience is with quake mods, I'd have to say http://www.planetquake.com is a great place to look.
I saw a copy of this at the Border's here. Gave it a quick thumbing through, but decided against it for some reason.... wish I could remember, I think it was price.
Speaking of price, I requested a subscription to LJ a little more than a month ago, and have yet to receive it, anyone know about expected lag times here?
Not that I am big into the whole M$ conspiracy
and all of that big brother stuff, but an earlier
post suggesting this is an attempt to
track crackers (or something to that effect) reminded
me of the Simpsons episode where the police sent out
notes to people they wanted to catch
saying they had won a boat and to pick it up at the police station.
Maybe it isn't all that germaine to the
subject, but it maid me chuckle...
I find this web site to be rather contradictory. He, I think it was a he, starts out by informing the reader that the following pages would be laden with the most hideously bland and poorly photographed food, as to make you thank your lucky stars you were born in the era of preprocessed foods!
He then goes on to bash entire cook books based on his totally unsubstantiated opinion that soda makes all foods revolting. Now I cannot validate the edibility of a 7-up and cheese in a pancake combination, I would be more than happy to vouch for 7-up/Sprite/Canada Dry/beer used to baste various meats.
In his other "cookbook reviews" the author comments on different photos and recipies in a way that harkens me back to elementary school, "Eww, looks like your eating intestines!! ha ha ha"
In fact, the only thing this author extolls is the worldwide recognition his site has achieved. Pretty bland if you ask me.
Exactly.. In fact the entire series "Silicon Follies" was a welcome intrusion on work tonight.
The coding installment was so on target, I wasn't quite sure if it was fiction or documentary material. A more palatable, less sensationalized John Katz article if you will.
As to coding in vampire, is it just me, or does it just seem easier to code through the night?
I think a lot of people expected this to be an article listing the 50 most connected cities in the US.
....
If you looked at the criteria, or *gasp* read much of the article, you saw it was based on real basic statistics such as surfing from home and/or work, domains per business, etc., NOT how fast do you surf, how big a pipe can your ISP lay to your front door for $XX, mobile network connections, PC's per capita,
I would like to see a survey on some of those criteria, personally.
2 people??? Although the games tend to be a bit more short-lived, 4 is much better. Allows a thinning of the ranks.
I don't imagine a "secumax" version of a ripper would be the plan, as a ripped song from a CD is still pirated (based on license for use). If I had a "secumax" based player, what would stop me from listening to your mp3's?
Sure, there are ways they could make your mp3's only work on your yepp.... as to protection schemae, check the jargon file.
The decline in tech related degrees doen't necessarily point to a future staffing problem.
Why -- besides the obvious reasons of personal desire to learn -- work your way through college in a difficult course of study, when you are just as likely to succeed in this industry with a BA in "basket weaving". Go to college and follow one of the less quantifiable courses of study. Enjoy abstract thinking and creativity. In your free time, hack around with C or *nix on University resources, get a part-time tech job somewhere. When you graduate with a Music Degree, you will find yourself close to the same level as your IFSM/MIS peers, maybe with better grades to show for it (and get into a grad school).
Who comes up with these things? I am used to the way that HP-UX does things, now I have to wander aimlessly through a Solaris system to find simple log files (slight exagerration:).
People can put things where they like 'em, but some of the standardization in the *NIX world could be better.
I hear a lot of discussion as to which distrobution is best for each level of experience, but a lot of it is contradictory. Why is Slackware a good starting point? What makes Debian so good for experienced users?
You know what I found funny? Whenever good a/v equipment is discussed, the Sony brand is rarely mentioned (good or bad). I got the Sony 5-disc carousel DVD player, and their DTS/DD 5.1 reciever (can't remember the #), and think they're great! With the "industry leader" monachre usually assosciated with Sony, I find this surprising.
ALSO- you can do home theater cheap and/or small, but keep in mind why you're doing it: ie. widescreen(don't go too small), surround sound (too quiet/poor quality ruins spatial orientation). In my book, however, bigger is better!
Basically all this is is a spiffed up RIO with an extra 32m base memory. A better value for certain, but not a large step.
Now, if they added the ability to record voice messages or incorporate an FM radio, that would definitely qualify as a Special Edition..
Dual tone, multi-frequency
God those new trinitrons (XBR, ~$2000 I think?), but for the money, I had to with a 61" ProScan. Not the best, but if size matters, I like to watch TV from the other side of the house...