We all know that encryption is hardly used except by criminals and the paranoid.
Do you bank online? Have you ever bought anything online? Does your company engage in e-commerce or EDI? Have you ever used Lotus Notes?
These are strong encryption applications, without any backdoors (yet). How will you feel about government-mandated encryption backdoors when some 31337 HaXoRs strip your bank and credit-card accounts? Are you so naive as to imagine that the government will make you whole? ("Gee, we're not responsible for losses due to criminal activity" say the cops.) Do you think that Judd Greg will recompense your life savings lost to backdoor crypto? You must be a troll, drunk, on crack, or all of the above, to have posted that moronic spineless garbage here. Just shoot yourself, it's painless.
"Those who would trade liberty for security deserve neither."... Guess what? Ben Franklin was talking about you, you sniveling little proletarian.
Re:If it keeps people from being killed...
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Go after the actual targets instead of just bombing everyone. Instead of large scale indiscriminate bombings, you get small focused attacks.
Exactly, and it's easy to tell who the Taliban are - they're the only people they allow to be armed. So, if you see a group with AK47s or pickup trucks mounted with ZSU23s, they're Taliban. It will also be easy to take out most of the Taliban artillary in the North - theirs are the guns facing North.
Without an antiair capability, they'll be at a great disadvantage - and they won't be getting Stinger missiles from the US, funneled through Pakistan. Russia and China certainly won't be helping them either, nor will Iran.
Pakistan tested _one_ nuke, mostly to keep up with India. Why do you think they backed down so quickly when presented with the US ultimatum?
Pakistan literally created the Taliban in Afghanistan - now they're being called to account, and brought to heal. It was made clear we'd go _through_ them to get to the Taliban and wipe out that illegitimate theocracy. Pakistan doesn't want to be first under the rain of fire that will follow in that region.
countries either harbor and condone terrorists, or they don't - they expel them, or better, arrest and extradite or imprison them (as in... forever). This was likely the point made clear to Pakistan in the last few days - all the civilized countries throughout the world will classify other countries as either pro-terrorist or anti-terrorist. As of Tuesday, there's no middle ground, no room for dissembling or prevarication: they're either with us or against us, either for or against terrorism. Governments will make their choices... and they and their citizens will bear the consequences, terrible consequences.
Saudi Arabia is going to have to rethink it's internal denial. Egypt is going to need to temper it's internal repression of fundamentalist idiots and move toward better intelligence gathering and sharing with the West. Even Israel will need to do a better job of discriminating between its local political opponents and the dangerous terrorists with over-reaching international agendas. I wish them all wisdom and good fortune, as they will need both.
The Taliban has seemingly made their choice. With Omar's mealy-mouthed sidewinding and impotent defiance of human rights for innocent civilians either inside or outside their borders, they've as much as sealed their fate to burn in the fires of implacable war and then burn again in the eternal fires of Hell for their complicity with such inhuman evil. No Paradise awaits those dupes of a twisted Islamic vision, just everlasting anguish of damnation.
By the way, Islam is a religion much like Christianity, Judaism, and others: it counsels peace and goodwill. Only hotheaded fanatics pervert it to their paranoiac schemes toward power. Unfortunately, there are more Islamic hotheads with dreams of Paradise than can be allowed to live in this world.
Pakistan was likely presented with "an offer it couldn't refuse" and chose, however reluctantly, to stand with the forces of justice. They will close their border with Afghanistan, cut off its fuel supplies, provide bases for a multinational force to remove the Taliban and terrorists, and allow multinational military overflights during this war. Pakistan's choices were exactly two: either you are with us, or you're against us. I'm sure it was just this... clear.
And there will be a war over this. No one kills 5,000 innocent civilians without being hunted to the very ends of the earth and brought to a very stern account. Osama Bin Ladin (I spit on your very name and wish you an excruciating death worse than a shit-eating pig's, you mutant whelp of diseased fornicating dogs), say your prayers - you'll be meeting Allah sooner rather than later, and I think you'll be dismayed with His plans for your eternity.
On the other hand, you can get a posh home office set up for about $1000 initial cost (desk, chair, files, phone installs, bandwidth installs (DSL, cable, whatever), etc) and $200-$300/month for recurring expenses (phone, long distance, ISP).
Many firms won't provision a home office - they'll just give you a notebook PC and cover your second phone line or DSL/cable and long-distance expenses. I use free VPN access over DSL ($50/mo) and my office phone transfers to my cellphone ($50/mo). So my telecommuting cost to the firm is only $100/month. In return, the firm gets a good 10-12 hours per day of productive work, some of it on evenings and even weekends. It's a good tradeoff for both me and my employer - I don't spend 2-3 hrs/day getting stressed on freeways, and my company gets at least some of that time back in the quantity and quality of my work. And when I'm not in meetings or at clients, my hours are flexible - I can work to meet needs, not the clock.
Where I work, a lot of employees telecommute - large conference calls always have leaf-blowers, babies crying, etc. in the background, but everyone simply ignores it. Telecommuting is a strategic enabler for big companies, but lots of worker can be happier and productive with it.
Where are you going to put all these users? I doubt many companies have this many users close enough to the server where bandwidth costs won't be prohibative. (sic)
I live in SoCal. My Notes mail server is in Boulder, CO. VPN over DSL is _fast_ (~1,250Kb/s). I easily work from my home office much of the time.
of defeat for these two large proprietary-Unix vendors. Not that I think they'll ever do this, but it sounds like a good idea to me. A very good idea.
For decades, proprietary-Unix vendors sold awkward, mutually incompatible versions of the OS on the premise that this somehow "differentiated" their products and "locked-in" their customers. All this really accomplished was waste lots of money on software development and maintenance - money that could have been better spent on basic hardware R&D and product development. Maybe they'll learn and embrace the commodity open-source OS concept, but I'm not holding my breath.
HP and Compaq are in for a rough ride (and the stock market has figured this out - HP's down about 20%). Since they've given up designing their own processor architectures, they're destined to become garden variety Intel box-makers. And Dell's got them beat at this. Moving to Linux might help.
The Register has no less three stories about it: one with the basic announcement, the second explaining why it's a bad move ("Carly Kisses The Ugly Frog"), the third printing Mikey C's mealy-mouthed, cliche-laden worldwide memo to Compaq staff (and oh-by-the-way, 15,000 of you will lose your jobs). See http://www.theregister.co.uk for all the Register stories (and yes, I'm too lazy to code the HTML links - it's late). Go there and look.
It'll be interesting to see what IBM has to say about this merger internally. That won't be up for a couple of hours, though (first, decide what to say...).
Re: Why? - Several reasons...
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among which are:
1) Co-opt an Intel desktop/server competitor, and buy their marketshare and salesforce in the process; acquire their customers and revenue stream.
2) Buy some intellectual capital, i.e., patents and such, cheap. Compaq was always a high-volume business-market PC vendor (lots of PC desktops and Intel servers). But they bought Digital and Tandem, then didn't know what to do with them. HP might still find some useful IP laying around at Compaq - and know how to use it. Hell, maybe HP's realized that hanging their hat on Itanium/McKinley was um,... unwise and shortsighted, and they're looking to develop the Alpha hardware architecture as a hedge against Intel's fumbling in the 64-bit space. PA-Risc is long in the tooth now.
3) Economies of scale. I put this third because I think it will have the least long-term impact. But it will be the one immediate benefit touted by HP and the market. It'll mean big layoffs and charges though, so I won't be rushing to buy HP shares this morning. Shorting HP might not be a bad idea, today.
If HP management assimilates Compaq well, all is well for the stockholders. If they destroy Compaq and the acquisition ends up worthless, the stockholders will have paper worth 1/3 less than it was before the merger.
OK, try to enroll in college, open a bank account, get a drivers license. You _will_ need a SSN to do these things. Either that, or a good lawyer & $$$.
Re:HP does NOT want Compaq
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Hear, hear! The parent post hath wisdom.
I wouldn't want to be working for Compaq now. The acquiring firm takes control, and most management (and lots of staff) will be shown the door.
If this merger happens, you can kiss your job at Compaq goodbye. HP will keep the customers and axe the staff. If HP doesn't screw it up, that is...
OTOH, this shows how desperate HP executives are to _do something_ about the fact they don't have revenue growth. Maybe Carly's last blunder.
and it is called your Social Security Number. Needed for school registration, credit card accounts, drivers license, all kinds of various identifications.
Any US Citizens here _not_ have their SSNs memorized? Raise your hands. I didn't really think so. Guess what, to Government, you are a number!
(There was some lip-service given to "restricting use" and "preventing abuse" decades ago, but it's been forgotten for the utility of SSN identifiers.)
Too late!
AFAIK, it's not illegal in the US not to have a SSN: it's just illegal to attend most schools, serve in the military, or work for taxable wages without one.
Of course it's also possible to acquire _more_ numbers - if you're ever arrested, you'll get a case number (if convicted and sentenced to jail or prison, you'll get an inmate number too); if sued in civil court, you'll get a docket number, etc., etc. But those happen if you break the law or piss someone off...
But you have more numbers, even if you're an upstanding gentle citizen: drivers license, credit cards, bank accounts, phone number, cellphone, et al.
Bottom line, I think a case can be made for a UIN (Universal Identification Number), for two reasons: (1) it will simplify so many mundane things, from communications (live and electronic) through public records and commercial transactions, and (2) it will require revising almost all the record keeping systems extant, boosting the economy as a great successor to the Y2K convulsion, a good way to get 250,000+ programmers re-employed!
Slashdot's staff social age finally revealed...
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as about 15... interested in shitter monitoring.
I've suspected Slashdot management and staff were very immature and trying to seem much more sophisticated than they really were, but I never expected to see such incontrovertable proof as this story. This is a new low for Slashdot - linking toilet sites. What's next, upskirt cams? Do grow up.
Even a slow news Saturday night doesn't deserve posting this. Not that it's offensive (though some might think so), but it's simply too banal. Who's manning the controls, someone's 9 year old kid? You might just as well rebrand Slashdot as "News for Adolescents. Stuff that Sucks." This sucks.
Of course the Grand Jury indicted...
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All a Grand Jury hears is what the Prosecutor wants them to hear. It's not a trial, but merely the prosecution's presentation of their prima facie case - witnesses mostly, maybe hard evidence.
It's an old saying around courthouses that a Prosecutor can get a Grand Jury to indict a ham sandwich.
The trial won't be so one-sided, one hopes.
Re:Not bad, but not as big as one might think.
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"OS/390? No, it'll probably be running Linux. Maybe as a bunch of VM's, or maybe on the bare metal The last I read, Linux can run on IBM mainframe only inside a VM ( that is inside OS/390 ? )."
Linux can run on an entire machine (the "bare metal"), in one or more LPARs (Logical PARtitions), or under VM - which is not OS/390 or Z/OS - again on an entire machine or in LPAR(s). One mainframe can run over 40,000 linux instances under VM.
However, in this case the mainframe might not be running linux - it might be running Z/OS or OS/390 (depending on whether its a 64-bit Z/Series or a 32-bit 9672 machine) to host backend subsystems (CICS, DB2 and/or VSAM, maybe MQ-series, etc.). Linux might be running on front-end Power4 servers hosting WebSphere (Apache) or a custom messaging application.
Perhaps the artline engineer here can enlighten us.
Rumsfeld is as obviously in the pockets of the big Defense contractors as Cheney (and Bush) are with the oil companies. He's refused to divest his Defense stocks! They're all so corrupt, it's sickening.
FR tags _you_ simply 'cause you _look like_ some shoplifter/thug/pedophile/terrorist. Congratulations... you now must _prove_ your innocence! Do you think store security or the police are going to believe you, or believe your (possibly fake) ID? Nooo... at the very least you'll be approached by security (embarrassed in public), maybe escorted out (denied patronage, and further embarrassed), perhaps even cited for trespassing (inconvenienced to attend misdemeanor court, thus harrassed by official process) - and that's just for the shoplifter variant. Use your imagination for the others - forcible arrest and a night in jail, at least. At worst... shot dead.
All made possible for millions of innocent, law-abiding citizens by FR tech of unknown accuracy installed without public consent by unaccountable corporations or even well-meaning but similarly unaccountable (and invariably stupid) government bureaucracies.
The problem is... _you_ didn't _do_ anything but walk into the store, or across the street! This turns "innocent until proven guilty" on its head. In case you slept through HS civics class, that happens to be one of the foundations of the US criminal justice system (along with a few other things like "right to confront your accuser" - how the hell can you confront a camera and software? - and "right to avoid self-incrimination" etc. etc.). In a court of law (in the US), prosecutors can't mention previous convictions. Goodbye to that, in essence. With FR in widespread use, some poor goof who shoplifted somewhere *once* could be unable to even enter the local supermart, with money, to buy groceries to feed the spouse & kids. Are you sure you want to live in such a society? Not me.
And any technology that can be abused, will be. San Diego has been accused of setting up "red light" cameras and cutting back the yellow time to pump up ticket revenues (by Dick Armey, U.S. Congress). And I believe it: you damsure cain't trust any of 'em gub'mint trough-hogs futher'n you can throw 'em. Remember that - it goes double for most inhuman corporations buying up our governments.
Jeez, talk about the Military-Industrial Complex! (ref. Eisenhower's warning upon leaving office) - usually industry applies for grants from government, but here it's the other way around. Boeing actually gave the U.S. Naval Academy 250 big ones? I guess the Bush campaign figured it had enough money to buy, er... win, the election already, so Rumsfeld just nudged and winked... and Boeing paid.
I wonder if Boeing gained any rights to the cheap technology developed by these government employees using this "grant" money?
Re:I don't know anything about port blocking but..
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If you've got *proof* that @home servers were port-scanning you, maybe you've also got a great lawsuit. They attack your "home" - they pay! When you signed up with them, you didn't give them any rights to attempt to compromise your system. Class action time....
...start 500 lawsuits against the people who, by means of gross administrative irresponsibility, have machines which are running automated scripts which are attempting to gain unauthorized access to my machine...
One lawyer would do. And it might be interesting to try this. They did, after all, attack your system. Call it a reverse class-action.
most likely. The FBI probably doesn't want to admit in open court that some guy walked a couple of blocks away to "Spys-R-Us" and bought an off-the-shelf keyboard logger at 5 X retail price. It would be laughable if they weren't dead serious to hide this....
The Government's penchant to hide everthing they do from the citizenry is insidious. How about requiring the President to personally sign each and every individual page of every single "National Security" classified document. That would certainly help cut down this effrontery of abuse, eventually. Classification by default is an insult to the intelligence and political franchise of the American people!
When are people going to get angry about being lied to and abused in the name of holy national security? The Cold War has been over for a long time now. Is this a police state or a republic? Can anyone tell the difference anymore? Please tell me; I really do care.
Electomagnetic effects, more likely. This guy is passing "in excess of 10^4 A" at "in excess of 1MV" - that's over 10,000 Amperes current with more than 1 Million Volts applied (stand well back, folks - don't try this at home). How can Russia afford his power bill?
At these electrical energies, things will move simply by electromagnetic effects, which are stronger than gravity (much stronger).
Just another cheap Russian charlatan, nothing to see here, move along please. (How did this get posted here, it's a load of crap!)
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which is, specifically, that you're an idiot:
... Guess what? Ben Franklin was talking about you, you sniveling little proletarian.
We all know that encryption is hardly used except by criminals and the paranoid.
Do you bank online? Have you ever bought anything online? Does your company engage in e-commerce or EDI? Have you ever used Lotus Notes?
These are strong encryption applications, without any backdoors (yet). How will you feel about government-mandated encryption backdoors when some 31337 HaXoRs strip your bank and credit-card accounts? Are you so naive as to imagine that the government will make you whole? ("Gee, we're not responsible for losses due to criminal activity" say the cops.) Do you think that Judd Greg will recompense your life savings lost to backdoor crypto? You must be a troll, drunk, on crack, or all of the above, to have posted that moronic spineless garbage here. Just shoot yourself, it's painless.
"Those who would trade liberty for security deserve neither."
Go after the actual targets instead of just bombing everyone. Instead of large scale indiscriminate bombings, you get small focused attacks.
Exactly, and it's easy to tell who the Taliban are - they're the only people they allow to be armed. So, if you see a group with AK47s or pickup trucks mounted with ZSU23s, they're Taliban. It will also be easy to take out most of the Taliban artillary in the North - theirs are the guns facing North.
Without an antiair capability, they'll be at a great disadvantage - and they won't be getting Stinger missiles from the US, funneled through Pakistan. Russia and China certainly won't be helping them either, nor will Iran.
You sound like you know whereof you're speaking. Let's hope that the irrational perverts of Islam don't have much voice in Pakistan. I do pray so...
Pakistan tested _one_ nuke, mostly to keep up with India. Why do you think they backed down so quickly when presented with the US ultimatum?
Pakistan literally created the Taliban in Afghanistan - now they're being called to account, and brought to heal. It was made clear we'd go _through_ them to get to the Taliban and wipe out that illegitimate theocracy. Pakistan doesn't want to be first under the rain of fire that will follow in that region.
countries either harbor and condone terrorists, or they don't - they expel them, or better, arrest and extradite or imprison them (as in... forever). This was likely the point made clear to Pakistan in the last few days - all the civilized countries throughout the world will classify other countries as either pro-terrorist or anti-terrorist. As of Tuesday, there's no middle ground, no room for dissembling or prevarication: they're either with us or against us, either for or against terrorism. Governments will make their choices... and they and their citizens will bear the consequences, terrible consequences.
Saudi Arabia is going to have to rethink it's internal denial. Egypt is going to need to temper it's internal repression of fundamentalist idiots and move toward better intelligence gathering and sharing with the West. Even Israel will need to do a better job of discriminating between its local political opponents and the dangerous terrorists with over-reaching international agendas. I wish them all wisdom and good fortune, as they will need both.
The Taliban has seemingly made their choice. With Omar's mealy-mouthed sidewinding and impotent defiance of human rights for innocent civilians either inside or outside their borders, they've as much as sealed their fate to burn in the fires of implacable war and then burn again in the eternal fires of Hell for their complicity with such inhuman evil. No Paradise awaits those dupes of a twisted Islamic vision, just everlasting anguish of damnation.
By the way, Islam is a religion much like Christianity, Judaism, and others: it counsels peace and goodwill. Only hotheaded fanatics pervert it to their paranoiac schemes toward power. Unfortunately, there are more Islamic hotheads with dreams of Paradise than can be allowed to live in this world.
Pakistan was likely presented with "an offer it couldn't refuse" and chose, however reluctantly, to stand with the forces of justice. They will close their border with Afghanistan, cut off its fuel supplies, provide bases for a multinational force to remove the Taliban and terrorists, and allow multinational military overflights during this war. Pakistan's choices were exactly two: either you are with us, or you're against us. I'm sure it was just this... clear.
And there will be a war over this. No one kills 5,000 innocent civilians without being hunted to the very ends of the earth and brought to a very stern account. Osama Bin Ladin (I spit on your very name and wish you an excruciating death worse than a shit-eating pig's, you mutant whelp of diseased fornicating dogs), say your prayers - you'll be meeting Allah sooner rather than later, and I think you'll be dismayed with His plans for your eternity.
On the other hand, you can get a posh home office set up for about $1000 initial cost (desk, chair, files, phone installs, bandwidth installs (DSL, cable, whatever), etc) and $200-$300/month for recurring expenses (phone, long distance, ISP).
Many firms won't provision a home office - they'll just give you a notebook PC and cover your second phone line or DSL/cable and long-distance expenses. I use free VPN access over DSL ($50/mo) and my office phone transfers to my cellphone ($50/mo). So my telecommuting cost to the firm is only $100/month. In return, the firm gets a good 10-12 hours per day of productive work, some of it on evenings and even weekends. It's a good tradeoff for both me and my employer - I don't spend 2-3 hrs/day getting stressed on freeways, and my company gets at least some of that time back in the quantity and quality of my work. And when I'm not in meetings or at clients, my hours are flexible - I can work to meet needs, not the clock.
Where I work, a lot of employees telecommute - large conference calls always have leaf-blowers, babies crying, etc. in the background, but everyone simply ignores it. Telecommuting is a strategic enabler for big companies, but lots of worker can be happier and productive with it.
Where are you going to put all these users? I doubt many companies have this many users close enough to the server where bandwidth costs won't be prohibative. (sic) I live in SoCal. My Notes mail server is in Boulder, CO. VPN over DSL is _fast_ (~1,250Kb/s). I easily work from my home office much of the time.
of defeat for these two large proprietary-Unix vendors. Not that I think they'll ever do this, but it sounds like a good idea to me. A very good idea.
For decades, proprietary-Unix vendors sold awkward, mutually incompatible versions of the OS on the premise that this somehow "differentiated" their products and "locked-in" their customers. All this really accomplished was waste lots of money on software development and maintenance - money that could have been better spent on basic hardware R&D and product development. Maybe they'll learn and embrace the commodity open-source OS concept, but I'm not holding my breath.
HP and Compaq are in for a rough ride (and the stock market has figured this out - HP's down about 20%). Since they've given up designing their own processor architectures, they're destined to become garden variety Intel box-makers. And Dell's got them beat at this. Moving to Linux might help.
but likely not good news for either HP or Compaq.
The Register has no less three stories about it: one with the basic announcement, the second explaining why it's a bad move ("Carly Kisses The Ugly Frog"), the third printing Mikey C's mealy-mouthed, cliche-laden worldwide memo to Compaq staff (and oh-by-the-way, 15,000 of you will lose your jobs). See http://www.theregister.co.uk for all the Register stories (and yes, I'm too lazy to code the HTML links - it's late). Go there and look.
It'll be interesting to see what IBM has to say about this merger internally. That won't be up for a couple of hours, though (first, decide what to say...).
among which are:
1) Co-opt an Intel desktop/server competitor, and buy their marketshare and salesforce in the process; acquire their customers and revenue stream.
2) Buy some intellectual capital, i.e., patents and such, cheap. Compaq was always a high-volume business-market PC vendor (lots of PC desktops and Intel servers). But they bought Digital and Tandem, then didn't know what to do with them. HP might still find some useful IP laying around at Compaq - and know how to use it. Hell, maybe HP's realized that hanging their hat on Itanium/McKinley was um,... unwise and shortsighted, and they're looking to develop the Alpha hardware architecture as a hedge against Intel's fumbling in the 64-bit space. PA-Risc is long in the tooth now.
3) Economies of scale. I put this third because I think it will have the least long-term impact. But it will be the one immediate benefit touted by HP and the market. It'll mean big layoffs and charges though, so I won't be rushing to buy HP shares this morning. Shorting HP might not be a bad idea, today.
instead, they're issuing ~50% more HP shares.
If HP management assimilates Compaq well, all is well for the stockholders. If they destroy Compaq and the acquisition ends up worthless, the stockholders will have paper worth 1/3 less than it was before the merger.
OK, try to enroll in college, open a bank account, get a drivers license. You _will_ need a SSN to do these things. Either that, or a good lawyer & $$$.
Hear, hear! The parent post hath wisdom.
I wouldn't want to be working for Compaq now. The acquiring firm takes control, and most management (and lots of staff) will be shown the door.
If this merger happens, you can kiss your job at Compaq goodbye. HP will keep the customers and axe the staff. If HP doesn't screw it up, that is...
OTOH, this shows how desperate HP executives are to _do something_ about the fact they don't have revenue growth. Maybe Carly's last blunder.
and it is called your Social Security Number. Needed for school registration, credit card accounts, drivers license, all kinds of various identifications.
Any US Citizens here _not_ have their SSNs memorized? Raise your hands. I didn't really think so. Guess what, to Government, you are a number!
(There was some lip-service given to "restricting use" and "preventing abuse" decades ago, but it's been forgotten for the utility of SSN identifiers.)
Too late!
AFAIK, it's not illegal in the US not to have a SSN: it's just illegal to attend most schools, serve in the military, or work for taxable wages without one.
Of course it's also possible to acquire _more_ numbers - if you're ever arrested, you'll get a case number (if convicted and sentenced to jail or prison, you'll get an inmate number too); if sued in civil court, you'll get a docket number, etc., etc. But those happen if you break the law or piss someone off...
But you have more numbers, even if you're an upstanding gentle citizen: drivers license, credit cards, bank accounts, phone number, cellphone, et al.
Bottom line, I think a case can be made for a UIN (Universal Identification Number), for two reasons: (1) it will simplify so many mundane things, from communications (live and electronic) through public records and commercial transactions, and (2) it will require revising almost all the record keeping systems extant, boosting the economy as a great successor to the Y2K convulsion, a good way to get 250,000+ programmers re-employed!
as about 15... interested in shitter monitoring.
I've suspected Slashdot management and staff were very immature and trying to seem much more sophisticated than they really were, but I never expected to see such incontrovertable proof as this story. This is a new low for Slashdot - linking toilet sites. What's next, upskirt cams? Do grow up.
Even a slow news Saturday night doesn't deserve posting this. Not that it's offensive (though some might think so), but it's simply too banal. Who's manning the controls, someone's 9 year old kid? You might just as well rebrand Slashdot as "News for Adolescents. Stuff that Sucks." This sucks.
All a Grand Jury hears is what the Prosecutor wants them to hear. It's not a trial, but merely the prosecution's presentation of their prima facie case - witnesses mostly, maybe hard evidence.
It's an old saying around courthouses that a Prosecutor can get a Grand Jury to indict a ham sandwich.
The trial won't be so one-sided, one hopes.
"OS/390? No, it'll probably be running Linux. Maybe as a bunch of VM's, or maybe on the bare metal
The last I read, Linux can run on IBM mainframe only inside a VM ( that is inside OS/390 ? )."
Linux can run on an entire machine (the "bare metal"), in one or more LPARs (Logical PARtitions), or under VM - which is not OS/390 or Z/OS - again on an entire machine or in LPAR(s). One mainframe can run over 40,000 linux instances under VM.
However, in this case the mainframe might not be running linux - it might be running Z/OS or OS/390 (depending on whether its a 64-bit Z/Series or a 32-bit 9672 machine) to host backend subsystems (CICS, DB2 and/or VSAM, maybe MQ-series, etc.). Linux might be running on front-end Power4 servers hosting WebSphere (Apache) or a custom messaging application.
Perhaps the artline engineer here can enlighten us.
Rumsfeld is as obviously in the pockets of the big Defense contractors as Cheney (and Bush) are with the oil companies. He's refused to divest his Defense stocks! They're all so corrupt, it's sickening.
Yes, since the government is ultimately, the people... public domain. At least, in theory...
OK - here's the scenario:
FR tags _you_ simply 'cause you _look like_ some shoplifter/thug/pedophile/terrorist. Congratulations... you now must _prove_ your innocence! Do you think store security or the police are going to believe you, or believe your (possibly fake) ID? Nooo... at the very least you'll be approached by security (embarrassed in public), maybe escorted out (denied patronage, and further embarrassed), perhaps even cited for trespassing (inconvenienced to attend misdemeanor court, thus harrassed by official process) - and that's just for the shoplifter variant. Use your imagination for the others - forcible arrest and a night in jail, at least. At worst... shot dead.
All made possible for millions of innocent, law-abiding citizens by FR tech of unknown accuracy installed without public consent by unaccountable corporations or even well-meaning but similarly unaccountable (and invariably stupid) government bureaucracies.
The problem is... _you_ didn't _do_ anything but walk into the store, or across the street! This turns "innocent until proven guilty" on its head. In case you slept through HS civics class, that happens to be one of the foundations of the US criminal justice system (along with a few other things like "right to confront your accuser" - how the hell can you confront a camera and software? - and "right to avoid self-incrimination" etc. etc.). In a court of law (in the US), prosecutors can't mention previous convictions. Goodbye to that, in essence. With FR in widespread use, some poor goof who shoplifted somewhere *once* could be unable to even enter the local supermart, with money, to buy groceries to feed the spouse & kids. Are you sure you want to live in such a society? Not me.
And any technology that can be abused, will be. San Diego has been accused of setting up "red light" cameras and cutting back the yellow time to pump up ticket revenues (by Dick Armey, U.S. Congress). And I believe it: you damsure cain't trust any of 'em gub'mint trough-hogs futher'n you can throw 'em. Remember that - it goes double for most inhuman corporations buying up our governments.
Jeez, talk about the Military-Industrial Complex! (ref. Eisenhower's warning upon leaving office) - usually industry applies for grants from government, but here it's the other way around. Boeing actually gave the U.S. Naval Academy 250 big ones? I guess the Bush campaign figured it had enough money to buy, er... win, the election already, so Rumsfeld just nudged and winked... and Boeing paid.
I wonder if Boeing gained any rights to the cheap technology developed by these government employees using this "grant" money?
If you've got *proof* that @home servers were port-scanning you, maybe you've also got a great lawsuit. They attack your "home" - they pay! When you signed up with them, you didn't give them any rights to attempt to compromise your system. Class action time....
Just my 2 qubits...
...start 500 lawsuits against the people who, by means of gross administrative irresponsibility, have machines which are running automated scripts which are attempting to gain unauthorized access to my machine...
One lawyer would do. And it might be interesting to try this. They did, after all, attack your system. Call it a reverse class-action.
most likely. The FBI probably doesn't want to admit in open court that some guy walked a couple of blocks away to "Spys-R-Us" and bought an off-the-shelf keyboard logger at 5 X retail price. It would be laughable if they weren't dead serious to hide this....
The Government's penchant to hide everthing they do from the citizenry is insidious. How about requiring the President to personally sign each and every individual page of every single "National Security" classified document. That would certainly help cut down this effrontery of abuse, eventually. Classification by default is an insult to the intelligence and political franchise of the American people!
When are people going to get angry about being lied to and abused in the name of holy national security? The Cold War has been over for a long time now. Is this a police state or a republic? Can anyone tell the difference anymore? Please tell me; I really do care.
Electomagnetic effects, more likely. This guy is passing "in excess of 10^4 A" at "in excess of 1MV" - that's over 10,000 Amperes current with more than 1 Million Volts applied (stand well back, folks - don't try this at home). How can Russia afford his power bill?
At these electrical energies, things will move simply by electromagnetic effects, which are stronger than gravity (much stronger).
Just another cheap Russian charlatan, nothing to see here, move along please. (How did this get posted here, it's a load of crap!)