I was in Thailand a couple of years ago and also remember rates being around $1/hour. Competition in big cities was so stiff I remember one place that was $1.50/hour but offered a foot massage while you were online
Nextel phones have complete GPS chip sets in them that are capable of getting a GPS fix even when no network is available. With a serial cable you can connect your Motorola i58/i88 or i730 to PC mapping software running on a laptop. You can also sign-up for a free service like www.uLocate.com that can send maps and text descriptions of your location to your phone Every other carrier that claims to have GPS phones has the data locked-up in some way. They are trying to figure out a way to charge you per fix and have not worked out how to do that yet. Until then only the 3 or 4 911 centers in the US that have installed E-911 equipment can tell where your phone is. I suspect they will open it up after some bad PR. Imagine a situation like the recent abduction and murder in Florida where the girl has a GPS cell phone but the authorities can't get any info because the local 911 call center is not set-up yet.
With a GPS receiver in many cell phones we need to figure out how we all can collaborate on creating maps. Here is a map I created with the data from my cell phone over the course of a couple of months. If everyone contributed instead of the data from a few people driving around we could pool the collective data and have great, open maps. This service is free until the end of the year, if everyone who can signed up and we pool the locations we would have a great map (not to mention traffic info.)
Through the end of the year you can use a personal locating system for free at uLocate.com They have feature like the ability to set a virtual fence around an area and get a text message or email if a phone goes in or out of the fence. You can see the location of all the phones in your account from any Java enabled phone
Vintage 1984 with a solid steel backplate the thing weighs almost 5lbs. The buckling spring keys give excellent tactile and audible feedback. I need to get a new PC but the keyboard is staying
I wiped out the magnetic strip on my driver's license after a bouncer at a club in NYC swiped my card before I could say anything. Friends told me this was going to cause me trouble the next time I got stopped by the cops. Last Saturday I got pulled over for not wearing a seat belt and the cop had no trouble handing me a $30 ticket and sending me on my way. I have not been back to a club that uses the swipers since I cleaned it off, so I don't know if they would let me in, but it was no trouble with a cop.
The $1000 system is instantly configurable. No need to print millions of ballots, then re-print them when one of the candidates drops out. Why doesn't Diebold want to supply the rolls of ballot stock to local election officials? Most businesses love to lock in a steady revenue stream, here they are actually fighting the customer to reduce their future revenue. That sure sounds fishy to me especially when the CEO of Diebold is quoted as saying he "will deliver Ohio's electoral votes" to Bush the Younger.
If the touch screen prints out a ticket that confirms your vote and you put half of the ticket into a locked box all the votes are completely auditable. The ticket could even have a long random number on it that you could use to confirm your vote was counted correctly. If there is a re-count they put all the neatly printed, voter confirmed ticket stubs through an optical reader. No pre-preinted ballots are needed, just a roll of ballot stock. Something is fishy here, must business want to supply a materials to a customer on an ongoing basis. Here they are fighting the customer telling them you don't want to mess with paper.
By the way they logged the bug, "first actual case of bug being found" the term was already in use and they were pointing out the irony that the bug in this case was a real bug
How did a tax on LANs ever even get floated? That is a sure way to drive computer using businesses out of the state. This law will have a corrosive effect on tax compliance in general. Of course people will cheat on this tax; so that will open the moral door to cheating elsewhere. I predict that if this tax is passed Florida's tax revenue will decline as some businesses move to other states and the one's that stay start to cheat on their taxes that they once payed in full.
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What other group has that kind of history of being on the right side of an issue when it was very unpopular? check it out here
Since February, anyone with a Motorola i88 or i58sr and Nextel service can track their phone for free. You do have to load a Java app onto the phone first
Can anybody think up a way to use inherently untrustworthy public terminals in a trusted matter? How can you make the terminal transport sensitive data in a secured way? That is easy, just make sure the data is encrypted as it leaves your fingertips
the terminal sends a cleartext (i.e., unencrypted) 8-byte password to the card and, if the password is correct, the card believes that it is talking to a legitimate voting terminal. Unfortunately, this method of authentication is insecure: an attacker can easily learn the 8-byte password used to authenticate the terminal to the card (see Section 3.3), and thereby communicate with a legitimate smartcard using his own smartcard reader. Furthermore, there is no authentication of the smartcard to the device. This means that nothing prevents an attacker from using his own homebrew smartcard in a voting terminal.
They use the security through marketing technique, "It uses smart cards it must be secure"
The researchers here took on a daunting task and they were crippled by the DMCA
we decided to limit our research to only the files that were publicly available without any further effort, in part due to concerns about possible liability under the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Why shouldn't voting machines be open source? Who approved these machines?
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I always use webmaster@theirdomain.com
So someone who might do something about will see what kind of crap they send.
I was in Thailand a couple of years ago and also remember rates being around $1/hour. Competition in big cities was so stiff I remember one place that was $1.50/hour but offered a foot massage while you were online
Nextel phones have complete GPS chip sets in them that are capable of getting a GPS fix even when no network is available. With a serial cable you can connect your Motorola i58/i88 or i730 to PC mapping software running on a laptop.
You can also sign-up for a free service like www.uLocate.com that can send maps and text descriptions of your location to your phone
Every other carrier that claims to have GPS phones has the data locked-up in some way. They are trying to figure out a way to charge you per fix and have not worked out how to do that yet. Until then only the 3 or 4 911 centers in the US that have installed E-911 equipment can tell where your phone is. I suspect they will open it up after some bad PR. Imagine a situation like the recent abduction and murder in Florida where the girl has a GPS cell phone but the authorities can't get any info because the local 911 call center is not set-up yet.
With a GPS receiver in many cell phones we need to figure out how we all can collaborate on creating maps. Here is a map I created with the data from my cell phone over the course of a couple of months. If everyone contributed instead of the data from a few people driving around we could pool the collective data and have great, open maps. This service is free until the end of the year, if everyone who can signed up and we pool the locations we would have a great map (not to mention traffic info.)
Through the end of the year you can use a personal locating system for free at uLocate.com They have feature like the ability to set a virtual fence around an area and get a text message or email if a phone goes in or out of the fence. You can see the location of all the phones in your account from any Java enabled phone
Here is a link to the memos thaty actually works
...and those pesky bikes and pedestrians are banned, I can hardlt wait.
Walking down a city street will be as pleasant as walking down a highway
Traffic info is available here The data is collected from sensors in the road and is updated every 5 minutes
Since February anyone has been able to track my cell phone
What is the big deal? Get it while it is still optional
Vintage 1984 with a solid steel backplate the thing weighs almost 5lbs. The buckling spring keys give excellent tactile and audible feedback. I need to get a new PC but the keyboard is staying
The employees can come and go from the campus when they are not working
What a progressive company. They certainly do have a great compensation package there.
I wiped out the magnetic strip on my driver's license after a bouncer at a club in NYC swiped my card before I could say anything. Friends told me this was going to cause me trouble the next time I got stopped by the cops. Last Saturday I got pulled over for not wearing a seat belt and the cop had no trouble handing me a $30 ticket and sending me on my way. I have not been back to a club that uses the swipers since I cleaned it off, so I don't know if they would let me in, but it was no trouble with a cop.
The $1000 system is instantly configurable. No need to print millions of ballots, then re-print them when one of the candidates drops out. Why doesn't Diebold want to supply the rolls of ballot stock to local election officials? Most businesses love to lock in a steady revenue stream, here they are actually fighting the customer to reduce their future revenue. That sure sounds fishy to me especially when the CEO of Diebold is quoted as saying he "will deliver Ohio's electoral votes" to Bush the Younger.
If the touch screen prints out a ticket that confirms your vote and you put half of the ticket into a locked box all the votes are completely auditable. The ticket could even have a long random number on it that you could use to confirm your vote was counted correctly. If there is a re-count they put all the neatly printed, voter confirmed ticket stubs through an optical reader. No pre-preinted ballots are needed, just a roll of ballot stock. Something is fishy here, must business want to supply a materials to a customer on an ongoing basis. Here they are fighting the customer telling them you don't want to mess with paper.
By the way they logged the bug, "first actual case of bug being found" the term was already in use and they were pointing out the irony that the bug in this case was a real bug
It is about an inner city black family that moves to the suburbs. It is beautifully drawn and has a sharp, left leaning wit
They can't ONLY do one thing. When we tax something we discourage that behavour, so we ought to only tax things we want less of
How did a tax on LANs ever even get floated? That is a sure way to drive computer using businesses out of the state. This law will have a corrosive effect on tax compliance in general. Of course people will cheat on this tax; so that will open the moral door to cheating elsewhere. I predict that if this tax is passed Florida's tax revenue will decline as some businesses move to other states and the one's that stay start to cheat on their taxes that they once payed in full.
What other group has that kind of history of being on the right side of an issue when it was very unpopular?
check it out here
Since February, anyone with a Motorola i88 or i58sr and Nextel service can track their phone for free. You do have to load a Java app onto the phone first
Since this past February anyone has been able to see where my phone is in real time right here A cool map of everypoint I have driven past.
Here is a summary of some people who have a real live working invention, not something they just thought up that might be possible one day
Can anybody think up a way to use inherently untrustworthy public terminals in a trusted matter? How can you make the terminal transport sensitive data in a secured way?
That is easy, just make sure the data is encrypted as it leaves your fingertips
They use the security through marketing technique, "It uses smart cards it must be secure"
Why shouldn't voting machines be open source? Who approved these machines?