the pics are 320x240 no flash, fixed focus, but its great starter camera and I use it for a lot of web stuff, low bandwidth:).
Maybe microsoft will consider buying out the digital camera line, they're the only reason I still got windows on my machine.
surgical instruments get 4000 cGy (RADS), from Co60. I suppose that they test against bacteria that are highly rad resistant. Steam sterilization is test against a bacteria that will not eve grow untill it get to 140 degrees
I was an NBC, Nuclear, Biological, Chemical, Defense NCO before I retired so here goes. Note I don't know your actual needs, threat levels ect. so your milage may vary, these are My own opinions and don't reflect any org's official policies, this is not intended to be authorative info so do your own research ect.
Spores are used because they are more hardy than active bacteria, basicaly spores are desicated bacteria. That's why 70 percent alcohol is used to disinfect stronger alcohol would dryout the bacteria and actualy make them harder to kill (anthrax spores remain viable for as long as a half century)
To get the spores, you need to grow the bacteria, use generaly use agar, beef brooth or something simmilar (I'm not sure what you would use for anthrax, but it can't be that hard to find out)
once you get the bacteria grown, you dry out the culture media, maybe freeze-dry or something now you have a very concetrated source of bacteria spores. typicaly this is powdered and has a color similar to the culture media a brown, tan or dried blood color depending on the original culture media
dilute the concentrated spore powder with a carrier like talcum powder to an appropriate working strength
dust the carrier with the powder and deliver
To defend against this:
publish a policy that all mail to your organisation maybe open in the mail room, set up so a random number of pieces are checked, and anything suspicious.
open the mail in an isolation enviroment, look at OSHA's Bloodborne pathogens standard for guidelines on doing this
watch-out for powders, things that are fluorecent, maybe consider spraying with luminal to detect blood, unexpected arivials or thing that are out of character; why would you get porno pics in your biz mail ect.
Still unsure consider using ethylene-oxide sterilization of the mail
Actualy considering the threat from natural stuff like hepitius-B Aids, and even cold-flu viruses, these proceedures may actualy save lost time expenses from natural illnesses too.
Personaly I consider that mail to people in your distribution channel to be at higher risk than other employees, because they handle thing that are in turn redistributed to others. Given the long incubation times between contact and symptoms for most things, a problem here would spread long before any one would know there is a problem. Its not that hard to get your janitor to put disinfectants in his cleaning solutions, use vacuumes with HEPA filtrations ect.
I'm a dental technician now and we have to recieve bio-hazardous material routinely and follow the osha standards at work, the result is I always catch my cold from the wife and kids first! this stuff works. If your org expereinces a lot of absenteeism due to illness, infection control training may actualy be profitable due to reduced absentee expenses
I Actualy remember stumbling across a BSD copywrite notice in my win95 machine. I bet ther is a lot more bsd stuff in windows than M$ would ever like to be known. I started to look for a lot of the network utils when I saw that both windows and Linux/BSD systems were vulernable to the same TCP/IP buffer overflow.
you can amaze a lot of windows only people by knowing how to run common stuff from the command line.
Actualy I try to avoid wasting mod points on something all ready mod'ed unless I feel it's an off-base mod. I don't like the meta-mod system much because you don't see the orginal post or ref'ed articles, and certanly can't follow the thread so anything you do is out of context.
He's the head of a networking consulting firm and the challenge was to plant a virus in his own properly set up and patched Linux Box. He's putting up his own money, professional skills and reputation to prove his competency. I'm sure that he has a definition of what a virus is to qualify, as well as an quarenteened system to test them on.
Most likely he considers the oppertunity to study these attempts in a controlled enviroment, more valuable than the money anyways. In a world where most warrenties say something like "Not guarenteed to be suitable for any purpose". I find this approach most refreshing. Try and find commercialy producted software that states that its suitable even for the purpose it was manufactured for.
I hope for his sake running outlook and IE 5.5 in wine is out-of-bonds. I read a while back where the wine crew considered getting a virus to be a major mile stone achievment in compatability.
Anybody registering a.biz, will be in for an interesting time. You see there is nothing to stop anyone from running their own TLD, all you need is to set up DNS on a computer, connect it to the internet and have people use it for DNS (that's actualy the hard part).
Well the.biz tld has been in use for quite some time now, well before ICANN had decided to open up their own.biz TLD, and when ICANN activates their.biz TLD there are going to be collisions in name resolution. poiuyt.com has a short blurb about it and links to more authoritative content. Several of the alternative NIC's have banned to gether and resolve each other's name spaces, It's interesting that these other guys play nice with each other while the official DNS acts like the school yard bully. What happens when you "win" your favored.biz name and someone else can prove that they've had it and used it complete with traffic logs for several years? who do you complain to when your domain resolves to two seperate IP addresses?
Things are going to be interesting, stay tuned for more!
Funny that's how I read the article, gonzo markets is basicaly networking. Company unleishes its employees in a community, network or what its called today and sells. Employees are risking personal reputation on the merit of the products they make.
The difference between marketing and advertising is the same as between accounting and beancounting. Marketing involves communicating with your potential customers so that you can make a reasonable profit suppling them with what these need, where they need it and at an attractive price.
Advertising involves pestering them into buying whatever trash, you need to get rid of the quickest or at the most sales commission. At most your role in it is to object in terms that the salesman has researched rebutltes to.
To a marketer you are a part of the process from the very start, and he strives to build a long term relationship with you. To an advertiser you're just prey, eat quickly and move on to the next mentality.
Yes I know about X10, but it'll be a cold day in hell before I'd ever buy one. This gonzo marketing is more about a "Am I proud enough about our product to recommend it to my friends" then it is about consumers being prey. It appears to me that X10 not only considers me to be prey, but the entire theme of its adverts are trying to appeal to preditors as well. Personaly I think that Marketing and advertising depts should be in sepperate buildings
Thats like the fox carb supposed to get 200mph and was "supprssed" by the big oil companies. Well now you can get them mail order, they don't get no 200 MPH either. They are popular with racers, who don't want to get into fuel injection which is still more effiecent.
He chose hydrogen because of its low-enviromental impact quality. The engine is inherently multi-fuel, air-LNG should work also, That is if this thing works period. Hydrogen also has other problems its high pressure requirements is complicated by Hydrogen embrittlement.
Hydrogen, is also a metal, and a very active metal. It tend to form an alloy with the metal containing it which is more brittle than it previously was. Its small mollecular size also allows it to penetrate deep into the containers metal. This leads to sudden, catastrophic system failures, in lay terms it tends to blow up. I believe that NASA plates (or at least did) plate the insides of the fuel cells with gold to keep the hydrogen out of the container and from causing Hydrogen embrittlement.
As far as using nitros-ammonia system, not with my family you don't, actualy the same goes for H2-O2 to. LPNG is about as dangerous a gas as I care to have in my car. LPNG rarly blows up has some limited distro channels in place, and a fair amount of experience behind it. Once last year in my town, a car blew it LPNG tank while refueling, nobody hurt but the car and the gas comapnies reputation.
My new license has a magnetic stripe on it and a bar-code, how much more do they need? Military ID's have the whole obverse side covered with 2-D 'puter code. If they are not using this now, why complicate it even more with a new system. Even if the contained data is encrypted, it my data and therefore unique, recordable and traceable.
What we don't need is an other level of beauacracy on top of what's already there, we need to actualy use what we have now enough to judge if a slight modification might be needed. Coordinate state drivers licenses should be enough. Maybe tighten up what documentation you need to get a license or state ID a little.
Oh by the way, if you have a murder warrant out for someone do you want the poor clerk at the Sec of States branch to freak out when she sees it; or say "It'll be mailed to this address in about ten days"? Mike Davis, spokesman for the Baltimore County Executive Office doesn't have a clue as to what deep inside the State's database when an arrest warrarnt flag trigger's a proceedure (actualy I don't either, but at least I'm not pretending to) Isn't it easier for a trained cop to stake out a mail box than to scrape a clerks brains off the wall?
Software is pattentable in the US because it changes the state of the machine. When you upgrade you have changed the device so it follows that an upgrade has the possibility of changing a device into a new digital interactive device (I haven't found where device is defined as purely a physical object in the law).
So probably whether it does or not depends on the mood of the prosecuter and or judge at any given point in time or more probably why they are giving you attention.
IANAL, but it goes something like this.
all digital inteactive devices must be security certified by the dept of commerce. Their definition of digital interactive device is so vage that it will not only include you automobile with its computer and radio, but even your microwave oven. Everybody is talking about it like its a content management scheme, which it is to a large extent and maybe that's what its intended to be but when you actualy read it, you see no verbage limiting it to content management. We are supposed to assume that the authorities are smart enough to know what the legislation meant. here's a link to the PDF (yuck) file it's a 4.586 Mb download. The thing that bothers me the most about it is how in the world is the DoC going to have the expertise to certify all of the software/hardware combinations? The only answer I can come up with is to contract with industry experts to do it, imagine have Microsoft employees certifying the security of a linux distro.
My crystal ball says that means passport technology will be manditory to see anything from a big-company website. When all of the significant content on the web is passport managed it'll get to the point when M$ will get brazen enough to change the EULA so that when you go to a protectected site, you will have unknowingly have agreed to pay Microsoft a fee for the passport service (you have to read the EULA each time you use it to know what you're agreeing to). The royalties are automaticaly deducted from your CC (number already on file at Microsoft) for fee for view content. and there you'll be stuck with Microsoft.
There is no way that Linux will ever be certifiable because we have both the source code and a complier. There will be no Linux to keep Microsoft's feet to the fire driving improvement for everybody and Microsoft's QC department will once again be a puppet for the legal and marketing departments. In short everbody loses except Microsoft.
the internet and sites like this gives us the opertunity to easily do the research, often starting with a link or two in the story to follow to get us started. We can check the assumptions right or wrong. We can start with trivial and move toward authoratative, and go as far as we personaly chose or at least able to.
I think the internet is making people in general a little less open-minded and a little more active-minded. Say something stupid here and people from all over the world can ridicule you. that alone sharpens a lot of thought processes.
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I've had to lock my Grandkids light/sound Activated Big-Bird up in a tempest shielded toy box, everytime he says "peek-a-boo" my sattelightDSL gets garbled. The provider claims this could only happen if an extremly powerful xmitter was in the area.
Interestingly my neighbor's Big-bird doesn't do this buy mine is a model KH-11 and his isn't. Does anyone know how to fold an aluminum foil hat, my ears keep getting warm?
lot of possibilites for creating an industro-geek motif for you living room or home office.
The best part is you can lock the doors you put on to keep the rug-rats from trying to read your floppies upside down or backward:)
I've found that rackmount equipment realy isn't all of that much more expensive and a rack mount enclosure is ideal for controling cable clutter.
Juno, a free/fee-for-service dial-up provider is or at least was planning to install software to process pharmacutical data to subsitises their free service. their was even talk of prohibiting free users from shutting down their 'puters in the future. It's politicaly sensitive because it's a commercial for profit project which i'm not following so it might have collapsed.
I agree that SETI@home has a low cost/benefit ratio, that's why I'd rather crunch the data rather than have tax dollars pay some more for less. My 'puter has found lots of interesting signals, maybe one of them is a key to an important non-Seti phenomina.
The technology is pretty well proven wth SETIatHome so I'm sure that other more mundane uses for it will be instituted. And actualy my last up-grade was driven by the desire to crunch data a bit faster so it easy for me to see SETIatHome aiding the tech secter.
Yup, for as much baby bell bashing as we do I gotta admit that what they are doing is impressive, but they are working on a priority basis. This ER thing is more about making sure that something is available quickly to first support the first responders with something quick, it needs to start operating right now so people like firefighters can get building plans, supply vehicles head in the right directions ect.
After that it can be reconf to provide commo to less immediate needs; after existing emergency comunications are in place. This is where 802.1B is handy. providing a point to point from a Emergancy scene thru relays to where a more Traditional connections exists. and geeks with lap tops, hams with A.25 ect. are prefect to do it.
And yes having more traditional types is OK, the network is down when the building is flattened so their not much for him/her to administer. I don't think most suits are going to complain much now when its explained that way. Its a disaster back-up plan, that alows emergency traffic to piggy-back.
Maybe you guys are to young to remember but UUCP was a way to tranfer Email before the internet. It worked mainly because A corp had a T1 from one office to another as did B corp between them and another city. Data was transfer between the two at a city where both had offices avoiding toll charges, this alowed for mutual benefit. This would work the same way, install an antenna or two on the roof, and in an emergency just turn it on and start routing until your generators run out of fuel.
Given the direction that proposed legislation is head we're going to see more of this stuff anyways. Just think the guy/gal that hacked your network to its knees last month, may be your networks only link this month.
your wrong wrong wrong, Hydrazine is only used for the shuttles attitude thrusters and the APU. Its usualy refferd to as HMP Hydrazine MonoPropellent, it needs no oxidiser and "ignites" spontaniously. The big tank that blew on the challenger contained liq H2 for the main engines. Remember the Russians wouldn't let the shuttle with the leaky thrusters neer the Mir, thats because of the corrosiveness of the hydrazine.
Actualy the ICBM that blew-up a while ago was because a dropped wrench punctured the fuel tank containing Hydrazine.
It is very toxic as you noted, thats why the ground crew give a landed shuttle time to air out before they approch it
Have your mom make a yarn pom-pom you know like on the tip of those dorky home-made knit hats, it should be a sized a little less than a stuffed fit in the vacuume tubes, tie the cat 5 to it and suck it thru with a working vacuumme cleaner. neat and easy way to run the cable!
BTW the first cent vac I know of was in Fairlane manor build by Henery Ford. the place was also wired for DC electricity because Thomas Edison said it was better, less fatigue failure of the light bulb fillaments!
My little brothers had a program he expanded from free stuff on the net until it was about 90-95% accurate in Identifying the author of source code when compared to know samples. In fact it usualy hit 85% accurate when comparing code written in different languages. This was an excelant tool for detecting plagerism, but guess what they didn't care, because software engineer is more about understanding the implimentation than it's about the actual code. If the instructor grades on how well a student explains why the used algorthm is better than an other one, who cares where the grunt work came from. I guess that's why the client programmer assumes the server programmer checks the message length for buffer overflows and vica versa.
Most Students copy from the textbook examples and add minors differences anyways. We had to write a program in our finals, guess how depressing it is to work for hours on a program that doesn't work for a final grade. Instructor finaly said "I can't find the problem either, must be a compiler bug". Our's was a programming course not a comp sci course
I say this law should apply to cars as well. No-one is allowed to tinker with their cars.
You said that like your car doesn't have a computer, a CD player, a radio ect. Actualy you find that most cars have a much larger degree of digital interactivity than you'd imagine. Modern cars have onboard networks, soon to be fiber optic networks, your engine won't work unless the computer tells it how much fuel to squirt in per air temp, air mass rpm and throttle position ect. the plugs won't fire unless the 'puter tells them when. On my car the 'puter even turns on/off the interior lights based on ambiant light, which door is opened first and if the headlights were on before I turned the engine off. Want an other 50 hoursepower, by a new ROM for the computer!
Yes this law would even make tinkering with your car illegal. The only thing is are you willing to let some Cop who just had a fight with his wife decide the difference between what he thought the law meant and what the law actualy said? Sure the appealate or supreme courts will let you out eventualy, after you've lost your job, home and maybe even your family.
Most of the CD's I buy are to learn a song for Karaoke, For casual listening it the radio. In short I just don't buy CD's as an adiction well unless it Karaoke and I've weened myself off that pretty much.
Read the bill; oops no link for you (I submitted this 3 weeks ago to slashdot with the bills link included but it didn't make it).
Digital Interactive Device, definintion, well even your microwave oven qualifies, it has a key pad after all
Certified Security, definiton proprietary, non-modifyable binary only, in short for Linux to be certified it would need to be non-modifiable.
The hardware would all need binary-only drivers to prevent workarrounds
Even more worrysome to me is all of the "remove period on line whatever and insert 'and'" type stuff for other existing bills.
There is no way that GPL'd software is going to be able to be security certified by the Dept. Of Commerce without massive modifications that would destroy the GPL licience. In fact ther is no way that the DOC is going to be able to decide how to certify or what to certify so it'll have to be delegated to Industry experts so you'll have Microsoft/Intel people deciding the standards for Secure hardware/software systems.
Also the bill is presented as an anti-piracy thing which might be noble in principal; its vagueness in so many areas leads me to believe that its an attempt to out-law Linux and anything else that might be used that's not big company produced. Actualy I would be concidered a right wing wacko by most/.'ers and this scares me. Anyone who has read the bill and actualy understands it and still says it's not so bad has to be either a FBI troll or on the Microsoft payroll.
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the pics are 320x240 no flash, fixed focus, but its great starter camera and I use it for a lot of web stuff, low bandwidth :).
Maybe microsoft will consider buying out the digital camera line, they're the only reason I still got windows on my machine.
surgical instruments get 4000 cGy (RADS), from Co60. I suppose that they test against bacteria that are highly rad resistant. Steam sterilization is test against a bacteria that will not eve grow untill it get to 140 degrees
To defend against this:
Actualy considering the threat from natural stuff like hepitius-B Aids, and even cold-flu viruses, these proceedures may actualy save lost time expenses from natural illnesses too.
Personaly I consider that mail to people in your distribution channel to be at higher risk than other employees, because they handle thing that are in turn redistributed to others. Given the long incubation times between contact and symptoms for most things, a problem here would spread long before any one would know there is a problem. Its not that hard to get your janitor to put disinfectants in his cleaning solutions, use vacuumes with HEPA filtrations ect.
I'm a dental technician now and we have to recieve bio-hazardous material routinely and follow the osha standards at work, the result is I always catch my cold from the wife and kids first! this stuff works. If your org expereinces a lot of absenteeism due to illness, infection control training may actualy be profitable due to reduced absentee expenses
I Actualy remember stumbling across a BSD copywrite notice in my win95 machine. I bet ther is a lot more bsd stuff in windows than M$ would ever like to be known. I started to look for a lot of the network utils when I saw that both windows and Linux/BSD systems were vulernable to the same TCP/IP buffer overflow.
you can amaze a lot of windows only people by knowing how to run common stuff from the command line.
Actualy I try to avoid wasting mod points on something all ready mod'ed unless I feel it's an off-base mod. I don't like the meta-mod system much because you don't see the orginal post or ref'ed articles, and certanly can't follow the thread so anything you do is out of context.
Most likely he considers the oppertunity to study these attempts in a controlled enviroment, more valuable than the money anyways. In a world where most warrenties say something like "Not guarenteed to be suitable for any purpose". I find this approach most refreshing. Try and find commercialy producted software that states that its suitable even for the purpose it was manufactured for.
I hope for his sake running outlook and IE 5.5 in wine is out-of-bonds. I read a while back where the wine crew considered getting a virus to be a major mile stone achievment in compatability.
Anybody registering a .biz, will be in for an interesting time. You see there is nothing to stop anyone from running their own TLD, all you need is to set up DNS on a computer, connect it to the internet and have people use it for DNS (that's actualy the hard part).
.biz tld has been in use for quite some time now, well before ICANN had decided to open up their own .biz TLD, and when ICANN activates their .biz TLD there are going to be collisions in name resolution. poiuyt.com has a short blurb about it and links to more authoritative content. Several of the alternative NIC's have banned to gether and resolve each other's name spaces, It's interesting that these other guys play nice with each other while the official DNS acts like the school yard bully. What happens when you "win" your favored .biz name and someone else can prove that they've had it and used it complete with traffic logs for several years? who do you complain to when your domain resolves to two seperate IP addresses?
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Things are going to be interesting, stay tuned for more!
Funny that's how I read the article, gonzo markets is basicaly networking. Company unleishes its employees in a community, network or what its called today and sells. Employees are risking personal reputation on the merit of the products they make.
The difference between marketing and advertising is the same as between accounting and beancounting. Marketing involves communicating with your potential customers so that you can make a reasonable profit suppling them with what these need, where they need it and at an attractive price.
Advertising involves pestering them into buying whatever trash, you need to get rid of the quickest or at the most sales commission. At most your role in it is to object in terms that the salesman has researched rebutltes to.
To a marketer you are a part of the process from the very start, and he strives to build a long term relationship with you. To an advertiser you're just prey, eat quickly and move on to the next mentality.
Yes I know about X10, but it'll be a cold day in hell before I'd ever buy one. This gonzo marketing is more about a "Am I proud enough about our product to recommend it to my friends" then it is about consumers being prey. It appears to me that X10 not only considers me to be prey, but the entire theme of its adverts are trying to appeal to preditors as well. Personaly I think that Marketing and advertising depts should be in sepperate buildings
Thats like the fox carb supposed to get 200mph and was "supprssed" by the big oil companies. Well now you can get them mail order, they don't get no 200 MPH either. They are popular with racers, who don't want to get into fuel injection which is still more effiecent.
He chose hydrogen because of its low-enviromental impact quality. The engine is inherently multi-fuel, air-LNG should work also, That is if this thing works period. Hydrogen also has other problems its high pressure requirements is complicated by Hydrogen embrittlement.
Hydrogen, is also a metal, and a very active metal. It tend to form an alloy with the metal containing it which is more brittle than it previously was. Its small mollecular size also allows it to penetrate deep into the containers metal. This leads to sudden, catastrophic system failures, in lay terms it tends to blow up. I believe that NASA plates (or at least did) plate the insides of the fuel cells with gold to keep the hydrogen out of the container and from causing Hydrogen embrittlement.
As far as using nitros-ammonia system, not with my family you don't, actualy the same goes for H2-O2 to. LPNG is about as dangerous a gas as I care to have in my car. LPNG rarly blows up has some limited distro channels in place, and a fair amount of experience behind it. Once last year in my town, a car blew it LPNG tank while refueling, nobody hurt but the car and the gas comapnies reputation.
My new license has a magnetic stripe on it and a bar-code, how much more do they need? Military ID's have the whole obverse side covered with 2-D 'puter code. If they are not using this now, why complicate it even more with a new system. Even if the contained data is encrypted, it my data and therefore unique, recordable and traceable.
What we don't need is an other level of beauacracy on top of what's already there, we need to actualy use what we have now enough to judge if a slight modification might be needed. Coordinate state drivers licenses should be enough. Maybe tighten up what documentation you need to get a license or state ID a little.
Oh by the way, if you have a murder warrant out for someone do you want the poor clerk at the Sec of States branch to freak out when she sees it; or say "It'll be mailed to this address in about ten days"? Mike Davis, spokesman for the Baltimore County Executive Office doesn't have a clue as to what deep inside the State's database when an arrest warrarnt flag trigger's a proceedure (actualy I don't either, but at least I'm not pretending to) Isn't it easier for a trained cop to stake out a mail box than to scrape a clerks brains off the wall?
Software is pattentable in the US because it changes the state of the machine. When you upgrade you have changed the device so it follows that an upgrade has the possibility of changing a device into a new digital interactive device (I haven't found where device is defined as purely a physical object in the law).
So probably whether it does or not depends on the mood of the prosecuter and or judge at any given point in time or more probably why they are giving you attention.
all digital inteactive devices must be security certified by the dept of commerce. Their definition of digital interactive device is so vage that it will not only include you automobile with its computer and radio, but even your microwave oven. Everybody is talking about it like its a content management scheme, which it is to a large extent and maybe that's what its intended to be but when you actualy read it, you see no verbage limiting it to content management. We are supposed to assume that the authorities are smart enough to know what the legislation meant. here's a link to the PDF (yuck) file it's a 4.586 Mb download. The thing that bothers me the most about it is how in the world is the DoC going to have the expertise to certify all of the software/hardware combinations? The only answer I can come up with is to contract with industry experts to do it, imagine have Microsoft employees certifying the security of a linux distro.
My crystal ball says that means passport technology will be manditory to see anything from a big-company website. When all of the significant content on the web is passport managed it'll get to the point when M$ will get brazen enough to change the EULA so that when you go to a protectected site, you will have unknowingly have agreed to pay Microsoft a fee for the passport service (you have to read the EULA each time you use it to know what you're agreeing to). The royalties are automaticaly deducted from your CC (number already on file at Microsoft) for fee for view content. and there you'll be stuck with Microsoft.
There is no way that Linux will ever be certifiable because we have both the source code and a complier. There will be no Linux to keep Microsoft's feet to the fire driving improvement for everybody and Microsoft's QC department will once again be a puppet for the legal and marketing departments. In short everbody loses except Microsoft.
the internet and sites like this gives us the opertunity to easily do the research, often starting with a link or two in the story to follow to get us started. We can check the assumptions right or wrong. We can start with trivial and move toward authoratative, and go as far as we personaly chose or at least able to.
I think the internet is making people in general a little less open-minded and a little more active-minded. Say something stupid here and people from all over the world can ridicule you. that alone sharpens a lot of thought processes.
I've had to lock my Grandkids light/sound Activated Big-Bird up in a tempest shielded toy box, everytime he says "peek-a-boo" my sattelightDSL gets garbled. The provider claims this could only happen if an extremly powerful xmitter was in the area.
Interestingly my neighbor's Big-bird doesn't do this buy mine is a model KH-11 and his isn't. Does anyone know how to fold an aluminum foil hat, my ears keep getting warm?
I'm NOT PARANOID Someone is always watching me!
lot of possibilites for creating an industro-geek motif for you living room or home office. :)
The best part is you can lock the doors you put on to keep the rug-rats from trying to read your floppies upside down or backward
I've found that rackmount equipment realy isn't all of that much more expensive and a rack mount enclosure is ideal for controling cable clutter.
I agree that SETI@home has a low cost/benefit ratio, that's why I'd rather crunch the data rather than have tax dollars pay some more for less. My 'puter has found lots of interesting signals, maybe one of them is a key to an important non-Seti phenomina.
The technology is pretty well proven wth SETIatHome so I'm sure that other more mundane uses for it will be instituted. And actualy my last up-grade was driven by the desire to crunch data a bit faster so it easy for me to see SETIatHome aiding the tech secter.
After that it can be reconf to provide commo to less immediate needs; after existing emergency comunications are in place. This is where 802.1B is handy. providing a point to point from a Emergancy scene thru relays to where a more Traditional connections exists. and geeks with lap tops, hams with A.25 ect. are prefect to do it.
And yes having more traditional types is OK, the network is down when the building is flattened so their not much for him/her to administer. I don't think most suits are going to complain much now when its explained that way. Its a disaster back-up plan, that alows emergency traffic to piggy-back.
Maybe you guys are to young to remember but UUCP was a way to tranfer Email before the internet. It worked mainly because A corp had a T1 from one office to another as did B corp between them and another city. Data was transfer between the two at a city where both had offices avoiding toll charges, this alowed for mutual benefit. This would work the same way, install an antenna or two on the roof, and in an emergency just turn it on and start routing until your generators run out of fuel.
Given the direction that proposed legislation is head we're going to see more of this stuff anyways. Just think the guy/gal that hacked your network to its knees last month, may be your networks only link this month.
your wrong wrong wrong, Hydrazine is only used for the shuttles attitude thrusters and the APU. Its usualy refferd to as HMP Hydrazine MonoPropellent, it needs no oxidiser and "ignites" spontaniously. The big tank that blew on the challenger contained liq H2 for the main engines. Remember the Russians wouldn't let the shuttle with the leaky thrusters neer the Mir, thats because of the corrosiveness of the hydrazine.
Actualy the ICBM that blew-up a while ago was because a dropped wrench punctured the fuel tank containing Hydrazine.
It is very toxic as you noted, thats why the ground crew give a landed shuttle time to air out before they approch it
Have your mom make a yarn pom-pom you know like on the tip of those dorky home-made knit hats, it should be a sized a little less than a stuffed fit in the vacuume tubes, tie the cat 5 to it and suck it thru with a working vacuumme cleaner. neat and easy way to run the cable!
BTW the first cent vac I know of was in Fairlane manor build by Henery Ford. the place was also wired for DC electricity because Thomas Edison said it was better, less fatigue failure of the light bulb fillaments!
My little brothers had a program he expanded from free stuff on the net until it was about 90-95% accurate in Identifying the author of source code when compared to know samples. In fact it usualy hit 85% accurate when comparing code written in different languages. This was an excelant tool for detecting plagerism, but guess what they didn't care, because software engineer is more about understanding the implimentation than it's about the actual code. If the instructor grades on how well a student explains why the used algorthm is better than an other one, who cares where the grunt work came from. I guess that's why the client programmer assumes the server programmer checks the message length for buffer overflows and vica versa.
Most Students copy from the textbook examples and add minors differences anyways. We had to write a program in our finals, guess how depressing it is to work for hours on a program that doesn't work for a final grade. Instructor finaly said "I can't find the problem either, must be a compiler bug". Our's was a programming course not a comp sci course
You said that like your car doesn't have a computer, a CD player, a radio ect. Actualy you find that most cars have a much larger degree of digital interactivity than you'd imagine. Modern cars have onboard networks, soon to be fiber optic networks, your engine won't work unless the computer tells it how much fuel to squirt in per air temp, air mass rpm and throttle position ect. the plugs won't fire unless the 'puter tells them when. On my car the 'puter even turns on/off the interior lights based on ambiant light, which door is opened first and if the headlights were on before I turned the engine off. Want an other 50 hoursepower, by a new ROM for the computer!
Yes this law would even make tinkering with your car illegal. The only thing is are you willing to let some Cop who just had a fight with his wife decide the difference between what he thought the law meant and what the law actualy said? Sure the appealate or supreme courts will let you out eventualy, after you've lost your job, home and maybe even your family.
Most of the CD's I buy are to learn a song for Karaoke, For casual listening it the radio. In short I just don't buy CD's as an adiction well unless it Karaoke and I've weened myself off that pretty much.
There is no way that GPL'd software is going to be able to be security certified by the Dept. Of Commerce without massive modifications that would destroy the GPL licience. In fact ther is no way that the DOC is going to be able to decide how to certify or what to certify so it'll have to be delegated to Industry experts so you'll have Microsoft/Intel people deciding the standards for Secure hardware/software systems. /.'ers and this scares me. Anyone who has read the bill and actualy understands it and still says it's not so bad has to be either a FBI troll or on the Microsoft payroll.
Also the bill is presented as an anti-piracy thing which might be noble in principal; its vagueness in so many areas leads me to believe that its an attempt to out-law Linux and anything else that might be used that's not big company produced. Actualy I would be concidered a right wing wacko by most