I found this entertaining how they are battling themselves into the ground. My favorite quote was bashing Microsoft's regard for security and privacy:
AOL charged that MSN Messenger poses a security risk to its users because they are asked to type in their AOL username and password. "They're goading people to reveal their password just like hackers do,"the AOL spokeswoman said. "We always tell our customers to never give out their passwords. Microsoft is going against what we've tried to do."
Why bother with articles like this? Because issues about security need to be discussed. Its bringing valuable topics that can educate more people about why security is too underrated and how to make it top priority. We need to share more horror stories that are often hidden in fear and shame so people will start to value what a good system can do to protect their resources. Expect to see articles like this many times in the future.
Elected officials vote against privacy of communicition again. Why? To protect little children from terrorists and pedophiles?
I think it is different. They are mostly lawyers. Lack of encryption and privacy causes people to snoop and encourages trouble. Spouses catch another cheating, people in the workplace tattle on eachother over usual human behavior, lawsuits, lawsuits, lawsuits. Lawyers win over any stupid laws passed. They decide the legal rules to ensure their economic success.
Its job security and best for the economy if encryption is restricted to Americans. More chaos is encouraged. It keeps people alert...
Hey, I'm gonna run out and buy two of them thangs. One to monitor the bug zapper, and the other to watch...
Beat you to it. The Redneck Bugzappercam, so grab a six pack, sit back, and watch bugs die a spectacular death in a shocking display. Should I provide a streaming mp3 of them getting nuked?
I need a switch from my parallel port and a perl script so the pinhole cam I was showing off earlier in the day can be seen.
There are places selling infrared cameras. I have seen some in industrial catalogs starting at $5000 that will show electrical lines behind walls in computer enhanced color. They also require big batteries, so I'm sure they have some kind of cooling on the imaging sensor. They are useful for finding bad joints in overhead wiring, substations, electrical boxes, and places where the voltages are undesirable to trace by hand. Most industrial engineering supply catalogs should have them.
Most modern black and white cameras are very sensitive to the red/infra red range. A lit cigarette looks like a spotlight at the camera in the dark. If your company has a no smoking policy and you have cameras, watch out.
Color cameras do not seem to benefit from infrared. I have a ccd b/w and it responds in a most excellent way from infrared led's. The b/w also does a pretty good job under moon light. The color does not see this spectrum and is miserable for night viewing.
I also have a image multiplier (got this one at walmart in the hunting department!) that multiplies light 15,000 times. Its great for scoping wildlife out in the woods and other telephoto lenses will fit it. Just don't use it to try finding your way out of the woods in the dark. I tried and discovered the field of vision was narrow and I tripped over every damn thing in the way!
I'm not sure of current prices, but I looked around and got a Panasonic egg cam kit with the Brooktree chip set (works great with Linux!) for $75 from 10 refurbished models in stock. Pricewatch has similar deals. Anyhow, without the case, this camera makes a fine minature pinhole unit that can hide behind a speck in the wall (see my webcam.) Its video output is the usual ntsc through a RCA jack that can also fit a video recorder. The Brooktree video card will do full motion video up to 30fps in both overlay and screengrab to a file. The driver is built into the recent Linux kernels.
If the frequency is known, you could easily build a simple beam antenna. This would perhaps be quite illegal as the beam would be concentrated, but very effective in long distances of a mile or more away. If its in the gigahertz range, one could make a small horn antenna.
Would having your telomeres longer make you start growing again and sprouting fresh new organs? Look, I'm 9'11" and have four arms. Let's play some basketball! Sounds like it could possibly trigger cancerous cells.
I can relate to ISP's providing service. When I had problems with my ISDN service not working and getting the runnaround from BellSouth for a week and logging 6 hours on my cellphone trying just to get a tech to check out my non service, I gave up and called my ISP Saturday night. They had a few guys over at my house checking the line out and made a few heated calls to the telco. I had a BellSouth repairman from Alabama drive over to my Mississippi house that Sunday morning and the cable to my house was fixed.
What did my ISP charge me? Nothing. It was all in the monthly service and they enjoyed the challenge. BellSouth did not charge me as the problem was on their end, but I ended up with $110 on air time for their insisting it was my problem on my end. An ISP put a stop to that nonsense.
Regulation for opening access to broadband and regulation of a limited frequency band are two different things. In the radio spectrum, there are finite frequencies and every pirate radio operator can saturate the medium until it is noise. With broadband internet, the only thing stiffling the flow is monopoly control by a few players. I am surprised that AOL is pushing for more choice and I think it is great.
Its not like Redhat is going around buying up companies that have patented the door hinge and buying property rights for everything including the basic logic. I do not see Redhat as a company that has better than half their payroll of marketing, lawyers, and contracting firms out to do more of the same. Not only do they develop and release GPL'd code, they pay and even hire others to do it.
People who claim Redhat is the next Microsoft are trolling. Redhat does not have any strongarm leverage to kill free code.
That may cover the net connection, but the monitor has a higher drag coefficient than the boat anchor box. So, you'll need locking connectors. The keyboard is likely to act like a wing and fly in its own direction, requiring it to be bonded to the box. He who has the fastest computer, wins!
I don't know if I'd live that far away from work, but I did used to commute. I used to work in Overland Park, KS and had a SO in Buckner, MO 55 miles away on I435. I also developed a good relationship with my lawyer who helped me keep my driving record clean, despite getting 5 nasty speeding tickets in one year. That was an expensive girlfriend, but it sure felt worth it at the time. I seem to be repeating history as I keep getting into these long distance relationships...
shhh... keep this place a secret! I'd like to keep on buying some good land to enjoy over the years... I'm still starting out and want some for myself. The last thing I need is for property values to skyrocket!
Those were good! Perhaps good enough for . ..might I suggest having a Slashdot online store for these gems? Perfect for door prizes and gag gifts for the local LUGs!
I lived in Kansas City between Mission Hills and the Plaza where the average price of a house was $500,000. For some reason, it was a very boring place to live. Too crowded. Seemed like everyone was in a conspiracy to make the most money and show it. So now I get some land from which I can hunt, fish, and watch the sunsets. Quite a change from the city life!
It might be interesting to have a list of popular parody sites for those times when one wishes to vent agressions toward a particular vendor at that moment.
Too bad the links didn't go anywhere on this one. I thought the humor value of this site was it looked like it was done in a short time and could be done by anyone. Makes me think of what kind of mischef could be had on commercial sites who have no sense of humor. If I didn't have this great big fear of caffeine strung legal departments waiting to send well dressed goons out in Cadillacs and write cease and desist letters...
Cheap place to live? Try Starkville, Mississippi. Bought my house for $6,500. Sure, its a trailer. Tech jobs start at $40,000. Lots of pretty land, hunting and fishing is good. Save that extra money to buy a boat, 4x4 monster truck, a vette, etc... If the cheap housing is too cheap, there are the fine estates that run in the millions. We have cable modem and adsl is on the way.
The clues might be who's surfing your home web pages. Are they just employees of the company? I have seen many HTTP GETs for robots.txt from microsoft.com. I'm not sure if they watch me or have their own search site (I am a boring person and have nothing:)
Sounds like hype with no details how these crystals differ from silicon crystals or its electrical charges are different from CMOS electrical charges. Sounds to me like they just have developed a new semiconductor based on a different crystal structure. Imune to computer viruses, crashes, and other glitches? That sounds like more of a quality of software programming. You can program with hardware, aka PALs and such, but one still needs to program sensible logic, such as disallowing macros in documents, granting root permissions for everyone to change the system, etc.
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I found this entertaining how they are battling themselves into the ground. My favorite quote was bashing Microsoft's regard for security and privacy:
AOL charged that MSN Messenger poses a security risk to its users because they are asked to type in their AOL username and password. "They're goading people to reveal their password just like hackers do,"the AOL spokeswoman said. "We always tell our customers to never give out their passwords. Microsoft is going against what we've tried to do."
If I work at a place that has SMS installed, how do I disable it (short of running Linux?)
Why bother with articles like this? Because issues about security need to be discussed. Its bringing valuable topics that can educate more people about why security is too underrated and how to make it top priority. We need to share more horror stories that are often hidden in fear and shame so people will start to value what a good system can do to protect their resources. Expect to see articles like this many times in the future.
Elected officials vote against privacy of communicition again. Why? To protect little children from terrorists and pedophiles?
I think it is different. They are mostly lawyers. Lack of encryption and privacy causes people to snoop and encourages trouble. Spouses catch another cheating, people in the workplace tattle on eachother over usual human behavior, lawsuits, lawsuits, lawsuits. Lawyers win over any stupid laws passed. They decide the legal rules to ensure their economic success.
Its job security and best for the economy if encryption is restricted to Americans. More chaos is encouraged. It keeps people alert...
Hey, I'm gonna run out and buy two of them thangs. One to monitor the bug zapper, and the other to watch...
Beat you to it. The Redneck Bugzappercam , so grab a six pack, sit back, and watch bugs die a spectacular death in a shocking display. Should I provide a streaming mp3 of them getting nuked?
I need a switch from my parallel port and a perl script so the pinhole cam I was showing off earlier in the day can be seen.
There are places selling infrared cameras. I have seen some in industrial catalogs starting at $5000 that will show electrical lines behind walls in computer enhanced color. They also require big batteries, so I'm sure they have some kind of cooling on the imaging sensor. They are useful for finding bad joints in overhead wiring, substations, electrical boxes, and places where the voltages are undesirable to trace by hand. Most industrial engineering supply catalogs should have them.
Most modern black and white cameras are very sensitive to the red/infra red range. A lit cigarette looks like a spotlight at the camera in the dark. If your company has a no smoking policy and you have cameras, watch out.
Color cameras do not seem to benefit from infrared. I have a ccd b/w and it responds in a most excellent way from infrared led's. The b/w also does a pretty good job under moon light. The color does not see this spectrum and is miserable for night viewing.
I also have a image multiplier (got this one at walmart in the hunting department!) that multiplies light 15,000 times. Its great for scoping wildlife out in the woods and other telephoto lenses will fit it. Just don't use it to try finding your way out of the woods in the dark. I tried and discovered the field of vision was narrow and I tripped over every damn thing in the way!
db wonders why daveo always refers to himself in the third person in all his posts...
Perhaps he has been looking at himself through a pinhole camera all this time?
I'm not sure of current prices, but I looked around and got a Panasonic egg cam kit with the Brooktree chip set (works great with Linux!) for $75 from 10 refurbished models in stock. Pricewatch has similar deals. Anyhow, without the case, this camera makes a fine minature pinhole unit that can hide behind a speck in the wall (see my webcam.) Its video output is the usual ntsc through a RCA jack that can also fit a video recorder. The Brooktree video card will do full motion video up to 30fps in both overlay and screengrab to a file. The driver is built into the recent Linux kernels.
If the frequency is known, you could easily build a simple beam antenna. This would perhaps be quite illegal as the beam would be concentrated, but very effective in long distances of a mile or more away. If its in the gigahertz range, one could make a small horn antenna.
Would having your telomeres longer make you start growing again and sprouting fresh new organs? Look, I'm 9'11" and have four arms. Let's play some basketball! Sounds like it could possibly trigger cancerous cells.
I can relate to ISP's providing service. When I had problems with my ISDN service not working and getting the runnaround from BellSouth for a week and logging 6 hours on my cellphone trying just to get a tech to check out my non service, I gave up and called my ISP Saturday night. They had a few guys over at my house checking the line out and made a few heated calls to the telco. I had a BellSouth repairman from Alabama drive over to my Mississippi house that Sunday morning and the cable to my house was fixed.
What did my ISP charge me? Nothing. It was all in the monthly service and they enjoyed the challenge. BellSouth did not charge me as the problem was on their end, but I ended up with $110 on air time for their insisting it was my problem on my end. An ISP put a stop to that nonsense.
Regulation for opening access to broadband and regulation of a limited frequency band are two different things. In the radio spectrum, there are finite frequencies and every pirate radio operator can saturate the medium until it is noise. With broadband internet, the only thing stiffling the flow is monopoly control by a few players. I am surprised that AOL is pushing for more choice and I think it is great.
Its not like Redhat is going around buying up companies that have patented the door hinge and buying property rights for everything including the basic logic. I do not see Redhat as a company that has better than half their payroll of marketing, lawyers, and contracting firms out to do more of the same. Not only do they develop and release GPL'd code, they pay and even hire others to do it.
People who claim Redhat is the next Microsoft are trolling. Redhat does not have any strongarm leverage to kill free code.
That may cover the net connection, but the monitor has a higher drag coefficient than the boat anchor box. So, you'll need locking connectors. The keyboard is likely to act like a wing and fly in its own direction, requiring it to be bonded to the box. He who has the fastest computer, wins!
I don't know if I'd live that far away from work, but I did used to commute. I used to work in Overland Park, KS and had a SO in Buckner, MO 55 miles away on I435. I also developed a good relationship with my lawyer who helped me keep my driving record clean, despite getting 5 nasty speeding tickets in one year. That was an expensive girlfriend, but it sure felt worth it at the time. I seem to be repeating history as I keep getting into these long distance relationships...
shhh... keep this place a secret! I'd like to keep on buying some good land to enjoy over the years... I'm still starting out and want some for myself. The last thing I need is for property values to skyrocket!
Those were good! Perhaps good enough for . . .might I suggest having a Slashdot online store for these gems? Perfect for door prizes and gag gifts for the local LUGs!
I lived in Kansas City between Mission Hills and the Plaza where the average price of a house was $500,000. For some reason, it was a very boring place to live. Too crowded. Seemed like everyone was in a conspiracy to make the most money and show it. So now I get some land from which I can hunt, fish, and watch the sunsets. Quite a change from the city life!
It might be interesting to have a list of popular parody sites for those times when one wishes to vent agressions toward a particular vendor at that moment.
Too bad the links didn't go anywhere on this one. I thought the humor value of this site was it looked like it was done in a short time and could be done by anyone. Makes me think of what kind of mischef could be had on commercial sites who have no sense of humor. If I didn't have this great big fear of caffeine strung legal departments waiting to send well dressed goons out in Cadillacs and write cease and desist letters...
Cheap place to live? Try Starkville, Mississippi. Bought my house for $6,500. Sure, its a trailer. Tech jobs start at $40,000. Lots of pretty land, hunting and fishing is good. Save that extra money to buy a boat, 4x4 monster truck, a vette, etc... If the cheap housing is too cheap, there are the fine estates that run in the millions. We have cable modem and adsl is on the way.
The clues might be who's surfing your home web pages. Are they just employees of the company? I have seen many HTTP GETs for robots.txt from microsoft.com. I'm not sure if they watch me or have their own search site (I am a boring person and have nothing:)
/robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 200 317 /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 200 317 /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 304 - /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 200 317 /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 304 - /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 200 317
tide76.microsoft.com - - [20/Jun/1999:05:26:59 -0500] "GET
tide73.microsoft.com - - [21/Jun/1999:20:56:10 -0500] "GET
tide77.microsoft.com - - [21/Jun/1999:23:59:47 -0500] "GET
tide72.microsoft.com - - [23/Jun/1999:14:56:47 -0500] "GET
tide76.microsoft.com - - [23/Jun/1999:20:50:39 -0500] "GET
tide77.microsoft.com - - [24/Jun/1999:04:00:11 -0500] "GET
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Sounds like hype with no details how these crystals differ from silicon crystals or its electrical charges are different from CMOS electrical charges. Sounds to me like they just have developed a new semiconductor based on a different crystal structure. Imune to computer viruses, crashes, and other glitches? That sounds like more of a quality of software programming. You can program with hardware, aka PALs and such, but one still needs to program sensible logic, such as disallowing macros in documents, granting root permissions for everyone to change the system, etc.
Hype, hype, hype, no juicy details.
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