The artical dosn't spacifically say this, but it appears to be WORM.
Perhaps, someone will write a filesystem that assumes a huge amount of space, but that can only be written to once. Changes to files would be handled with diffs and versioning.
Special care would need to be taken to insure deleted files can be burned out, otherwise this is a law enforcement dream.
I remember being a big Robotech fan, but a so-so Transformers fan. I rememeber that JETFIRE was a somewhat lame charater and poorly drawn. When I saw the JETFIRE toy in the toystore, however, I was shocked and exited. It was really a Robotech Valkyrie! In fact, it looked nothing like JETFIRE. I remember the documentation showed how to transform it. Plane to robot (Figheter to Battloid) it also described an "alternate tranformation"... which turned our to be guardian mode (a plane with arms and legs). Too bad the arms kept falling off...
Here is a website where you can watch the power usage for the California Power Grid and also follow what steps are being taken to allevaite the problem...
In this context, ISO stands for Independant System Operator, California has a competitve environment for power production. The ISO oversees the grid that holds all the companies together and, in turn, posts warnings when the grid is about to fail.
If you click on the "Market Notice" button, you can see the current (and archived) warnings. Yesterday evening, the grid was under Level 3 emerngency which required manditory rolling blackouts.
A certain system of encrypting text by taking each letter of the alphabet and rotating it 42 charaters to the right.
For example, A would become P and B would become Q. While this seems to be similar to a widely used method called ROT13, it is CLEARLY different as it utilizes the "The Answer to the Great Question of Life, the Universe and Everything" which, of course, makes it VASTLY superior in both karmic and actual value. Not to mention, as close to a one-time pad as I or anyone else will ever get to...
I believe this works, not by using a header to assign an address, but by assigning a freqency to a destination and that frequency is then switched optically.
The first switch reads the header and assigns the frequency, then the subsequent switches simply switch based on frequency (never reading the content of the packet). Then the last switch, (who owns that frequency) then converts it to electricity and sends it over the regular network (i.e. like ethernet...)
One day, we will all be assigned frequencies like we are assigned IP addresses and all info will be transported by fiber.
There was a decision from the circuit court of appeals a while back (some of you legal types might be able to find it) that sending email from your account is as good as signing it.
Mail sent on your behalf without marking it as such is FORGERY, and thus illegal.
If you have a published policy against unlawful acts in email, and enforce the policy in all reported cases you should be ok...
Consider this, did you think you needed to limit phone use or monitor all phone communications? The liability is the same. You are generally not liable for things employees do outside written and enforced policy.
I think we all agree that geeks get picked on in school because jocks feel incomplete unless they know they are superior in some way, if not to everyone, to at least one class of individuals.
Imagine what the world would be like if geeks felt the same way?
Imagine we construct the Internet and get the world hooked on it, then limit use to other geeks...
Imangine the control we would have if we banded together against certain forces, like Microsoft. What if the geeks decided that no web sites would respond to Microsoft browsers. I know of ZERO web sites that are not managed in some way by a geek.
What of we controlled Internet traffic to allow only certain protocols to get through.
What if we decided to declare Internet cleaning day....for real.
What if we decided that WE control the Internet, the media, telephone system, etc. simply because we are the the ones who control the method of delivery.
Think about it... Geeks run the NAPs, geeks administer the networks, geeks run the web sites (maybe not the content, but the server the content runs on), geeks run the TV stations and networks, geeks print the newspapers.
Governments wouldn't even THINK about going against us on encryption or censorship... We can fight against this kind of abuse, simply by not implementing the contols. They can't arrest us all, or even shut us down.
We could be mad as hell, and not going to take it anymore. We could decide to stop simply running the world, but controling it as well.
But...
We're not. So we allow the world to remain free from our control one more day.
Slashdot Mirror
The artical dosn't spacifically say this, but it appears to be WORM.
Perhaps, someone will write a filesystem that assumes a huge amount of space, but that can only be written to once. Changes to files would be handled with diffs and versioning.
Special care would need to be taken to insure deleted files can be burned out, otherwise this is a law enforcement dream.
I always felt that "You Don't Know Jack" was a very well done video game. It was implemented in Flash and was always fun and well presented.
I remember being a big Robotech fan, but a so-so Transformers fan. I rememeber that JETFIRE was a somewhat lame charater and poorly drawn. When I saw the JETFIRE toy in the toystore, however, I was shocked and exited. It was really a Robotech Valkyrie! In fact, it looked nothing like JETFIRE. I remember the documentation showed how to transform it. Plane to robot (Figheter to Battloid) it also described an "alternate tranformation"... which turned our to be guardian mode (a plane with arms and legs). Too bad the arms kept falling off...
Here is a website where you can watch the power usage for the California Power Grid and also follow what steps are being taken to allevaite the problem...
http://www.caiso.com/SystemStatus.html
In this context, ISO stands for Independant System Operator, California has a competitve environment for power production. The ISO oversees the grid that holds all the companies together and, in turn, posts warnings when the grid is about to fail.
If you click on the "Market Notice" button, you can see the current (and archived) warnings. Yesterday evening, the grid was under Level 3 emerngency which required manditory rolling blackouts.
William
It gives a whole new definition to Breaking News.
They forgot: "Earth: a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Microsoft Corporation."
Kind of like, "California: A wholly-owned subsidiary of the Department of Corrections"
Stunnel is not too hard to setup for SPOP3 and SIMAP. Just tell your users to ignore the certificate warnings...
A certain system of encrypting text by taking each letter of the alphabet and rotating it 42 charaters to the right.
For example, A would become P and B would become Q. While this seems to be similar to a widely used method called ROT13, it is CLEARLY different as it utilizes the "The Answer to the Great Question of Life, the Universe and Everything" which, of course, makes it VASTLY superior in both karmic and actual value. Not to mention, as close to a one-time pad as I or anyone else will ever get to...
I believe this works, not by using a header to assign an address, but by assigning a freqency to a destination and that frequency is then switched optically.
The first switch reads the header and assigns the frequency, then the subsequent switches simply switch based on frequency (never reading the content of the packet). Then the last switch, (who owns that frequency) then converts it to electricity and sends it over the regular network (i.e. like ethernet...)
One day, we will all be assigned frequencies like we are assigned IP addresses and all info will be transported by fiber.
There was a decision from the circuit court of appeals a while back (some of you legal types might be able to find it) that sending email from your account is as good as signing it.
Mail sent on your behalf without marking it as such is FORGERY, and thus illegal.
If you have a published policy against unlawful acts in email, and enforce the policy in all reported cases you should be ok...
Consider this, did you think you needed to limit phone use or monitor all phone communications? The liability is the same. You are generally not liable for things employees do outside written and enforced policy.
Some of the suits are US!
William Stuart
MIS Manager
I think we all agree that geeks get picked on in school because jocks feel incomplete unless they know they are superior in some way, if not to everyone, to at least one class of individuals.
Imagine what the world would be like if geeks felt the same way?
Imagine we construct the Internet and get the world hooked on it, then limit use to other geeks...
Imangine the control we would have if we banded together against certain forces, like Microsoft. What if the geeks decided that no web sites would respond to Microsoft browsers. I know of ZERO web sites that are not managed in some way by a geek.
What of we controlled Internet traffic to allow only certain protocols to get through.
What if we decided to declare Internet cleaning day....for real.
What if we decided that WE control the Internet, the media, telephone system, etc. simply because we are the the ones who control the method of delivery.
Think about it... Geeks run the NAPs, geeks administer the networks, geeks run the web sites (maybe not the content, but the server the content runs on), geeks run the TV stations and networks, geeks print the newspapers.
Governments wouldn't even THINK about going against us on encryption or censorship... We can fight against this kind of abuse, simply by not implementing the contols. They can't arrest us all, or even shut us down.
We could be mad as hell, and not going to take it anymore. We could decide to stop simply running the world, but controling it as well.
But...
We're not. So we allow the world to remain free from our control one more day.
I love that comment from Tom Henkel of the Gartner Group:
"Customers are opting for the Blue Light Special over the Blue Screen Special"
Bwahahhahahahha!