I've wanted to build one of these things for at least 8 years now, but have never had a) the time, b) the knowledge, c) the motivation. Especially after reading (parts of) Winn Schwarau's "Information Warfare" doorstop, I could just see the potential uses for this.
Imagine one of these scenarios:
You're driving down the highway, blissfully ignorant of the speed limit. Suddenly, you see those blue and red lights flashing behind you. Panic? You? Nah. You hit that extra button below the rear defroster, and suddenly you're in the clear. Or better yet, you let yourself get pulled over, and then while waiting to ask if there's a problem, the other car starts acting funny...
From the book: Someone in a van drives around the computing center of a bank. Hits a button. Computers start to drool. Wait a random amount of time, do it again.
Your (former) employer doesn't believe that they need to worry about information warfare because "the firewall will protect us." Wait for the night before a drop, or the day of a demo, and suddenly the development machines, not to mention the firewall, are dead.
As much as I'd love to have plans for one of these HERF guns, I think that it would probably make it too easy for "hardware script kiddies" to then go out and wreak havoc. What I'd really like is a reading list (preferably with difficulty ratings) on what to study to be able to design your own.
Everyone's afraid of a new class of terrorism that seems to be emerging. Bombing and shooting people is for dumbos. These days, smart terrorists disrupt the use of technologies like phone, cell phone and computers. This is a device for them.
Imagine this device placed near a major phone line hub... within view of a cell phone transmitter... on a highway bridge, the latest "drive-by-wire" cars passing beneath it... on an airport... at a stock exchange... Devices like this, at a handy size, could be as dangerous to economics as a gun is to an individual.
I wonder if there is a law against things like that.
Finnaly someone showed this to the public. It really is an old idea, but in the world we live now, it has some interesting effects.
I was tracing the development of such toys based on Nikola Tesla's ideas for a while now and found a lot of impresive stuff. Just do a quick search on "telsa weapon" and read some of the articles that pop up. One of the most scary is located at http://www.peg.apc.org/~nexus/bskies1[2345].html (yeah thats five parts of it). Hints about causing earthquakes with similiar technology as described in the story above. Other interesting sites are Gravity gate http://www.starwon.com.au/~rayd/index.htm, Kelly BBS www.kellynet.com, Tesla web ring and similiar. If you like to search a lot, you may even find hints about top secret super high tech weapons developed in Russia for knocking out satelites, which are also based on one of the Tesla's ideas and are powered by also originaly Tesla's work, improved by dr. H. Moray, the so called Moray generator. Basicaly you just set up an antenna and some electronic wizardry and you have electricity. Sounds too good to be true, but there's a story on the kellynet about how Tesla made an electric car powered by such a device.
Back to the EMP stuff...does anyone have some nice information about project HAARP and similiar "experiments" all around the world? I heard somewhere that US military already developed their small EMP "bomb" for knocking out "e-criminals". I would like to take a look at one of those toys:) And the next thing would be to cover my house entirely in somekind of conductive mesh, to make more or less effective faradey cage. I feel like protecting computers and other electronic equipment will be big bussiness in the next decades.
According to this link at news.com Executive Mark Surfas said the virus infected one of their download servers for two hours on Tuesday and five hours Wednesday night, while they were performing routine service.
Surfas said a total of 3,100 infected files were served, and the company is in the process of notifying everyone who got an infected file and pointing them to free antivirus tools that will disinfect their systems.
From the article it looks like MS is willing to overlook China's legendary software 'sharing' as long as the government stays tight with Windows.
Isn't this just a standard Microsoft practice anyway? When was the last time Microsoft or the BSA actually cracked down on home networks which had 5 copies of windows all using the same serial??? The cash cow for Microsoft is in getting government compliance... tax the government...
hrmmm....
Yes - because our ancestors were more careless than we are.
You are not a local Tasmanian. It shows. I am a local Tasmanian. My ancestors were not careless, they were thinking of survival. This tiger was hunted because it ravaged farms and stock. If it wasntnt hunted and was let loose on the local sheep, then food would not have been produced and my ancestors would have starved. The tiger was hunted because it was a menace to our survival.
To them, we are a faceless empire, worse than Rome's wildest dreams.
I recently heard an article on the american NPR radio. This described how Americans were shocked about how the world viewed them prior S11, and how CNN was hiding this info from them. Americans need to pull their heads in, or at least convince the nutters in washington to pull their heads in. Rome was sacked, and history does repeat itself... people still refuse to learn from the past.
Whatever you choose, make sure you enjoy it and can tolerate it. We were not born to be slaves and work our whole lives... life is here for us to enjoy. Make sure you are happy first and foremost.
This is the most important lesson I have learnt. It matters more to me that I am happy and I am having a good time as opposed to being stressed, overworked and living a rigid lifestyle. If I really wanted I could go and get myself a doctorate in some engineering/science field, however, I have found that following this path will lead me to unhappiness. Follow you own path, and make sure that you are happy.
Just Be Happy and content! In my experience that is what is the most important thing...
Developments like this really offer tremendous opportunities for creating a family for those who cannot have children the old fashioned way
Isnt this just allowing the weak to propogate? Our immune systems are weak and fucked because of drugs, now our reproductive systems will become weak... think about it...
We've mentioned this company's "Digital Angel" before, but there's an understandable sudden interest in such tracking technologies.
Shouldnt that read Dark Angel instead of Digital Angel???
This is nothing short of evil, complete tracking and control of a population, this has the potential to be more effective than organised religions during the middle ages...
Well I know where the safest option lies, I'd much rather compile and use the source than use a pre-compiled binary, who knows what sort of virii or backdoors are in those damn binary files. When there is very little difference in functionality, there is very little room for the closed source to move.
Hmm, well, if you won't play a good game because it's "kiddy" ala Banjo-Tooie, Rayman, and even Pokemon Puzzle League, then you'd better not be calling yourself a hardcore gamer bud. While I myself enjoy a good, mature game like Metal Gear Solid or Dino Crisis, it's not a crime to play something like Mario or even Pokemon. For me, I play a game if I like it, screw the fact if I'm "Too old" or it's "Immature." Besides, even if you don't like those games anyway, as I said, Nintendo is MUCH more open to Mature games nowadays, with Silicon Knights onboard, Capcom developing Resident Evil 0, and the such. So basically, there SHOULD be something for everyone.
So basically, all I can say is that people should hold their judgement untill they actually see the games in action. With the PS2 already out, you can truly make a real comparison. So wait and see, and give Nintendo, Sony, and even -shudder- Microsoft a chance......you may be surprised.
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Here's some release dates for GC
Luigi's Mansion and Wave Race: Blue Storm: Sept. 14 along with the release of the system.
It was recently shown on Spaceworld, Miyamoto demonstreted a Kirby game, where the GBA is used as a TV extension. Kirby would jump out of the TV screen and appear on you GBA screen! No screenshots unfortunately, but it seems like it features many hidden mini-games only accessable using the GBA.
Please Note: You do not need a GBA game! Just hook up the link between GBA and GameCube!!
Also, the US has never overthrown Australia. I'd suggest laying off the crack.
No, but they have taken very small chunks of land and refused access to them. Pine Gap is a well known example. Located in the outback this piece of land was taken and is thought to be setup as a communications (aka spy) network. The Amersicans have never once told anyone exactly what goes on here. As soon as on of our prime-ministers started to make noises, there was a quick change of government and Bob-Hawke was thrust into leadership. I cant remember the whole story, but the ABCs (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) 4-corners did a very intersting documentary on the whole affair. Yes, the Americans could have been an influencing factor in overthrowing an Australian Government. All it takes here in.au is a sweet little bit of television advertising (mild propoganda) to bump the voting-poles slightly over the 50% region in the 2-party prefered selections.
The people with the money have the power, not the voters.
None of this would have been possible without the mind-control ray, which has been working beautifully.
Now we know why MS has such a dominant position in the desktop market... They have a mind-control ray... Thats why they have been able to convince the weak minded drones to comply.
I have a Psion Series 5mx which does everything I need. It has organisers, good spreadsheet, word processor, keyboard, email, web browser support, it integrates with KDE and/or linux console and/or Windows nicely, files are easily convertable, it kicks ass over my old HP48GX calculator which is about the same size, programming is easy due to the documentation of the Epoc32 OS. It even comes with a java runtime enviroment designed specifically for the 5mx.
No, it doesnt run linux that I am aware of, however, it also doesn't run Microsoft Windows. Thus you avoid the MS Tax.
I have read about some projects to try and get linux running on this machine, however, why bother? The only reason would be for nerd factorage. The Psion series 5mx is quite simply one of the best handheld PCs out there. It just hasn't recieved as much CNN coverage as the palmOS... the poor old English still haven't learnt to advertise (the Spice Girls are an exception)
The only real drawback is the lack of "kewl" games like quake, however if you want a games machine then get a gameboy advance. There are many good RTS games for the Psion Series 5mx though, I believe Sim City has been ported, along with a red alert clone.
Try www.series5mx.com to find out even more about this great little machine. In ten years time it might be looked upon in a similar light to the way we now look upon the original gameboys... a bloody awsome piece of technology.
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As much as I'd love to have plans for one of these HERF guns, I think that it would probably make it too easy for "hardware script kiddies" to then go out and wreak havoc. What I'd really like is a reading list (preferably with difficulty ratings) on what to study to be able to design your own.
Everyone's afraid of a new class of terrorism that seems to be emerging. Bombing and shooting people is for dumbos. These days, smart terrorists disrupt the use of technologies like phone, cell phone and computers. This is a device for them. Imagine this device placed near a major phone line hub... within view of a cell phone transmitter... on a highway bridge, the latest "drive-by-wire" cars passing beneath it... on an airport... at a stock exchange... Devices like this, at a handy size, could be as dangerous to economics as a gun is to an individual. I wonder if there is a law against things like that.
Finnaly someone showed this to the public. It really is an old idea, but in the world we live now, it has some interesting effects. I was tracing the development of such toys based on Nikola Tesla's ideas for a while now and found a lot of impresive stuff. Just do a quick search on "telsa weapon" and read some of the articles that pop up. One of the most scary is located at http://www.peg.apc.org/~nexus/bskies1[2345].html (yeah thats five parts of it). Hints about causing earthquakes with similiar technology as described in the story above. Other interesting sites are Gravity gate http://www.starwon.com.au/~rayd/index.htm, Kelly BBS www.kellynet.com, Tesla web ring and similiar. If you like to search a lot, you may even find hints about top secret super high tech weapons developed in Russia for knocking out satelites, which are also based on one of the Tesla's ideas and are powered by also originaly Tesla's work, improved by dr. H. Moray, the so called Moray generator. Basicaly you just set up an antenna and some electronic wizardry and you have electricity. Sounds too good to be true, but there's a story on the kellynet about how Tesla made an electric car powered by such a device.
:) And the next thing would be to cover my house entirely in somekind of conductive mesh, to make more or less effective faradey cage. I feel like protecting computers and other electronic equipment will be big bussiness in the next decades.
Back to the EMP stuff...does anyone have some nice information about project HAARP and similiar "experiments" all around the world? I heard somewhere that US military already developed their small EMP "bomb" for knocking out "e-criminals". I would like to take a look at one of those toys
According to this link at news.com Executive Mark Surfas said the virus infected one of their download servers for two hours on Tuesday and five hours Wednesday night, while they were performing routine service.
Surfas said a total of 3,100 infected files were served, and the company is in the process of notifying everyone who got an infected file and pointing them to free antivirus tools that will disinfect their systems.
Not cool...
Isn't this just a standard Microsoft practice anyway? When was the last time Microsoft or the BSA actually cracked down on home networks which had 5 copies of windows all using the same serial??? The cash cow for Microsoft is in getting government compliance... tax the government... hrmmm....
Yes - because our ancestors were more careless than we are.
You are not a local Tasmanian. It shows. I am a local Tasmanian. My ancestors were not careless, they were thinking of survival. This tiger was hunted because it ravaged farms and stock. If it wasntnt hunted and was let loose on the local sheep, then food would not have been produced and my ancestors would have starved. The tiger was hunted because it was a menace to our survival.
To them, we are a faceless empire, worse than Rome's wildest dreams.
I recently heard an article on the american NPR radio. This described how Americans were shocked about how the world viewed them prior S11, and how CNN was hiding this info from them. Americans need to pull their heads in, or at least convince the nutters in washington to pull their heads in. Rome was sacked, and history does repeat itself... people still refuse to learn from the past.
Whatever you choose, make sure you enjoy it and can tolerate it. We were not born to be slaves and work our whole lives... life is here for us to enjoy. Make sure you are happy first and foremost.
This is the most important lesson I have learnt. It matters more to me that I am happy and I am having a good time as opposed to being stressed, overworked and living a rigid lifestyle. If I really wanted I could go and get myself a doctorate in some engineering/science field, however, I have found that following this path will lead me to unhappiness. Follow you own path, and make sure that you are happy.
Just Be Happy and content! In my experience that is what is the most important thing...
Developments like this really offer tremendous opportunities for creating a family for those who cannot have children the old fashioned way
Isnt this just allowing the weak to propogate? Our immune systems are weak and fucked because of drugs, now our reproductive systems will become weak... think about it...
at least more honest than licensing
But I thought the graphics were supposed to get better with the advent of quake 2...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but dont those screen shots look just like Quake 1????
Shouldnt that read Dark Angel instead of Digital Angel???
This is nothing short of evil, complete tracking and control of a population, this has the potential to be more effective than organised religions during the middle ages...
I will not submit.
Am I warped in my mind?
Not for your average Blow Joe it isnt!
http://www.ssiamerica.com/
I have one of their car players installed in my car. Only done last week. No SDMI crap there! I also believe their portable units are very similar.
Go do some web surfing... hrmmm... you be suprised at what you will find outside the world of slashdot.
Anyone with mod points please note, the parent to this post is *NOT* offtopic.
Please help correct this!
Cheers!
Open source/closed source....
Well I know where the safest option lies, I'd much rather compile and use the source than use a pre-compiled binary, who knows what sort of virii or backdoors are in those damn binary files. When there is very little difference in functionality, there is very little room for the closed source to move.
www.linuxfromscratch.org
Taken from http://www.doom2000.nu/mirrors.txt
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Mirrors for RTCW test #1
http://www.vidmaster.com/files/WolfMPTEST0915.e
http://zeke.v1ru5.com/wolfmptest0915.exe
http://www.teameuphoria.net/files/WolfMPTEST091
http://www.mymtw.de/files/downloads/29/328_wolf
http://www.dailyrush.dk/files/demos/649/downloa
http://www.dailyfiles.dk/demos/WolfMPTEST0915.e
http://wolf.redcoat.net/WolfMPTEST0915.exe
ftp://ftp.ravingaming.com/rtcw/WolfMPTEST0915.e
http://www.digitaledge.no/insomnia/files/WolfMP
http://dtv157.dtv.dk/wolfmptest0915.exe
http://91d8c8a60457ab87013f8c6b0d6f1f6e:DOWNLOA
ftp://ftp.barrysworld.com/pub/games/othergames/
http://www.fileplanet.com/index.asp?file=69443 (registration needed)
http://www.3dgamers.com/games/returnwolfenstein
http://www.bluesnews.com/files/rtcw/demos/wolfm
ftp://cs.vg.no/pub/misc/wolfmptest0915.exe
Hmm, well, if you won't play a good game because it's "kiddy" ala Banjo-Tooie, Rayman, and even Pokemon Puzzle League, then you'd better not be calling yourself a hardcore gamer bud. While I myself enjoy a good, mature game like Metal Gear Solid or Dino Crisis, it's not a crime to play something like Mario or even Pokemon. For me, I play a game if I like it, screw the fact if I'm "Too old" or it's "Immature." Besides, even if you don't like those games anyway, as I said, Nintendo is MUCH more open to Mature games nowadays, with Silicon Knights onboard, Capcom developing Resident Evil 0, and the such. So basically, there SHOULD be something for everyone.
So basically, all I can say is that people should hold their judgement untill they actually see the games in action. With the PS2 already out, you can truly make a real comparison. So wait and see, and give Nintendo, Sony, and even -shudder- Microsoft a chance......you may be surprised.
Here's some release dates for GC
Luigi's Mansion and Wave Race: Blue Storm: Sept. 14 along with the release of the system.
Pikmin is going to be released on Oct. 26
SSBM is going ot be released in November 2001...
It was recently shown on Spaceworld, Miyamoto demonstreted a Kirby game, where the GBA is used as a TV extension. Kirby would jump out of the TV screen and appear on you GBA screen! No screenshots unfortunately, but it seems like it features many hidden mini-games only accessable using the GBA.
Please Note: You do not need a GBA game! Just hook up the link between GBA and GameCube!!
Wow, I cant wait for this!
No, but they have taken very small chunks of land and refused access to them. Pine Gap is a well known example. Located in the outback this piece of land was taken and is thought to be setup as a communications (aka spy) network. The Amersicans have never once told anyone exactly what goes on here. As soon as on of our prime-ministers started to make noises, there was a quick change of government and Bob-Hawke was thrust into leadership. I cant remember the whole story, but the ABCs (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) 4-corners did a very intersting documentary on the whole affair. Yes, the Americans could have been an influencing factor in overthrowing an Australian Government. All it takes here in
The people with the money have the power, not the voters.
Now we know why MS has such a dominant position in the desktop market... They have a mind-control ray... Thats why they have been able to convince the weak minded drones to comply.
It all depends on what your usage is...
I have a Psion Series 5mx which does everything I need. It has organisers, good spreadsheet, word processor, keyboard, email, web browser support, it integrates with KDE and/or linux console and/or Windows nicely, files are easily convertable, it kicks ass over my old HP48GX calculator which is about the same size, programming is easy due to the documentation of the Epoc32 OS. It even comes with a java runtime enviroment designed specifically for the 5mx.
No, it doesnt run linux that I am aware of, however, it also doesn't run Microsoft Windows. Thus you avoid the MS Tax.
I have read about some projects to try and get linux running on this machine, however, why bother? The only reason would be for nerd factorage. The Psion series 5mx is quite simply one of the best handheld PCs out there. It just hasn't recieved as much CNN coverage as the palmOS... the poor old English still haven't learnt to advertise (the Spice Girls are an exception)
The only real drawback is the lack of "kewl" games like quake, however if you want a games machine then get a gameboy advance. There are many good RTS games for the Psion Series 5mx though, I believe Sim City has been ported, along with a red alert clone.
Try www.series5mx.com to find out even more about this great little machine. In ten years time it might be looked upon in a similar light to the way we now look upon the original gameboys... a bloody awsome piece of technology.
Well said....
:)
I just finished moderating and then read your post.... I wish I still had some points for it