2. Their client is too dumb to understand this until they realize the money sink of poor network delivered "brand" advertising needs to stop and they put guilty agency on notice.
Currently companies often think it's the creative that sucks and not a combination of poorly executed creative, poorly executed research/targeting, and a poorly executed technology framework (television)
What provides the BEST ROI?
1. Well targeted direct mail followed by 2. Internet advertising.
When the advertising agencies get it, The content will follow.
Metalheads from as far south as Miami, as far north as Atlanta, and as far west as Memphis were seen hurtling through the air at breakneck speed headed toward the city of Tallahassee.
Tampa, known for it's unusually dense Death Metal population, was particularly hard hit.
There are some really great open source/LINUX projects going on in ham radio. Also, there are a LOT of Ham Radio antenna designers/suppliers with great prices on some pretty awesome 802.11x gear.
Some sites worth checking out.
CQiNet - Open Source implementation
of Voice over IP (VoIP) software specifically for Ham Radio. Currently there
are three popular VoIP packages used by Ham Radio operators, IRLP, ILink and
EchoLink. Since none of these packages are open source it is difficult to contribute
to the their development and learn from them by studying their source code.
Let's face it for many of us Ham Radio is more about playing with technology
than it is about yacking on the radio or Internet. (Hmmm... maybe some folks
on Slashdot could learn something....)
Hamsoft - A great HAM/Linux database.
(not to be confused with GNU/Linux)
TAPR! - These geeks will whoop yer ass in a second!
A lot of them are commited to open source. They actually help fund HARDWARE
projects (we could learn something). Check out their LINUX
sig.
Flex-Radio - An open source software
defined radio!
GnuRadio - Signal Processing
in oepn source software
Wonder if they'll be RFIDing the employees? Those creepy greeters could use some tracking devices...
Lessee....
RFID 1939G93935 = creepy old dude. RFID 9293J51138 = She doesn't actually greet you, she just mouths the words. RFID 4992F49503 = Dude with a wierdass voicebox. RFID 5934L32942 = He's just staring and drooling.
All OIS participants must either look like Peter Norton or Steve Balmer. Minimally this can be preformed by wearing khaki pants, blue denim shirt, and sensible shoes.
No person or organization wearing black, having purple hair, or listening to obscure music may participate as either a Finder, Vendor, Coordinator, or Arbitrator.
some of the more disturbing portions of the defined process...
"7.1 Advance Notification
This document does not address processes for notifying selected groups of users about vulnerabilities in advance of the general population. While such âoepre-release notificationsâ are sometimes done, and in very well-controlled cases can be carried out effectively, they are not a recommended practice in the general case. Because this document addresses only activities that are appropriate for typical cases, advance notification is beyond its scope."
"8.2 Use of Third Parties
In some cases, investigations may be made more effective by the use of people or organizations other than the Finder and Vendor. There is no requirement to use a third party, but in cases
where one is used, it should be a person or organization that the Finder and Vendor have agreed to in advance of its involvement. Characteristics of a good third party include sound judgment, freedom from bias or conflicts of interest, demonstrated technical expertise in security technologies, and discretion regarding the handling of the information it is entrusted with to resolve the dispute. Third parties normally serve in a voluntary capacity, as a service performed in the public interest."
Members of the OIS... (From the OIS site http://www.oisafety.org/about.html#1)
What companies are members of OIS?
The current members are: @stake, BindView, Caldera International (The SCO Group), Foundstone, Guardent, ISS, Microsoft, NAI, Oracle, SGI, and Symantec.
We're actively soliciting software vendors and security research companies to join.
Send OIS your feedback on the draft until July 7th! (From the OIS site http://www.oisafety.org/resources.html)
"Comments on the Security Vulnerability Reporting and Response Process should be sent via email to draft-feedback@oisafety.org. Comments should include your name, address, and email contact information. Organizations submitting public comments should include the name and title of the person submitting the comments.
While OIS will respond to as many comments as possible, because of the anticipated volume of comments, we cannot guarantee an individual response to every comment."
more info at the manufacturers site
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more info at the lewismola site. http://www.lewismola.com/
Also from the site.... "The PH2000 is powered by a 4-stroke Kubota 3300-TE. This engine has twice as much horsepower as any mechanical harvester on the market. This extra power significantly reduces engine strain which results in greatly extended machine life. Due to its combination of the Kubota 3300-TE along with high quality hydraulic, electronic and belt systems, the PH2000 has proven to have unparalleled 'on the job...day in & day out' reliability."
and a detailed pic here.. http://www.lewismola.com/lmfrmspecphoto.ht ml
interaccess in Toronto is an amazing
gallery. The Seemen and SRL
in San Francisco will blow your ass up. xraylab in Seattle/Chicago/New York does some great interactive work. Norm White has been kicking art/tech ass for since before you were born. David Rokeby's work is totally amazing too.
and for some amazing reading... Stephen Wilsons information arts book has no comparison. rhizome.org is a pretty good site for all things art/tech (esp. web art)
And for validation by the mainstream art world check out the whitney's artport.
What was Re-Code.com? It was a web site that allowed users to enter information about products they purchased into a database that was then publicly searchable. This inormation included, name, brand, store, UPC ID number, price, and packaging material. It used the UPC number of the product to generate a representative bar code in real time on the user's screen. The web site itself was made to look very similar to Priceline.com. A step through visual guide and a commercial that dramatized the act of switching UPC bar codes were shown on the site. It did not PROMOTE theft anymore than movies, books, art and other forms of media PROMOTE theft. We find it absurd to think that someone would visit our web site and then decide to go steal because of what they "learned" from Re-code.com.
How did you make money? We didn't. We were just a few kids trying to find a voice. One of our major flaws was making our site and video look TOO PROFESSIONAL. We are not a corporation . It was not a scam to make money. We are not a threat to national security. We had absolutely no business model.
Where can I get your source code? You can't right now. Funny thing is, the site wasn't hard to make. Try searching for "barcode generator" on google.com. You will find the same things we found. We expect that other people might create sites similar to ours with a different look and feel since all we had was a simple MySQL database that was searchable and a script to generate barcode images from a string of digits. Technically, it was not a difficult site to build and took only a few nights. Since we are in a very grey area if we distribute code right now, we instead encourage our fans to do a little extra work and, well, do-it-yourself. We were running MySQL and PHP4 with GD Library and TTF X11 support.
Why is it no longer around? After pressure from the corporate thought police including a cease and desist letter and thousands of angry emails threatening such things as exile and eternal damnation, we decided to remove the site from the web. Many large global corporations were TEAMING UP to come after us. We should say we don't think Priceline.com was involved at all so we thank them for being good sports - after all they were one of our original main targets. We feel as though we did our job and we don't want to maintain a database forever anyways. People can be very mean though.
Any newspaper worth a damn beats the drum LOUDLY that you shoot what you shoot. Most people that can't shoot worth a damn don't give a damn enough to doctor their images.
Cropping, some digital dodging and burning, some sharpening, etc. as LONG AS IT DOESN'T ALTER THE MESSAGE is acceptable.
The photo community rips people to shreds if you altered your image in any noticable way.
Also, an integrity check against this is there are, on any assignment of significance, multiple news sources at the location, to alter what happened by cropping out someone/thing quickly become pointless if your competition all tells the story a different way.
Photographers also spend a LOT of time in photoshop so they are keenly aware of the tricks and the telltale signs. Or conversely simply upload their images via mobile or sat phone and have the techs sharpen the image a bit etc.
Photographers are the people who argue about shooting "the decisive moment" and whether it's legit to use a motor drive. You're considered a child if you doctor your images.
Also any photojournalist worth a damn doesn't even open the window shades to allow more light. Also, leading the subject is highly frowned upon.
Up until 1995 you couldn't try a sample or even buy a bottle in Moore county. You still can't UNLESS you buy a "commemorative decanter" at the distillery. The rest of the county is totally dry.
Check it out at
A few years back, I got to go on the only Fermilab particle accelerator tour in like 15 years. I just happened to call on the day they were offering the tour. Unbelievable. It was great. They had all kinds of tour busses and stuff to take you around to the different parts. That place is insane!
I don't see this doing much good for the 60-70% of access points that are totally unsecured out there today.
Wireless manufacturers are doing such a poor job now "wizardizing" or even simply mentioning security concerns in the setup of the access point/wireless card, you could have DH encryption on the thing and 70% of the AP's out there would still be wide open.
Also, I don't see how this will affect the majority of the wireless access pionts currently out there. Will the current access points be able to inherit this functionality via a BIOS flashe to support this encrytion? and if so, how many people will actually do it?
There is a lot to consider before selecting ones format. My girlfriend is a US photographer shooting whose been shooting in the West Bank and is staged in Jordan waiting to get into Iraq. I just IM'ed her regarding this and she argued that is boils down to purpose.
For instance, having to white balance a digital camera for a photojournalist is an incredible pain, regardless of the print quality.
On the other hand, She can transmit digital with her satellite phone on a daily basis. If she is searched or gets her bags stolen her photos are already back in the states.
Say you shoot a pulitzer prize winning photo. You don't have a negative. You just have these bits of data. Archival quality of the digital printer papers still is suspect and storing it on you hard drive just sucks for presentation.
Checkpoint's (and many other companies) International HQ is in Israel... So is there a giant "IF...THEN" for megacorp employees with offices in the middle east? and what about journalists like my girlfriend who just flew to Israel this week. How bad has she just been dinged in the CAPPS system?
The importance lies in the fact that you have artists, not normally the most technical bunch caring about source code the same way they do art. Artists, as a whole, are VERY LOUD proponents of free speech, the first amendment, and patent and copyright law. They have fought for this stuff wayyyy longer than any coder has. The more the artist community (and any other community for that matter)thinks about code in the same light as painting, sculptures, and installations the better off the open source "movement" is.
There are more interesting uses of source code in art though, such as the Toronto driven Artist Interface Device project (http://www.interaccess.org/aid/project.html) which is the open source response to the closed sourced and expensive tools that currently exist. Also, isee by the institute for applied autonomy (http://appliedautonomy.com) is another stellar example of source code applied to solid artistic practice.
Slashdot Mirror
When the ad agencies finally come to terms with 2 things
1. Network-centric "brand" advertising provides the WORST ROI for their cleint, and
2. Their client is too dumb to understand this until they realize the money sink of poor network delivered "brand" advertising needs to stop and they put guilty agency on notice.
Currently companies often think it's the creative that sucks and not a combination of poorly executed creative, poorly executed research/targeting, and a poorly executed technology framework (television)
What provides the BEST ROI?
1. Well targeted direct mail followed by
2. Internet advertising.
When the advertising agencies get it, The content will follow.
Metalheads from as far south as Miami, as far north as Atlanta, and as far west as Memphis were seen hurtling through the air at breakneck speed headed toward the city of Tallahassee.
Tampa, known for it's unusually dense Death Metal population, was particularly hard hit.
CQiNet - Open Source implementation of Voice over IP (VoIP) software specifically for Ham Radio. Currently there are three popular VoIP packages used by Ham Radio operators, IRLP, ILink and EchoLink. Since none of these packages are open source it is difficult to contribute to the their development and learn from them by studying their source code. Let's face it for many of us Ham Radio is more about playing with technology than it is about yacking on the radio or Internet. (Hmmm... maybe some folks on Slashdot could learn something....)
Hamsoft - A great HAM/Linux database. (not to be confused with GNU/Linux)
TAPR! - These geeks will whoop yer ass in a second! A lot of them are commited to open source. They actually help fund HARDWARE projects (we could learn something). Check out their LINUX sig.
Flex-Radio - An open source software defined radio!
GnuRadio - Signal Processing in oepn source software
Wonder if they'll be RFIDing the employees? Those creepy greeters could use some tracking devices...
Lessee....
RFID 1939G93935 = creepy old dude.
RFID 9293J51138 = She doesn't actually greet you, she just mouths the words.
RFID 4992F49503 = Dude with a wierdass voicebox.
RFID 5934L32942 = He's just staring and drooling.
Funny that a New York Times Ad was rotated into this story...
They, in particular, excel at non-disclosure... Perhaps they'll be joining this "Organization for Internet(Information) Safety"
You sound like a perfect candidate for the Organization for Internet Safety.
Section 9
All OIS participants must either look like Peter Norton or Steve Balmer. Minimally this can be preformed by wearing khaki pants, blue denim shirt, and sensible shoes.
No person or organization wearing black, having purple hair, or listening to obscure music may participate as either a Finder, Vendor, Coordinator, or Arbitrator.
"7.1 Advance Notification
This document does not address processes for notifying selected groups of users about vulnerabilities in advance of the general population. While such âoepre-release notificationsâ are sometimes done, and in very well-controlled cases can be carried out effectively, they are not a recommended practice in the general case. Because this document addresses only activities that are appropriate for typical cases, advance notification is beyond its scope."
"8.2 Use of Third Parties
In some cases, investigations may be made more effective by the use of people or organizations other than the Finder and Vendor. There is no requirement to use a third party, but in cases where one is used, it should be a person or organization that the Finder and Vendor have agreed to in advance of its involvement. Characteristics of a good third party include sound judgment, freedom from bias or conflicts of interest, demonstrated technical expertise in security technologies, and discretion regarding the handling of the information it is entrusted with to resolve the dispute. Third parties normally serve in a voluntary capacity, as a service performed in the public interest."
Members of the OIS... (From the OIS site http://www.oisafety.org/about.html#1) What companies are members of OIS?
The current members are: @stake, BindView, Caldera International (The SCO Group), Foundstone, Guardent, ISS, Microsoft, NAI, Oracle, SGI, and Symantec.
We're actively soliciting software vendors and security research companies to join. Send OIS your feedback on the draft until July 7th! (From the OIS site http://www.oisafety.org/resources.html) "Comments on the Security Vulnerability Reporting and Response Process should be sent via email to draft-feedback@oisafety.org. Comments should include your name, address, and email contact information. Organizations submitting public comments should include the name and title of the person submitting the comments. While OIS will respond to as many comments as possible, because of the anticipated volume of comments, we cannot guarantee an individual response to every comment."
more info at the lewismola site. http://www.lewismola.com/
...day in & day out' reliability."
t ml
Also from the site....
"The PH2000 is powered by a 4-stroke Kubota 3300-TE. This engine has twice as much horsepower as any mechanical harvester on the market. This extra power significantly reduces engine strain which results in greatly extended machine life. Due to its combination of the Kubota 3300-TE along with high quality hydraulic, electronic and belt systems, the PH2000 has proven to have unparalleled 'on the job
and a detailed pic here..
http://www.lewismola.com/lmfrmspecphoto.h
I'm just glad to see Frankel is encouraging readers to listen to more Slint and less Zwan.
interaccess in Toronto is an amazing gallery.
The Seemen and SRL in San Francisco will blow your ass up.
xraylab in Seattle/Chicago/New York does some great interactive work.
Norm White has been kicking art/tech ass for since before you were born.
David Rokeby's work is totally amazing too.
Beige Programming Ensemble in Chicago/St. Louis/New York can make your Atari/C64 do backflips.
and for some amazing reading... Stephen Wilsons information arts book has no comparison.
rhizome.org is a pretty good site for all things art/tech (esp. web art)
And for validation by the mainstream art world check out the whitney's artport.
oh and of course, MIT's leonardo.
interaccess in Toronto is an amazing gallery.
The Seemen and SRL in San Francisco will blow your ass up.
xraylab in Seattle/Chicago/New York does some great interactive work.
Norm White has been kicking art/tech ass for since before you were born.
David Rokeby's work is totally amazing too.
Beige Programming Ensemble in Chicago/St. Louis/New York can make your Atari/C64 do backflips.
And for some amazing reading... Stephen Wilsons information arts book has no comparison.
rhizome.org is a pretty good site for all things art/tech (esp. web art)
And for validation by the mainstream art world check out the whitney's artport.
enjoy!gives new meaning to the term "worm food"...
check out the http://www.re-code.com
What was Re-Code.com?
It was a web site that allowed users to enter information about products they purchased into a database that was then publicly searchable. This inormation included, name, brand, store, UPC ID number, price, and packaging material. It used the UPC number of the product to generate a representative bar code in real time on the user's screen. The web site itself was made to look very similar to Priceline.com. A step through visual guide and a commercial that dramatized the act of switching UPC bar codes were shown on the site. It did not PROMOTE theft anymore than movies, books, art and other forms of media PROMOTE theft. We find it absurd to think that someone would visit our web site and then decide to go steal because of what they "learned" from Re-code.com.
How did you make money?
We didn't. We were just a few kids trying to find a voice. One of our major flaws was making our site and video look TOO PROFESSIONAL. We are not a corporation . It was not a scam to make money. We are not a threat to national security. We had absolutely no business model.
Where can I get your source code?
You can't right now. Funny thing is, the site wasn't hard to make. Try searching for "barcode generator" on google.com. You will find the same things we found. We expect that other people might create sites similar to ours with a different look and feel since all we had was a simple MySQL database that was searchable and a script to generate barcode images from a string of digits. Technically, it was not a difficult site to build and took only a few nights. Since we are in a very grey area if we distribute code right now, we instead encourage our fans to do a little extra work and, well, do-it-yourself. We were running MySQL and PHP4 with GD Library and TTF X11 support.
Why is it no longer around?
After pressure from the corporate thought police including a cease and desist letter and thousands of angry emails threatening such things as exile and eternal damnation, we decided to remove the site from the web. Many large global corporations were TEAMING UP to come after us. We should say we don't think Priceline.com was involved at all so we thank them for being good sports - after all they were one of our original main targets. We feel as though we did our job and we don't want to maintain a database forever anyways. People can be very mean though.
Engrave some little 35 millimeter metal sheets, gut a disposed disposable camera, and pow! the flashpoint projector!
http://www.hactivist.com/flashpoint/
Any newspaper worth a damn beats the drum LOUDLY that you shoot what you shoot. Most people that can't shoot worth a damn don't give a damn enough to doctor their images.
Cropping, some digital dodging and burning, some sharpening, etc. as LONG AS IT DOESN'T ALTER THE MESSAGE is acceptable.
The photo community rips people to shreds if you altered your image in any noticable way.
Also, an integrity check against this is there are, on any assignment of significance, multiple news sources at the location, to alter what happened by cropping out someone/thing quickly become pointless if your competition all tells the story a different way.
Photographers also spend a LOT of time in photoshop so they are keenly aware of the tricks and the telltale signs. Or conversely simply upload their images via mobile or sat phone and have the techs sharpen the image a bit etc.
Photographers are the people who argue about shooting "the decisive moment" and whether it's legit to use a motor drive. You're considered a child if you doctor your images.
Also any photojournalist worth a damn doesn't even open the window shades to allow more light. Also, leading the subject is highly frowned upon.
Now in t-shirt form!
they lied to us
this was supposed to be the future
where is my jetpack,
where is my robotic companion,
where is my dinner in pill form,
where is my hydrogen fueled automobile,
where is my nuclear powered levitating house,
where is my cure for this disease
http://www.jackdaniels.co.uk/oldno7/facts.asp#numb er13
A few years back, I got to go on the only Fermilab particle accelerator tour in like 15 years. I just happened to call on the day they were offering the tour. Unbelievable. It was great. They had all kinds of tour busses and stuff to take you around to the different parts. That place is insane!
that's "chip kiddie" to you buddy.
Wireless manufacturers are doing such a poor job now "wizardizing" or even simply mentioning security concerns in the setup of the access point/wireless card, you could have DH encryption on the thing and 70% of the AP's out there would still be wide open.
Also, I don't see how this will affect the majority of the wireless access pionts currently out there. Will the current access points be able to inherit this functionality via a BIOS flashe to support this encrytion? and if so, how many people will actually do it?
For instance, having to white balance a digital camera for a photojournalist is an incredible pain, regardless of the print quality.
On the other hand, She can transmit digital with her satellite phone on a daily basis. If she is searched or gets her bags stolen her photos are already back in the states.
Say you shoot a pulitzer prize winning photo. You don't have a negative. You just have these bits of data. Archival quality of the digital printer papers still is suspect and storing it on you hard drive just sucks for presentation.
There already is spam art!!!! http://google.blogspace.com/archives/000458.html
Checkpoint's (and many other companies) International HQ is in Israel... So is there a giant "IF...THEN" for megacorp employees with offices in the middle east? and what about journalists like my girlfriend who just flew to Israel this week. How bad has she just been dinged in the CAPPS system?
There are more interesting uses of source code in art though, such as the Toronto driven Artist Interface Device project (http://www.interaccess.org/aid/project.html) which is the open source response to the closed sourced and expensive tools that currently exist. Also, isee by the institute for applied autonomy (http://appliedautonomy.com) is another stellar example of source code applied to solid artistic practice.