Well - i wouldnt beleive everything you read. I am sure that the psy-ops staff is just there to help CNN with technical aspects of military/nasa/gov related stories.
I am sure that they have the publics best interest in mind - and am happy to see that CNN so willingly give internships to these gifted individuals from the military who are interested in ensuring that the american populous has correct and detailed information regarding events.
I mean - based on the governments track record with ensuring that even other countries are fully aware of our military secrets (china) it seems only fitting that they would assign a group to CNN to ensure that we are as abrest on the inner-workings of military/gov/nasa as the rest of the international intelligence community.
Although i dont understand what psy-ops would have to do with journalism. Oh well. I'll leave the important things to them to figure out. THANKS! for thinking of me!
well, there is a company ( www.aurigin.com ) that has a searchable patent db - but it does not include everything. and I can tell you that their non-free db is ~4TB. and am told that it will grow to ~9TB in the next 6 months.
I think it mostly has tech related patents. so I am sure that the uspto db is *large*
and even still several hundred cds would be a lot of plastic.
what would nice is if the offered it in an indexed format. i.e patents *mostly* relating to computers etc... that way they could dist. but I wouldnt hafta subscribe to all the furniture patents, etc.
Additionally, by allowing law to be copyrighted, it restricts discussion of law. If I want to put up a website critical of the building codes and need direct, verbatim quotes, I sure as hell won't get permission to use the building codes directly.
FUCK THAT. PERIOD. I would like to remind people of CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE. I WILL NOT pay for a law. NEVER.
My father owns a large contracting company in california - and I always thought it was lame that he had to pay for every little thing, like codes, code inspections etc..
This is a very good foundational level example as to the the reasons why the (earth-based) human race will never get beyond civilization level 0. (based on our current progress)
It is of my opinion that any lawmaker/legislative representative that upholds the copyright on this, or any other law, should be permanently removed from legislative duty and dis-barred for life.
If they are going to practice law, and be in a position of authority over the people such that they determine the laws - they better damn well have my best interest in mind.
I cannot express how pissed off this makes me.
The more insane this reality becomes - almost makes me look forward to the end.
And it was really his insight that because of semi-conductor improvements, things would just keep getting better. I said to him, "Oh, exponential phenomena is pretty rare, pretty dramatic. Are you serious about this? Because this means, in effect, we can think of computing as free." ( he is talking about paul allen)
but the interesting thing is that he makes it sound as though he and paul realized MOORES LAW first. Egomaniac.
I am not sure about the statement another poster made about kevlar being able to stretch to 300%...
but I was watching a show on spider silk vs. kevlar, and the reason that it is "stronger" is because it stretches more than kevlar does before breaking. as I recall it was near double the percentage of kevlar.
I'll hafta disagree with you on this one. Art, Dave and others were consultants for me back in tha' day.... right when they were bout to start linuxcare.
we had them all woking for us to implement some custom b2b edi stuff that we wanted done - on linux. its still in production, 4 years strong.
the point is that back then - they were working on an open source app (secuREMOTE - linux based vpn software). but they were called on heavily to do a lot of linux support stuff.
Working with free tools on contracts they were supposed to bid on - was exactly what the original model was - and give corporate support for linux as to bolster acceptance of the OS as a viable tool for businesses to adopt on the front lines. however - there were obviously some changes that took affect when they got all that money - and I think some of it had gone to the companies head, which caused them to loose focus on the core of the idea.
You CAN make money on support - the problem isnt that it is not a vaild market to go after, it is that it wasnt a fully developed market.
If linuxcare were to foster and groom that market, they could have shoulda woulda done things a bit more differently - like attempting to make the market more full earlier, by building strong relationships with any and every dell, compaq, penguin, va, etc they could find.
and I also want to applaud them for being, as you say, a bunch of linux fan-boy saying "lets start a company!" - as if you look at the "linux" arena as a whole today - linuxcare brought some much needed attention to linux - by getting investors to really look at it - businesses are more comfortable with the term "linux" than they were, and you have something to talk about:)
so it isnt totally over for them - and although they didnt do a mountain of stuff in the market - they did a hell of a lot more than a lot of other companies have done for linux.
similar to one of the ways that we used to pay one of our admins - he had to carry the cellphone for after hours calls - (but could delegate the problem if needed) - but got an extra 2K/mo for doing so.
I am an IT manager, and have to deal with companies who do not have and do not see the value of a pay structure for on call staff.
most bone headed exec's state "that part of the job - I dont care if they dont like it" and I must continually work with the little mentality of the execs to get them to value the techicnical staff that they have and reward them for doing more for the company than a lot of the sales, marketing and mgmt departments combined do.
I make it a point of how much is involved in keeping the systems running smoothly on a continual basis - and have them understand how inconvienient it can be for anyone that must be on-call.
I usually have a hard time convincing these people that their IT staff is a HELL of a lot more important than they realize - so it makes it difficult to get them to compensate with money...
but I am 100% effective in getting other forms of compensation, sometimes in addition to money like:
if there is a problem that requires late night resolution, and it takes considerable effort or time, but is solved before the workday starts - the admin can take time off from work - either that day, or any day he chooses.
or get them some sort of award at the next company meeting - or a fifty dollar gift cert for dinner etc...
the point isnt necessarily the actual compensation - it is the recognition and the fact that the admin knows that his efforts are appreciated.
anyone running a company out there that is reading this - you will see that you will have a happier, more productive staff with less turnover.
otherwise - I would like to see some exec get out of bed at three am and go to the colo, ssh or go to the office to fix some problem. then they will really understand the nature of on-call and how shitty it can actually be. especially when you dont get paid for it.
the *AA's have two things that politicians kill their families for, money and sex.
as stated by the other posters, the *AAs can give out a lot of money, and have done so in the past to get their way - and in addition if they REALLY want something - they can hold a "gala" event for the "awareness of the implications of free crypto on business and the children" or some such shit and use the force (read: tits, ass and money) to get their way.
"If I'm not mistaken, China doesnt have a very big presence in the "Global Marketplace", and it never really has. Think about it, what comes into your mind when you see the phrase "Made in China"?"
um - i challenge you to find many things that are not made in china that you do not use on a daily basis.
that has been one thing that china has done a good job of - positioning themselves as the foundational producer of societies taken-for-granted environment.
if china did not exist, you would have a hard time finding things like, pens, staples, too-many-to-list injection molded plastic widgets etc...
look around aand see how many of our things are actually produced by them. sure they dont have a huge tech/heavy industry presence on the global market, but the sure could cause a headache for daily life if the items that you dont even think about are no longer available.
....the chinese government is now installing survailence equipment to intercept communications and traffic originating from all internet cafes in the greater beijing area.
when questioned about the ability of the chinese government to do this, a US military spokesman said "well, it is very easy for them to do this - provided they have the right equipment - it would require equipment similar to what we have been using in our spy aircraft to intercept communications of foreign governments for some years now."
but it does have Natalie Portman - I now have a cute little scanner that has been hacked so as not to divulge my CC UID that I can use with my open souce version of portman manager.
Now I have all my pictures of natalie portman in a nice clean system searchable and referenced via barcodes that I scan with CC!
"Their interactions with us will mostly be on a business level. "
read: they will control the funds which we receive to create product - and since we will really fight to keep them out of shaping the games as stated - it looks like we got fscked, cuz in business it all comes down to the bottom line. money controls this relationship.
also read:
please help we really shot ourselves in the foot - and now our lawyers say there is nothing we can do about it. We sold out - thinking that we would make some seriou$ $ and continue on our happy little way. but now we realize the hell of assimilation. help.
I was not in 100% agreement with the parent posting - but I didnt see any hate aside from that of hating the current state of affairs this nation/world is in.
remember folks - there is more to life than linux!
While the FBI refuses to comment on specific products, spokeswoman Chris Watney confirmed that the information is all the bureau is interested in. How they get it, as long as it's legal and complete, doesn't matter, she said
um - is it just me, or does the above suggest the following methods for information retreival that would be acceptable to the FBI: (of course "legal" is thrown in - but we all know that *everything* the FBI does is legal)
- Carnivore
- Altivore
- Baseball bat to knees
- Gun to head
- Coersion (sp?)
- Audio Bugs
- Any other subversive method of obtaining info.
It seems that this gives some insight into the mentality of the f - b - i...
They own the information - you just merely happen to be the one creating it. Therefore the method in which they use to obtain the information they are after doesnt matter - as long as they get it.
actually - cant remember the name, sorry - I used a beta product that was an IOS for linux.
It ran on a pc but allowed you to setup your linux box with IOS syntax. You could setup any service that linux would run - and it was just like being in a router.... (had a whole boat load of cool things like setting up VOIP calling gateways etc.) and it is to be sold as a development tool - so anyone can create an IOS interface for what they run on linux.
anyway - its coming soon. will see if I can getthe name of it again.
I will do security work for the.gov for tax breaks.
contact youre manager and tell him that they can secure the entire fscking government by hiring ppl like me to do the work and give me a year or two without having to pay tax as my only payment.
If they did this - they would have all the best security professionals REALLY securing that sh*t down.
Also the most disturbing thing about this whole situation is that when we go to war - the informational warfare is going to be insane. Think about it this way - in a third world country that is not even nearly as dependant on computers as th US it will not matter if their systems get whacked - but what they will gain from cracking the security within the US military or even public government systems...
there is nothing wrong with unions. in fact - I am starting one myself, already have 6 members.
Dues are 2% of your options as they vest, 2% of your annual income - plus you must agree to provide 20 hours of work per year toward contracts that the union takes on but does not pay you for.
We "convince" people to use our union services and workers much in the same way that the traditional unions do - like the dock workers union. If you do not abide by their rules, they break your knees with bats - ruin your produce carts and other equipment etc..
Anytime we find groups that are not quite as excited about using our union staff - we just create incentive to use use through such means as corrupting your databases, taking down your websites, accidentally spilling our coffee on your precious servers etc. In fact, these tactics work quite well as it creates more work for us as we can charge our fair rates of $295.00/hour.
The best thing we have found is that the old style unions of the docks and trucking industries would destroy/hijack goods etc... but these were scare tacktics that gave little return on the efforts.
Our model allows for better ROI in that anything we take down - allows for the opportunity of the "client" to "willingly" hire us on to resolve whatever mysterious systems issues they may be having.
If you are interested in becoming a member of our team just send an email to family@packet-crafters.com
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5.06 Will I be able to set my blaster to stun and kill, and change the color of its blasts?
This Question should have read:
5.06 If we get to shoot blasters in the game - will they be a *lot* more accurate than they are in the movies?
"CHEWY! Lock in that auxillary power!"
or rather - its about time to integrate the linux world into civilization!
ummm... i WAS being sarcastic......
Well - i wouldnt beleive everything you read. I am sure that the psy-ops staff is just there to help CNN with technical aspects of military/nasa/gov related stories.
I am sure that they have the publics best interest in mind - and am happy to see that CNN so willingly give internships to these gifted individuals from the military who are interested in ensuring that the american populous has correct and detailed information regarding events.
I mean - based on the governments track record with ensuring that even other countries are fully aware of our military secrets (china) it seems only fitting that they would assign a group to CNN to ensure that we are as abrest on the inner-workings of military/gov/nasa as the rest of the international intelligence community.
Although i dont understand what psy-ops would have to do with journalism. Oh well. I'll leave the important things to them to figure out. THANKS! for thinking of me!
well, there is a company ( www.aurigin.com ) that has a searchable patent db - but it does not include everything. and I can tell you that their non-free db is ~4TB. and am told that it will grow to ~9TB in the next 6 months.
I think it mostly has tech related patents. so I am sure that the uspto db is *large*
and even still several hundred cds would be a lot of plastic.
what would nice is if the offered it in an indexed format. i.e patents *mostly* relating to computers etc... that way they could dist. but I wouldnt hafta subscribe to all the furniture patents, etc.
Additionally, by allowing law to be copyrighted, it restricts discussion of law. If I want to put up a website critical of the building codes and need direct, verbatim quotes, I sure as hell won't get permission to use the building codes directly.
FUCK THAT. PERIOD. I would like to remind people of CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE. I WILL NOT pay for a law. NEVER.
My father owns a large contracting company in california - and I always thought it was lame that he had to pay for every little thing, like codes, code inspections etc..
This is a very good foundational level example as to the the reasons why the (earth-based) human race will never get beyond civilization level 0. (based on our current progress)
Hopefully you understand what I mean by that.
It is of my opinion that any lawmaker/legislative representative that upholds the copyright on this, or any other law, should be permanently removed from legislative duty and dis-barred for life.
/.
If they are going to practice law, and be in a position of authority over the people such that they determine the laws - they better damn well have my best interest in mind.
I cannot express how pissed off this makes me.
The more insane this reality becomes - almost makes me look forward to the end.
I am not a lawyer - but i play one on
this is interesting from the gates interview:
And it was really his insight that because of semi-conductor improvements, things would just keep getting better. I said to him, "Oh, exponential phenomena is pretty rare, pretty dramatic. Are you serious about this? Because this means, in effect, we can think of computing as free." ( he is talking about paul allen)
but the interesting thing is that he makes it sound as though he and paul realized MOORES LAW first. Egomaniac.
how well does this work in Iowa?
kinda.
I am not sure about the statement another poster made about kevlar being able to stretch to 300%...
but I was watching a show on spider silk vs. kevlar, and the reason that it is "stronger" is because it stretches more than kevlar does before breaking. as I recall it was near double the percentage of kevlar.
thats what i was going to state.
lisp has been in autocad for as long as I can remember - and provides a very powerful way of scripting things that are done on an everyday basis.
almost every arch/eng firm you find that uses autocad will have its own custom set of commands for everything that autocad does (all in lisp)
works extremely well for that sort of thing.
i actually wish that every program had the ability to write out command macros and functionality programs in lisp to help acomplish many things.
I'll hafta disagree with you on this one. Art, Dave and others were consultants for me back in tha' day.... right when they were bout to start linuxcare.
:)
we had them all woking for us to implement some custom b2b edi stuff that we wanted done - on linux. its still in production, 4 years strong.
the point is that back then - they were working on an open source app (secuREMOTE - linux based vpn software). but they were called on heavily to do a lot of linux support stuff.
Working with free tools on contracts they were supposed to bid on - was exactly what the original model was - and give corporate support for linux as to bolster acceptance of the OS as a viable tool for businesses to adopt on the front lines. however - there were obviously some changes that took affect when they got all that money - and I think some of it had gone to the companies head, which caused them to loose focus on the core of the idea.
You CAN make money on support - the problem isnt that it is not a vaild market to go after, it is that it wasnt a fully developed market.
If linuxcare were to foster and groom that market, they could have shoulda woulda done things a bit more differently - like attempting to make the market more full earlier, by building strong relationships with any and every dell, compaq, penguin, va, etc they could find.
and I also want to applaud them for being, as you say, a bunch of linux fan-boy saying "lets start a company!" - as if you look at the "linux" arena as a whole today - linuxcare brought some much needed attention to linux - by getting investors to really look at it - businesses are more comfortable with the term "linux" than they were, and you have something to talk about
so it isnt totally over for them - and although they didnt do a mountain of stuff in the market - they did a hell of a lot more than a lot of other companies have done for linux.
similar to one of the ways that we used to pay one of our admins - he had to carry the cellphone for after hours calls - (but could delegate the problem if needed) - but got an extra 2K/mo for doing so.
whats your email addy of your HR dept - I want to submit my resume!
That is an excellent solution.
I am an IT manager, and have to deal with companies who do not have and do not see the value of a pay structure for on call staff.
most bone headed exec's state "that part of the job - I dont care if they dont like it" and I must continually work with the little mentality of the execs to get them to value the techicnical staff that they have and reward them for doing more for the company than a lot of the sales, marketing and mgmt departments combined do.
I make it a point of how much is involved in keeping the systems running smoothly on a continual basis - and have them understand how inconvienient it can be for anyone that must be on-call.
I usually have a hard time convincing these people that their IT staff is a HELL of a lot more important than they realize - so it makes it difficult to get them to compensate with money...
but I am 100% effective in getting other forms of compensation, sometimes in addition to money like:
if there is a problem that requires late night resolution, and it takes considerable effort or time, but is solved before the workday starts - the admin can take time off from work - either that day, or any day he chooses.
or get them some sort of award at the next company meeting - or a fifty dollar gift cert for dinner etc...
the point isnt necessarily the actual compensation - it is the recognition and the fact that the admin knows that his efforts are appreciated.
anyone running a company out there that is reading this - you will see that you will have a happier, more productive staff with less turnover.
otherwise - I would like to see some exec get out of bed at three am and go to the colo, ssh or go to the office to fix some problem. then they will really understand the nature of on-call and how shitty it can actually be. especially when you dont get paid for it.
Dont underestimate the power of the dark side.
the *AA's have two things that politicians kill their families for, money and sex.
as stated by the other posters, the *AAs can give out a lot of money, and have done so in the past to get their way - and in addition if they REALLY want something - they can hold a "gala" event for the "awareness of the implications of free crypto on business and the children" or some such shit and use the force (read: tits, ass and money) to get their way.
"If I'm not mistaken, China doesnt have a very big presence in the "Global Marketplace", and it never really has. Think about it, what comes into your mind when you see the phrase "Made in China"?"
um - i challenge you to find many things that are not made in china that you do not use on a daily basis.
that has been one thing that china has done a good job of - positioning themselves as the foundational producer of societies taken-for-granted environment.
if china did not exist, you would have a hard time finding things like, pens, staples, too-many-to-list injection molded plastic widgets etc...
look around aand see how many of our things are actually produced by them. sure they dont have a huge tech/heavy industry presence on the global market, but the sure could cause a headache for daily life if the items that you dont even think about are no longer available.
....the chinese government is now installing survailence equipment to intercept communications and traffic originating from all internet cafes in the greater beijing area.
when questioned about the ability of the chinese government to do this, a US military spokesman said "well, it is very easy for them to do this - provided they have the right equipment - it would require equipment similar to what we have been using in our spy aircraft to intercept communications of foreign governments for some years now."
but it does have Natalie Portman - I now have a cute little scanner that has been hacked so as not to divulge my CC UID that I can use with my open souce version of portman manager.
Now I have all my pictures of natalie portman in a nice clean system searchable and referenced via barcodes that I scan with CC!
"Their interactions with us will mostly be on a business level. "
read: they will control the funds which we receive to create product - and since we will really fight to keep them out of shaping the games as stated - it looks like we got fscked, cuz in business it all comes down to the bottom line. money controls this relationship.
also read:
please help we really shot ourselves in the foot - and now our lawyers say there is nothing we can do about it. We sold out - thinking that we would make some seriou$ $ and continue on our happy little way. but now we realize the hell of assimilation. help.
thank you.
I was not in 100% agreement with the parent posting - but I didnt see any hate aside from that of hating the current state of affairs this nation/world is in.
remember folks - there is more to life than linux!
While the FBI refuses to comment on specific products, spokeswoman Chris Watney confirmed that the information is all the bureau is interested in. How they get it, as long as it's legal and complete, doesn't matter, she said
um - is it just me, or does the above suggest the following methods for information retreival that would be acceptable to the FBI: (of course "legal" is thrown in - but we all know that *everything* the FBI does is legal)
- Carnivore
- Altivore
- Baseball bat to knees
- Gun to head
- Coersion (sp?)
- Audio Bugs
- Any other subversive method of obtaining info.
It seems that this gives some insight into the mentality of the f - b - i...
They own the information - you just merely happen to be the one creating it. Therefore the method in which they use to obtain the information they are after doesnt matter - as long as they get it.
actually - cant remember the name, sorry - I used a beta product that was an IOS for linux.
It ran on a pc but allowed you to setup your linux box with IOS syntax. You could setup any service that linux would run - and it was just like being in a router.... (had a whole boat load of cool things like setting up VOIP calling gateways etc.) and it is to be sold as a development tool - so anyone can create an IOS interface for what they run on linux.
anyway - its coming soon. will see if I can getthe name of it again.
I will do security work for the .gov for tax breaks.
contact youre manager and tell him that they can secure the entire fscking government by hiring ppl like me to do the work and give me a year or two without having to pay tax as my only payment.
If they did this - they would have all the best security professionals REALLY securing that sh*t down.
Also the most disturbing thing about this whole situation is that when we go to war - the informational warfare is going to be insane. Think about it this way - in a third world country that is not even nearly as dependant on computers as th US it will not matter if their systems get whacked - but what they will gain from cracking the security within the US military or even public government systems...
there is nothing wrong with unions. in fact - I am starting one myself, already have 6 members.
Dues are 2% of your options as they vest, 2% of your annual income - plus you must agree to provide 20 hours of work per year toward contracts that the union takes on but does not pay you for.
We "convince" people to use our union services and workers much in the same way that the traditional unions do - like the dock workers union. If you do not abide by their rules, they break your knees with bats - ruin your produce carts and other equipment etc..
Anytime we find groups that are not quite as excited about using our union staff - we just create incentive to use use through such means as corrupting your databases, taking down your websites, accidentally spilling our coffee on your precious servers etc. In fact, these tactics work quite well as it creates more work for us as we can charge our fair rates of $295.00/hour.
The best thing we have found is that the old style unions of the docks and trucking industries would destroy/hijack goods etc... but these were scare tacktics that gave little return on the efforts.
Our model allows for better ROI in that anything we take down - allows for the opportunity of the "client" to "willingly" hire us on to resolve whatever mysterious systems issues they may be having.
If you are interested in becoming a member of our team just send an email to family@packet-crafters.com
Serious applicants only.