There was a car bomb outside the state department according to MSNBC. Powell is on his way back.
American Airlines flight 11 from Boston was the first plane. It was a Boeng 767 200. It was hijacked near Albany at 8:28 am (according to flight path information). Just before hijacking the the speed gets very erratic.
"Freedom itself was attacked, and freedom shall be protected" President Bush said from Barksdale. It is the closest military base to Florida with complete military communications which provide links to all aspects of the US military (including nuclear weaponry).
President Bush is returning from a flight to Florida. He is calling it "apparent terrorist attack" and ordered a full scale investigation.
This attack is the most deadly attack on the U.S. mainland in modern history.
All government buildings in Washington are closed. All "tall buildings" are being evacuated. All commercial flights are grounded. (anyone have info on commuter or small-engine flights?)
All planes appear to have been hijacked, one from Boston and one from Washington.
That is all I know from reputable sources. It appears there may have been futher explostions, but whether they were seperate attacks or not is unclear.
"There was no advance warning of this," the official said on condition of anonymity. (Reuters)
I find that hard to believe. I'm still waiting to hear from friends -- all circuts are busy both on land and cell lines.
I'm not sure whether I'm a fan of anarchy or not. But the current market conditions along with the energy crisis in California seem to be stirring unrest. Rolling blackouts have begun in California (I got out of my Comp Sci class...) and the enconomy is *plunging*. As security systems go down (both physical and network) people may sieze the opportunity to "make a buck".
Does the combination of economy sucking and energy crisis worry anyone else?
The lifetime of CD-ROMs is unknown, as the discs have not been in existence long enough for us to study and understand the mechanisms by which they wear out.
It is often possible to predict the lifetime of a product (or a key component of a product) by subjecting it to accelerated life testing--that is, by increasing the stress on the component until it fails. It is not clear, however, which stresses will lead to failure, or if increasing the stress accurately predicts what happens at the end of a component's life.
The disc of a CD-ROM is made of polycarbonate plastic and an encapsulated thin, reflective layer of aluminum. The digital information on the disc is imprinted in that aluminum layer. There are a number of possible wear-out mechanisms that could damage or destroy the information on a compact disc. Ultraviolet light can alter the optical properties of the polycarbonate plastic; cold flow of the plastic could lead to mechanical distortion of the disc; and oxidation could impair the readability of the aluminum reflective layer.
Practically speaking, the most likely wear-out mechanism for CD-ROMs will be the changing technology of data storage. Long before the disc itself becomes unreadable, it is likely that the CD-ROM will be replaced by a new medium and that it will not be possible to find a CD-ROM reader, except perhaps in a museum."
I completely agree with the importance of "problem solving". I'm a "new learner" becoming "comp. sci. student" simply because, like chromatic says, "People in this [new learner] category often don't know where to turn." But one thing I can do -- I can algorithmicly solve just about every problem I've had to deal with. I've done some work with one of my friends, who is a Flash "programmer". I now know ActionScripting fairly well, but originally I would write the "psuedo code" and he'd implement it.
All of that to say...it's not easy, or at least it wasn't for me, to find a mentor. I guess I still don't have a mentor, I just finess projects untill they're *relatively* bullet-proof. For example, I just did an infix-to-postfix lab, in which we had to use stack implementation. After finishing the program, I fed it it's own source code, and it didn't crash. Now, that's not *elite* or anything, but for those of us that "drift", it's the best we can do.
It would be nice if there was a way to get in touch with people who want to mentor hungry students. If there is anyone who is interested, my e-mail is joecool12321@yahoo.com.
I'm contiunously amazed at people who think that free information stifles creativity and innovation.
Perhaps "open source is an intellectual-property destroyer", but I fail to see how stifling creativity follows from the above statemnt.
The unquestionable truth is that whenever there is open exchange of ideas, innovation grows without bound. For example, the Holy Wars of Europe brought a spread of ideas which led directly to the Renaissance. Guttenberg's printing press also led to the "free exchange of ideas" -- books were cheap! Those that adapted to the new society survived, and used information as a tool, rather than trying to stifle its creation.
I think open-source follows in much the same vein: a cheap, widely available spread of ideas, which brings together disparate concepts into a new and technologically advancing arena.
That Microsoft fails to recognize the benefits of open-source only serves to show their soon-outdated concepts of society. Will they fall quickly? I doubt it, but I think history shows that innovation thrives on the spread of ideas which the open source concept embraces.
Every time I go to the bank I have to deal with "nickel-plated steel balls interconnected by thin rods". I wish I would have realized that within lied secrets to the universe.
I'm no infosec wizard, but I believe it's not actually that hard to "Snoop from the comfort of the house across the street".
For quite some time the technolgy has been around to avoid a "middle of the night" break-in by Big Brother. A Dutch scientist by the name of Wim van Eck published a paper entitled "Electromagnetic Radiation from Video Display Units: An Eavesdropping risk?" which was published in the "Computers & Security" journal. In it he talks about electromagnetic emmissions from CRT's which can be intercepted, reconstructed, and viewed from a remote location.
I understand why wireless tools increase risk, but we the people cannot forget that what we read, what we write, whatever appears on our computer monitors *can* be intercepted.
Again, I'm no infosec wizard, and I'm still learning a lot, but I believe TEMPEST (Transient ElectroMagnetic Pulse STandard) standards(reduntant?) detailed in NACSIM 5100A (a document classified by the NSA) tell the amount of shielding necessary. But...if we knew how to protect ourselves -- we couldn't be watched.
What I'm trying to say is -- although new standards present new troubles, don't forget about the dangers out there now.
Perhaps the reason the CD was created in an open format is because technology rarely succeeds if it is not created for the masses. For example, the MiniDisk, also by Sony, is technically superior to the CD, but it is not an open format, it's proprietary to Sony. And it has failed. If the CD was not created in an open format, it would have faced the same difficulties. The CD wasn't GUARANTEED to succeed, just like BETA wasn't guaranteed to succeed, just like the MiniDisk isn't succeeding.
According to the article, "The levies would likely be paid by the manufacturers and passed on to consumers when they purchased the computer equipment or telephones."
This is rediculous, charging the companies that make hardware for *crimes* that the users commit. That'd be like a company suing slashdot for something I said (hmmm....)
But seriously, this is punishment for uncommited crimes. It's a punishment simply for the ability to commit a crime. That's like putting people who buy guns in jail, simply because the might shoot someone. Or for putting a person who can drive in jail because they could hit a pedestrian.
That this is even a possibility is rediculous, and another example of the music industry wanting money for everything. I can't wait untill I get sued because I was humming a song to which I don't have the cd.
I think the costs are higher than corporations are willing to admit. I don't know about virus' specificly, but in "Information Warfare" by Winn Schwartau (I think I spelled his last name correctly) he talks about the damage bugs in general do to business. If they admited to the public that there were such problems, their stock integrity would drop drastically.
I think changing the name does change people's perception. I'm inherently less afraid of DCS1000 than of Carnivore.
What's more frightening to me is that government is realizing the importance of the name on perception. It means watchdogs have much more work. I know I would be less likely to question "DCS1000" than I am to question Carnivore. So now we need to be watching for everything -- we can't use the name as a filter for what we question. I know this is a frightening change in government action, and when they start censoring words (more than they do now) I'm leaving.
I'm glad were spending millions of dollars to research
The Handgrip Dynamometer
(HGD) is a stowable hand held device capable of measuring instantaneous hand strength as a function of time. The principle components of the HGD are a handgrip, instrumentation amplifier, and associated cables. Dynamic voltage representing instantaneous hand strength is taken from the output of the instrumentation amplifier and sent to a laptop computer or to a data acquisition system for data manipulation, display, correlation with other data sources, and/or storage.
Which basically means we get to watch astronauts use a vice grip.
Yes, I know there is valid research going on...I think
I can't believe I put that in my subjet heading...
This could be great. It's been shown by Balents and Decker that by creating a single nanotube, with a natural junction where a straight section joined to a helical section created a rectifying diode--a half-transistor in a single molecule. That spells speed, baby! (see what happens when you don't sleep for a week...)
One of the problems, though, is not making the tubes small, but making them clean (that is, non-nested) But on the bright side even messy mixtures of multiwalled tubes are good at field emission--they emit electrons under the influence of an electrical field. And field emission is the force behind flat-panel displays. So maybe a t.v. in my cell phone (and people drive poorly when they *talk* on cell phones...)
But in the short term, perhaps the most applicable realm for nanotubes is materials science. NASA spends huge amounts of money trying to make materials stronger. But right now the tubes are too expensive, and it's been dificult to magnify thier properties over large scales.
And a million dollars isn't that much money for reasearch in this area...
My point is that *most* people are reasonable. You can't expect your rights to be handed to you on a silver platter. If that was the case, America wouldn't have needed a revolution. You need to stand up for your rights when they are being squashed. In past cases, people have acted foolishly by not responding. But in this case, the Respondant acted within the rules, and his rights were upheld
The moral of this story is to react in an educated manner when your rights are violated. Don't let *them* walk all over you and then complain when you have nothing left.
You're right...my logic failed me. I'd bet we see faster than 60fps, though, because I can see flicker at that rate. Hmmm..that does make sense. Then why do we want faster refresh rates?
That's an interesting arguement. I think I agree that cultural and linguistic differences between regions will affect the development of Linux.
I think one great argument in your favor is the existance of languages in the first place. We have a spread of information and ideas, but languages still exist. The flavors of Linux portray to a certain extent the cultures in which they are used, and as Linux is used more and more, those differences will be magnified.
Any arguments against the eventual "localization" of Linux must explain why Linux can survive cultural and linguistic differences that make languages in the first place, imho.
Your eyes see much faster than 60fps. I'm not sure what they see at, but to prove this point: wave your finger in front of your monitor -- you see the strobe behind it. Now wave your finger in front of a constant light source, like a white piece of paper -- no strobe. The strobe is because you see faster than 60 fps (or 85 with my monitor).
This outcome isn't necessarily breaking with the tradition of WIPO. In the case of Guinness it is stated that: "The Panel does not infer that "-sucks" domain names are immune from scrutiny as being confusingly similar to trademarks to which they are appended. Each case must be considered in light of the facts presented. "
In the Guinness case, the Respondent never responded, and was so unable to present facts affecting the outcome of the decision. Time and again, the panel says, "In the absence of a Response..."
In the Wal-Mart case, again the Respondent never Responed. And he also was attempting to sell the domain name, which constitutes bad faith. This is not the case in the Lockheed decision.
In the Lockheed decision, the Respondent responded in a timely manner and argued in a well-thought out manner.
It's nice to see some people still listen to logic.
Slashdot Mirror
American Airlines flight 11 from Boston was the first plane. It was a Boeng 767 200. It was hijacked near Albany at 8:28 am (according to flight path information). Just before hijacking the the speed gets very erratic.
"Freedom itself was attacked, and freedom shall be protected" President Bush said from Barksdale. It is the closest military base to Florida with complete military communications which provide links to all aspects of the US military (including nuclear weaponry).
This attack is the most deadly attack on the U.S. mainland in modern history.
All government buildings in Washington are closed. All "tall buildings" are being evacuated. All commercial flights are grounded. (anyone have info on commuter or small-engine flights?)
All planes appear to have been hijacked, one from Boston and one from Washington.
That is all I know from reputable sources. It appears there may have been futher explostions, but whether they were seperate attacks or not is unclear.
"There was no advance warning of this," the official said on condition of anonymity. (Reuters)
I find that hard to believe. I'm still waiting to hear from friends -- all circuts are busy both on land and cell lines.
--Joey
Does the combination of economy sucking and energy crisis worry anyone else?
It is often possible to predict the lifetime of a product (or a key component of a product) by subjecting it to accelerated life testing--that is, by increasing the stress on the component until it fails. It is not clear, however, which stresses will lead to failure, or if increasing the stress accurately predicts what happens at the end of a component's life.
The disc of a CD-ROM is made of polycarbonate plastic and an encapsulated thin, reflective layer of aluminum. The digital information on the disc is imprinted in that aluminum layer. There are a number of possible wear-out mechanisms that could damage or destroy the information on a compact disc. Ultraviolet light can alter the optical properties of the polycarbonate plastic; cold flow of the plastic could lead to mechanical distortion of the disc; and oxidation could impair the readability of the aluminum reflective layer.
Practically speaking, the most likely wear-out mechanism for CD-ROMs will be the changing technology of data storage. Long before the disc itself becomes unreadable, it is likely that the CD-ROM will be replaced by a new medium and that it will not be possible to find a CD-ROM reader, except perhaps in a museum."
All of that to say...it's not easy, or at least it wasn't for me, to find a mentor. I guess I still don't have a mentor, I just finess projects untill they're *relatively* bullet-proof. For example, I just did an infix-to-postfix lab, in which we had to use stack implementation. After finishing the program, I fed it it's own source code, and it didn't crash. Now, that's not *elite* or anything, but for those of us that "drift", it's the best we can do.
It would be nice if there was a way to get in touch with people who want to mentor hungry students. If there is anyone who is interested, my e-mail is joecool12321@yahoo.com.
--Joey
Perhaps "open source is an intellectual-property destroyer", but I fail to see how stifling creativity follows from the above statemnt.
The unquestionable truth is that whenever there is open exchange of ideas, innovation grows without bound. For example, the Holy Wars of Europe brought a spread of ideas which led directly to the Renaissance.
Guttenberg's printing press also led to the "free exchange of ideas" -- books were cheap! Those that adapted to the new society survived, and used information as a tool, rather than trying to stifle its creation.
I think open-source follows in much the same vein: a cheap, widely available spread of ideas, which brings together disparate concepts into a new and technologically advancing arena.
That Microsoft fails to recognize the benefits of open-source only serves to show their soon-outdated concepts of society.
Will they fall quickly? I doubt it, but I think history shows that innovation thrives on the spread of ideas which the open source concept embraces.
Every time I go to the bank I have to deal with "nickel-plated steel balls interconnected by thin rods". I wish I would have realized that within lied secrets to the universe.
For quite some time the technolgy has been around to avoid a "middle of the night" break-in by Big Brother. A Dutch scientist by the name of Wim van Eck published a paper entitled "Electromagnetic Radiation from Video Display Units: An Eavesdropping risk?" which was published in the "Computers & Security" journal. In it he talks about electromagnetic emmissions from CRT's which can be intercepted, reconstructed, and viewed from a remote location.
I understand why wireless tools increase risk, but we the people cannot forget that what we read, what we write, whatever appears on our computer monitors *can* be intercepted.
Again, I'm no infosec wizard, and I'm still learning a lot, but I believe TEMPEST (Transient ElectroMagnetic Pulse STandard) standards(reduntant?) detailed in NACSIM 5100A (a document classified by the NSA) tell the amount of shielding necessary. But...if we knew how to protect ourselves -- we couldn't be watched.
What I'm trying to say is -- although new standards present new troubles, don't forget about the dangers out there now.
--Joey
Perhaps the reason the CD was created in an open format is because technology rarely succeeds if it is not created for the masses. For example, the MiniDisk, also by Sony, is technically superior to the CD, but it is not an open format, it's proprietary to Sony. And it has failed. If the CD was not created in an open format, it would have faced the same difficulties. The CD wasn't GUARANTEED to succeed, just like BETA wasn't guaranteed to succeed, just like the MiniDisk isn't succeeding.
This is rediculous, charging the companies that make hardware for *crimes* that the users commit. That'd be like a company suing slashdot for something I said (hmmm....)
But seriously, this is punishment for uncommited crimes. It's a punishment simply for the ability to commit a crime. That's like putting people who buy guns in jail, simply because the might shoot someone. Or for putting a person who can drive in jail because they could hit a pedestrian.
That this is even a possibility is rediculous, and another example of the music industry wanting money for everything. I can't wait untill I get sued because I was humming a song to which I don't have the cd.
I think the costs are higher than corporations are willing to admit. I don't know about virus' specificly, but in "Information Warfare" by Winn Schwartau (I think I spelled his last name correctly) he talks about the damage bugs in general do to business. If they admited to the public that there were such problems, their stock integrity would drop drastically.
But I think the spam that program generated was more intellegent than regular spam...someone will notice.
What's more frightening to me is that government is realizing the importance of the name on perception. It means watchdogs have much more work. I know I would be less likely to question "DCS1000" than I am to question Carnivore. So now we need to be watching for everything -- we can't use the name as a filter for what we question. I know this is a frightening change in government action, and when they start censoring words (more than they do now) I'm leaving.
The Handgrip Dynamometer
(HGD) is a stowable hand held device capable of measuring instantaneous hand strength as a function of time. The principle components of the HGD are a handgrip, instrumentation amplifier, and associated cables. Dynamic voltage representing instantaneous hand strength is taken from the output of the instrumentation amplifier and sent to a laptop computer or to a data acquisition system for data manipulation, display, correlation with other data sources, and/or storage.
Which basically means we get to watch astronauts use a vice grip.
Yes, I know there is valid research going on...I think
This could be great. It's been shown by Balents and Decker that by creating a single nanotube, with a natural junction where a straight section joined to a helical section created a rectifying diode--a half-transistor in a single molecule. That spells speed, baby! (see what happens when you don't sleep for a week...)
One of the problems, though, is not making the tubes small, but making them clean (that is, non-nested) But on the bright side even messy mixtures of multiwalled tubes are good at field emission--they emit electrons under the influence of an electrical field. And field emission is the force behind flat-panel displays. So maybe a t.v. in my cell phone (and people drive poorly when they *talk* on cell phones...)
But in the short term, perhaps the most applicable realm for nanotubes is materials science. NASA spends huge amounts of money trying to make materials stronger. But right now the tubes are too expensive, and it's been dificult to magnify thier properties over large scales.
And a million dollars isn't that much money for reasearch in this area...
The moral of this story is to react in an educated manner when your rights are violated. Don't let *them* walk all over you and then complain when you have nothing left.
-1d4 to intelligence
I think one great argument in your favor is the existance of languages in the first place. We have a spread of information and ideas, but languages still exist. The flavors of Linux portray to a certain extent the cultures in which they are used, and as Linux is used more and more, those differences will be magnified.
Any arguments against the eventual "localization" of Linux must explain why Linux can survive cultural and linguistic differences that make languages in the first place, imho.
But it's nice to see more and more companies (or at least one) approaching business with an open-source mindset.
Your eyes see much faster than 60fps. I'm not sure what they see at, but to prove this point: wave your finger in front of your monitor -- you see the strobe behind it. Now wave your finger in front of a constant light source, like a white piece of paper -- no strobe. The strobe is because you see faster than 60 fps (or 85 with my monitor).
This outcome isn't necessarily breaking with the tradition of WIPO. In the case of Guinness it is stated that: "The Panel does not infer that "-sucks" domain names are immune from scrutiny as being confusingly similar to trademarks to which they are appended. Each case must be considered in light of the facts presented. "
In the Guinness case, the Respondent never responded, and was so unable to present facts affecting the outcome of the decision. Time and again, the panel says, "In the absence of a Response..."
In the Wal-Mart case, again the Respondent never Responed. And he also was attempting to sell the domain name, which constitutes bad faith. This is not the case in the Lockheed decision.
In the Lockheed decision, the Respondent responded in a timely manner and argued in a well-thought out manner.
It's nice to see some people still listen to logic.