Hey, I didn't say that the standard method of secret messaging should be used, that of emitting a coded contrail over the entire country so the recipient can't be detected.
Probing all the linux systems to get the name and address of everybody running linux. Expect a letter from their lawyers asking for the new Sco/Linux License fee.
They could simply send the letter to every company with more than 100 employees. Some of their tech support staff will be running Linux at work or at home -- thus all that the company is doing is a deriverative work of Unix.
It's a scheme that would also work quite nicely for people living under repressive regimes that want to be able to communicate with human-rights orgs without leaving a trail of bread crumbs back to themselves or their correspondents.
Not when their repressive regimes are watching the attention-getting junk trying to get out of their routers, blocking it and tracking those bread crumbs back.
I preferred the Earth Core Scanner which found the formation at the center of the Earth's core. But as it consists of all the seismographs on the Earth's surface, it is only as portable as the Earth is.
So report this problem to all those financial companies with which you were going to communicate, as they might push it back out to their law enforcement helpers. If your data did travel through the trap, say you need fraud protection. If your data is not at risk, tell them that you can't do business with them due to this problem.
If there is another ISP, start switching. Tell your financial institutions you can't do business with them online until your switchover is complete. Even if they don't think your activity is worth much worry, they may be concerned about how many other people are doing the same thing -- and increasing their costs by requiring more manual processing.
Or if a federally-protected financial company is involved, report your problem to the FBI as a financial fraud issue. The FBI and local police get involved in bank robberies (although the FBI has cut back, multiple banks being affected should help get their attention).
Or report to the federal, state, and local authorities who protect or enforce those institutions. SEC? Federal Reserve (money exchange)? Federal account insurance? Bank's insurance company?
Did any of your financial institutions issue you a card with the logo of a credit card company? Report to that company that their service is in danger from this source.
He could have asked the tech support person for their name (or an alias, cubicle number, internal extension phone number) and an issue password (like "carnation in label") for identifying your conversation. Or just agree that your problem description will be "Jones said the 800 number in New York had 1,543 callers." (if "Jones" is someone's name he'll be asked about the message)
Then simply file a tech support report which does not describe the problem in a way which would inform a listener, and mention the above name and password so that person can brief someone inside the office.
you validate that specification against what the user wants
That won't always specify the right program for the application. In one project I was assigned to code a user interface from a nicely detailed specification. When the project team then sent me to test it at the customer site there were many complaints from the users. It was obvious to me that the specification did not match how the users actually did their work.
Apparently some group had designed the user interface to have the computer tell the user what work to do next, but the users actually decided what to do and needed to be able to tell the computer what had been done (although the computer could offer suggestions of what needed to be done).
Well, SCO at least can't claim "trade secret" about anything (including algorithms!) in "Ancient UNIX". The OpenSource.Org examination points out that SCO is not stating which protections have been violated: patent, copyright, trade secret...
You might be interested in "Healing ADD" by Daniel G. Amen.
He used SPECT brain imaging to watch brain activity in his ADHD patients. He found six different types of ADHD brain activity patterns, and different behavior with them. It's a fascinating idea, actually monitoring the mental patterns and being able to see the results of various treatments.
I was driving across Iowa at 2 AM a couple of years ago when I noticed the car behind me was approaching amazingly quickly. He roared past, and then I could see the light bar on top. Three miles ahead, he turned on his light bar and pulled over the speeder that he had been catching up with. Wide open freeway, two lanes in each direction, about one mile between cars.
It's just fine with me for a trained officer to be speeding in sparse traffic, on land where he can put himself in the median if he has to, so he doesn't encourage idiots to try to run away when they see red lights five miles behind them -- and so innocent drivers aren't put at risk by pulling over to the side of the road at 2 AM (as they are required to do when flashing red/blue lights with siren approach them), and even merely so innocent drivers at 65 MPH aren't blinded by flashing lights at night.
And there are many police officers waiting to write you a ticket for "obscured plates".
Even if the silly licence plate cover is on the wrong plate, doesn't affect viewing from any angle, doesn't stop reflected laser light or radar, or looks stupid. (Why a ticket if the cover doesn't affect viewing? If state law says nothing can cover the plate, what else can you expect? Like people who put red neon decorative lights on a car in a state which reserves red and blue lights for police cars.)
I don't know if a scanner with sufficient resolution exists (I haven't examined scientific scanning devices).
Assume the needed scanner does not exist.
We can't examine something that does not exist.
We don't know whether that imaginary scanner can detect CD data dots.
Self-fullfilling prophecy clause: If a scanner is designed to have the ability to read the image of a CD, it obviously will use optics which are able to read the CD.
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Hey, I didn't say that the standard method of secret messaging should be used, that of emitting a coded contrail over the entire country so the recipient can't be detected.
And real soon now they are expected to have a DNS which is ready for use in the enterprise.
They could simply send the letter to every company with more than 100 employees. Some of their tech support staff will be running Linux at work or at home -- thus all that the company is doing is a deriverative work of Unix.
Different hosts get different odd data.
Mine keeps getting "HELP ME! I'M BEING FORCED TO EXAMINE ALL THE TRAFFIC ON THE INTERNET!"
The parity bit is the data. The other 50K is just stuff to make the parity have the desired value.
Not when their repressive regimes are watching the attention-getting junk trying to get out of their routers, blocking it and tracking those bread crumbs back.
I preferred the Earth Core Scanner which found the formation at the center of the Earth's core. But as it consists of all the seismographs on the Earth's surface, it is only as portable as the Earth is.
Imagine holding your breath while the bag full of water is on your face.
SSN didn't use to mean anything, and printed on the card was a reminder that it was not identification.
So report this problem to all those financial companies with which you were going to communicate, as they might push it back out to their law enforcement helpers. If your data did travel through the trap, say you need fraud protection. If your data is not at risk, tell them that you can't do business with them due to this problem.
If there is another ISP, start switching. Tell your financial institutions you can't do business with them online until your switchover is complete. Even if they don't think your activity is worth much worry, they may be concerned about how many other people are doing the same thing -- and increasing their costs by requiring more manual processing.
Or if a federally-protected financial company is involved, report your problem to the FBI as a financial fraud issue. The FBI and local police get involved in bank robberies (although the FBI has cut back, multiple banks being affected should help get their attention).
Or report to the federal, state, and local authorities who protect or enforce those institutions. SEC? Federal Reserve (money exchange)? Federal account insurance? Bank's insurance company?
Did any of your financial institutions issue you a card with the logo of a credit card company? Report to that company that their service is in danger from this source.
Then simply file a tech support report which does not describe the problem in a way which would inform a listener, and mention the above name and password so that person can brief someone inside the office.
That won't always specify the right program for the application. In one project I was assigned to code a user interface from a nicely detailed specification. When the project team then sent me to test it at the customer site there were many complaints from the users. It was obvious to me that the specification did not match how the users actually did their work.
Apparently some group had designed the user interface to have the computer tell the user what work to do next, but the users actually decided what to do and needed to be able to tell the computer what had been done (although the computer could offer suggestions of what needed to be done).
Bender, Computer Operator.
Well, SCO at least can't claim "trade secret" about anything (including algorithms!) in "Ancient UNIX". The OpenSource.Org examination points out that SCO is not stating which protections have been violated: patent, copyright, trade secret...
Just what I was thinking. The glowing fish would be the first thing eaten, so their genes would not last long in the wild.
Just a sec,
I've got to bring a heckler from under the bridge.
He used SPECT brain imaging to watch brain activity in his ADHD patients. He found six different types of ADHD brain activity patterns, and different behavior with them. It's a fascinating idea, actually monitoring the mental patterns and being able to see the results of various treatments.
If( speed > 100 ) /* We're about to crash anyway */
{ airbag(deploy); }
I was driving across Iowa at 2 AM a couple of years ago when I noticed the car behind me was approaching amazingly quickly. He roared past, and then I could see the light bar on top. Three miles ahead, he turned on his light bar and pulled over the speeder that he had been catching up with. Wide open freeway, two lanes in each direction, about one mile between cars.
It's just fine with me for a trained officer to be speeding in sparse traffic, on land where he can put himself in the median if he has to, so he doesn't encourage idiots to try to run away when they see red lights five miles behind them -- and so innocent drivers aren't put at risk by pulling over to the side of the road at 2 AM (as they are required to do when flashing red/blue lights with siren approach them), and even merely so innocent drivers at 65 MPH aren't blinded by flashing lights at night.
Even if the silly licence plate cover is on the wrong plate, doesn't affect viewing from any angle, doesn't stop reflected laser light or radar, or looks stupid. (Why a ticket if the cover doesn't affect viewing? If state law says nothing can cover the plate, what else can you expect? Like people who put red neon decorative lights on a car in a state which reserves red and blue lights for police cars.)
What if a volcano blasts a mountain of uranium into the air? What if your nearest coal-burning power plant releases 13 tons of uranium and thorium a year?
One advantage of Landsat data is its synoptic coverage. Basically, the "camera" is always at the same place and shadows are the same.
The "Gates" in the name of this firm is not the "Gates" of Microsoft. William H. Gates