I hope that when people see these ridiculous strong arm tactics of the RIAA to influence foreign governments, and to waste peoples time with frivolous lawsuits, that it does not discourage you from supporting a good, legal service for downloading music. Every time you see news like this you should pop another $10 on AllofMP3.com account and get yourself a couple albums.
before I canceled my netflixx subscription I was running into the same thing, I would have discs, sit around for ever and not have time to watch them, as my schedule got bussier by an order of magnitude. So I felt I was not getting the worth out of the subscription. I spent the next 2 months using DVD shrink to rip the movies the same day they arrived and sending them out the same day. I accumulated enough viewing material for months.
Alot of devices perform their charging via induction. It is the same principal as when you hold up a florescent light tube under a high voltage power line and it glows. The electro-magnetic current induces a charge. At our shop here we recently had a lightening strike that hit a galvanized steel pipe that ran between our building carrying ethernet cables ( Iknow dumb idea,it is now underground in PVC and surge arrested.) Non of the ethernet it self was struck but the current that flowed through the pipe induce enough of a charge in the ethernet cable that it fried the Cisco switches on either end.
The problem with using this tech that I can think of is similar to this. How do you control the amount of power that goes into the device ebing charged. I noticed that they had a little addon widget on the bottom of the ipod. This is most likely to add a more inductive area and regulate the power. Device designed to handle this form of charging have that built in. I have heard stories of a guy at a factory I worked at who would charge his nokia by setting it on the 440 lines there. Perhaps a platform that could have certain areas of it surface change the amount of current produce could be controlled by an rfid tag on the device. just some thoughts. cheers.
I work for an AMD partner who is a systems builder working to supply computers to schools in a one to one ration for students to PC. We received one of these units a few months back to evaluate. The device is has some definite limitations to be aware of. Yes it does run Windows Mobile, but to my knowledge it is locked down somewhat and requires some doing to install addtional software. So you are not able to run programs designed for Windows XP, You can however use a terminal services client to access a terminal server and run applications that way. The box is very rugged and design with the exception of the USB ports which imbecile end users inevitable break(flaw of USB design not of the Geode). My impression of the product of a whole was that it would be a realy great product in 3rd world coutries as it packed small and was very rugged. It would survive lots of travel and maybe even airdrops. But then you still have to get a monitor to them. Also the device does not have on board networking. Our Demo unit shipped with a USB ethernet dongle. I have not tried it with wifi as the unit we received for demo had it hard drive locked read only so we could not try driver install. The price point is the other issue, the lack of upgradeabilty and the high price ($299) can't compare to the $300 PCs built of off the shelf parts that are easily upgraded and are running Linux distros. That is why the Indiana department of education is moving to use Novell Linux Desktop and Linspire in many of their new purchases.
I work as a the production mananger for a midsized PC manaufacturer who also does a fair amount of refurbishing of other manufacturers sytems (30k plus units shipped in 2003) We have a need to inexpesively test hundreds of parts and units on a regular basis. The following are tools I can have any of my tech without.
The First is EBCD Emergency Boot CD
http://www.ebcd.i-am.ru/ Mirror of download http://www.simtel.net/product.php?id=61113&sekid=0 &SiteID=simtel.net
This is a program that builds an ISO out of FD images and XML based build program so you can add all your floppy based boot tools to it or use the multitude of built in tools including Memtest HD fitness utility and AIDA 16
Another excellent choice is to use Ultimate Boot Cd available at http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ all make use of freeware and shareware.
also as mentioned yesterday a WinPE disk made using Bart's PE builder is excellent for windows testing.
WiredPatrol at is a great site to check out for this sort of thing. Their website http://www.wiredpatrol.org/ has a section specificly set up for kids at http://www.wiredkids.org and for teens at http://www.wiredteens.org
This is a great organization that is very active in the prevention and elimination of all types of internet crime. The primary focus is on cyberstalking and child pornography prevention. They are doing a great job and warrant and volunteer work that anybody can spare. They run training course in many areas of the organization verying from working with local police organizations to training people to counsel victims of cybercrimes (no spam and script kiddie attacks don't fall into their realm of counseling) . It is a great organization and great community surrounding it.
Plus some of the kids links looked pretty interesting, I know I wasted a bit of time today playing some of the games.
I was wondering if there are any distributions available that take a self contained bootable CD like Knoppix and combine the secure/paranoid features like in Tinfoil Hat Linux http://tinfoilhat.cultists.net/
I would love to have a distro that could be used to securely use networking apps and office tools that has no possibility of leaving a data trail on your computer. Something that only used no HD but could read PGP keys or write encypted data to a or from a Thumbdrive. Thumbdrives have high size to storage ratio and are easily portable and easily hidden or destroyed when necessary.
I think this would be a good tool to use in places highly succeptable to snooping.
This is an interesting concept and show of technology but very insecure.
It is currently hard enough to secure current displays and interfaces from determined, well funded snoops(read government, drug cartels, industrial estionage).
Current wireless keyboards(Logitech) are very easy to intercept from a decent distance.
You could aquire much more information from a distance if you could watch all input from the office or appartment nextdoor.
I would hope the display and keyboard would use some sort of encryption.
I believe that it would be possible to open source nanotech development in some areas, at the current time. People are not looking at nanotechnology on the large scale. It is not going to be simply a new piece of hardware or a new fabrication process. Nanotechnology WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING. There for there are many aspects of development to consider, ranging from the social and cultural impacts that it will make to the ecological and technological progress that will be possible. Humanity is going to phsyicaly change. It will enable the raccelleration of human evolution and there is nothing that can stop and idea whose time has come. By open sourcing the movment of development and have all data available in a centralized knowledge managment system, it could greatly ease the impact of this change and facilitate responsible development.
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I hope that when people see these ridiculous strong arm tactics of the RIAA to influence foreign governments, and to waste peoples time with frivolous lawsuits, that it does not discourage you from supporting a good, legal service for downloading music. Every time you see news like this you should pop another $10 on AllofMP3.com account and get yourself a couple albums.
before I canceled my netflixx subscription I was running into the same thing, I would have discs, sit around for ever and not have time to watch them, as my schedule got bussier by an order of magnitude. So I felt I was not getting the worth out of the subscription. I spent the next 2 months using DVD shrink to rip the movies the same day they arrived and sending them out the same day. I accumulated enough viewing material for months.
Alot of devices perform their charging via induction. It is the same principal as when you hold up a florescent light tube under a high voltage power line and it glows. The electro-magnetic current induces a charge. At our shop here we recently had a lightening strike that hit a galvanized steel pipe that ran between our building carrying ethernet cables ( Iknow dumb idea,it is now underground in PVC and surge arrested.) Non of the ethernet it self was struck but the current that flowed through the pipe induce enough of a charge in the ethernet cable that it fried the Cisco switches on either end.
The problem with using this tech that I can think of is similar to this. How do you control the amount of power that goes into the device ebing charged. I noticed that they had a little addon widget on the bottom of the ipod. This is most likely to add a more inductive area and regulate the power. Device designed to handle this form of charging have that built in. I have heard stories of a guy at a factory I worked at who would charge his nokia by setting it on the 440 lines there. Perhaps a platform that could have certain areas of it surface change the amount of current produce could be controlled by an rfid tag on the device. just some thoughts. cheers.
I work for an AMD partner who is a systems builder working to supply computers to schools in a one to one ration for students to PC. We received one of these units a few months back to evaluate. The device is has some definite limitations to be aware of. Yes it does run Windows Mobile, but to my knowledge it is locked down somewhat and requires some doing to install addtional software. So you are not able to run programs designed for Windows XP, You can however use a terminal services client to access a terminal server and run applications that way. The box is very rugged and design with the exception of the USB ports which imbecile end users inevitable break(flaw of USB design not of the Geode). My impression of the product of a whole was that it would be a realy great product in 3rd world coutries as it packed small and was very rugged. It would survive lots of travel and maybe even airdrops. But then you still have to get a monitor to them. Also the device does not have on board networking. Our Demo unit shipped with a USB ethernet dongle. I have not tried it with wifi as the unit we received for demo had it hard drive locked read only so we could not try driver install. The price point is the other issue, the lack of upgradeabilty and the high price ($299) can't compare to the $300 PCs built of off the shelf parts that are easily upgraded and are running Linux distros. That is why the Indiana department of education is moving to use Novell Linux Desktop and Linspire in many of their new purchases.
I work as a the production mananger for a midsized PC manaufacturer who also does a fair amount of refurbishing of other manufacturers sytems (30k plus units shipped in 2003) We have a need to inexpesively test hundreds of parts and units on a regular basis. The following are tools I can have any of my tech without.
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The First is EBCD Emergency Boot CD
http://www.ebcd.i-am.ru/
Mirror of download http://www.simtel.net/product.php?id=61113&sekid=
This is a program that builds an ISO out of FD images and XML based build program so you can add all your floppy based boot tools to it or use the multitude of built in tools including Memtest HD fitness utility and AIDA 16
Another excellent choice is to use Ultimate Boot Cd available at http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ all make use of freeware and shareware.
also as mentioned yesterday a WinPE disk made using Bart's PE builder is excellent for windows testing.
WiredPatrol at is a great site to check out for this sort of thing. Their website http://www.wiredpatrol.org/ has a section specificly set up for kids at http://www.wiredkids.org and for teens at http://www.wiredteens.org
This is a great organization that is very active in the prevention and elimination of all types of internet crime. The primary focus is on cyberstalking and child pornography prevention. They are doing a great job and warrant and volunteer work that anybody can spare. They run training course in many areas of the organization verying from working with local police organizations to training people to counsel victims of cybercrimes (no spam and script kiddie attacks don't fall into their realm of counseling) . It is a great organization and great community surrounding it.
Plus some of the kids links looked pretty interesting, I know I wasted a bit of time today playing some of the games.
I was wondering if there are any distributions available that take a self contained bootable CD like Knoppix and combine the secure/paranoid features like in Tinfoil Hat Linux http://tinfoilhat.cultists.net/
I would love to have a distro that could be used to securely use networking apps and office tools that has no possibility of leaving a data trail on your computer. Something that only used no HD but could read PGP keys or write encypted data to a or from a Thumbdrive. Thumbdrives have high size to storage ratio and are easily portable and easily hidden or destroyed when necessary.
I think this would be a good tool to use in places highly succeptable to snooping.
This is an interesting concept and show of technology but very insecure.
It is currently hard enough to secure current displays and interfaces from determined, well funded snoops(read government, drug cartels, industrial estionage).
Current wireless keyboards(Logitech) are very easy to intercept from a decent distance.
You could aquire much more information from a distance if you could watch all input from the office or appartment nextdoor.
I would hope the display and keyboard would use some sort of encryption.
I believe that it would be possible to open source nanotech development in some areas, at the current time. People are not looking at nanotechnology on the large scale. It is not going to be simply a new piece of hardware or a new fabrication process. Nanotechnology WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING. There for there are many aspects of development to consider, ranging from the social and cultural impacts that it will make to the ecological and technological progress that will be possible. Humanity is going to phsyicaly change. It will enable the raccelleration of human evolution and there is nothing that can stop and idea whose time has come. By open sourcing the movment of development and have all data available in a centralized knowledge managment system, it could greatly ease the impact of this change and facilitate responsible development.