Um, not to interject here... but have you ever heard of someone refer to being maligned by the truth ?
When someone is maligned, and they say they were maligned, they obviously are not saying that "I must say that, those people are telling you the absolute truth, but however accurate, it's not a nice thing to say about me."
Obviously "to malign" in common usage, by just about everyone everywhere, means lying about someone. And specifically as used in the summary of the main topic here, when they say that republicans are, "the party often maligned for exploiting flaws in electronic systems," they don't means that "obviously it's true that republicans exploit flaws in electronic voting systems" - in fact this means that they believe that it's *not* true.
Hmmm, maybe this whole thread isn't a troll after all, but is in fact predicated on pudgy misunderstanding the word malign ???
Yet another ad hominem. How does this jive with you trying to claim I am the one making the attacks?
The phrase is "jibe with" not "jive with" - as in, "the real journalist made sure his wild accusations did jibe with the facts." That's not an attack, just a simple observation that I'm sure many people have made.
There are no examples listed because I never made any accusations.
That's obviously false. You directly implied the Republicans are guilty of fraud, twice saying "no matter how true the story (of Republican fraud) is."
There you go again with that imagination of yours... I wasn't implying fraud, I was implying that you are the type of person who would attack a story because they don't like what it's about, no matter if the story was true or not - that you are a person who doesn't value the truth very much, and that you just react in a knee-jerk fashion to anything negative about the party you identify yourself with. I was implying that you are a fool, not that the republicans commit fraud and the dems are innocent or anything...
you refuse to stay on the topic of Maryland Voting Machines
You obviously do not understand how discussions work. There was a false implication in the story that Republicans manipulate ballots. I responded to that. That is perfectly on-topic.
There is simply no such implication in the stories, either in the summary here on/. or in the two stories that are linked out. Yet another example of your overactive imagination. That's not a good quality to have if you want to be a journalist or a political figurehead. If anything, the summary declares that the reps. are "the party often maligned for exploiting flaws in electronic systems" - which outright states the opposite of what you say is implied. Read It Again. (Although, in all fairness to you, you don't know what the word malign really means, so maybe you misunderstood the statement).
The way the story is written, they are simply contrasting the fact that it's a republican fighting the electronic ballots, when in the past, the press usually maligns the republicans for exploiting the parties tight connections with the major electronic voting companies. It's a valid contrast.
p.s. Thanks for just now adding me to your foes list:) I feel honored by the gesture.
your accusations against the GOP are not accompanied by any examples of any kind.
Uh, yeah, I see why you failed as a real journalist now. There are no examples listed because I never made any accusations. You certainly do have a twisted little wild imagination... and the complete inability to understand what's plainly stated, oh, and a persecution complex it seems. You should do well in local county poltics:)
As for the rest of your latest post, it was unintelligable... sorry, I just don't know what to say, other than the AC was right, you refuse to stay on the topic of Maryland Voting Machines, which as a Marylander who is involved and concerned, makes me sad.../. isn't what it used to be.
You could not be more ignorant about what is really going on here. I am one of the few people actively working on solutions, and I am not blaming anyone for the problems; I am, on the contrary, defending the GOP from blame it doesn't deserve.
Lemme see, I'm ignorant (your favorite word used to label folks who don't agree with you), you are one of the only people in the whole country working on solutions (you're like Superman in that way), you aren't blaming anyone (except for all those links, examples, google suggestions pointing towards Democratic fraud), and you are defending the GOP (again, thank you Superman!) from blame it doesn't deserver (no matter how true the story is).... twisted little troll.
Hell, on Tuesday, the county elections manager thanked me for what I wrote about the problems with the elections department, the ones I got in the paper about, because she said it was constructive and even-handed, and didn't seek to blame anyone. Oh, but I guess you know more than she does.
If you are in the paper, then you must be a liar, as the paper is where you read about Republican fraud, and those people are liars (not matter how true they story is, because if they don't mention Chicago voter fraud from the 70's, they are biased !!!) Thank you Superman...
Try reading a bit more next time before you display your ignorance.
Ahh, our favorite word again. I will give you this, it's much easier to respond in kind to your random statements (trolls can be fun). I think the anonymous poster above had it right... first you'll malign the responders, then try to change the subject, then claim that they are the ones being off-topic, then you'll bait me into a your name-calling and claim that I should be ignored because I'm biased (which you implied in the parent to this post). Kudos to the AC for calling this one right...
Your big mistake here is that you seek only to malign (and yeah, it usually implies lying) people and confuse any real discussion. Your tendency to cite random incidents, without any real context, appears only to be done in order to try to prove some personal point and had added nothing of value to the discussion. This behavior of yours leads me to think that you may just be another troll, and I probably shouldn't be replying at all here, but many folks in this thread are on my friends list, so it stood out.
Here's the thing, no matter how extremely biased you may be, or how blind you are to reality, and no matter how much you think "the other side" is at fault, what's needed is a solution to the problem. If you work to eliminate the problems with the voting system, then your side wins (you want to win don't you???), if you ignore the problems and play the Blame Game, then you lose (we all lose).
Please give the Blame Game you are playing a break, it's distracting people from talking about solutions...
So let me understand this.. you cite multiple instances of failure of the electronic voting system, then draw the conclusion that because of this, paper ballots will not fix every problem and by implication, that they are not suitable.
As a fellow Baltimoron and computer professional, let me say this. With paper ballots, there are no electronic registration machines to break, no printers to fail, no cards to code (or wait for), no memory cards to lose (or be tamprered with)... I'm a computer guy, and I can tell you from experience that you can't trust that the machines will always work or that they haven't been tampered with. Paper ballot systems do involve machines usually (not that I trust the counters), but at least you have a physical token that you can count by hand if neccessary.
I would put it to you that with paper ballots, you don't NEED to fix the problems caused by machines (duh) and that through it's simplicity, it generates less problems and is entirely recoverable (you can count them by hand if need be, and they don't "crash")
Thank you for posting your experience, it's important to tell folks what's really going on, but I would challenge you on your conclusion there that using paper isn't a reasonable response... it's a method that's been in use for *thousands* of years after all...
There's a FireFox extension call YakAlike that does chat per-website. It's still a bit new and could use some enhancing, but if you want to get an idea of what something like this might be like... try it out.
How can you determine if they are peaceful or not unless you observe their activities?
Wow, now I get where you are coming from... You are correct, they did trespass, after sending a letter to Lt. Gen. Michael V. Hayden (director of the National Security Agency) requesting a meeting, and after being turned away at the gate (the ASKED to come in, then when denied, they stepped on the dirt next to the base). Do you really think it's fair (in your links) to compare these polite, non-violent, letter-writing, balloon-carrying people to the environmental radicals, some women who broke into a missile silo and had access to a weapon, and a crazy who attacked a plane with an ax ?
By the way, this was a well known group that peacefully demonstrated in the past. To me at least, it sounds like the authorities would rather chase balloons than do the dangerous and important duty they are sworn to do. This is just another case of using the "War on Terror" and sunch nonsense as an EXCUSE to monitor peace activists. Plain and simple.
1) I've seen a few other folks mention it, but it's worth repeating - A computer (keyboard) is not physically fragile, and most programs run just fine even with abusive usage patterns - put another way, you can't hurt the computer just by using it.
2) Computers are not "smart" - they don't know anything, they don't remember anything, they don't know who you are, it's just a tool. I'm sure you could put that more eloquently.
3) Almost every non-computer person I know uses computing term incorrectly, correction, ALL OF THEM do this...
- They use the term "Memory" to mean hard drive space ("my computer has memory left, why won't it go?")
- They use "The Internet" to mean any information they can access via computer.
- They use "hard disk" to mean the CD drive, yeah, I know it's a disk, and I know it's hard... but it's not a hard disk !!!
4) When they have trouble accessing a web page, they say "My computer is broken" - please explain to them that their computer is probably just fine, the site they went to is "down" (yeah, and explain down to them while you are at it).
5) Explain to them how to save, and then FIND files... if I had a nickle for every time someone couldn't find a file that "the computer lost" only to discover it among 200 other "lost" file in 'My Documents', I'de be rich.
I understand what the report says... I guess I'm just at a loss to understand why the spend time putting these folks under surveillance, and how they gathered all the intel that they did... Why aren't they people protecting the country like they are supposed to be doing ?
Do you feel safer knowing that a dozen helium-ballon-wielding peace activists are under control now ???
That's so over the top hysterical as to be off into loony-land. From reading the documents you linked to the protestors (no matter what their affiliation) were ON NSA PROPERTY and of course the NSA security guards monitored their activities ON NSA PROPERTY and forwarded a copy of their activities to the Baltimore Police Dept and somehow you make that seem as if the NSA's Intelligence appratus was targetted on them. It wasn't. The NSA security Guards monitored the protest and forwarded a copy of their report to the local police as standard practice. There's nothing there. You're making another mountain out of an anthill.
Yeah, um, I don't exactly know where "loony-land" is, but I'm pretty sure it's not on NSA property. Neither is the location under surveillance in the documents (zoom out, it's Baltimore). Maybe you should re-read the portion from 0940 to 1155 hours ?
By the way, how do you think the NSA 'discovered' that the protest was happening, where they were originating from, who was involved (full names), and when it was taking place - BEFORE the fact ???
Now, while you are obviously very busy being an apologist for people who break the law and violate The Constitution, maybe you can take a moment to consider this - in the wiretapping scandal, all they had to do was to get the requests in front of a judge on a special secret court (no security issue there pal) and they would have been approved. That's it... that's all they had to do to follow the law. Apparently, that was too much of a inconvenience. Respect for the law, my friend - the law enforcement folks have to show it, or no one else will.
This is breaking news in the Baltimore area this morning (and last night). For those of you are are defending Bush for ignoring the courts and ignoring the Constitution, based on the premise that the NSA is "only looking for terrorists" you may be surprised...
The National Security Agency has been spying on a Baltimore anti-war group, according to documents released during litigation, going so far as to document the inflating of protesters' balloons, and intended to deploy units trained to detect weapons of mass destruction, RAW STORY has learned. According to the documents, the Pledge of Resistance-Baltimore, a Quaker-linked peace group, has been monitored by the NSA working with the Baltimore Intelligence Unit of the Baltimore City Police Department.
Granted, they didn't through them into Gitmo or anything (yet), but it's interesting because it's in zip code 21212, my own back yard ! (it's true what they say).
I've been in computing for over 25 years now, and I only have one 'hard' rule that I follow - I must have a sharp, clear, monitor with little glare. I used to really like the NEC back in the 90's, and hated the cheap-charlie brands. These days, most anything will do, but they have to be adjusted properly and physically clean (dirty glass is a distraction to the eyes).
As a professional developer, I spend all day at the computer, and as a person, I spend hours every night and weekend staring at a screen... so far I've had no ill effects. My last eye check was a while ago, but it detected no issues.
Simple advice: Always use a good monitor to reduce fatigue, keep it clean and adjusted, and take breaks to do sudoku at regulat intervals;)
Let's not forget that one of the keys to an efficient free market is the free flow of information. Censoring the MySpace content without notifying the users runs COUNTER to a free market economy.
You need to add a step:
Customers of Company A (MySpace) don't get what they want. Company B (and C and D and E, etc) offer a better product. Customer have access to accurate information about companies A-Z. Customers evaluate choices. Customers complain, customers change hands.
So, yes, as a free maket economy example, the MySpace migration should be interesting, but it's only interesting now that folks know what's going on.
I would argue that what we need here is *regulation* that forces players to divulge information relevant to the market - we have such (SEC) rules in place for the stock market, which is agueably one of the most efficient markets there is.
I have heard of a company that does a good job of plugging these types of 'holes' through effective management of the desktop environment... (the guy I know complains that he can't attach *anything* USB to his machine). The funny thing is, after all that, they let him and other people (sales team, managers, etc) walk out of the front door with their laptops;) Well at least they aren't putting the stuff on an iPod/Camera/Pen !!!
This article is just the latest in a never-ending trend of "danger ! these devices can be used in bad ways" that seem to come out of the security INDUSTRY (go figure). Anyone remember back when email, or even printers were the prime danger ?
Luckily for you, Volvos are legendary in their longevity:)
I wonder though, if there's a simple list out there of all automobiles with a "black box" - I can't find an organized, easy to read list on Google yet, but here's a list of all the supported car models carrying Vehtronics boxes (and the box locations)... and the OEM database for On Board Diagnostics (looks to be very complete). Oh, and some info on pre-1995 models.
Post back if you come across a better listing !
Thanks.
We Rush fans have been preparing for this since 1981 (Ok, technically, we've been preparing for the Big Brother scenario since 1976).
Seriously though, I have a 1968 Ford Galaxie, and my daily driver is a 95 Honda. I only buy used cars (it's the value proposition). I wonder if they'll try to require some sort of retro-fitting on older cars. I'm not sure, but I think the massive steel body of the '68 may be a faraday cage anyway;)
Well, the techie in me believes that you always give a project a secret code name that represents some attribute of the nature of the project... (or is that the evil genius in me)?
I looked around for data on the Oboe (ok, I went right to Google then to the Wiki) and found this intriging entry:
Oboe was a British aerial blind bombing targeting system in World War II, based on radio transponder technology. The system went live in December 1942, about the same time H2S radar was introduced.
Oboe used two stations at different and well-separated locations in England to transmit a signal to a Mosquito pathfinder (RAF) bomber carrying a radio transponder. The transponder reflected the signals, which were then received by the two stations. The round-trip time of each signal gave the distance to the bomber. (continued)
Every good chem student should try to remember, the product of an acid and a base is a salt... and we don't want to be rubbing/injecting salt into a wound now do we ???
I mentioned this in my journal almost 2 years ago (yet another rejected submission:) All links are still good, mostly covering the e-book and fair access for the blind.
There are over 10 million visually impaired people just in the US who are being blinded by the DMCA. On the back page of Software Developer, Warren Keuffel has a commentary (free reg) that summarizes what he found to be issues still brewing over the use of the DMCA to prevent people from implementing technology designed to translate eBooks into Braille. XML is being used now to facilitate the translations of eBooks and other electronic formats and to help disabled people get simple access to reading material that others of us may take for granted. The DMCA effectively blocks many of these new innovations (go figure). Is short, the American Federation for the Blind has sent comments the US Copyright office, Congress is looking at the issue, The Association of American Publishers is fighting it, all the while fair-use and disabled students continue to suffer.
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Really, what paper ? What reporter ? Got a link ?
Um, not to interject here... but have you ever heard of someone refer to being maligned by the truth ?
When someone is maligned, and they say they were maligned, they obviously are not saying that "I must say that, those people are telling you the absolute truth, but however accurate, it's not a nice thing to say about me."
Obviously "to malign" in common usage, by just about everyone everywhere, means lying about someone. And specifically as used in the summary of the main topic here, when they say that republicans are, "the party often maligned for exploiting flaws in electronic systems," they don't means that "obviously it's true that republicans exploit flaws in electronic voting systems" - in fact this means that they believe that it's *not* true.
Hmmm, maybe this whole thread isn't a troll after all, but is in fact predicated on pudgy misunderstanding the word malign ???
The phrase is "jibe with" not "jive with" - as in, "the real journalist made sure his wild accusations did jibe with the facts." That's not an attack, just a simple observation that I'm sure many people have made.
There you go again with that imagination of yours... I wasn't implying fraud, I was implying that you are the type of person who would attack a story because they don't like what it's about, no matter if the story was true or not - that you are a person who doesn't value the truth very much, and that you just react in a knee-jerk fashion to anything negative about the party you identify yourself with. I was implying that you are a fool, not that the republicans commit fraud and the dems are innocent or anything...
There is simply no such implication in the stories, either in the summary here on
The way the story is written, they are simply contrasting the fact that it's a republican fighting the electronic ballots, when in the past, the press usually maligns the republicans for exploiting the parties tight connections with the major electronic voting companies. It's a valid contrast.
p.s. Thanks for just now adding me to your foes list
your accusations against the GOP are not accompanied by any examples of any kind.
Uh, yeah, I see why you failed as a real journalist now. There are no examples listed because I never made any accusations. You certainly do have a twisted little wild imagination... and the complete inability to understand what's plainly stated, oh, and a persecution complex it seems. You should do well in local county poltics
As for the rest of your latest post, it was unintelligable... sorry, I just don't know what to say, other than the AC was right, you refuse to stay on the topic of Maryland Voting Machines, which as a Marylander who is involved and concerned, makes me sad...
You could not be more ignorant about what is really going on here. I am one of the few people actively working on solutions, and I am not blaming anyone for the problems; I am, on the contrary, defending the GOP from blame it doesn't deserve.
... twisted little troll.
Lemme see, I'm ignorant (your favorite word used to label folks who don't agree with you), you are one of the only people in the whole country working on solutions (you're like Superman in that way), you aren't blaming anyone (except for all those links, examples, google suggestions pointing towards Democratic fraud), and you are defending the GOP (again, thank you Superman!) from blame it doesn't deserver (no matter how true the story is).
Hell, on Tuesday, the county elections manager thanked me for what I wrote about the problems with the elections department, the ones I got in the paper about, because she said it was constructive and even-handed, and didn't seek to blame anyone. Oh, but I guess you know more than she does.
If you are in the paper, then you must be a liar, as the paper is where you read about Republican fraud, and those people are liars (not matter how true they story is, because if they don't mention Chicago voter fraud from the 70's, they are biased !!!) Thank you Superman...
Try reading a bit more next time before you display your ignorance.
Ahh, our favorite word again. I will give you this, it's much easier to respond in kind to your random statements (trolls can be fun). I think the anonymous poster above had it right... first you'll malign the responders, then try to change the subject, then claim that they are the ones being off-topic, then you'll bait me into a your name-calling and claim that I should be ignored because I'm biased (which you implied in the parent to this post). Kudos to the AC for calling this one right...
Your big mistake here is that you seek only to malign (and yeah, it usually implies lying) people and confuse any real discussion. Your tendency to cite random incidents, without any real context, appears only to be done in order to try to prove some personal point and had added nothing of value to the discussion. This behavior of yours leads me to think that you may just be another troll, and I probably shouldn't be replying at all here, but many folks in this thread are on my friends list, so it stood out.
Here's the thing, no matter how extremely biased you may be, or how blind you are to reality, and no matter how much you think "the other side" is at fault, what's needed is a solution to the problem. If you work to eliminate the problems with the voting system, then your side wins (you want to win don't you???), if you ignore the problems and play the Blame Game, then you lose (we all lose).
Please give the Blame Game you are playing a break, it's distracting people from talking about solutions...
So let me understand this.. you cite multiple instances of failure of the electronic voting system, then draw the conclusion that because of this, paper ballots will not fix every problem and by implication, that they are not suitable.
As a fellow Baltimoron and computer professional, let me say this. With paper ballots, there are no electronic registration machines to break, no printers to fail, no cards to code (or wait for), no memory cards to lose (or be tamprered with)... I'm a computer guy, and I can tell you from experience that you can't trust that the machines will always work or that they haven't been tampered with. Paper ballot systems do involve machines usually (not that I trust the counters), but at least you have a physical token that you can count by hand if neccessary.
I would put it to you that with paper ballots, you don't NEED to fix the problems caused by machines (duh) and that through it's simplicity, it generates less problems and is entirely recoverable (you can count them by hand if need be, and they don't "crash")
Thank you for posting your experience, it's important to tell folks what's really going on, but I would challenge you on your conclusion there that using paper isn't a reasonable response... it's a method that's been in use for *thousands* of years after all...
He's running for Governor after all... might be good press to see this resolved !
http://www.martinomalley.com/content/26/contact-u
Ok, how about every just start calling these things Web 2.1 an we'll be done with it already...
There's a FireFox extension call YakAlike that does chat per-website. It's still a bit new and could use some enhancing, but if you want to get an idea of what something like this might be like... try it out.
It may not be legal, but it sure is embedded deeply in our customs.
Would this legalize file sharing ? !
How can you determine if they are peaceful or not unless you observe their activities?
Wow, now I get where you are coming from... You are correct, they did trespass, after sending a letter to Lt. Gen. Michael V. Hayden (director of the National Security Agency) requesting a meeting, and after being turned away at the gate (the ASKED to come in, then when denied, they stepped on the dirt next to the base). Do you really think it's fair (in your links) to compare these polite, non-violent, letter-writing, balloon-carrying people to the environmental radicals, some women who broke into a missile silo and had access to a weapon, and a crazy who attacked a plane with an ax ?
By the way, this was a well known group that peacefully demonstrated in the past. To me at least, it sounds like the authorities would rather chase balloons than do the dangerous and important duty they are sworn to do. This is just another case of using the "War on Terror" and sunch nonsense as an EXCUSE to monitor peace activists. Plain and simple.
Here's a few of my favorites:
1) I've seen a few other folks mention it, but it's worth repeating - A computer (keyboard) is not physically fragile, and most programs run just fine even with abusive usage patterns - put another way, you can't hurt the computer just by using it.
2) Computers are not "smart" - they don't know anything, they don't remember anything, they don't know who you are, it's just a tool. I'm sure you could put that more eloquently.
3) Almost every non-computer person I know uses computing term incorrectly, correction, ALL OF THEM do this...
- They use the term "Memory" to mean hard drive space ("my computer has memory left, why won't it go?")
- They use "The Internet" to mean any information they can access via computer.
- They use "hard disk" to mean the CD drive, yeah, I know it's a disk, and I know it's hard... but it's not a hard disk !!!
4) When they have trouble accessing a web page, they say "My computer is broken" - please explain to them that their computer is probably just fine, the site they went to is "down" (yeah, and explain down to them while you are at it).
5) Explain to them how to save, and then FIND files... if I had a nickle for every time someone couldn't find a file that "the computer lost" only to discover it among 200 other "lost" file in 'My Documents', I'de be rich.
Good luck by the way !
I understand what the report says... I guess I'm just at a loss to understand why the spend time putting these folks under surveillance, and how they gathered all the intel that they did... Why aren't they people protecting the country like they are supposed to be doing ?
Do you feel safer knowing that a dozen helium-ballon-wielding peace activists are under control now ???
Yeah, um, I don't exactly know where "loony-land" is, but I'm pretty sure it's not on NSA property. Neither is the location under surveillance in the documents (zoom out, it's Baltimore). Maybe you should re-read the portion from 0940 to 1155 hours ?
By the way, how do you think the NSA 'discovered' that the protest was happening, where they were originating from, who was involved (full names), and when it was taking place - BEFORE the fact ???
Now, while you are obviously very busy being an apologist for people who break the law and violate The Constitution, maybe you can take a moment to consider this - in the wiretapping scandal, all they had to do was to get the requests in front of a judge on a special secret court (no security issue there pal) and they would have been approved. That's it... that's all they had to do to follow the law. Apparently, that was too much of a inconvenience. Respect for the law, my friend - the law enforcement folks have to show it, or no one else will.
This is breaking news in the Baltimore area this morning (and last night). For those of you are are defending Bush for ignoring the courts and ignoring the Constitution, based on the premise that the NSA is "only looking for terrorists" you may be surprised...
From NSA SPIES ON BALTIMORE QUAKERS
Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - FreeMarketNews.com
The National Security Agency has been spying on a Baltimore anti-war group, according to documents released during litigation, going so far as to document the inflating of protesters' balloons, and intended to deploy units trained to detect weapons of mass destruction, RAW STORY has learned. According to the documents, the Pledge of Resistance-Baltimore, a Quaker-linked peace group, has been monitored by the NSA working with the Baltimore Intelligence Unit of the Baltimore City Police Department.
The actual court documents are online
And here's an interview with one of the primaries.
Granted, they didn't through them into Gitmo or anything (yet), but it's interesting because it's in zip code 21212, my own back yard ! (it's true what they say).
I've been in computing for over 25 years now, and I only have one 'hard' rule that I follow - I must have a sharp, clear, monitor with little glare. I used to really like the NEC back in the 90's, and hated the cheap-charlie brands. These days, most anything will do, but they have to be adjusted properly and physically clean (dirty glass is a distraction to the eyes).
As a professional developer, I spend all day at the computer, and as a person, I spend hours every night and weekend staring at a screen... so far I've had no ill effects. My last eye check was a while ago, but it detected no issues.
Simple advice: Always use a good monitor to reduce fatigue, keep it clean and adjusted, and take breaks to do sudoku at regulat intervals
Let's not forget that one of the keys to an efficient free market is the free flow of information. Censoring the MySpace content without notifying the users runs COUNTER to a free market economy.
You need to add a step:
So, yes, as a free maket economy example, the MySpace migration should be interesting, but it's only interesting now that folks know what's going on.
I would argue that what we need here is *regulation* that forces players to divulge information relevant to the market - we have such (SEC) rules in place for the stock market, which is agueably one of the most efficient markets there is.
That's a wonderfully written and thoughtful post (and on
My simple question is, why post it as AC ?
I have heard of a company that does a good job of plugging these types of 'holes' through effective management of the desktop environment... (the guy I know complains that he can't attach *anything* USB to his machine). The funny thing is, after all that, they let him and other people (sales team, managers, etc) walk out of the front door with their laptops
This article is just the latest in a never-ending trend of "danger ! these devices can be used in bad ways" that seem to come out of the security INDUSTRY (go figure). Anyone remember back when email, or even printers were the prime danger ?
Luckily for you, Volvos are legendary in their longevity
I wonder though, if there's a simple list out there of all automobiles with a "black box" - I can't find an organized, easy to read list on Google yet, but here's a list of all the supported car models carrying Vehtronics boxes (and the box locations)... and the OEM database for On Board Diagnostics (looks to be very complete). Oh, and some info on pre-1995 models.
Post back if you come across a better listing !
Thanks.
We Rush fans have been preparing for this since 1981 (Ok, technically, we've been preparing for the Big Brother scenario since 1976).
Seriously though, I have a 1968 Ford Galaxie, and my daily driver is a 95 Honda. I only buy used cars (it's the value proposition). I wonder if they'll try to require some sort of retro-fitting on older cars. I'm not sure, but I think the massive steel body of the '68 may be a faraday cage anyway
Well, the techie in me believes that you always give a project a secret code name that represents some attribute of the nature of the project... (or is that the evil genius in me)?
I looked around for data on the Oboe (ok, I went right to Google then to the Wiki) and found this intriging entry:
Every good chem student should try to remember, the product of an acid and a base is a salt... and we don't want to be rubbing/injecting salt into a wound now do we ???
I mentioned this in my journal almost 2 years ago (yet another rejected submission:) All links are still good, mostly covering the e-book and fair access for the blind.
There are over 10 million visually impaired people just in the US who are being blinded by the DMCA. On the back page of Software Developer, Warren Keuffel has a commentary (free reg) that summarizes what he found to be issues still brewing over the use of the DMCA to prevent people from implementing technology designed to translate eBooks into Braille. XML is being used now to facilitate the translations of eBooks and other electronic formats and to help disabled people get simple access to reading material that others of us may take for granted. The DMCA effectively blocks many of these new innovations (go figure). Is short, the American Federation for the Blind has sent comments the US Copyright office, Congress is looking at the issue, The Association of American Publishers is fighting it, all the while fair-use and disabled students continue to suffer.