Ability to intercept an SR-71: Belenko states the Mig-25 cannot intercept the SR-71 for several reasons: The SR-71 fly too high and too fast; the Mig cannot reach it or catch it. The missiles lack the velocity to overtake the SR-71 and in the event of a head on missile fire (The Golden BB), the Guidance system cannot adjust to the high closure rate of the SR-71.
This is correct. When Belenko defected by flying his Foxbat to Japan in 1976, the US got a chance to inspect the plane up close and all of the mis/dis-information about the platform became apparent.
Interesting thing was that the entire F-15 program was geared towards countering the capabilities of the Foxbat.
The interface to the PC is USB. How long would it really take to rip and encode a CD, transfer it to your RipGo via USB and burn a miniCDR? I'm guessing it would take quite a bit longer than a couple hours to rip/encode/transfer/burn $400 worth of CDs.
I got into them the same way. My son asked for one because a lot of his classmates were reading it. We got a copy from the library and started reading it (I was _sure_ it was going to be crap).
It wasn't. I have to say the 1st book isn't as good as the second, nor the second as good at the third, etc. By the time you get to Goblet of Fire, the characters have developed quite a bit and the story had grown much darker.
>"What's the appeal of these childish stories to grown, sophisticated adults?".
Probably depends if you have any kids of your own. I enjoyed reading these to/with my son (5-6 at the time we started) and I think they actually have a fairly good deal of appeal to adults as well.
Here's a suggestion: Get one out of the library, invest 1/2 hour of your time to read the first chapter and decide for yourself. I'm not saying you are guaranteed to like it, but maybe give it a try before you equate it to Sesame Street.
Personally, I am more looking forward to the Harry Potter movie than ATOC anyway. Call it a children's movie if you like, but the series of books are actually a very enjoyable read (well, when read aloud to a child anyway) and I'm in hopeful anticipation of a good movie (Alan Rickman as Snape looks like a good cast and one of the highlights).
>MPAA will find out that Mr. Joe American rewatched The Weakest
Please forgive a possibly dumb question, but why would the Motion Picture Association give a rat's ass about what TV show you are decrypting? And dear lord please tell me people have better things to do than spend $$$$ on a HDTV just to watch "Weakest Link"!!!
Guy at work told me a story where his son had installed something on his new Dell and the thing would stall during boot and he would get as far as seeing the desktop wallpaper but no icons or taskbar.
He called Dell, they had him boot with the rescue CD (still in the shrink-wrap, this guy is alright but he's not a PC expert). From there the tech had him go to the go-back menu and restore the reg from the day before his son installed the offending game. Saved his bacon with a minimum of intervention.
Now, you can of course argue that the OS shouldn't have croaked like this in the first place, and I wouldn't argue at all - but this is a vast improvement over 'reinstall windows'.
No, I'm not disagreeing with the fact that boradband cable is the way to go. I am a fairly satisfied internet over cable customer.
My lack of confidence is not in the technology, but in AT&T's ability to provide that technology on an ongoing basis without mis-managing it into the ground.
Fixed wireless was supposed to be AT&T's silver bullet to circumvent the local telco and regain the local customer market. There is nothing wrong with the technology. It can't compete with cable broadband and AT&T was supposedly going to position it in markets where they did not have a TCI/MediaOne acquisition.
They screwed the pooch. I'm hesitant to be near the next pooch that gets violated.
"Digital Broadband" (fixed wireless) was also deployed by AT&T as a local phone service. People switched over from their local telco to AT&T and now will have to switch back.
AT&T has similarly offered local phone service in my area over cable. I have cast a very skeptical eye towards this offering, not because of the potential for higher cost or lower quality, but because of AT&T's propensity to launch into new services, fail to make money and then cut their losses leaving the customer high and dry.
No, I don't agree (that there is a simple solution).
When you have no real choice in what OS is installed in the new Dell you buy for Johhny for Christmas your alternative is to not buy a PC (if you even know the difference between XP or ME or whatever).
This is the monopoly leverage that Microsoft wields. Sure, the vast number of people who are able to build their own PC's have a choice. I've got to think that this is a pretty small minority of people who will end up with a new PC in the next 12 months.
>Actually company's can't simply make up [policies]
Sure they can.
>those policy's have to be in writing by law
They are.
>And they have to give you notice.
They do.
If the company institutes a new policy, they send an email to everyone, the internal website is updated, and a copy is posted in the kitchen areas for 60 days. If the policy is something you can't live with, you are free to quit.
When you sign on, you agree to this. You are given a booklet with all of the current policies and the employment contract you sign says they are allowed to institute new policies as they see fit, they are obligated to notify you in a timely fashion and you are obligated to comply if you want to keep your job.
Of course, if lots of people quit and gave the new policy as the reason, they might have to review their policies, but short of body-cavity searches this isn't likely to become a big enough deal among the average workers.
ONE PIECE AT A TIME
Written by W. Kemp
Recorded by Johnny Cash on 3/5/76
Number one - County Chart; Number 29 - Pop Chart
Well, I left Kentucky back in '49
An' went to Detroit workin' on a 'sembly line
The first year they had me puttin' wheels on cadillacs
Every day I'd watch them beauties roll by
And sometimes I'd hang my head and cry
'Cause I always wanted me one that was long and black.
One day I devised myself a plan
That should be the envy of most any man
I'd sneak it out of there in a lunchbox in my hand
Now gettin' caught meant gettin' fired
But I figured I'd have it all by the time I retired
I'd have me a car worth at least a hundred grand.
I was 12 when I remember this playing on my dad's AM radio in his brand new '76 Torino
"Um, yeah. I was, like um, playing this game... and, uh, it like totally froze one me in the middle of a level? And then, like the screen turned all blue and junk, and all these really freaky little numbers and letters came up? And dude, it like totally SUCKS because I was RIGHT in the middle of a totally awesome part of this game, right?"
"Ok sir, can I please please have your CC # which will be billed $30 for this incident?"
"wha?"
"I need you credit card before I can issue a trouble ticket for this incident."
"...but it like totally crapped out on me, dude! I'm not gonna pay $30 bucks just to TALK to you?!"
"Sir, if Microsoft can determine that the fault does not lie on you end, you will be refunded your technical support incident fee."
You might be able to bring a wrongful dismissal suit against them if you can prove that your terms of employment did not include submitting to security searches, or that the searches were unreasonable. Good luck, though.
My building has several tenants and my company is not the one doing the searches. The building management hires the security firm and they are the ones that (with the agreement of the tenants) have instituted the increased security measures.
People who balk at having their bags searched as they arrive/leave are being told that their options are to not bring bags, or don't come to work. Employees have complained to HR, but the response has been 'this is now company policy to cooperate with building management and security. your signed employment agreement says that you will abide by all company policies of face termination. have a nice day.'
My response is that I don't bring my laptop or lunch to work anymore. The net result is that I get less work done. I don't take stuff home at night, and I don't site at my desk and eat lunch. Actually, this has worked out in my favor since I get to enjoy my evenings/lunchours much more.
If my company says that I have to just deal with the inevitable fact of searches if I'm going to stay employed, then my company has to just deal with the fact that they are going to get a little less work out of me as a result.
(reposting this as/. made the last one appear as AC)
>You can firewall for this and you can firewall for that, but you might not be able to firewall for "exploit x" unless you know what it is
Isn't that the reverse of how a firewall actually should be set up? My limited experience has been that you start by blocking everything, and then open holes for just the things that need to get through. If you leave it open, and then attempt to run around blocking things as you become aware of them, it almost defeats the purpose, doesn't it?
Oh, while this is good news that 2.5 is here (early perhaps, by some of the talk of "early next spring" that I had been hearing), there is one small drawback (for me, at least).
These upgrades disrupt some of the hacks that can be done. The system has two 'duplicate' root partitions which are used to switch over the machine to new software versions. Any hacks you have applied (as in daily call over Cable via PPP, in my case) have to be re-applied.
I found this out when my recorder went from 1.3 to 2.01 shortly after I got it to work in the first place. I had been eyeing TiVo for a long time and finally decided to get a Sony unit last month and to put a 75GB second drive in it right away.
I ran the unit through enough of the setup to test the modem, as was suggested in the FAQ; but I found that my TiVo was totally unable to perform the second setup call after I had installed the second drive. I looked around to see what I could do to troubleshoot the modem, but nothing worked and it started to look like the thing was just fscked.
I thought I was screwed (can't return it for a new one after voiding the warranty) until I found mention of the PPP hack in the FAQ and gave that a try. It worked great... for about 2 days until the thing upgraded itself to 2.01 and all the things I'd done like getting bash to run and doing the daily call through my Cable were gone.
Apparently, the TiVo had two root partitions that are used to switch software versions. I had to open the machine up again, attach the A drive to my PC and go through the setup again.
I guess I'll be doing that again as soon as this upgrade gets delivered.
Are you talking about that New York Times article?
Rice asked the networks not to air videotaped statements from bin Laden in their entirety.
The five major television news organizations reached a joint agreement yesterday to follow the suggestion of the White House and abridge any future videotaped statements from Osama bin Laden or his followers to remove language the government considers inflammatory.
The five news organizations, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, along with its subsidiary, MSNBC, the Cable News Network and the Fox News Channel all had broadcast, unedited, a taped message from Mr. bin Laden on Sunday. On Tuesday, the all-news cable channels, CNN, Fox News and MSNBC, also carried the complete speech of a spokesmen for Al Qaeda.
...Ms. Rice mainly argued that the tapes enabled Mr. bin Laden to vent propaganda intended to incite hatred and potentially kill more Americans.
The executives said that they would broadcast only short parts of any tape issued by Al Qaeda and would eliminate any passages containing flowery rhetoric urging violence against Americans. They agreed to accompany the tapes with reports providing what they called appropriate context.
Basically, they asked them not to give al Qaeda open access to worldwide news broadcasts by playing 20-minute taped messages over and over.
Not all of AT&T Broadband's customers are affected, including those who live in areas served by MediaOne before AT&T's acquisition.
I live in a Chicago suburb that was MediaOne beore AT&T Broadband. I had MediaOne Express service still up until just last month when AT&T started converting us to @Home. In fact, I'm pretty sure they are still in the middle of doing this.
We got a call at our house late last night from AT&T asking if we had already been switched. I'm not sure what that means. One possibility that comes to mind is if we hadn't yet switched, they might have wanted to let us know not to try to switch over now (the customer initiates the switchover by downloading and installing the @Home "software" which turns out to be some utilities that change your network settings and test your connection after you reboot.)
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>Comparing a Mig-25 to a SR-71 is ludicrous
Mig-25 "FoxBat Vs The SR-71 "Blackbird"
Ability to intercept an SR-71: Belenko states the Mig-25 cannot intercept the SR-71 for several reasons: The SR-71 fly too high and too fast; the Mig cannot reach it or catch it. The missiles lack the velocity to overtake the SR-71 and in the event of a head on missile fire (The Golden BB), the Guidance system cannot adjust to the high closure rate of the SR-71.
This is correct. When Belenko defected by flying his Foxbat to Japan in 1976, the US got a chance to inspect the plane up close and all of the mis/dis-information about the platform became apparent.
Interesting thing was that the entire F-15 program was geared towards countering the capabilities of the Foxbat.
>I do think the drugs had started to kick in nicely by the end.
what could you possibly mean? Oh, maybe this...
If you are not making content for Barbie dolls today, you should start real soon.
I wonder how well that would work, though.
The interface to the PC is USB. How long would it really take to rip and encode a CD, transfer it to your RipGo via USB and burn a miniCDR? I'm guessing it would take quite a bit longer than a couple hours to rip/encode/transfer/burn $400 worth of CDs.
I thought the same thing when I first saw this. Mini CDR isn't as rare as you might think (doesn't Sony make a stand-alone mixer/burner?)
here's a site with media for sale ranging from $0.79 each (100 on a spindle for $79) to $1.09 each in jewel cases (pack of 5 for $10.90).
I got into them the same way. My son asked for one because a lot of his classmates were reading it. We got a copy from the library and started reading it (I was _sure_ it was going to be crap).
It wasn't. I have to say the 1st book isn't as good as the second, nor the second as good at the third, etc. By the time you get to Goblet of Fire, the characters have developed quite a bit and the story had grown much darker.
>"What's the appeal of these childish stories to grown, sophisticated adults?".
Probably depends if you have any kids of your own. I enjoyed reading these to/with my son (5-6 at the time we started) and I think they actually have a fairly good deal of appeal to adults as well.
Here's a suggestion: Get one out of the library, invest 1/2 hour of your time to read the first chapter and decide for yourself. I'm not saying you are guaranteed to like it, but maybe give it a try before you equate it to Sesame Street.
Personally, I am more looking forward to the Harry Potter movie than ATOC anyway. Call it a children's movie if you like, but the series of books are actually a very enjoyable read (well, when read aloud to a child anyway) and I'm in hopeful anticipation of a good movie (Alan Rickman as Snape looks like a good cast and one of the highlights).
>MPAA will find out that Mr. Joe American rewatched The Weakest
Please forgive a possibly dumb question, but why would the Motion Picture Association give a rat's ass about what TV show you are decrypting? And dear lord please tell me people have better things to do than spend $$$$ on a HDTV just to watch "Weakest Link"!!!
>Guess it's uncrackable, just like DVD encryption.
Yah, maybe someone will leave the encryption keys under the welcome mat just like Xing did.
hmmm... my mozilla 0.9.5 (under w2k pro) just got the message offering to let me download IE.
OEM tech support must love this, tho.
Guy at work told me a story where his son had installed something on his new Dell and the thing would stall during boot and he would get as far as seeing the desktop wallpaper but no icons or taskbar.
He called Dell, they had him boot with the rescue CD (still in the shrink-wrap, this guy is alright but he's not a PC expert). From there the tech had him go to the go-back menu and restore the reg from the day before his son installed the offending game. Saved his bacon with a minimum of intervention.
Now, you can of course argue that the OS shouldn't have croaked like this in the first place, and I wouldn't argue at all - but this is a vast improvement over 'reinstall windows'.
No, I'm not disagreeing with the fact that boradband cable is the way to go. I am a fairly satisfied internet over cable customer.
My lack of confidence is not in the technology, but in AT&T's ability to provide that technology on an ongoing basis without mis-managing it into the ground.
Fixed wireless was supposed to be AT&T's silver bullet to circumvent the local telco and regain the local customer market. There is nothing wrong with the technology. It can't compete with cable broadband and AT&T was supposedly going to position it in markets where they did not have a TCI/MediaOne acquisition.
They screwed the pooch. I'm hesitant to be near the next pooch that gets violated.
heh, ever play Outpost?
Methinks there was a recent sequel, have to stop by EB this weekend and look for it..
"Digital Broadband" (fixed wireless) was also deployed by AT&T as a local phone service. People switched over from their local telco to AT&T and now will have to switch back.
AT&T has similarly offered local phone service in my area over cable. I have cast a very skeptical eye towards this offering, not because of the potential for higher cost or lower quality, but because of AT&T's propensity to launch into new services, fail to make money and then cut their losses leaving the customer high and dry.
No, I don't agree (that there is a simple solution).
When you have no real choice in what OS is installed in the new Dell you buy for Johhny for Christmas your alternative is to not buy a PC (if you even know the difference between XP or ME or whatever).
This is the monopoly leverage that Microsoft wields. Sure, the vast number of people who are able to build their own PC's have a choice. I've got to think that this is a pretty small minority of people who will end up with a new PC in the next 12 months.
>Actually company's can't simply make up [policies]
Sure they can.
>those policy's have to be in writing by law
They are.
>And they have to give you notice.
They do.
If the company institutes a new policy, they send an email to everyone, the internal website is updated, and a copy is posted in the kitchen areas for 60 days. If the policy is something you can't live with, you are free to quit.
When you sign on, you agree to this. You are given a booklet with all of the current policies and the employment contract you sign says they are allowed to institute new policies as they see fit, they are obligated to notify you in a timely fashion and you are obligated to comply if you want to keep your job.
Of course, if lots of people quit and gave the new policy as the reason, they might have to review their policies, but short of body-cavity searches this isn't likely to become a big enough deal among the average workers.
ONE PIECE AT A TIME
Written by W. Kemp
Recorded by Johnny Cash on 3/5/76
Number one - County Chart; Number 29 - Pop Chart
Well, I left Kentucky back in '49
An' went to Detroit workin' on a 'sembly line
The first year they had me puttin' wheels on cadillacs
Every day I'd watch them beauties roll by
And sometimes I'd hang my head and cry
'Cause I always wanted me one that was long and black.
One day I devised myself a plan
That should be the envy of most any man
I'd sneak it out of there in a lunchbox in my hand
Now gettin' caught meant gettin' fired
But I figured I'd have it all by the time I retired
I'd have me a car worth at least a hundred grand.
I was 12 when I remember this playing on my dad's AM radio in his brand new '76 Torino
"Microsoft technical support... can I help you?"
"Um, yeah. I was, like um, playing this game... and, uh, it like totally froze one me in the middle of a level? And then, like the screen turned all blue and junk, and all these really freaky little numbers and letters came up? And dude, it like totally SUCKS because I was RIGHT in the middle of a totally awesome part of this game, right?"
"Ok sir, can I please please have your CC # which will be billed $30 for this incident?"
"wha?"
"I need you credit card before I can issue a trouble ticket for this incident."
"...but it like totally crapped out on me, dude! I'm not gonna pay $30 bucks just to TALK to you?!"
"Sir, if Microsoft can determine that the fault does not lie on you end, you will be refunded your technical support incident fee."
"&*(%$# you #@&*$% " (click)
>you should be able to refuse being searched
/. made the last one appear as AC)
Absolutely. And they can refuse to employ you.
You might be able to bring a wrongful dismissal suit against them if you can prove that your terms of employment did not include submitting to security searches, or that the searches were unreasonable. Good luck, though.
My building has several tenants and my company is not the one doing the searches. The building management hires the security firm and they are the ones that (with the agreement of the tenants) have instituted the increased security measures.
People who balk at having their bags searched as they arrive/leave are being told that their options are to not bring bags, or don't come to work. Employees have complained to HR, but the response has been 'this is now company policy to cooperate with building management and security. your signed employment agreement says that you will abide by all company policies of face termination. have a nice day.'
My response is that I don't bring my laptop or lunch to work anymore. The net result is that I get less work done. I don't take stuff home at night, and I don't site at my desk and eat lunch. Actually, this has worked out in my favor since I get to enjoy my evenings/lunchours much more.
If my company says that I have to just deal with the inevitable fact of searches if I'm going to stay employed, then my company has to just deal with the fact that they are going to get a little less work out of me as a result.
(reposting this as
>You can firewall for this and you can firewall for that, but you might not be able to firewall for "exploit x" unless you know what it is
Isn't that the reverse of how a firewall actually should be set up? My limited experience has been that you start by blocking everything, and then open holes for just the things that need to get through. If you leave it open, and then attempt to run around blocking things as you become aware of them, it almost defeats the purpose, doesn't it?
Oh, while this is good news that 2.5 is here (early perhaps, by some of the talk of "early next spring" that I had been hearing), there is one small drawback (for me, at least).
These upgrades disrupt some of the hacks that can be done. The system has two 'duplicate' root partitions which are used to switch over the machine to new software versions. Any hacks you have applied (as in daily call over Cable via PPP, in my case) have to be re-applied.
I found this out when my recorder went from 1.3 to 2.01 shortly after I got it to work in the first place. I had been eyeing TiVo for a long time and finally decided to get a Sony unit last month and to put a 75GB second drive in it right away.
I ran the unit through enough of the setup to test the modem, as was suggested in the FAQ; but I found that my TiVo was totally unable to perform the second setup call after I had installed the second drive. I looked around to see what I could do to troubleshoot the modem, but nothing worked and it started to look like the thing was just fscked.
I thought I was screwed (can't return it for a new one after voiding the warranty) until I found mention of the PPP hack in the FAQ and gave that a try. It worked great... for about 2 days until the thing upgraded itself to 2.01 and all the things I'd done like getting bash to run and doing the daily call through my Cable were gone.
Apparently, the TiVo had two root partitions that are used to switch software versions. I had to open the machine up again, attach the A drive to my PC and go through the setup again.
I guess I'll be doing that again as soon as this upgrade gets delivered.
>How is this a good thing?
I think he is talking about the news the the RIAA has 'backed down' being a "good thing".
Are you talking about that New York Times article?
_ u_ s_request_networks_agree_to_edit_future_bin_laden_ tapes_1.html
Rice asked the networks not to air videotaped statements from bin Laden in their entirety.
The five major television news organizations reached a joint agreement yesterday to follow the suggestion of the White House and abridge any future videotaped statements from Osama bin Laden or his followers to remove language the government considers inflammatory.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nyt/20011011/ts/at
The five news organizations, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, along with its subsidiary, MSNBC, the Cable News Network and the Fox News Channel all had broadcast, unedited, a taped message from Mr. bin Laden on Sunday. On Tuesday, the all-news cable channels, CNN, Fox News and MSNBC, also carried the complete speech of a spokesmen for Al Qaeda.
...Ms. Rice mainly argued that the tapes enabled Mr. bin Laden to vent propaganda intended to incite hatred and potentially kill more Americans.
The executives said that they would broadcast only short parts of any tape issued by Al Qaeda and would eliminate any passages containing flowery rhetoric urging violence against Americans. They agreed to accompany the tapes with reports providing what they called appropriate context.
Basically, they asked them not to give al Qaeda open access to worldwide news broadcasts by playing 20-minute taped messages over and over.
The article says:
Not all of AT&T Broadband's customers are affected, including those who live in areas served by MediaOne before AT&T's acquisition.
I live in a Chicago suburb that was MediaOne beore AT&T Broadband. I had MediaOne Express service still up until just last month when AT&T started converting us to @Home. In fact, I'm pretty sure they are still in the middle of doing this.
We got a call at our house late last night from AT&T asking if we had already been switched. I'm not sure what that means. One possibility that comes to mind is if we hadn't yet switched, they might have wanted to let us know not to try to switch over now (the customer initiates the switchover by downloading and installing the @Home "software" which turns out to be some utilities that change your network settings and test your connection after you reboot.)