Ok, so we have a consortium for this now. Great. Whatever. What the community really needs is a large company (IBM, HP, whoever) that will provide commercial desktop support for a desktop version of Linux.
Ooooh. I'd LOVE to see IBM do a modernized WPS for linux. Drag/drop customizations of fonts, bitmaps (only colors back in 1994), and full Object inheritence/manipulation across applications. That would be so very cool and I could die a happy man just seeing it once.
If anybody here is on the mailing lists (I simply couldn't keep up anymore!) for rox (http://rox.sourceforge.net/), I believe that project should be a member of this consortium, as they are doing many desktop things right, without all of the bloat that is KDE/Gnome. Get Thomas to join!
Ahh, you are touching on the real scary problem. What about all of those MSDE installs that nobody even knows are there? And this is just SQL...what about all the other default junk that gets installed without knowledge? And yes, like you, I scanned our networks (global company), and most of the time, these things listening on a TCP/IP port do have the default SA account. Not a good situation, and not easy to remedy.
I was actually going to do something like this using a voice modem with callerid. You could then do many different things...accept, drop, drop with message, etc.
The problem is that many of my friends, disgusted with the ridiculous cost of non-local calling from the telcos are all using other methods...like datanet. These always come through on callerid as 'unknown'
So, I dropped the project before starting it. I do, however, put the SIT tones at the beginning of my answering machine. That seems to have curbed the calls quite a bit.
I do somewhat agree with their annoyance at a law. It does not seem that a law is necessary or that it would even help. From the article, the DMA does try to police itself with its own 'do not call' list, as well as monitoring that of each state. Whether they actually enforce their own policy is another discussion.
I've found that when I tell people to put me on their do not call list, that they usually do comply. My biggest problem is that I recently moved (just across town, same phone number, mind you), and I started getting the calls again. It seems the phone company is quite the whore with your personal information. Same with the post office (I received tons of coupons from Lowe's, etc as soon as I changed my address).
I've had to resort to putting the 'three tone' back on my answering machine (search for SIT.WAV on google...I'm not about to have my own little server slashdotted:)
I don't know. To date, all other forms of military communications are pretty well secured. For example, the firing officer for a air defense artiliery missle command center can tell who is friendly and who is not because our aircraft transmit a signal that says 'Don't shoot me! I'm a good guy!' If an enemy could spoof that, I am sure they would have by now.
That is one example. Another is the basic infantry soldier. As part of basic training, they are taught the differences in security of radio (least secure), direct land line (More secure), and person to person (most secure).
The challenge/response authentication used by the military for voice communication, to my knowledge, has never been broken by an enemy either.
That is because the broadcasts aren't really off (at least on my linksys). There is still a beacon, it is just broadcasting a blank ESSID instead of the real one.
That said, kismet is a great stumbler! People who think they can hide by not broadcasting (netstumbler on windows doesn't see me, so I'm safe!) make me smile:)
I don't want to download a compressed file, not knowing what the quality/compression ratio may be. The proper way to do this is to reduce the prices of CD's, or perhaps put much more music on DVD's, or burn your own mix at the store to take home, etc.
As it is now, I simply buy most of my music used for ~$7/CD. Likewise I sell stuff I am no longer interested in. Everything is then encoded as I please.
...that although Sprint provides my physical DSL, I actually use a different ISP. I bought a 'dumb' modem from ebay, and am very glad I did. Web interface for a simple bridge? No thanks.
Until I have the right to go to a store with a tape, or damaged cd, and can get as many copies on the media of my choice for only the cost of the media itself, I say that any 'copy protection' is utter bullshit.
Do I own the cd? the content? both? If the RIAA has its way, I don't own anything I buy. Ridiculous.
So, how do we implement this? Is there a howto? I already have Xwin running as a big window with windowmaker. Being able to have an X11 app per windoze window would be very nice indeed.
Yeah. How about remembering that you aren't going to college to be trained for a job. You are going there to learn something and perhaps broaden your knowledge in many subject areas, hopefully making you a bit of a better person.
I never could figure out people who go to college expecting to be trained for a certain job. If you want that, go to a trade school.
I graduated with a degree in Aerospace just as the Clinton administration took over. Military cuts == bye bye aerospace (although, in hindsight, if I'd focused on rockets and satellites instead of aircraft, the communications industry today really kept aerospace jobs around). But IT jobs are easy to come by, less stressful, and pay much better than anything an entry level engineer could hope for, so it's all good.
Programming is something you should do to support your real job. Get over it.
How long have you used computers? Obviously not long, or you aren't very sensitive to flicker, 'cause not so long ago glaring white backgrounds were a terrible thing. Even nowadays, most people aren't bright enough to change their default settings to take advantage of their monitor's capabilities, so when you sit at their machine and hit a black on white page, your eyes want to explode from the terrible flicker.
There is nothing wrong with light on dark. Do you use black on white command shells or xterms?
I don't think it encrypts, but IIRC, there are hospitals that use bluetooth for automatic login/logoff when a doctor approaches a terminal, so this is nothing new or revolutionary. It is one of the things bluetooth was originally designed to accomplish.
I've found that the toshiba libretto (I have a 110CT) fits perfectly right above my gearshift on my mazda protege (after creating a shelf using a couple of pieces of pvc pipe and some scrap plastic for a mount in the cup holder). I use it mostly for mp3, but also use it for maps and as a normal laptop at home with the wireless network (and I can check mail from the car as I pull in...cool:). While in the car it also functions as a wireless network stumbler, using kismet, and when bored in heavy traffic, hey, I can view my pr0n collection;)
Since I have a full screen and keyboard, there was no need for any type of special hardware hacks or custom software. I can use xmms as is. It's a really sweet setup and only cost me ~550 ($400 for the libretto on ebay, $100 for the 20 gig drive, $50 for the memory upgrade). Use keymaps in windowmaker to launch stuff and it's a great little setup.
There is one here where I work using OS/2. The weird thing is it boots the entire GUI. I would think it wouldn't do all of that for the simple text screens it displays (which are a maximized WPS text window).
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Ooooh. I'd LOVE to see IBM do a modernized WPS for linux. Drag/drop customizations of fonts, bitmaps (only colors back in 1994), and full Object inheritence/manipulation across applications. That would be so very cool and I could die a happy man just seeing it once.
If anybody here is on the mailing lists (I simply couldn't keep up anymore!) for rox (http://rox.sourceforge.net/), I believe that project should be a member of this consortium, as they are doing many desktop things right, without all of the bloat that is KDE/Gnome. Get Thomas to join!
Ahh, you are touching on the real scary problem. What about all of those MSDE installs that nobody even knows are there? And this is just SQL...what about all the other default junk that gets installed without knowledge? And yes, like you, I scanned our networks (global company), and most of the time, these things listening on a TCP/IP port do have the default SA account. Not a good situation, and not easy to remedy.
Like hell it is. Ever hear of this nifty thing called a VPN?
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The problem is that many of my friends, disgusted with the ridiculous cost of non-local calling from the telcos are all using other methods...like datanet. These always come through on callerid as 'unknown'
So, I dropped the project before starting it. I do, however, put the SIT tones at the beginning of my answering machine. That seems to have curbed the calls quite a bit.
I've found that when I tell people to put me on their do not call list, that they usually do comply. My biggest problem is that I recently moved (just across town, same phone number, mind you), and I started getting the calls again. It seems the phone company is quite the whore with your personal information. Same with the post office (I received tons of coupons from Lowe's, etc as soon as I changed my address).
I've had to resort to putting the 'three tone' back on my answering machine (search for SIT.WAV on google...I'm not about to have my own little server slashdotted :)
That is one example. Another is the basic infantry soldier. As part of basic training, they are taught the differences in security of radio (least secure), direct land line (More secure), and person to person (most secure).
The challenge/response authentication used by the military for voice communication, to my knowledge, has never been broken by an enemy either.
That said, kismet is a great stumbler! People who think they can hide by not broadcasting (netstumbler on windows doesn't see me, so I'm safe!) make me smile :)
What, you don't have any life outside of work? That's sad.
As it is now, I simply buy most of my music used for ~$7/CD. Likewise I sell stuff I am no longer interested in. Everything is then encoded as I please.
I wonder if this is why my SMC Barricade firewall here at home lost its mind? Piece of crap.
...that although Sprint provides my physical DSL, I actually use a different ISP. I bought a 'dumb' modem from ebay, and am very glad I did. Web interface for a simple bridge? No thanks.
Do I own the cd? the content? both? If the RIAA has its way, I don't own anything I buy. Ridiculous.
So, how do we implement this? Is there a howto? I already have Xwin running as a big window with windowmaker. Being able to have an X11 app per windoze window would be very nice indeed.
Yeah. How about remembering that you aren't going to college to be trained for a job. You are going there to learn something and perhaps broaden your knowledge in many subject areas, hopefully making you a bit of a better person.
I never could figure out people who go to college expecting to be trained for a certain job. If you want that, go to a trade school.
I graduated with a degree in Aerospace just as the Clinton administration took over. Military cuts == bye bye aerospace (although, in hindsight, if I'd focused on rockets and satellites instead of aircraft, the communications industry today really kept aerospace jobs around). But IT jobs are easy to come by, less stressful, and pay much better than anything an entry level engineer could hope for, so it's all good.
Programming is something you should do to support your real job. Get over it.
There is nothing wrong with light on dark. Do you use black on white command shells or xterms?
I don't think it encrypts, but IIRC, there are hospitals that use bluetooth for automatic login/logoff when a doctor approaches a terminal, so this is nothing new or revolutionary. It is one of the things bluetooth was originally designed to accomplish.
Since I have a full screen and keyboard, there was no need for any type of special hardware hacks or custom software. I can use xmms as is. It's a really sweet setup and only cost me ~550 ($400 for the libretto on ebay, $100 for the 20 gig drive, $50 for the memory upgrade). Use keymaps in windowmaker to launch stuff and it's a great little setup.
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There is one here where I work using OS/2. The weird thing is it boots the entire GUI. I would think it wouldn't do all of that for the simple text screens it displays (which are a maximized WPS text window).
Except that kids aren't considered people by our society already.
And how, as a parent, would you firewall that?
Tracking kids and advertising to them with popups would not be very cool. Or what about flashing up 'cool' stuff for them to download?
I like the idea, but if it is only half-way, it's no good.