Thank you for posting this, I was not aware that the Army was conducting such studies. It's an interesting read, and definitely food for thought. I still am undecided, I need time to mull these over and I still think it's definitely an invasion of privacy, it's the radiation issue that I'm concerned about since I already have genetic damage and an immune disorder.
I'm curious what book(s) you got that information from. I've started re-reading some Python books, recently finished Graham Chapman's Liar's Autobiography, he doesn't talk too much about shooting Grail, more about Brian.
I find this whole SOPA/PIPA/ACTA thing amusing in that the United States were major copyright violators in the 18th and 19th centuries, rampantly stealing European copyrighted works. Gilbert & Sullivan premiered Pirates of Penzance in New York City largely to establish American copyright to prevent piracy and were only partially successful. I believe Charles Dickens also had major issues with not getting royalties from American publishers, and in the 20th century French filmmaker Georges Mileas also had problems with American piracy.
I read an interesting commentary on why Holy Grail and Life of Brian were so different from Meaning of Life. Sadly, I don't remember who wrote it. The basic premise was that the first two movies were filmed on location, so all of the Pythons were rooming together, eating together, revising together. MoL was a studio picture and all the Pythons went home after the day's shooting was done and they didn't have the intimate contact and interaction that the first two films engendered.
I hope this one turns out to be a location shoot. I guess we'll find out, and I'll certainly do my best to see it opening day.
I think it was Michael Bloomberg saying on some political talk show that "When I was on unemployment and getting food stamps, the government didn't do anything to help me!" I often have wondered if he ever realized the idiocy of what he said.
Heh. I worked for Phoenix Police in the 90's, at one point the City Council, in their infinite wisdom, were toying with the idea that all officers should live in the city limits so that the real dollars for their salary would be partially recovered through theoretical increase in sales tax revenue. They did not implement it. There is one theoretically good reason for police to live in the city limits, and that's more rapid response to a call-out, but that's not really a solid reason. We did keep track on each precinct's rosters as to whether an officer lived north or south of the Salt River as during the second or third 100 Year Flood all of the bridges were taken out and traffic was a mess.
We used Deepfreeze in a university computer lab that I worked in, we'd do updates during semester and mini-breaks or as needed. Worked fine until one jerk installed a *nix and the computer would no longer boot Windoze. In another university computer lab the PC's were open and we had all sorts of fun with them. Even though the students didn't have admin access, they still were quite successful at mucking them up.
Clif Stoll, author of The Cuckoo's Egg, wrote a book called Silicon Snakeoil about the over-promise of computers and their failure to deliver. He had a teacher friend, I don't remember what grade of elementary school was involved. Every year the teacher would split the room in to two groups to do a report on the same subject. One group used the library, the other group whatever they could use online. The library group, year after year, produced the better quality report.
Problem is, the book is rather dated now and I don't think Stoll has done an update, so I don't know if this little experiment is still trending that way.
Pity you posted as AC. I've heard one way to stop theft is to buy a starter pistol that shoots blanks. You go to the ticket counter, declare that you are transporting an unloaded firearm, and the suitcase is locked with a lock that the TSA can't open, and labeled. I've heard it's a technique that videographers and photographers use on a regular basis. You do have to be careful of what state you're traveling in/to as in some states even blank-firing starter pistols are classed as full firearms.
Umm, have you ran GoDaddy Sucks through Google? Your UID is low enough that I would have thought you'dve seen lots of interesting articles about GoDaddy here. A lot of people would disagree with you, and I won't do business with them and anyone that I know that is doing business with them I suggest to them that they run such a query and change registrars and hosts. Myself, I use Bluehost for hosting and Nearly Free Speech for registration with privacy protection.
There was an incident a decade or two back where a US TLA shut down one of its document incinerators for maintenance, and they decided to inspect it since it was offline. They dug around the ashes and found totally intact burn bags. They were piling them in so fast and deep that it squeezed out the oxygen and the bags on the bottom didn't burn.
I think there was an engineering and procedure mod before the incinerator went back online.
A friend of mine worked crypto during the Vietnam War. He told me about a shredder they had that you put a document in one end and you got dust out of the other. If you weren't wearing a mask and you inhaled a lungful of it, it could kill you.
Your dates on the Trinity tours are correct, I live in Cloudcroft and have been to Trinity twice. Sunspot has a solar telescope that is open to the pubic and also a visitor's center that features an exhibit of the adjoining observatory, Apache Point, which features the Apollo lunar ranging laser as featured on Mythbusters. Apache Point's grounds are open to the public until 5pm, but they are not equipped to do telescope tours normally. They do have tours a couple of weekends a year, but they're not on a fixed schedule.
For an archeological bent, N of Ruidoso is the Petroglyphs, a State park in a field of (they say) 10,000 petroglyphs. Quite interesting to hike around and photograph.
If you park at the visitor's center outside the gate, you can walk to the museum and save the registration/insurance/blood type inspection. They have an intact V-2 rocket and also an autographed Darth Vader helmet.
SR-71's also at the Smithsonian Air & Space in Washington, DC, the SAC museum near Lincoln/Omaha, Nebraska, and the Pima Air Museum, Tucson, AZ. The SAC museum, when I was there about 10 years ago, also had a British Vulcan bomber. Talk about a big ass plane!
At the base of the Space Needle is the Science Fiction Museum and the Experience Music Project, both pet projects of Paul Allen and both pretty cool. EMP is largely based around Jimi Hendrix and has some pretty cool stuff in it. No photography in the Sci Fi museum, at least as of when I was there in 08.
Since the OP is already going to be in New Mexico, SE of the radio telescope is the Apache Point Observatory and the Sunspot Solar Observatory. The former has daylight-only grounds access, the latter has a visitor's center that includes information on Apache Point. APO has a 3.5 meter and 2.5 meter telescopes, plus two dinky 1 and 0.75 meter scopes. Sunspot has a telescope that floats on a bearing of mercury, I call it the iceberg telescope as it extends underground a considerable distance. Beware the elk: lots of cars get damaged up there every year. I can recommend some restaurants if you come down there. There's also some geocaching opportunities in the area.
Next to Alamogordo, the town nearest Apache Point/Sunspot, is the White Sands National Monument. And if you come on the first Saturday of April or October, the Trinity Site is open to the public. In Alamogordo is the New Mexico Space History Museum, which has a Saturn 5 stage and an Apollo capsule that was planned to be used to test the capsule emergency escape rocket, it also has a tribute to HAM the space chimp.
Biosphere is cool, I did the Under the Glass tour about a decade ago and hope to do it again in a few weeks.
Also in Tucson is the only Titan missile still in existence, as part of the Pima Air and Space Museum you can drive half an hour or so south of Tucson to the Titan Missile Museum.
Good question. I don't think that would work. My knowledge of how steganographic messages are coded is rather stale, but as I recall it uses bits that are otherwise unused in (for example) an image. So after encoding the appearance of the image is unaffected, but with the alteration of the bits the compression is reduced. Altering the image still means that the unused bits are unused, and I would assume that altering the image, say, in Photoshop, after encoding I would think would make the message irretrievable.
I'm not sure how it would work against, say, a Word document or PDF.
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I wonder if you could set up a shell office in another country and have them 'work on your code' to implement SSL.
You've heard, I hope, that Heathkit has risen from the dead and says they'll start making ham radio kits again?
Thank you for posting this, I was not aware that the Army was conducting such studies. It's an interesting read, and definitely food for thought. I still am undecided, I need time to mull these over and I still think it's definitely an invasion of privacy, it's the radiation issue that I'm concerned about since I already have genetic damage and an immune disorder.
I'm curious what book(s) you got that information from. I've started re-reading some Python books, recently finished Graham Chapman's Liar's Autobiography, he doesn't talk too much about shooting Grail, more about Brian.
Thanks!
I find this whole SOPA/PIPA/ACTA thing amusing in that the United States were major copyright violators in the 18th and 19th centuries, rampantly stealing European copyrighted works. Gilbert & Sullivan premiered Pirates of Penzance in New York City largely to establish American copyright to prevent piracy and were only partially successful. I believe Charles Dickens also had major issues with not getting royalties from American publishers, and in the 20th century French filmmaker Georges Mileas also had problems with American piracy.
I read an interesting commentary on why Holy Grail and Life of Brian were so different from Meaning of Life. Sadly, I don't remember who wrote it. The basic premise was that the first two movies were filmed on location, so all of the Pythons were rooming together, eating together, revising together. MoL was a studio picture and all the Pythons went home after the day's shooting was done and they didn't have the intimate contact and interaction that the first two films engendered.
I hope this one turns out to be a location shoot. I guess we'll find out, and I'll certainly do my best to see it opening day.
I think it was Michael Bloomberg saying on some political talk show that "When I was on unemployment and getting food stamps, the government didn't do anything to help me!" I often have wondered if he ever realized the idiocy of what he said.
Heh. I worked for Phoenix Police in the 90's, at one point the City Council, in their infinite wisdom, were toying with the idea that all officers should live in the city limits so that the real dollars for their salary would be partially recovered through theoretical increase in sales tax revenue. They did not implement it. There is one theoretically good reason for police to live in the city limits, and that's more rapid response to a call-out, but that's not really a solid reason. We did keep track on each precinct's rosters as to whether an officer lived north or south of the Salt River as during the second or third 100 Year Flood all of the bridges were taken out and traffic was a mess.
We used Deepfreeze in a university computer lab that I worked in, we'd do updates during semester and mini-breaks or as needed. Worked fine until one jerk installed a *nix and the computer would no longer boot Windoze. In another university computer lab the PC's were open and we had all sorts of fun with them. Even though the students didn't have admin access, they still were quite successful at mucking them up.
Clif Stoll, author of The Cuckoo's Egg, wrote a book called Silicon Snakeoil about the over-promise of computers and their failure to deliver. He had a teacher friend, I don't remember what grade of elementary school was involved. Every year the teacher would split the room in to two groups to do a report on the same subject. One group used the library, the other group whatever they could use online. The library group, year after year, produced the better quality report.
Problem is, the book is rather dated now and I don't think Stoll has done an update, so I don't know if this little experiment is still trending that way.
Pity you posted as AC. I've heard one way to stop theft is to buy a starter pistol that shoots blanks. You go to the ticket counter, declare that you are transporting an unloaded firearm, and the suitcase is locked with a lock that the TSA can't open, and labeled. I've heard it's a technique that videographers and photographers use on a regular basis. You do have to be careful of what state you're traveling in/to as in some states even blank-firing starter pistols are classed as full firearms.
Umm, have you ran GoDaddy Sucks through Google? Your UID is low enough that I would have thought you'dve seen lots of interesting articles about GoDaddy here. A lot of people would disagree with you, and I won't do business with them and anyone that I know that is doing business with them I suggest to them that they run such a query and change registrars and hosts. Myself, I use Bluehost for hosting and Nearly Free Speech for registration with privacy protection.
https://www.google.com/search?q=godaddy+sucks
There was an incident a decade or two back where a US TLA shut down one of its document incinerators for maintenance, and they decided to inspect it since it was offline. They dug around the ashes and found totally intact burn bags. They were piling them in so fast and deep that it squeezed out the oxygen and the bags on the bottom didn't burn.
I think there was an engineering and procedure mod before the incinerator went back online.
A friend of mine worked crypto during the Vietnam War. He told me about a shredder they had that you put a document in one end and you got dust out of the other. If you weren't wearing a mask and you inhaled a lungful of it, it could kill you.
I don't think it's practical tech for home use.
Your dates on the Trinity tours are correct, I live in Cloudcroft and have been to Trinity twice. Sunspot has a solar telescope that is open to the pubic and also a visitor's center that features an exhibit of the adjoining observatory, Apache Point, which features the Apollo lunar ranging laser as featured on Mythbusters. Apache Point's grounds are open to the public until 5pm, but they are not equipped to do telescope tours normally. They do have tours a couple of weekends a year, but they're not on a fixed schedule.
For an archeological bent, N of Ruidoso is the Petroglyphs, a State park in a field of (they say) 10,000 petroglyphs. Quite interesting to hike around and photograph.
In Las Vegas, NV there is the National Museum of Atomic Testing. Interesting and somewhat scary place.
If you park at the visitor's center outside the gate, you can walk to the museum and save the registration/insurance/blood type inspection. They have an intact V-2 rocket and also an autographed Darth Vader helmet.
SR-71's also at the Smithsonian Air & Space in Washington, DC, the SAC museum near Lincoln/Omaha, Nebraska, and the Pima Air Museum, Tucson, AZ. The SAC museum, when I was there about 10 years ago, also had a British Vulcan bomber. Talk about a big ass plane!
The Spy Museum. I haven't gotten there yet but plan on it on my next annual trip.
At the base of the Space Needle is the Science Fiction Museum and the Experience Music Project, both pet projects of Paul Allen and both pretty cool. EMP is largely based around Jimi Hendrix and has some pretty cool stuff in it. No photography in the Sci Fi museum, at least as of when I was there in 08.
Since the OP is already going to be in New Mexico, SE of the radio telescope is the Apache Point Observatory and the Sunspot Solar Observatory. The former has daylight-only grounds access, the latter has a visitor's center that includes information on Apache Point. APO has a 3.5 meter and 2.5 meter telescopes, plus two dinky 1 and 0.75 meter scopes. Sunspot has a telescope that floats on a bearing of mercury, I call it the iceberg telescope as it extends underground a considerable distance. Beware the elk: lots of cars get damaged up there every year. I can recommend some restaurants if you come down there. There's also some geocaching opportunities in the area.
Next to Alamogordo, the town nearest Apache Point/Sunspot, is the White Sands National Monument. And if you come on the first Saturday of April or October, the Trinity Site is open to the public. In Alamogordo is the New Mexico Space History Museum, which has a Saturn 5 stage and an Apollo capsule that was planned to be used to test the capsule emergency escape rocket, it also has a tribute to HAM the space chimp.
Biosphere is cool, I did the Under the Glass tour about a decade ago and hope to do it again in a few weeks.
Also in Tucson is the only Titan missile still in existence, as part of the Pima Air and Space Museum you can drive half an hour or so south of Tucson to the Titan Missile Museum.
I'll be 50 in 3 weeks and I got both. Do I win a prize?
I was able to register just now with Firefox 3.x on a Mac.
Good question. I don't think that would work. My knowledge of how steganographic messages are coded is rather stale, but as I recall it uses bits that are otherwise unused in (for example) an image. So after encoding the appearance of the image is unaffected, but with the alteration of the bits the compression is reduced. Altering the image still means that the unused bits are unused, and I would assume that altering the image, say, in Photoshop, after encoding I would think would make the message irretrievable.
I'm not sure how it would work against, say, a Word document or PDF.