I'm currently in Kokomo, IN -- about 50 miles straight north of Indianapolis and about 180 miles northeast of the epicenter.
It woke me up with moderate shaking, which lasted about 10 seconds. I remember thinking "that was a big damn truck that went by", and going back to sleep. It knocked pictures askew, but didn't cause any damage.
It is, however, VERY SUSPICIOUS!
The two nights prior to the earthquake there were UFO sightings and hundreds of 911 calls reporting large explosions in the air. The Air Force later claimed that on successive nights (Tuesday and Wednesday) F-16 pilots doing training exercises "accidentally" exceeded the sound barrier and created sonic booms. One over Logansport and one over about Kokomo. During that time, they were also dropping flares. Supposedly it was the 122nd Fighter Wing out of Fort Wayne, IN.
Well...personally, I like having a separate cell phone. It allows me to fully utilize the tablet while talking on the phone.
On the other hand, I've tried using a bluetooth headset on the tablet and VoIP and that seems to work fine. I think Nokia is wanting to keep a clear wall between tablets and phones.
But you may be right. A GSM radio and SIM slot could make it very interesting indeed.
When traveling, I have a regular laptop. I don't want to lug around a "mini" laptop in addition to my normal one. If I need to do real work, and there is space, I'll pull out the normal laptop.
What I want is something that allows me to check e-mail; browse the web for travel itineraries, stocks, sports and weather; has instant on; access to all my contacts by syncing with my phone or main desktop; and, in a pinch, ssh, VNC or remote desktop.
And make it fit in my pocket.
All this is why I use a Nokia N810 internet tablet. The only thing it is missing is proper MS Exchange connectivity. Well, the ability to review MS Word, Excel and Powerpoint would be nice as well but for me it isn't critical. If I need to do that I prefer to have a full-size screen.
The Nokia I can just pull out of my pocket, check e-mail, weather and airline delays and be done in a few seconds. No need to deal with booting or restoring from sleep a laptop, much less trying to manage something that large while standing in line for coffee or boarding.
Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, 464 U.S. 417, 455
(1984) (holding that "time-shifting" of copyrighted television shows with VCR's constitutes fair use under the Copyright Act, and thus is not an infringement).
Space shifting, or copying a legally purchased copyright material like a DVD, to a computer hard drive for convenience is still being debated in the courts. It should be noted that no case has been decided regarding personal space shifting. Only cases by commercial entities like Diamond Multimedia, MP3.com, Napster, etc.
Why? Because the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 set nice precedents covering this sort of behavior. Yes, it is specific to audio, but it explicitly gives people the right to make private, non-commercial copies of their stuff. The Senate report defines noncommercial as "not for direct or indirect commercial advantage", offering examples such as making copies for a family member, or copies for use in a car or portable tape player.
That is a very big precedent and the video industry does not want to try and overcome that. This is why they went after DeCSS with vigor and the DMCA was enacted. Their "loophole" is to attack people for decrypting, not for copying.
Uploading, sharing with friends and the like are different stories. But I believe you are firmly within your rights to make personal copies (for you and your household) copy copyright materials that you legally own.
IANAL, but I challenge you to find one U.S. court case concluded after 1992 that says otherwise.
Yawn. This is the FBI's implementation plan, not some super-secret details of the specs. This is derived from J-STD-025A, J-STD-025B, and EWA 3.0 AMTA docs. Feel free to Google for those. The first and last you should be able to find. The "B" one they want money for, so it is harder to find freely online.
Those detail exactly WHAT and HOW monitoring is going to occur, on a technical level.
And don't get your knickers in a twist about the FBI document. I've already seen one instance where the FBI told a carrier "we want it done this way" and the carrier's lawyers said "no, that isn't legal and we won't do it". Of course, it was probably a result of the software not being implemented in that manner and it would have cost the carrier mucho $$ to do it the FBI's way...
Nothing like a few $$ to prompt the legal dept. to see it your way.
If I was spending $20K U.S. on a PC like that, hard drives would be in a separate case, RAID and connected via a SAN. They generate too much heat and vibration and need to be separate from the main electronics. Ditto for optical drives. Once you start moving up the food chain in computing, storage is usually a separate beast.
I can't speak directly to Verizon's setup, not having worked on it. I can to a couple of their peers, and this still strikes me as B.S.
1. None of the other carriers have a "central clearinghouse for all wireless calls". There is just too much traffic to pump it all back to one location, much less start forking stuff off down a single DS-3. The carriers break the country into regions -- about a dozen or so -- where all calls for the region go through a regional hub.
2. Call processing, accounting and customer records are totally different and separate systems. Billing centers are not in the same location/VLAN/network as the must-be-realtime call network. The call network is totally segregated from the other networks. The CALEA network is a third. It is a *major* chore to make them all play nice.
3. The FBI, in their infinite wisdom, doesn't use off the shelf CALEA software. Instead of just purchasing LEA software from the market leaders (JSI and Penlink), they write their own. All the other agencies -- local, county and State law enforcement -- just pay for OTS software and hardware.
This has led to the situation where everybody else is up and running, then three months later a call comes in from the FBI saying "ummm...are you SURE that codec is EVRC? It isn't decoding properly."
Finally, firewalls aren't obvious. The last job I did there were 3 of them between the call processing equipment and the VPN concentrator that was used to concatenate IPSec tunnels to LEAs. We found this out by trying to connect the tunnels from the call processing equipment to the concentrator only to find out it disappeared halfway. Oh, look! Another firewall to allow IPSec traffic thru!
Unless he was a CALEA tech, he would have NO IDEA how and where the CALEA VLANs and routes went. They are totally separate from everything else.
CALEA taps are on a per-warrant basis. They are explicitly ONE WAY. The LEA can NOT establish a connection back to the carrier. It must initiate the tap from the carrier side. The LEA can not input requests directly. They must pass them to the carrier to enter.
While a DS-3 might not be out of the question to the FBI, depending on the volume of traffic, I have yet to see an "unmonitored" line. Everything I've seen (and set up -- I do this for a living) is an IPSec tunnel from the carrier to the LEA with BER encoded ASN.1 for data and packetized native (to the carrier) encoded voice. And the line works one way only. Carrier --> LEA. The only packets flowing back are stateful connection packets.
In short, I think this story is B.S.
Yes, the FBI probably has a big line with no firewall. That is because the firewall(s) is/are on the carrier end. The carriers do extensive logging as well, so it doesn't surprise me that the FBI-end of the circuit isn't heavily logged. They log their REQUESTS and the carrier logs the connections.
Because Hezbollah and Hamas target civilians. Period.
If their attacks restricted themselves to Israeli soldiers, military installations & equipment, and political and military infrastructure, they'd have more sympathy in the West.
Firing rockets indiscriminately into civilian areas; bombing markets, discos, stores and buses loses them all credibility and plants them firmly in the realm of "terrorist organization". They use the threat and practice of violence against an unarmed civilian population as a weapon.
Considering Israel withdrew from Lebanon in May of 2000, according to U.N. Resolution 425, Hezbollah was to have disarmed. Did they? No. They aren't to be trusted and need to be treated accordingly.
One good reason is that aluminum is a limited resource. Although there's lots of it around, current estimates show that it will only last for about 200 more years ( source).
I don't have a copy of that book, so can't read it in context, but I still have to call bullshit on this.
Aluminum (Aluminium for you Brits) is themost abundant metal in the Earth's crust. While smelting it is energy intensive, recycling it is significantly less so. There is so much that has already been used, and available for recycling, I can't see us running out in the next couple of centuries, if ever.
For the longest time, there were different regulations in different U.S. States in regards to diesel passenger vehicles. For example, they were illegal to sell in Massachusetts. Essentially, Mass and a few other States lowered the sulphur emission standards to impossible levels.
Then came Federally mandated low-sulphur diesel fuel. This stuff allows good diesel engines, like VW's TDI series, to meet emission standards in all 50 U.S. States. As this low-sulphur diesel works its way into the system, then those restrictive laws will no longer mean much. I was driving in Central Indiana the other day and saw a big sticker on one of the diesel pumps that advertised low-sulphur diesel.
U.S. automakers were biding their time on this issue until the fuel was available so they could sell diesel cars in all 50 States. I've read about diesel programs with all major American auto makers for their light truck lines; for Jeep; and even a couple for standard passenger cars.
"Ethernet" is layer 2, not layer 1. It can happily run over copper or fiber or any other physical medium.
Yes, once you get beyond GbE then you are most likely going to need fiber. That means much more expensive equipment, considering I can get an 8-port GbE copper switch that supports jumbo frames for $100. You *might* be able to pump 10 GbE over copper for a few meters.
I'm not too sure about this. In reality, BT only works because not a lot of people use it. That is, not a lot on your local segment. And by a "lot" I mean as a percentage of users on your local segment.
ISPs oversubscribe bandwidth. The reason Comcast is squirming is because the average bitrate being used is higher than when they set their infrastructure up. They set up for, say, 8:1 oversubscription rates. Before BT and video downloads, this was fine and only affected geeks downloading.iso images. Now, however, people are actually USING that bandwidth they were sold -- surprise, surprise. Comcast needs to stall as long as it can until it upgrades infrastructure.
But it isn't there. We're rapidly approaching needing a 1:1 rate and the infrastructure isn't there.
In short, once a popular TV show hits, the available bandwidth will be used and it won't seem so fast. Packets will be lost and retransmission delays will occur.
Depending on where you live, an extra ($$) for some GPS units is up-to-date traffic conditions. I've seen units that use this info to re-plot routes based on trip time estimated from traffic flow data.
While it is true the DSL is a switched technology and not shared like cable, that only applies to the wire from your house to the DSLAM. At that point it aggregates and the ATM uplink is most certainly oversubscribed.
DSL oversubscription is just one hop up the line, as opposed to cable, where it is oversubscribed from end to end. Not much difference, really.
Third place was more enlightening. A series of posters whining that we should all use standardized rechargeable batteries for mobile devices and standardized transformers. Seriously. No product, just a campaign to get companies to standardize on rechargeable battery size and shape.
Yeah, that memo when China shot down their old weather satellite. Last I checked, only three parties -- the U.S., Soviet Union (Russia) and China -- not al-Queda, have conducted anti-satellite weapon tests.
They aren't simulating a black hole, the title is misleading. They're simulating the optical properties of a black holes event horizon. Subtle but very important difference.
Yeah, your way of describing it doesn't generate NEAR as many hits on the ads...um, article.
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I'm currently in Kokomo, IN -- about 50 miles straight north of Indianapolis and about 180 miles northeast of the epicenter.
:-) :-)
It woke me up with moderate shaking, which lasted about 10 seconds. I remember thinking "that was a big damn truck that went by", and going back to sleep. It knocked pictures askew, but didn't cause any damage.
It is, however, VERY SUSPICIOUS!
The two nights prior to the earthquake there were UFO sightings and hundreds of 911 calls reporting large explosions in the air. The Air Force later claimed that on successive nights (Tuesday and Wednesday) F-16 pilots doing training exercises "accidentally" exceeded the sound barrier and created sonic booms. One over Logansport and one over about Kokomo. During that time, they were also dropping flares. Supposedly it was the 122nd Fighter Wing out of Fort Wayne, IN.
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=&q=kokomo%2C+in&btnG=Search+News
I'm going to check the weekend news for crop circle reports.
Well...personally, I like having a separate cell phone. It allows me to fully utilize the tablet while talking on the phone.
On the other hand, I've tried using a bluetooth headset on the tablet and VoIP and that seems to work fine. I think Nokia is wanting to keep a clear wall between tablets and phones.
But you may be right. A GSM radio and SIM slot could make it very interesting indeed.
...it is how you use it.
When traveling, I have a regular laptop. I don't want to lug around a "mini" laptop in addition to my normal one. If I need to do real work, and there is space, I'll pull out the normal laptop.
What I want is something that allows me to check e-mail; browse the web for travel itineraries, stocks, sports and weather; has instant on; access to all my contacts by syncing with my phone or main desktop; and, in a pinch, ssh, VNC or remote desktop.
And make it fit in my pocket.
All this is why I use a Nokia N810 internet tablet. The only thing it is missing is proper MS Exchange connectivity. Well, the ability to review MS Word, Excel and Powerpoint would be nice as well but for me it isn't critical. If I need to do that I prefer to have a full-size screen.
The Nokia I can just pull out of my pocket, check e-mail, weather and airline delays and be done in a few seconds. No need to deal with booting or restoring from sleep a laptop, much less trying to manage something that large while standing in line for coffee or boarding.
As the insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan have shown, you don't need tanks to fight tanks. IEDs can be very effective.
Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, 464 U.S. 417, 455
(1984) (holding that "time-shifting" of copyrighted television shows with VCR's constitutes fair use under the Copyright Act, and thus is not an infringement).
Space shifting, or copying a legally purchased copyright material like a DVD, to a computer hard drive for convenience is still being debated in the courts. It should be noted that no case has been decided regarding personal space shifting. Only cases by commercial entities like Diamond Multimedia, MP3.com, Napster, etc.
Why? Because the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 set nice precedents covering this sort of behavior. Yes, it is specific to audio, but it explicitly gives people the right to make private, non-commercial copies of their stuff. The Senate report defines noncommercial as "not for direct or indirect commercial advantage", offering examples such as making copies for a family member, or copies for use in a car or portable tape player.
That is a very big precedent and the video industry does not want to try and overcome that. This is why they went after DeCSS with vigor and the DMCA was enacted. Their "loophole" is to attack people for decrypting, not for copying.
Uploading, sharing with friends and the like are different stories. But I believe you are firmly within your rights to make personal copies (for you and your household) copy copyright materials that you legally own.
IANAL, but I challenge you to find one U.S. court case concluded after 1992 that says otherwise.
Yawn. This is the FBI's implementation plan, not some super-secret details of the specs. This is derived from J-STD-025A, J-STD-025B, and EWA 3.0 AMTA docs. Feel free to Google for those. The first and last you should be able to find. The "B" one they want money for, so it is harder to find freely online.
Those detail exactly WHAT and HOW monitoring is going to occur, on a technical level.
And don't get your knickers in a twist about the FBI document. I've already seen one instance where the FBI told a carrier "we want it done this way" and the carrier's lawyers said "no, that isn't legal and we won't do it". Of course, it was probably a result of the software not being implemented in that manner and it would have cost the carrier mucho $$ to do it the FBI's way...
Nothing like a few $$ to prompt the legal dept. to see it your way.
http://www.google.com/search?q=j-std-025&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t
If I was spending $20K U.S. on a PC like that, hard drives would be in a separate case, RAID and connected via a SAN. They generate too much heat and vibration and need to be separate from the main electronics. Ditto for optical drives. Once you start moving up the food chain in computing, storage is usually a separate beast.
I can't speak directly to Verizon's setup, not having worked on it. I can to a couple of their peers, and this still strikes me as B.S.
1. None of the other carriers have a "central clearinghouse for all wireless calls". There is just too much traffic to pump it all back to one location, much less start forking stuff off down a single DS-3. The carriers break the country into regions -- about a dozen or so -- where all calls for the region go through a regional hub.
2. Call processing, accounting and customer records are totally different and separate systems. Billing centers are not in the same location/VLAN/network as the must-be-realtime call network. The call network is totally segregated from the other networks. The CALEA network is a third. It is a *major* chore to make them all play nice.
3. The FBI, in their infinite wisdom, doesn't use off the shelf CALEA software. Instead of just purchasing LEA software from the market leaders (JSI and Penlink), they write their own. All the other agencies -- local, county and State law enforcement -- just pay for OTS software and hardware.
This has led to the situation where everybody else is up and running, then three months later a call comes in from the FBI saying "ummm...are you SURE that codec is EVRC? It isn't decoding properly."
Finally, firewalls aren't obvious. The last job I did there were 3 of them between the call processing equipment and the VPN concentrator that was used to concatenate IPSec tunnels to LEAs. We found this out by trying to connect the tunnels from the call processing equipment to the concentrator only to find out it disappeared halfway. Oh, look! Another firewall to allow IPSec traffic thru!
Unless he was a CALEA tech, he would have NO IDEA how and where the CALEA VLANs and routes went. They are totally separate from everything else.
A DS-3? With a really big check. :-) Depending on contract length I've seen them as cheap as $5,000 per month.
CALEA taps are on a per-warrant basis. They are explicitly ONE WAY. The LEA can NOT establish a connection back to the carrier. It must initiate the tap from the carrier side. The LEA can not input requests directly. They must pass them to the carrier to enter.
While a DS-3 might not be out of the question to the FBI, depending on the volume of traffic, I have yet to see an "unmonitored" line. Everything I've seen (and set up -- I do this for a living) is an IPSec tunnel from the carrier to the LEA with BER encoded ASN.1 for data and packetized native (to the carrier) encoded voice. And the line works one way only. Carrier --> LEA. The only packets flowing back are stateful connection packets.
In short, I think this story is B.S.
Yes, the FBI probably has a big line with no firewall. That is because the firewall(s) is/are on the carrier end. The carriers do extensive logging as well, so it doesn't surprise me that the FBI-end of the circuit isn't heavily logged. They log their REQUESTS and the carrier logs the connections.
True, but didn't OCCUPY any land, which is what the Resolution was about.
Not if you speak the Queen's English, it isn't. Spelling it with a "Z" is American.
Because Hezbollah and Hamas target civilians. Period.
If their attacks restricted themselves to Israeli soldiers, military installations & equipment, and political and military infrastructure, they'd have more sympathy in the West.
Firing rockets indiscriminately into civilian areas; bombing markets, discos, stores and buses loses them all credibility and plants them firmly in the realm of "terrorist organization". They use the threat and practice of violence against an unarmed civilian population as a weapon.
Considering Israel withdrew from Lebanon in May of 2000, according to U.N. Resolution 425, Hezbollah was to have disarmed. Did they? No. They aren't to be trusted and need to be treated accordingly.
One good reason is that aluminum is a limited resource. Although there's lots of it around, current estimates show that it will only last for about 200 more years ( source).
I don't have a copy of that book, so can't read it in context, but I still have to call bullshit on this.
Aluminum (Aluminium for you Brits) is the most abundant metal in the Earth's crust. While smelting it is energy intensive, recycling it is significantly less so. There is so much that has already been used, and available for recycling, I can't see us running out in the next couple of centuries, if ever.
For the longest time, there were different regulations in different U.S. States in regards to diesel passenger vehicles. For example, they were illegal to sell in Massachusetts. Essentially, Mass and a few other States lowered the sulphur emission standards to impossible levels.
Then came Federally mandated low-sulphur diesel fuel. This stuff allows good diesel engines, like VW's TDI series, to meet emission standards in all 50 U.S. States. As this low-sulphur diesel works its way into the system, then those restrictive laws will no longer mean much. I was driving in Central Indiana the other day and saw a big sticker on one of the diesel pumps that advertised low-sulphur diesel.
U.S. automakers were biding their time on this issue until the fuel was available so they could sell diesel cars in all 50 States. I've read about diesel programs with all major American auto makers for their light truck lines; for Jeep; and even a couple for standard passenger cars.
http://www.clean-diesel.org/highway.html
"Ethernet" is layer 2, not layer 1. It can happily run over copper or fiber or any other physical medium.
Yes, once you get beyond GbE then you are most likely going to need fiber. That means much more expensive equipment, considering I can get an 8-port GbE copper switch that supports jumbo frames for $100. You *might* be able to pump 10 GbE over copper for a few meters.
I'm not too sure about this. In reality, BT only works because not a lot of people use it. That is, not a lot on your local segment. And by a "lot" I mean as a percentage of users on your local segment.
.iso images. Now, however, people are actually USING that bandwidth they were sold -- surprise, surprise. Comcast needs to stall as long as it can until it upgrades infrastructure.
ISPs oversubscribe bandwidth. The reason Comcast is squirming is because the average bitrate being used is higher than when they set their infrastructure up. They set up for, say, 8:1 oversubscription rates. Before BT and video downloads, this was fine and only affected geeks downloading
But it isn't there. We're rapidly approaching needing a 1:1 rate and the infrastructure isn't there.
In short, once a popular TV show hits, the available bandwidth will be used and it won't seem so fast. Packets will be lost and retransmission delays will occur.
Depending on where you live, an extra ($$) for some GPS units is up-to-date traffic conditions. I've seen units that use this info to re-plot routes based on trip time estimated from traffic flow data.
Actually, if you own a Jeep, it isn't that uncommon. I've done it a few dozen times. Doors, passenger seat, top and off the road we go.
Look here:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=35202
The grandparent is picking nits.
While it is true the DSL is a switched technology and not shared like cable, that only applies to the wire from your house to the DSLAM. At that point it aggregates and the ATM uplink is most certainly oversubscribed.
DSL oversubscription is just one hop up the line, as opposed to cable, where it is oversubscribed from end to end. Not much difference, really.
First place was a do-it-yourself Kill-A-Watt.
Third place was more enlightening. A series of posters whining that we should all use standardized rechargeable batteries for mobile devices and standardized transformers. Seriously. No product, just a campaign to get companies to standardize on rechargeable battery size and shape.
If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged.
Cardinal et Duc de Richelieu
He also said Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state. and Deception is the knowledge of kings.
Yeah, that memo when China shot down their old weather satellite. Last I checked, only three parties -- the U.S., Soviet Union (Russia) and China -- not al-Queda, have conducted anti-satellite weapon tests.
They aren't simulating a black hole, the title is misleading. They're simulating the optical properties of a black holes event horizon. Subtle but very important difference.
Yeah, your way of describing it doesn't generate NEAR as many hits on the ads...um, article.