You are (almost) completely wrong about this. Go to ANY military airfield in the USA; there are signs specifying two things:
It is a US Govermnent property site, so you must abide by all rules, regulations, and laws. Failure results in prosecution.
Photogrophy is prohibited. To make a photograph is a Federal offense.
Same regulations can apply to military shipping ports and high-tech facilities.
Now I know that you will cite the cases of folks photographing "Area 51" / Grooms Lake in Nevada as not being prosecuted. Actually, it more a case of the authorities not being able to apprehend the camera men in the act. Recall the the Air Force also places several types of sensors so they know when folks are trying to take a photo from afar; these folks are are chased.
I actually thought he described a vision more in line with the Project Oxygen H21 http://www.oxygen.lcs.mit.edu/H21.html, which proposes a hand-held device that can download software to transform itself from (A) mobile phone to (B) audio player to (C) multi-mode input device (speech, text, handwriting) while retaining the identification and authentication software and data for a particular user.
Not quite so fast there, Jim-Bob. He **lived** north of Cincinnati, OH in Warren. He's been living in York, PA, about 60 minutes from greater Baltimore MD and 90 minutes from Philadelphia PA on the coast. There are lots of big businesses nearby as well as several government and academic sites. So he's obviously willing to move to a coastal state!
I personally get on an airplane every Monday in the Midwest, work at a BIG DEFENSE FIRM http://www.raytheon.com/ as a subcontractor through the week on the East Coast, and them fly home on Friday. What keeps me from moving?
The cost of the housing doubles for a cracker box 1/3 the size;
The East Coast public schools are pitiful compared to where I live;
and (amazingly) my average daily commute would be LONGER than staying where I am.
No kidding! Stoll caught a German hacker "Jaeger" trying to enter Sandia Nuclear Testing labs by way of the UC Berkley Astronomy servers. I'd call stealing info about SSNs (Nuke Subs) during the Cold War fairly dangerous.
He was unable to get the ARPA and UCB folks interested for supporting or even funding his detective work, so he took to sleeping next to the modem pool on his own time to catch the hacker.
The real kicker is Stoll was unable to get the FBI and CIA to assist in due to turf wars and ignorance on cyberwar. He had to work with the German Post Office to do it!
Guess anything that happened in the 80's is too far back for/. folks "Duuude, that is so 1980's!"
He that fails to heed history is doomed to repeat it.
Hmm... I thought the original comment was insightful: making the media fragile decreases the shelf life, so it's more like I'm **renting** the game or music than **buying** it.
And to your comment, WormholeFiend, yes, I think you are also correct. The way we get the price of the entertainment lower is to prevent piracy (unlawful copying) AND ease publishing. After all, my laserjet print works a lot faster than my CD burner
Debating the restriction of security tools reminds me of debates over private firearm ownership in the United States: When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.
Flames aside, would you want your ability to legitimately defend yourself restricted?
Hmmm....
And a search of Harris InfoSource reveals that Brown & Maughan of Palos Verdes Peninsula is the HQ for the B&M CPAs in Fountain Valley that was charged. Palos Verdes is in the South Bay...
Go figure, perhaps something at the satellite was unsavory unbeknownst to the HQ. OTH, perhaps they were 100% aware given that Harris says the offices combined moved $300-500K (300-500M for accountants) in sales last year.
I'm betting these are one and the same organization!
Interesting ideas, except for two items: The internet is not more efficient, it's merely faster. And while gravity is a law of nature, we're getting quite adept at "bending the rules", e.g. the automobile and airplane let us go much faster than we could with our own bodies.
A whole lot of other work is needed to really open trade. Here are a few:
Inventing a nearly free source of electric power to manufacture goods and transport them.
How to find a "best fit" supplier when surfing through a directory of thousands of choices.
How to guarentee 100% that the RIGHT goods are received when payment is sent.
Learning what is universally valuable yet can be easily customized to specifications unique to the customer.
Ah yes, and folks getting along better. A foolish exchange of nukes between Pakistan and India could alter reality quickly.
Now here is a counterpoint for you to consider -- groups like Gartner and McKinsey are estimating that by 2010 the same "ruthlessly efficient" Internet removes the competitive advantage of outsourcing to India, Poland, or the Phillipines. BTW, their prediction is based on the Internet being in **everyone's** house.
So the real question is what will the the companies of the world do as they learn that they can produce products of equal cost and quality almost anywhere? Even more importantly, what will the WORKERS like you and I do once we all comprehend the same applies to our jobs?
What stupidity this whole discussion line is!
Did any of you guys READ the FACTS behind Apollo 13 -- 'Houston, we have a problem'? The issue the US Government has IS NOT BLAME WHO TO BLAME, its who TO CALL TO FIX THE PROBLEM!
When the Energy, Transportation, and Health Departments have systems that KILL, MAIM, AND DESTROY real people and property when they FAIL, you better bet I want someone on standby to FIX and PREVENT problems!
At the same time, those with the stone to create a "proprietary" interfaces like the Internet -- remember ARPANet? -- get paid a pretty penny. Vint Cerf and the folks at BBN are no paupers!!
If you're waiting for an uber-revolution ala Munich's "No Microsoft" here in the USA, prepare to standby INDEFINITELY.
Instead of whining about NMCI contracts, get the FSF busy in a LOBBY for Open Source on BEHALF of a companies for Open Source Coders and Support Folks. Not "free thinker" loudmouths, real support folks who are making profits and being socially responsible!!
If you have trouble visualizing this, go see the folks at JBOSS.org or Ximian.com. They seem to understand the OPEN SOURCE FOR PROFIT process.
Good explanation of how the research and clinicals imbue a higher cost to drugs.
I'll add, though, that the USA & other prosperous nations often carry an additional burden: subsidizing the discounting in less prosperous locales. Simply put, drug companies recover the cost of lower prices in poorer or regulated countries by transfering the higher costs elsewhere.
That said, at least I can afford the drugs my family needs. I really feel for the folks in Africa & SouthEast Asia who must choose between starving themselves or watching their kids die of dysentary...
Perhaps some open-source software for chemical analysis would help -- what's worth a PayPal donation right now?
First things first: Set the COM: port to at least 56kbps. By default, this installs at 9.6 (ugghh)!
AvantGo Junkies: Set your content to sync on alternating days. Some update but weekly like their paper cousins; most "daily" is really a new article or two a day.
BTW, the 10 minute sync was the norm when I used Lotus Notes with Intellisync, keeping 270 in the past. Then again, I also took notes in my calendar entries, so Notes had to track all that stuff!
So I'll just place my trojan horse code into that extra space that you are currently wasting by aligning all your programs to 4KB disk pages.
If I understand correctly, there is NO standard for padding unused disk files with RET / NOP calls AFTER a block has been used once, so your virus scanner will never bother to look past the end of block (EOB) marker!
To make this even more nasty, I'll spread my mischief across multiple files in a.ZIP or.ARJ file. That way, you'll just think I was sloppy, not malicious!!
Emm,
Actually, there ARE some folks who will pay BIG $$ for this -- Fortune 50 companies. For example, I work for a company that rhymes with You & Me that makes peanut butter, coffee, the #1 Laundry Detergent (for those who wash:>), and shampoo that makes your hair shine.
This same company just recently retired several Access 2.0 apps -- you know, the ones that are 16-bit based, Windows 3.1 vintage . Some serious crimes against nature were performed to get Windows98 to work with them...
Anyway, once you get >10 folks on an application used to cover regulated or validated requirements, they can hold the rest of the corporation's desktops hostage. And where I work, that means >50,000 licenses.
Moral of the story -- change often is the opposite of progress for those who need stability. PetrOS may yet get the last laugh!
You're exactly right -- the well-known Magnetic Resonance Imagery (MRI) is actually called NMRI; yep, as in N)uclear!
A nuke technology that's much safer, reliable, granular than the old X-Ray machine technology.
Not that Nuke Medicine doesn't have it's downside -- such as kids in Latin America pocketing or EATING radioactive cobalt.
Your priorities are correct in addressing what attracts the current user to a Palm or CE device.
IMHO, to get more BUSINESS folks to use them -- recall, deep pockets -- is getting the device to SECURE its contents. They develop legs way too easily, so how do I keep the nefarious types from reading the company and personal secrets I store on it? An OS like Linux easily runs everything locked using a single password!
Why would I want Apache? So I could run web-based email yet keep a local copy of my messages accessable! Ditto for any other data I access from an intranet -- Apache would cache the sales data locally so I use my precious wireless comm time booking the sale! And why not do all apps web based from Apache to make the interfaces nearly identical on hand-held & desktop!
Finally, the 'Zen of Palm' (simple is good) is a weak cop-out! My C-64 running GeoWorks could do nearly everything my desktop today does in ~ 200K (RAM plus diskette) -- wordprocessing, spreadsheet, & presentations. So how is it a Palm ships with 10x the ROM and it lamely presents itself only as a PIM?
BTW, I'd love to run a micro-Linux on my Palm IIIxe to do what I just described. Any recos?
I also work for a global company.
My observation is most Fortune 500 companies are stuck with '70s technology such as RDBMS systems due to their incestious "Hakuma-Ma-Tata" (slimy yet satisfying) cultures:
We write GBs of data application source in UNIX Shell calling Oracle PL/SQL. Thanks for promoting all the MVS JCL script kiddies to section head.
We insist on summing all details in a hierarchy before we report them via a CSV file delivered in email using nasty COURIER10 fonts, never mind that we could much more easily compute the few relevant intersections on-the-fly. Gee, thanks all you Finance analysts used to reams of paper reports from FORTRAN & COBOL!
We entrust programming and support to the most junior folks. Training consists of "Here, just go to these 1 week Oracle & HP courses, then work on your development plan with Sue. We'll make you a productive programmer in 3 months; look how well Sue is doing @ 8 months." Wow, thanks all you MBA and biz-school Luddites we promoted because you grovel so cheerfully!!
We only promote the best apple polishers to Systems "Boy", then only let them gather requirements using Microsoft's glorified "typewriter" and "calculator" from the dullest of clerks. The project plans neatly display the finest of Waterfall Development, complete with revisionist history to mask the 6 month delay...
We centralize all the technies into one padded cell so the line folks -- marketing & sales -- never be troubled by an occasional reality check: "So, why are mauve DBs more performant for capturing Zost market share? I'll need a more transparent explanation before I'm aligned."...
We constantly strive to "get closer to the business", yet rarely point out that our systems ordered the materials, assembled the products, and collected the revenue so everyone's paycheck could be cut. Put an Easter Egg in a program? That's too individualistic!
And you want me to get an OODBMS in use? I've been fighting for FOUR YEARS to use Perl instead of those brain-dead UNIX scripts!
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Dear QuasiEvil,
You are (almost) completely wrong about this. Go to ANY military airfield in the USA; there are signs specifying two things: It is a US Govermnent property site, so you must abide by all rules, regulations, and laws. Failure results in prosecution. Photogrophy is prohibited. To make a photograph is a Federal offense.
Same regulations can apply to military shipping ports and high-tech facilities.
Now I know that you will cite the cases of folks photographing "Area 51" / Grooms Lake in Nevada as not being prosecuted. Actually, it more a case of the authorities not being able to apprehend the camera men in the act. Recall the the Air Force also places several types of sensors so they know when folks are trying to take a photo from afar; these folks are are chased.
I actually thought he described a vision more in line with the Project Oxygen H21 http://www.oxygen.lcs.mit.edu/H21.html, which proposes a hand-held device that can download software to transform itself from (A) mobile phone to (B) audio player to (C) multi-mode input device (speech, text, handwriting) while retaining the identification and authentication software and data for a particular user.
The cost of the housing doubles for a cracker box 1/3 the size;
The East Coast public schools are pitiful compared to where I live;
and (amazingly) my average daily commute would be LONGER than staying where I am.
He was unable to get the ARPA and UCB folks interested for supporting or even funding his detective work, so he took to sleeping next to the modem pool on his own time to catch the hacker.
The real kicker is Stoll was unable to get the FBI and CIA to assist in due to turf wars and ignorance on cyberwar. He had to work with the German Post Office to do it!
Guess anything that happened in the 80's is too far back for /. folks "Duuude, that is so 1980's!"
He that fails to heed history is doomed to repeat it.
Hmm... I thought the original comment was insightful: making the media fragile decreases the shelf life, so it's more like I'm **renting** the game or music than **buying** it.
And to your comment, WormholeFiend, yes, I think you are also correct. The way we get the price of the entertainment lower is to prevent piracy (unlawful copying) AND ease publishing. After all, my laserjet print works a lot faster than my CD burner
Amen --the original "mod the original up!"
Debating the restriction of security tools reminds me of debates over private firearm ownership in the United States:
When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.
Flames aside, would you want your ability to legitimately defend yourself restricted?
Hmmm....
And a search of Harris InfoSource reveals that Brown & Maughan of Palos Verdes Peninsula is the HQ for the B&M CPAs in Fountain Valley that was charged. Palos Verdes is in the South Bay...
Go figure, perhaps something at the satellite was unsavory unbeknownst to the HQ. OTH, perhaps they were 100% aware given that Harris says the offices combined moved $300-500K (300-500M for accountants) in sales last year.
I'm betting these are one and the same organization!
A whole lot of other work is needed to really open trade. Here are a few:
Inventing a nearly free source of electric power to manufacture goods and transport them.
How to find a "best fit" supplier when surfing through a directory of thousands of choices.
How to guarentee 100% that the RIGHT goods are received when payment is sent.
Learning what is universally valuable yet can be easily customized to specifications unique to the customer.
Ah yes, and folks getting along better. A foolish exchange of nukes between Pakistan and India could alter reality quickly.
Now here is a counterpoint for you to consider -- groups like Gartner and McKinsey are estimating that by 2010 the same "ruthlessly efficient" Internet removes the competitive advantage of outsourcing to India, Poland, or the Phillipines. BTW, their prediction is based on the Internet being in **everyone's** house.
So the real question is what will the the companies of the world do as they learn that they can produce products of equal cost and quality almost anywhere? Even more importantly, what will the WORKERS like you and I do once we all comprehend the same applies to our jobs?
What stupidity this whole discussion line is!
Did any of you guys READ the FACTS behind Apollo 13 -- 'Houston, we have a problem'? The issue the US Government has IS NOT BLAME WHO TO BLAME, its who TO CALL TO FIX THE PROBLEM!
When the Energy, Transportation, and Health Departments have systems that KILL, MAIM, AND DESTROY real people and property when they FAIL, you better bet I want someone on standby to FIX and PREVENT problems!
At the same time, those with the stone to create a "proprietary" interfaces like the Internet -- remember ARPANet? -- get paid a pretty penny. Vint Cerf and the folks at BBN are no paupers!!
If you're waiting for an uber-revolution ala Munich's "No Microsoft" here in the USA, prepare to standby INDEFINITELY.
Instead of whining about NMCI contracts, get the FSF busy in a LOBBY for Open Source on BEHALF of a companies for Open Source Coders and Support Folks. Not "free thinker" loudmouths, real support folks who are making profits and being socially responsible!!
If you have trouble visualizing this, go see the folks at JBOSS.org or Ximian.com. They seem to understand the OPEN SOURCE FOR PROFIT process.
Good explanation of how the research and clinicals imbue a higher cost to drugs.
I'll add, though, that the USA & other prosperous nations often carry an additional burden: subsidizing the discounting in less prosperous locales. Simply put, drug companies recover the cost of lower prices in poorer or regulated countries by transfering the higher costs elsewhere.
That said, at least I can afford the drugs my family needs. I really feel for the folks in Africa & SouthEast Asia who must choose between starving themselves or watching their kids die of dysentary...
Perhaps some open-source software for chemical analysis would help -- what's worth a PayPal donation right now?
First things first: Set the COM: port to at least 56kbps. By default, this installs at 9.6 (ugghh)!
AvantGo Junkies: Set your content to sync on alternating days. Some update but weekly like their paper cousins; most "daily" is really a new article or two a day.
BTW, the 10 minute sync was the norm when I used Lotus Notes with Intellisync, keeping 270 in the past. Then again, I also took notes in my calendar entries, so Notes had to track all that stuff!
So I'll just place my trojan horse code into that extra space that you are currently wasting by aligning all your programs to 4KB disk pages.
.ZIP or .ARJ file. That way, you'll just think I was sloppy, not malicious!!
If I understand correctly, there is NO standard for padding unused disk files with RET / NOP calls AFTER a block has been used once, so your virus scanner will never bother to look past the end of block (EOB) marker!
To make this even more nasty, I'll spread my mischief across multiple files in a
Emm, :>), and shampoo that makes your hair shine.
Actually, there ARE some folks who will pay BIG $$ for this -- Fortune 50 companies. For example, I work for a company that rhymes with You & Me that makes peanut butter, coffee, the #1 Laundry Detergent (for those who wash
This same company just recently retired several Access 2.0 apps -- you know, the ones that are 16-bit based, Windows 3.1 vintage . Some serious crimes against nature were performed to get Windows98 to work with them...
Anyway, once you get >10 folks on an application used to cover regulated or validated requirements, they can hold the rest of the corporation's desktops hostage. And where I work, that means >50,000 licenses.
Moral of the story -- change often is the opposite of progress for those who need stability. PetrOS may yet get the last laugh!
You're exactly right -- the well-known Magnetic Resonance Imagery (MRI) is actually called NMRI; yep, as in N)uclear! A nuke technology that's much safer, reliable, granular than the old X-Ray machine technology. Not that Nuke Medicine doesn't have it's downside -- such as kids in Latin America pocketing or EATING radioactive cobalt.
Your priorities are correct in addressing what attracts the current user to a Palm or CE device. IMHO, to get more BUSINESS folks to use them -- recall, deep pockets -- is getting the device to SECURE its contents. They develop legs way too easily, so how do I keep the nefarious types from reading the company and personal secrets I store on it? An OS like Linux easily runs everything locked using a single password! Why would I want Apache? So I could run web-based email yet keep a local copy of my messages accessable! Ditto for any other data I access from an intranet -- Apache would cache the sales data locally so I use my precious wireless comm time booking the sale! And why not do all apps web based from Apache to make the interfaces nearly identical on hand-held & desktop! Finally, the 'Zen of Palm' (simple is good) is a weak cop-out! My C-64 running GeoWorks could do nearly everything my desktop today does in ~ 200K (RAM plus diskette) -- wordprocessing, spreadsheet, & presentations. So how is it a Palm ships with 10x the ROM and it lamely presents itself only as a PIM? BTW, I'd love to run a micro-Linux on my Palm IIIxe to do what I just described. Any recos?
We write GBs of data application source in UNIX Shell calling Oracle PL/SQL. Thanks for promoting all the MVS JCL script kiddies to section head.
We insist on summing all details in a hierarchy before we report them via a CSV file delivered in email using nasty COURIER10 fonts, never mind that we could much more easily compute the few relevant intersections on-the-fly. Gee, thanks all you Finance analysts used to reams of paper reports from FORTRAN & COBOL!
We entrust programming and support to the most junior folks. Training consists of "Here, just go to these 1 week Oracle & HP courses, then work on your development plan with Sue. We'll make you a productive programmer in 3 months; look how well Sue is doing @ 8 months." Wow, thanks all you MBA and biz-school Luddites we promoted because you grovel so cheerfully!!
We only promote the best apple polishers to Systems "Boy", then only let them gather requirements using Microsoft's glorified "typewriter" and "calculator" from the dullest of clerks. The project plans neatly display the finest of Waterfall Development, complete with revisionist history to mask the 6 month delay...
We centralize all the technies into one padded cell so the line folks -- marketing & sales -- never be troubled by an occasional reality check: "So, why are mauve DBs more performant for capturing Zost market share? I'll need a more transparent explanation before I'm aligned." ...
We constantly strive to "get closer to the business", yet rarely point out that our systems ordered the materials, assembled the products, and collected the revenue so everyone's paycheck could be cut. Put an Easter Egg in a program? That's too individualistic!
And you want me to get an OODBMS in use? I've been fighting for FOUR YEARS to use Perl instead of those brain-dead UNIX scripts!