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Folks,
Maybe CJM does not know the answers to the questions: What is Bluetooth? What is the most appropriate way to apply Bluetooth technology?
I never considered Bluetooth as an 802.11x competitor. I never considered Bluetooth as an IR-LAN competitor. I never considered Bluetooth as an WiFi competitor.
Think short distances around and average home. Think short distances around the average desk.
Yep, eventually, get rid of all signal external cables (except the AC/DC power-cords, cables, wires) keyboard, mouse, external harddisc, CD/DVD-RW, monitor....
Damn power cable! Oh yea, that's right, there is Transmeta and other low power chips existing/developing. Battery technology is improving, Photo-voltaic technology is improving,... where in the hell is it all going?
Why do I need AC Power cables? Hummm, Oh yea, to power a DC power supply that is the source of all power for electronics, charges batteries,....
Dang can you imagine computers, cell-phones, boom-boxes,... all becoming smaller, more energy efficient, wearable-personal stuff (like shoes, jackets, glasses...). I have heard that there are 8G SSD (bigger than a thumb-drive for now) that require almost no power to operate and maintain data. Wow! That's enough non-volatile memory to maintain Linux as an OS, bunches of work applications internet browser,... SHIT, give me two of the 8G-SSD... I'll use one for my data... Transmeta CM RISC technology... maybe one day the powering/charging of such devices will be by sun and ambient light or a new unobtrusive office/home charging system, and everything will appropriately auto-configure connection using something like Bluetooth signaling.
If Bluetooth dies, then something better best be here or we are all screwed.
I may not have said what I wanted well, but I think the important points will get across. Bluetooth or a form of Bluetooth technology is here to stay for about 20 to 50 years.
If I can (or you) identify a magazine/book-RFID-tag that the FBI, CIA, NSA, KGB, Alcada, Pope, Mullah, KKK,... want to track (maybe the Koran, Bible, Constitution-History,...), then I will keep a copy with in reach till the day I die. If a few million globally do the same, then we are sure not to die alone while hanging together by the wall.
Thank god, there are CEOs with children at the right age to use Napster, Kazaa,... and justify corporate expenditures for their legal defense.
God bless those children (maybe college kids) for helping US while serving themselves. Every little bit of help in these times of social troubles is important to US.
Okay, yep, it may be a corporate altruistic act... What'U think?
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SoAK on Tele, Bio, Nano,... Technology, Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Mathmatics,... local, cultural, social, global... events,.... About 99.9% of the times I require information, I acquire information, I expand associations/distributions of information, I confirm (to a significant extent) veracity-validity of sources and information. Everything requires knowledge developed from experience... sometimes I must rely on the experience of others.
I recommend products to the folks I work for that range from connectors & cables to microscopy & lithography to whatever is required by others to do what they are doing. The only source of information I use other than the internet resources are the people directly working in the specialty field and their references.
Luckily, I specialize in nothing, and have many years of hands-on troubleshooting work experience with computers (depth), telecommunications (depth), programming (as required FORTRAN & COBOL years ago and a few UNIX, CP/M, and DOS drivers years ago),....
If our problem is at this level, then any comment written by any citizen about Lamo, Zimmerman, Stallman, Bush (father or sons), Ashcroft, Falwell,... can potentially expect subpoenas for all documents.
In other words folks, what I have written, what you have written, what others will write can be used as evidence for the Capitalist Republic inquisition of those that are unacceptable.
I mean, someone in the Bush Whitehouse has already exposed a CIA agent, a felony, to potentially prove their immunity to the US public and prosecution. Many of US here on "/." may already be on an inquisition list.
I cannot believe this is all true. It must be a Happy Halloween story by Steven King.
OldHawk777
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Re:Open goverment from the people who know...
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Government folks are the same as those at many companies.
Management (Bush, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, CIA, FBI, NASA,... DoD) causes the problems. About every two out of three (sometimes 3 of 3) managers are policy and politics addicts that excel at developing (space shuttle, Enron, Iraq,...) failure.
There are many (60%, or better) very good worker-bees, pack-mules, Troops,... in government service and the USA work-place, but who else can be blamed for failures by management.
US politicians and management love to bash the work-force and blame failure on others. The reality is they are focused on profit and image.
The USA work-force is focuses on performance, schedules, quality, success,....
In a few years I'll retire, and run for the border.
I don't expect DemReps politicians to work for US as long as they are paid for by them (the members of the totalitarian Capitalist Republic).
Also, be it Islamic, Christian, and/or Jewish fundamentalist... God tells them all to kill the infidel, non-believers, pagans,... the rest of US, EU, and them.
Until corrupt politicians, scam-artist CEOs, CFOs,..., and murder preaching religious fundamentalist are imprisoned for life or executed for crimes against humanity, then the rest of humanity (our species) is endanger of extermination too validate western (including Islam) religious mythology.
Jerry Falwell and Bin-Laden have much in common. Bush, Cheney, Ashcroft, and Rumsfeld are all good friends of the moral majority and Jerry Falwell....
Fun Reading Assignment: http://www.newyorkslime.com/bush-new-constitution. html
In 2025 I suspect that some CS/IT professor will be delivering a technology history course entitled "The Dark Ages of Data".
Start comments, something like this: "The Dark Ages of Data" occurred due, we suspect [after review of data forensics and recent anthropology thesis/studies on available period information] to a total lack of prescience in industry and government on the impact of private special interest policies and laws (RIAA, DMCA, PA-1/2,...).
The proprietary OSD [Original Software Developers], Copyrights and Patent laws, competing formats (even today in 2025 there are old data file formats that cannot be opened without developing a special application) and storage methods, extremely poor and proprietary archival tools/applications/file-systems; also, a total disregard for adherence to reasonable standards.
Encryption technology and biometrics had no consistence in application across businesses, governments, and institutions. There was no legal requirement for an encryption master-key to be maintained by a corporate and government agencies to decrypt information of employees and agencies for providing task continuity (in case of dismissal, death, accident,...) many criminal/news investigations were impossible and quickly dropped due to lack of evidence and/or no unencrypted information available, and just to expensive and time consuming to decrypt data (of questionable value) by code-cracking. Special interest dictating laws on technology and society rather then elected governments and technology professionals, all these things contributed to the decades of "The Dark Ages of Data".
Now may be the best of times for corporate and government criminals, because they can destroy evidence with the click of a mouse button, and encrypt corporate-personal secrets for accomplices eyes-only.
Good point, I agree, it is normal for most citizens of a capitalist republic to equate "loss of property" with "loss of life" as justice. This is why I said; "wrongs committed are life's little lottery games that you can collect on and should collect on to support the legal profession and win half the money." I do not agree with such a profit/greed justice system, but it appears to satisfy the sense of justice for many in the USA public fixated with "Reality TV" programs. The PA-103 terrorist attack was settled for money, because it appears it is not good international business to seek justice with imprisonment and/or death for murders. To some degree, post 9-11, it appears that one day the families of the victims will be forced to settle with the Saudi government and royal families/relatives.
Also, improperly secured covered the point reasonably, but due to your comment... My weapons remain under two locks, unless they are being transported by me personally for appropriate purposes, to a range, or for sporting events. I never store ammo and weapons in the same location, ammo I keep under different locks and keys, except when my weapons are loaded for appropriate use/task/activities.
I do not consider this to be unreasonable/unrealistic for responsible adults.
God Bless America, it is the American way. Hold those responsible for committing a criminal or murderous act for trial and maybe jail (unless they're politicians, CEOs, or rich kids with music, movies, TV, and/or video games excuses for murder), but accept that wrongs committed are life's little lottery games that you can collect on and should collect on to support the legal profession and win half the money.
Most good religious folks would do the same, I mean how much are you going to get out of a kid in jail or a parent that is so stupid as to leave weapons available for use by kids on themselves, parents, and others.
Some folks, like me, want to see the (children's' parents) owners of the improperly secured and loaded weapons used go to jail for 5 to 10 years. I believe, it would help over the long-run
Biometric Encryption Thingamajigs (BET) cards, pins, chips,... would be great, but dang there ain't no frick'en standards. Guess how many BETs would be on your key-ring and/or in your wallet/purse.... Yep, that's right maybe as many as your passwords.
Each credit card company will require you use theirs, each business/agency/... and maybe departments will require that only theirs be used for this da-dumb location/job, you banks do not want to use the same BETs as your brokerages, the city/county will want their own BET for property taxes/..., the state and federal will require different BETs be used for driving, travel, airlines, passports,....
I guess, more piss-poor-planning before it gets any better. We may as well continue with passwords, because it won't cost anymore and BETs won't help the situation improved anytime soon.
I agree "Because placing the master key for something outside of the control of the entity for which it's intended to be used weakens the system tremendously."
I strongly agree, the entity (business, government, private citizen) should retain the "Master-Key", but they (CEO, CIO, or CTO) should be legally (they must decrypt) and criminally (they may attempt to obstruct justice) held responsible when documents needed for an investigation are made unavailable on a valid ruse.
The ruse being: (1) that person no longer works here, (2) we updated all our encryption products and lost access to the data purported to exist. (3) There is no discoverable/readable/searchable proof that such a document ever existed, (4)....
I like my personal PGP PKI keys, but if I (private citizen with private key) tried to prevent access to information required for a criminal investigation, then I would go to jail (obstruction of justice and contempt of court) until I provided (unencrypted) access to the data.
I am not sure, but it looks to me like information that may be needed by the public and/or justice system may vanish when it is critically needed.
So, I do not want to weaken the encryption tools/methods. No business, agency, institution should trust another with internal security. However, business, government, and institutions corporate officers/bosses need to be held as accountable/responsible for their (employees, sub-offices,...) encrypted data as the private citizen. They get paid the big-bucks and are the responsible parties in organizations.
Wow, the human double-helix simple and beautiful has 4 base-chemicals, about 3B base-pairs which make about 30K to 40K genes. Could humans be more complex than the universe?
Anyway, Calabi-Yau spaces gets my vote. If I cannot understand the conditions, situations, and repercussions... it is still okay to vote in the USA, as a mater of fact preferred by most all politicians and corporate boards.
I still suspect an elegant simple structure/definition to the universe will evolve from all these strings and dimensions. It will not diminish the complexity of the universe. Using math to describe a double-helix may be superficial, but it did have great value in understanding/explaining interesting aspects about the structure. Maybe... it will be exposed little by little... the simple stuff first to build the...?
I see this being used in corporate law departments to cover-up/control questionable (maybe illegal/unethical) business/government practices/processes documents.
I keep asking about, why are corporate and government agencies not legally required to have a "Master-Key" for agency/business encryption technology. Today any CEO/CIO/whoever could say... I don't know how/who encrypted those files, email,... the encrypted information cannot be relevant to this criminal or national security investigation by the justice department or FBI. I think it would delay an investigation long enough for someone to skip country or scheme a better cover-up.
What/Where are the Open Standards for file formats?
MS-BMP, XLS, PPT,... will all go away as more people get tired of doing repeated additional task to access/convert data into a more open standard transportable, usable, and shareable word-processor, spread-sheet, database,... format.
We should THANK MS-Gates for pushing people to choose appropriate file formats. If I always send folks text and HTML formatted documents that they can all read, edit, use, and share, then I am always requesting that they (family, friends, colleagues,...) provide files in readable , editable, usesable, and shareable text or HTML format.... I think, the extra money to MS-Gates and needs for common shareable open file formats will push many to use applications (that create common file formats) that maybe will not be MS-Gates' Proprietary Products and Formats.
I am at the point that the stupid business decisions of Microsoft will have little or no impact on me or others.
If MS-Gates does not provide an easy to use and install viewer for my PC+OS, then I will not read what someone sends me in MS-word. I think for my family, friends, and business associates we can go back to text-email and use HTML for formatted text documents. As more software applications use open standards file formats... forget MS-Gates OS and then the applications. They are cutting their on throat (I am happy).
Really, I concur (look at the last 100 years)... something big will happen within the next fifty years and cause my death at a very old age (not much wasted). Many can see this coming, but don't expect Capitalist to support changes those that rule never want change. The government won't notice until it is to late to address sanely, expect the government to respond to problems by significantly increasing whoops (RIAA, DCMA, TIA, PA-1/2) and tragedies (what did we do for the Enron and... unemployed/retirees). What I see now, we are probably fucked (Okay, I am known for being paranoid and pessimistic (PP). I hope I am wrong, but it depends on US and EU making some major changes to help all humanity (Yep, we're fucked).
If the ruling class remains the wealthy greed motivated International Capitalist Republic, then there may be a war of extermination to diminish the global population of unneeded carbon based organic labor resources/units.
Robotic units will be self-replicating and relatively inexpensive to produce when total cost are amortized for a robotic unit life-cycle.
Human units are self-replicating, but considering support requirements (development, education, health, retirement,...) for a lifecycle, why would any member of the Capitalist Republic accept the burden/waste. Capitalist Republic members have the liph3 N |)34+h virtual-power that is granted by current human societies, laws, government,... and proportionally enhanced and accounted for by wealth/possessions/positions.
The future potentially hold nothing of value for most humans. Sanctified Suicide, by the wealthy religious of the Capitalist Republic, will significantly assist in the reduction of excess human resources, because taking weak-wasteful others to heaven (with your explosive exit) as your slaves will be praised as granting sainthood and/or great rewards.
We do not have a society/culture that would use robots to improve the quality of life and human condition. Education, Learning, Survival,... would just cost to damn much to benefit the greedy delusional megalomaniacs that would rule the world.
. They need to learn. Also, campus networks and admin need to help them recognize HW/SW/Security problems, avoidance skills, and good maintenance habits. . The MS approach of do-it-My (My=Gates/Microsoft) way is very dumb, because it does not provide experience for the future. DO NOT SPOON FEED the grown child, help them mature. Create a network that impacts upon their personal computers' performance with switch-restricted bandwidth access. Use switches to switch-blade-hubs that limit bandwidth access and/or the total hourly, daily, a/o monthly data transfer allowed. . Gamers would be the first to clean up their machines/software after a DHCP server reassigns an abused (due to DDOS Trojan running a flood-ping) IP address back to the available pool and they need to log-on again to play the LAN/Web-game. . Okay, this is an odd one for me, but [PLEASE!] find a way that puts the responsibility on the student to learn how to properly maintain their HW/SW/Security.... Maybe provide free evening courses in the dorms provided by the university/college CS-students (paid by the university). HELP FOLKS LEARN..., it is a waste and mistake to take care of all the problems for them. Maybe CS at MIT will put something up on the MIT-OCW website (http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html) for all US to use.
The first six (below example) clearly support the users and enterprise. The enterprise requires the first three (1, 2, 3) the users/bosses frequently do not notice; Therefor, in the offices (bosses and worker-bees') 4, 5, and 6 will win more friends and influence people. Expect IT/IM/IS/TA folks that exclusively support the top priorities (1, 2, 3) for an enterprise to be invisible to bosses/management until there is a crippling problem and/or financial problems that require cutbacks (payrole) in the business.
Also, as implied, there is a high probability that an X-Helpdesk all-knowing guru will be your boss, because they made friends in the offices that could influence promotions.
Build a Support Priority-List (SPL):
Priority-1: Critical Services Systems Crash/Lockup/Outage/....
Example: External/Internal Enterprise Communications and Process Systems
Priority-2: Critical Systems Software a/o Hardware presenting anomalies....
Example: H.323 VTC Application (Voice, No Video) a/o Thrashing Ethernet card.
Priority-3: Critical Systems Security (Internal/External) for folks and things.
Example: Business/Network Access Control, IDS, Forensic, HW/SW Config/Update.
Priority-4: Nice to have, but not needed, required, critical,....
Example: Desktop media player problems, MSOS killed blue-gun in the CRT,....
Priority-5: All office administrators, Whoever hires/fires or is their pet-rock.
Example: Secretary, Admin Assistant, Their Boss, The Boss's gopher(yes-head).
Priority-6: Setup automated "Helpdesk" ticket system for enterprise support.
Example: None Needed, This should already be a fact.
Priority-7: Always collaborate with company folks on initial creation of an SPL, keep it current stuff always changes, include management in setting priorities, have them sign-off as if/on company policy now controls your actions. This allows you to say (?no?) yes for when it fits within the company priorities, mission, policy,.... Okay, now go make something up for them. Remember good management/bosses like presentations with bullets... keep all the paragraphs to yourself (well) until you have a company policy statement the bosses/CIO/CTO want to sign-on for good business reasons.
Present SPL to management/CIO/CTO for edit/recommendations of what systems, devices, services, items should be at which priority. Sometimes IT/TA is not aware of the critical business relationships of everything involved for the enterprise. An enterprise subordinate (internal) "Helpdesk" [present to local director/boss] has a much more narrow focus to the office/division local users and services, no control/responsibility of external communications and/or enterprise systems/services.
Vivid hallucinations that would induce an altered-state of consciousness allowing a perception of reality different from my own or yours', there would be no inconsistencies for the observer of the reality, and no room for skepticism of their/our belief of the reality.
Therefor, for us all including me and you, " Reality is a self-induced hallucination." PLEASE (as I do), always consider that the other perspective/perception is not a threat and may have validity for our own reality.
You're right, but it is hard to break old habits when you're 50+.
I use text more frequently then html, because for me typing a url is as more a habit then writing a hyperlink for some text. I usually keyboard select the url alt-tab to another running browser/app then paste+[cr].
Back about a couple/few years ago I made a little html template that I could just hot-keys insert before and after appropriate html for the paragraph... the rest was concrete html text. Now and then I used it, but lost it, because Microsoft OS Win3.1 had a senior moment forgot where anything was on the harddisc and that was on of the few unrecoverable. Since then I have done a little html, but I never keep anything but references and links to W3C and... whatever.
HAVE FUN!
OldHawk777
Reality is a self-induced hallucination.
Oh yea, there is a way to turn-off those default pesky personal sig-blocks provided by/.
Is SCO involved in stock-market manipulation and racketeering?
Does any of this stuff apply to SCO? - stock manipulation schemes, insider trading, providing false SEC filings, providing false company financial statements, lying to company auditors, broker embezzlement... you know, what I mean, the Enron, Global Crossings,... kind of stuff.
I mean, if SCO was acting criminally, then I am sure Mr. Ashcroft or Mr. Goring, or whats-his-name _________ supports the efforts of the OSS community and the GPL copyleft, and would help US, EU,...?
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Folks,
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... where in the hell is it all going?
....
... all becoming smaller, more energy efficient, wearable-personal stuff (like shoes, jackets, glasses ...). I have heard that there are 8G SSD (bigger than a thumb-drive for now) that require almost no power to operate and maintain data. Wow! That's enough non-volatile memory to maintain Linux as an OS, bunches of work applications internet browser, ... SHIT, give me two of the 8G-SSD ... I'll use one for my data ... Transmeta CM RISC technology ... maybe one day the powering/charging of such devices will be by sun and ambient light or a new unobtrusive office/home charging system, and everything will appropriately auto-configure connection using something like Bluetooth signaling.
Maybe CJM does not know the answers to the questions: What is Bluetooth? What is the most appropriate way to apply Bluetooth technology?
I never considered Bluetooth as an 802.11x competitor.
I never considered Bluetooth as an IR-LAN competitor.
I never considered Bluetooth as an WiFi competitor.
Think short distances around and average home.
Think short distances around the average desk.
Yep, eventually, get rid of all signal external cables (except the AC/DC power-cords, cables, wires) keyboard, mouse, external harddisc, CD/DVD-RW, monitor
Damn power cable! Oh yea, that's right, there is Transmeta and other low power chips existing/developing. Battery technology is improving, Photo-voltaic technology is improving,
Why do I need AC Power cables? Hummm, Oh yea, to power a DC power supply that is the source of all power for electronics, charges batteries,
Dang can you imagine computers, cell-phones, boom-boxes,
If Bluetooth dies, then something better best be here or we are all screwed.
I may not have said what I wanted well, but I think the important points will get across. Bluetooth or a form of Bluetooth technology is here to stay for about 20 to 50 years.
OldHawk777
Reality is a self-induced hallucination.
Dear Folks,
... want to track (maybe the Koran, Bible, Constitution-History, ...), then I will keep a copy with in reach till the day I die. If a few million globally do the same, then we are sure not to die alone while hanging together by the wall.
If I can (or you) identify a magazine/book-RFID-tag that the FBI, CIA, NSA, KGB, Alcada, Pope, Mullah, KKK,
OldHawk777
Reality is a self-induced hallucination.
Dear Folks,
... and justify corporate expenditures for their legal defense.
... What'U think?
Thank god, there are CEOs with children at the right age to use Napster, Kazaa,
God bless those children (maybe college kids) for helping US while serving themselves. Every little bit of help in these times of social troubles is important to US.
Okay, yep, it may be a corporate altruistic act
OldHawk777
Reality is a self-induced hallucination.
Hello AC,
/. has always been a topic discussion area.
/. makes news via comments made by uids.
/. uids provided perspective, clues, help, experience and links.
/. CT, Hemos, CN, ... posting late may be intentional.
/. Is used by many as source focus device.
/. Is never used by me as a news tool.
/. Is used by me as a common interest/concept community for research and discovery of important topic/issues (for technology, economics, culture, global community, ...). I suspect many others in government, companies,
universities, military, NSA, CIA, FBI, Microsoft, Dell, Norton, ... are
unregistered readers (lurkers/spies) keeping in touch with our
alternate-reality, culture, and perspectives.
/. uids have good Technology Experience and Knowledge (TEK)
OldHawk777
SoAK on Tele, Bio, Nano, ... Technology, Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Mathmatics, ... local, cultural, social, global ... events, .... About 99.9% of the times I require information, I acquire information, I expand associations/distributions of information, I confirm (to a significant extent) veracity-validity of sources and information. Everything requires knowledge developed from experience ... sometimes I must rely on the experience of others.
....
I recommend products to the folks I work for that range from connectors & cables to microscopy & lithography to whatever is required by others to do what they are doing. The only source of information I use other than the internet resources are the people directly working in the specialty field and their references.
Luckily, I specialize in nothing, and have many years of hands-on troubleshooting work experience with computers (depth), telecommunications (depth), programming (as required FORTRAN & COBOL years ago and a few UNIX, CP/M, and DOS drivers years ago),
I cannot work without access!
OldHawk777
Reality is a self-induced hallucination.
If our problem is at this level, then any comment written by any citizen about Lamo, Zimmerman, Stallman, Bush (father or sons), Ashcroft, Falwell, ... can potentially expect subpoenas for all documents.
In other words folks, what I have written, what you have written, what others will write can be used as evidence for the Capitalist Republic inquisition of those that are unacceptable.
I mean, someone in the Bush Whitehouse has already exposed a CIA agent, a felony, to potentially prove their immunity to the US public and prosecution. Many of US here on "/." may already be on an inquisition list.
I cannot believe this is all true. It must be a Happy Halloween story by Steven King.
OldHawk777
Reality is a self-induced hallucination.
Government folks are the same as those at many companies.
... DoD) causes the problems. About every two out of three (sometimes 3 of 3) managers are policy and politics addicts that excel at developing (space shuttle, Enron, Iraq, ...) failure.
... in government service and the USA work-place, but who else can be blamed for failures by management.
....
Management (Bush, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, CIA, FBI, NASA,
There are many (60%, or better) very good worker-bees, pack-mules, Troops,
US politicians and management love to bash the work-force and blame failure on others. The reality is they are focused on profit and image.
The USA work-force is focuses on performance, schedules, quality, success,
OldHawk777
Reality is a self-induced hallucination.
In a few years I'll retire, and run for the border.
... God tells them all to kill the infidel, non-believers, pagans, ... the rest of US, EU, and them.
..., and murder preaching religious fundamentalist are imprisoned for life or executed for crimes against humanity, then the rest of humanity (our species) is endanger of extermination too validate western (including Islam) religious mythology.
....
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I don't expect DemReps politicians to work for US as long as they are paid for by them (the members of the totalitarian Capitalist Republic).
Also, be it Islamic, Christian, and/or Jewish fundamentalist
Until corrupt politicians, scam-artist CEOs, CFOs,
Jerry Falwell and Bin-Laden have much in common. Bush, Cheney, Ashcroft, and Rumsfeld are all good friends of the moral majority and Jerry Falwell
Fun Reading Assignment: http://www.newyorkslime.com/bush-new-constitution
OldHawk777
Reality is a self-induced hallucination.
In 2025 I suspect that some CS/IT professor will be delivering a technology history course entitled "The Dark Ages of Data".
...). ...) many criminal/news investigations were impossible and quickly dropped due to lack of evidence and/or no unencrypted information available, and just to expensive and time consuming to decrypt data (of questionable value) by code-cracking. Special interest dictating laws on technology and society rather then elected governments and technology professionals, all these things contributed to the decades of "The Dark Ages of Data".
Start comments, something like this: "The Dark Ages of Data" occurred due, we suspect [after review of data forensics and recent anthropology thesis/studies on available period information] to a total lack of prescience in industry and government on the impact of private special interest policies and laws (RIAA, DMCA, PA-1/2,
The proprietary OSD [Original Software Developers], Copyrights and Patent laws, competing formats (even today in 2025 there are old data file formats that cannot be opened without developing a special application) and storage methods, extremely poor and proprietary archival tools/applications/file-systems; also, a total disregard for adherence to reasonable standards.
Encryption technology and biometrics had no consistence in application across businesses, governments, and institutions. There was no legal requirement for an encryption master-key to be maintained by a corporate and government agencies to decrypt information of employees and agencies for providing task continuity (in case of dismissal, death, accident,
Now may be the best of times for corporate and government criminals, because they can destroy evidence with the click of a mouse button, and encrypt corporate-personal secrets for accomplices eyes-only.
OldHawk777
Reality is a self-induced hallucination.
Good point, I agree, it is normal for most citizens of a capitalist republic to equate "loss of property" with "loss of life" as justice. This is why I said; "wrongs committed are life's little lottery games that you can collect on and should collect on to support the legal profession and win half the money." I do not agree with such a profit/greed justice system, but it appears to satisfy the sense of justice for many in the USA public fixated with "Reality TV" programs. The PA-103 terrorist attack was settled for money, because it appears it is not good international business to seek justice with imprisonment and/or death for murders. To some degree, post 9-11, it appears that one day the families of the victims will be forced to settle with the Saudi government and royal families/relatives.
... My weapons remain under two locks, unless they are being transported by me personally for appropriate purposes, to a range, or for sporting events. I never store ammo and weapons in the same location, ammo I keep under different locks and keys, except when my weapons are loaded for appropriate use/task/activities.
Also, improperly secured covered the point reasonably, but due to your comment
I do not consider this to be unreasonable/unrealistic for responsible adults.
OldHawk777
Reality is a self-induced hallucination.
God Bless America, it is the American way. Hold those responsible for committing a criminal or murderous act for trial and maybe jail (unless they're politicians, CEOs, or rich kids with music, movies, TV, and/or video games excuses for murder), but accept that wrongs committed are life's little lottery games that you can collect on and should collect on to support the legal profession and win half the money.
Most good religious folks would do the same, I mean how much are you going to get out of a kid in jail or a parent that is so stupid as to leave weapons available for use by kids on themselves, parents, and others.
Some folks, like me, want to see the (children's' parents) owners of the improperly secured and loaded weapons used go to jail for 5 to 10 years. I believe, it would help over the long-run
OldHawk777
Reality is a self-induced hallucination.
What does (|) mean?
Biometric Encryption Thingamajigs (BET) cards, pins, chips, ... would be great, but dang there ain't no frick'en standards. Guess how many BETs would be on your key-ring and/or in your wallet/purse .... Yep, that's right maybe as many as your passwords. ....
Each credit card company will require you use theirs, each business/agency/... and maybe departments will require that only theirs be used for this da-dumb location/job, you banks do not want to use the same BETs as your brokerages, the city/county will want their own BET for property taxes/..., the state and federal will require different BETs be used for driving, travel, airlines, passports,
I guess, more piss-poor-planning before it gets any better. We may as well continue with passwords, because it won't cost anymore and BETs won't help the situation improved anytime soon.
OldHawk777
Reality is a self-induced hallucination.
Martin,
....
...) encrypted data as the private citizen. They get paid the big-bucks and are the responsible parties in organizations.
I agree "Because placing the master key for something outside of the control of the entity for which it's intended to be used weakens the system tremendously."
I strongly agree, the entity (business, government, private citizen) should retain the "Master-Key", but they (CEO, CIO, or CTO) should be legally (they must decrypt) and criminally (they may attempt to obstruct justice) held responsible when documents needed for an investigation are made unavailable on a valid ruse.
The ruse being: (1) that person no longer works here, (2) we updated all our encryption products and lost access to the data purported to exist. (3) There is no discoverable/readable/searchable proof that such a document ever existed, (4)
I like my personal PGP PKI keys, but if I (private citizen with private key) tried to prevent access to information required for a criminal investigation, then I would go to jail (obstruction of justice and contempt of court) until I provided (unencrypted) access to the data.
I am not sure, but it looks to me like information that may be needed by the public and/or justice system may vanish when it is critically needed.
So, I do not want to weaken the encryption tools/methods. No business, agency, institution should trust another with internal security. However, business, government, and institutions corporate officers/bosses need to be held as accountable/responsible for their (employees, sub-offices,
OldHawk777
Valid, I think ...?
... it is still okay to vote in the USA, as a mater of fact preferred by most all politicians and corporate boards.
... it will be exposed little by little ... the simple stuff first to build the ...?
Wow, the human double-helix simple and beautiful has 4 base-chemicals, about 3B base-pairs which make about 30K to 40K genes. Could humans be more complex than the universe?
Anyway, Calabi-Yau spaces gets my vote. If I cannot understand the conditions, situations, and repercussions
I still suspect an elegant simple structure/definition to the universe will evolve from all these strings and dimensions. It will not diminish the complexity of the universe. Using math to describe a double-helix may be superficial, but it did have great value in understanding/explaining interesting aspects about the structure. Maybe
OldHawk777
Reality is a self-induced hallucination.
I see this being used in corporate law departments to cover-up/control questionable (maybe illegal/unethical) business/government practices/processes documents.
... I don't know how/who encrypted those files, email, ... the encrypted information cannot be relevant to this criminal or national security investigation by the justice department or FBI. I think it would delay an investigation long enough for someone to skip country or scheme a better cover-up.
I keep asking about, why are corporate and government agencies not legally required to have a "Master-Key" for agency/business encryption technology. Today any CEO/CIO/whoever could say
OldHawk777
Reality is a self-induced hallucination.
What/Where are the Open Standards for file formats?
... will all go away as more people get tired of doing repeated additional task to access/convert data into a more open standard transportable, usable, and shareable word-processor, spread-sheet, database, ... format. ...) provide files in readable , editable, usesable, and shareable text or HTML format .... I think, the extra money to MS-Gates and needs for common shareable open file formats will push many to use applications (that create common file formats) that maybe will not be MS-Gates' Proprietary Products and Formats. ... forget MS-Gates OS and then the applications. They are cutting their on throat (I am happy).
MS-BMP, XLS, PPT,
We should THANK MS-Gates for pushing people to choose appropriate file formats. If I always send folks text and HTML formatted documents that they can all read, edit, use, and share, then I am always requesting that they (family, friends, colleagues,
I am at the point that the stupid business decisions of Microsoft will have little or no impact on me or others.
If MS-Gates does not provide an easy to use and install viewer for my PC+OS, then I will not read what someone sends me in MS-word. I think for my family, friends, and business associates we can go back to text-email and use HTML for formatted text documents. As more software applications use open standards file formats
OldHawk777
Reality is a self-induced hallucinations.
Dear X,
No, I am not on drugs, but I was a "60s" teenager; So, maybe flashbacks are causing my hallucination.
What could be inducing your hallucination?
HAVE FUN
OldHawk777
Really, I concur (look at the last 100 years) ... something big will happen within the next fifty years and cause my death at a very old age (not much wasted). Many can see this coming, but don't expect Capitalist to support changes those that rule never want change. The government won't notice until it is to late to address sanely, expect the government to respond to problems by significantly increasing whoops (RIAA, DCMA, TIA, PA-1/2) and tragedies (what did we do for the Enron and ... unemployed/retirees). What I see now, we are probably fucked (Okay, I am known for being paranoid and pessimistic (PP). I hope I am wrong, but it depends on US and EU making some major changes to help all humanity (Yep, we're fucked).
OldHawk777
Reality is a self-induced hallucination.
Just one view of many ....
...) for a lifecycle, why would any member of the Capitalist Republic accept the burden/waste. Capitalist Republic members have the liph3 N |)34+h virtual-power that is granted by current human societies, laws, government, ... and proportionally enhanced and accounted for by wealth/possessions/positions.
... would just cost to damn much to benefit the greedy delusional megalomaniacs that would rule the world.
If the ruling class remains the wealthy greed motivated International Capitalist Republic, then there may be a war of extermination to diminish the global population of unneeded carbon based organic labor resources/units.
Robotic units will be self-replicating and relatively inexpensive to produce when total cost are amortized for a robotic unit life-cycle.
Human units are self-replicating, but considering support requirements (development, education, health, retirement,
The future potentially hold nothing of value for most humans. Sanctified Suicide, by the wealthy religious of the Capitalist Republic, will significantly assist in the reduction of excess human resources, because taking weak-wasteful others to heaven (with your explosive exit) as your slaves will be praised as granting sainthood and/or great rewards.
We do not have a society/culture that would use robots to improve the quality of life and human condition. Education, Learning, Survival,
OldHawk777
Reality is a self-induced hallucination.
Dear People,
.... Maybe provide free evening courses in the dorms provided by the university/college CS-students (paid by the university). HELP FOLKS LEARN ..., it is a waste and mistake to take care of all the problems for them. Maybe CS at MIT will put something up on the MIT-OCW website (http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html) for all US to use.
. They need to learn. Also, campus networks and admin need to help them recognize HW/SW/Security problems, avoidance skills, and good maintenance habits.
. The MS approach of do-it-My (My=Gates/Microsoft) way is very dumb, because it does not provide experience for the future. DO NOT SPOON FEED the grown child, help them mature. Create a network that impacts upon their personal computers' performance with switch-restricted bandwidth access. Use switches to switch-blade-hubs that limit bandwidth access and/or the total hourly, daily, a/o monthly data transfer allowed.
. Gamers would be the first to clean up their machines/software after a DHCP server reassigns an abused (due to DDOS Trojan running a flood-ping) IP address back to the available pool and they need to log-on again to play the LAN/Web-game.
. Okay, this is an odd one for me, but [PLEASE!] find a way that puts the responsibility on the student to learn how to properly maintain their HW/SW/Security
OldHawk777
Reality is a self-induced hallucination.
Dear Ummagumma,
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.... ....
.... Okay, now go make something up for them. Remember good management/bosses like presentations with bullets ... keep all the paragraphs to yourself (well) until you have a company policy statement the bosses/CIO/CTO want to sign-on for good business reasons.
... [the end]
The first six (below example) clearly support the users and enterprise. The enterprise requires the first three (1, 2, 3) the users/bosses frequently do not notice; Therefor, in the offices (bosses and worker-bees') 4, 5, and 6 will win more friends and influence people. Expect IT/IM/IS/TA folks that exclusively support the top priorities (1, 2, 3) for an enterprise to be invisible to bosses/management until there is a crippling problem and/or financial problems that require cutbacks (payrole) in the business.
Also, as implied, there is a high probability that an X-Helpdesk all-knowing guru will be your boss, because they made friends in the offices that could influence promotions.
Build a Support Priority-List (SPL):
Priority-1: Critical Services Systems Crash/Lockup/Outage/....
Example: External/Internal Enterprise Communications and Process Systems
Priority-2: Critical Systems Software a/o Hardware presenting anomalies
Example: H.323 VTC Application (Voice, No Video) a/o Thrashing Ethernet card.
Priority-3: Critical Systems Security (Internal/External) for folks and things.
Example: Business/Network Access Control, IDS, Forensic, HW/SW Config/Update.
Priority-4: Nice to have, but not needed, required, critical,
Example: Desktop media player problems, MSOS killed blue-gun in the CRT,
Priority-5: All office administrators, Whoever hires/fires or is their pet-rock.
Example: Secretary, Admin Assistant, Their Boss, The Boss's gopher(yes-head).
Priority-6: Setup automated "Helpdesk" ticket system for enterprise support.
Example: None Needed, This should already be a fact.
Priority-7: Always collaborate with company folks on initial creation of an SPL, keep it current stuff always changes, include management in setting priorities, have them sign-off as if/on company policy now controls your actions. This allows you to say (?no?) yes for when it fits within the company priorities, mission, policy,
Present SPL to management/CIO/CTO for edit/recommendations of what systems, devices, services, items should be at which priority. Sometimes IT/TA is not aware of the critical business relationships of everything involved for the enterprise. An enterprise subordinate (internal) "Helpdesk" [present to local director/boss] has a much more narrow focus to the office/division local users and services, no control/responsibility of external communications and/or enterprise systems/services.
Rather than bore y'all further
OldHawk777
Reality is a self-induced hallucination.
Anon,
Thanks for observing the obvious, I think?
Vivid hallucinations that would induce an altered-state of consciousness allowing a perception of reality different from my own or yours', there would be no inconsistencies for the observer of the reality, and no room for skepticism of their/our belief of the reality.
Therefor, for us all including me and you, " Reality is a self-induced hallucination." PLEASE (as I do), always consider that the other perspective/perception is not a threat and may have validity for our own reality.
OldHawk777
Reality is a self-induced hallucination.
Total,
... the rest was concrete html text. Now and then I used it, but lost it, because Microsoft OS Win3.1 had a senior moment forgot where anything was on the harddisc and that was on of the few unrecoverable. Since then I have done a little html, but I never keep anything but references and links to W3C and ... whatever.
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You're right, but it is hard to break old habits when you're 50+.
I use text more frequently then html, because for me typing a url is as more a habit then writing a hyperlink for some text. I usually keyboard select the url alt-tab to another running browser/app then paste+[cr].
Back about a couple/few years ago I made a little html template that I could just hot-keys insert before and after appropriate html for the paragraph
HAVE FUN!
OldHawk777
Reality is a self-induced hallucination.
Oh yea, there is a way to turn-off those default pesky personal sig-blocks provided by
Is SCO involved in stock-market manipulation and racketeering?
Does any of this stuff apply to SCO? - stock manipulation schemes, insider trading, providing false SEC filings, providing false company financial statements, lying to company auditors, broker embezzlement
I mean, if SCO was acting criminally, then I am sure Mr. Ashcroft or Mr. Goring, or whats-his-name _________ supports the efforts of the OSS community and the GPL copyleft, and would help US, EU,
OldHawk777
Reality is a self induced hallucination.