Now that OnStar exports the real-time location data, there must be a rather massive data stream somewhere.
Now suppose I were to intercept that stream. I've always been able to find out data about your car from the DMV (tag #s, VIN, etc). I could then filter that stream for YOUR car, and know where you are at all times. Perhaps I could track you, and notice that you go down a country road everyday on the way to work.
It is a known method of the Mafia to kill people by placing a bomb in a road, and blowing up your car. Now, I could use that data stream to set up my device in a pothole on that country road without ever following you. Nobody ever sees me. I arm the mine with an RF link when you get near it, and it's all over.
Would it be possible to use this to have one 'host' kernel (something bare-bones), and another 'active' kernel running below the host? You could then change the kernel version on the 'active' part without a restart.
Just a thought...
The problem with Linux is the non-standard UI. With BeOS, Win32, and Mac, ALL windows look alike. I have the same widgets, the same colors, and everything else.
If The OpenBeOS projects could make EVERYTHING look like BeOS, it would work. But, if I have Mozilla running its UI, things running Qt(KDE), GTK, Swing, Athena and WINE, things start to look like crap.
If BlueOS can fix these problems, life would be good. Otherwise, I'm sticking with BeOS 5.
It has been the war on drugs.
Now it's anti-terrorism.
Day by day we give up our rights. Freedom of speech is okay, except when it may anger someone, or make them sniff something that will kill them. You have protection against unreasonable search and seizure, unless you violate the above restrictions on what you can say, and then you can be violated and robbed if the government wants to.
...don't let that basket burn up over the Pacific ocean.
Didn't Iridium start deorbiting their satellites? Bad move. If you can't turn your assets into cash, why destroy them? Everyone said that the satellite 2-way com stuff was junk, and people started throwing away their gear. Don't be too quick to condemn something, and if you do, make sure you can go back.
I just hope Ricochet learns from this and doesn't start popping off their cells from every 5th light pole.
Would you sue my local Fry's if I bought Windows 2000 Server there, and posted it for the world. Would you sue Barnes and Noble if I bought a CD there, ripped it, and shared it? Would you sue a music hall if I bootlegged a performance there?
Ext2 support works on almost all UNIXes. It is a simple FS. Most semi-good *nix admins can use Debugfs to fix an ext2 file system, but I haven't a clue how to read a ReiserFS volume.
I will not use an FS unless it works on my platform. I use both x86 and SPARC, and I see no reason to make the machines have different file systems. If I wanted a different configuration for each platform, I'd use the native OS for those machines.
If someone knows how to work with ext2, it's a fair bet they can work with ext3.
It seems to me that this happened much less often when Microsoft used FreeBSD.
Also does anyone know if Microsoft switched scripting engines with the move to W2K? If they kept the old engine, something tells me it wasn't Chili!ASP...
The problem with DVD was not just that it wouldn't run on Linux. It was (and still is) the fact that the people who make the system limit the user's freedom to do what they please with the product they paid for.
Even if these people release versions for every known platform, the time limit is, in itself, a limitation of freedom, and will anger the population.
AI does have it's place in the real world as CAI's Unicenter shows.
For those who don't know, Unicenter is a centralized server management system, that can predict failures with a neural network. The problem I see with this is that it will only be a matter of time before someone's server farm 'realizes' that most failures happen during administrative activity. And that all administrative activity happens when the net admin is logged in.
Should it then remove root's account? Or, perhaps remove everyone's key card from the database, preventing anyone into the room.
This AI software would react like an injured child, when it fails. Stop doing what it was doing when it got hurt. And the common action made every time it get's 'hurt', is logging in the admin. Is it time to limit the power of our own software?
With the man power of Sony, BeOS could get really good, really fast.
The whole VAIO mindset works very well with BeOS. They try to make the machine a media box, and Be just fits. We can only hope...
twb
The whole Linux movement is about choices.
Linux gives people a choice to not use MS. There are about 4 office suites one can choose from. There are many lanuages the programmer can choose from. Get the idea?
I don't care what mysql.org is doing, but I'm sure it forces mysql.com to be better. That improvement forces mysql.org to improve, and so on. The fact that both names are similiar just increases the competition between the two.
The language you write your app in makes no difference to any user, except those wanting to change your code. The programmer should choose whatever language allows him/her to make the fastest, most stable, and most importantly, the most usable final binary.
This is coding for the desktop, and for all I care you could use ALGOL if it helps you make a working app. Make sure it works straight out of the RPM, or Debian package, and I can use it without reading 40 man pages first. I don't use Galeon, because I don't want to have to resolve 20 deps. This is a C problem, and there is no reason to have it. Win32 doesn't see these problems, so why should we? We have to think of the end-user first, and always.
I know how to pick locks, but I'm not a theif. I know how to hack, but I'm not a cracker. I can decrypt DVD's with DeCSS, but I don't pirate films. Same thing here. No security system should rely on common (the same for all users) secrets to maintain strength. twb
I think it's pretty well understood that if you don't encrypt traffic, you have no expectation of privacy. People sit and watch the Gnutella searches scroll by, and nobody blames the developers of the clients for allowing me to see them in real-time. Google is not releasing IPs, so I say what they do with data you sent, knowing full well you are submitting that data, is up to Google.
Go buy a ticket to a movie. That result will show up in the ratings. This is no different.
I always to try and keep my prompt short. Whenever I need to use a serial console, I use a Palm. I can use bash, and the SPARC boot prom. The small screen means short lines. I don't like a palm screen filled with junk. This also keeps shell logs easy to read, and small.
This gave me an interesting idea. On the subject of porting BSD to everything but the kitchen sink, would it be possible to port an OS to the interactive portion of DVD-Video, or is the processor non-standard, and the computational part of the player only accessable from a high level language?
What would happen if, say, a Soyuz TM carring Harrison Ford, Steven Spielberg, and their pilot are killed when the booster blows up on the pad.
NASA would be blamed for their deaths. They were Americans, so they should have been protected by their government. Oh, the Challenger blew up killing seven true American heros, whatever. Who cares about them, NASA KILLED HARRISON FORD!!!
This would, sadly, be the end of the space program, already threatened by an ever-slimming budget, if a celebrity were to lose his or her life.
That wasn't an effect. The zero-g scenes were shot in a full scale spacecraft mock-up inside a KC-135 reinforced cargo aircraft. When you fly a parabola in a plane, you are weightless (the inertia of you keeps you moving upwards, counterbalancing the effect of gravity) at the top of the arc for about 30 seconds. They made 200-300 of these flights.
It's just as real as if the movie was shot in space. twb
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The complete MAD Magazine archive. No kidding. Very cool.
Now that OnStar exports the real-time location data, there must be a rather massive data stream somewhere.
Now suppose I were to intercept that stream. I've always been able to find out data about your car from the DMV (tag #s, VIN, etc). I could then filter that stream for YOUR car, and know where you are at all times. Perhaps I could track you, and notice that you go down a country road everyday on the way to work.
It is a known method of the Mafia to kill people by placing a bomb in a road, and blowing up your car. Now, I could use that data stream to set up my device in a pothole on that country road without ever following you. Nobody ever sees me. I arm the mine with an RF link when you get near it, and it's all over.
Would it be possible to use this to have one 'host' kernel (something bare-bones), and another 'active' kernel running below the host? You could then change the kernel version on the 'active' part without a restart.
Just a thought...
The problem with Linux is the non-standard UI. With BeOS, Win32, and Mac, ALL windows look alike. I have the same widgets, the same colors, and everything else.
If The OpenBeOS projects could make EVERYTHING look like BeOS, it would work. But, if I have Mozilla running its UI, things running Qt(KDE), GTK, Swing, Athena and WINE, things start to look like crap.
If BlueOS can fix these problems, life would be good. Otherwise, I'm sticking with BeOS 5.
Threads.
Deja used to sort their records using threads. it would be very difficult to go back and fill in threads later.
twb
It has been the war on drugs.
Now it's anti-terrorism.
Day by day we give up our rights. Freedom of speech is okay, except when it may anger someone, or make them sniff something that will kill them. You have protection against unreasonable search and seizure, unless you violate the above restrictions on what you can say, and then you can be violated and robbed if the government wants to.
Didn't Iridium start deorbiting their satellites? Bad move. If you can't turn your assets into cash, why destroy them? Everyone said that the satellite 2-way com stuff was junk, and people started throwing away their gear. Don't be too quick to condemn something, and if you do, make sure you can go back.
I just hope Ricochet learns from this and doesn't start popping off their cells from every 5th light pole.
Would you sue Barnes and Noble if I bought a CD there, ripped it, and shared it?
Would you sue a music hall if I bootlegged a performance there?
Insane.
I will not use an FS unless it works on my platform. I use both x86 and SPARC, and I see no reason to make the machines have different file systems. If I wanted a different configuration for each platform, I'd use the native OS for those machines.
If someone knows how to work with ext2, it's a fair bet they can work with ext3.
Also does anyone know if Microsoft switched scripting engines with the move to W2K? If they kept the old engine, something tells me it wasn't Chili!ASP...
Even if these people release versions for every known platform, the time limit is, in itself, a limitation of freedom, and will anger the population.
twb
For those who don't know, Unicenter is a centralized server management system, that can predict failures with a neural network. The problem I see with this is that it will only be a matter of time before someone's server farm 'realizes' that most failures happen during administrative activity. And that all administrative activity happens when the net admin is logged in.
Should it then remove root's account? Or, perhaps remove everyone's key card from the database, preventing anyone into the room.
This AI software would react like an injured child, when it fails. Stop doing what it was doing when it got hurt. And the common action made every time it get's 'hurt', is logging in the admin. Is it time to limit the power of our own software?
twb
Opera 3.whatever for BeOS works too. If only Palm made BeOS. sob..
twb
If you're so sure of this, why don't you put your name on it. Anonymous coward.
With the man power of Sony, BeOS could get really good, really fast. The whole VAIO mindset works very well with BeOS. They try to make the machine a media box, and Be just fits. We can only hope... twb
Linux gives people a choice to not use MS. There are about 4 office suites one can choose from. There are many lanuages the programmer can choose from. Get the idea?
I don't care what mysql.org is doing, but I'm sure it forces mysql.com to be better. That improvement forces mysql.org to improve, and so on. The fact that both names are similiar just increases the competition between the two.
twb
This is coding for the desktop, and for all I care you could use ALGOL if it helps you make a working app. Make sure it works straight out of the RPM, or Debian package, and I can use it without reading 40 man pages first. I don't use Galeon, because I don't want to have to resolve 20 deps. This is a C problem, and there is no reason to have it. Win32 doesn't see these problems, so why should we? We have to think of the end-user first, and always.
twb
I know how to pick locks, but I'm not a theif. I know how to hack, but I'm not a cracker. I can decrypt DVD's with DeCSS, but I don't pirate films. Same thing here. No security system should rely on common (the same for all users) secrets to maintain strength.
twb
twb
Go buy a ticket to a movie. That result will show up in the ratings. This is no different.
twb
[current working directory@hostname]#
This shows me all I need to know.
twb
just a thought...
twb
NASA would be blamed for their deaths. They were Americans, so they should have been protected by their government. Oh, the Challenger blew up killing seven true American heros, whatever. Who cares about them, NASA KILLED HARRISON FORD!!!
This would, sadly, be the end of the space program, already threatened by an ever-slimming budget, if a celebrity were to lose his or her life.
twb
It's just as real as if the movie was shot in space.
twb