It's right up there with Slashdot's response to $cientology demand to remove OT-III by putting a long list of critical sites.
Elron Hubbard's policy of "always attack, never defend" keeps $cientology shooting themselves in the foot. (Although by now, they're stumping around on their knees.)
After all their work to "spam" Google by create a vast array of interlocked web sites (many running off the same server) their actions have raised up many of the critical sites. Oops!:^)
Oh no Mr. $cientology, please don't attack critical web sites and critics!
The people who do the Harris conservative protests plaster their junk on *everything*: Mailboxes, newspaper boxes, transformers, polls, phone boxes, bus shelters, etc. They are glued on, making removal very difficult. They stay up for many months, and are ugly as sin.
Their activity is not a reasonable and non-destructive activity. These yobbos damage public and private property.
Oh yes, but you'd have to bombard Slashdot with submissions for several hours (as happened in the Xenu/Goggle case) and then he'd have to get the police to take notice.
Far better to depend on cookbook chemistry. (What, your shelter doesn't have ammonia and iodine? Didn't you read Farnham's Freehold?) If all else fails, use Tom Cruise missles.
And no safe room would fail to have a Net connection (this one doesn't);
Wow, a net connection! You could post to Slashdot that your house was broken into. Then you'd get a whole bunch of flames, a few insightful posts, and a couple of goat sex trolls.
They're neat, they allow for repeat testability (any time can be April 02 1306 at GMT -7 at coordinates XYZ), and you can use them when getting a GPS feed inside is hard, as it frequently is. I've found that even being under a metal awning will kill a GPS signal.
Why diddle with all that when you can have the device driver report whatever position you want?
Someone stole your laptop? They're going to have to break into your house, steal a key to your room, and stand on your decryption square just to decrypt any of your files. Sounds like an interesting acrobatic scene for Mission Impossible 3.
"While holding the holy laptop, standing on the sacred square, on third full moon of the year, make three clockwise circles with the mouse, then the sygil of Baalshamabeebop."
Ms. Denning's qualifications in the field are certainly well known. But... How can the GPS data be part of a trusted blackbox? (Encryption/decryption usually has to take place in a trusted blackbox. Best of all is on a seperate processor, but with proper security, modern processors can wall off processes enough to qualify for B2 qualification -- in ten years!)
So, what's to stop me from using a device driver for GPS that lies? (I'm in, umm, Hong Kong, yeah, that's that ticket!) Unless GPS has some sort of digital signature, I can't see it.
Kazaa is also a program to annoy the hell out of me when someone decides that my IP address just must be a Kazaa machine (even though all my ports are stealthed) and keeps trying over and over again to connect.
I hate rebooting my machine (every few weeks). I get assigned a new and usually "dirty" IP address - it takes a number of days for the Kazombies to go away!
I'm tempted to learn enough of the Kazaa protocol to be able to unload a "death packet" on the most persistent of idiots.
If it was flexable as well as durable, spray it on the tent. Of course, you'd still have to haul along batteries/fuel cells to be charged, as well as things to use that power. (The question of being able to run computers, stereos, XBOX/PS2's in the middle of the woods, being a "good thing", I leave to somebody else.)
Spray them on the south side of buildings. (Your hemisphere may vary) Hopefully they'd generate enough power to offset the increased cooling requirements in the summer.
As for cars, it would be back to Henry Ford's Model-T: Any colour you want as long as it's black.
what kind of critical services would be missing if the net suddenly went away
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As I understand DNS, a request would have to be pretty obscure to be escalated all the way up to the A root. It would have to fail lookup at several levels before that happened.
So losing the A root server wouldn't much immediate effect, giving time for a failover to one of the other root servers. This, of course, is the theory.:^)
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Elron Hubbard's policy of "always attack, never defend" keeps $cientology shooting themselves in the foot. (Although by now, they're stumping around on their knees.)
After all their work to "spam" Google by create a vast array of interlocked web sites (many running off the same server) their actions have raised up many of the critical sites. Oops! :^)
Oh no Mr. $cientology, please don't attack critical web sites and critics!
Their activity is not a reasonable and non-destructive activity. These yobbos damage public and private property.
You could have got the book a lot cheaper in the 2nd hand bin.
Gee, imagine a Beowul.. OW!
For some reason all Evil Overlord and super-villan strongholds seem to made of this stuff. Read the FAQ evil-doers!
Far better to depend on cookbook chemistry. (What, your shelter doesn't have ammonia and iodine? Didn't you read Farnham's Freehold?) If all else fails, use Tom Cruise missles.
He haven't seen Battlefield Earth?
Wow, a net connection! You could post to Slashdot that your house was broken into. Then you'd get a whole bunch of flames, a few insightful posts, and a couple of goat sex trolls.
Yep, that'd help a whole lot. :^)
No no no! You have to complete the full Musgrave Ritual before you find the full treasure. (Dr. Watson said so.)
(( THX-Clipper ))
The Government is listening...
Why diddle with all that when you can have the device driver report whatever position you want?
"While holding the holy laptop, standing on the sacred square, on third full moon of the year, make three clockwise circles with the mouse, then the sygil of Baalshamabeebop."
ABORT, RESUMMON, INFERNAL DAMNATION?
So, what's to stop me from using a device driver for GPS that lies? (I'm in, umm, Hong Kong, yeah, that's that ticket!) Unless GPS has some sort of digital signature, I can't see it.
If they've got distributed computing and remote software updating, they 0wn3z j00! (And so does anyone who breaks their protocol.)
Didn't you read the P.S. in the EULA: "Oh, and by the way, you consent to install our propritory version of BackOrifice."? :^)
I hate rebooting my machine (every few weeks). I get assigned a new and usually "dirty" IP address - it takes a number of days for the Kazombies to go away!
I'm tempted to learn enough of the Kazaa protocol to be able to unload a "death packet" on the most persistent of idiots.
Oh, another use: Spray it on the huge wings of those man-powered aircraft, and add an electric motor.
If it was flexable as well as durable, spray it on the tent. Of course, you'd still have to haul along batteries/fuel cells to be charged, as well as things to use that power. (The question of being able to run computers, stereos, XBOX/PS2's in the middle of the woods, being a "good thing", I leave to somebody else.)
And don't forget that conventional solar cells generate a large amount of very toxic waste to manufacture.
As for cars, it would be back to Henry Ford's Model-T: Any colour you want as long as it's black.
Stick a webcam in your bedroom. Why should you be worried about anyone knowing personal stuff about you?
Thirteen roots for the geeks and surfers
One root to rule them all, one root to find them and on the Internet bind them.
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The whole spam economy would collapse!
HMMMMM! :^)
So losing the A root server wouldn't much immediate effect, giving time for a failover to one of the other root servers. This, of course, is the theory. :^)
Throughout the world, I would imagine.