The town of Oberursel in Germany, about 10 miles from Frankfurt was the place where the place where the first Soap Box Derby took place in 1904. Baring the odd little incident like WW2, they have been happening there ever since. They could do extreme gravity as the town lies just underneath the Taunus range of hills. Since the big one Grosser Feldberg is about 2600 feet high with a highway to the top, they could have used that, but luckily common sense prevailed and they used the gentler slope through the town instead. Even cyclists have problems on the big hill due to brake fade and a lovely hairpin.
As well as the more serious entrants, there have been mobile divans, bath tubs, etc. Unusually for Germany, you don't need to have any special license to do this, just to pass the pre-race safety inspection.
Bluetooth is useful and relatively low power compared to WiFi. You can quite legitimately support wireless headphones or wireless links to the host PC (perhaps also for downloading from 3G mobile phones as well). Once that has been done, it would be simple to extend the interface for full sharing.
I think you will find that this first came up in the early nineties. Around that time the first workstations were appearing with integrated sound. These were some of the eariest SPARCstations and the DEC MIPS based Ultrix machines.
Many years ago, there was an issue on Sun workstations. The audio driver was world readable by default so code running on your workstation could literally "bug" you.
The text goes along the lines of "I can't transfer the money but you can". The laundering of money isn't straightforwardly defined and most people may not realise that simply by agreeing to do something on behalf of a third party is going to lead to legal problems.
I believe that many burglars rationalise their crimes by believing that insurers will pay. Same logic. They forget that some people have problems affording adequate insurance (premiums may increase anyway) and it is always a hassle to claim. The burglar forgets that, and especially the effect on an individual.
The thing with the 419 is that the victim is being 'tricked' into an illegal act, technically, money laundering. Sometimes the victim isn't even really aware of the illegality, but they believe they are actually helping someone.
Why can't people claim prior art from the Europeans. They had prior art from a lot earlier for prepay GSM. Sure this involved a lookup of credit from the subscriber identifier, but it would certainly invalidate a lot of the claims.
I worked at Digital for a few contracts and was later organising a DECUS security SIG so had access to a lot of the info at the time. Digital's marketing sucked but they were getting better and the Alpha looked good and they were selling well into SUN/HP territory. Mitnick's attacked delayed OpenVMS 5.x and that was bringing the Alpha support.
The Itanium fiasco happened purely because of HP. Compaq-Digital were firmly in the direction Alpha, but HP was in a partnership with Intel.
Mitnick used his social engineering skills to get into the VMS Source cluster. The risk of his having interfered with the code (unlikely as his skills were elsewhere) lead to a line by line analysis of VMS. This delayed the introduction of newer versions and thus the introduction of Alpha support.
Apparently he had been involved in an attack on RSTS/E installations which involved the supply of patch tapes including compromised code to target installs so he did have a certain level of 'previous'.
There was a major exploit back in 4.5 (the attack mentioned in Cuckoo's Egg), but otherwise VMS was extremely secure and that was a strong selling point. Mitnick didn't use an OS vulnerability, rather he tricked someone at Central Engineering to give him a login. Nevertheless, people were less inclined to believe Digital assurances about VMS being a secure system.
You clearly are quite ignorant about CPUs as Alphas had many admirers even amongst its competition. It was overpriced though as Digital had its own fab (an expensive 'hobby') and they didn't couldn't manufacture in enough quantity to bring down costs.
I used it quite nicely under Windows (Cygwin, I believe) to hack some AIX code (a big QT/Motif app). The AIX version was so old that Source Nav wouldn't compile there, but it ran on cygwin and I used to go to the file-shares where the AIX source code was and it ran quite nicely and got me out of a lot of trouble.
He cost Digital a bundle, both for RSTS/E (an early 16-bit minicomputer OS) as well as VMS. In the latter case, he triggered a complete code review after gaining access to the main VMS development cluster which ended up costing Digital a fortune.
The thing that annoyed Digital is that his attacks against the company were mostly around social engineering, not against the OS itself. It didn't quite kill the company but it caused delays to two versions of the operating system and the introduction of Alpha.
The last DARPA challenge had some coverage, most of it along the lines of "Gee look at those stupid retarded robots" with shots of them stuck a few yards from the start line.
This one had almost none. I would like to think that it is because of Earthquake coverage, but there wasn't that much on US TV. This is very sad given the scope of the achievement.
Um, no. If I know that anything with a type id of 657621533 is something that is issued to an officer, I could design a booby trap that only goes off when such an ID is around. Finding who has what may be a problem, but just get part-numbers of bits of uniform would be relatively easy.
IS-41 is a good starting point giving the SMSSC architecture. The architectural layers are based on SS7 TCAP. The air-interface uses the control channel to the BSC. I can't remember where in the full GSMstandard that is (it was around 13 volumes when I last had access). TDMA systems use a similar architecture but I don't know the details there.
Sorry, before being seduced by the delights of investment banking, I worked for a stint at a european telephone system manufacturer.
I definitely know that GSM and related standards send SMS over the control channel. Multi-media messages use a 'voice' channel as the control channel is easily overloaded.
The BBC have two channels that are on worldwide sat distribution, BBC World and BBC Prime. You won't be allowed to see them in some places like Iran, but then only if your dish is visible.
You are probably wrong there. Yes, it would be down market but the UK has a very strong tradition of home built vehicles. The problem bit would be getting sponsorship for the IT and sensors.
The other bit would be finding sufficient countryside where unmanned vehicles could be let loose!!!!
I wouldn't want to comment adversely on RHEL, but I know some big banks who have formally adopted Suse builds in production. Banks are very conservative on what they adopt (unless they can shift blame onto a vendor). They tend to be IBM supported too, which is why I find it strange that these guys went the RHEL route. OTOH, I know some people running Oracle who are quite happy with RHEL.
I wonder why they didn't use Suse Linux. Suse and SAP are both German and they have worked together elsewhere. SAP is supported on Suse and for this purpse I would think it would be better than RHEL.
Sorry, you missed my point, I was agreeing with you over the reilliance of the GSM network when there are no hurricanes to cope with. The only time it fails it when it becomes congested such as London after 7/7.
Similar thing happened in the airline industry. They decided to early retire their expensive managerial staff.
An airline is just a specialised logistics business - with pieces of kit that cost millions of dollars and marginal profitability, so little room for error.
For the airlines, they rely on computer models, but the models don't cover all situations. When things go wrong, such as a major hub closure, the managers left have insufficient understanding to do anything without assistance from the models. Hence an airline left with planes and passengers in different places and no easy way around it. With the huge costs involved, aircraft leases, landing fees and everything else, the airline runs out of cash quickly.
Sure that 30 year old manager looks cheaper than the 50 year old one, but who is going to fix the unusual situations?
The answer is really the same as we should have in IT, to blend youth with experience.
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As well as the more serious entrants, there have been mobile divans, bath tubs, etc. Unusually for Germany, you don't need to have any special license to do this, just to pass the pre-race safety inspection.
Bluetooth is useful and relatively low power compared to WiFi. You can quite legitimately support wireless headphones or wireless links to the host PC (perhaps also for downloading from 3G mobile phones as well). Once that has been done, it would be simple to extend the interface for full sharing.
I think you will find that this first came up in the early nineties. Around that time the first workstations were appearing with integrated sound. These were some of the eariest SPARCstations and the DEC MIPS based Ultrix machines.
At the time, it wasn't an option if you wanted to buy a commodity workstation.
Many years ago, there was an issue on Sun workstations. The audio driver was world readable by default so code running on your workstation could literally "bug" you.
The text goes along the lines of "I can't transfer the money but you can". The laundering of money isn't straightforwardly defined and most people may not realise that simply by agreeing to do something on behalf of a third party is going to lead to legal problems.
The thing with the 419 is that the victim is being 'tricked' into an illegal act, technically, money laundering. Sometimes the victim isn't even really aware of the illegality, but they believe they are actually helping someone.
Why can't people claim prior art from the Europeans. They had prior art from a lot earlier for prepay GSM. Sure this involved a lookup of credit from the subscriber identifier, but it would certainly invalidate a lot of the claims.
Nah, it was "nuclear wessels"!!!
The Itanium fiasco happened purely because of HP. Compaq-Digital were firmly in the direction Alpha, but HP was in a partnership with Intel.
Mitnick used his social engineering skills to get into the VMS Source cluster. The risk of his having interfered with the code (unlikely as his skills were elsewhere) lead to a line by line analysis of VMS. This delayed the introduction of newer versions and thus the introduction of Alpha support.
Apparently he had been involved in an attack on RSTS/E installations which involved the supply of patch tapes including compromised code to target installs so he did have a certain level of 'previous'.
There was a major exploit back in 4.5 (the attack mentioned in Cuckoo's Egg), but otherwise VMS was extremely secure and that was a strong selling point. Mitnick didn't use an OS vulnerability, rather he tricked someone at Central Engineering to give him a login. Nevertheless, people were less inclined to believe Digital assurances about VMS being a secure system.
You clearly are quite ignorant about CPUs as Alphas had many admirers even amongst its competition. It was overpriced though as Digital had its own fab (an expensive 'hobby') and they didn't couldn't manufacture in enough quantity to bring down costs.
This means that the fun bit is in the dongle and the PC software.
I used it quite nicely under Windows (Cygwin, I believe) to hack some AIX code (a big QT/Motif app). The AIX version was so old that Source Nav wouldn't compile there, but it ran on cygwin and I used to go to the file-shares where the AIX source code was and it ran quite nicely and got me out of a lot of trouble.
The thing that annoyed Digital is that his attacks against the company were mostly around social engineering, not against the OS itself. It didn't quite kill the company but it caused delays to two versions of the operating system and the introduction of Alpha.
This one had almost none. I would like to think that it is because of Earthquake coverage, but there wasn't that much on US TV. This is very sad given the scope of the achievement.
Um, no. If I know that anything with a type id of 657621533 is something that is issued to an officer, I could design a booby trap that only goes off when such an ID is around. Finding who has what may be a problem, but just get part-numbers of bits of uniform would be relatively easy.
Sorry, before being seduced by the delights of investment banking, I worked for a stint at a european telephone system manufacturer.
I definitely know that GSM and related standards send SMS over the control channel. Multi-media messages use a 'voice' channel as the control channel is easily overloaded.
I guess these people may have a problem then!
The BBC have two channels that are on worldwide sat distribution, BBC World and BBC Prime. You won't be allowed to see them in some places like Iran, but then only if your dish is visible.
The other bit would be finding sufficient countryside where unmanned vehicles could be let loose!!!!
I wouldn't want to comment adversely on RHEL, but I know some big banks who have formally adopted Suse builds in production. Banks are very conservative on what they adopt (unless they can shift blame onto a vendor). They tend to be IBM supported too, which is why I find it strange that these guys went the RHEL route. OTOH, I know some people running Oracle who are quite happy with RHEL.
I wonder why they didn't use Suse Linux. Suse and SAP are both German and they have worked together elsewhere. SAP is supported on Suse and for this purpse I would think it would be better than RHEL.
Sorry, you missed my point, I was agreeing with you over the reilliance of the GSM network when there are no hurricanes to cope with. The only time it fails it when it becomes congested such as London after 7/7.
Lighting can and does take out base stations, even in Germany. But that is about all under the acts of god category.
An airline is just a specialised logistics business - with pieces of kit that cost millions of dollars and marginal profitability, so little room for error.
For the airlines, they rely on computer models, but the models don't cover all situations. When things go wrong, such as a major hub closure, the managers left have insufficient understanding to do anything without assistance from the models. Hence an airline left with planes and passengers in different places and no easy way around it. With the huge costs involved, aircraft leases, landing fees and everything else, the airline runs out of cash quickly.
Sure that 30 year old manager looks cheaper than the 50 year old one, but who is going to fix the unusual situations?
The answer is really the same as we should have in IT, to blend youth with experience.