The NSA is based in Fort Mead, Maryland; not Langley, Virginia.
If germany develops a new OS in house, they'll have to develope it on SOME kind of platform, right? Assuming this conspiracy theory is on track, at least one computer with the source on it will be online at some point in time. There will also be bugs in whatever they develope that they don't catch immediatly. Ok, even if the source isn't stolen or sold at once, the os will be deployed onto computers connected to the net and in government offices all over the place. At some point it will be possible to steal a hardrive from one of the computers, and smuggle it out. Their security isn't that great. Given the NSA's capabilities, my guess is that they could reverse engineer just about any peice of software or at least get an idea of what it looks like. From there they could find bugs that would allow them to penetrate the main system, and get the whole source off a server somewhere.
Sound far fetched? Yeah. I'll bet I'm wrong..but then again you never know.
The University of Alaska Juneau http://www.uas.alaska.edu campus has had wireless for over a year. It supports palm, Apple Airport, and several other protocals. Every building has at least one antena, and some, like the library, have several. The coverage and service is excelent. All you have to do is register your WNIC with computing services, and your on the air. All in all it's pretty sweet. Oh and did I mention connected to an OC3? (This is a school with 3000 students enroled, and even less with laptops)
Does anyone wonder why hotline (http://bigredh.com) is located in canada, while the creator is Australian? If you take a really close look at the hotline scene you'd find that it would be completely impossible to shut down and/or censor under canadian copyright law, at least in terms of the software it's self. Just some food for thought. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, then move on to the next post.
"...wonder how long it will be before the ad agencies get into bed with the ISPs?)"
In my experiance most ISPs avoid forcing adds down a customers throat to that degree. Actually it almost seems to be an industry taboo. AOL is an exception of course.
Many newbies (and others) consider adds a form of spam, and if they were required to view them to use the web (or even worse, the net as a whole) the isp would loose a great deal of business, unless they had some kind of incentive like being free.
What I would like to see would be a broadband provider that made you watch adds in exchange for free service with unlimited bandwidth. While I'm dreaming I'd also like a G4 powerbook with a gig of ram. And a hummer. And a....you get the idea.
In Sum of all fears Ghosn was able to salvage the PLUTONIUM. The electronics were destroyed. Now imagine a GPS system that would destroy the plutonium over time...now that would be scary.
I like the general concept...I just hope they open source the skematics. I wouldn't mind putting that together on a breadboard. Hmm...Open source skematics. Yes! thats would we need! Yeah!!!!!!
Actually I think that would most likely set off another DeCSS scandle...but then again I'm just a dumb teenager, right?
I use NT all the time at work. I use linux at home. I use macs. I use amigas. Guess what? I hate NT. I hate 98. I hate 2000. They're nothing but trouble. We have to have a trained IT staff monitoring them 24/7 and they're still not working all the time. I never thought I'd hear myself say this..but, NT boxes are even less reliable then the MACs. If I had my way, we'd be running redhat.
Nah. Apple had a keyboard just like it in the mid 80s. I saw one at a computer trade show a couple of years ago. It was quite comfortable. Unfortunatally, the owner was unwilling to sell it. Then again I only offered him $30USD. Too bad though. If there was a USB version I'd buy it provided it was under $50.
My guess is that few people ordered the DVD RAM option, and as a result Apple decided that it isn't worth the effort. There are also other companies producing DVD RAMs now, which are much better then the B2O one that apple packaged. Just my 2cents.
Mask
History is on the move. Those who don't keep up will be left behind. Those that get in the way won't survive.
Yeah. I'll bet there'll be a whole new blackmarket for media. $144 is enough to buy a 40gb hardrive! jeeze. I remember when canada banned Digital Satalite Systems. It was easy to pack up a van with a dozen 12" dishes and drive accross the border, and make a bundle. They relaxed the law now...but hey. Next time I vacation in France I'll be sure to bring in some maxtor 80s!
Maskirovka
Stupid friggin' backward socialists. Probably can't even code BASIC
AOL merged with time warner. Time warner owns CNN. Sueing AOl means suing CNN and if you sue CNN they'll hate you for life and give you so much bad press that your obese braindead 9 year old won't ask you to host his napster server on a 14.4kb gateway from you pathetic 2bit company run by a bunch of arrogant pissdrunk crackheads. I doubt they'll win, but then again america has a crackheaded vegtable elected president. Wait I mean DWI convicted crackhead vegetable. If only geeks ruled the world...
Maskirovka
-History is on the move: those who don't keep up will be left behind. Those who get in the way won't survive at all.
I could just see it: Intel starts competing in the microwave business with their new super hot 750ghz chips, which flash fry food in seconds. Hell use a 750ghz bewolfe to heat your office building!
Aside from that I don't see what the point is. Without RAM to match the 750ghz clock speed the chip's value would be seriously reduced. But I digress.
Maskirovka
History is on the move: those who fail to keep up will be left behind. Those who get in the way won't survie at all.
Because he's spewing out exagerated facts, and yellow (masturbatory?) Journalism. Most people who do that get bashed. Then again if I were a supermarket tabloid I'd hire him in an instant.
Maskirovka
-History is on the move: those who can't keep up will be left behind. Those who get in the way won't survive.
"This is a very dangerous new trend in the security industry." Yeah: All around security is going to go DOWN. So? Anyone who uses M$ is just asking for security problems already. As for the rest of us, we'll just have to put some work into finding holes in our systems before someone else does. It's not as as if without l0pht and M$ no one will know about bugs. It'll just be posted elseware. Big deal. Thats my 2 cents.
Maskirovka
-History is on the move: those who can't keep up will be left behind. Those who get in our way won't be around to see it.
Gee, if only the human Genome was commented...then we'd have no trouble at all understanding it. If only God commented his code...then as a collective species we'd pull an M$ and ruin it for everyone. If microsoft made humans...ewwww I don't even want to think about that!!!
Yeah..but how MUCH sheilding? I could just imagine a couple of crazy kids driving through silicon valley with a huge electromagnate mounted on their car. What if I have my computer in a machine shop? What then? Do I have to specify how much sheilding I want in the online store? Do my costs get jacked accordingly? Just my 2 cents.
PS2 more powerfull then million dollar super computer in NINE-TEEN-NINETY-NINE!
Puh-leeze! This artical picks on the media, yet it demonstrates profound ignorance of gaming technology. But then again any artical in favor of gaming is progress I suppose.
As to strategic and tactical thinking enhancment, I know a lot of people who play networked computer games around the campus every saturday night. Then sunday afternoon they go out and kick the football teams collective ass at paintball. Connection? If so, thats one scientficaly documentable proof that gaming is a positive influence. Hey...maybe I should go get a phd, publish great research paper (on gaming) then send it back in time to the trenchies at Columbine and save a bunch of people! Then my little brother would be allowed to use scissors in highschool!
You should work for apple. I just got a new G4/500MP and it beats the pants off of my 1.1gig AMD system. Then again your average consumer is definately NOT going to pay $2500 for a computer. Now if someone would come out with a board that takes two athalons...man...I'd really be in heaven. Sadly I don't see this sort of design as a trend, as apple will probly go back to single processor machines as soon as they overcome their speed bump.
AMD quite simply, is in the business of making money. Intel is in the business building a good corperate image and using the resulting hot air to halfbake their products.
I'm scared! I better go buy some guns to defend my mac right now! NOT! Geez, you guys act like this is major trend or a first time thing. nah.
This wouldn't be the first time Apple made software for x86. Apple's flagship web development program, webobjects, has been available for windows nt almost since it was released. It doesn't even run on apple operating systems except X server (btw i'm trying it on x beta next week). It'll run on Solaris, HP UX, and a few others. I think apple did a great job porting it to nt. I just wish they'd port it to redhat. Maybe if I sacrifice a smallcute helpless animal the gods will lissen....but I digress.
Slashdot Mirror
The NSA is based in Fort Mead, Maryland; not Langley, Virginia.
If germany develops a new OS in house, they'll have to develope it on SOME kind of platform, right? Assuming this conspiracy theory is on track, at least one computer with the source on it will be online at some point in time. There will also be bugs in whatever they develope that they don't catch immediatly. Ok, even if the source isn't stolen or sold at once, the os will be deployed onto computers connected to the net and in government offices all over the place. At some point it will be possible to steal a hardrive from one of the computers, and smuggle it out. Their security isn't that great. Given the NSA's capabilities, my guess is that they could reverse engineer just about any peice of software or at least get an idea of what it looks like. From there they could find bugs that would allow them to penetrate the main system, and get the whole source off a server somewhere.
Sound far fetched? Yeah. I'll bet I'm wrong..but then again you never know.
Maskirovka
The University of Alaska Juneau http://www.uas.alaska.edu campus has had wireless for over a year. It supports palm, Apple Airport, and several other protocals. Every building has at least one antena, and some, like the library, have several. The coverage and service is excelent. All you have to do is register your WNIC with computing services, and your on the air. All in all it's pretty sweet. Oh and did I mention connected to an OC3? (This is a school with 3000 students enroled, and even less with laptops)
Maskirovka
Does anyone wonder why hotline (http://bigredh.com) is located in canada, while the creator is Australian? If you take a really close look at the hotline scene you'd find that it would be completely impossible to shut down and/or censor under canadian copyright law, at least in terms of the software it's self. Just some food for thought. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, then move on to the next post.
Maskirovka
"...wonder how long it will be before the ad agencies get into bed with the ISPs?)"
In my experiance most ISPs avoid forcing adds down a customers throat to that degree. Actually it almost seems to be an industry taboo. AOL is an exception of course.
Many newbies (and others) consider adds a form of spam, and if they were required to view them to use the web (or even worse, the net as a whole) the isp would loose a great deal of business, unless they had some kind of incentive like being free.
What I would like to see would be a broadband provider that made you watch adds in exchange for free service with unlimited bandwidth. While I'm dreaming I'd also like a G4 powerbook with a gig of ram. And a hummer. And a....you get the idea.
Maskirovka
-.
In Sum of all fears Ghosn was able to salvage the PLUTONIUM. The electronics were destroyed. Now imagine a GPS system that would destroy the plutonium over time...now that would be scary.
Maskirovka
I like the general concept...I just hope they open source the skematics. I wouldn't mind putting that together on a breadboard. Hmm...Open source skematics. Yes! thats would we need! Yeah!!!!!!
Actually I think that would most likely set off another DeCSS scandle...but then again I'm just a dumb teenager, right?
Maskirovka
I use NT all the time at work. I use linux at home. I use macs. I use amigas. Guess what? I hate NT. I hate 98. I hate 2000. They're nothing but trouble. We have to have a trained IT staff monitoring them 24/7 and they're still not working all the time. I never thought I'd hear myself say this..but, NT boxes are even less reliable then the MACs. If I had my way, we'd be running redhat.
There are numerous plans for hacking those boxes out there. just thought I'd note that.
http://www.birdman.org/apology.htm
too bad. that would have been fun.
Nah. Apple had a keyboard just like it in the mid 80s. I saw one at a computer trade show a couple of years ago. It was quite comfortable. Unfortunatally, the owner was unwilling to sell it. Then again I only offered him $30USD. Too bad though. If there was a USB version I'd buy it provided it was under $50.
Maskirovka
My guess is that few people ordered the DVD RAM option, and as a result Apple decided that it isn't worth the effort. There are also other companies producing DVD RAMs now, which are much better then the B2O one that apple packaged. Just my 2cents.
Mask
History is on the move. Those who don't keep up will be left behind. Those that get in the way won't survive.
Yeah. I'll bet there'll be a whole new blackmarket for media. $144 is enough to buy a 40gb hardrive! jeeze. I remember when canada banned Digital Satalite Systems. It was easy to pack up a van with a dozen 12" dishes and drive accross the border, and make a bundle. They relaxed the law now...but hey. Next time I vacation in France I'll be sure to bring in some maxtor 80s!
Maskirovka
Stupid friggin' backward socialists. Probably can't even code BASIC
AOL merged with time warner. Time warner owns CNN. Sueing AOl means suing CNN and if you sue CNN they'll hate you for life and give you so much bad press that your obese braindead 9 year old won't ask you to host his napster server on a 14.4kb gateway from you pathetic 2bit company run by a bunch of arrogant pissdrunk crackheads. I doubt they'll win, but then again america has a crackheaded vegtable elected president. Wait I mean DWI convicted crackhead vegetable. If only geeks ruled the world...
Maskirovka
-History is on the move: those who don't keep up will be left behind. Those who get in the way won't survive at all.
Yeah..BT won't survive at all. I hope.
I could just see it: Intel starts competing in the microwave business with their new super hot 750ghz chips, which flash fry food in seconds. Hell use a 750ghz bewolfe to heat your office building!
Aside from that I don't see what the point is. Without RAM to match the 750ghz clock speed the chip's value would be seriously reduced. But I digress.
Maskirovka
History is on the move: those who fail to keep up will be left behind. Those who get in the way won't survie at all.
Because he's spewing out exagerated facts, and yellow (masturbatory?) Journalism. Most people who do that get bashed. Then again if I were a supermarket tabloid I'd hire him in an instant.
Maskirovka
-History is on the move: those who can't keep up will be left behind. Those who get in the way won't survive.
"This is a very dangerous new trend in the security industry." Yeah: All around security is going to go DOWN. So? Anyone who uses M$ is just asking for security problems already. As for the rest of us, we'll just have to put some work into finding holes in our systems before someone else does. It's not as as if without l0pht and M$ no one will know about bugs. It'll just be posted elseware. Big deal. Thats my 2 cents.
Maskirovka
-History is on the move: those who can't keep up will be left behind. Those who get in our way won't be around to see it.
Gee, if only the human Genome was commented...then we'd have no trouble at all understanding it. If only God commented his code...then as a collective species we'd pull an M$ and ruin it for everyone. If microsoft made humans...ewwww I don't even want to think about that!!!
Yeah..but how MUCH sheilding? I could just imagine a couple of crazy kids driving through silicon valley with a huge electromagnate mounted on their car. What if I have my computer in a machine shop? What then? Do I have to specify how much sheilding I want in the online store? Do my costs get jacked accordingly? Just my 2 cents.
Mask
PS2 more powerfull then million dollar super computer in NINE-TEEN-NINETY-NINE! Puh-leeze! This artical picks on the media, yet it demonstrates profound ignorance of gaming technology. But then again any artical in favor of gaming is progress I suppose. As to strategic and tactical thinking enhancment, I know a lot of people who play networked computer games around the campus every saturday night. Then sunday afternoon they go out and kick the football teams collective ass at paintball. Connection? If so, thats one scientficaly documentable proof that gaming is a positive influence. Hey...maybe I should go get a phd, publish great research paper (on gaming) then send it back in time to the trenchies at Columbine and save a bunch of people! Then my little brother would be allowed to use scissors in highschool!
You should work for apple. I just got a new G4/500MP and it beats the pants off of my 1.1gig AMD system. Then again your average consumer is definately NOT going to pay $2500 for a computer. Now if someone would come out with a board that takes two athalons...man...I'd really be in heaven. Sadly I don't see this sort of design as a trend, as apple will probly go back to single processor machines as soon as they overcome their speed bump.
AMD quite simply, is in the business of making money. Intel is in the business building a good corperate image and using the resulting hot air to halfbake their products.
I'm scared! I better go buy some guns to defend my mac right now! NOT! Geez, you guys act like this is major trend or a first time thing. nah.
This wouldn't be the first time Apple made software for x86. Apple's flagship web development program, webobjects, has been available for windows nt almost since it was released. It doesn't even run on apple operating systems except X server (btw i'm trying it on x beta next week). It'll run on Solaris, HP UX, and a few others. I think apple did a great job porting it to nt. I just wish they'd port it to redhat. Maybe if I sacrifice a smallcute helpless animal the gods will lissen....but I digress.