Yeah, the travel budget had me over a barrel there as well. If he's supposed to be working on Perl 6, why would they want him to be travelling extensively? Well there would be conferences, but if he's a guest speaker, usually the conference would pay for it correct?
It seems to me that one the reasons this guy intentionally made messages hard for Outlook users to read was that he was incensed by difficult to read Outlook created e-mails. I think that makes both "Outlook's illegibility" and "open source users' appropriate response" fair game for discussion.
He said ATTACHMENTS, not emails. He was fed up with OE users sending him.doc formatted emails.
I think the science fiction novel you're refering to is David Brin's Earth. It's a good book... from the site, it appears that there might be a movie based upon it.
He also wrote the The Postman, which we all know was a horrendous movie, the book was better, though.
Can I toss in the Bahamas as a recommendation? I mean, really, the then named 'Geekland' would be well out of the United States' jurisdiction, we'd be close enough to drop our own fibre, we'd be close enough that they couldn't drop half a dozen nuclear weapons on us to wipe us out...
...and we'd get frozen alcoholic beverages with straw hats...
Erm, forgot to add that what TEMPEST defends against is Van Eck Phreaking.
This site gives a background of Van Eck's research and also some of the events that occured that spurred the research.
It also gives information on building your own Van Eck Reciever:
"One other thought comes to mind of an experimental nature. Since the
screen of a computer is not always changing and for the most part stable
in its display, why not take the received signal and digitize it!
You could filter out signal noise clean up any true video signal present.
This is no great techno-wonder, the basic gear could be put together with
Radio Shack or the like types of equipment. And the cost is still most
reasonable. If not available there, costs for home-brew gear would not be
that high. The simple electronics blocks would consist of comparators,
video detectors, data seperator gates, a to d - d to a converters,
data amp and a signal level converter.
Or the better version, might be a modified slow scan television system
with error correction and clean-up circuits. Such units work over normal
phone lines or standard radio channels and since the units can take
signals from these two different types of inputs, there should be no
problem in adapting the unit to accept a cleaned up analog signal from a
digitizer."
Not very informative, but it is a start...
TEMPEST is not a means to sniff your keyboard and mouse movements. TEMPEST is a standard explaining that it is possible to intercept and recreate electromagnetic emissions from a computer screen, computer chips and other aspects of the system. A TEMPESTed system is one that is hardened against spurious emissions.
I submit that every human who wears glasses to enhance their vision, is or was a cyborg. I further submit that humans who used technology as far back as the stone age were cyborgs. They used technology to enhance or survive their environment.
Every discovery or advancement merely enhances the natural affinity toward technology that every human has.
There is no cyborg, Humanity is just neurologically wired to interact with technology to adjust our environments...
What would be the purpose? Data on a computer is stored in binary (0,1) format... leaving it in 0,1 format on the paper would allow for it to be read without having to convert it into binary form for the computer to read it.
What exactly is the business model for Eazel? How are they expecting to turn a profit ever? How (besides the now dried-up venture capital) will they pay their engineers and sustain a viable company?
That didn't read brainwaves, it read minute muscle spasms that occured when you wanted to move the cursor. Your finger would move just slightly in the direction you wanted the cursor to move.
One of my old CS-teachers had one... and I played with it... it was kinda amusing to press your finger against the sensor as hard as you could...
I realize this, however, what they are suggesting would be to recompress them in (tar)bzip format. Then have the browser decompress them to the image format. JPEG and GIF compression still leave an image that is viewable, you wouldn't be able to view it without decompressing it.
My first problem with the assumption... the frequency of the processor is not an inherent definition of the computer's speed, the frequency is approximate, and the gigahertz processors are quirky.
Second, just because the processor is fast, does not mean the person has enough memory in his or her system to decompress/unarchive ever bit of data coming into his machine. Most users will assume that since their system is fast, (the processor) they don't need a lot of RAM (bad idea). In order to have the browser decompress, and detar (or whatever archiving program would be used) and then display the images, the system would have to have a LOT of RAM.
The system would slow down quickly if the brunt of loading a page was forced on the end user.
Most users wouldn't wait long enough for the page to fully load, and would blame the server rather than their own system. Even if the problem was in the lack of memory.
Yes, but the diagram is dumbed down for the average user. It would be confusing if the diagram included the name servers, and such... most people think that the cnn.com (example) is known by their computer, and have no knowledge of an independant name server.
Is akamai caching websites, or are they serving images for websites? If they are caching the websites, how does that increase the speed of download for a specific website? A mirror may help remove the load off a server, but the end-user still is downlink from any bottlenecks from any system. Especially the original system that is serving cached webpages through Akamai, as the original server is handling all requests, and still has to pass them on.
If Akamai is serving images for the websites, doesn't that increase the download time, (albeit not considerably in a theoretical, perfectly stable connection) as the end-user is being "served" from multiple systems.
If I understood the portion of the interview pointing at Akamai correctly, the system is only good for the servers. The end user is making multiple, simultaneous requests for the page from several different servers, this should (technically) bring into account bottlenecks between the systems.
Of course, the practice is used all the time via doubleclick and the other ad agencies, and page time isn't to difficult to contend with (I assume) on a non-broadband connection, but when one introduces advertisements, downloading the images, and getting any server database calls from MULTIPLE servers, the backup is potentially paralyzing...
At first I was a bit interested in what the article said, because from the slash page, it appeared that Intel was being nice and tossing us something to have fun with.
But upon reading the Byte article, this is mainly aimed at scaring people into a massive Jihad against Intel...
]Crazed Mob: Intel is inside my computer...
}Non-crazed mob: You can't sue... they've labeled the computers so that you know... YOU KNEW...
]Crazed Mob: It doesn't matter, we're crazed and out for blood... burn our Pentium Pro's!!!
}Non-crazed mob: This should be interesting... HEY STAND REALLY CLOSE TO THE FLAMES AND INHALE...
Does Byte think that anyone who knows nothing of computers understands that article? They'll read it once... think... "Oh, Intel is gonna fix it free? That's nice..." and then if they read to the bottom, get worried and call their local computer "guru" and demand he stop uber-evil "Hackers" from penetrating their pentium chips...
The author of this article has the intelligence of my younger brother's mould science project. He uses P2P examples such as Napster, Gnutella, and Scour, and Freenet, but you know I'm too lazy to fix the grammar of this sentence, and too stupid to stop writing this stuff here... aflac?
Right...
Instant Messengers, such as ICQ... (YAY!) AOL IM (**surreptitiously ingests arsenic**) and M-IM...(**walks into the kitchen and attempts to dive into the garbage disposal.**) are P2P as well.Actually, I'm not sure about the latter two, but ICQ has the option of being P2P and if you've frigged something up, it can go through the server.
It appears that P2P will never go the way of the Atari2600 (**lowers gaze** May it rest in peace **sniffle**) mainly because people would rather upload and download without being stuck in the traffic of Say-ten server version vi.vi.vi.
Slashdot Mirror
I use Google extensively and have never seen these ads that 'have always' been there? So where are they?
Yeah, the travel budget had me over a barrel there as well. If he's supposed to be working on Perl 6, why would they want him to be travelling extensively? Well there would be conferences, but if he's a guest speaker, usually the conference would pay for it correct?
So, they gave him a grant for a vacation?
It seems to me that one the reasons this guy intentionally made messages hard for Outlook users to read was that he was incensed by difficult to read Outlook created e-mails. I think that makes both "Outlook's illegibility" and "open source users' appropriate response" fair game for discussion.
.doc formatted emails.
He said ATTACHMENTS, not emails. He was fed up with OE users sending him
I think the science fiction novel you're refering to is David Brin's Earth. It's a good book... from the site, it appears that there might be a movie based upon it.
He also wrote the The Postman, which we all know was a horrendous movie, the book was better, though.
Can I toss in the Bahamas as a recommendation? I mean, really, the then named 'Geekland' would be well out of the United States' jurisdiction, we'd be close enough to drop our own fibre, we'd be close enough that they couldn't drop half a dozen nuclear weapons on us to wipe us out...
:)
...and we'd get frozen alcoholic beverages with straw hats...
not to mention, summer.
Erm, forgot to add that what TEMPEST defends against is Van Eck Phreaking. This site gives a background of Van Eck's research and also some of the events that occured that spurred the research. It also gives information on building your own Van Eck Reciever: "One other thought comes to mind of an experimental nature. Since the screen of a computer is not always changing and for the most part stable in its display, why not take the received signal and digitize it! You could filter out signal noise clean up any true video signal present. This is no great techno-wonder, the basic gear could be put together with Radio Shack or the like types of equipment. And the cost is still most reasonable. If not available there, costs for home-brew gear would not be that high. The simple electronics blocks would consist of comparators, video detectors, data seperator gates, a to d - d to a converters, data amp and a signal level converter. Or the better version, might be a modified slow scan television system with error correction and clean-up circuits. Such units work over normal phone lines or standard radio channels and since the units can take signals from these two different types of inputs, there should be no problem in adapting the unit to accept a cleaned up analog signal from a digitizer." Not very informative, but it is a start...
TEMPEST is not a means to sniff your keyboard and mouse movements. TEMPEST is a standard explaining that it is possible to intercept and recreate electromagnetic emissions from a computer screen, computer chips and other aspects of the system. A TEMPESTed system is one that is hardened against spurious emissions.
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Information on this can be found here: http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/tempestintro.html#Wh
I submit that every human who wears glasses to enhance their vision, is or was a cyborg. I further submit that humans who used technology as far back as the stone age were cyborgs. They used technology to enhance or survive their environment.
Every discovery or advancement merely enhances the natural affinity toward technology that every human has.
There is no cyborg, Humanity is just neurologically wired to interact with technology to adjust our environments...
What would be the purpose? Data on a computer is stored in binary (0,1) format... leaving it in 0,1 format on the paper would allow for it to be read without having to convert it into binary form for the computer to read it.
What exactly is the business model for Eazel? How are they expecting to turn a profit ever? How (besides the now dried-up venture capital) will they pay their engineers and sustain a viable company?
If you look at their website, you will notice that they have corporate dealings with Sun Microsystems, Red Hat Linux, and Dell. They also are partnered with Xythos and Loudcloud.
They may not be turning over a profit yet, but they are working toward making a profit with a product that may be an innovation.
The previous post was in error... I was reading this, and posted it as an answer to a different question. Sorry about that...
Below is the link to the explaination of said hack, that includes 'source' et al.
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http://lists.nat.bg/~joro/webctrl2.html
and the URL from ZDNet that linked to it.
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/35/ns-17763.ht
Demonstration is available at: http://www.nat.bg/~joro/webctrl1.html
Workaround: Disable Active Scripting
That didn't read brainwaves, it read minute muscle spasms that occured when you wanted to move the cursor. Your finger would move just slightly in the direction you wanted the cursor to move. One of my old CS-teachers had one... and I played with it... it was kinda amusing to press your finger against the sensor as hard as you could...
There are several ways of using a mouse without actually using a mouse. MIT's wearable computing department has a link to the eyemouse.
the eyemouse
I realize this, however, what they are suggesting would be to recompress them in (tar)bzip format. Then have the browser decompress them to the image format. JPEG and GIF compression still leave an image that is viewable, you wouldn't be able to view it without decompressing it.
My first problem with the assumption... the frequency of the processor is not an inherent definition of the computer's speed, the frequency is approximate, and the gigahertz processors are quirky. Second, just because the processor is fast, does not mean the person has enough memory in his or her system to decompress/unarchive ever bit of data coming into his machine. Most users will assume that since their system is fast, (the processor) they don't need a lot of RAM (bad idea). In order to have the browser decompress, and detar (or whatever archiving program would be used) and then display the images, the system would have to have a LOT of RAM. The system would slow down quickly if the brunt of loading a page was forced on the end user. Most users wouldn't wait long enough for the page to fully load, and would blame the server rather than their own system. Even if the problem was in the lack of memory.
Yes, but the diagram is dumbed down for the average user. It would be confusing if the diagram included the name servers, and such... most people think that the cnn.com (example) is known by their computer, and have no knowledge of an independant name server.
Is akamai caching websites, or are they serving images for websites? If they are caching the websites, how does that increase the speed of download for a specific website? A mirror may help remove the load off a server, but the end-user still is downlink from any bottlenecks from any system. Especially the original system that is serving cached webpages through Akamai, as the original server is handling all requests, and still has to pass them on.
If Akamai is serving images for the websites, doesn't that increase the download time, (albeit not considerably in a theoretical, perfectly stable connection) as the end-user is being "served" from multiple systems.
If I understood the portion of the interview pointing at Akamai correctly, the system is only good for the servers. The end user is making multiple, simultaneous requests for the page from several different servers, this should (technically) bring into account bottlenecks between the systems.
Of course, the practice is used all the time via doubleclick and the other ad agencies, and page time isn't to difficult to contend with (I assume) on a non-broadband connection, but when one introduces advertisements, downloading the images, and getting any server database calls from MULTIPLE servers, the backup is potentially paralyzing...
Even in Windows (Insert whatever version, blah blah) you can edit the size of your icons through the control panel.
...
At first I was a bit interested in what the article said, because from the slash page, it appeared that Intel was being nice and tossing us something to have fun with.
But upon reading the Byte article, this is mainly aimed at scaring people into a massive Jihad against Intel...
]Crazed Mob: Intel is inside my computer...
}Non-crazed mob: You can't sue... they've labeled the computers so that you know... YOU KNEW...
]Crazed Mob: It doesn't matter, we're crazed and out for blood... burn our Pentium Pro's!!!
}Non-crazed mob: This should be interesting... HEY STAND REALLY CLOSE TO THE FLAMES AND INHALE...
Does Byte think that anyone who knows nothing of computers understands that article? They'll read it once... think... "Oh, Intel is gonna fix it free? That's nice..." and then if they read to the bottom, get worried and call their local computer "guru" and demand he stop uber-evil "Hackers" from penetrating their pentium chips...
**thinks** You know, that sounds kinda kinky...
The author of this article has the intelligence of my younger brother's mould science project. He uses P2P examples such as Napster, Gnutella, and Scour, and Freenet, but you know I'm too lazy to fix the grammar of this sentence, and too stupid to stop writing this stuff here... aflac?
Right...
Instant Messengers, such as ICQ... (YAY!) AOL IM (**surreptitiously ingests arsenic**) and M-IM...(**walks into the kitchen and attempts to dive into the garbage disposal.**) are P2P as well.Actually, I'm not sure about the latter two, but ICQ has the option of being P2P and if you've frigged something up, it can go through the server.
It appears that P2P will never go the way of the Atari2600 (**lowers gaze** May it rest in peace **sniffle**) mainly because people would rather upload and download without being stuck in the traffic of Say-ten server version vi.vi.vi.