Interesting analogies, and I'm just a basic HAM person myself. It would seem that his arguement is more along the lines that when your at this party with everyone talking, you are using everyone in the room to say parts of the sentence to your friend, that sentence is in a language that you define to your friend ahead of time, and you also don't speak any of the other languages that the rest of the room is talking, therefore it just sounds like noise, and is ignored.
Using software defined radios with encryption I would think you could make your own city sized private network because you define the spectrum hopping function in your software, defined to the receievers as well.
But by all means if I'm on crack let me know.
I personally love email because with email....
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I don't think anything could prevent someone from kidnapping a child if they are they dedicated to doing it. I believe this is more for protection against random abduction, although in most cases, the victim knows the abductor. However, the abductor has to know what the watch is, and if your going to put this on your child, your sure as hell not going to broadcast to the world that your kid is lojacked.
I know you are looking for programs outside Milwaukee, but Strive Media is another one in Milwaukee that provides tech training to Teens. They are non-profit however.
http://www.girder.nl/links.php And go to the girder hardware pages, there a number of links to actually building a two way ir device for your serial port. Girder is a windows program that you can use to control damn near anything in windows via IR, or any external input device for that matter.. It's has a framework to allow for custom plug-ins... All good stuff.
I use it on my laptop in my car which has IR hiding in the dash, and I use girder to support the funky IR keyboard and remote from a web TV..
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What makes me soil my shorts is how this relates to genetics.
He said that he saw parts of the circuit that seemed to be useless, yet, when he disconnected them, the circuit failed.. When we are altering our own genetic code, are we simply tossing the sections that don't seem to do anything? Alot of our genetic make up has stuff that doesn't seem to do anything, yet, everyday we find out that a seemingly useless gene has vast reaches into how we work.
I would like to see this technology used to emulate existing genomes and see how mutations affect it, before we go tinkering we ourselves. Not that I'm against genetic engineering, sometimes I just think nature is much smarter then us at times.
I'm afraid not, what about when the teachers go to the local pub or what not and bitch about those damn kids, and certain kids in particular.
The fact that it was accessible from the school PC's doesn't matter. He should have had the sys-admin block the site then. (still a violation of 1st amend rights but doubt it would have gotten the school system as bad as it did.)
His freedom was violated because he was blocked from continuing his education due to something he said. And with regards to the job environment, that is a private industry, not a government run institution. The asst. principle would have had less problems if they were in a private school setting.
What I got out of the article was that he was upset that you couldn't just use the keyboard itself to do must of the functions you use all the time. I can walk up to my computer in sleep mode, hit space, and then hit a hot-key that I've defined to launch whatever app I want. I can do this on most of the available OS's. I can program a hot-key to open up a file folder, and if I want to install a program, at least in Winblows, I can be lazy, pop in the cd with auto-insert notification turned on.. And hit the enter key as fast as I can to whip through the install, maybe pausing for a moment to type in my user info and a registration key. Which I can whip through with tab. If he doesn't like the buttons that numerous applications provide for people who dig the mouse, don't use it. Don't blame the OS for the lack of wanting to customize your environment. The power of computers in general is just that, make it do what you want as long as you know how.
X10 makes a number of security based interfaces that can be hooked up to your computer and monitored through the web. I have an old fashioned security system, a shotgun and a mean dog - actually, just a standard alarm with a phone relay to a monitoring company. I picked the brain of the tech who installed it who was surprizingly geek and told me it was X11 which is just slighty more industrial then X10. Same concepts though. Hope that helps.
I think having.health regulated is better then not. If a doctor wants to have his information published he has to go through peer review, clinical tests, etc. If Joe Smack Drug Maker wants
to publish a site on.health I think they should have to go through the same process.
We have to many sites on the net that you can't take to be the truth, and you have to figure out for your self whats to be trusted and what isn't. Having a group of educated medical specialists looking at that info gives me a better sense of security. This doesn't prevent Joe Smack Drug Maker from publishing his site, but that's for the.com.org.net pool.
How secure is it? SSL?
How quickly are the applications moved offline or to a secure area where crackers couldn't get at them?
Which takes precedent the paper or electronic filings?
How are you timestamping them?
By submission time for electronic and postmarked date for the paper?
This just screams "BREAK ME".
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I've said it before on here, and I'll say it again.
People won't do anything unless it threatens their
survival. The survival instinct is much much bigger then the justice instinct. It's sad, unfortuneate, but true. If I can sit at home, watch my primetime sitcoms, eat my tv dinners, sleep, earn my paycheck, and cry about the gov.. Life is good.
This is the mentality of the overwhelming majority, and they tend to win.
I've found, that given any situation, man seems the most adept at surviving. Meaning that if all of a sudden impeding doom loomed upon us, you can best your ass there would be a massive shift from a capitalist society to a surivialist. It's pretty amazing what people can do when it's live or die. So the planet moves to a massive shift in heat, we adapt stil-suits like that in Dune. I'm sure alot of the population would die off, but I doubt it would be the end of us. We have that adaptability edge.
Open Source, Law, and Leggo of my Ego.
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One of the things I've noticed over the years, is that things get done in life out of need. We needed a better OS. Got linux. We needed a better way to get music. Mp3. The Lawyers and Industries needed to control it, send in the troops.
While a small group of individuals may form up to try and start something wonderful, you can't get the mass population behind it unless you can show them they NEED it. There are LOTS of OS projects right now, but none of them are getting the mass backing because really, most of us are content to sit where we are and be happy.
Wouldn't be great if along with the EFF, we made some kind of giant geek-law repository? A place where anyone thinking of starting a project that might wind up pissing some corp off could go and at least ask to see if there might be legal problems? Programmers don't think about if their code is going to wind up in the supreme court against company X. Geeks are smart mofo's, however, they live in an idealized world. And the world is FAR from ideal.
What we need is a pool of lawyer geeks. People who understand the technology but can throw down with the best of the Perry Masons. We are sadly out of our environment when it comes to law. And like suck said, the law is everything.
I would love to see a site where free legal information could be pooled into a giant database. I wondered what would of happened to the DeCSS argument if we had a whole world of lawyers offering help instead of the few that sat at the table.
The problem there is that geeks albeit well paid most of the time, don't go into this industry for the money, they love the tech. Lawyers almost ALWAYS go for the money, and casually forget about what is right.
And the last problem with really putting something like that together is that there is always someone ready to step up and say, yah, I did that, give me the credit, the fame, etc... Things like this can't have a key person, they have to be borg like in their execution. But that'll never happen. I live in an idealized world, and am happy where I am.
Now if any would be the time for God to come down and bitch slap us straight. Ofcourse, given the past history, I think he'd/she'd/they'd take the "parent of a young adult" stance and let us completely screw up. With all things, we never ever ever know when to stop.
I recently had my domain yanked due to the old server he was on the hacker was able to fake a registration request and I didn't catch it until after the weekend..
So I call up NSI (after hunting down their phone number which they absolutely HATE to give you and explained the situation.
After sitting on hold long enough to save up enough money to put the children I don't even have yet through college, they answer with their "1st Level" support which is no support what-so-ever. They can't make changes, they can't look up have the info you need, it's sad.. So I got transfered to their "2nd Level" support where they said that I would have to send on company letterhead (like that couldn't be forged easily enough) stating the change was wrong. They didn't mention that I should tell them what it should be changed TO I put that in the letter just to make sure, but ofcourse I didn't stick the name servers in, so that didn't get changed until day 4 of this nonsense.. (Yah, 4 days to fix this)
After that monday, I waiting until the 5pm update, where it ofcourse... Didn't go through. I called the next day and asked why they ofcourse couldn't tell me, but I figured it out on my own.
It seems that all the second level support can do is put in a request for a change, just like you the domain owner... However the hackers over the past few days changed the request to different nameservers every night.. The second level support put in the request first, then the hackers did.. And the hacker request overwrote the original request. I had to explain this to NSI about 3 times before the understood the concept, and said they would put through the request shortly before 5 to try and beat the hackers to the punch.
So the change goes through however, because I didn't stick our nameservers through on the company letterhead, they simply changed the NIC handles. So the domain was once again owned by us, however, the nameservice was still wrong. This is day three now. I call them up and scream, and they say we should just put through another request. Which I did, which ofcourse didn't take place until that evening, giving a number of caching nameserver the time to take the new domain info with the wrong nameservers.. Thus losing our domain on their nameservers completely..
My quick guide to dealing with NSI: 1- Don't.. Find the alternative registars.. For example, OPENSRS through Tucows is an excellent service, however a wee-bit new.. But just find one of their domain resellers, you can get domains for $10 a year.
2- Accountability - GET NAMES.. The more names you have after dealing with them, the more people you can point out as being retards to the management, however, seeing as this is a company wide problem that doesn't do much good, head to step 1 to fix it.
3 - Use Encryption on your domains. Either with the encrypt password on your contact info (which is retroactive through all other domains you control with that NIC then) or the PGP method. Crypt password beats the MAIL-FROM which is just pathetic hands down.
4 - Don't bother with anything other then 2nd level help
2ND LEVEL HELP AT NSI: 1-703-925-6950 (Notice the awesome NON-use of an 800 number)
I hope this helps ease the plight of NSI victims. If there is a higher power they will be forced out of the market by the other registars.
Or you could get "Super Adaption". Why not alter a human who could hold his breath for long periods of time. He'd make a good diver. Or make the skin extra tough for harsh work environments. How bout longer legs for better basketball or whatever..
You think about people looking all alike? HA.. I'm waiting to see the super freaks come out.
When you take away the ability for any system to adapt, by removing their ability to "mutate" you make extinction that much more a possibility.
Koala bears ONLY eat Ukaliptis (sp?) leaves.. You take that away, they die. They can't adapt fast enough...
People take about the 3rd world war that will wipe us all out.. Pfff. I'm looking at the common cold we THOUGHT we took care of back in 2002 that comes back and takes us out, because we took out the gene that makes seezing such an annoyance for allergy suffers, or fevers, or mucus production.
This is the perfect movie that shows all the implications of this research.
Unfortuneately, I know that we will go forth with this frightfully Akiraesque research.. It's in our nature. One person will never be able to stop this, weather or not it SHOULD be stopped. It would take an army of people, with an almost revolution like quality. But we all have bills to pay, mouths to feed, we don't have the time. And when we do have the time it will be too late.
"How would you like your kid sir?" "Uh, yah, I'll take a blonde with an awesome jump shot with uhhmm.. Blue eyes, fair skin, a side of charm and hold the temper.." "That'll be $10482, please drive around to the first insemination room. Thanks"
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No.. Just wicked fun.
Interesting analogies, and I'm just a basic HAM person myself. It would seem that his arguement is more along the lines that when your at this party with everyone talking, you are using everyone in the room to say parts of the sentence to your friend, that sentence is in a language that you define to your friend ahead of time, and you also don't speak any of the other languages that the rest of the room is talking, therefore it just sounds like noise, and is ignored.
Using software defined radios with encryption I would think you could make your own city sized private network because you define the spectrum hopping function in your software, defined to the receievers as well.
But by all means if I'm on crack let me know.
No one knows you're a chicken. A GIANT CHICKEN!!
I don't think anything could prevent someone from kidnapping a child if they are they dedicated to doing it. I believe this is more for protection against random abduction, although in most cases, the victim knows the abductor. However, the abductor has to know what the watch is, and if your going to put this on your child, your sure as hell not going to broadcast to the world that your kid is lojacked.
Nitrogen? Hell, a bucket of water and some clear laminate (sic)..
Open the cd underwater, apply laminate, pull out of water, allow to dry, watch until eyes bleed.
They'll have to outlaw buckets then.
"Hey baby, I'm hung like a horse." Takes on a whole new depth.
I know you are looking for programs outside Milwaukee, but Strive Media is another one in Milwaukee that provides tech training to Teens. They are non-profit however.
http://www.girder.nl/links.php And go to the girder hardware pages, there a number of links to actually building a two way ir device for your serial port. Girder is a windows program that you can use to control damn near anything in windows via IR, or any external input device for that matter.. It's has a framework to allow for custom plug-ins... All good stuff.
I use it on my laptop in my car which has IR hiding in the dash, and I use girder to support the funky IR keyboard and remote from a web TV..
Then you core dump, and feel much better.
What makes me soil my shorts is how this relates to genetics.
He said that he saw parts of the circuit that seemed to be useless, yet, when he disconnected them, the circuit failed.. When we are altering our own genetic code, are we simply tossing the sections that don't seem to do anything? Alot of our genetic make up has stuff that doesn't seem to do anything, yet, everyday we find out that a seemingly useless gene has vast reaches into how we work.
I would like to see this technology used to emulate existing genomes and see how mutations affect it, before we go tinkering we ourselves. Not that I'm against genetic engineering, sometimes I just think nature is much smarter then us at times.
I'm afraid not, what about when the teachers go to the local pub or what not and bitch about those damn kids, and certain kids in particular.
The fact that it was accessible from the school PC's doesn't matter. He should have had the sys-admin block the site then. (still a violation of 1st amend rights but doubt it would have gotten the school system as bad as it did.)
His freedom was violated because he was blocked from continuing his education due to something he said. And with regards to the job environment, that is a private industry, not a government run institution. The asst. principle would have had less problems if they were in a private school setting.
What I got out of the article was that he was upset that you couldn't just use the keyboard itself to do must of the functions you use all the time. I can walk up to my computer in sleep mode, hit space, and then hit a hot-key that I've defined to launch whatever app I want. I can do this on most of the available OS's. I can program a hot-key to open up a file folder, and if I want to install a program, at least in Winblows, I can be lazy, pop in the cd with auto-insert notification turned on.. And hit the enter key as fast as I can to whip through the install, maybe pausing for a moment to type in my user info and a registration key. Which I can whip through with tab. If he doesn't like the buttons that numerous applications provide for people who dig the mouse, don't use it. Don't blame the OS for the lack of wanting to customize your environment. The power of computers in general is just that, make it do what you want as long as you know how.
X10 makes a number of security based interfaces that can be hooked up to your computer and monitored through the web. I have an old fashioned security system, a shotgun and a mean dog - actually, just a standard alarm with a phone relay to a monitoring company. I picked the brain of the tech who installed it who was surprizingly geek and told me it was X11 which is just slighty more industrial then X10. Same concepts though. Hope that helps.
I think having .health regulated is better then not. If a doctor wants to have his information published he has to go through peer review, clinical tests, etc. If Joe Smack Drug Maker wants
to publish a site on .health I think they should have to go through the same process.
.com .org .net pool.
We have to many sites on the net that you can't take to be the truth, and you have to figure out for your self whats to be trusted and what isn't. Having a group of educated medical specialists looking at that info gives me a better sense of security. This doesn't prevent Joe Smack Drug Maker from publishing his site, but that's for the
Security is handled through PKI.. Pays to read the article first.. :)
This still doesn't save them from crack attempts.
Some questions I have are:
How secure is it? SSL?
How quickly are the applications moved offline or to a secure area where crackers couldn't get at them?
Which takes precedent the paper or electronic filings?
How are you timestamping them?
By submission time for electronic and postmarked date for the paper?
This just screams "BREAK ME".
I've said it before on here, and I'll say it again.
People won't do anything unless it threatens their survival. The survival instinct is much much bigger then the justice instinct. It's sad, unfortuneate, but true. If I can sit at home, watch my primetime sitcoms, eat my tv dinners, sleep, earn my paycheck, and cry about the gov.. Life is good.
This is the mentality of the overwhelming majority, and they tend to win.
They even have an app to train people on finding land mines!
Great, and when you do find them, the mouse blows your arm off.
Your not converting to computer time.. That's really just a year and a half.
I've found, that given any situation, man seems the most adept at surviving. Meaning that if all of a sudden impeding doom loomed upon us, you can best your ass there would be a massive shift from a capitalist society to a surivialist. It's pretty amazing what people can do when it's live or die. So the planet moves to a massive shift in heat, we adapt stil-suits like that in Dune. I'm sure alot of the population would die off, but I doubt it would be the end of us. We have that adaptability edge.
One of the things I've noticed over the years, is that things get done in life out of need. We needed a better OS. Got linux. We needed a better way to get music. Mp3. The Lawyers and Industries needed to control it, send in the troops.
While a small group of individuals may form up to try and start something wonderful, you can't get the mass population behind it unless you can show them they NEED it. There are LOTS of OS projects right now, but none of them are getting the mass backing because really, most of us are content to sit where we are and be happy.
Wouldn't be great if along with the EFF, we made some kind of giant geek-law repository? A place where anyone thinking of starting a project that might wind up pissing some corp off could go and at least ask to see if there might be legal problems? Programmers don't think about if their code is going to wind up in the supreme court against company X. Geeks are smart mofo's, however, they live in an idealized world. And the world is FAR from ideal.
What we need is a pool of lawyer geeks. People who understand the technology but can throw down with the best of the Perry Masons. We are sadly out of our environment when it comes to law. And like suck said, the law is everything.
I would love to see a site where free legal information could be pooled into a giant database.
I wondered what would of happened to the DeCSS argument if we had a whole world of lawyers offering help instead of the few that sat at the table.
The problem there is that geeks albeit well paid most of the time, don't go into this industry for the money, they love the tech. Lawyers almost ALWAYS go for the money, and casually forget about what is right.
And the last problem with really putting something like that together is that there is always someone ready to step up and say, yah, I did that, give me the credit, the fame, etc... Things like this can't have a key person, they have to be borg like in their execution. But that'll never happen. I live in an idealized world, and am happy where I am.
Now if any would be the time for God to come
down and bitch slap us straight. Ofcourse,
given the past history, I think he'd/she'd/they'd take the "parent of a young adult" stance and let us completely screw up. With all things, we never
ever ever know when to stop.
I recently had my domain yanked due to
the old server he was on the hacker
was able to fake a registration request
and I didn't catch it until after the
weekend..
So I call up NSI (after hunting down their
phone number which they absolutely HATE
to give you and explained the situation.
After sitting on hold long enough to save up
enough money to put the children I don't even
have yet through college, they answer with
their "1st Level" support which is no support
what-so-ever. They can't make changes, they
can't look up have the info you need, it's
sad.. So I got transfered to their "2nd Level"
support where they said that I would have to
send on company letterhead (like that
couldn't be forged easily enough) stating the
change was wrong. They didn't mention that I
should tell them what it should be changed TO
I put that in the letter just to make sure,
but ofcourse I didn't stick the name servers
in, so that didn't get changed until day 4 of
this nonsense.. (Yah, 4 days to fix this)
After that monday, I waiting until the 5pm
update, where it ofcourse... Didn't go through.
I called the next day and asked why
they ofcourse couldn't tell me, but I
figured it out on my own.
It seems that all the
second level support can do is put in
a request for a change, just like you the
domain owner... However the hackers over the
past few days changed the request to different
nameservers every night.. The second level
support put in the request first, then the
hackers did.. And the hacker request overwrote
the original request. I had to explain this
to NSI about 3 times before the understood
the concept, and said they would put through
the request shortly before 5 to try and beat
the hackers to the punch.
So the change goes through however,
because I didn't stick our nameservers through
on the company letterhead, they simply changed
the NIC handles. So the domain was once again
owned by us, however, the nameservice was still
wrong. This is day three now.
I call them up and scream, and they say we should
just put through another request.
Which I did, which ofcourse didn't take place
until that evening, giving a number of caching
nameserver the time to take the new domain
info with the wrong nameservers.. Thus
losing our domain on their nameservers
completely..
My quick guide to dealing with NSI:
1- Don't.. Find the alternative registars..
For example, OPENSRS through Tucows is an
excellent service, however a wee-bit new.. But
just find one of their domain resellers,
you can get domains for $10 a year.
2- Accountability - GET NAMES.. The more names
you have after dealing with them, the more
people you can point out as being retards to the
management, however, seeing as this is a
company wide problem that doesn't do much good,
head to step 1 to fix it.
3 - Use Encryption on your domains. Either with
the encrypt password on your contact
info (which is retroactive through all other
domains you control with that NIC then)
or the PGP method. Crypt password beats the
MAIL-FROM which is just pathetic hands down.
4 - Don't bother with anything other then 2nd
level help
2ND LEVEL HELP AT NSI: 1-703-925-6950 (Notice
the awesome NON-use of an 800 number)
I hope this helps ease the plight of NSI victims.
If there is a higher power they will be
forced out of the market by the other registars.
Or you could get "Super Adaption". Why not alter a human who could hold his breath for long periods of time. He'd make a good diver. Or make the skin extra tough for harsh work environments. How bout longer legs for better basketball or whatever..
You think about people looking all alike? HA.. I'm waiting to see the super freaks come out.
When you take away the ability for any system to adapt, by removing their ability to "mutate" you make extinction that much more a possibility.
Koala bears ONLY eat Ukaliptis (sp?) leaves.. You take that away, they die. They can't adapt fast enough...
People take about the 3rd world war that will wipe us all out.. Pfff. I'm looking at the common cold we THOUGHT we took care of back in 2002 that comes back and takes us out, because we took out the gene that makes seezing such an annoyance for allergy suffers, or fevers, or mucus production.
Scary.
This is the perfect movie that shows all the implications of this research.
Unfortuneately, I know that we will go forth with this frightfully Akiraesque research.. It's in our nature. One person will never be able to stop this, weather or not it SHOULD be stopped. It would take an army of people, with an almost revolution like quality. But we all have bills to pay, mouths to feed, we don't have the time. And when we do have the time it will be too late.
"How would you like your kid sir?"
"Uh, yah, I'll take a blonde with an awesome jump shot with uhhmm.. Blue eyes, fair skin, a side of charm and hold the temper.."
"That'll be $10482, please drive around to the first insemination room. Thanks"