if the device get's say stolen then you could send a radio signal or something like that or in the case of the "switch" you simply don't have input from your computer in some fashion for a while before it will simple do the specified action.
It's not literally a "switch".
Another idea would be to take a GPS beacon embedded into the device and then track the stolen goods (with the police in tow) and nab the guys.
Locks won't stop too many thieves usually. All you have to do is to get a blow torch or acid or explosives and you have access to the whole cache. Maybe adding an armed guard to the door would be a good idea.
I really do believe that you should have any data that is saved on a laptop or any other portable device (includeing hard disks) should be manufactured with a specialized dead man's switch that will activate thermite or some highly corrosive acid upon theft of the data or being removed from the area in which it is housed.
There are some things that make an OS lite enought to run properly and there are some things that are rather bad to do. I think when you start to shove things into the OS domain you really start to get bloat similar to microsoft products.
In theory why aren't people working on running OS level perl and php as well considering all the use that these languages get in the world today.
They are in a good position if they were to do that. Suppose everyone and their mother were able to use java and then they were able to sell some rather niftly little software extensions and the like for java and make a good profit? I think that is their overwhelming concern.
*Warning the below is taken from ancedotal accounts which may be false so I may be wrong*
I heard that VB is supposedly the major means of writing applications for windows and much of the current crop of windows applications utilize VB in some manner (I really don't absolutely know). So how exactly is VB related to the windows world and is it recommended to learn it in some manner if I have the chance?
I was wondering if there was any linux support for this type of thing and how exactly it communicates with the computer to actually achieve it's aims. Is it a circuit board or some other method that allows it's communication?
So the question is how does this help matters anyway? All that this basically does is make it harder for many people to play mud and mud like environments over modem links (and yes modems are sub par for 3d interactive environments and the like).
You don't actually think that your vote, in today's political system, is relevant, do you?
Of course I think my vote counts that's why I will be voting when the time comes in November. I feel that it does matter and I want to be counted.
Herein lies the problem of the unrestricted voting franchise; a problem the Romans found out about. No society can survive for long once the public learns that it can vote itself entitlements from the public coffers.
When was this before or after they became a totalitarian state that didn't care for their citizens?
People don't like to see dead and dieing people in the streets so they help them. The every man for him/herself attitude died quite a while ago in public policy mostly because of the mass abuses of the powerful at the expense of the weak.
I guess if it's that critical that you send email at work get a laptop and one of those really expensive wireless links and just bulk send all you written email at once.
For those not familiar with the book (which can't be many, considering how often it's come up on/.), in Heinlein's story, the voting franchise was reserved for people that had participated in Federal Service (Military, or
some other form of Service). The idea was that only people which had put their own interests aside, for a time, to ensure the well being of the society, should have a voice in determining the course of that society.
What does that prove? If you get thrown into a prison does that make you appreciate the legal system more? Go and ask some prisoneers if they like the government and value the prison system?
Suppose I don't want to sit and there and "serve my country" do I become a nobody in society?
Anyone could serve in some capacity. Even those with physical disability were offered the opportunity to serve in whatever capacity they were able. People which elected not to undertake such service were treated the
same as everyone else... They lacked only the ability to vote.
Which means that they are powerless. All you have to do is use various social/intellectual pressures on some person/group and bam they have no political voice.
Without turning this reply into a book review, this idea has merit as far as I'm concerned. Part of the problem with the voting franchise is that it comes without cost. If that franchise had to be earned, it would be more
meaningful to those entitled to participate. Further, decisions would be made by people with a vested interest in the prosperity of the nation, which have also demonstrated a willingness to make a sacrifice to ensure that
society's progress and survival.
Ok admit it how likely do you really think that this would be to actually happen in the US? What kind of massive social backlash would happen to any politician who would propose something of this nature? Probably would be removed from office.
There are basic liberties that should come without cost. The preservation of one's life, the ability to live without threat, the ability to have some modicum of food, water, shelter, etc. Also since politics are so important voting is in there as well.
Artifican impliments can actually help an ecosystem greatly. Look at coral deposits on oil rig platforms in the Louisana delta where there were no great reefs because of various factors but now there is thriving life there. Pretty interesting use of materials.
Perhaps we could reduce the size of junk and produce parcels that could then be blasted into a decaying orbit with hyrodgen and then vaporize when the come down.
Despite all its shortcomings, Mir is a remarkable piece of engineering to be able to last this long, and is also proof that alternative systems to capitalism can really produce high quality technology. It's far more
impressive than Skylab ever was, and it's been home to the longest human space missions in history. To just let it crash into the ocean is a tragedy--you'd think enough people would be able to spare the money to save
it. Incidentally, I wonder if it would have had a far better fate under the communist government.
Just because their space station worked dosn't mean you can extend that to the Russian political situation. In general the life the average Russian under the regime wasn't that good. Massive shortages of consumer goods, poverty, crime, housing problems, political corruption/oppression. Oh yeah but a they had a good space station.
I am sure if the US turned all their ecconomic energies into one particular area of interest at the expense of all else they could have done better too. I just like living free instead of under a dictatorship.
The Russian space program was more of an effort to play political games than to accomplish space exploration. Why would you need people in space for long periods of time? Well what if you wanted to conduct an almost unstoppable senario of nuclear war. Now how easy is it to remove say a command and control system in orbit hundreds of miles above earth anyway?
The impression I got about MirCorp was that it was a venture that was trying to sap Russian resources away from the ISS and it's construction system. Really bad form when you try to cheat the government and their international contracts.
So basically extending the remailer type of thing with a proxy like anonymizer that is better able to handle traffic and which is based on a standalone application? How trustworthy are they? Has there been any actual evidence that they will protect your information from being captured?
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if the device get's say stolen then you could send a radio signal or something like that or in the case of the "switch" you simply don't have input from your computer in some fashion for a while before it will simple do the specified action.
It's not literally a "switch".
Another idea would be to take a GPS beacon embedded into the device and then track the stolen goods (with the police in tow) and nab the guys.
Locks won't stop too many thieves usually. All you have to do is to get a blow torch or acid or explosives and you have access to the whole cache. Maybe adding an armed guard to the door would be a good idea.
I really do believe that you should have any data that is saved on a laptop or any other portable device (includeing hard disks) should be manufactured with a specialized dead man's switch that will activate thermite or some highly corrosive acid upon theft of the data or being removed from the area in which it is housed.
There are some things that make an OS lite enought to run properly and there are some things that are rather bad to do. I think when you start to shove things into the OS domain you really start to get bloat similar to microsoft products.
In theory why aren't people working on running OS level perl and php as well considering all the use that these languages get in the world today.
One of the major strengths of java was supposedly to have it not require porting and C# isn't there.
Yeah, but without printing capabilities!
did anyone fix it?
They are in a good position if they were to do that. Suppose everyone and their mother were able to use java and then they were able to sell some rather niftly little software extensions and the like for java and make a good profit? I think that is their overwhelming concern.
I think that kaffe would really benefit from this. Last I checked they hadn't updated their program for quite a while.
Also improvements in memory waste of the JVM and sheer size would be greatly appreciated.
*Warning the below is taken from ancedotal accounts which may be false so I may be wrong*
I heard that VB is supposedly the major means of writing applications for windows and much of the current crop of windows applications utilize VB in some manner (I really don't absolutely know). So how exactly is VB related to the windows world and is it recommended to learn it in some manner if I have the chance?
Where can you buy these things and how much do they cost? What is their mean time between failures and such? How do you clean/service them?
I was wondering if there was any linux support for this type of thing and how exactly it communicates with the computer to actually achieve it's aims. Is it a circuit board or some other method that allows it's communication?
So the question is how does this help matters anyway? All that this basically does is make it harder for many people to play mud and mud like environments over modem links (and yes modems are sub par for 3d interactive environments and the like).
As opposed to now?
You don't actually think that your vote, in today's political system, is relevant, do you?
Of course I think my vote counts that's why I will be voting when the time comes in November. I feel that it does matter and I want to be counted.
Herein lies the problem of the unrestricted voting franchise; a problem the Romans found out about. No society can survive for long once the public learns that it can vote itself entitlements from the public coffers.
When was this before or after they became a totalitarian state that didn't care for their citizens?
People don't like to see dead and dieing people in the streets so they help them. The every man for him/herself attitude died quite a while ago in public policy mostly because of the mass abuses of the powerful at the expense of the weak.
strike that reverse that
I guess if it's that critical that you send email at work get a laptop and one of those really expensive wireless links and just bulk send all you written email at once.
For those not familiar with the book (which can't be many, considering how often it's come up on
some other form of Service). The idea was that only people which had put their own interests aside, for a time, to ensure the well being of the society, should have a voice in determining the course of that society.
What does that prove? If you get thrown into a prison does that make you appreciate the legal system more? Go and ask some prisoneers if they like the government and value the prison system?
Suppose I don't want to sit and there and "serve my country" do I become a nobody in society?
Anyone could serve in some capacity. Even those with physical disability were offered the opportunity to serve in whatever capacity they were able. People which elected not to undertake such service were treated the
same as everyone else... They lacked only the ability to vote.
Which means that they are powerless. All you have to do is use various social/intellectual pressures on some person/group and bam they have no political voice.
Without turning this reply into a book review, this idea has merit as far as I'm concerned. Part of the problem with the voting franchise is that it comes without cost. If that franchise had to be earned, it would be more
meaningful to those entitled to participate. Further, decisions would be made by people with a vested interest in the prosperity of the nation, which have also demonstrated a willingness to make a sacrifice to ensure that
society's progress and survival.
Ok admit it how likely do you really think that this would be to actually happen in the US? What kind of massive social backlash would happen to any politician who would propose something of this nature? Probably would be removed from office.
There are basic liberties that should come without cost. The preservation of one's life, the ability to live without threat, the ability to have some modicum of food, water, shelter, etc. Also since politics are so important voting is in there as well.
People should realize that the system we have no has been carefully balanced with the needs of the many in view not the needs of the few.
Artifican impliments can actually help an ecosystem greatly. Look at coral deposits on oil rig platforms in the Louisana delta where there were no great reefs because of various factors but now there is thriving life there. Pretty interesting use of materials.
There might be a way to do something like that.
Perhaps we could reduce the size of junk and produce parcels that could then be blasted into a decaying orbit with hyrodgen and then vaporize when the come down.
"..., increasing the amount of un-Constitutional laws in the name of the War on Drugs,..."
And those would be what?
Despite all its shortcomings, Mir is a remarkable piece of engineering to be able to last this long, and is also proof that alternative systems to capitalism can really produce high quality technology. It's far more
impressive than Skylab ever was, and it's been home to the longest human space missions in history. To just let it crash into the ocean is a tragedy--you'd think enough people would be able to spare the money to save
it. Incidentally, I wonder if it would have had a far better fate under the communist government.
Just because their space station worked dosn't mean you can extend that to the Russian political situation. In general the life the average Russian under the regime wasn't that good. Massive shortages of consumer goods, poverty, crime, housing problems, political corruption/oppression. Oh yeah but a they had a good space station.
I am sure if the US turned all their ecconomic energies into one particular area of interest at the expense of all else they could have done better too. I just like living free instead of under a dictatorship.
The Russian space program was more of an effort to play political games than to accomplish space exploration. Why would you need people in space for long periods of time? Well what if you wanted to conduct an almost unstoppable senario of nuclear war. Now how easy is it to remove say a command and control system in orbit hundreds of miles above earth anyway?
The impression I got about MirCorp was that it was a venture that was trying to sap Russian resources away from the ISS and it's construction system. Really bad form when you try to cheat the government and their international contracts.
So basically extending the remailer type of thing with a proxy like anonymizer that is better able to handle traffic and which is based on a standalone application? How trustworthy are they? Has there been any actual evidence that they will protect your information from being captured?
It's used to give "zero knowledge" to other parties who might be in the transaction who are not authorized.
Does this enhance anything that could be done seperately and with more control (pgp/gpg, anonymous remailers, using lynx, etc)?