So what you are telling me is that we are talking about 4.4 billion faxes sent over four years? That's about 3 million faxes per day. 2092 faxes per minute. Solid. Does fax.com even have that kind of capacity???
PS I hope my math is right, or I run the risk of sounding like an utter fool. My apoligies if this is so. However, my point is that 2.2 trillion is bigger than the GNP of most countries. Regardless of how many faxes were sent, it's not a realistic number.
Um, I hate spammers as much as anyone else, but 2.2 trillion dollars? Does anyone realize what an ungodly amount of money that is? That's just beyond all credibility. This idiot will be lucky if it doesn't get thrown out of court. It reminds me of a playground, where one kid breaks the other kid's toy, and the kid who's toy it is yells "I'm gonna sue you for a trillion dollars!!!!" Well same thing here.
But not as good as the $100 TRILLION the relatives of 9/11 victims are going for against various Saudi interests. If you ask me, this ridiculous lawsuit does nothing but dishonor the memories of the victims, and gives me the impression that their relatives are trying to squeeze as much cash as possible out of the tragedy. I swear, everyone in the US has totally lost it.
At 300 feet apart you should just be able to set up some WAP's near the walls of the buildings and they should be able to see each other. You might not even need to worry about putting them next to windows. At work I have a WAP in a warehouse full of CNC machines and metal racks with brass parts sitting on them, and I still get a strong signal all the way across the building, even through the walls of the office. Granted, that's about 150 feet away, but remember this is coming though microwaves' worst enemy: metal.
And to think, Peek-A-Booty was developed for people who live under oppressive governments censoring the web. If things go the RIAA's way, and I think they can pay enough judges to make it happen, we'll be needing it ourselves. How ironic. Land of the free and home of the brave, eh? Or, should that be land of the pretend-to-be-free and home of corporate interests?
Then it would be wise to take a picture of it, in order to enjoy it as you rot away in jail for the rest of your natural life:) Hell, charges are being pressed against people for pointing out network vulnerabilities, imagine what the feds would do to you if you h4x0r3d their GPS sats and offset the coordinates. If you can do something like that, you should go for bigger things than your neighbor's petunias.
It's so l33t. For Systems Administrators Day my sister baked a bunch of cookies, and gave me a 2L bottle of Mountain Dew. Not to mention, the cute girl in the office sent me a HAPPY ADMINISTRATORS DAY greeting in 72pt red font. Can it get any better?
Our tax dollars hard at work. Let's see, it doesn't work on buried mines, only ones on the surface. Ok. In a situation where you'd find mines or cluster bombs on the surface, there would presumably be lots and lots of them to blow up. So what's going to happen, they're going to sit in that thar hum-vee and spend all day zapping them one by one? And even then, why do you need high-power laser. I mean, the thing gets real hot and eats power for lunch. You'd probably be good for 10 shots or so before having to go back to base and recharge. It'd be a lot better, easier, and cheaper to replace that laser with a weapon that shot explosive projectiles. Or even better, why bother shooting them at all? It works only against the mines you can see. You could use a mini concussion device (like those Cave Busters we used to flush out Osama, just much smaller, so they could be fired by, say, a mortar launcher) and trigger the explosives that way. Damn, what was the military thinking when they let these guys talk them into this laser system. I can already see the brass..."Coooool. Laaaaaserrrs. Shiiiiny. Preeeetty."
An anonymous donor is going to give up $200,000 to hack up the X-Box and put Linux on it, something which in my opinion can provide no financial return no matter which way you look at it. Such a hack is so geared towards the geek crowd that there's no way it could serve to sell significantly more X-Boxes. This story is smoke and mirrors, and the only way I would believe it is if this $200K was placed in escrow and could be verified by any parties wishing to participate. If you believe this, I've got some prime real estate in Florida I would like to sell to you. Dirt cheap.
It states that a person is guilty of an offence if they cause, or intend to cause, 'degradation, failure or other impairment of function of a computerised system.'"
*insert Microsoft joke here*
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I noticed that, too. The author of the article clearly has no idea what he's talking about regarding Linux. Not only that, this guy seems to think that Linux was supposed to replace the Windows desktop overnight. Linux hasn't replaced Windows = Linux is a failure? I think not. We're at a point now where people are starting to hear about Linux more and more in the media and will start wondering what it is. The techno savvy of those will download and install it and start to play around. The more of these people there are, the more software developers will pay attention to Linux, and start writing Linux counterparts for their Windows programs.
People do not care about technology, they only care about what it can do for them. It doesn't matter if they use X or Windows or MacOS, it comes down to what's compatible with everyone else, what it can do, and at what price. As Linux/X becomes more and more compatible with Microsoft wares, we are are going to see more and more desktop replacements. Interestingly enough, I believe Microsoft has actually sped up this adaptation with their new licensing structure.
Are "techies" really that big of a proportion of his audience to have an effect like what Moby is talking about? This is entirely speculation on his part. CD-R's are everywhere. My mom can burn a CD. Maybe people just don't like the album. The effect he's seeing is probably interest in his music shifting to other areas. His music has a certain niche, it's not lowest-common-denomonator assembly line music for everyone from 5-year olds to their parents like, say, Bratney or N'suck.
From the article, it appears that Palladium relies too much on software/hardware components that support it. If there is a break in the chain, the whole thing falls apart. And given the fact that Microsoft now wants yearly dues, will any IS managers want to think about locking themselves in with a product like this, even considering the possible benefits? It makes sense for Microsoft though...It seems to me their grip is starting to loosen, and what better way to get it back then to develop a completely "secure" platform that will work ONLY with Microsoft products, all the way down to the hardware level?
Good point, but they are talking as if they could PREVENT the bomb explosion from happening by jamming. My problem is with the fact that they are trying to use this as one of the justifications for jamming. Granted, there are a couple of instances I could think of in which jamming would work in preventing a bomb from being triggered (bomb expects a key in a transmission and the jammer just happens to be broadcasting on the frequency it's using) but it's so unlikely that it makes for a lousy argument. I honestly don't see what they hope to accomplish by doing this.
"It could be used, for example, if there was threat of a detonation of some type of a remote-controlled device. We could jam the frequencies to make sure nobody could send a signal to that bomb."
Those oh-so-funny Canadians. Let's go over what it means to "jam" a signal. Quite simply, it is "stepping" on a radio signal of a certain frequency with a more powerful transmission, making it like trying to whisper to someone over a bullhorn. A remote-controlled bomb does not necessarily have to have a code in the transmission, the reciever could simply be expecting a rather strong signal on a certain frequency. Now if the RCMP and their nice powerful antennas start running up and down the radio spectrum trying to jam all kinds of frequencies, well...They could quite easily set such a bomb off themselves. That is ASSUMING that they are even allowed to jam frequencies outside of normal communications, which a bomb would most certainly not be tuned to. This argument of preventing a remote controlled bomb from exploding is completlely bogus. This is yet another example of a goverment overextending their power in the name of terrorists lurking around every corner. It would seem the terrorists have gotten what they wanted out of 9/11, to turn the West into a giant police state where the government can do whatever the hell they want, and pass it off as their efforts to "protect" us.
Well look at it this way; it's been speculated that the CBDTPA will make Linux, and most free software, illegal because of the inane requirements it puts on software regarding DRM. So what happens if Disney's animation department runs on nothing but Linux? All of this news we are seeing about all these big companies and governments adopting Linux could not have come at a better time. It will certainly serve to take the thunder out of the CBDTPA once said big companies realize that their platform will be outlawed, and some of them are the same companies slipping money to congress to get these ridiculous laws passed. Perhaps your theory of an implosion is not so far off. One could not imagine a better paradox.
If it's theft of components he's worried about, it just _might_ be easier for a thief to take the box.
WTF is the point of this? Where's the debate? Where's the cool factor? Many, many cases have intrusion detection switches built in already, and certainly the only place they would really be useful is in a large network, where an administrator would want to know if someone besides him has been cracking the cases. Perhaps Slashdot has implemented a randomizer to select submissions?
I remember my BBS days pretty fondly. WWIV. Naughty.GIF's from McHenry BBS. Tradewars. Foodfite. HST gods. User meets. Entire forums dedicated to Wing Commander. Squeezing every possible byte out of conventional memory with QEMM. HSLink (the coolest BBS xfer protocol of all time.) The Anarchist's Cookbook. ANSI art. The list goes on.... There's one BBS user meet I remember in particular, there was quite a rarity on one of the boards I was on, a girl who went by the handle "Jessica Rabbit", well one day she showed up to a user meet and looked the part. She could barely move around for all the geeks surrounding her. It was quite the sight. And when there weren't such, um, distractions around we'd chow down on pizza and talk shop, kind of like at a modern LAN party, but less competitive:) Good times. It's strange, and I must be a total geek, but sometimes I'll sift through my ancient files I still have from back then, or maybe some old games or even hardware from that era I have in a few boxes upstairs and remember those days as if I was an old man looking though his high school yearbook. I remember moments in my life based on what kind of hardware I had at the time or what games I was playing, is that weird or what?
Satellite won't be a viable broadband/phone solution anytime in the near future, mostly because:
a) Satellites are expensive to launch. If you thought the price of DSLAMs was bad....
b) They aren't exactly easy to upgrade with new, faster technology
c) Bandwidth is too limited for a widespread and bandwidth hogging activities such as local telephone and Internet service. Increasing bandwidth runs you into problems with a) and b)
I would instead say that land-based wireless is the future, for these reasons:
a) Cost of infrastructure is mimimal, at least compared to running fiber underground
b) The technology is here, and it works.
c) Easy to upgrade. No need to worry that the cables you spent billions of dollars running can't carry your super duper new broadband speeds.
Of course the problems with this are mostly range, obstructions, and interference. But last I checked DSL was subject to the same things, just in different ways (18000 ft limit, RSU's, and crosstalk, respectively. Throw in phone company stupidity as an added bonus)
I've heard rumblings of talk about "flying wings" taking over satellite functions, but at a much lower cost and much easier maintenance. I'm not well versed on the details, but this article should explain what I am trying to say.
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Supersaturated Countrytime Lemonade...That's some funny stuff. I think I'll try that out :)
So what you are telling me is that we are talking about 4.4 billion faxes sent over four years? That's about 3 million faxes per day. 2092 faxes per minute. Solid. Does fax.com even have that kind of capacity???
PS
I hope my math is right, or I run the risk of sounding like an utter fool. My apoligies if this is so. However, my point is that 2.2 trillion is bigger than the GNP of most countries. Regardless of how many faxes were sent, it's not a realistic number.
Um, I hate spammers as much as anyone else, but 2.2 trillion dollars? Does anyone realize what an ungodly amount of money that is? That's just beyond all credibility. This idiot will be lucky if it doesn't get thrown out of court. It reminds me of a playground, where one kid breaks the other kid's toy, and the kid who's toy it is yells "I'm gonna sue you for a trillion dollars!!!!" Well same thing here.
But not as good as the $100 TRILLION the relatives of 9/11 victims are going for against various Saudi interests. If you ask me, this ridiculous lawsuit does nothing but dishonor the memories of the victims, and gives me the impression that their relatives are trying to squeeze as much cash as possible out of the tragedy. I swear, everyone in the US has totally lost it.
At 300 feet apart you should just be able to set up some WAP's near the walls of the buildings and they should be able to see each other. You might not even need to worry about putting them next to windows. At work I have a WAP in a warehouse full of CNC machines and metal racks with brass parts sitting on them, and I still get a strong signal all the way across the building, even through the walls of the office. Granted, that's about 150 feet away, but remember this is coming though microwaves' worst enemy: metal.
And to think, Peek-A-Booty was developed for people who live under oppressive governments censoring the web. If things go the RIAA's way, and I think they can pay enough judges to make it happen, we'll be needing it ourselves. How ironic. Land of the free and home of the brave, eh? Or, should that be land of the pretend-to-be-free and home of corporate interests?
And they're great for opening beer bottles in a pinch!
Then it would be wise to take a picture of it, in order to enjoy it as you rot away in jail for the rest of your natural life :)
Hell, charges are being pressed against people for pointing out network vulnerabilities, imagine what the feds would do to you if you h4x0r3d their GPS sats and offset the coordinates. If you can do something like that, you should go for bigger things than your neighbor's petunias.
I thought about it. I decided that you are anal rentenative.
It's so l33t. For Systems Administrators Day my sister baked a bunch of cookies, and gave me a 2L bottle of Mountain Dew. Not to mention, the cute
girl in the office sent me a HAPPY ADMINISTRATORS DAY greeting in 72pt red font. Can it get any better?
CompuServe tried to do this with .GIF. We all know what happened with that.
Why did they paint the car red? I would have picked blue with white text.
Our tax dollars hard at work. Let's see, it doesn't work on buried mines, only ones on the surface. Ok. In a situation where you'd find mines or cluster bombs on the surface, there would presumably be lots and lots of them to blow up. So what's going to happen, they're going to sit in that thar hum-vee and spend all day zapping them one by one? And even then, why do you need high-power laser. I mean, the thing gets real hot and eats power for lunch. You'd probably be good for 10 shots or so before having to go back to base and recharge. It'd be a lot better, easier, and cheaper to replace that laser with a weapon that shot explosive projectiles.
Or even better, why bother shooting them at all? It works only against the mines you can see. You could use a mini concussion device (like those Cave Busters we used to flush out Osama, just much smaller, so they could be fired by, say, a mortar launcher) and trigger the explosives that way. Damn, what was the military thinking when they let these guys talk them into this laser system. I can already see the brass..."Coooool. Laaaaaserrrs. Shiiiiny. Preeeetty."
An anonymous donor is going to give up $200,000 to hack up the X-Box and put Linux on it, something which in my opinion can provide no financial return no matter which way you look at it.
Such a hack is so geared towards the geek crowd that there's no way it could serve to sell significantly more X-Boxes. This story is smoke and mirrors, and the only way I would believe it is if this $200K was placed in escrow and could be verified by any parties wishing to participate. If you believe this, I've got some prime real estate in Florida I would like to sell to you. Dirt cheap.
It states that a person is guilty of an offence if they cause, or intend to cause, 'degradation, failure or other impairment of function of a computerised system.'"
*insert Microsoft joke here*
I noticed that, too. The author of the article clearly has no idea what he's talking about regarding Linux. Not only that, this guy seems to think that Linux was supposed to replace the Windows desktop overnight. Linux hasn't replaced Windows = Linux is a failure? I think not. We're at a point now where people are starting to hear about Linux more and more in the media and will start wondering what it is. The techno savvy of those will download and install it and start to play around. The more of these people there are, the more software developers will pay attention to Linux, and start writing Linux counterparts for their Windows programs.
People do not care about technology, they only care about what it can do for them. It doesn't matter if they use X or Windows or MacOS, it comes down to what's compatible with everyone else, what it can do, and at what price. As Linux/X becomes more and more compatible with Microsoft wares, we are are going to see more and more desktop replacements. Interestingly enough, I believe Microsoft has actually sped up this adaptation with their new licensing structure.
Are "techies" really that big of a proportion of his audience to have an effect like what Moby is talking about? This is entirely speculation on his part. CD-R's are everywhere. My mom can burn a CD. Maybe people just don't like the album. The effect he's seeing is probably interest in his music shifting to other areas. His music has a certain niche, it's not lowest-common-denomonator assembly line music for everyone from 5-year olds to their parents like, say, Bratney or N'suck.
From the article, it appears that Palladium relies too much on software/hardware components that support it. If there is a break in the chain, the whole thing falls apart. And given the fact that Microsoft now wants yearly dues, will any IS managers want to think about locking themselves in with a product like this, even considering the possible benefits?
It makes sense for Microsoft though...It seems to me their grip is starting to loosen, and what better way to get it back then to develop a completely "secure" platform that will work ONLY with Microsoft products, all the way down to the hardware level?
Good point, but they are talking as if they could PREVENT the bomb explosion from happening by jamming. My problem is with the fact that they are trying to use this as one of the justifications for jamming.
Granted, there are a couple of instances I could think of in which jamming would work in preventing a bomb from being triggered (bomb expects a key in a transmission and the jammer just happens to be broadcasting on the frequency it's using) but it's so unlikely that it makes for a lousy argument. I honestly don't see what they hope to accomplish by doing this.
"It could be used, for example, if there was threat of a detonation of some type of a remote-controlled device. We could jam the frequencies to make sure nobody could send a signal to that bomb."
Those oh-so-funny Canadians. Let's go over what it means to "jam" a signal. Quite simply, it is "stepping" on a radio signal of a certain frequency with a more powerful transmission, making it like trying to whisper to someone over a bullhorn. A remote-controlled bomb does not necessarily have to have a code in the transmission, the reciever could simply be expecting a rather strong signal on a certain frequency. Now if the RCMP and their nice powerful antennas start running up and down the radio spectrum trying to jam all kinds of frequencies, well...They could quite easily set such a bomb off themselves. That is ASSUMING that they are even allowed to jam frequencies outside of normal communications, which a bomb would most certainly not be tuned to. This argument of preventing a remote controlled bomb from exploding is completlely bogus. This is yet another example of a goverment overextending their power in the name of terrorists lurking around every corner. It would seem the terrorists have gotten what they wanted out of 9/11, to turn the West into a giant police state where the government can do whatever the hell they want, and pass it off as their efforts to "protect" us.
Well look at it this way; it's been speculated that the CBDTPA will make Linux, and most free software, illegal because of the inane requirements it puts on software regarding DRM. So what happens if Disney's animation department runs on nothing but Linux? All of this news we are seeing about all these big companies and governments adopting Linux could not have come at a better time. It will certainly serve to take the thunder out of the CBDTPA once said big companies realize that their platform will be outlawed, and some of them are the same companies slipping money to congress to get these ridiculous laws passed. Perhaps your theory of an implosion is not so far off. One could not imagine a better paradox.
If it's theft of components he's worried about, it just _might_ be easier for a thief to take the box.
WTF is the point of this? Where's the debate? Where's the cool factor? Many, many cases have intrusion detection switches built in already, and certainly the only place they would really be useful is in a large network, where an administrator would want to know if someone besides him has been cracking the cases. Perhaps Slashdot has implemented a randomizer to select submissions?
This is especially rich after reading this.
Somewhere, deep underneath the surface of the ocean in the Pacific Basin...
*snip*
"Oops"
Hmm...Wonder what THAT fiber splicer would charge per hour?
I remember my BBS days pretty fondly. WWIV. Naughty .GIF's from McHenry BBS. Tradewars. Foodfite. HST gods. User meets. Entire forums dedicated to Wing Commander. Squeezing every possible byte out of conventional memory with QEMM. HSLink (the coolest BBS xfer protocol of all time.) The Anarchist's Cookbook. ANSI art. The list goes on.... :) Good times.
There's one BBS user meet I remember in particular, there was quite a rarity on one of the boards I was on, a girl who went by the handle "Jessica Rabbit", well one day she showed up to a user meet and looked the part. She could barely move around for all the geeks surrounding her. It was quite the sight. And when there weren't such, um, distractions around we'd chow down on pizza and talk shop, kind of like at a modern LAN party, but less competitive
It's strange, and I must be a total geek, but sometimes I'll sift through my ancient files I still have from back then, or maybe some old games or even hardware from that era I have in a few boxes upstairs and remember those days as if I was an old man looking though his high school yearbook. I remember moments in my life based on what kind of hardware I had at the time or what games I was playing, is that weird or what?
GTE - We h% *S^ear you
Satellite won't be a viable broadband/phone solution anytime in the near future, mostly because:
a) Satellites are expensive to launch. If you thought the price of DSLAMs was bad....
b) They aren't exactly easy to upgrade with new, faster technology
c) Bandwidth is too limited for a widespread and bandwidth hogging activities such as local telephone and Internet service. Increasing bandwidth runs you into problems with a) and b)
I would instead say that land-based wireless is the future, for these reasons:
a) Cost of infrastructure is mimimal, at least compared to running fiber underground
b) The technology is here, and it works.
c) Easy to upgrade. No need to worry that the cables you spent billions of dollars running can't carry your super duper new broadband speeds.
Of course the problems with this are mostly range, obstructions, and interference. But last I checked DSL was subject to the same things, just in different ways (18000 ft limit, RSU's, and crosstalk, respectively. Throw in phone company stupidity as an added bonus)
I've heard rumblings of talk about "flying wings" taking over satellite functions, but at a much lower cost and much easier maintenance. I'm not well versed on the details, but this article should explain what I am trying to say.